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At the risk of elevating a
few temperatures along the
Public Parade, we feel con
strained to point out that
David Duke, the suburban
New Orleans Republican just
elected to the Louisiana legis
lature, is an overt chip off the
covert block put together by
GOP Chairman Lee Atwater
during the recent presidential
election campaign.
It's a little early, but al
ready the chickens are com
ing home to roost. J
All during the campaign,
Atwater and his advertising
hired guns kept putting out
coded signals and slogans in
a conscious effort to convert
white southern males inte
closet Republicans.
Everybody outside the lib
eral eastern establishment
understood what Lee Atwater
was doing and George Bush
and company were saying
when they kept talking about
law and order, capital pun
ishment, welfare cheating
and revolving-door prisons a
la Willie Horton. These were
code words for keeping the
blacks in their place.
And they fell on fertile soil.
^ What, with affirmative ac
tion, contract quotas, gerry
mandered safe black districts
and other legislated advan
tages, many white southern
ers and, indeed, others across
the land had come to feel that
things had gone so far as to
embrace reverse discrimina
tion. And they were frustrated
£ by their inability to oppose this
trend without being labeled in
the media as racists or bigots.
Then, beginning with
Ronald Reagan and carrying
over into the Bush campaign,
these voters began to discover
that, in the quiet ofthrpoWmg
booth and with the secret bal
lot, they could fight back
0 without risk of being stigma
tized.
And they did. With Reagan
it was easier because he was a
very popular person, running
on a platform to cut taxes, bal
ance the budget and rebuild
our military defenses. With
- George Bush, who had neither
Reagan's popularity nor an
i^i identifiable program, it was
not so easy. So Atwater and
his strategists had to push
their overt campaign to the
upper limits of the 30-second
sound bite.
The result was a massive
white flight from the Demo
cratic party, enabling George
Bush to sweep the south with
0 large majorities without ever
having to speak out in an
overt way.
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Published In The Most Beautiful Little City On The North Carolina Coast
Volume LLV - No. 9
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, March 2,1989
Single Copies 25 Cents
DEMONSTRATE DIALYSIS--Staff members of the Edenton
Dialysis Center Tuesday demonstrated use of equipment. Staff
members are (seated) Toni Gott and Darlene Winslow, RN.
Dialysis Gives
Lease On Life
By JACK GROVE
Edenton, a town of 5,000
population, has something
that many cities of 45-50,000
don’t have. A dialysis center.
The Edenton Dialysis Cen
ter was set up in the former
Unit B of Chowan Hospital
and opened for patient treat
ment on January 19 of this
year.
The center is operated by
Nephrology and Associates of
Tidewater, headquartered in
Norfolk, Va. The medical di
rector of the facility is Dr.
Karl Brandspigel of Elizabeth
City and is staffed by a re-use
and patient care technician,
three registered nurses and
~ tw<? .licensed .practise] jiurses.
Supervisor for the center is
Wayne Sawyer, RN.
The company also operates
dialysis centers in Elizabeth
City and Nags Head.
Webster's defines dialysis
as "separation of substances
by filtration" and this is ex
actly what the six dialysis
machines at the local center
do for patients whose kidneys
have failed or are only mar
ginally functional.
The patient is hooked up to
one of the $12,000 machines by
tubes that transfer their blood
to the machine where it is cir
culated through a a fiber- fill
ed filter, called appropriately,
a "kidney." Uric acid and
other poisons are removed
from the blood and it is cir
culated back into the patient.
The procedure can take
from two to four hours de
pending on individual body
characteristics.
The machine’s kidney,
housed in a plastic cylinder,
is sanitized after each use.
Each patient has his or her
own assigned kidney that is
never used for another pa
tient. Toni Gott, re-use and
patient care technician pro
cesses and accounts for these
filters.
The center must use puri
fied water in the machines.
An elaborate water processing
and storage system is housed
in a separate room. Town
water is processed with a re
verse osmosis system involv
ing a number of filters before
it is pure enough to store in two
large, tanks for use yyJben
needed.
The center is now serving
25 patients, who range in age
from 35 to 70 and who live in
Edenton, Windsor, Columbia,
Hertford and Winfall. They
were formerly served in Eliz
abeth City.
Dr. Brandspigel visits the
center once a week to examine
each patient and make any
required adjustment in treat
ment regimen.
Mrs. Gott said.that with
present equipment and staff,
up to 10 additional patients
could be cared for.
Dialysis for persons takes
place three times a week and,
unless they are candidates for
kidney transplants, must
continue for the rest of their
lives. Saying that "for nine
out of ten patients, this is their
second life," Mrs. Gott stress
Continued On Page 8
A new shopping center be
ing built in Edenton has been
causing some adjustments for
existing shopping centers
here.
The new Chowan Crossing
Shopping Center on Virginia
Road has four businesses
committed to moving there.
Terry Reeves, whose
Reeves Properties owns the
soon to be opened center had
previously announced that a
Roses discount store, Cato's
apparel shop, and Winn
Dixie supermarket had
signed leases. Monday he
announced that a Subway
Sandwich Shop would also oc
cupy space there. "They’ll be
a nice addition to the commu
nity,” he noted.
Winn-Dixie will move
from the North side Shopping
Center while Cato's will move
from Edenton Village Shop
ping Center.
Reeves said that he still has
from four to nine vacancies to
fill at the new center. The
nine spaces are for smaller
shops that could be opened by
taking out adjoining walls
for larger enterprises.
At Northside, Maxway will
soon be vacating their store
due to a Chapter 11 bank
ruptcy. They are currently
conducting a going out of
business sale. That will leave
only Sears and The Wash
House with Maxway and
Winn-Dixie gone.
Edenton Village has a
21,000 square foot vacancy, the
former site of Food Lion. Food
Lion moved to a larger loca
tion in the same center. There
are four shops currently va
cant. Kelvin Anderson, of Lat
Purser, Inc., owner of the
center, said that when Cato's
moves, a subsidiary apparel
store of the chain will fill the
void there.
While all three owners of
the shopping centers face va
cancies, all said that they
were working on filling them
and all expressed confidence
in the viability of the business
climate of Edenton.
Anderson said that a major
furniture retailer, Heilig
Meyers, made an eleventh
hour decision not to lease the
former Food Lion space.
Meanwhile, he said that "a
couple of people have ex
pressed interest," in leasing
smaller business spaces.
Concerning the report that
Ames Discount Store had
planned to move to Edenton
Village, "They keep leading
us on." He expressed no con
fidence that Ames would lo
cate there and that he believes
"they have put off making a
decision indefinitely."
Jesse Harris of Hertford,
owner of Northside said
Wednesday that Winn-Dixie
had taken three years to de
cide whether they would re
model at his center or re
locate. He said that store's re
location would cost more than
double in square footage
rental at the new center. "My
rents are based on 1969 stan
dards," he said.
Noting that Maxway still
has ten months to go on their
lease, he said that the com
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WHITE LACE--Inches of wet snow accumulated on this wire fence in Perquimans County
Friday, creating a scene of white lace. The snow also stuck to the trunks of trees and to power
lines. Eight to ten inches fell in Chowan and over a foot in Perquimans.
Second Winter Storm Hits
Snow Causes Few Problems
By JACK GROVE
Local emergency officials
have credited recent experi
ence of residents and the tim
ing of Friday's snow storm as
factors in reduced accidents
and problems in Edenton and
Chowan County.
Area people gained the ex
perience from the previous
week's snow and stocked up
Thursday with groceries and
heating fuel. Many stayed off
the roads Friday, avoiding
possible accidents.
Unlike the previous week's
storm that hit at the evening
rush hour, Friday's snow be
gan after midnight and a
significant amount was al
ready on the ground and road
ways by 8 a.m.
The snow kept falling
throughout the day and reports
indicate that Gates got as
much as 18 inches, Chowan, 8
to 10 inches, over a foot in Per
quimans and only 4 inches in
parts of Pasquotank County.
The N.C. Highway Patrol
had no reports of accidents on
Friday and none were report
ed in Edenton.
Louis White, director of the
911 emergency communica
tions center, said that the cen
ter received calls every two
hours on Friday from the
National Weather Service at
Cape Hatteras for reports on
snow accumulation. White
took measurements in the
building's parking lot and
said the accumulation at 4
p.m. reached 7 inches. He
said that snow drifted up to
four feet in the county.
White praised advanced
preparations of emergency
service organizations for con
tingencies. He said that the
Rescue squad in Edenton kept
five people at their building on
standby, all paid firemen
were at the Edenton Fire Dept,
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Concert
Tonight
The town and county will
celebrate the grand opening
of Swain Apartments, Au
ditorium, Chowan Arts Cen
ter and Senior Center begin
ning this evening with a
concert sponsored by the
Chowan Arts Council.
Tickets are still avail
able for tonight's 8 p.m.
concert of the Tommy Dor
sey Orchestra at the audi
torium. The "Big Band
Sound" of the swing era is
being kept alive by one of the
most popular orchestras of
modern times.
Official opening cere
monies for the apartment,
auditorium and other facil
ities is 2 p.m., Sunday. De
tails on all the opening ac
tivities is on page IB of this
edition.
Highway 17 Blocked By Propane Tanker In Perquimans
Road conditions related to
0 the weather were factors in
accidents on U.S. 17 Satur
day.
The N.C. Highway Patrol
was called to the scene of an
accident at the intersection of
rural paved road 1204 and
U.S. 17, south of Edenton, at
8:45 a.m.
^ 'Trooper W.F. Whitley re
£ ported tjrat a 1988 Toyota
pickup truck driven by Teresa
Wood, 26, of Rt. 3, Edenton
was approaching U.S. 17 on
1204 "at a greater than rea
sonable rate of speed." She
skidded into the intersection
and collided with a 1986 Ford
station wagon driven by Al
vin Smithson, Jr., 25, of Rt. 2,
f Moyock, which had been
heading south on U.S. 17.
Both roadways were "com
pletely covered with ice in the
vicinity of the accident,"
Whitley's report stated. Both
drivers were wearing seat
belts and neither was injured.
Damage to Ms. Wood's ve
hicle was estimated at $2,500
^ and $1,000 in damage to the
station wagon.
Ms. Wood was cited for ex
ceeding a safe speed.
In a second accident, a
loaded propane tanker truck
overturned on U.S. 17 in
Perquimans County at 4 p.m.,
approximately four miles
south of Hertford causing a
TOPPLED--The driver of this loaded propane tanker had pulled onto the shoulder of U.S. 17 in
Perquimans County when the ice and snow covered shoulder and ditch bank gave way and
dropped the truck on its side. The highway was blocked for several hours while the wreck was
cleared.
highway blockage for several
hours.
The highway patrol divert
ed traffic onto secondary
roads until the wreck was
cleared. The propane was
pumped into a tanker pro
vided by J.H. Conger and
Son, Inc. before the overturn
ed truck could be righted by a
wrecker.
Investigating Trooper J.R.
Strickland reported that the
truck had been northbound
when it pulled onto the shoul
der of the road. The shoulder,
covered by snow and ice, col
lapsed, along with the ditch
bank, dropping the truck onto
its right side.
The 1988 White tractor and
trailer was driven by Joseph
Hooker, 24, from Virginia
Beach, Va. and is owned by
Merritt Trucking of Greens
boro, N.C.
Hooker was wearing a lap
belt and was not injured.
Damage to the truck was es
timated at $500. No citation
was issued.
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