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Volume X.—Number 45.
Rev. Lewis Schenck
Resigns Rectorship
0 Os St Paul’s Church
Announcement Made at
Sunday Morning
Service
EFFECTIVE DEC. 1
Popular Rector Will Go
To Magnificent Bur
lington Church
At Sunday morning’s service in St.
Paul's Episcopal Church, the congre
gation was informed by the rector,
the Rev. Lewis F. Schenck, that he
intended to resign with his resigna
tion going into effect December 1.
The announcement was received with '
no little regret on the part of the i
congregation, for though Mr. Schenck !
has been rector of the church for only I
about a year, the past year has been j
very delightful and successful under
his leadership. Mr. Schenck came to 1
Kdenton from Windsor about a year]
ago to succeed the Rev. C. A. Ashby, I
who resigned and moved to _Florida. ’,
Mr. Schenck will go from Edenton 1
to Burlington, where he will become
rector of the Church of the Holy j
Comforter. In his new field Mr. j
Schenck believes there will be more
opportunities for service, the church |
being a magnificent SIOO,OOO plant!
and the congregational strength being
more than double that of the local'
church. !
Both r. and Mrs. Schenck have be-,
come very much attached to Edenton
during their brief stay here and have
won a host of friends. In leaving j
they sense no little degree of regret,
hut feel that an opportunity has been
opened to them to be ot more service.
Baring recent months Mr. Schenck
has had several offers to accept the
rectorship of other churches, but de
clined, until he finally agreed to ac
cept the Burlington church.
November Set Aside;
' jnunization Month
Visits to Physician or
Health Department
Is Urged
Chowan County citizens, and espec
ially parents of young children be
tween the ages of six months and six
years, are reminded that the entire,
month of November has been desig
nated as “The Day of Opportunity,”
during which time they are urged to |
do everything possible to prevent j
children from contracting diphtheria,
whooping cough and smallpox.
During the month visits should be'
made to the family physician or the '
local Health Department office, in'
order to be properly advised, and an (
appeal is made by health officials |
that interested parents, landlords or.
neighbors become responsible to at 1
least one child and see that he or she j
will be protected by arranging trails- I
portation to a physician or the health
office.; '
Hours for this service at the health
office are: 9 a. in. to 5 p. in., Mon- j
day, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-'
day, and on Tuesday and Saturday,!
from 9 a. in. to 12 noon.
At the Community Club House at
Cross Roads, the hours will be every!
Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4
o’clock. |
“These diseases are not as preva
lent today as they were five years;
ago.” says Mrs. Theron Fait, health j
nurse, “but this does not give any j
protection to an unprotected child.
Everyone is exposed to these germs
often and immunity through immuni
zation is most satisfactory.
Quarterly Conference
Os Police November 18
Scheduled In Edenton
The quarterly police conference,
conducted by the FBI, will be held in
Edenton next Thursday, November
18. The meeting will be held at the
fSO Club at 2 p. m., to which mem
bers of Town Council are especially
invited, as well as any other interest
ed citizen.
New Arrow To Direct
Travelers On U. S. 17
a lenton’s Police Department is
/ ng a big arrow erected on a post
the comer of Broad and Queen
Streets indicating U. S. 17 South.
This is being done due to the fact
that so many travelers miss the turn
in traveling South.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
| November Quota |
wmesmwmmm -
J. (.. t ampon, chairman of the
Chowan County War Finance
I Committee, has received Chowan’s
November war bond quota, which |
amounts to $51,512. This amount j
is made up of $36,059 in Series E
bonds and $15,433 in Series F and
, 1 G bonds.
The national quota for Novem
ber is $850,000,090, of which
North Carolina's assigned quota
is $12,900,000.
In releasing the quota, Mr.
Campen said the war situation is
looking more encouraging all the
time, which fact should be all the
more reason why war bonds
should be purchased in order to i
help the boys who are so de
pendent upon the necessities to
bring our enemies to their knees, j
Zoning Ordinance I
Is Tabled For Time
| Being By Council
Eden Street Made One-
I Way Traffic Lane In
Sidewalk Squabble
Two vexing problems which for a
long time have caused no little con
• cern to Town Councilmen were dis
! posed of, temporarily at least, at
Tuesday night’s meeting of Town]
I Council, The two problems were the
, Zoning Ordinance and relief for West!
, Eden Stleet citizens, Who for a long!
time have wanted a sidewalk on the i
north side of the street,
j The Zoning Ordinance has been
under consideration from time to
time since September, 1941, shortly
after a movement to erect a filling
station on the northeast corner of
Broad and Gale Streets. A commit
tee was appointed by Town Council to
make a study of zoning, which mater-;
j ialized in a proposed ordinance.
Much time and study was devoted to
, the matter, John W. Graham and J.
I L. I’ettus especially devoting a great :
deal of their time to shaping up a
j workable scheme.
The ordinance is quite lengthy, a
copy of which had been given to each
Councilman to stjidy before Tuesday
night’s meeting, and while it contain
ed one or two sections which were
considered more harmful than good,
the idea as a whole had been favor-,
ably considered. However, several!
, objections to the ordinance, as at'
present framed, have been registered
and it was the general belief of the
Town Fathers that it represented only
. a start of an endless number of com
plaints or requested changes, so that
the whole matter was tabled for the
present.
The other problem had to do with
! the request to construct a sidewalk
lon the north side of West Eden
'Street. A petition is on file, signed!
j by a majority of the property owners!
from the Citizens Bank to the western]
\ line of Luther Ashley's property, to ]
j construct a four-foot sidewalk, which,:
j if done, would mean the removal of a j
‘ group of crepe myrtle trees, to which I
! much objection has been registered. |
]A number of plans have been dis
cussed in an effort to provide some
relief without removing the trees,
! but an impasse has been reached due 1
j to a desire on the part of some to ;
'remove the trees and another much;
I larger group protesting to the loss
| of the trees.
I No little time was again devoted
j to the argument Tuesday night, when
it was finally decided to allow only
j one-way traffic on Eden Street and
j parking of cars on the south side of
: the street. Traffic will be allowed
| to enter from Broao Street, but no
j one will be allowed to enter the street
from Granville Sreet, traveling east.
Parking on the south side is calcrlated
to provide an opportunity for those
living on the north side of the Street
to enter or leave their homes without
difficulty.
During the meeting, it was also
decided to secure a part-time janitor
to clean the Town office and Council
man Jordan Yates was instructed to
secure a man for the job.
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First Class Postage
Must Be Placed On
Overseas Greetings
For the benefit of friends and rela
tives of men and women in the ser
vice of their country, the War De
, partment advises that Christmas
greeting cards for soldiers overseas
i must be sent in sealed envelopes and
: prepaid at the first-class postage
i rate.
The War Department further urges i
; that such cards be majjed at once so
i that they may reach the overseas
H~’tination by December 25th. '
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 11, 1943.
| Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross |
Jw
Above is pictured Lieutenant-Colonel P. K. Smith (loft i congratulating
Major Andrew B. Galatian on receiving the coveted Distinguished Flying
Cross in colorful ceremony recently held at the U. S. Marine Corps Air Sta
tion here. (Official L’. S. Marine Corps photograph).
DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS AWARDED
IN COLORFUL CEREMONY AT AIR STATION
Major Andrew B. Galatian, Jr., Honored In Rec
ognition For Outstanding Achievement Over
Enemy Territory In Solomons
At the l'. S. Mi C. Air Station,
Major Andrew B. Galatian, Jr.,
USMC., was decorated with the cov
eted Distinguished Flying Cross by
Col. Perry K. Smith, USJIC., in the
absence pf thg Gomniunding General,
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Brig. Gen.'
Claude A. Larkin, USMC.
A native of Tobs River New Jer
sey, and a graduate of the U. S.
Naval Academy, Annapolis, of the
class of 1936, Major Galatian had
previously received the Air Medal, in
recognition of his exploit in piloting
a photographic flight last January
from Guadalcanal to the vicinity of
Truk, Japanese Naval Base and key
to Japanese strategy in the south
Pacific. The Major was the Execu
tive Officer of a photographic squad-,
ron. ,
The citation accompanying the Dis-t
tinguished Flying Cross and read in
the presence of the squadrons, was]
St. Paul’s Auxiliary '
Names New Officers
Mrs. Rupert Goodwin Is
Again Elected Presi
dent of Group
At the meeting of the Woman’s
Auxiliary of St. Paul's Church on •
Monday, the following officers anil
; committee chairmen were elected for
1944:
Officers- President, Mrs. Rupert
Goodwin; vice president, Mrs. R. H. ]
Bachman; secretary, Miss Elizabeth
] Moore; treasurer. Mrs. W. I. Hart,
j Departmental chairmen United
Thank Offering, Mrs. Myrtle Watson: j
] Supply, Mrs. L. P. Williams; Christian j
Social Service, Mrs. Oscar Elliott:;
Educational, Mrs. Julien Wood; Pro- ,
motion, Miss Emily Smithwick; ]
Church Periodical Club, Mrs. Ralph
Parrish.
With the exception of Miss Moore
and Mrs. Parrish, all of these have
served in the same capacity this year.
Miss Moore succeeds Mrs. Lewis F.
Schenck as secretary, and Mrs. Par
rish succeeds Mrs. John F. White as
secretary of the Church Periodical
Club.
McCullers Secretary
Os Kinston C. Os C.
Many Edentonians will be interest
ed to know that C. L. McCullers,
former secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce and director of the Eden
ton High School Band, has been ap
pointed executive secretary of the
Kinston Chamber of Commerce. He
succeeds Henry Barber, who recently
resigned.
Mr. McCullers was recently dia
j charged from the Army, and began his
new duties in Kinston Monday of this
' week.
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for "extraordinary achievements
while participating in aerial photo
graphic flights over enemy territory
in the Solomon Islands area. Many
of the flights were over two thousand
miles in length, and several were
] made in the fate of extremely liaz
i anlous weather conditions.” Con
stantly mapping enemy territory,
without the aid, of fighter cover, and
in the face of heavy anti-aircraft and
some aerial opposition, the Major
successfully completed more than
fifty combat photographic and recon
naissance missions as a pilot, totaling
over four hundred Combat hours.
After the award, Major Galatian
joined Col. P. K. Smith, I SMC., and
his staff to receive the parade of
i the squadrons, led by the Cherry
, Point, N. C., USMC Air Station band.
Mrs. Galatian and daughter Judith,
were present and joined the Major
j after the completion of the review.
Scheldt Speaker At
Police Graduation
About 35 Will Graduate
In Edenton Police
School
I Next Wednesday night, November
17, a graduation ceremony of tile j
■ Edenton Police School will be held at
tlie Court House at 8 o’clock. The
principal speaker for the occasion
will be Edward Scheldt. of Charlotte,
agent in charge of FBI in the two
Carptitias.
Members of Town Council heve
| been especially invited to attend the :
i affair, as. well as relatives and
| friends of those who will graduate.
' There are about 35 in the class.
White Births Lead
Colored In October
White births in Chowan -County
during October led colored births by
two, according to the vital statistics
report of the local health office.
There were 11 white births reported
as compared with 9 colored. Both
races had three deaths during the
month.
J. W. Davis Succeeds
Bond On B. & L. Board
J. W. Davis has been elected as a
’ director of the Edenton Building and
■ I.oan Association to fill the unexpired
■ term of M. F. Bond, Jr., deceased.
> Mr. Bond, for many years had been
s one of the Association’s directors.
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BANK CLOSED TODAY
Today (Thursday) being Armistice
» Day, the Bank of Edenton will be
i closed all day so that employees can
enjoy the holiday.
| Another Tough One |
Edenton High School’s football
team will meet another tough op
! ponenl next Friday 'afternoon. j
i when they tackle the Roanoke
Rapids High School, the game
scheduled to be played on Hicks J
Field, starting at 3:30 o’clock.
That the local boys will be up
against a superior team is re- 1
fleeted in the fact that Hender
son, who walloped the locals
42-0 last Friday, defeated the j
Halifax County team 30-0. while
Elizabeth City had hard sledding
in defeating Roanoke Rapids
14-0, on the latter’s field.
Coach Venters is putting his
boys through strenuous practice
for Friday’s game and expects to
be prepared to put up a tough
fight for every inch of ground
yielded.
Food For Freedom
Will Be Discussed
At Meeting Nov. 19
Three Speakers Sched-I
uled on Program at j
Court House
“Although American farmers are!
setting a new food production record]
this year, there is still not enough]
food to satisfy all the demands," says
Dean 1. O. Schaub, director of Agri
cultural Extension work at State Col
lege, “and since America’s food sup
ply represents perhaps the greatest
potential weapon in our fight against
the Axis we must produce more.” -
In outlining the objectives to he ac
complished in the 1944 “Food Fights
For Freedom”; program which will he
launched in every county in the .State,
between November 15-19, Director
Schaub points out that it is up to our]
people to cooperate in every way
possible in the production of more of;
the right kind of food; to conserve
this food, and avoid waste,
“The demand for food has increased '
from both civilians atld military an-'
thorities. Civilians are doing more
work and have more money than they
have had in the past. We are taking
new territory from the enemy every
day. This territory has been strip
ped of every vestige of food and the
natives are starving. We must feed]
them, until they can again produce
their own.” Dean Schaub said.
Food —American food —can he the'
deadliest weapon of all, so that plans
for producing the right kind of food
in Chowan County will be discussed at
a meeting to he held at the Court
House Friday. November 19, at 1:30
p. m., when speakers will include B. •
T. Ferguson, Mary E. Thomas and
Myra Scull.
Since the course and length of the ,
war may depend on how successfully !
vc produce this food, how willingly .
and widely we share it, how carefully j
wo save it. how wisely we use it,
every person able to produce a single
item of food should cooperate fully in
this program. Director Schaub con-1
eluded.
Italian Prisoners Help
Harvest Peanut Crop
Two Chowan Farmers
Italian prisoners of war used this
fall; on Eastern North Carolina farms
helped on two Chowan County farms,
20 of the Italians Working four days
on the farms of John Small and
i Howard Overton.
“They'.did their work well, and they
i and the military authorities supervis
ing them were very cooperative with
our farmers,” commented Dean I. O.
Schaub, director of the Agricultural
! Extension Service at State College.
"There was absolutely no trouble
from either the workers or the local
people.’’
With the use of this labor, which
the farmers called the best imported
labor they could have had, the peanut
crop was harvested. Although the
Italians knew nothing about stacking
peanuts when they arrived, the coun
ty agents report that they soon caught
1 on under the supervision of the farm
ers for whom they worked.
Birth Information
Should Be Furnished
I It will be necessary for the follow
ing people to contact the local . Health
. Department before the birth of their
i child can be registered in Raleigh:
Virginia Long Brooks, Nancy
Sharp Privott, Beatrice Gilliam, Eli
zabeth Bond Wilson, Beauna Hurdle
! Parker and Willie Louise Gaskins.
i This is an important matter and
i local health officials urge that it be
attended to at once.
This newspaper it circu
lated In the territory
i where Advertisers wA
reolhe good results.
$1.50 Per Year
|Rev. H. Freo Surratt
jAppointed As Pastor
Os Methodist Church
[
First Service Will Be
Held Sunday Night
At 7:30 O’clock
TWO CHURCHES
New Pastor and Wife
Will Live In Edenton
Parsonage
With the Methodist Conference .
meeting last week in Rocky Mount,
arrangements were made whereby the
Rev. H. Freo Surratt will serve both
the Edenton and Windsor Methodist
Churches. Mr. Surratt has, for four
years, served the Windsor Church so
that he will be serving his fifth year,
much to the satisfaction of the con
gregation. Mr. Surratt succeeds the
Rev. W. C. Benson, who, several
months ago, resigned to enter USO
work.
The Edenton church has been with
out a pastor since Mr. Benson left
and for several weeks the congrega
gation and Presbyterians worshiped
jointly in the Methodist Church, with
the Rev. D. C. Crawford. Jr., Presby
terian minister, preaching.
Under present conditions, preachers
are scarce, due to a large number en
tering various branches of the ser
vice, which fact has been of no little
concern to the Rev, W. L. Clegg, dis
trict superintendent, and the Board of
Stewards of the local church. Sev
eral meetings were held in an effort
to discuss possibilities for a full-time
preacher, but the combining of the
Edenton and Windsor churches ap
peared to be the most satisfactory
solution to the problem for the
present.
The Rev. Mr. Surratt will make his
home in the Edenton parsonage, he
and his wife moving from Windsor .
this week.
The new pastor is outstanding in
Methodist circles. He is originally
from Davidson County and received
his A. B. degree in Western Mary
land College. Westminster, Md., later
receiving his D. D. degree from the
'Westminster Theological Seminary.
Later he took a year's post graduate,
work at Yale Divinity School. He
has served churches for five years in
Charlotte, two years in Winston-
Salem, three years at Thomasville,
four years at Graham, as well as
other churches.
Mr. Surratt will preach his first
sermon in the Edenton Church Sun
day night at 7:30 o’clock. Under
the arrangement- he will preach in
Edenton Church Sunday night at 7:30
day night at 7:30 o’clock. Under
the arrangement, he will preach in
Edenton every first and third Sunday
at 11 a. m., and e\ r ery second and
7:30 p. in. His subject Sunday night
will be “Do Missions Pay?”
Mr. Surratt is very anxious to meet
and become acquainted with the mem
bers of the congregation, as well as
other Edenton people and for that
reason, it is hoped that a large con
gregation be on hand for his initial
service in the Edenton Church Sun
day night.
The Rev. Arthur Stephenson was
returned to serve the churches in the
Chowan charge.
An Armistice Day
Program At School
Chaplain Henry Chace
Principal Speaker For
Occasion
An Armistice Day program will be
held today (Thursday) in the school
' auditorium, the affair being planned
! jointly by the American Legion and
the school. The program will begin
at 10:45 and last until 11:15. but at
the stroke of 11 o’clock a halt will be
called in order to observe a brief
period of silence in commemoration
of the signing of the Armistice in
1918.
The principal speaker for the oc
casion will be Chaplain Henry Chace
of the U. S. Marine Corps Air Sta
tion, and a feature will be a soloist
from the Women’s Marine Reserves,
and possibly other musical numbers.
Music will also be furnished by the
Edenton band, the glee club and patri
] otic songs will be sung by the school
children, so that an interesting pro
gram is in prospect. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
ON BUYING TRIP
Mrs. Chas. H. Wood and Mrs. El-
I wood Nixon left Sunday for New
■ York, where they will purchase spring
merchandise for Preston’s.