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Volume Vl—Number 19.
Town Officers Installed;
F. P. Wood Made Chairman
Board Os Public Works
Town Attorney To Start
Proceedings Collect
For Sidewalks
HASKETT~IN OFFICE
Various Appointments
Will Be Made At
June Meeting
First business of Town Council in
regular meeting at the Municipal
Building Tuesday night was the
swearing into office of the members
of the Board of Public Works. Go
ing into session immediately after
the ceremony, the Board named F. P.
Wood as chairman, who with Dr. W.
S. Griffin, newly elected to the Board,
and W. W. Byrum, older member, now
compose the Board of Public Works. I
After the routine business of the
regular session, Leroy H. Haskett,
from the Third Ward, who defeated
Albert chairman of the im
portant finance committee, took the
oath of office with those who had
been re-elected. Mr. Haskett defeat
ed Mr. Byrum by a slim margin of
eleven votes in the city election last
Tuesday when more than double the
amount of Edenton voters went to the
polls than in the previous election in
1937.
Mr. Byrum, formally leaving the
Council, expressed his regret at the
turn of events that caysed him to do
so. “I can only say,” remarked the
out-going councilman, “that I have
thoroughly enjoyed the work, and the
contacts that I have made as a mem
ber of the council.”
All city officers who were elected
to serve for the next two years with
the exception of J. Edwin Buffiap,
street commissioner and councilman
at-large, were present to take the
oath. Appointments "Vflrbe made at
the regular meeting held in June,
which includes town clerk,
tor, fire chief, employed firemen,
chief of police and policemen and va
rious positions in connection with or
ganization of Town Council.
A proposal to have the town clock
stopped at night because of reported
complaints as to the striking of the
clock causing interruptions to sleep
ing, drew from the councilmen an
unanimous “let ’er ring.” No vote
.was taken and the proposal was not
entered into the minutes of the meet
ing. The clock is located atop the
Court House building.
The town clerk was instructed to)
have the town attorney start pro-1
ceedings to collect from property j
owners for their share of the expense j
in connection with the construction of;
certain sidewalks in the city 18,
months ago.
Proposal Before
Council To Move |
Soft Ball Park
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* Vote Reaches Deadlock;
Committee Appointed
To Investigate
Appearing before Town Council ini
meeting at the Municipal Building
Tuesday night, G. B. Potter, as chair
man of the Lions Club division of
' safety, proposed that the municipal
' soft ball, park be moved to a greater
distance from Broad SJtjeet. Discus- 1
slon finally ended in a deadlock when 1
Mayor J. H. McMullan, presiding, 1
called for a vote on Councilman O. B.
Perry’s motion that the soft ball dia
mond be moved to the site of the old
baseball diamond provided that the
“E. and W. Department” could make
the change without cost to the town.
Mr. Potter supported his proposal
with the argument that the soft ball
. activities constituted a menace to. the
' safety of small children who come to
the ball games to play rather than to
watch the games, and that they run
carelessly into nearby Broad Street
into the path of passing cars. He
added, in presentation of his proposal
to the council, that the attraction of
the soft ball games was the sole
cause of “double parking” on Broad
Street in the vicinity of the ball
diamond.
' G. M. Byrum, member of the coun
cil and commissioner of parks and
playgrounds, at this point voiced pro
tests to the moving idea qn the
grounds that a large expense would
necessarily be connected with moving
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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I REV. ANDREW STIRLING
The Rev. Mr. Stirling, pastor
of Full Gospel Tabernacle, is
conducting a Tent Revival Cam
paign from May 7th, until May
28, at King and Water Streets.
Seaplane Base
In Prospect For
Edenton Waters
Edenton One Os Four
Eastern Towns Se
lected’ As Sites
LANDINGFLOATS
More Seaplane Flying
Looked For By Civil
Aeronautics
Five small seaplane landing bases,
one of them at Edenton, will be es
tablished at five seaboard towns of
the North Carolina coast. Work on
them will begin when the projects
i are finally approved by the Civil
Aeronautics Authority, which will
j build them jointly with the National
j Youth Administration.
Under the program the CAA will
I design standardized airport equip
[ ment, and the NYA will take care
lof the construction and installation.
Wind direction indicators, called
“wind socks,” aeronautically speak
ing,, moorings for public water ports,
landing zone markers, and probably
landing floats at the five bases.
| This arrangement, worked out by
the Civil Aeronautics Authority and
I State airport heads, will place a
| water airport within reach of many
small communities that cannot afford
la standard landing field. The equip
ment is to be assembled, and in some
! instances, constructed, in National
Youth workshops by young people
working under capable supervision.
Selected along with Edenton as
sites for the five landing bases, are
Morehead City, Southport, Manteo
and New Bern.
Civil Aeronautics heads are looking
toward more private seaplane flying
with this increase in available land
ing locations. Seaplane flying has
been increasing in recent years not
i withstanding the comparatively few
i places that have established landing
facilities.
Miss Adelaide Tuttle, district head
of the National Youth Administra
tion in seven counties of the Albe
marle, has not been notified of any
further developments as to require
ments for NYA labor, nor as to the
site on which the landing base will
be set up.
Special Mother’s Day
Service On Sunday
4t Methodist Church
Special Mother’s Day servioes will
be observed in the Methodist Church
Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock
hour. For this service the pastor,
Rev. W. C. Benson, has requested
everyone attending to bring either a
white or red roße symbolic of their
mother being dead or living.
A special sermon will be preached
for the occasion with the roses being
used as a special feature of the ser
vice. A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors to be preaent.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, May 11,1939.
Experts On Peanuts
Discuss Problems
At Edenton Meet
Every Phase of Growing
Crop Receives Share
Os Comment
hoiaaneTpleased
Plans Advanced For Use
Or Appropriation For
Research Work
Dean I. 0. Schaub, together with
a corps of State College professors
and Experiment Station experts, met
in Edenton last Thursday with direc
tors of the Peanut Stabilization Co
operative when every phase of pea
nut growing was discussed and con
sideration given to the expenditure
of $12,500 appropriated by the Gener
al Assembly for the next two years
for research work.
Mr. Holland in opening the meet
ing expressed his appreciation for the
presence of the experts and said, it
was a distinct honor to have them
come to Edenton to cooperate in im
provements in growing peanuts. The
meeting was turned over to Dean
Schaub, who called on various pro
fessors to explain their findings in
connection with research work and in
fact turned the meeting into a round
table discussion resulting in com
ments which were of interest to all
present.
Every phase of the industry was
touched, including soil, fertilizer,
weather conditions, rotation of crops,
plant diseases and. plant breeding.
Dean Schaub requested comments
from everyone present in the hope
that a lead might develop for some
research work which may have been
overlooked and he told the gathering
that it was the purpose to spend the
extra money available to the best ad
vantage of growers of peanuts. This
money will not be secured until July,
but Mr. Schaub stated it was his in
tention to secure advance information
and lay plans for using this money so
that some concrete results can be
obtained to present to the General
Assembly which will bear out the
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Dental Clinic Now
Ending Fifth Week
In Chowan County
1,723 Teeth Pulled Or
Filled By State
Dentists
Approximately four hundred Chow
an County and Edenton school chil
dren have suffered manfully, either
mentally or physically, during the
past five weeks as Dr. E. T. Koonce,
of the State Board of Health, pulled
or filled 1,068 teeth.
Dr. Koonce has been operating
through different stations in the
county and on the second floor of the
Court House in Edenton since April
10th, under sponsorship of the local
health department of which Dr. F.
H. Garriss, county health officer, is
the head.
In three weeks, Dr. I. A. Davis,
State Board of Health dentist, has
added to the total number of chil
dren in the county, examined or
treated, 515 Negro school children.
Dr. Davis has his headquarters at
present in the Negro school building
in Edenton. H*. has performed 655
operations on 184 children.
Dr. Koonce at present is located in
the Court House building, and the
dental clinic is scheduled for a full
run of eight or nine weeks depending,
of course, on the list of patients who
have yet to come forward.
Petition Circulated
In Effort To Continue
Summer Half-Holiday
A petition was being circulated in
Edenton Tuesday with an aim to have
local business houses continue the
practice of closing during the sum
mer months for a half holiday on
Wednesday afternoons. The months
are June, July and August.
Action taken by a group of busi
ness men who met in the Municipal
Building last Wednesday resulted in
a vote of 10 to 2 against the half
holiday plan after discussion.
It was reported Tuesday night that
the managements or owners of 22
of the town’s leading business firms
had affixed signatures to the petition,
and that the activity was meeting the
approval of many business houses.
Wade Marr Will Be
Speaker At Edenton
: High Graduation
i Baccalaureate Sermon
On May 14.by Rev«
W. C. Benson
42 GRADUATES
: Certificates On Order
For 90 Grammar
Grade Grads
School bells in Edenton will have a
ring of finality next Wednesday when
■ 42 seniors included in the graduating
class of 1939, possibly the largest
aggregation of grads in the history
■ of the school, are presented their
diplomas Wednesday night. The
■ number exceeds the class of ’3B by
eight students.
5 Second on the schedule of com
mencement exercises, the baccalau
reate sermon will be preached Sunday
! night in the auditorium by the Rev.
■ W. C. Benson, pastor of the Edenton
1 Methodist Church. With night ser
vices called off at the-local churches
! the auditorium-, will probably be filled
1 to 'capacity;
! The program Wednesday night,
when Wade Marr, Past District
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Governor of Rotary International, N.
C., and later Director of Rotary In
ternational, will deliver the gradua
tion address, is the final activity and
signals the termination of public'
school days for the seniors who will
receive their diplomas. Unlike fast
1 year, when, it will be remembered,
commencement exercises were ham
pered by the confusion accompanying
the construction of the new auditor
ium, enough space and seating facil
ities are now available to carry out
the program in the style which such
an occasion merits.
Diplomas have been ordered for
ths following, all of whom will soon
probably leave behind them what is
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Many Edenton Firms
Are Subscribing To
Hospitalization Plan!
Miss Walker, Represen
tative, Talks To Lions
And Rotary Clubs
1 The Hospital Saving Association
of North Carolina, sponsors of the j
well-known “Two-Cents-A-Day Plan’’ j
for paying hospital bills, announces |
the appointment of Miss Linda!
Walker of Wilson as Chowan County j
representative, according to Felix A. f
Grisette, of Chapel Hill, executive)
director of the Association. Miss
Walker is a native of Norfolk, but
she has been a resident of Eastern
Carolina for several years. She ex
pects to make periodic visits to Eden
ton from her headquarters in Wilson.
The home offices of the Hospital
Saving Association are located in
Chapel Hill.
This ' non-profit organization is
sponsored and controlled by the
North Carolina Hospital Association
and the North Carolina Medical So
ciety. The sole object is to provide :
an easy method of paying hospital
bills for its members if and when
hospital treatment is necessary.
The Association, although organiz
ed only a little more than three years 1
ago, has already enrolled more than
90,000 North Carolina people as mem
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Defendant In Larceny
Case Asks Jury Trial;
Names of 12 Drawn
Summoned for jury duty in the
case of Mrs. Lillie Mae Ward, Eden
ton woman charged with larceny, the
following Chowan County men will
be notified to appear when the case
is scheduled to come up at the next
term of Recorder’s Court on Tuesday,
May 15th.
Drawn for duty, are: R. O. Bunch,
Jr., Mark Bunch, E. J., Goodwin, J.
Edwin Buffiap, Eston Baker, J. A.
Morgan, F. J. Ward, Fred P. Wood,
W. C. Hollowed, Lawson H. Spruill,
R. A. Mansfield, and E. L. Ward.
Mrs. Ward is alleged to have taken -
a pair of hose from the store of
Rose’s Five and Ten on the night of
Saturday, May 6. The defendant,
represented by Herbert Leary, asked
for a jury trial in Tuesday’s session
of Recorder’s Court and the case was
continued until next Tuesday while
jurors are being summoned. <
Herring Fishing Season
Is Extended For Five Days;
Very Poor Cntehes So Far
60 Attend Spring
Federation Meet
Os County Clubs
John A. Holmes Makes
Splendid Address at
Meeting
VISIT KITCHENS
Play Presented by Clubs
From Beech Fork and
Rocky Hock
Home Demonstration Clubs of
Chowan County held the Spring Fed
eration meeting in the auditorium
of Chowan High School on last
Thursday with about 60 members
present, representing eight clubs.
Mrs. T. L. Ward, president, called
the meeting to order, by the assembly
singing “Follow The Gleam.” Rev.
J. T. Byrum conducted the devotional.
Mrs. A. D. Ward, president of the
16th District of Home Demonstration
Clubs, extended cordial greetings of
welcome to club members and visi
tors. Following the greetings, a roll
call of clubs was made and the min
utes of the Fall Federation were read
and approved.
Miss May Belie Edwards gave a
very lovely rendition of the world
loved “Gypsy Love Song,” accompa
nied by Mrs. Gordon Blow.
Mrs. S. F. Small introduced the
speaker, Superintendent John A.
Holmes of Edenton High School,
whose address was the main feature
of the morning program. HLs sub
ject, “Woman,” was interesting and
instructive and will prove beneficial
if put into practice by everyone who !
heard it. The morning program clos- i
ed with the audience repeating the j
j Club Collect in unison.
Lunch was served by the Chowan!
I Woman’s Club.
| The afternoon exercises opened i
with singing the song, “Is Every-j
l body Happy?” led by Mrs. J. Carrier- 1
|on Boyce, the soirg leader. Tin 1
Chowan High School Glee Club iron-!
dered several selections under the <lr- j
rection of Mrs. Cordon Blow.
Beech Fork and Rocky Hock clubs I
presented a very interesting panto-j
mine, “Easier Ways.” Mrs. Percy ]
| Smith, County Home Management •
i Leader, was chairman of this group, j
The meeting closed, with the sing
! ing of “A Song of the Open Country;*'.
The meeting adjourned at 2:3<>, ■
'when the women were invited to visit |
! the kitchens of Mrs. R. N, Harrell j
and Mrs. Percy Smith, who won first’
places in the Kitchen Contest which'
closed last fall. They were very gra
cious hostesses, receiving in their i
convenient and attractive kitchens to
explain changes that were made,
and answering numerous questions, i
Much interest was shown in this part
of the day’s program which was the
first tour in the county to visit result
demonstrations. It is hoped that
there will be many more similar
tours, because this is one of the best
means of teaching and exchanging
ideas. The tour was not planned
with the thought that anyone would
copy either of these kitchens, but
that others might get ideas and be!
encouraged to improve their own
workshops—the kitchen.
“May Day In Edenton”
Is Theme of Woman’s 1
College Presentation
“An Historical May Day in Eden
ton, North Carolina,” was the theme
of a recent presentation‘at the Wom
an’s College of the University of
North Carolina. |
According to the program, “In
colonial times the celebration of May
Day was a major spring event. Iti
was the custom for the villagers to
rise at dawn and go out to the woods i
to gather greens and flowers. They.
would return to the green later in
the day and amuse themselves with
dancing.
“Sailors came from the ships in the
harbor, frontiersmen came in from
the plains. The great moment of the
day came when Governor Eden walk-!
ed among the dancers and picked the
fairest of the maidens to be Queen
of May.”
Governor Eden of North Carolina,
was played by Dr. B. B. Kendrick,
and Leah G. Smimow was in charge
of direction for the University pre
sentation.
This newspaper is circu
ited in the territory
where Advertisers will
realm good results.
$1.25 Per Year,
John F. White Receives
Tidings Monday
Morning
j HAMPTON
Disastrous Season In
. Prospect Unless In
flux Develops
Herring fishing has been a heart
breaking experience this season;
there’s no other way to describe the
situation except to say that the
catches have been unusually small all
* season, that the unseasonal cold
weather has something to do with it,
and that the herring “jus aren’t
here.” However, men who depend on
. the fancies of the finny tribe for a
livelihood will be glad to learn that
the season, scheduled to close today
1 (Wednesday), has been extended for
; another five days.
Representative John F. White re
ceived a telegram to this effect from
‘ John A. Nelson, fisheries commission
er at Morehead City, just before noon
' Monday morning.
Even with the extension granted,
unless an influx of herring develops
. within the next few days, fishermen
hereabouts are faced with their most
disastrous season in many years.
Down on the wharves Monday
morning at the fish houses of J. G.
Small, where a catch somewhat larg
er than the one on Saturday had just
come in, a reporter was shown
through the operations of cleaning the
fish, salting them and packing them,
i Another house, apart from the main
building, and which normally takes
care of about half a million herring,
\vas entirely empty and showed no
signs of having been used all season.
A large fishing boat was moored just
off the wharf and Mr. Small explain
jed that it had bean idle for some
! time. It. is used iiior' only in case
I another boat breaks down, when nor
, nially it should be seeing daily use
' along with the other boats,
j At Cannons Ferry, catches Satur
i day brought as low as 95 cents and
,$1.05, which amount does not even
I cover the expense of gasoline for the
| boats. Faced with this condition,
| frantic efforts were being made to
have the season extended.
| From R. Bruce Etheridge, Director
jof the Department of Conservation
j a »<1 Development, Representative
bite had gathered the impression
■ that the herring season would close
i along with the other forms of gill
- net and seine fishing. Roy Hampton,
district inspector, had stated that he
| would recommend the five-day exten
sion; giving as reasons for so doing
| that the last run of herrings that
I come in, if they do, when they spawn
. and go back to sea, are practically
l useless as anything more than shark
! ba 't- According to Representative
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Property Advertised
This Week For 1938
Taxes Not Yet Paid
| Sheriff Bunch Collected
About $7,000 On
Saturday
Saturday night was the deadline
for paying 1938 taxes, and the delin
quents are being advertised in this
i issue of Herald. It had been
hoped that most of those who had not
paid their taxes would do so before
curfew rang, and save the penalties.
Many did so, and Sheriff J. A. Bunch
I has announced that tax collections
over Saturday just about total last
year’s collection for the same date,
i All delinquent taxpayers had been
notified by the Sheriff that their
j taxes will be advertised this week
. and The Herald has been carrying
notices to the same efect. The tax
levy for the year is $82,007.99.
Saturday was a good day; in spite
of various reasons for delay in pay
ing taxes, the Sheriff collected around
seven thousand dollars which amjount
! was equally as good as the same date
before publication of delinquents last
year. Also the publication list ap
pearing in this issue is no larger than
it was last year, which indicates that
something in the neighborhood of the
same number of taxpayers were again
able to pay up without too much de
lay this year.