North Carolina Newspapers

In these columns mUo&jfr found a fair presentation L of local and county news I of general interest. Volume IX—Number 24. PeanutGrowersSeekingTo Omit Peanuts From 0. P. A. Maximum Price Regulation Vote 100% to Exempt Peanuts at Suffolk Meeting PRICES^DROP Peanut Fanners Asked To Write Members Os Congress 1 Meeting in Suffolk, Va., Monday, a large group of representative peanut farmers and. cleaners from North Carolina and Virginia discussed the price ceiling as fixed on peanuts and peanut products by the Office of Ad ministrtion. It was the opinion of those present that the ceiling prices on peanuts and peanut products as fixed by the Office of Price Admin istration on April 28 did not reflect to the farmer 110 per cent of parity, or about 7% cents per pound as was provided by the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942. • The price of farmers’ stock pea nuts was above IVi cents until the publication of a maximum price regu lation on April 28, and since that time the market on farmers’ stock peanuts was declined to below six cents, and even at this price, there is no demand for the farmers’ stock peanuts. j It was stated that there are more than a hundred thousand bags of farmers’ stock peanuts in the farm ers’ hands and that the farmers were taking a terrific loss because of the decline in the market. The meeting went on record by a 100 per cent vote to take action to have the proper governmental author ities exempt peanuts and peanut pro ducts from the maximum price regu lation as established by the Office of Price Administration. A committee from the farmers in -the Virginia-Carolina area was ap pointed to take the matter up with the Senators and Congressmen from the peanut producing states and with governmental departments in an ef fort to correct the existing situation and to have peanuts and peanut pro ducts removed from the price regu lation. The committee is composed of the following from North Carolina: W. M. Stevenson, Pendleton; Charles Revell and J. M. Anderson, Murfrees boro; C. B. Griffin, Lewiston; J. R. Vann, Ahoskie; W. B. Howell, Tar boro; D. G. Matthews, Hamilton; H. T. Hobbs, R. C. Holland, J. C. Leary, T. C. Byrum, Edenton; and the fol lowing from Virginia: W. T. Parker, Franklin; W. T. Bain, Wakefield; Sidney Byrum and Harvey Holloman, Surry. A subcommittee was also appoint ed for the purpose of making a trip to Washington to explain the unfor tunate situation to Senators and Con gressmen from the peanut producing area, this group composing the fol lowing: C. B. Griffin, T. C. Byrilm and J. R. Vann from North Carolina, and Sidney Byrum, Tucker Bain and (Continued on Page Six) Miles Clark Sees Big Advantage In Efforts Os Bands Says Splendid Means of Developing Friendship Among Towns That Mr. and Mrs. C. L MoCullers and members of the Edenton Righ School Band proved to be delightful hoists to the Elizabeth City Band on Friday night is reflected in a letter ' to Director McCullera from Miles L. Clark, of Elizabeth City. Said Mr. Clark: “No need to tell you how much the whole crowd enjoyed being in Eden ton last night. There was a true spirit of friendship all the way t through, and there is ho reason why it cannot be a lasting one. You folks sure did it up right. “I like your idea of several towns getting -together and having a big family reunion. They will all have a good time. “We want you all back over here before long, and are looking toward that now. “You and Gene Gorman are doing « more for friendliness between towns around here than all other organiza tions ever hoped to do. Keep it up, boy.” * SHE CHOWAN HERALD | New Commander j *•»* H > " 1 T "" ROBERT L. PRATT One of the most active mem bers of Ed Bond Post, Mr. Pratt Pratt ha® been chosen to succeed John A. Holmes as commander of the Post. R. L Pratt Elected New Commander Os Ed Bond Post Succeeds John Holmes, Who Served Two- Year Term Robert L. Pratt hats oeen elected commander of Ed Bond Post of the American Legion, succeeding J-ohn A. Holmes, who has for the second time completed a two-year term as com mander. Mr. Pratt is and has been one of the most active members of the local post since its organization, and has filled most of the offices in the post. He is not only interested in local Legion activities, but has taken an active part in Legion affairs in the state. Because of his interest in the post, as well as his ability to secure mem berships, members of the post look forward to a successful year under Mr. Pratt’s administration. Other officers elected by the post at the meeting last week were as follows: Vice Commanders—L. E. Griffin, T. L. Ward and Joe Boyce. Adjutant and Finance Officer— Thomas J. Wood. Service Officer—C. E. Kramer. Guardianship Officer—W. H. Gard ner. Sergeant-at-arms—Jesse W. White. Chaplain—J. L. Chestnutt. Historian —John A. Holmes. Athletic Officer—R. E. Leary. Child Welfare—W. W. Byrum. Americanism Officer—J. W. Davis. National Defense Richard D. Dixon. Graves Registration—W. J. Yates. Employment Officer—P. S. Mc- Mullan. Boys’ State Officer—S. W. Moore. Boy Scout Officer—Geddas Potter. Membership Chairman—T. C. By rum. • Publicity Officer—O. E. Duncan. Chairman Sons of Legion—R. F. Elliott. J. L. Chestnutt, W. W. Byrum and Richard D. Dixon were elected as delegates to the State Legion Con vention, with T. C. Byrum, L E. Griffin and J. A. Bunch chosen as alternates. Fifth Registration Tuesday, June 30 Preparations are going forward by the Chowan County Draft Board, for the fifth registration, which will be held Tuesday, June 30. On that date all men bom on or after January 1, 1922, and on or before June 30, 1924, or men 18 to 20 years of age will have to register for possible military duty. The registration wUJ be held at the local armory and the Community Building at Cross Roads between the hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. CORPORAL IN MARINES Emmett Wiggins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wiggins, M|t Edenton on Wednesday for Raleigpi, where he will take the oath as a corporal is the I/. S. Marine Corps. Mr. Wig gins previously has passed all re quirements of the Marine Corps. Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, June 11, 1941 s Unclaimed Bank Deposits Seen As Aid In War Effort Ohioan Also Would Aid Education of Students After War Period FUND Plan Will lie” Submitted For Consideration of Congressmen Hyman Weinstein, a native of Ohio, now an outstanding horticul turist at Bowers Hill, Va., was in Edenton Tuesday. Mr. Weinstein has found time apart from the routine labors of his chosen profession to conceive a plan which he believes will be the greatest boost to the war effort in the matter of dollars yet introduced. According to Mr. Weinstein, ap proximately $300,000,000 of unclaim ed deposits are now on hand in the national banks of this country, and according to his plan, trustees of the banks would purchase war bonds with the unclaimed deposits, and fol lowing the war period, redeem the war bonds to make government guar anteed loans to worthy youths, espec ially those in the country’s service, to further their education. The cost to the government would be small, with the government paying only one per cent of the three per cent rate as suggested by Mr. Wein istein. The banks would get a nomi nal fee for their services and thous ands of youths would prosper from the loans, while during the war per -1 iod the government could receive a , substantial boost to its defense in war bond purchases. In commenting upon his idea, Mr. Weinstein pointed out also that when the war is over and many youths will, as in other post-war periods, seek entry into the nation’s many colleges and universities, the loans would -be a substantial aid in enabling them to do so. The originator of the plan in no way benefits financially, his only pur pose being to present the idea to congreesmen in the hope that during the war the country would benefit from the huge amount of unclaimed, deposits and that after the war young men who fought for their country would have an opportunity to further their education. The idea is a hobby of Mr. Weinstein, who has also gain ed quite a reputation for his hobby of raising freak plants and bulbs. Auxiliary Changes Its Place Os Meeting After meeting for some time in the Rose Room at Hotel Joseph Hewes, the American Legion Auxil iary .will hereafter have the monthly meetings in the Red Men hall. Per mission was granted for this purpose by Members of Chowan Tribe at Mon day night’s meeting. The Legion Post also meets in the Red Men’s hall. MERCHANTS SELLING UNFORTIFIED WINE UNDER FIRE AT TOWN COUNOL MEETING Growing Nuisance and Menace Reported at Tues day Night’s Meeting; Special Session Will Be Called to Take Definite Action Edenton. merchants who sell un fortified, wine were under fire for over a two-hour period Tuesday night at the meeting of Town Coun cil, and 'based on reports of drunk enness, rowdyism, and general law lessness, drastic measures are now in the making to curb what was termed an ever-growing nuisance and menace to the community. At ast month's meeting of Town Counci thumbs were turned down on a proposition to forbid the sale of beer and wine from 11 o’clock Satur day night until 7 o’clock Monday morning, but complaints were regis tered at Tuesday night’s meeting which, if true, have developed into a nuisance of the first order and unless curbed at once, will very likely de velop into very serious proportions. Former Mayor J. L. Wiggins ap peared before the Board to register a vigorous complaint. He said he was interested from three, stand points: the industrial viewpoint at a time when manpower, as the result of the war effort, is at a premium; the humanitarian angle, and in the interest of war defense measures. 1 Mr. Wiggins told the CouncUmen that his veneer mill is working on war orders and that frequently his work is held up due to colored Albemarle District | Court Os Honor In Hertford On Friday Edenton Troop Will Play Important Part On Program EXPECT BIG CROWD Sixty-one Merit Badges Will Go to Edenton Boy Scouts Boy Scouts and friends from Eden tata, Elizabeth City, Hertford, Mam teo, Gatesville, Sunbury and South Mills will meet in the Court House in Hertford Friday evening at 8 o’clock, when the Albemarle District •Court of Honor will be held. Special invitations have been ex tended to Travis Thompson, Scout executive of Norfolk, Va., and to of ficials of Tidewater Council to be preseat at the meeting. Donald King, Scout executive for the Albemarle troops, will be on hand and it is ex pected many parents of the Scouts and other friends will also attend. Edenton’s Scouts will play an im portant part in the program, when a total of 61 merit badges will be awarded to first-class Scouts. Three members of the troop will be promoted to Life Scouts, these be ing Lester Stewart, Gordon Huffines and Lloyd Griffin. Three boys, J. Clarence Leary, Jr., Mike Harris and Fletcher Harris, will go up as Star Scouts. Gurney Hobhs and William Leary will be advanced as First Class iScouts, while John Thigpen and. Er nest Stillman will go up as Second Class Scouts. Three boys will be promoted to Tenderfoot Scouts, these being Clifford Batten, Jimmy Cates, Bobby Byrum and George Habit. West Byrum will be awarded nine ; merit badges and though he is quali fied in that respect, he lackis the re ' quired amount of service and there fore will not be advanced to Star 1 Scout until the next Court of Honor. Henry Gardner, an Eagle Scout, i ■will also be awarded another merit badge to add to his long list of badges. Draft Board Receives Call For 35 Negroes Chowan County’s Draft P.oard, th : s week, received a call for 35 more colored selectees to be sent to Fort; ' Bragg for induction into the U. S. Army. The group is scheduled to leave Edenton Tuesday, July 7. Up to Wednesday morning no call has been received for white, men during July, but a call is expected. Rev. D. C. Crawford Speaker For Rotary At today’s meeting of the Edenton Rotary Club the .principal speaker will be the Rev. D. C. Crawford, Jr., new pastor of the Presbyterian Church. All members of the club are urgently requested to be present. ployees (being unable to perform their regular duties, some of whom admitted to Mr. Wiggins that it was due to drinking unfortified wine pur chased over the week-end. Mr. Wiggins said that the beverage is cheap and therefore is consumed freely and that it has a tendency to make a man more crazy than drunk when imbibing too freely. He plead ed with the Councilmen to enact an ordinance forbidding the sale of the wine from Saturday night until Mon day morning, or even observing the isame hours as the ABC store. In this connection he said it would be far better for the ABC store to re main onen and sell pure wine than to allow the sale of a concoction which has more the effect of dope or poison in {daces which have no regard for the rights of others. Mr. Wiggins placed before the Council two bottles of unfortified wine which he argued could not be manufactured at the price charged and be pure wine, claiming that the contents had a deadening effect even the next morning after being intoxi cated. On tihe strength of his argu ment, the contents of one of the bot tles were sent to Raleigh to be ana lyzed as to its ingredients. (Continued on Page Six) Registration June 15-16 T o Secure Sugar Certificate For Use In Canning Fruit | Paper Licenses | With war conditions having a vital effect on metals,. Town Councilmen on Tuesday night de cided to adopt paper stickers for use as Town automobile licenses for inext year. Toiwn Clerk R. E. Leary was notified by the con cern where metal tags have been previously purchased that the same size metal tags could not be furnished and that only a limited size tag could be made to cover the date of the year for which the license is issued. Mr. Leary was instructed to order paper stickers about two inches square, which will be past led on the windshield next year instead of a metal tag fastened to the State license. Due to tire and gasoline rationing, fewer au tomobiles are expected to be roll ing and Mr. Leary wil order only 450 of the stickers instead of 500 licenses as heretofore. Sidewalks Assured For Mill Village By Town Councilmen Cotton Mill and Town Will Share Equally In Expense After efforts extending over a per iod of several years and patiently waiitinig, officials of the Edenton Cotton Mill were successful Tuesday night in getting Town Council to agree to construct cement sidewalks on every street in the cotton mill village. Time and time again, repre sentatives of the cotton mill have appeared before Town Council asking for relief in a section which, they said, compares very unfavorably with other cotton mill villages in the State, and until Tuesday night, only temporary relief has been the out come. However, several months ago, a . WPA project was made up and sent j in which included not only sidewalks, ' but hard surfacing the streets, but due to present conditions it is un certain if the appropriation will be approved, and even if it is approved, there is no certainty as to when the work can be done. J. A. Moore and J. W. Cates were present at the meeting Tuesday night and informed the Board that the cotton mill will pay half of the sidewalk cost provided the Town will, pay the other half. The Councilmen readily agreed to the proposition, which is only following out the ar rangement for paving sidewalks when a majority of property holders in any certain area present a petition. The Town’s share of the expense will be taken from an appropriation set up in the last budget for the WPA pro ject. The sidewalks will be four feet wide and a depth of four inches, it being estimated that the amount of sidewalks will total something like 2,500 yard.s. The work will not be done by the Street Department, and because of that fact, bids by contractors will have to be submitted to Town Clerk R. E. Leary. For that reason, actual work on the paving project will not get under way for 30 days in order to be legally advertised. Advertise ments for bids will appear in The Herald next week, the proper form being prepared by Town Attorney William Privott. Only Half Os Quota Raised In Joint Drive Contributions to the joint drive to raise $1,600 for the UISO, Navy Re lief and Chinese Relief are not com ing up to expectations, the report on Wednesday being that only about half of she amount has been raised. Solicitations will continue, however, in the hope that the quota will be reached so that each branch will re ceive the amount Chowan County has been asked to raise. J. L. PETTUS HOME J. L Jettus, who has been con fined in the General Hospital in Norfolk, Va., for the past month, has recovered sufficiently to return to his home. He arrived home Tuesday, and while gradually recuperating, is very weak. This newspaper is dree* feted in the terrikwu whore Advertisers WM realise good results. $1.50 Per Year. Community House and Edenton School Places To Register 9 A. M."TO 5 P. M. Group of Volunteers to Be Called Into Service As Registrars « Because of need of sugar for pur poses of home canning, it is expected that about 1,100 Chowan people will be obliged to register in order to secure a sugar purchase certificate to buy enough sugar for their needs. The date of the registration will be Monday and Tuesday, June 15 and 16, with the registration being held under the supervision of W. J. Taylor, sugar administrator for Chowan County. Mr. Taylor has designated two registration centers for both white and colored, one at the Community Building at Cross Roads, the other at the Ed.enton High School. Appli cation® for sugar must be made on either of the two days between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m., War Time. To register this number of appli | cants will consume a considerable (amount of time and because most of the school teachers, who worked so faithfully in the first sugar regis tration, are now away other volun teers have been solicited to assist in this work. These volunteers will be called together Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock, when the application forms will be thoroughly explained. This registration will be only for those who do home canning and pre serving, and does not include sugar for pickling purposes. No sugar will be allowed for pickling, but may be secured at a later date. Basis for allotment of sugar for canning and preserving will be one pound for each person per year ror preserving and one pound per every four quarts of canned fruit. The head of each familv should register for each member of the fam ily unit and he or she must bring the War Rationing Book of each member of the family, since the serial num bers of each book must be listed. At the registration on June 15 and 116 no certificates for sugar purchases ! will be issued, the person represent ing the family unit bein'' obliged to appear before the local War Ration Board on or after June 16, when the certificates will be issued. The reg istration is for the purpose of as sembling all information necessary so as to enable the War Ration Beard to more quickly pass upon the appli cations presented. Questions which registrants will ask of applicants will include: 1. Number of pounds of sugar for which application is made. 2. Number of pounds now owned by person for whom sugar is re quested. 3. Number quarts of fruit canned last year. 4. Number quarts of fruit in pos session now. 5. Number quarts of fruit you de sire to can between June and October 15. (Continued on Page Six) Mrs. Pratt Elected Auxiliary President Two Girls~Will Be Sent To Girls State In Greensboro At the meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary held Friday night new officers for the year were elect ed. Mrs. Robert L. Pratt was elect ed president, succeeding Mrs. Edna White, while Mrs. O. B. Perry was elected vice president; Mrs. J. W. White, secretary and treasurer; Mrs. Thomas J. Wood, historian, and Mrs. L. S. Byrum, isergeant-at-arms. Delegates to the State convention will be Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Edna White and Mrs. D. M. Reaves. Alternates are Mrs. Richard D. Dixon, Mrs. J. L. Chestnutt and Mrs. W. W. Byrum. During the meeting, which was largely attended, reports for the year’s work were presented, which reflected a healthy condition of the organization. It was also decided to send two • Edenton girls to Girls’ Stats in , Greensboro, this summer, the two i voung ladies being Misses Cwolyn McMullan and Annie Ruth Whits.