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Volume LVII - No. 26
EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 6,1995
William C. Ellis' empty Ashing boat is towed to the N.C. Wildlife Boat Ramp on the
Chowan County side of the Chowan River. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter help search
for Ellis' body, which was found Thursday afternoon. (Staff photo by Cliff Clark)
Williamston Man Dies In
Chowan River Boat Accident
By CLIFF CLARK
On Thursday afternoon res
,cue personnel found the body of
a Williamston native missing
J | since a boating accident on the
i Chowan Ri ver W ednesday morn
ing (June 26).
According to Doug Belch,
Chowan County’s emergency
services coordinator, William C.
Ellis, 72, who resided in Windsor,
probably fell out of his small
boat while travelling through the
waters of the Chowan River just
north of the Chowan River
Bridge sometime between 7:30
am and 9 am Wednesday morn
ing.
A passing motorist on the
Chowan River Bridge made the
first call alerting emergency per
sonnel that an accident might
have occurred, said Belch.
Belch said the motorist told 9
1-1 dispatchers that he noticed a
small boat with no occupants
moving in a circle just north of
the bridge. ' (
When emergency personnel
arrived at the N.C. Wildlife Com
mission Boat Ramp on the
Chowan County side of the
bridge, they saw the boat, un
manned, its motor running, in
gear and travelling in a endless
circle.
Emergency boats were imme
diately dispatched to the- area
and a buoy was dropped to indi
cate where the boat was first
spotted. Rescue personnel then
began their search of the area.
They wer'e joined almost imme
diately by a rescue helicopter
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School Board Adopts New Policies For Next Year
By REBECCA BUNCH
Policy considerations that
will affect the next school year
occupied the majority of the
agenda considered last
Thursday evening by the
Edenton-Chowan Board of
Education. The board held two
Items-approved by the board
CH Holds
Gathering
For Many
Supporters
Approximately 125 contribu
tors to the Chowan Hospital
Foundation’s 1995 Annual Fund
Campaign enjoyed a July 4th
Picnic at the Edenton United
Methodist Church last Thurs
day.
The Appreciation Reception
was an informal gathering
hosted by Chowan Hospital to
express appreciation to the many
supporters who have made do
nations to the Foundation this
year. Sandwiches and lemonade,
prepared by the Hospital’s Nu
trition Services Staff, were
served from tables appropriately
decorated in the patriotic Inde
pendence Day theme.
Chowan Hospital Administra
tor Barbara Cale said “We are
very pleased to have the chance
to thank our many Foundation
contributors in this small way.
You will be interested to know
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meeting;
has no pi
during June and
s to meet in July.
included plans for the use of
State Technology Plans for
the 1995-96 school year and the
North Carolina Technology
Commission's
Implementation Plan which
will affect grades K-3 in its
first yedr. Two grades will be
added to the implementation
schedule, each year for five
years, until all 12 grades are
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Summer Reading Program
On Wednesday, July 12, the Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library
the summer reading program titled "Nature Trails & Tails" will
continue. Beginning at 10:30 in the waterfront park, the program
will feature Storyteller Alan Bailey.
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The Chowan County Home Horticulture Club will meet at 7:3C
pmK Thursday, July 13 at the Edenton Muncipal Building. The
program will be "Horticulture Tours" (Slides) and will be presented
Murray Goodwin. Come and bring a friend. Also, final plans will be
made for Sept. 14. field trip - a visit to a farm that has specialty
vegetables in Pasquotank County. For more information, contact
Art Wadsworth at 482-2314.
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covered under the plan.
Technology goals, as
outlined under the newly
adopted plan, are to:
• Provide access to
instructional management
and rpedia automation soft
ware via a computer network
• Provide a stable
infrastructure to distribute
data, school and district wide
• Provide appropriate
equipment to run instruc
tional software
To enable it to achieve these
goals, the school system has
set the following technology
strategies:
• Completely cable D.F.
Walker Elementary School
and White Oak Elementary
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Maurice Small Named To
COA Board of Directors
Morris Small of Eden ton is
one of four new directors
recently named to the College
of the Albemarle Founda
tion's board of directors.
Small is the vice president
and city executive for Sou
thern Bank and Trust in
Edenton. He is a 1972 COA
graduate with a Bachelor of
Science degree and a gra
duate of the North Carolina
School of Banking.
He is a past president of the
Edenton Jaycees and is a
current member of the
Edenton Rotary Club.
Small is chairman of the
Chowan County Medical De
velopment Authority, treasu
rer of the Chowan Arts
Council, a member of the
Albemarle Regional Develop
ment Commission, and the
Edenton United Methodist
Church.
He and his wife, Susan,
have three daughters, Katie,
Brooke, and Lauren.
Others named to the board
are: Rhonda Morris of Maple,
N.C., a sexual assault coun
selor at Albemarle Hopeline
in Elizabeth City; Jim Perry,
owner of Jim Perry &
Company Realtors, of Dare
County; and Elizabeth City
resident Tapp Robinson, who
holds a B.S. degree in ele
mentary education from East
Carolina University.
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Forecast For
Farmers This
Year Is Good
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Despite the unusually wet
weather over the last two
months, Chowan County farm
ers can expect another good year.
“Generally, we’re in excellent
shape based on other parts of the
state,” said Mike Williams,
county manager for the local
North Carolina Cooperative Ex
tension Service office.
“We haven’t gotten into a situ
ation where we’ve lost crops be
cause of the wet weather,” said
Williams,
However, some of this year’s
approximately 18,000 acre cot
ton crop has been slightly af
fected by the wet weather and a
cool snap that occurred just as
the seeds were planted in the
spring.
“Some of the cotton crop has
been delayed,” said Williams. He
said the delay was caused by
herbicides that leached into the
root system and lost their effec
tiveness when the potton seed
didn’t germinate because of the
cool snap. That in turn has hurt
efforts at controlling weeds.
Williams said some replant
ing of cotton, generally a dry
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of that situation. But he expects
the crop to gain strength, espe
cially if'we have a late frost,
which will allow the bolls on the
plant to reach full maturity. .
Peanuts are also a crop that
thrives in conditions that are a
little on the dry side.
Williams said the wet weather
could contribute to a decline in
yields, but so far there isn’t a
problem. The county just needs
a stretch of dry weather.
As for the other row crops in
the county, Williams said the
weather has been ideal for corn
and he expects a bumper crop.
■ He said the wheat harvest is
underway and its outcome ap
pears good.
Soybeans are “excellent” con
dition and have established a
good stand.
Chowan County’s 300 acres of
tobacco is also coming along and
the wet weather hasn’t done any
harm.
He said the blue mold that is
affecting tobacco crops in other
parts of the state has not been
found in Chowan or any adja
cent counties.
2 Men Victims Of
Domestic Violence
By CLIFF CLARK
Two domestic assaults during
the last week have left one man
dead and another wounded ac
cording to local law enforcement
officials.
An Edenton woman .was
charged Monday with involun
tary manslaughter after she al
legedly mortally wounded a New
York man at her home during a
domestic dispute. •
According to Edenton Police
Investigator Brenda Tbppin,
Kent Price, 28, of Westberry, NY,
died early Wednesday (June 26)
morning after allegedly being
stabbed in the left groin area by
Dolicia White, 27, of 286 Para
dise Road, Edenton.
According to Toppin, White
called 9-1-1 on Tuesday night at
11:33 pm and reported the stab
bing. When Edenton police offic
ers arrived at 11:34 pm they
found Price laying in the front
yard of White’s residence bleed
ing profusely from the wound
that was made by a kitchen knife.
Rescue personnel arriyed and
transported Kent to Chowan
Hospital where he was pro
nounced dead at 12:30 am.
According to the police report,
White said that she and Kent
had been fighting prior to the
stabbing. Edenton police re
ported White had a number of
bruises on her to indicate a fight
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New Register Of Deeds Sworn In
Susan S. Rountree (center) was sworn as Register of Deeds
Monday morning at the Chowan County Board of Commissioner's
Meeting. Rountree will serve out the term of retiring Register of
Deeds, Anne K. Spruill. The oath of office was administered by
Chowan County Clerk of Court Mike McArthur. Rountree’s
mother, Kathleen Skiles helped in the ceremony. (Staff photo bv
Cliff Clark) *
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