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| I */ M and comay mem I I of general interest. Volume VII.—Number 22, City Os Edenton Takes Over State Built Electric Line Connecting Chowan Bridge Contract Signed at Spe cial Meeting of Town Council Tuesday FOR FIVeT YEARS Councilmen Also Vote \ To Tax Offenders Arrest Fees At a special meeting of Town Council Tuesday night a contract \ -was signed whereby the Town will take over the electric line from the city limits to Chowan River Bridge, over which the town heretofore fur nished power for the operation of the drawbridge. The line was erected by the State Highway and Public Works Commission, the town charg ing the State for electricity measur ed by a meter at the city limits. The agreement entered into Tues day night, which will become effec tive after July 1, provides that the Town of Kd.enton will take over the line, and at its own expense move tfie present meter to the bridge, fur nish and install necessary transform ers and equipment to change the vol tage of the line from 2,300 to 6,600 volts. The State will, however, change equipment at the bridge to take care of increased voltage. The Town will assume all mainte nance of the line to the bridge and will assume full responsibility for all present and future service connec tions to the line serving private con sumers of the electric current. The contract also provides that the Town will charge the State Highway . and Public Works Commission a rate m of cents per K.WJH. for electric % current used in connection with op eration of the bridge, with a mini mum charge of S2O per month. wiii, the State js fat a' period of five yearsV'butif during that time the wholesale rate of pow ey paid by the Town is either in creased or decreased, the rate charg ed the Highway Commission shall be Adjusted, in proportion, but in no » event shall the minimum charge be & reduced. # Heretofore, the State served con | consumers from tho city limits to the f bridge, charging a rate of 10 cents per K.W.H., which is considered too high for those using electricity. New homes are being built along this highway and it was due to much complaint about the price charged for electricity that the contract was entered into. At the meeting also it was called to the attention of the Board that the town is the loser financially since arrest fees were taken from policemen almost a year ago. Since that time salaries were raised and no fee charged to offenders who .were arrested. It was decided, there fore, to hereafter add arrest fees, which will be turned over to the Town treasurer. ’ Another ordinance was rescinded, which had for its purpose the show ing of not more than one traveling show within a period of 30 days. IN GREENVILLE PLAY 'The “Little Theatre Group” of Greenville, is sponsoring a play, en titled “Red Flannels,” on Thursday evening in which Miss Corie Bunch of Edenton, is taking a leading part. | FIRST DISTRICT’S SENATORS | ■ ‘ r I ~.,3 I • ~ \ •* - * Sill s I ' I \ A \ r , if i ii T i m HERBERT LEARY From t field of five candidates, Herbert Leary of Bdenton, and 'Merrill Evans of Ahoslde, easily led the field for two State > Senators from the first Senatorial District. Leary was given 7,197 votes and Evans 5,106, Jerry Hnghea of Elisabeth Qty, trail ing Evans by about 350 votes. THE CHOWAN HERALD f A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY New Representative IK I JjpP^r * ... m? jik ' Possibly the biggest upset in Saturday’s primary election was J. G. Campen’s defeat of John F. White, who has represented Chowan County in the General Assembly for four regular and one special terms, dampen won with the comfortable majority of 138 votes. Holton Resigns As High School Coach To Enter Business Buys Interest! In T. W Jenes 4 Company BIG SURPRISE NoV Successor Secured At Time The Herald Went To Press Coming as a distinct surprise to a large number of friends and students at Edenton High School was the an nouncement the latter part of last week that; David Holton had resigned as a teacher and athletic coach at the high school Mr. Holton tendered his resignation to Superintendent John A. Holmes shortly after his purchase of T. W. Jones’ interest in the T. W. Jones Hardware Company. Interest in the establishments is now owned, by Mr. Holton and M. A. Hughes, both of whom will devote all of their time to the business. Mr. Holton came to Edenton in 1936 and since coaching here has won for himself an enviable reputation for developing championship calibre football and baseball teams from ma terial that seemed not so promising. He developed two Northeastern championship teams in both football and baseball. v Mr. Holton graduated at Wake Forest in 1935 and. assisted in coach ing at the college in his senior year (Continued On Page Five) " I pß'' jtH 1 BL , iSf - <i Hogg ■EH MERRILL EVANS - Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, May 30, 1940. Little Response To Appeal For Funds To Help Refugees Chairman Quite -Con cerned at Lack of Contributions MAY CANVASS Only Nine Persons Give $36 Toward County’s Quota of SSOO Mrs. J. N. Pruden, chairman of the Chowan County chapter of the Red Cross, reported Tuesday that contributions for relief of refugees in Europe were coming in very slow ly. Up to that time she had received only $36, when the county’s quota has been set at SSOO. Mrs. Pruden expressed some concern at lack of response to the appeal for funds, and the hope that contri butions will be mad.e without resort ing to personal canvasses. Mrs. Pruden says that more than a million dollars have been contri buted by Americans to the war relief fund drive and that by the end of last week this total had been raised to more than $2,100,000 as more and more chapters reported their quotas had been exceeded. She expressed the hope that Chowan would rally to this urgent call for funds and thereby maintain its splendid record of extending its hand of sympathy in time of need. Contributions may be made to Mrs. Pruden, the Bank of Edenton or at The Chowan Herald office. Up to Tuesday only nine persons had made a contribution, these being J. L. Wiggins, Mrs. H. G. Wood, Mrs. O. M. Elliott, Miss Sophie Wood, Miss Carrie Coke, Mrs. J. N. Pruden, Mrs. Bertha Halsey, Miss Nettie Cowand and J. Edwin Bufflap. Clinics For Typhoid Treatments Begin Monday Morning Rocky Hock, Yeopim, St. John’s School First On Schedule On next Monday and continuing until June 27, typhoid clinics will be held throughout Chowan County for the purpose of all citizens, both adults and children, to be inoculated as a typhoid preventative. At these clinics children under six years of age may also be given the diphtheria vaccine. The clinics will be in charge of Dr. J. S. ChamMee, health officer for the Bertie-Chowan District Health Department, who is very anxious that everyone takes advantage of this service which is free and at the same time sets up a formidable bar rier against the ravages of typhoid and diphtheria. The schedule for the first week of the clinic will be: Monday, June 3rd, at Rocky Hock Church from 10 a. m. to 12 noon; Yeopim school, from 1 to 2:30 p. m.; St. John’s school, 3 to 4:30 p. m. Tuesday, June 4, at Ryland school, 9 to 11 a. m.; Center Hill school, 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m. Wednesday, June 5, at Edenton Health Department, 8:30 to 12 a. m. Thursday, June 6, at Advance school, 9 to 11 a. m. j All who contemplate taking these treatments are urged to be present at the first clinic in their neighbor hood., so that the three consecutive treatments will not be interrupted. Edenton Schedules Good Baseball Clubs In a one-sided baseball game Sun day, Edenton swamped Plymouth on the - local diamond 15-3. The game was very listless and of little inter est to the goodly number of fans on hand. Floyd Cayton, manager of the lo cals, announced this week that for the next four Sundays good ball clubs have been scheduled, which include the Shamrocks of Petersburg, Va., on June 9, Smithfield, Va., on June 16, the Norfolk Cavaliers on June 23, and Ocean View Cardinals on June 30. •« TRANSFERRED TO E. CITY Floyd White, who for the past several months has been connected with the local office of the North | Carolina Employment Service, wasj last week transferred to the Eliza- 1 both City office. Chowan Turns In Record Vole In Primary Election Saturday; Broughton Leads For Governor; Campen Beats John White CHOWAN COUNTY'S VOTE | STATE TICKET <u e c 5 o o c . l. > *> c •» e ‘E pje £ m ■? Governor: g| |-S g .. g § g§ * . | Broughton 279 184 29 129 101 160 BS2 Horton 183 208 47 6S 53 24 583 Maxwell . 134 145 34 38 29 17 397 Gravely 3 14 0 1 0 1 19 Grady 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 Cooper 5 4 2 1 0 1 13 Simmons 0 0 0 0 0 » 0 Lieutenant-Governor: Smith 162 166 18 21 19 22 408 Harris 197 166 53 67 96 52 631 Tompkins 29 26 12 7 4 8 86 Martin 65 59 6 10 10 8 158 Secretary of State: Eure 399 384 68 120 147 152 1270 Murphy 75 76 30 8 7 6 222 Auditor: Pou 278 284 50 69 74 70 825 Miller ll2 103 25 25 38 33 336 Commissioner of Agriculture: Spruill 260 259 45 33 67 50 714 Scott 265 190 49 86 73 67 730 Insurance Commissioner: Boney 289 230 48 55 83 64 769 Oliver 124 78 30 35 33 40 340 COUNTY TICKET State Senate: Leary 525 453 98 180 148 163 1657 Holmes 35 40 16 13 17 10 131 Evans 140 130 8 31 77 74 460 Gatling 55 72 13 71 28 36 275 Hughes r __ 95 71 27 3 37 7 240 Representative: White 320 271 65 57 ' 69 ‘V* £SO Campen 277 277 47 179 113 105 99S County Commissioner: Peele 101 128 229 Leary 156 50 206 Ward 131 131 Blanchard 68 63 Daily Vacation Bible School Ends Friday Service Will Be Held In Methodist Church At Night Friday will terminate the two weeks’ daily vacation Bible school being held, in the Methodist Church, during which time over 100 children have been meeting each morning to study the Bible and enjoy recreation al periods in connection with this study. The school, as in former years, has been very successful, youngsters from ail denominations attending the sessions, which have been conducted by an able corps of teachers. As a climax to the school, a ser vice will be held Friday night when some idea of the work accomplished will be presented to parents and friends, who are especially urged to be present. This service will begin at 8 o’clock, after which exhibits will be inspected and refreshments served. Rotary “Family Reunion” June 6 Windsor, Murfreesboro And Ahoskie Clubs Special Guests Edenton Rotarians will have a “family reunion’’ on Thursday night, June 6. The affair will be held at 7 o’clock in the Parish House, to which Rotary Annes will also be in vited. The “family” will include the Windsor Rotary Club, of which the Edenton Club is the “father,” and two “grandchildren,” the Murfrees boro and Ahoskie Clubs. The Wind sor Club is “father” of the latter two clubs. An interesting program for the occasion is now in the making, which will be in charge of Edenton Rotar ians. Swimming Classes Will Begin Monday Melvin Layton Again Instructor For Red Cross Chapter Annual Red Cross swimming class es will again be held this summer, the classes being scheduled to begin next Monday morning at 9 o’clock, and. continue for ten days. That in terest in this phase of Red Cross work is gradually increasing is evi dent by the fact that last year al most 150 youngsters were enrolled. Again this year the classses will be in charge of Melvin Layton, who will be assisted by Thomas Elliott. Layton, a very efficient instructor, has added to his experience by doing special work at Wake Forest College and taking a course in Red Cross life saving at Raleigh. The swimming lessons will be held (Continued on Ifage Mvel IN FIGHT TO FINISH J. M. BROUGHTON With a total vote of over 143,000, followed by W. P. Horton’s vote of over 102,000 in the race of seven candidates for Governor in Saturday’s Democratic primary election, the runner-up’Tias an nounced that he will ask for a run-off, which will be held Saturday, June 22. I This newspaper if circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realize good results. $1.25 Per Year. Horton Asks For Sec ond Primary to De cide Winner CHOWANVOTE 1,897 Leary and Evans Win In Race For State Senate Despite the belief on the part of some that because of the new regis tration in Chowan County, many voters would not be eligible to cast a ballot, a record vote for the county resulted in Saturday’s Demo cratic primary election. According to returns 1,897 votes were cast for Governor, which passes the previous high of 1,835 votes cast in the Eh ringhaus’ campaign in 1932. Os the seven candidates for Gov ernor, Chowan was included in the Broughton column, 882 votes going to the leader, 583 to Horton and 397 to Maxwell, Gravely was given 19, Grady 3, Cooper 13, while Simmons failed to get a single vote-. For Lieutenant Governor Chowan favored Harris, who secured 631 votes with Smith being the runner up with 408. Thad Eure was given a large ma jority with 1,270 votes as against j 221 for Murphy. For Auditor, incumbent George Ross Pou claimed 952 votes to 338 for Miller. C. Wayland Spruill and W. Kerr 'Scott went neck and neck, the latter getting a slight majority 730 to 714. Dan Boney easily outran Oliver, the former receiving 769 votes to 340 for Oliver. Herbert Leary in the State Senate race easily led the field of five candidates. Mr. Leary was given 1,567 votes, with Merrill Evans in second place with 460. Holmes got 131, Gatling 275 and Hughes 240. Leary and Evan -over.; tV. two high in the district. In a rather surprise vote J. G. Campen defeated John F. White as Chowan County’s representative in the General Assembly. Campen won with a comfortable margin of 138 votes, receiving 998 to 860 for White. In the two contests for county commissioner, Incumbents J. R. Peele in the Second. Township and A. (Continued On Page Five) Mr. and Mrs. McCullers In Automobile Wreck Mr. and Mrs. C. L. McCullers fig ured in an automobile wreck Satur day night, the accident occuring near Raleigh when another automobile ran into them. Mrs. McCullers re ceived a sprained ankle in the crash as well as cuts about the face. Mr. McCullers, aside from a shaking-up, was not injured. The McCullers’ car was badly damaged, but they were able to re turn home Sunday night. Bank Os Edenton Be Closed Today Today (Thursday) being national Memorial Day, the Bank of Edenton will be closed all day in observance of the holiday. The doors will be open for business as usual at 9 o’clock Friday morning. Mr - Wmmm §H$ v W. F, HORTON
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