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THE CHOWAN HERALD
Volume XLin.— No. 12.
Noted And Passed
The name of Tom Watts, district
attorney in the First Judicial
District, keeps coming up as a
challenger of Rep. Walter B. Jones
of the First Congressional
District.
Os all the names battered
around, his is the only one which
would, in our opinion, receives any
degree of acception along the
Public Parade.
jj But we have learned, on the best
*of authority, that the only thing he
is running for is his home in the
Isle of the Pasquotank after each
day in the courtroom.
T. D. Eure
There are few meandering along
the Public Parade who had the
privilege to know Tom Eure of
Morefcead vwHtH,
therefore, feel any sense of loss ir
his death Monday in Duke
Hospital at the age of 46.
However, the direction gave and
the leadership he provided the
Coastal Resources Commission as
its initial chairman may be the
saving grace of the Coastal Area
Management Act which is now on
trial in the General Assembly as
well as the courts.
Tom Eure was embarrassed
that the only county of the 20 under
the CAMA umbrella to resist
submitting a land-use plan was
Carteret, his homeland, where he
had made such a positive con
tribution to community, civic,
social and religious improvement.
It was a simple political [day and
in the opinion of those closest to
the scene is well on its way of
being corrected. It is a shame the
greatest of all engineers didn’t
allow him to see it brought about.
To say that Tom Eure, who
headed a marine engineering
firm, was a strong advocate of
promoting tourism and
development while maintaining
the environment is an adequate
description erf the man. He did not
push his personal beliefs on his
" colleagues or staff while he
wrestled with the hottest potato to
come to Coastal North Carolina
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VEPCO Seeks Rate Increase
“I just don’t see bow folks are going to be able to afford it,” was the
reaction of W.B. Gardner, town administrator, to the latest notification
by Virginia Electric & Power Company of intent to seek another rate
increase.
VEPCO is seeking a $27-million increase in the cost of wholesale power
that it sells to cooperatives and cities in Virginia and Northeastern North
Carolina. Gardner pointed out that if the Federal Power Commission
approves the increase it will mean an additional $400,000 annual in the
cost of power to the Town of Edentoo.
Ibis, according to the administrator, would represent nearly 10 per
cent of the entire town budget and nearly a third of the Electric
Department budget.
Out of necessity, Gardner said, the town would have to pass the in
crease along to its electric customers.
, Albemarle Electric Membership Corporation, headquartered in
but serves a great portion of rural Chowan County, would ex
' perience a «h w *** t> increase.
The increase would not affect VEPCO’s 1,200,000 retail electric
customers.
The increase to electric cooperatives would be 96.3 per cent and to
electric municipalities, 334 per cent.
would hKfr**- 19 cooperatives and 21
SCENE OF FATALITY The above picture was taken at the
scene of a head-on collision on Chowan River Bridge at 8 A.M.
Saturday in which the first fatality in 1977 in Chowan County was
recorded. Rev. Ivey James Wall of Elizabeth City was driving the
Ford Pinto at left and was pronounced dead on arrival at Chowan
Hospital. James Raleigh Tynch, Route 3, Edenton, was driving
the Chevelle in the right background. State Trooper M.J.
McArthur is shown attempting to get the wreckage removed from
the bridge.
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, April M. 1977
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PRODUCE CHAMPION LIVESTOCK The 1977 Junior
Livestock Show and Sale was held Tuesday at the American
Legion Fairgrounds. Winners in the hog division are in left pic
ture, Joseph Goodwin, Ivey Ward and Debbie Ward. At right, Jill
Copeland is shown with her grand champion steer. Details of the
event will be reported in next week’s edition.
Alliance Receives Grant
POWELLSVILLE Gov.
James B. Hunt announces a
$30,000 Coastal Plains Regional
Commission grant to Alliance for
Progress, Inc., for a feasibility
study of the outdoor education
environmental center site on 3,8iD0
Spivey Appointed
Gov. Jim Hunt today appointed
Wayland Spivey of Edenton to
serve on the Governor’s Advisory
Committee on Agriculture,
Forestry and Seafood Industry.
Spivey is a farmer and an
agricultural technician with the
Agricultural Extension Service.
The Advisory Committee serves
at the pleasure of the governor
and is to keep him informed of
current conditions and op
portunities for improvement ideas
for policies to the governor, but it
in no way conflicts or competes
with the Board of Agriculture in
the Department of Agriculture.
The Agriculture Advisory
Committee is to help citizens
express their views on pertinent
topics to the governor, and is to
make suggestions to the Governor
on ways to improve relationships
between suppliers, producers,
processors and regulators.
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acres of land in Gates County.
Chairman Riley Monds, Jr., of
Hertford states that “We are real
pleased to receive this grant as we
feel it will ultimately provide an
educational and economic impact
on Northeastern North Carolina.”
Gates County Commissioner
Frank Rice, who is also the vice
of Alliance for
Progress, "says “There is every
reason to believe this grant will
enable us to start the long range
planning process for this giant
outdoor classroom and laboratory
colter that should put our area on
the map by benefitting all the
educational systems of Nor
theastern North Carolina and
some of our neighboring states -
and the concept ties in with our
efforts in getting Millpond State
Park established, too.”
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VIEWS OF SUCCESSFUL
PILGRIMAGE These three pictures
show two angles of the recent Pilgrimage
of Colonial Eden ton k Countryside. Above
are visitors waiting to enter the Coffield
House. Pete Manning went on top of The
Herald building to get the otlmr two shots
' as crowds came Saturday morning, one of
the Cupola House the other of Edentoo
Municipal Building, tour headquarters,
otter pictures on Page ty-B.
Man Dies In Auto Wreck
A Methodist minister from
Elizabeth City was killed and
three members of his family in
jured in a head-on collision at 8
A.M. Saturday on the Chowan
River Bridge. It was this county’s
first fatal accident of 1977.
State Trooper M.J. McArthur
said Rev. Ivey James Wall, Jr., 28,
was the wreck victim, and the
Jailed For Perjury
A Perquimans County housewife
and her son who was driving a car
involved in an accident where
another son lost his life were given
active prison terms Tuesday
morning in Chowan County
Plan Seminar
Dist. Atty. Tom Watts, in
cooperation with law enforcement
officers in Chowan and
Perquimans counties, is planning
a merchant’s seminar at Edenton
Municipal Building Tuesday from
7:30 P.M. until 10:30 P.M.
The district attorney says the
seminar will cover prevention,
detection and prosecution of the
crimes of shoplifting, worthless
checks and forgery.
It is being supported and
promoted locally by Sheriff Troy
Toppin and Police Chief J.D.
Parrish.
All merchants in the area are
encouraged to attend and take
advantage of the expert in
formation available from legal
authorities.
Two Arrested
Two Norfolk, Va., Negroes were
arrested late Saturday afternoon
and charged with forgery and-or
aiding and abetting. The alleged
forgery was in connection with
prescriptions for drugs.
The men were identified by
Edenton Police Department as
Harold Lee Philps or Harold Lee
Stallings, 32, and James Leroy
Murphy, 23.
Capt. C. H. Williams said he was
notified by John A. Mitchener, Jr.,
of Mitchener’s Pharmacy, at 4:44
P.M. that two subjects had at
tempted to get what he believed to
be a forged prescription filled.
Earlier they had been successful
in getting a forged prescription
filled at Hollowell-Blount Rexall
here, according to Capt. Williams.
The men were arrested at 6 P.M.
in Hertford after they attempted
to get another alleged forged
prescription filled. The phar
macist at Woodard’s Pharmacy
had alerted officers who arrested
the men outside the drug store.
SBI Agent, W.A. Hoggard
assisted Capt. Williams and
Hertford Police in investigation of
the case.
Both men have been placed in
Tri-County Jail in Elizabeth City
under SIO,OOO bond each.
In other police activity over the
weekend, Ricky Gene Beck, 21,
Route 1, Clarenden, was arrested
by Sgt. W.E. Spruill, Jr., at 6:20
A.M. Sunday. He was charged
with drunk driving and speeding.
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courageous assistance by a
fisherman who witnessed the
accident could be credited with the
possihle saving of other lives.
Mr. Wall, his wife and two sons,
ages 10 and three, were traveling
in a 1972 Ford Pinto north on U.S.
17 when James Raleigh Tynch, 24,
Route 2, Edenton, allowed his 1972
Chevelle to cross into the left lane
District Court. The cases involved
one of the few perjury indictments
seen in the local court.
James Wilson, Jr., 27 year-old
Negro of Hillside, Md., entered a
plea of guilty to subordination of
perjury and manslaughter. He
was given a six-year sentence. His :
mother, Mrs. Ruby Warren Jones,
43, of Hertford, was given 12
months for subordination of
perjury.
A third son, Julius Alfred Jones,
17, a 10th grade student at
Perquimans High School, was
given four years, suspended and
placed on probation for four years
upon payment of a SSOO fine and
costs. He is also to spend the next
four weekends in jail.
A fourth defendant, Catherine
Marie White, 19, Paradise Road,
Edenton, got a lighter sentence
through plea bargaining after she
was helpful to the state in
establishing the charges against
the others.
Judge Herbert Small of
Elizabeth City sentenced Miss
White to two years, suspended and
placed on probation for four years
upon payment of S3OO fine and
costs.
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TRUCK OVERTURNS—KeIIy Robert Winslow, 30, of Camden
was painfully but not seriously injured at 1 P.M. Tuesday when
the tanker pictured above overturned on West Queen Street
Extended near Terry Avenue. Patrolman Jeff Knox of Edenton
Police Department said Winslow drove his rig to the shoulder of
the road to avoid another truck which had stopped to allow a car
to make a left turn.
Local Life Meetings Slated
GREENVILLE Town
gatherings in Edenton, New Bern
and Bath-Belhaven are now being
planned in conjunction with East
Carolina University’s Project on
Local Life in Eastern North
Carolina.
The project, funded by a grant
from the N.C. Humanities Com-
and the cars collided head-on.
Both cars were demolished.
Mrs. Wall and her sons were
rushed to Chowan Hospital by
Edenton-Chowan Rescue Squad
and later sent to Albemarle
Hospital in Elizabeth City. The
trooper said Tuesday afternoon
Mrs. Wall and her youngest son
were still hospitalized while Ralph
Wall has been discharged.
Hie Walls were enroute to
Greenville where the pastor of
Riverside Methodist Church was
to officiate at the wedding of his
youngest brother.
The Pinto was knocked against
the concrete guard rail and
overturned. Hie Chevelle traveled
on down the bridge with the cars
coming to rest 141 feet apart.
The witness to the accident was
Henry Luther Bond, Route 3,
Edenton. He immediately tied his
boat to the bridge and climbed up
a concrete piling and over the lip
of the bridge rafl “a real feat”
according to the trooper, and
pulled the Wall family members
out of the Pinto, which was leaking
gasoline.
Trooper McArthur said that at
the point of the accident the bridge
is 20 feet above the water and the
pilings are two feet in diameter.
The Edenton Fire Department
responded to the call and later
cleaned the debris from the
bridge. “The rescue squad
members and fire department did
an excellent job,” stated the
trooper.
Tynch was treated for an ankle
injury at Chowan Hospital. He was
later charged with death by
vehicle and driving left of the
center line. He is free on $2,000
bond.
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mittee, is designed to promote an
understanding of the nature and
impact of local life in Eastern
North Carolina, to facilitate ef
fective future policy-making.
Town gatherings will focus on
the nature of Eastern North
Carolina’s way of life and the
relationship of public policy
making at all levels of government
to the future of the region.
Several political leaders have
been invited to participate, said
project director Karl Rodabaugh,
a member of the ECU history
faculty.
The Project on Local Life
earlier sponsored a conference on
the ECU campus which drew local
citizens, public officials and
scholars.
Among the chief topics of
discussion at the conference were
several visible manifestations of
localism: a strong attachment to
the home community, a tendency
for important influences to
originate from one’s friends,
relatives and neighbors, a habit of
centering life around local in
stitutions, and a strong desire to
exercise a significant amount of
local power in decision-making
which affects one’s local area.
Local planning committees are
being formed to organize the three
town gatherings. Tenative dates
fin' die town meetings are May 7
(Edenton), May *1 (New Bern)
and June ll (Bath-Baßieven).
Persons interested to serving on
the local planning emuaittses are
encouraged to telephone