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Volume IV.—Number 37 ~
Local School Remodeling;
Destined To Start Shortly
Architect Shows Plans
At Board Meeting
Tuesday
S7O,ONCOST
Spacious Auditorium to
Be First Built; Rest of
Work Next Spring
Definite plans looking toward the
Imilding improvement of, the Eden
ton school building were formulated
at a special meeting of the town
board of trustees Tuesday after
noon. Frank Benton, of Wilson, the
architect, who has been at work on
the remodeling program, submitted
a number of blue prints showing
, what he has in mind, and these ex
cited much interest.
Perhaps, the most important
•change, work on which will be be
gun this fall and bids for which will
soon be advertised, has to do with
the large new auditorium for the
school, to be erected immediately in
the rear of the present building and,
of course, connecting with it.
. At present the old auditorium on
the second boor, which will eventual
ly be done away with, of course,
seats but around 375. The new,
spacious auditorium will take care of
1,000 persons, will have a special
projection room for the exhibition of
educational films, and will be sheath
ed with a 20 year guaranteed compo
sition and slate roof.
The proposed auditorium, one of
the largest in. this section' of the
Albemarle, together with the great
flbor space at the new National
•Guard'‘armory will make it possible
for the town to at any time bid for
and entertain conventions of con
siderable magnitude, ajri in, this re
gard*? outside of the school side of
'thtf*feit*4s©n- hi ■ ah«&nportant
Edenton innovation.
Mr. Benton explained that under
PWA regulations the prevailing scale
•of wages must be paid and that no
worker shall receive less than 25
cents an hour for a 40 hour week,
but that the labor need hot be, as;
under the WPA, entirely relief em
ployment. The board passed a re
solution in conformity with this.
In further explanation Mr. Benton
stated, and again the board gave ap
proval, that $31,500 had been taken
over from the government, or was
available from that source, through
(preferred PWA channels, which to
gether with Chowan’s $39,000 re
serve from its recently sold bond is
sue, would make a sum sufficient to
do all the desired work of improve
ment.
A change in the specifications of
recent origin in" order that they
should conform with the PWA con
struction regulations, might delay,
said Mr. Benton, advertising for bids,
but in ten days or two weeks this
would all be arranged for, and early
in October work on the auditorium
might start.
This last will be the first remodel
ing job tackled at the school inas
much as this construction will in no
. sense interfere with the school term. |
The other improvements will be held
over until after the cold spell of
winter, but will be started thereafter
as soon as feasible.
It will include a change in the
basement of the present structure
so as to provide three additional
class rooms there, two on the boy’s
side of the basement and one on the
girl's. The present reading room
will be done away with to clear the
way for a hall entrance from the
front straight through into the audi
. torium proper. The reading room,
.much larger than at present, will be
' laid out in front of the present
auditorium.
. Toilet facilities for both sexes will
be located on each floor instead of
a8 at'present in the basement alone.
Also, there will be large shower and
locker rooms for athletics and gymn
astics under the new auditorium, and,
of course, as has been told before, a
new heating plant, long needed, will
be installed. The old entrance steps
in the front will be replaced with
stone risers of a wider tread.
FOUR TYPHOID CASES
* According to Dr. M. P. Whichard’s
report as county health officer, dur
ing August there were three whoop
ing cough cases, one malaria and
was
typhoid inoculation.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TffE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
1° FAIR MANAGER j
W?.'
■B f • n I
With the State Fair back in
the hands of the State, Dr., Dor
ton has stressed the emphasis to
be placed on'agricultural exhibits
at the exposition to be held in
Raleigh October 12-16 which will
minor Tar Heel progress.
Plans Whipped Into
Shape For Postmaster
Convention Sept. 17th
Plans are rapidly being whipped
into shape for the district post
masters’ convention to be held in
Edenton Friday, September 17, ac
cording to Postmaster C. E. Kramer,
who says the local office force will
make all arrangements and are en
tering heartily into the affair to
make it g.'UbcctSs.
The meeting will be held in the
Parish House, where dinner will also
be served by the ladies of St. Mary's
Guild at 7 P. M.
Outstanding visitors for the meet
ing will be Congressman Lindsey
•Warren, Wythe M. Peyton, of Ashe
ville, president of the State Post
masters’ Association; Paul R.
Yountz, of Charlotte, as well as
postmasters from 14 counties in the
district. W. T. Culpepper, of Eliza
beth City, -and Mrs. Louella Swin
dell, of Swan Qaurter, have also ex
pressed their intention to attend.
The postmasters will be welcomed
by Mayor J. H. McMullan, as well as
D. M. Warren, chairman of the
County Board of Commissioners.
Postmaster C. E. Kramer and
Harry Ward, of Gatesville, are
directors for the district and are do
ing everything possible to have every
postmaster in the district present
for the meeting.
ABC PERSONNEL
NOW HAS LUPTON
Associate Publisher Ac
cepts to Serve With
Badham and Bond
After, four previous failures,
Chowan county completed the per
sonnel- of its ABC supervising board
on Tuesday, when the joint appoint
ing bodies met and selected Hector
Lupton, associate publisher of The
Chowan Herald, as the third mem
ber of the board to serve until Au-
I gust 1, 1938. Mr. Lupton accepted
immediately and has been sworn in
and signed the required bond.
Out of an appointing membership
of- fourteen who were present at
Tuesday’s meeting Mr. Lupton re
ceived 9 votes, with four of the re
maining votes cast for Raymond
Mansfield, Edenton barber. Miles
S. Elliott, former postmaster, sub
mitted a written application for the
job through County School Board
chairman S. E. Morris, and in the
final tally it was found he had re
ceived one vote.
Mr. Lupton’s third membership
term is for one year, but inasmuch
as J. B. Webb, Yeopim section farm
er, had been named for the berth
last month and had temporarily ac
cepted, the Lupton appointment was
for the unexpired term of Webb,
which makes the term one month
and seven days short of a year.
As 18 known the other ABC board
members are R. P. Badham. chair-
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina.
TRIANGLE HEAD
INITIATES MOVE
FOR TOWN GUffiE
Miss Audrey Rowell to
Show Visitors His
torical Points
ALREADY AT IT
No Word~Yet on WPA
Project For Official
Guide
Acting on his initiative because of
a procrastinating interest on the
part of the community as a whole,!
Lynn S. Byrum, of the Triangle Fill
ing Station, effected a pleasing ar-j
rangement last Friday whereby Miss
Audrey Rowell, daughter of Farm
Agent N. K. Rowell, agreed to co
operate with him as a sort of offi
cial guide for tourists eager to be
shown about the local points of his
toric interest. Miss Rowell took hold
over the last week-end.
1 Ever since spring, when the great
influx of traveling visitors began to
make themselves apparent in town en
route to and from the Fort Raleigh
celebration, there has been much agi
tation for some one to be officially
designated as a guiding help for
tourists who wish to have points
shown them and explained a bit more
at length than in the little folders
that have heretofore been given out.
Mayor McMullan and the local Cham
ber of Commerce have keenly realiz
ed this need and have sought to have
the WPA meet the situation by putt
ing on official paid guides. A pro
ject to this extent has been submitted
to the state director of the WPA but
so far nothing has come of it.
Os late, especially over recent
week-ends, motoring parties going
or returning from Fort Raleigh have
literally swamped the town. A con
servation estimate yesterday was that
15,0Q£) such visitors have made Eden
ton’ an objective since the pageant
at Manteo started. It was on the
strength of such visitations that Mr. |
Byrum took the bull by the horns ■
last week and acted on his own res
ponsibility. I
Miss Rowell, a very personable |
young lady and well versed in thej
historic lore of this section, is aj
graduate of the University of North j
Carolina, where she specialized in
dramatics, having participated in
several amateur theatrical produc-j
tions. Early this summer she went 1
to lowa for a time to take over the
active details of a little theatre move- j
ment there, but found the interest
scant and came back home.
It was natural, therefore, that
when Mr. Byrum learned of her re
turned presence in town he should
check up with her on his new guid
ing plan. He says that hardly a day
has gone by but that a score, or more
automobile parties have, when stop
ping for gas or oil, sought some in
formation from him as to where
things could be seen and how they
could be best explained. He has had
to rely on the little “Fourteen Point”
folders which he has been giving out,
and which he is soon to augment in a
new style.
But with Miss Rowell available at
all times xMr. Byrum feels he will find
the situation greatly accentuated,
and surely beneficial to the town as a
whole.
Mrs. Badham Resigns
As Member Edenton
Board Os Trustees
Mrs. John Badham resigned on
Tuesday as a member of the Edenton
school board, and her successor will
be elected Tuesday at a joint meet
ing of Town Council and the Eden
ton- Board of Trustees. Mrs. Bad
ham gave as reason for her resigna
tion that due to being away much of
the time especially during the sum
mer, she was unable to attend meet
ings of the Board and properly at
tend to the duties resting upon her
as a member. Her resignation was
accepted.
At the forthcoming meeting it will ‘
also be necessary to re-elect two!
other members of the town board!
whpse terms expire in 1937. These!
incumbents are President Thomas j
Cheats and -W. D. Pruden, both of
whom will undoubtedly be reelected
if they desire to continue in office.
ROTARY MEETS TODAY
The weekly luncheon of the Eden
ton ‘Rotary Club “Ml be held at 1
o'clock J2>day tor Hie Pariah House.
called off dae to an intercity meet
ing held Monday in Elizabeth City.i
RIG BUND SALE
OCCASIONS MUCH
Ratification
County Credit Reestab
lished Through Dis
posal of Securities
S9O,OOOISSUE
Outstanding Anticipa
tion Notes to Be
Lifted
Probably as much gratification as
anything else that occurred at Tues- j
1 day’s meeting of the County Commis- ]
| sioners was evinced by the announce-:
ment by County Counsel W. D. Pru- J
den that the $90,000 issue of Chowan j
bonds ordered last summer to pro- !
vide for the new school at Cross!
Roads and to aid in improvements
and additions to the local graded
school, and which had been tempora
rily supplanted by a series of is
suances of notes of anticipation, had!
at last been sold, and at a rate of i
interest satisfactory.
The sale of the bonds, Mr. Pru-;
den said in supplementing his an
, nouncement, had been approved by \
• the Local Government Commission,
. which is the state body through!
• which such matters must pass. The l
, commissioners immediately gave
! their unanimous approval also.
The bond sale, of course, will lift j
■ the anticipation notes when next due j
■ on September 15. The notes are at
s present being owned by the Branch |
■ Bank and Trust Company, of Wilson,!
■ and the Bank of Edenton, which ad- j
i vanced the $90,000 on them at a 1
; rate of interest starting at » per i
cent and running on four occasions j
; during the past year to an interest j
. rate of but 4 1-2 per cent.
The bonds proper will be taken
over by R. S. Dickson and Company,
; of Charlotte, N. C., and the Inter
ning. Securities Corporatiqn, the
, first $24,000 of maturities 6'f which
will only ■be taxed 5 per cent, with
I the remaining $66,000 of maturities;
! assessed at a 4 1-2 per cent interest j
• rate, plus the usual perfunctory pre-
I mium, in this case amounting to!
, $20.75.
! The low interest rate asked on
, ! the sale of the bonds is viewed by:
j local banking interests as a re-!
establishment of Chowan’s credit, 1
somewhat impaired during the re- j
cent economic depression by many j
;! large bond defaults.
Word of the bond sale was emOrac- 1
j ed in a letter to Mr. Pruden from W. j
E. Easterling, secretary of the local j
j government commission, in which hei
; enclosed copy of a communication he!
I had forwarded to Dickson and Com- j
pany confirming the sale and saying
that every effort would be made to;
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Louis - Farr Fight
Pictures At Taylor
Monday - Tuesday
There is a lot of comment about
the recent Joe Louis-Tommy Farr
fight as to who actually won the
fight.* Many heard the fight over j
the radio and those who thought •
Farr should have won will have aj
chance to make their own decision j
after seeing pictures of the affair!
which will be shown at the Taylor j
Theatre, Edenton, Monday and Tues- i
day.
This will be the first appearance,
of the championship title bout to be j
i shown in this section and will no
doubt draw large crowds. In con
nection with the picture manager
: Jimmy Earnhardt has booked what
is said to be the best feature come
dy of the year, “Topper,” featuring
Constance Bennett and Gary Grant.
Rev. H. K. King To Be
Methodist Revivalist
Rev. H. K. King, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of Elizabeth
City, will preach at the evangelistic j
meeting to be held in the Methodist i
Church this year. The meeting will I
i begin October 10, and continue for a j
j week or ten days.
j Rev. Mr. King is an excellent ’
1 ; speaker and though still a compara
i tively young man, has had a very
wide range of experience, having!
1 lived in five foreign countries. Dur-|
■ ing his first year in Elizabeth City I
he has been very popular, and will
bring to Edenton an inspiring mes
sage and influence.
MASONS MEET TONIGHT
i The regular Masonic meeting will
■ be held tonight at 8' o’clock. All
members an urged to attend.
New Health Officer Tells
Nature Os Bi-County Work
CHOWAN'S ROAD
PROJECTS ADDED
TO STATE SYSTEM |
Highway Commission Approved Road j
to Bridge and One In
Rocky Hock
Cause for gratification to the *
County Commissioners, as well as
citizens in general, was a letter from j
Ina L. Ferrell, secretary of the State j
I Highway and Public Works Commis- j
| sion, sent to Maurice L. Bunch, clerk 1
jto the County Commissioners, that,
j the highway body had approved ad- j
j dition to the highway system of i
! Chowan’s road projects Nos. 1 and
|3, but that project 2 had not been
I approved at this time.
At a meeting some time ago;
when commissioners from several j
counties met in Edenton with D.
j Collin Barnes, highway commissioner
i for the district, to present most i
i needed road problems, Chowan pre- j
j sented only three projects. No. 1;
I was a connecting road to the new!
! Albemarle Sound bridge road, which j
was agreed was the county’s princi-!
! pal objective. Project No. 2 was;
j the Chinquapin road, which leads:
from the Virginia Road back to j
| Route 17, a few miles from Edenton j
lon the Edenton-Hertford highway.!
; This was not approved.
I Project No. 3 was a road through!
j Rocky Hock and this was approved
| by the Commission.
j Scout Organization
Nearing Completion
Edenton’s Boy Scout oaganization j
has about been completed following a;
meeting held Friday when George,
1 Capehart was approved as scoutmas- j
ter, and William Privott was named j
. chairmr.n of the troop committee, ’
1 and John H. Holmes chairma# of the |
! court of honor. The joint -meeting
;of committees from the American
| Legion, Lions and Rotary Clubs,
j which organizations have been in- 1
; terested in reviving the Boy Scout
! movement in Edenton, did not enter
into selecting the scout troop and.
| court of honor, feeling that the \
j scoutmaster and two chairmen would
!be better qualified to make selec
j tions.
Three members compose the troop (
| committee while arvy number may be
! named on the court of honor,
j Mr. Capehart has agreed to accept
I the scoutmastership provided he can
1 j get proper cooperation from thS two
1 j committees and citizens in general
! and will very shortly meet with his
advisors to formulate plans and dis
-1; cuss the .situation.
-DOUBLE FUNERAL
IFOR ETHERIDGES
Former Town Collector
j And Wife Follow j
Closely In Death
’! . . |
I Probably two of the saddest inci-,
! dents to strike the communal heart
I of Edenton occurred last week when
j news hurriedly flew about town that ■
I Mrs. Thomas J. Etheridge, 76, of
: Oakum street, had died suddenly, to
ibe followed 36 hours later by the
announcement that her husband. Mr. ‘
Etheridge, who had served faithfully
and well for a long term as town tax
collector, had passed away, also. Up
to the causes responsible for their
fatal illnesses neither had been re-!
ported in bad health, and their
deaths came as a great surprise and
saddening blow to the family, rela
tives and the town in general. j-
On Friday double funeral services
were held for the stricken pair. Rev.
E. L. Wells officiated at them in the
i presence of a crowded assemblage of
! mourners in the Baptist Church, one :
j of the first double rites of a similar!
nature held here in many years. In
terment followed later when the lov-!
I ing couple, who had lived together;
i through 54 years of happy married -
, I life were laid side by side in Beaver
j Hill cemetery.
. Members of the local lodge of
■j Odd Fellows, of which Mr. Etheridge
[ was a long time member, acted as
honorary pall bearers at the funeral,
and prominent citizens of Edenton at
tested to their fondnesses for the
Etheridges by serving in an active
[ way as pall .bearers.. For Mrs. Ethe
[ ridge those so serving were C, T.
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$1.25 Per Year
Dr. F. H. Garriss Makes
Statement Relative to
Services Offered
i PURELY - ADVISORY
| Patients Not Treated
But Free Vaccinations
j May Be Secured
| Dr. F. H. Garriss. of Lewiston,
! health officer under the newly de
signated Bertie-Chowan health ser
i vice department, was in Edenton on
Tuesday arranging office plans and
t outlining the work which will be
: taken over by the new bureau. The
; bi-county office has already been
| opened in the Bank of Edenton build
i ing under the secretaryship of Miss
| Frye Pettus, of Edenton, and with
Miss Ruby Lentz continuing as of
; ficial nurse.
! Before he left town Dr. Garriss is
-1 sued a statement to the editor of The
Herald in which he explained just
j what the new service would be, part
l icularly stating that it was in no
sense a treatment bureau, but rather
; a bureau for advice in all sorts of
| medical or sanitation problems which
! may come up. The office, he said,
- will be open every day from 9
I o’clock until 5 o’clock, and Dr. Gar
! riss personally will be on hand here
[ every Monday, Wednesday' and Fri
day afternoons as well as Saturday
mornings.
Dr. Garriss’ statement, which
should be of interest to everyone,
is given in full as follows:
I “As this county has not had a
I whole time Health Department be
! fore, undoubtedly some of you are
. anxious to know what services you
j will receive from us. First, we want
! to explain that a modern health de
! partment is not a treatment agency.
| We wilfc not tree* anyone.mr any di
sease except Syphilis and in that
[ case only those who are referred to
us by the Welfare Department or
1 one of the physicians. The chief
function of a modern health depart
ment is prevention and we consider
the treatment of Syphilis a pre
| vention measure. A good definition
of Public Health is “An agency for
the prevention of sickness and the
improvement of the mental and phy
sical condition of the people.”
“We consider the best method we
have today for accomplishing the
above is the teaching of “Health
Education.” Therefore we shall
exert the greater part of our efforts
toward teaching this subject. Also
we shall center our activities upon
the children of the county, for they
will be the mothers and fathers of
tomorrow. To begin with, every
child in the first five grades will
receive a thorough physical exami
nation. Os course, there are many
children whose parents carry them to
their physician at least once a year
for such examinations, but there are
many who are not able to give their
children this service and others who
j do not yet believe such service to be
! necessary. In making these exami
i nations we will locate children who
i have defective hearts, tuberculosis,
| infected or enlarged tonsils, poorly
; nourished and infected teeth, etc.
All children under thirteen will have
their teeth examined by a state den
tist and if the parents are not able
to take the child to their dentist the
state dentist will do the treating.
Concerning the other defects found,
the parents will be notified and if
necessary the Health Office or nurse
will visit the home for the purpose
of discussing the child’s defect with
the parents.
j "Besides, this examination service,
numerous classroom and school talks
and demonstrations will be given and
, even some classes will be taught by
the Nurse and Health Officer. Also
their services are always at your de
mand for any occasion at which you
want some health subject discussed.
Besides our services with the child
, ren it is our duty to see that the
; school property is kept in a sanitary
i condition and that the children have
; safe water to drink. This is man
datory by the public health laws of
the state. Also, we are responsible
for the health of teachers and other
! school employees. ‘ The state law
says that these employees must have
a health certificate before they begin
teaching, issued by a licensed physi
, cian of the state. But that certifi
’! cate does not mean that the teacher
i will stay well all the year and also
> there have been instances where a
teacher’s doctor friend issued a cer
tificate when the teacher <lid net de
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