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Jb thm -towns will to §EEtmd | fair V £%£F Volume Xl.—Number 29. Disaster Preparedness And i lief Committee Swings Into Action To Meet Storm Severe Storm, However, Fails to Put In Its | Appearance ■swingsTto SEA | Air Station Hanes Or-i dered West Beyond Mountains | Kdento:..'ans were liulit much con-. chined unlay when it was learned from the aerology department at the l. S, Marine Corps Air Station that, a severe tropical storm was heading toward Kcenton and that it was ex pected tt strike about 4 o’clock Sunday morning. It was later re ported that the course of the storm had charged somewhat, but that it very likely would reach this section some time Sunday night. The storm again failed to materialize, and on Monday alt storm warnings were or dered lowered along the coast as the storm, probably of hurricane pro portions, was reported as more or -ie.-s at .a standstill about 250 miles ip the Atlantic. The storm’s center on Monday morning was approximately 225 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras and while it extended over a wide area, it be gan rapid movement to the north c.ist. thus escaping the Xorth Caro lina coast. | Uneasiness was aroused Sundays when Mrs. J. N, I’ruden, chairman of the Chowan County Red Cross. Chapter, received a wire from Red Cross headquarters to be on the alert and prepare for any eventuali- j ties On the Strength of the telegram! Mis. Pruden contacted Mayor Leroy Haskett, chairman of the lied Cross 1 ster I’repared ness and Relief ttee. who early Sunday after t id arranged a meeting in the " pa Building with the chair j? . of the various committees. No titr.e was lost in sensing the possible seriousness of the storm and the comm.tteemen at once swung into action to cope with any emergency which might arise. With Dr. R. H. Vaughan being out of town, Dr. Wil liams’ office was designated as head quarters to render any likely first aid treatment. Arrangements were also inade to move the first aid equipment to Dr. Williams’ office. in event anyone was made home-j less, the armory wiys designated as headquarters for such people, and' tiie Edenton school building was designated as alternate headquarters. Chief of Police J. R. Tanner stated that if the storm developed he would call into service his auxiliary police 1 to go on duty in every section of town to report any damage or in juries. Arrangements were also 1 made for transportation of injured nr homeless people, as well as plans discussed in event feeding a large group became necessary. With preparations very thoroughly planned for Edenton, the county was also considered, and Mayor Haskett made contacts by telephone with every section of the county giving instructions to spread the alarm and to make preparations to meet any emergency. A special effort was made to line up all former air raid observers in order to assist in any way possible. Near midnight Sunday, Mayor Haskett was called by telephone by Miss Jeanette Cox, area supervisor, urging him to be on the alert, but the supervisor was delighted when she was informed that every possible precaution had already been taken to meet any possible emergency. i When it was learned at the Air Station that teh storm was brewing and likely to head this way, all of the planes were immediately sent west of the mountains in order to ea- j cape any possible damage. Marines who were on leave Saturday night were also rounded up and ordered to. report at the base to help in prepara tions to prevent damage if the storm broke. I The planes began returning to the base Monday, and fortunately were as fit as when they departed Satur day and found everything at the base in as good shape as when they were ordered to leave. cs Adrian Chappell | ~ ember Os V-12 Unit ~ llliam Adrian Chappell, of Tyner, hps been assigned to the Navy’s V-12 Unit at the University of North Carolina for the term which began Young Chappell is one of 1,330 apprentice seamen of the Navy and privates of the Marine Corps who will study at Chapel Hill during the next four months as members of the , Navy’s officer training program. 1 THE CHOWAN HERALB A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TEE INTERNETS OF CHOW AM COUNTY ; C. Os C. Secretary j I I , MARVIN I*. WILSON Meeting Friday night, mem bers of the board of directors of the Edenton-Chowan Chamber or Commerce and Merchants Asso ciation appointed Marvin I’. Wilson as secretary. Mr. Wilson accepted the position with the ■ understanding that it would of i necessity be on a temporary and i part-time basis. Rev. Frank Cale Speaks To Lions Says Ho/.pital Will Ma terialize When Proper 1 Sacrifice Is Made Guest speaker at the Lions Club meeting Monday night was the Rev. Frank Cale, who spoke on the sub ject “Our Ability To Do Things.” “We can do anything we wish.’’ he said, “if we are willing to make the necessary sacrifices. We can and j will get things done when pressed I by their necessity. The people of 1 Chowan County are talking about I building a hospital. It is now more or less in the dream stage, hut when enough people are willing to make the sacrifice to build it, then it will 1 be done.” F The Hertford Lions Club challeng ed the local club to play a game of ! soft ball, but action on the challenge I was delayed for the time being. It was decided by the club to hold 'a Ladies’ Night at Colerain Beach Tuesday night, July 25, when a bar j beetle chicken dinner will he served. No meeting, therefore, will be held Monday night. President W. FI. Malone presided over the meeting, during which Tail Twister J. R. Tanner caught about half of the members off-guard when he called for an inspection and all who were not wearing the Lions Club button were fined a dime each. Crahani Byrum, Jr., was presented us a guest of his father and Dick Weeks of ISt. George, S. C., was a guest of his father-in-law, J. Clar ence Leary. C. K. Vann, a member of the Hertford club, was also a visitor. Harbor Crowded With Boats For Watermelons After news that a scheduled tropi cal storm had swerved to sea, five boats loaded with Chowan County watermelons left the Edenton harbor around midnight Monday. With the five boats gone, there were still eight other boats in the harbor Tuesday night waiting to be loaded. The County Dock is a busy place, these days and, according to the prices being paid for watermelons at the boats, farmers who have a fair crop, should realize substantial re turns. Prices for watermelons sold at the boats range from 75c to $1.50. Ruth Vail Selby Ends Course In Aviation Miss Ruth Vail Selby has returned from Miami, Florida, where she has finished her courses in Link-Training, Navigation, Meterology and Radio operations at the Embry-Riddle School of Aviation. While at the school, she was commended fdr her outstanding work. She expejfe to spend her summer vacation at home 1 with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Vail. bclenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 20, 1944. | Death in the Italian Hills | STUB S| VJBJKI W UhL Signal Corps Photo A dead American Is being carried to the rear by his buddies from one of the Roman hills. The bearers are Medical Corpsmen. tt Gen. Mark Clark s «m«i hare done a terrific Job in driving the Nazis back toward their Fatherland but we have had our losses, too. Back the Attack and tho Invasion with roar War Bond nurehasea. —-• From V. S. Tretmry Deputy Collector Os !i ; Internal Revenue In I Edenton Each Week lln Post Office Every ! Monday Morning From 9 to 12 | Due to the number and variety of Federal taxes and tax forms current- j ! ly due, J. X. Robbins, Deputy Col lector of Internal Revenue for Chow an, Bertie ami Martin Counties, will [observe office hours once each week !in the three county seats, Kdenton, Windsor and Williamston, until ' further notice. Deputy Robbins will he in Kdenton each Monday morning front 9 o’clock until 12 mmn. in the Kdenton Post Office, basement floor. Deputy Robbins has recently re turned front three weeks annual leave at his home near Greensboro, X\. C., and can be reached by mail at Wind sor, X T . C., Post Office Box 112. He can be found in the evening at his living quarters in Windsor at the home of .Mrs. V\. S. Tayloe, opposite the Bertie County Court House. Major Martin Wisely Awarded Silver Star Defied Death In Para chuting to Give First I Aid to Wounded .4 medical officer who parachuted ■ to French soil with his organization; near Carentan. France, has been cited by the War Department for I defying death or possible injury to administer first aid to wounded members of his unit, it has just been | revealed Decorated with the Silver Star, the Army's recognition for gallantry 1 in action, was Major Martin R. Wisely, of Edenton. He is a mem-1 | her of the Medical Corps. Although his organization was 1 pinned down by intense German ma- j ! chine gun and mortar fire, Major Wisely disregarded his own safety and moved into the front lines where 1 he administered first aid and as sisted in removing the wounded. Members Os 4-H Clubs Call Off Camping Trip Forty members of Chowan County ' , 4-H Clubs were scheduled to attend the 4-H Camp at Camp Kiwania at, Mt. Gould, from July 27 to August! 4, but due to the infantile paralysis scare, the camp has been abandoned. The boys and girls were to leave in two groups, one group leaving July! 27 and returning July 31, while the | other group was scheduled to leave July 31 and return August 4. V Methodist Service Next Sunday Night ! Preaching service will be held in • the Methodist Church Sunday night at 8 o’clock, when the pastor, the Rev. H. F. Surratt, will speak on the subject “Complete Confidence i and Trust In God.” District Assembly Rotary Begins In Goldsboro Today John A. Holmes as New District Governor Will Preside Rotayiams from tin- 189 tn Doarict will gather in Goldsboro today (Thursday ) and Friday to attend the district assembly. The various ses sions will be presided over by John A. Holmes, governor of the district, and advance information, is to the ef fect that the meeting will be well attended and interesting in all its phases. Governor Holmes will be ably sup ported by members of his home club, in the neighborhood of a dozen Kdenton Uotarians planning to at tend. The group will leave imme diately after today’s meeting, though Mr. Holmes left Wednesday in order to check on all the arrangements at Goldsboro. Kleven past district governors will take part on the program, with the highlights being addresses by Wade Man- of Elizabeth City, Edmund Harding of Washington, and Private John Mattern of the L . S. Army Air Corps, who was formerly a captain in the German Army for four years. The subject of Private Mattern’s ad dress will he “Four Years I'nder .Nazi Rule.” The Kdenton delegation is expected to return Friday night. Revival Services Begin Sunday In Christian Church Rev. Thomas Ullom of Wheeling:, W. Va., Will Be the Evangelist Revival services will begin at the Christian Church in the Mill Village next Sunday night at 8 o’clock, to which the public is cordially invited. The evangelist for this series of meetings will be the Rev. Thomas G'lom, of Wheeling, West Virginia. The Rev. Mr. Ullom is a forceful preacher, and members of the con gregation are very anxious to have a large number of people hear him during the revival. Troop 170 Os Boy Scouts j Abandon Trip To Camp; Though plans had been made for Troop 170 of Edenton Boy Scouts to spend a week at Darden Reserva tion, near Franklin, Va., the camp- J ing trip has been abandoned. This ( action was taken due to the preval ence of infantile paralysis, and the danger existing by groups gathering I together. Troop 156, however, spent ] a week at the Reservation a couple of weeks ago. Scoutmaster J. R. Tanner said that- naturally the boys are disap pointed, yet they apparently under stand and are taking the disappoint ment in the true Boy Scout spirit. TownOfEdenton’sNewTax Rate Over SI.OO For First Time Within PastNineYears Marvin P. Wilson T Elected Secretary Os Local C. Os C. Agrees to Handle Posi tion On Temporary Basis At a meeting of the directors .'.of the Edeiitoii-Chowaii Chamber of, j Commerce anti Merchants Associa tion held Friday night, Marvin P. Wilson was elected secretary of the organization and has already en tered upon his new duties. The ap pointment, however, is on a tem i porary basis, it being thoroughly. un derstood by Mr. Vvilson ami the di rectors that if an all-time and more experienced secretary can be se-; cured, he will gladly give up the po sition, and by the same token, if his! other duties multiply to such an ex- j tent that he feels he cannot do the job justice, lie will resign. 1 Mr. Wilson is an attorney and at i present judge of Chowan County : Recorder’s Court, and is also captain I (if Company 26 of the North Caro*; ■ lina State Guard. The proposition of serving as ' temporary secretary Was presented to Mr. Wilson several (lays prior to ! the meeting, at which time he re-* j quested a little time to coiidder the matter. He was present at Friday’s meeting ami agreed to accept the o-jf -1 fer under the above-mentioned ter.as. L He expressed the belief that he will like the work and promised to do his - best iii the interest of the town and ' the organization. and accepted only 1 because he felt that it was his duty • to do anything he could to further ' tile progress of a Chamber. of. Coiii- I merge in Chowan County. V Mr. Wilson' has already gone to work and has written a number of - letters, possibly the most important , ones .going to State officials relative i to the idea of securing a. hospital in. - Chowan County, He will he in the - Chamber of Commerce office in the i Municipal Building several hours • every day and has arranged to niain r tain Mrs. Hazel Gibbs, who will con tinue her duties as office, secretary I and his assistant. . Interest in the Chamber of Com , m.erce has been at a high pitch ever j since J. Clarence Leary was elected > president and a new organization es . fee ted. Practically every member of , the board of directors has attended i all called meetings which of neces . ! sity have been quite frequent, and • no little satisfact ion was apparent Friday night when Mr. Wilson agreed I to accept tile secretaryship, which lias been the source of no little con cern ever since Mr. Leary was elect ed president. Chowan Leatherneck Celebrating Birthday This week’s issue of The Chowan Leatherneck, weekly newspaper of the Marine Corps Air Station, is the first anniversary edition of the pa per, and in observance of the event r contains 20 pages brim full of lively j news, as well as many pictures at the. base. Rather unique is the first page on which is reproduced the front page of the first issue on July I 16 a year ago. ; l.ieut.-Col. Chester Peters, com • I inanding officer of the base, and i ] Lieut,-Col, W. E, Sweetser, com . | manding officer of MOTG-81, are : | pictured at their respective desks, s and each have a brief message rela , tive to the development of the base. I Chaplain George Wheeler, too, is ■ pictured behind a kettle and base > drum as he apparently is helping out i the station orchestra. Many other | interesting pictures help to.make the edition of interest, not only to those I stationed there, hut those outside | the base as well. II - Henry Goodwin Has Another Accident | Henry Goodwin met with a painful : j accident at his home Monday after-1 noon when an unloaded truck was. hacked against him, throwing him to ; | the ground and running over his left! I leg. The accident occurred in a field at his farm. Mr. Goodwin’s leg, though not l ! broken, is badly bruised, necessitat • ing the use of a cane to get around. The accident is another of a series ■ j of several experienced by Mr. Good ! win within the last several years. iff lrl(«j I WWrf JCVwIMW PV ,j 1.50 Fer Yea! Rate of $1.15 Necessary To Meet Estimated Expenditures $64,599 BUDGET Figures Now on File In lattice oi Town Clerk li. B. Leary For the iirsl time since 1935 Edenton will have a tax rate over one dollar, the rate for the fiscal, year 1944-45 being 81.15. This, fig ure was decided upon at a special meeting held Thursday afternoon when members of Town- Council ami the Board of Public Works met joint ly to consider the town’s finances for the new year. In 19.35 the rate was also $1.15, but since that time it has been an even dollar, except for the year 1941, when it was 95 cents. Estimated expenditures for the I fiscal year amount to $04,599, of • which amount $4,347 is for adminis i trative purposes, $14,215 for the Po lice Department, $7,140 for the j Police Department, S7OO for the Health Department, $30,387 for the Street Department, and $7,810 for other expenses. Estimated revenue, aside from taxation, amounts to $23,225, there fore, the amount to be raised from taxation is $41,400, which will re quire a rate of $1.15. It was the hope of Town Council-. 1 men that the dollar rate could be maintained, but several items entered into the expenditures which were not necessary in former years. One of these was the town’s part in improv ing the County Dock, for which an appropriation of $3,250 was neces sary. The town is also required to pay for half of the street paving at the housing project on the old Brown ( Mill site, which together with side walk and street repairs required an estimated expenditure of $5,200. The matter of using some of the surplus funds of the Electric and Water Department were considered at the joint meeting, but it developed that certain improvements are now being considered by the Board of Public Works which, if they ma terialize, will cut deeply into the funds on hand. Then, too, the opin ion has gradually developed among Town Councilmen that what money is necessary to operate and maintain the town should be raised by taxa tion rather than bv dipping into the E. and W. funds to effect a lower tax rate. The feeling is more or less prevalent that electric and water profits should be used only in case of emergency and if an unwarranted surplus is amassed in way of pro fits from the sale of water and elec tricity, the Board of Public Works should lie responsible and be subject to any likely criticism and ways and means of reducing the funds on hand considered. | The rate was based on a property valuation of $3,600,000. The proposed budget on which the new rate is calculated is now on file in the Town Clerk’s office, where it may be inspected and objections su.b --i sequent!y registered at the next meeting of the Town Council on the second Tuesday in August. Center Hill Revival Begins On Monday Week of Services Fol lowing Week at Ev ans Church Revival services for the Center Hill Methodist Church will begin on Monday night, July 25, at 8:45 o’clock, with the Rev. H. Freo Sur ratt, pastor of the Edenton Methodist Church, doing the preaching. Ser vices will be held each night during the week through Friday night. The public is cordially invited to attend all of the services. Services will be held the following week at Evans Methedist Church | with the Rev. B. C. Reavis of Hert ford, doing the preaching. Services | will be held each night in the week. MASONS MEET TONIGHT At the meeting of Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M., to night (Thursday) the first degree will be conferred. W. J. Daniels, master of the lodge, i%ges all mem bers to be present.
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