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Volume IX—Number 30.
Congressman Bonner Will
Be Principal Speaker At
Legion Meeting Tuesday
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Joint Installation of Of
ficers of Post and
Auxiliary
OPEN TOPUBLIC
t
Large Group of Visiting
Legionnaires Expect
ed to Attend
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What as expected to be one of the
most outstanding American Legion
meetings held in Edenton in recent
years will take place Tuesday night
in the Court House when new officers
of Edward G. Bond Post, No. 40, and
of the Legion Auxiliary will be in
stalled at a public meeting beginning
at 8 o’clock. This ceremony will be
rather significant in that for the first
time in the history of Ed Bond Post
a man and wife will be installed as
presiding officers of the two organ
izations. R. L. Pratt will be install
ed as commander of the Post, and
his wife as president of the Legion
Auxilary.
The highlight of the meeting will
be an address by Congressman Her
bert C. Bonner, himself an active
Legionnaire, who very generously ac
cepted an invitation to speak for the
occasion. Mr. Bonner will, no doubt,,
attract a large group of Legionnaires
from nearby Posts, delegations being
assured from the Elizabeth City and
Hertford Posts, and invitations hav
( ing been extended to Posts at Colum
bia, Plymouth, Windsor, Gatesville
and Williamston to send representa
tives.
It was at first planned to have a
joint installation of the officers of
* the Elizabeth City and Edenton Posts
and Auxiliaries, but this idea was
abandoned due to the gasoline and
rubber situation. However, many of
the Elizabeth City Legionnaires ex
pect to attend the meeting.
The installation ceremony will be
in charge of Roland Garrett, of Eli
zabeth City, district commander, who
•will be assisted by Congressman Bon
ner. The meeting will be open to the
public.
Officers to be installed follow:
Ed Bond Post
Commander—Robert L. Pratt.
Vice Commanders —L. E. Griffin,
T. L. Ward and Joe Boyce.
Adjutant and Finance Officer—
Thomas J. Wood.
Service Officer—C. E. Kramer.
Guardianship Officer—W. H. Gard
ner.
Sergeant-at-arms—Jesse W . White.
Chaplain—J. L. Chestnutt.
Historian—John A. Holmes.
Athletic Officer—R. E. Leary.
Child Welfare—W. W. Byrum.
Americanism Officer—J. W. Davis.
National Defense Richard D.
Dixon.
Graves Registration—W. J. Yates.
(Continued on Page Five)
Final Round up On
Monday To Raise
SI6OO War Relief
County Still Lacks $447
Os Reaching Quota
For Three Funds
' $1153 INHAND
Executive Committee to
Have Charge of Final
Solicitation '
With Chowan County’s quota for
USO, lj»vy and Chinese relief being
$1,600 and W. H. Gardner, treasurer
of the joint drive, reporting $1,153
on hand a round-up canvass is sche
duled to be made Monday in an effort
to collect the remaining $447 to put
the county over the top.
This canvass will be conducted by
the executive committee of the con
; solidated drive, consisting of T. C.
- Byrum, chairman, J. H. Conger, Ged
des Potter and Mayor J. H. McMullan,
who will no doubt enlist the services
of a few assistants. These men see
no reason why the county as a whole,
|P has not raised the $1,600 asked for
thqse three worthy causes, and intend
to stage the final round-up Monday
before admitting that Chowan has
defaulted when it is amply able to
raise this amount.
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TNS CHOWAN HERALD
1 NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY:
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Legion Speaker
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HERBERT C. BONNER
Congressman Bonner will be in
Edenton next Tuesday, when he
will make the principal address at
the joint installation of Eld Bond
Post and Auxiliary officers at a
public meeting in the Court
House at 8 p. m.
No Help For Base
Hired Until July 27
Contractors Will Set Up
Employment Office In
Kramer Garage
With seekers of employment at the
Marine Glider Base already arriving
in Edenton, officials of Northeastern-
Warren-Beckham & Brooks, general
-contractors of the ba'?e, announced
Wednesday that no help will be hired
until next Mondag, July 27. At that
time an employment office will be
established in the Kramer Garage
Building on Water Street and they
will be glad to meet and confer with
anyone seeking employment.
The contractors expect to begin
work on construction of the base on
Monday, August 3rd.
J. H. Conger Speaker
At Rotary Meeting
Service Flag With Five
Stars to Be Present
ed Today
Today (Thursday) at the Rotary
meeting a service flag will be pre
sented to*the Club bearing five stars
which represents five members of the
Club now in the armed forces. The
flag will be displayed in the Parish
House as a reminder of the members
in service.
The five Rotarians represented by
the five stars are Charles Wales,
George Capehart, William Jones,
Charles Caceney and William Per
kins. iSeveral more Rotarians are
scheduled to enter the service and
will, at the proper time, be recognized
by additional stars added to the flag.
At today’s meeting the guest
speaker will be J. H. Conger and a
report will be submitted by President
Holmes of the Rotary Assembly at-
Frank Holmes and Secretary John A.
tended by them at Wilson last week.
Unique Idea To Buy
War Savings Bonds
turi-st from Bowers Hill, Va., , who
for some time has been interested in
a plan whereby unclaimed money in
national banks be used as loans to
students, was an Edenton visitor bn
Tuesday. Mr. Weinstein came to
Edenton in an effort to secure a lo
cation" to plant thousands of gladioli
bulbs, and while here advanced a
rather unique method for purchasing
war 'stamps and bonds. His idea is
that before each meal every person
lay aside five cents toward the pur
chase of stamps and bonds, which if
done the nation over, would raise
over seven billion dollars in a year.
Mr. Weinstein is very enthusiastic
over the plan, advancing the idea that
it would cause no hardship Jbr any
one and that the success of (jpi'Stmas
1 Savings dubs proves that Americans
prefer laying a little away at a time
1 rather than In lump sums. He Is en
deavoring to find a sponsor for his
plan and have it presented nationally. l
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 23, 1942.
Patriotism, Too
With about 40 families now in Edenton without homes
and more arriving every day seeking living quarters, an acute
housing proposition has developed which, apparently, some
citizens do not realize or else are so unconcerned, or to bluntly
state it, so unpatriotic, that little or no cooperation is offered
in the ever-growing emergency.
A survey of the town has been made, and while many
families have thrown open their homes and are willing to some
what inconvenience themselves in order to provide living quar
ters for newcomers, it has been learned that quite a few houses
with many rooms and but few occupants will not be offered for
use to the many families who have already arrived and still
more sure to follow.
According to J. W. Davis, who has been handling data
since C. L. McCullers, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce,
has left Edenton, single rooms have been freely offered, bui
there is a serious shortage of small apartments. He desires
to emphasize the fact that these are not normal times and that
the town as a whole will have to cooperate, be inconvenienced
and even sacrifice to the end that every possible aid be offered
in completion and operation of the Marine Glider Base.
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VEPCO To Furnish
□ectric Current At
Marine Glider Base
Matter Puzzles Town
Officials Tuesday
Morning
QUICK ACTION
33,000-Volt Line Neces
sary to Handle Needs
At Base
Edenton officials on Tuesday faced
one of what may be many nuts to
crack in connection with the Marine
Glider Base. What proved to be a
very perplexing- problem was to de
cide on very short notice whether the
Town would furnish electric current
to the new base or whether electricity
should be furnished direct by the
Virginia Electric & Power Company,
from which concern the Town buys
current and resells it at a neat profit
to consumers.
Several conferences were held with
Government officials, representatives
of the power company and town of
ficials in an effort to bring the
matter to a head at once so that as
little delay as possible would result
due to lack of current at the .base.
Representing the Government were
H. G. Stewart, project manager, and
E. A. Garlock, electrical and me
chanical engineer, who made it under
stood that arrangements to have cur
rent on the isite must get under way
at once.
G. G. Hollingshead, district mana
ger, and W. E. Shafer, superintendent
of distribution, representing the Vir
ginia Electric and, Power Company,
told Town officials that it was im
material with their company whether
Edenton furnished the current or not,
and were frank in presenting some
of the difficulties to be encountered
if the Town undertook to sell current
for use at the base.
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luly’slond Quota
Looking Doubtful
Chairman J. G. Campen
Optimistic Goal Will
Be Reached
Though Chowan County’s purchase
of war stamps and bonds toward the
July quota is far from the mark,
J. G. Campen, county chairman of the
war 'Pavings staff, feels optimistic
that the quota will again be reached.
Up until Tuesday afternoon, sales
of stamps and 'bonds amounted to
$25,086, of which amount $23,950
represented bond sales, and $1,136
represented stamp sales. The July
quota is $48,100, leaving $23,950
more to be sold during the nine re
maining days.
Mr. Campen realizes that the July
quota is no easy task to reach, but
was right much encouraged when he
learned that sales at the Bank of
Edenton this week had doubled last
week’s sales. He would like to see
Chowan County maintain its record
and, therefore, urges everybody to
invest in stamps and bonds as liber
ally as they can during the few days
remaining in July.
Legion Post Starts
Drive To Collect
Victrola Records
37V 2 Goal In
Campaign Through
out Nation
STARTS AT ONCE
Committees Appointed
To Thoroughly Can
vass County
Ed Bond Post of the American
Legioii will join with other posts
throughout the nation in a drive to
collect 37Vs million old Victrola re
cords. This drive starts immediately i
and will continue until August 7,
during which time an effort will be
made to collect as many records as
possible.
J. H. Conger has been chosen as
general chairman of the drive, and
he desires it to be known that any
kind of records are wanted. They
may be broken, cracked or warped, or
even good records which are no long
er desired. Good records will be
turned over to USO centers, while
the old and broken ones will be melted
and made into new records for use
at USO centers for the benefit of j
boys in the armed forces.
In order to thoroughly canvass
Chowan County to secure records, R.
L. Pratt and John A. -Holmes, incom
ing and out-going commanders re
spectively of Ed Bond Post, have ap
pointed the following committees to
canvass every house in their neigh
borhoods :
West Edenton —J. W. White and
Jordan Yates.
East Edenton —J. W r . Davis. S. W.
Moore, Howard Bennett and W. C.
Owens.
Rocky Hock—Clyde Privott, George
Privott and Percy Perry.
Center Hill—Warner B. Evans, Ne
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15-Year-Old Negro
Burned To Death
In Truck Accident
Vehicle Catches Fire Af
ter Overturning In
Ditch
Samuel Perkins, 15-year-old colored
boy, was burned to death, and a
Negro companion, Ambrose White, 19
years old, was seriously burned
about the feet and legs Thursday af
ternoon when a truck in which they
were riding left the highway and
overturned in a ditch. The truck im
mediately caught fire and was en
tirely consumed by flames before
Perkins could be removed. His body
was burned beyond recognition.
The boys were hauling watermelons
from the Rocky Hock section to the
County Dock to be loaded on boats
when the accident happened on the
Suffolk Highway between Hancock
Station and Valhalla.
The truck, an International, was in
good condition and evidently the
driver lost control of the vehicle when
the accident happened. It was owned
by Robert Bunch and Thurston Stall
ings.
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Exact Location Os Marine
Glider Base Not Definitely
Decided Says Lieut. Prahl
| File Or Else— j
W. W. Byrum, who as a mem
ber of the Chowan County Ratfou
Board, has been delegated to the
phase of the law pertaining to
price ceiliings, this week i-feued a
warning to those 'merchants who
have not filed lists of cost of
living commodities with the local
War I’rice and Rationing Board
to do so at once.
These lists should have been
filed with the Board by July 1,
and in order to avoid embarrass
ment, he suggests that this
matter be given immediate atten-
When the Ratio'll Boar,d i call
ed upon to furnish a list of the
merchants who have not filed,
Mr. Byruim feels reasonably sure
that an investigation by Federal
authorities will folloiw and licen
ses of those who failed to comply
with the law will he revoked.
Native Os Chowan
Dies At Nags Head
! Military Funeral Held
At Elizabeth City For
Mrs. Bessie Stewart
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j Many of Edenton’s older residents
were grieved to learn Thursday that
Mrs. Bessie W. Stewart had passed
away at her cottage at Nags Head.
Mrs. Stewart was a native of Chowan
County and was a sister of Mrs. Geo.
P. Folk, who is also spending the
summer at Nags Head. Deceased
had lived in Elizabeth City for about
35 years, and took an active part in
| religious and. civic affairs there. She
served overseas In the first World,
War as a Y. M. C. A. worker and was I.
a leading worker in the USO center j
in Elizabeth City at the time of her
death.
Aside from her sister, Mrs. George |
P. Folk, of Edenton, she is survived
by a niece, Mrs. John Campbell, Jr.,
of Charlotte, and a nephew, Edward
Wood.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon in Elizabeth City, where
she was honored by a military fun
, eral in the Episcopal Cemetery. She
was a member of Christ Church, and
will be remembered for her unselfi h
devotion in spreading happiness
: wherever she went.
Cement Sidewalks
Finally Secured For
Cotton Mill Village
About Mile of Sidewalks
Included In Project
Under Way
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After dickering with Town Coun
cil for several years, (luring which
time complaints were registered,
promises mad.e and a policy of pa
tiently waiting adopted by officials
of the Edenton Cotton Mill, some im
provements in the mill village are
finally being realized. ,
These improvements provide for
laying concrete sidewalks on every
street in the mill village, work on
which is now under way. The pro
ject calls for something like a mile
of sidewalks four feet in width and
should go no little way in improving
the appearance of the mill village to
say nothing of the convenience which
will result.
The contract to lay the sidewalks
was awarded to C. B. Mooney, who
has already finished a portion on
Office Street, and who plans to com
plete the work as early as possible.
Following many complaints on the
i part of Cotton Mill officials relative
' to street, sidewalk and drainage con
ditions in the mill village, Town
i Council during the past fiscal year
■ made an application for a WPA pro
i ject to construct sidewalks and hard
! surface streets in the mill village,
: as well ais some other streets in
town. This project, however, has not
i been heard from and several weeks
s ago cotton mill officials agreed to pay
i half the cost of sidewalks, to which
I Town Council agreed. The project is
• estimated to cost in the neighborhood
\ of $3,500.
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Established Lines Will
Be Known In Day
Or Two
MAY BE CHANGED
Some Affected May Get
Time to Harvest
Crops
Though extensive work has been
going on during the past week in the
vicinity of the proposed Marine
Glider Base, the exact location of the
base was still undetermined Wednes
day. However, Lieutenant C. G.
Prahl, officer in charge, stated that
within a few days definite lines will
be established, after which more pro
gress on the project will result.
Up to the present, work on the
base has been confined primarily to
engineering problems, very much
j care being exercised so that the base
will be built to the best advantage,
and for that reason it is altogether
possible that there will be a change
in the original lines of the base.
There has been a considerable
amount of comment as to the exact
location of the base, but until Lieu
tenant Prahl secures approval of any
contemplated change, this is only
conjecture. He says, however, that
when final approval is secured from
the Navy Department, ample notice
will be given any persons affected
on the site to vacate. In some
eases, it is his belief that enough
time will be allowed to harvest crops.
But just a« soon as he receives the
“go ahead” signal all land owners
and tenants will be notified as to
how soon the premises must be
vacated.
The base will require from 2,000
to 2,500 acres and because of this
amoifnt of land to he used for the
purpose, a considerable amount of in
terest has been aroused a? to who
( will be affected.
Up until Wednesday only skeleton
crews were on hand in Lieutenant
Prahl’s office in the Hose Room at
Hotel Joseph Hewes, as well as in the
'Court House, where the engineering
and architectural contractors, Olsen,
Deitrich, Carr and J. E. Greiner, are
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Group Os Deputies
Sworn In To Help
War Ration Board
Three Original Members
Unable to Do Work
Required
In view of the ever-increasing de
mands made on the three principal
members of the Chowan County Ra
tioning Board, consisting of A. G.
By rum, chairman, W. W. By rum and
Dr. W. S. Griffin, the Board felt com
pelled to call on D. M. Warren, chair
man of the Board of County Commis
sioners, and Clerk of Court E. W.
Spires to assist them in securing
eight additional members to act as
permanent deputies with them.
Warren and Spires, who, by reason
of their official positions, were re
quired under the rationing laws to
recommend the three original board
members to Governor Broughton, who
made the appointments, secured the
following men to act with the board:
G. B. Potter, Leroy H. Haskett, W.
J. Berryman, Marvin P. Wilson, W.
J. Taylor, John A. Holmes, Ralph E.
Parrish and Hector Lupton.
At present Mr. Wilson will handle
wholesale and retail sugar, Mr. Tay
lor, war ration books, and Mr.
Holmes the institutional and individ
ual users. The later will be ready to
review applicants beginning Monday
from 4 to 5 p. m., at the Ration
Board office.
The first three will act with Al
bert G. By rum in the gasoline divi
sion, the next three with Dr. W. S.
Griffin in food*, and the last two
with W. W. Byrum in the price ceil
ing work.
All of these men were officially
, sworn in at the Ration Board offices
i Tuesday morning and this move is
: expected to prove of great help to the
i Board members who have worked
’ many weary months at great aacri
i fice to themselves. They are all per
? fectly willing to make these eaerl-
I fices, but there is just too much
work for the three men to do.