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Volume Xll.—Number 52.
Released by U. 8. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES IN BOUGAINVILLE JUNGLES—Soldiers of the 37th (Buckeye) Divi
sion in their homecoming this year will recall the Christmas spent in the South Pacific in 1043.
Here before an altar in a thatched hut Chaplain Joel M. Warifit, of Toledo, Ohio, conducts services
for the 2nd Battalion, 148th Infantry.
STATE TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION
APPRECIATIVE FOR LONG SERVICE OF
MRS. J. A. MOORE HANDLING SEAL SALES
One of 23 In State Who
Has Served 10 Years
Or Longer '
SENDS LETTER
Mrs. Moore Has Con
ducted Chowan Drives
For 11 Years
At a receiit meeting of the execu-j
live .committee’ of the North Caro-;
lina Tuberculosis Association, it was!
Voted to, send a special letter of ap
preciation fro; i the executive com- 1
mitten to Seal Sale chairmen through- j
the State who have conducted the!
j 1 Sal -in their communities for ten ;
* .rs or more.
There were 23 of these men and;
women, one of whom is Mrs. J. A.;
Moore, who has conducted the sale in •
Chowan County for 11 years.
The letter of appreciation sent to
M rs. Moore by Dr. David T. Smith,
president follows:
“On behalf of the executive com
mittee of the North Carolina Tuber-!
culosis Association, I wish to express!
to you our sincere appreciation for the
devoted service you have given this
association by your conduct of the an
nual Christmas Seal Sale in your
community.
“Having accepted this responsibility
in 1935, you are in 1945 serving as
Christmas Seal Sale chairman for
Chow’an County for the eleventh year.
“I realize the vast amount of work
this period of service represents, not
only in conducting the Seal Sale but
also in spending the money given in
this way by the people of your com
■munity to fight tuberculosis. I feel
sure that these citizens, no less than
members of this association, appre
ciate your civic-minded endeavor.
“The conception of the founders of
the National Tuberculosis Association!
that doctors and laymen could work
side by side in the fight against tu*!
berculosis was both original and
sound. The fruits of that cooperation
are evident in better knowledge of the
disease on the part of the public and
in a dramatically lowered death rate
from tuberculosis. In this struggle
against disease, you are taking a sig
nificant part.
“Please accept our congratulations,
our gratitude, and our best wishes to
you.”
Dances Climax USO
Christmas Activities
Are Scheduled For Mon
day Night And New
Year’s Eve
Climaxing festivities at the Edenton
USO club will be a tea dance at the
club from 3 to 6 o’clock on Christmas
Way and winding up the holiday sea
y , i will be a New Years Eve dance,
J oat the club.
Beginning with a Christmas tree
decorating party on Monday night,
plans at the club throughout the per
iod preceding Christmas call for fill
ing and hanging stockings and re
hearsal sessions of carol singing.
Christmas gift wrapping has been
featured at the club and members of
the staff and volunteers have been
aiding in making suggestions for gifti
selections.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
Herald Early j
Your copy of The Herald is j
reaching you a few davs earlier
this week, the publication being
stepped up in order to allow the
publishers and employees to ob
serve the remainder of the week
after Christmas to enjoy a well
earned holiday, all of whom wish
! readers a Merry Christinas and
Happy New Year.
Rotarians Favor
Program Directed
Improving Peanuts
i
C. T. Griffin Presents!
Idea At Club Meeting
Thursday
C. T. Griffin, speaking at the Rot
ary Club Thursday afternoon, pre
sented an idea for a long range pro- j
gram which if carried out should re
sult in the production of more and
better peanuts in Chowan county. Mr.!
Griffin cited the success of organiza-]
tions sponsoring projects among!
youth for improving corn, livestock j
| and various other money crops and
said because of the importance of pea
nuts in Chowan county, the Rotary
l Club could sponsor a project which
would be really worthwhile.
It was Mr. Griffin’s idea to spon
sor a program among boys up to 20
‘ years old which for the major part
I would be in experimentation in an ef
fort to get more and better peanuts.;
l His plan calls for an analysis of the
soil and a promise on the part of the
boys to carry out to the letter recom
mendations advanced by state soil ex
perts, and the boys would be request
ed to keep accurate records relative
to what has been done to the soil
as well as the crop from the time it
is planted until it is harvested.
Mr. Griffin’s idea also called for
bringing the peanuts grown on the
land during the experiments to the
armory, where buyers would be invit
ed to bid on the crop similar to tobac
co and livestock.
The program calls for offering
prizes for the biggest crop and best
grade peanuts substantial enough to
create an incentive for boys to enter
the project, it being assessed that the
neanut rnmnanies would be interested
in contributing prizes which would
attract the boys.
The club thought well of the project
and has the sanction of C. W. Over-
I man, county agent, as well as the en
! tire Rotary Club membership, so that
plans .will be worked out as soon as
possible.
Watch Night Service
In Methodist Church
In the Methodist church Sunday,
December 30, student recognition day
will be observed, when the pastor, the
| Rev. H. P. Surratt, will present a
suitable program. Mr. Surratt also
announces a watch in
the church at 11 o’clock Monday night,
t when he will preach on the subject,
| “New Life In The New Year.”
Uluenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 27,1945,
Rotarians Plan To
Entertain Members
: E.H.S. Football Team
j Illness Causes Affair to
Be Held Shortly Af
ter Holidays
Members of the Edenton High
School football team will be entertain
ed by the Edenton Rotary Club, the
affair to take place shortly after the
holidays. It was hoped to entertain the
boys before Christmas, but due first
to the Illness of Superintendent John
A. Holmes and later of Coach Tex
Lindsay plans were not carried
through.
This year’s football team, compos
ed of very small and inexperienced
boys, bring up a very good record by
winning six games and losing three,
and it is hoped every boy will be able
to be- present when they are entertain-j
ed by the Rotarians, the exact date
of which has not been announced.
j William T. Gordon Dies
1 After Brief Illness
William T. Gordon, 84, died at his
j home, the Iredell house on East
! Church street, about 7:30 Thursday
I nightirfollowing an illness of only a
! few days, Neighbors found Mr. Gor
j don, who lived by himself since the
! death of his wife on January 4, 1944,
suffering from a severe cold Monday j
I morning and he gradually became!
j worse as pneumonia set in.
| He was for many years yard mas
j ter for the Norfolk Southern Rail-j
road, but resigned about 25 years:
ago, and spent practically all of his:
time at his home. He also has for
many years been a trustee of the
Edenton Methodist church.
Funeral services were held at the
Quinn Funeral Home at 2 o’clock Fri-j
day afternoon with the Rev. H. Freo,
Surratt officiating. Interment was
| made in St. Paul’s churchyard beside
his wife. •
LISTING OF PROPERTY FOR TAXES MUST
BE DONE DURING MONTH OF JANUARY
Tax Listers In Various Townships Announce
Schedules; Tax Supervisor P. S. McMullan
Again Urges Early Listing
With only a few more days remain
ing in 1945, attention is called to the
fact that all property in Chowan
County must be listed during the
month of January. For this purpose
list takers will sit at various times
and places throughout the county,
where all real estate, personal prop
erty, etc., owned on the first day of
January must bd listed for taxation.
All male persons between the ages
of 21 and 50 years are also required
to list for poll taxes during the same
time.
Chowan County has the same tax
listers this year, which include Mrs.
P. S. McMullan in the First Township,
P. L. Smith in the Second Township,
T. A. Berryman in the Third Township
and C. W. Parker in the Fourth
Township. •
Mrs. McMullan will be at the tax
supervisor’s office in the Court house
from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily.
Mr. Smith’s schedule will be as
follows: Jan. 9, W. L. Miller’s Store;
Jan. 11, Evans Mill office; Jan. 16
and 25, L. W. Belch’s Store; Jan. 18,
Henry Bunch’s Store; Jan. 23, Elbert
Infantile Paralysis
Workers Scheduled
To Meet In Edenton
17 Counties Expected to
Be Represented at
Meeting
PLAN FOR DRIVE j
J. A. Moore Agrees to
i Direct Chowan Coun
ty’s Campaign
■*— ' — _ | 1
fans arc now in the making fori
holding a district meeting in Edenton !
for the purpose of laying plans for;
the drive to raise funds for the bene
fit of infantile paralysis. J. Edwin |
Bufflap, chairman of the Chowan
County Chapter, was contacted by thej
state office in Chapel Hill and re-]
quested to make arrangements for J
holding a luncheon meeting, at which
it is expected representatives will be
present from 17 counties.
The meeting is scheduled to be held
Saturday, January 12, and tentative
I plans have been made with Edmund
Schwarze to have the luncheon and
meeting in the Hotel Joseph Hewes
coffee shop at 1:30 o’clock. The
counties who will be asked to be rep-j
I resented include Beaufort, Bertie,’
j Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, 1
Edgecombe, Gates, Hertford, Hyde,
Halifax, Martin, Northampton, Pas
quotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and
Washington.
In Chowan County J. A. Moore has
agreed to head up the drive for funds \
in the 1946 campaign, succeeding J. 1
; Edwin Bufflap, who has directed the ’
drive for the past few years. Mr.
] Moore is now setting up plans for the
drive and hopes Chowan people this
year will be as liberal as they have;
been in past years.
Joseph M. Harrell
Dies At Home Os Son
After Long Illness
Funeral For Prominent
Farmer Held Satur
day
Joseph M. Harrell, prominent
Rocky Hock farmer, died at the home
of a son. It. T. Harrell, Thursday aft
ernoon after having been a semi-in
valid tor almost five years. Deceased,
a native of Chowan, was 84 years old
and had been in ill health ever since:
an automobile wreck about five years
j ago in which his wife lost her life. Hej
j was a successful farmer and held the
j respect of a wide circle of friends,
throughout the entire county.
Surviving are two sons, R. T. Har-i
| rell and W. A. Harrell, and five j
-daughters, Mrs. John Layton, Mrs.|
t C. D. Privott, Mrs. Ned Bunch, Mrs.;
j George Privott and Mrs. H. L. Nixon.
Funeral services were held Satur-j
day afternoon at the Rocky Hock
| Baptist church, with the pastor, the
! Rev. W. C. Francis, officiating, as
sisted by W. J. Berryman. Burial was
made at the family burying ground
I at the home of R. T. Harrell.
Peele’s Store, and at Smith’s home on
other days from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Mr. Berryman will be at G. A.
i Hollowell’s Store Jan. 11 and 25;
Mrs. Spivey’s Store at Ryland, Jan.
18; Briggs’ Store, Jan. 6, 13, 20 and
27, and at home other days from 9
a. m. to 5 p. m.
1 Mr. Parker will be found at M. C.
Hobbs’ Store, Jan. 6, 13, 20 and 27,
and at home other days from 9 a. m.
to 5 p. m.
Tax listers are required by law to
list 1945 crop acreage, but farm own
ers and tenants must have the facts
ready when listing.
The following information will be
, necessary: Acreage for each crop har
i vested during the year 1945; number
of horses, mules, cows, sows, ewes
and hens on farm January 1, 1946;
: number of people living on farm Jan
i uary 1, 1946, and number of threshing
machines, combines, peanut pickers,
i farm tractors and farm trucks.
P. S. McMullan, tax supervisor,
I urges early listing in order to avoid
, a last minute rush so that this import
; ant matter can be properly attended
341 Report To Local Draft
Board Officials Following
Their Release From Service
Arourd 1,000 From the
County Called Into
Armed Forces
ALL NOT REPORTED
212 White and 129 Ne
groes Now Out of
Uniform
According to information received
from the Chowan County Draft Board
j this week, 341 have reported to the
j Board after being discharged from
; the armed forces. Around 1,000 have
been inducted and enlisted from Cho
wan County during the war, so that
up to this week over 600 more are
still in sen-ice. However, of this num- j
her some, no doubt, have been dis
charged but failed to report to the
Draft Board.
| Os those reporting up to this week,
1212 were white and 129 Negroes, and
j are as follows:
Thomas Hodges Davis, William Ed
l ward Jordan, Archie Henderson Lay
ton, William Edwin Goodwin, John
Lee Spruill, Worlie L. Wilson, Ray
Elijah Boyce, Daniel Timothy Ward,
Jr., Percy Ray White, Earl David
Long, Charles Lloyd Lane, Marion
| Winfred Bunch, Ernest Linwood Hol
! lowell, Jimmie Jordan, Joe Anthony
. Webb, Wendell Hope Copeland, Rich
j.ard Bruce Harrell, Iconius Julian
! Hendrix, Thomas Jones Hoskins, Wil-j
liam Wesley Perry, Harry Vernell
Lassiter, Donald D. Ambrose, Carroll
Dewey Chappell, Robert Clifton Has-;
| sell, Charles Henry Wood, Jr., Grice
j Norman Tynch, Graham Pierce Bass,
j Charles Perry Hughes, Raymond Lee
Everett, Roy Herman Spruill, Harry
Lester Jordan, Claude Burt Rogerson,
William Jasper Twine, Jack Wesley
1 Satterfield, James B. Stillman, Wil
liam Preston Jones, William Ernest
Alexander, Johnnie Paul Bunch, Mil
ton Conroy Bunch. Elbert Linwood
| Bunch, Roy Preston Long, Wilma Ver
non Brabble, Will Winhorne Bunch.
Thomas Roy Goodwin, Theo Franklin
. A ates, Ward Hoskins, Shelton lien a
min Rogerson, Colbert Western l!v
--1 rum, Kenneth Patrick Bass, Edward
If. Wozelka, Judson Kermit Harrell,
Charles. Leonidas ' McCullers, Vernon
; Watson Lee, Joseph Eugene Perry,
I Joseph Zand- Bunch. Donald Alexander
| Miller, Richard Clifton HoUpwell, Em
i bery William Perry, Henry F. Bond,
John Ralph Brabble, James Alvin
Skinner, William Henry Wells: Cebert
Lee Hollowed, Father Clarence Alex
| ander, John Linwood Ryrum, Charles
Manuel Asbell, Solomon James West,
Jimmie Calvin Keeter, Robert Eugene
Cobb, William No!lie Hare, James
Thomas Gibbs, Mathias Preston Chap
pell, Leon Twiddv, George Phillip Hol
! land, William Moore Perkins, Melvin
Spurgeon Forehand, William Stokley
Elliott, John Speight Skiles, Edward
] Exufn Everett, Frank William Byrum,
James Thomas Brabble, Lester Arvel
Deese, Robert Punchy Gay, Daniel
, Lorenza Dilday, Wallace Clifton
i Moore, James Noncie Hudson, William
\ Albert Sexton, Horace Monroe Bas-.
j night, Jerry Morgan, Thomas Jeffer-)
J son Jackson, Ralph Jordan Hobbs,
! James Franklin Arnold, George Eph
raim Morris, George Washington Las- j
1 siter, James Harden Jones, James'
Wallace Nixon, Franklin Earl Twiddy,
Cecil William Alexander, Willie Ran
dolph Wilkins, Joseph Baker Boyce,
Albert Sidney Smith, Ivan Bunch,
Johnnie Everett Harrell, Fred Coke
Hoskins, Louis Leon Nixon, Ernest
Leo Dixon, Sidney Daughtry Hollo
well, William Merritt Cozart, Joseph
Calvin Parks, Vernon Mills Sitterson,
Renas Lee Bennett, Howard Bivens
Warren, Rodney Lee Bass, Sam Lloyd
Sawyer, Abram Edward Jenkins, Mel
vin Ernest Copeland, Riley Copeland
Byrum, Percy Judson Satterfield, Her
bert Cleveland Byrum, Jacob Martin
Boyce, Fred William Britton, Thomas
Edward Parker, George Parker Helms,
Cecil Hugh Hollowell, Jr., Troy Leon
ard Freeman, William Bert Bazemore,
Curtis Charlie Alexander, Milton Earl
Bunch, Luther Clark Parks, Cedric
William Basnight, Casper Alexander,
James Russell Winslow, Randolph
Chappell Ward, Louis Ernest Wil
liams, John Lonnie Harrell, Jr., Harry
Allen Liniger, Lee Roy Holmes,
Thomas Elgin Jackson, James Edward
Sutton, William Earl Smith, David
Rudolph Mizelle, Gordon Fred Fast
ing, Everett Marvin Boyce, John Car
roll Dail, Charles Wood Baker, Wil
liam E. Forehand, Jr., Dallas Graham
Evans, Cecil Linwood Ashley, Kelly
Williams, Wesley Merritt Chesson, Jr.,
David Minton Warren, Charlie Wins
low Swanner, Kermit Leary Layton,
Samuel Lee Hollowell. Wilson E.
Hare, Luther N. Keeter, Thomas Pres
ton Parker, Edward Lee Wells, Skin
ner A. White. Thomas H. Wilder, Jo
seph Alexander Byrum, William Ad
rian Chappell, Josiah Elliott, Hubert
B. Eods, Melvin Eldridge Griffin, Rob
ert Marvin Hobbs, Vernon Frank Bar
row, Ralph Waldon Britt, Llovd Ed
ward Overton, Jr., Leonard Johnson
Bass, Hoskins Samuel Bass, Jr., Earlj
Leroy Eason, George Alma Byrum,!
Forrest Ervin Lane, Thomas Campbell
Byrum, Jr., Joseph Carroll Byrum,
Jr., Ephraim Elton Forehand, James
Edward Cozzens, Johnnie Everett
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where ke , will
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Harrell, Willis K. Copeland, John
Hudgins Bond, Thomas Jarvis Parks,
James Thomas Dail. Horace William
lli hh, Lee Roy Phelps,.'Clancy Orrie
Myers, Benjamin Franklin Evans,
John Cary Jordan, William Haggard
Stokley, W’illie Hosie Bond, Richard
Blount Davis, Benjamin Harrison
Lewis, Benjamin C. .Hollowell, John
Douglas Haste, James Floyd Hassell,
Oscar Leroy Harrell, -Lloyd Byrum,
Elbert Louis Williams, William Ed
ward Harrow, Charles Hampton Sut
ton, James Madison Bond. Luther
Nowell Keeter, Earl Leroy Eason, Da
vid Arthur Lilley, Thomas Michael
Wilder, Mack Henry Spruill, James
Carson Stallings, Stanford Colona
Stallings, Joseph Theodore Askew,
Leroy Fenton Brinkley, Ovas Carlyle
Welch, Fred Augustus Blount, Albert
Lee Turner, Anthony A. Gosser, Wil
liam H. Blanchard, Guy RuSsell Park
ier, Lance Lathem Bufflap, Elisha Ar
, bra Asbell, Hubert B. Williford, Henry
j A. White, Charles Carey Butler, Leon
, Douglas Webb, James L. Hendricks,
j William Marcus White, John Lucius
I Eason, Miss Mildred Owens, Linwood
Elliott, Alfonza Harrell, Thomas
Gardner Burke, Frank White, Charlie
Edward Brinkley, Robert Bembry,
Willie Edward Burke, John Thomas
Eggleston, William Alexander Boyce,
Johnnie Ward, Charlie Wood, Jerry
Thomas, Jr., Grady Sessoms, Golden
A. Frinks, James Hicks, Oscar Elliott,
Roger Douglas Russell, Ernest Albert
Ward, James Edward Brownridge,
Floyd Collins, Daniel Webster Bow
ser, Woodrow Lynward Sharp, Willie
Goodwin, Jr., William Hoggard, Bill
Jordan, John J. Bond, Lawrence Cur-
I tis Collins, William Thomas Holley,
j Joseph William Valentine, Charlie
Burke Harris, Seth Alfonza Downing,
John Henry Shannonhouse, Willie
Wesley Shannonhouse, James Edward
White, Joe Willie Lowther, Abram
Bonner, Cornelius Shannonhovse Rob
ert Louis Lamb, Charlie Frank Jordan,
Elijah Carter, James Oscar Payne,
George Privott, Herman Drew, Kelly
Miller Carr, Jack David Jordan. Her
bert Leo Copeland, James Lenwood
Rond, Walter Pierce, John Wesley
Rollins, William Henry Gilliam. James
Arthur Goodwin, William. Thomas
E. ixwell, George Raymond Sutton, Joe
Johnson. William Henry Martin, VV'ay
mon Lee Costdn, James Alexander
Holley, Walter Theodore Bond, Ernest
Casn,j Jof VV illi:h '! Lcrov Teller, Will
Granby, George Edward Tillett, Clar
ence v> illie Jernigam George Everett
Johnson. Edward Thomas Rankin,
John JetTy Spruill. Eugene Jackson
Ricks, David Lee Copeland, Edward
Mbye Holley, Johnnie Henderson Horn
ton, Lester Martin, William Henry
Mayo, George. C. Wills, Janies Grand
son White, Jr., Roscoe Valentine, Joe
Joseph Hoggard, Miles Shirley Burke,
Mack Henry Lewis, Junius Satterfield,
Alvin O, Gilliam, Clyde Leary, Samuel
Lee Felton, Milton McCoy Brinkley,
Theodore Roosevelt Norman, Paul Mi
zelle Gregory, Alfonso Hathaway,
William Henry Creecy, Emanuel Over
ton, Willie Critton Hurdle, Squire
Louis Simpson, Herbert Lee Hassell,
Matthew Roosevelt Blount, David
Blount, John Wallace Beasley, Jr.,
Donnie Daniel Graham, Ernest'Nath
aniel Boyce, Willis Anthony Howell,
Cecil Redmon, John Isaac Perry,
, James Henry Skinner, Howard Lin
wood Knight, Hubert Granby, Clara
R. Wynn (WAC), Fred Blount, Fran
[ cis Wiggins, Joe Walker, Thomas Wil-
J son Blount, Joseph Hathaway, George
| Washington Williams, James Edward
j Lamb, Harry Perry Felton, William
| Henry Taylor, James Nelson Banes,
Robert Andrew Coston, Andrew Cason
Valentine.
Standard Allocates
$1,500 Victory Bonds
To Credit Os Chowan
J. A. Buglass, field supervisor with
headquarters in Elizabeth City, has
announced that Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey has purchased
Victory Bonds in the amount of $60,-
000 in North Carolina in connection
with the Victory Bond Drive. In line
with the company’s policy of allocat
ing this purchase among the 100
counties of North Carolina in pro
portion to each county’s quota, Cho
wan county has been allotted $1,500.
Masonic Meeting On
Thursday Is Called Off
Next Thursday night’s meeting of
Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. A.
M., has been called off by W. P. Good
win, the new master. The action was
taken due to Christmas falling so
close to the regular meeting night.
Meetings will be resumed as usual
next week.
Rotary Club Meeting
Called Off Thursday
Because of the Christmas holiday
falling on Tuesday of this week, the
| Edenton Rotary Club will not hold its
i regular meeting Thursday. The cost
of the meals, as is the annual custom,
i will be contributed to some charitable
, movement.