POak Grm eCoisuiramtj Busy Ob
Community Progress Corniest
The Oak Grove Home Oem
ohstfation Club members are
really working in the commun
ity progress contest, which is
being sponsored by the Peoples
Bank and Truet Company.
The committee ih charge of
projects includes Mrs. Elbert
Peele, Mrs. Percy Nixon. Marvin
Evans and Wallace Peele.
Some of the projects the group
is working on are: Fieki' dem
onstration meetings, community
socials, improving attendance at
Sunday School, improving com
munity building, putting on fair
exhibit, installing tile drainage,
set pine seedlings, remodeling
dwellings and planting shrub
bery. They have a total of 18
projects which they are work
ing on. .
The people in Oak Grove com
munity are using their commun
Mrs. Melba Dußois Winner In
•Chowan Clubs! Fashion Parade
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AS parade of fall fashions Was
shown to the Home Demonstra
tion* Club women on Tuesdhy
afternoon, September 18, at 3
o’clolk. The “Fashion Pafstde”
was field in the Advance Com
munity Building. t- -
In {a setting of beautiful Jail
flowers, tiie club women mod
eled dresses which they had
made themselves since Septem
ber last year. This fajjbion
has 'become an anitual as
. fair, taking place each fall at
the September County .Catqjfeil
meeting. ».
Mrs. Melba Dußois of me
Center Hill Club, was selected
as first ' place winner.- She
modeled a dress made of“a ©an
River cotton material, which .Vfas
light bltie with brown ‘stripps.
Mrs;., Dußois showed that the
sheath shirtwaist “sack” dress
could be belted or worn without
a belt. It featured a pointed
collar with a pointed front band
over the center front zipper
closing. UThe dress had three
quarter 9et in sleeves, detailed
* with band and gathered at the
cuff. Tlje winter cotton.-had a
kick pleat in the back which
ma®6 for better walking com
fort. The dress cost only $3.00.
The workmanship-was excellent
'and the dress was a well-fitted
garment. Mrs. Dußois enjoys
sewing and makes many of the
fashions in her wardrobe.
In second place, Mrs. McCoy
Spivey of the Wards Clulg, mod
eled. a one-piece wool dress.
The - dress featured a . round
neckline with two flat pockets
on the bodice. The dress had
length sleeves. and
was lined which made the dress
look like a more professional
job.’- Mrs. Spivy modeled' - ithe
dress, wearing a green velvet hat
which showed what correct ac
cessqries can do for a garment.
The -, dress cost approximately
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ity building to a great advant
age.* They have fish frys quite
frequently, especially when the
fishermen in the community are
having good luck. All of these
socials help the community
spirit to stay high.
The club members worked
hard to pay for their community
building and are now working
to make improvements on it.
The community building serves
as a meeting place for the home
demonstration club, 4-H Club,
Hunting Club and family gath
erings. The building is a great
asset to the Oak Grove com
munity.
The committee urges everyone
to keep a good record of the
work they are doing on the va
rious projects. Mrs. Marvin Ev
ans and Mrs. Percy Nixon are
keeping a book of the progress
made in the community.
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. i Mrs. Cora Harrell of the
r Beech Fork Club modeled a
I two-piece navy outfit which won
> third place for her. She used a
white collar and white pearl
buttons on the jacket. Her suit
cost only $3.00.
-The garments were judged by
' Miss Paige Underwood, home
agent in Perquimans County,
and Miss Catherine Aman, as
-1 sistant home agent in Chowan
County. They judged the gar-
ments on construction, appear
• ance and fit.
Belk-Tyler Company of Eden
! ton donated the gifts which
l were presented to the three top
■ winners.
1 Others participating in the
5 contest were Mrs. I. E. Halsey,
• Jr., Mrs. John Layton and Mrs.
! Cora Harrell, Beech Fork Club;
5 Mrs. L. C. Chandler, Mrs. Gil
-1 bert Harrell and Mrs. Fred Cas-
I teloe, Advance Club; Mrs. Glenn
1 Langley and Mrs. Eugene Jor
dan, Ryland Club; Mrs. Melba
Dußois, Center Hill Club; Mrs.
I Roland Evans of Chowan Club;
! Mrs. McCoy Spivey, Wards Club
1 and Mrs. Marion Bunch pnd
1 Mrs. Otis Chappell, Oak Grove
‘ Club. "
IN SCHOOL OF MiARMACY
’ William H. Bunch, son of Mr.
1 and Mrs. J. H. Bunch, is enrolled
in the University of North Caro
lina School of Pharmacy at Chap
el Hill. Bunch attended high
• school at Eden ton Junior-Senior
1 High School.
’ The four-year course at the
l UNC School of Pharmacy leads to 1
I a degree of bachelor of Science ini
1 pharmacy.
1 Bunch is now in his second year j
’ of the course. He is scheduled to i
: graduate in June, 1961. •
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TEXAS FASHION —Yves-Mathieu Saint Laurent, 22-year-old
successor to the late Christian Dior as one of Paris', leading
couturiers, gets a taste of Texas tradition during his first visit
to the United States. He stopped off at a cattle ranch near
Dallas, was presented a Texas-slyle hat and got a look at a
real longhorn.
Annual Peanut Growers’ Field
Day In Lewiston October Ist
The North. Carolina Peanut
Growers Association’s annual
membership meeting and the an
nual Field Day of the North Car
olina Research Station will be
held on October 1, at the Peanut
Belt Research Station at Lewis
ton, N. C. A very interesting
program has* been arranged be
ginning at 9:30 A. M. The prin
cipal speaker for the occasion will
be A. C. JSdwards, executive vice
president of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau.
Following a tour of the peanut
research plots which will show
varieties, disease and insect con
trol, etc., there will be a farm
machinery demonstration with
nine farm machinery manufac
turers putting on an actual field
demonstration of their equipment.
Caswell Edmundson Elected
President Os Teenage Club
Tuesday, September 16, another
j year started for the Edenton Teen
Age Club, located in the Elemen
tary School. The 1958-59 board,
consisting of representatives from
each civic organizat'on, was in
doctrinated and election of offi
cers held. Caswell fidmundson
from the Jaycees was elected
president; Gene Ward from the
Rotary Club, vice president, and
Myda Taylor from the Woman’s
Club, secretary and treasurer.
Several recommendations made
by the old board were adopted,
among them being to acquire
much needed furniture, to con
tinue with the same hours on Sat
urday nights and continue the
rental fee for private parties at
[ SIO.OO with cleaning before and
I after a requirement. A recom
! mendation to have a minister on \
the board was tabled for further |
! discussion. •
The field demonstration will be
conducted in a ten-acre field of
peanuts with diggers, digger shak
ers, shaker-windrows, windrow
combines and drying equipment.
All of this equipment will be op
erated so that the peanut farmers
will be able to study the merits
of each individual piece of equip
ment.
The program for this occasion
is the most complete and the most
attractive program that has been
offered to the peanut growers
since the beginning of this joint
Field Day. Every peanut grow
er is urged to attend as much in
formation will be available which
can be applied to each individ
ual’s operation that will mean in
creased income and larger savings
in peanut production.
Gerald James, Edenton Junior-
Senior High School principal, has
been asked to select a Teenage
Council, a representative from
each class, to meet with the
Board.
Membership pickets went on
sale Saturday night, September
20, with 76 members joining. All
teenagers planning to join are
urged to purchase tickets Satur
day, September 27.
Parents are invited and urged
to visit the club and join in the
young folks’ fun.
MASONS INSTRUCTED
Edenton Masons this week are
being instructed in the work of
the order. Classes are being held
each night in the lodge room, with
the instructor being W. P. Good
win, certified Masonic lecturer.
Highway Group
Urges Improving
U. S. Route 17
Forty-three members of the
Ocean Hiway Association from
Eastern North Carolina counties
through which the U. S. Highway
No. 17 passes, met in Washing
ton, N. C., September 16 to dis
cuss plans for requesting im
provements to the highway to ac
commodate the increase in tour
ist traffic sure to come with the
brjdge-tunnel project completion
across Chesapeake Bay.
President Ernest J. Ward, Jr.,
of Edenton, presided at-the meet
ing, which was attended by may
ors, city officials and county
commissioners, as well as hotel
and motel and restaurant opera
tors on the route and Chamber of
Commerce officials.
Plans call for four-laning the
highway where applicable and the
Association’s recommendations
will be presented to the North
Carolina Highway Commission
ers at an early date.
A resolutions committee com
posed of one representative from
each North Carolina county on 1
the route was chosen at the meet-1
ing to- draw up resolutions to
present to the highway commis-l
sion. Kenneth Phillips of Wash-1
ington, N. C., was elected chair-1
man of this committee, which will j
meet again on September 30. ,
Each county delegation pre-;
sented its views toward improving
the highway and told what each
area was doing to promote tour
ist traffic on Highway 17.
Hon. Herbert C. Bonner con
gratulated the group on its inter-'
est in the tourist business and
what it can mean to Eastern!
North Carolina with the comple-j
tion of the bridge-tunnel and im
provements to Highway 17 in this
State. |
The $144,000,000 bridge-tunnel
project will take approximately j
four years to complete and will
close the last water barrier on I
the ocean hiway route and elimi
nate the long ferry trip across the
bay. It will feature a bridge in
the shallow part and a tunnel in
the deep section to afford to 17.6
mile non-stop crossing in a matter!
of minutes. This bridge-tunnel
between Cape Charles and Nor
folk will be one of the great en-
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CHARLES JACQUIN et Cie, Inc., Phila., Pa.
| Methodist Church
| Sends Out Its First
Ministerial Student
■ This week the Edenton Metho
i dist Church has sent out its first
; j ministerial student. Leonard
Lewin, who spent around two and
one half years in Edenton in the
Marine Corps, finished up his
stint in the service on Tuesday
and left immediately for High
Point College to begin his premin
isterial training. All the time he
was in Edenton Mr. Lewin was
very loyal to the Edenton Meth
odist Church, of which he be
came a member last summer
about the time he was recom
mended by the church’s Quarter
ly Conference for his Local
Preacher’s License. He was in
frequent attendance at the church
services and MYF meetings.
As the people of the Edenton
Method:st Church approach their
150th anniversary, they are proud
to send Leonard Lewin into the
Christian ministry. They will
watch his progress with great in
terest.
Mr. Lewin is from Syracuse, N.
|Y. He was a sergeant in the U. S.
Marine Corps.
!
Albemarle Furniture
j Company Sells Out
, To Johnny Woolard
i
I A change in the ownership of
the Albemarle Furniture Com
pany was recently made with
Tom Hopkins selling the store to ,
Johnny Woolard of Williamston.
1 son of Garland C. Woolard, who
; has been in the furniture busi
■j ness in Williamston since 1932. i
j Mr. Woolard has changed the ,
name of the concern to Colonial
Furniture Company, but will eon
i tinue to operate at the same loca
t tion, 212 South Broad Street.
I While the store has been open
for business, a formal opening
/ will be held Friday, September
26, at which time Mr. Woolard
1 , invites all the people in the Al
, bemarle area to visit the store.
The store will be re-stocked from
: j top to bottom and new furniture
i is arriving daily.
■! gineering undertakings of all
■ time.
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ASC Election
On October 2
The method of holding com
munity ASC ■ farmer-committee
elections is announced by A. C.
Griffin, chairman of the Chowan
County ASC Committee.
Community elections will - be
held in the county’s three desig
nated agricultural communities on
October 2. Polls will remain
open for election as community
committeemen and alternates and
delegates and alternate delegates
to the County Convention:
Community No. I—W. S. Bass,
Stanley Blanchard, Fred Bunch,
Wallace Goodwin, Jr., Thomas
Paul Griffin, C. P. Harrell, Ward
Hoskins, Richard E. Jackson,
Woodrow Lowe, Sid White.
Community No. 2—Charlie As
bell, Ellie Bunch, Hercules By
rum, Alvin Evans, Carlton Good
win, C. J. Hollowell, J. B. Hollo
well, B. P. Monds, Paul Ober,
Hutchings Winborne.
Community No. 3 Jennings
Bunch, Ellsworth Blanchard, L.
M. Blanchard, Wallace Chappell,
Lester Copeland, E. M. Howell,
McCoy Spivey, F. A. Ward, Cyril
Winslow, J. T. Winslow.
Any farmer who as owner, op
erator, tenant, or sharecropper, is
participating or is eligible to par
ticipate in any program adminis
tered by the County ASC com
mittee, is eligible to vote in his.
community.
Announcements will be made of
the Community Committeemen
elected immediately after the
election. Delegates elected by
farmers will meet on October 21 !
to elect County Committeemen. '
ASC County and Community;
Committeemen elected will take
office November 1.
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PAGE SEVEN
Need For Visual
Screening Stressed
Continued From Page 1. Section ij
ing in the Edenton and Chowan
County schools. The work will
be done with modern equipment
which is already available. The
checking will be done by volun
teers who have been familiarized
with the equipment, with the in
terpretation done by Drs. Fergu
son and Downum. Children hav
ing visual difficulties will be re- ’
ported and the parents will be s
free to consult an eye specialist of
their own choosing.
Dr. Ferguson received the en
dorsement of the Edenton Lions
Club in this work, and he report
ed that he will begin immediate-J
ly to contact school officials,
PTA’s and others so the prograrti
can get under way as soon as pos ;
sible. ■
I
j Girl Scout Troop
Will Reorganize
| Continued from Page I—Section 1
Volunteers are being sought to
j head enough troops this year to
[ allow a continuing program to
troops already formed and offer
I Brownie work to the new second
graders. This is a program of
fun and education and every
girl should have the opportun
ity to join. ■'
Any one interested in assist
ing with the leadership of these
troops is asked to contact Mrs.
Roland Vaughan, telephone 2538,
who will be glad to discuss the
program and the possibility of
leadership training if necessary.
RED MEN MEETING
Chowan Tribe of Red Men will
meet Monday night, September
29, at 8 o’clock. Caswell Edmund
son. sachem, is very anxious to
have a large attendance. >