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Ivolume V.—Number 34.
The New Bridge Over Albemarle Sound Which Will Be Dedicated Thursday, August 25
Edenton Hub For Bridge Celebration
Edentonians Capture High
Honors In Main Events At
Wilson Tobacco Festival
Band Given Ap-
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HUGECROWD
Mary Elizabeth Cates
Attracts Attention In
Beauty Contest
Musically and otherwise, Edenton
went to Wilson last Thursday and
brought home a fine assortment of
the Tobacco festival honors in its
pockets. Nothing strange about that,
of course, for where Edenton goes
honor returns.
The boys and girls of this town,
who comprise the local school band,
under the leadership of their proud
and able director,. C. L. McCullers,
toted their clarinets, trumpets, cor
nets, trombones, saxaphones, bass
and kettle drums, xylophones, alto
and baritone horns, and those great
big weapons of music that would
hold a hogshead of ABC stuff and
tower skyward, to the town of tobac
co, grabbed off the place of signal
honor at the head of the 3 mile long
parade of floats and industrial pro
poganda, later gave a band concert
for an hour before 5,000 listeners in
front of the Wilson County Court
House, exhibited a child of charm,
Charlotte Bunch, at the van of their
show, and came home that night
stuffed with fancy Wilson food and
burdened with the pride that comes
to everyone for a deed well done.
Edeaton has much vaunted history.
Jack' McMullan says it has industrial
advantages unparalled and unexcelled.
Certainly the neighborhood now has a
bridge that should open its doors
drill wider. But with all this Eden-
a band, just about the hottest
band of school children in the great
State of North Carolina. The band
„is the town’s, best advertisement,
ever has been—ever will be, and it
did itself grand once more at Wilson,
even if it may not have such a chance
for display at the bridge show this
coming Thursday.
But the band was not all. Miss
s#toy Elizabeth Cates was in Wilson,
too as the representative of her town
with 53 others for the "Queen of
Beauty” at the Wilson party, and
she looked dangerous to all the oth
ers. At the theatre show Wednesday
night she displayed hewelf in this
competition and in a vote of 1,000
onlookers she was favored with a}
near top mention, a beauty of beauties!
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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Proof that Clerk of Superior
Court Richard D. Dixon’s records
are kept as well as any in the
State was provided early this
week, when what, is no doubt a
record was reported by Garland
E. Midyette, son of the late Judge
Garland E. Midyette. Mr. Mid
yette at present is employed in
searching county records in all
of the 100 counties of the State,
tabulating the number of homi
cides in each county since 1909.
It is rather significant that the
period covers 29 years and that in
Chowan County there were 29
homicides and Mr. Midyette com
pleted his search for the informa
tion in exactly 29 minutes.
Local Municipal
Building Is Now
Mayor’s Project
Architect’s Drawing of
Proposed Edifice At
tracts Attention
COSTS7O,OOO
County Commissioners
And Couitcilmen May
Decide Later
An architect's painting of what he
thinks a municipal PWA building
could be made to look like in Edea
ton, together with plans for the first
and ses&d floor offices; in the pro
posed structure, has been on display
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M. W. Jackson Files
Suit For $5,400 As
Result Auto Accident
Damages to the amount of $5,400
were embodied in a suit filed in
Chowan Superior Court Tuesday by
M. W. Jackson against Martin L.
Perry, of Elizabeth City. The docu
ment is the outgrowth of an automo
bile accident on July 23 resulting in
[serious bodily injury to Mr. Jackson,
I irom wmcn ne is now siowiy recover
{ lawful rate o/spLsd at a curve.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 25, 1938.
Governor Hoey Joins Band j
Here is picteured Governor Clyde Hoey with Edenton High
School Band’s drum majors. The picture was taken last week at
the Wilson Tobacco Festival. Reading left to right are: Doris Jean
Leary, Betty Wales, Governor Hoey, Myda Weaver, Emily Howard
and Director C L. McCullers.
$48,000 Law Suit
Grows Out Os New
Bridge Erection
Contractors Ask Dam
ages For Breach of
Contract
WORKDELAYED
Tardiness of Piles Cause
Much Extra Expense,
It Is Charged
Close ahead of today’s bridge dedi
catory celebration was a suit filed in
' the Superior Court here on Tuesday
growing out of construction difficul
ties experienced in building the mam
moth Sound span. The Tidewater
Construction Corporation, of Norfolk,
contracting engineers for the north
end of the crossway and draw bridge,
was the plaintiff in the filed action,
claiming $48,152.02 damages against
the Gulf States Craoeoting Company,
of Hattiesburg, Miss.
The papers set forth that the Tide
water people worked under a North
Carolina Highway Commission con
tract totaling $687,460, and engaged
with the defendant company to creo
sote the piling used in the north side
work, the engagement calling for full
delivery by the creosoters by Decem
ber 15, last. Such delivery was not
made, it is charged, bo that great
difficulty was experienced in carrying
on the bridge construction through
last winter, and it was not until
August 1 last that the bridge could
be tentatively finished.
In the interval the Tidewater com
plainants claim they had to buy much
creosoted lumber, also, from the At
lantic Cxeosoting Company, and that
the loss attributable to the defendant
corporation was $48,000 less the
■ount paid the Atlantic
Chowan Figured To
Participate In Big
Anti-Aircraft Test
“Warning- Net” Will Be
Located In This
Vicinity
UNIQUEAFFAIR
Destruction Fort Bragg
Object of “Enemy”
Planes
One of the most important anti-air
craft exercises ever engaged in by the
United States Army will have one of
its focal points in Chowan County
during the maneuver between October
3 and 17 next, and a pronounced cen
ter of the entire exercise seems sche
duled for another honor upon this
commonwealth.
Tersely the “try out” will concern
the possible invasion of this country
and desired destruction of Fort Bragg
by enemy aircraft supposedly coming
hare from European points. “Warn
ing Nets” as they are called by the
Army—actually points of intercepting
observation manned by civilian volun
teers, will be thrown up all about
eastern North Carolina from Fort
Bragg to the coast and northeast as
far as the Norfolk area.
More than 300 of these “warning
nets” will be employed for this pur
pose, and one of them, Captain Rich
ard D. Dixon has been officially in
formed, will be located in this county,
presumably near Edenton civilian ob
servers, equipped with the latest
government war detecting signals,
telephones and telegraphs, will be
utilized in the Maneuver, and if the
500 airships, the greatest mobilization
of army aricraft ever, appear in this
sector the purpose is to flash a quick
> warning to the artillery barracks near
: Fayetteville.
One of the primary purpose* of the
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Procession Scheduled To
Form and Leave For Site
Program Thursday 10 A.M.
| Credit Due |
In all the publicity fanfare of
recent glory over the constriction
of the new Sound bridge, but
scant mention seems to have
been meted out to E. Lund
Hansen, the initial superintendent
on the north side end of the job
and who, in addition, planned and
built the complicated and deli
cately operated great center
draw. Mr. Hansen, a graduate
of the University of Norway and
of Princeton in this country, made
mary friends in Edenton by his
cultured socialbility, and in en- j
gineering circles by his shrewd, j
careful and accurate engineering
ability. The entire north end of
1 the crossway was the result of
his skill and direction, and that
these were proven is shown by
( the fact he has been transferred
' to plan and build the much longer '
bridge over the Potomac River,
near the Quantico marine base in
Virginia. All Edenton wishes him
the best of luck.
NYA Anxious To
Build Community i
: Houses In County
Assistant Supervisor W.
[ D. Davis In Edenton i
Last Week
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■ FREE LABOR
; Idea Is to Cultivate Com
> munity Spirit Now
Lacking:
i W. T. Davis, assistant supervisor
of the eastern district for the Na
, tional Youth Administration, was in
[ Edenton last week conferring with
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- Plymouth Concern
Files Answer To Suit
> Answer to the suit for $13,500 en
s tered recently in Chowan Superior
i Court by R. L. Chesson against the
i Kieckhefer Container Company was
: filed this week with Court Clerk
f Richard D.' Dixon. Briefly answering
the charges made by Chesson against
e the Plymouth concern, every item was
denied by the pulp mill people.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
Many Places of Business
Decorated For Out
standing Affair
STORESCLOSE
Parade Moves East on
Church Street to
Yeopim Road
Edenton starts today as the hub of
the great dedicatory bridge celebra
tion to be conducted in the pine grove
east of the south shore terminal of
the mammoth span, and at least glor
. ies in the opportunity to give the af
j fair a good send-off-impetus. Every
j body, everything, will assemble here
j and promptly at 10 o’clock this morn
ing, Grand Marshal C. E. Kramer
will get his parade caravan into ac
tion, guide it happily down the Yeo
pim highway and onto the bridge,
I and deliver it in all the panoply of
much historical pageantry and mar
tial music to the main program cele
brants across the Sound.
And Edenton is ready to do its
part, do it well and proudly. For ten
days the town authorities have had
.the residents of the town cleaning up
j their premises and making them
! presentable to a great host of expect -
ied celebration visitors. The business
* section of the community has bedeck
j ed itself in much fanciful bunting and
I flags, and is offering an enjoyable
sight in this regard. The bridge
proper has been made attractive with
more flags and more bunting, as has
the big stand for the speakers and
250 invited guests.
Altogether if decorations, floats,
and much parade paraphernalia have
anything to do with the show, those
who attend will leave tonight with a
higher appreciation of Edenton’s eag
erness and willingness to cooperate to
1 the utmost in making the celebration
the huge success everyone expects
and hoped it will be.
As Marshal Kramer has tentatively
lined up his parade, the marching
• pageant will be led by a Norfolk
. Southern bus carrying the official
party, or those of it who may want
to so ride in preference to using their
own cars. Another bus with more
celebration participants will follow,
after which will come a decorated
truck with the Edenton band children.
; The “Queen of the Albemarle” will be
well touted next in her float, and will
be followed by another truck carrying
. the Robersonville bandsters.
> Two official floats, those sent by
i Dam and Perquimans counties and
c illustrating high historical events,
t will follow as will the Elizahaih Qity
t school band —then the offitippChe#**
i float, tea pot, garden an*l to*n girls,
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