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Teii tleadters In
Bridge Marathon
K At the end of the 14th round
of the bridge marathon spon
sored by the Chowan Hospital
Auxiliary, Medlin Belch and A1
have taken the lead.
The ten leading teams and
their scores follow:
1. Medlin Belch and A1 Phil
: lips, 56,430.
2. Joe Thorud and Dr. Richard
Hardin, 56,360.
3. Mrs. W. B. Rosevear and
Mrs. L. A. Patterson, 53,300.
4. Dr. Martha Wood and Dr.
Frank Wood, 48,800.
5. Mrs. Earl Goodwin and Mrs.
Junius Davis, 46,470.
6. John Raines and Nathan
Dale, 46,330.
7. Mrs. Leroy Haskett and
Mrs. Willie White, 45,230.
8. Mrs. Albert Byrum and
Mis. George Hoskins, 43,360.
9. Mrs. Oscar Duncan and Mrs.
Watson Bell, 42,510.
10. Mrs. Fermor Hobbs and
Mrs. J. H. McMullan, 39,160.
The He-Man
Henpeck, safely out of his
wife’s hearing for once, was
letting himself go. To a friend'
who complained of some domes
tic difficulty, he said grandly:
“My dear boy, we never have
trouble of that sort in our house.
If I say a thing is to be done, I
insist upon it being done.”
“And is it?”
“Os course,” replied Henpeck,
*‘er —even if I have to do it my
self.”
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J/ SDENTON, N. C. I* *
Edenton Students
In Science Fair
The Northeastern District Sci
ence Fair was held in Green
ville March 23rd. Twelve stu
; dents from the John A. Holmes
High School attended the Fair,
[ and entered their projects which
had been selected as winners
in the local Science Fair held
here March Bth. They were, for
the junior division , biological
projects, Barbara Wallace, Fran
-1 ces Privott, Sanfra Ange, Bill
l Mitchener and Nancy O’Neal.
| For the physical projects those
attending were Norfleet Pru
den, Jim Elliott and Wesley
Chesson.
The biological project toy Bar
bara Wallace and Frances Pri
vott “How different color lights
affect plants”—received honor
able mention at the District Sci
ence Fair. "The Big Pump”—a
project showing how the blood
circulates to and from the heart,
was used on a portion of a
movie that was taken at the
Fair and shown on WNCT-TV,
Greenville on the news at
Greenville Friday afternoon.
Those attending for the Senior
Division, biological— were: Joe
Mitchener, Mary Thorud, Pat
Bunch; Physical—Jo Ann Leary,
John Marshall and Cecil Fry, Jr.
LEGION MEETS TUESDAY
Ed Bond Post No. 40 of the
American Legion will meet on
Tuesday night, April 3, at 7:30
o'clock at the Legion building.
Commander Robert Powell urg
es a large attendance.
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA, THTTRSDAT. MARCH 29, 1962.
Kinston Clergyman
Speaks At St. Paul’s
The Rev. Manney Carrington
Reid, rector of Saint Mary’s
Episcopal Church, Kinston, will
be at Saint Paul’s Church Tues
day as a Lenten luncheon speak
er.
Mr. Reid is a native of Co
lumbia, and served churches in
South Carolina and Maryland
before going to Kinston.
He received his education in
Columbia, is a graduate of the
University of South Carolina,
received his master’s degree
from Columbia University, New
York and his divinity degree
from the Virginia Theological
Seminary, Alexandria, Va.
Luncheon begins at 1 o’clock
each Tuesday during Lent.
Funeral Held Friday
For Sophie M. Wood
Sophie Martin Wood, daugh
ter of John Gilliam and Eliza
beth Martin Wood, died Wed
nesday night, March 21, in Cho
wan Hospital. She was a mem
ber of St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Edenton, where a
funeral service was held Fri
day, March 23, at 3 o’clock, con
ducted by the rector, the Rev.
George B. Holmes. Burial was
in Beaver Hill Cemetery. Pall
bearers were Thomas B. Wood,
James E. Wood, George C.
Wood, Benbury Wood, William
D. Pruden, David Warren and
Thomas Shepard.
She attended St. Mary’s School ,
in Raleigh and was a member
of the Society of the Daughters
of the Revolution. All her life
was spent at “Hayes”, the family
home in Edenton. Her death is
a great loss to the community,
a host of friends and to her
family. Surviving are four niec- '
es and nephews, John Gilliam
Wood of Edenton, Mrs. Trent
Ragland of Raleigh, John Wood
Foreman and Miss Betty Fore
man of Elizabeth City and nine
great nieces and nephews.
Firemen Answer Four
Alarms In February
Fire Chief W. J. Yates reports
that Edenton firemen answered
four alarms during February,
two in Edenton and two out of
town. For the Edenton fires the
firemen were out two hours and
30 minutes and one hour and 30
minutes out of town. They
were oil the air 30 seconds in
Edenton and 20 seconds out of
1 town. In Edenton they traveled
one mile and 20 miles out of
town. Hose laid in Edenton was
450 feet and 300 feet, out of
town. They raised 79 feet of
ladder in Edenton and none out
of town.
Twenty-nine volunteers re
sponded for the Ede.'.ton fires
and 40 out of town.
Property involved in the Eden
lon fires was estimated at $5,-
900 and $16,100 out of town.,
aDmage in Edenton was esti
mated at $2,475 and S4OO out of
town. Insurance in Edenton was
$4,500 and SIO,OOO out- of town.
The firemen held one fire
drill, answered two still alarms,
had two standbay calls and re
filled 10 fire extinguishers.
Haurice Toppin Given
Promotion In Paris
It was a happy day all around
for members of the Military
Police Corps in Paris recently
when promotions to the grade of
E-5 and above in Military Oc
cupational Specialty 951 were
unfrozen for the first time —
with the exception of one month
in 1960 —since the first quarter
of 1958.
Seine Area Command received
an allocation for four promo
tions—and military policemen of
the 175th MP Det and Co “A”,
504th MP Bn got them all.
Among those promoted was
Haurice Toppin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. N. B. Toppin, Route 1,
Edenton. Toppin was promoted
from Specialist Fourth Class
(E-4) to Sergeant (E-5).
To give real service you must
add something which cannot be
bought or measured with money,
and that is sincerity and integ
rity. —Donald A. Adams.
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TWENTY, FIVE YEARS
OF CANCER PROGRESS
Today, millions more Americans
have annual checkups than they m
did 25 years ago. Millions more p T - AkL 'fjW,
know Cancer's Seven Danger f Jl U /L/dK
Signals. Early detection and Vy/f/V\
prompt treatment of cancer is V mg 9
the keynote of the American ■ I f'J I I
Cancer Society’s public 1] J.r /■> !i
education program. »j | J\
U /S&j In 25 years, the death rate from
/m / uterine cancer has dropped
y a 50 per cent. Dr. George H,
vs % Papanicolaou developed the
“ pa p” smear ’ * techni< i u . e f ° r
\/(]J KM? detecting uterine cancer in it*
earliest, most curable stsge.
IrTOi ’MS** This has helped save
thousands of lives.
Research has led to improved
treatment by surgery and IH\\M jAftv .iy
radiation, and to new life- ff sJw] ,|Ty W/k1 A'm jl
prolonging drugs. Today, over 'VWsJa
1,000,000 Americans are cured
of cancer. Only 160,000
had been cured 25 years ago.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO ONLY ONE CANCER
PATIENT IN SEVEN WAS SAVED. TODAY IT IS ONE IN THREE.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO SAVE ONE IN TWO, SAYS THE l
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY. «*
The National Outlook
The Pause In The Business Uptrend
By Ralph Robev
Almost everyone is discussing!
the slight downtrend in busi
ness during January, and per
haps continuing into February.
Was it a mere pause or does it
indicate that this recovery is
over? Here are some of the i
data which reflect the decline: I
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Guy C. Hobbs, Mgr. Edenton, N. C.
! Total personal income dropped
by $1.5 billion. This is after
making a correction for normal
seasonal behavior of this item.
In manufacturing the season
ally adjusted hours worked per
j week declined from 40.4 in De-
I cember to 40.0 in January. Av-
erage weekly earnings fell from
$96.63 in December to $94.96 in
January.
Total industrial production, as
measured by the index of the'
Federal Reserve Board, slid from
115 in December to 114 in Jan
uary.
Private housrng starts were
down for the third consecutive
month.
Preliminary estimates for re
tail trade in January revealed a
slight decline. The estimates'
have now been revised and
show a slight increase.
Various other important sta
tistics, such as gross national |
product, personal consumption:
expenditures, corporate profits, j
expenditures for plant and
equipment, etc., are compiled
only on a quarterly basis and
we have nothing oh them so far.
Now obviously this is not the
manner in which statistics,
should behave during a recov
ery period. But Administration |
spokesmen are not disturbed. |
Two of them expressed their
views a few days ago and they
reflected complete confidence in
the outlook.
Secretary of Commerce Hodg
es, in a news conference, said
that he expects continued ex
pansion in the months aJiead, and
forecast that gross national pro
duct will rise to more than $560
billion in the second three
months of the year. (It was
$542 billion in the fourth quar
ter of 1961).
Walter Heller, chairman of the
President’s Council of Economic
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Advisers, just shrugs off thb
January figures. He has been
predicting that gross national
product would be above $550
billion in the first quarter; and
he sees-all kinds of facts which
will assure a continued upward
trend for business the remainder
of the year and into 1963. And
he still holds to $570 billion for
gross national product for the
year as a whole.
Is such optimism justified?
Secretary Hodges appears fair
ly reasonable, but Dr. Heller, in
oui* judgment, is going too far.
The January decline was not
serious, and a major portion of
it can 'be accounted for by
weather. But granting this, it
stfll remains true that there
were setbacks, and these must
cnange total estimates for the
year 1962. For example:
Our original estimate for gross
national product was $560-565
billion. That now definitely ap
pears on the .high side, and we'
would be inclined to place the
figure at $555-560.
Industrial production, we said,
should rise by 7 percent. That
figure probably needs to be
shaded to not more than 5 or
6 per cent.
We estimated that unemploy
ment would decline to between
5 and 5.5 per cent of the ci
vilian labor force. Whether this
proves to be accurate will de
pend primarily upon the growth
of the labor force.
Our forecast on private hous
ing starts was 1,325,000. That
was a low figure, and still is
reasonable.
We objected to the Adnilrti-'
stratiort’s estimate of corporate
profits, and used that as onie
important element for Insisting
that the proposed balanced fed
eral budget would not be rea
lized. There now is no ques
tion but that we shall have a
deficit for the fiscal year which
starts next July 1.
But the recovery is not over.
We experienced a pause in Jan
uary, and we may find that some
of it was continued into Febru
ary. But the business 'trend
basically still . is upward and
should reipain so for the re-'
mainder of this year.
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Quite Strange
An old actor was playing
“Othello” when he was struck
on the head by a melon.
“Dear me!” he said. “What
strange forms applause some
times takes.”
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