North Carolina Newspapers

" ™ V : | Volume Vlll.—Number 9. Special Meeting At Court House March ' 4th For Farmers Provisions of Double m Barreled Program to Be Explained VERY IMPORTANT Federal Stamps Given For Reduction of Cotton Land A county-by-county campaign to acquaint North Carolina fanners < with provisions of the double-barrel ed 1941 supplementary AAA program begins this week, announces John W. Goodman, assistant director of the N. C. State College Extension (Ser vice. First of the meetings starts Thurs day in ten counties, as an equal number of teams of agricultural specialists open the drive. Last of the meetings will be held March 8. In the time intervening, every coun ty affected by the program will have been reached. In Chowan County, a special meet ing has been called for Tuesday, March 4th, at the Court House. As outlined, the new program will enable growers to take cotton land out of production for which they will receive Federal stamps exchangeable in retail stores for cotton goods manufactured in this country. Then, too, Goodman explained, those who qualify for cotton stamps may also receive a payment for producing and conserving food sup continued on Page Five) Campen Introduces Bill For Extra Term r Os Chowan Court » ... *ak Added Session Would Reduce Accumulation Os Civil Cases Because of the accumulation of left over civil cases on the Ghowan Superior Court Calendar, Represen tative J. G. Campen introduced legis lation this week providing for an extra term of Chowan Superior Court. At the present time Chowan operates, as do other small coun ties, under a three annual terms regulation. The Campen provision would lengthen this and permit one more such term. As an example, for 18 months now the suit brought by Chesson against the Plymouth pulp mill for alleged breach of contract, and the action begun by G. H. Harding and the Hotel Joseph Hewes against the Southern Loan and Insurance Com pany, of Elizabeth City, for alleged contractural misrepresentations, have largely occupied the full time of the presiding jurists in consideration of the civil calendar, this to the detri ment of other actions. Should the Campen bill go through, the extra term will ,help clear up the usually crowded civil docket. Three More Chowan Men Sent To Camp Another white man, William Hen ry Wilkins, was on Monday sent to Fort Bragg from Chowan County by the local draft board for induc tion into military service. Today (Thursday) two colored men, Waymon Lee Cofton and John nie Ward, were also sent to Fort Bragg. The CAiowan County Draft Board reports that through Thursday seven men have been sent to camp, all of whom volunteered. Os the seven, three Were white men and four were colqred. Creswell Man Loses - Foot In Accident Clyde Woodley, of rireswefi, em ployed in the log woods near Cherry, suffered a painful and tragic acci "dent Wednesday morning when the log jitney he was operating run over , the instep of his foot and mangled ‘ it. He was rushed to Creswell Hos pital where Dr. J. If- Phelps ren dered first aid and sent him to Tn - loe Hospital in Washington, where it was found necessary to amputate his foot and leg below the knee, j —■—-■ evening at T:aO oclock. > .v\- : - THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY [ Day Os Prayer"! Churches in Edenton will join in a national observance of World Day of Prayer on Friday, when a service will be held in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Members of all congregations are urged to attend this service, which will be held st 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. While the meeting is sponsored by the women of the various churches, men are especially in vited to attend. U. N. C. Band Gives Lively Concert At School On Tuesday About 500 Music En thusiasts Thrilled At School varied’program Collegians Entertained At Dance In Armory After Concert One of the best of Edenton musi cal treats offered here in recent years drew a large crowd of music lovers on Tuesday night, when the leading band organization in the State, the uniformed and expertly tutored University of North Caro lina Band of Chapel Hill, gave a lively concert at the High School Auditorium. Around 500 townsfolk were in attendance and heard the visitors go through a program which ran the gamut from symphony to swing. The smartly attired young men under the personal direction of Prof. Earl A. Slocum, head of the Music Department of the University, went through their concert in away re minding old timers present of the clays of John Philip Sousa and his Bani of Washington. In fact they had Sousa in mind when Prof. Slocum called upon them to render the “March Carticulaire,” one of the popular Sousa pieces, and that other favorite of Teddy Roosevelt’s “Garry Owen ” But the Chapel Hill boys i handled classical and symphony stuff as well, and as for modem day swing music, what they didn’t know about that would make Ben Bemie or Bing Crosby turn over and weep. Those who heard the concert were highly enthusiastic as to the musical skill shown by the visiting organiza tion, and local band director C. L. McCullers, who introduced Prof. Slocum and his boys as well as hav ing previously sponsored their ap pearance here, has already been im portuned to arrange for a return date which he says he will try to bring about. The bandsters were entertained ai the Hotel Joseph Hewes and in the private homes of the Edenton hand children, and after the concert were provided further enjoyment at a dance at the Armory, at which their impression- of Edenton belles was a good one. Visitations Order Os Day For Lions Club Edenton Lions did not have their regular meeting Monday night, the club instead making two visitations this week. On Wednesday night a large num ber of the members went to Elizabeth City to attend the observance of charter night by the Elizabeth City club, of which Edenton Lions are the grandfather. The local club spon sored the Hertford club, which in turn sponsored the Elizabeth City club. At this meeting W. J. Taylor, secretary of the Edenton club, pre sented a beautiful American flag to the new club, and in presenting it made a splendid address on wfhat it means and stands for. Thursday of last week the Lions en masse journeyed to Plymouth to take part in the celebration of anni versary night of the Washington County Club. At this meeting the principal speaker was Dr. Ralph McDonald, of Chapel Hill. Mrs. Grace Dobson To Attend Convention At High Point March 9-11 At a meeting of the Board of Di rectors of tiie Edenton- Merchants Association, JMfik. Grace Dobson, sec retary, was authority to repre sent the Edenton Association at a secretaries’ conference tor be held in High Point on March 9 to 11. At this meeting the secretaries , jn at tendance will study new methods in promotional ideas and credit reports Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 27, 1941. Bundles For Britain Benefit At Hotel Shining Success Styles, Cards, Games And Souvenirs Please Large Crowd LARGEPROFIT Affair Quickens Inter est In Worthy Cause For England “Bundles for Britain” has been un der way in Chowan for some time now, and the large attendance and great enthusiasm shown last Friday night at the card and game party and style show held in furtherence of this worthwhile cause at the Hotel Joseph Hewes, was indicative evidence that the campaign has had a renewed and freshened life and will go on in this section to an even greater goal. While modestly disclaiming her part in the drive or Friday night party, much of the credit for the present day interest in the cam paign should go to the Edenton chairman, Mrs. Julien Wood. But Mrs. Wood says this is not so and that had it not been for the -early impetus given by Mrs. R. P. Bad ham, and for the party handling by Mrs. J. W. Davis and Mrs. W. I. Hart, and the many others associated with them, “Bundles for Britain” would not be in the important posi tion it is today in Chowan. It is true great importance should be placed on the part played by Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Hart at Friday night’s affair. They directed the selling of tickets for the affair, they personally arranged the attractive decorations in the hotel’s rear Rain bow Room, where the party was held, they coaxed from other town matrons the cakes and tidbits and other deli cacies served to tfie guests, and at the party proper directed the little , ones and grown ups who participated , in the preliminary style show, and . arranged for card, playing and other games at the twenty tables thus put ’ in play. No check up was made on the at , tendance at the party, but it was es , timated that around 200 were pres , ent and everyone lingered on until i toward midnight. Writing aside right here, the party demonstrated one thing, and that that for affairs of this kind Edenton needs a flat floor place or rendezvous larger in size than the hotel room but smaller, of course, than the larger Armory floor. Friday night’s crowd over-crowded the hotel but would -have been en tirely too small, However, for the Armory. Prizes were given at the party. (Continued on Page Five) 16 From Edenton Band To Play In All-Star Concert Group Will Leave For Rocky Mount Friday Morning sixteen members of the Edenton- High School Band have been selected to play in the fourth concert of the All-Star Band in Rocky Mount Fri day. Director C. L. McCullers has arranged for the musicians to leave Edenton at 8:30 Friday morning and upon arrival at Rocky Mount a rehearsal will be held at 10 o’clock. The parade will take place at 3:30 and will be followed by a banquet at 6 o’clock and a band concert at 8, o dock. A dance will also be staged in honor of the All-Star Band from 9:80 to 12 o’clock, with an orchestra furnishing the music. 1 Superintendent John A. Holmes and Mayor J. H. McMullan have been invited to accompany the group a a honor guests. Those who will represent Edenton in the All-Star outfit are: Maurice Bunch and George Alma Byrum, trumpets; Shelton Moore, alto; Janie Jditchener and Norma Perry, clari nets; Carolyn Oglesby and Annie Macon Byrum, flutes; Elton Fore hand, snare drum; Ed Parker, trom bone; Lester Stewart, alto saxa phone; Gumie Hobbs, bass; Billie Brunson, baritone; Julia Burton, Charlotte Bunch and Benbury Wood, drum majors, Frances HoHowell, li brarian. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr, ami Mis. Claude Small an* nounce the birth a* a daughter, on Thursday, February 20, at General Hospital, Norfolk, Vfc. - Councilmen Obliged Postpone Discussion Town Improvements Definite Action Was to Have Been Made Tuesday Night MEET FRIDAY Opposition and Approv al Heard of Contem plated Work For the second time, a special meeting of Town Council has been postponed at which it was planned to definitely decide whether or not a number of town improvements should be made with the aid of WPA funds. A meeting was scheduled for Mon day of last week, but was postponed because of illness of the street com missioner, who had. the figures on the various proposed sites. Another meeting was called for Tuesday night of this week, at 7:30 o’clock, but this meeting was post poned Tuesday afternoon when it was learned that Councilman W. M. Wil kins would not be back from a trip to the Mardi Gras at New Orleans, that the hour of meeting interferred with Dr. L. P. Williams’ office hours and Councilman O. B. Perry had made previous arrangements to at tend the University of North Caro lina Band concert at the high school, without which a quoroum could not have met. It is the desire to have every Councilman present when this very important matter is threshed, out, for at present there appears to be oppo sition to any improvements at all be ing made as well as disapproval of only a portion of them. The meet ing, when it is held, will be open to the public so that any opposition to the proposed improvements may be heard as well as any helpful sugges tions made. The matter of improvements has v een discussed for several months by the Councilmen, after it was sug gested that Edenton should take ad vantage of the opportunity to make improvements while WPA help is available. Accordingly, the idea was advanced of paving some of the streets, putting down sidewalks on all streets and the widening of King IStreet from Court Street to the rear of the Bank of Edenton in order to relieve traffic congestion. Later, it was decided, however, that some im provements should be made to the cotton mill village and a curb and gutter project was subsequently added to the list of proposed im provements. The street commission er was instructed to secure figures for the various projects which have been in hand, for several weeks To do all of this work a3 now pro (Continued on Page Eight) P. T. A. Will Sponsor Womanless Wedding At School March 14 Cast of About 50 Men Now Being Rounded Up By Ladies Friday night, March 14, at 8 o’clock, has been the time and date set for staging a Womanless Wed ding by the Edenton Parent-Teacher Association. The entertainment will be held in the high school auditorium and from present reports, the com mittee in charge, the affair will be a scream from start to finish and will no doubt attract a large au -4 dience. The cast of characters is now be ing chosen, and will include members of the various civic and fraternal organizations, all of whom previously agreed to cooperate in the enter tainment in the way of taking part as actors. There will be about 50 included in the cast, some of whom will be quite a drawing card. The names will be published in next week’s Herald. Tickets will be on sale the week prior to the show and it is hoped a goodly return will be realized to boost the milk fund treasury. A large wedding cake will also go to some lucky person in connec tion with the Womanless Wedding. MASONS MEET TONIGHT The regular communication of Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. ft A. M„ will be held tonight (Thursday) in the Court House at 8 o’clock. G. A. Helmes, the master, urges every member to attend as well as invites visiting Masons. Is- May Queens Miss Margaret White Byrum, daughter of Mrs. Carroll Byrum, of near Cross Roads, was signal ly honored Monday when she was elected May Queen at Louis burg College, where she is a stu dent. (Miss Byrum is in her sec ond year at Louisburg. Friends will also be pleased to know that Miss Anna Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Wood, was elected as May Queen at St. Mary’s College, in Raleigh. Jordan And Cayton Return Contracts Unsigned To Clubs John Byrum at Present Undecided Where He Will Play MAUS MANAGER Hopes Fade For North ern Teams Training In Edenton With baseball training in the offing, and contracts being signed or not! signed as the case may be, Edenton can lay claim to two holdouts at, least. These two are Lester Jordan and William Cayton. Jordan, star twirler for the Mooresville team in the North Caro-1 lina State League last season, has! returned his unsigned contract to the [ club’s officials. The salary offered! him will not justify him and his wife living in the Iredell County town and he will, therefore, give up professional baseball unless a more attractive salary is offered. In event a higher salary is not offered, he plans to remain in Edenton and ac cept a position with Hughes-Holton Hardware Company as a tractor specialist. Jordan hung up an enviable record \ on the mound last year and it is re ported that other teams would not mind having him in their lineup. The other hold-out is William Cay ton, who went with the Pocomoke City team last season after training in Edenton. Cayton, too, was one of the outstanding players on the Poco moke City outfit and was not satis fied with the salary offered in his contract which was returned un-, signed. • John Byrum, another Edenton re cruit who last season joined the j Pocomoke City team but later signed up with the Waverly, Va., team, ex pects to play again this year, but has not decided which offer to ac cept of the several made to him. However, whatever decision will be made by the above trio, Ed.enton baseball fans are somewhat disap pointed in not having an opportunity to see Coach .Jimmy Maus in a base ball uniform around these parts this summer. Coach Maus has signed a contract as player-manager of the Hickory team of the Tar Heel Lea gue. Last year he was catcher and manager for the Thomasville club. He will not, however, leave Edenton until the school term ends. With baseball fever gradually de veloping, there has been no further information regarding northern clubs training here this spring. In the ’ast letter Dave Holton received from Brooklyn officials, it was stated that the matter of training in Edenton had not been definitely settled, but that it was the desire to go further south. Since that time no further word has been heard by Mr. Holton and it is believed the idea of train ing here has been abandoned. Miss Marie Reid Again Back At Western Union Friends are glad to welcome back to Edenton Miss Marie Reid, Western Union operator, who returned Sun day night. Miss Reid has been away from Edenton several months dur ing which time she has been doing relief work in other sections of Nortn Carolina, as well as in Virginia and Florida. Alex White, who had been working 'or Miss Reid during her ahsence, has been transferred to Washing ton, N. C. P. T. A. Meeting On Tuesday Afternoon The Edenton Parent-Teachers As sociation will meet Tuesday after noon, March 4, in the library of the school. Alt that time Mrs. David Pearsall, lunch room supervisor, will speak on the canning project to be undertaken here this summer. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 3:30 o’clodc, and every member is especially urged to be present. EiiMHHUHENBMfou. This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realise good results. $1.25 Per Year Bill For Erection Os Army Blimp Base Presented Monday Hearings on Measure to Be Heard During Week EDENTONHOPEFUL Norfolk - Cape Hatteras Area Only Clue as to Location With the introduction in Congress on Monday of a bill providing, a mong other things, for a Naval blimp base in “the Norfolk-Cape Hatteras section,” interest was renewed here as to whether the nearby Sound wa ter front will be selected for the base. The bill, stipulating the base will cost over $5,000,000 and be one of four in the country, was introduc ed, by Chairman Vinson of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, and will be acted upon, it is thought, after hearings this week. Edenton’s prospects for securing the base have been in the air since a visit hereabouts late last fall by Cap tain C. E. Rosendahl, the lighter than-air naval expert. He then ex pressed himself as kindly disposed to | this territory, but since no tip 'has been received in substantiation of I this. i The base offered Rosendahl when i here embraces the Julien and Hal I Wood tracts east of the town on the I Soundshore road, including the old | mansions “Athol” and “Mulberry f Hill.” Between 1,300 and 1,400 acres are in the tract offered the govern ment. Legislators Speed Through Edenton On Way To E. City Governor J. M. Brough ton SaiuttAißana From Haiform of Car Figuratively, and literally, too, the migratory solons of this great and noble State, on their way to the town in Pasquotank for a fish fry and ' by-your-leave admission to the Coast Guard station there, gave the merry ! ha-ha to Edenton about noon yester day as their Norfolk Southern spec ial whizzed by without stopping, but the Governor of North Carolina didn’t. With a stiff breeze whipping his clothing about him, and with his nearest vice, Lieutenant Governor Harris, by his side, he stood on the observation platform of his private car and smiled and waved his hand in graceful salutation at the high school band lined up to out-blare the whistling and tooting and bell ring ing of the two train engines as the special passed. But if the Governor was thus gra ciously in sight, frankness compels the noticeable observation that the Senator and Representative from Edenton were not when the train flew past. The State executive’s happy gesture in braving the biting wind, as he did, to honor the town will long be remembered. Os course, Edenton had its party four years ago and there was no rea son for it to be too expectant yester day, nor peeved about it afterward. But it did figure that perhaps the special might be stopped here to take on water, or slow up a bit. So it had its high school band on hand at the station, and a double score of other residents besides, to do honor to the swift-flying law-makers. And the band played its best, but the en (Continued on Page Five) Rotary Anniversary Meeting Proves To Be Interesting Occasion Edenton Rotary Club’s celebration of its 15th anniversary at last week’s meeting proved to be one of the most interesting meetings in months. Three of the charter members of the club were recognized, C. E. Kramer, who boasts a perfect attendance re cord in that time, C. H. Wood and John A. Holmes. The program was in charge of John A. Holmes, who in a very uni que manner reiterated interesting and important activities of the club during its existence. So interesting and lengthy was Mr. Holmes’ report that he was forced to interrupt at 2 o’clock, but the remainder of it will be presented at a subsequent meet ing. The regular meeting will be held today (Thursday) at 1 o’clock.