North Carolina Newspapers

Volume Xlll.— Number 36. Town Os Edenton Accepts Temporary Lease Os Naval lir Station Tuesday Night Permanent Lease Will Follow Screening of Equipment SI.OO PER~ YEAR Deal Now Pending to Sub-lease Station as a Whole Town Council at its meeting Tues day night accepted a temporary lease executed by the Navy Department which give:- the Town of Edenton control of the Edenton Naval Air Station. The terms are that a rental of sl.o(i per year will be paid, the lease being bn a yearly revocable basis. A permanent lease on the same terms will be arranged later, when the various Navy bureaus will have had time to screen the equip ment at the base in order to determ ine What items are considered short and needed by the Navy. Recently Mayor Leroy Haskett urged high Navy officials to speed up preparation of a lease due to the fact that quite a few applications have been received for various parts of the base and Friday of last week a ten tative preposition was received to sub-lease the entire base with tile provision that the Town can main tain what facilities it desires for its own use. Being unable to enter into any contract without a lease, Mayor Haskett urged speedy action on the part of Navy officials so that the Town would be in position to proceed with utilization of the base. Prospect* are now that the entire base will be sub-leased to a scientist for biological research pertaining to the breeding of high class cattle and a concern manufacturing p re-fabri cated house.-.. Raymond L'mbaugh, a scientist of Argos, Indiana, and his brother, Hetschel Umbatigh, were in Edenton W ednesday and Thursday of last week arid were very much Im pressed w it;: tile base and stated that •ey were ready to consider: a lease t , vi move :n equipment, They, to ther with David Horvey, head of a re-fabricated: concern, are expected to ire in Edenton again Friday and will, no d. uht, present a proposition to the Town for use of the: base, I; is understood, however, that the Town will reserve for its use the hos pital and possibly some other por tions of the base. At Tuesday night’s meeting,Which was called at 7 o'clock in order to allow members of Town Council to attend the baseball game, the lfi4t>- 47 budget was officially adopted, which provides for a tax rate of $1.50 on the SI.OO property valuation. The business was handled with dispatch, so that the meeting adjourued short ly after $ o’clock. Farm Bureau Now Seeking Members Workers Urged to So licit For Members In All Parts of County A membership drive by the Chow- 1 an County Farm Bureau is now in progress with workers this week seeking to boost the number of as sociate members, as well as indiv idual members. W. A. Harrell, president of the Farm Bureau, on Tuesday morning said that while workers in the drive were rather slow in getting started to canvass prospective new members, he was very much encouraged with early' reports of those who started on the work. Mr. Harrell stated that the mem bership goal of the Chowan organi-' zation is 515 members. The present I membership is around 200, so that a I great deal of work will be required j on the part of workers to meet the 1 county’s quota. The county is div ided into six teams, so that the en tire county will be thoroughly cov ered unless some of the workers fail to complete their job. Chairmen in the various communi ties are as follows: Gliden, D. H. Berryman; Enterprise, Herbert Hoi-- lowell; Edenton, O. C. Perry'; Center Hill. Joe A. Wiggins; Cross Roads, Dick Leary; Rocky Hock, Carey Evans. These chairmen have a Ks jroup of assistants and if any in ' cerested parties are not contacted, memberships will be gladly taken by' the chairmen or officers of the Farm Bureau. The officers aside from W. A. Harrell, president, are J. G. Perry', vice-president; Rodney T. Harrell, secretary-treasurer and the follow ing board of directors: A. C. Grif fin, J. C. (Dick) Leary, West W. Byrum and J. B. Webb. THE CHOWAN HERALD A MOMA NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TMM INTERESTS OF QHOWAN COUNTY Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 12, 1946. Ordered Out J Through her attorney’, Marvin j Wilson, Mrs. W. I. Cozzens has | notified the Town of Edenton that as of October 1 she has leased the building occupied by the Police Department on a long term basis, so that Police Head quarters will have to be moved. The building has been rented for several years by the Town and used by the police. As the result of the notification ' the police must seek new quar ters immediately, and on lues day night it was decided by Town Council that the police move back into the Municipal Building, tem porarily at least, until other ar rangements can be made. Residents In North Edenton Up In Arms As Result Os Dust Temporary Relief Pro vided After Round ing Up Oil ( Residents on Johnson Street have | been up in arms the past two weeks as the result of a dust nuisance caus ed by diverting-traffic over the street .: while work is being done by the State Highway Commission in widening Broad Street and installing curbs and gutters. So much dust is raised that residents are unable to sit on porches, much less allow doors and windows to he open. J. Edwin Bufflap, Street Commis sion r. upon initial complaints, or dered two car loads of stone to pro vide temporary relief, hut was in formed by' telegram that the order could not be tilled. In a dilemma to provide some kind of relief about l.iitii) gallons of used automobile oil was rounded up and members of the j Street Department began, with inade jquate equipment, to spread the oil j Tuesday afternoon. What area is not treated with the oil available will be sprinkled with water, arrangements having been made with Fire Chief It. K. Hal! to use one of the fire engines for the purpose. This was one of the streets includ ed in the recent proposed improve ments to be hard-surfaced, but which was defeated in the election. Meeting Os Legion Is Again Postponed Members Urged to At tend Meeting at Base September 17 | Members 'of Ed Bond Dost of the | American Legion have been notified l by Commander W. I*. Jones that the meeting scheduled to be held tonight (Thursday) has been postponed until Tuesday' night, September 17. The postponement was called on account of the Albemarle League baseball ■ series in which Edenton and Windsor * are playing for the league champion ship. Every member of the Dost, as well as Auxiliary members, are urged to attend the meeting, which will be J held at the Enlisted Men’s Club at the Edenton Naval Air Station and any not having rides are requested to be at any of the four places at 7:45 o’clock: Leggett & Davis, Mitchen ler’s Pharmacy, the Triangle or Cher- I ry’s Restaurant. At this meeting a decision will he j reached relative to use of the Eniist ■ed Men’s Club as Legion headquar ters and refreshments and an inter- 1 esting program is planned. Rev. Allen Brantley At Center Hill Church The Rev. Allen P. Brantley, pastor of the First Methodist Church of i Elizabeth City, will speak at the Center Hill Methodist Church, Tues day night, September 17, at 8 o’clock. The public is invited. Mr. Brantley s to -discuss Christian education. RETURNING TO WCUNC Misses Josie White, Jackie Letcher and Mary Griffin expect to’ leave Tuesday of next week to resume their studies at WCUNC, Greensboro. Miss Mary MacDonald Holmes, who will also enter the college this year, plans to leave Monday of next week. Edenton’s School I Enrollment Shows Increase First Day John A. Holmes Still Angling For Two Teachers Edenton City Schools opened the new school year Monday morning,. : when appropriate exercises were held I in the High School auditorium. The | Rev. H. Freo Surratt, pastor of the Methodist Church conducted the de-j votional service and Thomas (’hears, I Chairman of the Board of Trustees, addressed brief remarks of welcome: to the students and teachers. According to John A, Holmes. Superintendent of City Schools, 581 pupils enrolled in the Elementary School, which is the same as last , year, and 187 enrolled in the High! School as compared to 15(1 last year., Mr. Holmes attributes the increase to the fact that the twelfth grade, was added to the High School. While, there are at present no figures for j the Negro schools, D. F. Walker, j Principal for the past 14 years, in formed Superintendent Holmes that I there was an obvious increase, i In the white schools there are ten teachers on register in the High [School and 17 in the Elementary School, with six High School teachers and 2.4 Elementary in the Negro schools. Among those teachers listed are: First grade, M|sses Fannie Sue Say ers, Emily Smithwick and Mrs. Wil ma Swain: Second grade, Misses Ruby Felts and Carrie Lee Jones; Third grade. Miss Myrtle Jenkins and Mrs. W. 11. Shepard; Fourth grade, Mrs. Lloyd Griffin and Miss 1 Lena Jones: Fifth grade, Miss Kath erine Deans and Mrs. Edmund , Schwarze; Sixth grade. Misses Mary I Lee Copeland and Betty Fleming; Seventh grade, Mrs, Richard Davis and Ernest Swain, who is also prin cipal of the Elementary School; Eighth grade, Misses Elizabeth El liott and Marguerite Mush. High School teachers include: Miss Paulina Hassell, principal and teacher of English: Miss -Louise Morgan, French •and English: Ben Askew, Social Science: Tex Lindsay. Health and Physical Education; Miss .Mary Gas kins, Natural Science; Miss Mary, Morris. Commercial subjects: Miss ’ Josephine Grant, Vocational Home Economics: Leon 1.. Lewis, Indus* j trial Arts; Mrs. 1.. 1.. Lewis, Piano; Miss Myrtle Wall’. Librarian. Mr. Holmes informed The Herald that while at present there is a need for a teacher of Mathematics and one to teach a combination, including! Latin and some Mathematics, he feels (confident that despite the difficulties j I involved, the vacancies will be filled, j The register of teachers for the Ne- ■ gro schools will he made available las soon as possible, it was annduhc-t [ e(l ' MASONS MEET TONIGHT A meeting of Unanimity Lodge, No, 7, A. F. & A. M„ is scheduled tonight. EDENTON COLONIALS WIN FIRST THREE DAMES FOR CHAMPIONSHIP OF LEAGUE | Winning; three of the first four [games played with Colerain in the the Edenton Colonials on I Thursday night won the right to play for the championship of the Albe- I marie League. .Five games were re quired to decide the winner in the j Hertford-Windsor series, and in Hertford Saturday night the Bertie :County team won a thrilling game so that Edenton and Windsor are now engaged in a seven-game series to decide the champions. Up to Tuesday night Edenton had a decided advantage, having won :J.I of the first three games played. The fourth game, weather permitting, was being played in Windsor Wednesday afternoon while The Herald was be ing printed. If Windsor wins the game, the next two are scheduled to •be played in Edenton tonight (Thurs jday) and Friday night, and if the I seventh game is necessary,, it will he played in Windsor Sunday afternoon. Record-breaking crowds have been attending all of the series games, as has been the case since lights were installed on Hicks Field. The first game of the final series was played in Windsor .Sunday after noon when the Colonials won Jim Thorne was on the mound for Eden ton and was opposed by Schultz, who was replaced by Andrews. Edenton scored two runs in the first frame when Trot Leary sent the ball over the school building far out in right field. Edwards singled and scored on Fulghum’s single for the other run. In the third, Leary’s bat again figur ed in the scoring of three runs. Harry Lassiter walked and Ben As kew bunted, both runners being safe. Joe Wheeler was also safe on a neat bunt, filling the bases. Leary then doubled, cleaning the bases. The High School Football Team Opens Season With Greenville High i Aces Will Tackle Pitt County Boys Friday, September 20 Tex Lindsay, coach of the Edenton High School football team, announced j his week that the gridiron seapon will open Friday, September 20, when jhe Aces will go to Greenville to I tackle the strong Pitt County outfit. Though a bigger school, Coach Lind jsay predicts that the Edenton (earn will make a good showing and is hopeful that the first game Will re sult in a victory. | Coach Lindsay has had a large number of boys out for practice des pite the recent bad weather and is , very much encouraged with the .showing made. I StancH Davenport and Russell .Wheeler are working hard and show ing promise of playing a good game at end. Jack Habit, a hard worker, along with Curtis Pressley, Bobby Byrum and rid row Whitson are shaping up into a fair looking backfield. There will be no first backfield! Dick Hol lowed, Jinuny Cates, Maurice Has sell and Ere.d Keeter will be alter nating and running from their res pective positions as soon as they are familiar with the formation and plays. Al Habit and Pete Manning are at the guard posts Which will he shared a lot by Charles Lassiter and Ralph Ward. i Several of the boys have been out regularly and are showing signs of | developing into first rate football players. "By tile lime we get to Greenville," said (loach Lindsay, "we are expect ing to have a part of our polished form—-but more time will lie needed to complete that to any degree of satisfaet ion.” Following- is the schedule for tile year which is complete except for a game pending with Wiliianjston oil Nov. Bth: j Sept. 21 >—Greenville there, j Sept. 27- Columbia here, Oct. 4—Her’ford there, Oct. 14—Windsor here. | Oct. 18—-Scotiand Neck there. Oct. 25 Franklin, Va„ here. Nov. I—Plymouth here. Nov. 8-- Williamston here. , Nov. 15—Ahoskie here. Nov; 22 E, City there. I * i Retired Minister At Center Hill Sunday |-. The Rev. M. L. Chappell, retired Methodist Minister, of the Chappell Hill section, will be guest speaker at the Center Hill Methodist -Church [Sunday morning at the regular church service. The public is invited to attend. • hi her run came in the seventh when • Edwards Was safe on an error, scor -1 ing later on Fulghum’s single, Windsor scored one run in the fifth - and two in the sixth, Jarlett in the - latter inning hitting a home run as - ter Andrews doubled. Thorne allow i ed six hits, while the Colonials made • nine safeties. > The second game Monday night re ■ suited in a 'pitchers' duel between i Lester Jordan and Ted Miller. Jor dan blanked the Rebels .'l-0 and allow t -d only two hits. Millet' allowed five I hits. The Colonials scored two runs . in the sixth. Leary was safe on an i error, Edwards and Fulghum both r beat out bunts, tilling the bases. • ! Leary scored on Thorne's grounder to >.] first and Edwards scored when Claude i , Griffin hit a long fly to center. The other run came in the eighth when • Fulghum tripled and scored on Jim • • Thorne’s single. Jarlett and Miller . made the two Windsor hits, both' i singles. ; With Tuesday designated as “John • Byrum Night,” in honor of the Co lonials’ manager, who has been out of ; the game due to an injured leg, the Rebels got off to a good start by i scoring three runs In the first inning. ■ Punk Spruill singled, Andrews walk i ed and then Schultz sent the hall over II left field fence for a home run. Gar ■ | land Little, on the mound for Eden • ton, then tightened and allowed only . two more hits the remainder of the ligame. Jarlett, former Toronto pitch , jer, was on the mound for Windsor and was touched for nine hits. Eden . ton scored a run in the second and ■ two in each of the foufth, seventh and t . eighth innings. Snooky Hollowed : led at the bat with three hits, while i Little helped the cause by making two > hits. September ScniTviiowan Superior Court Results In One Os Shortest Sessions [White Cane SaleJ Sponsored by the Edenton Lions Club, a white cane sale will be conducted in Edenton Satur day. John Mitchener. chairman I of the Sight and Conservation Committee of the Lions Club. I will be in charge of the sale and j has arranged to have memhers of the Girl Scouts sell the while canes. Funds received during the sale will be used in the club’s blind work. A blind worker is now in '! the county assisting in the read justment of several blind eases. Leona Flood, Noted Violinist Scheduled i In Edenton Sept. 20 i ! Artist Hailed as Out standing Feminine ; . Star In World \ Talented, youthful Leona Flood, concert violinist, will make her debut* !_ to the Albemarle vicinity when she appears in a special performance at the Edenton High School auditorium Friday evening,- September 2u. under • the sponsorship of the local Rotarv Club. The Rotary Club, in presenting ■ Miss Flood, is bringing to Edenton the. finest in cultural entertainment. Ail accomplished singer as well as I a violinist, the youthful virtuoso was • hailed as the outstanding feminine ; star on a world .wide tour that began in Sweden and carried, iter to the music centers of the old world. Ac claimed in Paris, London, Stockholm. ; Rome, Bucharest and other Euro pean capitals at the early age of sixteen, when most teen age young sters Were actively engaged in play. ,-Miss Flood received rave notices from music masters the world over, j When the rumblings of war cloud ed the .'European situation. Miss* Flood and her entourage returned I home amidst, the plaudits of the in ' ternational music circles. Her last i triumphant appearance , before. . re turning to America was in Sydney. Australia. I Many **f Edenton -' .music-conscious:! * youngsters, who a ! so haw received ( ' praise for musical feats, will he in terested in knowing that Miss Flood |is Hie proud possessor of a Stradi jVarius, one of the finest pieces of [craftsmanship; in violins. At present Miss Flood lives wild her mother in a New York pent ’ house overlooking the Hudson River. 1 , Marvin Wilson and Jim Wood, eo j hairmen of the affair urge all in- I I terested. persons to purchase advance . tickets at any one of the local drug stores so that they may be assured ,of securing advantageous seating 1 accommodations. Lions Will Entertain Edenton Ball Club President Griffin Calls For Reports of Vari ous Committees Members of the Edenton team of! the Albemarle League will be guests of tile Lions Club at the. regular meeting next Monday night, this de cision being made at this week’s meeting. President’ Wall'ce Griffin during the meeting called for reports from, the various committees and v ery in-j f'resting reports of progress were! submitted by Hie following chairmen: j Civic Improvements—Walter Hoi ton. Publicity—-Kenneth Float's. Education —Nathan Dark Safety—Jesse Harrell Community Betterment Leroy Haskett. Attendance Linwood Worrell. Constitution and By-laws Ralph Parrish. Finance —R. C. Holland. Membership—W. E. Malone. Program—A. P. Harrell. Convention—Hector Lupton. Boys and Girls—J. Clarence Leary. Citizenship and Patriotism Earl i Harrell. Health and Welfare—West Byrum. Sight and Conservation—John Mit chener. | Lions Education—Oscar Duncan. $1.50 Per Year. I Judtfe Frizzelle Winds Up Business In Day And a Half 10 DIVORCES Only One Civil Case Dis posed of And 10 Crim inal Cases Tried Chowan County’s September term of Superior Court adjourned at noon Tuesday, marking up one of the shortest court terms on record. With J Judge J. Paul Frizzelle of Snow Hill [presiding 10 criminal cases were dis j posed of, one civil action settled and 10 divorces granted during the day and a half session. Members of the Grand Jury are !J R. By ruin, Luther Bunch, J. S. | Bunch, Erwin R. Saunders, Lloyd I j Overton, Julius S. Hardison, Leroy Boyce, C. A. Perry, W. G. Forehand, J. R. Bass, R. A. Mansfield, W. C. Brabble, Clarence Hunch, E, M. Hqw elJ, J. E. i’eeje, Preston Dail, M. G„ , I Bateman and W. R. Eason. J. R. j Byrun! was named foreman. Only 'two drawn for jury duty were ex cused, these being .1. M. Jones and jW, C. Hoi In well, . j fi> his charge U< the grand jury (Judge Frizzelle sa-ivi he had. eon , ducted court here several times and that he. (fid not recall trying many serious cases. He said lie entertaih . ed a high, opinion .of the county’s citizens’ . respect to the Court ami Obedience to the laws, and that he could not say anything more com plimentary. He stressed the fact, however, that ! crime in is now rapidly increasing-in: some cases and that the upsurge of cii* was , most brutal and fiendish, referring' to ,-cvera! shocking cas *s now ■:) . trial in this State. .Judge Frizzelle stressed the imp " tance of the grand jury, Saying that passing upon presentments and bills of indictments were, by no means the • most important duty of the body, [and that by properly carrying out of the various duties, there was never .better and greater, opportunity to ’serve the county and bring lasting 1 ; benefits to its people, i Because .of the nature of the grand jury. Judge Frizzelle said hat con jditions in the remotest section of the county should be known and that any [violators of tile law should be . brought to justice. He took occasion !to refer to school buses in the state as vehicles which should have been I abandoned years ago. He said he understood - conditions relative to re placements. and that he had no criti cism provided the buses are kept in safe condition. Rehearsing the usual duties of the grand jury, the Judge emphasized the duty of grand jury members to ’maintain secrecy not only during the term of court relative to present iments or complaints, hut If is their 'duty to keep secret at all times what goes on in the grand jury room, so that there should be no fear to fur* tiish or discuss information brought before the body. | The most important case tried was that of Tom Ambrose, who Was char ged with breaking and entering the home of Mrs. Flossie Tvviddy with intent to commit rape. The defend ant pleaded guilty to breaking and entering but .with lion-burglarious, intent. The State accepted the plea and lie was sentenced to two years on the roads. j. Freeman Anthony was found not 'guilty of being drunk and disorderly and. with violation of probation. ! George Franklin, who was charged with fraud,’was remanded to Record er’s Court for compliance with a judgment in said court. In the case of Henry Louis Miller, charged with driving a vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor, [the State took a no! pros with leave idue to all witnesses, who were stat ioned at the Edenton Naval Air Sta |tion, being transferred. { S. E. Linton was found not guilty jon a charge of violating the speed law. Frank Gaskins was found guilty on a charge of assaultwith a deadly weapon and was sentenced to two years on the roads. William Cooper was found guilty of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny. He was given 12 months to run concurrently with a sentence imposed in Recorder’s Court on May 10 and to terminate with the expiration of aforesaid sentence. Whit Cherry plead guilty to charges of breaking and entering, larceny and possession of burglary (Continued on Page Five)