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Volume Vlll.—Number 30.
Chowan Joins Nation In
. Collecting Aluminum For
Use In National Defense
Extensive Drive Will Be
Made In. Edenton
Next Tuesday
NEED URGENT
Wire Cage Will Be Set
Up In Front of Mu
nicipal Building
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Chowan County -will join the re
mainder of the nation irfraccumulat
ing all aluminum possible in the in
\ terest of national defense, E. W.
Spires,! Chowan County chairman for
the National Defense Council, an
nouncing this week that an extensive
drive will get under way next Tues
day, July 29.
The canvass in Edenton will be
under the auspices of the Chamber of
Commerce in cooperation with the
various civic organizations, while the
canvass in the county will be direct
ed by Miss Rebecca Colwell, home
demonstration agent, and C. W.
Overfnan, county agent.
C. L.*McCullers, secretary of the
_ Chambei\of Commerce, has announ
ced that members of the Edenton
High School Band will conduct a
house-to-house canvass in Edenton
next Tuesday, saying further, “We
are that every housewife
* search her premises for discarded
aluminum ware, if you have any
cooking utensils that are battered
and otherwise about ready to .be
junked, or if you have an article for
which one other than aluminum can
be used, pleftse save it and place
same on yqpr front porch early
Tuesday morning so that it can be
readily collected. We are not ask
ing for auy article which will neces
sitate purchase of another*. Let us
put our shoulder to the wheel in this
laudable undertaking and .show the
rest of the state that Chowan Is da-
ing its part.”
In Edenton a wire cage will be
erected in front of the Municipal
Building where all contributions
should be deposited. The aluminum
contributed iwill be weighed so that
1 the county will get proper credit for
the amount of aluminum contributed.
Under the plan of national defense
aluminum collection, all aluminum
will be used exclusively for national
defense. The nation needs aluminum
for planes and other vital items in
its defense program more rapidly
than existing facilities can produce
it. Additional facilities are being
constructed as quickly as possible
* and in the meantime the people of
the nation can help by donating all
used aluminum ware that can be
spared from their households without
being replaced. No individual or
< group or corporation will make any
profit out of the transaction. The
entire proceeds of the sale will be
used for civilian defense.
Precautions have been taken to
prevent pilfering of the aluminum
and junk dealers have been urged to
carefully scrutinize any aluminum
offered to them for sale. The alum
inum donated by Chowan housewives
will be shipped to Raleigh, where it
will be sold under strict federal' su
pervision to smelters having defense
»contracts.
In the county Miss Coltvell and
Mr. Overman fiave arranged the fol
lowing places where the aluminum
*can be left until collected:
Hollowell & Evans’ Store, Cross
Roads.,
Henry Bunch’s Store, Rocky Hock.
Elbert Peele’s Store, Oak Grove.
Lloyd Briggs’ Store, Gliden.
Mrs. Mary Lizzie Copeland’s Store,
Snow Hill.
Mrs. Roy Parks’ Store, Ryland.
George T. Hollowell’s Store, Suf
folk Highway.
L. W. Belch’s Store, Center Hill.
Harrell’s Store, Valhalla.
R. E. Coffield’s Store, Veopim.
J. W. Ballentine Dies
In Portsmouth Monday
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Friends in Edenton will regret to
learn that J. W. Ballentine, famil
iarly known as “Bally,” died at the
' *home of his sister in Portsmouth,
Va., Monday afternoon about 2:30
o’clock.
Mr. Ballentine, for many yean,
worked as a plumber for C. L. Russ
and T. Wallace Jones and had been,
in ill health for ever a year. He
suffered a stroke of apoplexy while
I here at the Penelope Barker
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday in Portsmouth, which were
attended by a number of his Edenton
dfripnds
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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| Nearing Goal |
Up to the time The Herald
went to press Wednesday about
SBO of Chowan County’s quota of
SIOO toward purchasing an am
bulance plane by the State of
‘ North Carolina for England had
been collected. Though the entire
amount has not been collected,
it does not indicate a lack of In
terest in the movement, but
rather that the citizens have not
been approached.
Canvassers, like many other
folks, have been so busy with
their own affairs, that a general
solicitation has not been made.
, It is planned, however, to com
plete the canvass, within a day
or two and Chairman Rich
ard Dixon feels very certain
. that the quota (will be easily
raised when the canvass is com
pleted.
40 Chowan 4-H
Boys And Girls In
Camp This Week
Miss Colwell and C. W.
Overman Accompany
Group tojTamestown
Forty 4-H Club members of Chow
an County, 20 boys and 20 girls, left
Edenton about 9 o’clock Monday
morning for the 4-H camp at James
town, Va. The group was accompa
nied by Home Agent Miss Rebecca
Colwell, County Agent C. W. Over
man, and Miss Ruby Lentz, County
health nurse, and will remain in
camp the remainder of the week.
Other counties having 4-Hers with
the Chowan boys and girls are Tyr
rell, Washington, Bertie, Hertford
and Gates.
Those in the Chowan County
group are:
Girls: —Anne Rogerson, Sara Jane
Boyce, Myra White, Kathleen Jordan,
Jessie Mae Jordan, Dorothy Berry
man, Allene Dale, Thomasine Ward,
Doris Mae Layton, Joyce Chappell,
Marguerite Ward, Alice White, Min
nie White, Peggy White, Edna Earle
Asbell, Annie Lee Asbell, Vivian
Wiggins, Marie Seigle Hoffler, Nora
Lee White and Ruth Morris.
Boys:—Noah Goodwin, Jr., Herman
White, Jack Jordan, Guy Russell
Byrum, George W. Bunch, Wallace
White, Jr., Jack White, David Ward,
Wallace Goodwin, Jr., Joseph Privott,
G. A Boyce, Jr., Robert Ray Wins
low, W. T. Eason, Jr., Albert Ray
Blanchard, Jack Leary, Thomas
Leary, Frank White, Jr., Eugene
Jordan, Leonard Bass.
Chowan Asked To
Send 10 More Men
For Duty In Army
Group of White Men
Will Enter Fort Bragg
August 6th
Chowan County has been called
upon to furnish 10 more white men
for military duty, the local draft
board being ordered to send that
number to Fort Bragg on Wednesday,
August 6.
The ten men selecte dare:
Walter Augustus Harrell, Edenton,
R. F. D.
Elbert Linwood Bunch, Edenton,
R. F. D.
Edwin Lyn Byrum, Edenton, R.
F. D. /
Edward Lee Dail, Tyner.
John Richard White, Edenton.
Rochelle Blanchard, Hobbsville.
Earl G. Jackson, Edenton, R. F. D.
John L. Byrum, Edenton.
Trotman Leary, Edenton, R. F. D,
Ned Miller White was scheduled to
leave, but due to illness of Lei and
Glenn Ward, who cotald not leave
with Wednesday’s group, Ward will
replace. White on this list.
VISITING BROTHER
W. W. Smith, of Washington, D.
C., is visiting his brother, Sidney,
and Mrs. Smith this weak. He is a
former Edentonian, this being his
first visit in 15 years, and is enjoy
ing renewing old acquaintances as
well as noting changes made since
his last visit.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 24, 1941.
One Day “All-Out”
Peanut Festival Is
Newest Proposal
Three-day Pageant Af
fair Abandoned By
Committee
I MET TUESDAY ,
New Plan to Make Fes
tival Outstanding
Celebration
Edenton’s mid-October peanut fes
tival will be a grand one-day all-out
affair instead of the three-day
round of proposed pageant and spec
tacular events as originally planned.
This much was decided upon at a
meeting Tuesday afternoon between
General Chairman E. W. Spires and
various committee chairmen. It was
unanimously agreed that the one day
celebration, with its accompanying
attractive features will be more
economical and less expensively
handled, and at the same time will
in no sense detract from the import
ance of the festival.
In this connection, it was deter
mined to abrogate the contract more
or less tentatively entered into with
an Ohio pageant producing concern,
largely on the ground that the a
mount to be thus pledged would eat
well into the other natural expenses
of the festival, and would not prove
the drawing card expected through
a triday celebration.
The present plans, which will be
developed more fully 1 at another com
mittee meeting next week, would
name the festival “One-Day-All-Out
Peanut Festival,” paraphrasing the
slogan from the national defense
theme of help for Great Britain. In
fact, while not definitely decided up
on, it is thought that in additioi to
publicizing the importance of Eden
ton as a state peanut center, the fes
tival should embody, also, the ear
marks of a martial display at tru»
time.
In this connection it would be de
sired to have a small military dis
play, if possible, from one of the
state encampments, with a naval
aquatic exhibition featuring planes
from out of Norfolk.
Whether there will be a festival
Queen to be selected from variously
designated princesses to be named by
Albemarle communities, is also, still,
a mooted question. But one thing
is sure, the festival is scheduled to
go over with a great bang.
Lions Hear Talk
On Chowan County
John F. White Speaker
At Meeting Mon
day Night
Edenton Lions, at their meeting
Monday night, obviously became bet
ter acquainted with Chowan County,
when John Fernando White, county
prosecutor, was the principal speak
er. Mr. White told of the splendid
crops raised in the county as well as
many other advantages making it
one of the best places on the globe
to live.
During the meeting President
Ralph Parrish named the various
committees, which are as follows:
Constitution and By-laws—R. C.
Holland, Paul Wallace? and William
Privott.
Finance—T. _C. Byrum, Geddes
Potter and Zell Ward.
Attendance John Mitchener, J.
Frank White, Jr., and Kenneth
Floars.
Membership— J. Clarence Leary,
W. W. Byrum and John Ross.
Program West Leary, Hector
Lupton, Leroy Haskett and Jimmy
Partin.
Blind—W. J. Taylor, C. E. Byrum
and R. C. Holland.
Lions Education Geddes Potter,
W. S. Griffin and W. W. Byrum.
Boys and Girls—Guy Hobbs, Grady
Love and T. C. Byrum.
Citizenship and Patriotism—Earl
Harrell, Oscar Duncan and West
Leary.
Publicity—Kenneth Floars, John
Ross and Thomas J. Wood.
Civic Improvement—L. H. Haskett,
Graham Byrum and Francis Hicks.
Community Betterment Hector
Lupton, W. C. Benson and Jimmy
Partin. .
Education Grady Love, W. J.
Taylor and W. C. Benson.
Safety—Abram Jenkins, L. H.
Haskett and Paul Wallace.
Health and Welfare—W. B. Gay
lord, J. A. BUnch and W. S. Griffin.
Extension—W. S. Privott, Geddes
Potter, W. S. Griffin and W. W.
Byrum.
Music Directors Earl Harrell,
Oscar Duncan and W. S. Griffin.
Representative Government Shall Not
Pass From Face of Earth; Preserved For
Western Hemisphere Says Legion Head
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Mrs. Tuttle Paid
For Goods Stolen
Over 32 Years Ago
Former Employee Now
Follower of Father
Divine
AT PEACE
Mrs. Lemon Combes
Now Miss Wrestling
Jacob
Mrs. R. F. Tuttle was greatly sur
prised recently upon receipt of a
registered letter from New York
which contained a money order for
$2.00. The money order was sent by
a former employee of the family 32
years ago, who has since been con
verted and become a follower of
Father Divine.
The letter follows:
36-38 W. 123rd St.
New York, N. Y.
July 19, 1941.
PEACE!
i Dear Mrs. Tuttle:
Do you remember a girl who
worked for you in the years 1909-
1910 .whose name was at that time
Mrs. Lemon Combes? While in your
employ I stole from your store
things like beer, snuff and soda pop.
, But since then I have become a fol
lower of Father Divine and have
been converted to do right and right
all wrong. So it is right for me to
pay you for the stolen goods. En
closed you will find a money order
for two dollars ($2.00) for the goods
which were stolen. A letter address
ed to Witter Divine at the above ad
dress about this account being paid
will be highly received. I am now
Miss Wrestling Jacob.
Yours truly,
MISS W. JACOB.
Edenton Falls In
Line To Observe
Daylight Saving
Mayor Wires Governor
That the Town Will
Cooperate
In answer to a feeler sent out by
Governor J. M. Broughton relative
to the cooperation of the (State’s va
rious municipalities in the observance
of daylight saving time before issu
ing a proclamation, Mayor J. H. Mc-
Mullan, late last week, wired the
Governor that Edenton would cooper
ate in observing the hours if the
proclamation was made.
The purpose of setting the clock
ahead one hour is to conserve elec
trical usage for national defense and
was proposed by President Roosevelt
to go into effect on August 1. Many
cities in the state have agreed to
cooperate and it is expected the day
light saving schedule of hours will
be effective in North Carolina be
ginning August 1.
E. W. Spires Speaker
At Rotary Meeting
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E. W. Spires, clerk of Superior
Court of Chowan County, will be the
principal speaker at today’s Rotary
meeting. Mr. Spires, a former Ro
tarian, is also general chairman of
the proposed peanut festival sche
duled to be held in Edenton and will
no doubt speak upon various phases
of the celebration.
At last week’s meeting reports of
the Rotary Assembly held recently
at Chapel Hill, were made by Presi
dent C. L. McCullers and Secretary
John A. Holmes, who represented
the Edenton Club and. enjoyed a
splendid meeting.
Visits Edenton After
Absence Os 40 Years
Mrs. H. T. Newland, sister of R.
F. Tuttle, who lives in California, is
spending the summer with Mr. and
Mrs. Tattle here and at Nags Head.
This is the first visit Mrs. Nfewland
has made to Edenton in 40 years,
and she still thinks the town is one
of the prettiest in the country.
Important Meeting
Os Farmers To Be
Held In Greenville
Vital Questions Facing
Farmers Will Be Dis
cussed Friday
FINE SPEAKERS
R. C. Holland Urging
Many From Chowan
To Attend
Chdwan County farmers have been
especially invited by R. C. Holland,
president of the Chowan Farm Bu
reau Federation, to attend a meeting
for this district which will be held
at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon at East
Carolina Teachers College at Green
ville.
The North Carolina Farm Bureau
Federation, under the leadership of
J. E. Winslow, Greenville, president,
and R. Flake Shaw, Greensboro, sec
retary, is calling four district meet
ings in four different cities of North
Carojina to discuss with the farmers
of this state the vital questions fac
ing North Carolina Agriculture as a
result of present unstabilized condi
tions throughout the world. The dis
cussions will be under the supervis
ion of Walter L. Randolph, president
of the Alabama Farm Bureau Fed- .
eration, and an expert on the cotton
problems of the south. Mr. Ran
dolph was one of the leaders in the
congressional fight for 85% parity.
In addition to Mr. Randolph, J. B.
Hutson, president of the Commodity
Credit Corporation and perhaps the
best informed man in the United
States on flue-cured tobacco, will ad
dress the Greenville meeting.
President Winslow and Secretary
state that these meetings are
being called for the following pur
poses :
1. To explain Farm Bureau Par
ity Loan Legislation recently passed
by Congress and the benefits each
individual farmer will receive from
this new legislation.
2. To plan organized movement
throughout the state to get this
temporary parity legislation made
permanent.
3. To inaugurate a campaign for
parity loan benefits to producers of
non-basic crops like truck crops,
vegetables, etc.
The North Carolina Farm Bureau,
says Secretary Shaw, is very proud
of its record in cooperation with the
American Farm Bureau in sponsoring
the recent parity loan legislation in
Congress which will mean $25,000,000
additional money to our growers of
tobacco, cotton, peanuts, and wheat,
and we are anxious to explain all de
tails of this new legislation to the
farmers of the state, particularly
just hotv each individual farmer will
benefit therefrom.
A barbecue will be served to all
attending the meeting, and Mr. Hol
land is very anxious to have a cre
ditable delegation present from
Chowan County.
11 Chowan Boys
Left Wednesday
To Enter Army
Group of Gtizens on
Hand to Bid Young 1
Men Farewell
Twelve Chowan County white men
> left Edenton by bus Wednesday
morning shortly after 10 o’clock for
Fort Bragg, where they will be in
ducted into military service. The
group was composed of Jack Pruden,
John Linwood Bass, William Kenneth
Hendren, Benjamin F. Evans, Willis
Hosie Bond, Harry V. Lassiter, Wil
bur F. Wheeler, Graham P. Bass,
Charlie Perry Hughes, Johnnie Paul
Bunch and John Augustus Moore, Jr.
. This was the largest group of
young men sent from Chowan Coun
ty since compulsory military training
was inaugurated as the result of the
present European -war, and at the
request of the local draft board, a
group of business men were on hand
at the bus station to wish the young
men well when they departed.
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Department Command
er Makes Stirring Ad
dress Tuesday
INSTAULSOFFICERS
Meeting One of Most
Delightful of Its
Kind
Declaring that one resolve of the
American Legion is that representa
tive government shall not pass from
the earth and that peace shall be
preserved for the Western hemis
phere, R. L. McMillan, department
commander of the American Legion,
spoke before about 200 Legionnaires
and Legion Auxiliary members on
Tuesday night, when he installed of
ficers for Edward G. Bond Post ana
the Post’s Auxiliary. The ceremon
ies were held in the Court House,
where it was necessary for some to
stand throughout the meeting
The meeting was considered one
of the most enjoyable of its kina
ever attended by many of the Legion
naires, who were especially impress
ed by the large number of ladies on
hand. Aside from Commander Mc-
Millan and his wife, other prominent
guests included Department Chap
lain S. E. Matthews of Washing
ton, Department Adjutant Jim Caia
well of Raleigh, Department Vice
Commander Jesse Mercef of Eliza
beth City, District Commander Ro
land Garrett of Elizabeth City, Dis
trict Vice Commander Vivian Dar
den of Hertford, Mayor Jerome B.
Flora of Elizabeth City, as well as
Legionnaire and Auxiliary members
from Columbia, Hertford, Elizabeth
City, Gatesville, Manteo, Windsor
and Plymouth.
John A. Holmes, commanded of
Ed Bond Post, presided over the
meeting which was opened, by the ad
vancement of colors by Oscar Durwin
and Shelton Moore, and 'prayer by
Chaplain Matthews. Following the
reading of the minutes of the last
meeting by Adjutant Thomas J.
Wood, Commander Holmes welcomed
the visitors, his remarks being ap
propriate but brief, telling his hear
ers that the primary purpose of the
meeting was to install officers and
hear the department commander.
In recognizing prominent guests,
Mr. Holmes requested a few remarks,
Adjutant Caldwell saying it was a
pleasure to come to this section so
rich in history and. where folks ap
parently enjoy life more than in the
more thickly and more prosperous
sections of the State. By his obser
vations, he said it appears, however,
that just as much or even more, is
accomplished than if folks literally
worked their heads off. He paid tri
bute to the late W. Scott Privott,
whom he referred to as one of the
best Legionnaires who ever lived.
Mrs. R. L. McMillan, a splendid
speaker, said she liked everything
she had seen in Edenton and, was
greatly impressed with the hospital
ity and beauty of the town. She
thanked the Legionnaires for their
support of her husband as depart
ment commander. She objected to
him seeking the office, but after he
became a candidate she w r anted him
to succeed. Her remarks were di
rected, to cooperation between the
Legion and Auxiliary.
Brief remarks were also made by
Chaplain Matthews, Jesse Mercer,
Roland Garrett and Vivian Darden.
Following the exchange of greet
ings, Commander McMillan requested
outgoing officers to rise to their
feet, and before proceeding with the
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Judge Dixon Speaker
At U. D. C. Convention
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Representing the North Carolina
Department of the American Legion,
Judge Richard D. Dixon was one of
the principal speakers at the United
Daughters of the Confederacy con
vention held at Manteo last Satur
day. He spoke feelingly of the early
day colonists and of the founders of
the Roanoke Colony Memorial Asso
ciation in 1894, mentioning the
founders by name and telling of an
initial appeal by them “To Tobacco
Users” for funds of the value of a
cigar or two to give the association
impetus and commemorate the dis
covery of tobacco on the Island by
; Sir Walter’s colonists. How much
was thus raised through this state
and Virginia the Judge said he did
: not know, but a sufficient sum “to
i make this little piece of land an
. everlasting symbol and sign of what
we call America.”
More than a hundred delegates
were in attendance.