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-■ 11 % ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN !H CHOWAN COUNTY sL_ /d Volume XXVl,—dumber WT Town Councilmen Call Public Hearing To Hear Objections To Site of Municipal Building Opposition to Present Proposed Site Will Be Heard Tuesday Night, September 1 A proposed new Building for Edenton once again came-up for consideration at the of Town Council Tues day night and contributed to a long meeting whioh lasted until the midnight hour. George Alma Byrum and All Phillips reported that they 'had contacted Ed Pugh, Elizabeth City architect, to draw prelimi nary sketches of a proposed building, but that Mr. Pugh was stricken with a heart attack and it was uncertain When he could do the work. However, the idea of the lo cation of the proposed building cropped up, two of the Council men, J. Edwin Bufflap and Billy Bunch, stating that they had heard some opposition to erect-' ihg the Municipal Building at 1 the foot of Broad Street. It , was also brought out that some suggestions have been made that > it Would be more economical, as well as more convenient, to re ihodel the present Municipal for use as town head quarters and build a new fire, station in a more central loca- r tion. In view of what prevailing op-1 position there is to the proposed site at the foot of Broad Street, I the committee was instructed to' inform Mr. Pugh to hold the proposed sketches in abeyance. In the meantime it was decided | to hold a public hearing to give, anyone an opportunity to reg ister any opposition to placing proposed Municipal Build- Continued on Page 2—Section 1 Rev. Billy Hollowell Will Preach At tfcocky Hock Church Sunday . The Rev. Billy Holl-owell of Ayden, N. C„ will preach at the Rocky Hock Baptist Church next Sunday, August 16. He Will preach at both the 11 A. M. rid 8 P. M. services. Mr. Hollowell, a native of Cho wan County, is a retired minis ter and many of his relatives and friends will be delighted to hear him. Revival At Macedonia Begins On August 16 : Revival services will begin at the Macedonia Baptist Church Sunday, August 16 and continue each night through Saturday and Sunday night, August. 23. The gervices will begin at 8 oVbck. Dr. John T. Bunn of Bragg Town Baptist Church at Dur hkme, will be the guest evan gelist. The Rev. L. C. Chand ler, pastor of the church, ex tends a cordial invitation to all to attend the services. Twiddy Insurance & Real Estate T Co. Named Representative Fori, ILesco Homes In N. E. Carolina! i. . , /Vnnouncefnent is made this week that Twiddy Insurance & Real Estate Company has been appointed representative in- Nerth eastern Norath Carolina' for Lester Bros., lije., of Martins ville, Va., manufacturers of Les r • too Homes. The local oohoem covers the entire northeastern part of the State with 11 men now employed and the possibility f that more, will be given employ £ meat. This 'expansion is equiva i' tent' to a. new industry, though 1 not as big as some which have been sought, but new industry Mfe tJTbSn b3ldJn2eo 51 t052 M ‘ jn this area for about five years i fUla I*fLVt? wu * R *5 j THE CHOWAN HERALD c New Principal J 11 : - ■&. > ■ HIRAM J. MAYO New principal at the Edenton Junior-Senior High School is . Hiram J. Mayo. Mr. Mayo comes to Edenton from Tarboro and succeeds Gerald D. James, j He is expected to assume his Edenton duties about August 17. j It Was Done! j An experiment was sponsored by Henry G. Quinn end Ernes! Kehayes of the P & Q Super Market which at present appears very successful. The two gro , cerymen had an ic'ea honeydew ' melons could be raised in Cho wan County just as successful as in California and Arizona. They persuaded John S. Bunch to plant honeydew melons on his j Rocky Hock farm and late last week he plucked a number of the hotieydews as large as are shipped in from the West. fruit isn’t matured enough to i compare with the taste of the' imported ones, but both Quinn 1 and ifcehayes are very optimistic over the result of their experi ment. Mr. Bunch planted a few rows of the honeydew melon and at present there are from 200 to 300 melons on the vines. Revival At Warwick Begins Next Sunday Revival services will begin in the Warwick Baptist ChuTbh Sunday, August 16, and continue through Saturday, August 22. Services will be held each night at 8 o’clock. The visiting evangelist wi'l be the Rev. D. S. Moyers, pastor of the Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church in Norfolk. The Rev. Russell B. Cotting ham, pastor of the church, ex tends a cordial invitation to everyone to attend the services. VFW MEETING William H. Coffield, Jr., Post No. 9280, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet Tuesday night, August 18, at 8 o’clock. Com mander John Bass urges all members to turn out. appointed as tfgent and salesman for LeSco homes in -Northeastern North Carolina. Mr. Habit and Warren Twiddy last week at tended a three-day school at Martinsville which Was held for salesmen, district representatives and builder dealers. Lesco homes are considered dne of the best pre-fabricated homes made. Mr. Habit was born and rais-’ ed in Eden too and is "a graduate of Edemton High School. He is. also one of Edenton’s Eagle Scouts. At present he is also operating the Albemarle Whole sale Distributors and a billiard - . parlor. He is very much cn-' thused about Lesco homes and win be delighted to furnish , formation to anyone mreresten» ja mimimim com. iti© ownu* ™V v Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 13, 1959. 1959 Cotton Crop Estimatels34.B% Above Last Year Crop Reporting Ser vice Forecasts 345,000 Bales as Against 256,- 000 Bales In 1958 The North Carolina Crop Re porting Service has forecast the 1959 cotton crop at 345.000 bales (500-pounds gross weight). This estimate is based on August 1 reports from growers, ginners, and others throughout the cotton growing areas of the State. If the August 1 forecast material izes, a crop of this size would be 89.000 bales or 34.8 percent mote than the 256,000 bales vested last year but 74.000 bales less than the 1948-57 average of 419,000 bales. It is estimated that 395.000 acres of cotton will be harvested this year for an average state yic'd of 419 pounds per acre. The expected acreage to be har vested is 132,000 more than was harvested last year but it is 228,- 000 below the ten-year average for 1948 through 1957. The in crease over last year is due pri marily to acreages released from the Soil Bank. This year’s prospective yield is 47 pounds below last year’s turn-1 out, but it is 95 pounds above, the ten-year average." The crop got off to a good start and on through the hot. dry weather of . June presented unusually gofiji prospects. With the heavy rains of July, fields began to put on heavy vegetative growths after which shedding of squares and' yohng bolls was heavy. By thej first of August a previously small boll-weevil ponulation beginning to build up, and the final outcome of the crop will depend on the effectiveness of weevil control and various oth er influences affecting its pro gress during the remainder of the season. Providence Revival Will Begin Sunday . i Revival services will begin m| the Providence Baptist Church ■Sunday, August 16 and will con tinue through Friday night, . Au gust 21. The services will be held each night at 8 o’clock. Old fashion singing, voluntary prayers and testimonials will be a feature of each service. The speaker for the revival will be the Rev. M. A. Reid, pastor of the First • Baptist: Church of Petersburg, Va., whoj has a wide renutation as a dy namic evangelist. |- Refreshments will follow the closing service on Friday night. The pastor of the church, the Rev. F. H. LaGarde, extends a cordial invitation to the public to attend the services. Lesco Agent * , - - - ■ -i —,o~'- b * r . [Final Little League Game (e Scheduled M v /ed Today \ - All Pai V* ting Boys Will Bt ited to a Wiener %% t After Game The Littl'e League season is nearing completion with three more regular scheduled games, ■two of which are make-up games. The final game will be played this (Thursday) after noon at 5 o’clock. It will be an all-star game between the all stars and the top team in the league. Immediately following this all-star game a wiener roast, will be held. This wiener roast j is contributed by the people of Edenton. All members of the Little League and all members of the Pony League are invited, to the wiener roast. It is hop ed that all the members will at tend. In the past week the Little League all-stars have played! two games with outside compe tition. They defeated the Rocky i Hock Little League all-stars j easily in both games. The pitcher for Edenton was Bill j Bootwright. He pitched a no hitter last Thursday night against Rocky Hock. Standing of Teams W. L. Pet. Varsity 10 4 .714 Lions 8 5 .615 Jaycees 5 7 .417 Rotary 4 11 .267 Top Ten Betters Ab. H. Pet. Ronnie Rountree ... 56 30 .536 Perry Byrum 36 16 .444 Bill Cozart 34 15 .441 Phil Harrell 31 12 .387 Michael Smith 68 25 .366 Charles Swanner 68 20 .294 1 Melvin Barnett 48 14 .292 David Holton 53 15 .283 Bill Mitchener 64 16 .250 The Pony League also had an outside game. They played the Rocky Hock Pony League on Monday afternoon and were de feated by a score of 6-5. This ended the season for the Pony League team. Application Is Made For Waterway Bridget The North Carolina State! Highway Commission has matte] application for approval of plans! to construct a drawbridge aerosm the Atlantic Intracoastal Water way (Alligator River Section) between East Lake and Sandy Point Ferry Landing near Co lumbia. Col. H. C. Rowland, Jr:, dis trict engineer for the U. S. Army Corps of FSigineers, will receive any objections, if any, until Sep tember* 4 at his office, 308 Cus tom House, Wilmington, N. C. Third Degree Tonight jAt Masonic Meetingi t Ernest J. Ward, Jr., master of Unanimity Lodge No. 7, has called an emergent communica tion of the lodge for tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 o’clock. The purpose of the meeting is to con- j Ifer the third degree, so that ai large number of Masons are ex- ■ pected to attend. JAYCEES MEET Edenton’s Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight (Thursday) at 7 o’clock at the Edenton Restaurant. West By rum, Jr., president, requests ev ery member to be present. [ civic calendar] Edenton Aces' football season will open with a home game, Friday night, September 4, with an opponent yet to be named. The Aces will begin football practice Saturday morning, Aug ust 15, starting at 8:30 A. M.. with two practice sessions sched uled daily until school opens. Edenton Chamber of Com merce is planning to stage a fishing contest oyer the Labor. Day week-end. | An emergent communication I of Unanimity Lodge No 7. A. F. j & M„ will be held tonight ■Mi colored will op6Q xor in§ ■M**e^ SEVEN COME ELEVEN —To illustrate his contention that the Federal 'debt management is “loaded,” Rep. Wright Patman (D-Tex.) uses box-size rigged dice during a speech on the HoUse floor. He places the dice on a table and knocks them to the floor. They turn un 7 or 11 each time. ’59 Football Season Opens September 4 With Home Game First Call For Practice' On Saturday Morn ing; Two Drills Daily Until School Opens Coaches Bill Billings and Billy | Hardison have called for football practice, which will begin Sat urday, August 15. On the first day two practice sessions will be held, one at 8:30 o’clock in the morning and another at 7 o’clock at night. Two practice sessions will be held from the opening ] day until school opens. Coach Billings Stated early this week that 10 JWmeiylHH be play .ed--.storing • -thew xjjnjwn' -Bight games have already been sched uled, with an opponent to be 1 selected for the opening game, l Friday night, September 4 on | the home gridiron and a game 1 for October 16. He stated that | 1 the October 16 game will be : scheduled by the end of this week with either Weldon or , on Page 3— Section 1 Hh ( Two Graduates Enter Training For Nurses ! A 1959 graduate from Edenton ! Junior-Senior High School and , a Chowan High graduate are scheduled to go in training as nurses. The two girls were i i awarded the nurses’ scholarships given by the Chowan Hospital Auxiliary at graduation exer cises. Miss Anne Williams of the ' Edenton school will go in train ing at a Rocky Mount hospital and Miss Sara Bunch cf the Chowan school will train at Nor folk General Hospital. I TEXACO SERVICE STATION UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT, T. J. Hoskins, Jr., has taken! over operation *>f the Texaco] ' Service Station on North Broad Street, formerly operated by j John Oliver, Jr. | Mr. Hoskins says he will con-| ! tinue the same courteous and prompt service and solicits the business of former patrons ’as well as new ones. The name has been changed to Hoskins Texaco Service. 20 Years Ago j Ai Found in the File* of Tha Chowan Herald S In a lengthy meeting lasting until midnight. Town Council men failed to set a tax rate. | Dr. L. P, Williams, Chairman of I tha Finance Committee, stated. ■ however, that he was of tbe opinion that the rate could he maintained at SI.OO. The partnership between J, H. Holmes, Oscar M. Elliott and J. M. Vail was dissolved when Mr. Elliott withdrew. The partner .ship existed for 22 years, t Negotiations were completed by E. W. Spires with Mrs. H. M. S. Cason regarding leasing the Cason lot between the S. C. | Mills property and the Nejam L Contour o»rage « .-lection 1 EHS Band Begins Year’s Activities Classes Now In Pro-j gress; Drills Held on j Football Field The Edenton Junior-Senior ' High School Band began its j preparations for this year’s ac- j tivities on Monday with orienta-l tion classes for new band mem-'! bers. v- About 25- new members are ! being taught to march in two . hour classes each Monday, Wed nesday and Friday. The classes . begin at nine in the morning , and are being held on the fol- J lowing dates: August 14, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26 and 28. Drum classes are being held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at' the same time on the following j dates: August 13, 18. 20, 25, 27. j The full band will attend drills at the football field on, ■ Tuesday and Thursday nights be- j • ginning at 7:30 o’clock on the following dates: August 18, 20,; 25, 27 and September 1. The marching band will num- ( ber 69, including five in the ( color guard, nine majorettes, ■ ■ drum major and 54 in the play ing band. j, *— v | Gart Pushers 1 \ J Volunteers who will operate the hospitality cart at Chowan Hospital during the month of August and September have been named by Mrs. Ed Bond. Those who will perform this i service are Mrs. W. H. Hollowell, 1 Jr., Mrs. George Alma Byrum, Mrs, Edward Bon-t, Mrs. Woed j Privotl and Mrs. Scott Harrell.! Reyival Speaker .][ ft .JSJ ftjl M'-: REV. D. S. MOYERS Evangelistic services will' be held at Warwick Baptist Church August 16 through 22. The visiting evangelist will be the Rev. D. S. Moyers, pastor of the Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church of Norfolk. Services , will begin mi « o'clock each $2.50 Per Year In North Carolina Edenton’s Schools Open ’59-60 Term Wednesday, Sept. 2 New Home Agent ] i j? 81l a * <■ < 7 MISS PAULINE CALLOWAY As of last week Miss Pauline Calloway was home agent for Chowan County. Miss Callo way came here from Roxboro 1 and succeeds Miss Maidrsd Mor ris. Free Examination j For Football Boys r> Doctors Richard Hardin andj Roland Vaughan are offering their services free to examine; fooball candidates before prac tice officially opens Saturday, August 15. All boys who plan to try out for this year's football squad are: requested to present themselves at the local Medical Center op- j pos ; te Chowan Hospital Friday night, August 14, at 8 o'clock to be examined. < i t This examination is required by the North Carolina High| School Athletic Association and ] must be made before a boy is: eligible to play fooiballl. Coach Billings urges every j prospective football candidate to! j go to the clinic on Friday night, 1 < for after that date a boy willl be charged for this examination.' < I, Revival In Progress At ! eopim Church ;' Evangelistic services began at , the Yeopim Baptist Church Mon day night and will continue through Sunday night, August j 16. Services begin at 8 o’clock each night with the Rev. A. J. Eure, pastor of the Coinjock Baptist Church, bringing the messages. i Special music ia presented : each night by neighboring churches. The pastor of the church, the i Rev. A. J. McClelland, invites the public to attend. Agriculture Commissioner L. Y. Ballentine Now Urging Cotton Growers To Secure Top Dollar ■ ■ Reminding farmers that thej! ' government support price will probably be the top dollar they can get for cotton grown under Plan “A” this year, Agriculture Commissioner L. Y. Ballentine , urges growers to take the neces sary steps for getting at least that much. He emphasized that the 1959 federal cotton program is being handled in an entirely new- way, and that "the 80-percent-of-pari ty support price will be avail able to growers only through a I Commodity Credit Corporation I purchase program. Support price loans will not be afforded as in previous years. ! “CCC is empowered to sell Plan ‘A’ cotton, as well as cot -1 ton already on hand, for as little as 71M: percent of parjty,” he, » continued, “so I foresee no way i for the farmer to receive a high i er than 80-percent-of-parity price >by bolding his cotton. On the i other band, he could get sub t stantially less by doing so.” i To illustrate his point, the i Commissioner gave the following FIGHT CANCER WITH A CHECKUP AND CHECK ! Few Remaining Fac ulty Vacancies Are Expected to Be Filled In Time Edenton City Schools, both white and colored, will open on Wednesday morning, September 2nd. All bus drivers are re quested to get their buses from the county garage on or before September Ist. Bus route chil dren are to be on the lookout for the bus on Wednesday morn ing. The school doors will open at 9 o’clock on Wednesday morning, but will open at the regular time, 8:30 each morning there after. All children will come prepared to pay book rental fees and other school fees on the first day. The State Board of Education has decreed that this day shall be termed teacher pupil orientation day. Pupils will be assigned to rooms and classes. Fees will be collected | and books and supplies will be | distributed. Schedules will be' I reviewed and lesson assignments ! will be made. The second day will be a full dav of class reci ' tations and the lunchrooms will be in full swing. Each school principal will be ! in his office for two full weeks before the opening day of school. * All pupils who are entering the Edenton schools for the first time should register with the principal during that time. This applies to all first graders even though they attended the pre- I school clinic last spring. Sixth i graders who were promoted from j the Edenton Elementary School to the Junior-Senior High School t need not register prior to school opening, but all newcomers to Edenton, regardless of grade, should register during this pe riod. First graders will be enrolled provided their sixth birthdates fall on October 16th, or any prior date. According to the School Machinery Act, the school is not permitted to enroll any child whose sixth birthdate comes after October 16th.. All first graders are required by law to check with the Health Department and have evidence that they have had their im munization shots. This is im portant. First graders should al so have copies of their birth cer i tificate. This will save time and help the beginner off to a hap py start. Supt. John A. Holmes expects to have a full complement of ; teachers within a few days. At present he is short a librarian in the white school and a public school music teacher in the col ored school. He expects to have both of these positions filled be fore school starts. rates for one-in-ch middling cot ton at 35.03 cents a pound for Plan “A”, and 29.33 cents for Plan “B”. “The support price for ‘A’ Plan cotton amounts to $175.15 for a 500-pound bale,” he said. “For ‘B' Plan cotton, supported at 15 parity points under the rate for ‘A’ cotton, the support price amounts to $146.65 per bale. CCC’s authorization to sell at ‘not less than 10 percent above’ the support price for ‘B’ cotton means that Plan ‘A’ cotton can be sold for $161.32 a bale. As suming that this will establish the market price of cotton, the grower might lose $13.83 a bale for one-inch middling, which is the difference between the gov ernment’s purchase price and the authorized selling price.” Ballentine said the farmer need take only a few simple steps to sell -his cotton at the support price. *frEirst, when he takes his cottdir'to the gin he should ask the ainner to send samples of If to flat federal cot ton classing office in Raleigh.