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| ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN CHOWAN COUNTY | Yfllume XXVl.—Number 49. Patricia Taylor OfSiU bury \ Wins Decision As Qu | m Os Edenton f s Peanut Festival - < Group of Three Min isters Face Difficult Task to Choose Win ner In Contest £ Miss Patricia Taylor, repre ' senting Sunbury High School, was chosen queen of th,e 1959 Edenton Peanut Festival Satur .day at ceremonies in the Hotel Jbseph Hewes. Following the announcement of the judges’ .decision the smil ing end surprised 18-year-old beauty was crowned by Mayor] John A. Mitcher.er and presented with a SIOO check from Belk- Tyler Company. A beautiful bouquet of chrysanthemums with peanuts intertwined was pre sented to the queen by Mrs. M. L. Flynn of the Bouquet Shop. Queen Patricia and iher court of eight attractive attend ants representing high schools in the area were taken by car to the armory, where they took their places on a silver and gold float depicting Edenton as the heart of the peanut belt. Rain earlier in the day and , the threat of more to come in A the afternoon concelled out the Jkhn A. Holmes High School Bind in the parade. The float the radiant queen sitting "M a silver throne proceeded doim Broad Street to West Ed4n Street. There a good sized crowd greeted the queen 1 and ' her court. A reception for the girls was given at the hotel which closed the nine-day pea nut festival celebration. Drawings for three grand prizes and individual prizes giv- ConHnuad on Page 3—Section 1 Masons Will Choose N«w Officers Tonight A Stated communication of Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M.j will be held tonight (Thursday) at 8 o’clock. Ernest J. Ward, Jr., master of the lodge, calls attention of 4, * lef nbeEs to the fact that new officers for the year 1960 will be elected, so that he extends a special invitation to every! member to be present. 20 Years Ago j As round in tbs FUst of Ths Chowan Harald V i —S ! E. W. Spires, in a radio ad dress revealed the fact that he had not given up the idea of re enacting the battle of Sandy Point, an idea which failed to materialise a year before in con nection with the celebration and dedication of the bridge across Albemarle Sound. Exactly 745 persons were clocked as they visited a Phila telic truck from the U. S. Post Office Department showing dis plays of stamps covering the from 1893 to 1938. Mayor V. N. Darden of Hert ford sent a letter thanking Oeutinued on Page 3—Section i North Carolina Cotton And Peanut Farmers Will Vote On Crop Issues December 15 IfTorth Carolina cotton and pea nut farmers will go to the polls on December 15 and help decide important issues affecting their crop. Cotton fanners will decide two . of the tissues. First, they will de cide Whether to have marketing will decide whether to assess 10 iQgi slid 1962 crops. Annroval of Knth CO t ton and THE CHOWAN HERALD * ; ' y r— -w —if * . . ■ j Leary Brothers Presented 25-Year Awards^ i ■■ if $ m f|p 1 P jJUL. j«|~ HR * R. West Leary, left, and J. Clarence Leary, center, 'were pre sented Hamilton gold watches by Smith-Douglass Board Chair- j man Ralph B. Douglass in Norfolk last week in celebration of ' their having completed 25 years service for the company. Leary Brothers Storage Company are exclusive Smith-Doug lass representatives in the Edenton area. The watches were presented at Smith-Douglass annual sales meeting held at the company's home office and the Thunderbird Lodge, Virginia Beach. Tribute Is Paid To jMarvin P. Wilson In Superior Court Judge Chester Morris Adjourns Session at 1:30 O’clock Wednes day Morning. Chowan Superior Court con vened Monday morning with Judge Chester Morris presiding. A feature of the opening of court was reading a resolution on behalf of the late Recorder’s Court Judge Marvin P. Wilson. Present for the occasion was Judge Wilson’s widow, Mrs. Sarah Wilson and his son, Chan ning Wilson. The resolution, the ■ full text of which appears on page 3, Section 2 of this issue I of The Herald, was read by Wel ,don Hollowell, after which he : presented it to Mrs. Wilson. J After the presentation Judge Morris also paid tribute to Mr. | Wilson and ordered that a full ’ page of the court proceedings be prepared containing only Judge Wilson’s name, date of birth and date of death and that the fol lowing page should be used only for the resolution. “In the passing of Judge Mar vin Wilson I want to say public ly that I have lost a long time friend,” said Judge Morris. “The county has lost one of its most valuable citizens, for he was a man of honor and intelligence.* He was devoted to his duties as. a public official. He yvas gen erous almost to a fault. He was a man of considerable ability and loyal to his friends. In my Continued on Page 4—Section T (1) Marketing quotas will, be i in effect for the 1960 upland i (the kind grown in North Caro !. lina) cotton crop. . (2) Each farm .operator with tin i allotment will have a choice be tween (A) and (B) allotments ; and price supports. ■ Under Choice (A) allotments i farmers comply with their.regu ■ lar farm allotment and receive i price supports at not less than , 75 per cent of . parity. Under i Choice fJS) farmers can plant 40 l per cent more than their regu | lar allotment and be eligible for price supports at not less tfian ] 60 per cent of parity. , fa ™r £. ho rr 1 : his j allotment Will be subject to a Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 3, 1959. * Waiting! ] K - Fire Chief W. J. Yates reporl *e3 early this week that Tory"tew' discarded toys have been receiv ed by the firemen to be repaired for Christmas presents. The firemen each year repair a goodly number of toys which ere turned over to the Stocking Fund at St. Paul's Church for distribution among underprivi leged children. The firemen are eager to ren der this service, but must have the toys not later than Decern- j ber 19. Very few have ’ been received thus far, so the fire-! men are appealing for any toysj which can be repaired and help to make more youngsters hap-! py on Christmas morning. Prizes Offered For Outdoor Christmas Home Decorations Announcement was made this week that this year the Edenton Woman’s Club will sponsor a, Christmas outdoor home decora -, tion contest. The judging will | be done on the night of Wednes- f * day, December 23, so that no j decoration after that date will j be considered. ! Two prizes will be awarded by] the club, sls for the best deco ration and $lO for second best. Judging the decorations will be a secret committee consist ing of three recent newcomers to Edenton, all of whom majored 1 in art while attending college. The Woman’s Club is hopeful that the contest will result in ! more and better Christmas dec orations than in previous years. Red Men Sponsoring Two .Turkey Shoots Members of Chowan Tribe of Red Mien at their meeting Mon-j day > night voted tp sponsor a turkey shoot Thursday and Fri-! day nights, December 17 and 18.1 The shoots will be held from! 6. to 10 o’clock each night, but the place of the Shoot will be!, announced later. j Leroy Harrell was appointed i chairman of a committee to be in charge of the shoots. ROTARIANS MEET TODAY i Edenton Rotarians will meet [Thos. Cllears Dies Tuesday Morning After Long Alness Served as Member of Edenton School Trus tees For 43 Years; Chairman 39 Years Vachel Thomas Chears, Sr., 84, i died at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday I morning in Chowan Hospital af j ter an illness of several months, j Mr. Chears was horn in Plym | outh, N. C., son of the late Dr. ] and Mrs. Benjamin R. Chears. j He moved to Edenton in 1900, where for more than half a century he was active in the business and civic life of the community. For 43 years Mr. Chears was a member of the Edenton School Trustees and served as chairman cf that body for 39 years. He was. a past president of the Na tional Association of Peanut i , Millers, Chairman of the Shep- j ard-Pruden Memorial Library Committee for many years and 1 was a former Mayor of Plym-! j outh. He was a member of St. j Paul’s Episcopal Church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Pauline Harrison Chears: a son, Thomas Chears, Jr., of Kill Devil Hills, N. C.; six grand children and one great grand child. Funeral services were held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Wed nesday morning at 11:30 o’clock. The rector, the Rev. George B. Holmes, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Fred B. Drane. Burial was in Beaver Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were John A. I Holmes, Geddes Potter, James E. j Wood, Junius W. Davis, West J Leary and J. Edwin Bufflap. New Vestry men For St. Paul’s Elected . .—i The .congregation of Saint > Paul’s Episcopal Church met ini the Parish House Monday even-1 ing to elect vestrymen and adopt the 1960 budget. Light refreshments were serv ed before the meeting was call ed to order by the Rev. George B. Holmes, rector. Following the singing cf a hymn and prayers for the Parish and Canons re garding elections were read and' I clerks were appointed. Dr. Edward G. Bond, R. Elton Forehand, Jr., Charles Henry ] Wood, Jr., and Thomas Badham 1 Wood were elected to the ves- I try on the first ballot. Clyde Simpson Adams was elected to fill the unexpired term" held by the late Judge Marvin Wilson. Retiring Vestrymen include J. E. Debnam, R. D. Dixon, Jr., Haughton Ehringhaus and R. Graham White, Jr. The newly elected vestrymen will assume j office January Ist. Remaining on the vestry are| Oscar E. Duncan, J. C. Leary, Jr., W. E. Malone, T. H. Shep j ard, David Warren, Dr. Frank I Wood and J. Gilliaim Wood. I Following the treasurer’s re i port the Chair was relinquished j I to the Senior Warden, Dr. Frank, | Wood, at which time the budget j for the coming year based onj the Every Member Canvass was ■ adopted. The meeting adjourned with the benediction by the Rev. * Fred Drane. Lest We Forget! By J. L. WIGGINS —«,.«<W.,IWXVWWWVW Recently it has come to my attention that a planning com mittee is proposing the removal of our Confederate monument from its honored place on the Court House Green to the small plat of land in front of the Po lice Station As a son of a Con federate soldier who followed General Robert E. Lee and Gen eral “Stonewall” Jackson and in behalf of tile soldiers of Chowan County who fought and died for the cause of the Confederacy, as well as in support of the gal lant women of the Edenton and Chowan County Daughters of the Confederacy, who labored many years to secure the funds to buy such a handsome monu i|j Mayor Mitchener Crowns Queen jj I jr .*»' |A||bc B k I fIT JPPf %# /JB m .Jr ««£m * warn, "ft mmJF I ■ HPi m IB m I HAjj|Bk...JBBs. Ktß & j In above picture is seen Mayor Joftn A. Miicnener, wno on .! Saturday crowned Miss Patricia Taylor, representing Sunbury I High School, as Edenton's Peanut Festival Queen. Miss Taylor was also presented a check for SIOO from Belk-Tyler's and a , beautiful bouquet from the Bouquet Shop. Miss Taylor won the honor over nino other contestants coming from nearby 1 towns and who served as members of her court. , One Os Ingl is Fletcher’s Books | Eligible For Mayflower Award Dr. Christopher 'Crittenden, I secretary of the N. C. Literary J and Historical Association, hasi announced that during the past year North Carolinians wrote 56 books which are eligible for four of the state’s literary awards, which include the Mayflower' Cup for non-fiction; the Sir Wal-1 Edenton Postmaster Expecting! Record For Christmas Mailing Postmaster J. L. Ohestnutt said j tfhrs week, ‘This certainly locks , like a record breaking year for, Christmas mail. Between De-; cernber Ist and the 25th last year, we handled a total of 175,- 000 pieces ot mail.”. The Postmaster states that the present flow of Christmas cards is running about the same as last year, but the mailing of Christ-! mas gifts is lagging somewhat. I He suggests that all gift parcels | I to most distant points be sent by! ! air parcel post from now on. Speaking about Christmas gift] packages, the Postmaster said, j “I cannot emphasize too strong-1 Seabrook Official Lions Give Five Pairs j Speaks To Lions 0f Glasses To Needy Keith Reeve, general manager ' of the Seabrook Blanching Com-1 pany, spoke before the Edenton Lions at their regular Monday | evening meeting on November 1 30, Mr. Reeve was introduced by Mayor John Mitchener. Reeve gave a most interesting talk on the history of his firm and the firm’s method of treat ing peanuts. The speaker was born in England and was asso : crated with the Seabrook firm ‘in England and on the conti-1 ! nent before moving to the Sea- ] brook headquarters in Tyronne,! Pennsylvania. I Mr. Reeve told the audience! Continued on Page 2—Section I ter my protest against the re moval of the Confederate monu ment. ‘ I feel very deeply about the removal of the historic Confed erate monument from the Green and the vicinity of the County Court House because the three seem to belong together. The Court House, which has witness ed the happenings of nine years of the Colonial period, and many more of the Revolutionary and pre-Civil War periods, is his ' torically interwoven into the j lives of the Confederate soldiers as well as the patriots of other times. Their “call to arms” resounded within the walls of this old! building and the spacious Green is front of it was their drilling I ter Raleigh Award for fiction; j the AAUW Juvenile Literature | Award; the Roanoke - Chowan Poetry Award. Among the books eligib'e for awards is “Pay, Pack and Fol low” by Inglis Fletcher, Chowan County’s author. Her book is ■ among 30 eligible for the May-: I flower Award. 1 ly the vital need for packing ;]and wrapping your Christmas , gifts securely. Pack all your ; gifts in sturdy cartons, wrap them with heavy paper, and tie j ■ them securely with strong cord. [ It is sometimes hard to under stand why people will be so careless about Dutting valuable J Christmas gifts into the mails in flimsy boxes and loosely wrap- 1 ‘ ped packages. Many of these j poorly wrapped gifts simply ! cannot stand the necessary hand | ling, and thus cause much de j lay and disappointment all ! around.” 1 Continued on Page 2, Section 1 ‘ The Edenton Lions Club dis- 1 | pensed five pairs of glasses to ( I needy indigents during Novem- j ber. Two adults and three chil- | ' dren were the recipients of the glasses. Sight conservation is a i primary concern of all Lions Clubs. CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT! METHODIST CHURCH DEC. 13 ; I 1 A Christmas entertainment will) ,be presented at the Methodist' 1 I Church Sunday night, December,' 1 13, at 8 o’clock. The program ] will be presented by the Young) ! People of the church and the j public is invited to attend. ground and assembly place from which they marched away to war, some never to return. I also feel a deep interest in the Confederate monument because I had a personal interest in its erection when the United Daugh- 1 ters of the Confederacy asked for a contribution, and 1 was present when the cornerstone was laid on June 3, 1905. Lieut. Governor Francis V. Winston . officiated with the cornerstone laying by using a Masonic trowel < land covering a box containing newspapers of the day and sev ! eral coins. This monument represents to - me a tribute to two of my I uncles who lie in unknown : graves on the battlefield of «CoßHmid a& PtoA ft. taction 1 WH w •# w $2.50 Per Year In North CaroUnT" Edenton’s Annual Christmas Parade And Party Today I " V. Passes Away j am THOMAS CHEARS Death c’aimed the life of Vachel Thomas Chears, 84, at | 3:30 o'clock Tuesday morning in Chowan Hospital. Mr. Chears' | moved to Edenton from Ply-1 ! mouth in 1900 and was promi-! j nent in Edenton affairs for many; years. j ChowanlaptistT Plan To Hold T Night December 7 Outstanding 1 Program Scheduled to Be Held I At Ballard’s Bridge | Baptist Church i The Chowan Baotist Associa- [ tion Training Union will hold I its annual “M” Night meeting] Monday, December 7, at the! I Ballard’s Bridge Baptist Church. | | The Rev. Lamar Sentell. associa i tional T.U. director, has an nounced that the meeting will] begin at 7:30 P. M., and that] the largest “M” Night attendance! in the history of Chowan Asso- j ciation is anticipated. A goal of; 700 in attendance has been set' and Mr. Sentell reDorts that the j goal will probably be exceeded. ] Scheduled to bring the main address of “Mobilization” Night is the Rev. Dr. Frank Morris,; ( pastor of the Bull Street Baptist j I Church, Savannah, Ga., and a | Continued on Page 3—Section 1 ! CIVIC CALENDAR s * Edenton's Christmas party will Ibe held this (Thursday) after noon with a parade starting at Hicks Field at 4 o'clock. VFW Auxiliary will meetj tonight (Thursday) at 8 o'clock. Young Churchmen of St. Paul's ] Episcopal Church are again sponsoring the annual Empty ] Slocking Fund. The annual Christmas dance l of the Teenage Club will be held ! Saturday night. December 19. at | Continued on Page 2—Section 1 ■ Northeastern Milling Company Schedules Grand Opening Os New Edenton Plant December 5 Edenton’s newest industry, the ; Northeastern Milling Company. Inc., will hold its grand opening i Saturday, December 5, from 9 A. M., to 4 P. M. The mana ger of the new concern is Rob ert S. Marsh, former assistant county agent for Chowan Coun ty. Mr. Marsh says a feature of the grand opening will be I awarding of several valuable j prizes and refreshments will also be served. The Northeastern Milling Com pany, a local corporation, is the -most modern feed mill in the Albemarle area. It offers cus tomers a complete feed service ‘ including custom grinding and mixing, grain storage, together with handling a complete line of Wayne and Fair Acre feeds. The latest and most modern | machinery is featured at this new feed industry in Edenton.! A Hawthorne serving truck hoist, , . „ "im m • FIGHT CANCER WITH A CHECKUP AND CHECK j j Santa Claus Scheduled *| Meet Youngsters on Court House Green After Parade This is the big day! The mat ! of welcome is ready for the | many children and adults expect ] ed here this (Thursday) after r ! noon to witness the annual j Christmas parade and party ! sponsored by the Business and ; Professional Women’s Club and ! Sdenton merchants. \ Mrs. Beulah Boswell, chairman j of the parade, says the line of I march will be longer arid more I spectacular this year, with sev- I eral new floats being entered. I The Christmas lights on Broad I Street will be turned on to lend j a festive air for the occasion and i the season’s activities will get ; under way, ij In keeping with the holiday II spirit, Edenton merchants al ready have their stores beauti- I fully decorated as well as boast • j ing a complete line of Christ i mas items for every member of - ] the family. The parade will start promptly |at 4 o’clock. Participating in j the line of march will be High | way Patrol cars. Mayor John A. ; Mitchener and other town dig nitaries, Advance 4-H Club float. Catholic Church float, Degree of Pocahontas float, Woman's Club j float, Young Churchmen of St. Paul’s Church float, Boy Scout i float, Lions Club float, Post Of ] fice float. Monogram Club float. Jaycee float, combined float of John A. Holmes High School {and Elementary School Parent ] Teacher Association, walking j units of Girl Scouts and Cub j Scouts, convertibles -Hit'- ir-'-s Continued on Page 3—Section H PTA At Chowan I Will Meet Dee. 11 The Chowan Parent-Teacher ’Association which usually meets the first Monday cf each month, , will meet the second Monday o£ this month, December 14, at 7:30 ] o’clock. The meeting date was j changed from December 7 to December 14 because of M Night at Ballard’s Bridge Church on i December 7. The third and fourth grades of Chowan High, under the di rection of Miss Janie Haislip, [Mrs. Marguerite Burch. Mr . ! Ruth Mansfield. Mrs. Hattie A:>- bell and Miss Cecelia Willough by will entertain the Parent- Teacher Association at the De cember meeting. The fourth grades will pre | sent the devotional oart of th" j program with “What Do You Sor> |in the Manger?” The third I grades will Dresent a playlet, “The Greatest Gift of All”. Each child has the privilege of a part in the program. Mrs. Hurley Wiribornc. presi dent of the Chowan Parent- Teacher Association, requests tho best possible attendance for this • last meeting of the year. dumps a truckload of car c.r shelled corn into the grain pit, where it is moved to its destina tion in a matter of minutes. From the dump pit ear corn is moved by a screw conveyor to a “Triumph” corn sheller. From the sheller the grain corn is weighed on automatic scales and is then routed to its final des tination within the mill. A new “Blue Streak” hammer mill is used for grinding com, milo, ~ oats or other grain. Two “Blue Streak” mixers are used to mix feed concentrates with the ground grain. The twin spiral action of the mixers insures a farmer that he gets the best mix - available. Minute quantities of I antibiotics or other drugs can be successfully mixed wi+h feed if the customers want this ser vice. j “The Northeastern Milling , Continued on Pago X Section $
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