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hm4 $ fok pretmfiio* I Volume Xll.—NumlS HUGE CROWD ATTRPED TO EDENTON 'J'VAL MR STATION SUNDAY TO WITNESS ..tSENTATION OF COLORS AND AIR SHOW Number of Visitors Es timated at Around Ten Thousand IDEAL DAY Speakers Pay Tribute to Joseph Hewes and John Paul Jones' Coming, up tii expectations, an es timated crowd of 10,000 people gath ered in the Kdenton Naval Air Sta tion Sunday afternoon to witness the presentation of colors to the station by Ed Bond Post No. 40 of the American Legion. The weather was ideal and with an interesting pro gram arranged jointly by the Le gionnaires and station officials, once again a large crowd left the station with a favorable impression of the Mtise and those who are stationed there. The station was opened to the pub lic, who had free range save for those portions which were restricted for security reasons. Prior tc presentation of the colors, Coindr. Thomas J. Robertson and ins corps of officers were hosts to about 50 guests at a dinner served in the Officers’ Club. These guests included members of the Legion and Auxiliary and a few other invited friends. The eoiors were presented before a speakers' stand erected on the base ball diamond near Athol House, where groups of Sailors dressed in white and WAVES in blue formed an attractive background. Music during the ceremony was furnished lit the colored band from the Norfolk Naval Air Station. The program opened with a prayer by Chaplain Egan, who then intrd -1 "fed John A. Holmes as master of nonies. Following a few re i by Mr. Holmes expressing - are of Kd Bond Post to have the ..ortunity to present the colors, the color guard of the Post marched lx-lore the ’stand and when the Navy Hag and Old Glory were unwrapped, they were transferred to the color guard of the base. The presentation speech was made oy Judge Richard 13. Dixon, who paid especial tribute to Joseph Hewes as the first Secretary of the Navy and John Paul Jones, as well as his par ticular pleasure in presenting the beautiful colors to the station. Judge Dixon was followed by Con gressman Herbert Bonner, who also paid tribute to Hewes and Jones, “it is a privilege for us from the first war to be here and pay tribute to those who are willing to sacrifice, tight and even die to save democ r:i y,” said the Congressman. “The war is net over and.will still be long (Continued on Page Six) District Governor Visits Lions Club Compares Influences ot'j President Roosevelt And Hitler Jesse A. Jones of Kinston, district governor of Liens, was a guest at the meeting of Edenton Lions Monday night, it being an official visit. Gov ernor Jones was the principal speaker of the evening, during which he re ported on the increase in both mem bership and clubs throughout the dis trict, which was very encouraging. Governor Jones also took occasion to comment upon the war, during which he compared the lives of Hit ler with the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “The President,” he said, “used his talents for good, while Hitler directed what talents he had to destruction.” The comparison was made in an effort to emphasize the importance of Lions in lending in fluence in the proper direction. The Rev. Frank Cale was a visitor. Julia ' Burton High Ranking Student At Greensboro College riday of last week Greensboro v,allege, at Greensboro, released a list of students ranking in the high est 10 per cent of each class for the first semester of '1944-1945. Included in members of the Junior class was Miss Julia Burton, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Burton, who was second among the seven members of her class comprising the honor list. THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY Veteran Returns I mSm S/SGT. H. B. EPPS Returning from 31 months overseas, Staff Sergeant Epps is now spending a furlough with his wife at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Wins low. He served with the 98th Bombing Group and was in charge of the Medical Section of the 344th Squadron. Sgt. Epps wears the Distinguished l nit Badge with oak leaf cluster, the American Defense Ribbon, the Good Conduct Medal and the European-African and Middle Eastern Theatre Ribbon with ten battle participation stars. After his furlough Sgt. Epps will be assigned to a post in the States. [Annual Poppy Day f Observed Saturday Legion Auxiliary Re ceived 2,000 Poppies To Be Sold Once again on Poppy Day, May 26, i i members of the Legion Auxiliary of i Ed Bond Tost, No. 40. will dedicate j their best efforts to the distribution 1 of memorial poppies to the citizens of Chowan County. Mrs. I>. M. Reeves is Poppy Day Chairman, and ■ lias made preparations for the sale of the little red flowers which will pay’ tribute both to those men who have died for their country in the present 1 war and to those who fell 27 years ago in France and Belgium among the swaying poppies. The money received for the flowers 1 < will be used to aid afflicted veterans , f >f both wars and their families. ! ! There is no fixed price for a poppy— j whatever is given will be welcome and it is hoped that everyone will be I wearing the crimson badge by night- I j fair Saturday. Mrs. Beeves reported to The Herald | j that this year the largest number of j , [ poppies ever received in Chowan j County will be offered for sale. The | shipment includes 2,000 poppies, and it is hoped every one will be purchas , ed during the day. Mrs. Reeves also announced that Fannie Badham will have charge of. the sale among colored people, and that the veteran school teacher, in order to stimulate interest in the sale, has arranged a play which will be presented at the colored school Friday night at 8 o'clock. Sgt John Byrum In Belgium Hospital First Word Since No vember Received Thursday There was joy in the household of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Byrum Thursday of last week when a V-Mail letter was received from their son, Staff Sergeant John Byrum, stating that be was in a hospital in Belgium af ter being liberated from a German prison camp. Sgt. Byrum was a turret gunner on a B-24 bomber and up until last week no word had been heard from him since November, when it was learned that he was taken prisoner. Sgt. Byrum apparently was in high spirits, saying that h* had dropped to 135 pounds in weight, but that good food, sunshine and rest would bring him around to normal. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 24, 1945. | MAY DAY ON COURT HOUSE GREEN 1 Above appear two of the many picture? taken at the May Day party held recently by the Beta Club of Kdenton High School on the Court House Green, which affair was arrangd by Mrs. C. C Brill.. In the top picture is Jack Habit, who was crowned King, and Miss Ma rian Harrell as the Queen. Before them sit Norman and Stephen Delia, twin sons of Lieut, and Mrs. R. W. Delia, who acted as crown bearers. In the lower picture a minuet is in progress in which the participants were Lou Jordan, Bobhv Bunch, Helen Boswell, John Dobson, Ann Hawkins. Freddy Byrum. Marian Goodwin and Richard Hudson. The people gathered the fence gives some idea of the number who enjoyed the program. | AS I SAW IT Captain Frank L. Williams Relates Experiences In Invasion of Southern France Writing to The Herald’s editor from Leghorn, Italy, Frank L. Wil liams, Captain of the Seventh In fantry. gives Ills impression of the invasion of Southern France. Many of Chowan County’s sons participated in this same tremendous, undertaking, • so that they no doubt had similar ex periences, for which reason Captain Williams’ letter follows: The morning was, slightly cloudy j and looked as though it would soon clear into a warm sunny day. The j sea was very calm and you could see | the silhouettes of the nearby ships in the breaking dawn. There wasn’t a ; sound anywhere except for the davites as they lowered the small | landing craft into the sea. In the I distance you could see the flag ship j as she signaled with a green light to j load the small boats. This was it — I everyone was tense. I looked around at my men as X inspected the boats and equipment. All eyes seemed to look with piercing stares at me. 1 realized I must break the silence some way, so 1 began to pass a few joking remarks. Every one smiled. It is funny the way such little things can cause one to laugh when under such strain and tension. 1 was the last to go down the side and as I turned to the bridge and sa luted the skipper I could see in his face that he realized what confronted the men he had transported. He smiled and gave the all-thumbs-up sign. I then saluted the quarter deck and went down the ropes. Day was breaking fast as we made the wide circles with the small boats in preparation to forming the as sault to shore. The battle fleet was beginning to pound the shore with everything it had, including the kit chen sink. Land was now visible, but nothing could be made out on shore for the dust and rubble of the bursting shells and bombs caused a large screening cloud. Planes cov ered the sky like a massive flock of blackbirds. The roar of their engines and the blasting of the big guns and bombs started our heads to ringing. My nerves seemed to loosen up under the noise as I began to get the old feeling of combat into my soul. It wms like a great symphony and we mastered the instruments. There is no way to explain the feeling each one of us held within ourselves. Every man had his own thoughts and you could see the solemn look on their faces and a prayer on their lips. I don’t think there was anyone not praying. J know I was. I had been ever since I had received the orders as being one of the assault companies. I looked at their faces as the boats were close enough to make them out. I called over to the nearest one. "Put your rubbers on. I don’t want anyone to get wet feet. Your mothers might j not like it.” It was a poor joke but everyone got a kick out of it. Some (11 came hack with, “What the hel j you doing manning that machine gun | Captain ? You can’t hit a bull in ; the —-—7 with a spade.” Everybody was trying to lighten the burden of “the other with such remarks. f glanced over to my left and there was my battalion commander. Yep, few people know or realize how close to the forward elements our com manders move. He is right with you all the time and today he was riding my flank. All this gave con fidence to our men the same as my manning that machine gun instead of one of my gunners. His face was solemn as he sat on the engine house erect as though nothing could hurt him, 1 saw him on the drive out of Anzio walking around the same way when everyone else was flat on the ground. This was his fifth invasion and you could see he held the weight of all those lives on ljis Shoulders though he revealed only a proud, de termined and straight figure. He was only 25 and he looked to be nearing 40. Battle ages a person rapidly and one could see the effects it had made on him from Casablanca to the shores of France. Yes, he was born to lead and never has he failed to continue to do just that. He had welded a fight ing team that could take and hold its objectives through the toughest engagements. The rocket boats were moving up close and you could see him firing their salvos toward the landing beach and hear their swish as they left the ships. The enemy shore batteries began to open up as we came in range of their guns. The men began to get down in the boats as the air bursts came closer and a few near misses in the sea started the craft to rolling to the sides. The curtain was up and it was almost time for the Infantry to come on the stage and take its part in the play. The big shells frotp the wagons began to sound like trucks coming through the air sideways as they started to silence the shore batteries. You couldn’t hear one shouting in your ear. All boats wdre headed straight for shore, engines roaring and dead on course. I began to pick up terrain features in an attempt to spot my company’s objectives. I was pointing it out to my men so that everyone would know where to go, when all of a sudden a short burst of machine gun fire sliced by my : craft. I swung my gun and began to return fire just as tffe boats rammed shore and dropped their landing I (Continued on Page Five) CHOWAN COUNTY TUESDAY AFTERNOON ONLY APPROXIMATELY ONE-FOURTH OF REACHING QUOTA IN SEVENTH WAR LOAN To the People of this Community Remember the Kid in Upper Four? He thinks about you, Ins home folks, even under the muri derous fire of enemy machine - gunners. The f’vL, •'■ , ■ yas~ s i kid came home the oth ril l.lfr 111 “Father in Heaven, take care of Mom ! and Dad and my brother and sis ter and all the folks at home. Thanks for the food and water we have in this shell hole. Take care of my buddies. Take care of me. Amen." In this case the kid's name was Private Ken Miller of Greens burg, Kan,, veteran of Iwo Jima: l Private Miller won't mind if you i substitute the name of your boy i for his as the boy who prayed | in a foxhole for the home folks. The link between foxhole and | home is never broken unless you break it here yourself. Your | fighting sons look to you in the 7th War Loan to demonstrate j that you are helping them in one i j of the most direct ways open to j you, the acquisition of the most War Bonds you have ever bought in any War Loan. THE EDITOR [Urgent Need For Living Quarters Larjjre Number of Ser vice Men Expected In June Information has been received by The Herald to the effect that a large group of men will, arrive at the Ederi- I ton Naval Air Station early in June ; for their final training, This will be the last two or three 'months these :■ men. will be able to. he with, their families, and it is calculated that a goodly percentage of this number will never return. For that reason efforts are under j way to secure living quarters for [ these service people and an appeal i> made for Ederitonians to go the limit in opening their homes or making ar rangements to house as inany as pos sible, Officers were held last week in the interest of checking on living quarters and expressed the hope that any previous unpleasantness will be overlooked and some, sacrifices made in order to provide homes for these service people who, after all, are tin man. and have a yearning to he with their families the last few weeks they have an opportunity. The Herald will be happy, indeed, to give any information to new comers relative to rooms, apartments or houses which can be rented, if this information is received. Finals At School Begin June 3rd Rev. J. H. Miller and I)r. Howard S. Killey Speakers Commencement exercises will be gin in Edenton High School Sunday night, June 3, when the baccalaureate sermon will be preached by the Rev. J. Herbert Miller, district superin tendent of the Methodist churehes in the Elizabeth City District. The program will be held in the audi torium at 8 o’clock, for which occa sion the Protestant churches will abandon their regular night services. Class Day will be observed Thurs day night of the same week, begin ning at 8 o’clock, during which the usual features will be carried out. On Friday night at 8 o’clock the graduation exercises will be held, when the principal speaker will be Dr. Howard S. Killey, president of Atlantic Christian College at Wilson. There are 40 members in the Senior class this year. County Offices Closed On Memorial Day Wednesday of next week, May 30, being National Memorial Day, Coun ty offices will be closed in observ ance of the holiday. Important busi ness should, therefore, be transacted accordingly. This newspaper it circu lated in tht territory where Advertisers wiU realise good results. $1,50 Per Year Total Bond Sales to Date Reported at Only $93,000 “E” BONDS $36,131 j 7 Chairmen Now Concern ed Over Apparent Lagging of Sales With the first report of sales of bonds in the Seventh War Loan made Tuesday afternoon by W. H. Gardner, 'vice chairman, there remains a tre mendous job of work and buying if Chowan County is to meet its quota as it has in all previous drives. Late Tuesday afternoon Mr. Gard ner informed The Herald that over all sales amounted to $93,000, of which amount $36,1.31 represented Series E bonds. Chowan’s overall quota is $385,000, while of this amount $141,000 is scheduled to be raised by purchase of the E bonds. Thus it can he seen that the county has reached only approximately one i fourth of its quota to date. T. C. Byrum, Chairman of the 'Chowan County War Finance Com i mittee, is somewhat concerned, espe j cially over the E bond sales, and | while he has not lost confidence that j the county will meet both quotas, .yet the result up to the present time j is not as far advanced as he had ex- I pected. He is, therefore, urging every person in the county to do his or her utmost in buying bonds, to the end that the goal will soon be in sight. He stresses the fact that the first quarter of the quota is the *' easiest to meet, and for that reason is urging. his co-workers to make as many contacts as possible and to em phasize the extremely vital need sot Hinds with which io finish the war In Hie Pacific. Beta Mr. Lynnii and his vice chair . man, Mr. Gardner, are of the opiniof. that the full quota will finally b* 1 realized, but both agree that unless sales pick up materially, it will be an extremely hard fight to sell the required amount of bonds before the drive ends. “Buy bonds” is the appeal of both .- Byrum and Gardner. Rotarians Hosts To i Edenton Teachers Delightful Affair Held In Parish House Friday 4 Over one hundred Rotarians, their wives (and one who had {ps sweet heart) together with members of the Edenton school faculty, gathered in | the Parish Hohse Friday night, when the teachers were guests of the Eden -1 ton club. The room was attractively | decorated with Rotary emblems and j flags of many nations, and a feeling of good fellowship pervaded the en ! tire meeting. H. A. Campen, president of the | cltib, presided and called upon the II Rev. I). C. Crawford, Jr., to offer ■ prayer and Marvin Wilson to make ! the address of welcome. All of the teachers were asked to stand, intro j duce themselves and state what grade they taught, while Rotarians ■ introduced their Rotary-Annes and visitors. Several numbers were presented by Joyce Harrell, Charlotte Bunch and Carolyn Elliott. Singing by the en tire group was led by C.’ W. Over man. A feature of the program which provoked much laughter was an “auction sale” conducted by Presi dent Campen. The principal address was made by William J. Bundy’ of Greenville, who delivered a witty after-dinner speech, at the conclusion of which he became more serious, emphasizing the fact that an individual is a small part of the whole population, but that each one has an important duty to per , form which has a vital effect upon 1 our town, State and nation. BANK CLOSED MAY 30 Next Wednesday, May 30, being National Memorial Day, the Bank of Edenton will be closed in observance of the holiday. Patrons are, there fore, urged to attend to important ’ banking matters accordingly. , MRS. LUPTON IN HOSPITAL Mr. and Mrs. Hector Lupton went • to Norfolk Tuesday morning, where . Mrs. Lupton entered a hospital. She I was scheduled to undergo an opera tion Wednesday.
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