In thess columns will be
found o fair presentation
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of general interest.
Volume X.—Number 11.
Julien Wood Dies At Home
Early Wednesday Morning
following 10 Days’ Illness
Bank of Edenton Presi
dent Since Organiza
tion In 1894
79 YEARS OLD
Funeral Services In St.
Paul’s Church Thurs
day Afternoon
Following an illness of only 10
days, Julien Wood died at his home
on Colonial Square about 2 o’clock,
Wednesday morning. He was 70
years old, being born on the Green
field Plantation June 27, 1863, the
son of Edward and Carolyn Gilliam
Wood, and is the last of the Edward
Wood family. Mr. Wood was no
doubt one of the best educated men
in the county, receiving his educa
tion at the University of North Car
olina, the University of Virginia
and Johns Hopkins.
For many years he has been prom
inently identified with the business
life of the county, having for a long
time been chairman of the County
Commissioners. He was one of the
founders of the Bank of Edenton and
has served continuously as its presi
dent since it was organized in 1894.
He was also very active in organiz
ing the Edenton Cotton Mills and
played no small part in developing
the peanut industry in Edenton.
Mr. Wood also represented the
First District on the State Highway
and Public Works Commission during
the administration of Governor J. C.
B. Ehringhaus. He is generally cre
dited with fostering the building of
the vehicular bridge across Albe
marle Sound and devoted much of his
time and influence in .seeing the pro
ject completed. Though one of the
county’s largest farmers, he was al
ways vitally interested in the wel
■v ire of Edenton, and took part in
"V ractically every movement of any
magnitude when his advice and as
sistance was needed. He was an ac
tive and loyal member of St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, and until recently
a member of the Vestry.
he married Miss Elizabeth Bad
ham, from which union, seven children
survive as follows: Jutien Wood, Jr.,
of Norfolk, Va.; Miss Sarah Wood
and Mrs. Grice McMullan of Rich
mond, Va.; Dr. Frank Wood, in ser
vice in England; Thomas Wood,
James EyWood and Miss Mary Wood.
Following the death of his first
wife, Mr. Wood in 1939 married the
former Miss Mary Louisa Anderson,
of New York, who also survives.
The Bank of Edenton was closed
Wednesday and will also be closed
today (Thursday) except for the
transaction of important legal busi
ness.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock in
St. Paul’s Church, with the rector,
the Rev. Lewis F. Schenck, officiat
ing. Interment will be made in St.
Paul’s Churchyard.
Active pallbearers are J. N. Pru
den, McDonald Dixon, Richard El
liott, W. H. Gardner, George C. Hos
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No Report Available
On Red Cross Drive
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With only one canvasser reporting
to W. J. Berryman, chairman of the
Red Cross War Fund drive, progress
of the campaign is* an unknown
quantity, but some figures are ex
pected by next week which should
have some bearing on whether or
not the goal of $4,200 will be reached.
West Byrum, who was in charge of
canvassing concerns,
reported having collected $1,200,
which is the only report so far turn
ed in. Other canvassers, however,
are now at work and in some cases
encouraging reports are heard, while
others are not so optimistic.
Mrs. J. N. Pruden, who is in charge
of solicitations in Edenton’s residen
tial districts, has announced the fol
lowing canvassers:
West Side Broad Street—Mrs. J. A.
Davis.
East Side Broad Street—Mrs. Wood
Privott.
North Granville to Church Street—
p Irs. W. H. Bolling.
) South Granville to Church Street—
Mrs. L. P. Williams.
Eden Street Extended and Oakum
Streets —Mrs. John Skiles and Mrs.
C. P. Mooney.
Mosely Street—Mrs. Roy Leary.
Albemarle Street—Mrs. Leland G.
Plant.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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JULIEN WOOD
After an illness of 10 days
Julien Wood passed away at his
home here about 2 o’clock Wed
nesday unorning. Funeral ser
vices will be held Thursday af
ternoon at 4 o’clock, in St. Paul’s
Church.
OPA Sets Price On
Fluid Milk Sold In
Chowan County
Maximum Price Deliv
ered to Home 17c
Per Quart
ZONESFORMED
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Purpose to Level Off
High Prices and Raise
Low Prices
To prevent the diversion of milk
supplies from normal channels and to
avert the threat of shortages in in
dividual communities, the Office of
Price Administration has issued an
order setting specific prices for fluid
milk sold in Chowan County, T. S.
Johnson, State OPA director at Ra
leigh, has announced.
The order issued by the national
OPA office divides the State into
three zones and sets a price schedule
for each zone. Only fluid milk
prices are affected by the new order.
Buttermilk, chocolate milk and other
flavored milks remain at present
levels.
In general, the effect of the new
pricing schedule will be to level off
relatively high prices and to increase
relatively low prices, Johnson said.
Changes in pices to the consumer
are not expected to be great.
Chowan County falls into Zone 2,
where the following maximum prices
are established: Delivered to homes,
17c per quart; retail from stores, 17c
per quart; wholesale to stores, res
taurants, etc., 15c per quart, 8c per
pint; and 4%c per pint.
The order also sets prices in every
locality in the State for sales of milk
to military organizations—the Army,
Navy, post exchanges and similar or
ganizations as well as sales of pre
mium milks. Distributors who sell
to military organizations or who sell
premium milks can get complete in
formation from the Raleigh OPA.
Provisions are made in the order
for increases in the prices distribu
tors may pay th*ei r producers.
A specific exemption is made for
sales of milk by hotels, restaurants
and other public eating places for
consumption on the premises. Such
sales remain subject to the General
Maximum Price Regulation.
WOMAN’S AUXILIARY OF ST.
PAUL’S MEETS ON MONDAY
The Woman’s Auxiliary of St.
Paul’s Church will meet Monday af
ternoon, March 22, at 4 o’clock, in ,
the Parish House. At this meeting
the study of the Holy Communion
will be continued. All members and
visitors are urged to be present.
. HARTS RETURN HOME
Dr. and Mrs. W. I. Hart, returned
Sunday from a vacation spent with
Dr. Hart’s relatives in Johnson Citv,
Tenn. Before returning home Dr.
ai d Mrs. Hart continued their jour
ney to New York.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, March 18,1943.
Edenton Industrial
Concerns Join In
Salvaging Metal
j. Clarence Leary Nam
ed Chairman For
Chowan County
SIX KANTS
Salvage Managers Ap
pointed to Supervise
Collection
An organization which -rcill super
vise collection of salvage materials
in Chowan County industrial plants
has been announced by J. Clarence
Leary, County Chairman.
Members of the Chowan County
group, he said, are cooperating in a
“permanent, continuing effort by in
dustry to keep the steel mills going.”
W. M. Parsley of Charlotte, State
industrial salvage manager for the
War Production Board, pointed out
that materials frequently considered
waste in one industry may be an
original source of raw materials in
another.
“In this case,” Mr. Parsley said,
“the industry benefitting by this sal
vage collection is the steel business,
the backbone of the munitions in
dustry.”
B. B. Gossett of Charlotte is State
chairman of the salvage committee
set up by the industrial division of
the WPB. Marvin K. Blount, of
Greenville, is chairman for the First
District of which Chowan County is
a part.
“With this setup in Chowan Coun
ty,” Mr. Parsley said, “it appears
that the salvage organization in this
area is in competent hands.”
Six resident plant salvage mana
gers in Edenton have been named by
Chairman Leary and are as follows:
M. G. Brown & Co., C. O. Letcher;
Albemarle Peanut Co., G. B. Potter;
Edenton Peanut Co., Emmett Dail;
Edenton Cotton Mills, Philip Mc-
Mullan; Home Fertilizer Co., E. B.
Boyce; Edenton Laundry, Charles P.
Wales.
Baptist Training
Union Convention
At Corinth Church
President John M. El
liott Arranges Inter
esting Program
The annual convention of the East
ern Regional Training Union will be
held March 26 and March 27 at the
Corinth Baptist Church, three miles
south of Elizabeth City. The East
ern Region comprises Chowan, West
Chowan and Pamlico Associations.
John M. Elliott, of Edenton, the
president, announces that a very in
teresting and helpful program has
been planned using the talent of the
northeastern section of the State.
The program includes both vocal and
instrumental music, interesting talks
and inspiring addresses, demonstra
tions, conferences, skits and a pa
geant. A banquet, with an interest
ing program and an inspiring address
by the Rev. W. F. Woodall of Wind
sor, is arranged for 6 o’clock Friday
evening. All Training Union work
ers, members and those interested in
the work are invited to attend.
The theme of the convention is
“Our Living Faith” and the feature
address of the convention will be de
livered by Dr. T. A. Russell of Ports
mouth, Va., on this subject during
the Friday night session. Interest
ing and timely conferences are plan
ned for Friday afternoon and Satur
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Julia Cozzens Named
Red Cross Recreation
Director In Louisiana
Friends will be pleased to learn
that Miss Julia Cozzens has been
promoted to a Red Cross recreation 1
director and is now stationed in '
New Orleans. Miss Cozzens entered i
Red Cross recreational duties last j 1
summer when she worked with ]
wounded and recuperating soldiers
in hospitals at Camp Lee and Ports- (
mouth. Before taking up Red Cross
work, Miss Cozzens was engaged in
social service work at Kingsley Home
in New Orleans and lateT headed a
staff of seven counsellors for a chil
dren’s summer camp.
Miss Cozzens is a graduate of
Edenton High School and Woman’s
College, at Greensboro, where she
majored in recreational work. 1
Defense Council
Plans For Friday
Night’s Blackout
Army Scheduled to Take
Over Protective Phase
Os Civilan Defense
MEET TUESDAY
Surprise Blackout Slat
ed Sometime Between
March 22 and 31
The blackout practice set for Fri
day night of this week will be the
last of these blackouts on which ad
vance notice will be given, it has
been announced by County Chairman
E. W. Spires.
There will be a State-wide surprise
black-out test sometipie between
March 22 and 31, after which the
Army is scheduled to take over the
direction of the protective branch of
the Civilian Qpfensp
It is expected that the same local
organization in each county will con
tinue to function as heretofore, but
they will be directly fesponsible to
the Army instead of the State Coun
cil of Civilian Defense.
The Ground Observer Aircraft
Warning Service, under Director Car
roll E. Kramer, has always been' un
der-the Army and it is thought that
the Defense Corps can also operate
in closer coordination by being direct
ed by the Army.
The Citizens Service Corps under
Director Gilmore W. Johnson will
continue to function under the State
Council as at present.
That Edenton did not make as
good showing in the recent black-out
practice as many of us believed, was
indicated in a letter received by Mr.
Spires from Assistant State Director
Norman »Y. Chambliss, and read at a
meeting called by Commander T. C.
Byrum of the Citizens Defense Corps
Tuesday afternoon to check up on his
organization.
A report from the Observer in an
Army plane was quoted by Mr.
Spires as follows:
“At 10:05 the plane passed over
Edenton. A large number of widely
scattered prominent lights were ob
served in and about the city and in
outlying rural districts. A large red
light was observed in the center of
the city.”
A discussion centered around this
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Appeal Renewed For
Waste Fats And Oils
Truck Assured to Make
Regular Collections
Each Week
Miss Rebecca Colwell, chairman of
the women’s division of the county
salvage committee, is appealing for
more cooperation in the collection of
waste fats and oils in Chowan County.
While the collection has been in
progress for some time, there has
been very little accumulated, due on
the one hand to only small quanti
ties being turned in, and on the other
because of the lack of systematic
collection of waste.
Now, however, Miss Colwell has
been assured that a truck will come
through Edenton every week in order
to pick up all the waste fats and oils
collected, which will assure delivery
to the proper depot so that the col
lections can be diverted to the mak
ing of explosives for the Government.
Housewives will be paid three cents
per pound for this sort of waste de
livered to stores in Edenton and the
following have been named as col
lection depots: Pender’s Market,
Goodwin’s Quality Store, G. M. By
rum’s Grocery and the Friendly Mar
ket.
Miss Colwell also desires to em
phasize the need for collecting old
silk and nylon hose. Boxes have been
placed in stores where hose are sold
and anyone having any discarded silk
or nylon hose are requested to de
posit them in these boxes. Os course,
the hose should be clean, but it
makes no difference how they are
tom.
Mrs. John White Added
To Local School Faculty
Mrs. John F. White has been add
ed to the Edenton school faculty,
succeeding Miss Sara McDonald, who
retimed last week after teaching in
Edenton for 15 years, to accept a
position in Texas. Mrs. White is
teaching the sixth grade, which was
taught by Miss McDonald.
Baltimore Man l«/..osen
As
Club In Hotel Joseph Hewes
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Knitters Wanted
With a request received Tues
day by Mrs. J. N. Pruden. chair
man of the Chowan County Red
Cross Chapter, for 50 army muf
flers immediately, Mrs. Pruden is
appealing for knitters who will
assist in meeting the request.
Wool for making the mufflers
has already arrived and has been
turned over to Mrs. Mattie C.
Davis at Iredell Florist. Any
one who will help knit these
mufflers is asked to contact
Mrs. Davis at once.
Edenton Debaters
Meet Washington
On Friday Morning
i
Oldest Triangle In Loop
Passes From Picture
This Year
AT 11 O’CLOCK
Query Deals With Fed
eral Aid For General
Education
What has for many years been the
oldest triangle in the State Triangu
lar Debate has passed out of the pic
ture this year, and as a result, de
bating teams from Edenton, Hert
ford and Elizabeth City will not com
pete for forensic honors. For 30
years this triangle has been in pro
gress, starting in 1913.
Edenton High School, however, will
enter a debating team again this
year and both the affirmative and
negative debaters will be matched
with the Washington High School,
the local affirmative debating at
home, while the negative team will
oppose the Washington affirmative
debaters in Washington.
Edenton’s affirmative team is com
posed of Mary Griffin and Nell Skin
ner and will oppose Billy Wagner
and Harry Walker, the Washington
negative speakers. The local nega
tive debaters, Jeanne Smith and Lil
i lian Davis, will oppose Simmons
Patrick and Zeno Edwards, Wash
ington’s affirmative team.
This year’s debating theory is
“Resolved, that the United States
should adopt the policy of extending
Federal aid to general public edu
cation.”
The debate will be held Friday
morning at 11 o’clock in the school
auditorium, and a cordial invitation
is extended to the public to attend.
Daptist Women Will
Meet March 26th In
Gates County Church
Missionary From China
Will Make Principal
Address
The 39th annual session of the
Woman’s Missionary Union of the
Chowan Baptist Association will be
held Friday, March 26, at the Eureka
Church in Gates County. The theme
of the convention will be “Christ Pre
eminent,” and on the program as ar
ranged by Mrs. C. T. Doughtie, su
perintendent of the Association, will
appear a group of interesting speak
ers, including Miss Clifford Barratt,
a missionary from China, who will
make an address.
The convention will begin at 10:30
in the morning and is scheduled to
terminate late in the afternoon, with
lunch served at 1 o’clock.
Included on the program will be
Mrs. E. A. Kelly of Corapeake; Mrs.
J. L. White of Elizabeth City, State
President Mrs. J. S. Farmer of -Ra
leigh, Mrs. T. Sloan Guy of Gates
ville, Mrs. J. S. Davis of Edenton,
Mrs. W. D. Briggs of Raleigh, Mrs.
Howard G. Dawkins of Hertford, and
Miss Clifford Barrett, who will be
the principal speaker.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.50 Per Year.
Abe Martin, USO Direc
tor, Expected to Ar
rive Friday
BENSON PLEASED
Vesper Smith Executes
Lease For Rooms
In Hotel
From authoritative sources it has
been learned early this week that
Abe Martin, associate director of the
Baltimore USO Club, has been made
director of the USO Club to be oper
ated in Edenton for the benefit of
Marines at the U. S. Marine Coiys
Air Station, as well as any other
service man who happens to be in
j Edenton. Mr. Martin is expected to
report in Edenton on Friday to be
gin his new r duties. He is aY.M. C.
A. man and has served the association
, splendidly in several capacities.
Albert C. Woodroof, architect of
1 1 Greensboro, has completed measure
l ments of Edenton’s USO Club rooms
in Hotel Joseph Hewes and is pro
-1 ceeding immediately with drawing of
plans. Rooms will be renovated and
adequately equipped to provide ap
propriate recreation for the service
men, and in this respect the commun
ity is urged to cooperate with the
project, which was one of the prere
quisites in securing USO aid in es
tablishing a club in Edenton.
Vesper C. Smith, associate region
al supervisor, spent two days in
Edenton last week during which time
a lease of the local hotel rooms was
executed for the duration and six
months thereafter. Mr. Smith ex
pressed the opinion that Edenton
is very fortunate in securing the
services of Mr. Martin as director of
the local USO Club, saying that he
is a man of high type and that he
will give of his best efforts in
1 working with the citizens of Edenton
in behalf of the service men. He
felt sure that with the proper co
operation the Edenton club will be a
credit to the community and a place
which will attract and please service
men, irrespective of the services.
The Rev. W. C. Benson, chairman
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Air Warning Meeting
Rocky Hock School
Next Tuesday Night
Sound Picture of Service
Will Be Feature of
Meeting
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Officers from headquarters of the
Air Warning Service will hold a
meeting at the Rocky Hock Central
School on Tuesday night, March 23,
| at 8:30 o’clock. The purpose of this
meeting is to discuss, in detail, the
I complete working set-up of the air
warning service and to bring to the
I attention of the local citizens the
| many changes and improvements that
have taken place since the system
I was first set up.
As a special feature of this meeting
there will be a sound picture of the
air warning service in action which
will be of interest to all patriotic
' Americans.
It has been recognized that the air
warning system is one of the most
vital arms of defense against an air
attack by the enemy, so that mem
-1 bers of the air warning service are a
part of the largest war-time obser
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| Need Advice? j
In order to straighten out any
transportation problems, William
Stalwart of the Division of Motor
Transport, will be in Edenton
Tuesday afternoon, March 23, to
confer with owners of commer
cial motor vehicles who may have
problems in connection with the
regulations of the Office of De
fense Transportation.
This will be Mr. Stewart’s
second visit to Edenton for this
purpose and he will again be in
the office of the Chamber of
Commerce in the Citizens Bank
Building to assist any who need
advice.