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CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXVlll.—Number 28.
Governor Appoints
Gilliam Wood To
State Highway Post
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New 19-Member Com
mission Given Oath
Os Office In Raleigh
Tuesday
Gilliam Wood on Thursday of
last week was appointed by,
Governor Terry Sanford to the
North Carolina State Highway
Commission. The appointment
came following no small amount
of concern all over the Albe
marle section caused by reports
that the appointment would go
to Thomas G. Joyner instead of
Mr. Wood.
However, Mr. Wood’s chances
for the appointment became
more ' encouraging following Mr.
Joyner's announcement that he
would be obliged to decline the
appointment, if made by the
Governor, due to business rea
sons.
Following the general impres
sion that Mr. Wood would not
be appointed, telephone calls
were made, telegrams sent and
letters written to Governor San
ford as well as Bert Bennett, Jr.,
of Winston-Salem, Chairman of
the State Democratic Executive
Committee. 'ln fact, so many
messages, some rather caustical
ly worded, reached Mr. Bennett
so that he became irked and let I
local Sanford supporters know
about it in a telegram. How-]
ever, the appointment of Mr.
Wood was enthusiastically re
ceived in the Albemarle where
many |politically-minded, as well
as others, thought the north
easterh part of the state should
be represented on the new High
way Commission.
The new 19-member State
. High* [ay Commission took the!
dafff ’Th - '-ItWdtgff Ttf«?
day of- this week and held a
brief organizational meeting with;
Chairman Merrill Evans. The
new commission replaces the
seven-member commission which
was set up by former Governor i
Luther Hodges when he scrapped j
the 14-member commission. [
Members of the new Highway
Commission are:
Merrill Evans, chairman, Clif
ton Benson of Raleigh, D. G.
Bell of Morehead City, Worth
Contiauad on Pago a—section ■ |
Edenton Police Make
43 Arrests In June
Chief of Police George I. Dail
reports that Edenton police
made a total of 43 arrests dur
ing June with 41 found guilty
as -charged. Leading the arrests
were 1 for miscellaneous traffic
violations, followed by nine for
being drunk. Os those arrest
ed 18 were white miles, two
white females, 21 colored males
and two colored females.
Fines amounted to $3lO and
costs $408.30, for a total of
$718.30. Os this amount $228.95
was turned back to the town in
way of officers’ fees.
Activities during the month in
cluded 57 calls answered and
investigated, four automobile ac
cidents investigated, eight fun
erals worked, 21 courtesies ex
tended, 18 doors found unlocked,
one fire call answered, 832 traf
fic eitations issued and 14 lights
reported out.
The police made 946 radio
calls and were on the air one
hour, 18 minutes and 50 seconds.
Very Important Notice To
1 Os The Herald
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Many subscriptions to The Herald have been past due
and in the past few weeks most of these subscriptions
hfve been renewed. However, The Herald is now Re
quired to pay sales tax on newspapers sold, and postal
regulations also require subscriptions to be paid in ad
vance. For the above reasons, all subscribers who are in
arrears will of necessity be dropped from our circulation
list. It is not the desire to lose any subscribers, so it ie
hoped all who are in arrears will pay up immediately So
no names will have to be dropped.
Incidentally, one subscriber sent in a $5.00 check but
' failed to sign the check. Another sent in a $5.00 bill with
no triune attached. When these two subscribers do not
THE CHOWAN HERALD
To Visit Edenton )
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Technical Sergeant Ellen Bar
ton. U. S. Air Force recruiter
for women in the Air Force, is '
scheduled to be at the Edenton
Post Office Wednesday after
noon. July 19. She will be glad
to contact any young women in
terested in the Air Force.
Jaycees Maintain
Little League Lead
Lions, In Cellar Posi
tion, Showing Much
Improvement
The Jaycees are still on top
in the Little League. In the
past week they won one and lost
one. The Jaycees defeated the
Rotary team by a score of 5-1
letted eight hits, including a
| home run by Danny Hassell.
' Danny Hassell was the winning
pitcher and the losing pitcher
t was Ronnie Harrell. In the sec
i ond game they were handily de
j seated by a greatly improved
I Lions team by a score of 13-3.
[ The winning pitcher was Quin
, ton Goodwin and the losing
' pitcher was Buddy White.
The Lions were undefeated in
league play during the past
week. A great deal of the Lions’
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Varsity Leads In
Softball League
\ The Varsity Club team still
| leads the Edenton Softball Lea
| gue. The Varsity Club split in
i their two games. In the first
! game they defeated the Jay
| cees by a score of 5-2. In the
second game the P & Q team
defeated the Varsity Club team
by a 9-4 count. The P & Q
team lost one game to the Red
Men by a score of 13-42. The
Jaycees were defeated in both
of their games.
TEAM STANDINGS
W L Pet.
Varsity Club 6 2 .750
Red Men 4 4 .506
P& Q 4 2 .500
Jaycees 2 6 .250
POCAHONTAS MEETING
Chowanoke Council No. 54,
Degree of Pocahontas, will meet
tonight (Thursday) at 8 o’clock.
Mrs. Betsy Jackson, the new Po
-1 cahontas, requests all members
■ to attend.
Edenton, Chowan County. North Carolina, Thursday, July 13, 1961.
Air Force Reel# /'
For Women To Vs ,
Edenton On #<9
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Sgt. Ellen E ‘-'I Will
Meet Young ,/omen
Interested In Joining
U. S. Air Force
Technical Sergeant Ellen Bar
ton, U. S. Air Force recruiter for
women in the Air Force, called
WAF, will visit this area July
18 through July 20, and is sched
uled to be in Edenton Wednes
day afternoon, July 19. Sgt.
Barton, who is the WAF repre
sentative for Eastern North Car- j
lina, will be at the Edenton Post
Office.
| Sgt. Barton will counsel young,
j women interested in the Air j
'Force. Besides the regular en-j
listed WAF, she seeks applica- ]
tions from nurses, medical spe- j
cialists and dieticians, and at!
this time she is introducing a
new program whereby college
graduates may make application
for a commission and guarantee
of utilization of college major.
Persons selected for this program
hold executive positions as com
missioned officers in the Air
Force.
Sgt. Barton will visit homes j
of young ladies who for some'
reason cannot meet her at the!
above location. Appointments
may be made by contacting the
Ahoskie USAF Recruiting Office
in the Municipal Building. Phone'
332-2923.
Council Disposes
Os Many Matters |
In Record Time'
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Several Appointments
Made; Plan to Tear
Down the Old Willis
Warehouse
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Though faced with a full
agenda, Town Councilmen acted
with dispatch at their July
meeting held Tuesday night, so
that all of the business was
transacted by 10:30 o’clock. j
At the outset a joint meeting;
of Town Council and the Eden- 1
ton School Trustees was held:
for the purpose of appointing!
two school trustees. The terms,
of Mrs. Lillian Leary and!
Charles Wood, Jr., had expired, I
so that these two vacancies had'
to be filled.
Both Mrs. Leary and Mr. Wood!
were . reappointed, each for a
six-year term. They were the
only recommendations for the.
appointments and were Offered |
by Joe Conger, Sr., chairman of
the school trustees and the re
appointments were unanimous.
Mayor John Mitchener was cho-,
sen to act as chairman of the
joint meeting.
With this item of business dis
posed of. Town Clerk William
Gardner, at the request of Fire
Chief W. J. Yates, was appoint-
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20 Years Ago
As Found In The Files Os
The Chowan Herald
Charles McCullers. secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce, an
nounced that an invitation would
be extended to Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt to attend the Eden
toq Peanut Festival scheduled to
be. held in October.
Herman G. Gaddy, personnel
officer for Area One consisting
of 14 counties secured permission
16 use file same office in the
Citizens Bank building as head
quarters foe the NYA in Chowan
County.
M. L. Flynn purchased Cherry's
Grocery on Broad Street from G.
L. Boyce.
Bus service between Edenton
and Suffolk was inaugurated
with the Norfolk Southern Bus
Corporation putting into effect
a. schedule which called for two
buses eaeh way daily.
Min lax collector
for the Town of Edenton. made
quite a record in to
collected # aU but
■ seven-tenths es one per cent of
i toe wm lof pm curpm ywXi
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JOHN GILLIAM WOOD
Late last week Governor Terrv Sanford announced that he had >
appointed John Gilliam Wood of Edenton to the North Carolina
State Highway Commission. Mr. Wood will be one of the re- j
vamped 19-member Highway Commission and was supported for |
the appointment by the entire Albemarle section. j
County Voters Pass
School Bond Issue
By 202 Majority
Light Turnout With
Only 776 of Over
2,000 Eligible Voters
Casting Ballots
In one of the lightest turn
outs in recent years Chowan
County voters on Tuesday car
ried a $289,000 school bond is
sue. Out of over 2,000 regis
tered voters in the county, only
776 bothered to go to the polls
to register their wishes regard
ing the improvements and ad
ditions to schools in Chowan
County.
Os the 776 votes cast, 489 bal
lots favored the bond issue,
while 287 voted against it, so
that the issue carried by a ma
jority of 202 votes.
The two Edenton precincts
played an important part in car
rying the election with 410 vot
ing in favor of the bond issue
while only 149 opposed it.
Yeopim precinct was the only
rural vote favoring the bond is
sue, with 26 votes favorable and
11 votes against it. Rocky Hock,
Center Hill and Wardville, also
with very light votes, turned in
slight majorities against selling
bonds.
Money derived from the sale
Conlmued on Page 6—Section l
ROTARY MEETS TODAY
Edenton's Rotary Club will
meet this (Thursday) afternoon
at 1 o’clock at the Parish House.
The program will be in charge
of Jim Wood, and Richard At
kinson, new president, urges
every Rotarian to be present.
Judy Evans And Kay Bunch To
Compete In State Competition
Judy Evans, Route 1, Edenton.
and Kay Bunch, Route 3, Eden
ton, were Eastern District win
ners in the Dairy Foods Team
Demonstration and will repre
sent the Eastern District in the
State Dairy Foods Team Dem
onstration during State 4-H Club
Week in Raleigh July 24-29.
Judy and Kay have worked
as a team for three years and
both are members of the Oak
Grove Community 4-H Club.
The title of their demonstration
is “Ice Cream Dressed Up” and
features their own recipe for
making ice cream along with
three different toppings.
These 4-H’ers have .outstand
ing records in the food prepara
[turn, canning and frozen foods
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j Cotton Blossoms |
Graham P. Bass of the Rocky
Hock section and Roy Lane oi
the Center Hill section were the
first to report cotton blossoms
to The Herald this year. Both
were picked in the fields Friday
of last week.
Indicative of the tardiness of
crops this year is the fact that
for a number of years cotton
blossoms have been reported be
fore the Fourth of July.
Cotton Penalty
Rate Announced
The marketing quota penalty
rate on “excess” 1961 cotton
crop will be 19.5 cents per
pound according to A. C. Grif
fin, chairman of the Chowan
County ASCS Committee.
Controlling legislation pro
vides that the marketing quota
penalty rate be set. at 50 per
cent of the party price per pound
of cotton effective June 15. The
party price for upland cotton as
of June 15, 1961, was 38.96 cents
per pound.
When cotton marketing quo
tas are placed in effect at the
request of the farm-voters, a
farmer who does not comply
j with his cotton acreage allot
-1 ment is subject to a penalty on
his farm marketing excess. The
; cotton crop from the farm is al
so ineligible for price support
under RSCS’s cotton loan pro
gram.
orojects. Judy has held many
offices in her school and com
munity clubs and at present is
vice president of the County
Council. Kay is immediate past
president of the Oak Grove
Community Club.
Kay and Judy have given
their demonstration at 4-H Club
and Home Demonstration Club
meetings and have reached an
audience of well over 300 here
in • Chowan County. These two
girls are very concerned about
the lack of milk in Chowan
families’ diets. They made a
survey in the Oak Grove com
munity and found that 45% of
j the families were not getting the
'recommended one quart of milk
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Ellen Basnight Is
Awarded Teacher
$1,400 Scholarship
Edenton Graduate Is
Planning to Enroll at
East Carolina College
In September
Added to the 16 students at
John A. Holmes High School
.vho were awarded scholarships
.his year is another, making ths
total 17.
Just last week Miss Ellen Vir
ginia Basnight, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Dennis Basnight, was
notified by Charles F. Carroll.
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, that she had been
granted a $1,400 four-year teach
er’s loan scholarship. Miss Bas
night, a 1961 graduate, will en
roll at East Carolina College in
September.
The scholarship was awarded
through the Scholarship Loan
Fund for Prospective Teachers
which was enacted in 1957. It
will be in force if at the end
of each school year the recipi
ent shows satisfactory progress.
Other conditions to realize full
benefit of the scholarship is that
the recipient continues teacher
education studies and accepts a
teaching position in North Caro
lina public schools after gradu-
Rocky Hock Orioles I
Strengthen Lead In
League Standing
Win Three Consecu- J
tive Games During
Week to Pace Cole
rain Outfit
Rocky Hock’s Orioles lost twoj t
games last week but came back £
mis week to win three straight. r
9n July 4th they defeated Cres- .
veil by a 13 to 0 shutout. £ac
;ie Harrell had things under j
ontrol all the way, striking out .
10, walking two and giving up
■even hits. Rocky Hock got (
things under way in the first
inning on a two run homer by (
Jarroll Forehand. Harrell led
the Rocky Hock hitting with .
three safeties while Forehand
and Bunch had two each. D.
Snell and W. Snell had two hits
each for the losers. |
On July sth the Orioles de- ,
seated Aulander by a 10 to 0
score. Franklin Hollowell did
the mound work for Rocky
Hock, striking out 13, walking ,
five and giving up only three
hits. Rocky Hock collected nine
hits in this contest with Wil
loughby, Forehand and Ashley 1
getting two each. Joyner. Wes:
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Measurement Os I i
Farms Completed I
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H. O. West, office manager
for the Chowan Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation '
Service, announces that initial
measurement has been completed
in Chowan County. This work I
has been done on 603 cotton, I
192 tobacco, 640 peanut and 353'
feed grain farms.
Remeasurement requests have
been made on one cotton, eight
tobacco and 24 peanut farms.
Disposition has been requested
jon 17 cotton, 30 tobacco and i
137 peanut farms.
Excess notices have been mail-1
ed to 18 cotton, 38 tobacco and
161 peanut farms.
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Two Local Beauticians !
At Miami Convention
Mrs. Anne Jenkins and Mrs.'
Camilla Driver of Anne’s Beau
ty Salon will leave Friday af
ternoon to attend the 41st Con
vention of the National Hair-jl
dressers and Cosmetologists As-'|
sociation. The convention will |
be held-at the Deauville Hotel at I
Miami, Florida.
Mrs. Jenkins has been select- |
ed as one of North Carolina’s
12 delegates to the national con- |
vention and will, therefore, have
a vote at the meeting.
The beauty shop will be closed;
July 15 through July 24, due to|
! the Florid* convention. i
$2.50 Per Year In North Carolim
C. Os C. Requests
Planning Board By
Governing Groups
J 1 Gets Scholarship !
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ELLEN VIRGINIA BASNIGHT
Charles F. Carroll, State Su
perintendent of Public Instruc
tion, last week notified Miss El
len Virginia Basnight that she
had been awarded a $1,400 four
year teacher's loan scholarship.
Miss Basnight is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Bas
i night.
Legion - Auxiliary
HoldJointMeeting
Tuesday, July 18th
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Reports Will Be Given'
By Group Who At- 1
tended Sessions of
Girls and Boys State
Ed Bond Post No. 40 of the j
American Legion and the Le-!
gion Auxiliary will hold a joint I
meeting Tuesday night, July 18, |
at 8 o’clock.
A feature of this meeting will |
be a report given by three boys!
and two girls who attended re-j
tent sessions of Boys’ State and I
Girls’ State held at ChaDel Hill. |
The boys who will tell about;
their experiences will be Herb'
Adams, Mack Wright and Ron-1
nie Toppin. The girls will be 1
\nnie Ruth Nixon and Ann Jen- i
kins.
Robert Powell, commander of
the post and Mrs. J. L. Chest-1
nutt, president of the Auxiliary,
urge members of both organi-|
nations to attend this meeting.!
V covered dish supper will bo
observed at the meeting, so that
ill members are requested to)
take a covered dish.
] civic calendar]!
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Edenton Jaycees are sponsor-1
ing water skiing schools in front
of the old Fish Hatchery on ]
Pembroke Creek through Thurs
day, July 13.
"Skillet Meals" will be the
demonstration given at July
Home Demonstration Club meet
ings in Chowan County
Edenton Lions will meet Mon
| day night, July 17, at 7 o'clock
I at the Edenton Restaurant.
Chowanoke Council No. 54,
Continued on Page 6, Section 1
Chowan 4-H’ers Enter State Competition *
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, JUDY EVANS
Having won first olaca in the Eastern District. Miss Jtiiy Evans
. and Mis* Kay Bunch will represent Chowan County and the Easl
! ern District in the State Dairy Foods Team Demonstration which
[will bo held during State 4-H Weak in Raleigh July 24-28.
FIGHT CANCER
WITH A CHECKUP
AND CHECK
Resolution Passed By
Directors Calling For
Joint Action County
Commissioners and
Town Council
At the last regular meeting
of the board of directors of the
Edenton Chamber of Commerce,
July 6 at the Hotel: Joseph
Hewes, further discussion de
veloped in respect to long-range
projects that would further the
orderly development of Eden
ton and Chowan County. At
previous directors’ meetings, the
subject of a joint city-county
Planning Board had been re
viewed as a matter of routine,
as one of the best means for de
termining the priorities of bene
ficial projects. As the one or
ganization that is charged with
the promotion and protection of
business, industry, tourism and
agriculture, the Edenton Cham
ber of Commerce has an obli
gation to shepherd long range
planning through to its fulfill
ment.
The discussion disclosed the
.act that under the recently
rassed federal legislation which
reated an Area Redevelopment
Vet. the town and county would
le able to receive a certain
imount of federal financial as
lstance. Federal grants to as
ist the town and county in its
esearch with their long range
planning may also be obtained,
it was learned.
At the close of the discussion,
a motion was made and passed
that the board of directors of the
Edenton Chamber of Commerce
go on record as having passed
the following resolution which
will be submitted to the appro
priate governing authorities with
the recommendation for near
term consideration:
"Whereas it is understood that
it is not necessary to have a
planning board in order to plan.
Continued on Page 2—Section !
Miss Beverly Morgan
In Truck Accident
Miss Beverly Morgan, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mor
gan, narrowly escaped serious
injury about 10:30 o’clock Thurs
day morning when she figured
in an automobile accident. Miss
Morgan was delivering flowers
to a funeral service for The
Bouquet Shop in a flower truck
when the vehicle overturned in
a ditch near the Chowan Hos
pital.
Miss Morgan told investigat
ing officers that when she reach
ed back to straighten flowers
which had slipped she ran off
the road in the ditch. She was
not injured in the accident but
the truck was damaged.
Bond Vote
For Against
East Edenton 183 75
West Edenton 227 74
Rocky Hcck 19 46
Center Hill 24 50
Wardville ... 10 31
Yeopirn 26 11
Total 489 287
KAY BUNCH