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ROBBERY SCENE AND SITE OF SHOOTING—The drive-in branch of Peoples Bank & Trust
Company at Mitchener Village on North Broad Street was a different scene Wednesday morning
than the afternoon and evening before. The bank was robbed and two bandits fled down Freemason
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seeks protection behind the police cruiser being driven by Cpl.
William Spruill, Jr., when he surprised the two robbery suspects.
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MONEY AND BULLETS—These two pictures pretty well tell
the story of Tuesday afternoon’s incident. A suspect who"
apparently took his owrvlife aJLaflttcers closed in on him left.the
loot from the bank behind, as evidenced in the picture above.
Capt. C. H. Williams holds 10 spent 9mm shells picked up near the
riddled police cruiser, background, in which Cpl. William Spruill,
Jr., was wounded. (All Staff Photos by Amburn.)
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Two Join Extension Program
Chowan County Extension
Office has two trainees for 12
weeks this summer.
Cinda Tart, an upcoming senior
at Meredith College, will work
with the Home Economics
Program and Danny Cook, an
upcoming senior at Gardner-Webb
College, will work with 4-H.
Cinda is from Clinton, the
county seat of Sampson County.
She is double majoring in home
economics and business. Her
fields of special interest are
clothing, human relations, and
money management. Antiques
and old homes, as well as water
skiing are favorite hobbies of
Cinda’s., so she feels that she will
really enjoy being located in
Edenton. '■
Cinda is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. L. E. Tart, Jr. Her mother is
employed with the N. C. Highway
Patrol and her father is a sales
manager for Wickes Building and
Lumber Supplies of Clinton.
r Danny, majoring in psychology
is a native of the mountains, (Ashe
County) and now lives in Boape.
He has been involved in 4-jf-Ctab
work since he was nine ye|rs old
and served as Northwestern
District President in 1572-71-out
of-state delegate to Tannest** in
*79 and also Returnee Delegate to
Regional Resource Conference at
Fontana Village.
He worked the past two
summers at Betsy-JeffPenn 4-H
Camp in Reidsville - taught
nature, ecology, canoeing and
accalamation. He was tapped into
Honor Club in ’75 and a member of
the N. C. Collegiate Council 4-H for
’76-’77.
TRAINEES IN CHOWAN—Pete Thompson, county extension
chairman, is pictured here with Cinda Tart of Clinton and Danny
Cook of Boone, who will be working in Chowan County during the
next few weeks. Miss Tart is a student at Meredith College in
Raleigh while Cook attends Gardner-Webb.
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At right, State Trooper Wiley Waters arrives at the scene and
prepares his shotgun for action.
THE CHOWAN HERALD.
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Volume XLR—No. 23.
View From Caboose
Approval of land-use plans for 20
Coastal Tar Heel counties draws
near. We want to laud the re
thinking of Camden County
regarding passage of a plan to
submit to the Coastal Resources
Commission:
On June 10, from 9 A.M. until 11
P.M. the CRC will “afford
interested persons an opportunity
to present objections and
comments” regarding local plans.
But if we can draw on past
experience, as much time as is
needed will be spent allowing
people-input into the plans.
This is somewhat, a second
mile. These plans have been in the
making for "many, many months
and at a cost of nearly $2-million.
Comments from “interested
persons” are long past due, but we
are confident they will not, at the
11th hour, fall on deaf ears.
It is, however, unfortunate that
the meeting is being held at Pine
Knoll Shores. The majority of the
interest in the Coastal Area
Management Act has thus far
been initiated in the Northern
Region, or the Albemarle Area
plus Bertie and Hertford counties.
It is a greater distance to drive
than from home to the courthouse
but those who still have a desire to
comment on local land-use plans
should not let distance deter them
at this juncture.
Those who question the
dedication of member of the CRC
or its Advisory Council only had to
be in Camden County last
Thursday night to be assured their
interests were well represented.
Camden is one of the few counties
in the state which is totally zoned,
yet some strong objections arose
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Street where they were confronted by Edenton policemen. The center picture shows a curious
bystander looking around the corner of a building as officers search the area. SBI Agent Bill Godley
and Capt. C. H. Williams are pictured at right as they seriously discuss the next move.
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday,- June 3, 1976.
Boards Grapple With Budgets
Chowan County Town Os Edenton
By Patricia A. McCleney
When the Chowan County
Commissioners received their
copy of the proposed 1976-77
budget at a special meeting last
Wednesday evening, money was
not included to fund Historic
Edenton, a county day care
center, the Edenton-Chowan
Recreation Department, and other
projects requesting financing.
The finance committee,
consisting of Commissioners
David Bateman and N. J. George,
submitted a budget of $1,847,341.44
to the board, all members being
present.
The alternative to raising the 70
cents tax rate is to delete
expenditures that are less
important in priority, according to
the comments of the committee
members.
The largest amount deleted
from the proposed budget was the
county’s share in the funding of
the Edenton-Chowan recreation
program, being $15,958.95.
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Office Moves
The N. C. Driver’s License
examiner will be located in a new
office on West Water Street,
effective June 14. The office is
located in the former Rescue
Squad Building, adjacent to
Colonial Park.
The examiner will be available
at the office on Monday and
Tuesday of each week from 9 A.M.
until 5 P.M.
In the past the examiner has
been headquartered in the County
Office Building. County
commissioners have taken steps
for the relocation in order to
provide better facilities for the
examiner and those who frequent
the office as well as to allow for
expansion of a county department.
Shots For Dogs
A county-wide program to
vaccinate dogs will be launched in
Fourth Township beginning
Monday. Melvin Evans, animal
control officer for Chowan County,
said every house in the county will
be visited in an effort to vaccinate
every dog possible.
Evans said dog owners would be
given the choice of having him
give the injection or take the dog
to Dr. L. A. Dees, local
vetemarian.
If a resident is not at home when
Evans calls a note will be left. It is
important that contact be made
with the proper authorities. The
, animal control officer said this
| program is a big undertaking and
' asks for the cooperation of
residents in the county.
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Bank Robbed;
Suspect Dies
By L. F. Amburn, Jr.
The search continued Wednesday afternoon for the second of two
bandits who robbed a branch of Peoples Bank & Trust Company here the
day before, resulting in the wounding of a local policeman and the
apparent suicide of a suspect.
An undisclosed amount of currency was taken from the branch at
Mitchener Village after two armed Negroes entered the bank at about
4:45 P.M. The alarm sounded at Edenton Police Department and officers
responded before a telephone call from the bank confirmed the robbery.
Single Copies 15 Cents.
Edenton Town Council approved
a $3-million budget for fiscal 1976-
77 Monday night. The tax rate
remains at 64 cents per SIOO
valuation and the budget includes
all requests made to Chowan
County commissioners.
The budget is based on $43-
million valuation.
The principal item discussed at
the meeting was the county’s
apparent lack of interest in
continuing to participate in a joint
recreation program. Mayor Roy
L. Harrell cautioned council
members against taking a hard
line of the item until definite
action is taken by the
commissioners.
Councilman Herbert Hollowell
and Jesse Harrell noted that
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Concert Set
The Edenton Choral Society will
present its Bicentennial concert
Monday evening, at 7:30 o’clock. It
will take place on the Courthouse
Green.
“For an evening of patriotic,
early American, folk, and
spiritual music, join us in this
bicentennial celebration,” a
spokesman said. Bring along your
chair or blanket for a comfortable
evening.”
A special feature of the program
will be the men’s chorus which will
sing several barbershop numbers.
Among them will be “America the
Beautiful.”
The Edenton Choral Society is
made up of local citizens and is
under the direction of Mrs. Shelby
Strother. Mrs. Mary Smith is the
accompanist.
In case of rain, the performance
will be at John A. Holmes High
School Auditorium.
Union Camp Dedicates Land
Union Camp Corp. will officially
dedicate 3,810 acres of land in
Gates County to the Land Trust
Division of The Nature
Conservancy on June 14. The
property will ultimately be
conveyed to the university system
of "North Carolina for development
by the Alliance For Progress.
Working with numerous other
educational and state groups, the
Alliance plans to develop the area
into an outdoor environmental
education center.
Gov. James E. Holshouser, Jr.,
Alex Calder, president of Union
Camp, and Pat Noonan, (resident
of The Nature Conservancy, will
be among those in attendance.
Plans include a tugboat ride to the
site and a luncheon de<Mcation at
Chowan River Inn near Winton.
During the Alliance beard
Cpl. William Spruill, Jr., was
among those responding and an
unidentified suspect started
shooting at his police cruiser as he
approached two subjects on
Freemason Street, about midway
between North Broad and
Granville streets. The first shot
struck the officer in the leg as he
was trying to get out of the car. He
was reportedly struck a second
time as he sought protection
behind the cruiser.
The officer was rushed to
Chowan Hospital where he. is
BULLETIN
Stanley D. Holden, 22, of
Newburgh, N. Y„ was charged
with bank robbery by the FBI late
Wednesday afternoon after he
surrendered at Edenton Police
Department.
Holden, had been staying with
his grandfather. Rev. George
Rountree, 132 West Peterson
Street, for about three weeks.
Also, Holden identified the dead
bandit as Larry Hamilton who
lived in Florida.
Hamilton's body was found
about halfway between West
Freemason and West Peterson
streets shortly after the Tuesday
afternoon robbery. Holden
eluded officers and has been the
object of a manhunt since he
became a prime suspect during
investigation during the night.
reported to be making satisfactory
progress.
Capt. C. H. Williams
approached the scene from
Granville Street and fired one shot
from his service revolver at the
suspect who fled into some high
weeds back of a house. Then the
suspect fired at Capt. Williams,
When additional support arrived
officers moved in near the site
where the suspect was last seen.
Tw'o cans of tear gas were thrown
and shortly thereafter three pistol
shots were heard.
A short time later officers closed
in and found the suspect dead; an
apparent suicide. There was
money found in a shed where he
had sought protection. There was
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meeting held in Ahoskie on May
19, W. T. Modlin, chairman of
Hertford County commissioners,
was elected chairman. Riley S.
Monds, a commissioner from
Perquimans County, will serve as
vice chairman.
New directions in the Access to
Mainstream program were
discussed by Mrs. Gaynor Jordan,
director. Funding of the program
is in question and Jim Barden of
Raleigh is being invited to attend a
meeting to discuss a possible new
funding source.
Richard Baker, executive
director, reported on several
aspects of tbe work being done by
the consortium and Dr. J. H.
Horton of Edenton lead the
discussion of items presented by
the Elected Boards Institute
Committee.