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AT STATE LEVEL Angie Crone, a representative of the N.C.
Department of Agriculture, is shown with a sign from Deerfield
Wine Cellars of Edenton at a recent wine-tasting event attended
by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams of Edenton.
Filing To Begin
Filing for the upcoming May
Primary begins at 12 noon,
January 7 and extends until 12
noon February 4, reports the
Chowan County Board of Elec
tions.
According to a letter from the
Board of Elections, persons
wishing to file as a candidate must
not be registered as an affiliate of
aiiy political party other than the
one in whose primary he is at
tempting to file.
In addition, anyone who has
changed party affiliation or who
has changed from unaffiliated
status as allowed by law must
have been a member of the party
in which he seeks to be a candidate
for at least three months prior to
the filing date for the office for
which he desires to file his notice
£ candidacy.
Those registered as unaffiliated
will not be eligible to file as a
candidate in the party primary
election.
CoUeclions Noted,
Net collections from the local 1
per cent sales and use tax in North
Carolina exceeded sl7-million in
November.
Sec. Mark G. Lynch of the State
Department of Revenue reported
that the collections in Chowan
were $25,436.57.
Net collections from the other
nine Albemarle Area counties
included:
Camden, $5,756.40; Currituck,
$24,404.73; Dare, $68,280.83;
Gates, $4,332.90; Hyde, $11,434.81;
Pasquotank, $112,527.77;
Perquimans, $12,530.39; Tyrrell,
$6,410.31; and Washington,
$32,375.72.
Work Os Sculptor To Grace Courthouse
When the Chowan County
Courthouse is formally dedicated
on February 3, two bronze
sculptures will be unveiled.
They are the work of Michael
Lantz, a 68 year old sculptor from
New Rochelle, N.Y. whose list of
commissions is quite impressive.
The 68 year old Lantz admits his
name may not be as familiar a one
as that of his brother, Walter
Lantz, creator of Woody Wood
pecker.
He and his assistant Sherry St.
Penz, travelled to Edenton last
week to install two of his works in
the new facility under an SIB,OOO
commission. It also gave him the
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COURTHOUSE SCULPTURES T3ie state seal and herring fishing scene shown above are the
work of Michael Lantz, a 6k year old sculptor from New Rochelle N.Y., who was commissioned to
execute those works for the new Chowan C6unty Courthouse. Lantz created the works from bronze
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From A Friend
The U. S. Postal Service catches
a lot of flake. The free enterprise
United Parcel Service has dug
deep into the package delivery
business; yet no one has come up
with a program to cut the cost of
delivering letter mail.
The Chowan Herald is probably
one of the biggest users of the U.S.
Postal Service along the Public
Parade. And we have no com
plaints.
Annually we spend about SIO,OOO
for stamps, plus postage on
newspapers and circulars. If there
is a less expensive way we haven’t
been able to locate it.
There are complaints from
time-to-time. Errors are made
here in our shop and after the mail
sacks are delivered to the post
office. None, however, can be
placed anywhere but to human
error.
The Second Class mailer has
been "Hit the hardest by rate
structure changes within the U. S.
Postal Service. A newspaper can
absorb this for so long, along with
the price of labor, materials and
other items of overhead. Then it
becomes necessary to hike sub
scription rates to compensate for
increases in other sectors. This is
being done this week.
The Chowan Herald crew works
hard at putting together a good
community newspaper. We
depend primarily on the U. S.
Postal Service to work with equal
zeal in seeing that you are exposed
to our product.
The Chowan Herald is proud to
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oppt tunity to see and comment
on Edenton’s unique architecture.
Lantz was responsible for
executing the North Carolina state
seal behind the hudge’s chair and
herring fishing scene in the
courthouse lobby, which he ter
med one of his most difficult
works.
Lantz’s two bronzes are
highlighted in gold leaf with the
background antiqued in a green
patina.
He models first in clay then
makes a plaster mold which
serves as the pattern for the final
sand mold into which molten
bronze is poured at the foundry.
N.C. Regaining Status As Wine State
Although New York and
California pre considered the
“wine states” in this country
today, the fact is that North
Carolina is the home of the
nation’s first cultivated wine
grape, and the state had a thriving
wine industry before the adoption
of statewide prohibition.
Now, the state’s two wine
producers are attempting to
reclaim the state’s wine-making
heritage, and the North Carolina
Department of Agriculture is
lending them assistance and
encouragement.
Both wineries are located in the
eastern part of the state, and on
Monday, November 26,1979, North
Carolina Commissioner of
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Vol. XLVI-No. 1
Courthouse Changes Will Aid The Handicapped
Steps are being taken to better
adapt the new Chowan County
Courthouse to the needs of the
handicapped and elderly following
a complaint by a local citizen
concerning location and
availability of handicapped
parking spaces and wheelchair
ramps.
Frank G. Halsey, Sr., 820
Cabarrus St., in a discussion with
Cliff Copeland, county manager,
aired his concerns over access into
the facility from the front of the
building.
Halsey, who is handicapped,
also questioned whether or not the
new facility had met State and
Federal building code provisions
for the hanciapped.
J. Everette Fauber, architect,
in response to a letter from
Copeland about these problems
indicated it would be relatively
simple to provide a wide parking
space closer to the main entrance
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Chowan Native Accepts Post
A Chowan County native this
week took a seat on the N. C.
Utilities Commission. He is
Douglas P. Leary, who was ap
pointed by Gov. James B. Hunt,
Jr., to replace Robert Fischbach,
now executive director of the
commission’s Public Staff.
His term will expire July 1,1985.
He must be approved by the
General Assembly which does not
meet until June.
Leary is the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Leary and the
For this local project, he
researched herring fishing to
depict the industry as it might
have been practiced before the
Civil War.
Lantz is past president of the
National Sculpture Society,
current editor of the National
•Sculpture Review and a teacher at
the National Academy of Design in
New York City.
A sculptor since the age of 16, his
first major commission came at
age 29 when he executed two
equestrian groups for the front of
the Federal Trade Commission in
Washington, D. C. •
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Agriculture James A. Graham
invited the owners to bring
samples of their product to
Winston-Salem for a wine-tasting
event with news representatives
and restauranteurs of the Pied
mont.
Mr. and Mrs. David Fussell of
Duplin Wine Cellars at Rose Hill
and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams
of Deerfield Wine Cellars at
Edenton met with the group at
Benton Convention Center, served
samples of six varieties of wine
and discussed both modern wine
making techniques and the history
of the industry in this state.
Colonists Found
Scuppernongs
The Scuppemong is a native
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, January 3, 1980
by converting two normal parking
spaces into one special space
indicated by an international
symbol sign.
An additional concrete ramp
from the parking lot would allow
access to the abutting sidewalk.
However, a
However ramp access from the
portico floor to the front door sill,
some five inches higher, is a more
complicated problem, Fauber
said.
Guns Confiscated
“War” games erupted about
1:30 P.M. December 26 in West
Edenton.
Chowan Court on Twiddy
Avenue challenged Davis Place on
West Albemarle Street. Police
were called to the scene to bring
about a cease fire.
Nine BB guns were confiscated.
brother of Lewis Leary. He grew
up in the Crossroads Community.
He attended Chowan High
School and East Carolina
University. For 10 years he was
staff assistant at the Fourt County
EMC in Burgaw. Since that time
he has been general manager of
Wake Electric Membership
Corporation, headquartered in
Wake Forest.
In an interview shortly after his
appointment was announced,
Leary said: “I was shocked as
some other people were, I am not a
political animal in the sense that
this was a political plum. I want to
be open on all issues and situations
that come before the com
mission.”
Leary said he did not know the
details behind Hunt’s statement in
August that Virginia Electric and
Power Company should get out of
North Carolina because its high
rates were hampering industrial
development in the Northeastern
portion of the state.
“I’ll remain open as to what my
convictions finally become on
this,” he said.
Mrs. Leary is a third grade
teacher at Wake Forest
Elementary School. They have
three sons: David, Jon and Paul.
Telephone Company Serving 535,000
TARBORO On December 27,
the North Carolina portion of
Norfolk Carolina Telephone
Company merged with Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, headquartered in Tar boro.
Both companies are members of
the United Telephone System
whose parent company, United
Telecommunications Inc., is
located in Kansas City, Mo.
Norfolk Carolina was merged with
United Telecom on April 26, 1978.
Soon after that Carolina
Telephone assumed management
responsibilities for die Elizabeth
City-based company.
The two companies have ad
jacent service territories.
Carolina Telephone is the largest
company in the United Telephone
American grape and was found
growing wild by early colonists.
The earliest written account of
the “white grape,” as it was called
by colonists, occurs in Giovanni da
Verrazzano’s logbook. Verraz
zano, the Florentine navigator
who explored the Cape Fear River
Valley for France in 1524, wrote
that he saw ‘‘...Many vines
growing naturally there...” and
that “...without doubt they would
yield excellent wines.”
Sir Walter Raleigh’s colonists
reported:
“In 1584 we departed from
England with two boats and found
Roanoke Island on the fourth of
July and the smell was as sweet as
if we had been in the midst of some
In order to meet specifications
concerning slope of the access
ramp, it would be necessary to
build it at least five feet long, thus
splitting the porch in half and
creating a stumbling block to
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PROBLEM FOR HANDICAPPED Access to the main en
trance of the new Chowan County Courthouse will be a problem for
the handicapped, pointed out Frank G. Halsey, Sr. of Edenton.
The handicapped citizen has discussed the problem with county
manager Cliff Copeland and steps are being taken to create
additional parking for the handicapped as well as additional
wheelchair ramps for the main entrance. While raising the
portico floor to be even with the front door sill has been con
sidered out of the question, alternative solutions are being
studied. No delay in acceptance of the project is anticipated.
Elderly Woman Is Injured
By Unknown Assailant
Edenton Police Department
assisted by the SBI is conducting
an investigation into the assault of
an elderly Edenton woman on
December 18, 1979.
Police Chief J. D. Parrish
reported that Mrs. R. W. Hurdle of
315 W. Queen Street suffered
multiple injuries from an attack
by an unknown assailant in her
home.
The Edenton-Chowan Rescue
responded, at 5:50 P.M., to a call
from the residence made by Mrs.
Paul Partin. She told Murray
System, serving more than 535,000
customers and 880,000 telephones
in eastern North Carolina.
With the acquisition of Norfolk
Carolina, Carolina Telephone will
be serving an additional 32,000
customers and 50,000 telephones.
When the two companies merge,
Carolina Telephone will operate in
a total of 50 counties through 146
telephone exchanges.
Besides serving seven counties
in Northeastern North Carolina,
Nrofolk Carolina also served a
small portion of southeastern
Virginia. The Virginia properties
of the company will be sold to
United Intermountain Telephone
Company subject to approval by
the Federal Communications
Commission.
delicate garden, ana grapes grew .
abundantly. Every shrub was
covered, climbing towards the
tops of high cedars and we think
the like is not to be found.”
The name Scuppemong comes
from the Algonquin Indian name,
“Ascopo,” which means
“Sweetbay” tree. On 18th century
maps of Washington County, there
is a village, a lake and a river by
the name of Scuppemong.
Native grapes now known as
Muscadines were used in wine by
the country’s early settlers. Sir
John Hawkins, in relieving the
French at Fort Caroline in 1565,
. found 20 hogsheads of Muscadine
wine, and later history refers to
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people transversing the porch.
Otherwise, the entire portico
floor would have to be tom up and
rebuilt five inches higher. Fauber
stated the door sill is needed to
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Ashley, Rescue Squad coor
dinator. that it appeared Mrs.
Hurdle had fallen.
Upon investigation and
discovery of a broken window at
the front of the home, Ashley
contacted the police for
assistance.
The police learned the attack
occured earlier in the day.
possibly around 2 P.M. and that
Mrs. Hurdle had been alone since.
Mrs. Partin arrived after 3:15 to
check on the elderly woman and
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The Norfolk Carolina exchanges
involved in the merger with
Carolina Telephone are Buxton,
Coin jock, Edenton, Elizabeth City,
Gatesville, Hertford, Kill Devil
Hills, Mamie, Manteo, Moyock,
Piney Woods, Shiloh, South Mills,
Sunbury, Waves, Weeksville,
Welch, and Woodville.
The Norfolk Carolina service
area includes some of the state's
most popular beaches, and it also
offers a wealth of historical in
terest. The coast, which is
protected by an abutment of
slender islands known as the Outer
Banks, is famous for variety
fishing in deep-sea. surf, inlet, and
sound waters. The coastal area
also is known to sportsmen who
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