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lof general interest? I Volume Vll,—Number ,33. Councilman Wrestle Long Into Night With Figures 1 But Fail To Set Tax Rate Tentative Figures Will Require Increase To $1.05 BONDS REDUCED «' Special Meeting Called For 5 O’clock This Afternoon Arithmetical progression is always a perplexing problem for Town Councilmen to wrestle with, and when the goal of such effort is the establishment of a' tax rate for the citizens to face, the problem becomes a worse one. For two or three hours on Tuesday night the Council worried with this, going over the recently completed audit with a fine tooth comb, and jotting down offsets here and there to make a budget fit the tax needs of the community, and finally giving up, not in despair, but in agony," and deciding on this after noon for a special meeting to thresh the matter to a conclusion. A Special meeting at 5 o’clock this afternoon was called for a three fold purpose: Firt, it is hoped to set the tax rate and also to decide, after an investigation, whether the Town should buy the property on which stood the recently destroyed Brown Lumber Company plant. The other matters to be threshed out relate to a proposed WPA project to pave sidewalks, a few streets and to wid en King Street. And white nothing definite was reached Tuesday nighty sufficient can be said to ease the situation by the .statement, the tax rate will be v “about” as it was last year, $1 a hundred, or at least but a scant few points beyond that figure. As the figures aqw stand, the rate*' wih have to be $1.05, a raise' oF’Kve cents over last year. This may, how ever, be shaved down a bit when the budget is again gone over this after noon. In the hang-outs of the non-coun cilmen, where -the affairs of state are always so easily settled, even this will not be pleasing. There has been much talk that because the Town is about out of bond debt—it! has cut its obligation on debt ser vice down to a minimum of $1,250 for the year, why, of course, this should mean a tax rate' lower by about 11 points than heretofore. But the Town was in the red, be hind, last year around $3,200 due to a new storm sewer which, of course, wtfl have to be cleaned up. The Fire Department is asking about $2,000 more than it .did in the fiscal year just ending. This amount is needed for new hose and other equipment. It is also the purpose to employ A1 Owens and Tom Goodman as regular firemen with each working the same number of hours and the salary set fo* each at SIOO a month. ‘ Th e Street Department’s budget was about $2,000 less than last year, but two needed projects, a new storm sejver line to carry off excess water from Hicks Field, and a box culvert across Granville Street to replace three small pipes, brought the total to $14,643, or only about S2OO below last year’s estimate. There is a slight increase in the Police Department, due to the need of new uniforms this year. The Health appropriation has been increased from $545 to s6o§, and while under other expenses appro priations were made last year for chairs at the Armory, and the Athle tic Park project which are not neces sary this yea t, this year’s estimate is $6,176, or a little over SI,OOO be low last year. It was this talk and these needs and the $3,200 shortage that mad* the hair of the Gouncilmen more touseled as they ran their fingers and pencils thrugh it in an effort to bring result out of agony. But yes* terday calmness settled upon these fevered brows and this afternoon something tax-rate-sure is to be reached. It is true, proudly true and the Councilmen are glad of it, that the Town is getting so quickly out of debt, and everybody wishes it would be sooner than it will, be, but where 11 one debt is reduced or wiped out another develops and accrues in its place. •<- It is necessary and proposed for budget inclusion that a culvert will haive to be sunk in Granville Street ’ up toward the Suffolk Road, and 1 that a storm sewer is necessitated back of the ball park and Amory to < THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY Orders Are Orders < “I want you to tag every car which violates the one-hour park ing .ordinance today,” Police Commissioner Leroy Haskett in formed Chief of Police G. A. Helms early Saturday morning in an effort to relieve the Satur day parking situation. The Chief so instructed his subordinates and all checked carefully on cats all day. Mr. Haskett, during the morning, dropped in The Herald office to took over the Town audit and be came so engrossed, he remained a couple of hours. When he went back to his oar the vehicle had a ticket in it for parking over time. “Orders is orders,” main tained Haskett as he trotted to the Police iStation in answer to the warning ticket. Three Cases Slated For Superior Court Norman Outland In Jail After Over Year’s Freedom Three white male prisoners were in jail custody this week, one an al leged fugitive of a year and a half back, and after preliminary hearings next week are slated for trial before the September term of Superior Court to be presided over by Judge William C. Harris, who returns te Chowan after a five years’ absence other circuits. ~-jSwf Norman Outland, former up-county resident, was, picked up by Sheriff J. A. Bunch in Norfolk, Va., on Monday after being sought since April 1939. Outland will Jbe remembered as hav ing been up in the Superior Court in the spring term of 1939 charged with attempted rape in the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Chappell. He was , acquitted, and less than a month j later was charged with breaking and | entering the home of G. C. Hare. He managed to get away, however, and has been sought since. Sunday Sheriff Bunch got word he was in Norfolk, and now he’s in jail here. Harry Lee Spruill, white boy, and George Matthew Trueblood are also under arrest. Spruilll is charged with having taken an outboard motor be longing to O. C. Davis. He’s out on bail. Trueblood is accused of enter ing~Jesse Barrington’s smoke house | and taking 10 pieces of meat. The Sheriff landed him in jail. First Copies New Book Arrive Sunday To Go To Local Personal Friends Initial advance copies of Mrs | Inglis Fletcher’s new romantic novel, “Raleigh’s Eden,” which is centered about life in Edenton and New Bern in the pre-Revolutionary era and on which she has been at work for six years, are expected to reach Mrs. Fletcher next Sunday or Monday. The formal publishing date will be September 26. The copies Mrs. Fletcher expects ahead of that time she' will autograph and present to friends she has made in Edenton; while stopping at the Hotel Joseph I Hewes since May 7 last. Already Mrs. Fletcher is at work' on an additional novel about Eden-1 ton life and has been busy of late going over old records in the Court House. She expects, also, to start a romantic tale based on the life of Alexander Hamilton end is a very active writer for a grandmother. Privott Speaker At Today’s Rotary Meet Wood Privott, unemployment sup ervisor in this territory, will have charge of the prograft at today’s Ro tary luncheon. Mr. Privott will talk I lon vocational work and will offer ] I statistics and other facts to show i the future is still ripe for those who are serious in their efforts to find 1 work. . ] last week Byrum E. Weathers, of i Shelby, who recently came to Eden- , ton to work under Mr. Privott, told the Rotarians of the special branch of the service he handles, farm 1 placements and the handling of mi. < srratory workers. His talk. w» i terestmg and was listened to avidly. ] Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 15, 1940. Aliens Required To , Be Fingerprinted At Post Office 1 Work Must Be Com pleted Before De cember 26 kramerln CHARGE All Under 14 Years Old Must Be Presented By Guardians While it is not thought there are many aliens in Chowan County, a war emergency measure known as the Alien Registration Act was pass ed last spring, and under its provis ions postmasters are directed to round up, register and finger print these foreign-bom residents who have not yet become naturalized. Such a job has fallen upon Post master C. E. Kramer, and he is very anxious to have the cooperation of every alien in Chowan County. The registration and fingerprint ing will start on August 27 and will run to the following December 26, which means that in between those dates Chowan aliens should yisit the Edenton post office to register, fill 1 out confidential blanks, and submit 1 L themselves to fingerprinting. Nat uralliy, while there is such a four 1 months period, Mr. Kramer is anx ious that the work be done as quick- I ly as possible. Aliens under 14 years will be pre sented by their parents or guardians for registration, but will not be fingerprinted until they have reached 14 years, at which time they will be ! required to present themselves anew ; for another registration and for fin gerprinting. Postmaster Kramer is particular in saying that all information fur nished by the allien registering will 1 be viewed by the government as sec -1 ret and in strict confidence and will 1 in no sense be divulged to anyone but accredited federal officials. All of the work in connection with , the registration and fingerprinting will be done in this county at the Edenton post office under Mr. Kramer’s personal supervision. N. S. Authorized To Give Up Lines Local Suffolk Branch In Existence For About Half Century Word came from Washington on Tuesday that the Interstate Com merce Commission had given formal I consent to the last spring abandon ment by the Norfolk Southern rail road of its 47.4 miles of line between Edenton and Suffolk and 20.25 miles! of similar line running in to Eliza-j beth City from what is known as Beckford Junction. r^le federal body authorized the Norfolk Southern to sell its Suffolk' terminals to the Virginia Railway, a : subsidiary, for $65,000. The Eden ton-Suffolk branch line has been in existence for a half century or more, but since motor traffic came into vogue has been much in disuse. The I railroad announced last spring it had quit on the line and would not continue it. WatermeECrop Is Nearing End Number Estimated at From 450,000 to Al most Million Chowan County’s watermelon sea son is just about over and the crop is said to be one of the largest in a number of years, with the melons 1 exceptionally sweet and delicious. Os course, it is hard to estimate the crop numerically, but around 30 boats have left the Edenton harbor, besides the large number which were hauled by trucks and "a number of «*s loaded at Valhalla. This does < not take into aceount those melons 1 which were marketed by the growers ' themselves: 1 The number of melons grown has ; been estimated all the way from *SO,- ( 000 to upwards of a miHion, and 1 Prices have ranged in the neighbor- t Bands And Scouts Leave For Week's ! Camp August 25 Youngsters Will Again Spend Vacation at Camp Leach ! C05T~56.75 [ Daily Band Instruction Will Be Feature of Outing ! Edenton’s High School Band, and the Boy Scouts will hold their annual i camp at Camp Leach, near Wash ington, for one week beginning Sunday, August 25. Aside from the i two Edenton organizations, the Co , lumbia band will also attend. Each and every band member will receive three and one-half hours in struction on instruments daily and Director C. L. McCullers urges all members to avail themselves of this splendid opportunity to get in first class shape for the beginning of school. The cost of encampment this year will be $6.75 per person and only l enlisted members of both bands will | be eligible to attend and those who join the band on or before August 17th. The Boy Scouts are almost 100 per cent band members and their work will doubtless be of much in terest. All campers will be under the con stant care and supervision of four band instructors, two swimming in structors and life guards, two kitch- en and house matrons, and Mrs. Mc- Cullers will have charge of the girls’ quarters and will also take care of the feeding situation. Two cpmpe tent cooks will be on hand to handle the cooking. Several parents of band members will also be in camp. A tentative schedule of each day’s activities will be as follows: 6:£5 First call. 6:65 Reveille. - 7:00 Line up for roQl call. 7:05 Police grounds and clean up barracks. 7:30 Morning swim. 7:45 Assemble for breakfast. (Continued On Page Five) Masonic Lodge Hall Now Thing Os Beauty i New Furniture Adds To Appearance of Old Room i After an earnest effort at renova tion and beautification, running over a period of several months, the his toric little second floor Court House room occupied by Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., has at last ! been finished, and is already a source |of attraction to the members and j others who visit from day to day. Except for the window draperies to I enshroud the smart Venetian blinds I the work of making over the place ! can be said to be done, and is a cre dit to Master C. W. Sawyer, who caused it to be done at a cost oi around S7OO. The Washington Chair, ever a I source of wonderinent, has been re moved from its glass case to a cor ner place in the wall, formerly a large cupboard, and covered by a plate glass door so it can be seen by every one. The ancient fireplace ; has been taken over by an iron safe j for lodge records and the black mar -1 ble wall about it is being touched up by Paul Olsson, who has done much to make the side walls and ceiling of i the lodge room attractive. | The stations for the. Master and Wardens have all been built anew, too, and the floor is covered with a soft blue carpet. Along the east wall are a series of chrome plate steel frame deeply upholstered chairs for the members, while the secretary and treasurer have been furnished with walnut desks and swivel chairs. On the whole the new quarters will compare favorably with any lodge in North Carolina and Unanimity is quite proud of that fact. Number Os Openings In NYA Centers Miss Adelaide Tuttle, district sup ervisor for the National Youth Ad ministration with office headquarters in Edenton, announced yesterday that she will receive applications for work in the various resident centers in this section. Miss Tuttle’s mem oranda states, there are plenty of op portunities tad those anxious td fill them should get in touch with her as quickly as possible* Membership In Chamber of CommercelncreasedToßo As Committees File Reports 1 “Poppergander” | Quite in line with their repu tation as being thrifty farmers, Mr. and Mrs. Hiiiairy T. Hobbs have hung up a record for rais ing geese which others can shoot at. On their farm in the Paradise section Mir. and Mrs. Mrs. Hobbs this year had two female geese and a male goose. The two laying geese laid a total of 111 eggs and from this num ber of eggs 91 baby geese were hatched. Only one has died, leaving 90 geese from the year’s hatch. The trick in hatching so many of the eggs lay in the fact that when a small batch of eggs were on hand they were placed under a hen instead of depending on the goose to do the hatching. Mattress Project Ready In Chowan Final Date For Applica tions Is Saturday, August 31 Next Saturday a week, August 31, will be the last day the county home demonstration agent or county agent can receive applications for any of the 120 mattresses to be made in the federal cotton mattress project. Announcement was made this week by Miss Rebecca Colwell, home dem onstration agent, that Chowan Coun ty had received the cotton for this first group of mattresses and ex pects the ticking to complete the vvork immediately. The present plan is to have the mattresses mad.e by those who are to receive them in the Forehand peanut storage house near the Col |i ore d High School, and work will be | £> n as «arly as possible after the I j ticking arrives. Each woman mat tress worker is requested to bring f | two or three helpers and if possible a man or boy should be on hand, also, to help with lifting and beating the cotton. Notification will go to ! each prospective family mattress owner exactly what date to come and do the job. An important thing to know is that many of those who have applied for mattresses have not made their initail deposit of $1 to cover cost of thread, needles, rent, etc., and this should be forthcoming' at once. All farm people whose gross in come is less than S4OO are eligible for a mattress and should bring in their application and dollar at once. More Improvements Are Made At Hotel Renovation and beautification of the Hotel Joseph Hewes which has been under rather steady improve- 1 ment since the new management took possession a year and a half ago, took on a new turn this week with the re-upholstering of the furniture in the hotel lobby. All of the pieces have been done over in varied color ed Dupont fabrikoid coverings and present a fancy futuristic appear ance. Manager G. H. Harding is making similar changes to much of the fur niture in the various bed rooms and offers an invitation to everyone to | drop in and see the improved ap pearance of the place. Creswell Auxiliaries Entertained At Rectory Mrs. B. W. Gaither and Mrs. 0. C Edwards entertained at a joint meet ing of the Columbia and Creswell . I auxiliaries Thursday evening at the Creswell rectory. Following the business session presided over by the local president, Mrs. W. D. Peele, Mrs. Gaither gave i a talk on “The Circular System.” 1 1 At the conclusion of the meeting | 1 delicious refreshments were served 1 by the hostesses. Those present were: Mesdames 1 W. S. Carawan, T. W. Armstrong, < Henry Davenport and Joseph Tucker, j Misses Essie Mason and Anne Tuck er, all of Columbia; Mrs. Mate Spruill, of Travis; Mesdames B. W Gaither, O. C. Edwards, Ida HasseQl, Ida Swain, W. D. Peele, J. A. Brick- 1 house, Harry Phelps, and Miss Caro- 1 line Swain, of Creswell. •. •«-v'-'-y - 'iaiito-,,. ■ ttKmmmm ipaHu This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realise good results. $1.25 Per Year. “'s' i ; Expected That at Least 100 Will Sign Up For Year MUCH INTEREST Final Report Friday Af ter Which Meeting Will Be Called Committee chairmen who have been combing the business men of the town the past two weeks in a drive for Chamber of Commerce memberships, met in the Municipal Building Monday night and tumea in the most encouraging report since the organization has been in exist ence. More than 80 new members were reported as having signed up, with, maybe, half as many more lively prospects waiting to board the final band wagon. Last year the Chamber, allowed to lag, dwindled to 68 members, but this year there seems a certainty of putting the total up to 100 or more. | In the absence of John A. Holmes, I the general chairman, it was decided to continue the canvass further this week and meet with Mr. Holmes to . morrow, Friday, afternoon at 5 o’clock, at which time a definite re port will be made and a date set for the members to gather and choose officers to serve for the coming year. J. G. Campen, president of the , Merchants Association and an en ■ thusiastic Chamber of Commerce I member, presided and urged all the committeemen to carry on their good work for another week. He was • Profuse in his gratification over the ' initial results and remarked “the fu ture is assured.” . Last week there, had seemed a dis inclination on of many of , those seen to sign lip immediately. Everyone, however, realized the im portance of keeping the organization ; going, but expressed a desire to wait " awhile before acting. But this week the canvassers met less resistance. On the contrary , the y found a sharp interest in the Chamber and an eagerness to affil . iate quickly. Where but around 25 i members joined in the initial week stages the total was swelled from this figure to 80 in the second week’s I drive, and this with several commit teemen absent and unreporting. ’[ Everyone present seemed much en couraged by the individual reports and the way things were going, and the general feeling was, that while the membership fees, as revised, un der the new regimentation would not assure a great amount of yearly in come there would be an ample suf ficiency to meet all obligations un der a new*and careful management. Final Service Os Year At St. David’s Sunday Rev. B. W. Gaither of Creswell. announces that morning* services will be held, at St. David’s Church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. This will | P ro hably be the final service at this church for the year. The public is cordially invited. Sunday evening services will be held at the Galilee Mission at Lake Phelps. Tire Burns Off Large Scrap Iron Truck Firemen were called to North Granville Street Tuesday morning where a tire burned on a large truck loaded with scrap iron. The tire had gone flat which caused it to ignite. The truck and iron was the prop erty of Vernon Beard of Norfolk, Va., who was on his way home from New Bern, where he secured the junk. Car And Bus Collide Tuesday Morning J. M. Harrell’s automobile was badly damaged! and a quantity of milk and eggs scattered over the street Tuesday morning when his car and a Norfolk Southern bus col lided at the corner of Eden and Granville Streets. Mr. Harrell was entering Granville Street from Eden Street when the accident occurred. Fortunately no one was hurt. MASONS MEET TONIGHT The regular communication of Unanimity Lodge A. F. & A. M., will be held tonight at -8 oclock. All members a«* urged to atteiM
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