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found a fatr presentation
of local anil county news
of general interest.
Volume IX.—Number 49.
Personnel Os Navy Department And Air
Station Contractors Planning Mammoth
- Christmas Partyln Edenton December 19
Principal Purpose Is to
Raise Funds For
Navy Relief
SHOOTING~AT SI,OOO
Group of Strong Com
mittees Appointed
Monday Night
Machinery was put into action
Monda night to stage a mammoth
Christmas party in Edenton which, if
Monday’s meeting is any indication,
will far eclipse any similar affair
ever staged here. The party will be
held at the Edenton Armory Saturday
night, December 19, and is sponsored
by personnel of the Navy Department
at the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station,
assisted by members of the personnel
of North Eastern, Warren, Beckham
& Brooks, construction contractors,
and Olsen, Deitrick, Carr &J. E.
Greiner Company, architect and en
gineer contractors at the base.
At the meeting held Monday night
at Hotel Joseph Hewes, representa
tives from the three air station
groups, as well as a large number of
representative citizens, were present
in order to lay the groundwork for
the affair. The meeting was presid
ed over by George C. Cunney, Navy
auditor, who briefly explained the
purpose of the party. It is twofold,
he said, in that it will provide first
class entertainment and usher in the
hol'day season, and secondly and pri
marily, will raise funds for Navy re
lief, to which the proceeds will be
given. Mr. Cunney briefly explained
Navy relief, which until the present
emergency was maintained entirely
by men enlisted in the Navy them
selves. The fund is used in many
ways in prov ding relief for men in
're Navy as well a.- fcr their families
ho need help. Tl ough generous re- 1
ponse has been made to appeals for'
Navy relief, Mr. Cunney said thatj
when newspapers begin to carry cas- |
ualty lists in the present conflict |
there would be even a greater desire
on the part of the rank and file to
contribute to this purpose.
Mr. Cunney, as well as others
present, felt very optimistic regard
ing the success of the affair and
there was no reluctancy in predicting
that the party would clear SI,OOO
for the relief fund.
Os course, the highlight of the
party will be a dance in the Edenton
Armory, with the music to be fur
nished by the United States Navy!
Orchestra of Elizabeth City. This j
orchestra includes a number of pro- j
fessional players, who before their i
enlistment, were members of some
of the outstanding orchestras of the
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House Committee
Discusses Peanut
Program For 1943
Big Difference In Price
Os Edible and Oil
Peanuts
'
Members of the House of Repre-j
sentatives, representing the peanut
areas throughout the United States, 1
met in a conference Saturday in the !
Agriculture Committee Room of the
House to discuss the peanut program
for 1943 with respect to the differ
ence in prices between quota and non
quota peanuts, or edible peanuts and,
oil peanuts, the latter so necessary j
to the war effort. After considera-1
tion of various plans to take care of!
the vast discrepancy in price, the]
conference passed a resolution in- |
structing Congressman H. P. Fulmer, 1
Chairman of the Agriculture Com- j
mittee of the House, to name a se-1
lect committee to meet with J. B. [
Hutson, President, Commodity Credit;
Corporation, and Secretary of Agri- j
culture, in an effort to work out a!
fair and equitable program for all 1
growers, quota and non-quota, during
he emergency.
J Immediately after the meeting
adjourned, Mr. Fulmer named Con
gressman Winder Harris of Virginia,
Congressman Herbert C. Bonner, of
North Carolina, Mr. Pace, of Georgia,
Mr. Fulmer, of South Carolina, and
others from Alabama, Texas, Florida,
Louisiana and Mississippi, which are
the principal peanut growing states,
to the Select Committee.
This Select Committee will meet
during the week.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
TWO MORE ÜBERTV SMPS NJMEO AFTER
EOENTONIANS DURING COLONIAL PERIOD
The James Iredell Sent Down Ways at Wilming
ton Sunday Afternoon and the Penelope Pad
gett Barker Launched Monday Afternoon
Another Liberty Ship named in;
honor of one of Edenton’s outstand
ing citizens of Colonial days was '
launched by the North Garojina Ship
building Company at Wilmington,
N. C., Sunday afternoon. This latest
in a series of 10,000-ton vessels,
eighth to be launched in November,
was named “James Iredell” in honor
•of Janies. Iredell who lived in the
home now occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Gordon on East Church Street.
The James Iredell is the 45th ves
sel to be launched at the Wilmington
shipyard since the first, Zebulon B.
Vance, was sent down the ways on
the James Iredell was sponsored by
Miss Helen MacMillan, of Wilming
, ton, a great-great-great-great-grand
daughter of Iredell. Her matrons of
honor were Mrs. Edwin Lee Clark, of
Columbus, Ga., and Mrs. Laurens
Wright, of Charlotte.
James Iredell was born in Lewes,
1 England, October 5, 1750, and came
to North Carolina when he was 17
years old. While a young man he
was appointed deputy collector of
the Port of Edenton and studied
law, receiving his license to practice
TimeOfOpeiig I
School Changed
! '
Due to Busses, School
Opens 30 Minutes
Later
Due to the extreme difficulty in
busses getting to school on time in
the morning, Superintendent John A.
Holmes, on Wednesday, inaugurated
a new schedule of hours, which will
be in effect during the three winter
months. Beginning Wednesday,
which starts the fourth month of
school, the opening hour will be 30
minutes later, thus school will begin
each morning at 9:05 o’clock, instead
i of .3:35 as heretofore.
This change, of course, will affect
the closing of school, which will also
jbe half an hour later. Hereafter
; school will close at 4:10 o’clock in
j stead of 3:40.
Few Cases Disposed
Os In Winter Term
Os Superior Court
Criminal Docket Com- j
pleted First Day of
Court
With Judge R. Hunt Parker pre
j siding, the December term of Chowan j
; Superior Court, which convened j
about 11 o’clock Monday morning, de-!
\ veloped into a very light docket,
with only two criminal cases being
disposed of. This phase* of the
court’s work was completed Monday
afternoon, after which civil cases
i were tried.
Upon arrival Judge Parker lost no
| time in getting down to business, the
I first order of business being the se
! lection of a grand jury. This body
| was composed of W. H. Pearce, O. M.
1 Elliott, O. B. Perry, David Holton,
j George S. Harrell, J. P. Perry, Bu
| gene Baker, R. B. Hollowell, W. M.
. Chesson, iSeth Cayton, E. E. Privott,
; Glenn Bunch, Hoskins Bass, E. J.
; Ward, Ellsworth Blanchard, J. Q.
I Bass, H. Tom Hollowell and H. V.
1 Bass. O. B. Perry was designated
as foreman of the jury.
In h s charge to the Grand Jury,
Judge Parker gave the usual instruc
tions regarding presentments and
bills of indictment. He asked the
jury to ignore trivial cases which
might be brought in malioe, but also
warned that those guilty of law vio
lation should face trial, (gid at the
same t'me no matter hdkr humble,
every citizen is entitled E protection
from being wrongly accused.
“There are none too powerful not
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 3, 1942.
jin 1775. He was elected a judge of
! Superior Court in December, 1777,
| which office he resigned soon after
wards. He was a leader of the Fed
eralists in North Carolina and at the
convention held in Hillsboro ir; 1788
he argued without success in favor
of the adoption of the Federal Con
stitution. On February 10, 1790,
President Washington appointed him
as associate justice of the U. S. Su
preme Court. Iredell County was
named for him in 1788. He died at
Edenton, N. C., October 20, 1799.
The 446th Liberty Ship to be com
pleted by the Wilmington concern
and the fourth to be named after
an Edentonian, was launched Monday
afternoon. It was named in honor of
Penelope Padgett Barker, a leader
of patriotic women in Edenton dur
ing the Revolutionary War. it was
Penelope Barker who acted as chair
man of the Edenton Tea Party on
October 25, 1774.
The launching of the vessel was
sponsored by Miss Anna Wood of
Edenton who had as her maids of
honor Miss Mary D. White and Miss
Betty Wales.
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Course Completed
|
14 Enrolled With Miss
Josephine Grant as
Instructor
Chowan County’s Red Cross adult
nutrition course has been completed.
Fourteen ladies were enrolled under
Miss Josephine Grant as instructor.
This course will, according to Mrs. J.
N. Pruden, county chairman, shortly
be followed by a Red Cross canteen
course with Miss Marie Anderson and
Mrs. Frank Cale, Jr., acting as in
structors. The exact date of this
course has not been decided, but it is
expected to be announced in a short
time.
Those who were enrolled in the
nutrition course and will be eligible
to enroll in the canteen course are:
Mrs. Richard P. Boyer, Mrs. W. J.
| Zebulon C. Hopkins, Mrs. M. A.
Daniels, Mrs. J. L. Goodwin, Mrs.
Hughes, Mrs. J. M. Jones, Mrs. Wal
lace Jones, Mrs. S. Owen Leider, Mrs.
P. T. Owens, Mrs. Robert Perine,
Mrs. Donald C. Kline, Mrs. J. Frank
White, Jr., Mrs. Thomas Wood and
Mrs. Julien Wood.
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! Nelson Appeals To
Farmers For More
Vital Scrap Metal
Urges Intensified Hunt
On Farms Through
out Country
While Chowan County is still con
ducting its scrap metal campaign,
Donald M. Nelson, in a telegram to
The Herald late last week, appealed
to farmers to wind up the year 1942
by intensified efforts to gather e .ery
available piece of scrap metal for
war purposes.
Mr. Nelson’s telegram follows:
“The Government is ask ng the
American farmer to dedicate the re
maining weeks of 1942 to an intensi
fied scrap hunt. Steel mills need
more heavy scrap and the farms are
one of the best sources of this type
of metal. We need your further help :
in this farm drive, and in aiding our :
salvage committees to continue this ;
effort throughout the next fqw weeks.
All salvage committees are being in- i
structed to continue to make available <
to the farmer all their transportation
facilities and manpower, and to co- ;
operate with you in every possible
way. The nation is looking to the
American farmer. I am sure, with
your help, he will come through."
Sale Os Christmas
Seals In Chowan
Will Begin Today
Seals Will Be Mailed
Following Last Year’s
Successful Scheme
QUOTA IS S6OO
War Conditions Expect-:
ed to Cause More
Tuberculosis
Beginning today (Thursday) and
continuing until Christmas, an effort 1
will be made to raise S6OO as Chowan 1
County’s quota of the Christmas
Seal sale.
This year more than ever before
tuberculosis must be fought on the
home front. History has proved that
in any country during a sustained
period of stress, tuberculosis has flar
ed up. The grim story that tubercu- '
losis and war wrote together from |
1914 to 1918 told what could happen, l
what did happen and what may hap- j
pen again.
The X-ray of the men who enter
the service is a great advance made
against the disease. But to counter
balance the gain thus made, the Na
ton may lose ground in the migra
tion and concentration of industrial
workers and in the increased hours
of labor necessary to the war effort.
The Christmas Seal sale this year
is a defense measure of far-reaching
importance. Following the plan
adopted last year, Mrs. J. A. Moore,
Chowan County chairman, is mailing
seals throughout the town and county.
These letters will be sent out today
(Thursday) and will contain, in ad
dition to the seals, a letter of ex
planation and a return envelope ad
; dressed to Mrs. R. C. Holland, treas-
I urer.
It is earnestly hoped that the re
| sponse to these letters will be prompt
I and generous.
Will you consider for one moment
what tuberculosis means in the war
J effort to which we have pledged our
j selves?
In 1940 the various samtoriu
throughout the country provided 22
to 23 million patient days of treat
ment. Tuberculos's divisions of hos
pitals provided 6 to 7 million treat
ment days.
These figures, added to the man
days of hospital personnel total more
than 40 million man-days per year.
Forty million man-days, if employ- I
ed in war production would be suffi- 1
cient to build 160 destroyers, 940 fly- j
ing fortresses, 3,000 combat planes
or 16,000 light tanks.
The high cost of tuberculos's; which ;
is preventable and curable.
Will you not contribute as gener
ously as you can to the Seal Sale
program which is: Find the sick,
treat the patient, restore his earning
power, prevent the spread of the
disease, and keep the family from
falling to pieces.
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Prominent Ministers
Scheduled Appear At
Presbyterian Church
Pre-Christmas Religious
Season Begins Next
Sunday
On Sunday morning the pre-
Christmas religious season will open
at the Presbyterian Church, when
the Rev. Ray Riddle, of Columbia,
S. C., will preach at the morning ser
vice at 11 o’clock, and the Rev. Gower
Crosswell, of Chinquapin, will preach
at night at 8 o’clock. Mr. Crosswell
will be remembered as the minister
who held a revival in the church dur- j
ing the past summer.
According to the Rev. D. C. Craw
ford, Jr., pastor of the church, other
outstanding guest ministers will fill
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District Superintendent
Will Preach Sunday
At the evening service In the
Methodist Church next Sunday at 8
o’clock, the Rev. W. L. Clegg, new
superintendent of the Elizabeth City
District, will make his initial appear
ance. The Rev. Mr. Clegg will
preach at this service and imme
diately following the first quarterly
conference will be held.
The public is cordially invited to
hear the new superintendent, who was
formerly pastor of the West Durham
Methodist Church and is regarded as
one of the most able preachers in the
conference.
December7-19De?; .dted
By R. C. Hollanf 1 * Climax
Chowan Scrap Metal Drive
| Warning |
With many leaves on the
I ground at this time and the ten-
I dency on the part of housewives
to burn these leaves in order to
clean up premises* Mayor J. H.
McMullan has called attention to
a Town Ordinance forbidding the
burning of leaves or any other
trash either on the street or on
1 private property.
Burning of leaves creates a fire
hazard and for that reason to
burn leaves a penmit must be se
|cured from Fire Chief R. K.
Hall. Both Mayor McMullan and
Fire Chief Hall urge housewives
to secure this permit before
burning any material about their
I homes.
Draft Board Ordered
Reclassify Essential
Workers On Farms!
;
Those Leaving Farm I
Will Be Subject to In
duction In Army
■ j Recently, General Lewis B. Hersey,
: Director of Selective Service, has
seen fit for the local Boards to re
■ classify essential agriculture work
ers for the farm. This means that
■. those workers must be engaged in the
I production of agricultural products
■ more than necessary for subsistence.
■ I In the future, in order for agricul
i tural workers to be entitled to this
{ reclass ; fication of 11-C or 111-C they
‘I must make known their willingness to
■ j remain on the farm for the year 1943
; to help produce necessary foodstuff.
; However, this does not prevent any
I farm worker, after the present 1942
crop is harvested, from engaging in
• outside work—but he must make this
fact known to the local Board and
j state his intention to return for farm
work by March 1, 1943.
When registrant leaves the farm
permanently for other work, his
i classification will be immediately
| changed and he will be classified
; I-A subject to induction into the
Army.
Schools Respond To
Jr. Red Cross Roll Call;
Many Grades Enroll 100
Per Cent According
To Report
Though the report of the Junior !■
Red Cross Roll Call is not complete, j
Mrs. J. N. Pruden, county chairman.!
is well pleased with results reported j
to date, which show that many of the!
grades enrolled 100 per cent., and j
that so far $64 have been collected.
In the Edenton High School returns {
amounted to $18.25, while the Gram
mar Grades secured $28.31, and the
Primary Grades $13.44.
In the Grammar Grades, the con
tributions by rooms were as follows:
Mr. Swain, $3.62; Mrs. Bunch, $3.87;
Miss Copeland, $5.35; Miss McDonald.
$3.84; Miss Goodwin, $2.22; Mrs.
Davis, $1.53 and an additional SI.OO
for kits; Mrs. Griffin, $2.33; Miss
Jones, $5.50.
In the Primary Grades the report
was as follows: Mrs. Shepard. 33.18:
M ! ss Jenkins, $1.50; M ; ss Felts, $1.25;
! Miss Warren, $2.15; Miss Sayers,
$2.34; Miss Smithwick, $1.67; Mrs.
Swain, $1.35.
In the Rocky Hock Central School
the three rooms contributed $3.00,
while the two rooms at Hudson Grove
colored school contributed SI.OO.
In next week’s issue of The Herald
it is hoped a full report will be
available of the enrollment in other
schools of the county.
Rev. Lewis Schenck
Speaker For P. T. A.
Tuesday afternoon, December 8, the
regular meet ; ng of the Parent-
Teacher Association will be held in
the High School library at 3:40
o’clock. The Rev. Lewis Schenck,
new rector of St. Paul’s Church, has
been invited to make an address at
• the meeting, and the public is cor-;
dially invited to attend.
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This newspaper k draw
lated In the territory
where Advertisers wM
realise good resssHt.
$1.50 Per v ear .
130 Truck Owners Offer
Aid In Hauling Junk
To Official Depot
SCRAP WILL BE SOLi>
Proceeds Go to Schools
And Various Relief
Agencies
Though Chowan County has for
j several weeks been engaged in col
: lecting scrap iron, the climax to the
campaign will take place between
Monday, December 7, and December
19. These dates were announced ear
ly this week by R. C. Holland, Chow
an County Salvage Chairman, and
| during the period scrap metal collect-
I ed and now stored at nine communi
! ties in the county will be hauled to
! the official salvage depot on the
I Town lot on the northwest corner of
Broad and Water Streets.
Mr. Holland also has spotters scat
; tered throughout the county, who will
j direct trucks to places where scrap
j iron too heavy to be handled by
! school youngsters can be secured.
• To do this hauling, Mr. Holland,
j several weeks ago, secured the prom
ises of at least 130 truck owners
: from one end of the county to the
other who agreed to use their trucks
to haul scrap iron to the official de
pot in Edenton. These truck owners
will be called upon during the final
two weeks’ drive and Mr. Holland
has no idea whatever but that the
scrap will be moved promptly.
Though Mr. Holland has no* check
ed up on collections during (he last
week or two, his last estimate was
over 325,000 pounds on the various
scrap piles. However, when all of
this scrap, as well as some not on the
various piles is gathered together, he
expects the amount to exceed his last
figures by four.
An appeal was made last week bv
Donald Nelson, chairman of the War
Production Board, to farmers espec
ially to exert every effort possible
during the remaining weeks of 1942
to gather all the scrap metal possible
to offset a shortage at steel mills.
The farms, he said, are one of the
best sources for scrap metal.
Mr. Holland also stated that the
scrap at the various schools will be
sold for the high dollar and the pro
ceeds from the scrap used by the
various schools, according to their
needs. The proceeds for the scrap
1 on the official depot pile will be do
j nated to the Red Cross and other re
j lief agencies designated by the
' Chowan County Salvage Committee.
I Because of the plight of farmers in
Chowan County due to the shortage
j of help and the necessity for har ’est
! ing crops at the time the State* ride
scrap drive was in progress, the
county did not participate at that
time. Mr. Holland deemed it wise
and figured that more of this pre
cious metal would be secured if he
waited until those on farms bad
some of their crops out of the way
j and had more time to devote to
j gathering together any scrap iron
■ about their premises.
Various Groups In
County Working On
Share Meat Program
Every Home Expected
To Be Contacted By
Saturday
Neighborhood leaders, working
with the Agricultural Workers Coun
cil, are this Week busily engaged in
contacting families throughout the
county explaining the Share-the-
Meat program, which is sponsored
by the nutrition committee of the
County Civilian Defense Council, of
which Mrs. Roland H. Vaughan is
chairman, and Mrs. John F. White
assisting as chairman of the block
leaders in Edenton.
On Tuesday afterr,- oi and night of
last week meetings were held with
the block leaders in Edenton and the
Chowan County community organiza
tion for the purpose of discussing
dans for the nation-wide Share-the-
Meat program, which began Monday
will continue throughout this
week.
This was the first work of a block
leader group, of which Mrs. John F.
White is chairman, but the commun
| ity leaders in the county were ©rgan
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