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Chowan County Commissioners Slice
Eleven Points Off Tax Rate, Bringing It
Down To $1.02 For Next Fiscal Year
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Increase In Valuation
Principal Reason For
Drop In Rate
long~session
Improvements Schedul
ed at Colored High
School
Chowan County Commissioners,
meeting Thursday of last week in
stead of Monday, were obliged to
wrestle most of the day with figures,
but felt at the dose of the day that
they were adequately compensated
for their labor when the figures as
boiled down showed that a slice of
11 points could be taken off the
county tax rate for the present fis
cal* year. The rate last year was
$1.13 per hundred dollar property
valuation, while the new rate for
the ensuing year 'will be $1.02. The
rate was figuered at sl.Ol on Thurs
day, but later an error was discov
ered in the school expense account
which made it necessary to add
another point.
While county expenses are calculat
ed to run about the same as last
year, the decrease in the rate is' at
tributed principally to the increased
property valuation as the result of
recent revaluation in “the county,
when the property valuation was
boosted about $700,000. The county’s
valuation was boosted from $6,827,-
803- to about seven and a half mil
lion dollars.
The expenditures anticipated dur
ing the year by the Commissioners
are as follows,; School*, $20,464;
General County, health and charity,
$25,700; bonds and interest, $50,-
093.67; social security, $6,977.50. To
raise these amounts the tax levy will
be as fojlows:
Bonds and Interest .66
General County .07
Social ;Security .09
Total $1.02
As compared with last year’s rate,
bonds dropped from .76 to .66, while
schools also dropped tfcro points,
from .22 to .20. Social security re
mained the same, while there was an
increase of one point for general
county, purposes.
Practically the entire morning was
consumed with the school budget
when a trick in figures puzzled the
Commissioners which was finally left
for A. T. Allen, who will audit the
books, to untangle. Both the county
and Edenton administrative unit
kept within their budgets and despite
the fact that fines, forfeitures and
poll taxes are distributed according
I to ’the number of students in each
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12 Chowan Young
Men Leave July 23
For Military Duty
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Group Makes 38 Men
Chowan Has Fur
nished In Draft
Twelve Chowan County young
white men will leave Edenton next
Wednesday, July 23, to be inducted
into military service at Fort Bragg.
At Fort Bragg this group of selec
tees* will be given their final physi
cal .examination and if it is passed
satisfactorily, they will then be sent
to various camps for training. The
young men comprising thin group
arS:
Jack Pruden, Edenton; John Lin-
Iwosd Bass, Edenton, Route I; Wil-
Kenneth Hendren, Tyner, Route
2; Benjamin F. Evans, Edenton;
Willis Hosie Bond, Edenton, Route 3;
’Barry V. Lassiter, Edenton 1 ; Leland
Glenn Ward, Tyner; Wilbur F.
Wheeler, Edenton; Graham P. Bass,
Edenton; Charlie Perry Hughes,
I, Edenton; Johnnie Paul Bunch, Eden
ton; John Augustus Moore, Jr.,
Edenton.
With the induction of this group of
men Chowan County will have fur
nished 38 young men for military
service in the first draft. Os this
number 20 were white and 18 colored.
REVIVAL AT EVANS CHURCH
Revival services are being held at
Evans Methodist Church this week.
The pastor, Rev. Mr. Stanford, is be
l ing assisted by the Rev. Mr. Cran-
ford, of Winfall. The public is cor-
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
L IROY L McMILAN, STATE COMMANDER OF
AMERICAN LEGION, NtAWMG CARD HR
MEETING M EDENTON ON TIIESDAY NIGHT
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Officers For Ed Bond
Post and Auxiliary
Will Be Installed
otherslnvited
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i R. D. Dixons Plan Re
| ceptionat Hotel Af
i ter Meeting
J While the boys of Europe, Asia,
’ Africa and Australia are fighting
heroically right now to overthrow
: the (world dominance desires of the
German hordes, and the young men
’ of the United States are in training
j preparatory to what seenis a certain
1 entrance into the same warfare, the
middle-aged veterans of the Albe
| marie who survived the other great
: war of 1917-1918, will gather at the
! Court House next Tuesday night in a
[ get-together and installation meet
• ing, and will meet up with for the
> first time since his election and for
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Geddes Potter Sub
Chairman For New
Orleans Lions Booth
State Will Be Advertis
ed at International
Convention
JULY2I - 25
Canvass Reveals Very
Little Literature
On Hand
Geddes Potter, immediate past
president of the Edenton Lions Club,
; has been appointed sub-chairman of
the Lions State Council which has
engaged a booth at the International
Lions Convention to be held at New
Orleans for the purpose of advertis
ing the State of North Carolina. The
■ convention will be in session from
Monday, July 21, to Friday, July 25,
and will attract Lions from all parts
of the world.
The booth will be nine feet square
and will be located in the convention
auditorium, where iwill be on display
souvenir literature as well as munici
pal and commercial material from
every section of the State to be hand
ed out to visitors. The booth will be
I in charge of Arthur M. Strauss, a
member of the Winston-TSalem Lions
Club, who subsequently appointed
Mr. Potter sub-chairman.
Mr. Potter was on Saturday In
formed of his appointment and imme
diately set to work collecting all
available literature pertaining to
Edenton and. the Albemarle, which
was on Monday shipped to Mr.
Strauss. Mr. Potter was very much
enthused over the idea of securing
literature and information regarding
Edenton to be placed in the booth,
which he thought would result in
much publicity for the town, but was
somewhat disappointed because of
the lack of .available material.
In his shipment were included a
bout half a dozen of the town book
lets, the supply of which has just
about been batch of the
historical pamphlets recently pur
chased by file Bank of Edenton and
a number of cards and folders fur
nished by Hotel Joseph Hewes.
38 4-H Club Boys
And Girls Enroll
For Summer Camp
Up to Monday afternoon, 38 boys
and girls, members of the County
4-H Clubs, had enrolled to attend the
4-H Camp to be hehi.at Jamestown,
Va. The time, limit to enroll has
been extended’ ip Saturday,' July 19,
and any boy or girl mtetejrted in go
ing to camp should see either Miss
Rebecca Colwell or C. W. Overman
at once.
turn Saturday, July 26.
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Tnu sdav, July 17,1941.
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Chowan County’s draft board
has reported the disappearance
of three registrants, to whom
questionnaires have been sent
and returned. The three are col
ored youths and are Ivan Grit
fin, who gave his address as
Edenton, Route 2; James Mc
(NeiH, Edqnton, Route 2, and
James Edward White, Edenton,
Route 1.
The draft board will appre
ciate learning the whereabouts
of these three men so that the
questionnaires can be sent, and
unless they are located, their
names Jlvill be turned over to the
United States District Attorney
as delinquents, after which they
will be treated accordingly.
Edward Smithwick
Descendants Visitors
In Edenton Sunday
An interested group of Edenton
visitors Sunday included Mrs. M. P.
1 Cooper, Mrs. F. E. Richfelt and Mrs.
J. L. Minor, of Jackson, Miss., and
Mrs. W. I. Allison, of Fort Wortn,
i Texas. They are defendants of Ed
| ward Smithwick, who gave the land
upon which to build the first Episco
pal Church in North Carolina on the
, Hayes Farm in 1701.
It was the first time any of the
four ladies had visited in Edenton
and they came especially to become
more fully acquainted with the life
of their ancestor. They attended ser
vices at St. Paul’s Church and enjoy
ed references read in the old vestry
minute books as well as other infor
mation about the church.
Miss Emily Russell
Wins Honors In State
Junior Memory Test
Miss Emily Russell, (who repre
sented the Edenton Baptist Church at
the State Training Union Assembly
: at Ridgecrest July 5-11, returned
home Friday. Miss Russell won
State place in the junior memory
work contest, attaining a perfect
score with 29 contestants.
The young lady is very enthusiastic
about the meeting, the mountains
• and, of course, her success. Adding
to her joy was an inspirational tele
gram received from her B. Y. P. U.
leader, John M. Elliott, as she went
on the stage. She was chaperoned
by the Rev. and Mrs. Millard R.
Brown, of Windsor.
EXTENTOF MATTRESS AND COMFORTER
PROIECT SORPMSE TO COMMISSIONERS
125 Bales of Cotton Consumed, 11,880 Yards of
Ticking and 7,510 Yards of Percale —Sav-
ing Amounts to Almost $13,000
Chowan’s so-called "Mattress Pro
ject”, being operated by the State
Agricultural Extension Service and
conducted here under the supervision
of Home Demonstration Agent Re
becca Colwell and County Agent C.
W. Overman has been so successful
from the start, that it has been un
able to keep up with the demand for
mattresses and comforters. At the
present moment there are 312 mat
tresses yet to be made and 26 com
forters. The same compilation shows
that so far 876 mattresses have been
made and 726 comforters, and that
both yet to be made and already
turned out have cost but $1,338.20,
whereas had they been bought in a
retail store the purchasers would
have had to pay $14,113 for the same
articles, which is one phase of the
New Deal, anyhow, which has proven
beneficent. ' rr
But little has been explained of
this service fbrldwincome families,
pet some of the figures supplied by
Miss Colwell to the County Commis
sioners last Thursday are startling
in extreme. Naturally, the fetSnwv
ings in cost to those making and
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Draft Board Gives
Serial Numbers To
New Registrants
County Furnishes 53
Young- Men Recent
ly Turned 21
LOTTERY
Order to Enter Service
Will Be Decided In
Washington
Chowan County’s Draft Board has
completed assignment of serial num
bers to the 53 young men who be
came 21 years of age from October
17, 1940, to July 1, 1941, and who
registered in the second selective
service draft on July 1. Cards of
these registrants were shuffled in a
box and drawn out to determine the
serial number of each.
As in the first draft, a national
lottery in Washington will determine
the order number of the young men
to be inducted into military service.
The full list of Chowan’s new
registrants and the serial numbers
follow:
B-l Johnnie Henderson Horton.
S-2, Lee Roy Phelps.
S-3 James Thomas Brabble.
S-4 Willis Critten Hurdle.
S-5 Earl Sutton Pierce.
S-6 James Edward Hare.
S-7 Robert Enoch Ward.
S-8 Caley Jasper Rountree.
S-9 Lloyd Edmund Overton.
S-10 Stanley Ervin Spruill.
IS-11 Wendell Hope Copeland.
TS-12 Troy Elvin Toppin.
S-13 Carlton Lee Littlejohn.
S-14 Embery William Perry.
S-15 Johnny Christopher Tread
i well.
• S-16 Walter Vance Wright.
• S-17 Linwood Roscoe Bunch.
I S-18 Rodney Lester Bunch.
, S-19 Charles Manuel Asbell.
S-20 Robert Lee Rick.
I S-21 Joe Edward Cornelious.
S-22 Henry Drew,
s S-2UJ Thomas GillmVii.
iS-24 McKinley Franklin Wright.
> 6-25 Golden Aero Frinks.
i S-26 George Allen Spruill.
> S-27 Anderson Darwin Ward, Jr.
. S-28 Harry Lester Jordan.
S-29 Ernest Nixon.
S-30 Brady Lee Granby.
■ S-31 Milton Donold.son Welch.
S-32 John Ervin Copeland.
S-33 Edward Exsom Eyerett.
S-34 John Hudgins Bond.
S-35 Anthony Cleophy Coston.
S-36 Joseph Beasley.
S-37 Marion Lee Coston.
IS-38 James Edward Byrum.
S-39 Hiller Fahey Byrum.
S-40 Lester Joseph Copeland.
S-41 Army Riddick.
S-42 James Reuben Blanchard.
S-43 Edmund Conger Forehand.
S-44 Clifton Odell Eason.
S-45 Richard Edgar Jackson.
S-46 Herman Lee Jernigan.
S-47 Joseph Eugene Perry.
S-48 James Lee Wilson.
IS-49 Thomas Edison Reid.
IS-50 Carroll Dewey Chappell.
S-51 George Alfred Roberts.
S-52 John Ralph Brabble.
S-53 William Thomas Owens.
The latter three were registered
outside of the county, but gave
Chowan as their home and were
therefore classified here.
buying the mattresses and comfort
ers, is a main item, but the amount
of materials put into them is of as
much importance and interest.
The direct purpose of the service
is to provide an opportunity for fam
ilies unable to make such purchases
at stores. Such families visit the
work rooms in the unused Forehand
mill on upper Oakum Street, and
make their own articles under pro
per direction and supervision. All
the materials are supplied to them
free, and upon the completion of
their job they are privileged to walk
off with a finished mattress upon
payment of $1 and a comforter upon
payment of 20 cents, as against a
ready-made mattress cost of $lO and
comforter cost of $4.90.' Which cer
tainly is something.
Os course, all the money paid by
the recipients for these finished mat
tresses and comforters goee for the
actual cost of the materials supplied.
No one makes a cent of profit, and
the Whole venture is an altruistic
bit of public welfare work intended
to benefit the mere indigent of the
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Whirlwind Drive Friday To
Raise Quota For Purchase
Mercy Plane For England
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R. L. (ROY) McMILLAN
In his only scheduled visit to
the Albemarle section this year
State Commander McMillan (will
install officers of Ed Bond Post
in the Court House next Tuesday
night. Legionnaires from every
Post in the Albemarle have been
invited to meet their popular
commander on this occasion.
Chamber Commerce
Now Interested In
Compiling Directory
Canvass For Informa
tion Will Get Under
Way at Once
WHITE
Every Citizen Urged to
Answer Simple Ques
tions Listed
That Edenton will have a city di
rectory seems almost a certainty.
C. L. McCullers, secretary of the
Edenton-Chowan Chamber of Com
merce has already put into motion
preliminary plans to compile the di
rectory and will in a day or two be
gin a canvass of the town to secure
the necessary information.
Already cards have been printed
on which statistics will be listed and
includes the name of the person can
vassed, whether married or single,
street and house number, how long a
resident here, place of employment,
type of work, wife’s first name, the
names and ages of children, as well
as names, relationship and place of
employment of other persons living
in the house canvassed.
This canvass will be made among
both the white and colored races and
the information is calculated to be of
considerable value to the Chamber
of Commerce.
Every citizen in Edenton is asked
to cooperate in giving all the infor
mation desired to the end that the
directory will be complete and accu
rate.
Millard F. Bond
Elected President
Os ABC Association
Annual Meeting Held
At Wrightsville
Beach
Chowan County was signally hon
ored on Saturday when Millard F.
Bond was unanimously elected presi
dent of the North Carolina Alcoholic
Beverage Control Boards Associa
tion. Mr. Bond’s selection was made
at the annual convention of the As
sociation held at Wrightsville Beach.
He succeeds R. S. Corbitt of Maccles
field.
Mr. Bond has been very active in
affairs of the ABC boards and has
served as secretary-treasurer of the
Chowan County ABC Board since it
(was established in 1937.
Chowan’s full board attended, the
convention including, besides Mr.
Bond, Chairman R. P. Badham and
Hector Lupton.
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$1.25 Per Year
Chowan County Asked
To Raise SIOO For
Purpose
neeiTgreat
Lions and Rotary Clubs
. Send Out Canvassing
Committees
At a meeting Monday night of
Chowan County’s Old North State
Fund’s Campaign Committee, held
at the home of Judge and Mrs. Rich
ard. D. Dixon, plans were effected to
conduct a whirwind canvass in an ef
fort to raise the county’s quota of
SIOO in one day. The day designated
to reach this goal is tomorrow (Fri
day) when every business and pro
fessional man in Edenton fcvill be
solicited for a contribution.
To conduct this canvass the com
mittee called into service the Lions
and Rotary Clubs, and President
Ralph Parrish of the Lions Club and
C. L. McCullers, president of the
Rotary Club, have appointed a com
mittee from their respective groups
to make the canvass.
The purpose of the Old North
State Fund is to raise $75,000 with
which to purchase and deliver an am
bulance airplane as a gift to the
people of England from citizens of
North Carolina. The campaign to
raise this amount was officially
started throughout the State last
Friday, so that Richard Dixon, chair
man for Chowan County, is very
anxious for Chowan to raise its
quota at once and send it to head
quarters.
, The plight of England at the pres
ent moment makes it 'essential that
everything possible be done to bring
relief to the civilian population and
i armed forces quickly and it is stated
by members of the executive com
mittee of the Fund that British offi
cials have urgently requested that all
possible haste be made in the pre
sentation of the mercy ship by North
Carolinians, who are the first to be
asked to make such a gift on behalf
1 of a commonwealth.
“In starting the campaign to pre
sent a mercy ship to the people of
England, we feel certain of the full
support of the rank and file of citi
zens of the Old. North State,” de
dared Judge F. O. Bowman, State
! chairman of the Fund, “and it seems
evident that each county in the
State will do its part towards mak
ing the gift a speedy reality. We
have an excellent organization in
each of the 100 counties of North
Carolina, headed by prominent busi
ness and civic leaders who are put
ting forth every effort to promptly
reach the quotas assigned their re
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Group Appointed
To Plan Changes
At Court House
County Commissioners,
However, Jealous of
Responsibility
Comment has of late been going
the rounds that Chowan’s ancient
Court House, espedally the panel
room on the second floor, is to be
restored, and efforts along this line
were discussed by the County Com
missioners at their meeting held on
Thursday. At that time a suggested
committee was appointed by the
Commissioners to make recommenda
tions as to improvements, but this
committee will have no authority to
undertake any changes without the
approval of the County governing
body.
Chairman D. M. Warren, speaking
on behalf of the Commissioners, said
that such a committee could make
recommendations or suggestions and
have charge of the work, but that
the authority to proceed must first
come from the Commissioners. The
County Commissioners, he said, are
charged with the care of the Court
House, and that they (would not re
linquish their right and responsibility
to any group.
The committee, as appointed on
Thursday, is composed of Judge
Richard D. Dixon, Mrs. S. M. Mc-
Mullan, Mrs. W. D. Pruden, Mrs. R.
P. Badham, Mrs. C. P. Wales, Mrs.
G. H. Harding, Mrs. Geddes Potter,
Mrs. George C. Wood, Mrs. E. N.
Elliott, Mrs. J. N. Pruden and D. M.
Warren, Jr.