Y ONLY NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED IN
CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXlV.—Number 22."
Movement Is UnderWay Fom
Edenton Stores To Close An
7 O'clock Saturday Nights
' Generous Response to.
Letter Circulated fey
Jesse L. Harrell
Following a letter distributed
among merchants last week, it is
altogether probable that Eden
ton stores will enter a policy of
closing at 7 o’clock each Satur
day night instead of 9 o’clock
which has been the custom for
many years. If the plan goes in
to effect the new schedule will
in all probability begin Saturday
night, June 22, the first Saturday'
after Father’s Day, which is Sun
day, June 16.
As an interested merchant and
in no official capacity, Jesse L.
Harrell of the Edenton Furniture
Company last week distributed
the following letter among the
Edenton merchants:
“We merchants have discussed
many many times the possibility
erf the stores closing early on Sat
urday night. You are probably
aware of the fact that in many
of the towns around us the stores
are already closing at 7:00 orr Sat
urday. *
“I believe that within the very
near future we are going to be
forced to close earlier or stagger I
our help in order to shorten their 1 j
hours, according to law.
“As you can recall, before we
started closing on Wednesday as-i
ternoon we had our doubts as to!
whether our customers would,
agree to it and after all tlfey are
the ones that we all must, try to
satisfy. Since we have made it a
practice of closing on Wednesday
afternoon you will agree that we |
are not missing any business.
“Serving the farmers is what j
we are most concerned about in |
planning our schedule, because of.
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Mrs. Vaughan
New Chairman
Os Girl Scouts
At a meeting of the Girl Scout
Board held Tuesday, May 28, Mrs.
Roland Vaughan was elected as
chairman and Mrs. Robert Shields,
vice-chairfnan, of the Edenton :
Girl Scouts. The mid-term elec- i
tion was held to fill the vacancy ■
created by the resignation of Mrs.
William Case, who is leaving
Edenton in July. Mrs. Wood Pri
vott will continue to serve as sec
retary of the board, and Mrs.
Robert B. Smith as treasurer.
Two new leaders were welcom
ed: Mrs. John Kramer, succeed
ing Mrs. John Hyneman as leader
of Brownie Troop No. 1, and Mrs.
Betty Lorance, succeeding Mrs.
Case as leader of the Junibr High
School Troop No. 4,
At the meeting, plans were
made for summer swimming les
sons for registered Girl Scouts.
To participate in the swimming
program, Girl Scouts must present
evidence of good health signed by
a physician and her parents’ con
sent in writing. Forms will be
provided and details will be an
nounced at the troop meetings.
Methodists’ Family
Fellowship Supper
Friday At 6:30 P. M.
Methodists will observe the last
family fellowship supper until the
fall on Friday night. May 31, be
’ ginning at 6:30 o’clock. Each
family is requested to bring a
“pot-luck” supper. During the
evening the group will sing old
time Gospel songs and a very
pleasant evening is in prospect.
The.pastor, the Rev. Earl Rich
|. ardson, urges many members of
I; the congregation to attend the
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
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Two Edenton Girls Entered In
Elizabeth City Beauty Contest
Two Edenton young ladies
have been entered in the "Misa,
Elisabeth City" beauty contest
which will be held in the S. L.
Sheep' School auditorium June
12. 13 and 14.
The two Edenton entrants are i
Miss Maude Leigh Dobson and
Miss Ann MacFadden Taylor, j
both members of the 1957 grad-,!
uating class of the Edenton
Junior-Senior High School.
According to the information 1
from the contest officials. Miss <
bobson’s talent will be singing.! 1
She is 5 feet K x h inches tall, 18 ]
C. H. S. Bus Drivers
District Winners Ini
School Bus Roadeoj
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LARRY LOWE
Undergoing training at the
Navy's Pre-Flight School at Pen
sacola. Fla., is Naval Aviation Ca
det Larry T. Lowe, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Preford W. Lowe, Route
3. Edenton.
Before entering the service,
Lowe attended North Carolina
State College.
DrTPope A. Duncan
Will Preach Sunday
At Baptist Church;
Rev. R. N. Carroll At
tending Baptist Con
vention In Chicago
In the absence of the Rev. R.
N. Carroll, pastor, the pulpit of
the Edenton Baptist Church will
be filled by Dr. Pope A. Duncan
of Southeastern Baptist Theologi
cal Seminary in Wake Forest for
both morning and evening wor
ship hours on Sunday, June 2.
Mr. Carroll is attending the
SoutKcrn Baptist Convention
meeting in Chicago.
Dr. Duncan comes to the local
pulpit with a strong background
of varied activity as a teacher and
preacher. A Kentuckian by birth,/
he received the B.S. and M.S. De
grees from the University of
Georgia, and the ThM. and ThD.
Degrees from the Southern Bap-
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Pocahontas Bake
Sale On June 15th -
Chowanoke Council Np. 54, De
gree of Pocahontas, will sponsor
a bake sale Saturday. June 15,
The sale will be held in the build
ing formerly occupied by Pres
ton’s, next to the Elliott Company,
beeinning at 9 A. M.
Members of the Council will
provide cakes and other kinds of
I sold during the sale. |
Edenton, County, North Carolina, Thursday May 30,1957.
| years old and weighs 117 pounds.
{Her bust is 37 inches, waist 23
inches, hips 36 inches, has blonde
hair and blue eyes. Miss Dob
son as salutalorian of her class,
i was head majorette in the band
land won the title of "Miss Cho
wan County" in 1956.
j Miss Taylor is 19 years old.
j She is 5 feet 9 inches tall and
weighs pounds. Her bust
is 36 inches, waist 24 inches,
hips 38 inches, has brown eyes
and blue eyes. Her talent in
'the contest will be playing the
piano.
I Frances Chappell and
| Joe Privott Will En
ter State Contest
Two seniors of Chowan High
School won district honors at the
second annual school bus roadeol
held at Maple last week. Thej
winners were Frances Chappell
among the girl bus drivers and
Joseph Wilbur Privott, Jr., among
the boys. The district includes
seven counties with the .Chowan
boy and girl taking first place in
their respective groups.
By virtue of winning district
honors, both Miss Chappell and
Privott will be eligible to compete
for state honors at Chapel Hill
J June 17, 18 and 19.
Two SSOO scholarships and two
S2OO scholarships will be awarded!
to the four best senior boys and
girls in the 2nd Annual School
Bus Roadeo, to be held in Chapel,
Hill after 60 district winners are |
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Ernest Ward Is j
New President >
Travel Council
At the annual meeting of the Al
bemarle-Pamlico Travel Council
j held in Elizabeth City last week
| Town Clerk Ernest J. Ward, Jr..
was elected president, succeeding
Walton Jennette. The Council in
cludes Pasquotank, Camden, Cur
rituck, Tyrrell, Hyde, Beaufort,
Washington, Martin, Bertie, Cho
wan and Perquimans counties,
each of which plans to conduct
: membership campaigns.
Mr. Ward announced that plans
will be made to renew the Coun
ty’s Brochure and that an import
ant project will be construction
of highway signs along U. S.
Route 17 to help in directing tour
, ists in this area.
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Grand Opening
Os Brown Store
June 6,7 And 8
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M. G. Brown Company this
week announces the grand open
ing of their new and modern
st6re on the Windsor highway.
The opening will be observed
Jhree days, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, June 6,7 and 8,
from 7:30 A. M. to 5 P. M. on
each day.
In order to induce friends to
visit the new store during the
opening days, free refreshments
will be served, door ' prizes
awarded, favors distributed and
bargains galore will be offered.
I Special prices will prevail oh a
goodlj!, number of items which
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Pictured above is the new and modern store of
the M. G. Brown Company on West Queen Street
extended. Grand opening of the store will be ob
served Thursday. Friday and Saturday. June 6. 7
and 8. when it is expected many friends will visit
Disastrous Fire,
Tuesday Night
Levels Building;
One of the most disastrous fires j
ih rdeent years occurred in Eden-1
tor. Tuesday night shortly after!
10 o’clock when a warehouse own-1
ed by Mrs. Gladys Outlaw in the
rear of her home on Oakum Street
was totally destroyed. :
The building was occupied by;
J. M. Boyce, who used it for boat
building and woodworking, and I
most of the contents, including |
tools, supplies and equipment
were totally destroyed.
Paint and other flammable ma
terials rapidly spread the fire and
the flames ..lighted a area
of the sky Which, together with'
heavy billows of smoke, attract
ed a large number of people to
the scene.
Mr. Boyce estimates his loss at
about SIO,OOO and Mrs. Outlaw
figures her loss in the neighbor
hood of $3,500. Both carried par- j
tial insurance.
It required some time for the.
firemen to extinguish the flames. I
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Albemarle League
Umpires Seleeted
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In anticipation of the opening
of the Albemarle League, umpires ■
for the circuit have been named, i
which will include five.
John Pavlich is umpire-in-chief
and has been charged with the i
responsibility of speeding up
games.
Serving with Pavlich are Al
ton Brooks, Paul E. Geqfge, Gus 1
Stathopoulos and Irvin Seymour.
MASONS CALL OFF MEETING
William Adams, master of Una
nimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., |
has announced that no meeting of|
the lodge will be held tonight
(Thursday) due to the observance
of Memorial Day .
The Land—Promise And Fulfillment
By I). A. WILLIAMS, Administrator S. Soil Conservation Service
This is Soil Stewardship Week,
May 26 to June 2, sponsored by
the National Association of Soil
Conservation Districts and nation
al church organizations, and again
focuses attention on the kinship
between a man’s spiritual heliefs
and the soil resources on which
his life depends.
Our awareness of such relation
ship is alWays with us, conscious
ly or unconsciously. Some see toe
kinship most clearly from a pine
blanketed mountain they look
out over woods, stripe ropped
fields and clear-running streams
or sparkling lakes.
Others find it in turning a
spadeful of living soil in the cool
of the morning, or in the mellow
roll of the furrow slice at plowing
•time. For soil not only gives life,
it in itself is a living thing, a
combination of living organisms
around a skeleton of finely' ground
particles of sand, silt and clay.
All of us sense our dependence
tfttk. v. &.1
and inspect the new store and the merchandise
carried. There will be refreshments, favors and
nine prizes to be awarded during the three open
ing days, so visitors are urged to register at the
door upon entering.—(Photo by James Griffin).
24 Chowan Seniors
Will Graduate At
I Exercises Tonight
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j^Atßaptist Church'"]
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DR. POPE A. DUNCAN
! In the absence of the pastor, the
Rev. R. N. Carroll. Dr. Pope A.
Duncan of the Southeastern Bap
tist Theological Seminary at
I Wake Forest will preach at the
Edenton Baptist Church for both
morning and evening services
I Sunday. June 2.
[civic calendar]!
A public hearing on zoning thej
' recently annexed area to Edenton i
' will be held Friday night. June
7, at 8 o'clock in the Municipal
Building.
Men's Bible Class of the Bap
tist Church will hold its annual
| fish fry Friday night. May 31. at
, 7 o'clock at the American Legion
hut.
I The Albemarle Chorus will
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, on the soil in the food we eat,
r many of the clothes we wear and
l in our houses.
The longing for land ownership
i —ownership of the acres one op
> erates, a desire for that “poultry
i farm” to which one will retire, or
i “just a place to raise a few flow
ers” represents man’s feeling that
■ land is something stable, some
■ thing to which he can tie, some
i thing in which he can sink his
■ roots. In it he finds security and
: peace.
i Closely allied to that' desire to
s possess land is the hope and the
promise of fulfillment which land
i gives—hope for stability, for se
l curity, for peaceful living; the,
r promise of bountiful harvests, I
! food and a place one can call
, home. ■
i This longing for land is univer
-5 sal. It surges no less in the heart
1 of a Chinese, an Asian, or a Euro
pean than in the heart of an
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Dr. Frank Fuller of
ECC Will Be Princi
pal Speaker
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Tonight (Thursday) at 8 o'clock I
graduation exercises will be held]
in the Chowan High School when!
24 seniors will receive their di
plomas, thus ending their careers*
in the county public schools. |
The principal address JUir the 1
occasion will be made by Dr. |
Frank Fuller of the Department ;
of Education at East Carolina Col j
lege, Greenville.
. The program*will open with a i
prelude, “The Heavens Are Tell-!
ing,” and while the processional. | !
“Pomp and Circumstance,” is I !
played the graduates will file in',
the auditorium. The invocation j
will be by the Rev. Lamar Sen-j
tell, pastor of Ballard's Bridge!!
Baptist Church, after which an j
anthem, “Free At Last," will be,'
sung by the Glee Club.
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Final Exercises
Os Jr.-Sr. High!
! School Tonight
J Commencement exercises for
the Edenton Junior-Senior High
School got under way Sunday
night when the commencement
sermon was preached in the Ele
mentary School auditorium by the
Rev. George B. Holmes, rector of 1
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. . A
goodly number of friends were
present for the occasion with the
program interspersed with three
numbers by a mixed chorus under
the direction of Mrs. Marv Lpst-
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1 20 Years Ago ,
| As Found In the Files of J
The Chowan Herald
West W. Byrum was selected to
complete the personnel of the [
Chowan County Welfare Board to,
handle the state's intricate but
most important social security
program. W. J. Berryman and
W. D. Pruden were the other two
members.
News reached Edenion that the
State Highway Commission shops
were to be moved to either Mur
freesboro or Elizabeth City.
Masons and Lions met at Hicks
Field to play the first game in j
the softball league, but the game
I failed to materialize due to in-1
I adequate lights at the diamond.
{ An order was immediately placed
| for regulation flood lights.
I Graduates of the 1937 classes of
:. Edenion and Chowan High
, Schools were guests of the Rotary
Club.
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$2.00 Per Year In North Carolina.
Public Hearing To
Be Held June 7 On
Zoning Ordinance
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j Doubly Honored j
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ERNEST J. WARD. JR.
Edenton's Town Clerk. Ernest
J. Ward. Jr., was twice honored
recently, being elected last week
as president of the Albemarle
Pamlico Travel Council and fi’-s’
vice president of the Ocean Hi
way Association.
Junior High Girl
Scout Troop Holds
Court Os Awards
Badges Awarded For
Achievements Made
In Nine Months
At a candlelight Court of
Awards ceremony held Saturday
evening, May 25, at the Parish
House, 15 Girl Scouts ol Troopi
No. 4 rect ived badges earned dor-:
ing the past nine months.
The f o 11 o w ing achievement j
awards were made:
Second Class Badge: Gatherin'*.
Bas s. Eleanor Bovce, Marion |
Bunch, Ida Campen, Ann Hobbs,
Judy Israel, Ann Jenkins, Nettie'
Lassiter. Barbara Layton. Milly!
Price, Judy Riley, Sara Relf?
Smith, Carolyn Twiddy.
Dancer Badge: Catherine Bass.
Eleanor Boyce. Marion Bunch. Ida;
Campen, Ann Hobbs. Judy Israel, |
Ann Jenkins. Nettie Lassiter. Bar-1
bara Lavton. Millv Price. Judy
Riley, Sara Relfe Smith. Carolyn'!
Twiddy, Kathy Zane, Sally Case, i
Interior Decorat n. r Badge: j
Kathy Zone.
First Aid Badge: Judy Israel, 1
Nettie ..Lassiter, Millv Price, Sara!
Relfe Smith.
At the close of the ceremony,! 1
the Troop. Leader, Mrs, William
Case, welcomed the new Troop
Leader. Mrs. Betty Lorance, who 1
outlined plans for further badge j 1
work and troop activities through.*
the summer. I *
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I Mrs. Wrn. Case 1
Will Speak At |
Rotary Today j!
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Mrs. William Case will be thej:
principal speaker at the Edenton. I
Rotary Club's meeting today i
(Thursday) at 1 o’clock in the .
Parish Hoose.
Mrs. Case has taken a leading
part in thf- development of Girlj
Scouts in Edenton and is now j
very much encouraged over the!
possibility of erecting a GirL
Scout house on Hicks Field. I
where a site has been given by I
the Edenton School trustees for
the purpose. Mrs. Case’s subject
will, of course, be Girl Scouts,
and President George Alma By
rum urges every Rotarian to be
present.
Annual Baptist Fish j
Frv Friday Night j
The Men’s Bible Class of the (
Baptist Church will hold its an- j
| nual fish fry at the American Le- j
\ gion hut Friday night. May 31, at,
7 o’clock. The entire adult da- j
partment of the Sunday School is j
invited to attend and over 2001
people are expected to enjoy the!
affair. '
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DRIVE CAREFULLY—
YOU MAY SAVE
YOUR LIFE!
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nicipal Building
Interested parties are reminded
that a public hearing relative to
a proposed zoning ordinance for
the recently annexed area to the
town of Edenton will be held in
the Municipal Building Friday
night, June 7. at 8 o'clock.
Town Council at * special meet
ing last week favorably approv
ed the provisions of a proposed
ordinance and subsequently des
ignated Monday night, June 7, for
•’ hearing in order for objections,
f there are any, to be registered
before the ordinance is officially
: adopted.
I Ay the ordinance now stands it
i orovides for neighborhood busi-
I ness on the south side of High
way 17 from Filbert’s Creek to
I 'he road leading into the Brown
’oinpony property. Rack of the
i w Brown Company retail store
a the road leading to Mrs M. G
trowii’; home will.be light indu.s
rv, and the remainder of the
trown nriipertv. excent Mrs.
Brown’s home will be classed as
industry.
Albania Acres will be reside* -
ti ll to the Marina property, and
from ihere to Pembroke Creek
will be neighborhood business.
| Lots fronting on U. S. 17 from
Jthe Fish Hatchery fence to the
j property of Clarence Cates will
jbe neighborhood business and
1 from there to the town limits will
be residential.
On the north side of U. S. 17
from th<‘ Twiddy property to a
line parallel with the Marina
property will be residential and
from this line to Pembroke Creek
will he neighborhood business.
, Across the creek to the Jack
Mooney property will be classed
as light industry and from the
Mooney property to the town lim
its will he residential.
All the other area added to
1 Edenton north of the Twiddy
j property, including Albemarie
Street will be classed as residen
tial.
The meeting will be held in the
; Municipal Building and any ob
! iections should be registered at
that time before the ordinance is
! adopted.
Athletes To Be
Given Awards
A ceremony beginning at 10
o'clock this (Thursday) morning
in the Edenton Junior-Senior
High School gymnasium will’s,
honor the athletes of the school.
Awards formerly given out dur
ing the annual Varsity Club
athletic banquet will be award
ed during the program. The
athletic banquet was cancelled
for this year.
The local high school will be
honoring players who have giv
en the school one of its best
athletic records in several years,
.among which were State Class
|A champions in football, win
|ner of the four team conference
basketball tournament and un
lofficial team track champions .
! of the conference.
The Varsity Club, of which j
, Cecil W. Fry is president, will I
present trophies to the most
j valuable football, basketball and
| baseball boys and to the most
j valuable girls’ basketball play-;
! er. Seniors will be aeknowledg
jed for outstanding accomplish
ments.
The public is invited to attend
particularly the fathers and
mothers of the boys and girls
who have participated in ath
letics this year.
I WADE JORDAN HONORED ’ j
• AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
j Wade Hampton Jordan, Jr.,
•of Edenton has received the
| William A. Felsing Graduate.
| Memorial Award at. the Univer
sity of Texas as the graduate
j student showing the most prom- jj
jise in physical chemistry. M
The award is a modem ad* !
'vanced textbook in physical:
' chemistry.
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