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 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 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 ,