k » thorn columns will bt found t fair presentation Cjj bod and county mom mmmmmtmmmmmum Volume Xl.— Number 32. County Takes Polio Precautions «ssPvw ~ ' ■'*' " :, f v ~ ,ffilaK j .< ” *"* ONSEKVATION BOARD MEMBERS AT ASHEVILLE CONFERENCE-Members of the State Board of Conservation and Develop !' :"‘ are shown m the photograph taken in the Langren Hotel, where the two-day meeting of the Board was held last week. Seated, leu to right, are: Irving Hall of Raleigh, chairman of the Division of Commerce and Industry; .1, H. Doughton of Statesville, chairman l - thp Division of Game and Inland Fisheries; Josh L. Horne of Ro ky Mount, vice chairman of the Board; It Bruce Etheridge of Man •n . director; Carrol Rogers of Tryan, chairman of the Division of. Mineral Resources, and Rov Hampton of Plymouth ' of the Division Commercial r .scene.-. Standing, from left to right, are: R. H. Holland of Wilmington; Cee B. Weathers of Shelbv; Oscar Greece . _’t.e\tJ..le; Harry Bailey ol Spruce Pine; Wilbur Bunn of Ral dgh; Charles R. Jenkins of Aulander, of the Department of Com i.erciar Fisheries and larks and- Forests'; Carl Hudson of Morgan ~n; Richard Tufts of Pjnehurst, and W. J Danltoft of Asheville tograph courte.-y of The Asheville Times). j LIEUT. EDMUND FOREHAND WRITES ABOUT; OPENING BATTLES FOR ISLAND OF SAIPAN Edenton Boy In Charge of Croup of Negro Ma rines Experiences Horrors of Saipan’s “Blood and Dust” Lieutenant Edmund 0. Forehand, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Forehand, was hi charge of a group of Negro Marines in the battle of Saipan in ,tlie Pacific. quite an interesting ac count of the opening battles of which I: was written to his wife, the forme. Jiait Duke of Lake Shore, Mo. The account appeared in a recent issue of a Springfield; Mo,, newspaper and is - . reprinted for the. benefit of Herald readers: "The trip on the water was long and everyone got restless. We had a little excitement now and then when we •' otiid contact a submarine a Tlie .destroyers would start dashing ali, ; .o' er the place arid as each depth charge would go pis you could feel the shock all; over, the ship. When we were pne day put they told Us. Where w> were headed, and we were busy once again breaking up the maps and models of the island of Saipan i pronounced SaKEpanl. in other wiiru’s. we. got all the hot dope .oi: the island. "Well, the great flay arrives— •l>-I>ay.’ Jure lb, l‘.r! 1. The sun i" just coming up arid out there stick ing out of the middle of the ocean is the peaceful (it, looked like that then) little island of Saipan. As soon as the sun gets up good, the .battleships;.; cruisers, destroyers and , planes open up with all they have and keep it up for three hours. Honestly, the smoke was so thick you couldn't see your hand before your face, much less, the island. When the naval barrage was over it was hard to conceive that there could possibly he a human still alive on the Jap infested trap. "The first wave goes in . . . and Woodrow Berry j Killed In Action While In France Eleventh Chowan Coun-j ty Boy Reported Lost j In Present War Another Chowan County boy, Pri vate Woodrow Berry, is reported to have lost his life in the present war. Young Berry was a member of the Medical Corps, entering the Army ill September, 1943. He received his basic training at Camp Barkley, Texas, and was transferred to Eng land in March. v Information that he lost his life I was received by his wife, who lives at Arlington, Va., a telegram from the War Department briefly stating that he was killed in France on June 22. Private Berry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Berry, who live oil Route 3, and is the eleventh Chowan Countv boy reported killed or! missing. i THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY m N C St i then the second. All this time wej ■ are out in the landing boats await-! ‘ iiig our turn to go ashore. We see' some of our planes go down in ilame.-i and everyone has fingers crossed for the pilot. Then the word comes over our radio that the Japs have let the' first two waves pass over them and are now coming out of their dugouts and are shooting them in tile back.. The Japs have withheld their file, but are now opening up with all they : nave.. The first two waves are yell ing for reinforcements. The third ana fourth waves are going in now, i land we are transferring to ampiiib ious tractor.' as we have, to cross a [ coral reef about three hundred yards j off-shore and tin- boats can’t cross it. We get the word and the fifth j J wave starts, ashore. I pass. the wail'd ( along to fix bayonets and ‘lock and [ | load.’l then pass the word to hand j out the hand grenades. A million tilings are going through my mind mi,.: . 1 , Judy ... Mother . . . I hope • the men haven’t forgotten vvhat I ; tried to teach them . . . Boy! 1 wish 1 were [still oir the ship . .. , a, big drink wouldn’t be bad now . . . 1 hope my ammunition is dry . . . 1 wonde*- how tiie boys in the first four waves are doing . . . “A string of machine gun bullets comes close to the tractor and the boys try to get down even further. A mortar shell comes close and a piece of shrapnel lands in the* trac tor . . . no damage done. Everyone is soaking wet now as we are slap ping the waves hard. We hit the reef and the jolt throws the men on the deck. I know we haven’t far to go now. The men are getting tense (Continued on Page Three) jChas. H. Jenkins Sees Opportunity For Cattle Raising From Meeting ! Os Board of Conserva tion and Development Chas. H. Jenkins of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development returned this week, from Asheville, North Carolina, j where he attended the mid-summer meeting of the Board. Mr. Jenkins told The Herald that it was his opinion that this meeting I was of special importance, not only | because of- the emphasis placed up-| on the acquisition of additional parks and recreational centers and the protection of State and private forests through selective cutting and the prevention of forest fires, but also because of the (jj-ogram for post-war development ,pf all the State’s resources. i It is expected that after the war, i (Continued on Pa|fc Two' Kclenton, ClKJwan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 13, 1944. Killed In France I •’ . ■-” Agl 12k § ml i*' Ir ' c .aagiigs--cviiciiki. > jKB WOODROW BERRY Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Berry. Edenton, Route 3. learned Sun day that their son, Private Woodrow Berry, a number of the I’. S. Army Medical Corps, was killed in action June 22, while stationed in France. He is Chowan County's eleventh boy to be reported killed or missing . in action. Lions - Rotarians j Name Committeesj To Collect Paper i • Two Groups Will Meet To Set Date and Make Plans Both the Rotary and Lions Clubs; have appointed committees with the purpose in mind of staging a waste paper drive in Edenton in the hope that many newspapers and maga zines will be collected which are now stored away in homes. The idea of a drive to lie sponsor ed by the two civic clubs was recent ly presented by J. Edwin Bufflap, county salvage chairman, in response to urging on the part of Governor J. M. Broughton and State salvage of ficials to collect all available paper to bolster the serious shortage now j facing the nation W. E. Malone, president of the I,ions Club, on Monday night ap pointed L. S. Byrum, Lieut.-Col. . Chester Peters and T. G. Byium as a I committee to cooperate in the drive. H. A. Campen, president of the Ro ' tary Club, at last Thursday’s Rotary meeting, appointed David Holton and iJ. Edwin Rufflap as a committee i from the Rotary club and these two 1 | committees will meet possibly before ; the week is out in order to set a date for the pafler collection, as well as ; make other plans in connection with ' the drive. In compliance with the request of I Governor Broughton that municipals- I ties refrain from burning paper at i trash piles, some members of the Street Department are now salvag- j (Continued on Page Five) Posthumous Award i Os Purple Heart For Wm. I. Cozzens, Ir. Mother Received Award As Well as Memorial From President Mrs. William I. Cozzens lias just • (••■reived the Purple Heart, awarded liusthumously to her son, Private First Class William I. Cozzens, who "•is killed in action with the I_". S. '••my in France on June Hi. The irony of the award, however, is the fact that it was addressed to Air. William I. Cozzens. Sr., who has died since his son Was killed in ac tion in France. The award was accompanied !>> a: , letter from Secretary of bar Henry H. Stimson, who said: "At the request of tl'.e Pn sideut, I Write to inform you that the Pur ple Heart has been awarded .post.-:" imi'inusly to your son, Private First (Continued, oil i age rive) TOWN COUNCIL ADOPTS ORDINANCE TO HELP CURB GROWING DOG NUISANCE Faced with complaints about dogs for several months, Town Council at its meeting Tuesday night adopted an ordinance in the hope that many stray dogs will be eliminated and that those who desire to own dogs will purchase the proper license and have the dogs vaccinated. . Cnder the ordinance, police are j charged with the responsibility to; pick up stray or dangerous dogs with arrangements being made .with Dr. L. A. Deese, veterinarian, to iiii . pound such dogs for not longer than one week. If the dogs so impound ed at the expiration of that time are not claimed by the owners, such dogs will either he Sold to responsi ble parties or killed. I’nder the arrangement made be-j tween the Town and Dr. Deese, a ; charge will be made of 50 cents a day j for feed and care, which must he paid to him by the owner of a dog before it is released. In event dogs ate obliged to be killed, the Town will pay Dr. Deese the charges ac cumulated. The dog ordinance makes further provision relative to the harking at light nuisance, which has caused no end of complaint. One section of the ordinance reads' ‘ “It shall be unlawful for any per son or persons to keep or maintain on any premises or lot any dog or dogs that through loud and habitual harking, or in any manner, consti tutes a neighborhood or public nuis ance. Failure to abate such nuis ance after warning from the Chief of Police or his authorized represen -1 tative shall he punishable by a fine | of five dollars.” The ordinance which has 10 sec i tions, fully covers the dog situation and provision is made that any per i son interfering with any officer, or: j oerson deputized by the Chief of Police, in the execution of his duties Schools Postpone Opening Also Sunday Schools Ard Other Meetings Called Off W. J. Taylor Is Appointed School Attendance Officer Job Created to Reduce Thousands of Absen tees Every Year W. J. Taylor was, oil Monday, ap pointed by the County I'omniission- I ers as school attendance or truant officer for Chowan County. Trovi ; sion was made in the county’s budget for the office at the July meeting, j when school officials called the Com-1 j missioners’ attention to the fact that ; during the school year in Kdentim I there were 10,000 absences, about , half of which were unnecessary, and that a proportionate number of ab-! senees occurred in the county unit. It was also pointed out that these j absences not only retard school j children, but that it is costly in that the facilities are at hand for teach ing and are not being fully used. The Commissioners fixed the sal ary for a truant officer at SOOO .per. year and mileage: not to exceed S2OO. Air. Taylor accepted the . .position, promising that he will. do. the very [ best he can in an effort to eliminate j unnecessary School absences. it I was also understood bv Air. Taylor and the Commissioners that his time should be devoted ’w-- Mr. sary. arid that, became lie is com.., supei iiteudeii! no preference should be made for any particular school. . i 111 . connection with, the appointment 1 of a truant officer, Thomas Cheat's, chairman, of: the Board Os lb ustces: of the Kilenton udminist rative unit, ap peared before the Commissioners urging 'that whoever is appointed, it should net be a part-time or sec-' ondary job, but rather because of the importune' of having children in St'luiol, the appointment should be. made oii a full time basis. Air. t'hears addressed tile Commissioners early during the meeting, ’but•.'later'•' M r. Taylor was appointed in ohiiiit limi with Ids regular duties.. as laid down by tlie law shall he sub ject to a fine of $25 or fill days im prisonment. Aside from the dog problem, very .little business came before the. Board So the meeting was one of the shortest of the present’ administra tion. j The West Eden Street sidewalk paving again cropped up. when J. Frank White, Sr., presented a rider, 1 which was declared legal by Town Attorney W. 1). Pruden. by which i. Mr. arid Mrs. Cecil Byrum signed a petition calling for a four-foot side walk from the Citizens Bank build ing to Granville Street. The original petition called for a pavement only! |to the western boundary of Luther j | Ashleyjs property. The work was! I ordered done as soon as possible, j Another sidewalk paving petition was also presented arid accepted for ! the west side of Granville Street | from Carteret Street to Freemason.' There are now four or five petitions; on file for sidewalks, which work will be done when finances permit and it is possible to secure the labor, j the policy of the Board being to do ! the work in the order petitions were received. At last month’s meeting a week’s vacation was granted to' all Town employees, but after considering the fat t that the police and firemen are : on duty every day in the year, oh- 1 serving no holidays or Sundays, it j was decided Tuesday night that these two groups of employees be allowed I two weeks’ vacation with the under- | standing that the work must be done ; by other employees which will in volve no extra expense due to vaca tions. Before adjoining, the Board agreed to join the County Commissioners in ; buying a page of advertising in the ’ j State Magazine in an issue featuring Chowan County. This newspaper it circu lated b tut territory when Advertisers wm rooAoe good results. » I,ibr»ry pi. 50 Per Year k Outbreak of Disease at Front Foor of Cho wan County BERTIE NEAREST Board of Health Takes Drastic* Action Fri day at Meeting With cases of infantile paralysis being reported in Bertie, Hyde and Beaufort Counties, the Chowan County Board of Health in a meeting held Friday afternoon took definite steps to take precautions to prevent the development of any cases in the county. Present at the meeting : were Dr. W. S. Griffin, acting chair man; Dr. R. H. Vaughan, Alayor Le roy Haskett and W. J. Taylor. Meeting with these members also were Dr. Alciver Jackson, county ! health officer, and W. H. Powell, district venereal control officer. | The primary purpose of the meet ing was to consider a letter from the State Board of Health recommending delaying the opening of schools ur til the middle of September on ac count of the poliomyelitis outbreak in the various counties of the State and other, sections. of the country. The recommendation was thoroughly discussed, after which a motion was made by Dr. Vaughan and seconded by .Mayor Leroy Haskett that the County Board of Education and the Edenton Board of Trustees abide by fii.; , ecommendat ion of the State Boar ■ member of the infant" ->t *’■„ i-: th Division, was wound'd July It.