North Carolina Newspapers

Volume XlX.—Number Hi Crops Harvested On Chowan Farms 39% Os Total Acreage Cotton Acreage In 195! 35 Per Cent Above Previous Year 5,426 ONJfARMS Information Is Released By Crop Reporting Service According to the N. C. and HI. S. Departments of Agriculture Crop re porting service, crops were harvest ed in 1951 from 39 per cent of the 86,17® acres in Chowan County farms. The preliminary summary of the 1952 Farm Census Survey , shows crops were harvested from 33,699 acres, 1,- 666 acres were idle cropland, 1,885 acres improved pasture and 777 acres other pasture. The other 48 689 acres of farm land was wooded, waste, homesiteS, etc. Cotton acreage in 11951 was almost 35 per cent above the 1950 acreage harvested, and soybean acreage was up 53 per cent from the preceding year. Corn and peanuts were still the major crops, however, representing 40 and 23 per cent respectively of all crops harvested. 'Chowan County farm ers also report they increased the number of beef cows and heifers 81 per cent between January 1, 1951 to January 1,1952. The following information in the re port was contributed toy farmers to the County Commissioners through their farm census supervisors and township listers during January. The information on crops is for the year 1951. Farm land three acres and over, 86,715. Harvested crop land, 33,699 acres. Idle crop land, 1,665 acres. Improved pastures, 1885 acres. All other pasture land, 777 acres. All other land, 48,68jLa££ps. , . Com harvested, 13,434 acres. Cotton harvested, 3,090 acres. Tobacco harvested, 870 acres. Peanuts grown alone, 7,956 acres. 'Wheat harvested, 48 acres. Oats harvested, 14 acres. All other small grains harvested, 28 acres. Soybeans, alone for beans, 4,832 acres. Soybeans, grown with Other crops, 660 acres. Soybean and cowpea hay harvested, 14 acres. All other hays, 23 acres. Irish potatoes, 58 acres. Sweet potatoes, 228 acres. Other vegetables, for sale, 2,515 acres. Commercial fertilizers, 7,778 tons. Sows and gilts, December to June 1, 976. Cows and heifers kept mainly for milk, 204. 'Cows, and heifers kept mainly for beef, 540. I Hens and pullets, 33,334. Tractors usable on farms, 513. All people on farms, 5,426. Lupton Is President Os State ABC Group Elected at Meeting Held Last Week at More head City Edenton and Hector Lupton in par ticular were signally honored last week in Morehead City, when Mr. Lup ton was elected president of the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Association. Mr. Lupton, who was vice president last year, succeeds Sam Alford of Henderson. Judge Allen Dunn of Rowan County was elected vice president and J. Lloyd Britt of Asheville was re-elected secretary treasurer. Lupton’* election to the presidency is the second time Edenton furnished a president since the association was formed in 1938. Hie late Millard F. Bond, Jr., was the other president. Important Baseball Meeting Tonight A mass meeting of d interest ed baseball fans has been called for tonight (Thursday) at 8 o’clock in the Court Home. Attendance on the pert of local fans is of no little concern to club officials, and in order to con tinue as a member of the Coastal Plain League some steps will be considered to improve the local attendance. requested to sttend the mooting. CHOWAN HERALD j Polio Chairman | iliiilMr s&m: HPjHi , BUPW,. ' ' ■ v|f§v ■■ . ■ GEORGE S. TWIDDY Yielding to an appeal for a March of Dimas Chairman for Chowan County in the 1953 March of Dimes, George S. Twiddy re cently accepted the chairmanship. The drive will be held during January of next year. liters Planning To Attend Conference In Edenton June 26 To 28 Exclusive Meeting Will Include About 26 Pro minent Writers Wilborne Harrell was this week no tified by Richard Walser of Raleigh, chairman of the arrangements com mittee for the North Carolina Writ ers’ Conference to be held in Eden ton June 26, 27 and 28, that about 26 or 27 prominent writers will attend. Among those who have already made plans to attend are the follow ing: Mr. and Mrs. Corydon Bell, Sap phire, juvenile books; Holley Mack Bell, Charlotte, short stories; Mebane Holoman Burgwyn, Jackson, novels; Philip Clark, Swannanoa, short stories; Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, Hartsville, S. C., novels; Burke David, Greensboro, novels; A. T. Dill, Jr., New Bern, historical writings; Inglis Fletcher, Edenton, historical novels; Harry Golden, Charlotte, social works; Charlotte Hilton Green, Raleigh, na turalist; Frank Borden Hanes, 'Wins ton-Salem, poetry; John Harden, Greensboro, short stories; (Bernice Kelly Harris, Seaboard, novels; Le- Gette Blythe, Huntersville, biog raphies; Bernadette Hoyle, iSmithfield, journalist; Margarette Wood Smeth urst, -Raleigh, journalist; Walter Spearman, Chapel (Hill, criticism; Thad Stem, Jr., Oxford, poetry; David Stick, Kitty Hawk, "Graveyard of the Atlantic”; James Street, Chapel Hill novels; Richard Walser, Raleigh, cri ticism; William T. Polk, Greensboro, short stories. Not heard from yet, but expected to attend are Paul Green, Noel Hous ton, Sam Ragan and possibly several others. Special guests from Edenton are Mrs. Duncan Wales, Mrs. Ruth Vail and Wilborne Harrell. The conference will be open only to those who have been invited, which will make it rather exclusive. Sidney Campen, Jr., At Camp Darden Sidney Campen, Jr., left Friday for Camp Darden at Sedley, Va. He will remain in the Boy Scout camp for nine weeks, where he is serving on the waterfront staff. Nert week eight local Boy Scouts' will leave for Camp Darden to spend two weeks and the following week > 26 boys are planning to go to the camp for one week. * Center Hill Awarded Safety Certificate The Center Hill community has been awarded a certificate of recognition for outstanding achievements in high way safety for 1981. The award was presented by Mrs. Alice E. Futrell of Hertford, field representative of the Highway Safety (Division. 'Edenton, Chowan County, North Caroliha, Thursday, June 19,1952. Group Os Baptist Youngsters Plan To Attend Assembly About 35 Will Leave on Monday For Week at Fort Caswell A group of some 36 happy and ex cited young people, members of the Training Union of the Baptist Church, are now busily engaged in making last minute preparations for the coveted trip to the State Training Union Con- 1 vention at the Caswell Baptist As sembly Grounds which is the well known Fort Caswell property near Southport, N. C. Twenty-eight of these young people form the Junior Choir which will par ticipate in the state-wide Hymn Festi val during the convention. 'Seven of the group will participate in the state wide Junior Memory Work Drill. The group will spend the entire week of June 23-28 at the assembly and will attend classes of instruction and guid ance each morning; worship services each night and each afternoon will be devoted to rest, fun and various types of recreation including a dip in the ocean. This large group is entitled to the trip because of unusual achievement and a very remarkable record by the choir in the associational and regional Hymn Festivals and the Memory Work participants in the associational and regional Memory Work Drills. Both groups have made enviable rec ords and the church is proud to send them to not only represent the church but also other churches of the Chowan and West Chowan Associations. The group is happy to have five memory work participants from the Rocky Hock Church join them and unite with the group for the week. Those making the trip are: Choir members—Priscilla Bunch, Karen Hol lowell, Millie Willis, Judy Elliott, Ara minta Hobbs, Peggy Elliott, Brenda Mooney, Patricia Bunch, Janet Bunch, Linda Leary, Betsy Ashley, Frances Boyce, Sandra Boyce, Rosa Hollowell, Ruth Stokely, Pat Partin, Ruth White, Faye Haste, Madeline Russell, Ann Taylor, Beverly Conn, Estelle Stal lings, Estelle Perry, Ann Braswell, Peggy Halsey, Yvonne Williams, San dra White, Jimmie Cozzens and Har rett Bond. Junior Memory Work participants— Linda Leary, Janet Bunch, Sandra White, Patricia Bunch, Clyde Cobb, Edwin Byrum, Billy Bunch and non participant, Bruce White, Jr. Memory Work participants from Rocky Hock Church are Ruth Leary, Emily Leary, Carolyn Layton, Gerald Harrell. The group will be chaperoned by Mrs. Lena M. Leary, Miss Mildred Munden, Mrs. Haywood Bunch, Miss Mary Ann Elliott and Miss Beulah Evans from the Rocky Hock Church. They will leave by chartered bus at 7 o’clock on Monday morning and will return Saturday night. Demonstration Os New Combine At Webb Farm June 24 Affair Is Sponsored By Edenton Tractor and Equipment Co. Sponsored by the Edenton Tractor & Equipment Company, a combine demonstration will be held on the Jack Webb farm Tuesday afternoon, June 24, at 1 o’clock. In the demonstration the original Auger Type Combine will be used showing the advantages of this ma chine. The public is cordially invited to attend this demonstration. Those who attend are advised to turn left at the first lane after passing over Blount’s Creek bridge. Quinn Cooking School Will Terminate Today Final session of a General Electric cooking school sponsored by the Quinn Furniture Company will be held this (Thursday) afternoon at 3 o’clock at their store. Sessions were held Tuesday and Wednesday, when Mrs. Mary Peyton Boan gave demonstra tions of cooking with various Gen eral Electric appliances. The school has attracted quite a few .women, all of whom were very much impressed. A prize was award ed at the two sessions already held and another prize will be given at to day’s school. ROTARY MEETS TODAY Edenton’s Rotary Club will meet in the Parish House today (Thursday) at 1 o’clock. President J. L. Obestnutt urges every member of the club to attend. —J— ; ; Edenton Colonials In Third Place Position 10 Coastal Plain Race Local Outfit Hang Up Five Straight Wins During Week j STANDING OE ICLUBS (As of Wednesday) ) iW L Pet. Kinston 30 17 .638 Wilson 30 18 .625 Edenton 25 22 .532 Roiky Mount 24 24 .500 Nek Bern 22 24 .478 Go|dsboro 20 26 .435 Tajjboro 19 27 .413 Roanoke Rapids 17 29 .370 ginning five of seven games played during the week, Edenton’s Colonials, as pf Wednesday morning, was occu pying third place in the Coastal Plain Le4gue. Wednesday of last week the Colonials split a doubleheader and west on to win five straight games until dropping a close contest to Mount on 'Hicks Field Monday night 5 to 4. The game scheduled at Wilson Tues day night was called off on account of rain. Home games this week are: 'Kin ston Friday night, Rocky (Mount Sun day afternoon, Roanoke Rapids Tues day night. Edenton 4-1, Tarboro 6-0 On Wednesday night of last week on Hicks Field the Colonials split in a double bill with Tarboro. The first game of seven innings was won by Tarboro 6 to 4. The visitors scored half of their runs in the first inning on one hit and two errors and in the second Lapa derlp. visiting moundsman got in trouble when he walked Spindler and Horton and then hit Mauney. White then walked forcing in a run. At this poipt Kunze went in the box and Evajns was safe on an error which allowed two more rung to be scored and -tied the count 3-3 . Tarbori went in the lead in the fourth when Pavuk hit h home run and then added two moife. in the seventh on one hit and two*errors. Ronnie White started on the mound for Edenton, but was relieved by Tom my Reeves in the seventh. Both teams committed several errors, with the Colonials scoring their four runs on only two hits, one a double by Evans and a single by Willard. j In the second game Monk Raines and Phillips engaged in a pitchers’ duel with the Edenton hurler having a little better of the argument. The Colonials won by a score of 1-0. Raines was in splendid form, al lowing only five scattered hits and fanned 14 Tarboro batters. Phillips gave up only eight hits, with the win ning run coming in the fourth when Spindler singled and scored on Grif fin’s single. Griffin made three of the Colonials’ eight hits off Phillips, with Willard following with two hits. Edenton 7, Tarboro 2 In Tarboro Thursday night the Co lonials won by a score of 7 to 2. Stoudemire started on the mound for Edenton, but was relieved by (Sha hid in the fourth after he allowed only (Continued on Page Six) County Music Club Will Meet June 26th Anyone Who Is Interest ed In Music Is Invited To Attend Tho Chowan County iMusic Club will meet in the Chowan Community (Building at Cross Roads Thursday af ternoon, June 26, at 3 o’clock. This group includes Home Demonstration Club music leaders, members of rural church choirs and anyone else who is interected in music. The subject for this meeting will be “Improving Vocal Tone Production.” Mrs. Wallace Goodwin, County Music Chairman, urges men and women, and older girls and boys from every com munity to attend this meeting, Methodist Vacation Bible School Goses Almost 50 boys and girls were en rolled in the Methodist vacation Bible School which closed (Friday. During the sessions classes were held for be ginners, (primary and intermediate children, with the following teachers serving: Mrs. Jesse iSwinson, Mrs. Ruth Miles, Mrs. J. H. Thigpen, Mrs. Ben Perry, Miss Linda Dewnum, Miss Christine Brown,, Mrs. S. Hanson, Mrs. E. B. Edwards, Miss Theda Goodwin and Miss Margaret Griffin. Misls Jack ie Wallace served as pianist for the schooL Mrs. Roy Hassell was in charge of the school and presented exercises Sunday morning at the Church School. Chowan County Tax Rate Maintained At $1.53 For New Year |_lliss EdentofJ Between the two games of baseball played Wednesday night on Hicks Field, Miss Dorothy Henninger was named “Miss Edenton” and will represent the Edenton Colonials in a contest to choose “Miss Coastal Plain.” Miss Henninger won over two other contestants, Miss Edna Bos well and Miss Betty Rowell. At a date to be announced, the < winners from each entry in the i Coastal Plain will appear at Hicks 1 Field as well as at each of the i towns in the circuit in order to be i judged for the honor. : There is a probability that Miss i LuLong Ogburn, “Miss North 1 Carolina”, will be one of the s judges. ( j Scouts Enjoy Tour ; Os Edenton Marine• Corps Landing Field j - ■ ( One Hundred Boys Are* Thrilled By Plane Demonstration j ■ < One hundred Boy Scouts, represent- , ing seven troops, were conducted on a special tour of Marine Auxiliary j Landing Field, Edenton, Thursday, ■) ! June 12th. The Scouts, representing ( [ the West Albemarle District, thrilled , ■ to the rumble of jet engines and the ( : flights of F4U piston engine “Cor- , sairs” circling the sky. , 1 Boys from Edenton, Hertford, Sun bury, Gatesville and Durants Neck j l were introduced to the intricate op- i erations of a Marine Air Station, by J i pilots of Marine Aircraft Group Elev- ( i en. 'Small sections of the Scout group, i each led by officers, visited the opera tions tower, hangar, flight line, and i examined individual F9F “Panther” i i and F2H “•Banshee” jets and conven- j 1 tional type planes. j During the tour, which lasted from 1 ' 10:30 until 3:30 in the afternoon, the ] Scouts also took a dip in the spacious : combat pool at the station and saw i ■ a Marine Corps training film. ! The tour was arranged by MAG-11 ' Special Services, with First Lieu -1 tenant Graham F. Langley in charge, < and Sidney S. Campen, chairman of < the district camping and activities I 1 committee. J George S. Twiddy Is Chairman For March Os Dimes For 1953 . Accepts Local Appoint- I ment After Visit Os State Director George S. Twiddy has consented to serve as chairman for the 1953 March of Dimes campaign in Cho wan County, which will be held as usual during the month of January. ' Mr. Twiddy was contacted recently 1 r by J. Edwin Bufflap, chairman of the • ' Chowan County Chapter of the Nat- • 1 ional Foundation for Infantile Paral- 1 ‘ ysis, and Mrs. Phillips Russell of Chapel Hill, director of organization | ’ for North Carolina’s March of Dimes, , who was in Edenton. | The appointment has been filled • earlier than in previous years and ‘ : both Mrs. Russell and Mr. Bufflap are J 1 of the belief that Mr. Twiddy will ’ make a splendid chairman. The 1 March of Dimes chairmanship usual ly changes each year, and the appoint- 1 ment so far in advance will provide 1 . plenty of time for organization for the ’ ’ drive. The chairman for the 1952 ■ ■ March of Dimes was Wesley Chesson, ! Jr. * ■ ; Very Important Red 1 Men Meeting Monday Chowan Tribe, No. 12, I. D. R. M., ; i will hold a very important meeting . next 'Monday night, June 23, at which i every member is especially urged to attend. t A matter of vital importance to the tribe will be presented, so that the ( sachem, E. G. Williford, is asking , i every member to make a special es . fort to he present. $2.00 Per Year. ► Budget Adopted at Spe cial Meeting Monday Morning APPROVED JULY 7 Figures Juggled In Or der to Prevent an Increase Meeting in special session Mon day morning Chowan County Com missioners adopted the county budget for the fiscal year 1952-53. With a mass of figures in their laps, it first appeared that the tax rate for the year would have to be increased, but after some juggling and shaving of figures they were able to maintain the same rate as last year—.sl.s3 on the SIOO property valuation. The rate is based on property valuation of $lO,- 500,00. While the Commissioners adopted the budget Monday, it will remain open to be officially approved at the July 7 meeting. Os the $1.53 tar rate the major por tion is a 69-cent levy for schools, while 51 cents is required for bonds, 15 cents for the general county fund, 10 cents for health, and 8 cents for social se curity. For the year requirements to pay off bonds is anticipated at $53,104.60. For general county purposes $58,- 600 is appropriated, of which amount $52,850 is anticipated from earnings of the Chowan ABC store, leaving $15,750 to be raised from taxation. General assistance and hospitaliza tion is calculated to need $3,384 for the former and SIO,OOO for the latter or a total of $13,384. There is a bal ance of $9,000 in this fund and the deficit of $4,384 is earmarked to come from ABC earnings, so that no levy is necessary for charity. For health work the budget calls for an expenditure of $9,884, of which $8,419 is for the district and $1,465 for the county. This appropriation calls for a 10-cent slice of the $1.53 rate. The amount necessary for schools is $91,221.13, of which'525,991.13 is for the county administrative unit and $65,230 for the Edenton unit. An income of $20,000 is anticipated from fines, forfeitures, penalties, dog and poll taxes, plus an unexpended bal ance of $3,000 in the county unit and SI,OOO in the Edenton unit, so that $71,221.13 must be raised by taxes, which takes 69 cents of the $1.53 rate. For social security, which includes old age assistance, aid to dependent children and administration, a total of $72,334.80 is appropriated. State and federal grants amount to $58,971, so that the balance to be raised is $13,- 363.80. There is an unexpended bal ance of $3,000 for old age assistance and $2,000 for aid to dependent chil dren, so that $8,363.80 must be raised by taxes or eights cents of the rate. Lions Propose To Buy Hospital Beds Project Considered at Club’s Meeting Mon day Night At Monday night’s Lions Club meet ing the club came up with another building project which, if carried out as hoped for, (will exemplify its de sire for community betterment and public spiritedness. The club ds examining the possibili ty of purchasing several hospital beds to aid in the care of indigent pat ients. There is also the chance of an alternate plan of buying a wheel chair for the same purpose or even both plans may be ultimately adopted. Several Lions were presented Per fect Attendance buttons. At the next meeting, July 7, the club will have installation of officers and hopes to have an interesting out? of-town speaker for the occasion. A full attendance is hoped for to start the new fiscal year right. Baptist Bible School Has Closing Exercises Closing exercises of the Baptist daily vacation Bible School were held in the Church Sunday night. Close to 100 pupils were enrolled in the school which was in progress two weeks in cooperation with the Presbyterian Church. The school was under the direction of Mrs. C. T. Doughtie and the pro gram presented Sunday night reflect ed worthwhile work on the part of teachers and pupils.