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014) MACHINE PROVES BENEFICIAL—Deputy YY
Melyin Evans stands beside a Weyerhaeuser “Spat” used to
investigators and newsmen to the site of a plane crash Sui.
evening. (See Public Parade). >*
Randy's Spat
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A four-place Piper Cherokee
plane crashed near the Chowan
“ Perquimans border sometime
X after 6 P.M. Sunday. At 4:36 P.M.
Monday the Chowan County
Sheriffs Department was
alerted. Within\ an hour the
department and the Edenton-
Chowan Rescue Squad, with the
assistance of a helicopter of the
U.S. Coast Guard in Elizabeth
City, located the wreckage and the
victim, a Plymouth executive.
This is an example of
cooperation which is the rule,
rather than the exception along
the Public Parade.
After the wreckage was found,
and the body removed, constant
patrol of the area was maintained
until representatives of the
Federal Aviation Authority in
Raleigh and the National Tran
sportation Safety Board in
Washington, D.C., arrived.
Meanwhile, Weyerhaeuser
Corporation was teaming up to
provide ready access to the seme.
This writer went in on a “Spat”
by Randy Perry. The
machine Bra converted military
wide-track which is used to plow
through rough areas.
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to liquor stills, yes. Fighting thick
underbrush to crime scenes, yes.
Competition with the curious to
disaster areas, yes. But the ride
with Randy was both a new and
exciting experience. TV crewman
secured their cameras and other
equipment; Deputy Glenn Perry
covered himself from the splash
and a Federal Aviation
Administration representative
stood at attention to avoid what
might happen.
Magistrate Carlton Perry fid
dled with the fuel pump on the
“Spat” when the going got rough
and Gene Nixon brought in a
bulldozer to evacuate us.
Put them all together and if it
doesn’t spell cooperation then we
don’t know the meaning of the
word.
But a ride with Randy in the
“Spat” is something Carowinds
and Six Flags need to investigate.
Oops!
I
r There is an article on Page 8-B
of this edition, With some pretty
good photographs. It concerns the
“second go” of testing in Edenton-
Cbowan Schools.
The problem is, the article was
submitted for our March 30
edition. While it efidn’t ran it
stayed in the hopper until today.
The tests were actually started on
April 4.
Bpt as we said, the art is good
'gptPwfeen it is put in someone’s
scrapbook they can dip oft the
dateline.
Jumping Traces
The Coastal Plains Regional
CeouniSßion and other federal
qjncjq* has earmarked $24-
iwflUnti for the construction of a
convention center in coastal
Carolina. Carteret County got the
first go at the funds, but the people
dtfjmthsrevoted down a proposal
toOttthorize $600,000 in local funds
F logical place, if not the
most Iqpcal, was Dare County.
BbCO both counties are located
Ocean, then it
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Withdrawal
Stand Taken
PINE KNOLL SHORES-The
20-county Coastal Resources
Commission has taken a hard line
on the matter of withdrawal of
water from any location which
would affect the Chowan River
and Albemarle Sound drainage
basin. The Norfolk District, U.S.
Corps of Engineers has been asked
to discuss implications of existing
proposals at a May 23 meeting in
Nags Head.
At the same time, during a
meeting here last Thursday, the
commission approved the ap
pointment of a four-member
Legislative Task Force to develop
suggested changes designed to
strengthen the Coastal Area
Management Act of 1974.
Chairman Parker Chesson of
Elizabeth City and Douglas Powell
of Wilmington, vice chairman, will
represent the commission on the
task force. Dr. Chesson put
Tommy Gray of Buxton, chair
man Dare County com
missioners and chairman of the
Coastal Resources Advisory
Council, on the group. Gray
named W.B. Gardner, Edenton
town administrator, to be the
other representative from the 45-
member council.
Howard
Lee of the N.C. Department of
Natural Resources and Com
munity Development, through
Jack Smith, his deputy for natural
resources, had asked for citizen
input into suggested changes by
the General Assembly.
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Grant Approved
Rep. Walter B. Jones today
announced that the Heritage
Conservation and Recreation
Service (formerly the National
Park service) has approved
matching grants-in-aid funding for
the restoration and preservation
of St. Anne’s Catholic Church in
Edenton.
The federal share approved
today is SB,OOO and will be matched
by $8,175 from local sources for a
total of $16,175.
The project objective is the
preservation of this 1858 Gothic-
Romanesque Revival structure
for its continued use as a church.
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Plane Crash Kills
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Plymouth Man
A Plymouth executive with a
“world” of experience in flying,
died sometime Sunday night in a
single-engine plane crash in
Chowan County. The cause of the
crash of the four-place Piper
Cherokee plane had not been
determined at press-time.
An investigator from the
National Transportation Safety
Board in Washington, joined an
inspector from the Federal
Aviation Authority in Raleigh at
the crash scene Tuesday af
ternoon.
The plane, operated by William
Henry Pruden, 59, fell into heavy
underbrush about five miles
northeast of Edenton sometime:
after 6 P.M. Sunday. That was the
last communication the pilot,
owner of Roanoke Farmers
Exchange.and a veteran pilot, had
Office Posts Open
Edenton-Chowan Board of
Education is now accepting ap
plications for two positions in the
central office, according to Supt.
John Dunn. One is director of
community education, a half-time
position and the other is for an
assistant superintendent.
The opening for the community
education post is available im
mediately and runs through June
30. The deadline to receive ap
plications is April 14.
The assistant superintendent’s
post has been vacant since Cecil
Fry retired in December, 1977. His
replacement will begin work July 1
and the deadline to make ap
plication is April 21.
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Volume XLIV.—No. IS
County Action Causes Controversy
The separation of town and
county planning surfaced again
Tuesday night at a meeting of
Edenton Town Council.
“What prompted the split?”
asked Councilman Gil Burroughs.
Although there was no ready re
sponse, Town Administrator W.B.
Gardner said the town’s plan
was “not the best document but it
will surfice for getting a state
grant.”
C.B. Smith, a member of the
town’s Planning Bard, said the
document could have been better
had “we known they (the county)
would have been separate.”
Mayor Roy L. Harrell asked if
there was a breakdown... was it
done in Edenton or “since we
pulled away from the county will
we have a lesser plan.”
Judd Little, former county
municipal planner who is now
with the Flight Service Station at
Elizabeth City airport.
When he did not return from a
Norfolk, Va., to Plymouth flight
members of his family called out
the rescue units.
The Chowan County Sheriff’s
Department was alerted at 4:30
P.M. Monday and within an hour,
with the assistance of a helicopter
of the U.S. Coast Guard Station at
Elizabeth City, found the
wreckage. The victim was belted
in his harness in the $20,000 air
craft.
Don Judd of Raleigh, an FFA
investigator, was joined by John
B. Drake of NTSA of Washington
in mid-afternoon Tuesday to study
the crash. They were assisted, as
were press crews, by crews from
Weyerhaeuser in getting to the
scene.
The wreckage was located some
two miles off Paradise Road and
another half mile from a truck
path.
Sheriff Troy Toppin dispatched
deputies Glenn Perry, Melvin
Evans and Joseph Byrum to the
scene Monday. They were joined
by West Byrum, E.C. Toppin,
Robert Brooks, Steve Hampton
and Andrew Maglione of the
Edenton-Chowan Rescue Squad,
who made their way through the
thicket to the scene, as spotlighted
by the Coast Guard.
When the difficulty of removal
of the body was determined the
helicopter was used in evacuation
to Chowan Hospital.
One source speculated, because
of the experience of the pilot and
the availability of landing areas,
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Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, April 13, 1978
director of the Community
Development program here,
admitted that it is “not equal to
to what we have done in the past.”
Mayor Harrell emphasized that
he “wants the best to come out of
Edenton that we have.”
Last week Chowan County
Commissioners endorsed a plan
separate from the town’s, at the
insistence of Chairman N.J.
George.
Earlier, the council
unanimously endorsed a
Spring Concert
The Edenton Choral Society,
under the direction of Shelby
Strother, will* present a Spring
Concert at John A. Holmes High
School at 8 P.M. April 20.
The program features music for
every taste, from Mendelssohn to
Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Admission is $1 for adults and 50
cents for students.
Heart Fund Exceeds Goal
Morris Small, Jr., president of
the Fund Raising Drive for
Chowan County Heart Fund this
year, along with Vann Johnson,
city chairman, Fran Ward, rural
chairman, and Evelyn Keeter,
treasurer announced today that
they went over their goal of $3,000.
The actual amount collected was
$3,286.31.
Last year’s receipts totaled
Forum Slated
The Edenton-Chowan Civic
League will hold a forum for
candidates in the May 2 election at
8 P.M. on April 2S at Providence
Baptist Church. A.C. Hudson is
chairman.
Any and all candidates for
elective office in the Democratic
primary are invited to attend.
Each will have eqnal time and a
question and answer seealan will
fei|ew the individual presen
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FATAL CRASH—Une man died in the crash of this single
engine airplane five miles from Edenton, off Paradise Road,
sometime after 6 P.M. Sunday. In the photos above, Don Judd, a
federal investigator, works at the scene. One photo shows the hole
dug by impact, another shows Judd checking a wing section while
the third shows the cockpit section of the tour-place craft.
resolution of respect for the late
Richard N. Hines, Sr.;
Approved changes in the text of
the Zoning Ordinance;
Appointed Mrs. W.J.P. Ear
nhardt, Jr., and Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Jordan to the Tree
Committee;
Approved airport grants;
Approved the Housing and
Land-use element of the local
plan;
Approved ■& re-location plan;
and
Approved the request of Steve
and Faye Hampton for a special
use permit to operate a Day Care
Center at the comer of West Queen
and Court Streets.
Gardner reported that Coke
Avenue clearing is underway, and
that the construction of an ex
tension of Hicks Street is gaining
approval, and that the town is
going for outside funds for the
development of Queen Anne’s
Park on Edenton Bav.
approximately $2,400.
Success was made possible with
the help of the following people:
Residents of Cape Colony Haven
along with WCDJ in the Rock &
RoU-A-Thon that was held; K*an
Ward and 4-H Club of Chowan
County; Alton Clark Business
Day Chairman; WBXB sponsored
The Battle of the Bands ; Marion
Zeigler and the Youth of the
Edenton Baptist Church on
Balloon and Tag Day, according to
Small.
“We would also like to thank the
American Legion, the Cape Colony
Extension Homemaker’s Club,
and the people who sent us the
Memorial Gifts towards Heart
Fund, he added.
Also without the help of the
people and the businesses of
Chowan County our goal could not
have possibly been met. Thank
you Chowan County for con
tributing to a very needed and
worthwhile cause.”
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Mrs. Betty McCain
Mrs. McCain
Guest Speaker
Mrs. John L. McCain (Betty)
chairman of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, will be the
speaker at the luncheon of the
Chowan Democratic Women.
The luncheon will be held at
Mrs. Boswell’s Restaurant at 1
P.M. on April 26.
Reservations may be made by
calling Mrs. C.C. Stevens at 4152-
4989 or Mrs. Edward G. Bond at
482-3736. Members, new and old,
are urged to attend to hear this
outstanding speaker.
Mr. Reaves Dies
. Daniel McMillan Reaves, 2U7
West Eden Street, died Monday in
Chowan Hospital following ae
extended illness. He was 88.
Mr. Reaves was retired from
Norfolk Southern Railroad. ttv
came to Edenton in 1912 as a
inspector.
He was a native of Duplin
County, bom July 26, 1886, son of
the late Wilson and Alice Kelley
Reaves and the husband of Mrs.
Maude Roughton Reaves.
In addition to his wifc(s>, vuig
is a son, Daniel P. R ; *9 of
Edenton; a
Catherine A. Reaves Hi*
Point; a brother, Normar Heaves
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