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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 Broad Street, Edenton, N. C. /anil Caralinabh /w 8 AMscundre) J. EDWIN BUFFLAP Editor HECTOR LUPTON Advertising Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Six Months SI.OO Entered as second-class matter August 30, 1934, at the post office at Edenton, North Caro lina, under the act of March 3, 1879- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944 ForcefufMessage Possibly some of The Herald readers heard a broad cast Sunday night during which a service man, just back from the battlefront, was asked to bring a mes sage from the boys who are doing the fighting or pre paring to get a fling at it. The surprising par of the message was that it consisted of only two words: “Please write.’’ Undoubtedly what the boys and girls away from home yearn for more than anything else is news from home. The Herald has good reason to believe so, ac cording to letters received from at least some of the boys both on home soil and abroad, all of whom ex press appreciation for The Herald, which furnishes them with a pretty good idea of what is going on. However much The Herald is appreciated, it cannot take the place of a letter in which matters of personal and private interest can be conveyed to those who are away from home. It requires only a little time and effort to take time to write a letter, even though it be brief, but there is no way of estimating how much effect the sight of a letter and a few sentences from home might have on the morale of a boy or girl who has plenty of reasons to be despondent and sick at heart. Without doubt, a letter to your boy or a friend in the service will be greatly appreciated and long re membered. The cost is too small to be counted. The boys are pleading for news from home and they are entitled to it. Let us all, therefore, take time out to write to a boy or girl in the armed forces. No Time To Complain It might be a little bothersome to some people to be confronted with one appeal after another for money or some other effort brought about by the war. However, tve might as well pass into the discard any complaining, for a job at home must be done whether we like it or not. There are the war loan drives to contend with, the Red Cross appeal, national war fund drive, neces sity for salvage of various materials, and no telling what else we have been and will be called upon to do at home. The home-front is just as important as the fighting front. Therefore, if we expect our boys and girls to do their job as it should be done, we might as well real ize that we at home too, must get down to business. Even if we have drives of one sort or another fre quently, our boys also have “drives” which they are carrying out without complaint and under far more trying conditions than we at home. If all of us just stop and think of the sacrifices American boys, and in that number around 700 from Chowan County, are making every day, there should be no trouble in meeting any sort of quota the county is called upon in order to help the war effort. There should be no time for complaining. We must put our shoulder to the wheel and shove all we can whether it hurts a little or. not. Not Impossible It will he noticed in the news columns of The Herald that on Monday, March 13, Chowan County's Red Cross War Fund drive will begin. While the county’s quota is $7,501) the largest amount ever asked by the. Red Cross, Chairman W. J. Berryman and his co workers are aiming at receiving contributions total ing SIO,OOO. The latter figure is not impossible by any means, es pecially if everyone who possibly can, and there are comparatively few in that class now, will make a gener ous contribution. With about 700 boys and girls from Chowan County now' in the armed forces, and more surely to go, there are very few homes that are not affected directly or indirectly. The Red Cross goes to every service man and woman wherever he or she may be on duty. It is a long arm of mercy which embraces the entire world. With it go the affection, sympathy and help of the American people not only to those in the Army and Navy, but to those people who through no fault of their own are forced to bear unspeakable burdens brought upon them by the war. The Red Cross is a beacon of hope and relief and who is there in old Chowan who will not want to have a part in helping to keep this beacon aglow? It will take more than nickles end dimes to reach the SIO,OOO goal, so the hope is expressed that some consideration will he given to the drive and prepara tion made to make a worthw'hile contribution rather than part with merely some loose change which hap pens to be in the pocket at the time a canvasser calls. It’s Coming That Edenton is considered on a proposed air man pick-up and delivery route should be reason for Eden tonian3 to begin to become air-minded. Aside from speeding up mail delivery, a representative of the Hawthorne Airways who was in Edenton Monday, said that it would not be too remote to anticipate landing of passenger planes if conditions warranted. Without doubt, air travel is the coming thing and those towns who fail to realize its importance and fu ture development and do not make any effort to pre pare for it will be in the same category as those towns who failed to prosper and grow because of lack of rail road facilities. Post-war planning is a popular discussion these days and Edentonians might just as well include ways and means of handling air traffic in any proposeo post-war community planning. THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944 P UEARD anil SEEtf i I JL A —■- By “BUFF* 'll Just about the most forlorn-looking place in Edenton these days, especially at night, is the Municipal Build ing. Instead of lights burning all mgnt and folks go ing in and out, the place is dark since the police moved out and into their new headquarters in the Cozzens building. In fact, it seems mighty “dead” even during the day, and while town employees can do a little more concentrating on their work, Miss Cecelia Spivey, assistant to Town Clerk Roy Leary, says she gets mighty lonesome. Then, too, the place is locked ai night for the first time since the Municipal Building was acquired by the Town in 1930. The job of geUmg the place locked up fell on Capn’ Dick Hall, veteran fire chief who had a dickens of a time digging up the keys which would do the trick. He finally found them, though and anyone having business in the Town office better attend to it before Miss Louise Coke, Roy Leary or Mayor Leroy Haskett knock off for the day. o Town cops, State Highway Patrolmen and a Shore Patrol composed of eight men are now very comfort ably located in the new headquarters. All seem very proud and well satisfied with the set-up, and even if not as hifalutin’ as some other towns, it is quite an improvement over the old cramped quarters. Why a loafers' bench has even been provided in the new home, but Chief “Fats” Tanner says there will be no cushions furnished. I notice, too, in the front window that the floor is made up of square pieces of wood. What’s Wrong with painting a checkerboard for the benefit of the checker players? The only trouble would be that the spectators would have to view the game from the outside. But that might be of some advantage lor those who do not fancy a lot of advice from the side lines. o Cap’ll Dick Hall has been making himself very busy around the Municipal Building since the cops moved out. Aside from fixing so the place can be locked up, he has cleaned up quite a bit and even went to washing the windows. And come to think about it, if there’s any one in town who is any more interested in the upkeep of the Municipal Building than Cap’n Dick, who is it? o And just another word about this Police moving business. Just as soon as the cops moved their mess but, Mayor Leroy Haskett moved his mess (only not as much) in. I have a crow to pick with him, however, for he placed his desk so that his back is to the street. It’s “dangerous,” too, for someone might drop in some day and kick him in the pants before he knows a thing about it. Turn the dam thing around, Mr. Mayor, so you can see who's coming. It will also serve in good stead sometime when it is mighty necessary to rig up an excuse in mighty short order. ■■ ■ o Despite the fact that the housing situation in Edenton is acute, Izzy Campen and Dave Holton have helped to add to the population for during the week both of ’em j became daddy again. Izzy was already the daddy of j two very attractive little daughters and the newcomer lis also a girl. He would have liked to have had a son, so that he might get some comfort out of the old adage, “If you first don’t succeed—try, try again.” Dave did a little better than Izzy, for Dave’s new “boarder” is a son, and he already was the proud pappy of a daughter. o “I think you are just throwing out hints in your column to get a free cigar now’ and then,” said Ernest Keheyas at last week’s Rotary meeting, “so here, take this one as my contribution,” and sure enough, he handed over a good one. Well, I’m not turning down any cigars, but what I’m after, more than anything else, is to find out where in the dickens the boys are buying ’em. Next week is a good opportunity for the local drug ' stores to advertise liniments. I see where the Rotar ians are going to play Troop 156 of the Boy Scouts, and if some of the Rotary “boys” do not. need a rub bing, or two, well, they’re not as old as I take ’em to be. The game is scheduled for a week from Friday and it ought to be “some” game. One of the Rotarians said it will not be necessary to have a referee, for if the Boy Scouts get rough, the Rotarians will stop long enough to lay the Scout over the knee for a little spenk ing and then proceed with the game. —o Lloyd C. Bunch, w’ho has been suffering with a tom ligament in his back, is able to be about now, thougn he has to get around like an old man. He tore a liga ment in his back several w’eeks ago, while attempting to catch a hog and has experienced a lot of real pain. His wife asked him to go along to church on Sunday, but Lloyd declined on the grounds that he would have to stand up in the corner throughout the service. Any way, it was a different sort of an excuse than a lot of others offer for not going to church. o Four Masons got together, after last Thursday night’s meeting, and decided to do a spell of singing. The quartet sang a few of the old timers, but did not get around to “Sweet Adeline,” because there were no re freshments served. The group included Captain Ted Lynn, Jim Danielsi Jack Mooney and Charlie Wood— which isn’t a bad quartet at all. They even cut loose a few songs on the Court House steps before leaving. First thing they know, they’ll be called upon to take part on a program, and they’re O. K. u Jack Lanzillotti, one of the Shore Patrolmen, went to a meeting of the State Guard the other night and gave the boys some instructions as to the proper use of night sticks. He got along all right until John Cleary fleet-footed member of Edenton High School’s football team, was picked as a subject to work on. “This guy won’t do,” said Lanzillotti, “for he beats me to the draw every time.” Anyway, the State Guardsmen feel that the Shore Patrolman’s instructions were very beneficial. o And speaking about the Shore Patrol, one of ’em is a Pennsylvania Dutchman. He’s Alex Cruickshank and hails from Easton. Gosh ding, I don’t know whether Edenton is large enough for two Pennsylvania Dutch men or not, but I figure I’ve been here long enough to • be "naturalized” except in one respect —I’ve not gotten Marines Continue j On Winning Spree Chalk Up Eighth Con secutive Victory on Monday Night Meeting the strong Harvey Point basketball aggregation Monday night, the Marine Leathernecks added their eighth straight victory by a score of 24-14. The Leathernecks set up a tight man-to-man defense which held the Navy team without a field goal during the entire first half. Waters, center, and Smith, guard, were the scoring aces for the Ma rines, getting 10 and 7 points re around to eating chitterlings. Any way, all of the Shore Patrolmen come from good-sized towns, so I betcha they’ve all seen buildings as high as the Citizens Bank. ———o Paul Olsson, from all indications, is getting along fine at the Masonic and Eastern Star Home at Greens boro. In a letter from him last week, he closed with this: With Toots on my arm. And the moon is full It ain’t a bit of harm To shoot a little bull. o Corporal Robert Bembry, one of Edenton’s colored boys who is now overseas, sent a card to The Herald this week, which no doubt reflects the attitude of all the boys now in service. The card was a reproduc tion of the large poster in The Herald office on which is pictured a soldier with the reading “Till We Meet Again—Buy War Bonds.” The omy| difference is that on Bembry’s card the first part of the wording reads: “So We’ll Meet Again.” At any rate, Bembry’s message showed some concern that The Herald con tinues to be sent to him. Don’t worry, boys you all have plenty of friends back home, and The Herald will follow you. And what would make me happy would be for every last one of you to have a batch of! ’em to stuff down the throats of any | Japs you might get up with and thus) strangle the “rats” to death. ■PENDER LIBBY’S r "I Dark Brown Baked POINT FREE! 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The next game scheduled for the Leathernecks will be with the Wfl liamston Eagles on Friday night, March 3 on the Williamston court. Teams to suffer defeat at the hands of the Marines last week were the Weeksville Naval Station 34-28. In this game Waters led the scoring with 12 points, followed by Bass with 10. Nogush, former University of lowa star, led the Navy team with 7 points. In a game Thursday night the UISMCAS Retreads dropped a game to the State Guard outfit 33 to 10. Hubbard, with 8 points, was lead ing scorer for the Retreads, followed by Greey with 6. Hutt and Di Um berto played well at center for the Retreads, while Dufault, Thomas, Christopher and Ujlaky were used in f NOTICE TO ADMINISTRATORS, EXECUTORS AND GUARDIANS The law requires an ANNUAL ACCOUNT to be made each year and an Inventory to be I filed within 90 days after qualifying. If your Annual Account, Inventory or Final Account are past due, we respectfully urge that you file same at once, as we are required to report all such cases to the Grand Jury, which will be convened at the Spring Term of Chowan County Superior Court April 3. YOUR COOPERATION WILL BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED Sincerely yours, ! E. W. SPIRES, Clerk Superior Court ‘v _ _ _/ relief roles. Captain Marvin Wilson’s State Guards were led in scoring by As foell, tall center, with 13 points. Privott scored 12 points, Wilson, 10, Goodwin 8, Byrum 6, and Bunch z. Anyone wishing to challenge the Retreads are asked to call Captain M. F. Griffin at the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station. Buy More War Bonds CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks to our many friends and neighbors for their kind deeds, ser vices and the beautiful floral tri butes rendered during the illness and . death of our dear wife and mother, Mrs. Susie Craft. W. T. Craft and Children. LET’S ALL BACK THE ATTACK . . . BUY WAR BONDS!
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