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* Am Volume XII. —Number 44. U nited War Fund In Chowan County Less Than Half Way its Per Report On Tuesday! Chairman W. J. Taylor * Reports Contributions Os $2,443.54 INCOMPLETE Mr. Taylor Concerned j About Possibility of Lacking Quota According to reports reaching W. J. ; Taylor, chairman of the Chowan' * County United War Fund drive, up to 1 1 Tuesday afternoon the county had 1 raised not quite half of the $5,000 1 ' quota. Figures reaching Mr. Taylor | ! amounted to $2,443.54, of which l ' amount $1,555.25 was collected ini* Edenton and $888.29 in the rural sec-! * tion of the county. Os course, Mr. Taylor’s report was incomplete, but with what returns ; have been made, he feels that a much * larger amount should have been col lected. For that reason he is urging the various canvassers to complete their work, both by contacting those people who have not been solicited, as well as any who may have been missed on previous rounds. Mr. Taylor is somewhat concerned about the progress of the drive in that the quota of $5,000 must be realized in order for local Boy and Girl Scouts to secure the amount ne- ; cessarv to carry on their work. If j the quota is not reached, the amount 1 going to these groups will accordingly be reduced, which will be detrimental to the work and progress of the j youngsters. Aside front helping the local groups] of young people, funds raised in the; drive will go toward operation of the USQ and the various relief agencies throughout the world, where there is untold misery and suffering caused! ' v the ravages of war, which, says' Taylor is very good reason why' wan County should not fail in eting its quota, which would be the! .irst failure in all of the war-time' 1 efforts. W. P. (Speck) Jones Acquires Interest In Chowan Motor Co. i : Temporary Office Now In Building on East King Street William F’. (Speck) Jones this week acquired an interest in the Chowan Motor Company, the owners of which now are O. B, Perry, Percy G. Perry and Mr. Jones. ' Mr. Jones was recently discharged from the Army after serving over- 1 seas in the capacity of Captain. The concern has acquired the store room next to Ernest White's barber shop, which will be used as a tempor ary office until a new building is con structed. Though the exact location has not been definitely decided upon, it is expected to be completed as soon as materials and supplies can be ob tained. The company will be Plymouth and De Soto dealers and will have on dis play in their temporary quarters the new 1946 models as soon as they can be secured. Mrs. E. N. Elliott Leaves For Statesville Meeting Mrs. Emmett Elliott left Edenton Wednesday morning for Statesville to attend the State Senate get-to gether meeting, at which prominent State and national figures are sched uled to be present on Thursday and Friday • Mrs. Elliott is a member of the State-wide reception committee and left by bus when several others mak ing up a car load abandoned the trip when it was learned President Harry Truman could not attend. She will be gone a week or ten days, planning on siting relatives and friends in vari- cities on her way home. Auxiliary Os St. Paul’s Changes Meeting Day The Woman’s Auxiliary of St. Paul’s Church will meet on Thursday afternoon, November 8, at 4 o’clock in the Parish House. Members are asked to notice that the day of meet ing is being changed from Monday to Thursday. All women in the parish are urged to be present. (THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWMFAFER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY Stewart Brothers Meet First Time In 26 Months While On Duty In Japan Two brothers, former Edenton boys, met for the first time in 26 months; when on October 12 Carroll and Les ter Stewart, sons of Mr. and Mrs. C.' D. Stewart, now living in Jackson ville, Florida, greeted each other in the city of Ota, Japan. Carroll was stationed on Guam un-, til the latter part of September, when* he was sent to Japan on a special de tail and is stationed in Tokyo. Lester is stationed in Ota, about three train hours from Tokyo, and on October 12 as he was sitting around playing cards with some friends, someone tapped him on the shoulder and when he looked around he saw his brother for the first time in over two years, j Both boys are getting along fine and Lester says he likes Japan much better than Europe, for, he says, he is living in the lap of luxury. Navy Day Program At Naval Air Station Thrills Spectators Perfect Letters NAVY Formed By Group Os Planes MANY~STUNTS Helicopter and Blimp Prove Very Interest ing to Crowd Because Saturday is an inoonveni-j ent day, not as many civilians as might have been expected were on 1 hand at the F.detnon Naval Air Sta tion when Navy Day was celebrated, but those who attended were very ! much impressed with the program. Despite the fact that many of the planes at the base were ordered else where to participate in celebrations in larger cities, enough planes were on hand to thrill spectators during the air show. Os especial interest was j the formation high in the sky of the j perfect letters NAVY, the group of' planes forming the letters separately as they flew over the crowd below. Another interesting feature was a; ; radio hook-up whereby those on the] j ground could hear the conversations! of those in the planes. Many stunts, by individual planes also thrilled the] onlookers. Though the various phases' of the program were very interesting, the appearance and performance of a Coast Guard helicopter and a Navy! blimp more or less stole the show.; The helicopter landed and took off! several times in front of the crowd and many who witnessed one of the! machines in operation for the first] time wondered as it hung in the air ,at a standstill, went forward dr back ward, as well as went through other performances. The blimp made two, trips in front of the tower, each time j traveling very slowly and within at few feet from the ground, which gave spectators a splendid opportunity to get a close-up view of the giant bag. Music for the occasion was furnish ed by the CASU-67 Band and Comdr. Bert Creighton briefly welcomed the visitors from the band stand near the tower. A crash-fire drill thrilled the visitors, when an old plane was set afire and in short order the flames were extinguished and a dummy pilot rescued from the plane, after which the air show began. With the exception of a few re stricted areas, the entire base was open and at the disposal of visitors, who went from place to place during the afternoon. Though the crowd was smaller than expected, all who at tended appeared very well pleased with the program as arranged. • t Veteran Film At Taylor Theater November 8-9 J. L. Wiggins, chairman of the Chowan County Draft Board, this week announced that the motion pic ture short “What Every Veteran Should Know” will be shown at the Taylor Theatre Thursday and Friday, November 8 and 9. Mr. Wiggins says that it will be to every veteran’s advantage to wit ness this show to better enable him to know what' veterans’ rights are and likewise all agencies interested in administration of veterans’ benefits. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 1,1945. Chamber Commerce Recounts Activities Past Three Months ! I Quarterly Membership Meeting Held Mon day Night ADI) DIRECTORS J. W. Davis Reports 95 Members as Against 128 Last Year i In keeping with the policy of the Chamber of Commerce to hold raem- I bership meetings every three months, ! a goodly number of the members at tended a meeting held in the Court House Monday night, when the prin cipal business was a rehearsal of what had been done during the past quarter. President J. Clarence Leary pre sided. over the meeting and called for' ■ reports of activities. Os particular interest was the re port that the telephone company has stationed a linesman permanently in Edenton and assurance has been giv en that everything possible is being done to improve the telephone ser vice. ] It was also reported that a meeting j was held Thursady of last week with I Robert Green, manager of the freight | | division of the Norfolk Southern Bus | Corporation relative to improving freight service in Edenton. This mat-, ter was discussed at length and a motion was subsequently passed in structing the secretary to write the Interstate Commerce Commission in regard to reopening the local freight! station. The secretary was also in- j structed to communicate with the, i Norfolk Southern Bus Corporation ; with a view to securing southbound bus service later than 9:45 P. M. asj ! at present. The meeting with Merrill Evans,] j highway commissioner for the First] ! Division, was also discussed. This; ! meeting had to do with completing ! paving of the Rocky Hock road and President Leary assured members that this project will be followed up. ] President Leary also stated that at a meeting with State Highway ofti f cials, he was advised that no change \ is contemplated in Route 32, provid ] ing no parking is permitted on East Church Street and West Queen Street. Town Council has already abandoned parking on Queen Street and will no doubt take similar action regarding (Continued on Page Six) New Executive Officer At Naval Air Station] j Lieut.-Comdr. F. M. Smith, execu-' j tive officer at Edenton Naval Air Sta tion, has been detached from the lo ] cal base and has been succeeded by ] Lieut.-Comdr. Arold H. Diekhoff. Comdr. Smith, a native of Raleigh, I was ordered to duty at Naval Air: Bases, 14th Naval District with head-' ! quarters in Honolulu, effective No-' ] vember 2, but it is unlikely that he[ ! will report due to being eligible fori ] discharge several weeks ago. Comdr. Diekhoff is a naval aviator; j with 3,300 hours flight time to his | credit and comes from Fleet Wing 171 in the Philippines, where he was oper-| ations officer. He is a native of Wes-1 i sington, South Dakota, and won a de- j ] gree. in science and mathematics at! .I Huron College in South Dakota be- ] fore joining the Navy in 1937, as an ' aviation cadet. Comdr. Diekhoff is married and has a three-year-old son. Cotton Ginning Far Behind Last Year F. W. Hobbs, special agent for the] i Bureau of the Census, reports that ; only 466 bales of cotton were ginned i in Chowan County from the 1945 crop prior to October 18. This figure is far behind the num i her of bales ginned last year at the i same time, when 2,656 bales were : ginned from the 1944 crop. i , Visiting Speaker At Missionary Meeting ' „ > The Woman’s Missionary Society . of the Edenton Baptist Church will meet Monday afternoon November 6, s at 3:30 o’clock. The Rev. C. W. f Bazemore, pastor of Corinth Baptist ■ Church, Elizabeth'City, will speak at i that hour. All members and friends ; are invited to be present. AT RALEfGH CONFERENCE s County Agent C. W. Overman and ■ Miss Rebecca Colwell are this week i attending a conference of connty » agents being held in Raleigh. They i are expected to return the latter part . of the week. CASU-67 Scheduled i To Leave Edenton * I Naval Air Station Outfit WilTße ferred to Memphis, ] Tennessee CHECK OUT NOV. 15 1 Two New Squadrons of ( Bombers Expected to j; Arrive Shortly 1 < November 15 will mark the final departure of CASU-67 which has been : stationed at the Edenton Naval Air Station for nine months. The outfit will be transferred to the Naval Air Station at Memphis, Tenn. The senior air group at the base has also received l orders to send its planes and persno-i nel te Elizabeth City before Novem ber 20. It is expected that a new air group will be sent here, but plans have not yet been disclosed. These moves have been explained as part of the post-war redeployment of i Pacifific-based patrol bombers to East I Coast bases, during which two squad- j ronsjof PV-2’s are due to arrive in! Edenton on November 17 and 24 re-] spectfvely for reforming and training.; These' squadrons will operate under; the command of Fleet Wing 5. Later! ] on, in December, squadrons of' ] PB4Y-2’s are to make their appear ance here. A service unit Similar to CASU. ! Hedron Five, is expected to be dis-; 1 patched here to coincide with the ar ! rival of the new squadrons. CASU-67 has had as its command- j ] ing officer Comdr. K. C. Huffman ever since it was stationed in Eden ton, who will leave for Memphis with, the outfit. No charge is contemplated regard- 1 | ing the station organization or per-: j sonnel. I Rotary Hallowe’en j Party Big Success! Over 100 Make Merry In Edenton Armory ! Tuesday Night i Dressed in every conceivable kind! of costumes, over 106 Rotarians, their 'wives and members of the Edenton] i and Chowan school faculties enjoyed j'a Hallowe’en party staged by the ! Edenton Rotary Club in the Armory! ] Tuesday night, Much enjoyment pre- j ] ceded the program as one another En deavored to identify others, some of) whom were not identified until they; unmasked. i Bob Johnson was master of cere-] j monies and to begin the program he ! had all of the masqueraders parade 1 ] around the floor in grand march style. Then all were required to take off: ‘ their shoes, place them in a pile and after being thoroughly mixed up each '| person scrambled to get his or her > own shoes, which created a lot of fun.i j Miss Marian Green also entertained ; the group with two dance numbers,! j accompanied on the piano by Mrs. j Jack Mooney, and a skit by three of ] the school teachers was also presented j on the stage. A number of music selections were ; included in the program ranging from 1 solos by Tex Lindsay and Mr. Askew 1 and a duet by two chaflming young I ladies with an accompanist, to a “bar room chorus” were very much en ] joyed. <i Various prizes were awarded forj | the first to get the right shoes and; I for different types of costumes, which: J portion of the program was in charge: j of H. A. Campen. i The affair was very enjoyable throughout and apparently all the' . Rotarians, as well as guests, thor . oughly enjoyed the evening. k ' " ' ' Achievement Day Being Planned By 4-H Clubs ' Plans are in the making to hold a county-wide Achievement Day early r in December, according to County I Agent C. W. Overman and Miss Re becca Colwell, home agent. Interest ! among 4-H Club members is quite , varied, according to the agents, who l sense the fact that some are very , much enthused while others are show ing a rather disinterested attitude. It is hoped that interest can be aroused throughout the membership, ] so that a tentative program is being c planned by leading 4-H Club mem t bers and the agents. r FTizes will be offered for exhibits t in both boys’ and girls’ 4-H Club work. Chowan County’s Quota In Victory Loan Is Announced As $281,000 By Chairman Last Methodist Service < Before Conference Will Be Held Next Sunday Family Day and Membership Sun day will be observed in the Methodist Church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock when the pastor, the Rev. H. Freo! Surratt, will preach on the subject,' “Thirsting No More.” This will be] Mr. Surratt’s last sermon before the annual .conference which meets in Golds!>» in. Xov'm! r 7. John A.j Holm s a.-.' -lay del gate will represent , the Edenton church. Mr. Surratt will also preach at the,, Edenton Naval Air Station at 10j, o’clock Sunday morning in the capa-,, city of auxiliary chaplain. Church School wil convene at 9:15, Sunday morning with Mrs. Paul Wal- I : lace in charge of the worship service. | , The Youth Fellowship meeting will be held at 6:30 Sunday evening. Edenton High Meets! Hertford, Its Ancient Gridiron Rival, Friday Aces Will Again Enter Game Taking Role Os Underdog "7 GAME AT 3 O’CLOCK Os 20 Games Aces Have Lost 10, Won 7 and Tied Three , ,r With rivalry on the gridiron dat- • ing hack to 1926, Kdenton and Hert- ] ] ford high schools will meet on Hicks , ; Field Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock ] in what should be one of the best games of the season. Again Coach j Tex Lindsay’s boys will he the unrfer ] dog, notwithstanding comparative t scores made by both teams against , j Elizabeth City, which is in favor of, the Aces. , The Elizabeth City Yellow Jackets trounced the Hertford Indians 46-6, I while the Aces held the Pasquotank ! boys to a score of 34-6. The Hert ford boys were decidedly off form when they met the Jackets, and j though the Aces were very much j weakened when they played Eliza i both City by the absence of Jack and ; George Habit, who were sick and the i added fact the R. G. Henderson had,| i been ailing, the Elizabeth City squad ] also lacked several regulars due to 1 t failing marks in their studies and the, star, Brinson, appeared on the field 1 after one quarter had been played, ! due to returning late from Fort! ! Bragg. So that had the Yellow Jack t ets had their regular team, the;, (chances are that they would have I : piled up a larger score against the; ! 1 Aces. j The Hertford team has much more]] experience than the Aces and com-, 1 ; parison of some fans who have seen ] ‘ both teams in action favor the In- ! dians to come out on top. However, 1 J (Contirued on Page Five) j Chas. H. Jenkins At i Statesville Meeting : i |i President Truman Un- ■ able to Attend Sen- J ate’s Get-together i ( Charles H. Jenkins, First District i s Senator, left early this week for, 1 Statesville for the get-together meet-: ing of the State Senate today (Thurs- 1 day). President Harry Truman was l scheduled to be the guest of honor, : but conflicting reports have been rife 1 as to whether or not he could make the trip to North Carolina, it being i reported finally that all visiting en gagements had been cancelled for the next six weeks. The meeting will proceed, never theless, today and Friday, with Sec retary of War Patterson and Secre tary of the Treasury Vinson schedul ed to speak tonight and Friday re spectfully. Other prominent figures were also expected to attend the meeting. Senator Jenkins has had a promin > ent part in the meeting, having been i associated with Senator Hugh Mit chell in making arrangements. This newspaper it circu lated hi ths territory when Advertisers wM realise good results. $1.50 Per Year Quota Little Over Half Os Seventh War Loan Drive ENDS DECEMBER 8 Chairmen Encouraged At Initial Reports of Bon;] Sales T. C. llyruin. chairman of the Chowan County War Finance Com mittee, reported Tuesday that Cho wan’s quota in the Victory Loan drive is $281,000. Os this amount the quota for E bonds is $85,000. This quota is considerably less, in fact just a little over half of the Seventh War Loan, When the overall quota was | $442,147 and the E bond quota $141,000. • Chairman Byrum and his co-chair j man, W. H. Gardner, repor that some j of their workers have already begun to sell bonds and that in Very short order the entire group Will go to work l in earnest in an effort to reach the ! quota. Mr. Byrum, while not releasing any amount of bonds sold, said Tuesday that he was very much encouraged ]by initial sales and felt sure that Chowan would again meet its overall 1 quota, thus having a perfect record in every war bond drive. He does emphasize the fact, however, that it is just as important to meet the E bond quota, which is up to indivi- I duals by purchasing the bonds of smaller denominations. It is this j phase of the drive which will take the 1 most effort and both Byrum and Gardner are appealing to citizens of the county to purchase this class of bonds as far as they are able. ] The drive officially began Monday of this week and will continue until December 8, but the two chairmen are hopeful that Chowan will meet its quota in both overall arid E bonds be fore that date. 11l event any prospective purchaser is missed by the canvassers they are requested to make their purchases at the Bank of Edenton or at the Post OtflCe, Porter W. Carswell Guest Os Rotarians At Meeting Today Citizens Invited to Hear Humorist of National Reputation Rotarians have a treat in store at their meeting today (Thursday) when they will have as their guest Porter W. Carswell, nationally known hum orist. Mr. Carswell will speak to the Rotarians immediately after dinner, and in order for the public to have an opportunity to hear him, any one interested is cordially invited to occupy seats in the balcony of the Parish House. Mr. Carswell is a Georgia farmer, and is connected with many organi zations, one of his present positions being president of the Georgia-Caro lina Roy Scout Council. He has been a Rotarian since 1933, during which time he has served as club president, district chairman, committee chair man, district governor, director of Rotary International and is now a member of the nominating committee for president of Rotary International for 1946-47. John A. Holmes has heard Mr. Carswell at national Rotary meetings and is high in praise of him as a humorist. It is hopeful, therefore, that every Rotarian will be present at today’s meeting and that others will also avail themselves of the opportunity to hear him. Col. Huffman’s Family Moves To West Coast Col. and Mrs. William Huffman and two children left Edenton Tuesday for the west coast, where Col. Huffman will be stationed. Col. Huffman was stationed at the Edenton base when it was occupied by the Marines and re cently returned from nine months in the Pacific. While her husband was away, Mrs. Huffman and son and daughter made their home in Edenton, and all regret at having to leave Edenton.
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