Veteran Fisheries
Official Resigns
Capt. John Nelson Re
tires After 49 Years
In Service
Capt. John Nelson, North Carolina’s
veteran fisheries commissioner, re
tired on June-30 He had served the
state and its various fisheries units,
most of the time as commissioner for
the past 49 years.
Captain Nelson, a native of Glou
cester, a sound side community here
on the Carteret coast, had served un
der 13 governors starting with Gov
ernor Charles Brantley Aycock back
in 1901.
No successor has been named to
carry the title of commissioner of the
commercial fisheries division but C.
D. Kirkpatrick of Charlotte who has
been associated with Captain Nelson
for the past several weeks and Ernest
Nelson, a son of Captain John, wlTl
collaborate in carrying on the enforce 1
ment duties of the commercial fisher
ies division.
George Ross, director of the depart
ment of conservation and development
of which the commercial fisheries di
vision is a unit was at Morehead City
last week to pay a last official call
on Captain Nelson, to bring greetings
from Governor Kerr Scott for a job
well done and to wish him well during
his retirement.
Maid Os Cotton At
Farm-Home Week
Style Review at ’ State
College July 31 to
August )3
Miss Elizabeth McGee, the 1950
Maid of Cotton, will appear in a cotton
style review during Farm and Home
Week at State College, July 31 to
August 3.
According to Miss Julia Mclver,
extension clothing specialist with the
State College Extension Service, the
style review will be held in the Wil
liam Neal Reynolds Coliseum, Wednes
day, August 2. The review is be
ing sponsored jointly by the 'State
College Extension Service and the
National Cotton Council.
Miss McGee, a native of Spartan
burg, S. C., will head the list of a half
dozen models appearing in the all
cotton dress review. The girls will
model 32 cotton outfits some featuring
even hats, shoes and luggage made
from cotton.
Miss Mclver points out that the
style review is scheduled so as not
to conflict with any other event on
the Farm and Home Week program.
The review will be open to the public
as well as to registered Farm and
Home Week visitors.
Miss McGee was selected 1950 Maid
of Cotton in Memphis, Tennessee last
January 3. Two days after her selec
tion she flew to New York where her
all-cotton wardrobe was assembled.
Since February she has been appear
ing at civic centers and leading de
partment stores throughout the coun
try. In March her travels took her
to England and on to Paris where
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> AIH FORCE PILOT SCORES 24,000th LANDING—Major William H.
! Poweff, of Milton, Oregon, one of the Navy-Air Force exchange
pilots, recently started a celebration when he landed aboard the
s USS Wright—the 24,000th. For the cake presentation ceremony the
, Navy bakers did a superlative job. Major Powell entered the Air
Force in 1940, went to the Philippines for duty, was captured at
Bataan and held a prisoner of war until liberated in 1945. At the
i cake-cutting ceremony, left to right, Lieut. Commander Horace H.
Eppes, Major Powell, Commander Jesse P. Robinson, Captain Albert
N. Perkins, commanding officer of the USS Wright.
she visited world-famous dress de
‘ signers. i
[ She is the daughter of Mr. and ,
r Mrs. Tom McGee of 561 East Main
l Street in Spartanburg. Her father is
j president and manager of a local de
> partment store and owns a cotton
; farm near Spartanburg.
MASSES NEXT IN
WINDSOR AND EDENTON
The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
will be offered Sunday, July 16, at 8
A. M., in Duke of Windsor Hotel con
vention room, Windsor, and at 11 A.
M., in St. Ann’s Church, Edenton, each
including sermon on “The Church
J Catholic and Apostolic”, Holy Com
munion, followed by 'Rosary for Peace,
Sunday School, with confessions in
Windsor 7:30 to 7:55, Edenton 10:30
to 10:55 A. M., stated Father F. J.
) McCourt, pastor, who invites every
, body to all Services. Mass every
; week-morning in Edenton at 6, except
, Saturday at 7.
Character is that which reveals
[ moral purpose, exposing the class of
; things a man chooses or avoids.
’ Aristotle
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EDENTON, N. C.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD EDENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1950
The first step of method is a pro
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another in any course. —Coleridge.
MAIN STREET STORY
(Continued from Page Four)
F.denton’s enforced isolation from the
rest of the State. “D. B. Liles”, a
landmark as a store and a ‘'Wool
worth” as a personage, who began
business with a few tin pans and other
odds and ends and sundries, and now
Said In Edenton By
Mitchener*s Pharmacy
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Stoning Tom Howard. Every Wadneedoy night over oil CBS Stations J
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* WEST WATER STREET EDENTON, N. C.
retired, has given to modem depart
ment stores, of the type which Mr.
Liles pioneered at various points on
Main Street. “Uncle Jimmy Rober
son’s buggy-transported, one-man
police force has given way to ade
quate personnel and radio equipped
cars; horse-and-buggy country doc
tors, overworked and unselfishly giv
ing their time and services, and liter
ally their very lives, tomn indifferent
ly appreciative community, have been
replaced by a modem hospital, effi
ciently staffed and up-to-date. These
are just a few of the things attesting
the fact that “Main Street” has grown
up.
Despite its worthy striving for ur
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- ban sophistication, Edenton at heart :
•. still remains a small town—or plain |;
i Main Street. Beneath the veneer of
. affected modernity still beats the sim
, pie and steadfast heart of the 1
straight-forward and sincere country- ■
j bred man. Here on Main Street one 1
meets the warmth of true friendship; 1
here one finds unreserved and frankly ]
offered hospitality. Here on Main 1
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