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Volume Xlll.—Number 1.
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Released by U. 8. War Department, bureau of Public Relations.
U. S. ARMY CHAPLAINS ARE SUCCESSFUL MISSIONARIES—Long after American soldiers
depart from overseas combat theaters shrines to their religious devotion will remain in distant lands.
Scores of wartime chapels will stand as monuments to the faith of the Gl, ; ;1 even now are used
for worship by the native population. Left, Chaplain Roy N. Hillyer, of the Tenth Army, holds a special
service for Okinawans who desire to become Christians. Right, Victory chapel in the South Pacific
constructed of bamboo by men of an engineer battalion. Nativea thatched the roof. Services were
held by Chaplain Joseph W. Buckley.
EYE EXAMINATION CLINIC SCHEDULED TO
BE HELD IN EDENTON WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16
Clinic Planned By Department of Public Welfare
And County Health Department; Eye
Examination Will Be Free
The Chowan County Department
of Public Welfare, in cooperation
with the. Chowan County Health De
partment, is sponsoring an eye ex
amination clinic on Wednesday, Janu
ary Id, beginning at 9a. m. Persons
in Chow in County \yho need an eye
. exaniina! ion. and who are not finan
cially aide to employ the services of
a privat ophthalmologist should ap
ply jfco t! 1 hovvah County Public Wel
fare Dm:, C unit, between January
Ist and. loth, .for admission to the
clinic.
The ' :• ination will be free.
* gla ar ■ prcsiribed. they will
fur: ' Itl ougll t he W< 'fare 1 )e
onivfrsal Week Os
Prayer Is Planned
Dy Local Churches
Four Union Services to
Be Held In Metho
dist Church
Universal Week of Prayer will be
observed in the Protestant churches in
Edenton next week, with union ser
vices scheduled to be held Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
nights beginning at 7:30 o’clock in the
Methodist Church. Both next Sunday
and the following Sunday, January
13, the observance will be stressed by
the preachers in their respective
churches.
The topic next Sunday will be
“Even as Christ Also Loved the
Church,” while the following Sunday
the topic will be “According to the
Power Which Worketh In Us, Unto
Him Be Glory In the Church.”
At the first union service Tuesday
night in the Methodist Church John
A. Holmes will be the speaker, the
topic being “That He Might Sanctify |
and Cleanse It With the Washing of
the Word.”
The Rev. D. C. Crawford, Jr., will!
be the speaker Wednesday night,'
when the topic will be “That He
Might Present It to Himself a Glori
ous Church.”
On Thursday night the Rev. David
B. Lawrence will be the speaker, the
topic being “Not Having Spot or
Wrinkle or Any Such Thing.”
The Rev. Harold W. Gilmer will
speak Friday night, his topic being
“But That It Should Be Holy and
Without Blemish.”
Auxiliary Os Legion
Meets Friday Night
A meeting of the American Legion
Auxiliary will be held at the home of
the president, Mrs. Paul Holoman, on
North Broad Street, Friday night at
«t o’clock. All members of the Auxil
v are especially urged to attend.
-J AUXILIARY MEETS JAN. 10
The Woman’s Auxiliary of St.
Paul’s Church will meet at the Parish
House Thursday afternoon, January
10, at 4 o’clock. Members are urged
to attend.
JOE HABIT IMPROVING
Joe Habit on Tuesday returned,
from a Portsmouth hospital, where hej
has been a patient.
THE CHOWAN HERA!#
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
Kdenton. Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 3,1946.
part meat, the cost, $5. for single vision
lens, 87 for bifocal b us. If eye op
erations are recommended, operations
will be planned and financed by the
North Carolina State Commission for
the blind.
The Chowan County Health De
partment has made preliminary ex
aminations of all school children’s
eyes. Other persons wishing to have
)>••; riminary .< Nominations limy receive
this service at the Health Dopart
;nv‘!it. Dr. Matthew S. Broun of Roa
noke Rapids, N. will conduct the
.linic: If is services will be paid for
by tlie N. C. State Commission for
the blind.
Lorimer W. Midgett
Expresses Intention
To Run For Senate
Elizabeth City Man Will
Seek Seat Filled By
Late W. T. Culpepper
According to a letter from Lorimer!
W. Midgett of Elizabeth City, he in-;
tends to seek the nomination for the!
seat in the State Senate left vacant
by the sudden death last summer of ;
Senator W. T. Culpepper, who had'
served one term.
At present Mr. Midgett is on ter-!
minal leave from the Navy, but after
his discharge on January 22, he in
tends to return to his insurance bus
iness in Elizabeth City.
Mr. Midgett, who is 35 years old, j
was graduated from the University of}
North Carolina in 1932 and taught
school for five years. In 1938 he
formed the Midgett Insurance Agency.
He was elected to the Pasquotank
Board of Commissioners in 1938 and
was re-elected in 1940. In 1941 he
I was appointed by Governor J. M.
, Broughton to the board of trustees
| of the State Retirement System.
In 1943 Mr. Midgett was elected
! to represent Pasquotank in the State
Legislature, following which he vol
unteered for service in the U. S. Navy
and only recently returned from an
18 months’ tour of duty in the Paci
fic. He is a member of Kiwanis, Red
Men and Elks, and served as lieuten
ant-governor of the Carolinas’ Ki
wanis in 1941.
R. W. Stokley Very 111
From Heart Attack
R. W. Stokley was stricken by a
heart attack Monday and is in a ser
ious condition. Mr. Stokely was dis
charging his duties at the Charles H.
Jenkins Motor Company and was in
such condition that a doctor advised
against removing him to his home in
the Rocky Hock section, and instead
he was taken to the home of his sis
ter, Mrs. J. N. Elliott, on East Church
street.
MASONS MEET TONIGHT
The weekly meeting of Unanimity
Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M., will be
held tonight (Thursday) in the Court
House at 8 o’clock. Last week’s
meeting was called off due to the holi
days, so that W. P. Goodwin, new
| master of the lodge, urges a good at
tendance.
Terrible Error Made
In Advertising Tax
Listing In County
! Wrong Dates Appeared
In Last Week’s Issue j
Os The Herald
CORRECTSCHEDULE
Rush to Get Through
For Christmas Holi
days Responsible
One of the worst errors ever to be
made by the Herald was made last
week in the advertisement regarding
tax listing in Chowan County, for
wrong dates for the various tax list
ers appeared in this ad. Due to the
approaching Christinas holidays, the
advertisement was set front the pre
vious year with the same dates in the
expectation of making corrections be
fore going to press. However, the
j ad was put in the paper and the error
I was not discovered until after it was
printed and in the post office.
! Tax Supervisor P. S. McMullan ini
j mediately notified his tax listers of,
! the error and a corrected schedule ap
j pears in this issue. The Herald re
| grets the error and below carries the
1 correct schedule:
First Township—Mrs. P. S. .McMul
lan,-list taker: Court House from 9:30
A. M. to 5 P. M.
Second Township—l’. L. Smith, list
taker: W. L. Miller’s store, January!
17; Evans Mill Office, January 22; El
| liott Belch’s office, January 15 and 34;
Henry Bunch’s store, January 8; El
bert Peele’s store, January 10; at
home other davs from 9 A. M. to 5
P. M.
. Third Towmship—T. A. Berryman,
list taker: G. A. Hollowell’s store,
I January 10 and 24; Ryland store
| (Mrs. Spivey), January 17 and 31;
j Briggs’ store, January 5, 12, 19 and
26; at home other davs 9 A. M. to 5
I’. M.
Fourth Township—C. W. Parker,
list taker: M. C. Hobbs’ store, January
5, 12, 19 and 26; at home other days
from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Report Os Ginning
Reflects Poor Crop
Cotton In Chowan
County on December 13
Trails Last Year By
3,613 Bales
Chowan County’s poor cotton crop
is reflected in the report of F. W.
Hobbs, special agent for the Bureau
of the Census, which shows that only
1,421 bales of cotton were ginned in
the county from the 1945 crop prior to
December 13. At the same time last
year 5,034 bales were girmed from the
1944 crop, so that this year’s ginning
trails last year by 3,613 bales.
MINISTERS MEET JANUARY 7
The Chowan Ministerial Association
will hold its first meeting of the new:
year on Monday morning, January 7,
at 11 o’clock at the office of the presi
dent, the Rev. D. C. Crawford,. Jr., in
the Citizens Bank Building. Minis
ters of the county are invited to be
present.
Dutch Luncheon At,
Hotel Joseph Hewes
To Consider Drive
Workers From Seven
i teen Eastern Counties i
Invited to Attend
ON JANUARY 12
Plans For 1946 Infantile
Paralysis Drive Will
Be Principal Business
Arrangements have been made with
j Edmund Schwa rze for holding a
j Dutch luncheon at Hotel Joseph }
I Hewes, which will be sponsored by the!
! North Carolina Infantile Paralysis
Campaign Organization. The lunch
eon will be held Saturday, January 12,
at 1:30 o’clock.
Campaign directors, Chapter Chair- 1
men, publicity chairmen and chair
men of women’s activities from 17
eastern counties are being urged to
attend the meeting and to be prepared
for a full discussion of the 1946 cam
paign, as well as chapter work in the
j State.
! Six meetings are scheduled through
j out the State in the interest of the
| campaign, the other five being at
Asheville on January 7; Charlotte,}
January 8; Winston-Salem, January!
9; Raleigh, January 10 and Kinston
; January 11.
Counties to be represented at the
i Edenton meeting are Beaufort, Bertie,
j Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pare,;
Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hert
ford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton,
Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and
Washington.
J. A. Moore has. accepted' the 1940,
campaign chairmanship in Chowan
■; County and he is hopeful that folks
-! in .the County will be as generous as
in previous drives. J. Edwin Bulllap
is chairman of the Chowan County
■chapter and W. 11. Gardner, treasurer.
; Each of these is expected to attend
• the meeting and any others who are
interested in the fight against infan
tile paralysis and would like to at
: tend should notify Mr. Buffap at once
so that necessary arrangements can
be made at the hotel.
Lieut. J. P. Barnett
Appointed Executive
j Officer On Brevard
Former Chowan High
Sehool Principal Now
In China
Lieut, (jg) J. P. Barnett, USNR,
former principal of Chowan High
School and husband of Kathryn
(Kitty) Perry of Tyner, was appoint
ed executive officer of the USS Bre
vard AKIG4 on December 12.
The Brevard is one of the ships
that have been supplying the forward
areas during the recent war and is
now aiding in the distribution of sup
plies in the occupation of Japan. At
present the Brevard is discharging
cargo in Shanghai, China.
Former Edentonian
Dies In Los Angeles
Word reached Edenton late last
week of the death of William Creecy
Wood, which occurred in Los Angeles,
Cal., on December 17. Funeral ser
vices were held December 20 in St.
Paul’s Church in Los Angeles with ,
burial in the Calvary Cemetery.
Mr. Wood was born in Edenton
August 3, 1864, the son of the late I
William Creecy Wood and Henrietta!
Skinner Wood, and lived here until
early manhood. Since 1922 he hadl
been residing in Los Angeles, where '
he had engaged in the real estate 1
business.
Surviving are the following nieces
and nephews: Frank F. Fagan of
New Bern, L. Roger Fagan of New
York City, Miss Henrietta W. Fagan
of Durham, Mrs. R. P. Badham of
Edenton, Mrs. S. R. Biggs of William
ston and Mrs. J. J. Phillips of Nor
folk.
Ervin R. Saunders Is
Promoted In Japan
Ervin R. Saunders, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John C. Saunders of Tyner, has
been promoted from staff sergeant to
technical sergeant in recognition 0 f
; proven ability in his work with an in
fantry anti-tank company.
Sergeant Saunders is a member of
Maj. Gen. Paul J. Mueller’s 81st In
fantry "Wildcat” Division which is
now occupying Aomori Prefecture,
Northern Honshu in Japan.
J. L. Chestnut! Appointed
Chairman In Chowan For
Victory Clothing Collection
Peanut Crop Drops ]
S 5 Million Ponds
Short Os Estimate
Greatest Reduction In
Virginia-Carolina
Area
The final crop report released by
the Bureau of Agricultural Economics
on December 18 reduced the estimat
ed 1945 production of peanuts to be
picked and threshed by about 95 mil
lion pounds under the November 1 es
timate. The greatest reduction was
in the Virginia-Carolina area, with
the Virginia crop down about 28 mil
lion, and North Carolina about 64
million pounds under the November
estimate.
Production in the Southwest de
clined about 18 million pounds.
Southeastern production was in
creased slightly With Alabama and
Mississippi accounting for practically
i the entire amount.
The 1945 national production slight
ly under 2.1 billion pounds is a little
! under the crop picked and threshed in
1944 and is the Smallest production
since 1941.
Acreage from which! peanuts were
picked and threshed this year was
about 1. per Cent more than in 1944,
but the increased acreage was more
than offset by reduced yields per
acre.
A few peanuts remain unpicked in
the Virginia-Carolina area. Move
ment of farmers’stock peanuts in the
section was light during the past
week as a result of unfavorable
weather.. Peanuts are still largely
being bought on the basis of scheduled
prices based on percentage of sound,
mature kernels. Demand for cleaned
and shelled goods continue very heavy
with practically all millers still work-
I ing on previous orders in both the
Southeast and Southwest. Most shell
ers are declining any future orders
until they have determined just what
quantities will be available to offer
during early 1946.
The market on cleaned and shelled
goods is generally being reported at
ceiling as follows: Virgiriia-Caro
lina, Virginias, cleaned jumbos and
faneys 15'4c; shelled extra large and
mediums 16!4c; No. 1,1496 c.
Veteran City Mail
Carrier Is Retired
E. T. Rawlinson In Har
ness For 24 Years and
Eight Months
E. T. Rawlinson, veteran city mail
carrier, was retired as of December
31, though he was released from ac
tive duty just before Christmas. Mr.
Rawlinson has been in the postal ser
vice 24 years and 8 months, serving
first as a substitute and very shortly
thereafter being promoted to regular
carrier.
In leaving the post office, Post
master C. E. Kramer expressed re
gret to lose the veteran carrier, and
was high in praise of his services.
“He had one of the best efficiency
records and was a top ndteh em
ployee,” said Mr. Kramer, “he always
was given an excellent rating by the
postal inspectors.”
Mr. Rawlinson is succeeded by
Charlie Swanner, who was recently
discharged from the Nayy. He was
employed as a substitute before en
listing in the Navy.
Rotary Meeting Back
On Regular Schedule
With last week’s meeting having
been called off due to Christmas, the
Edenton Rotary Club will hold its
meeting as usual today (Thursday) at
1 o’clock in the Parish House. Presi
dent Marvin Wilson urges every mem
ber to be present due to the fact that
the meeting starts an attendance con
test.
MINOR FIRE TUESDAY
Edenton’s firemen were called out
Tuesday due to a chimney fire at the
home of Mrs. J. H. Holmes on East
Water street. Fortunately, the fire
was soon extinguished and no damage
resulted.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers wilt
realise food results.
$1.50 Per Year.
Drive Will Be Nation-
Wide During Month
Os January
GREAT NEED
Chairman Plans Early
Meeting For Purpose
Os Organization
J. L. Chestnutt has been appointed
chairman in Chowan County for the
Victory Clothing Collection for over
seas relief, which is scheduled to be
held throughout the nation between
January 7 and 31. Mr. Chestnutt
plans on calling a meeting within a
few days to form an organization in
an effort to secure a creditable
amount of clothing in the drive. He
is enlisting the support of every or
ganization in the county to help in
the drive to the end that every avail
able piece of used clothing is secured.
Henry J. Kaiser is national chair
man of the Victory Clothing Collec
tion, and has announced that 9,607
communities throughout America are
organized to conduct clothing drives
under the local chairmanship of 4,313
men and women, many of whom will
direct county-wide drives. During the
drive Mr. Kaiser is hopeful that
100,600,000 used garments will be se
cured, in addition to shoes and bed
ding. Each contributor is invited to
attach good-will messages to clothing
gifts.
“Clothing is vitally neecrsary to
combat epidemics in Europe, China
and the Philippines, according to
cabled advices from relief workers in
all liberated areas,” says Mr. Chest
initt, “so that we should give gener
ously.. Clothing now is as important
as bullets were a few months ago to
save lives, stave -off. untold misery and
to undo the evil works of the bar
barian aggressors.
“The Victory Clothing Collection is
a noble undertaking in this direction.
Articles of clothing which we can
spare will help to save lives and to
make friends. Vast populations face
the dread of the terrible Asiatic and
European winter without shoes, with
out warm clothing of any kind. North
China was left by the Japanese as by
I a swarm of hungry locusts. Nothing
which could be stolen was left un
touched. The same is true of other
! occupied areas. Our Allies, who were
locked in a death grapple with the
common enemy at close hand—Allies
who gave us the precious time we
needed to prepare—were unable dur
ing the war to supply their civilian
populations with new clothing. They
are in almost as dire need as the for
merly occupied and enslaved lands of
Europe and Asia.”
During the drive Mr. Chestnutt
asks everyone to give at least one
article of clothing, a pair of shoes or
a piece of bedding for the benefit of
overseas relief.
Chowan Tribe Elects
Group New Officers
W. H. Saunders New
Sachem; Installation
Next Monday Night
Officers for Chowan Tribe, No. 12,
Improved Order of Red Men, were
elected at the meeting held Monday
night, with W. H. Saunders succeed
ing M. M. Perry as sachem. Other
officers elected were: Prophet, M. M.
Perry; senior sagamore, E. C. Alex
ander; junior sagamore, George T.
White; chief of records, Raleigh Hol
lowell; collector of wampum, J. Ed
win Bufflap; keeper of wampum, W.
J. Daniels; keeper of wigwam, W. A.
Munden.
These officers, together with those
appointed by the new sachem, will be
installed at next Monday night’s meet
ing.
J. H. McMullan Now In
Citizens Bank Building
J. H. McMullan, proprietor of the
Edenton Insurance and Realty Com
pany and agent for the two Edenton
housing projects, on Monday moved
to a new office in the Citizens Bank
Building. Mr. McMullan’s office was
formerly on East King street opposite
Hotel Joseph Hewes, but now he oc
cupies the office at the rear entrance
on West Eden street of the Citizens
Bank Building.
He invites his friends to visit him
in his new quarters, "whether on busi
ness or not.