Noted And Passed
( Today, September 23, marks the
16th birthday of the junior
member of our household. We
were less than two years into our
sojourn along the Public Parade
when we witnessed our fifth
blessed event.
A couple of weeks ago we were
in the birthday arena. Some who
meander along the Public Parade
on a regular basis may have seen
a touch of humor (?) which ap
peared on a couple of pages of the
Herald.
Being a September baby has
anxious moments. First, you are
eligible to start school in the sixth
"year. Second, you are eligible to
become a licensed driver.
Lake Greer, -we were away in
school at this important milestone
in life. And regardless of the
feeling at the time, we managed to
get along without taking the driver
exam on our birthday.
Unlike our admirers, we won’t be
secretive about it. We’ll come
right out and say: “Happy
birthday, Greer!”
Fair Week
This is Fair Week along the
Public Parade. If you dug your
peanuts, they may be a long time
drying. If you put out rye grass
seed and fertilizer, you may have
a beautiful lawn this fall.
Rain which began Sunday night
has dumped a lot of much needed
water on the landscape in the past
couple of days. In fact, opening of
the award winning Chowan County
Agricultural Fair was postponed
Monday and then called off
Tuesday. It was just too wet at the
fairgrounds.
While the fairgrounds are
located on well drained land,
Wednesday still wasn’t suitable
day for a leisurely visit to the fair.
However, time still remains
before the annual attraction is
closed down Saturday.
I Edward G. Bond Post No. 40,
American Legion, sponsors the
agricultural fair which con
sistently been toDS in North
edition ranks
While there are concessions,
rides, etc., strong emphasis over
the years has been placed on
exhibits. Scores of people put in
hundreds of hours in the exhibit
halls and the result is worth going
t 5 see, even if you hazard the
chance of muddy shoes.
As we said, it may have been a
bit damp early in the week, but
time remains to support the
Chowan County Agricultural Fair.
Location Questioned
This week’s mail brought a
clipping from The Princeton
(N.J.) Picket with an interesting
article about how a surfer in the
Atlantic plucked from the ocean
a bottled message. What made it a
local interest item along the
Public Parade was the mention of
Edenton as the point of deposit.
We question the geography of
the piece. But.that doesn’t spoil an
otherwise facinating story.
It seems that “sometime in
February,” 1981, three pages of
notes were stuffed into a “Heinz
57” catsup bottle by 26 Navajo
Indian students from a school near
Winslpw, Ariz. The teacher sent
the bottle to relatives in North
Carolina to be deposited into the
Atlantic surf. So far, so good!
When a young surfer at Bar
negat Light beach spotted the
bottle bobbing in the water a
couple hundred feet from shore, he
found a note signed by the teacher,
dated January 30, 1981. The note
'further stated that the bottle was
put into the ocean at Edenton.
That’s where the geography gets
out of kilter.
If the aunt and uncle of the
teacher-Ellen Carolin-in fact
deposited the bottle in Albemarle
Sound at Edenton that gives the
story an even more interesting
twist. The fact that it made its way
down the sound, into the Atlantic
and up to New Jersey is an even
better story.
Anyway, as Michael Boonin’s
story reads:
“Stuffing a message into a bottle
and tossing it into the ocean (or
sound) is not the most reliable
method of correspondence in this
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PORK QUEEN CHOSEN—The young women pictured here in evening gowns were participants in
Lhe Northeastern Pork Queen Contest. Pictured here are Debbie Lynn Jordan, Debra Ann Alons,
Ester Dale Adams, Cheryl Fay Stallings, Donna Patricia Elliott and Deborah Kay Suter. The
winner of the title was Cheryl Faye Stallings.
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CERTIFICATE PRESENTED Captain Williams of the
Edenton Police Department receives The Basic General. In
termediate General and Advance Law Enforcement C’ertfficates
from Mayor Roy Harrell.
Town’s Request On Waste Water Is Approved
Sam Noble, Town Administrator
of Edenton, has announced that
the Enviromental Protection
Agency has approved the town’s
request to permit an additional
15,000 gallons of waste water per
day into the existing sewage
system.
The announcement comes after
a meeting Noble and several of the
Town Council members had with
the EPA in Raleigh on September
9. At this meeting they presented
their proposed plans to expand the
sewage system by the addition of a
Land Application System.
Peter Rascoe Is The New
Associate Lawyer In Edenton
Hear ye, Hear ye, the court of
Chowan County is now in session,
all rise. The next time you are at
court and hear the baliff’s cry you
may notice a new face among the
lawyers represented there. The
new face will be that of Peter
Rascoe, 111.
Rascoe graduated from North
Carolina State University with a
B.A. in History. After staying out
.1
y Peter Rasco*.
The way the proposed Land
Application system would work
similar to the way an irrigation
system; where the waste water
would be allowed to settle in ponds
and the water after the solids have
settled out, would be spread over a
large track of land by sprinkler
devices. The land would then be
used by the city to grow soft hard
wood trees like popular.
The EPA commended the Town
and County for moving so quickly
to solve the waste water problem.
The cost for the system will be
around $7,400,000 with the Town of
of school a short time he applied
and was accepted at the
University of South Carolina Law
School. He graduated from USC
Law School in the first part of 1982
and took the N.C. bar exam in July
of the same year
He applied for employment as
an associate of Chris Bean and
started working with him on
September 7.
Now don’t get him wrong, Peter
Rasco is a country boy, bom and
bred. He was bom in Bertie
County and lived in Windsor up
until the time he attended college.
Rasco refers to his roots when
he said, “I had a strong desire to
come back to Northeastern North
Carolina.
“I’ve always been in love with
Northeastern North Carolina, I did
not apply any where else for work.
“The other law students were
always coming up to me and asking
‘What do you want to go back there
for?’”
Rasco said of Edenton, “I like
Edenton a lot, my family has
always had friends here in
Edenton.
“I’m impressed with the small
town, at the people here who have
made me feel at home.”
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, September 23, 1982
Board of Education Meeting Is Discussed
The Edenton - Chowan Board of
Education met this month on
September 16 at the Chowan
County Office Building.
The primary topic of discussion
that night was the construction of
a cafeteria and the conversion of
the existing cafeteria into science
labs.
T.V.Lamb of the George Smart
Architectural Firm was there to
present the Board with the low bid
and the second low bid. The lower
bid was withdrawn by the con
tractor who has submitted it
leaving the second low bid to be
excepted or rejected. The low bid
for the project was then $853,713
which was $115,263 over what the
Board was budgeted for the
project. When asked why the bids
were coming in so much higher
than proposed by the architect,
Lamb said. “The interest nrime
rate dropped 3 points right before
the bids came in and the con
tractors didn’t want to get caught
Edenton footing around 7M* per
cent of the total bill, or $576,000.
The rest of the funds would be
coming from state and federal
sources. Coy Batton. the Director
of Grants and Management,
thought that funding could be
obtained by December. He is
reported to have said that the real
selling point would be that
Edenton has its monies already
appropriated.
The Town is at present
negotiating a lease with Gilliam
Wood for the use of land which he
owns near the Edenton Airport.
Sam Noble said, of Wood, “You
can’t ask for any one to be more
cooperative than he has been”.
“He has the Town's and
County’s best interest at heart.”
With the additional allowence
for waste water until the Land
Application Plant can be built the
Town will be permitted to add the
new wing of the Chowan Hospital,
the expansion of Elder Lodge, and
the new duplex for the elderly
called Senior Village.
Board Os Elections
Reminder Os Deadlines
The Chowan County Board of
Elections would like to remind all
Chowan County residents that the
deadline for registration is
nearing. There are three deadlines
the public should be aware of:
The first is that the registration
deadline itself is October 4, 1982.
The second is that if a voter’s
registration status has changed in
any of the following ways the
election office should be notified:
Moved from one precinct into
another; Moved to another ad
dress in the precinct; Address has
been changed by the U.S. Postal
Service; or if your name has
changed.
The last deadline is for those
intending to vote by absentee
ballot. Applications for the ab
sentee ballot must be made by
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Miss Stallings Is Crowned
As Northeastern Pork Queen
There were beautiful girls to be
seen at the Northeastern Pork
Queen Contest. The girls
possessed more than beauty
though; they had charm, they
were graceful, and they were
intelligent but more than this they
possessed a knowledge and
dedication to the pork industry.
The contestants competed in
evening gown competition, with
three minute oral essays, a
question and answer session, and
private interviews. They were also
observed closely by the judges
during an informal dinner party
given in their honor.
The contestants in their essays
brought out the facts about pork as
a food.
The contestants were Deborah
Kay Suter from Tyrrell County,
Debra Ann Alons from Hyde
with one pay taking it for the bare
minimum and a lot of suppliers
have raised their prices.”
Lamb also went into the results
of his negotiation with the con
tractor to bring prices down. The
cuts however still brought the
price of the construction around
$36,000 over budget. The Board
now has until September 30 to
decide whether to accept the bid or
not. The Board after a long
discussion decided to move that
Dr. Dunn be permitted to
negotiate with the architect to
bring his fee down and to permit
him to negotiate with Cliff
Copeland to see if there were any
more monies available from the
County. The vote on the motion
was tied at three votes for giving
Dr. Dunn the authority tp
negotiate for the Board and three
votes against. The ehairman
broke the tie for negotiating.
In other business Ed Bond was
Rescheduled
Due to heavy rains the Chowan
County Fair has rescheduled
Monday night events.
Saturday 1:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.
everyone pays one price - $3.00
babies in arms are free. 10 prizes
to he given away at 6 P.M.
She’s On Broadway
Local Actress In A Broadway Musical
By Deborah Collins
When Patricia Mooney Parker
was a toddler, she dressed in her
aunt’s discarded gowns and her
mother's shoes, as she sang and
acted on her front lawn on Oakum
Street in Edenton. Today, she is
still acting and singing, only now
she dresses up in $5,000 gowns and
sable coats and she’s no longer on
her front lawn...she’s on Broad
way.
A native of Edenton Patricia is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Mooney. The Mooney’s who now
reside across the street from the
home where Patricia once played,
are now in New York for their
daughter’s first performance in “A
Doll’s Life”. While there Mrs.
Mooney will be celebrating her
birthday by watching her
daughter in a Broadway musical
and taking a tour of the Big Apple,
although her husband insists
“she’ll see the city from the
window of their 14th floor room.”
Mr. and Mrs. Mooney knew
Igggm
&
Patricia Mooney Parker
County, Cheryl Faye Stallings and
Donna Patricia Elliott from
Perquimans County, Ester Dale
Adams from Bertie County and
Debbie Lynn Jordan from Chowan
County.
The second runner up in the
contest was Deborah Kay Suter.
She received a SSO cash award.
The first runner up was Debbie
Lynn Jordan and she received a
$75 cash award.
The winner of the Miss North
eastern Pork Queen Contest was
Cheryl Faye Stallings. She
received a SIOO cash award, a
trophy and a crown.
The Pork Queen Contest was
coordinated by the Northeast
North Carolina Pork Council,
Northeast North Carolina
Porkettes, and the Chowan County
Fair Association.
Single Copies 25 Cents
nominated for the Raleigh
Dingman Award for outstanding
Boardsmanship.
Reports were made on Bun
combe’s adopting the Edenton -
Chowan Schools Curriculum
Development Model, the North
Carolina School Board
associations annual convention
coming up on November 11 -13 and
the average daily enrollment at
the schools.
The minutes from the last
meeting were approved.
The resignation of William Errol
Flynn, masonary teacher at
Holmes was considered and ac
cepted.
New personnel were voted upon,
they were all accepted. The new
personnel are Susan Thompson
Cede as a Learning .Disabled
Teacher, Edward Tyronne
Spellman as a Drivers Education
Teacher, and Richard Lawrence
Winslow as a Carpentry Teacher.
Donna J. Downing was accepted
as a Secretary, Treasurer and
Bookkeeper for the Alternative
School.
School transfers, between school
systems were approved along with
new bus drivers.
from the beginning their daughter
w'as determined to make it to the
top, although they cautioned her
that “it was a long hard road in
musical and theatrical success.”
At the age of four Patricia won a
SIOO bond in a Double Cola Talent
Contest in Elizabeth City, from
there her musical talent was
nutured by her mother who is a
music teacher. Patricia designed
a plan of training, hard work,
dedication, persistance and a high
consistent level of self - discipline
to follow.
She attended Edenton
Elementary School, in the early
1960’s however her parents moved
to Raleigh where she then at
tended Broughton High School.
She took her singing lessons from
Geraldine Kate, now retired from
St. Mary’s. Mrs. Kate greatly
influenced Patricia’s musical
career in those early voice
lessons.
In high school she played the
lead in musicals such as “Annie”
and “Oklahoma” then as a junior
she was selected to attend the
North Carolina Governor’s School
for the Gifted in the performing
arts and she was chosen as the
youngest vocalist for the North
Carolina Symphony.
A graduate of Converse College
Conservatory of Music, she
majored in voice performance and
won numerous vocal competitions.
She also sang with the opera
workshop. She received her
master’s degree at the Eastman
School of Music in Rochester, New
York.
Patricia has lived in New York
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