Cost Of Campaigning
Withdrawal of Jim
Crawford from the campaign
for lieutenant governor raises
anew questions about the high
cost of running in a statewide
contest and the ultimate effect
) it will have on the democratic
process.
Here was an excellent
young candidate, a three-term
representative in the legisla
ture from his home district, a
Morehead scholar, a success
ful young businessman mar
ried into the Cannon textile
family, who dropped out of the
race because he could not jus
tify the half million dollars a
successful campaign would
cost.
Jim Crawford elected, in
stead, to file for re-election to
the house of representatives.
But even that is no longer
cheap. In 1986, the average
winning house candidate
spent $11,671, up from $6,396
the previous election. By all
indications it Bhould reach
$15,000 this time around.
Multiply that by a thousand
and you will approximate the
estimated cost of running a
successful statewide cam
paign for such offices as gov
ernor or United States senator
in 1988. Needless to say, that
reduces the chances of a mod
estly well-off candidate ever
winning high office in our
state again.
What brought all of this on?
And what can be done about it?
To our way
is due in large part to the
breakdown of party loyalty
and party discipline. It has
been only a few years since it
became popular to say, "Vote
for the man and not the
party." That was supposed to
be the eure for everything that
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Siding Is Salvaged
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A flatbed tractor-trailer
truck loaded with white cedar
siding overturned on Base
Road Monday at 1 p.m. The
driver, David M. Katzenberg,
39, of Baltimore, Md. was
wearing a lap belt and was not
injured in the one vehicle ac
cident.
Trooper W.F. Whitley of
the N.C. Highway Patrol, in
vestigating officer, said that
the truck, traveling south,
entered a curve at too great a
speed causing it to overturn on
its right side. The location
was about two miles south of
the Edenton Airport.
Katzenberg told Whitley
that he swerved to avoid a
northbound car that was over
the center line. He was com
ing from Atlantic Forest and
was bound for Baltimore. The
load belonged to MacMillan
DELIVERED • A large dump truck delivers the last of 30 loads of good topsoil to the new park
site behinfl the Edenton Police Station. A contracting company donated about 100 truckloads to
the town at an estimated value of $8,000. The remaining loads went to a fill area at the cemetery.
The contractor, McDevitt and Street of Charlotte, excavated the dirt during construction of the
new Food Lion store at the Edenton Village Shopping Center. The company said that it was not
j cost effective to try to sell the soil. j
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Published In The Most Beautiful Little City On The North Carolina Coast
Volume LLIV - No. 6
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, February 11,1988
Single Copies 25 Cents
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CERTIFIED - Edenton Mayor John Dowd (right) presented a
certificate to Edenton Housing Authority's director Byron
Kehayes Monday night in recognition of his being named as a
certified Public Housing Manager by a national organization of
professional housing managers.
Council Postpones
Boundary Decision
Edenton Town Council
members put in a long night
Monday evening as their
meeting began at 8 p.m. with
a series of public hearings
and ended around midnight
after an executive session to
consider personnel matters.
^JChe council chamber was..
Bloedel Building Materials
Co. of Atlanta, Ga.
Traffic was blocked for
over two and one half hours
while the siding was salvaged
by a crew from Atlantic Forest
and before the truck was
righted. While Whitley did
not have a monetary estimate
of damage to the truck
Monday, he termed it
"extensive."
Also responding to the ac
cident scene were Trooper
W.M. Long, the Edenton Fire
Department, EMS
Coordinator Doug Belch and
Chowan Deputy Sheriff
James White.
Whitley said that skid
marks from the truck mea
sured 305 feet and Katzenberg
was cited for traveling too
fast.
crowded as most seemed to
have attended for the public
hearing concerning the
change of boundaries of the
Edenton Historic under the
current town zoning ordi
nance to include all the area
now encompassed by the his
toric district on the National
"Hesgisler of Historic Places. '**i
The expanded area is from
Granville to Oakum Streets
from the waterfront to Gale
Street and with an extension
along Broad Street.
One resident wanted to
know what restrictions would
be put on a homeowner in the
area. Mayor John Dowd
replied that any changes to a
structure would be referred by
the building inspector to the
Historic District Commis
sion. "They would encourage
you to stick with the appropri
ate architectural style."
The process would include
the requirement of a request
for a "Certificate of Appropri
ateness" issued by the com
mission.
Jane Underkofler asked,
"What about siding?" Com
mission chairman Bill
Turpin replied, "The com
mission has not yet produced
guidelines.” He said that if
the house was of historic in
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Clara Boswell Honored
state honors were brought
borne from a meeting of the
Federation of Business and
Professional Women’s Clubs
of North Carolina by Clara
Boswell last weekend. She
was named as the Career
Woman of the Year for the
state and was sponsored by the
Edenton BPW Club.
The award was presented at
a Saturday luncheon at the
33rd Annual Spotlight on
Women conference held at the
Pinehurst Hotel and Country
Club, Pinehurst, N.C.
Mrs. Boswell’s career be
gan in 1954 as a Home Exten
sion Agent in Chowan
County. In that position she
encouraged all women, espe
cially homemakers, to use
their talents and potential,
both as homemakers and ca
reer women. Two years later,
she married, began a family,
and made a career change,
opening and operating a
florist shop for two years.
In 1967, already armed with
a college degree and a
teacher's certificate, she ac
cepted a teaching position at
Perquimans High School as a
science teacher. She subse
quently earned a M.A. degree
in secondary science and a
M.A. Ed. Administration de
gree.
Through her teaching ca
reer, she conducted many
workshops and seminars to
benefit other teachers. She
was instrumental in the
opening of the Edenton
Chowan Alternative School in
1977 and was its principal
until it closed in 1986. She
then was named principal of
Chowan Jr. High School and
remains principal there.
Mrs.* Boswell served as
consultant/presenter of the
N.C. Leadership workshops
for Student Council Advisors,
and as coordinator for county,
state and national Close-up.
She has served on the state
and district committees for
Delinquent Prevention Con
ferences and was active in the
planning and preparation for
consolidation of the school
system.
In 1984, she was one of three
school principals throughout
the state to be chosen as Exec
utive Assistant of the N.C.
Leadership Institute for Prin
cipal State Dept, of Public In
struction in Raleigh. She is
currently chairperson of the
Board of Directors of the
Chowan Social Services and
is a member of Albemarle
Mental Health.
A two-term county commis
sioner, she was named
unowan bouncy woman oi me
Year in 1985.
A bumper sticker on Mrs.
Boswell’s car perhaps sum
marizes her philosophy:
"Women Make Good Leaders
- You Are Following One."
Clara Boswell
New Hours Set
One effect of federal budget
deficit cutbacks will soon be
seen by local patrons of the
U.S. Postal Service. Those
who go regularly to the post
office in Edenton and
Hertford will see a change in
hours when window service
will be provided according to
Roy Ferrell officer in charge
of the Edenton post office.
Ferrell said that seven
hours per week has been
shaved from retail window
service hours. Effective
Saturday, February 13, win
dow hours at the Edenton fa
cility will be 8:30 a.m. to 11
a.m. and noon to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Saturday hours are from 9 to
11 a.m.
"Some schedules for our
employees will be amended to
meet this 10 per cent reduction
in hours," Ferrell com
mented. He said that he felt
that the new hours would af
fect "only the inconvenience"
of the public.
Ferrell stressed that only
window hours were being
changed and "mail delivery
will not be affected at all.”
New hours for Hertford are
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. week days
and closed on Saturday. The
Durants Neck Contract
Station will have window
hours from 11 a.m. to 2:30
p.m., week days and
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Fishermen To Voice Concerns
Have our rock fish gone?
How about the perch and the
herring? Why would they
disappear and what will it
take to bring them back?
These are some of the ques
tions that will be addressed at
a public meeting at John A.
Holmes High School audito
rium at 7 p.m. on Thursday,
Feb. 18.
The meeting was arranged
by Rod Cross and other local
commercial fishermen who
are gravely concerned about
water quality in the Chowan
River and Albemarle Sound
where they make their living.
Harrell Johnson, district
manager of the N.C. Division
of Marine Fisheries will
chair the meeting. Also on
hand will be a representative
from the N.C. Division of
Environmental Manage
ment. Cross said that Rep.
R.M. (Pete) Thompson, Rep.
Vernon James and Sen. Marc
Basnight have been invited to
attend as well as town and
county governmental
representatives.
Emphasizing that this is
not a regulatory meeting and
not just for fishermen, Cross
said that the purpose was to
concentrate on recognizing
the problem. He said that with
fish catches down, commer
cial and recreational fishing
was in jeopardy as well as the
spin-off economic impact to
local businesses that the lost
revenue represents.
"The whole key to solving
the problem is water quality,"
the commercial' fisherman
pointed out. He cited red sore
disease in fish, blue-green
algae in the river and result
ing lack of oxygen in the wa
ter as symptomatic of the
problem.
"We're talking about a
major portion of the economy
of this area as well as the
quality of life," he com
mented,
A1 Howard of Arrowhead
Beach is a member of the
Albemarle and Pamlico
Estuarine Study Commission,
appointed by the governor to
look into water quality prob
lems. Howard has monitored
river conditions along with
other volunteers for several
years and will participate in
the meeting.
Cross said that officials
will make opening presenta
tions which will be followed
by a question and answer
session. He expressed the hope
that the public would attend in
large numbers
Dish To Be Installed
By JACK GROVE
The Edenton-Chowan
school system has been chosen
as one of the 52 school systems
in the state to receive a satel
lite dish. The general
Assembly last summer
appropriated $3 million to
provide the dishes to the
smallest and most rural high
schools in the state.
The Distance Learning by
Satellite project will use the
dishes to receive school
courses at schools throughout
the state that otherwise might
not be able to offer them due to
teacher availability or low
student enrollments.
Maxine Britt, director of
instruction for the school sys
tem, said that the project will
also afford staff development
or teacher training. Local
plans call for utilization of
this aspect next year with
possible application in the fu
ture for adding to the curricu
lum at John A. Holmes.
The State board of Education
said that high school courses
most needed are Spanish,
physics, calculus, French,
advanced literature and
trigonometry.
Holmes' principal, Rob
Boyce, said Wednesday that
these courses are already
available at the school. Ger
man and astronomy were two
examples of possible future
courses via satellite that could
broaden the curriculum, he
said.
The State Board of Educa
tion recently approved a con
tract with the TI-IN Network
of Texas for the hardware,
installation and some pro
gramming, including both
high school credit and staff
development courses.
While the state is funding
the staff development courses,
Mrs. Britt said, the student
courses will cost an average
of $250 per course per
semester. No policy has been
formulated as yet within the
school system concerning
funding for these courses.
The TI-IN Network will use
a GTE Spacenet satellite to
relay through the receivers a
video picture and sound to
classrooms in North Car
olina. The system is interac
tive which allows the students
to talk back with their teach
ers in the studio in Texas over
toll-free telephone lines.
To utilize the network for
staff development, Mrs. Britt
said, "Our only expense will
be the installation of a phone
for use with the system."
Teachers will then be able to
talk with their instructors.
Installation of the dishes
began last month in Regions 1
and 2 in the eastern part of the
state. Installation will work
its way west through the other
six educational regions and
be completed by June 30 with
broadcasts beginning in the
fall.
In addition to Chowan, in
stallations in surrounding
counties will include Bertie,
Gates, Perquimans and
Washington.