m?.. Genie Out of Bottle % 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. Continued On Page 8 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 "• ■. 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, Continued On Page 8 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. Centers Vie For Lessees