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| Ik these columns vOl tfr I found a fair presentaum T Ygf iocat and county news lof general interest. 3 ' J A l*i«vA>r I \7 \Tiimko4> "J'Q r '.' : / volume iv—iNumoer *o. i ii. —ll lin ii i »—■■■ iiiiii . iiliißg 1 „4W i. Mayor and Conncilman! Only Changes By Election w ■ h ' All Other Incumbents Re-elected; MeMullan Leads Vote BUFFLAP LOPES IN frNew Officials Will Take Oath of Office Next Tuesday - Tuesday’s biennial spring ejection sot the selection of totfn officers wits pulled off in the usual unconcerned and quiet way, and except for one change in town management, the en tieef Section might well be referred to as Johli H." (Jack) MeMullan was 'chosen Mayor to succeed E. W. Spires, who declined to ran for re election, , and all the other official incumbents went through with hello on except T. Wallace Jones* who has been serving as a councilman-at • large. J.-Edwin Bufflap, editofe«t The Chowan Herald, was elected to succeed. Jones. The vote WsatM§gm for Bufflap and Jive less* for jones. , John G. Small, who entered him self at the last rataute as a date for Boatriof Public Works; beaten about three to one by each . of the other Board nominees. Naturally McMullan’s tote* town vote, 217, was the largest received by kny of th^pon)feifl> t bttt Henry Gardner, for as town treasurer, fair him a close second with 218 votes, -The smallest tidal received was that by William E. Bond as.,, councilmanic nominee i.. Fourth. Ward, Everybody who voted, Voted for him, bat not if> % pome little activity- election day, ,a.l At least, all but BuS who being A publisher and Appreciating the value of hand bill-Jpbtfeity, which he hopes aU oihtmf/ will / edge the effectiveness of herwtftet, got out a bundle of red ink dodgers and shot them all over town. Per-, haps, without them, his candidacy would pot have been remembered. Next week the winners of Tuesday will all take offiee. Mayor Spires Will deliver hi% swan song and Jack ’ MeMullan will record his salutatory? . and Clerk Roy Leary will note on his dockets these official servitors of the Town of Edenton for the next taro. years: Mayor—-John H. MeMullan. ? .Tsbwn .Treasurer —W. H. Gardner. -• Councilmen-at-large—O. B. Perry, • -J, Edwin Bufflap. First Ward Councilman —Dr, L. P. Williams. Second Ward Councilman—Graham Byrum. Third Ward Councilman —A. G. • Byrum. > Fotirth Ward Councilman —William E. Bond. £ . Board of Public Works —J. A. , Woodard, F, P. Wood, F. W, Hobbs. At the same time Mr, Leary will i Continued on Page Flva) Taylor Theatre To Be Greatly Improved Not content with having just a good theatre, the management of the Taylor Theatre within a week or two will have provided for its pa trons one of the most comfortable Oad up-to-date theatres in this sec tion of the State. Sound engineers ar uvnerai rairrorjMiomc oouna , *' ■- a . - lil • *1 lUe vu6Su6 Wtu M9O D 6 CQQippCQ | p re-arranged otwi will furnish m ° ntha - A-JJ. fwniuL a.l t riMfi nnmnitn H ahm iron* 10686 improvements j i THE CHOWfcN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TUB INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COJJSTY Edenton, Chowan county, Noren Carolina. Thursday, May 6,1937. ... 1 1 "new mayor _J 1 m I R Mftfep &4 H n WmmmM {% J. H. McMULLAN Edenton’s new mayor, who ■ was elected without any opposi tion at Tuesday’s election. ~.. .... - , , . . ["edenton’s vote I M * yor n? I’B'2'el’S 3 1 e suuut ; J. H. MeMullan 84 77 34 22 217 Treasurer -W. H. Gardner 85 76 32 20 213 j Councilmcn-at-Large a. B. Perry 67 54 31 21 173 T. W. Jones 48 53- 17 12 130 ] I. E. Bufflap- 62 55 18 10 135 , Board Public Works K3fc4KM«gL.-77 ,76 31 19 203 83 Counci Imen ,L- P. Williams,.-90 Oraham Byrum- 'to A. G. Byrum— 35 W. E. Bond 26 1 Hi ■ ini i l i ' Attractive Antique ■ Exhibit At Gupola ' House Next Week j t - i Five hundred Cards of invitation 1 have been mailed .by the committee ' for the exceptionally attractive an tique exhibit to be held in the Cupola ' House from next Wednesday through to the following Sunday night. The . exhibit being sponsored by the local Garden Club will be for the benefit ! of the Cupola House Association and 1 a modest admission fee will be charg ed. 1 Many original furnishings, not 1 only of the Cupola House, but from 1 private homes, including much rare J glass, china and paintings will be • displayed during the exhibit. There ' will, also, be many articles so dis played, like rugs and small pieces, which will be offered for sale during 1 the exhibit. .The exhibit will be open daily from ID A. M. to 7 P. M. with lunch eon and tea served each day at a moderate charge. Property Advertised j For Taxes June 10 , Readers this week will notice an i advertisement by Sheriff J. A. Bunch \ to the effect that property will be r adfogrtised for 1936 taxes on Thurs- s save expense and embarrassment i taxpayer* are pay their t } Ball tu e t I arisen. 8 vfiw o" j IIJhrHI be no team this 1 I year, many comments have. bean CHOWAN SOCIAL SECURITY BILL TO BE A HEAVY ONE Commissioners Expect New Welfare to Cost $30,000 Annually NAME BERRYMAN Act Starts to Operate July 1; Applicants For Jobs i As an initial step looking toward full with the state’s new ly enacted social security program, whiah is already viewed here as both a perplexing and costly problem, pro viding as it will for the needy aged and dependent children as well as other welfare emergencies, the comity commissioners last Mon day named William J. Berryman as their representative on the county welfare board soon to develop when the new statute starts to operate this summer. The selection of Mr. Berryman as such an agent for the board-will be followed, it is understood, by a se cond member to be chosen by the State 'Board of Charities and Public Welfare, which will have the admin istration of the act in full charge, and these two will name still a third member, the three to consti tute the Chowan Welfare Board. All three members will, of course, be re sidents of Chowan county, and al ready the state board has been mak ing lively inquiries as to the best eligible man it can select for mem ber No. 2. Numerous names have been suggested, one of them being West W. Byrum, but no intimation has so far been given as to who may be selected to work with Mr. Berryman in picking member No. 3. Once the county board has been chosen in this manner and organiz ed the next real job will be the nam tofcbf some one as County Welfare Officer in place of W. J. Taylor, who, incidentally is a candidate for the berth. The commissioners have not been enlightened as to this as yet, but the talk seemed to be Monday that a comforting salary, would be the honarium attached to the post. Naturally this belief has brought several applicants into the field be sides Mr. Taylor, two others from here, for instance, Mrs. J. H. Mc- Mullan, who has been extensively en gaged in dne way or another in wel fare work for several years, and Miss Mary Cody, at present a teach er in the Edenton school. Then a Miss Elizabeth Deans, haling all the way from Merior, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, and a William M. Per kins, of Elizabeth City, are similar ly hungry for the bait, and the com missioners expect more to be after it In away the commissioners admit to a certain vagueness about the working of the act, as it will de velop in this county, and as to what the county’s financial burden will be. This last has been variously estimat ed by those in a position to know as (Continued on Page Five) Work Begun On New Bridge Over Sound Work on the forthcoming long ve hicular bridge across Albemarle Sound began this week when a Nor folk contracting firm which is to handle the north half of the span work started erecting several office and work shpp buildings on the, Sandy Point terminal site. Piling, will begin, to arrive almost any day. now, highway department engineers' said yesterday, and the arrival of) other material is looked for also be-' fore th* week is out. } In connection with the latter fact; announcement was made on Monday, that* freight shipments would be handled adjacent to Plymouth on the, aSlAtej&j&ye side instead of around! hefeim at first planned. Failure on, the part of the Norfolk’ Southern railroad to get consent to run s' short spur out over the local bay waters caused this last change in plans, It ins said. Bjr it Edenton will lose pat as the clearing house for the bridge materials and, also, in the matter of much anticipated local laboring employment. _ Open House Sunday At St Anne’s Church Father Gross, pastor of St Anne’s l Catholic Church, announces open j house st the new addition of the J i everybody is cordially ffivited- County Commissioners Start Machinery For Special Election On ABC Liquor I —r~ : r ® Rotarians Beat Lions In Donkey Game; 1-0 *iTii"|-|M Tii ' 1,, ( | ~ROTARY Bois~ ~ i ffasSBHI r ;• ■ ■ ■ ••••>>'• jH JOHN W. GRAHAM Mr. Graham, one of the youngest members of the Eden ton Rotary Club, was elected president of the Club st the an nual election held Thursday. He will take over his new duties July 1. JOHN W. GRAHAM HEADS ROTARY New Beard of Directors Also Elect ed; John A. Holmes Again Named Secretary Election of officers kept local Ro tarians busy at their regular lunch eon last week. John W. Graham, who has been serving as vice presi dent, was elected president for the ensuing year to succeed the present president, N. K. Rowell. Mr. Gra ham and W. D. Holmes were con ceded the two candidates for the pre sidency as they received the highest votes. Unfortunately, however, the vote for each was a tie, whereupon Mr. Holmes bowed gracefully and withdrew leaving the subsequent rat ification ballot a unanimous one for Mr. Graham. The new president will take charge as is annually customary in July. A new Board of Directors was also chosen, five candidates being voted for, the rule being that the candidate receiving the most votes should be named as the club vice president. This honor fell to the club’s newest member, William Jones. The other directors named were O. H. Brown,' L. C. Burton, Earl Good win and M. W. Jackson. John A. Holmes was again named secretary and W. D. Holmes will per form another year as sergeant at arms, C. E. Kramer was picked as the club delegate to the district conven tion and Mr. Graham as alternate. The programe at today’s meeting will be in charge of Parson Ashby. Chowan High Uses New Auditorium Over anxious to hold at least part of commencement exercises in the | new school building Chowan High School class day exercises were ! postponed from Monday night until | Wednesday night, with the music ! recital scheduled to be held Fridqy j night. Graduation exercises will be ! held tonight (Thursday) as original ly planned, when Uoyd Griffin, sec retary of tiie State School Commis sion, will make the principal address, j Seats have been installed in the ' auditorium and the only hitch Wed -1 nesday morning was the uncertalh ' ity of lights. However, it was hoped that current would be turned on, if only temporarily, so that the exer cises could be held in the new build ing. The baccalaureate sermon was preached by Rev. C. Aylett Ashby in Ballard’s Bridge Church on Sunday night, when the bnikbng was packed, with even standing room at a prem ium. The program was very pleas ingly interspersed with special music I by Mrs. Gordon Blow and her very pfficient girls’ glee club. | ANNUAL MEETING HELD The annual meeting of the Cupola i House Association was held at the Cupola House Wednesday afternoon -$> I Unique Entertainment j. Draws Record Crowd; Much Laughter GRAHAM“STARS” Earnhardt Makes Paul Revere Ride To Score Only Run of Game Playing before one of the largest crowds ever to assemble on Hicks Field, members of the Lions and Rotary Clubs on Tuesday night fur nished plenty of entertainment in a game of donkey baseball in which the Rotarians, underdogs, won by a l to 0 score. The game was played under floodlights and up to time of going tp press no demand had been made for return of the admission price on the grounds of lack of en tertainment. Gate receipts netted $167.40, which by no means is a true gauge of the crowd due to lack of policing to prevent scaling the fence in the darkness. Os this amount 40 per cent will be divided equally between the Lions and Rotarians to be U3ed in their respective programs. The game was a scream from start to finish, with the Goodwin brothers, Caleb and Eari, on ths mound * for their respective clubs. John Graham tried to stop them back of the plate for the Rotarians, and George Dail, who is used to stopping folks, was the Lions’ back stop. Every man on both teams featured in one respect or another, but Johp Graham possibly furnished; ’ tiie most laughs when a donkey sent 1 . bftn sprawling head first enroute to first base. Doc Griffin, as a pinch ' hitter, would have made a base hit had he been able to lift his leg over : the donkey, but failed miserably. 1 . Parson Ashby all diked out in a [ Prince Albert coat, Scotch hat and 1 | red necktie played a brilliant game 1 I in center field, as did Lloyd Burton ■ and Oscar Brown in the left and , right wings. Beanie White played : first base very well when he could 1 keep his donkey pointed in the right direction. Spec Jones and Jimmie ■ Earnhardt played errorless ball on second and third base. J. Edwin Bufflap lost much of his pep as a 1 shortstop and at one stage of the game two donkeys were on hand to 1 make fielding somewhat easier. Mil- 1 lard Bond substituted for Oscar * Brown after the latter failed to * clear the rear end of a donkey and 1 was shaken up considerably. t \ Bill Privott, used to arguing, con- ] vinced a number of'the donkeys that 1 they should leave first base and ' made most of the put-outs for the * Lions. West Leary, another six : footer, made it hard to pass second 1 base, while Guy Hobbs at third base j made a costly error allowing the t only run. J. Frank White, Jr., was { mighty glad the Rotary sluggers i didn’t hit many balls down his way 1 because his donkey wasn’t much in- < terested in what was going on and 1 possibly needed a little dynamite to 1 make him go anywhere. Clarence 1 (Continued on Page Five) : AT COLERAIN 1.*.. .i. i hhih GOV. CLYDE R. HOST Governor Hoey will deliver the commencement address to the graduation class of Coforatn High School on Friday nighL May 14. Tkit newspaper is dress lated in the territory where Advertisers will realise good ressdts. $1.25 Per Year “Wet” and “Dry” Issue May Be Settled In Next 50 Days LAW EXPLAINED Large Social Security Cost Prompted Com missioners to Act Preliminary action ultimately des tined to make of Chowan a “wet” county or permit its continuance as an illegalized one, was taken by the County Commissioners on Monday when they voted formally and unani mously to take advantage of the re cently enacted statute privileging a liquor referendum as to whether an ABC store should be established within the commonwealth’s confines, presumably in Edenton. R. P. Badham, chairman of the county board of elections which will select an election date, acted in ac cordance immediately and has writ ten the Attorney General for detailed information as to the working of the new act as to a time for bringing the issue to a vote in this county. Local interpretation of the act is that around 50 days must elapse be tween the board’s action and the elec tion, which, if concurred in by the Attorney General would make it pos sible to vote on the subject some time around July 1, or as Tuesdays are usually election days, on say June 28 or July 6, but nothing de finite as to this has been settled upon. The commissioners acted on their own initiative and without much fan fare of trumpets. They have under stood that petitions calling for the election have been prepared and have been partially signed, and they have perhaps, expected their presentation at twe previous monthly meetings. And as they have not been forth coming j6SoSn,on their own initiative was decided upon and without any preparatory agreement so to do. It would be absurd to say the com missioners were actuated in their de cision with the liquor question solely in mind. A much greater quandry, centering, as always about the great est bugaboo of life, money, has found itself inseparably interwoven in the matter. Os course, the board was frank in its avowals that, legalized or not, liquor is dispensed in Chowan with the utmost freedom and with scant prevention by the authorities. So it will not do to say that a vote is being called merely to make of Chowan a formally “wet” or a formally “dry” county. In that the commissioners have no interest fur ther than to take a step which will either legalize what is now an illicit traffic or prove to the world Chowan prefers an illicit trade. Nor are the commissioners willing to avow the illicit or bootleg trade of the present can be stopped. They know it should be, is their position, just as they know it hasn’t bee.n. But Chowan county is confronted with an old age or social security penalization from now on amounting to, as is surmised, something like $30,000 a year. This will have to be raised in some way, by direct extra taxation or by revenue from some other source. That the new' ABC re ferendum act and the social securi ty act passed side by side at the hands of the state law mill, is be sides the point. That Chowan will have to raise $30,000 a year for its old folks and can get much of it from ABC store profits, is the point, and was considered frankly by the com missioners. The new law sets forth that the state shall receive 7 per cent of all gross ABC sales but that “all net profits go to the county except where 1935 or 1987 local lawa, (and there are none here) of which there are a number, allow cities to share in the liquor profits.” No estimate as to what Chowan’s share of such profits will be, of course, can be made, for no one knows how much buying there would be. The operation of the new law is worthy of mention. It provides first for a special election upon the ap peal of 15 per cent of the registered voters or upon the direct demand of the county commissioners, as was done in this instance. In calling this special election “the board of elections most give twenty days public notice prior to the open tag of the registration books, and the registration books must remain open, for the same period of time, prior to the ligpor election as is required for them to remain open for a regular election, or a 15 day period new (Continued on
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