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The Chowan Herald
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Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin
Bufflap and Hector Lupton, at 423-425 South
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942
Match Their Patriotism
Last week The Herald listed 130 Chowan County'
truck owners who volunteered to use their time and
trucks to haul at least one load of scrap when called
upon in Chowan’s drive to collect all scrap metal
possible.
Owners of these trucks are just as busy as any de
fense workers or those engaged in other kinds of busi
ness, but they are patriotic enough to sacrifice theii
time as well as the use of their trucks in hauTing the
scrap. It should, therefore, be expected that those hav
ing scrap should be willing to gather this neeaed ma
terial so that as little time as actually necessary will be
consumed in getting it to the salvage depots.
It is a splendid gesture of patriotism oh the part of
these truck owners, which should be matched on the
part of others in gathering together all available scrap
material about their premises to the end that old
Chowan will be able to show a return favorably com
parable to other counties in the State.
Get the scrap, therefore, folks, and give these pa
triotic truck owners an opportunity to be called upon to
haul their one load of this now precious material.
Another Lesson Learned
No little dissatisfaction resulted in Elizabeth City
last Friday at the calling of the Edenton and Elizabeth
City High Schools football game, which dissatisfaction
was expressed by Edenton and some Elizabeth City fans
aloke. From all appearances the Aces were the victims
of very flimsy excuses for penalties which for the most
part came when in striking distance of a touchdown.
Entering the game as the underdog, the Aces played
an inspired game and out-played their rivals except in
the final penalties when, as the result of 12 penalties
netting a loss of 165 yards, the boys became disheart
ened. Most of these penalties came at critical times,
which had a demoralizing effect on the boys, and couplea
with no relief due to lack of reserves, the entire team
weakened, thus offering little resistance whil the fel
low Jackets pushed across two touchdowns.
With rivalry as keen as it is on the gridiron between
Edenton and Elizabeth City, either school has no busi
ness to secure home officials when the two teams play.
A similar affair occurred some five or six years ago,
since which time disinterested officials had been em
ployed and as a result little dissatisfaction has been
heard. This same proceedure should be followed.
A football game, like a baseball game, can be a
means of cementing friendship between two communi
ties, and on the other hand it can very easily be the
means of forming a breach of friendship which might
be hard and long to heal, which defeats the very pur
pose of football.
Elizabeth City has more times than not put a team
on the field superior to Edenton and has come off the
field the winner, which is as it should be and there have
been no complaints. However, in Friday’s game it ap
pears that the better team was the victim of flimsy
penalties called at very critical times, and even if these
penalties were justified, it would not have had the
same effect had they been called by neutral officials.
School officials miscued when they agreed to play
Friday’s game with local men officiating instead of se
curing neutral officials.
Bound To Be A Success
It was an enthusiastic but serious group of men who
gathered in the Armory Tuesday night to Enlist in the
Home Guard Unit for Chowan County—44 of them who
took the oath of enlistment. There are still a lew
more who have volunteered, but were unavoidably pre
vented from being present Tuesday night.
These men have as their leader a man who also takes
his job seriously, and a man in whom they have the
utmost confidence. Captain Lloyd E. Griffin, com
manding officer of the Unit, is also proud of the per
sonnel of the outfit and feels that he has a group of
men of a calibre comparing favorably With any othei
unit in the State.
With such a feeling of pride and confidence on the
part of both Captain Griffin and the men under him,
the Chowan unit can hardly be anything else but a
....-success.
Keep It Moving, Folks
ilt is comforting to notice the response being made
n Chowan County to the appeal for scrap metal. Last
veek Chairman R. C. Holland reported 140,000 pounds
dumped at the various branch depots, which amount
was more than doubled during the week, Chairman Hol
land reporting Tuesday that 300,000 pounds would be a
conservative estimate.
Let’s keep the scrap moving, folks, so that Chowan
will stand high in this respect as it has in every other
case where patriotism is involved.
Chowan always comes across when it is expected to
do so, and this drive for scrap will be no exception.
Sure, He’s Helping
During September, Lend-Lease goods to the value of
$643,000,000 were furnished the Allies of the United
States and $544,000,000 represented goods actually
transferred. Three-fourths of this amount was in mili
tary items.
While no information is available as to the countries
which received September shipments, a recent statement
showed that about thirty-five per cent, of the goods de
livered during the summer went to the United Kingdom,
the same amount to Russia and the remaining thirty
per cent, to the Middle East, Australia and other areas.
All of which should be considered by the critics who j
are too prone to whine On the grounds that Uncle Sam
is not helping cot Us Allies. j . .
THE CHOWAN HERALD EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942
Heard and seej^
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Not so very long ago when D. M. Warren’s health
was not so good, he was relieved of some of his wor
ries and responsibilities as cashier at the Bank of
Edenton and the directors elected him as executive vice
president, a new job at the bank. Whether this change
in positions was responsible or not, his health has gradu
ally improved, so that now he apparently is as well as
he ever was. But now he has another job which for lack
of a better name, I term “traffic director.” You see, of
late the bank’s business has increased by leaps anu
bounds, so that at times the lobby of the bank takes on
the form of a rush for tickets to a World Series baseball
game. Matters have been very complicated at times
and to make things better for the bank’s limited crew
of workers, as well as those wanting to be waited on,
Mr. Warren spends a lot of his time in the lobby where
' four lines are sometimes found leading up to the four
windows. As a person enters the lobby, Mr. Warren says
“Get in this line, please.” Methinks he ought to have
a uniform and a billy club, too, for it’s a dickens of a
temptation to remain in one line when another seems to
be making more headway, especially when a guy is in a
hurry—and where’s the guy these days who isn’t in a
hurry most of the time? Anyway, it looks like a thing
of the past to run into the bank, find at once a vacant
window, slap down a dollar or so deposit and be out on
the street in nothing flat. So, if you don’t like to
stand in line sometimes, better take along a stool or
folding chair, for you’re going to have to await your
turn—sort of barber shop fashion.
o— :
For the benefit of the majority of Chowan County
residents, an election was held Tuesday of this week.
Os course, there was no local opposition and on the
State ticket the only candidates having opposition were
U. S. Senator Josiah W’. Bailey, whose Republican op
ponent was Sam J. Morris, and Herbert C. Bonner, who
had J. C. Meekins, Jr., as an opponent for Congressman
of the First District. Nope, there was no stampede to
get to the ballot box, for only 334 votes were cast in
the entire county. The election had little semblance of
the usual affairs, for when counting the votes, about
the only ones heard were those who were doing the
counting. It was one election, at least, when it was not
necessary to urge interested spectators to stand back
or to keep quiet due to interferring with the counting.
And then, after the counters left the Court House,
Eddie Spires was the sole lonesome occupant of the
building as he waited for returns to come in from Cen
ter Hill and Yeopim. He waited until what he thought
was long enough and then chased out to Yeopim to ex
tract the returns from Gus Beasley. Anyway, it makes
a difference when a guy has opposition for public office
and the result is not known until the last precinct vote
is counted.
o
Shucks, with advertising at a low ebb, even Jim
Daniels, one of my best friends, threw a monkey wrencn
in the works this week by recalling a classified ad ne
had ordered. For several days Jim has been mighty
blue due to losing a S4O wrist watch, and decided to
take a chance on finding it by a classified ad in The
Herald. But before the bloomin’ paper got to press,
Jim called up and in an exultant voice yelled over the
telephone, “I’ve found my watch, don’t run that ad.”
He looked and looked for several days all along his mail
route and on Tuesday happened to spy the watch lying
under a box where he had deposited mail. He’s mighty
lucky, though, for a nice wrist watch would have been
just about as hard to get back as a pocketbook full of
greenbacks.
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Bob Pratt has returned to Edenton after being con
fined for a little over three weeks in the Veterans Hos
pital at Fayetteville. Friend Bob is now over 21
pounds lighter in avoirdupois than before he left, whici.
is very noticeable by glancing at his uniform. He can
now stoop over without fear of hearing a rip in the
rear and, of course, feeling a draft, and had to punch
another hole in the belt carrying bullets to prevent the
thing from slipping below his belly. Anyway, he’s back
on the job again and says he’s feeling a lot better. He
says he ought to lose about 20 more pounds, after which
he might be able to wear Officer Harrell’s uniform by
cutting it about in half.
o
Percy Smith has on his farm in the Rocky Hock sec
tion a pig weighing 1,055 pounds, to which he expects
to tack on a few more pounds. The bad feature about
the whole thing is that Percy expects to sell the pig
instead of killing it and inviting his friends around to
eat a hunk of ham or sirloin.
o
Shields Haste surely never did earn anything like as
much money in civilian life as Clark Gable, but the two
are now on an equal footing so far as their earning ca
pacity is concerned. Both Shields and Gable were
commissioed second lieutenants at Miami Beach, Fla.,
last week when a class of 2,400 officer candidates grad
uated. Gable was president of the class, all except 12
votes being cast for him for the honor.
o
Charlie Overman and Miss Rebecca Colwell no doubt
saved the day Monday when they appeared before the
County Commissioners to submit their monthly reports
as county agent and home demonstration agent, respec
tively. Mrs. Maurice Bunch had turned over recording
of the minutes to her husband and as the Commissioners
had some time on their hands awaiting the arrival of a
boy to pick out the slips from the jury box to choose
jurymen for the December term of court, it was a good
time to hear a joke or two. It was getting sort of in
teresting when in popped Charlie and Miss Colwell so
that one of the jokes ended rather abruptly and' the
Commissioners went about their usual business. They’re
a serious bunch when it comes to transacting the coun
ty’s business, but where’s the guy who doesn’t enjoy a
joke now and then to break the monotony of the stren
uous routine we’re all obliged to go through these days?
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By some hook or crook, I got a slant at a letter
written to Eddie Spires by Bob Foster, who lives in New
Jersey. One section of the letter read thusly. “I cer
tainly did enjoy reading the article Buff had in The
Herald about me, ‘the Yank.’ A thing that amuses me
is how under the sun can a Pennsylvania Dutchman
; become a red-hot Southerner when he cannot get the
Pennsylvania Dutch twang off his tongue. The only
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“I Hate to Look Down, Lizzie. I Want to Jump!”
“That’s th’ Way I Used to Feel When I Washed Window*!”
thing they think of is sauerkraut
and Pennsylvania scrapple. Take
run up to York, Pa., where Buff
comes from, and you will have the
time of your life trying to talk to thp
natives. It is worse than trying to
talk to the natives of Allentown, Pa
Give him a rub about this and see
what he says.”
Well, in the first place, Friend Bob
is all wrong, for with my old friend
F. F. Muth long since gone to his re
ward and Frank Muth chasing here
and yon, the sauerkraut question is a
thing of the past, so that there’s no
use thinking about sauerkraut. And
in the second place, Bob, being a
Jersey and possibly living closer to
Philadelphia than York is, ought to
know that scrapple is not the
“national” dish of Pennsylvania
Dutch in the York area. It is most
popular in the Philadelphia neck of
the woods, so that so far as scrapple
is concerned, here’s one who puts it
in about the same category as chit
terlings—nope, I haven't yet gotten
up enough nerve to try to eat the
bloomin’ things. But with the war
on, and this thing and that thing
being either so darned expensive that
I cannot afford to buy it, or else ra
tioned so that I cannot get it if I
have the price, I’m not saying that
I’ll go to my grave without forcing
a yard and a half or so of chitter
lings down into the old bread basket.
But I reckon I’ll have to be some
kinda darn hungry (how’s that for
Southern “twang”, Bob?) when I go
to eatin’ chitterlings!
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Several boys formerly employed
by The Herald are now in the ser
vice of Uncle Sam, but only one was
employed at the time of enlistment.
In the office hangs one star repre
senting Vernon Barrow, who began t
work’ng with The Herald when it j
started.'“Hunk” is not so hot at
writing, but did this week write to
his folks and sent his best regards
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Colored Students
Enter Heartily In
Collecting Scrap
Students Hope to Col
lect Total of 20,000
Pounds
Students of the Edenton colored
high school entered into the scrap
campaign with a great deal of enthu
siam and as a result, the vounjj.-terS;
at the close of last week had collected i
a total of 12,500 pounds of seraph
metal and rubber.
The school was organized on a
competitive home room basis, with
first place going to Grade 7-A,
taught by Mrs. D. F. Walker, whose
students rounded up 3,488 pounds.
Highest individual student in the
room was Wallace Cook, who brought
in 684 pounds.
Second honor went to Grade 6-B,
taught by Mrs. S. F. Wilson. High
est individual student in this grade
was Charlie Bembry, who collected
2,146 pounds.
Collections of scrap are still in
progress and it is hoped that the
school will be able to round up at
least 20,000 pounds.
to his former bosses. Incidentally,
his address is in care of the Post
master in New York, which is even
reason to believe that instead of
picking type or running a press, he
| is now on the “pond” trying to pick
up a Heinie or a Jap and running
the devil out of ’em. Here’s wish
ing him luck in his new “trade.”
Consumers Os Oil i
Urged To Fill Out
Form RUB At Once
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Pertains to Use of Fuel
In Private Dwellings
Only
Fuel oil and kerosene consumers •
for heating private dwellings and
heating water in these dwellings
I should secure at once forms from the
1 local War Price and Ration Board, or
their supplier, so that ration books
can be issued. The number of the
form required to be filled out for this
purpose is R-1100 and all consumers
are urged to attend to this matter
at once.
Persons using fuel oil or kerosene
for other than above purposes will be
notified when to make application
for the form to be filled out for
those purposes.
19 On Honor Roll At
Rocky Hock School
Nineteen pupils of the Rocky Hock
Central School made the honor roll
for the second month of school. The
honor students, as reported by Mrs.
Mattie P. Nixon, are:
First Grade —Ralph Bunch, Merrill
Evans, Jack T. Evans, Kermit Har
rell, Jackie Bunch, Shirley Harrell.
•Second Grade—Carlton R. Harrell,
Ernest R. Harrell, C. Spurgeon
Tynch, Norma J. Harrell, Julia P.
Learv, Sara E. Morris and Ruth V.
Tynch.
Third Grade—Marian Nixon and
Hilda Rae Harrell.
Fourth Grade—Arlene Harrell.
Sixth Grade—Audrey Bunch, Chris
tine Harrell, Audrey Pearce.
VISITING IN MASSACHUSETTS
Mrs. Ralph Goodwin and daughter,
Jane, of Center Hill, are visiting her
niece, Mrs. W. W. Yarborough, wife
of Ist Lieut.' Yarborough, and her
! sister, Mrs. J. M. Rackel, in Spring
field, Mass.
BRIDGE CLUB ENTERTAINED
Misses Myers, Horner and Ander
son entertained the Cross Roads
Birdge Club Wednesday evening at
the home of Mrs. Lindsay Evans, at
Cross Roads. The high score award
went to Mrs. B. W. Evans.
Delicious sandwiches and hot tea
were served by the hostesses.
WOMEN
We have an opening for a
woman of neat appearance and
average ability. Write Box X,
Care Chowan Herald.