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Jb Mmi column* will be fosoad 4 fair presentation 4t M sod county news Os femoral interest. Volume X. —Number 33. Markham Explains lent Regulations • A Lions Meeting Goes Thoroughly Into Detail of Mechanics Os Order MISUNDERSTOOD Prime Purpose Is to Pre vent Inflation, Says Rent Director Thomas J. Markham, area rent director, was the principal speaker at the Lions Club meeting on Monday night and in quite a lengthy discourse explained the purpose and mechanics of rent regulations in defense areas, in which Chowan and Perquimans Counties have recently been placed. Accompanying'Mr. Markham was W. I C. Twiddy, also connected with the Elizazbeth City Defense Rental, Area. “Fixing of rents is a war ideas-j ure,” said Mr. Markham, “and goes as far back as 1915 when Great Bri tain started the movement. It was first enforced in this country in thej District of Columbia in 1919 and followed in a number of states. »ti was begun in Canada in 1940.” Mr. Markham stated that the prime purpose of rent regulation is to aid in curbing inflation, explaining that incomes of men in service can not meet high rents, and even if they can pay the rents asked in some in stances, it would necessarily lower! the standard of living. He argued,! too, that with high rents charged workers must necessarily ask forj higher wages to meet the bill. “War production is also affected by] unreasonable rents,” said Mr. Mark-j ham, “by reason of workers moving! to defense areas, but will not goj where the bulk of income goes forj rent. There is a great demand forj houses which has caused many morv' landlords and in some instances rents vve been increased several hundred! »' cent in the scramble to secure! mg quarters.” Markham cited one case where a house, before the war, rented forj $35 per month, and by taking ad-j vantage of the emergency, the same! house is bringing in $297.50 per; month. The example, he said, was! not in isolated places, but similar; cases prevail in many centers of war activity. “Rent control was adopted as a ( wartime emergency,” said the speak-j er, “and it is generally fair and; equitable. Rents are controlled only | in areas designated anr only after a thorough investigation has been analyzed and compiled.” He said all of the trouble is caused by competition on the part of in coming workers and service men’s families for accommodations. Mr. Markham said the first step is to register property, which is com pulsory. Everyone who rents prop erty must register, regardless as to whether he is the owner or not, so that tenants who sub-rent apartments or rooms must also register. He said the regulation is very much mis understood and while, as in all war measures, there necessarily will be some hardships experienced. The purpose is to not only protect tenants but those who are landlords as well, j He explained the various provisions of the regulation which allows an in- j crease in rent above that charged after March 1, 1942, as well as rea sons for ejectment of tenants, both 1 of which are very clearly defined. Concluding his address, Mr. Mark ham said: “This is an important war measure, and I ask the coopera tion of the members of this club, which represents Edenton’s leading citizens, to cooperate and help to ex- ‘ plain this widely misunderstood pro-1 gram.” Though Mr. Markham spoke be yond the usual hour for adjournment, at the close of his address a round table discussion developed during which many pertinent questions were asked by the Lions, which were ans wered by the speaker. J. R. Byrum was dressed in the cub uniform as the youngest member of the club, and was also, given a bottle of milk with a nipple. He wore the outfit, which will be his until a new member joins the club, but absolutely refused to drink the milk. Rev. D. C. Crawford At I Presbyterian Meeting: The Rev. D. C. Crawford, Jr., pas tor of the Presbyterian Church and chief observer, of the Edenton air warning service, left Monday for Montreat to attend the Presbyterian Home Mission Conference. He ex pects to be away a week. THE CHOWAN HERALD NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERJUTM OF CHOWAN COUNTY , GLOBAL WARFARE v A:., A- ' jd *-.■* —~~ --- A grim similarity in tactics is evident in these two pictures taken at opposite sides of the world. Left: A bamboo village on the outskirts of Chungking blazes after a bombing. Right: The invasion of Rotterdam. To help the victims of Axis aggression is a principal objective of the relief agencies in the National War Fund. | Want Fuel Oil? Choiwan County's War Price and Ration Board is urging all fuel oil consumers lo return to the Board for renewal of the ap- — plications sent about two months ago for fuel oil to be consumed j in 1943-44. If these applications are re newed. tanks may be filled now for the coming winter, while on the other hand if not renewed, there may be some difficulty in I securing oil. J. H. Haskett House Buildings Certificate ils Awarded Historic I ! Honor Bestowed at Re quest of Judge Rich ard I). Dixon Mayor Leroy Haskett has just re j ceived an historic American Build ! ings Survey Certificate for the j Haskett homestead on U. S. Route 17, I just a short distance from the city limits. The certificate was sent by Thos. C. Vint, chief landscape archi tect of the C. S. Department of the Interior, at the request of Judge Richard D. Dixon. The certificate, signed by Mr. Vint and Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the Navy, is as follows: “This is to certify that the his toric building known as the Haskett House in the County of Chowan and the State of NortTT Carolina, has been selected by the Historic Ameri can Buildings Survey as possessing exceptional historic, or architectural interest and as being worthy of most careful preservation for the benefit of future generations and that to j this end a record of its present ap pearance and condition has' been! I made and deposited for permanent re ference in the Library of Congress.” j Mayor Haskett plans to frame thej j certificate for the benefit of mem-' 1 bers of the Haskett family, after! which it will be placed in the build-j ing referred to. Two Edenton Boys At Great Lakes, 111. Two Edenton men have begun their basic training as Bluejackets in Uncle Sam’s Navy at the U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, 111. There they will receive several weeks of training stressing instruction in the fundamentals of seamanship and Naval customs and procedures, and participation in a vigorous physical hardening program. They will also be given a series of aptitude tests to determine the type of work to which each will be assign ed when completing training. De pending upon their respective scores in the tests they will be selected for special training in a Navy service school or sent to duty at sea or at a shore station. Immediately upon graduation from “boot training,” however, and before assuming any other duties, they each will be given a nine-day leave. The Edenton recruits are Simeon Jackson Phipps, Jr., 17, son of. Mrs. S. J. Phipps, 200 East Church Street, and Earl Matthews, 18, son ofcMrs. I Annie Stokes Matthews, Routed. Edenton. Chowan ( ounty. North Carolina. Thursday, August 19,1943. I. K CONGER APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF CHOWAN'S IINITEO WAR FUND DRIVE ■ Organization Effected at Meeting Held Tuesday Night In Court House; Goal For County Will Be Large, But Not Yet Designated J. H. Conger has been appointed chairman in Chowan County for the United War Fund, a drive which will be nation-wide in an effort to raise $125,000,000 for war relief in prac tically all of its phases. Following his appointment, Mr. Conger called a meeting Tuesday night, at which time an organization was effected to j handle the local drive, which will get | under way about October 1. Associated with Mr. Conger in thej drive will be P. S. McMullan, secre-j tary; Mrs. W. I. Hart, treasurer; J.' A. Moore and the Rev. Lewis F.! Schenck heading the initial Gifts j Committee; W. W. Byrum, Commerce i and Industry Committee; I). M. War- : ren, Survey and Quota Committee; J. j Edwin Bufflap, Publicity Committee. The general canvass committee! will be headed by J. Clarence Leary,' Committee Chairman, with the fol lowing as members: Mayor Leroy H. Haskett, R. N. Hines, Mrs. L. S. By rum, Mrs. John F. White, Geddes Potter and George C. Cunney. At Tuesday’s meeting, N. E. Wright of Raleigh, field supervisor,' was present and thoroughly explained the plan of organization and the pur-1 Appeal Made To Entertain Service Men And Women Young People Will Ap preciate Home Atmos-1 phere Over Week-end j -—■ ■■■ - . 1 Anyone willing to entertain one or 1 “more service men or women over a! j week-end is earnestly requested to , call the USO Club, phone No. 220. | J. G. dampen, chairman of the Home and Hospitality Committee, emphasizes the fact that these young men and women will appreciate the home atmosphere, that it would en tail little expense and he expressefl the hope that an increasing number would join in entertaining in this way. I lOHN M. PRIVOTT AMONG SURVIVORS OF GUNBOAT PLYMOUTH SUNK AUG. S Edenton Man Escaped With Multiple Contusions And Is Now a Patient In U. S. Naval Hospital, Norfolk Daily newspapers Sunday an nounced the loss of six U. S. war ships in the last two -months, one of 'which was the gunboat Ply mouth, sent to the bottom of the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast August 4. It will be of interest to know that John M. Ptrivott, son of Mrs. H. C. Privott, was on the Plymouth as Radioman first class, and was among the sur vivors. He escaped with multiple I j pose for which the national campaign s is being waged. ! In accepting the chairmanship, Mr. : Conger is appealing for the whole hearted cooperation of both workers and contributors. To do the job as it should be done must have a group or! people who will sacrifice enough or j their time to conduct « thorough can vass and those who are solicited 1 (should be fully acquainted with the' ! need of the money and be as liberal j i as possible in their contributions. —— i Police Now Enforcing j I Buying City Auto Tags -* — Chief of Police Tanner, early this 1 j week, ordered police to check on the 1 ! display of city automobile tags, many j ' cars being driven without their li-1 censes. Those who are tagged for! not having the license will have an opportunity to either display the tag or to purchase one if it has not been bought, but failure to comply will result in arrest. | j Tagging began Wednesday in an I effort to have every ear owner buy a [city license. Ration Book 3 Valid If Bears Red Seal j The Chowan War Price and Ration-' I ing Board has asked that holders of I War Ration Book Three please re-| j frain from taking their books to the! [Board for a validation stamp unless j ; they do not have the seal in red ink 1 in the right-hand corner. When the Book- are stamped in [this way, it is only necessary for i consumers to fill in their address land description. I Community Picnic At ! Rocky Hock Wednesday On Wednesday afternoon at 4 1 o’clock, a community picnic was held 1 at the Rocky Hock school. Featur ing the affair was a baseball game, : speaking, music, recreation and, of ■ course, the picnic dinner for which ; the Rocky Hock folks have such an enviable reputation. contusions and has been confined since his rescue in the U. S. Naval Hospital in Norfolk. “It was quite an Privott wrote in a letter to The Herald, “and one of which I do Jiot desire a repeat performance.” Each survivor is granted 30 days leave so that Radioman Privott expects to soon be able to visit relatives and friends in Edenton. Nation Now Faces Serious Shortage Os Pulpwood For Making Vital War Material | What! j Whether or not the ban on j sale of beer and ale from 11:30 ! o’clock Saturday night until 7 i o’clock Monday morning had any thing to do with it, the fact re mains that over the last week-end Chief J. R. Tanner reports not a single arrest made. It was the first beerless week end since the ban went into ef fect, and Chief Tanner naturally attributes the reason for no ar rests to the fact that the bever age was not allowed to be sold. Third War Loan j Drive Will Begin Thursday, Sept 9 Fifty Million of Nation’s Wage Earners Asked To Participate GOAL 15BILUON J. G. Campen Urging All Citizens to Buy Liberally Fifty million wage,earners are ex ' ported to participate in the huge ( I third War Loan drive which will be conducted throughout the nation for ‘a three-week period beginning Sep ' tember 9, according to Clarence T. | Leinbach, Winston-Salem, State! Chairman of the War Finance Com- ' j mittee. The gigantic drive has two major phases, Leinbach stated. One phase i is the big business and industry pur chase nf bonds and other government securities through personal solicita tion, and the other phase is thei ! volume purchase of E, F and (i bonds j to reach 50,000,000 wage earners. At the present time there are 32,* ! 000,000 workers in the United States on the Payroll Savings Plan, their combined purchases of War Bonds, totaling $400,000,000 per month. I during the third War Loan cam paign it will be necessary for these 32,000,000 workers to buy War Bonds in addition to those purchased regu larly through the Payroll Savings Plan. These extra bonds they’ may purchase with the extra money they are earning or by setting aside a special budget which will enable them to buy additional bonds. “I feel confident of the success ot the third War Loan drive as the pub lic realizes the urgent need for the j $15,000,000,000 set as goal. When j we are winning we cannot afford to j let up,” he emphasized. “For as i long as there are men dying we can not afford to stop buying. Once this message is gotten across to the wage earning public, that public will not j hesitate to do its full share in putting over the third War Loan drive.” Leinbach stated that he expects to, complete shortly his state organiza tion for the War Finance Committee, i He and W. H. Andrews, Jr., Greens boro, State Vice Chairman, are now in process of holding areameetings | in each of the 10 state areas for pur pose of completing the organization. He expects very soon to have X. C. quota of the $15,000,000,(MM) national ouota which will be broken down in t<> county quotas. J. G. Campen is chairman of the Chowan County W ; ar Finance Com mittee, and while he has not yet re ceived the County’s quota, he is especially anxious that citizens make plans to buy as many bonds as they possibly can during the three-week drive. Police Pick Up White Man For FBI Agents Edenton police, on Saturday, pick ed up David Lafayette Mitchell, a white man, who was sought by the FBI. Mitchell was lodged in jail awaiting arrival of FBI agents, who picked him up on Wednesday. Fire Chief Urging Cleaning Chimneys In anticipation of fires being made in homes, Fire Chief R. K. Hall is urging citizens to take advance pre caution by thoroughly cleaning out chimneys. This newspaper is drew I iatei Im toe territory | where Advertisers wM J readse food resales. ■ $1.50 Per Year. Farmers Asked to Give Three Extra Days Cutting Wood ! ACTION NEEDED i N. C. Pulp Company Is Anxious to Assist In Any Way Production of pulpwood to manu facture products for vital military and civilian war uses must be in creased by 13 percent in North Caro lina during the second six months of 1943 to meet the War Production Board quota for the State, the News paper Pulpwood Committee of the American Newspaper Publishers As sociation announced this week. The quota for North Carolina, an important producer among the major pulpwood states of the Northeast, South and Lake areas, is 739,200 cords for the year. Production to June 30, as computed by the WPB was 347,143 cords, which is 22,457 cords or 6 percent under the quota for the first half of the year. Un less 392,057 cords are produced be fore the close of the year, therefore, North Carolina will fall short of its goal. Government requirements for pulp wood, the raw material for making smokeless powder, rayon for para chutes, plastics for airplane parts, weatherproof containers for shipping i ammunition, foods, blood plasma and other supplies for our armed forces and allies overseas, as well as for ; newsprint and other papers, have been computed at 13,000,000 cords for 1943. From this overall figure, quotas were set up by the War Pro : duction Board for each of the pulp \ wood producing states. Donald M. Nelson, VVPB chairman, emphasized the critical nature of the emergency in an appeal to the farm ers of all producing states to give three extra days to the cutting of Pulpwodd in an effort to avert “a I threatened 2,500,0(K)-cord shortage” this year. Receipts of domestic pulp wood at the mills, the War Produc tion Board estimates, were 24 percent short of requirements at the half year, w’hile inventories were 32 per cent under those on the corresponding •late in 1943. Five government departments and war agencies are cooperating in the Victory Pulpwood Campaign which was launched early this month. The press campaign is under the direction of the Newspaper Pulpwood Com mittee, headed by Walter M. Dear, publisher of The Jersey Journal, Jersey City, N, J., and president of A. N. P. A. during the highly success ful Newspaper United Scrap Drive last fall. Daily and weekly newspapers in North Carolina have been asked to assist in the drive to increase sup plies for direct war uses, for news print and other print papers. In sec tions where pulpwood is an impor tant crop, the newspaper committee is placing with selected weeklies and small dailies paid advertising, urging greater production to help overcome ' a growing shortage which threatens | the national war effort. Pulpwood consuming mills are atf- I vising farmers, woodland owners and j woods operators of the urgent need i for pulpwood, what kinds of trees to cut, where to deliver them, and giv ing specifications and prices. The farm press in pulpwood producing areas is also cooperating in tne canipaign. T. W. Earle, manager of the Wood and Land Department of the North Carolina Pulp Company, at Ply mouth, has offered his assistance m any way possible in making the drive for pulpwood a success locally. The pulp and paper mill employs approx imately 1,100 men and women fun time and operates seven days per week. Approximately 60 carloads of pine and hardwood pulpwood per day is used and the output goes directly or indirectly into the war effort. However, the plant’s output has been seriously curtailed during the past several months due to the shortage of pulpwood, caused by shortage ot woods labor. For the information of those who cut pulpwood, it should be cut five feet in length, measure four inches at the small end to 18 inches at the large end, and no wood to be quarter ed or split. No red heart, dead, rot ten, charred or pithy wood is taken. The wood must be free of nails, wire or metal of any kind and cutting (Continued on Page Five)
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