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PHOTO COURTESY DEBRA WAFF
A 727 jet fuselage is seen being transported by Waff Contracting, Inc. of Edenton across eastern North Carolina last week en route to Hertford for use by the
U.S. Department of Defense. #
By MICHAEL ABRAMOWITZ
The Daily Reflector
Motorists traveling area high
ways Friday may have rubbed
their eyes and done a double-take
at the sight before them: a jet air
liner — minus wings and tail —
being hauled from Laurinburg to
Hertford, including a brief stop
over in Edenton.
If it caught travelers by sur
prise, it was because the trip
was unannounced at the request
Area man
mounts
standoff
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
An armed man kept*
deputies at bay after a one
and a half hour standoff
last Wednesday.
Six deputies responded
to a residence off N.C.
Highway 32 after a man
called 911 around 1:30
p.m. and made threaten
ing comments, according
to Chowan County Sher
iff Dwayne Goodwin.
Goodwin described the
subject as “drunk and dis
traught.”
When deputies arrived
on the scene, the subject
was inside' his Virginia
Road house, located in the
northern part of the coun
ty - about 10 miles outside
of town. Officers managed
to talk the man outside
the house, Goodwin said.
He was found to be in pos
session, of a firearm as the
subject had previously in
dicated.
“He never panted the
gun at or threatened an of
ficer,” Goodwin said. “It’s
not against the law for
someone to possess a fire
arm on his own property.”
Deputies surrounded
the man who could be
seen at one point sitting
on his porch where offi
cers continued to talk to
the subject. The officers
were wearing bulletproof
vests and some had their
service weapons pointed
at the subject.
Goodwin described the
officers’ actions as precau
tionary.
After continued pegotia
tibns with the man, depu
ties managed to swoop in
and take the subject into
custody.
“We took him to the hos
pital where he can get the
help that he needs,” Good
win said.
No charges were filed,
Goodwin said.
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... the media and general public were
kept uninformed, about the jetliner
and the travel route...
of the airliner’s new owner, the
U.S. Department of Defense, ac
cording to a spokesman for the
shipping contractor, Waff Con
tracting, Inc., of Edenton. Owner
Paul Waff said the fuselage was
headed to a DOD installation at
By REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
A small crowd of local
residents gathered
at Edenton Baptist
Church Monday at noon
for a community-wide
Thanksgiving service.
In addition to Edenton
“We have so
much, we are
. so blessed. *
The Rev. Julia *
Webb-Bowden
Assistant pastor,
Edenton United
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Baptist, the service was,
| co-sponsored by Edenton
t* United Methodist, First.,
Presbyterian, 8t. Paul’s
J Episcopal arid St. Anne’s
Catholic Church. ■ .
A special Thanksgiving
offering raised just over
$300 that will be given
• to the Edenton-Chowan
/ Food l|antry to help feed
the needy this holiday '
■ season. -
■Ja, The jjuest speaker
was the'Rev. Julia
Webb-Bowden, assistant-:
| pastor at Edenton United
Methodist. Webb-Bowden
spoke about the need
for people to work on
V developing an attitude, of
gratefulness for all the
With the holidays upon us, remember needs of the hungry
This week brings the celebra
tion of Thanksgiving, a day
centered on sharing a bounti
ful meal with family and friends,
a day to be thankful for our good
fortune.
As we prepare to celebrate the
holiday, we should be especially
mindfUl of those for whom good
fortune has been replaced by
misfortune — loss of jobs, loss of
homes? Though unemployment
and foreclosures have inched.
downward in some of the counties
in the Albemarle region, many
families and individuals continue
to struggle, and face the grim re
ality of not knowing where their
next meal will come from. ,5
Harvey Point.
The mystery cargo was a Boe
ing 727-200 passenger jet fuselage
formerly owned by Northwest
Airlines. It measured about 12
1/2 feet wide and 150-feet long,
including the custom-built stair
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The Rev. Julia Webb-Bowden, associate pastor at Edenton United Methodist, speaks at a
community wide Thanksgiving service held Monday at the church.
in their lives. •.
“We have so much, we
are so blessed,” Webb
Bowden told those as
sembled.
But she reminded them
that the true meaning
of blessings was not the
accumulation of mate
rial things but rather
having a rich and blessed
.relationship with God.
And part of that rela
tionship, Webb-Bowden
said, should be to develop
a sense of caring for ,
those around us who are
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in need.
That need, she said,
exists all year long — not
just during the holidays.
We all, Webb-Bowden
said, need to be mindful
of looking for opportuni
ties to serve even in the
summer months when
perhaps our thoughts do
not turn as much to those
in need as they do during
the holiday season.
The Rev. David Brooks,
pastor of Edenton * v
Baptist, welcomed those
attending the service. His
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You can help bring food to their
tables by participating in the third
annual Albemarle Food Relief,
Hunger Hurts, Giving Heals fund
raising campaign for the Food
Bank of the Albemarle.
Today you will find an envelope
in your Chowan Herald addressed
to the Food Bank. This year, these
envelopes were provided by our
well attached to the rear, and
weighed in at about 25,000 pounds
with most of the interior intact,
Waff manager Pat Wemple said.
From ground to top, the jetliner
was kept at a manageable 15 feet,
7 inches, made possible by a spe
cially built trailer that kept the
body 15 inches off the ground,
Wemple said.
Because of the cargo’s bulk it
had to travel along a prescribed
See FUSELAGE, 2A
associate pastor, the Rev.
kelly Rhodes, offered the
invocation and led the
congregation in reciting
the Lord’s Prayer. ’ '
The Rev. Thomas Rick
enbaker, of St. Paul’s,
offered an Old Testament
lesson based on Deuter
onomy 26:1-11 and the
Epistle Lesson based on
Philippians 4:4-9.
Wendy Callahan, of
St. Anne’s, led a Gospel
lesson centered around \
See SERVICE, 3A.
campaign partner, Farm Fresh.
You can mail your contribution,
or drop the envelopes at any of the
First Citizen bank locations are at
The Daily Advance office in Eliza
beth City, Perquimans Weekly of
fice in Hertford or Chowan Herald
office in Edenton. For every dollar
you donate, the Food Bank can
buy 5 pounds of food or enough
for four meals.
What does hunger look like in
the Albemarle area? Data from the
Food Bank provides a paint-by
the-numbers picture:
• 20 percent of the recipients are
working poor;
• 80 percent are not working;
• 16 percent are senior citizens;
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Autopsy:
Trauma
killed
Jordan
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
An autopsy revealed
that William Thomas Jor
dan died from the trauma
of the June 7 fiery airplane
crash at Edenton’s North
eastern Regional Airport,
according to a report re
leased Monday by the state
medical examiner.
“The presence
of soot in
the trachea
suggests that
the decedent
was breathing j
at least '
minimally
at the time
of the fire.”
Dr. Wiliam
R. Oliver
State medical
examiner
The report cites the
cause of death as multiple
; blunt trauma from the
crash. Among Jordan’s
! injuries were multiple
fractures to his ribs, spi
| nal transection, laceration
of the right lung and dia
phragm, and trauma to the
upper right chest.
Evidence suggests that
! ..Jordan’s injuries occurred
before he died, but that the
trauma ultimately contrib
uted to his quick death.
“The presence of soot in
the trachea suggests that
the decedent was breath
ing at least minimally at
the time of the fire. How
ever, the carbon monoxide
level of postmortem blood
suggests that death oc
curred before significant
carbon monoxide could be
accumulated,” Dr. William
R. Oliver’s report stated.
Although • the report
states that the lack of car
bon monoxide could be due
the presence of other toxic
chemicals in the smoke,
Oliver stated that the likely
cause was due to extensive
trauma.
“There is clear ana
tomic evidence of massive
trauma to the chest, which
would have been life
threatening and inhibited
respiration, and relatively
good preservation of the
airways. Thus, it is likely
that the death in this case
is more likely due to the di
rect effects of trauma,” the
report read.
Jordan’s body had been
badly charred from the
See JORDAN, 2A
• 15 percent more new families
sought assistance this year than
in 2009;
• 40 percent of the households
served also receive food stamps.
Many of those in need are on
fixed incomes or disabled.
Liz Reasoner, executive director
of the Food Bank, said that over
all there has not been a dramatic
increase in the number of people
seeking food at the Food Bank
and other pantries. The number
of households seeking assistance
grew by 2 percent from 2009 to
2010, totalling 88,095. Some people
visit the Food Bank or its partners
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