'■ /mmmmmrn ftM* In tkm columns wW in of local and county news eat eew^osiwjuft Volume IV—Number 24. Conger, McMullan, Bond Named Heads Os C. Os C* Other Officers Picked at Reorganization Mfcetiitaf FUND ASSURED Mayor Gets Keyman Post While Bond Wffl Handle Finances Permanent organization of the Chamber of Commerce was effected at a Court House gathering of the organization last Thursday night, and immediately afterward and since the body has been making itself felt in several town and county ways. Joseph H. Conger, who had been serving as acting president, was given the real job of chieftain for a ' year and Mayor Jack McMullan, who got the chamber reorganization started, was named as secretary of the body at a SSO a month salary, and Millard F. Bond was picked as treasurer. W. D. Pruden, W. S. Privott and John W. Graham will be the body’s vice presidents, and the chamber’s executive committee, the working part of the organization will be made up of C. E. Kramer, W. W. Byrum, Julien Wood, J. L. Wiggins, E. W. Spires, Mrs. J. A. Moore, W. M. Wilkins and J. Edwin Bufflap. In addition to the reorganization election and selections of McMullan and Bond the latter, as acting secre tary earlier in the meeting, reported that the intensive membership drive of last week had brought but one downright refusal to join, but four others who asked for time to consider the proposition, and about 60 or so promises. The cash return from the „ campaign while not .up to that figure gave confident indica tion that at least SI,OOO would be put in the treasury before the next meeting. At the time The Herald went to press Mr. Bond reported the actual cash in hand was $826 with more than enough promised to reach the goal of SI,OOO as a working fund. A number have promised to join, but for some reason or other the money has not been paid to the canvassers or else the canvasser has not made a report to Mr. Bond. In this connection Mr. Bond is very anxious to complete his report on the membership drive and desires to make an urgent appeal to all who have promised to join the organiza tion to send checks to him even if they are not solicited. Those who have joined and paid their membership fees follow: Edenton Cotton Mills, (P. S. Mc- Mullan, Richard Elliott, J. W. Cates) Leary Bros. Storage Co., J. G. Wood, Goodwin’s Quality Store, Ward’s Shoe Shop, Ziegler & Son, Ed Habit, Habit Transfer Co., Will Bunch Garage, Jenkins Motor Co., Chowan Motor Co., Gulf Service Station, Tri angle Service Station, Bridge Turn Filling Station, Jordan Yates’ Filling Station, M. W. Jackson Dairy, Wilkes - Veneer Co., Floars Electric Co., Tay lor Theatre, Leggett & Davis, The Chowan Herald, Bank of Edenton, (W; H. Gardner, E. L. Wells, Jr., George Hoskins) Burton’s Service Station, Albemarle Peanut Co., S. Ganderson & Son, Hobbs & Moran, Edenton Ice Co., The Texas Co., Badham Bros., Preston’s, J. A. Cur ran, J. H. Holmes Co., T. Wallace Jones, Sutton Drug Store, C. E. By rum, Campen’s Jewelry Store, Chap pell’s Restaurant, Quinn Furniture Co„ Byrum Bros. Hardware Off., W. D. Holmes, C. A. Ashby, E. R. Conger, E. L. Gross, W. R. Horton, C. E. Kramer, J. W. Davis, D. M. Warren, M. F. Bond, Jr.,’W. W. By rum, G. B. Potter, Fred P. Wood, Albert Byrum, J. A. MooTe, A. S. Smith,/Gordon Blow, W. P. Jones, J. H. Conger, E. C. White, W. D. Holmes, Jr., W. I. Cozzens, Graham Byrum, J. H. McMullan, N. L. Ward, J. M. Jones, J. N. Pruden, C. M. Hicks, John W. Graham, Julien Wood, M. L. Bunch, J. A. Bunch, W. D. Pruden, C. D. Stewart, W. S. Privott, Herbert R. Leary. ' 1 All others who join in this badly needed organization will’be mention- , ed in subsequent issues of The Herald. The meeting last week produced a lively and healthy discussion of local matters. Announcement was made , at Hie gathering of the forthcoming visit of State Highway D. Collin Barnes and the coßnty commissioners from adjacent chat‘atou^road 11 conditions*Ld their possible improvement It wtt toe concensus of optiwa l /Continued on Pare Twelve) THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE' INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY ►- —--- ■ r Sheriff Chalks Up One Day Record In Collection Os Taxes Establishing a record for one day’s collection of taxes in Cho wan County, surely during his term of Sheriff J. A. Bunch on Saturday exacted around $5,500 from taxpayers for their 1036 taxes. What makes this amount more imposing is the fact that it did not include the larger tax payers, but for the moot part was made of the smaller taxpayers. Both the Sheriff and his wife, act ing as his assistant, were kept busy until near the midnight hour, and at times as many as a dozen were in the office to be waited upon. In his report to the County Commissioners Monday Sheriff Bunch reported $6,044.74 collect ed during May which brings the total amount of 1936 taxes col lected to date to $53,656.87. The commissioners were grate ified at the splendid Saturday col lection, but still are scratching their heads when it is taken into consideration that the total a mount of taxes on the books for 1936 amounts to $84,564.00, leav ing about 37 per cent yet to be collected. HORTICULTURAL PROJECTBY WPA Beautification of County Grounds Will Provide MucfilJxtra Labor The diversity of WPA projects aimed to provide labor for the needy was well shown on Monday when the County Commissioners approved the expenditure of SSO as its share of a total labor expense of $6,014.40 for the horticultural beautification of the Court House grounds or the property surrounding other public buildings, such as the Edenton High School or the new school at Cross Roads. G. Perry, county project supervisor, in the absence of Mrs. C. P. Wales, brought the subject up before the Commissioners, stating that it was desired to provide em ployment for needy persons, “most ly women,” who will plant and care for small flowers around the public buildings. No money is being set aside for materials further than a small sum for rakes and hoes, but the government has agreed to outlay $5,964.40 as its share of the im provement project. The Commissioners voted to ap prove the project, which was done! early this week. Steak Supper Tonight At Hotel For Masons Edenton Masons will gather in Hotel Joseph Hewes tonight where they will ,be served a steak supper. The affair is the result of an at tendance contest of Unanimity Lodge recently held which provided for the losing side to bear the expense of the supper. The supper will be served at 7 o’clock and every Mason is urged to be present on time. W. Jim Daniels will be in charge of a short program in connection with the event. W. M. Wilkin*, master of the lodge, ha* called off the regular meeting of the lodge tonight on ac count of the supper. Tax Complaints Will Be Heard June 21st Chowan County Commissioners will sit in special session on Monday morning, June 21, to hear any com plaints relative to property valuation. There, was no new assessment made this year, but an opportunity will be given any who so desire to register a complaint. The meeting will be held at the Court Hopae. ALLEN WILL AUDIT BOOKS A. T. Allen, public accountant of Raleigh, on Tuesday night was swarded the contract to audit the books of the Town of Edenton. Mr. h”. Committ Hearing i Proponents of a full time health » service for Chowan County went to i the mat with the County Commis sioners at their meeting Monday, . but despite very forceful arguments ) and presentation of figures the only I assurance that the plan would be . adopted was the promise that it r would be given consideration when , the new budget is made up at the > July meeting. I First to speak for the plan was i R. C. Holland, who reiterated the benefits of the service as compared with what the county is now receiv r ing and for which the county would be asked to appropriate $2,500 of a I total cost of $16,860. Two other ’ counties, Gates and Perquimans, would be included in the set-up, the former being asked to pay SI,BOO and the latter $2,000. The remaind l er of the cost would be borne by the State Board of Health and Federal agencies. Chowan’s quota is somewhat above the other two counties which is due to the fact that the district office would be lo cated in Edenton. It was brought out that the plan would include a whole time nurse, secretary, trained sanitary inspec tor in the counties, a whole-time ; health officer, a dental clinic for I school children under 13 years, list i vital statistics, furnish health certi : ficates for waitress and servants, . conduct anti-venereal clinics and pro vide continuous examination of all . school children, particularly in ps . gard to'teeth, tonsils and tubercu > losis. For all this, and possibly , other phases of health service, it . was said, the county would pay only SI,OOO more than at present. , Mr. Holland pleaded with the , Commissioners to adopt the plan • and in closing his remarks he said: I “It is not a matter of whether or i not the county can afford to adopt the plan, but rather can it afford not to adopt it?” 1 A number of other spokesmen - supported the idea which included : Dr. J. A. Powell, Dr. W. I. Hart, Jr., . Dr. W. S. Griffin, Dr. L. P. Williams, W. W. Byrum, and John W. Graham. 1 Dr. M. P. Whichard in his report 1 to the Commissioners said that if ‘ the service provided a full-time health officer, he approved the idea ! and that it was his purpose to op -1 pose any progress of the county. The idea of a complete county i health service was inaugurated at a 1 recent meeting of the Lions Club 1 when a representative of the State ! Board of Health explained the plan. 1 The Lions immediately supported the : movement and similar action has : since been taken by the County Board of Health and the Rotary i Club. Town Council, too, on Tues day night approved the plan. 1 .Dr. Powell in his remarks said that the present county tax rate for ; health is 8 cents and 10 cents for charity, which nets in the neighbor hood of $13,000, and according to his figures the county is now spending only between $5,000 and $6,000 for this phase of expense. He also inti mated that under the social security program, which goes into effect July 1, the county home would no doubt practically go out of business. The service, he said, would take over all the duties of the present part time health officer except care of inmates of the jail and jounty home and suggested paying per visit in -1 stead of a regular salary, which he said would be a considerable saving. D. M. Warren, chairman of the Board of Commissioners, briefly enumerated expenses which will face them and was especially con cerned about the amount the county will be called upon to pay under the social security act. He explained that there are about $30,000 of un collected taxes, the amount antici pated from this sum having been already spent. W. H. Winborne, a member of the i Board, commented that the Com : missioners wouldn’t mind raising the i tax rate if those who sponsor the i health service would guarantee to collect taxes as they come due. A considerable amount of time was devoted to the discussion of the , proposed health program, but the ’ commissioners felt reluctant to ap prove it until the new budget has been made, sad made their decision accordingly, • • •<’ ‘ ’ if* * > , T