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PAGE TWO The Chowan Herald Published every Thursday by The Chawan Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin Butfiap and Hector Lupton, at 423-425 South Broad Street, Edenton, N. C. - NMttTclrobna / WUS3 AMOCIAT**?] J. EDWIN BUFFLAP— Editor HECTOR LUPTON Advertising Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Six Months ______— * Entered as second-class matter August 30, 1934, at the post office at North Caro lina, under the act of March 3, 1819- Cards of thanks, obituaries, resolutions of respect, etc., will be charged for at regular advertising rates. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, l‘J43 " BIBLE THOCCHT FOR THE \YEEK: OIYE IS I'M>ER ST A N DIN G: Many snail be puri fied, and made white, and tried; hut the wicked snail do wickedly! and none cif the wicked" shall- undvrstaiiG. but the wise shall understand.—Daniel 12:10. Another Phase of Community Pride Influence of Kdenton women and their weight in any matter in which they are vitally interested was strik ingly reflected last week when they went to no little trouble to prevent the removal of a group of old crepe myrtle trees on West Eden Street to make way for a concrete sidewalk. THe ladies were granted a hearing on the matter after Town Council had agreed to con struct a sidewalk and plans had been made to begin cutting down the trees Monday morning of last week. They were successful in securing a hearing, because of which the trees were not removed as contemplated. The ladies are very much interested in trees and their preservation, so that it didn’t take them long to muster together their forces, hold a meeting, plan for their method of "attack," appear before Town Council about 2o strong, and were successful in preventing removal of the trees, for the time being at least. The ladies admitted that Eden Street is very narrow and that property owners are entitled to a convenient and safe method of ingress and egress to their homes, but pleaded for away to be worked out whereby the tree.- could be saved. They came prepared with several suggestions which they requested Town Council to con sider, the one having the most merit, in the opinion or the Councilmen, having for its ultimate goal the widen standard width, four feet. To offset the space taken on the street by this type of sidewalk, the plan call.- for moving back toward the property line the curb on the south side of the street something like three or four feet, To the interest and efforts of the ladies therefore, can be attributed the fact that this particular group of trees is still standing. Trees ill Kdenton play no. small part in the beauty and attractiveness of the town, and the town is fortu nate in having a group of w omen, and some men as well, who are interested in the care and preservation of the trees. The writer realizes the value of trees, but is convinced that they cannot remain forever. Trees, like human beings, are allotted by the Almighty a space of years for their usefulness, at the termination of which they necessarily must pass from the scene, so that trees alone are not all that is necessary to make a town at tractive. Ever so: many beautiful trees may line our streets and stilt their beauty and majesty can and is greatly impaired by carelessness or thoughtlessness on the part of many in littering the streets with trash. Ail overworked Sreet Department under present con ditions cannot cope with the situation, and as clean and attractive a town as should be the case cannot material ize unless there is mote cooperation on the part of more Eden toil citizen-. By this proposition, a sidewalk Would be built two feet from the present curb toward the trees and. a foot and a half on the present roadway. The curb is six inches wide, So that the proposed sidewalk would be of ing of Eden Street, an adequate sidewalk as well as pieserving the group of crepe myrtle trees. The Writer takes it that members of the Garden Club are just as much interested in a clean town as they are in a town with many anil beautiful trees, which brings us to the point of this editorial comment: If members of the Garden Club would display as much interest anti exert as much energy in informing people, or educating them, to be more particular and systematic about trasn and garbage as they are about trees, there is little doubt but that Edenton’s streets and sidewalks woulcf soon compare more favorably with the trees which they rherish and would go to almost any extremes to protect and save. The two go together so far as making an attractive town is concerned, and if the influence of the ladies was directed toward this important phase of civic pride, Edenon could again take pride in boasting that it is one of the cleanest and most attractive towns in the State. All Honor To Edenton Raleigh Sews and Observer What was the most interesting news item in Satur day’s News and Observer? The war news cheered but the sinking of ships by U-boats was depressing. The big piece of news was from the lovely old town of Edenton, which prefers beauty to concrete. The people “riz up” against the proposal to cut down 15 old crepe myrtle trees, one of the town’s landmarks. As a result it was decided to construct a sidewalk part way on the street using enough of the ground toward the trees to prevent removal or damage of the trees. The Edenton people are to be commended for the compromise. They evidently hold with Joyce Kilmer: 1 think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth’s sweet-flowing breast. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Wanted r A North Carolina poet to embalm in song the beauty of the crepe myrtle. i Americanism: People in the country trying to get into the cities and vice versa. THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1943 Heard and seer? j - —By ••BUFF’’—— Quite a lot has been read in the papers and heard over the radio regarding the drafting of fathers for military service. It has also been brought out that not a few, more eligible, men are hiding behind a petti coat or a government desk. Besides, one of my hard working farmer friends advises me that there are also j -.ime who are even hiding behind a plow handle. Well, petticoats should be shaken, the desks shoved around a j hit and plow handles yanked in order to round up trn-, birds who should go into service before fathers who . have little ones so dependent upon them. o Carroll Edney, colored case operator, dropped in the j office the other day somewhat depressed because a •silver" dollar was passed back to him at the Bank oi Edenton. The dollar happened to be counterfeit, which joulo easily be detected by the ring when dropping it. Otherwise, it was a good imitation and this incident is mentioned to warn others to be on the lookout it ana when someone hands ’em a dollar of the sort taken t>> | Edney. ! » o •' 1 was wondering what had haupei.ed to the Edeiuui, | l.igii School Band and a few nays ago asked Director ~,.h Martin if he had a band this year. His affirma tive answer was substantiated Monday night when tire l, ;U id paraded down Broad Street and played several num- j hers which sounded something like the days when | Charlie McCullers was here and the band won honors , right and left. Here’s hoping that the youngsters con timie to improve and that Edenton will be able to again 1 boast and be proud of a band second to none. Edenton football fans have a very good reason to . tune in on any game which the Navy plays this season , and which is broadcast. Billy Shepard, one of our Edenton boys, is seeing service on the team this year ! ami besides getting a good send-off by radio announcers. \ he was given an enviable write-up in the newspapers) up that way. "Bill Shepard puts his heart and punch j in the game,” comments one writer, and here’s one who -ays “Amen” to that statement, especially if he plays the same brand of ball as he did when on the local Higi School football team. His little brother, Tom, too. play ed the same sort of game, which is the sort of spirit all players must have to develop a winning combination. o Maybe the most of us are getting used to the hustle and bustle, as well as the bother and inconveniences brought about by war-time conditions, but not so with an old colored man riding on a bus the other day. The kindly old fellow was packed in the back of the bus. like a sardine in a can, and as he inched along the aisle, wiggling and twisting to get to the door to get ; out, great beads of perspiration rolled down his cheeks.j "Excuse me. white folk-," he .-aid as he neared tln door, "Ah neber expected things would eonie to this, and Use gwine to go back in the woods and stay dar ’til tin war is over." —a It’s been a long time since there was a hanging in Edenton, but one day this week a lady told me 'they were going to hang the Duke of Albemarle in the Court House, As a matter of fact, a portrait of George Monk, I Duke of Albemarle, which is a gift of John and lnglis i Fletcher, will be presented next Monday morning and] will hang in the Assembly Room. Quite an affair is j planned and if I get the right slant, there is just about j as much interest aroused among a large group as if > an actual hanging was to take place, o— With the subject of trees being expected to be brought up whenever meeting up with practically every Edenton lady lately, it was some relief the other day when one of ’em dropped in the office and made this remark: "I'd like to speak to you a few minutes. Mr. Bufflap, but it's not about trees.” Gosh, 'it was some relief. o At last I've learned what to call these attractive girls parading about town in the neat, green uniform* and carrying a leather bag slung over their shoulder. 1 thought I was being nice in calling ’em "Lady Marines.* j but Chaplain Henry Chace, at last week’s Rotary meet- I ing. said they didn’t like to be called Lady Marines anC i preferred “Women Marines.” Their official title, l! think, is U. S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, but I shucks, that’s too long a name, so that from now on I’m j following Chaplain Chace’s advise unless, of course, the t word “Lady" fits in a headline better than the word j “Woman.” And speaking about the Women Marines, two of ’em were in the lobby of the postoffice the other evening after the windows were closed. They were reading tii -igns posted in the lobby and noticed the one urging the purchase of duck stamps before hunting. “Hunters, 1 attention.” read one of the girls, “buy stamps before you shoot.” Turning to her friend, she said, “What do they hunt around here, Japs?” “Well,” the other girl! replied, “Some of us are hunting dates but 1 don’t see I any sense in buying a stamp before a person shoots.” | Possibly 1 have been unfair to Charlie Overman in in- j sinuating that he goes to sleep during the speaking at Rotary meetings and during the preaching of a sermon ; in church. As a matter of fact, Charlie says he is not j sleeping when his head rocks backward and forward, but ] is only approving what the speaker is saying. Well, anyway, maybe he’s right, for I admit never having : heard him snore. o Here’s one who is sick of the war and hopes it will ] soon be over, but so far as pipe cleaners are concernefl, I the war can go on a few more weeks now. Following some comment about pipe cleaners last week to the ef feet that I was in a bad fix because I had none, a letter | arrived in the mail a day or two later in which was b ; package of pipe cleaners together with the following j brief letter: “Dear Buff: Who says advertising doesn’t pay? A Lady of Edenton.” Then, on Monday, I met a lady who had a small bundle of the things and as I ap proached her she said, “I read abbut your plight, so here are a few pipe cleaners to work on that stinking pipe of yours, but if you mention my name I’ll kill you.” I want to use the cleaners, so that her name is not men tioned. Again, at the Red Men’s meeting Monday | night, Willie Saunders said he was sorry for me and he had intended bringing me a few pipe cleaners but had forgotten them. Willie is master of the art of hold- ’ ing a toothpick in his mouth while smoking his pipe | I and I’m wondering if that has any thing to do with keeping his pipe dean so that he has a supply of pipe cleaners on hand. I’m sort of befuddled this week, afl because of a surprise visit of one of the Buff laps who is in the Navy, and was given enough time off to be home several days. The Navy must have a language all its own if many of the outlandish names of things around the house which I have heard the last few days is any indication. For instance, the floor is a deck, meals are chow, toilet is head—well, I’ll learn some more before he goes back to his ship Saturday. ( IRULE MEETS MON DA Y Members of the Belle Bennett Cir cle of the Methodist Church will, meet Monday night at the home or i .llrs. ti. A. Helms. The meeting] will begin at 8 o’clock, and all mem bers are especially urged to be present. FIREMEN MEET TONIGHT Edenton’s Fire Department will hold its monthly meeting tonight at 7:30 o’clock, at which time a barbe cue dinner w ill be served. Fire Chief R. K. Hall reports that only two fires occurred during the month of Sep tember. both of which resulted in no loss. FOR lay*: PUflj I hope Americana ■aapr4M will figure out for themselves adili tional pm roll aav- -J§f® SEEMS LiKE FO' MOST FOLKS ML DE SEASONS Come But tsb Bosy w ’ To Our Customers , We, the undersigned operators of automobile seiwice stations, i have the following announcement to make in regard to our service * to you: From this date all wash racks in our stations will be closed 1 and no cars, with the exception of ambulances and hearses, will be ' washed. It is with deep regret, that this action is taken, but circum stances beyond our control have forced it. upon us. , t r; ; 'U. v ‘ 1) . v v -u;. ? , The present cost of labor is sijch that we cannot operate these , l acks at the ceiling price for washing set. up by the OPA. In adch » tion to this, the only towel service company doing business in this 1 area has discontinued its service and we would be forced to bear 1 the additional expense of buying towels and maintaining them. These factors combined make it absolutely impossible for us to op- ( erate as heretofore. | We hope that you, our patrons, will understand our situation ( 1 and this action that we have taken. We hope that, this condition ; will not exist for long and that we can soon return to normalcy. In > the meantime, we hope to have the pleasure of continuing to serve • you in all other ways possible. 1 Sincerely, , Bridge Turn Service Station Triangle Service Station • Gulf Service Station Sinclair Service Station • Jones Texaco Station Chowan Motor Co. Burton’s Service Station Chas. H. Jenkins Motor Co. 1 --’« - _ _ J Mrs. Preston Returns From Norfolk Hospital Mrs. H. H. Preston was brought home in the Quinn ambulance from j St. Vincent’s Hospital in Norfolk,) Va., where she has been confined fol lowing an accident at her home. It j will be necessary for Mrs. Preston to remain in bed six more weeks as the result of three bones cracked in her knee. 1 Mrs. Preston was injured When she tripped and fell down the steps to the basement in her home recently anil was subsequently taken . to the hospital. Legion Auxiliary Plans j Observe Armistice Day I Tentative plans were formulated by the American Legion Auxiliary at the meeting on Friday night to cele brate Armistice Day with a square dance at the Armory. A hill-billy band from Raleigh will furnish the music. In addition to this, a committee was formed to contact Abe Martin, USO Director, and solicit his aid and cooperation in getting a local talent floor show from the air base to add to the evening’s entertainment. A small admission price will be charged in order to defray- expenses, announced Mrs. J. L. Chestnutt, president of the Auxiliary. BUY WAR BONDS! 1 fej From where I sit.... /y Joe Marsh **Your outfit looked mighty fine in the parade,” 1 told Ed Carey, . eur fire chief. "Everything poL ished within an inch at Me life, end the men pert end nappy!” "That's how H should be,” ■aid Ed. "We have Thursday turnout inspections... and an prise inspections in between!” That aort of supervision is well repaid in the efficiency of our town’s fire department. It’s like the way the brewers do in this state. They watch all the time i«>t £ !M», MflWtMO INOUSTtr POUND'‘TION. War* C CwamlHw Ufor'a. i«t», 3,<*« D,. •clo, tot t&7 In,u,one* SWs, •■*•%**. **■ *- Red Men Tribe Starts Membership Drive Next Monday night, Chowan Tribe , of Red Men will begin a drive which !; s expected to boost the membership j so that the Tribe will be entitled to \ two representatives in the Great Council. In connection with opening of the drive refreshments will be served and music furnished by the Red Men’s quartet, which is composed of W. J. Daniels, A. S. Holloyell, Raleigh Hoi towel 1 and C. B. Mooney, Jr. The committee appointed to arrange the program is composed of Frank Hughes, Raymond Tarkenton and C. jB. Mooney, Jr. All members £he ! Tribe are urged to be present.]^ 1 \|>Jl STED RETAIL PRICES FOR I ECONOMY BRANDS CIGARETTES ! Effective September 4, retailers are permitted to adjust their retail price for economy cigarettes. By economy brand is meant Marvels, Dominos, Wings, etc., in either the regular or King size. The flat retail price was established for all sellers regardless of what their previous ceiling had been. The new price is 13c per pack or 12L> c per pack for sales in multi ple units. A further provision is that a retailer must offer to sell each buyer two packs for 25c. Too Late To Classify FOR SALE—3O HEAD OF HOGS, ranging in weight from 30(1 lbs., ! down to 25 lbs. each. See J. L. Wiggins, Edenton. N. C. oct.7e. because they’re looking for things M bo wrong but...well. **Tba beaus' aatf-regulation program is Just a firm of vigi lance that pi iS everybody. Uk« the firs department's in spections, it kaeps things tin way thsy ought to be. From where I ait. most people approve of the wav the brewers run things these days.
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