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A Newspaper Devoted To the Progress of the , Albemarle Area Volume XXX.—Number 52. Doctors From 15 Counties Invited To Edenton For Post Graduate Course Six Lectures Schedul ed to Be Held at the Edenton Restaurant; Prominent Speakers A post-graduate course in medicine will be offered to doc tors in 15 Eastern North Caro lina counties beginning Thurs day, January 18. All meetings will be held at the Edenton Restaurant in Edenton. Tse course is being sponsored by the School of Medicine and the ■ Extension Division of the University of North Carolina and the First District of the North Carolina Medical Society. Dr. Dale Groom of the Medi cal College of South Carolina in Charleston, S. C., will be the kickoff lecturer on January 16. At 5 P. M. he will explain how to read electrocardiograms (trac ings of the electrical impulses of the heart) and fct 7:30 P. M. he will discuss the treatment of congestive heart failure. •Dr. Charles M. Howell, Jr., of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem will talk on Thursday, January 23. His two talks will real with accent advances in the treatment of skin diseases. On Thursday, January 30, Dr. Ben M. Peckham of the Uni versity of Wisconsin School of Medicine will be in Edenton to discuss obstetrical emergencies and the diagnosis and treatment cf ceivical cancer. The fourth in the series of six speakers will be Dr. B. W. Haynes, Jr., of the Medical Col lege of Virginia. He will lec ture on January 6 on the care of severely burned patients. Dr. Thomas Franklin Wil liams of the University of North Carolina School of Medi cine will conduct the February. 13 program. His subjects will deal with recent .advances in the care of diabetes and a review of disorders of calciufn and phos pherous metabolism. The final speaker on Febru ary 20 will be Dr. Floyd W. (Denny of the UNC School of Medicine. He is a specialist in children’s diseases. He will out line methods to control strep tococcal infections in order to prevent rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart diseases. A second medical problem to be discussed by Dr. Denny will be atypical pneumonia, a, strange breed of pneumonia. Counties to be represented at the postgraduate course in Eden-! ton will be Beaufort, Hyde. I Martin, Washington, Tyrrell, Bertie, (Perquimans, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Northampton, Pasquotank, Dare, Camden and Currituck. 20 Years Ago As Found In The Files Os The Chowan Herald r* A considerable amount of time was devoted by Town Council men to the town's pecan trees, and Chief of Police J. R. Tan ner recommendad that an ordi nance pertaining to the trees should be either amended or abolished. The police made two arrests but the cases were not prosecuted by Prosecutor J. N. Pruden on the ground that the ordinance was not legal. The ordinance prohibited climbing or flayjng of the trees with part of the fine going to the person Continued on Page 5. Section 1 / Offices 111 Court House Closed All Day Saturday As Os Jau. 4 W. E. Bond, chairman of the Chowan County Oommissianers, colls attention to the pew sched ule of hours for county offices housed in the Court House The change v »'as authorized by the I »County Commissioners at their meeting held Monday, : Effective Saturday, January. 4, all county 'offices in the Court Hou&wiU be dosed all day Saturdays However, arrange- open THE CHOWAN HERALD Tommy C. Kehayes Middler Student At Sewanee, Tennessee Thomas Carl Kehayes, from the Diocese of East Carolina, is a middler student in the School of Theology of the University of the South at Sewanee, Ten nessee. Kehayes is from St. Paul’s Church in Edenton. He received his B.A. in Germanic languages and literature from the University of North Caro lina. His parents arc Mr. and Mrs. Ernest P. Kehayes. The University of the South includes a small men’s liberal arts college and Episcopal Sem inary located on a 10,000 acre domain on the Cumberland Pla teau at Sewanne. It is support ed by the 21 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church. The 08 men now enrolled in St. Seminary include George Irvine Burgon, a middler exchange stu dent from Scotland. Robert L. Burchell from the Diocese of Kentucky, is in his middler (second) year in Edinburgh, Scot land, on the same annual pro gram. He will return to Se wanee at the end of-this aca demic year. There are two oth er non-resident students besides Burchell spending their middler years in intern work. One is in Washington, D. C., and the other in Englewood, New Jer sey. They also will return to Sewanee next year. Hootenanny Held At Rocky Hock New Year’s Eve A New Year’s Eve Hootenan ny- is being ' planned for the Rocky Hock Community Center for New Year’s Eve, with ac , tivity being scheduled to begin at around 8:30 P. M. Young people of the community and surrounding areas are invited to 1 attend. “If you have a musical in strument of any type that you j can play,” say those in charge, “bring it with you—come clap ycur hands—make a little noise as the New Year is being her alded in.” Anyone who has a specialty act is askod to register the act with Wallace Evans at Hughes- Parker Hardware store or at home, telephone 482-3008, Eden ton. | The basic band for the Hoote- I nanny »will be composed of a j piano, mandolin, guitars, ma rimbas, bass wash-tub and wash board, with other minor noise makers. The Hootenanny will come to a close at . approximately 11:15 P. M., at which time a New Year’s Watch Night service is planned at the Rocky Hock Baptist Church. EDENTCN ROTARY CHUB CANCELS TWO MEETINGS Eden ton’s Rotary Club will not meet Thursday of this week nor Thursday of next week, Jan uary 2 due to the Christmas and New Year holidays. The next meeting will be held Thursday, January 9, when Glenn Mabe will be in charge of the program. LIONS CANCEL MEETING Edenton’s Lions Club will call off its weekly meeting Monday night, December 30. The meet ing has been cancelled due to the New Year holiday. er of the week from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., which includes the lunch hour. It is, therefore, pointed out that all business to be trans acted at the Court House should be attended to either Friday or Monday. This affects particu larly those persons under court order to report at the office of the clerk of Superior Court cev Saturday of each week. The offices affected by the change includes the Clerk of Court, Register of Deeds and, the County Accountant, I Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 26, 1963. “THAT AIN’T HAY, BROTHER”—Henry Vogel, of Areola, 111, makes a clean sweep of his crop, so to say. The bales are made up of tips of broomcorn gathered after threshing, and will go to the broom factories which make Areola “the broomcorn capital of the world,” according to city fathers. Teenage Rally At Immanuel Church OnNewYear’sEve Feature of Service to Be Showing of Film Os “The Tony Fon taine Story” Teenagers of Edenton, Plym outh, Elizabeth City and Windsor are invited to spend New Year’s Eve at Immanuel Baptist Church. Special activities for teenagers have been planned, according to the Rev. Bob Ware, pastor. The highlight of the evening will be the showing of a film, “The Tony Fontaine Story,” which deals with the life story and conversion of the singer Tony Fontaine. The movie is in full color and is a full one hour and 20-minute film. The Rev. Calvin Craddock, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Plymouth, will give special music at the piano and direct the singing. Trios from surrounding areas will be on hand as well as a group from Bob Jones Univer sity in Greenville, S. C. The rally, scheduled to start at 8 P. M., will continue through midnight, at which time refresh ments will be served to the teens. Two short challenges of about 15 minutes each will be brought from the Bible by Mr. Ware and the Rev. Roy A. Harrell. Each teen will be given a name badge to fill out as they enter the church to wear in or der to “break the ice” and meet other teens. * Every young person in Eden ton from the ages of 13 through 19 is urged to be on hand and take part in this unique ser vice. For more information call Mr. Ware at 482-3567. Police Arrest 39 During November Edenton police made a total of 39 arrests during November according to Chief of Police James H. Griffin. All who were | arrested were found guilty as charged. The arrests included 16 white males, 1 white female, 19 color ed males and 3 colored females. Fines amounted to $283.10 and costs $431.50, making a total of $714.00, of which $210.50 was turned back to the town in way of officers’ fees. During the month police an swered 29 calls, investigated two accidents, recovered one stolen automobile, worked six funerals, extended 51 courtesies, found five doors unlocked, answered five fire calls, issued 483 traf fic citations, reported 36 lights out and made 10 house checks. The police made 538 radio calls and were on the air 55 minutes. RED MEN MEETING Chowan Tribe No. 12, Im . proved Order of Red Men, will meet Monday night, December 30 at 7:30 o’clock. Fred Keeter, sachem of the tribe, urges a large attendance. —1 r • - - . VFW MEETS TUESDAY William H. Coffield, Jr. Post I No. 9280, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet Tuesday night, December 31 at 8 o’clock. Com mander Ndah Goodwin, Jr., urges ‘a full attendance. __ 1 ’64 Automobile License Plates! Go On Sale Thursday, January 2: Issuance of new 1964 automo bile license plates will begin Thursday, January 2 through the local license plate agency located at 501 South Broad j Broad Street in Edenton. Mrs. | Goldie L. Niblett is the local I agent and urges automobile owners to secure their licenses as early as possible: To obtain a 1964 North Caro lina license plate, the owner of a self-propelled motor vehicle, unless he has qualified as a self insurer or filed a bond, must have and certify that he has liability insurance with a com pany licensed to write liability insurance in North Carolina. Certification is by Form FR-2 'which appears on the reverse side of the 1964 license applica tion card. The name of the in surance company, the policy number and the effective date of the policy is required. Commissioner of Motor Ve hicle's, Edward Scheldt, stresses Mrs. Clara Boswell To Attends Physics Conference At UNC Mrs. Clara Boswell of Edenton who teaches high school physics at John A. Holmes High School, will attend the second annual Conference on Recent Advances in Physics to be held December 27 and 28 at the University of North Carolina and the Research Triangle Park. The principal speaker is Alois Wolfgang Schardt, chief of phys ics of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He will address the physics teach ers on “Advances in Space Sci ence.” The purpose of the conference is to present current science to enable the teachers to remain informed on the most recent de velopments in the field of phys ics. Robert B. Skinner Graduates At King’s Last week Robert Beasley Skinner, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Skinner, Route 3, Eden ton, graduated from King’s Busi ness College, Raleigh, receiving a Junior Accounting diploma. He entered school on September 5, 1962. Mr. Skinner was a member of the John A- Holmes High School graduating class of 1962. Liability Insurance New Certification Form Required To Secure 1964 Auto License Plates nuNcuL usponhstutt obtification IBS X hereby certify that I have financial responsibility ai rag aired by the North Carolina Financial Respomibility Act at 1957, aa amended, for the motor vehicle deseribsd on the reran* fide and ntteat to the following: T/fJE /A/SVJZAHC2 ca. OF M. C. Print or type full name of Iniurance do. -r- not AgeacyTSa* 11 v Tolley number, if Igsued; otherwise A/S or Binder Nanber •Set* Insurance beaan - "*■ —«* gifpnore of Owner an ft appean qg rererea aide WMatha /-5* ri **64" Above is • sample of liability insurance now certification form which must bo filled out before a now 1984 automobile license will bo issued. It includes ihe insurance company name, policy number of date the policy went into force. t ■ the importance of reading the instructions given for obtaining a new plate and supplying accu rately all the* information rc auired. He particularly cautions! against giving an insurance agent’s name or agency name for that of the insurance com pany and recommends that the full name of the insurance com pany and the policy number be taken direct from the policy. Motor vehicle owners are urged by the licensing officials a.nd the local license plate agents to complete the FR-2 certification before the appli cation card is presented for a new license plate. Issuance of new tags' will move slowly un less this is done. Mr. Schedit warns that the penalty for certifying falsely that liability insurance is in ef fect is revocation of plate, sus pension of driver’s license for 30. days and fine or imprison ment. Rose’s Employees Receive Substantial Christmas Checks Paul Wallace, manager of the I local Rose’s 5-10-25 c Store, an nounced that he has been ad vised by T. B. Rose, Jr., chair man of the board of Rose’s Stores, Inc., that Rose’s will dis tribute $141,367 in Christmas gift checks to their employees this year. The checks, in amounts vary ing with length of service, are presented to each employee “in grateful appreciation for their faithful contribution toward making 1963 one of the greatest years in the history of the Rose Company”. Mr. Wallace states that checks in the amount of $87.3 were pre sented to the employees of his local store. Libraries Closed During Holidays Libraries of the Pettigrew Re gional Library System will ob serve slate holidays during | Christmas and will be closed on December 24th, 25th, and 26th. This includes public libraries of Chowan, Tyrrell and Wash ington counties. Libraries will also be closed on January Ist. ' Bookmobiles will observe the * same holiday schedule. Jaycees Seeking Most Outstanding Farmer For 196? Blanks For Nomina tions Now’ Available; Deadline to Vote Is January 15 Edenton Jaycees will again this year seek to find Chowan County’s most outstanding young farmer for 1963. This program is important to the Jaycees be cause they feel that it will im prove the understanding be tween people on the farm and those in the city. Nomination blanks are out in numerous places and the Jaycees urge all who will to nominate I Ihe young farmer of their choice ' and return the forms to Jackj Evans at Byrum Hardware Com- ■ puny before January 15. Nominees must be between the ages of 21 and 35 and re ceive at least two-thirds of their income directly from the farm. ; Judging will be Doseu On ca reer progress, conservation prac tices and service to the com munity. “Farming is . very important to our community,” says Mr. Ev ans, “and we urge you to giyc our young farmers a vote of confidence by nominating them as Chowan County's most out-; standing young farmer.” Morehead Interviews Scheduled January 9 Twenty-four high school male seniors, nominated from counties in this area for consideration for Morehead Awards to the Uni versity of North Carolina, will be interviewed by the Morehead District I Selection Committee at the’Roanoke Country Club in Witliamston Thursday, January 9. The 24 nominees from District I are being interviewed in state wide competition with 157 boys from the other six Morehead Districts in the state. Morehead Awards provide a | four-year all-cxpense-paid under graduate college education to re cipients. They were established in 1951 by John Motley More head, UNC graduate and native North Carolinian who lives in Rye, N. Y. The 93-year-old Mr. Morehead is chairman of the John Motley Morehead Founda tion. Among the nominees to be in terviewed in Williamston will be Johnny Hutchins Winborne, a student at Chowan High School. ACP Group Makes ’64 Recommendations Tuesday, December 10 the ACP development group met in the ASCS office to develop the 1964 agriculture conservation program for 1964. Those attending were A. C. Griffin, chairman ASC County Committee; E. E. Boyce, vice chairman County Committee; Ray Byrum. regular member of County Committee; W. R. Carver, fieldman, ASCS; G. Samuel Cox, SCD work unit soil conservation ist; L. C. Bunch, chairman SCD supervisors: Harry Venters, as sistant county agent; Roger Spi vey, forest service representative. , Recommendations were made i by the group and the state of ■ fice was notified of these recom mendations. la.OO Per Year In North Carolina Machinery Is Set Up For Listing Os Property For Determining 1963 Taxes — rii Middler Student m mt jfl Upp; mg ■ J I i THOMAS CARL KEHAYES j One of the middler students in the School of Theoloav of the University of the South at Se wanee, Tennessee, is Thomas Carl Kehayes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kehayes of Edenton. Special Services At Rocky Hock The Rocky Hock Baptist Church announces two special services at the church on New i Year’s Eve. The first service! will be held at 7:30 P. M. and i the message will be brought by I the Rev. Thurman W. Allred, pastor of the church. The second service will be primarily a youth Watch Night j Service, even though everyone is invited to attend. The feat ured speaker for this service will be the Rev. David W. All red. son of the pastor. David is a first year student at South eastern Seminary at Wake For j est, and is serving as pastor of Jonas Ridge Baptist Church near Morganton. N. C., having been called to that pastorate about two months ago. Time of this service will be 11:30 P. M. The general public is invited by the congregation and pastor of Rocky Hock to attend these services as the New Year is brought in with a prayer for a happy and prosperous year. Firemen Called Four j Times In November j Fire Chief W. J. Yates reports I that Edenton firemen were call ed out four times during No vember, all of the fires being in Edenton. The firemen were out three! hours and 30 minutes and were on the air one minute and 20 seconds. They traveled three miles and laid 000 feet of hose. For the fires 71 volunteers re sponded. Properly involved was esti mated at $18,300 and damage was estimated at $1,450, and insur ance. $31,600. The firemen held one fire drill durin gthe month, answered one still alarm, had two standby calls and one mutual aid call. Allotment Notices Sent To Farmers A. Griffin, Chairman oT the County ASC County Committee, says notices for all 1.964 allotted crops have been mailed to farm operators. If farmers have any questions concerning these no tices they should contact the ASCS office. BANK CLOSED TWO DAYS Peoples Bank & Trust Com pany and the Consumer Credit Branch will be closed two days for the Christmas holiday. The bank will not be open December 25»and 26. Chowan U. S. Savings Bonds Sales 74% Os Quota For Year R. Graham White, county vol unteer chairman for the U. S. Savings Bonds Program, reports that sales in Chowan County for November were $4,304. Sales for the year amounted to $82,325 which is 74 per cent of the coun ty’s quota, which is $111,320. November sales of Series E and H Bonds in North Carolina totaled $4,301,517, an increase of nearly 14 percent over Novem For Quick Results , . . M Try a Classified Ad jj In The Herald If - O' Penalty Charged Af ter February 2 For Failure to List Prop erty Attention is again called to the fact that property must he listed during the month of Jan uary for the purpose of figuring ‘ Chowan County tax for the year 1963. The year’s taxes will be based on real estate and per sonal property which one may own on the first day of January, , 1964. I Listing of property and polls l is required by law and if not j done during the month of Janu ary a penalty of 10 per cent | will be added after February 2. All male persons between the 'ages of 21 and 50 years are also S required to list their polls dur j ing January. A convenient schedule for list : takers has been arranged, so that. | there is little excuse for uny j body failing to list their taxes during the month. The schedule of list takers follows: First Township Listers, Mrs. Pattie S. Byrum 'and Mrs. Annie M. Hare. They jwill be in the tax office on the i first floor of the Hotel Joseph I Hewes building every day. The ! hours will be 9 A. M„ to 5 P. M.. ■ Monday through Friday and 9 A. M., to 12 o’clock noon on Saturdays. Second Township Lister, Henry Bunch. Janu ary 7, 14, 21 and 28 at Bunch's Store, Center Hill; January !{, Walter L. Miller’s Store at Val halla: January 15, Earl Smith’s Store at Rocky Hock; January 22, Center Hill-Cross Roads Fire- Department; January 29. C. C. Nixon's Store. Third Township Lister, T. A. Berryman. Janu ary 4, 11, 18 and 25. Briggs Store at Gliden: January 9, p; and 30, H. R. Peele’s Store at Ryland. Fourth Township Lister, Ward Hoskins. Every Wednesday, January 1. 8. 15, 2‘* and 29 at Harry A. Perry's biore. Every Saturday, January 4, 11. I 18 and 25, at Harry A. Perry's j Store. [erne calendar] Third annual Peanut Ton-and- I One-half Club banquet will bo | held at the Edenton Restaurant Tuesday night. January 14. Unanimity Lodge No. 7. A. F. ii A. M.. will hold a stated com munication tonight (Thursday) at 8 o'clock. Chowan Tribe of Red Men will meet Monday night at 7:30 j o'clock. | A school for provisional driv ing licenses for Chowan. Bertie. Perquimans and Washington , counties will be held in the Cho wan County Court House Mon day and Tuesday. December 30 and 31 from 9 A. M„ to 5 P. M. i A New Year's Eve rally for j teenagers of this area will be ■ j held at Immanuel Baptist Church i Tuesday night. December 31 be j ginning at 8 o'clock. William H. Coffield. Jr. Post No. 9280, Veterans of Forctign , Wars, will meet Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. New 1964 automobile license ! plates will go on sale Thursday. | January 2. at the 501 South Broad Street office in Edenton. Jaycees have distributed nomi - nation blanks to select Chowan • i County's most outstanding farm er for 1983. j o’clock. ber of last year. Cumulative sales for the state total $46,954,759. This is over 5 percent greater than for the comparable 11 months’ period of 1962 and amounts to 92.8 percent of the state's annual goal of $50,600,900. Twenty-two counties have al ready achieved their quota for this year, and others are close to making theirs.