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The Chowan Herald
Published every Thursday by The Chowan
* Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin
Buffiap and Hector Lupton, at 423-425 South
Broad Street, Edenton, N. C.
J. EDWIN BUFFLAP Editor
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1942
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
MAKE INTELLIGENT USE OF THE LAW OF
LIFE- The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the
soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the
simple. —Psalms 19:7.
An Object Lesson
Despite the complete success of Monday night’s black
out, it was an unpleasant incident that an arrest was
necessary for utter violation of black-out regulations.
This violator was a Negro truck driver on his way from
the peach-growing section of the State to Elizaoeth
City, who disregarded signals to stop his truck at the
Bridge Inn Service Station and, police say, reluctantly
stopped when he was ordered to do so near .the city
limits.
In connection with the black-out a number of would
be accidents were injected into the test, resulting in a
sense of realism of what may be confronted in event
of an actual raid, but the case of the Negro truck driver
was not a part of the pre-arranged program.
Black-out regulations require drivers of vehicles to
stop when signalled and when within hearing distance
of the alarm they are required to park and turn off all
lights. Then just as important is the requirement to
extinguish all lights in buildings which can be seen
from the outside. No violation of this regulation was
reported during the black-out, however.
The arrest of the truck driver was an unpleasant
phase of the black-out, but should stand out in bold
relief as an example to others who may have a warpeo
opinion that these tests are unnecessary and are more
or less of a nuisance, and for that reason have a feel
ing of reluctancy in complying with the regulations.
Violation of any black-out regulations will be similarly
treated.
We are at war and there are many things which may
cause us inconveniences and even hardships, but what
ever they may be, they have come about primarily for
our protection and a supreme effort to perpetuate our
freedom. Isn’t it a thousand times better to be incon
venienced and undergo temporary hardships than to
look forward to be under the yoke of a gang of ruth
less and cut-throat dictators who would, without doubt, ,
reduce us to little raoje than slaves?
It is not a time to do a lot of belly-aching, but rather
to grit our teeth, and be ready and willing to do any
thing toward the ultimate victory.
A Wise Choice
In the opinion of The Herald, it was a wise choice
last week for directors of the Chamber of Commerce
and Merchants Association to elect J. G. Campen as
president of the Chowan Chamber of Commerce and
Edenton Merchants Association, a new organijation re
sulting from the consolidation of the two old groups.
Mr. Campen is not at all unfamiliar with the activi
ties of both organizations. He has been a member and
has taken an active part in Chamber of Commerce af
fairs Since it was organized some 20 years ago. It was
he, too, who was the prime mover in the organization
of a Merchants Association and he served as president
during the stormy period of organization and continued
as president until it was on a sound working basis.
The new president is one of those sort of persons
who, when a task has been assigned to him, puts forth
every effort possible to bring about success. He has
time and again demonstrated this fact, for times with
out number he has been called upon to participate in
undertakings of a civic nature, and never has he been
lacking in interest and effort in any movement witn
which he was connected. So enthused has he become
at times that even his own business has been neglected
in the interest of the particular job in hand.
He is vitally interested in the welfare and growth of
Edenton, and can be depended upon to go the limit in
his new- jipsition. He is energetic and persistent, two
of the principal qualifications of a president of the sort
of groups he represents.
Mr. Campen did not seek the appointment, for several
names preceded his, but for one reason or another none
of those selected could serve. The fact of the matter is
that Mr. Campen also intended to decline the office, but
when several refused, he decided that somebody must
shoulder the responsibility and rather than see the
organization drag along without a president he decided
to accept the presidency.
He went into harness immediately and appointed a
finance committee and a by-laws committee, with in
structions to be in readiness to present their recommen
dations at a membership meeting to be held tonight
(Thursday) in the Court House.
Mr. Campen feels that it is no more his duty than
any other person to develop a strong organization
working for the welfare of Edenton, and for that reason
he, as well as all of the officers, urge every merchant
and business man to attend tonight’s meeting.
Edenton now, more than ever, needs a strong and in
fluential organization to further the interests of the
town. It is not a job for one, two or a few, but if the
proper cooperation is offered by the business people
as a whole, the load will be light and the town can be
expected to continue to go forward instead of taking a
back seat in this day of rapid progress.
For that reason The Herald, too, urges every person
who has the best interest of Edenton at heart to be pres
ent at tonight’s meeting. Your presence will, at least,
be an inspiration to the new officers as well as an in
centive for them to go forward in a year’s work wnich
should outdo any previous year’s efforts.
THE CHOWAN HERALD EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1942
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Following a rain and wind storm .Sunday night, the
temperature hereabouts took a sudden drop, and so tar
this week, it was not unusual to see folks wearing Posts.
In fact those parading the streets in their shirt sleeves
early morning were rambling along with their hands
jammed in their pants pockets and stepping up tfteir
pace a little more than during the hot spell hanging
aver us for some time. With September here and chilly
mornings on deck, what can be better than a cup of hoi
coffee and a pile of hot cakes before getting off to work?
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Isn’t it strange how much trouble just one little fig
ure can make? For instance, in a story last week
relative to Captain Dick Hall being honored at the State
Firemen’s Convention, this appeared in print: “Work
ing up through the ranks, he succeeded Frank Tuttle
as fire chief in 1941.” Shucks, that would not be much
of a record, but the trouble is that an error was made
and the figure “4” appeared where the figure “2"
should have been. Captain Dick was made fire chief in
1921 and not 1941, which correction is made to save
Chief Hall any further explanation to a gang of his
friends who called his attention to the wrong date.
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As before stated, this portion of The Heraid is not a
Want Ad column, but doggone it all, I lost one of my
best fishing poles ’tother day while driving West on
Church Street to Granville and South on Granville
Street to the ice plant. Os course, bamboo just now is
a lot harder to get than money is for some people, so 1
have little hope of getting the thing back. Anyhow, if
the guy who picked it up returns it, I’ll give him the
first fish- I catch with it, and if he doesn’t return it, 1
hope he doesn’t catch a gol-darned fish with the pole.
With black-outs coming into vogue, maybe preachers
had better start to memorizing their sermons instead of
reading them, for an air raid alarm might just as likely
as not be sounded on a Sunday night. It so happened
Monday night that revival services were in progress in
the Center Hill Baptist Church when the black-out was
called. But despite the fact that the church was sud
denly blacked-out, the preacher continued his sermon
just as though all the lights were turned on, and the ser
viec went on uninterrupted. It would have been a bad fix
for a preacher who depended upon reading what he had
to say. But then, there’s one consolation, for it would
have been easy for some bird to take a snooze un
noticed—that is, unless he went to snoring.
White perch, and plenty of big ones at that, have been
furnishing splendid sport lately for some local fisher
men in the Albemarle Sound almost within shouting
distance from Edenton—that is, if you happen to run in
to their favorite hanging-out places. The latter re
mark was reason for a suggestion on the part of one of
these birds who think the gang who go fishing so much
are a bunch of nuts. The suggesion was to safely hook
a perch in the back upon its. being caught, with a cork
>n the other end of the string and by this method one
.ould determine where the scudder goes to get up wltn
lis partners. But the guy making the suggestion
didn’t know that those white perch are scrappy little
devils and that they can travel pretty darned fast when
they decide to, and that the boys go out to fish and not
for p boat ride. At any rate, Edenton Bay of late has
taken on somewhat the appearance of Ocean View', for
at times there have been as many as a dozen boats
parked about the fishing grounds—the first year hook
and line fishermen have “invaded” this section of the
Sound. Why even Joe Conger is a “regular customer”
of late in his high-falutin’ yacht. Joe, by the way, is
having a hard time finding the scudders and w*ien he
listens to reports of anywhere from 100 to 200 being
caught, he just doesn’t say so, but his facial expression
leads one to believe that he wants to say “You’re a
darned liar.” Maybe the bloomin’ fish scamper away
whcln they see his nice boat and figure they’ve got a i
better chance hanging around these little old skiffs !
which are just about able to negotiate the waves wnen j
the water gets a bit rough. Anyway, fishing has been!
so good that several of the boys have been able to pick i
up a little extra change by taking out some of the air .
station workers at the rate of 50 cents per hour —and
some of ’em have had a real treat by making splendid j
catches.
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This paragraph is primarily to keep my neighbor j
newspaper friends straight, some of whom think I’ve j
gone high hat due to an abundance of job printing for ]
the Marine Corps Air Station. Tis true that some j
folks in Edenton have as much and more business than
they can handle, brought about by the government’s
project here, but not so with The Herald. Tis true,
too, that there’s been a whale of a lot of printing done
to date, but the lion’s share of this work has been done
by outside printers. Not that The Herald isn’t equipped
and able to do this printing but maybe we just don’t
know the ropes to get it. At any rate, profits from
printing for the Air Station dome by The Herald so far
would scarcely buy a round or two of cheese sand
wiches for The Herald crew. Surely, it wouldn’t be
enough to buy a sufficient quantity of corned beef,
crackers and a bottle or two of pop for the fishing trips
I’ve taken when I could have been working on job
printing—if we had it.
Maybe the Bank of Edenton's decision to open its
doors Wednesday nights knocked into a cocked hat the
development of a new business jin Edenton, for the way
I get it, some bird had just about decided to cash checks
for the air station workers, charging 10 cents for each
check cashed. Wednesday is pay-day for employees at
the air station, but they do not quit work until 5 o’clock,
so that the bank decided to add this extra service of
opening Wednesday nights for the purpose of cashing
checks. Note—There’s no use chasing to the bank on
Wednesday night to hit ’em up for a loan, or to give a
hard-luck story for not paying off a note, for the only
thing they intend to do is cash checks for those working
in one way or another on the air station.
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“Be sure you know what you’re talking about,” said
a local renter of apartments Wednesday morning,
“when you comment about unfair rental practices.” It
so happened that this particular party ordered tenants
to vacate solely on the grounds of drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct, and that the tenants concerned had
spread the rumor that they were obliged to move be*
cause the rent had been boosted. As a matter of fact,
the rent remains the same and but for their improper
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conduct the same parties could have
remained. This paragraph is, there
fore, inserted to show that there are
two sides to this rent proposition.
The writer has it on good authority
that there have been cases of plain,
unadulterated profiteering on rental
of living quarters, and it is also
realized that there are those coming
to town who expect too much for too
little. At any rate, those who rent
all or part of their homes, and even
inconvenience themselves in order to
cooperate in the housing emergency,
are entitled to a decent and peaceful
home and proper care of their prop
erty. Any newcomers who disregard
these Tights have no reason to com
plain at any amount of rent charged
or other means resorted to in order
to get them out.
Just how it came about is not
known at this writing, but Charlie
McCullers is in Duke Hospital nurs
ing several broken ribs. He was
transferred from Fort Bragg to Camp
Butner, where the accident occurred.
Gosh, is that what happens when
getting tough for army duty?
Air Warning Corps
Urged To Continue
Spotting Airplanes
Ground Observer Group
Vital to Safety of
United States
Brigadier General John K. Cannon,
Commanding the First Fighter Com
mand has stressed the necessity c or
Ground Observers along the Eastern
Seaboard to continue their vital work
j of spotting planes, despite hardships
' that may occur as the result of the
i present gasoline rationing.
| “The work of the Ground Observer
; Corps is a vital and neressary one to
the safety of the United States.
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Volunteers in this service may be
called upon to endure increasing
hardships during the coming months,
but it is only as the result of their
untiring efforts and complete loyalty
to their work that the Eastern Shores
of this country may be safely pro
tected.”
In connection with his call for
continued service, General Cannon
issued the following statement: “Be
fore the present gasoline regulations
were promulgated by O. P. A., this
Command was fully aware that the
Ground Observers would be affected
in some degree. The matter was
therefore taken up with O. P. A. by
the Army Air Forces *in Washing
ton, D. C.
“As the result of this action,
Ground Observers were specifically
included in the published rationing
guide, describing that mileage which
should be considered by Rationing
Boards as ‘occupational’ in character.
As the result, the duties of the
Ground Observer are specifically
designated as ‘occupational mileage,’
and the Ground Observer has been
placed in the same preferred position
as workers in war industries and vol
unteer groups engaged in essential
war work.
“This means that if the occupa
tional mileage of a Ground Observer
does not exceed 150 miles per month,
the Observer mugt use a portion o£
his basic allotment of gasoline to
perform his duties in the Ground Ob
server Corps before he is entitled to
receive extra gasoline. *
“If his occupational mileage is
greater than 150 miles, or if his oc
cupational mileage plus the mileage
required to go to his Observation
Post is greater than 150 miles per
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At Edenton School
John A. Holmes, superintendent of jj
Edenton schools, on Wednesday a«Nj|
cured a commercial teacher to sucll
ceed Miss Hazel Robinson, whoa
taught the past two years and will!
not return due to being married next,'
Monday, August 31.
Miss Robinson’s successor will Ibe
Miss Lois Turnbull, of Greenville,’S.
C. She has for the past eight years \
taught a similar subject in the Tren
ton, N. C., high school, and will be
ready for her new duties when school
opens Wednesday, September 9th:
month, then the Ohserver is entitled
to receive additional allotments of
gasoline to provide for the mileage
over 150 miles which he must drive
to perform his duties as a Ground
Observer.
“It is expected by this Command
that the Ground Observers will con
sider their problem in the light of
the foregoing and if they do not
drive 150 miles for their occupation,
they will be willing to use such part
of their basic allotment as may be
necessary to perform their duties in
manning the Observation Posts
throughout the weeks and months to
come.”
Chief Observers in this area who
desire further information relating
\ to this matter, should contact Car
roll E. Kramer, District Civil Direc
; tor, AWS, Edenton, N. C.
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