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Volume Xl.— Number 32.
County Takes Polio Precautions
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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
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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,
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Kclenton, ClKJwan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 13, 1944.
Killed In France
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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<J ay postponement of the date.,
of school opening until such time as;
the State Board will recommend the
schools opening. The motion was;
unanimously carried.
The Board of Health aisi recom
mended that newspaper publication
lie. made from time to time of any
humiliation that would be of benefit
1 to tiie general public relative to the
. poliomyelitis; outbreak.
After: much discussion, it was the
opinion of the Board that children
under the age of Hi should be pro
hibited Iron) theatres and similar
places of amusements, because 00
percent of the cases in the State is
in the group under Hi years of age,
; and since other counties are taking
such action upon the recommenda
tion of the State Board of Health. A
, resolution was subsequently passed
that all children be prohibited from
ail theatres and similar places., ot
; amusement in the county,
! Another motion was made which
i had to do with church assemblies.
Ihe outbreak of the poliomyelitis m
the State is on the increase and the
' disease js so serious the State Board
of Health felt that the situation
should be called to the attention of
(Continued on Page Two)
Mrs. Gladysteen Pait
Lions Club Speaker
I County Health Nurse
Presents Facts About
Infantile Paralysis
Airs. Gladysteen Pait, comity
! health nurse, was the principal
I speaker at the Lions Club meeting
.Monday night, when she presented
i very timely remarks relative to in
fantile paralysis. Mrs. Pait told
about the nature of the disease now
| on a rampage in North Carolina, as
| well as precautions considered neces
sary in order to prevent its spread.
Two new members were added to
the club, these being Lieut.-Col W.
IE. Sweetser, commanding officer of
MOTG-81 at the Marine Corps Ait
Station, and John 1,. Goodwin.
I R. C. Holland was appointed to
I have charge of next week’s program.
j Lonnie Lane Wounded
Fighting- In France
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lane have
been informed by the w.,.. m .
ment that their son CV t ... :
Lane, was slight!'- "-minded vhr!
action in Fran"". Young t n'n». ->
■ member of the infant" ->t *’■„ i-:
th Division, was wound'd July It.