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Volume IV.—Number 38
'IT Turn Hereafter To Be
Restricted On Broad Street
Council Makes Drastic
Traffic Change on Main
Thoroughfare *
FINE
No Half Circle Swings
Allowed Between King
And Church Streets
Realizing that traffic conditions in
Edenton, and especially in the busi
ness section, is becoming acute,
Town Council at their meeting Tues
day night took initial steps to reme
dy the situation and after discussing
several phases of the problem decid
ed to prohibit U turns on Broad
Street between King and Church
Stvsets. An ordinance was subse
quently drawn up to break up the
practice which carries with it a fine
of $5 for violation.
Under the new city ruling U
turns will be affected at four inter
sections, as follows: King and Broad
Streets, Eden and Broad Streets,
Queen and Broad Streets and Church
and Broad Streets. Hence drivers of
automobiles will be obliged to travel
to Water Streets 1 or Gale Street here
after in order to make a U turn in
the down town se'Ction.
The new ruling will go into effect
just as soon as proper signs or
watftfngs can be placed at the four
intersections.
The matter of U turns was
brought before the Council body by
Councilman J. Edwin Bufflap, who ini
presenting the matter stated that he
realized it would cause considerable
inconvenience to motorists, but that
it was in the interest of preventing
possible loss of life or serious injury
that he favored adaption of the rule.
He especially cited the dangerous
condition at Broad and Queen Streets
where on three .there ‘ are
“largo «»rvfce statfbiw with driveways
entering from both streets. Besides
it is the intersection of Route 17,
£hus making it very dangerous to
allow U turns.
The Eden Street corner also pre
sents a dangerous aspect, it being a
very narrow street and with cars
parked on each corner results in
practically a blind corner where many
U turns have heretofore been made.
At King and Broad Streets, where
possibly most U turns have been
made, there have been several colli
sions, and very frequently, especially
on Saturdays, dangerous conditions
exist. I
Mr. Bufflap included the Broad and
Church Streets interesection in his
recommendation, stating that with
school about to open and many chil
dren going to and from school who
are obliged to cross this intersection,
he felt .that too much precaution
could not be taken in order to protect
children while on their way to and
from school.
The matter had been mentioned to
members of the board wherein com
plaints have been made that espec
ially on Saturday a large number of
motorists have been driving up and
down Broad Street, traveling for the
most part between Queen and King
Streets.
k 4The idea of making West Eden
a one-way street was dis
cussed also but it was felt that prop
erty owners on the street should
have a voice in the matter and the
Couacilmen will await a petition if
Efcfrloyment Office
Personnel Changed
Droßtic changes in the personnel
of the Edenton office of the N. C.
State Employment service were an
nounced from Raleigh yesterday.
Cyrus W. Bazemore, one-time editor
of a Windsor newspaper, who had
issrSßSt?
Philip P. Keil has been placed in
charge of the office here, Mrs. Ran
dolph Holoman, who has been so of
ficiating, having been demoted to
senior interviewer. Others who will
serve in Edenton are Wooa x nvott,
with a rank similar to Mrs. noioniaii,
Mildred Munden, tentatively named
as junior interviewer, Evelyn Rogers,
reporting clerk, and with a steno-
Tert-MT 4
transferred to the City
senior interviewed wS
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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Old Court House
All “Dressed Up”
Not for many a day has the old
Chowan Court House been as spic
and span as it has been this week
for the fall term of Superior
Court. Not a cobweb is in sight,
and tfie old rusty stove is enjoy
ing a coat of black stove polish
with an aluminum painted top.
Besides, a new crop of chairs is in
evidence aa well as new Bibles for
swearing witnesses, and to top it
all off a nice soft cushion was
placed on Judge R. Hunt Parker’s
chair, which might have been
more enjoyed on the chairs of
several fidgety attorneys facing
the stern judge.
SCHOOL OPENING
DATE ON MONDAY
Unsafe Auditorium Re-n
suits In Change For
Assembling
The Edenton City Schools will open
next week, the white schools opening
Monday, September 20th, and the col
ored schools on Thursday, September
23rd.
The procedure ot organizing the
white school will be different from
that of former years. The auditorium
can be used no more for public as
semblies, and this will necessitate a
different arrangement of assembling
and organizing on the opening day.
On Monday morning when the doors
are opened, all pupils who attended
this school last year, both elemen
tary and high school, are requested
to go , imnjediately to the room in
which they wire Enrolled last year.
Even if they were promoted they are
requested to go to their former
rooms. Promotions will begin with
the upper grades and proceed rapid
ly until all pupils have been proper
ly placed.
All pupils who are entering the
first grade for the first time are re
quested to go to the Church street
entrance and enter the ground floor
play room. From there they will be
ushered into the first grade rooms.
All pupils who are entering school
for the first time and are entering a
grade above the first are requested
to enter the front door entrance after
all former pupils hav# entered. These
beginners are asked to go to the high
school reading room and wait until
they can be registered through the
office.
All post graduates and outside pu
pils who are registering for commer
cial work are requested to go direct
to the commercial room.
Basal Textbooks will be furnished
free to all pupils in the first tel
seventh grades inclusive. High school j
textbooks may be bought or rented as
they were last year. |
The State has adopted new texts j
in Mathematics, Latin, second year]
French and Commercial Subjects, j
These will be the only changes in'
textbooks. All texts in the elemen-J
tary schools will remain the same as
last year.,
Edenton Scheduled
Entertain Tourists
‘Mayor Jack McMullan reports that
definite decision has been made by
the State to make Edenton a stop
over point in the forthcoming tour
of North Carolina by national travel
agents and editors on the afternoon
and evening of October 19. Twenty
five members of the traveling party
will be guests here over-night of W.
R. Horton, lessee of the Hotel Joseph
Hewes, and will join their associates
the next morning at Elizabeth City.
In the afternoon the entire en tour
age .will be token about Edenton and
its historic points for two hours, and
will be entertained at dinner at the
hotel at 7 o’clock. The Mayor and
the Chamber of Commerce believe
this visit will prove profitable to the
town from a publicity standpoint.
Miss Dowling Goes"To
University California
Friends will be interested to know
that Miss Meta Dowling, who for the
, past year has served as child wel
fare assistant for Chowan and Per
quimans counties, has accepted a
position with the research depart
ment of the University of California.
I Miss Dowtyag has already left for
her new location on toe west coast.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 16,1937.
POSTMASTERS TO
BE ADDRESSED BY
LINDSAY WARREN
Congressman Expected
At Convention of Of
ficial Children
fridayTstight
Dinner Gathering at
Parish House; Fine
Program
If present plans carry, Congress
man Lindsay Warem will be the
principal speaker tomorrow night at
the meeting of postmasters of the
First Congressional district, which is
to be held at the Parish House. Wythe
M. Payton, postmaster at Asheville
and president of the state association
of postmasters, is, also, expected to
be on hand and lend vocal eclat to the
gathering.
There are fourteen counties in the
First District and 125 postmasters.
Carroll E. Kramer, who is sponsoring
the meeting in cahoots with postmas
ter W. T. Culpepper, of Elizabeth!
| City, expects the whole bunch of of- j
"ficials to be present. Letters have
been sent to them all, and none have
so far indicated they will not be on
hand.
The meeting will be a sort of din
ner affair, with the meal starting at
7 o’clock. The invited guests will be
privileged to bring their wives or]
husbands, and Mr. Kramer is plann- j
ing for a large crowd. i
Following a happy entertainment
feature during the meal Mr. Warren,
if he can possibly break other en
gagements and get here, will greet
the assemblage, tell how pleased he
has been over selecting so many of i
the gatherers for appointment, and
discuss the postal laws and other]
matters that have come before him j
in Congress. Mr. Culpepper will act ]
as toastmaster at the dinner and will!
call generally on many of the guests, j
LIONS OBSERVE
LADIES’ NIGHT
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About 50 Enjoy Program Monday j
Night at Regular Meeting of
Edenton Club
About 50. Lions, their wives and a
few visitors were present at Hotel
Joseph Hewes Monday night to at- j
tend the local Lions Club ladies’ night
affair, the principal speaker for]
which was R. C. Holland, a member
of the club. A spirit of good fellow
ship prevaded the hotel lobby prior
to the dinner and all apparently en-j
joyed the evening. The program,'
however, Was cut short due to the
Lions Club being scheduled to play a
game of soft ball in the elimination ]
series.
Special! music was furnished by j
the Washboard Five and a quartet
composed of Bill Jones, Caleb Good
win, Clarence Leary and Wallace i
I Jones added to the pleasure of the ]
, evening. i
Mr. Holland, who was scheduled
! for a 30-minute speech, briefly but
j convincingly spoke on “Blind Con
] servation,” which is one of the prin
■ cipal projects adopted by the local
] Lions Club. He commented upon the
great handicap of being blind and
very ably wove into his address a
comparison of a club being blind to,
the many opportunities offered to
perform a distinct service to human
ity.
The club will not hold its regular
i meeting Monday night, a joint meet-!
ing with the Rotary Club tonight
taking the place of toe regular
meeting.
Baptists Gather At
Ballard’s Bridge
Baptist members of the Chowan
Association will meet in annual ses
sion next Tuesday and Wednesday at:
Ballards Bridge Church. Represen- j
tatives from seven counties are ex
pected to attend, -and enjoy a pro-1
gram arranged for them by Revs. W. I
D. Morris, of Elizabeth City, J. C. j
Pearce, of Shiloh, and B. B. Flora,]
of Shawboro.
The program will include speak
ing and preaching by' most every
pastor in the Association, with Rev.
J. T. Byrum, pastor of the church,
• making the initial address of wel
' come. There will be special music on
i both days, and addresses by leaders
i MASONS MEET TONIGHT
Regular meeting of Unanimity
. LodCiNo. 7, A. f. * A. M„ will be t
■ held tonight at 8 o'clock. All mem
bers are urged to be on time.
ROTARIANS MEET
WITH LIONS AT
DINNERJONIGHT
First Joint Confab of
Civic Organizations
At Parish House
MOYIESHOW
Delaware Concern Will
Exhibit Educational
Picture
Local Rotarians and Lions will
forget their soft ball differences to
night and get together at a joint
meeting-supper at the Parish House.
This will be the first time the two
civic organizations have feasted at
the same board, and an interesting
and enlivening program has been ar
ranged for the occasion.
The feast of Reason and the usual
ly excellent fodder provided by the
Parish House ladies will be at 7:15
o’clock and will take the place of the
regular Rotary luncheon today.
Presidents John W. Graham and W.
j S. Privott are making a special effort
] to have a 100 per cent attendance of
both clubs, and in addition everybody
is being urged to bring a guest.
To add interest at the joint gather
the Investors Syndicate of Dover,
Del., will exhibit a moving picture
called “The Blind Spot of Science.”
This has attracted much notice where
] it has been shown elsewhere and the
j program committee considers itself
i fortunate in landing it for Edenton.
The picture will not be the only
attraction, however, as those in
charge of preparing for the evening
have a couple of other novelties up
their sleeve, but feel that secrecy
I should be the advance watchword re
garding them. No advance in dinner
] rates will be made for the meeting.
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' candidates out
T’OR E.H.S. SQUAI)
| Coach Holton Has Light Squad To
Work With, But Predicts Very
j Creditable Team
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I With the advent of cooler weather
] attention is directed to football and
| each afternoon finds a crgwd of
i Edenton High School youngsters ca
vorting on Hicks Field in prepara
tion for scrimmage work preparatory !
] to selecting this year’s gridiron edi
tion. Though practically all of the
] outstanding stars will be missing this
year, Coach David Holton believes
' that despite a light squad the school’s
' football team will be able to give a
, good account of themselves.
About 20 boys, all enthused and
I ambitious to secure berths on the
, squad, have been reporting faithfully
for practice each afternoon. Though
lit is too early to name his squad,
j Coach Holton has been watching the
I progress of each boy and using his
] best-efforts to develop players to fill
| various positions.
The list of those who have reported
for practice are Robert Chesson, Sam
my Cates, Ervin Griffin, Jimmy Has
sell, John Martin Harrell, John By
rum, Pete Everett, Henry Williams,
BiLJy George, Joe Conger, Bill Which
ard, Clyde Spencer, Ellwood Nixon,
; Tom Byrum, Billy Shepard, Meredith
Jones, Dee Skiles, Fred Hoskins, Les
ter Ashley, James Cozzens, Dick
Badham, William Cayton, Ted Man
gus and James Smith.
Practically all of the boys have
had some experience which will be
quite a help to Coach Holton in de
veloping his team.
County Council To
Meet September 25
A meeting of the County Council
of home. demonstration clubs will be
held in the Court House Saturday
afternoon, September 25, at 2:30
o’clock, says Miss Rebecca Colwell,
| home agent. At this time plans will
j be discussed for the fall Federation
j meeting as well as a program of
I work for 1938. Every member of
! the Council is urged to be present.
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City Tax Rate Again
Be An Even Dollar
'The finance committee of Town
Council on Tuesday night sub
mitted the town’s budget for the
year and .despite increases in sal
aries and provision to buy a new
tractor as well as paraphernalia
for firemen and police, the expen
ditores will necessitate only a
C $1.09 tax rate, which is the same
as last year.
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Judge Parker Presides At
Fall Term Superior Court
Library Hours On
Winter Schedule
Beginning Monday, September j
20, the Shepard-Pruden Memorial
Library will resume the winter
schedule of hours, according to
Mrs. S. M. McMullan, librarian.
The library during the winter ,
will be open from 2 to 5
p. m., every week day and on ]
Monday and Friday nights from 7 1
to 9 o’clock. 'The hours on Sun- I
days will be from 3t05 in the as- !
ternoon.
Patrons of the library are urged !
to note the change of hours.
AUTUMN MEETING
OF COUNTY CLUBS
Demonstration Groups
Meet In Edenton
October 30
Miss Ruth Current, State home
demonstration agent, will be the
principal speaker for the fall meet
ing of home demonstration clubs to
be held in Edenton Saturday, Octo
ber 30, according to Miss Rebecca
Colwell, Chowan home agent. The ]
meeting will be held at 2:30 o’clock. |'
Miss Colwell urges each secretary!
to make a report of the accomplish- ]
ments of her club since last October, |
and in order to present a comprehsn-;
sive report every club member should!
make out a written report to her sec- ]
retary describing any special work i
she has done during the year. This,:
Miss Colwell says, may include work
in house furnishings, building or re-!
pairs, gardening, yard improvement,
poultry, etc. The secretary cannot;
make a good report for -her club ufi- j
less the members cooperate and for ]
this reason members are urged not to
wait to be asked for information but
to give it to the secretary as soon as,
possible.
Club secretaries will appreciate
suggestions of unique ways to give
their reports at the federation meet
ing, which must be short and should
be interesting.
W. W. Byrum Now On
City School Board
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W. W. Byrum was elected to mem
bership on the board of trustees of
the Edenton graded schools Tuesday
night at a joint meeting of the board
and Town Council. Mr. Byrum was
elected to fill the vacancy caused by
the recent resignation of Mrs. John
Badham, and his term will expire in
1941.
Thomas Chears, chairman of the
board, and W. D. Pruden, whose;
terms have expired, were re-elected
for a term of six years at the same]
meting. John A. Holmes, secretary]
to the board, called attention to the
fact that due to an oversight two;
years ago J. H. Conger’s name was
not presented at a joint meeting, and
he, too, was subsequently legally |
elected, his term expiring with Mr. j
Byrum’s in 1941.
as now constituted in
cludes Thomas Chears, chairman,'
John G. Wood, J. H. Conger, W. W.j
Byrum, W. A. Leggett and W. D.j
Pruden.
Thos. Chears, Jr., Now
Member Os The Bar
Superior Court proceedings were
interrupted for a few moments on
Monday when Thomas Chears, Jr.,
was presented to Judge R. Hunt
Parker by W. D. Pruden. Mr.
Chears recently passed his bar exam
inations in this State, but had not
previously gone to Raleigh to be
sworn In as a lawyer. Judge Parker
administered the oath to the young
man, shook him warmly by the
hand and wished him well.
Firje Inspection Held
Week Os Sept. 27th
Fire Chief R. K. Hall has an
nounced that a general fire inspection
will be made ir. Edenton during the
last week in September. In antici
pation for this inspection Mr. Hall
urges all residents to have cnimneys
and flues cleaned out as well as fur
nace rooms and attics in order to
j save embarrassment as well as re
duce fire hazards..,
TkU nottttater it dretb
lated tit Use territory
where Advertisers wm
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year
$
Jurist Makes Fine Im
pression; Entertains
No Trifling *
VERYSTERN
Clamps Down on Ex
cuses to Be Relieved
Os Jury Dufy
! Superior Court, which in this sec
tion has supplanted the ancient “Ship
Day” when vessels from the Carri
bean or West Indies came to port and
the Albemarle populace crowded the
wharves to see the splendors about
to be unloaded, got under way here
on Monday for the first time in a
year. And again the populace turned
out in great numbers to see juris
prudence in action once again in
Chowan’s historic court house.
They weren’t disappointed. Judge
R. Hunt Parker, a young, exacting
stickler for the law, who comes from
Roanoke Rapids and who has been
here but once before, five years ago,
presided and made action and deter
mination the watchwords of the
term, also propriety, instead of the
laxity and ease of manners which the
court fraternity has heretofore en
joyed when court has been in session.
Judge Parker, for instance, tabooed
smoking in the court room. A cigar
ette smoker himself he, nevertheless,
ordered everyone outside who cared
to smoke, and stopped proceedings
one day to point to an offender who
had even stood in the doorway puffing
at a cheroot. It may have seemed a
trying ordeal but it occasioned pleas
ure on the part of those who cared
to see something dignified and cor
rect about the proceedings in a court
room.
The judge had other untnought of
“peculiarities.” Effort on the part of
•She local bar, usually ef
forts heretofore, to get jurors excus
ed, got nowhere with Judge Parker.
Jury service was a duty everyone
should engage in, and to all requests
for such excuses he shook his head
in disagreement and ordered every
one to serve who had not served be
fore. Nor was he redoundant or
verbose in meeting legal motions of
exception to the questioning of wit
nesses. Where other judges have
entered into arguments with counsel,
Judge Parker was quick with a “mo
tion denied” or “motion accepted,”
and that’s all there was to it.
Further than that judge Parker
has a fine court presence, is youthful
in manner and conversationally loud
in voice. It was no trouble to hear
or understand him, and when he told
the grand jurors in his opening
charge “No man is so wealthy or in
fluential he can evade prosecution,
no man is so obscure or poor he
should not merit your protection,”
heads could be seen nodding in
agreement all about the crowded
court room.
The court in this grand jury
charge told the inquisitors it was
their duty to recognize and present
all violations of the law in any sec
tion of the county. It should not be
necessary to see such violation he
said, but law enforcement depends
upon the vigilance of the grand jury.
Failure to present such violations
always brings disrepute upon the
law, he declared. The investigation
of guardianships, about which there
I has been so much criticism elsewhere,
was a primary source of inquiry, he
stated as he stressed the duties of
guardians.
Defective public school buses, the
age of their drivers and the speed
with which they propel the vehicles,
should be inquired into, also, Judge
Parker said. He commented like
wise upon the great highway mor
tality due to speeding and accidental
wrecks. This mortality is much
greater this year than ever before,
and shows no evidence of retarding.
The court smilingly said that if the
airships of Spain, now engaged in a
terrible war there, were brought to
this country to supplant the motor
cars of the United States and the
autos were sent to Spain, the differ
ence in death rates would be quickly
apparent.
Unavoidable motor accidents, the
court said, were always few in num
ber, and he emphasized the impor
tance of the Grand Jury making a
careful and exacting inquiry into
every accident brought before it. In
this connection the Judge explained
that the grand jury’s duties did not
end with the completion of a court
term, but could be continued in au
-1 thority until the commencement of a
succeeding term. At all times, he
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