Newspapers / The Chowan Herald (Edenton, … / July 22, 1943, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Chowan Herald (Edenton, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
PAGE TWO The Chowan Herald | Published every Thursday by The Chowan Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin Bufflap and Hector Lupton, at 428-426 South I Broad Street, Edenton, N. C. ' Hath Carolina vAv ASSOCIATION*') J. EDWIN BUFFLAP E^' ,or HECTOR LUPTON Advertising Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Six Months - Entered as second-class matter August 30, 1934, at the post office at Caro lina, under the act of March 3, 1879. Cards of thanks, obituaries, resolutions of respect, etc., will be charged for at regular advertising rates. THURSDAY, JULY 22. 1948 A Preventive for Inflation All efforts to hold the line against inflation continue to hold their own—if at all-only by the skin of then teeth. Subsidies are expensive. OPA orders me hard tc enforce. Pressures for price, rent, and wage in creases threaten constantly to blow off the lid. To lose this fight would be to skyrocket «n already enormous burden of war debt, destroy the value of past j savings, and pinch cruelly the living standards ot all I whose incomes do not rise with the creation of a war, bubble. ! The pressure for inflation will persist so long as surplus buying power bids for the United goods avail ible. The Administration has tried hard to absorb this money by taxation and by the sale of war bonds. So long, however, as bond purchase remains voluntary, there is no assurance that this will reach all the well springs of inflation. And any straight-line taxation which squeezed out the excess war incomes would crush millions whose earnings had not appreciably increased. Consequently there is sound sense in the proposal by Senator Bennett Champ Clark, for an excess profits, tax on personal incomes. This would be in addition to present income taxes, and would be based on the in crease of individual income over previous years. Ample basis for the computation of this increase exists in past tax returns held by the Revenue Bureau. The possibilities for such a tax and the reasons for levying it have often been discussed on this page. Hie proponents of such plans generally would welcome in clusion, of a forced saving feature by which the full amount of the levy would not be taken away from the payer as a tax but a portion would be returned to him after the war. This type of tax would get at the sources of expen sive pressure- on prices .with an effectiveness badly needed in the present battle against inflation.—The Christian Science Monitor. Victory in the Jungle Military inert know that often it is the skirmishes that decide the battles which in turn settle the fate of con-. jnents. The fefore they will rate the Australian-Amer- j iean victory at Mubo important. The village may Or no more than a wide place on a jungle, trail, and it is estimated that the Japanese never did have more than. 1.500 men there. But. it did sit astride the only track from Wau to Salamaua. and its capture opens the wav for a closer investment of that center of enemy -trcngtr, j in New Guinea, which in turn i.~ an Outpost of the) great strong point at Rabaut. One noteworthy feature of the victory at Mubo is the fact that the Australians and Americans—the latte? from the force that, landed at Nassau Hay—were beat-j ,ng the Japanese at their own game of jungle wae. The infiltration practices . which the Allies found sOj hard to stop iiv Malaya, the Philippines. and Burma have been turned against the enemy. It i- reported , that the Australians and Americans, surprised, and cut off Mubo by pushing through supposedly impenetra.Me forest. From the Solomons the same story has been coming. Our correspondent, Gordon . Walker, who made the spec tacular trek to Viru with the Marines,, has ''-described, how the Americans have polished up their own -tradi tion of pioneer days to outfight the Japanese in the jungle. This combined with the sort of air and sea victories which have recently been won in that area promises somewhat faster progress in the slow closing j of Allied pincers in the Pacific —The Christian Science ! Monitor. ■ i^gye \r *' ! ~~&z3i £SBm -mu—-- rffa wSßreasSSSm * “••' * a..••»• t®r I^mßD CHOWAN CHAMPION COMPANY STUDEBAKER EXCLUSIVELY SINCE 1909 “America’s Pioneer Vehicle Builders Edenton’s Pioneer Dealer” I Studebaker Builds Wright Cyclone Engines For the Boeing Flying Fortress—Multiple-Drive Military Tracks—Other Vital War Material j if UEARDandSEEIJ ] j I Duke Hospital, Durham, N. C. (Unable to figure out date) Having just received the second copy of The Herald since being penned up in the hospital, methinks it’s about time to bring my "vacation” to a close and help to fill up The Herald. This column is written while still | lying flat on my back so that it will be a mell of a hess to write enough to fill a column, as well as a dickens of a job for Mrs. Julian Ward to interpret and put into type. I Well, 1 arrived at Duke Hospital on Sunday, July 4 (dickens of away for a former Yankee to celebrate the Glorious Fourth) and early Monday morning Doctor John Decs and his assistants began to carve on me. I, don’t know w hat they sliced away, but they mowed me J down, and 1 mean down. Upon my arrival, no little time was spent in the j | admitting office, where 1 finally was given a nice room! ion ihe third floor. An orderly was called to take mt to my room, and a slow -moving darky of the “Lighten ing” type led me and my oldest son, who accompanied me in a march w hich seemed to me to be a death march. But men in the admitting office, and upon my arrival in niy loom, nurses and doctors asked if 1 or my son was | the patient. Having been told that 1 would be operated I upon about 8-o’clock the following morning, the hours ! 1 spent in my room until that time seemed to me to be , ! about how a fellow feels on death row the night he is I !to be executed. 1 expect 1 was just about as inquisitive a patient as they have ever had here, for 1 wanted to know the w hys and wherefores of everything that was done. Despite my questions, the information I re ceived was exactly nothing. For instance, when 1 was ■Measured and weighed.l wanted to know the result. “Well,” said the orderly, "1 don't know, 'cause yo height is in centimeters an’ yo’ weight is in kilograms.” Then I wanted to know how my blood test came out, but the interne taking that told me only that 1 was a red-blooded American. The next thing 1 wanted to know was why another doctor had to tap around on me I with a rubber hammer. It looked as though he was; i playing that game of hitting a guy on the knee to watch i the leg jump. 1 must have been scared'stiff, for my f leg just wouldn’t jump when hit on the knee. How- , ever. 1 was told to clasp my hands and pull and when! doing that my leg acted like it should. The nurse.- then took my temperature and heart beat and, of Course 1 wanted to know how I was stacking up. About the most satisfaction I could get from my quest Tons Was “Oh, I think you'll live through it,” or “You’re just fine.” I liked the latter remark best. But. shucks. j the nurses do some of their work back’ards. For in stance. they make regular calls and stick a thermome ter in my mouth. Then a little later, they call around and "hold hands” to count my heart beat. Gosh all hemlock, if they want to register, some temperature, they ought to "hold hands" first and then ram the thermometer in my mouth. The climax to the pre-operation period came when 1 was asked to sign a statement which read something like this: "1, J. Edwin Bufflap, being of sound rninn. hereby consent to and authorize an operation . . . j Gee whiz, things were taking on a serious aspect, and 1 at first thought I whs signing my will. Os course, I had to sign the statement, but it seems as though they [ kept everything riiore or less of a secret except the cost of my operation. Part of the bill was, presented to ;me at the end of the first week. “Hold on,” 1 told the ady presenting the bill, “call a doctor before 1 look at ; it, for 1 feel a relapse coming on.” While being operated on. 1 was informed that 1 was talking up a storm. Gosh, wonder what 1 might have j said. At any rate, they made me take out my artificial teeth, so that maybe the two nurses attending me; while on the operating table couldn’t understand What 1 was saying. Now. that I've reached the operations, 1 want to pay j tribute to a group of very attractive and pleasant nurses. This hospital, like all other hospitals, is oper ating under a great handicap. All rooms, something j. like lino, arc filled with patients, so that both doctor.* and nurses are being worked to the straining point. Blit, despite this fact, they are a cheery group, their primary desire apparently being to make a patient's j stav in the hospital as pleasant,as possible. And so far as I am concerned, the group of nurses who have at tended me have treated me royalty. They could not | have contributed any more than they have to my com fort and welfare. They are angels of mercy and have ; made my sojourn in a hospital more of a pleasure than THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943 the trying ordeal which I had antici pated. Those nurses who have had to contend with me were Misses Hartley, Davis, Riddle, Hutchins, Ritch, Dixon, Runyon, Smith of Clinton, Smith of Albemarle, Nix, Hickman, Harrison, and a few more whose names I 'do not remember. My hat is off to every one of them, as well as to tl* nurses’ aides, and other young ladies who serve meals as well as perform other duties in a 1 sick room. They’re all a swell bunch of gals and, if I were not marriea, I’d like to marry all of ’em. Then, too, there were other things which helped to make my stay here pleasant. Judge Richard Dixon and R. J. Cobb of the Old Dominion Pa per Company of Norfolk, Va., each sent me a box of cigars. Mrs. Frank i Hughes sent me a box of home-made candy (oh, boy, that’s where I got (on the good side of the nurses). My j son sent a carton of cigarettes and other presents were received, so that ■ I have not been in want of anything, I while offer after offer has been maoc to do anything for me. The monot ony of looking at four bare wans has been broken by beautiful floral tributes from the Masons, Red Men, Methodist Sunday School and ray relatives. The flowers Were very beautiful, claiming flattering com ments from the nurses, and the j thought which prompted the sending of them shall be cherished by me and the friendship represented helps to make me one of the richest pei sons alive, for friendship is worth far more to me than anything money can buy. - , Then, too, I cannot forget the many cards and letters received while 1 in bed. The volume of my mail ai- i most reached the proportion of fan 1 mail, To acknowledge all of this I mail in The Herald would almost | compare to listing the Red Cross roll | call members, so that I want to j thank each and every one for their I messages which aside from breaking I the monotony of the long hours while i [lying in bed included many encourag-j i ing remarks a* well as wishes for a speedy recovery. I really appreciate them and they, too, helped to make my stay more pleasant. Telephone calls from Charlie Mc- Cullers and Andrea Rowell, both Id-) j rated at Camp Butner, and from I Miss Addie Mae Cooke from Winston- Salem while attending the U. N. Press meeting also had the effect of cheering me up. My visitors included Guy Fumes, formerly an KdentOnian but now liv- J ing at Durham. Guy was especially | considerate and every time he called] offered to do anything he could for me. Then Charlie McCullers slipped away a Couple of times to see me. Ted Johnson, former editor of the I Windsor Ledger-Advance; now at j Oxford, dropped in on his way home from the Press meeting. A young Marine from Geo gia, r cently made a Mason, called, as did Mrs. Cam Byrum and Mrs. Pollard of Green ville. whose husband is a patient here. Other callers included George , Alma Byrum, Maurice Bunch, Jr., Deputy Shade Felton and his son.,:! Don, of Rocky Mount, my daughter, Dorothy, my son and daughter-in i law, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bufflap of i Williamston, and my grandson, Eddie, ! Francis Manning of Williamston. Miss Henrietta Fagan, sister oi ; Mrs. R. P. liadham, who is connected j | with the chaplain's office at the hos- ' pita!. Miss Marguerite Hollowell, who is now working in Durham. I under-j stand Henry Gardner, Jr., is now | Xi “iflir -1J nftrr ~ u fiftir n -J», r -JT i. nflir \i njttr \n nfL Vi nJLi Of- I'SALE! | 11 On Ration Shoes | Released By O.P.A. t July 19 to July 31 ONLY I 242 Pairs Os Ladies Dress Shoes j [ Patent, Beige, Brown and Whites, j | And Whites ] [ Prices Substantially Reduced j Elliott Company ► Edenton, North Carolina c > ! stationed at Duke in the Officers'- Candidate School and that he wrtl call to see me if he can slip off long enough. All of these calls were ap preciated, for time hangs on while in a hospital bed and to be able to speak for a brief time with some friends helps no little in passing (he time away. I was no little surprised Thursday night when I thought I recognized a voice nearby. 1 listened and was convinced 1 heard Cam Byrum speak ing. I listened some more and then wias not so sure. But again 1 felt cer tain enough that it was Cam speak ing. 1 inquired of a nurse if a Mr. T. C. Byrum was in one of the ooiira. She obligingly investigated and found that Cam was in the room next to me. Quite a coincidence in a place as large as this. Anyway, Cam has gone home, spending only a few days here, either for the purpose of hav ing the doctors look him over or else so that he could look fie nurses over. The latter would have been more en joyable, except that the sweet young things are as busy as bees and have little time to waste chewing the rag with patients. They do their work in a hurry and in a sick room it seems as though every move they make they accomplish something. But Durham, from a hospital bed, | is a peculiar place, for at night it ’ seems as though it will never get ' dark and in the morning it appears las though daybreak is several hours behind schedule. If there are those i in Edenton who still object to hearing ; the Court House clock tap off the hours during the night, here’s, a mo-1 tion to send it to Durham and put It j [ outside my window, for it would be j sweet music to me. • Up to this point it would be hard j for me to say how many flings Ij have taken at writing this column, but i| is now Sunday afternoon and ; I’m going to finish or bust. For the j information of my friends, I was ar-1 lowed to sit up 15 minutes Saturday afternoon and on Sunday afternoon I took a ride on a wheel chair, chasing I up and down the halls and peeping in ! rooms where folks were as bad off { | and even worse than I. It might he ? interesting to note, too, that on my] first attempt to stand up, I was tooj weak to navigate by myself, so that [ after a little ride. I was glad to flop j back in bed. I have been advised that 1 will be, released from the hospital today' (Thursday) unless something unfore-j seen develops. I'expect .'to go as far' as Williamston, where 1 will spend aj day or two before returning home. So, until I can see my friends, Ij want to thank each and every one for their interest and well wishes, and 1 hope that now I have undergone a j double operation and have had a long | rest, that I will be in better position) to get put a more interesting news | paper and be of more service in the J community. This, then, is what I have beenj seeing, hearing and experiencing in ! Duke Hospital, my first trip to one.| and though I am perfectly satisfied j with the treatment received. 1 hope [ it will be the last trip to one in the J j role of patient. • 4 *Tt k*IA j 666 j W Liquid for MalartW tprap'o— Lions Club Enjoys Large Attendance At Regular Meet The Lions Club boasted of a goo*A ly attendance, and a delicious meal, at their Monday night’s meeting in the Mitchener Building. Venetian blinds have been added to the windows of the Lions’ new quarters, and the place has all attractiveness of an active, able club room.'N^-- With all of last year’s business be ing disposed of, in a most satisfac tory way, and the retiring president reporting the club’s purchasing S6OO worth of war bonds last year, the new president. O. E. Duncan, ana his committees, girded their belts h little tighter, with a determination to out do the purchasing record of last year’s club activities. Wardie W. Henigar Buried Tuesday P. M. ! Funeral services were held Tuesday I afternoon at 4 o’clock, at the home ’ near Ryland, for Wardie W. Henigar, 42, who died Monday afternoon. The Rev. E. L. Wells, pastor of the j Edenton Baptist Church, conducted i the service. Interment was made rn , the family burying ground. I The deceased is survived by his I wife, Mollie Bunch Henigar. and j three children, Gladys, Leßoy and I Dorothy. His mother and two sisters I also survive. I Mr. Henigar had been in ill health for several months. He underwent a j series of brain operations at Duke Hospital, Durham, some months ago, 1 but had been at home for some time. He began to grow worse and was confined to his bed for three weeks before he died. Too Late to Classify (FOR SALE —ONE 1941 4-DOOR I Black Buick. Low mileage. ! FOR SALE —ONE 1941 4-DOOK I two-tone Buick. Very clean. FOR SALE—ONE 1942 BLACK o passenger Pontiac. Low Mileage. FOR SALE—ONE 1941 CHRYSLER, I New Yorker. Good rubber. ! FOR SALE—THREE 1942 CHEV rolets. Low mileage. FOR SALE—ONE 1942 5-PASSE.V --[ ger Ford, FOR SALE—ONE 1941 5-PASSEN ger Pontiac Coupe. Extra gooo j rubber. IFOR SALE—ONE 1939 MER CUM I Convertible Coupe. I FOR TRADE—ONE VERY -ton 1940 Chevrolet ! Hollowell Chevrolet Co., Hertford, j N. C. Phone: 2151. julyZke. i Need A Taxi? I CALL CHAP j PHONE 228 ___
The Chowan Herald (Edenton, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 22, 1943, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75