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(Erauen^ountg West Craven Highlights .Vpu’* from Along The Honks Of The \ense sppr NATONAl »ewsfwrvil VOLUME 12 NO. 45 NOVEMBER 9, 1989 VANCEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA PHONE 244-0780 OR 946-2144 (UPSP 412-110) 26 CENTS EIGHT PAGES Coward grabs this week^s Flying Eagle Craig Coward doesn’t make many headlines playing for the West Craven Eagles, especially playing with a team that has plenty of scoring talent. But Craig Coward is the third* leading scorer on the Eagle foot* ^ball squad and a big part of the Eagler 10*0 season, C^tal Con* tference championship, a No. 6 'ranking in the state and playoff f berth. Coward is used mostly as a re* ceiver, but he can bum a defense on reverses. His 17*yard touch* down reception last week against D.H. Conley gave the Eagles a 14*3 lead and moved him to fourth in the conference scoring standings with 40 points. Cow* ard has five touchdowns and two two'point conversions to his credit. Coward is one of five Eagles in th,*^p 10 of the conference's scorers. The senior receiver has a knack for making spectacular 1 catches in must-have situations. On a team blessed with receivers 'like league-leading Kip Bryan 1(24 receptions, fiW yards and four touchdowns) and Adrian I See AWARD, Page 5 I Voss phele Tho Eagles' win over D.H. Conley for the conference crown may have shocked some, but not most of the Eagle fans. The cheerleaders, doing a takeoff of the movie "Shocker" by Wes Craven, may have come up with a sign of the times. Perhaps the most shocking Item Is the Eagles are KM). Eagles sink Vikings for league title Hertford County brings Bears to town Friday By Mike Voss Editor VANCEBORO — Pittsburgh had its "Steel Curtain.” But 10*0 West Craven has its *Brick Wall.” And the wall stopped a rival with the number nine ranking in the state. West Craven's defense put up a brick wall that D.H. Conley could not crack in the second half as the Eagles took a 23*6 win over D.H. Conley, won the conference title and finished the regular season unde feated last Fri^y night. The filth-ranked and playoff- bound EUigles will face Hertford County, 16*12 winners over Washington lost night, Friday night at 8 p.m. at Eagle Stadium in Vanceboro. The Eagles’ Lee Becton finished the night ^th 223 yards on 26 car ries and two touchdovms on runs of 74 yards and nine yards. The junior running beck holds the single season rushing record at the school and finished the regular season with 1,589 yards and 21 rushing touchdowns. The Eagle defense stopped Con ley's top beck, Mike Clark, by stop ping him for minus two yards on 11 carries. "This is the sweetest since I've been here,” said Eagle coach Clay Jordan, his voice choked with emo tion and his eyes glistening. Before the contest Jordan discussed his nervousness, saying he wanted to get the game started. *I think our whole defensive unit did a great job,” said Jordan. "We just got beat by a better foot ball team. Well, let's say they played better than we did tonight,” said Conley coach Steve Craft. "We'd love to have the honor* to face the Eagles again during the playoffs, said Craft. "Their defensive line whipped us pretty good in the first half,” said Craft, ^e Viking mentor credited the Eagle defense with "takingaway our momentum.” Conly had three shots at the Ea gles inside the Eagles’ 30 in the sec ond half. And three times the Eagle defense kept the Vikings out of the end zone. A fumble at the four on fourth-and-goal stopped the first threat. The Eagles' Craig Coward broke up a fourth-and-eight pass from the 14 to stop the second threat. A fourth-and-goal pass at the seven from Scott Seymour to Hal Conger was caught but Conger was out of the end zone. Ck>nley appeared to cut the mar- See EAGLES, Page S Something new in the airwaves by'Kleth Hempstead Special to die Wert Craven Highlights , NEWPORT — David Adcock, promotion director at WFXI, is an old timer at the station. He's worked at the FOX network affiliate nearly a month, a long ti me considering the ground-breaking ceremony for the station was only in March. WnCl, channel 8, is Southeastern North Carolina's newest televirion station, the first to be built in 26 years. In fact, the station is still be ing built. TTie station was scheduled to go on the air Sunday, but missed the deadline. Adcock said last week everyone was working frantically to make it a reality. "Staff keeps coming in waves; it's been a rollercoaster ride,” Adcock said just five days before scheduled airtime'. "We have 15 this week, but we're going to get more” people, he said. Adcock said the station, which is owned by a group of local bu sinessmen, has hired a number of local people too. The general manager, who just came from a station in Philadelphia, is a native North Carolinian. "It's really interesting,” Adcock said of getting a group of people who have never worked together before to work closely as if the/ve always known each other. Work days can last up to 14 hours or even longer. But Adcock is used to it. This is his second start up of a new station. "You have to understand this is fun, we're pulling together as a team.” Not to say nerves become raw at times. "Obviously, you’re going to sweat if someone’s got a gun to your head,” he said. He's hoping, how ever, that all the hard work will pay off. "And it's going to look effortless to you in the audience. When you Hip us on, it's going to be good,” he added. And with the state-of-the-art equipment the station has, it's hard n^ to believe that it won’t look good. The station was so new, you could See STATION, Page 6 David Adcock showa off the central control room. No opposition in Vanceboro for aldermen B; Mike Voas Editor With no oppooition, incum- bento for eleotod oIBcoo in Von- cefaoro were returned to office c^r a day of light voting. Incumbont Mayor Jimmie MorriscollectedSl voteeof the 64 who voted in Tuesda/e town elections. Receiving one write-in vote each for mayor were Alderman Roy Buck and Bob Thom. See VOTING, Page 6 Draft environmental report arrives late; public hearings beginning soon A draft environmental report on Mobil Oil Corp.’s proposal to drill an exploratory well off the North Car olina coast was presented to the state last Thursday morning. The report, written by the federal Minerals Management Service and due last Wednesday, was late be cause the commercial airline flight it was to arrive on was cancelled. Staff members of the state Outer Continental Shelf Office and rep resentatives of several environmen tal groups throughout the state will begin analyzing the document immediately. The report, some 938 pages, re views the potential environmental and economic effects of possible fii- ture exploration and production of natural gas and oil, said Angie Gra- liano, a spokesman for Minerals Management Service. The first 600copies of the draft re port have been mailed to state of fices, including two in Washington where the two-volume document can be read by members of the gen eral public, Ms. Graziano said. Copies should be available for in spection this week at the Depart ment of Environment, Health and Natural Resources Washington reg ional office and at the Mid-East Commission office, she said. Public hearings on the document will be held in Manteo, Beaufort, Raleigh and Washington. TIP bringing improvement to roadways 1/.5.17 is targeted for major four4aning, by-pass projects By Mike Voss Pallor Millions of dollersin highway and ferry improvements for Craven Ckiunty are included in the newest version of the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The improvements were included in the recently adopted $5 billion update of TIP. The most expensive project is the $74.9 million U.S. 17 bypass around New Bern The project calls for the highway to be four-laned for 8.3 milei and to begin next year. A sec ond multi-lane road covering 18.8 miles between the New Bern bypass and the Washington bypass is ex pected to cost $41.6 million and con struction is slated to begin in 1996. TIP also budgets $26.5 million for a nine-mile bypass at Havelock. The bypass will be a four-lone road, ac cording to TIP specifications. Several bridge replacements are planned. Bridges over the Neuse River, Trent River, Swift Creek, Cove Oeek, Slocum Creek and the Neuse River Overflow will be re placed under TIP. Also in TIP is a provision to provide two ferries for the Neuse River crossing at Minne- sott Beach. Because of Highway TVust Fund monies, more than 400 new projects were added to this year's TIP, and about 400 projects from last year's program have been accelerated. See ROADS, Page 6 The Washington meeting will be 3 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. Dec. 6 at Beaufort County Community (Allege. The document includes a study of Gulf Stream currents as requested by three state environmental groups — the North CTarolina Coas tal Federation, the Sierra Club and LeaSea, a Dare County-based envir onmental group, Ms. Graziano said. The report riso includes a de scription of the drilling proposal, re sults of recent public hearings on the Mobil proposal, alternates to drilling, a description of biological resources and an oil spill contlng- See DRILLING, Page 6 B«My Gray photo George Whitehurst examines his sling cyclometer. Local weather is no mystery to Whitehurst By Betty Gray Special Co the West Craven Highlights An interest in the weather and its effects on people has fol lowed weather observer George Whitehurst all his life. From his days as a studentin a nearby high school to his career as a radar observer jn the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War to his current activities as manager of the family farm, Whitehurst has enjoyed watching the weather. He also believes in the impor tance of accurate weather infor mation to area farmers and businesses. "By knowing the weather, you know what is the pulse of the day,” Whitehurst said. As a member of the N.C. Agri culture Extension Service weather program, and, as a weather observer for an area newspaper, Whitehurst is on call 365 ^ys a year. Whitehurst set up his own weather station in 1971 and be came part of the agricultural weather system in 1979. "North Carolina has one of the best agriculture weather prog rams in the nation,” Whitehurst said. Whitehurst takes his readings and sends the information to Ito- leigh, where agricultural weather observers compile infor mation from the state's 100 counties. "The more input they con get, the more precise they can be,” he said. "Ac^rate information can be extremely beneficial to the farmers.” Eastern North Carolina, like many areas, has its own microcli mate, a small geographical area whose weather patterns fluctu ate from other areas, Whitehurst said. From his home in Ck>re Point, Whitehurst has nearly a 180-de- gree view of the Pamlico River, both upstream and downstream, and the microclimate it produces. He can usually see storms as far away as Rocky Mount. He can see the rise and fall of the river and the effecta wind and waves have on boaters. Whitehurst, who graduated fh>m high school in 1961, con tinued his interest in meteorol ogy as abiology and basic science student at East Carolina University. During his service with the Navy, Whitehurst "used the weather to keep my sani^ in war time.” "Any seaman has a definite feel for the weather,” he said. After the Navy, Whitehurst worked for Texasgulf and con- See WHITEHURST, Page 6
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