in these e thumu wU be
found $ fair ffttfntottftf
of local and eonmin umi
of f moral interest.
Volume IX.—Number 19.
Democrats Will Organize
In Precinct Meetings To Be
Held Saturday Afternoon
Delegates to the County
Convention Will Be
Elected
5 P. M. WAR TIME
County Chairman B. W.
Evans Anxious For
Full Attendance
According to instructions sent out
by the State Democratic Committee,
Chowan County Democrats will meet
in precinct meetings Saturday for
the purpose of organization and to
elect delegates to the County .Demo
cratic convention which will be held
in the Court House Saturday, May
16. Hie State Convention will be
held in Raleigh Friday, May 22.
B. W. Evans, chairman of the
Chowan County Democratic Commit
tee, is very anxious to have a full
turn-out at the precinct meetings,
which will be held at the various
polling places at 5 p. m. (war time),
and at which time a chairman, vice
chairman and three other members
will be elected, as well as delegates
to the County Convention.
According to Mr. Evans, each pre
cinct is entitled to elect one delegate
to the County Convention for each
"25 Democratic votes or major frac-i
tion thereof cast for Governor in the
last general election, while at the
County Convention one delegate to
the State Convention will he elected
for each 160 votes or major fraction
thereof cast in the general election.
Mr. Evans has notified the chair
men. and vice chairmen of the six
Chowan 43punty precincts, urging
them to m on hand for the meeting
in their particular precinct.
Mr. Evans is county chahruumt
‘ - Mrs. E. N. Elliott, vice chairman,?
and the following are precinct chair
men and vice chairmen;
East Edenton Precinct —T. W.
Jones, chairman; Mrs. Wood Privott,
vice chairman. t
Rocky Hock—W. H. Pearce, chair
man; J. N. Smith, vice chairman.
Center Hill Precinct—Medlin Belch,
chairman; Mrs. A. S. Bush, vice
chairman.
West Edenton Precinct—John W.
Graham, chairman; Mrs. W, D. Pru
den, vice chairman.
Wardville—T. L . Ward, chairman;
J£rs. A. D. Ward, vice chairman.
Yeopim—R. A. Beasley, chairman;
Mrs. Geo. C. Wood, vice chairman.
/Governor Speaker At
Merchants Convention
. Governor J. M. Broughton will de
liver one of the principal addresses
at the 40th annual convention of the
North Carolina Merchants Associa
tion which will be held in Raleigh
May 11-12. The Governor is per
sonally and well-known to thousands
of retail merchants in all sections of
the State, and will be the exclusive
speaker at the afternoon meeting on
May 12. His address will undoubt-!
edly be one of the highlights of the
convention.
At the opening session Monday,
Major Benjamin H. Namm, president
of the Namm Store of Brooklyn, and
chairman of the retailers advisory
committee to the U. S. Treasury, will
sound the keynote of the convention
in an address “Retailers for Victory.”
Attending the convention from
Edenton will be J. G. Campen, past
president of the Edenton Merchants
Association and a member of the
board of directors of the State asso
ciation, T. C. Byrum and Mrs. Grace
Dobson, local secretary.
Campen Feels Sure
County Will Exceed
. Stamp-Bond Quota
Meeting of All Chair
men at Court House
This Afternoon
(Though no figures are available as
The Herald went to press, J. G.
Campen, chairman of Chowan Coun
x ty’s war stamp and bond pledge
purchase campaign, that^
THE CHOWAN HERAL"
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THMMLtiTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
> —
| Wrong West |
Either in reporting or in writ
ing the Parent-Teacher Associa
tion story last week, an error
was made in the name of the
treasurer of the organization.
The name of the treasurer ap
pearing in The Herald waft Mrs.
West Byrum, when as a matter
of fact Mrs. West Leary is the
treasurer. The error is very
much regretted.
Hie monthly meeting of the
Association was to have been held
Tuesday of this week, but has
been postponed until next Mon
day, May 11, due to the work in
connection with gas rationing.
At that time a feature will be a
fashion show by the home eco
nomics class under the direction
of Miss Josephine Grant. Tea
will be served by the class and
because this will be the last
meeting of the year, every mem
ber is urged to be present.
Garden Club Stages
Spring Flower Show
In Rose Room Today
Affair Wfflße In Pro
gress From 10 a. m.
To 5 p. m.
Everything is in readiness for the
spring flower show of the Edenton
Garden Club, which be held to
day (Thursday). The affair Will ‘he
held in the Rose Room of Hotel
Joseph Hewes, beginning at 10
o’clock in the morning and ' lasting
until five o’clock this afternoon.
Mrs. George P. Byrum is in charge
of the show and will be assisted b7
Mrs. C. T. Hollowell and Mrs. W. 1.
Hart, the three ladies asking that all
[ exhibits be on hand by 9 o’clock, so
that they can be properly displayed
by the time the show begins.
Many exhibits are expected and,
according to the those in charge, the
show should equal and even surpass
any similar affair ever staged by the
club. Men of the community are es
pecially urged to attend. *
Registrars are Mrs. J. M. Jones,
Mrs. Albert Byrum and Mrs. David
Holton, while in charge of receiving
and arranging will be Mrs. J. L.
Pettus, Mrs. J. A. Powell; Mrs. W. J.
Daniels, Mrs. Thomas J. Wood, Mrs.
Jesse White, Mrs. Wood Privott and
Mrs. J. Clarence Leary.
Those who will serve as hostesses
during the day are: Mrs. L. P. Wil
liams, Mrs. N. K. Rowell, Mrs. Jimmy
Earnhardt, Mrs. J. H. Conger, Mrs.
J. S. Davis, Mrs. J. A. Mitchener,
Mrs. R. C. Holland, Mrs. John G.
Small, Mrs. C. N. Griffin, Miss
Evelyn Brown, Mrs. W. M. Wilkins,
Mrs. Julien Wood, Mrs. L. S. Byrum,
Mrs. M. G. Brown, Mrs. M. iS. Elliott,
Mrs. T. C. Byrum, Mrs. West Leary,
Mrs. J. A. Moore, Mrs. R. P. Bad
ham, Mrs. R. F. Tuttle, Miss Marga
ret Pruden, Mrs. J. W. Davis, Mrs.
F. M. Dunstan, Mrs. W. H. Bolling,
Mrs. J. G. Campeh, Mrs. R. D. Dixon,
Mrs. John G. Wood, Mrs. J. H. Me-'
Mullan, Mrs. Lloyd Griffin, Mrs. W.
E. Hassell and Mrs. P. T. Owens.
Churches Call Off
Sunday Night Service
Due to the baccalaureate sermon
at the Edenton High School Sunday
night, there will be no night services
at the Baptist or Methodist Churches,
the services being called off in order
to permit members of both congre
gations to worship with the students,
when a sermon will be 'preached by
the Rev. Frank Cale.
The service will begin at 8 o’clock
in the school auditorium.
Fire Totally Destroys
County’s Largest Barn
Chowan County’s largest and one
of its most modem bams was de
stroyed by. fire Friday, when the huge
building on Herbert Small’s farm
near Edenton was burned to the
ground. Together with the bam, Mr.
Small’s loss included a number of
pigs, a quantity of com, hay, soda
and several farming implements.
A call was made Ur help to the
Edenton Fire Department, which
rushed its largest engine to the
scene, but there was no chance what
ever cf saving the building or its
contents.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 7,1942.
Final Exercises At
Chowan High Will
Begin On May 12
Rev. J. L. White to De
liver Baccalaureate
Sermon
I 35 IN SENIOR CLASS
Judge I. M. Meekins
Graduating Exercise
Speaker
Final arrangements have been com
pleted for commencement exercises at
Chowan High School, which will be
gin with the baccalaureate sermon
Sunday night, May 12, at 8 o’clock,
in the school auditorium. The speak
er for the occasion will be the Rev.
J. L. White, of Elizabeth City, who
will be introduced by the Rev. John
T. Byrum. The invocation will be
offered by the Rev. Arthur Stephen
son, and the Rev. Frank Cale will
offer the benediction. The program
also includes a solo by Miss May
Belle Edwards.
Class Night will be observed Mon
day night, May 13, a 8 o’clock,
and will be featured by a playlet en
titled “The Graduates iSeven Guides,”
representing Health, Home, Learning,
Citizenship, Leisure, Character and
Vocation. Those taking part in the
play will be Montgomery Cale, Char
lotte Elliott, Geraldine Lane, Virginia
Perry, Gerald Warren, Viola Chap
pell and the seven guides represented
. by Alma Griffin, Anne Elizabeth By
' rum, Ralph Saunders, C. H. Davis,
Jr., Frances Jordan, Audrie Berry
man and Lester Copeland.
. The graduating exercises will be
held Tuesday night, May 14, at 8
o’clock, the principal speaker being
Federal Judge I. M, Meekins of Eli
zabeth City, who will be introduced
by Superintendent W. J. Taylor. At
! this time, diplomas will be awarded
1 by J. P. Barnett, principal, and sev
enty graders will receive diplomas 1
’ from Mr. ’faylor. Frank Holmes
| will present the Rotary Cup to the
J most outstanding graduate and John
’ Mitchener will present the science
• cup on behalf of the Lions Club.
[ Mr. Barnett will award medals.
There are 35 students in the senior
i class of which the valedictorian is
, Virginia Perry and the salutatorian
[is Viola Chappell. Other members
of the class are: Garland Asbell,
Edna Earl Asbell, Blanche Margaret
. Bass, Audrie Berryman, Edna Hope
, Blanchard, Frances Jordan, Delcie 1
, Jordan, Hubert Jordan, Geraldine
. Lane, Geraldine Perry, Anne Eliza
beth Byrum, Mary Elizabeth Byrum,
Viola Byrum, Viola Chappell, Mont
[ gomery Cale, Lester Copeland, Mar
■ guerite Dale, Allene Dale, C. H.
Davis, Jr., Charlotte Elliott, Eleanor
Evans, Marvin Hobbs, Virginia Perry,
Ervin Saunders, Ralph Saunders,
; Irvin L. Spivey, May Twine, Hillery
Twine, Gerald Warren, Kathleen
i Ward, Mildred White, Evelyn Fore
. hand, Alma Griffin, Lindsay Harrell
■ and Anne Byrum. •
Gasoline Registration
Causes Another PTA
Change Os Meeting
Due to the gasoline rationing reg
! istration being in progress Tuesday,
it has been necessary to again change
the meeting of the Parent-Teacher
Association which had been postponed
from last week due to the sugar ra
!• tioning registration. Mrs. W. D.
Pruden has announced that the meet
ing will be held next Monday after
noon, May 11, at 3:30 o’clock, in the
■ school library.
CONSUMERS OF GASOLINE MUST REGISTER
’
MAY 12,13 OR 14 TO SECURE RAnON CAROS
W. J. Taylor Named By Ration Board to Serve as
Gasoline Rationing Administrator; Registra
tion Along Same Lines as Sugar Plan
Consumers of gasoline will be re
quired to register May 12, 13 and 14
for the purpose of securing ration
cards in order to purchase gasoline.
This information was received this
week by the Chowan Rationing
Board. Chairman Albert Byrum im
mediately appointed W. J. Taylor as
gasoline rationing administrator in
connection with his duties as sugar
rationing administrator. The gaso
line rationing system will be similar
to that used to'issue sugar rationing
books, which proved successful un
der Mr. Taylor’s supervision. Schools
will again be used ee registration
centers, wivu «6QCn6is ana ©tner
volunteers helping in filling out the
Bigiish To School
Hips To Secure
! War Ration Books
■My '
Manjy Volunteers and
Scjhool Teachers Of
j fer Services
TQDAY LAST DAY
! Book May Be Brought
Intp Use For Other
Rationed Items
Chowbn County citizens on Monday
joined with the remainder of the na
tion in afwaiting their turn to be is
sued rationing books for use in se
curing sugar and which may be ne
cessary for other commodities before
the present war peters out. A steady
stream on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday wended their way to the
various school houses, which will no
doubt continue today, the last day
to secure the ration books, where
volunteers and school teachers listed
the necessary information.
It is the first time in history that
Americans have been cailed upon in
national rationing of consumer goods,
but despite the inconvenience, it was
done for, the most part in good hu
mor. There were plenty of volun
teers who gladly offered their ser
vices in order to utilize as little time
as possible in compiling the informa
tion required on applications.
For every person who registered,
as well as for members of each family
registered, War Ration Book One
was issued, which contains 28 war
ration stamps. For the present, the
stamps are for use in buying sugar,
each stamp allowing the purchase of
half pound of sugar weekly. Further
' instructions provide that the first
stamp must be used between May 5
and 16, the second between May 17
and 30, the third between May 31
and June 13, and the fourth between
June 14 .and 22. Further use of the
stamps will be announced later by
’ the, Ck»vijp>mer/t.
, At the time of registration each
person was allowed to have two
, pounds of sugar on hand, and if
more than that amount was reported,
stamps were accordingly torn from
the books.
The rationing process is generally
1 known throughout the county and it
1 is very necessary that everybody ap
-1 ply for the ration book, for it is al
i together likely that other commodi
ties will be rationed, in which event
1 purchases cannot be made without
■ the war ration stamps.
! Today (Thursday) is the final day
to secure the war ration books and
1 an y who have not attended to this
matter should, do so at once.
: Uncle Sam Has Eye On
Asphalt To Be Used On
■ Road In Rocky Hock
I .
Despite the possibility that the
[ Government will take over asphalt
which was ear-marked for the new
road in Rocky Hock, The Herald
has been assured that if asphalt is
not available to complete the road, it
will be made an all-weather road, of
gravel until such time as asphalt is
available.
The road is 3.6 miles long, part of
which roadway has been com
, pleted, but at present completion is
■ problematical due to war conditions.
I AUXILIARY MEETS FRIDAY
The monthly meeting of the Aux
. iliary of the American Legion wilt
be held Friday night at 8 o’clock.
This meeting was postponed from
: last Friday, the regular meeting
night.
forms, which have already been re
> ceived by Mr. Taylor.
1 There has been some question and
. conflicting publicity relative to gaso
i line rationing, but the Officer of Pro
r duction Administration studied the
- situation with great care and has
) agreed that the country faces a most
i critical shortage of supplies of fuel
■ necessary to the execution of the war.
■ The opinion is advanced that the
• situation cannot be improved by any
; shifting of transportation facilities
• and rationing is therefore demanded,
i During the registration every own
er of a vehicle must register if he
’ or she expects to be able to purchase
r / (Continued on Page Five)
Commencement Exercises
Begin Next Sunday Night
At Edenton High School
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[There’s A Reason]
That Chowan County taxpay
ers are in better financial cir
cumstances this year or else that
they have come to realize that
taxes must be paid, and the
sooner the better, is reflected In
the number of delinquents for
1941 taxes appearing in this is
sue of The Herald. This year’s
list is the smallest since The
Herald began publication in
1934, only 328 names appearing
in the list, which is 147 less than
last year when 475 were adver
tised.
jDelinquents since 1935 as ad
vertised in The Herald follow:
1935 522
1936 556
1937 572
1938 533
1939 560
1940 510
1941 4-75
1942 328
Health Department
Giving Vaccinations
Free For Six Weeks
Pre-school Clinics Have
Been Postponed Until
August
In conjunction with National Im
munization Month, the Chowan Coun
ty Health Department is sponsoring
free vaccinations for typhoid fever,
aliphtfieria,' and smallpox, in clinics
to be held by local physicians, as fol
lows: Each Wednesday for six weeks,
beginning May 13, between the hours
of 9 and 11 a. m., at Dr. L. P. Wil
liams’ office, clinic conducted by Dr.
Williams. Each Tuesday for six
weeks, beginning May 12, between
the hours of 2 and 4 p. m., at the
Community House at Cross Roads,
clinic conducted .by Dr. R. H.
Vaughan.
Dr. J. B. Chamblee announces that,
this year, the pre-school clinics will
not be held until August, and he
urges mothers to have their pre
school children vaccinated at this
vaccination clinic instead of waiting
for the pre-school children’s clinic
later on in the summer.
Dr. Chamblee also urges everyone
to take advantage of these vaccina
tions. Everyone, who has not al
ready been, should be vaccinated
against smallpox. Every child be
tween the ages of six months and
eight years should he immunized
against diphtheria. Everyone over
three years of age, and who has not
been vaccinated against typhoid fever
within the past three years, should
be protected against that disease.
Auction Block Opens
Today At Valhalla
May Peas Will Be Sold
By Auctioneer Fran
cis Hicks
Today (Thursday) marks the open
ing of the season of the Chowan Mu
tual Produce Exchange auction block
at Valhalla, when May peas will be
sold. This concern, operating very
successfully for the past few years,
has secured the services of Francis
Hicks as auctioneer, which augurs
well for another successful season.
Grady Love is manager of the con
cern, with W. A. Harrell, secretary
treasurer, and J. P. Barnette, book
keeper.
Sales will continue during the sum
mer for various kinds of produce and
an effort will be made to secure the
highest prices and provide a service
satisfactory to those who patronize
the concern.
Bank Os Edenton
Closed Next Monday
With Confederate Memorial Day
falling on next Sunday, May 10, the
holiday will be observed by the Bank'
of Edenton on Monday. Tne bank
will, therefore, be closed all day next
Monday, and patrons . are urgea to
transact their banking affairs ac
cordingly.
ling CO **tr!lr£2U
*1 roeflss good nmdt*. j
$1.25 Per Year.
Rev. Frank Cale Will
Preach Baccalaureate
Sermon
45 IN CLASS
Chowan College Presi
dent Graduation
Speaker
Edenton High School’s commence
ment exercises will begin on Sunday
night, when the baccalaureate ser
mon will be preached in the school
auditorium to the senior class and
relatives and friends of the students.
The sermon will be preached by the
Rev. Frank Cale, the service begin
ning at 8 o’clock.
Class Day exercises will be held on
Thursday night, May 14, at 8 o’clock,
the affair as planned being a patrio
tic pageant, as well as the usual
class day features.
Graduation exercises will be held
Friday night, May 15, at 8 o’clock,
when Dr. H. Haddon Dudley, pres
ident of Chowan College, will be the
speaker.
Inauguration of 12 grades in the
school next year will have some ef
fect on this year’s commencement in
that there will be no seventh grade
diplomas awarded. This means that
there will be no promotions to the
high school, for the eighth, grade
under the 12 grade system vrill be
part of the elementary school. \
There are 45 students now irKthe
senior class, six students having left
the class during the year. These are:
Iva Jean Baker, Sam Cates, Sally
Dixon, Frances Knox, Leonce Spruill
and Louis White.
Norma Perry is valedictorian of
the class, while salutatorian honors
' go to Margaret Griffin.
Members of this year’s senior
“lass anc: Joldp Asbell, Jr., Helen
Bass, Hurley launch, Neanie Bunch,
Maurice Bunch, Jr., Julia Burton,
i Cora Edward Bond, Mary Gray By
rum, George Alma Byrum, Howard
. Cayton, Polly Chestnutt, Logan El
: liott, Virginia Farless, Johnny Fore
hand, Henry Gardner, Jr., Mary
Goodwin, Edward Goodwin, Margaret
, Griffin, Delsie Hare, Helen Harris,
Robert Harrell, Agnes Harris, Jasper
Hassell, Frances Hollowell, Alice
Mae Hassell, Winifred Hollowell,
Marcia Kepler, John Albert Holmes,
Murriel Hurdle, Thomas Lane, Janie
Mitchener, John Oliver, Virginia
; Overton, Frances Overton, Dorothy
Parker, Norma Perry, Reuben Perry,
Fontaine Pettus, Laura Satterfield,
Tom Shepard, Lester Stewart, Kath
leen Ward, Sam White, Annie Ruth
White and Virginia Yates.
Os this group six have decided not
to receive their diplomas, prefering
to return to school next year and be
awarded the 12th grade diploma.
These six are: George Alma Byrum,
• Robert Harrell, Alice Mae Hassell,
Winifred Hollowell, John Albert
Holmes and Tom Shepard.
Os course, there will be others of
the class who will enroll for the 12th
grade, hut having received their 11th
grade diplomas, will not be eligible
for another diploma next year. Be
sides, those who receive their diplo
mas this year will not be allowed to
particiuate in any school activities
governed by conference rules.
Commissioners Get
Up Dander At Sssion
On Monday Morning
“Professional Jealousy”
Charged Relative to
Hospital Cases
Chowan County Commissioners
went on the war path at their meet
ing Monday as the result of what
was termed “professional jealousy”
| among Edenton’s doctors, having to
: do with sending emergency cases to
i hospitals. The major portion of the
meeting was devoted to this item in
an effort to get at the root of a
situation which has cropped up sev
. eral times of late.
The argument arose when it de
veloped that Dr. L. P. Williams had
r recommended to Mrs. J. H. McMullan,
s acting superintendent of public wel
. fare, that Annie Owens, a colored
, woman, be sent to the hospital in
‘ Washington, N. C. However, Dr.
6 John W. Warren, county physician,
i did not agree that it was an emejp
- gency case and therefore, refused *»
(a&t£ aßu<i no penupuoo)