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/• Hoot column ariff bo fam4 0 fair presentattm H W ond county mm if gomorol intorost. Volume Xl.—Number 47. Sixth War noan Drive Is Under Way VI era Id Story About Cases And Druji Stores Likely To| Convey Wrong Impression! Not Purpose of Air Sta tion Officials to Issue Ultimatum WANT COOPERATION Grade “C” - Establish-; ments Unsatisfactory For Service People i j No little surpri.se and comment de- i veloped last week, following the ap- j pearance in The Herald A a story to the effect that Edenton cases and drug stores face the possibility of being ordered out-of-bounds. State ments made in the story were true; though as they appeared in print, the idea could have been construed that officers at the .Marine Corps Air Sta tion had issued, more or less, an ultimatum, which is not exactly the case. As a matter of fact, there! are some establishments which do not rate a grading which will allow them to be patronized by service men and women, and. others which will he graded lower, if certain requirements I are hot complied with. Base officials do net desire to see any places in Edenton .closed, for! they realize that even now there are | scarcely enough places operating to' accommodate service people and civi-. cans. It was in a cooperative spirit 1 of having establishments come up to grade that Mayor Ixu'oy Haskett was railed into a conference to discuss the matter and not a harsh ultimatum.. Hasp officials are duty-bound to re port to the Fifth Naval District any stabbshments where food and drink / e served which have a “O” or lower (big. A rating is uiisatisfac lory. On the basis of the report, as submitted, the. Fifth: Naval District issues the out-of-bounds . orders, so that it was the purpose of officials at the Base to prevail upon local estab lishments. through Mayor -Haskett, to improve conditions where necessary, s" that drastic action would not he necessary. In the course of these efforts. Health officials recently were; informed in two establishments that "we are doing, all we can and do not intend to do any more.” which, nat urally' means, that unless conditions are brought up to requirements, ser vice men and women will hot lie allowed to be served. An inspection will, no doubt, be i made this week by State Health nffi. v ials, and it is hoped by both Base I officials as well as Town officials! that all establishments will be able to be graded above. “0", so that it will not be necessary for out-of bounds orders to.be issued. Rumors were going the rounds, too, that many men and women at the . Base were affected by trench mouth j and dysentery who had not left the I station. However, these rumors were investigated and found to be untrue. Lieut.-Col. H. C. Lane, command- • ing officer who, too, expressed his; opinion that The Herald's story sounded father harsh, when as a matter of fact the cooperation of es tablishments was being sought in or der to prevent drastic action rather: than issuing an ultimatum. j Two Local Girls In College Dance Figure Leading the figure in the form of a, half moon for the annual junior class [ dance at the Woman’s College, Greensboro, Saturday night was Miss Norma Perry, class president, who had as her escort Lieut, Howard Linker, of Concord. In the figure also was Miss Marga-; ret Griffin, who had as her escort, John Ring, of Baltimore, Md. Miss Perry is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 0. IS. Perry, and Miss Grif fin is the daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Griffin. Brother Os Mrs. Kermit '<ayton Killed In France • Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Shaheen, of Jackson, N. C. t were notified on Mon day by the War Department that their son, Jimmy Shaheen, had been killed in action in France on, Sept. 14. Young Shaheen, a member of the in fantry, is a brother of Mrs. Kermit Layton. the former Elizabeth Shaheen. THE CHOWAN HERALD 'mKbMOMM NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY Rotarians Favor Furnishing Room | j If Hospital is Built | iClub Calls Attention to' j Board of Directors at : Last Week’s Meeting ! With a hospital for Chowan County j gradually becoming nearer to a real ity, the Edenton Rotary Club, at last week’s meeting, voted unanimously to call the attention of the board of directors to the idea of furnishing a room at the hospital when it is erected, The suggestion was very favorably received and It is expected .that the hoard of directors will act I favorably on the project. At the meeting. Chaplain George Wheeler was the principal speaker, his remarks being directed to the nation-wide Bible reading, which will be. observed from Thank -giving to Christmas, lie urged Rotarians and ! their families to take part, as well as encourage their friends to take time j enough each day to read at least the . passage eslected. Mayor L. H. Haskett Urges Bible Reading Asks People to Keep Faith With Those In Armed Forces With a nationwide Bible reading scheduled to begin on Thanksgiving Day and continuing until Christmas. Mayor I,eroy Haskett is calling upon every person in Edenton to join in the I movement. ■ Mayor Haskett hail the following ; to sav early this week: ‘•Keeping faith by daily Bible read ing at a time when we have so many from our community in the armed forces on foreign soil and in training camps, 1, as Mayor of Edenton, do ! hereby rei ojttniend and appeal to .our own people in Edenton to observe ! special prayer anfl Bible reading. ; beginning on Thanksgiving Day to < iiri-tmas. , “As vve have, so very much to be j thankful for, to me, there is nothing. that will mean more to us than to observe this nationwide Bible read ing.” ! Little Business In ITospect Thursday I With Thanksgiving being observed ion Thursday, business will be more, or less at a standstill in Edenton in j observance of the holiray. Practical-1 ly all stores will be closed, as will he - {also the Bank of Edenton, Post Of j flee and the County and City offices.! Town employees, except the police,j will be given a holiday, so no collec j-tiph of trash will be made during the day. : Many Edentonians plan to spend | | the day hunting and fishing and, ot course, some will devote the day to | resting and visiting. Thanksgiving- Service In Methodist Church j Services will be held in the Metho- j 1 dist Church on Thursday morning at i 11 o’clock, when the pastor, the Rev. i H. F. Surratt, will speak on a sub ject in keeping with Thanksgiving. The offering at this time will go to the Methodist orphanage and it is hoped that a large congregation will be present. Services will be held Sunday night at 8 o’clock, when Mr. Surratt will preach on the subject “Vision Con trols Life.” The Youth Fellowship meeting will be held at 6:45 P. M. and Church School at 10 A. M. RETURNS TO CAMP Pvt. Stanley Spruill left Tuesday for Camp Barkeley, Texas, after spending a 12-day furlough as the guest of his wife and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Spruill. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 23, 1944, Religious Drama At Local Baptist Church | Next Sunday Night ! Public Invited to Wit ness “The Challenge Os The Cross” | The Voting People’s Department of | the. Training Union will present “The J Challenge of, the Cross,” a religious drama, at the Baptist Church on i Sunday night at 8 o’clock. ( “The Challenge of the Cross” is a very impressive drama and is co«- | sidered by critics to be one of the! best demonstrations of the true challenge of the cross. The spoken ; | drama is interspersed with the sing ing of appropriate sacred composi- t 'lions by the sextette. . | Those taking pa 1 1 in this presen ilation are: Mrs. Mabel Barrel Sen-j 51 erf it as the Evangel; Mrs. Glaysteen I Hester Pate as the First Disciple; ■ j Miss Jean Daley as the Second Dis- I ciple; Miss Nell Skinner as the Third , j Disciple; J. Clarence Leary, Jr,, as ,I the Fourth Disciple; Miss Corinne I Forehand as the Fifth Disciple; Mrs. IE. H. Williams as the Sixth Disciple.; j The members of the sextette ate; ! Misses Charlotte Bunch, Dorothy Lee' l I Chstnutt, Betsy Goodwin, Joyce Har • rell, Beverly Moore and Nell Perry. I This is the fourth and final -even.-' j ing service to be sponsored dtiring the . month of November by organizations of the church. It is the third conse " ! eutive evening service to be sponsor-; ied or conducted by the Training 1 tiion Department. As manifested by 1 the splendid attendance, these ser vices have been well received and 'hose participating have enjoyed taking part. The. public is cordially invited to , attend the presentation of this im pressive religious drama. A most. I sincere invitation i.- also extended to those in the. armed forces. 1 1945 Auto Licenses Go On Sale Dec. Ist i i Tags Will Be Sold at Ca rolina Motor Club on West Eden Street Beginning December 1, 1945. auto mobile licenses Will go on sale at the! branch office of the Carolina Motor j - Club. 108 West Eden Street. Miss Goldie Layton, branch manager, de ! sires; to remind any who come for a : license; that they must have with • them their 1015 registration card, ' which will be mailed from the State Motor Vehicle Bureau. Miss Layton, of course, urges aiito- I mobile owners to call as early as {■possible stir their license plates, in ' i order to avoid the. usual last minute ' : rush. i j Catholics To Observe Thanksgiving Sunday Owing to so many working out-of-j I I town or in school Thursday, Father' McCourt, pastor of St, Ann’s C’atho-' j lie Church, stated that this year, as ; last, St. Ann's will religiously ob ; serve Thanksgiving on the following j : Sunday, November 26. with Holy! Masses there at 'J and 11 a. in.,; in-j eluding sermon on “Always Give I Thanks To God for Everything.” Holy : Communions, prayers for peace, each I service concluding in 45 minutes. Confessions there Saturdays, 7:30j p. 'in. to 8:30, Sunday, 8:30 to 8:55; • 10:30 to 10:55 a. m. [Russell Cobb Resigns As Edenton Policeman Russell Cobb has resigned as a member of the Edenton Police Force, the resignation going into effect last Sunday. His is the second re signation received by Chief of Police •J. R. Tanner within two weeks, Of ficer R. I. Harrell having resigned two weeks ago. W. A. Davenport, of Cri%vf*ll, a former guard at the Marine Corps Air Station, has been added to fill one of the vacancies, and Chief Tanner is now seeking another pa trolman to bring the police force up to normal strength. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. A. A.'Harrell, who has been receiving treatments at De Paul Hospital in Norfolk, Va., for a week, was obliged to undergo a double operation on Tuesday. School Boy Safety j Patrol Begins Duty On Monday Morning Vive Groups Organized By Student Council And Police On .Monday morning a school-boy j ; safety patrol went on duty at four I i street crossings in the interest of I directing children on their way to’ : school across dangerous intefsee-! tions. Five groups of four boys each j [ have been organized, with one group •(. being held in reserve for emergency, i ■ The school-hoy safety patrol was j ; organized through efforts of the! : Student Council and the Edenton Pu- ! : lice Department and will be on duty i at the following intersections: Court i ; and Queen Streets, Court and Church j Streets. Oakum and Church Streets,! at id Oakum and Queen Streets. Mem-1 bets of the Police Department will j continue to direct traffic at Broad and Church Streets. Beth the Student Council and the police are asking the cooperation of ■ teachers, parents and motorists in i operation of the patrol in an effort to j protect the children while crossing streets where traffic is heaviest. Murray Ashley Gets Bronze Star Medal \f i Sgt. Ashley Operates Radio In Face Deadly Enemy Fire Sergeant Murray 1 1. Ashley, radio operator for a signal company, and Son. of Mrs. Citllie E. A-lili-y of Ty ner. »as been awarded the Bronze Star medal, according to .an order issued at headquarters of tile 29th !n --: fiintry Division in. France. The cita ■ tion roads: , “From D-Day. Seplenl'iey (~ Sgt. '; Ashley was subjected to, intense ar j tillery. mortar and mall amts fire, ( followed by violent attacks on the . regimental command post. A t these. 1 times, in spite of the fact that it be came increasingly difficult to carry on his duties, Sgt. Ashley continued to operate his radio equipment at all ; times, until the equipment became j inoperative due to enemy shrapnel j and. small arms fire, At one time he was wounded by enemy mortar, shell fire while repairing his radio. Although evacuated, when subse quently returned to duty. Sgt. Ashley : volunteered to return to his old du ties. As a result of his fearless ac tions communications were kept at high standards at all times.” Miss Norma Perry Listed In Who’s Who j For College Students j , Miss Norma Perry, daughter of Mr. land Mrs. O. B. Perry, is among 11 ! ■ seniors and 10 juniors at The Woni j an's College, Greensboro, who have | I received notification that their names are being published in the 1944-45 edition of the annual “Who’s Who Among Students in American I niver isities and Colleges.” ’ Miss Perry is president of the: ! junior class at the college. I Masons Will Meet As Usual Thursday! V | Though meetings of Unanimity j Ixidge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M„ are ! j usually called off on Thanksgiving I Day, this year will be an exception, | for the meeting will be held as usual j Thursday night at 8 o’clock. Because of so much degree work to be confer red, it was decided not to call off Thursday’s meeting, at which the third degree will be conferred. Aj special meeting, will, no doubt, be* called for Friday night to confer the! second degree. . W. J. Daniels, master of the lodge,; urges all Masons to he present. Edenton Soldier Is Promoted In Italy Corporal Judson K. Harrell, broth er of Mrs. Essie V. McClenny, who lives at 921 North Broad Street, has been promoted to sergeant. He is a driver with the First Armored Divi sion of Lieutenant-General Mark W. Clark’s Fifth Army in Italy. Group of Workers Begin On Monday Morning To Raise County’s $348,000 Quota Nationwide Bible | Reading Is Urged Nov. 23 To Dec. 25 i Pyrpose to Encourage ! Concerted Reading Os Scriptures From Thanksgiving,. November 28, |to Christmas, a nation-wide Bible j reading is sponsored by the Ameri | can Bible Society and two national ' sponsoring committees, with repre sentatives of 30. major religious bodies. The purpose'of the plan is to encourage service men and women 1 and their families, and other Ameri cans to join in the concerted reading of Biblical passage. Through a nation-wide poll of pas , tors and Army and Navy chaplains, special readings have been selected, the passage recommended being those which received the largest number of votes. : I lie 88 passage.- recommended, for the period follow: Thanksgiving. Nov. 2;;, psalm 103, : Friday. Nov, 24 John 14 Saturday.. Ni v... 25 Psalm 28. ' unlay.- Nov, 26 psalm 1 Monday, Nm; 27 ... . Matthew 5 Tuesday. Nov-. 28 Roman.- s Wedtp'sday. Nov. 29 I Cor. 13 Thursday: Nov. 30 Psalm Pi Friday. December i Matthew 6 .Saturday, Dec, 2: . John 3 i Sunday, Dec. 8 Isaiah 40 Monday, Dec:. 4 psalm 46: I uesday. Dec. 5 .Romans 12 Wednesday. Dec. 6 Hebrews 11 Thursday, Dec. 7 Matthew 7 Friday, Dec. s John 1-51 Saturday. Dec. 0 Psalm 27 Sunday. Dec. ID Isaiah .55-, Monday; Dec, 11 Psalm 121 Tuesday. Dec. P 2 Philippians 4 . Wednesday. Dec. ta Revelation 2! Thursday, Dec. 14 . Luke 45/ Friday, Dec, 15 Ephesians 6: Saturday, Dec. 16 _ John ! 7 Sunday. Dec. 17 Isaiah 5,8 , Monday. Dec. 11 Cor. 15 Tuesday, Dec. 19 John 10 Wednesday, Dec. 20 . Psalm 51 Thurday. Dee. 21 Psalm 87 Friday. Pee. 22 John 1 Saturday. Dec. 23 . Revelation 22 j [ Sunday. Dec. 24 Psalm 90 : Christmas. Dec. 25 Luke 2 To complete; the reading: to Nev. j Year’s read Joshua 1: Psalm 19; ; Matthew 11: Exodus 20; I John .1: ; Hebrews 12. If you desire a sehe dule for readings for 1945. semi re quest to Dept. .Bit. American Bible ; Society. Bible Hi use. New York. N. Y. Two Edenton (iirls In Colleg’e Society Two Edenton girls have been re- * ceived into the Dikean Society, one of ' four societies at Woman’s College, i Greensboro, as the result of initia- j tion day ; recently observed. The two j young ladies are Jacquelyn Logan j Letcher and Josie Marie White. I Membership to the societies is a! , democratic process, since all four I i socieites receive an equal number of J ■ pledges, but the novices receive sur prise bids to one of the four so-! cieties on initiation day. Five Edenton Masons ! Take Masonic Degrees ! * Five Edenton Masons returned on i Friday morning from New Bern, where they spent several days taking up to the 32nd Masonic degrees. Those in the group were H. A. Cam- ; pen, T. C. Byrum, Clarence Yeingst, j E. D. Babb and Robert Hall, Jr. Rotarians Call Off Meeting: Thursday Due to Thanksgiving being observ ed on Thursday, the weekly meeting of the Edenton Rotary Club has been called off. Meetings will be resum ed as usual on Thursday of next week at 12:30 p. in., at the Parish House. ARRIVES OVERSEAS Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Swindell have just received a cable from their son, Lieut. Haywood Cullen Swindell, telling of his safe arrival overseas. This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realize good results. $1.50 Per Year President Lrges Sacri fice or Even Self De nial to Raise Eund ! PROSPECTS BRIGHT J. G. Campen Host to • Workers at Turkey Dinner Friday Chowan County joined with the rest of the nation Monday morning in raising its share in the Sixth War Loan drive, during which Americans ■ on the home front are asked to raise fourteen billion dollars with which to administer the knock-out punch to -jour enemies. In formally opening : I the drive. President Roosevelt on 1 1 Monday warned that many costly bat -11 ties must be fought before the war is won and urged that all Americans : | “stick to the plow” until victory is finally realized. “We can all practice self-denial.” • said the President, “and we can all • sacrifice some of our comforts to the ’ needs of men in service; and. yes; even some of our needs to their com forts.” Os the national quota, North Caro lina's overall quota is 8121,000,000, '■ of which amount 834,0(6>,000 is ex ported to he raised by sale of Series K bonds. Chowan County’s quota in this ' drive ,- *Bls.tHHi. of which SBI,OOO is ! expected to he sold in Series F 1 bonds. Both quotas are somewhat smaller than in the Fifth War Loan ' drive, when the county oversubscribed both its 8-126,000 overall quota and 893',000 Series F quota. Os .course, it is too early this : week to report on the progress of [Chowan's drive, hut J. G. Campen. chairman of the Chowan County War ! Finance Committee, says activities of the variou- workers are very en ' couraging. despite the fact that Mon : day was a very disagreeable day to he out doers. He feels certain that the County, as in every previous drive, will not only meet, hut go be yond its quota. Mr. Campen called his workers to gether Friday night at the Commun ity Building at Cross Roads, where the ladies of the Woman’s Club served a delightful turkey dinner. At the time he emphasized the; fact that some hard work, will he necessary. [ but expressed his confidence in the workers that they would put the .j drive over the top. “It is very ifn portant at this critical stage of the war.” said Mr. Campen, “that we do jail vve possibly can to provide our i hoys and girls in the armed forces with all the material needed to give our enemies the knock-out punch. ; Approximately 1,000 Chowan County hoys-are either on the battle fronts !or in training camps. They are giv j ing' their all and we cannot afford ; not to buy the amount of bonds rc [ quested, for aside from the patriotic viewpoint, it is the best investment ‘ in the world today.” j Chaplain George Wheeler was ask ied to pronounce the invocation and, j after the meal, Captain J. E, Tyler j presented a thrilling picture of the ! Georgia Island campaign, which gave ! (hose present an idea of what our hoys must go through, as well as how I mu, 'h material is necessary to oust the Japs from their strongholds. 0. W. Overman led in group singing and, as the result of the njeeting, all workers appeared very much enthus ed. so that Mr. Campen and his co i chairman, D, M. Warren, feel that j because a considerable amount of j crop money is now in circulation, there should be little /trouble in raising the quota. The drive officially started Mon- I day and will continue until December [ 16. but both Mr. Campen and Mr. : Warren are hopeful that the goal will be reached before the termination of the drive. W orkers will contact individuals throughout the county within the next few days and it is hoped that, they will be met with a generous re sponse on the part of those solicited. IN COAST ARTILLERY SCHOOL T-5 Oscar P. Bunch, son of Mr. and Mrs. R G. Bunch, has been transferred to the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va. Bunch : entered the Army on November 15, , 1942, before which time he was an , auto mechanic at the Chowan Motor Company.
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