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PAGE FOUR The Chowan Herald Published every Thursday by The Chowan Herald, a partnership consisting ox J. Edwin Bufflap and Hector Lupton, at 428-425 South Broad Street, Edenton, N. C. J. EDWIN BUFFLAP Editor PETER CARLTON Associate Editor HECTOR LUPTON Advertising Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Six Months * l * oo Entered as second-class matter August 30, 1934, at the Post Office at Edenton, North Caro lina, under the act of March 3, 1879. Cards of thanks, obituaries, resolutions of respect, etc., will be charged for at regular advertising rates. . THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1947. Fall In Line, Farmers Workers are now circulating throughout the county in the interest of securing members for the Chowan County Farm Bureau. These workers are very anxious to meet Chowan’s quota of 617 members, which should not be an impossible accomplishment. , , - It is well to consider the fact that every trade ana profession is organized, it having long been realized that in union there is strength, and that the more members in any organization, the more influence can be exerted in the interest of any particular group. - It is no secret that non-agricultural groups oppose the government farm price support program, as well as other measures which from time to time crop up for the benefit of the farmer. It is obvious that one, or a few farmers, can have very little influence in adopting bene ficial measures when faced with organized opposition, so that the Farm Bureau is a distinct benefit for farm ers, for its paramount function is to lend its efforts to passing legislation which benefits-agriculture, and by the same token fight against any measures which are deemed detrimental to farming. The farmer has too long held himself aloof to organ ization, but if other professions see fit to organize, farmers should also sense the wisdom in banding to gether in order to present a 'united front, so that their wishes can be made known and influence exerted to the end that farming will occupy its rightful place in the economic structure of the nation. Chowan County is only a small section, but the farm ers are equally affected by legislation passed by the powers that be. It is reasonable, then, to expect that they should be willing to affiliate with the only organiza tion which has an ever watchful eye on agricultural matters and stands ready and willing to go to the bat in the interest of all of its members. Local workers are sacrificing their time in order to contact rural families, as well as business concerns, who are indirectly but also vitally affected, so that they should not expect these workers to make several calls before given an answer or be required to argue the merits of the Farm Bureau. Chowan farmers need the services provided by the Farm Bureau, so that there should be no necessity to have the drive drag along in order to secure the 617 members, when every farm family should be represented in the organization. Discrimination Pure And Simple Edenton business concerns are up in arms regarding the elimination of freight delivery by the Norfolk South ern Railroad, and rightly so. The action by the railroad is discrimination pure and simple in that delivery has not been stopped in communities where it has compe tition. What extra expense results in delivery of local freight means that much more added to the cost of merchandise, so that for a similar percentage of profit, our business houses will be obliged to charge a higher price to the customer than in towns where the service was continued in effect. Os course, letters from our merchants may not result in reviving the service, but it will permit railroad of ficials to know that the injustice is nauseating. mis on in II stum M! Your Ford Dealer knows your lord best, because « I. FORD- 2. SPECIAL A TRAINED JWfik FORD MECHANICS A EQU,PMENT v They’re Ford-trained AJm'&vl * ts e d ui P menf v to repair your car in j which Ford engineers the quickest time at fj know will give your great savings to you. i Ford the best service. GENUINE 4 FACTORY replacing. They fit the best Ford Service ' I longer. MpM the lowest cost. Your dealer , - . know* your e^^Tbort! ESTIMATES FRII-USB OUR BIID&ST PLAN THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 194 V. _ Heard & Seen By “Buff” -■»—-4 I’ve seen quite a few freaks in my time, but just about the b&t to date was a sweet potato shown nte last week by P. T. Daniels of Colerain Route 2. Mr. Daniels was showing the potato in Edenton Saturday, so that quite a few people, no jjoubt, have seen it. Anyway, the bloom in’ thing was the very image of a coiled rattlesnake ready to strike. The potato had twisted so that no part was grown together and so much did it resemble a rattlesnake that even markings of a button was on the tail and eyes were very plain. It surely is a freak, and one easily meriting consideration by Robert Ripley in his “Believe It or Not” syndicated feature. I’m trying to find a “friend.” The other day I received a postcard which was mailed in Edenton with the follow ing note: “Passing through your town. Had to stop. Looked you up but you had just left. Kinder glad right then. A Friend. P.S.: Come to see me some time.” Yeah, I guess I’ll go—but to see who and where? o I thought I was being complimented the other day when a feminine reader of The Herald said to me, “Buff, in reading what you write, I sometimes believe that you are a very religious person.” I felt somewhat flattered and proceeded to say, “Thank you,” but before I got the second word uttered, the lady continued, “but then at other times I just about come to the conclusion that you don’t have a darn bit of religion.” Well, that must make me something like a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. Anyway, the lady paid a splendid compliment to another lady by saying the latter was the only person in Edenton that she knew who has always and under all circumstances been just what she pretends. Pst—l’m not telling who either Mrs. So and So is. But wouldn’t it be grand, though, if that could be said about all of us? a Cal Kramer had a parade all his own the other day when he drove down Broad Street with a new boat trailer he had just completed. Most of the trailer came from Tom Cross’s junk yard, though one wouldn’t rec ognize it, for-it looks like it might be a product of a big manufacturing concern. It is a lazy man’s rig, for he has it equipped with a handle to raise rollers, another handle which pulls the boat on the trailer and other gadgets which make it easy for one man to load or un load a boat as heavy as 1,000 pounds. Several people wanted Cal to build them one like it, but he says there’s nothing doing. Now with that rig he has to detect fish swimming in the water,. Cal ought to soon have a new crop of fish stories. ■ ■■ —o~ ■- I’m 100 per cent in accord with John Burton Harrison. Friend John says that if things don’t make a change, they’ll stay like they are. And speaking about present times, maybe we’re get ting back to normal, for I remember during one of the night baseball games the lights went out for a spell. One guy said he reached in another fellow’s pocket dur ing the “blackout,” but found no change to go with the three cents he had. o Then the other day I heard a colored man telling his wife after giving her a piece of change: “Be sure and bring something back even if it is only a penny, but try to make it a nickel.” o Frank Muth, now living at Snow Hill, was responsible for a recent classified ad in The Herald seeking a wait ress for a Snow Hill restaurant. Friend Frank sent in the cost of the ad after it appeared, with the following note: “Dear Ed, ad no good—no responses. Squaws all busy, eh? Enclosed find wampum.” Me thankum! Miss Frances Tillett, business manager at Chowan Hospital, is sending out an SOS. She is very anxious to beautify the hospital grounds, and asks anyone in Eden ton who might have some extra bulbs to let her know. Miss Tillett wants narcissus, iris, tulip, daffodil, lily of the valley and verbina. Help her out, folks! Charles Baker of the Kar Park Corp., is expected to arrive in Edenton next Monday to begin installing 162 parking meters. That’s when bellyaching will staVt. Audrey Pearce Elected CHS Junior President At a meeting of the Junior Class of Chowan High School held Tuesday morning of last week officers for the year were elected. The’ successful officers are: Audrey Pearce, presi dent; Jack Leary, vice president; Audrey Bunch, secretary and report er, and Leon Bunch, treasurer. Navy Recruiter In Edenton Wednesdays Chief Baker of the U. S. Navy re cruiting station, Norfolk, announces that in the future he will be at the Edenton Post Office . every Wednes day from 8:30 A. M. to noon to take applications for the regular Navy and. to issue Victory medals. 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