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I of local and county news
I of general interest.
Volume IV.—Number 44.
Chowan Peanut Growers
Hear Stabilization Proposal
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R. C. Holland Explains
Plan Guaranteeing
Price
3%e ASSUR^J
PMui Provides For Dis
tribution of Profits
If Any
In continuation of th« series of
county meetings in the State-wide
peanut stabilization price campaign
sponsored by l the federal government,
around 800 Chowan, growers were in
attendance at a session in the Court
House here on Saturday afternoon to
hear tht mechanics of the coopera
tiveplan explained to them and to
subsequently give unanimous en-
to the idea.
R. C. Holland, Edenton lawyer and
extensive Chowan farm owner, is
president and general manager oi
the State “Peanut Stablization Co
operative,” and as such presided at
the local gathering as he has been
doing in other sections of eastern
Carolina and as he will continue to
do until the first of the year. Mon
day night Mr. Holland headed a dele
gatitfn from 40 counties in an appeal
to Congressman Harold D. Cooley in
Nashville for peanut control by acres
and pounds, and on Tuesday he ad
dressed meetings in furtherance ol
the control cause in Gatesville anu
Hertford.
Besides Mr. Holland, who talked
i specifically here as to the way the
k cooperative plan wouM work,, last
Saturday’s meeting was addressed by
E. f. Arnold, secretory ,of the Stafe
Farm- Bureau federation, of Maleign,
agd jf. K. Rowell, Chowan County
farm agent. They were Hie only
speakers at the session, and wer«
listened to attentively by a crowd
which filled the Court'House.
The cooperative plan is the out
growth of the government’s effort of
last year to force peanuts into usage
•for oil, and in this connection is in
tended to set a price selling basis
this year for U. S. No. 3 peanuts at
a varying scale of $65,561 and ss*l
per 100 pounds according to grades.
As Mr. Holland explained the pro
. eeedure to the Chowan growers those
joining in the movement will sel.
direct to the Cooperative Exchange—
sl,ooo,ooo has already been made
available, he said, for payment pui
poses—the Co-operative in turn te
dispose of the purchased crop at the
highest possible prices. At the ena
of the season the sales will be aggre
gated and the bulked profit, if any,
will be divided up among the growers
in additional bonus payments.
Actually Hie guaranty, it was ex
pounded, assured the growers 3%
cents a pound for peanuts which will
shell 65 pounds to the 100, instead
of Hie gamble they meet up witn
each season in facing competition
through private sales.
Mr. Arnold said the program was
but part of the State federation’s and
federal government’s plan of com
pulsory crop control. Mr. Rowell,
who had sent out notices of the meet
ing, took advantage of the gathering
to discuss the general soil conserva
tion program of which this peanut
price stablization is but one phase,
g* Especiall were the •*' growers tola
•the program was not a lending pro
ceedure but had to do with outright
sales to Hie Cooperative.
OfcHoltaid after th^meot-
One, naturally, gave hearty assent to
the movement.
Forty-eight little girls and 88 little
boys are listed in Leggett A Davis
contest, the prizes to be given away
Christmas eve, for the onesjecunng
money paid on aeoount. The first
week's standing places Betsy Shepard
in the lead for the girls and Billie
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 28,1937.
1 fE. H. S. Matches Wits
With R. Rapids Friday
■ Edenton High School’s undefeat
ed football team will journey !j
Roanoke Rapids Friday afternoon
to match wits and strength with
the Halifax County team in one
of the most important games of
the season so far as the Edenton
team is concerned. A victory
over Roanoke Rapids will make
Edenton northeastern Class B
champions and entitles uoacn
Holton’s boys to compete or dis
trict honors on their way towmu
another State championship.
By comparative scores Edenton
has the edge, Elizabeth City hav
ing defeated Roanoke Rapids ear
lier in the season. This fact, how
ever, hasn’t caused a let down m
practice and Coach Holton has
warned his boys against over-con
fidence.
A large crowd of Edenton fans
is expected to accompany the
team.
Placements Made
During Week Thru
Employment Office
Total 141 New Applica
tions During* Week
In District
PIJENTVJbBS
District Manager Keil
Has Many Calls For
Workers
According to Philip K. Keil, dis
trict manager for the N. C. State
Employment Service, the following
workers were placed for the wsck
ending October 23:
Edenton—29 common laborers on
highway and bridge construction, i
highway traffic recorders.
Elizabeth City—B tray waiters anu
2 finish carpenters.
Williamston—l soda fountain dis
penser, 1 window cleaner, 1 finish
carpenter, 1 inside salesman, 12 com
mon laborers and 8 carpenters.
Men and women who are interested
in securing positions and employers
seeking qualified workers are invited
to avail themselves of the free ser
vice offered by their local North
Carolina State Employment Service.
The following new applications
were taken during the week ending
October 23rd: Edenton, 22; Elizabeth
City, 55; Williamston office, 64, mak
ing a total of 141.
Despite the number of placements,
Mr. Keil still has a large number of
calls for workers which he is unable
to fill. These include requests for
business managers, secretaries, auto
mecahics, tree surgeons, radio and re
frigerator salesmen, cooks, glazed
tile setters, bookkeepers and steno
graphers, crane operators, paver
operators, form setters, concrete fin
ishers and carpenters.
The Edenton office will gladly ren
der any service possible either in the
way of finding workers or furnishing
Jobe.
Schoolmasters Meet
In Hertford Monday
The Schoolmasters Club will meet
in Perquimans High School, Hert
ford, in regular monthly session on
Monday at 6:30 P. M. The School
masters’ Club is composed of super
intendents and principals of high
schools and elementary schools of the
seven Albemarle counties and zne
special charter districts of Edenton
and Elizabeth City.
Dinner for the schoolmasters will
be prepared and served by members,
of the home economics department
of the Perquimans High School. Tno
meeting is designated as guest nlg.it
and every member of the Club is
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St Mary's Guild Stages
I Style Show Tonight at 8
A Children' R , . ,
[DENTON'S TEAM
HANGS UP HFTH
CONSECUTIVE WM
Holton's Boys Experi
ence Trouble Tripping
Washington Friday
SCORE 6-0
Wet and Muddy Field
Reduces Attendance
And Interest
Playing an entire half in rain,
Edenton High School’s football team
on Friday afternoon added Vvas?.-
ington High School to its list ot
victims by a score of 6-0. It was
the fifth win this season for the loca.
school’s undefeated team, winen
now has high hopes of entering elim
ination play, at least, for State hon
ors. All during the first half the
boys slid and wallowed on a muday
field, which, though it stopped rain
ing for the second half, made play
ing very difficult and had its effect on
interest in the game. Due to tne
rain, no doubt, or advance speculation
that Edenton would win by a wide
margin, a small crowd of fans were
on hand at Kugler Field where the
game was played. Edenton fans
numbered in the neighborhood of t>o,
which was a larger number than were
on hand from Washington.
I Edenton scored in the first few
minutes of play, but what appeareu
to be a walk-over turned out to be a
hard-fought battle to maintain a
clean slate. The Edenton team was
somewhat off form and though on
two or three different occasions they
were within striking distance for
touchdowns, once a matter of only a
few feet, one touchdpwn was all that
could be sepred against the Beaufort
County boys, who appeared very weii
pleased to accept a 6-0 defeat. They
were expecting a terrible walloping
by comparing scores made by botn
teams against Tarboro.
Washington kicked to start tne
game and taking them by surprise
on the second play John Byrum flip
ped a neat pass to Clyde Spencer,
who was brought down by Washing
ton’s safety man less than 10 yards
from the goal stripe, but a fumble
stopped a score at this time. On
the return kick Chesson made a
beautiful run with splendid interfer
ence, placing the ball on the 12-yard
line. Pete Everett on the next play
tore through the Washington team
to score standing up. Clyde Spen
cer’s kick for extra point failed. The
remainder of the half resulted in the
ball see-sawing up and down the
field with Edenton easily out-playing
Washington, but still unable to shove
the ball over the counting stripe.
Edenton kicked as the second half
opened and the rain having stopped,
spectators emerged from parked au
tomobiles. Each team punted all
through the half as they failed to
gain enough ground to march for
touchdown. Washington’s only
threat came near the end of the
game when several first downs were
registered, with Chauncey making
the most yardage, who, by the way,
played stellar ball for his team.
Advertise For Bids
On School Work
Contracts to Be Award
ed November 9th
At 2 P. M.
Elsewhere in this issue will be
found the formal -fitfTOrtisement for
bids tfor construction work on the
Edenton High School, indicative that
work will be under way before cold
weather arrives and that the new
school auditorium which is first to be
started will be finished by spring.
The bids bmp been advertised by
County Commissioners Chairman D.
M. Warren, and S. R Morris, chair
man of the County Board of Educa
tion, after preparation by Frame
Benton, of Wilson, the architect, who
first conferred with the Edenton
school board as to toe work planned.
The proposals submitted as a result
of the advertisement for bids must
be in by November 9 and will be re
ceived at the Court House in Eden
ton at 2 P. M. that day, and con
tracts awarded immediately.
The bids, technical In character,
speak tor themselves and are directed
heating, and electrical work.
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LOCAL BARGEMAN
MISSING AFTER
FIRE ON SCOW
T. J. Burgess. Believed
Lost By Drowning In
Roanoke River
GRAPPLING FUTILE
Coast Guardsmen, Log
men and Others Help
In Search For Body
Although a sharp patrol by small
boats and an almost continual dredg
ing since by logmen, fishermen anu
coast guard enthusiasts has so tar
brought no results, searchers are con
fident that Thomas J. Burgess, 45,
former West Eden Street resident
■here, has lost his life by drowning
following a fire on a concrete mixer
barge at the mouth of the Roanoke
River across the sound late last Sat
urday night.
Burgess, an employee of the Tide
water Construction Corporation whic.i
is building the north shore end of th*
new Albemarle Sound vehicular
bridge, was asleep in a small deck
cabin house on the barge. Embers
from a little stove in the cabin spill
ed on the floor and set the cabin
afire. The flames, it is assumed,
awakened Burgess, and in his frighi,
perhaps with his clothing ablaze, lie
jumped overboard. Anyhow, he has
not been seen since.
Burgess was married and has two
young children. His family has
been living in Bailey, Wilson County
for the past few months, while Bur
gess has been at work at the bridge
and making his living quarters upon
the scow.
\On Saturday afternoon the barge
was taken in tow by the tug boht
B. F. Huntley and headed for Ply
mouth. A high #ea was running r.i
the sound and it is thought this may
■have upset the cabin stove. Just
before the mouth of the Roanok-;
was reached the tugmen noticed the
cabin was ablaze. They dropper
back and tried to extinguish tb’~
flames, shouting the meanwhile for
Burgess. There was no responsc
and when they later searched the
ruins no trace of the bargeman war
discovered.
Word of the burning got to Eden
ton later and caused considerable
excitement. Dredging crews from
here and Plymouth and made up ad
ditionally of Washington County log
men went to work all day Sunday,
and E. L. Hansen, superintendent of
the bridge work, sent off several
small boats to watch should the body
come to the surface, Oil Monday
coastguardsmen from Elizabeth City
came down with grappling irons am
joined in the search, also.
Swing Billies at Chowan
High School November 6
A treat is in store for all who will
go to Chowan High School Saturday,
November 6, at 8 o’clock, when a
program will be put on by Black
wood’s Swing Billies. This group
broadcasts over Raleigh statioi
WPTF and an evening of delightful
entertainment is assured.
District Meeting Os
Auxiliary On Nov. 3
Held 10:30aTm. In Eliz
abeth City; Postponed
On October 13
Members of the Auxiliary of Ed
Bond Post, American Legion, are
urged to attend the district meeting
to be held in Elizabeth City on Wee*
nesday, November 3, at 10:30 A. M.
in the parish house of the Episcopal
Church. This meeting was to have
been held October 13, but was post
uoned, and expecting to attend
should notify Mrs. Roy E. Leary, dis
trict coramitteewoman or Mrs. W. B.
Shepard, president.
Speakers on the program include
Mrs. H. A. Newell, department presi
dent, and Mrs. Frank R. Miller, area
vice president.
Activities for the coming year wn.
be discussed and Mrs. Leary assures
any local members who attend ..
pleasant as well as profitable meet
ing. Dinner will be served at the
noon hour.
MASONS MEET TONIGHT
The regular meeting of Unanimity
Lodge, A F. A A. M., will be held
tonight In the lodge room. All mem
| i ur _ iirow! to Ka on time
County Clubs To Celebrate
Achievement Day Saturday
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Appearing in several counties
recently, Miss Current will be the
principal speaker for the
Achievement Day exercises of
Chowan Demonstration Clubs at
Chowan High School Saturnay
afternoon.
Chowan Farmers
Working Toward
Peanut Control
Local Delegations Go to
Winston-Salem and
Nashville
WANT ACTION
Serious Plight of Peanut
Growers Presented
At Meetings
Twelve Chowan County farmers,;
all vitally interested in the status j
of peanuts in the government’s agri
cultural bill, journeyed to .Nashville |
Monday night to hear Harold Cooiey
discuss the proposed bill. Mr. Cooley
is the only member on the Rouse
agricultural committee from Nor in
Carolina, ana he outlined the bill lie- j
fore a gathering of representative!
farmers from ail counties where pea-j
nuts is a major crop. Farmers ronl:
Mr. Cooley what they wanted, which j
.n the main was to place peanuts in
the bill as a basic crop in order to I
realize beneficial results by controlled!
production. The speaker realized tr.e
plight of peanut growers and prom-j
ised to use his influence to have per.-!
nuts classed as a major crop.
Those at the meeting from Chowan
County included A. D. Ward, E. tr. j
Blanchard, I. R. Blanchard, O. Al.
Blanchard, E. L. Brinkley, K. \j.
Holland, N. K. Rowell, Dr. J. a.
Powell, T. C. Byrum, John Barren,
S. E. Morris and L. E. Francis.
Seven farmers the previous Mon
day traveled to Winston-Salem to
hear Senator Smith, who is chairman
of the Senate agricultural committee,
outline the bill as it affects North
Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky. At
this meeting R. C. Holland explained
that due to increased acreage further
south, unless some sort of control is
included in the government’s pro
gram, peanut growers in these three
states would be wiped out of the
picture.
The seven men attending this meet
ing were Mr. Holland, N. K. Rowell,
W. H. Winbome, L. W. Belch, a. u.
Ward, E. G. Blanchard and Willie
Spivey.
Robert B. Oliver Victim
Os Stroke Os Paralysis
Following a stroke of paralysis,
when otherwise he appeared to be in
good health, Robert B. Oliver, 60,
died at his home on Mosely Street
at 1:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Oliver was stricken about U
o’clock Monday night and never re
gained consciousness.
He is survived by his wife, tme
daughter, Mrs. Cecil Hollowell, and
two sons, Janies and John Oliver.
Funeral services will be held this
(Thursday) afternoon at the home
at 3:30 o’clock with interment follow
ing in Beaver Hill Cemetery. The
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realize good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
I Demonstration Clubs to
Put on Big Display at
New High School
PRIZES AWARDED
State Agent Will Make
Address; Lively Pro
gram of Interest
Accomplishment will be the key
note at the annual “Achievement
Day” celebration of the Chowan
Federation of Home Demonstration
Clubs next Saturday afternoon, ana
it is safe to say that the entire
countryside will turn out at the
Chowan High School at Small's
Cross Roads, where the celebration
will take place, starting at 2 o’clock.
The results of a year’s effort by the
different organizations, both as units
and by individual memberships, will
be on display, competitive prizes will
be awarded, Miss Ruth Current, oi
Raleigh, the State’s Home Demon
stration Agent, will make an address
and an interesting program othei
wise has been arranged by Miss
Rebecca Colwell, local club chieftain
and guiding factor in club work
hereabouts.
Primary interest will center nat
urally upon the exhibits by the dif
ferent clubs, and in the awarding of
prizes. The exhibits will be ar
ranged 'about the main auditorium or
the new school and will consist, as
Miss Colwell views it all in advance,
of one section devoted to flower ai
rangements, another to book case
arrangement, still another to a desk
unit, another indicative of gifts lor
each month in the year,- another to
refinishing furniture, ps vrell as many
other types of display all illustra
tive of the way the clubs have vied
with each other in keeping their
spare time efforts up to a high super
lative degree of excellence.
In addition to awards in all these
instances announcement will be made
at the celebration of the successful
winners in the Kerr and Ball canning
contests which have been running
through the summer. First and sec
ond prizes of $3 and $2 will be an
nounced in the contest sponsored by
! the Ball concern, while the Kerr
j competition allots 1 dozen jars to.'
| each of the first three successful
; competitors.
The big prizes for general cluo
efficiency will again be announced,
also, and there is much expectancy
as to whether the Rocky Hock Club,
i which has scored twice in the last
| two years for the first prize, a Pres
sure Cooker, will win again and by
: so doing obtain possession of the
coveted honor. Under the contest
rules a club must win three times
I straight to hold this valued prize,
| The second prize award in the gen
eral efficiency contest, a candy and
I jelly thermometer, will, likewise be
I made known during the afternoon.
These two prizes are based on li"
orders of club excellence, tabulatea
from a varying score of perfection
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Many Children Attend
Eye Clinic Wednesday
Dr. C. J. Sawyer, of Windsor, and
Miss Mary Williams, a representa
tive of the State Blind Commission,
were kept busy Wednesday conduct
ing an eye clinic, sponsored by toe
Lions Club. The clinic was held in
the Citizens Bank Building and of
the examinations made by Dr. Saw
yer it was discovered that the biggest
proportion needed glasses to correct
vision faults.
The clinic is the third to be held
in Edenton by Dr. Sawyer, and the
Lions at their meeting on Monday
night agreed to appropriate at least
sls toward expense of securing
glasses for indigent children of the
county.
Though the exact number to be
examined would not be divulged Wea
nesday afternoon by Miss Williams,
the nurse in charge, a steady stream
went in and out of the bank building
all day Wednesday, reflecting tne
popularity of eye clinks in Chowan,
which is one of the major projects or
the local Lions Club.
Cotton Ginning Ahead
Os Last Year's Figure
F. W. Hobbs, special agent for
toe Bureau of the Census, Depart
ment of Commerce, reports that there
were 2,066 bales of cotton ginned in
Chowan County from the crop of
1987 prior to October 18, as compar
ed with 1,649 bales ginned to Oeto*
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