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CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXll.—Number 18.
Ernest Kehayes Defeats L. H. Haskett In Race For Mayor
Varsity Club Will
Hold Sports Award
Banquet Monday
Coach Earle Edwards
Os State College
Speaker
Sponsored by the Kdenton Var
sity Club, the sixth annual Sports
Award Banquet will be held Mon
day night, May 9, in the Kdenton
armory, beginning at 7:30 o’clock.
Tickets for the banquet are now on
sale and can be purchased until
Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
The feature of the meeting will
be presenting trophies and other
awards to high school athletes by
coaches of the Edenton High School
and an address by Earle Edwards,
head football coach at N. C. State
College.
Edwards is a former end coach at
Michigan State under Coach Biggie
Munn and was line coach at Penn
State College for 14 years. At N.
C. State Edwards began a job of
rebuilding the Wolfpack under a
new system of play termed “multi
ple-offense” which was utilized at
Michigan State and is being taught
the State team.
The speaker has made many
friends at State and his personality
and winning smile have won him
many rabid supporters despite his
short time on the campus, so that
the Varsity Club feels very fortun
ate in securing him as the speaker
<S"for the occasion.
*Hoffler & Riddick
Gives Highest Bid
For County Timber
Bids Opened Monday
At Commissioners’
Meeting
Chowan County Commissioners
on Monday opened bids for the
timber on County property at the
county home, with Hoffler & Bid
dick of Sunbury being the highest
bidder of the three submitted.
The Hoffler & Riddick bid Was
$17,237.50, followed by Horace Car
ter of Gatesville at $15,911.90 and
Paul M. Tucker I,umber Company
of Hertford at $11,005.
The contract was awarded the
Hoffler & Riddick concern, which
will be required to cut and remove
the timber 12 months after delivery
of the deed. __
AH) EAT STOCK SHOW
Chowan County Commissioners at
their meeting Monday made a con
tribution to the first Chowan Coun
ty Fat Stork Show and Sale which
was held at the American Legion
hut Wednesday.
Rabies Clinics Scheduled To
Begin In Chowan On May 9th
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Dog Owners Required
By Law to Vaccinate
* Their Dogs
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Dr. G. L. Gilchrist, rabies in- ,
spector for Chowan County, will |
begin his annual program of dog
vaccination Monday, May 9. i
Dr. Gilchrist points out Section
106-365 Public Health Laws of ]
North Carolina which provides that (
in all counties where a campaign
of vaccinations is being conducted, 1
it shall be the duty of the owner ]
of every dog to have same vaccinat
ed annually by a rabies inspector !
it shall b e the further duty of i
owner of said dog to properly
restrain same and to assist the ra- 1
bies inspector in administering the l
vaccine.
Dr. Gilchrist also point* out that 1
this year one county in North Car- 1
olina reported 22 positively diag
nosed rabid animals. “No cases 1
have been reported locally,” says .
Dr. Gilchrist, “but the time is ripe
for a rabid strap dog or for to en l <
THE CHOWAN HERALD
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Opens New Station j
MILTON BUNCH
With (he new Gulf Service Sta
tion recently completed, Mr. Bunch
will observe grand opening Friday
and Saturday, May 6 and 7.
Important Farm j
Bureau Meeting
On Friday Night
Peanuts and Tobacco
Will Be Items Con
sidered
A very important meeting of the
Chowan County Farm Bureau Will
he held at the Chowan Community
Building Friday night. May fi, at
8 o’clock, according "o President
Sanford Bass.
Joe K. Suggs, executi'.'?. secretary
of the X. C. Peanut ':rowers’ As
sociation, will speak on "Peanuts
and the Peanut Program,” Wil-.
liam Little, field representative of
the X. C. Farm Bureau, will speak
on “The Tobacco Program.” Im
portant committees will be appoint
ed.
President Bass urges all Farm
Bureau members to be present.
Farmers who are not Farm Bureau
members are also- invited.
Miss Marietta Perry
Elected Member of
Tassels At College
Marietta Perry, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. M. M. Perry of Edenton.
has been elected to membership in
Tassels, honorary leadership or
ganization for coeds at Wake For
est. College.
A junior. Miss Perry is major
ing in sociology. She is a member
of the Student Council, secretary ,
of the junior class, a member of the
Social Standards Committee of the
Woman’s Government Association,
a member of the business admini
stration society for cheds and is a ,
majorette with the college band.
danger the lives of our children.
Rabies is fatal to all unvaccinated
animals and all untreated humans
bitten by a rabid animal. General
ly dogs, cats and foxes spread the
disease to other warm-blooded ani- (
mals, as well as to man, through
bites.”
Dr. Gilchrist’s schedule for vac- (
cinating dogs is as follows: .
May 9—11:30 A. M„ at Quinton ,
Bass’ store; 12:30 P. M., at Grover
Cale’s store. ]
May 10—11:30 A. M., at Val- (
halla: 1.2:30 P. M„ at Henry (
Bunch’s store. ,
May 11—11:30 A. M , at W. E. .
Smith’s store: 12:30 P. M., at
Small’s Cross Roads.
May 12—11:30 A. M„ rt Center
Hill; 12:30 P. M., at Arthur By
rum’s store. J
May 13—11:30 A. M., at L. C.
Briggs’ Store; 12:30 P. M., at Ry
land.
May 17—11:30 A. M„ at Bishop t
Brown’s Store; 12:30 P. M., at St £
John’s Church. f
May 18—From 1 to 5 P. M„ a* t
offices in Edenton, ®
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 5,1955.
f LEADERS IN 4-H WORK ]
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Home Demonstration, Club members serve as local loaders for 4-H
Clubbers. Here we see Mr. and Mrs. Bristoe Perry and Mr. and Mrs.
Jarvis Skinner looking in on a local 4-H Club meeting.
Chowan Clubs Join
In Celebrating HD
j Week May 2nd to 7th
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Work Was Started Ini
Chowan County In
1916
Home Demonstration Clul> wo--
women in Chowan County join
with millions of women through
out America in observing Na
tional Home Demonstration Week
May 2-8. During this week the
rural women of America will tell
the story of homo demonstration
work through newspaper publici
ty, radio programs, and displays.
Few who have not had a part in
this, program will realize the tre
mendous strides it has taken in
comparatively short time.
The germ of the idea of club
work began in 1913. At this
time the Secretary of Agricul
ture wrote a number of rural
wives asking how the Department
of Agriculture could best help
them. All the replies expressed
the same problems: isolation,
lack of social and educational
opportunities, and loneliness. They
asked for help to organize get
together clubs of information
and cooperation.
Shorty after that, m 1914, the
Smith-Lever Act became a law
and with it came die establish
ment of the Extension Service
and the home demonstration pro
gram with which the Land Grant
Colleges, the U. S, Department
of Agriculture, and the local
county governments cooperate.
Home Demonstration work
started in Chowan County in 1916
with the County Commissioners
and County Board of Education
as local sponsors. This was
changed in the fall of 192(1 and
| since that time it has hern Spoil-,
sored by County Commissioners
alone.
The home agent first met small
groups of women and girls in
each community and gave dem
onstrations in canning. These
eventually grew into organized
Home Demonstration and 4-H
Clubs, which have continued
through the years with few
fundamental changes.
The first County Council of
Home Demonstration Clubs was
organized in this county in 1923
lby Mrs. Eliza Knight Elliott.
This was composed of the four
officers of each club and served
as an advisory committee for the
agent.
Mrs. R. S. Ward, of the Hy
land Club, Mrs. E. L. Winslow
of the Chowan Club, are two of
the many club women who re
member those early tomato clubs
and council meetings.
Today over three thousand
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Advance Club Will
Sponsor Variety Show
The Advance Home Demonstra
tion Club will sponsor a variety
show by the Chowan Ramblers Fri
day night, May 13, at 8 o’clock in .
the Edenton Elementary School au- (
ditorium.
Annual VFW Marble
Tournament Will Be
Held May 12 And 13
Two Winners Will En
ter State Contest In
High Point
Wm. H. Coffield Post No. 9280,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
again sponsor a marble tournament
for teenage boys which will lie held
Thursday and Friday, May 12 and
13 at the Edenton armory. Appli
cations for the tournament can be
secured in classrooms of schools in
Edenton and Chowan County.
Last year about 50 boys entered
the tournament which was held at
the VFW home. Edgar Halsey was
county champion and Clyde Cobb
runner-up and these two boys went
to Fayetteville to enter the State
contest, where they lost out.
This year the county champion
and runner-up will go to High
Point to enter the contest for State
honors on Thursday and Friday,
May 19 and 20. The expense will
be borne by the VFW post. The
winners in the state contest will be
sent to Denver, Colorado, to enter
a tournament to decide the nation
al marble champion.
In the local contest three prizes
will be awarded, the three best
marble, shooters and free refresh
ments will be served during the
tournament.
Note Burning At
Warwick Baptist
Church Sunday
New r Parsonage Cost
ing $16,000 Com
pletely Paid For
The Rev. Lee A. Phillips, pastor
of Warwick Baptist Church, an
nounces that the church plans to
hold a note burning service Sunday,
May 8, following the regular church
service.
The parsonage, built at a cost of
$16,000, is now completely paid for,
the balance of $2,500 being raised
recently.
The senior class of Hobbsville
High School will be guests at the
service and the Rev. G. M. Single
tary, missionary of the Chowan
Baptist Association, will he pres
ent and bring the message. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
PICTURES IN ART EXHIBIT
Enola N. Smith exhibited two
pictures. The Cedar Tree and Oc
tober Morning, in the art exhibit
of the N. C. Federation of Women’s •
Clubs held in Greensboro last week,,'
April 26-29, *:
)j| HOW EDENTON VOTED TUESDAY ]
F'irst Second Third F'ourth
Ward Ward Ward Ward Total
I ■ Mayor:
I Ernest Kehayes 151 22 8 159 84 (>22
L, H. Haskett 101 167 157 93 498
I Treasurer:
W. H. Gardner 209 302 254 161 926
j Councilmen-at -Large:
J. Edwin Bufflap 166 224 189 107 686
George A. Byrum 176 200 160 87 625
I Dr. A. F. Downum 69 148 95 61 878
Larry Dowd 64 115 92 64 555
I Board Public Works:
I Philip McMullan 181 521 228 129 859
A. B. Harless 208 240 214 129 786
\V. J. Yates 188 288 .176 140 742
I T. C. Byrum, Jr. 151 257 181 152 701
I Dr. J. A. Powell 125 225 156 100 606
Ralph Parrish 144 160 154 75 581
■ J. P. Ricks. Jr. 102 156 152 78 488
Horace White . 88 92 87 56 198
L Ward Councilmen:
J. Clarence Leary 142
| Frank Holmes 108
Graham Byrum 592
John Mitchener 168
S. S. (Umpen HI
Luther Parks 178
Edenton National Guard Unit Wins
Highest Rating In North Carolina For
Record Os Maintenance Proficiency
. Edenton’s Heavy Mortar Com
pany of the North Carolina Nation
al Guard was notified Monday that
it has been signally honored by
having won the National Guard Bu
reau annual award for proficiency
in maintenance. The Edenton Com
pany won out over 135 other com
panies in North Carolina with the
highest rating. In recognition of
the honor a plaque will he present
ed to the company at the summer
field training camp which will be
held at Fort Bragg in August.
General John H. Manning, adju
tant general for North Carolina
had this to say: The results of
this inspection is very gratifying
and indicate a high standard of
command supervision and mainten
ance training of the unit person
nel, for which I am sincerely ap
preciative.”
The selection of the award is bas
ed on the annual technical inspec
tion by Third Army personnel and
the state maintenance officers’ an
nual inspection.
Captain Cecil Fry, commanding
officer of the Edenton Company, is
very proud of bis unit and joins
with his men in cherishing the hon
or won by them.
The strength of the Edenton unit
is at its highest peak since it was
reorganized May 7, 1947, with four
officers and 92 enlisted men. The
authorized strength is six officers
and 137 enlisted men, so that any
young man interested in joining the
National Guard is urged to contact
Chief Warrant Officer .1. H. Asbcll
Jr., at the armory from 8 A. M.,
to 5 P. M., Monday through Fri
day.
The company returned Sunday
from Virginia Beach, where the
men completed a very successful
week-end firing practice.
J. W. Davis Elected
Member ABC Board
Fills Unexpired Term
Os the Late R. Elton
Forehand
Meeting jointly Monday morning,
the Chowan County Commissioners
and County Board of Education
elected J. W. Davis as a member
of the Chowan County ABC Board
to fill the unexpired term of the
late R. Elton Forehand.
There were six applications for
the position including, beside Mr.
Davis, R. E. Forehand, Jr., T. Bem-
Ibry Wood, Raymond Tarkington,
,0. B. Perry and Raymond Mans
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Term Os Superior
Gets Rid 13 Cases
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Judge George Foun
; tain Winds Up Work
In Two Days
, Judge George M. Fountain spe
cial Superior Court judge of Tar
horo, wound up the civil term of
Chowan Superior Court Tuesday
and in the two days removed 13
cases from a cluttered civil calen
, dar.
Four divorces were granted in
cluding the following Mattie Yount.
Twiddy from Leon Twiddy, Barbara
Cuthrell Dellinger from Thomas
William Dellinger. George Privott
from Ethel Twine Privott.
Six other divorce actions were
non-suited and remov'd from the
calendar. These included John Har
ris vs. Alice Lee Harris, Erie
Spruill Dolherry vs. Smith Edward
Dolherrv, Rudella H. Bonner vs.
Herman Bonner, Howard William
Stokes vs. Elizabeth Lester Stokes,
Faye T. Page vs. Russril Page and
Margaret N. Blanchard vs Samuel
Blanchard.
Two other cases were non-suited
after being carried on the calendar
for five years or more. These were
Thelma A. Harrell vs. Continental
Life Insurance Company and Her
bert S. Small vs. Farmers Cotton. &
Peanut Company of Plymouth.
In the case of Wallace Goodwin
vs. Richard Green, F. V. White and
J. W. Griffin, a boundary dispute,
a boundary line was suggested
which was agreeable to the plain
tiff and defendants.
Another boundary dispute was ai
jso settled in the case of John R.
Hendren vs. Ervin J. Lane.
Court adjourned Tuesday after
noon.
(civic calendar]
County-wide meeting of Chowan
Farm Bureau scheduled to he held
in the Chowan Community Building
Friday night. May 6, at 8 o’clock.
Edenton PTA will meet in the
Junior-Senior High School Cafe
teria Tuesday night. May 10, at 8
o’clock, at which time new officers
will be installed.
VFW Post will again sponsor a
marble tournament for teenage
boys Thursday and Friday, May 12
and 13, at the Edenton armory.
VFW Auxiliary will meet tonight i
(Thursday) at 8 o’clock in the
VFW Post home.
Beginning Saturday, May 7, of-
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$2.00 Per Year In North Carolina
Election Results In
One Heavest Votes
In Recent Years
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| Returning To States^
LIEUT. WM. B. SHEPARD
Navy Lieut. William B. Shepard,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William B.
Shepard of Edenton is scheduled to
arrive at the Naval Air Station at
’ Whidbey Island, Wash., May 5 with
the 7th Fleet’s Patrol Squadron 1.
The squadron’s 12 olanes, carry
ing their own maintenance crews
> and enough spare parts to effect
any necessary repairs onroute, took
off from Naha, Okinawa, on a 16,-
f 000 mile flight byway of Asia,
Southern Europe and Africa to its
. home base.
The take-off marked the end of
six months of patrol duty with the
F'ormosa patrol. The first schedul
k ed stop was Sangley Point in the
| Philippines.
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. Piano Students In
Recital Friday Night
On F'riday night. May 6, at 8
o’clock in the Edenton Elementary j
School auditorium the pupils of
Miss Ruhv Grey Baker will present!
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• a piano recital.
Appearing bn the program will;
; be: Ann Jenkins, Carolyn Hhitoll, I
Neal Hobbs, Judy Riley, Ida Cam- !
pen, Barbara Layton, Paulette Hal
sey, Susan Bunch, Emma Waff, i
Jane Dulaney, Marian Bunch. Clai-.l
( re Belch, Anne Wells, Jimmy
, Aynes, Harriett Crummey, Betty j
Jo Webb, Phyllis Twiddy, Mary
Thrtrud, Patricia Waff, Betsy Cam-j
pen. Norma Blanchard, Jack Over-"
, man, Araminta Hobbs and Georgia :
Skinner.
The public is cordially invited. I
Election Is Called June 11
To Decide Levy To Provide
For Rural Fire Protection
Voters In Area Will Be
Required to Register
In Order to Vote
Chowan County Commissioners at
their meeting Monday morning
adopted a resolution (Oiling for a
special election in the county, ex
cept the Town of Edenton, for levy
ing a tax of 10 cents bn the SIOO
property valuation for the purpose
of providing fire protection in the
rural section.
The election will be held Satur
day, June 11. with May 14. 21 and
28 designated as registration days
|in the area affected. Saturday,
I June 4, will be challenge day. All
' voters in the county, excluding
i Edenton, will be required to regis-
I ter in order to vote in the elec
: tion.
The Commissioners requested the
■ Chowan County Board of Elections
■ to conduct the election.
I The resolution to call a special
i election was made following a reso-|
lution signed by more than enough
; property owners requesting a vote
■ in order to provide more adequate
! fire protection in the county.
If the election is carried, a new
I fire truck will most likely be pur
-1 chased and an extra fireman em
ployed in order to be ready to an
swer any rural fires as soon as
possible,
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HELP FIGHT CANCER.
DRIVE FOR FUNDS
NOW IN PROGRESS.
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Mayor and One Coun
cilman Only Change
On Town Council
In one of the most interesting
Edenton elections held in recent
years. Ernest I’. Keh.ives defeated
Mayor Leroy Haskett in Tuesday’s
municipal election. With 13 of
fices to be filled there were 21 can
didates, with contests for every of
fice except treasurer and Council
man in the Second and Fourth
Wards.
The field of candidates resulted
in a registration of 1,290 voters,
of Whom 1,152 cast ballots in the
election, which was also one of
Edenton’s heaviest votes.
In the Mayor’s contest Mr. Ke
hayes polled f>22 votes against 498
for Mayor Haskett, who has serv
-1 ed as Mayor for 12 years. Ke
hayes held a comfortable lead in
every ward except the Fourth,
where Haskett led by nine votes.
Kehayes led bv 50 votes in the
First Ward, 01 in the Second Ward
and 22 in the Third Ward.
W. H. Gardner, candidate for
treasurer, who had no opposition,
led the ticket with 920 votes.
In the race for the two Council
man-at-large seats, J. Edwin Buff
lap, incumbent, led the field of four
candidates with 080 vot°s. Oeorgt
Alma Byrum, incumbent, was sec
ond with 023 votes. Di A. F,
Downum. making his first hid for
I public office, received 373 votes and
Larry Dowd, also a newcomer in
! the political field trailed with 335
; votes. Bufflap led the voting in
I every wal’d except the First, where
j Bvrum led by 10 votes.
1 With eight candidates in. the field
'for the five seats on the Board
of Public Works, Philip McMullan
j led the ticket with 850 votes. He
was followed by A. B. Harless with
: 780 votes, W. J. Yates with 742,
Thomas Byrum. Jr., with 701, Dr.
J. A. Powell with 000, These five
will complete tile Board of Public
Works. Ralph Parrish, incumbent,
j lost out in the election with 531
(votes. J. P, Ricks, Jr and Horace
i White, making their first bid for
|office, trailed the ticket, Ricks with
188 votes and White polling 198
| votes.
J. H. Conger, who served for
I many years as Chairman of the
Board of Public Works, but who
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Edenton PTA Meets
Next Tuesday Night
New Officers of Asso
ciation Will Be
Installed
Edenton’s Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation will meet Tuesday night,
May 10, at 8 o’clock n the cafe
teria at the Edenton Junior-Senior
High School.
A feature of the meeting will be
the installation of new officers,
which includes A1 Phillips as presi
dent, succeeding W. T. Harry; Mrs.
John J. RosS; vice president; Miss
Julanne Lynn, secretary, and Mrs.
Jof Webb, Jr., treasurer.
During the meeting a special
musical program will also be pre
sented.
A social hour will follow the bus
iness meeting and Mr. Harry urg
es all members of the association
to attend.
BANK CLOSED TUESDAY
The Bank of Edenton will be clos
ed all day Tuesday, May 10, in ob
servance of Confederate Memorial
Day. Important banking matters
should be transacted accordingly,