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* mkmm «■ |«| Volume CULUko 1 kLoLNraJIO AIK STATION 1 Wjsisxktw jjjjjjjjl U sg&Ei i &kMMK"-: .. _,_... _ . -« a4mwl Above is pictured the coloi guard of the Edenton Naval Air Station displaying the beautiful colors which were presented to the station by Ed Bond Post, N'o. 40, American Legion, at the huge cele bration held at the base Sunday afternoon, May 20. (Official l . S. Navy photograph.) Typhoid Clinics In County Will Be Held From June 11 To 30 Schedule Released I>y Local Health Depart ment Officials Chowan County's typhoid clinics will be held from June 11 to June 3U, according to an announcement this week bv the local Health De partment. All children are request ed to have these Vaccinations. All who had the “booster” and all who had the full three doses last year should take a “booster” dose : s year. This not only safeguards individual, but also the cum uty. At these clinics vaccinations . diphtheria, whooping cough and smallpox will also be administered. The clinics will be held at the fol lowing time and places: Monday. June 11, 18 and 2.1 Hass' Bridge Inn Station—9:ls to 10 A. Ml Old Advance school place-—10:15 to 1 1 A. M. .1. E. I‘eele Station—ll:3o to 12:15. Rocky Hock Church—l to 2 I’. M. Valhalla, Harrell's Store--2:15 to 3 II M. Ryan’s drove School—3 to 4:30, Tuesday, June 12, 19 and 26 Virginia Pork colored school—9:3o to 10 A. M. Hancock, Dixon’s Station—ll to 12. Cross Roads, Community Club House —3 to 4:30 P. M. Wednesday, June 13, 20 and 27 Hobbs’ Store—9 to 9:30 A. M. St.. John’s School—lo to 11. Canaan’s Temple Church—ll:3o to 12:30. Triangle School—l to 1:30. Eden ton Cotton Mill—3:3o to 4:15. Thursday. June 14. 21 and 27 tlreen Hall School—9:3o to 10:15 A. M. Center Hill Intersection—lo:3o to 11:15. Itylaiul, Ward Station—ll:4s to 1. Arthur Byrum’s Station—2 to 2:45. Sign I’ine, A. T. Perry’s—3 to 4. Friday. June 15, 22 and 29 Health Department— 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Saturday. June 16, 23 and 30 Health Department—9 A. M. to 12 | noon. Chaplain R. A. Egan Speaker For Legion Last Meeting of Fiscal Year Tuesday Night I In Court House Next Tuesday night Ed Bond Post No. 40, American Legion, will hold its last meeting of the fiscal year, at which time the principal speaker will be Chaplain R. A. Egan of the Eden ton Naval Air Station. The meeting will be held in the Court House, ■•ommencing at 8 o’clock. T . L. Chestnutt will preside as post mander and urges every Legion ’ re to be present. Visitors are also .ivited to attend and hear Chaplain Egan’s address. MRS. LUPTON IMPROVING Mrs. Hector Lupton, who is a pati ent in General Hospital, Norfolk, is gradually improving, her many friends will be pleased to hear. Mrs. Lupton was operated upon Wednes day of last week, but is obliged to undergo another operation which is expected to take place Saturday. THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY |_Have You GiveitfJ J. W. Davis, chairman of the I Soliciting Committee for the Chowan County Hospital, senses the fact that there are still quite a few who would like to contri bute to this worthy cause, but 7 who. for one reason or other, have not been solicited. In making a final appeal for contributions, Mr. Davis made the following statement early this s l week: , “Knowing that quite a few t people in Chowan County have been missed during the hospital campaign. 1 am making this final I appeal for our committee in I order that all may have an op l 1 portunity to be in on the initial , gift program. . “Os course, you can make a do nation at any time, but this com , niittee must finish its work, so j w ill you not make an effort to get your gift in as soon as possible? Also all who have made pledges and can meet them, will you do so i as soon as possible. It will be , very helpful to the committee. There is work to be done. Let's , got going.” Edenton High School Finals Begin Sunday )' Graduation Exercises to - Be Held Friday of Next Week 1 The baccalaureate sermon, which > I will begin commencement exercises at Edenton High School, will be ! preached Sunday night in the school .\ auditorium by the Rev, J. Herbert Miller, district superintendent of • i Methodist churches in the Elizabeth j City District. The service will begin at 8 o’clock, to which the public is j cordially invited. Evening services !in the Protestant churches will be ,! called off for the occasion. Class Day exercises will be held | Thursday night of next week at 8 . | o’clock, during which the seniors will enjoy the customary Class Day fea tures, | Graduation exercises will be held |on the following night, when dip i lomas will be presented to the grad uates and awards made to outstand ing students. The principal speaker for the occasion will be Dr. Howard S. Killey, president of Atlantic Chris tian College at Wilson. Business At Auction Block Picking- Up ■ ■ ■ ■■ | With more favorable weather con- I ditions, more farm produce is being handled at the Valhala auction block of the Chowan Mutual Produce Ex change, W. A. Harrell, president ($ the organization, reporting Tuesday morning that over $5,000 worth of produce was sold Monday of this week. Items sold were beans and squash, and though the crop is shot, Mr. Harrell said it was of very good quality. The auction block will be operated throughout the summer, so long as farm produce is available. AWARDED COMBAT BADGE Mr. and Mrs. George H. Spruill have been informed <lhat their son, Private Irving W. Spruill, has been promoted to Private First Class and that he has been awarded the Infan tryman’s Combat Badge. Pfc. Spruill is a member of General Patch’s Sev enth Army. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 31, 1945. Naval Air Station I | Meets Coast Guard; j Sunday Afternoon; Game Is Transferred toj Edenton Diamond For Benefit of Civilians BEGINS AT 2:30 Both Teams Tied For First Place In Ser vice League Edenton baseball fans will have an | opportunity Sunday afternoon to wit- ; ness a game which should be a battle j royal, when the Edenton Naval Air j ! Station team meets the Coast Guard aggregation from Elizabeth City on j , Hicks Field. The game is scheduled j ' to begin at 2:30 o’clock. The two teams at present are tied ! for first place in the Albemarle Ser vice League, each having a perfect i record of four victories and no de j j feats. The local outfit added its j fourth win Friday by defeating LTA j of Elizabeth City 13 to 4. I So far this season the Edenton j team has an enviable record in that it has hung up a total of eight vic tories to only one defeat, the latter being at the hands of the Jackson ! i outfit played at Jackson Wednesday I lof last week by a score of 6-5. The | S Edenton team defeated the North-I I ampton County boys in a game play | ed early in the season 2-1, so that on Friday afternoon on the diamond at the Air Station the two teams will fight it out when they cross bats at 4 o’clock. j For Sunday’s game it is expected that Asmer will start on the mound, j for the Naval Air Station, with Lem :bo on the receiving end. Lembo, just ! recently added to the sqnad, is owned iby the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Ath j letie officials at the base are very much impressed with his performance back of the plate. In fact, fans may expect an exhibition of throwing sel dom seen on the local diamond. Van Erian, slugging outfielder, | lost his batting eye in the last few ! games, not being able to add to his j string of five circuit clouts. Moore, ' first baseman, however, hit a terrific home run in the last league game, so that the entire outfit is expected to do its best in Sunday’s game to break the deadlock for the lead in league standing. This game was transferred to Hicks Field especially for the benefit i of civilians, and, it is hoped a large crowd turns out to see what promises to be an exceptionally good game of baseball. Mrs. Ruth Stokely * Hears From Husband | Mrs. Ruth Stokely on Monday re ceived a telegram from J. A. Ulio, adjutant general, which stated: "The Secretary of War desires me to inform you that your husband, Pvt, William U. Stokely, was return . ed to military control on May 9.” The telegram was reason for joy on the part of Mrs. Stokely, who had not heard from her husband since January 7, when he was a prisoner of the Germans. DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS AWARDED TO TECHNICAL SERGEANT PARKER HELMS j•• ' • Edenton Boy Also Wears Air Medal With Sixth Oak Leaf Cluster Recently Awarded For Meritorious Achievement In Pacific I In compliance with general orders from headquarters of the Seventh Air Force, Technical Sergeant George j I’arker Helms, son of Mr. and Mrs. j G. A. Helms, was one of ten to be re cently awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. ' The award was made by direction of President Harry Tru man by the commanding general of the Seventh Air Force for extraordin ary achievement in aerial flight while participating in aerial operations against the enemy on February 25, 1945. During this mission each as a crew member of a heavy bombardment type airplane assisted in a success ful attack against Susaki airfield on Chichi Jima, a possible threat to American invading forces at Iwo Jima due to enemy planes using it as a staging base. The attack had to be made at a lower altitude because of the undercast. Making the attack at this low altitude was extremely haz ardous because all the enemy anti aircraft and automatic weapons could be brought to bear against the planes. Each, realizing the danger involved, carried out his assigned mission and also aided in obtaining valuable in telligence information. The cool Dr. Gerard Priestly Speaks In Edenton Monday, June 4th Forum on “Today’s War And Tomorrow’s World” WELL INFORMED Lecturer H&s Spoken In 46 States and 250 USO Clubs Dr. Gerard Priestly of London, j England, will conduct a forum on the : subject “Today’s War and Tomor j row’s World” at the High School on I Monday, June 4, beginning at 8:30 ! P. M. Gerard Priestly is known on both sides of the Atlantic as a competent authority on International Affairs, He has traveled extensively through Europe, North and South America. To use a Churchillian phrase, Gerard Priestly “has stood on the watch , towers of history” for he was in Ger many when Hitler came to power, in Austria when the Nazis marched into. Vienna and in Czechoslovakia at the j time of the Munich crisis. Shortly before the outbreak of war, he was j the guest of the Rumanian govern- j ment and spent considerable time j traveling in Transylvania, Hungary, I Yugoslovia, Greece and Turkey. Gerard Priestly was born in Wind sor, England, and was educated for the Christian Ministry at New Col lege, University of London. While a student at the University, he worked in a mission in the heart of the great dockyard area of London’s East End. He made his first visit to the United States as a student, receiving the de gree of B. D. from th Hartford Theo logical Seminary and S. T. M. from the Latin American Department of the Kennedy School of Missions. For over four years he occupied the dis tinguished pulpit of the Church of the Divine Paternity, New York City, and during two summers preached at the American Church in Paris. Gerard Priestly is a member of the faculty of' Springfield College and has been professor of Modern History for the 323rd College Training De tachment of Aviation Students. Em the past two years he has been as sociated with the Special Program Department of the Army and Navy Y.M.C.A. As an unofficial British ambassador of goodwill, he has ad dressed thousands of men and women in the army camps and airfields across the country on conditions in Britain, Europe and South America and the problems which will confront us all in the world of tomorrow. He has visited over 250 USO Clubs and has spoken in the leading colleges, j churches and service clubs in 46! states. For many years, he was a j member of the London Central Y.M.-j C.A., destroyed by the Nazis, and he has visited many of the Y.M.C.A.’s; in Europe and South America. Dr. Priestly comes to Edenton j under the local sponsorship of the USO. All interested in a discussion of current public affairs are cordially < invited to attend. I i courage, unwavering determination 1 and devotion to duty displayed by i each exemplifies the highest tradi ■ tions of the Army Air Forces. i Sgt. Helms also 'wears the Air | i ! Medal ami was recently awarded the ! sixth Oak Leaf Cluster, the latter be ■ ing for meritorious achievement while participating in sustained aerial op erations against the enemy from Oc tober 16, 1944, to March 29, 1945. « During this period each officer and , enlisted man as a crew member of a heavy bombardment airplane, parti ' cipated in numerous missions against heavily defended enemy held bases, involving long over water flights to and from the target. Throughout these operations, which were accom -1 plished with distinction above and be yond that normally expected, each discharged high skill and courage, inflicting severe damage to enemy air bases and shipping, reflecting great credit upon himself and to the Army Air Forces. Sgt. Helms recently completed a 21-day leave from overseas duty and returned to the west coast, from where he was transferred to the Army Air Base at Courtland, Ala., for special training. Seventh War Loan Half Over, Chowan Still Lacks $47,000 One-half Quota | Speaks In Edenton ! Wm fft mk- 111 sHHmSIH -foBy : Um A DR. GERARD PRIESTLY Known on both sides of the Atlantic as an authority on in i ternational affairs. Dr. Priestly will conduct a for.um on “To day’s War and Tomorrow’s World” at the High School on Monday night at 8:30 o’clock, Commencement At Chowan Ends Friday Congressman Herbert Bonner Graduation Speaker ’ | Commencement exercises at Cho ! wan High School will come to a close j Friday night when graduation exer cises will be held in the auditorium i beginning at 8:30 o’clock The prncipai address for the occa : sion will be made by Congressman ! Herbert Bonner, which will be an in centive for many of his friend, to attend. Two select ons will be rend ! ered by the Glee Club and T. J. Jes ! sup. principal, will present awards. I Superintendent W. J. Taylor will pre -I■' sent diplomas to the seniors com prising the graduating class. The baccalaureate sermon was preached Sunday night by the Rev. I Frank Gale, tyho has returned from his studies at Southern Baptist Theo logical Seminary at Louisville, Ky. i The invocation was offered by the Rev. Arthur Stephenson and the j Scripture read by the Rev: J. T. Bv- I rum. | Class night was observed Wednes day night with a three-act play “Be | yond the Port,” with a goodly num | her of the graduates taking part. W. T. Eason, Jr., is valedictorian | of the class, while Carolyn Jessup is | ! salutatorian. Other members of the class are: j Robert Ray Winslow, Ralph Harrell, I Jack White, Wallace Reed Peele, Eu ! gene Jordan, Ward Blanchard, David | Ober, Ruth Morris, Joyce Chappell, ! Helen Joyce Byrum, Edna Mae By j rum, Lester Byrum, Frances Perry, j Jean Britton, Pattie Macon Davis, j Clemma Layden, Irene Byrum, Lin- ' i wood Davenport, Ervin Copeland, J. 1 j D. Peele, Melvin Evans, Oliver J or- ; i dan, Edmond White, and Graham i Byrum. | Girl Scouts Need More Furnishings Group Very Anxious to Make Quarters More Attractive It has been called to the attention of The Herald that the local Girl Scout troop is still in need of furni ture, pictures and other items which can be used to make their quarters in the former band room at the school more attractive. Furniture need not be in perfect condition, for Girl Scouts are trained to make minor re pairs, and have done a splendid job in fixing up their room. These girls are willing to work, which was reflected in their part taken in the poppy sale Saturday and any encouragement on the part of citizens will, without &>ubt, have its effect in the interest and develop ment of this important organization for the girls of Edenton. This newspaper it circu lated in ikt territory where Advertiser! wM realiee good rtsultt. $1.50 Per Year ! Total Sales Up to Tues day Afternoon Re ported at $145,000 S6B,OOOINK BONDS Chairman T. C. Byrum Urging All to Rally And Raise Quota j With the Seventh War Bond one j half over, Chowan County as of Tuesday afternoon lacked approxi i mately $47,000 of meeting half of its | quota of $385,000, according to fig | ures released by W. H. Gardner, vice I' chairman. Mr. Gardner reported to- I tal sale of bonds at $145,000, of which j $68,000 represented Series E bonds, ! $26,500 in G bonds and $50,500 in Treasury bonds. j The Series E bond quota for the j county is $141,000 and with sales J amounting to $68,000, shows that ’ $2,500 is lacking of meeting the ha! r way mark for these bonds. The drive ends June 30, so that if Chowan is to once more meet its quota in a war bond drive, there will ; necessarily have to be more spirited buying than was the case during the first half. i T. C. ltyrum, chairman of the Chowan County War Finance Com mittee, is no little concerned about the ultimate success of the drive, ' and while he has not given up hope of the overall quota being reached, he feels that individuals have not been buying the E bonds in proportion to their ability to buy and the necessity for raising the necessary funds with which to knock Japan out of the" war. To this end Mr. Byruin is ap pealing to his group of workers to see to it that every person in their respective neighborhoods is solicit * ed and to stress the importance of • buying the E bonds, which will not only help to meet the county’s quota but will aid in prosecution of the. war as well as stand in good stead when i the war is over and conditions turn more toward normal.. 1 Mr. Byrum stresses the fact that money is needed by the Government now more than ever and he desires to . eliminate an apparent feeling on the part of some that due to cessation of hostilities in Europe there is not as . much need for funds. “Chowan County has met its quota .yin the six previous war bond drives,” j said Mr. Byrum, “and it would be embarrassing and a shame if the . county did not rally to the Govern ment and the men and women in uniform at this particular time when total victory was never more bright \ er. hut the end stilt a long way ole. Let us all show by our purchase of bonds that we are backing our sons and daughters in the armed forces, who will, and have every right to, ex pect us on the home front to provide j them with what it takes to bring our (Continued on Page Six; Rotarians Planning To Honor John A. Holmes June 14th Edmund Harding Ac cepts Invitation to Be Speaker Edenton Rotarians are planning to | pay tribute to John A. Holmes, who | is governor of the 189th District, and | who has made a splendid record thus far in leading all district governors | in the Rotary world in Rotary exten -1 sion. The date for the celebration has been set for Thursday night, June 14, and various committees have been appointed to arrange an affair which is calculated to be one of the most outstanding in the history of the club. A feature of the meeting will be an address by Edmund Harding of Washington, a former district gov ernor and well known after dinner speaker. At last week’s meeting Rotarians learned something about weather forecasting, when Lieut. Ross Hamp ton of the Edenton Naval Air Station was the principal speaker. Os course, the subject could not be covered in the brief time allotted for the pro gram, but Lieut. Hampton presented quite a few interesting facts relative to methods used in predicting weath er conditions.
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