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The Chowan Herald
; Published every Thursday by The Chowan
Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin
I Bufflap and Hector Lupton, at 100 East King
Street, Edenton, N. C.
J. EDWIN BUFFLAP Editor
, HECTOR LUPTON Advertising Mgr.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR WEEK
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE INVOLVES CONTINUAL
PROGRESS: Therefore leaving the principles of the
doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not
laying again the foundation of repentance from dead
wqrks, and of faith toward God.—Heb. 6:1.
The End Is But The Start
Before another nightfall has enshrouded the Albe
marle its day of days will be over and after a good
night’s slumber and rest the beginning of a new fruitful
era of prosperity and progress will be ours for the
making. The dedication of the great crossway over the
Sound is something to be happy about; the tangible
results to follow its construction and dedication are
more so. Actually we have but begun something instead
of ending it.
Which is exactly what dedication means —the act of
consecrating something to a particular purpose, a testi
fying solemn respect shown for making this purpose
possible, a setting apart in pledge to a duty or service.
Certainly today’s celebration can be but the aggregate
voice of the whole Albemarle in promissory fulfillment
of these ideals.
Pageantry and oratory and happy music will mark
the occasion today in visible and vocal emphasis of this
Albemarle pledge. The bridge is ours. A great state
and generous government have made it possible for us
to enjoy its fruits. From nearby everywhere the citi
zenry will mingle to enjoy the spectacle and to join with
us all in appreciative glory for the gift. As an engi
neering feat of magnitude and cost the bridge will
show itself as a thing of beauty and strength. As an
avenue through which agriculture on the south shore
can travel to shake, hands with awaiting industry on the
opposite bank of the massive separating waterway, the
warm hand of greeting will be extended by both.
And as a medium of contact between Edenton and its
sister communities and farming areas beyond the Sound,
its opportunity will prove unparalleled. Markets await.
Products will reach them. The bridge shows the way.
All hail the bridge!
A Lively Bunch
Verily a child shall lead them, was the adage of tba
Gallilean days, and within a hundred miles of here last
Thursday it was proven as a very visible and enjoyable
fact. The miss was Charlotte Bunch, 8-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bunch, and it will be very
easy to convince everyone in Edenton and the surround
ing environs that this tot of much pulchritude and
youthful charm, togged as a bandolier and waving a
silvered baton, won the parade laurels at the massive
street pageant in the tobacco market town of Wilson.
It was a sight to make any Edentonian proud. A
child of its own marching ahead of a great procession
that lasted for an hour and a half, waving a drum
major’s mace with all the fervor of a grown-up, bowing
to the right and left as she passed the 50,000 or more
witnesses who lined the sidewalks, making an especially
graceful gesture of obeisance to the Governor of North
Carolina and his cabinet—an unspoiled kid of unspoiled
parents, a paragon of beauty and excellence, the high
spot in Wilson’s party.
Cameramen from all the State papers vied with each
other in their eagerness to snap her picture as she did
her street strutting nimbly and gracefully, and it’s a
safe bet before this gets into print her little face and
attractive marching manner will be in all the big city
papers. All hail to her! All hail to the band that
made her possible! All hail to her parents that brought
her into the world! All hail to the town of her nativity
that loves her and glories in her sweetness and
piquancy!
Prides Os Edenton
But Charlotte wasn’t all there was of Edenton at the
great Wilson festival. The local band children copped
all the laurels and would have won first prize had they
been uniformly uniformed. And Miss Cates, who vied
with 54 girls from all over the State for the honor of
being selected festival Queen, won signal glory in the
contest, being superceded by a very pretty miss from
Snow Hill and a much touted choice from Raleigh.
If that is not honor for Edenton, what is ? Fourteen
bands from many of the State’s largest cities, wepe out
in parade rivalry with the children from here. The
local youngsters were given the very forefront in the
big parade that passed before 50,000 persons and were
cheered and applauded to the echo on all sides, and
more so in the late afternoon when they were once
again honored by being the chosen organization to play
• concert in front of th Wilsoen courthouse with an
audience of 5,000 before them.
It is sufficient to say they did what was expected of
them hare—were perfect in every essential save attire.
Host of them wore the newly purchased uniforms, some
fethoi arm in the old uniforms, several had no nn%
forms at all, and many were without caps. As the I
prize- masters reckoned appearance as well as ability the
Edenton kids drew down second honors instead of first.
Frankly, the town-should open its bank book to give
these bandsters what they need in every way. If th*
town has a better advertisement teH us.
Herald Publishers Say “Thank You”
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Were the publishers of The Herald so inclined, they
would have a splendid opportunity to be swell-headed for
a while. With the appearance of last week’s special
edition, many have been the compliments, congratula
tions and nice things said about the edition, which came
from all walks in life except the mail carriers, who
worked like Trojans to deliver the paper all over town
and on rural routes Thursday morning. As one of ’em
said at the close of his day’s work, “Well, old top, you
tried to wear us down, but every last one of your bloom
in’ papers has been delivered.” Well, it’s just one
more proof that you cant Keep a good man down.
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The only complaint I’ve heard about the entire paper
came from a lady. “It’s a fine paper,” she said, “but I
just can’t understand why you carried so many pictures
of men and no pictures of some of our ladies.” Well,
for one reason not every picture appearing in a news
paper shows up so well and gol darned if I want to get
in an argument with some of the lady folk, if their pic
ture was in the paper and didn't make them look as
pretty as they think they are. That’s taking an awful
chance. With the men, it’s easy to tell them how ugly
they are and get away with it. So my dear Miss —,
I hope you understand.
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It’s queer what effects The Herald has at times. For
instance, while the band was camping at Camp Leach I
sent a batch of papers down there, and upon their re
turn Director McCullers told me the papers were a life
saver in that the entire group were anxious to know
what had transpired at home during the week. But
then when the Ambulance Company returned from
Mississippi, J. Frank White, Or., said the bundle of
papers I sent to the boys almost cost him his life. He
was almost mobbed, he said, by the boys wanting to read
the paper, and only after he tore single pages apart
and passed them about had he any rest at all.
—o— ——
It’s a small world after all and Mrs. Shelton Moore
will agree with me. Mrs. Moore was one of the specta
tors who was thrilled at the Edenton band’s performance
in Wilson last week, and troubled with aching feet (ex
cept when a square dance is in progress) she had to
seek relief after the big parade. When she could hard
ly navigate any more, she stopped at a house and po
litely asked if she could and rest for a while
on account of her feet hurting so bad. “Why, of
course,” was the reply from a kindly sort of a lady.
Naturally a conversation followed, during the bourse of
which Mrs. Moore was asked where her home was.
Just having seen the youngsters perform so creditably,
Mrs. Moore proudly said, “Why, I live in Edenton.”
She was very much surprised when her newly-made ac
quaintance said, “Why, I have a son living in Edenton.
Do you know Rev. George Blount?” Os course Mrs.
Moore knew the Methodist preacher which made her
brief and unexpected visit with Mrs. Blount all the
more agreeable. And besides she tarried long enough
for her “dogs” to give less trouble. She’s a good sport,
though, and a loyal band supporter, for where the band
is, there will she also most likely be found. We need
more supporters of the band like her.
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It’s hard to keep up with the soft , ball games here
lately, but any time the Masons win a game it ought to
be chronicled. But the "boys” strutted their mess on
Friday night when they copped two games from the
Lions. Tie first game was a 1-0 thriller, while the
second game was an equally wall played contest with
the Masons hanging on to the long end of a 6-5 count.
Both teams were ready to quit at the end of the second
game, but the Masons felt like celebrating for they in
variably lose out by one or two runs after playing a
bang-up game.
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With all the pats on the back for the special edition
of The Herald last week, after it’s all over it’s easy to
see where it could have been improved upon. For in
stance one of the most important stories was omitted,
that being the health situation in the county, mid” the
work of the Health Department- .Thin with so many 5
pictures, Thomas_Wood almost looked his eyes otft to
see a picture of the Norfolk Southern depot, vjfcich
should have been included, too. But shucks there lWs
too much to think about at one time, so here’s hoping'
we’ll be forgiven until the “next” bridge celebratioii.
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Chief of Police George Helms returned from his vaca
tion late last week and went back into uniform Wed
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dedication on Thursday rjext, the proud appreciation of
everyone wtob Had a part in this publication is today
made evident in words.
But words are not all there is to pride. To fed that
The Herald has had a part in thus extolling the bridge
dedication, to realize that it ha« particularly had the
cooperation of so many of it* advertizing friend, from
all over the entire Albemarle in making the apeeial edi-
possible, and tojmow that where the interest of this
a very happy source of praise.
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nesday morning. The Chief spent
two weeks in the Virginia mountains
and looks like he was fed pretty
good while away.
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Apparently some few folks just
don’t give a damn about the sche
dule of collecting trash in town.
The Street Department is working
under a schedule, a copy of which
was printed and distributed to every
house in town. If a few house
keepers don’t care to cooperate and
put out their trash according to
schedule they need not bother tele
phoning or raising sand to have it
collected at their convenience. Sys
tematic collection of trash over the
whole town is more important than
trying to accommodate a few folks
who have no desire to cooperate and
if they want the front of their prem
ises to look like a city dump over
Sunday or any other day, it is O. K.
by the Street Department. Every
one wants a clean town, but to do it
there must surely be cooperation on
the part of everyone. Members of
the Street Department are only hu
man, so cooperate with them.
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Little Nick Gardner has a crow to
pick with me and he’ll not be slow in
picking it if I fail to dodge him. It
is all because Nick is a Life Scout,
which fact was not mentioned in the'
Boy Scout story in last week’s paper. I
For some reason his name was not
included with Meredith Jones as Life
Scouts, but he has all his credentials
and is as proud of his rating as any
boy could be. So, folks, meet Life
Scout Nick Gardner.
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This is a dickens of a time of year
to be thinking about woolen blankets,
but just the same quite a few will be
distributed within the next few
weeks by Quinn Furniture Company.
They are conducting a blanket club
by which some of the members will
get a fine blanket at a very small cost.
A club just recently closed, and so
popular was the scheme of buying a
blanket that it is expected even more
will join this club now being formed.
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Despite the fact that an Elizabeth
City contemporary apparently de
plored news reports that travelers
over the new Albemarle Sound bridge
would have to go through Edenton
and was quick to correct the report
and explain that it was possible to go
over the bridge from the north with
out going through Edenton, local
streets and especially Church Street
coming from the Yeopim Road were
alive with traffic all day Sunday.
From early morning to late at night
a continuous line of cars in both di
rections traveled over Church Street.
Many of these vehicles, some of
which were trucks, came from the
neighboring counties to the south, as
well as many from Virginia and other
states. It is no secret that Edenton
wants as many cars as possible to
travel through Edenton. The bridge
is there, Edenton is close at hand and
it’s up to Edenton people to become
aggressive and do anything legiti
mate to attract every last car to
Edenton if possible. Besides several
business houses reported that on
Saturday they transacted business
with Washington and Tyrrell county
people. Edenton needs more busi
ness, and the more it can keep from
going farther north, the more worth
while will be the bridge so far as
Edenton is concerned. What we need
is some action and not sit on our
hunkers hoping for it to come and re
main with us. Then this week Editor
Lucius Blanchard in. The Perquim
ans Weekly raves about folks, coining
through Edenton to go over . the
bridge, Lawdsa&es.what’s the mat
ter Vfith Pasquotank and Perquimans
people coming to Edenton, anyhow*?
They’ll not catch a case of smallpox
by coming into our town.
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Wear comfortable and suitable ]
clothing. 1
Cultivate a cheerful disposition.
Love your neighbor as yourself and, 1
- therefore, shut up your dog and
shut off your radio, so that the mem- .
bers of your family and the neigh- 1
' bors can sleep, even though it is hot. 1
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Readers will note that this week’s j
issue is a day earlier, which is due
to the bridge celebration and printing
the Hertford paper before the big '
day. It was, therefore, necessary to \
go to press before receiving most of
our rural correspondence, which does '
not appear this week. I should have .
given, notice of this fact last week, (
so instead am offering an apology
this week. '
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The soft ball team on Thursday (
night is scheduled to be all diked out (
in new uniforms. Go out to see ’em
and take along an offering which is 1
, to go for a worthy purpose.
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Os course we’ve been hearing about ,
the large catches of fish at Ocean .
View, but has anyone heard of who’s
been seasick on recent trips?
Local Municipal *
j Building Project
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1 here for the past week. The edifice, 1
attractive' in design and purpose, is |'
i being sponsored by Mayor McMullan, 1 1
and would cost around $70,000. A 1 ’
meeting of the town coundlmen and j.
. county commissioners is in the May- j
or’s mind for the near future to con- 1 1
. sider the propriety of building the '
, place.
Plans for the proposed building
1 are quite exciting in their purport. If
1 they do nothing else they look ahead
. toward the ultimate elimination of all
1 the town, county, state and federal
1 offices here, scattered as they are now
• about Edenton, and their segregation
. into one place. This is far reaching
according to the building idea.
1 For instance, the talked-of struc
ture would practically put the Court
; House out of business as a hall of
> jurisprudence, would do away with
1 the present ancient and much-con
t demned county jail, would put the
> present jailer’s residence on the mar
- ket for rental, would transfer the
I present police headquarters and coun
t cilmanic quarters, would bripg into
s the new edifice, if built, the sheriff’s
. office, the county farm agent, home
b demonstration agent and all of the
- other offices about town by the town,
. county, state and national govem-
E ment.
s Architect Frank Benton, of Wilson,
s has submitted an artistic exterior
r drawing of the desired building, to
-1 gether with interior plans. These
> show, most importantly, the place-
J ment of a county jail on the second
1 floor, with quarters for the jail keep
i er, and a kitchen in which to prepare
- the food for prisoners. Bath rooms,
> lavatories and a small recreational
1 community center vie with the va
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rious proposed offices in making the
place something worth having ulti
mately.
Mayor McMullan, who has had the
building in mind for some time and
who is anxious to hurry a PWA pro
ject to Atlanta to assure its con
struction, would have the building lo
cated on city property next to the
Jenkins Motor Company at the Water
Street corner of South Broad Street.
The drawings call for a building 150
feet long and 66 feet wide, to be built
of brick with cupola dome, the whole
of colonial design. Space will be par
ticularly made in it for court pro
ceedings at present being held in the
Court House proper. No intention,
however, would be made v to move
Court Clerk R. D. Dixon or County
Register of Deeds Maurice Bunch,
which would make it necessary for
these individuals to be in attendance
at the new structure when court or
the county commissioners meet.
Os course before anything is done
the Mayor says he hopes to get the
County Commissioners and town
coundlmen into joint conference
some time this fall to talk over the
propriety of construction at this time.
NYA Anxious Build
Community Houses
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Miss Adelaide Tuttle, county super
visor,.relative to Chowan County tak
ing advantage of its portion of the
$1,000,000 allocated by the Federal
Government for state work projects
in the 100 counties of the State.
The idea of the project, said Mr.
Davis, is to cultivate a community
spirit and erect small community
buildings in townships or where no
meeting place is now provided and
where little money is available. These
centers, continued Mr. Davis, afford
an excellent training for youth and
as a result improve farming and
home-making crafts.
NYA furnishes all labor, super
vision and tools to build these small
buildings, while the community is
called upon to furnish all of the ma
terial. The program is not in con
flict with any other agency, but must
be placed on public property and be
sponsored by some governing body.
Consolidation of schools has done
away with many rural schools, com
mented Mr. Davis, resulting in a
community meeting place in many
sections being lost. Through these
community buildings it is planned to
take youth when unemployed and
put them to work of a profitable na
ture. The NYA is attempting to use
people who otherwise might wind up
in jail to become useful. It keeps
many off the highways and out of
mischief. # -
Included in the program it is hoped
to build gymnasiums, swimming
pools, recreational centers, vocational,
agricultural and manjiel shops or any
building that would.be of benefit in
the average small community.
Any group of people who might
be interested in the NYA program
can become acquainted with the re
quirements by contacting Miss Ade
laide Tuttle.