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ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN CHOWAN COUNTY Volume XXVI.-Number 32. Highway Officials Plan To Consider Local Road Needs Plan Is Suggested to Centralize Mainten ance Operations In Chowan County Ernest Ward, Jr., spokesmen for property owners at Nixon’s Bepoh, appeared before the County Commissioners Monday asking the Commissioners to use * their influence in having the State Highway Commission wid en the Indian Trail road as well as place rock on the road lead ing from the Indian Trail road to Nixon’s Beach. Before the Commissioners ad journed W. F. Sessoms of Ply mouth, First District engineer, turned up and held a confer ence with the Commissioners • concerning road matters. Mr. Sessoms told the Commis sions that very Shortly, possibly at the next meeting of the Com missioners, Harold Makepeace, secondary roads officer, Division Engineer W. N. Spruill and him self will meet with the Com missioners to determine priority work to be done. “We will put on the table the amount of money allocated for road work in your county,” said Mr. Ses soms, “and it will be up to you gentlemen to decide what work { you want done first, so long as the work is in accordance with the secondary road program.” * Mr. Sbssoms also stated that it was the purpose to centralize maintenance operations in Cho wan County. At present a yard is located on Granville Street I back of Chowan Hospital and an other at Ryland. To centralize the work, Mr. Sessoms said about an acre and a half of land' would be necessary which should! be in Ihtf of’Jhei county, home. Because the coun ty home property is scheduled toj be sold,'it wds the opinion that! th<t land will be available for the | centralization of maintenance op erations. This matter will no doubt also be considered when the road officials meet with the Commissioners. j 20! Years Ago As Found in the Filft of ( The Chowan Herald Excessive rains were causing no end of worry to the Street Department. Damage to the new school auditorium was apparent due to water backing up in the basement. An investigation by the Street Commissioner reveal ed that, a 36-inch line and an 18- inch line entered a 36-inch line at £denlon Street. The water from the 18-inch line coming from the school was backed up by the 36-inch line which was causing the trouble at the school. . The Street Commissioner recom-j mended a new line to replace I the one going through the John, Griffin property and an auxiliary line from Eden Street to the Concluded on Page 6—Section i L . Rocky Hock Revival August 23rd To 30th i Revival services will begin at Rocky Hock Baptist Church Sun day morning, August 23, at 11 o’clock and will continue through Sunday, August 30. K Dr. Douglas M. Branch, gen . eral secretary and treasurer of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, will be guest evan j| Services will be held at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and at 8 o’clock at night. The public is cordially invited. 0- -I,- - - -ru L-.-.-f,!*' - -pi—i - n- ——— —— - —————— * - ♦ Friends will be delighted to |now that an Edenton boy, Luke Alexander, Jr., won a S2B hon t orable mention award ia the ■Hrior division of the 1959 Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild compe THE CHOWAN HERALD B-- — [ Dog Troubles! j Just as a matter of curiosity, Chowan County Commissioners on Monday morning requested Clerk Mrs. Maurice L. Bunch to check on how many dogs in Chowan County are listed on the tax books. The Commissioners were in formed that the books show that 157 female dogs and 779 male dogs are listed for taxes for the current year. Os course, the Commissioners feel very positive there are many more than 936 dogs in the county, and they are concerned about doing some thing about it. As an initial step. Chairman W. E. Bond was instructed to write to counties which have dog wardens in an effort to learn how the problem is being handled. New Agents Begin Work Miss Pauline Calloway and Harry Venters began their du ties in Chowan County Satur day, August 1. Miss Calloway | succeeds Miss Maidred Morris as 1 home agent and Mr. Venters I succeeds Robert S. Marsh as as sistant county agent. Both n£w agents appeared at the County,Commissioners’ meet ing Monday to inform they are now on the job. J Miss Calloway comes' to Cho wan County Roxboro in Person County, where she has had a considerable amount ' of ! experience in farm and home dft- I velopment and was, highly rec lommehded Tsy MBs Pauline Coxe, district home agent. Miss j Calloway made a tour of Cho i wan County before accepting the ■ position and she was Very fa vorably impressed with what she saw. Mr. Venters has been assistant county agent in Carteret Coun ty for three years, where he has [done outstanding work with 4-H Clubs. He, too, comes highly recommended by the district agent. Band Parents Meet Aug. 12 Edenton’s Band Parents Asso ciation will meet Wednesday night, August 12, at 8 o’clock in 'the band room. Mrs. Kathleen Skiles, president, states that this will be the last meeting of the association before opening of school. Much important busi ness is scheduled to be consid j ered, so that she urges all mem- I bers to make a special effort to ' attend. 1 . ■ ■- - - ■— Meeting Changed By Commissioners Chowan County Commissioners will hold their September meet ing Friday morning, September 4, at 9 o’cloock instead of the first Monday, September 7. The reason for the change of meet ing is due to the observance of Labor Day on September 7. CHOWAN SALES TAX Sales and use* tax collections in June for Chowan County amounted to $11,425.99, accord ing to a report of the North j Carolina Merchants Association. This compares with $12,666.55 in IMay and $11,373.28 in May, 1958. tyorth Carolina’s two top teen age automobile designers in, the contest were William Wisely, Route 3, Raleigh and David O’Keef, Jr., of, Charlotte, who' repeated the* 1968 performnace. | Edenton, <3 /an County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 6,1959. C. Os C. Committ Planning For Lab J Day Fishing Contest Plans Also In Making, To Celebrate Anni versary of Two Local Historic Buildings A special three-day fishing j contest to be held on Labor Day week-end and plans for celebrating the anniversaries of! two historic buildings were the highlights of a meeting Tuesday of the ■ Chamber of Commerce Tourist and Recreation Com mittee. Chairman Joe Thorud said the spring fishing contest, which ran from May 20 to July 20. created a great deal of interest among out-of-town sportsmen. Prizes contributed by five local business firms were awarded monthly for the heaviest fish entered in five classifications. The committee agreed to hold the Labor Day contest if suffi cient prizes can be lined up. Scott Harrell was appointed to make the arrangements. Thorud added that the fish ing contests and the Chamber’s Fishing News Bulletin have brought many sportsmen to Edenton. Recently a party of 11 fishermen from Dunn, N. C. spent a week-end of fishing here 300th Anniversary Plans to celebrate the 300tl anniversary of Sycamore Plan tation in the spring of 1960 anr the 200th anniversary this fal of the James Iredell house wen also considered by the commit Continued on Page 3—Section 1 Ryland Picnic Will Be Held August 7 Community Progress Committee Meets After Picnic The Ryland Community wil’ have a picnic o.n Friday, August 7, at the home of Mrs. H. I Ward. All members of the com munity are invited to . attend and bring a picnic suoper. The pic- ) nic will be at 6:30 P. M. The Rocky Hock Quartet will pro- I vide entertainment for the oc casion. Everyone is looking for ward to a good time with lots of good food. There will be a brief session of the Community Progress Com mittee after the picnic. Dona tions and pledges will be taken for a community building which the members hope to start build ing soon. All members of the committee are especially urged to be present. Three Boy Scouts Go To Philmont Brad Williford, Boots Lassiter and Cecil Fry, Jr., three Eden ton Boy Scouts, left Saturday fo’ Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. The boys joined othei Scouts at Norfolk for the 6,000- mile trip. They will returr home Monday, August 24. Goodwins Attending Sheriffs’ Conveittion Sheriff and Mrs. M. Earl Goodwin will leave today (Thursday) for Asheville, where Mr. Goodwin will attend the an nual convention of the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association They will make their headquar ters at the Battery Park Hotel. Following the convention Sher iff and Mrs. Goodwin will take a trip through the, mountains of Western North Carolina and plan to return some time next week. I During their absence the Sher-1 iffs -office will be open as usual with Bertram Byrum on hand to transact any ctf the county’s business. TOWN COUNCIL MEETING ' Edenton’s Town Council will hold its August meeting Tues day night, August, 11, at 8 o’clock In the Municipal Build- iP. ASPIRIN, ANYONE? —The young man with the squashed look on his face does this sort of thing for a living. A performer with the Gene Holter Wild Animal Show, playing near Kansas City, Mo., his duty is to to be carried around by his head in the elephant’s mouth. Hiram J. Mayo Os Tarboro Principal Os Edenton School Family Expecting to Move to Edenton on Or Before Monday, August 17 j Superintendent John Holmes late last week announced that the Board of Education of the Edenton City Schools had ap pointed Hiram J. Mayo of Tar boro as principal of the high school in Edenton and he will also serve as an administrative assistant to the superintendent. J He succeeds Gerald D. James, who resigned to accept the posi- j tion of superintendent of the! Greene County schools. Mr. Mayo has been principal of a thirty or more teacher ele mentary school in Tarboro for the past seven years. Prior to coming to Tarboro he was an Associate Professor of Educa tion and Dean of Men at the State Teachers College in Liv ingston, Alabama, for a period of two years. While there he James Boswell Is Enrolled In Pasadena Playhouse College James Henry Boswell of Eden-J ton has enrolled as a student at] the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts at Pasadena, California, where he will prepare for a career in the entertainment field. At the Pasadena Playhouse, Mr. Boswell Will study acting] techniques, movement and dance, including fencing, voice and, speech, makeup, the history and literature of the theatre and oth-j er subjects vital to success in. show business. Gilfnor Brown' is President Emeritus of the or ganization ‘which he founded in 1917. . | In attending the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts Mr. Boswell will receive the| sort of training which has de veloped such great stars as feeorge Nader, Earl Holliman, Carolyn Jones, Victor Jory, Dana Edenton Loses Another Industry j The Seabrook Water Blanch- 1 ing Company of Tyrone, Penn sylvania, will relocate its plant in Severn, North Carolina, the j company on Tuesday advised W. P. Jones ( chairman of thei •Chamber of Commerce Indus trial Committee. The company’s decision was largely based on transportation, Severn being j nearer to Seabrook’s customers. served as principal of the Lab oratory School and Director of ■ Student Teaching at State i Teachers College. He also held j seminars and taught courses in ! education during the summer. Mr. Mayo is a native of Pam- Ucb-Uounty. - He received his AB degree in mathematics and science at East Carolina College in Greenville in 1944. He re ceived his MA degree in educa tional administration in 1948. He did graduate work in educa tion at Teachers College, Colum- I* bia University, and has com pleted all work for the doctor’s degree except writing his dis ( sertation. Mr. Mayo’s first teaching as signment after leaving East Carolina College was at ‘Ho bucken High School for two years. After that he served in the U. S. Navy. After his dis charge from the Navy he taught in the Oxford City schools. He taught science and was assistant principal of the John Nichols Continued on Page 3—Section 1 I Andrews, Lee J. Cobb, Don De ] Fore, Robert Young, Marilyn I Maxwell, Victor Mature, Barbara Rush, Eleanor Parker, Lloyd No lan, Wayne Morris, Randolph Scott and Gig Young. Mr. Boswell will be one of ap proximately 250 students who are participating in the courses, I which will begin on September 1 28. The processing program will i include performances in four in timate playhouses. Students who ! are particularly suitable also re ]eeive roles in Mainstage produc ' tions at the Pasadena Playhouse, where such stars as Zazu Pitts, Edward Everett Horton, Sarah | Churchill, Helmut Dantne, Hugh Marlowe and Mala Powers ap pear. | The Pasadena Playhouse Col lege of Theatre Arts has train ed more entertainment field per sonalities than any organization or college in the world. | several months in an attempt to get the plant in Edenton. Sus- I folk and Portsmouth* Virginia, ! also were negotiating with the company. ( , t Seabrook’s president, James' W. Gardner, stated that Edenton “is delightful” with many ad vantages and that the group here is “well organized.” How ever, it was Gardner’s opinion that Edenton is “out of the way Jaycees Round Up Salk Vaccine For Jacksonville Area Soon Delivered In Re lays By Highway Patrolmen I Edenton Jaycees swung into action late last week and duel I to their efforts, no doubt, play ed a vital part in the prevention of the spread of polio at Jack sonville, N. C., where there is an epidemic. It was reported that in the neighborhood of 150 children in j the Jacksonville area were un- j able to secure polio vaccinations due to the lack of salk vaccine. I West Byrum, Jr., president of the Edenton Junior Chamber of! Commerce, reported that about „ 150 doses of the vaccine had been rounded up and with the] assistance of the Highway Pa-1 trolmen, traveling in relays, the vaccine was soon available in the stricken area. The Jaycees secured the vac cine from local sources, and sent calls to Elizabeth City, Hertford, Plymouth, Windsor, Wjlliamston and Aho.skie Jaycees to cooperate in rounding up the vaccine. All but two of the groups were able to round up the medicine and join in the ef fort to come to the aid of Jack sonville. W. H. Easterling and President Byrum spent a number of busy hours in the drive to secure vac cine and are very well pleased with the response they received and want to thank the patrol men as well as anybody else who came to the aid of Jack sonville. Incidentally, a Jack sonville Jaycee was a victim of polio last week. Red Men Planning For Circus Sept. 1 Hone Many People Will Purchase Ad vance Tickets Members of Chowan Tribe No. 12, Improved Order of Red Men, are now busily engaged ir planning for the appearance o f King Bros. Circus on Tuesday September 1. The circus wil' be located on the American Le gion grounds on the Windso* highway, where an afternoon.and night performance will be pre- f sented. The Red Men arc especially interested in selling advance tickets, Irom which the majo’ part of their profit will come Children’s tickets are already ir hand and the adult tickets will arrive within a few days. The King Bros. Circus has a very good reputation for pre senting first class thrills and en tertainment, so that the Red Men are hopeful that many people in Edenton and surround ing area will attend. They fur ther hope many wil! buy the ad vance tickets which will boost their share of the money taken in by the circus. Mrs. Billy Hardison C. Os C. Secretary Mrs. W. L. Hardison, Jr., of 320 West Queen Street has beer appointed secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, it war announced Tuesday afternoon bv Harry Smith, Jr., executive vice president. Mrs. Hardisor succeeds Mrs. Catherine McMul lan, who recently resigned. She began her duties on August 3. Mrs. Hardison is the wife o' the new high school assistant football coach, who is a native of Edenton. Mrs. Hardison is a native of Johnston County. Mr. and Mrs. Hardison lived in Chapel Hill before coming here in June. LEGION MEETING > Ed Bond Post No. 40 of the American Legion will meet Tuesday night, August 11, at 8 o’clock. David White, the new commander, is very anxious to see many Legionnaires turn out Sot the meeting, v ... . $2.50 Per Year In North Carolina September Term Os Superior Court Convenes Sept. 14 } Public Hearing ] A public hearing will be held by Town Council and the Zon ing Commission Tuesday night, August 11, at 8 o'clock in the Municipal Building. The pur pose of the meeting is Jo con sider zoning policies of the new ly annexed area on U. S. High way 17 north. Anyone interested in the zon ing of this area is invited to attend the meeting and taka part in the discussion. Center Hill Juniors Form New Club | Mary Privott Elected President of New Group The Center Hill Local 4-H Club, meeting for the month of July, met at the home of Em mett Jones. Jr. The meeting was called to order by the president. Emmett, Jr. led in a devotional. The roll was called and the min utes were read and seconded. I The business was then talked j over. Junior 4-H Club members' were welcomed to the meeting, ] They were as follows: Linda! Goodwin June Turner, Peggy, Monds, Mary Privott, Philip Smithson, Robbie Boyce, Robert Bulls and Phyllis Bulls. These junior members decided to form a junior club of their 1 own instead of meeting with the! senior club. They decided toj elect their own officers. They ' are as follows: President, Mary] Privott; vice-president, Linda Goodwin; secretary and treasur er, June Turner; assistant secre tary and treasurer, Robbie | 3ovce, and reporters, Peggy Monds and Philip Smithson. After all the officers were nominated, Miss Catherine Aman explained to all the new mem bers the meaning of the 4-HJ Club. She told them about the' various projects they could! choose and the new projects they could take, After the meeting | was closed a few songs were »ung. Refreshments were served and enjoyed by all. Yeopim Revival Will Begin August 10th | Revival services will begin in; the Yeopim Baptist Church Mon day, August 10 and continue through Sunday, August 16. The pastor of the church, the Rev. A. J. McClelland, announc es that the visiting evangelist will be the Rev. A. J. Eure, pas tor of the Coinjock Baptist Church. Services will be held each night at 8 o’clock with special music furnished by neighboring churches. Monday night the music will be furnished by the Calvary Baptist Church of Eliza beth City. Tuesday night a quartet from the Hertford Bap tist Church will sing. Wednes day night the music will be pre sented by Mrs. Hal left Rountree and Miss Treena Rountree. On Thursday night the Yeopim Church choir will furnish the music and on Friday the Youth Choir of Macedonia Baptist Church will present the music. 1 Billings Chosen To Help Coach All Stars For Shrine Bowl Game Edenton friends will be pleas ed to learn that Coach Bill Bill ings has been selected as a coach for the North Carolina all star annual Shrine Bowl game which will be played in Char lotte. He will assist Coach Bill Eustler o£ Rockingham. It is the second consecutive year Coach Billings has been asked to coach in all-star games. Last year he and Coach Honey Johnson of Elizabeth City were ( named t 6 coach the East-West game. However, Coach Johnson suffered, ft heart attack and i George CUhwa <4 Roxboro wag FIGHT CANCER WITH A CHECKUP AND CHECK Judge W. K. McClean Os Asheville Sched uled to Preside In stead of Morris Chowan County Commission ers at their meeting Monday morning picked 50 names from the jury box, all of whom will be summoned for jury duty at the next term of Chowan Su perior Court. The term will be held the week of Monday, September 14. It will be a mixed term, in cluding a murder case transfer red from Tyrrell County. The presiding judge will be Judge W. K. McClean of Ashe ville, resident judge of the 28th , Judicial District. Judge Mc- Clean will preside instead of Judge Chester Morris < who was originally scheduled to serve. Judge McClean has notified Clerk of Court Tom Shepard that court will convene at 9:30 Monday morning instead of 10 o'clock as usual. Jurors will, therefore, be required to be on hand by 9:30 o’clock. He fur ther stated that after Monday court wil] convene at 9 o’clock in the morning and continue un til 12 o’clock. The afternoon session will be from 1 to 4 o’clock. Those wiio were picked for ■ jury duty included the following: Gerald W. Blanchard. V. E. Tynch, William B. Wilkins, 1 Richard A. Hollowell, Robert Hughes, Graham Bvrum, David I K. Goodwin, Thomas E. Bunch, I Edward J Chappell, Willie J. I Byrum, James Edward Hare, ! Lassell E. Chappell, Sherill | Boyce, L. H. Haskett Rufus j Irvin Bunch, Irvin D. Spivey, , James Albert Alexander,. Jesse |W. i te, James D. Swindell, C. D. Bunch, Haywood Ziegler, Jr., C. H Davis. Jr., J. R. Tynch, Robert L. Byrum, Jr., J. C. J Perry, L. C. Bunch, Elijah Blount, Louis A. Chappell, W. L. Bateman, Major M. Wright, Geddes B. Potter, J. F. Ward, L. P. Chappell, Henry Allen Bunch. Thomas J. Brabble, I Charles Clifton Granby, E. D. 1 Copeland, John E. Perry, Jr., ! Albert L. Gray, Charlie Elliott | Peele, G. O. Chappell, Horace | M. Basnight, C. C. Baker, Jr., ' J. L. Winslow, John K. Wine coff, Clyde Elbert Bunch, Jr., Willie W. Spruill. T. L. Ward, Jacoh Spivey and E. T. Bunch. J ;[ CIVIC CALENDAR Edenton Chamber of Com merce is planning to stage a fishing contest over the Labor Day week-end. Band Parents Association will meet in the band room Wednes lay night, August 12, at 8 o'clock. September term of Chowan Superior Court will convene Monday morning, September 14, at 9:30 o'clock. The Ryland community will have a picnic at the home of Mrs. H. I. Ward Friday after noon, August 7, at 6:30 o'clock. Revival services will begin at the Rocky Hock Baptist Church Sunday morning, August 23, and continue through Sunday. Aug , ust 30. A public hearing will be held by the Zoning Commission and Town Council Tuesday night August 11, at 8 o'clock in the Municipal Building to consider ‘Continued oa Page 6—Section 1 called in to assist Billings. Coach Billings, with his assist ant, Billy Hardison, left Tues day to attend the coaches’ clinic at Greensboro. Billings this season will begin his sixth year as Edenton’s coach. In the five years his teams have won three state titles and in the other two years they went as far as the eastern cham pionship games, taiag both games by a single |Agt During his five £den ton Billings-coached tfkms have 'woo 49 games, lost UWttod 3, i