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Lady Aces Win Over Robersonville Quartets To Sing On Saturday 77 See Page 1-B Gates To Fair Open Oct. 3rd Volume LVII - No. 36 Published In The Most Beautiful Little City On The North Carolina Coast Single Copies 50 Cents EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 199* Edenton Housing Ranks As Best By REBECCA BUNCH The Edenton Housing Au thority has received a Certifi cate of Excellence from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the fiscal year ending 1994. The local Authority re ceived a rating of 98.57% un der the criteria set by the Pub lic Housing Management As sessment Program. Ledford L. Austin, director of the Office of Public Hous ing, praised Byron Kehayes, executive director of the Town of Edenton's Department of Housing, for his "exemplary efforts and support of HUD programs. This recognition represents the excellent lead ership and contributions of the Housing Authority's Execu tive Director, staff, and the Board of Commissioners." Kehayes says that while he was gratified by the recogni tion, the credit for earning it See HUD On Page 3-A Chowan County Forest Ranger Roger Spivey points out how a Southern Pine Beetle kills a pine tree. The beetles eat the living material between the bark and wood of a tree, depriving it of water and nutrients. Southern Pine Beetle Is Found Throughout Chowan County's Pine Population By CLIFF CLARK After 20 years of killing a rela tively small number of trees, this summer the pine-tree munching Southern Pine Beetle has come to Chowan County with a ven geance. ”Over the last 20 years,” said Chowan County Forest Ranger Roger Spivey, “each summer we have found about 10 to 15 spots where the beetle has attacked. But this summer we have seen over 50-plus spots where the beetle has been found.” Spivey said that the majority of the areas where the beetle has been found is in less than a half acre of a stand of pine trees, but there have been a few spots where the beetle has attacked more acreage. Currently, the only method to deal with the infestation is to cut out all the trees in the area that has been attacked, extending 100 feet from the last tree Showing signs of the beetle. When a tree is attacked, there is no hope of survival. The beetle begins eating the living mate rial between the bark and the wood. That living material is what channels water and neces sary nutrients to keep the tree alive. While the beetle is munching on the tree, it begins another life cycle, laying eggs that when hatched leave the tree to find another. The obvious signs of attack are pitch tubes (pine sap that leaks from the hole the beetle creates when it enters the tree) and the ominous sawdust that accumu lates beneath a tree. It takes about two months to kill the tree. At that point, said Spivey, there are only two things you can do. “If it is too expensive, the forest owner cap-sri^pse to leave the trees in the stand and hope the beetle will slow its move ment through the stand or they can remove the trees.” Because the beetles do not damage the tree’s wood, Spivey said that once they are attacked they can still be sold for pulp wood or saw timber, but the owner of the tree must act quickly. “Once the tree has been at tacked and killed, the wood quickly dries out, allowing other insects to penetrate. If a land owner wants to make some money on the tree, they must remove the tree once it has beep attacked,” said Spivey. Spivey said that a small num ber of beetles are always present in Chowan County’s forests. The only thing that can severely limit them is a period of unusually cold weather. “If the tempera ture stays at five degrees for a number of days, it can kill the larvae that remain in the trees during the winter.” But without that natural oc currence,, tree farmers can ex pect to lose approximately three percent of all of their pine trees over a 35 year period, according to statistics compiled by the NC Forest Service. For reasons that have not been completely understood, the beetle will not Usually attack trees that are eight to 10 years old and hardwood trees are com pletely unaffected. Spivey said the beetle epidemic See PINE On Page 3-A i Big Clean Sweep Set For Sat. By REBECCA BUNCH Nancy Morgan, personal assistant to Chowan County Manager Cliff Copeland, will serve as the coordinator for our community's first Big Sweep campaign on Saturday, Sept. 16. The theme for the cam paign, which will encompass town and county locations in cluding Arrowhead Beach, Chowan Beach and Cape Colony, is "Leave Only Foot prints on the Shoreline." Morgan said that prior to this year, Chowan has been one of a handful of North Carolina counties that had not yet joined the nation's biggest annual clean-up campaign. "We've done spring and fall clean-ups before, but not in the last couple of years," she said. While getting things orga nized, Morgan turned for as sistance to Capt. A1 Howard who has led water quality im provement efforts in his Ar rowhead Beach neighborhood. "He's the real expert, and has been giving me a lot of good advice," says Morgan. "My office has been the cen tral point of contact for the campaign." She says the job of getting people organized and ready for the Big Sweep '95 clean-up has not been nearly as diffi cult as she had thought it might. "Everybody I've called has responded," Morgan said. "We held our first organiza tional meeting on Sept. 5. We had an excellent turnout and, I thought, a good meeting." Chowan County team lead ers will be: Leo Miller, Ar rowhead Beach; Arnold New bern, Chowan Beach; Nancy Signett, Cape Colony; Mike McArthur and Boy Scouts, Town of Edenton waterfront; Bonita Williams and local 4 H clubs/Ben Rose and Andy Elliott and the Kiwanis Club, access ramps and Pembroke Creek; Kermit Layton and the Sunfish Park Sailors Asso ciation. Supporting agencies will include: Doug Belch, Director of Chowan County Emergency Medical Services; Anne Blindt, Recycling Coordina tor for the Albemarle Re gional Solid Waste Manage ment Authority; The Chowan Herald; Arrowhead Beach Property Owners Association; Chowan County; the Edenton Chowan Chamber of Com merce. Posters and other promo tional materials for the area Big Sweep '95 clean-up are be ing provided by First Citizens Bank of Sunbury, N.C. Anne Blindt predicts that the event will be "a real eye opener for all involved." She says she hopes participants in the Chowan Big Sweep '95 will be motivated to become in volved in other clean up ac tivities such as the Adopt A Highway Program. Mr. Peanut Asks Plymouth's Mayor To Visit 20th Peanut Festival Trying to get the peanuts boiling , Mr. Peanut has been visiting local towns to tell people about the upcoming 20th anniversary Peanut Festival. Last week, Mr. Peanut visited with Plymouth Mayor Jarahnee Bailey to invite her to Edenton for the festival, which will be held on Saturday, Oct. 7. A full day of activities are planned, including a parade and the "Battle Of The Bands." She attended the local gifoup's first organizational meeting here Sept.. 5 and says sht> was impressed by what she observed. "Chowan's doing a great job. They're looking well-or ganized and they've got a lot af volunteers coming for ward," Blindt says. "This is Nancy's first effort, and I • think she’s doing a tremen dous job." Collection points will be at the Soundshore Drive Recy cling Center and at Evans Church on Hwy. 32, Blindt says. This will enable orga nizers to accurately gauge how much refuse they've col lected at the end of the day. To reward the volunteers and thank the organizers, Morgan says a cookout will be held at Arrowhead Beach after the clean-up ends. Already encouraged by the volunteer response to this first clean-up, Morgan says she See SWEEP On Page 5-A Auditions Scheduled For ELT Auditions for the upcoming production of “My Fair Lady” will be held at Swain Audito rium, E. Church St., Edenton, at 7:30 pm on September 26, 27 and 28. The last of these dates will also be for call-backs. This is the first joint venture of the Chowan Arts Council and the Edenton Little Theater and the production will be directed by Ross Inglis, who directed many of the Little Theater plays in the ’60s and ’70s. Musical di rection will be by Rosalind MacEnulty, composer and musi cal director of “The Lost Colony.” The choreographer will be Wanda Rossman, a well-recog nized professional in her field. Joe Conger is the producer. See THEATER On Page 3-A Special Commemoration Planned Edenton Tea Party Chapter DAR Regent Dorothy Bangert, left, joins Postmaster Deborah Welker in announcing that the local DAR has received approval for a Constitution Week Spe cial Pictorial Cancellation Stamp to commemorate Constitution Week, Sept. 17-13. Anyone interested in receiving correspon dence stamped with the Edenton Tea Party Constitution Week stamp can bring or send mail to the post office here and pick it up after it is stamped by DAR volunteers. Cancellation can be ob tained up to 30 days after the cancellation date. Bangert and Welker said they believe the offer, which will be available na tionwide, will be of special interest to stamp collectors. Mrs. Robert (Liz) Will is chairman of the event. (Staff photo by Re becca Bunch) Opinions Divided On Rascals Court Ruling By CLIFF CLARK Parents expressed “shock” over the North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a lower court’s ruling ordering hew tri als for Bob Kelly and Katherine Dawn Wilson in the Little Ras cals Day Care sexual abuse case, while supporters of Kelly and Wilson were “elated.” “We are shocked by the Su preme Court’s decision not to review the Little Rascals case,” read a statement by parents of the victims submitted to the Chowan Herald. “Shocked be cause we feel the Supreme Court owed it to the citizens of this great state to make certain there were in fact prejudicial errors in these cases before sending them back to be retried at another monumental expense to the tax payers,” read the statement. Supporters of Kelly and Wil son and the-, other individuals indicted on the sexual abuse See RASCALS On Page 5-A
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