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Volume VII. —Number 11.
Town Council Considering
WPA Project For Street
Paving And Hew Sidewalks
Idea Is to Secure as
Much WPA Help as
Possible
UNDECIDED
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Councilmen Impressed
With Plan and Study
Financing:
Though very few matters of im
portance confronted Town Council
men at their monthly meeting Tues
day night, they were held in session
until 10:30 o’clock.
One item which consumed right
much time was the consideration ol
placing sidewalks on every street in
fcowfi, as well as paving Oakum Street
from Church Street to thfc colored
.school, on First Street from Oakum
to Broad, Freemason from Oakum
to Granville, and Granville from Car
teret Street to the Virginia Highway.
With the idea in mind of benefit
ting as much as possible by WPA,
the Street Commissioner at a pre
vious meeting was directed to make
a, survey of sidewalk needs as well
as at least enough paving to provide
hard-surface circle about town which
would obviously curtail traffic on
Broad Street.
In the survey all sidewalks were
included where none now exist, tak
ing in the cotton mill and North
Eden ton. Approximately 30,000 feet
of sidewalk will be laid if it is de
cided to carry the project to comple
tion.
Something like $25,000 would be
the cost involved for sidewalks alone,
of which amount WPA would furnish
55 per cent and the town 45 per
cent. •
The Street Compiissioner, who did
not Submit the cost of''paving, was
instructed to secure figures for this
work in order to determine how
much the entire project would cost.
Members of the Board appeared
very much interested in the sidewalk
and paving program and until the
next meeting, unless a special meet
ing is called to consider the matter,
they were asked to devote some
thought as to how the project could
he financed. It was generally agreed
that this much needed work should
She done, but the matter of securing
.the necessary funds again proved a
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Greater Albemarle
Group Meeting In
Columbia Tonight
Paul Kelly Scheduled to
Speak on Tourist
Business
An important meeting of the direc
tors of the Greater Albemarle Asso
ciation will be held tonight (Thurs
day) at Columbia. The meeting will
be held in the Sunday School annex
of the Methodist Church with the
ladies of the Church serving dinner
promptly at 6:30 o’clock.
Guest speakers at this meeting will
he Paul Kelly, assistant director of
the N. C. Department of Conserva
tion and Development, who will speak
on how to get more tourist business
and hold it. The Columbia Men’s
Club will be special guests of the
Association. £•
All members of the Association are
privileged to attend the meetings of
the directors, and several Bdenton
merchants are expected to accom
pany Chowan County's directors.
Census Enumerator
Had little Trouble
In Chowan County
With the business census practic
ally completed in Chowan County,
R. E. Brinn of Hertford, census
enumerator, expresses grateful ap
preciation for Hie cooperation of
business people in the town and
county.
Mr. Brinn says that despite the,
inconvenience caused at times in
furnishing the information desired
by the Government ill this .census, he
experienced very little trouble in
Chowan County, which fact has aid
ed him in, making splendid progress
with his wont.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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A called meeting of the Troop
Committee of the Edentoti Boy
Scouts will be held Friday night
in the Scout Cabin. This meet
ing will begin at 8 o’clock and
because of its importance, not
only parents of Boy Scouts are
urged to be present, but all who
are interested in Scouting and
the welfare of boys of the Com
munity are asked to attend.
WPA Storm Sewer
Project Approved
After Long Wait
President Puts Signa
ture to Application
Last Week
NEW OUTLET LINE
Project Made Following
Heavy Rains of Last
Spring
Representative Lindsay Warren
was last week notified by WPA
headquarters in Washington that
President Roosevelt had approved
the project calling for storm sewer
improvement in Edenton. The pro
ject was made up almost a year ago
by the Edenton Street Department
following heavy rains in which sev
eral sections In to*.; were flooded
due to inadequate drainage.
The improvement calls for an ex
penditure of $4)511 and includes a
new 30-inch line from Queen Street
to Eden Street through the John
Griffin lot and an auxiliary 36-incb
line from Eden Street to the Sound
This latter line will parallel the
present 36-inch line and will double
the outlet.
At present there are two lines of
storm sewer entering the 36-incl
line at Eden Street, one carrying a
large volume of water from as far
north as the C. N. Griffin home on
Broad Street. The other carries wa
ter from Church Street and due to
the great amount of water in the
two lines during a heavy rain, the
outlet pipe is incapable of carrying
off the water, thereby allowing it to
back up and cause flooded sections
It was during heavy rains last
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Spring Federation
Meeting March 26
Miss Florence Cox Will
Be Principal Speaker
For Occasion
The spring federation meeting of
Chowan County home demonstration
clubs will be held at Chowan High
School on Tuesday,. March 26, accord
ing to Miss Rebecca Colwell, home
agent. For this meeting Miss Flor
ence Cox, home demonstration agent
of Hertford county, will be the prin
cipal speaker. Miss Cox wiH tell
about her trip last summer to Europe
with the tour of country women of
the world.
Red Men Elect Great
Council Representatives
Chowan Tribe of Red Men at their
meeting Monday night elected dele
gates to the Great Council Meeting,
which will be held in May at Wil
mington.
J. Edwin Buffiap was elected as
representative, with N. J. Goodwin
chosen as alternate.
Services At Cross Roads
Next Sunday Afternoon
Preaching services will be held in
the Community House at Small’s
Cross Roads Sunday afternoon at 3
o’clock. For this service the Rev. C-
A. Ashby, rector of St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church, wiH preach. The pub
lic .is cordially invitad.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, March 14, 1940!
Cancer Chairmen
Already Planning
For Drive In April
Mrs. Wood Privott and
Miss Rebecca Colwell
Again Leaders
NEED ISURGENT
In Few Years One of
Major Health Move
ments
With Miss Rebecca Colwell select
ed as county chairman, and Mrs.
Wood Privott as chairman in Eden
ton, in the cancer campaign which
will be in progress during April,
plans are already under way for con
ducting a drive to raise funds with
which to combat this disease.
Chowan's two chairmen on Friday
morning became much enthused over
the drive when they attended a meet
ing held at Williamston and heard an
address by Mrs. Marjorie B. Illig of
New York City, national commander
of the Women’s Field Army of the
American Society for the Control of
Cancer. >
The Field Army was mobilized in
1936 in an effort to unite the activi
ties of science and medicine witl
those of dlub and civic leaders in a
nation-wide war on cancer, which
ranks second among diseases as a
destroyer of human life. In less than
four years, it has become one of the
major health movements, with
branches organized in 46 states and
the District of Columbia.
The campaign of the Field Army
will reach its climax in April, which
has been set aside by a special act
of Congress and presidential procla
mation as National Cancer Controil
Month. Similar action has been tak
en by the General Assembly and by
Governor Hoey. An annual member
ship costs one dollar, 70 cents of
which is returned to the state for its
work, while the other portion is used
in the promotion of the national pro
gram. The campaign slogan is
“early cancer is curable, fight it with
knowledge.”
Gravely Advances
Solution To Gloomy
Tobacco Situation
Would Advance Eng
land Money For Se
curities Held
SAFE FOR U. S.
Holders Repaid By Is
suing Them British
Bonds
Other than stating that he was a
candidate for Governor and because
of that fact would not violate the
proprieties of the Rotary Club, L.
Lee Gravely, of Rocky Mount, made
no mention of his candidacy Thurs
day when he addressed the Edenton
Rotary Club at its regular luncheon
meeting. Mr. Gravely was introduc
ed by Representative John F. White.
Mr. Gravely, a tobacco man, said
prospects for next year’s tobacco
crop were anything but bright and
during his remarks advanced a plan
for restoring this country’s export
market without depleting Great Bri
tain’s gold reserve or placing the
United States in a position to lose
anything.
Pointing out that the English peo
ple have invested in marketable se
curities in this country approximate
ly five billion dollars, Gravely said:
“My idea would be to have the Unit
ed States, through the Commodity
Credit Corporation, advance to Eng
land money, taking as security there
for, the ‘Gilt Edge Securities’ owned
by the English in this country upon
condition that this money be invested
in agricultural products for export
to England, thereby restoring our
export market, in so far as Great
Britain is concerned, for our to
bacco.”
This would not, in Gravely’s opin
ion, deplete England’s gold reserve
nor would our government run the
least risk of loss. England, it was
pointed out, could repay its own sub
jects by the issuance to them of
British bonds.
Mr. Gravely also . expressed his
concern for a program of research
.work in an effort to utilize surplus
crops of the State whereby producers
would net a return for all products
they raise instead of resulting in a
total loss as at present.
District Officials
Meet In Edenton
On Next Monday
12 Northeastern 'Coun
ties Expected to Be
Represented
PLAN PROGRAM
Calls For Going- With
United Front to Gen
eral Assembly
County and town officials from 12
northeastern counties will meet in
Edenton Monday as guests of Town
Council and the County Commission
ers in one of a series of 12 regional
meetings throughout the State for
the purpose of discussing and for
mulating a State-wid.e, local govern
ment legislative program by the N.
C. League of Municipalities and the
State Association of County Commis
sioners. Officials from the following
counties have been invited: Bertie,
Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare,
Martin, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank,
Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington.
This is the first time the two
groups have attempted to get togeth
er in a joint legislative program.
Executive committees meeting to
gether in Raleigh recently planned
the regional conferences so that no
local' official will have to travel
more than 45 miles to attend.
T#ie counties and municipalities
now see eye-to-eye on most State
wide legislative matters and will go
to the 1941 General Assembly with a
united front. These regional meet
ings are taking place about 60 days
before the State primaries, to which
all candidates for the Legislature
are invited to attend.
A third group, the N. C. Municipal
Employees’ Association, will also
participate in the joint regional
meetings.
Among other things it is expected
that the discussions will include: (1)
use of State-collected highway funds,
road-side beautification and control,
and county zoning; (2) local govern
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Fishing Just “Ain’t”
What It Used To Be
In Albemarle Sound
Interesting Figures Pre
sented For Fisheries
In Year 1895
MANY EMPLOYED
Report Also Shows Neat
Return From Catch
Os Sturgeon
With the fishing season soon to
get into full swing, it is interesting
to compare the present importance
of this industry with former years.
Fishing in this section has gradually
dwindled from an industry of high
rank to one in which comparatively
few now engage in and even some of
those reluctantly year after year set
their nets primarily in the hope that
after a while they will be fortunate
enough to strike a good catch which
will net a profit and possibly help in
offsetting losses in previous years.
So with fishing at a low ebb, it
will be interesting to read a report
appearing in the “Fisherman and
Farmer,” a newspaper published in
Edenton for many years before the
turn of the century. In an issue of
the newspaper appeared a full report
of the Albemarle Sound fisheries as
contributed to the • Commissioner of
Labor by the late Dr. W. R. Cape
hart, who operated at Avoca the
largest seine fishery.
Part of this report, which was for
the year 1895, is as follows:
Seines
Invested in seine fishing, $150,000;
replacements yearly, $30,000; num
ber employed, 530 able-bodied men
and 400 women; chopping engine
wood at 40 cents per cord, $600; one
season’s payroll, $40,000; income
from iced fish, 12,000 boxes, $175,000;
ice purchased, 11,000 tons; plank for
boxes, 24,000 feet; herring packed in
salt, 20,000 barrels, valued at SBO,-
000; fertilizer material from the
seines valued at $7,500.
Pound or Dutch Nets '
Number of pound nets, 1,100; num
ber employed, 400 men and 680
women; number of boats required,
125 valued at $15,625; replacement
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Mrs. R. P. Badbam Elected
President Edenton Garden
Club At Meeting Monday
It’s Done 1 |
Now that Edenton’s new athle
tic field is completed, Town
Councilmen at their meeting
Tuesday night received a report
from Joseph H. Conger, who
contributed much time, energy
and worry to see /the project
completed.
According to Mr. Conger’s fig
ures, the total cost of the project
amounted ito $11,255.26. Os this
amount the town furnished
$2,540.82 and the WPA $8,714.44.
Materials for the project cost
$3,998.26, of which the town paid
$2,106.12 and $434.70 for equip
ment, and WPA $1,892.14. Labor
amounted to $6,822.30.
Included in the materials were
380 bags of cement, 44 tons of
sand, 70'/2 tons of stone, 4,326
pounds of steel, 76,646 feet of
lumber, 1,480 connections, roof
ing, paint and plumbing.
Fund To Be Used For
Cattle Investigation
Boosted By Senate
Lindsay Warren’s Re
quest For $30,000 Al
most Doubled
SSO,OOOFUND
Major Portion Will Be
Used In North Caro
lina Work
Representative Lindsay Warren’s
appropriation for $30,000 for the in
vestigation of beef cattle and related
livestock problems in the southeast
ern states by the Bureau of Animal !
Industry and the U. S. Forest Ser
vice already passed by the House
was given a boost Monday by the i
Senate Committee on Appropriations
which stepped up the fund to $50,000.
This is one of the very few items
that has been considered by Congress
this year which did not carry Budget
approval but the possibilities of the
work have made a strong impression
on the Appropriations Committee in
both bodies.
The major portion of the investi
gations wilil be carried on in North
Carolina in collaboration with State
College and the Blackland Farm at
Wenona in Washington County.
Town Office Hours
On Old Schedule
More Served Saturday
Nig-ht Than During
Noon Hour
Hours for Miss Louise Coke, tax
collector, and R. E. Leary, town
clerk, will go back to the old sche
dule following a trial of new hours
during February. Complaint had
been registered that on several occa
sions bills could not be paid, during
the noon hour when both Miss Coke
and Mr. Leary were out for dinner.
During February hours were
changed so that either Miss Coke or
Mr. Leary was in the office during
the entire day and at the same time
a record was kept as to the number
served as compared with Saturday
night, which hour was to be eliminat
ed. Actual figures show that nine
people paid bills during the noon
hour in February, which number was
more than tripled on last Saturday
night.
Councilmen felt that by having the
office open Saturday night would ac
commodate by far a greater number
of people and therefore ordered Mr.
Leary and Miss Coke to arrange their
hours accordingly.
Dr. Hart Will Attend
Clinic In Baltimore
Dr. W. I. Hart, Jr., will leave
Edenton Sunday for Baltimore, Md.,
where he will attend a dental clinic.
He expects to return to his office
Thursday of next week.
This newspaper it circu
lated hi the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
Group to Vote on Mat
ter of Becoming Fed
erated Club
NEW MEMBER
Amendments to Consti
tution Claim Atten
tion of Members
Mrs. Miles Elliott, Mrs. George P.
Byrum, Mrs. L. D. Bond and Mrs.
West Leary were hostesses at a
meeting of the Edenton Garden Club
held Monday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Elliott. One new member,
Mrs. J. A. Mitchener, was admitted
to the club.
During the meeting the advantages
and disadvantages of federating were
discussed and it was decided to vote
at the April meeting whether or not
the local organization should become
a federated club.
Two amendments to the constitu
tion also came in for a share of the
discussion. These included the addi
tion of an horticultural chairman to
the list of officers and to amend
Article IV to change the annual ses
sion from October to May. The oth
er was to change Article 111 to pro
vide for a nominating committee to
be appointed, in February to report
at the March meeting.
Mrs. John G. Small w r as appointed
as counsellor on the committee spon
soring a forum.
At this meeting officers were
elected which resulted as follows:
President, Mrs. R. P. Badham; vice
president, Mrs. J. W. Davis; treasur
er, M,rs. L. P. Williams; secretary,
Mrs. J. C. Leary.
The club decided to hold the May
meeting at the Booth House and to
have on display arrangements of iris
and a discussion about growing it.
At the conclusion of the meeting,
tea was served"' m the following:
Mrs. J. L. Pettus, Mrs. W. E. Has
sell, Mrs. J. A. Mitchener, Mrs.
Thomas J. Wood., Mrs. J. A. Powell,
Mrs. L. D. Bond, Mrs. J. S. Davis,
Mrs. John G. Small, Mrs. Junius W.
Davis, Mrs. R. C. Holland, Mrs. L.
S. Byrum, Mrs. W. J. Daniels, Mrs.
R. P. Badham, Mrs. J. W. White,
Mrs. J. M. Jones, Mrs. P. L. Wil
liams, Mrs. Chas. T. Hollowetl, Mrs.
J. A. Moore, Mrs. J. C. Leary, Mrs.
George P. Byrum, Mrs. West Leary,
Mrs. C. N. Griffin, Mrs. Julien Wood,
Mrs. W. I. Hart and Mrs. M. S.
Elliott.
Baptist Training
Union Convention
March 22 And 23
Two Day Session Will
Be Held at Rich
Square
The 1940 Baptist Training Union
of the Eastern Region will be held
in the First Baptist Church at Rich
Square on Friday and Saturday,
March 22 and 23. The convention
theme will be “The New Testament
Pattern of Church Membership.”
John M. Elliott is president of the
convention and has arranged a pro
gram for the four sessions which
should be very inspiring as well as
instructive. Addresses will be made
by prominent speakers and the pro
gram will be interspersed with varied
musical numbers.
Ann Russ Selected
Greenville’s Scarlett
O’Hara In Contest
Friends in Edenton will learn
with interest that Miss Ann Russ,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Russ,
of Greenville, former Edentonians,
was chosen as Greenville’s own Scar
lett O’Hara, and was presented to
the audience dressed in a Scarlett
O’Hara costume immediately preced
ing the evening performance of
“Gone With the Wind” at the Pitt
Theatre Monday night.
Miss Russ, a beautiful brunette,
received over one-third of the total
vote in a contest conducted by the
Greenville Reflector.
MASONS MEET TONIGHT
The regular communication of .
Unanimity Lodge A. F. & A. M., will J
be held tonight at 8 o’clock. J