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Volume X.—Number 35.
Efforts Made To
Shortage
' Os Labor On Farms
J. A. Webb, Jr., to Act
As Farm Labor As
sistant
MUST COOPERATE
Request For 300 Italian
War Prisoners Fails
To Materialize
J. A. Webb, Jr., has tentatively
agreed to accept the position of farm
labor assistant in the farm labor
program operating through the Agri
cultural Extension Service in an at
, tempt to assist Chowan County farm
ers with their labor problems this
fall.
The Chowan County USDA War
Hoard has requested placement of
MINI Italian war prisoners in Chowan
County for assisting with crop har
vesting, but information has been re
ceived that no war prison labor will
be available for farm work this fall.
The only hope of outside labor was
drawing workers from other counties
and other states, but District Agent
Roy Ferguson and Mr. Briggs, of the
Employment Service, state that there
will be very little of this labor avail
able. Both are of the opinion that
it will be necessary to work out labor
problems locally this fall.
Through the efforts of Mr. Webb,
cooperating with County Agent C. W.
Overman, it is hoped that farmers
will be assisted in organizing their
workers and work to the extent that
local labor can be used most effec
tively and most efficiently. If farm
ers will cooperate in working to
gether by using their equipment co
operatively, they should, with normal
weather conditions, be able to har
vest their crops this fall in good
shape.
/crap Iron Moves
From Local Yard
Hobowsky Ships Three
Three Carloads Since
August 14
Following recent criticism of an
undue accumulation of scrap iron in
Kdenton, Mayor Leroy Haskett was,
this week, notified by W. S. McCall,
district salvage manager, that the
War Production Board had informa
tion that S. Hobowsky had moved
three carloads of scrap iron from his
junk yard. These shipments inchuie
two carloads of No. 2 steel and one
carload of cast iron scrap, shipped
since August 14.
Mayor Haskett appealed to Mr.
Hobowsky’ to move this vital metal
and feels very much encouraged at
the response which, he believes, will
result in a greater incentive to sal
vage more of this vital material in
Chowan County.
Mr. McCall informed Mayor Has
kett that the State office of the War
Production Board will, at no time, re
lax in its efforts to maintain a
steady flow of scrap material from
Edenton.
Navy Recruiter In
Edenton Sent. 7th,
I
J. W. Brown, petty officer in!
charge of the Elizabeth City Navy
Recruiting Station, will be at the!
Edenton Post Office Tuesday, Septem-1
her 7, to assist youths in making ap-1
plications for enlistment in the!
United States Navy. He will be onj
duty from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., and will
be delighted to explain the oppor
tunities offered young men in the
U. S. Navy.
Standing Room For
Labor Day Travelers
Those who are planning to take a
train or bus trip over Labor Day,
probably will have to stand in the
aisles, ODT officials say. Passenger
trains and buses throughout the U.
S. continue to run heavily loaded,
with standing in the aisles occurring
frequently, particularly at week-ends.
\ 11 Edenton Stores
* Closed On Labor Day
Labor Day next Monday, Septem
ber 6, will be generally observed by
Edenton’s business concerns, Mrs.
Hazel Gibbs, secretary of the Mer- ;
chants Association, announcing that
all stores will be closed the entire
day in observance of the holiday.
THLCHOWAN HERALD
A HOME No. *APER DEVOTED TO TMM INTERNET» OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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L.YNTON YATES BALLENTINE
State Senator L. Y. (Stag)
Ballentine. Wake County farm
er and dairyman, on Wednesday
. announced his candidacy for
Lieutenant Governor in the
Democratic primary election next
, i Spring. He is the second candi
date to announce, W. I. Halstead
of Camden County being the tirsl
to announce.
j Cotton Picking
i Prices Worry To
Chowan Farmers
—■ -
Some Pickers Demand-;
i ing Extortionate Price
For Work
pricesT SET
Meeting Called For 3
O’clock Today In
Court House
During the last several days there
has been much variation in opinion as
to the price to be paid for picking
. cotton this fall. In many cases pick
ers have wanted extortionate prices
I and in other cases, perhaps, farmers!
may have offered prices unreasonably I
low.
| In several counties the Farm Labor
Advisory Committee and the County •
Agricultural Wage Board have held
meetings with leading farmers and
labor leaders to determine a fair
price to both picker and grower.
According to the information obtain
ed by C. W. Overman, Chowan Coun
ty Agent, the highest maximum price
agreed upon in any county is $1.50
per 100 pounds. Prices on green and
damp cotton range from SI,OO to $1.25
per 100 pounds.
On Thursday afternoon, September
2, (today) at 3 o’clock (War Time)
the Chowan County Farm Labor Ad
visory Committee and the County
Agricultural Wage Board will meet
at the Court House in Edenton to dis
cuss the above question. leading j
farmers and labor group leaders are j
invited to attend this meeting.
At this meeting the group will also
discuss wage rates to be paid for!
digging peanuts. It is hoped that a
fair price rate can be agreed upon
for this work.
Cotton is still green, states Mr.;
Overman, and farmers should let their
cotton open and dry out before pick
! ing. He urges available cotton pick
ers to cooperate to the fullest extent
with farmers in saving this coton
' crop.
I
| Grocers And Quinn’s
Plan To Continue Half
Holiday Observance!
Though the Wednesday half-holi- j
; day which was observed throughout I
the summer by the majority of Eden-1
ton business houses came to an end
Wednesday of last week, all grocery
stores except the A. & P. will con
tinue the half-holiday throughout the
remainder of the year. Joining the
grocery stores in the movement is
Quinn Furniture Company.
County-City Offices
Closed Labor Day
Both County and City offices will
be closed all day next Monday, Sep
tember 6, Labor Day, ; .in order for
employees to observe . the holiefay.
Any business to be transacted should,
therefore, be attended t*. accordingly.
Bank Os Edenton
Closed La|or Day
In order to observe Lj|or Day, the .
Bank of Edenton .will be closed all
day next Monday, September 6. Im
portant banking business should, ;
therefore, be traasected accordingly.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, September 2, 1954.
| W. D. Pruden Elected
New President Os
First District Bar
I Group Favors Abolish
ment of Judge Rota
tion System
PASS RESOLUTION
Chester Morris Elected
Vice President, J. N.
Pruden, Secretary
Meeting in annual session in
Edenton on Thursday of last week,
members of the First District Bar
elected W. D. Pruden as president to
succeed Hallett S. Ward of Washing
ton. Solicitor Chester Morris, of
Currituck County was elected vice
presided, and J. N. Pruden was re
elected secretary.
Those named on the executive com
mittee were Martin Kellogg, of Man
teo; Chester Morris of Currituck;
W. I. Halstead of Camden; A. P.
Godwin of Gates; J. W. Jennette of
Pasquotank; J. S. McNider of Hert
ford; John F. White of Edenton; C.
S. Meekins of Tyrell; Clay Carter of
Beaufort, and O'. W. Williams of
j Hyde.
During the business meeting, which
i was held in the Court House, one of
I I the principal items of business trans
acted was passing a resolution re-
I questing the State Bar to consider
j asking the .General Assembly to
| change the court calendar and abolish
I the rotation system of judges. The
| intent of this resolution is to allow
j resident judges to preside more fre
l quently in their home districts, where
i they are better acquainted with eon-
I ditions and the criminal element.
| The resolution as adopted follows:
1. Resolved: That it is the sense
j this meeting that the system of
i rotation of Judges in this State
! should be abolished, and it is recom
{ mended that the matter be submitted j
to the proper committees of the!
State Bar, Inc., and the State Bar j
Association, and brought to the at- (
tention of the Legislature for sub-;
! mission to the people of the State. I
j 2. Resolved: That the Secretary i
cause this resolution to be published '
! in the Press of the State.
Judge C. K, Thompson of Elizabeth
I City, spoke briefly during the meet
ing.
The group decided to hold the next
annual meeting in the Currituck i
County Court House.
Despite war conditions, a goodly i
number was present for the meeting,
at the conclusion of which a luncheon
was enjoyed in the Rose Room at
Hotel Joseph Hewes.
High Ranking Red
Men Scheduled To
| Visit Chowan Tribe!
I
Delegation Headed By
Great Sachem Char
lie Wallace
Charlie Wallace, of Gastonia, Great!
Sachem of the Improved Order of
Red Men in North Carolina, will pay
an official visit to Chowan Tribe,
No. 12, next Monday night at the
regular meeting of the local tribe.
Accompanying Mr. Wallace are ex
pected to be other members of the
Great Council, ..so that Ehrie Haste
sachem of the tribe, as well as other
j officers, is very anxious to have a
| large attendance for the occasion, j
| The visit was the ofject for much i
discussion at Monday night’s meet- •
ifig and arrangements were made to
provide some sort of entertainment,
as well as refreshments. Jack Mooney,
W. A. Munden and J. Edwin Bufflap
were appointed on a committee to
make the necessary arrangements.
A special feature will be music by
a quartet composed of W.>J. Daniels,
A. S. Hollowell, R. B. Hollowell and
Jack Mooney.
Presbyterians Worship
At St. Paul’s On Sunday
With their church undergoing re
modeling, the Presbyterian congrega
tion will worship in St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church at the 11 o’clock service
next Standay morning, at which time
the Rev. D. C. Craw-ford, Jr., pastor
of the Presbyterian Church, will
preach.
All members of both congregations
are urged to attend, and a special in
vitation is extended to visitors.
|j WPB Launches National PULPWOOD Drrn
( | ( Acme
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Walter M. Dear, Chairman of the Nevvs
■ | paper Pulpwood Committee, reports to Donald Nelson, WPB Chair
man, on the plans (or an intensive press campaign to increase the
production of pulpwood. Following the pattern of last year's Na
tional Scrap Drive, more than 1,900 weekly newspapers will be
asked to cooperate in the organization of local committees in h
pulpwood producing states.
CHOWAN COliitlY DRAFT BOARD ORDERED
REOPEN CLASSIFICATION OF REGISTRANTS
iff
With Single Men and Married Men Without Chil
dren Exhausted In County, Fathers Now
Facing Class 1-A Grouping
For the information of all regis
trants in Chowan County between
the ages of 18 and 38 who have not
yet been inducted or volunteered in
the service of the country, J. L.
Wiggins, chairman of the Chowan
County Draft Board, wishes to ad
vise that in accordance with a letter
to local Board members from Gen
eral Lewis B: Hersey, director of [
Selective Service, dated August 21,
are the following stipulations:
That after October 1, it will be
j necessary to induct (a) Single men
J without dependents. Mr. Wiggins
I states, however, that this group in
! Chowan County has been exhausted
j long ago. ( h) Single men with col-1
' lateral dependents. This group has
I also been exhausted, (c l Married
' men without children. This group is
practically exhausted, (d) Men with
children, non-deferrable activities and
occupations; (e) Men with children.
According to General Hersey, says
Housing Project
Expected To Start
By September 15
Option Secured For Site
And Plans Now Be
ing: Prepared
In answer to a recent letter written
by Mayor l.eroy Haskett to Aubrey
McCabe, State Director of the Fed
eral Housing Administration, relative
u. the Federal housing project sche
duled for Kdenton, Mayor Haskett
has been informed by Mr. McCabe
that the local project should be under
way by September 15.
Mr. McCabe stated that good pro
gress is being made toward the pro
posed housing project for Edenton,
the sponsors having secured options
on the property in North Edenton and
are now having the property laid out
in the Land Planning section. Plans
and specifications are also being pre
pared to be submitted to the office
! of State Director McCabe.
'New Schedule Os
Hours At Library^
Miss Elizabeth Copeland, librarian
at the Shepard-Pruden Memorial Li
brary, announces new library hours,
which are as follows:
Every week-day morning from 10
to 12 o’clock.
Every week-day afternoon from 4
to 6 o’clock.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday nights from 7:30 to 9 o’clock.
Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5
o’clock.
Methodist Zone Meeting
Evans Church Sept. Bth
The Woman’s Society of Christian
Service will hold its fall Zone meet
ing at Evans Church on Wednesday,
September Bth. Anyone interested
in attending this meeting is request
ed to get in touch with Mrs. P. T.
Owens.
Mr. Wiggins, there will be needed for
the armed forces for the months of
October, November and December of
this year 966,000 men. There are no
other groups from which these men
can be secured except from groups
(d) and (e). So it is clearly ob
vious that this draft board must gft
its quota from these two groups,
j Therefore, married men with chil
dren between the ages of 18 and 38 i
1 who are not in the occupations of;
building ships, tanks, guns and planes
and are not valuable to the war es- ,
fort, as their order numbers come!
up will be placed in 1-A Pending ann
sent to the doctor.
“These orders are not optional ■
with the draft board,” said Mr. Wig-1
gins, “but mandatory from General
Lewis B. Hersey, director of Selective
Service, national headquarters.”
Accordingly, many Chowan regis
trants have been notified of a re
opening of their classification.
Pre - Pearl Harbor
Fathers Subject To
i Being Reclassified
1 Status of Those Essenti
ally Employed Will
Not Be Changed
The following statement has been
■ issued by General J. Van B. Metts,
State Director of Selective Service:
■ “Recent directives from national
headquarters require the reclassifica
tion of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers
■ without regard to their eligibility for j
a II 1-A classification. Such regis
trants who are essential farmers or:
who are employed in war production!
or in support of the war effort are
, in no danger of reclassification.
' Such registrants whose induction
would result in ’extreme hardship and
privation’ to a wife, parent or child
may be deferred for dependency in 1
Class 111 -D. All other registrants
now classified in II 1-A on account of
their family status should not be sur
prised if they receive notice that they 1
have been reclassified in Class I-A.
“The fact that a pre-Pearl Harbor j
father finds himself in Class I-A does;
not necessarily mean that he will be
inducted immediately. Registrants!
are divided into four groups and all
available men from each group will i
be inducted before men are selected!
from the next group. These groups 1
are as follows:
1— Men with no dependents.
2 Men with collateral dependents,
provided such status was acquired
prior to December 8, 1941.
3 Men who have wives with whom
they maintain bona fide family rela
tionships in their homes,
such relationship was acquired prior
to December 8, 1941.
4 Men wno nave children with
whom they maintain bona fide family
relationships in their homes, provid
ed such relationship was acquired
prior to December 8, 1941. (A child
born on or before September 14, 1942,
should be considered as having been
conceived prior to December 8, 1941,
(Continued on Page Six)
This newspaper is drew- 1
Intai In toe territory I
whore Advertisers wm |
$1.30 Per Year.
State Wood Pulp
Becomes “Armor”
For Deadly 105’s
Pulpwood of Nation In
Forefront as Essential
War Material
BIG SHORTAGE
Appeal Made By Gov
ernment to Meet
Situation
Wood pulp from North Carolina is
playing a vital role in supplying the
raw material for essential war items.
As an instance of what Nortfi
Carolina wood pulp can contribute to
national armament, 73 million of the
paper “suits of armor” encasing the
Tl)s mm. shells used with such dead
ly effect against the enemy in Africa
could be obtained from the 179
thousand tons of the material pro
duced annually, according to esti
mates approved by the American
Paper and Pulp Association.
The slim-waisted 105 mm. sheila
w-ere used to reduce enemy replace
ments in Tunisia to rubble, stop in
fantry attacks and knock out the
Panzer MVI tanks, regarded by/ the
Nazis as one of their most invinci
ble weapons, dispatches from the
front stated.
The technique of developing mass
production of the paper containers
which guard the 105’s until they go
into action from the mouths of long
nosed howitzers originated in peace
time food packages, such as the car
tons commonly used for cocoa, salt
and other products. Asked by Wash
ington officials to develop produc
tion methods which would assure an
adequate source of supply, the Amer
; ican Can Company reports it has de-
I livered almost 100 million of the
i paper “suits of armor” to hold as
many shells to help smash the Axis
war machine.
Today, wood pulp has become sucfi
an essential war material that the
! government is sponsoring a campaign
to increase the supply. *
The Herald, together with many
other newspapers m pulpwood pro
ducing areas, is cooperating in a
campaign to overcome a threatened
shortage of 2,500,000 cords. This
shortage has come about, not
through lack of pulpwood, but due
to a heavy demand upon manpower
caused by the war effort, so that an
urgent appeal is made to farmers to
devote three extra days to cutting
pulpwood during the remainder of
this year. It is estimated that the
critical shortage can be averted if
enough farmers, woodland owners
and woodsmen perform this important
patriotic duty of giving as much of
their time as possible to cutting
pulpwood.
“Pulpwood from a single tree will
make enough smokeless powder to
fire 35 shells from a 105 mm. cannon
(Continued on Page Five)
G.H. Harding Leases
Hotel Joseph Hewes
Haywood Duke and W.
G. Malone Are New
Owners
G. H. Harding, proprietor of Hotel
Joseph Hewes, on Wednesday leased
the hotel to Haywood Duke and W.
G. Malone, two hotel men who have
other hotel interests. The two men
have had a great deal of hotel exper
ience, Mr. Duke, who was reared rn
Elizabeth City, having been manager
of King Cotton Hotel in Greensboro
! for 6Vi years. Prior to that tipie he
managed the Carolina Inn at Chaper
i Hill. He was one of the builders of
| the Nags Header at Nags Head,
, which he was the first to manage in
| 1935.
Mr. Malone has been manager of
the Sheraton Hotel at High Point for
five years, prior to which he was
manager for 10 years of the Hotet
Danville at Danville, Va.
That the two men are prominent in
hotel circles is reflected in the fact
that Mr. Duke is president of the
Southern Hotel Association, and Mr.
Malone is secretary of the organi
zation.
Mr. Malone will come to Edenton
as manager of the Hotel Joseph
Hewes, bringing his wife with him
on October 1. He is very favorably
impressed with the hotel and local
prospects, and promises to continue
to give Edenton hotel facilities of
which the town can be proud.
Mr. Harding plans to retire in an
effort to regain his normal health.