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The Chowan Herald
Published every Thursday by The Chowan
Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin
Bufflap and Hector Lupton, at 423-425 South
Broad Street, Edenton, N. C.
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‘ THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1943
BLBLE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
WE MAY WIPE THE SLATE AND START ANEW:
And that repentance and remission of sins should be
preached in His name among all nations. —Luke 24:47.
Not So Encouraging
On the face of Treasurer M. F. Bond’s report early
this week, Chowan County has not reached the half-way
mark in the all important Red Cross war fund drive in
which the county’s quota is $4,200. Up to Tuesday
only $1,930.19 had been turned over to Mr. Bond. With
this amount including contributions from industrial
concerns and employees at the U. S. Marine Crps Air
Station, where the contribution was expected to be
several times the amount of $354.57 received by Mrs.
Zebulon C. Hopkins, canvasser, prospects of reaching
the quota is anything but encouraging.
Os course, this week’s report is far from being com
plete, buit if the county is to maintain its past record
in meeting Red Cross quotas, there will have to be
larger contributions than merely passing out a dollar
bill. In peace time the average roll call membership
was one dollar, but such contributions this year will not
carry the county over the top. It will be necessary to
double, and even more increase the usual contribution.
Another discomforting phase of this year’s drive is
the fact that some canvassers have deposited their col
lection in the Bank of Edenton instead of turning over
to Treasurer Bond the amount collected as well as the
names of those who contributed. Mr. Bond is very
exact and capable in maintaining records, but unless
the reports are received by him directly, the whole af
fair becomes complicated and a jumbled up mess, so
that it is very difficult for him to keep an accurate re
cord of the amount collected, as well as give proper
recognition of those who made contributions.
Mr. Bond’s report of $1,930.19 represents what was
actually turned over to him, and not any amounts which
may have been deposited in the bank or turned over to
anyone connected with the drive. It is, therefore, urged
that any canvasser who has a report to make sees to
it that the information is received by Mr. Bond as soon
as possible.
Chowan’s goal appears large, but compared with the
needs of the Red Cross in the midst of a terrible war,
the quota is a modest sum to ask from a county which
has furnished in the neighborhood of 1,000 boys, any ,
one of whom is likely to need the services rendered by
the greatest mother on earth.
If you have not yet made a contribution, do so at
once. If you have just handed a canvasser a dollar bill
to get rid of her, consider the matter seriously and in
crease the amount. Let not old Chowan fail when com
munities all around are rallying to the cause and over
subscribing their quotas at a time when the Red Cross
needs funds to releive untold suffering and saving lives
of our precious boys.
Well Said
That realization of the value of Julien Wood, who
died last week, to Edenton is not confined to his home
town, and county is reflected .in newspaper editorial ‘
comment since his death. Even in the neighboring
State, of Virginia his sterling qualities were recognized
and The Herald takes pleasure in reproducing an edi
torial appearing in the Virginian Pilot:
“Os Julien Wood, of Edenton, who has died at
the age of 79, it is written that he was one of
the founders 'of the Bank of . Edenton and had
been its president since 1894, which means 49
years; that he helped organize the Edenton
Cotton Mills; that he had been a leader in pea
nut development; that he was for many years
chairman of the Board of County Commission
ers; and that during the Ehringhaus adminis
tration he was a member of the State Highway
Commission.
“Something of the man shines through these
succinct items in a news story, but not all. For
though they suggest responsibilities assumed
and activities engaged in, to a greater extent
than in the lives of most men, they do no more
than hint at the long and rounded career of this
elder statesman of business and civic affairs in
Edenton and throughout much of Northeastern
North Carolina.
“Mr. Wood was a good citizen in a broad
sense of the word. To the old community in
which he lived he had long since come to rep
resent a source of strength, of reliability, of
quiet and effective influence, and of innate per
sonal dignity. His loss will be felt most of all
there, and it is a deep one. But it is also a
loss that extends over much of his own State
and in this section of Tidewater Virginia which
knew of his fine character and fine leadership
and joins with its neighbor in paying tribute to
a life of great usefulness.”
Job Not Done
It is gratifying to realize that the USO has agreed to
establish a service men’s club in Edenton, and that a
lease has been executed for a portion of the first floor
of Hotel Joseph Hewes for the purpose. It would be
very hard to find a more convenient site for this crab,
which materialized after no little consideration and ef
fort on the part of those interested in the welfare of
service men with time on their hands while in the
community.
However, the fact that the club is now a certainty
does not release the responsibility of Edenton’s citizens
in helping to operate the club. True, Abe Martin has
been appointed as director, but he is in large measure
dependent upon local support to make a success of the
venture.
A board of management must be appointed from local
people and hostess groups must also be willing to serve
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. 0., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1943
Heard and seem
■■■■- By “BUFF” .
Judge Richard Dillard Dixon is a well-read man am,
has been having little trouble in conducting Superior
Court all over the State since his appointment, but he
struck a snag last week in Charlotte. A mild sensation
was caused when Judge Dixon called a halt in the pro
ceedings until he could understand just what a colored
woman was talking about when she referred to a
chittlin’ strut at her home. The colored woman ex
plained to the judge that a chittlin’ strut is sort of a
party at which the main entertainment is eating chit
tlin’s. The guests also play cards, she said, dance and
otherwise amuse themselves. However, at this parti
cular chittlin’ strut the entertainment included a knife
fight, flying beer bottles and finally the reek of gun
powder as the colored woman pulled her trusty smoke
pole on a colored man and shot him in the leg. as the
result of the case Judge Dixon has added two more
words “chittlin’ strut,” to his vocabulary, so that
in the future he’ll understand what might be expecteo
to develop at a chittlin’ strut. The “main entertain
ment” counts me out of attending any of these affairs.
But then, with meat rationed (are chitterlings meat?)
who in the dickens can predict what a fellow is liable .
to eat before this mess is over? Signs of weaken
ing, eh?
o
Walter Wilkins and Mrs. Wilkins this week are just j
about two of the happiest people in Edenton, all of
which came about when their son, Lieut, (jg) Louis
George, arrived home after chasing around all over the
globe. It’s been a long time since he was home and
letters, at times, were too far apart to be comfortable,
so that his visit apparently has made Mrs. Wilkins
several years younger and Walter —well, he’s even for
getting to go fishing.
o
High school students are now undertaking a rather j
unique method of selling war stamps and bonds. If
they sell S9OO worth within the next two weeks they
will have secured enough to pay for a jeep and will,
therefore, be issued a jeep certificate. The student
council decided to inaugurate the plan and students will
greatly appreciate any of their friends buying front
them a bond or stamps.
o— ——
With the town election only a little over a month in
the offing, Tuesday, May 4, to be exact, there has been
no ripple in the political waters as to who will seek any
of the town’s elective offices. Town Council will, at
its meeting bn April 12, order the election and set a
deadline for prospective candidates to file their candi
dacy. There has been no mention made on the part of
present officials as to their intention to seek re-elec
tion, but the guess here is that all of them will agree,
to again be candidates. Os course, Jordan Yates, who
moved his residence from the Second Ward, will not be
eligible for re-election to represent the ward, so that
if he enters the primary he will be obliged to run for
Councilman of the First Ward, now represented by J.
Clarence Leary, or Councilman-at-Large. And of
course, the Mayor’s job is wide open if anyone wants to
run for it. Anyway, with a war on our hands and
everybody as busy as can be, the prospect is that very
i little interest will be aroused in the forthcoming elec
tion. Besides, it would be hard on candidates, for it’s
mighty hard these days to get a good nickle cigar.
o
Willie Monds, up-county boy, had a narrow escape
last week when a ,45 bullet was accidentally shot
through a deck on a boat on which he was working.
The bullet narrowly missed him and he says “that was
good square inch of cement I was standing on at
the time.”
o
In case you didn’t know it, Sunday was the first day
of Spring. Nope, the weather wasn’t any indication of
Spring, nor has it been since, but just the same, it’s so
listed on the calendar, and that’s that.
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,i ’ • • , •' • •
The Herald has made an effort to publish the lists j
of boys previously called up for final physical examina- j
tion for military service, and it’s been good reading.
However, the list published today of the boys who left
Tuesday will be the last unless Selective Service offi
cials again change their minds. The local Draft Board,
this week, received orders to withhold the names here
after of those called to go to Fort Bragg, but is per
mitted to subsequently release the names of those who
are accepted. What thehell is the difference, but then,
orders are orders.
o
Collection of tin cans in Edenton last Friday picked
up quite a bit over the previous collection, but it will
take a dickens of a long time to gather enough to make
a carload at the present rate. There are still a few
people who put cans out and on the pile on the town lot
without removing the paper and cleaning them. These i
sort of cans are not worth a tinker’s dam, so those
who continue to put such cans on the pile, please keep
’em at home for the usual trash collection. It isn’t
much trouble to properly prepare the cans at home,
but it would be a dickens of a job to prepare all of the
cans if the town crew had to do it.
o
) Sunday was a good day for church members- —to stay
at home. A cold rain fell the entire day, and if noth
ing else, it provided a good excuse for not going to i
church. But had the day been perfect, there would have
been excuses just the same for those who rarely fre
quent church or Sunday School.
o
The W. D. Holmes Wholesale Grocery Company is
now in the midst of moving to their new home, the
former Chas. H. Jenkins Motor Co. Here’s one who
envies not in the least their job, for it’s only been about
three years ago that The Herald was doing the same
thing—and what a job.
o
Chowan County’s Red Cross War Fund Drive doesn’t
look so hot, if we are to raise the quota. How about it,
folks, will we let the Red Cross down? Let’s hear you
say “No.”.
in helping to entertain the service men. There will be
other duties to be shouldered locally, so that it is very
necessary for every member of the Rev. W. C. Benson's
Service Men’s Recreation Committee to be present at a
meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the Municipal Building
when Mr. Martin’s plans and requirements Will be set
forth.
Simplicity Keynote
Os Ration Program
Says Albert Byrum
i
New System Allows To
tal 80 Points Per Per
son Monthly
“Simplicity is the keynote of the
new meats and fats rationing pro
gram just announced by the Office of
Price Administration,” Albert G. By
rum, chairman of the Chowan County
War Price and Rationing Board, says.
Housewives will have no difficulty
at all in shopping with their red
stamps in War Ration Book Two
when the new program goes into es- ,
feet next Monday, he pointed out.
Although the ration list includes a
wide variety of foods—all meats and
many cheeses, as well as shortenings ,
and salad oil, butter and margarine,
l canned fish and many other items —
from the point of view of the house- j
wife who does the shopping, it really j
will be a simple matter.
| All these foods will be rationed
1 with a single set of stamps, Mr.
Byrum pointed out.
And the busy housewife will have
to consult only one table of values to
find out how many ration points any
of these foods will cost.
The latest program requires no
registration of any kind, added Mr.
Byrum.
“War Ration Books Two are al
! ready distributed—and when the
I program goes into effect on March I
29, housewives already will have had 1 ’
a month’s experience in the use of
the point ration books in buying pro
cessed foods,” Mr. Byrum said.
Neither will consumers be asked to
report any stocks of foods they may
have on hand.
One of the few differences between
the use of the blue and the red
stamps in War Ration Book Two, is '
the order in which stamps will be
declared valid.
When rationing begins the first
set of stamps, marked “A,” worth ,
16 points, will be valid. Beginning
April 4, an additional set of stamp?
will be validated. All these stamps,
from “A” through “E” inclusive
will remain in use all month—mak
ing a total of 80 points per person
for April.
Many farmers—even those who
operate on a very small scale—pro
duce some of the foods included in
the new ration program for the use I
of their families, Mr. Byrum point-1
ed out. Although the new plan 1
places no official restrictions on the
use of any of these foods at the
farmer’s own table, the government
is requesting that farm families re
tain red stamps in their family ra
tion books in an amount equal to the
value of the foods produced and eat-j (
en at home. ]
A farmer who slaughters a pig he j;
raised for the use of his family, for
example, is asked to set aside red
stamps equal in point value to the
number of points he would have to
surrender if he bought the equivalent
amount of pork and pork products at
the store. Similarly, if he makes
butter for the use of his family, he is
requested to keep in his book—and
not otherwise use —the number of red!
i stamps he would need to buy the
same amount of butter,
j When a farmer sells any of these,
home-produced foods, he must col
lect ration stamps from his custom
ers—even if they are relatives or
neighbors—on the basis of official
point prices and turn these stamps
in to the Office of Price Administra
tion.
“Farmers in Chowan County,” said
Mr. Byrum, “will be instructed later
on just when and how to turn in
these stamps.” ,
Shoe Dealers Must
Report Inventories
Sales Prohibited After
April 17 Unless Lists
Are Filed
According to orders from the Of
fice of Price Administration, the
I Chowan War Price and Ration Board
desires to call to the attention of
every shoe dealer that during the
week of April 5 he must apply to his
bank for copies of Form R-1701,
which is a shoe inventory blank and
instructions for its use.
An inventory must be taken as of
the close of business on April 10, and
the completed form must be filed at
the bank during the following week.
No dealer may buy or sell rationed
footwear after April 17, unless the
inventory is so filed.
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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Chamblee, of
Nashville, N. C., formerly of Wind
sor, N. C., announce the birth of a
son, Van Thomas, on March 20. The
youngster weighed 9 pounds, 4%
ounces. Dr. Chamblee recently re
signed as Health Officer for the Ber
tie-Chowan-Gates District Health
Department. He holds the same title
in Nash County.
Two Chowan Girls
Get Essential Jobs
By NYA Training
War production training projects
of the National Youth Administra
tion, War Manpower Commission, in
North Carolina placed two girls from
Chowan County in employment in in
dustries holding essential war con
tracts during the first six months of
the current fiscal year, Deputy Re
gional Administrator Warren T.
Davis, Jr., has announced.
The two placed in employment
through NYA training were Agnes
Harris and Alene Dale.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Campen an
nounce the birth of a son, Joseph
Webb Campen, on Wednesday, March
17th, 1943.
Town Council
j Proceedings
Edenton, N. C., March 9, 1943.
The Town Council met this day
in the Town Office at 8 o’clock p. m.,
in regular monthly session. Present
were A. G. Byrum, mayor pro tern,
presiding; J. C. Leary, W. M. Wil
kins, D. Q. Holton, J. Edwin Bufflap
and W. J. Yates.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
On motion of J. Edwin Bufflap,
seconded by J. C. Leary, the E. & W.
Department bills, amounting to
$5,408.61, were ordered paid.
On motion of J. C. Leary, seconded
by J. Edwin Bufflap, the Town bills,
amounting to $753.50, are ordered
paid as follows:
I W. F. Pollard & Co. $ 6.87
Whirlwind Mower Corp.——. 4.37
American La France Foa
mite Corp. — T ---—__ 34.93
Bertie-Chowan Dis. Health
Department ___———— 45.75
Gulf Oil Corp. ’02.90
Edenton Laundry 4.00
M. G. Brown Co. 1.20
Hughes-Holton Hdwe. Co. 208.65
The Chowan Herald 9.30
Wood & Warren 240.49
Norfolk Southern Rwy. Co. 7.19
John P. Bembry 12.50
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There being no further businesH
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R. E. LEARY, Clerk. ■
E. & W. Department
Edenton, N. C., March 3, 194»
The Board of liiblic Works m«l
this day in the Town Office at fl
o’clock p. m., in regular monthll
session.
Present were W. W. Byrum, chairl
man, and O. B. Perry.
The following bills were examineJ
and approved for payment for tba
month of February, 1943:
Owen G. Dunn Co. $ 73.2 u
Pittsburgh Equitable Co. 13.01
Halsey Hardwood Co. 40.94
The Nolan Cb.--—•-- 8.40
Wallace & Tiernan Co. 3,375.00
Neptune Meter Co. 58.08
Tidewater Supply Co. 65.28
The Texas Co. 11.69
Graybar Electric Co. 13.88
Thurston Motor Lines 3.98
Byrum Hardware Co. __ 8.87
Hughes-Holton Hdwe. Co. __ 72.48
M. G. Brown Co. 10.40
W. D. Holmes Co. 7.13
F. W. Hobbs 15.00
Thomas Wood 7.50
Postmaster B.OO
Standard Oil Co. 29.54
The Chowan Herald 5.25
Railway Express Agency .50
C. S. Morgan —l-'--— 61.10
Virginia Electric Co. —— 1,514.94
N. C. Tel. & Tel. Co 14.44
$5,408.61
General Salaries paid for
month of February, 1943 _$ 988.76
$6,397.37
Amount of disbursements in
excess of receipts __— $ 779.55
Received from Collector for
Current and Merchandise $5,617.82
$6,397.37
Respectfully submitted,
R. E. LEARY, Clerk.
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