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Phillips Senior Named To i iUiuc v_iry On The North Carolina Coast EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 28. 199 Sentence Handed Down ; Wilson Guilty By MARGUERITE MCCALL Kathryn Dawn Wilson, 27, a defendant in the Little Ras cals Day Care Center case, was found guilty Tuesday on 5 of 7 counts with which she was charged. • She was sentenced to one life term, to include 16 months already served while await ing trial. Kathryn Dawn Wilson Wilson must serve 18 years and 8 months before be ing eligible for parole in the ^ year 2011. During presentencing dis cussion, Defense Attorney Ed ward B. Simmons said he was appalled the State would re quest such a heavy sentence when it had been willing ear lier to accept a plea bargain arrangement. $ The plea bargain discus sions centered around the is sue of whether Wilson would have to serve additional jail time beyond the 16 months already served. Wilson was willing to plead guilty for no additional jail time, an arrangement the State con sidered unacceptable. Jurors brought in verdicts of guilty on one first degree sex offense, which can carry a life sentence, and guilty on four taking indecent liberties offenses, each of which can carry a ten-year sentence. Wilson was found not guilty on one first degree sex offense and one taking in decent liberties offense, both of which involved incidents allegedly having taken place on a boat. Asked by an associated press reporter why the defen dant was not convicted on the latter, a juror replied, "There was not enough evidence a boat existed." The verdict came in at ap proximately 3:50 p.m., about 20 minutes after the afternoon break. No outbursts occurred when the verdict was read. Not expecting a verdict un til at least Thursday, espe cially since court did not sit in session Monday due to a juror's illness, newspersons present to interview Wilson earlier in the day had left be fore the verdict came in. Contacted en route home, sev eral returned. By 4:15 p.m., while jurors Continued On Page 5-A PORTRAYAL OF BEGINNING -- Eighteenth-Century appearing coachman and passengers parade in front of the U. S. Capitol Building during the 52nd Presidential Inauguration Wednesday, January 20. The 200th Anniversary of the laying of the cor nerstone of the Capitol will be celebrated on September 18,1993. Wearing sash, collar and apron of the Masonic Order and using a marble-headed gavel and silver trowel, President George Washington did the honors on September 18,1793. An Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1793, Edenton's Judge James Iredell may have been present. (Staff photo by Marguerite McCall.) Inauguration Offers Something For Everyone By MARGUERITE MCCALL Sights; sounds; aromas; energy; excitement, and tex tures of people, animals and noble buildings imprinted a memory of the 52nd Presi dential Inauguration obser vation via television would have left deficient. Upon arrival in the na tion’s capital two hours prior to U.S. President William ARE YOU READY? - Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Richard Bunch (far right) greets local civic and business leaders attending the ribbon cutting and open house at COA’s 4) Chowan County Center Sunday afternoon. Bunch and Howard E. Kohn II, former director of Spe cial Projects for The Chowan Herald, were praised by Dr. Parker Chesson, keynote speaker, as men of vision who worked hard to see a college facility established here. (Staff photo by Rebecca Bunch) Dream Realized With Ribbon Gutting 1 1 ^ Dr. J. Parker Chesson, former president of College of the Albemarle, was the key note speaker for the open house that marked the official opening of the COA Chowan County Center. Dr. Chesson, who left COA to become Executive Vice Pre Bident and Chief Operating ^ Officer of the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges in Raleigh, was in strumental during his tenure in planning the center here. "It's good to be home,” he said. ”1 think the most beau tiful drive you can take is coming down Hwy. 17, cross 0 ing the Chowan River...and on into Perquimans." Dr. Chesson said the com pletion of the Chowan County Center had a special meaning tur mm. vvuiMiig wiin uie citizens in this community (to establish the center) was the" fast major act I had as presi dent of COA," he said. "I had as president...had a dream that COA would one day reach out to Chowan and maybe Dare County with dedicated facilities such as this. Now that dream has become a re ality." Seeing College of the Al bemarle become a strong pre sence in Chowan County was also a dream of the late A1 Phillips, longtime chairman of the Chowan County Com missioners, Dr. Chesson in dicated. "(He was) one of the first people I really talked to," Chesson said. According to Dr. Chesson, Mr. Phillips expressed two major concerns: that the /v“"b -■ —o and never coming back, once they left home to pursue an education; and that the lack of skilled workers in the com Continued On Page 11-A Jefferson Clinton’s swearing in, parking was sought and found still accessible at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel on Ninth Street. A North Carolina Inaugur al Reception held at the hotel to honor President Clinton and Continued On Page 12-A Two Juveniles Are Arrested Two Bomb Threats Received By MARGUERITE MCCALL Two bomb threats called in to Chowan Middle School ear ly last week have resulted in the arrest of two juveniles. A third call Friday afternoon is still under investigation. Chowan County Sheriff Fred Spruill said Friday the first call came in during the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan uary 19, and the second the following morning. He said working with the telephone company, a phone trace led his officers to the offenders. Spruill said the youngsters have been turned over to juvenile authorities. "They will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," the sheriff said. Edenton-Chowan Schools Superintendent John Dunn said school officials had an ticipated such an act occur ring, particularly in view of the threat two weeks ago at Perquimans High School, and had the tracers installed on all school telephone lines in the town and county. Residents To Begin Crime Watch Program By MARGUERITE MCCALL x Organizational efforts be gan last week to start a Com munity Crime Watch Pro gram in an area near Down town Edenton. Thirty-three residents liv ing in the section bounded on the east by S. Broad, the south by Water and Blount, the north by W. Queen and the west to include Moseley St. and Pembroke Circle signed up to participate in the pro gram. The group met Thursday, January 21, in the Town Hall council chamber. Co-chairmen Livy Good man, 2nd Ward councilman, Shoplifters Are Arrested The alertness of Edenton Police Officer Rhonda Cope land resulted in the apprehen sion Friday of two shoplifters from Virginia. Chief F.E. Bowen of Wind sor had radioed Edenton Po lice a description of the pair, the type and color of their vehicle and that the vehicle carried a Virginia registra tion. ; ■ , fc .,CiV ' Bowen reported merchan dise had been stolen from a hardware store in Windsor. Later, police discovered the thieves had also hit William ston on their way to Edenton. Officer Copeland was on foot patrol on S. Broad St. when she spotted the couple leaving Byrum's Hardware. She recognized them from the description, Officer Linnard Bonner said Monday. Bonner said Copeland re ported the couple also acted suspicious. When she saw them go to their vehicle, she Continued On Page 9-A ik* and Harry Sperry, an Airport Advisory Board member, said they were emphasizing the fact that everyone in the des ignated neighborhoods should get involved. Noting that the program has been successfully imple mented in the Morgan Park neighborhood, Goodman said, "We hope that it will spread throughout Edenton." Sperry said, "For some time now we’ve been deeply concerned about the growing rate of thefts, break-ins and vandalism in the various neighborhoods of Edenton. "And now in our own neighborhood there have been several recent car break-ins and thefts." Edenton Police Capt. Gre gory Bonner and Officer Lewis Brothers, crime pre vention officer, met with the group. "I was surprised so many older citizens turned out for the meeting," Bonner said Monday, "especially since it was raining so hard that evening. "It makes us feel good that people in the community want to do something about crime. They understand we don't have enough officers to see Continued On Page 9-A He said the students ar rested were suspended at the time of their actions. "They will be suspended for the remainder of the school year,” Dunn said, "and bar red from attending any school activities." Dunn emphasized future calls to any school in the town and county will be identifi able. Prefixes of local and nearby counties are entered into the tracers, he said. "The telephone company is working on the one that came in today," Dunn said. The call Friday was re ceived at 2 p.m. "As a first effort, we treat the matter as a real threat," Dunn said. "It is a serious matter and has to be treated as real, which means evacuat ing the building and conduct ing a search." Dr. Dunn praised those agencies responding to the emergencies. They were the Chowan Sheriffs Office; the Center Hill Cross Roads Volunteer Fire Department; Edenton, Glidden and Rocky Hock Emergency Medical Services and Chowan EMS Manage ment Coordinator Doug Belch. Dunn reiterated his warn ing that, "We do have the means to identify calls, and when a caller is caught, he or she will be prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows." Helpful Hints Given For the benefit of our readers, this issue of The Chowan Herald includes a four-page section devoted to "Tax Tips," the very latest information from the IRS about filing tax returns properly. The tax section, spon sored by area businesses, begins on page 5-B._
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