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ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN CHOWAN COUNTY * Volume XXll.—Number 24. srnest P. Kehayes fakes Over Reins City Government < Progress In Edenton Keynote of Inaugu ral Address Ernest Kehayes on Tuesday night took over the reins of city gov ernment as Mayor of Edenton from « Leroy H. Haskett and his first of ficial act was to request Town Couneilmen to stand for a brief period of silent prayer before launching into a new administra- Ii tion. In relinquishing the gavel Mr. Haskett congratulated Mr. Kehayes for his election and wished for him success in his role of Mayor. Mr. Kehayes in turn thanked Mr. Has i kett for his contribution to Eden ton as Mayor and wished for him success and happiness in all of his future undertakings. (Before embarking on the sched ule of business, Mr. Kehayes read a prepared copy of his inaugural address in which he had this to say: “Gentlemen, I recognize the fact that some of you and many other persons in the community are keen ly interested in this administra tion which commences its term of office this evening. First, let me say how happy I am to work with you men who hav e been elected by the people of Edenton to serve on our Town Council. 1 intend to do all in my power to cooperate with you during the next two years, and I feel confident that I am assured of your support and cooperation. Our aims, I am sure, are for the re of the community, i'i smy wish that we together *Wll e the continued success and <h of the town of Edenton. We have a great future and its re sponsibility lies in our hands. 1 sincerely hope that in the few moments of silent prayer in which you just participated that you rec ognized the fact that it is through the will of God that we are able to continue. “In order that the people of the community may have some idea of what our aims are, and particular- J lv some of my own feelings, I am! interested in having this written record made available to them. Therefore, I wish to review with you several ideas and hopes that 1 have. This I believe can best | be done by recognizing each of our different departments. Fire Department “First, I wish to commend our Fire Departemnt for the grand work it has done in the past, and needless to say this wonderful per formance will continue in the fu ture. This department is of great est importance to the safety of our town. Many of us are aware of the fact that this department has many needs in order to continue doing a good job. The present fa-j cilities seem to be inadequate; J therefore, I recommend that the: following suggestions be consider- j ed by you at the earliest possible; Continued on Page 4—Section 1 Damaging Hail Storm Hits Sections of County Saturday Many Stones as Large As Baseballs Fall In Freak Storm Sections of Edenton and Chowan County were targets for a freak hail storm late Saturday afternoon. The hail covered the ground in many places and in some instances stones were about the site of , ebull Many people .gathered Jr nusual pellets and placed them J»e refrigerators as sort of h souvenir of the unprecedented hail. In many places the ground was completely covered with hail, tak ing on the appearance of a snow storm. Considerable damage was done to property in way of brokeh win dow' panes, automobile windows and windshields, television antennae and neon signs, with the major damage being done to crop. In the Macedonia and Hancock Station sections cotton and tobacco was stripped completely and corn was badly damaged. The hail was accompanied by heavy wind, lightning Mid a down- IHE CHOWAN HERALD I 1500 Attended 4-H Church Sunday At ■ Rocky Hock Church 1 15 4-H Club Members » Take Charge of Program The Chowan 4-H Church Sunday ! program was given in the Rocky 1 Hock Baptist Church on Sunday, • June 5. As has been the custom " for the past several years, only one • 4-H Church Sunday program is giv -1 cn in the county, as several of the ! churches do not have enough 4-H members to conduct a program. Approximately 500 people at -1 tended the Church Sunday program I and apparently were greatly bene : fitted. Club members who took • part in the program were Henry ' Raines, Dick Lowe, Kay F. White, • Jackie Morris, Barbara Ann White, • Steve Burch. Evangeline Copeland, Jimmy Hoilowell, Jackie Byrum, ' Billy Goodwin, Shenvood Harrell, • Bernie Baker. Emmett I’erry, Joe ’ Wiggins and Peggy Perry. i I Chowan Bears Lose To Weeksville 9 - 3 i Marines Play Ragged Game and Hit In opportunely i The Chowan Bears, independent ■ Marine baseball team lost its:open i ing game of the season to Weeks -1 ville NAF on Hicks Field Monday night by a score of 0 to 3. .; Roger Givens was on the mound - !for the Marines and pitched a good ■ |brand of hall, but was given ragged : support by his teammates which j was responsible, for the. loss. He . allowed seven hits, while the Ma- , rines made 8, hut the latter '•ante at inopportune times. Three times the Marines loaded the bast's, hut • lacked the punch to turn irrruns. Weeksville. on the other hand, played a good defensive game and 1 registered their hits when they meant runs. The game was nip and tuck’for a few innings, hut er rors by the Marines allowed the visitors to forge ahead. The Bears, coached by Jerome Denning, are scheduled to pin,’ Sunburv. Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock on the Sunbury diamond. MASONS MEET TONIGHT Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F, !& A. M„ will hold a stated com- ( Imunication tonight (Thursday) at js o’clock. C. W. Overman, master, 'urges a full attendance. * , pour of rain. Fortunately no rc- . ports were heard of anyone being injured by the hail, - | Mrs. John F. White t Attends Kindergarten ‘ Course At Greenville t t Mrs. John F. White, director of ' the kindergarten of the Edenton t I Elementary School, returned to her \ i home here Friday, June JO, fol- i lowing attendance of the Third t , Annual Kindergarten Workshop of f : East Carolina College in Greenville, f N. C. The workshop was direct- t ed by Miss Annie Mae Murray, di- ( rector of the East Carolina Col- 1 i lege Laboratory School Kindergar ten. [ The workshop featured lectures, « visual aids, conferences and excur- c ■ sions to kindergarten facilities in f :'the area, and an historical tour to t i Bath, oldest town in North Caro- i i lina. ‘ > The North Carolina Kindergar ten Teachers Association elected r Mrs. W. Don Howell of Gastonia as president for 1&55 56 . j Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, June 16,1955. Chowan Buys 39% U.S. Savings Bonds Up Until April 30th $7,531.25 Series E and H Bonds Sold Dur ing April The U. S. Treasury Savings 1 Bonds Division is celebrating the 14th anniversary of the Series E I Savings Bond. On May 1, 1941, the ' Savings Bond Program was ex panded with the inauguration of the , Payroll Savings Plan on a nation ' wide scale. The monthly Sales Re port for April, which is released by A. Boyd Harless, Chairman of the U. S. Savings Bonds Program for Chowan County, shows that Savings Bonds continue to grow in popularity which is reflected in sales increases. For. the sixth consecutive month, sales in North Carolina hav e rang , ed from 17% to 21% greater than in the corresponding months of the previous year. During April, the combined sales of E & H Bonds were 18% greater than in April, ' 1954. For the four months period of January-April, State sales were 19% higher than for the same four months last year. In dollar volume, the increase this year over last year amounts to $2,959,990. Janu ary-April sales amounted to 34% 1 of the 1955 sales quota for North Carolina. Nation-wide sales in April were up 15% with the cumulative sales for the first four months being | 13% over last year. Gross sales 1 for 1955 have now passed the 2 billion dollar mark. Mr. Harless, in commenting on the Savings Bonds Program declar ed, “Thrift is essential to the growth and prosperity of our kind 1 of economic system of individual enterprise. The sale of increasing amounts of Savings Bonds is es sential to proper management of the national debt which coupled with the monetary and fiscal op erations of the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury affects our entire economy.” Sales of savings bonds in Cho wan County April 1-30 were: E <S- H bonds combined. $7,531.25; cum ulative sales January 1 to April 30, $07,968.75. The county’s quo ta is $174,900, so that 39 per cent of the quota has been sold. Methodists Plan Fellowship Dinner All Church Officials Will Be Invited to Attend Plans are in th 0 making for a fellowship supper at the Edenton Methodist Church at 7 o’clock Wed nesday evening, June 22. Those in vited to attend are all the members of the Official Board and the four Commissions on Membership and Evangelism, Education, Missions, and Finance. Following the fellowship supper the Rev. Earl Richardson, pastor of the church, will supervise the or ganization of the Official Board and the Commissions. On Sunday morning, June 26, at 11 o’clock worship service will bo in honor of the new officers of the church. A special service of installation is being planned, and Mr. Richardson expresses the hope that every member of the board and commissions will be present. Th“ sermon of the morning will be on the subject “On Being Professional Christians.” Beginning in August, the first Wednesday evening each month will be devoted to a regular meet ing time for the Official Board and the Commissions of the church. A feature of the meetings for the . first few sessions will be a brief training period to acquaint church officials with the nature of their responsibilities. EASTERN STAR MEETING I Edenton Chapter, No. 302, Order 1 of the Eastern Star, will meet Mon day night, June 20, at 8 o’clock in 1 the Masonic Temple. Mrs. Fran ces Wilkins, worthy matron, urges 1 all members to attend. LIONS TO MEET The Edenton Lions Club will meet Monday night at 7 o’clock. .—| New Chairman — * M A. B. HARLESS At a meeting of the Board of | Public Works last week, A. B. Har t less was elected president, succeed ing J. H. Conger. Philip S. Mc- Mullan was elected vice chairman. | A. B. Harless New Chairman Os Board Os Public Works Philip S. McMullan Is Elected to Serve as Vice Chairman At a reorganizational meeting of the Board of Public Works held 1 last week A. B. Harless was elected • chairman. He succeeds J. 11. Con ger, who served in the same ca pacity for many years, but who de clined to be a candidate in the re -1 cent election. A new policy was adopted by the Board, now that it has five mem ' hers instead of three, which is to have :i vice chairman, and Philip S. McMullan was elected to fill this ! position. Other members of the new Board are Dr. J. A. Powell, W. J. Yates and Thomas C. Byrum, Jr. Roads Improved In County During- May Commissioner Emmett Window reports that 11 miles of road im provements had been completed or the primary highway system in the . First Highway Division during , May. In Bertie, State forces laid 0.18 , 1 j miles of a sand asphalt leveling i course, 22 feet wide, on one sec- , tion of US 17 at the Salmon Creek , Bridge between Windsor and Eden- j ton. j In Chowan, State forees laid two ; miles of a sand asphalt leveling ( course, varying in width from 20 i to 22 feet, at the following loca- I lions: One section of NC 32 north : of Albemarle Sound Bridge; three : sections of NC 32 north of Eden- ( ton at the Pollock Swamp Bridge, l Dillard Creek Bridge, and the bridge at the Chowan-Gates Coun- 1 ty line; and two sections on US 17 1 between Edenton and the Chowan I River Bridge. Elimination Day Is Set For Friday For County’s 4-H Clubs * e Picnic Dinner Will Be Served on Grounds At Noon Hour The second annual Chowan 4-H Elimination Day will be held on Friday, June 17 at the Chowan High School and the Chowan Com munity Building. The program will begin at 9:30 A. M., and last until about 3:00 or 3:30 P. M. Chowan 4-H Club members will give , demonstrations on forage crops, peanut production, dairy foods, farm and home electric, live stock conservation, poultry, soil and water conservation, vegetable pro duction, vegetable use, etc. There will be a public speaking contest, dress revue, talent contest and health pageant. The 4-H tractor operator's con test will be tlie last event of the Last Local Call For Farm And Home Week In Raleigh County Agents Urge Good Attendance From Chowan “This will be the last rail to Cho wan County farm people for the 1955 Farm and Home Week Pro gram at State College,” says Coun ty Agent C. W. Overman. The Farm and Home Week program is packed with most worthwhile in formation and entertainment. Reg istration will he held on Monday at • the William Neal Reynqlds Coli seum. Those who ran go for only one day or more should he sure to go by the Coliseum and register their attendance. There is no charge for registration. | The program on Tuesday is on-, titled “Home-making and Family Living” for the ladies. The pro gram will be largely centered around clothing, crafts, and disease control. For the men, “Things To Come in Agriculture” which will cover the use of atomic radiation for better crop varieties, straw berries, and vegetable crops, and the mechanization of tobacco pro duction. For rural ministers, a special program will he held on Tuesday afternoon at 1:45 o’clock at theD. H. Hill Library. The evening program will be devoted to group singing and recreation. Wednesday’s program for the la dies will involve foods and nutri tion, clothing, personal appearance and disease prevention. For the men, there will be farm mechani zation, field crops and vegetables For rural ministers, again a special meeting on “Designing a Program for the Rural Church” and “Effec tive Use of Visual Aid Materials in the Rural Church.” The evenjng program again will be devoted to group singing, an address by the Hon. Luther B. Hodges, Governor of North Carolina, who will be pre sented by the College President, Gordon Gray. This will be follow ed by recreation and a square dance. Thursday’s program for the la dies will be “The 29th Annual Meeting of Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs” with the State Council meetings held that afternoon. “Swine Day” will be the program for the men. This will be held at the State College Ani mal Husbandry Swine Farm begin ning at 9:30 A. M. Lunch will be provided at the State Fair Arena. The “Meat-type Hog” will bp the center of the discussion hut along with this will he much other in formation most valuable to swine growers. On Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock there will he anoth er special pieeting for the rural ministers. On Thursday evening, there will he group singing, a pre sentation hv the State Chorus and , an inspirational address by a not- , ed lecturer and author followed by recreation. This is a very brief resume of the week’s program at the 1955 Farm and Home Week which will ( be held at State College Monday ( Continued on Page 4—Section 1 day. This contest will be held on , the grounds adjacent to the ball < diamond. Winners will represent Chowan County at the District < Elimination Day, Washington, N. , C„ on July 6. A picnic dinner will be served on 1 the grounds during the noon hour, and all club members and parents ' are urged to bring a well filled pic nic basket. i The County Elimination Day last year was one of the biggest 4-H I events ever held in Chowan County and the Elimination Day this year I promises to b e even bigger. Judg- < es for the various contests will be representatives of the N. C. Ex- . tension Service, N. C. State College, i Hcrtne Agents and County Agents I from the adjoining county and oth er qualified persons. Everyone is invited to attend and to bring a well filled picnic < basket and join in the fur.- ___ 1 Overwhelming Vote Is Cast In Favor Os Special Tax To 1 Assure Rural Fire Protection - - ■ ■— ■ Admiral Robert Oarney Gives His | Views On Role Os Aircraft Carriers V A Editor’s Note: Various questions have been raised in connection with the Navy’s shipbuilding and conversion program, particularly with regard to the need for additional Eorreslal-class carriers. At the request of the Congress, Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, made a statement in which he discussed the ques tions: “Will U. S. carrier forces be necessary in the 1960’5?” and “Should we start construction of a carrier in 19567”. In covering these subjects, Admiral Carney details the missions of the Navy today and in the future, which will appear iiCThe Herald in install ments. The first installment follows:' of the Navy and Function j > Os Carrier Force Therein The purpose of the U. S. Navy' is to fulfill its part in providing. ,)for the security of the United! ,| States and to support our national! I policy throughout the world. The , primary means by which the Navy , does this is by gaining and main- I taining command of the seas, to ! use the seas for our own purposes and that of our allies, and, in time j of war, to deny use of these areas; to an enemy. i For the United States, the naval: i missions of a war derived from na : tional policy and are influenced . largely by geography and by eer | tain economic facts of life. I think it is Safe to predict that the! . geography of the world will not . have changed radically in the next decade and equally safe to say that, . should we be so unfortunate as to . he plunged into another global con flict, the national interest and a l | forward strategy require that it be i fought overseas. We want the, . areas of devastation and the rav-, i ages of war to be in enemy terri , tory and not in our own. Today! , our overseas installations are veryi , numerous and are worldwide. The . Navy is faced with the grave rf’-j . sponsihility: or supporting fhdse, bases logisticaily on a continuing basis. Our military power must be , projected overseas and our forces sustained there in combat with the millions of tons of supplies they must have. Likewise certain of our allies must be sustained and to support them to our mutual advan tage wo must have access to them and that access, insofar as their principal material support' is con cerned, can be had only by sea. Only by command of the sea can '• [ civic calendar] Second Annual Chowan 4-H elimination day will be held Friday. 1 June 17, at Chowan High School | and Chowan Community Building from 9:30 A. M„ to 3:30 P. M. Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F., A A. M„ will hold a stated communi cation tonight (Thursday) at 8 J o’clock. Annual vacation school in pio- t gress at St. Ann’s Catholic Church , and will end Friday, June 21. | Edenton Chapter No. 302, Order s of the Eastern Star will meet Mon- ; day night, June 20, at 8 o’clock in the Masonic Temple. Troop No. 56, Boy Scouts of America will sponsor a chow mein supper Thursday evening, June 16 to help raise funds for a week’s camp at Camp Darden. Chowan Tribe of Red Men plan to hold its annual banquet at the American Legion hut Friday night, July 13, at 7:30 o’clock. Chowan County Commissioners will hold a special meeting Mon day morning, June 20lh, at 10 o'clock for the purpose of consid ering thf 1955-56 budget. Chowan Tribe No. 12, Improved Order of Red Men will meet Mon day night at 8 o’clock. Chowan County 4-H Elimination Day will be held Friday, June 17. VFW Post meets in VFW home Tuesday night of next week. The Fidelis Club meets the first and third Tuesday of each month. Chowan County Fair will be held October 17 to 22. Edenton’s Rotary Club meets this (Thursday) afternoon at 1 o’clock in the Parish House. Ed Bond Post, No. 40, of the American Legion is sponsoring dances at the Legion hut every Saturday night from 8 to 12 o’clock. Fund raising drive for the Eden ton swimming pool still in progress. VFW Post home open every Fri day and Saturday nights for mem-' hers and guests, j $2,00 Per Year In North Carolina that he done. In addition to the ! foregoing, strategic materials must ihe brought into our own country from all over the world for support !of our industry. This factor is be coming increasingly important. It may be readily demonstrated that, ; while it is necessary to transport high priority, critical cargo and personnel by air, movement of the tremendous quantities so necessary , in war and the fuel for the return j ! passage of air transport must still :be by the sea, I In order to maintain our control of the seas, we must have the abili ty to defeat any threat to that eon- - trol. Tlie most significant of these threats are enemy air, submarine, and surface forces. Taking them up in reverse order: The surface threat is present and is growing. ! It may provide an insight into So viet thinking as to the nature of a future war. It is evidence at least of the emergence of the USSR as a maritime power. The ‘Soviets are building cruisers and | Continued on Page s—Section 1 1 T. J. Canipe Is New Edenton Policeman 1 Plans to Move Family When Living Quar ters Are Secured < • ‘ ! Effective Wednesday morning of this week, T. J. Canipe assumed - the duties of a patrolman for the Edertton Police Department. He t succeeds E. It. Tolley, who recently resigned. t Mr. Canipe is a native of Meck lenburg County and for the last 1 15 years made his home in Weldon. He has a wife and two sons, Tom- | mie Lee and Richard. The former is a Baptist minister and during the summer is serving as a mis sionary in Corn Island off the coast of Nicaragua. Next fall he \ plans to enter the Bowman Gray r School, of Medicine in Winston- t Salem. % Richard. 17, will attend the Eden-|c ton Junior-Senior High School l when it opens in the fall. The v family will move to Edenton as t soon as Mr. Canipe can secure liv- t ing quarters. 1 1 Chowan County Cotton Has Little Damage Due To Insects - Survey Will Be Made Each Week Until August There appeal’s to be no appreci able insect infestation or damage to cotton in Chowan County at pres ent, according to County Agent C. W. Overman. A survey was made of several fields scattered over the county last week and a cotton in sect survey will be made each week from now until August in order that growers may be informed rel ative to insect infestation and in sect control. On an average Chowan County has about a half stand of cotton compared with the recommended plants per acre, Mr. Overman says. PHant counts show an average of 1% to 2 plants per foot of row, some fields less, as compared with a recommended stand of 3 to 4 plants average per foot of row. Thin stands are due to the unusual ly cool weather causing many of the plants to die and also thinning i cotton too thin. ! Mr. Overman urges farm people 4 1 DO YOUR PART DONATE TO THE , SWIMMING POOLI * 112 Ballots Cast For Tax With Only 19 Opposed Though a very light vote was cast in Saturday’s election to de termine if a special tax is to he levied for rural fire protection, vo ters outside the Edenton City lim its overwhelmingly voted in favor of the tax. Os those who voted, 112 favored the tax and only 19 voted against it. The election was called by the Chowan County Commissioners af ter 15 per cent of the freeholders signed a petition requesting the election. The tax will affect all those people living in Chowan County outside the corporate limits of Edenton. The election was the outcome of the recent appointment of a Coun ty Fire Commission, Whose duty it r was to make a study of rural fire protection and subsequently recom mended the purchase of a new fire truck and employment of an extra fireman if the election carried. Rural fire protection has been a problem for the County Comiris- Isions over a period of years. Eden ton firemen have responded to calls for help in the rural section without charge, but as the calls in creased Town Council, a few years ago, requested an appropriation from the County Commissioners to help cover the expense. Last year the firemen estimated that the expense in answering county calls would amount to $3,- 000 annually, so that the Commis sioners agreed to pay the amount, hut at the same time took the po sition that such an amount should not he appropriated unless it was agreeable to most citizens and, too, that it was not fair to Edenton people, who share in the county fax, to he doubly taxed for fire protec tion outside Edenton. Saturday’s vote was as follows; First Township (excluding Eden ton)—For the taxj,evy, 36: against, 2. Yeopim Precinct—For the levy, 25; against, none. Rocky Hock Precinct—For the tax levy, 19; against 5. Center Hill Precinct—For the tax levy, 22; against, 3. Wardville Precinct—For the tax levy, 10; against, 9, Commissioners Meet On Monday Morning- Chowan County Commissioners will meet in special session Monday morning, June 20, at which time they will work on the 1955-56 bud get for the county. County Ac countant E. W. Spires has all ap propriation requests in hand, as well as anticipated revenue, so that the Commissioners hope to be able to approve the budget in very short time. to consider attending Farm and Home Week scheduled at N. C. State College June 20-23. “We grow a lot of hogs in Chowan County and we can do a (lot better job saving pigs and growing out hogs if we will only apply the ap proved recommended procedures," says Mr. Overman. Thursday, June 23, is Swine Day at Farm and Home Week. Harold H. Stokes, Highway Patrolman Stationed In Edenton Harold H. Stokes, a highway pa trolman, is now stationed in Eden ton to assist Highway Patrolman Mack Rogerson. Mr. Stokes suc ; ceeds Van Pierce, who resigned and is now living in California. Mr. Stokes is a native of Ayden 1 and formerly was a highway pa trolman but resigned to become deputy sheriff of Lenoir County. He rejoined the patrol on June 1 and on Friday morning moved to Edenton. He has a wife and a 3- year-old daughter and the family ‘ is living at 101 Third Street ,
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