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Volume 111. —Number 33.
Confab Planned To Discuss
Improving Fish Hatchery
Establishment of New
Field Stations Also
In Mind
FEWERFISH
Seeking to Have Appro
priation Increased For
Edenton Plant
Coincident with the receipt by The
Herald of a letter from W. Carey
Bunch, culturist at the federal fish
hatchery on Pembroke Creek, renew
ing his plea for the conservation of
migratory fish like shad and rock,
and appearing elsewhere in this is
?ue, came word to Mayor E. W.
Spires on Tuesday stating that
Charles E. Jackson, acting commis
sioner of the Bureau of Fisheries in
Washington, D. C.,'would soon meet
in conference with officials of the
North Carolina Department of Con
servation and Development “with re
ference to making improvements to
the Edenton hatchery and to also
ascertain if it is possible to establish
field stations for the propagation of
shad and striped bass.”
The latter course is not what the
local enthusiasts, who are particular
ly anxious to get an increased oper
ating fund for the Pembroke hatch
ery, have in mind, but it is hoped the
proposed conference will bring about
this objective, so that this fine plant
which used to operate on such a
large scale will be able to resume
the position of importance it once
occupied.
The Mayor and others have been
pleading for an increased appropria
tion for the hatchery through Con
gressman Lindsey Warren. It has
been explained to him that in years
past this appropriation has been as
high as $12,000 and that in those
days it was possible to buy sufficient
shad eggs especially to insure a
large propagation. But in recent
years this appropriation has dwind
led, so that of late it has reached a
low ebb of but S9OO, hardly enough
to keep the hatchery going with
nothing left over with which to buy
eggs or encourage propagation.
The Mayor particularly has told all
this to Mr. Warren, explaining,
“Fishermen are not interested in go
ing to the trouble of saving the eggs
from the fish they catch which are
spawning unless they are paid some
thing,’’ and' this, of course, cannot
be done with the small amount al
lotted the hatchery. A request for
an old-time appropriation of SIO,OOO
was made.
To this Congressman Warren made
response, enclosing Mr. Jackson's
comment, as follows: .
“My dear Mr. Spires: From time
i to time we have had correspondence
in reference to -improvements, at the
hatchery at Edenton. On several oc
casions I have discussed the matter
with the Bureau of Fisheries. This
is the time of the year when the va?
rious departments make up their
budgets for submission to the Bureau
of the Budget, and on August 5, I
again brought up the Edenton hatch
ery, as without budget and Depart
ment approval Congress will not ap
propriate funds. I am enclosing you
a copy of a letter I have just receiv
ed from the Commissioner of Fish
eries, and I am likewise sending a
copy to Hon. R. Bruce Etheridge.
You will note that the Department
says it must make certain investiga
tions to ascertain if it is possible to
establish field stations for the propa
gation of shad and striped bass. I
am calling Mr. Etheridge’s attention
to my interest in Edenton if such
field stations are established. With
best wishes, I am, Sincerely,
LINDSEY WARREN.”
The letter from Mr. Jackson en
r closed to the Mayor was as follows:
“My dear Congressman: In reply
to yours of the sth you are advised
that the Bureau expects to hold a
conference with officials of the State
Department of Conservation and De
velopment of North Carolina; with
reference to making improvements
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Edenton’s Fire Chief
At Firemen’s Meeting
R. K. Hall left Monday for Ra
leigh, where he is attending the
State Firemen’s Convention. Hie
firemen’s meeting began Monday and
will close Friday.
Mr. Hall has the distinction of be
ing the oldest fire chief in point of
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
Postal Employees
Establish Record
What is regarded to be quite
an unusual record in postal af
fairs was established in the Eden
ton postoffice Tuesday afternoon,
when within 45 minutes over a
ton of catalogues was handled by
two employees.
This record was established
when upon arrival of 2550 pounds
of mail order catalogues J. Frank
White, assistant postmaster, and
Leon Leary set to work to clear
the decks. The two men unload
ed the huge pile of mail from a
truck, broke open the packages,
cancelled the stamps and distri
buted every book to the city and
rural mail carriers’ departments
in exactly three quarters of an
hour, which is moving mail in a
hurry.
A
IMPROVED MAIL
SERVICE TO TYNER
Herald Delivered Day of Publication
Beginning September 1; Mail
Advanced 24 Hours
The Herald is happy to announce
that beginning September 1, there
will be a great improvement in the
delivery of this newspaper in the
upper section of Chowan County.
On that date the Post Office Depart
ment has arranged to have W. Jim
Daniels, Route 1 rural mail carrier,
carry to the Tyner postofflce daily a
pouch containing The Herald as well
as all incoming mail that heretofore
remained in the office until taken
out by the Suffolk star route car
rier in the afternoon. This arrange
ment enables subscribers throughout
the Tyner section to receive their
copy of The Herald 24 hours earlier,
in fact the same day the paper is
published.
An effort had been on foot to
have the Suffolk star route begin in
Edenton, but this move was fought
by Suffolk, Norfolk, and Elizabeth
City and the above change was
made as an alternate.
Under the present arrangement
The Herald remains in the postoffice
until the Suffolk star route leaves
in the afternoon; arriving at Tyner
after the rural mail is gone, thus be
ing held over in the Tyner office un
til Friday for delivery. However,
under the new plan the papers will
arrive at Tyner in the morning and
be delivered on the routes the same
day.
The Herald favored a change of
the Suffolk star route and wrote a
letter urging this change, but either
there was not enough interest on the
part of local merchants and business
houses or else too much pressure
was brought to . bear by .the . cities
mentioned above to warrant the
change.
•> Numerous complaints have been
made by Herald subscribers in the
Tyner section due to receiving their
paper a day late and the announced
change will thereby be of interest
to Herald readers in that section as
well as increase the value of adver
tising in the paper.
Rotary Club Meets At
Cross Roads Tonight
The Edenton Rotary Club will to
night (Thursday) again hold their
meeting at Cross Roads instead of
the regular mid-day luncheon at the
Parish House. The meeting will be
gin at 7:30 o’clock and will again
be held in the primary school room
under the auspices of the Chowan
Home Demonstration Club, which
group of ladies served the Rotarians
two weeks ago. Major N. K. Rowell,
president, and Parson Aylett Ashby,
program chairman, are planning a
short and snappy program for the
affair. It is hoped all Rotarians
will attend. This will be the second
Rotary meeting held in the rural
section of the county, and it is hop
ed other sections will be able to en
tertain the Rotarians during the
summer.
At last week’s meeting Dr. W. I.
Hart, Jr., very ably and interesting
ly presented an address on Lord Al
fred Tennyson, at the completion of
which John A. Moore was asked to
read portions of Tennyson’s most
popular poems. < -■
MASONS MEET TONIGHT
The regular meeting of Unanim
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 13, 1936.
j. v. cates made
HEAD OF COUNTY
WELFAKE_BOARD
Child Case Worker Ex
plains Nature of Her
Work In County
MET FRIDAY
Miss Ruby Lentz, Coun
ty Nurse, Also Tells
Os Her Activities
J. W. Cates was elected chairman
of the Board of County Welfare at
a meeting held at 2 o’clock Friday
afternoon in the office of Superin
tendent W. J. Taylor. Members of
the Board are W. J. Berryman, Mrs. j
J. N. Pruden, J. W. Cates, and W. J.;
Taylor.
The newly appointed child case
worker, Miss Meta Dowling, was
present to explain to the Welfare
Board something of the nature of
her work in the county. Miss Dowl
ing is working under the Division of
Child Welfare Services, as sponsor
ed by the North Carolina State
Board of Charities and Public Wel
fare. She comes to this county well
qualified to carry on the work she
has been appointed to do. Miss
Dowling graduated from the Green
ville Woman’s College in South Caro
lina with the A. B. degree, and from
the University of North Carolina
with the M. A. degree in the depart
ment of Sociology and Social Work.
She also holds a certificate from the
Y. M. C. A. Training School in New
York City. She was employed by
South Carolina ERA as social survey
and then served as case worker in
the Columbia relief office for nine
months. For eighteen months she
was senior visitor in the relief office
in Asheville, North Carolina, and
since the closing of the relief office
there, she has been certifying case
worker in the Department of Public
Welfare in Asheville. Miss Dowling
comes to this county highly recom
mended, and it is believed she is go
ing to fit well into the Chowan-Per
quimans unit. A tentative schedule
has been arranged for the two
counties, since she is to work in the
two counties on a half time basis.
She will be in Chowan Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, and in Per
quimans Monday, Tuesday and Sat
urday. In each county, she will be
in the office in the morning and in
the afternoon she will be in the field.
The office in Chowan is the office
formerly occupied by Mrs. J. H.' Mc-
Mullan until July Ist.
Briefly stated, the work of Miss
Dowling is to assist the Superin
tendent of Public Welfare, with, em
phasis on child welfare in the coun
ty. Many problems arise where the
welfare of the child is neglected. It
is hoped that Miss Dowling will be
able to awaken a public conscience
that will mean much to the neglect
ed children.
The chairman of the Board of
Public Welfare appointed an advis
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Final Stewardship
Declamation Tests
Saturday Afternoon
The Stewardship Declamation con
test of the Chowan County Circuit
will have its final test Saturday af
ternoon at Ballards Bridge Baptist
Church at 3 o’clock. Each junior or
ganization of each Baptist church in
the county is asked to have a repre
sentative in this contest.
Mrs. C. T. Doughtie, county W. M.
U. leader, urges each society to be
well represented at this meeting in
order to encourage the young people.
The winners in this test will be
presented a gift from the county cir
cuit. Come out and hear the young
people.
Chowan Farmers Get
SI3OO Fertilizer Refund
A little over $1,300 has been re
ceived by Chowan County farmers
from Smith-Douglas Company as a
refund on fertilizer purchased prior
to April 15, according to Clarence
Leary of the Leary Bros. Storage
Company, agents for this brand of '
fertilizer in the county. This refund, :
guaranteed against their decline of
prices, averaged from 40 cents to
over SIOO and cames as a pleasant
surprise to the recipients.
The Leary Brothers rejoice with i
the farmers who benefited by buying j
fertiliser early in the season and an- <
ticipate an even greater volume of .
business this year, which has been
rapidly increasing during the few 1
SHAKEUP OF WPA
DISTRICT OFFICE
MISSED EDENTON
Mayor Spires Joined In
Opposing Moving Os- |
fice From E. City
AT WILLIAMSTON
4 Counties Have Been
Added to W. E. Bak
er’s Territory
Recent official announcement that
Elizabeth City would not be selected
as the site for the consolidated WPA
district headquarters, and that the
present district branch office there
j would be abandoned, the new location
|to be Williams ton, instead, is to be
regretted in away but apparently
will have no effect on the local office
or its working force.
Mayor E. W. Spires, acting for a
community that had had but the
pleasantest of relations with the
WPA branch at Elizabeth City, join
ed with officials of that town in urg
ing that the change be not made.
Th Mayor sent a telegram to this ef
fect to his good friend George W.
Coan, State WPA director at Ra
leight, but got a reply Saturday that
Mr. Coan was sorry and that orders
requiring the transfer to Williamston
had come from Washington and
could not be altered.
The proposed change may affect
E. S. Askew, who has been regional
director at Elizabeth City, and who
has many friends in this section. Lee
Wallace, of Washington, N. C., has
been named to take charge of the
Williamscton office with Edward L.
Winslow as assistant director- Un
der the change nineteen counties in
eastern North Carolina will be con
solidated into one district instead of
two as at present, with a quota of
working Employes set at 4,481.
W. E. Baker, project foreman here,
through this change, has had four
counties added under his superivsion,
these being Bertie, Martin, Washing
ton and Tyrrell. The branch office,
however, will remain in Edenton.
Merit Badge Library
Added To Library
A merit badge library has been
added to the Shepard-Pruden Li
brary. This library consists of in
teresting and informative literature
relative to the various phases of
Boy Scout activities and was added
to the library in an effort to stir up
interest among the boys in the
Edenton troop.
Scoutmaster John W. Graham has
read a number of the pamphlets and
recommends them to every member
of the troop and hopes that the boys
will take advantage of this oppor
tunity.
Waynick Convinced
Roads In Colerain
Section Neglected
Chairman of the State Highway
Commission, Capus M. Waynick, and
Mrs. Waynick, and Mr. Julien Wood
and his daughter, of Edenton, were
guests of honor at a chicken barbe
cue Friday, August 7, at Colerain
Beach.
The visitors repeatedly expressed
their delight at the natural beauty
of Colerain Beach, and were pleased
that roads leading to this beautiful
spot were being built. They agreed
that Colerain had been badly neglect
ed for past years in the distribution
of road fund*.
The party visited Perry-Belch Fish
Co., and the packing house where
hundreds of crates of tomatoes are
being packed daily.
After a bounteous lunch and a rest
by the river they were taken back
to Edenton by Mr. and Mrs. C. W-
Beasley on their criuser “Lou-Wood.”
Those attending the barbecue be
sides the guests of honor, were: Mr.
and Mrs. L. D. Perry, Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. White, Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Beasley, Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Nowell,
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Perry, Mr. and
Mrs. S. L. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. G.
M. Holley, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Park
er, Mr.-and Mrs. M. H. White, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Beasley.
REVIVAL AT EVANS CHURCH
Revival services will begin at
Evans M. E. Church Sunday after
noon, and will continue for one week.
The pastor, Rev. R. E. Walston, will
be assisted by Rev. E. Sotor, of
Durfck*. An invitation is extended
to #> attend tbs services.
2 New Historical Markers
Soon Ready For Edenton
Some Faces Change
But Others Do Not
Seventeen years is a pretty
long time to remember faces,
especially when the last time you
may have seen these “mugs” was
when they were covered thick with
the mud and dirt and grime and
blood of a fighting trench on the
Hindenburg line near Bellecourt,
France. So it was natural when
Dolph Blue, sporty and wealthy
present day owner of a chain of
small town drug stores, now living
in Carthage, came to town yester
day to meet up with some of his
old war time buddies of Company
I, 119th Infantry, to whom he had
last said goodbye on the last day
of the war in 1919 and had not
seen since, to assume he might
have forgotten how they would
look in their 1936 splendor.
But his eyes didn’t fail him,
though the same cannot be said
for his Edentonian pals, save
Shelton Moore. One glance and
Moore named him instantly, but
Bob Pratt, boastful of a good
memory, and Oscar Brown, who
hasn’t missed out yet, and West
Byrum and a half dozen others,
fell down dismally. But, oh boy,
what a reunion they had together,
and Mr. Blue went back home
saying he wouldn’t have missed it
all for a million!
COACHING JOB IS
STILL UNFILLED
John A. Holmes In Touch With
Number of Applications For
Brogden’s Successor
Despite strenuous efforts on the
part of John A. Holmes, superinten
dent of Edenton schools, to secure a
coach to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Leon Brogden, no
successor had been definitely decided
upon this week. Mr. Holmes has
been in communication with a num J
her of applicants for the position
but in an effort to obtain the best
man possible, no definite decision has
been reached. Mr. Holmes refused
to divulge the names of any of the
prospects under consideration until
a decision has been reached, for the
reason that most of them are now
employed and publicity as to their
desire to make a change might prove
detrimental to their present position,
tion.
Coach Brogden was coach at
Edenton High School for only one
year, but during that time developed
eastern championship teams in both
football and baseball, in both in
stances, however, losing the State
title to the western champions. He
further laid the foundation for a
creditable football team by encour
aging the sport among the younger
boys of the school. Last year he
placed a junior team on the field that
played a creditable brand of ball
and from this squad will likely be
selected a number of players on the
varsity squad to replace vacancies
caused by graduation and any who
fail to return to school.
Due to Mr. Brogden’s efforts, Mr.
Holmes is very optimistic that Eden
ton High will again be well repre
sented on the gridiron, and he is
especially anxious to secure a man
who is capable of developing the
material on hand. For this reason
the selection of a new coach is not
being arrived at in a great hurry,
but Mr. Holmes is certain that a
competent man will be secured in
time for early practice.
Governor’s Son Passes
State Bar Examination
John Christopher Blucher Ehring
haus, Jr., son of Governor Ehring
haus, vaR among the 80 students an
nounced Saturday who successfully
passed the recent bar examination.
Mr. Ehringhaus was a student at
the University Law School at Chapel
Hill, and has been vacationing at the
home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. George Wood, at Greenfield.
Town Council Meeting
Postponed Until Friday
The regular meeting of Town
Council which was to have been held
Tuesday night was postponed until
Friday night. This postponement
i was necessary due to s number of
the councilman being out of town.
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This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year
Hayes and Home of
Governor Eden Lat
est Designated
EXPECTSEVEN
Local Folks Interested
In Having Correct
Spelling
Edenton, which at the outset be
gan to have some fear it would be
neglected in an unsatisfactory way
by the State Historical Commission
in the placement of markers desig
nating spots of local history interest,
is rapidly coming into its own and
bids fair to be the most prominently
marked location in the entire State.
On Tuesday Mayor E. W. Spires re
ceived word relative to two more
such markers to be located here
abouts, making one already in posi
tion in front of St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, and four others promised
and under way, with probably two
additional ones, if not more yet to
come.
Besides the marker at St. Paul’s
the second and third markers, desig
nated for here have to do with the
home of James Iredell, early day Su
preme Court Justice, on East Church
Street, and another calling attention
to where Joseph Hewes, Signer of
the Declaration, lived and engaged
in his shipping and candling business.
The latest two other markers a
bout which the Mayor has had word
will point the way to “Hayes,” home
of Samuel Johnston, and to the resi
dence of Governor Charles Eden in
Bertie county. Still other proposed
markers for this town, so it is hop
ed, will direct travel to the old
court house, to the Cupola House,
and to “Beverly Hall,” the Dillard-
Dixon home on West King Street,
where State banking got an initial
start in North Carolina.
To show the great interest local
enthusiasts are taking in the mark
ers a brief allusion appeared in a
State paper to the fact a marker
had been decided on for Edenton to
point the way to the home of “Sam
uel Johnson.” This was on Saturday
and the spelling of the early gover
nor’s name caused some consterna
tion. Without consulation the May
or, as city executive, John A. Holmes,
as secretary of the local business
men’s league, and Richard D. Dixon,
on his own hook, swamped C. C. Crit
tenden, chairman of the executive
committee on historical markers,
with telegrams and letters urging
that the proposed “Johnston” mark
er be spelled correctly with an in
clusive “t” rather than merely as
“Johnson.”
On Tuesday these gentlemen re
ceived letters of thanks from Mr.
Crittenden saying the press accounts
were in error “and you may be sure
that the historians on the commis
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CHOWAN’S MELON
CROP ABOUT OVER
Only 15 Boats Leave Harbor Com
pared With 48 Last Year, and
56 Year Before
Officially Chowan’s watermelon
crop for 1936 has been marketed and
the season may be referred to a3
over, incidentally the poorest season
numerically in the history of the
county. R. L. Peck, federal inspect
or here from the start, left yester
day for other points, and C. L. Pobst,
AAA representative from Washing
ton, who had been here with him,
went elsewhere some time ago.
Figures show that but 15 boat
loads of melons have left this port
this year, as compared with 44 boats
last year and 56 the year before
What possibly is the last cargo went
north early Tuesday morning when
three boats departed for Baltimore.
No more boats are expected and if
there are any further melons to
market they will have to be sent by
truck.
There are about 4,000 melons on
an average to a boat, which would
make this year’s shipments total
around 60,000 melons as against
some past years when the total has
been as high as 300,000 or 350,000.
Climatic conditions and overworked
soil have been mentioned as contri
buting factors for the shortage.
Restraining orders recently issued
out of federal courts against some
growers had a marked effect on
shipments recently. Since the orders
all growers offered their melons for
grading and inspection, which was
far from true at the outset and
prior to court interference.
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