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Share Your Blessings This Thanks? Time To Be Thankful This is the time of the year when we people along the Public Parade and elsewhere should count our blessings. Great and small, there are many. We here at the Chowan Herald want first to show our apprecia tion for such a beautiful small community in which to operate. We are thankful of course, for our subscribers, far and near, who are the foundation on which all our other efforts rest. We are thankful for our adver tisers, whose continuing support enables us to pay our help, pay our taxes and pay for the other thou sand and one things we have to buy; and, when all is said and done, we are thankful for the lit tle that is left which we can call our own. We are thankful for our staff, whose efforts day in and day out keep the show on the road. With out them, the job would be over whelming. We are thankful—as most citi zens are—that our community is about to get a fine new industry, increasing the tax base and offer ing employment to a large num ber of our fellow townsmen and women. We hope no last-minute hitch develops'to set this prospect awry. Too, we appreciate the fact that, at long last, a new bridge is being built across Albemarle Sound. And we are especially thankful that the section which collapsed late last week did so in the dark of night when no workmen were about. As things now stand, it represents only a monetary loss. It could have been a tragedy, with loss of life.-—““ j',s We are also thankful that the rupture occurred before the bridge was finished and opened to Continued On Page 4 Santa Claus Christmas Parade Guest Of Honor Jaycee President Kel Elmore has just received the following message. After lengthy negotia tion with the North Pole, the REAL Santa Claus has received clearance for his participation in the Edenton Christmas Parade next Wednesday afternoon, December 3, at 4:00 p.m. Santa will be the guest of honor and featured attraction as he masterfully ushers in the Christmas season with the largest Christmas Parade that Edenton has seen in many years. The “Miracle on Broad Street” will be brought to life by nine -- that’s right -- nine marching bands providing lively music while Stever’s School of Dance blends Chowan Arts Council piz zaz and Recreation Department excitement into just what Santa ordered. School entries featuring CHRI8TMAS PREPARATIONS—Town workmen placed Christmas decorations on the lamp pasta along Broad St. Monday night. The town I is readying for its annual ChristmasParadeto.be held next Wednes day at 4 p.m. children from throughout the Albemarle area will be com plemented by numerous other marching units such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and the John A. Holmes Naval Junior ROTC. Local churches will demonstrate the splendor and grandeur of the nativity that represents the true meaning of Christmas. Antique cars and the Optimist Club train will have to be careful not to bump into any quarter horses, errant reindeer or Smokey the Bear. Live coverage of the parade will be provided by radio station WZBO (102.3 on your FM dial) featuring the talents of the renowned James Francis “Pat” Flanagan and the wild and witty Richard Flynn Surratt. Parade units will assemble in the Edenton Village Shopping Center parking lot and wind down Broad Street. Spaa? is still available in the line-up and can be reserved by contacting the Edenton-Chowan Chamber of Commerce at (919) 482-3400. Two Break-Ins Are Reported Two break-ins at town busi nesses last week have netted thieves some $160. Police Chief John Parrish said that a back window was broken out of the Leary Oil. Co. in the ear ly hours of Wednesday morning. About $10 was taken from a desk drawer. The Edenton Bake Shop was the scene of the other break-in that oc curred some time between 4 p.m. Saturday and 6:11 a.m. Monday. Parrish said that $150 was miss ing from the cash register. No sign of forcible entry was found at the restaurant. THE CHOWAN HERALD Published In The Most Beautiful Little City On The North Carolina Coast Volume HI ■ No. 45 Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, November 27, 1986 Single Copies 25 Cents Temporary Supports Fail New Bridge Collapses By JACK GROVE Some 650 tons of concrete and its supporting “falsework” plunged into Albemarle Sound early last Thursday morning. Thirteen slabs of the new Albe marle Sound bridge collapsed in to the water around 4 a.m. Each of the prefabricated slabs measure 17 feet in length, 34 feet across and from 8 to 22 inches in thickness, and weigh 50 tons. The collapse took place about 550 feet out from die Chowan shore and was due to the tem porary steel supports giving way according to project manager Frank Susi. He said that the falsework was designed and fab ricated by a subcontracting firm in Texas. The 3mile structure is being built by a joint venture of two companies, Cianbro Corp. of Pittsfield, Maine and Williams Brothers of Houston, Texas. Seg ments of the bridge are pre-cast at a facility on Base Road and then assembled over the water. In an interview last July, bridge engineer Mark Heim stated that “Concrete bridges are normally poured at the site of the bridge. As far as we know, there hasn’t been one built like this in North America.” Susi said Monday that all of the slabs and the supports were re trieved from the shallow water. He was asked if the recovered slabs would be usable. “We are unable to determine that right now, but a good portion,” he replied. The project manager said that the falsework is being redesigned but that, “It will be basically the same support system with some modifications.” Of the cost of the collapse, he said, “The damage has not been assessed yet.” Susi said that the mishap would not basically affect the bridge building schedule. The new span is scheduled to open for traffic during the summer of 1988. A division construction engineer for the state Dept, of Transpor tation, G.A. Taylor, was.contacted in a telephone interview at the DOT office in Plymouth. He said that the problem in the support structure “seems to be in the fric tion collar.. .all the load was on the friction collars.” Continued On Page 4 Town Rates Increasing Users of the Edenton sewer system will soon be paying higher usage fees. At a special session of the Edenton Town Council Tues day night, a new Sewer Use Ordi nance was adopted that incorpor ates changes to the previous or dinance and includes a user charge system. In a schedule of gradually es calating charges, users of the new sewer system will pay their pro portionate share of the operation and maintenance of the system, including replacement. Currently users are paying a $2 no flow (base charge) plus 66' per 1,000 gals. On Jan. 1, 1987 the charge will go up to 85‘ per 1,000 gals., to $1.30 per 1,000 on July 1, 1987 and on Jan. 1,1988, when the new plant is operational, to $5 no flow and $1.30 per 1,000. For the average household, > Continued On Page 4 BRIDGE COLLAPSE—Temporary structural steel supports and bridge roadbed slabs were dumped into Albemarle Sound early Friday morning when the steel “falsework” gave way. Bridge officials said that the mishap would not delay completion of the 3V4 mile span. i Defendant Committed For Evaluation Chowan District Court was in session Nov. 18, the Honorable J. Richard Parker presiding over the criminal calendar. At a probable cause hearing for Darryl Alexander Gibbs, charged with second degree burglary, his attorney filed a motion that he be committed to Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh for psychiatric evaluation which was granted by the court. A court officer said that a scuf fle ensued in the hallway outside the court room after the court was recessed, when officers attempted to handcuff Gibbs. It took several officers to subdue the defendant after he broke back into the court room. Foy Daniel Ward admitted responsibility for speeding 64 in a 55 mph zone. He was assessed a penalty of $10 and cost of court. The state took a voluntary dismissal in the case of Michael Ray Williams, charged with ex ceeding a safe speed. The probation of John Phillip Lawrence was revoked at a pro bation violation hearing and an active sentence of 60 days was invoked. Elton Leroy Holley pleaded guilty to driving while his license was revoked and failing to comp ly with restrictions of his operator’s license. Additional charges alleging each of these violations were dismissed. The charges were consolidated foi judgment and he was sentenced tc six months, suspended for twc years upon payment of a $250 fine and cost of court and he was ordered to surrender his license An appeal was noted. Thomas Shelton Nixon, III pleaded not guilty but was founc guilty of speeding 69 in a 55 mpt zone and having no liability in surance. The cases were con solidated for judgment and he was sentenced to 30 days, suspended for one year upon payment of a $75 fine and cost of court. He was ordered not to operate a motor vehicle without the required in surance. An appeal was noted. Hector Wayne Cooper pleaded guilty to improper passing and was assessed a fine of $25 and cost of coijrt. Breck Allen Williams pleaded Continued On Page 4 NEAT TRICK—Andrell Henry put on a magic show for a Saturday luncheon meeting of the D.A. V. Here Henry passed a long needle and thread through an inflated balloon. Veterans Hear Cmdr. Thompson A meeting of District One of the Disabled American Veterans had as its special guest Saturday, Tommy Thompson, Dept, of North Carolina Commander. Townsend, a D.A.V. member for 18 years, retired from the U.S. Air Force with the rank of major. The state commander urged those present to add to the membership roles of the organi zation. He stressed that each chapter in the district was under quota in their recruitment efforts. There are currently 25,000 D.A.V. members in the state. Thompson outlined the legisla tive program for the state which the D.A.V. is pushing along with other veteran’s organizations. The groups back bills, to be introduced in the General Assembly, that would: • Increase the income tax ex emption on retired veterans com pensation from the current $3,000 to $6,000; • Extend state job preference to all veterans; • Increase property tax exemp tions for all veterans who are rated as 100 per cent disabled; and • Provide for more veteran cemetery space in the state. The D.A.V. commander told his listeners that the federal govern ment on Jan. 1 will stop paying travel allowances for veterans 1 Continued On Page 4 SEASONAL MESSAGE—The cornucopia and bounty from Chowan County’s fields is flanked by an ap propriate message in the yard of the Rev. and Mrs. Don Wagner near Wagner’s church, Rocky Hock Bap tist Church.
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