Volume XIII. —Number 12.
QUALIFY AS SWIMMING INSTRUCTORS
Above is pictured seven Kdenton young men who recently com
pleted the Red Cross Water Safety Course held at the Kdenton
Naval Air Station swimming pool, together with the instructor,
Lee Jackson Greer from the Red Cross area headquarters. Having
successfully completed the course, these young men are now eligihle
for appointment as swimming instructors. In the group are: Top
row (left to right): Instructor Greer. Sam White, William Carey
Hunch, Jr„ Benjamin Askew and George Willoughby. Bottom row :
Rodney Harrell. Kmmett Wiggins and Richard Dixon. Jr. Malcolm
McGregor of the Air Station and Peter Carlton, field executive of
Boy Scouts, were also members of the class hut were not present
when the picture was taken.
RALPH PARRISH ELECTED PRESIDENT OF{
CHOWAN TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION
Organization Completed
At Meeting Held Last
Thursday Night
READY TO WORK
Frank Webster of State
Association Speaker
For Occasion
\t a meeting held in the Court
louse Thursday night a slate of of
fers and directors was presented
• >r the Chowan County Tuberculosis
Association, so that the organization
As now ready and empowered to
function in the fight against the,
disease. The new association, with
more people connected with it, should
be able to do more effective Work
than has been the case heretofore
when only a few ladies were ap
parently interested and whose ac
tivities were limited due to lack of
help and the only financial assistance:
being the revenue coming from the
sale of Christmas Seals,
W. J. Taylor, temporary chair
man of the association since the
first move to effect an organization,
opened the meeting, and after
stating the purpose, briefly re
hearsed what had previously been
done to form the association.
Mr. Taylor then called upon J.
Edwin Bufflap, chairman of the nom
inating committee, to present the
slate as selected by the committee.
The slate as announced;was as fol
lows:
President—Ralph Parrish.
Vice President—W. J. Taylor.
Secretary—Jesse Harrell.
Treasurer—Mrs. R. C. Holland. J
Seal Sale Chairman—Mrs. J. A.j
Moore.
These officers, together with Ced- j
des Potter, J. G. Perry and Rodney I
Harrell, will compose the executive,
committee of the association.
Mr. Bufflap also presented the j
recommendations for directors of the.
association who will serve for terms'
of three, two and one year, so that
every year when new directors arc'
elected there will remain a group
who will be acquainted with the work |
of the association.
Those selected for three-year,
terms are Geddes Potter, J. G. Perry,'
Rodney Harrell, Mrs. J. A. Moore,
the Rev. Arthur Stephenson, Mrs..
T. L. Ward, George Wood, Jr., the
Rev. W. C. Francis and J. Edwin
Bulllap.
Those serving for two years arej
Philip McMullan, ’ Mrs. W. H. Saun-.
ders, Z. T. Evans, M. A. Hughes, the'
Rev. D. C. Craw'ford, W. J. Taylor, I
Ralph Parrish, Asa Griffin, Jesse Har-j
rell and L. S. Byrum.
Those who will serve one year
terms are W. P. Jones, L. H. Has
kett, Dr. Maritn Wisely, Miss Re
becca Colwell, Mrs. R. C. Holland.
Oscar Duncan, Gilmer Johnson,
Charles P. Wales, Jr., and Mrs. M.
F. Bond, Jr.
After the slate was presented a
motion was made by W. W. Byrum
and seconded by R. C. Holland that
the report be accepted, after which
Mr. Taylor called upon the perman
ent chairman to preside.
In assuming the presidency, Mr.
Parrish expressed his appreciation
for the honor and promised to do the
best he can in this sort of work
which is new to him. He asked for
the cooperation of the officers and
directors in the hope of “progressing
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY N G sta*
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IOBERT LEE HUMBER
Announcement was made by
Mr. Humher Thursday of last
week that he would be a candi
i date for Congress from the First I
District.
OancfT In Armory
Friday, March 22
Music* Will Be Furnish-!
ed By Bill Barnes and i
His Orchestra
| A dance will be held in the Eden- j
ton armory Friday night, March 22,
With music to be furnished by Bill!
'Barnes and his orchestra. The or-!
• chestra features Max Johnson and j
:, Jimmie Cocktell.
j Tlfe affair is sponsored by the
• High School Athletic Association in
• an effort to raise funds for the or-!
;! ganization. Dancing will start at 9;
: o’clock and continue until 1 o’clock,!
: and it is the hope of Coach Tex Lind-
i 1 say and his co-workers that a large
•1 crowd will be on hand to enjoy
j dancing or listening to the music.
Tickets are already on sale and by
,'purchasing in advance a saving will
,; be realized.
Red Cross Home Service
i Office Closed 10 Days
• j Due to the fact that Miss Eliza
■ beth Moore, Red Cross Home Ser
• I vice Chairman, together with her;
, I mother, Mrs. J. A. Moore, and sister,
| Miss Mary Moore, left Tuesday for j
I a 10-day visit in New York, the
• Moore home will be closed for that
■ period. Miss Elizabeth Moore’s of
■ jfice is located in the home, so that
, I any Red Cross Service needs cannot
, 1 be attended to as usual.
.! However, in case of emergency,!
i this service will be rendered by Mrs.;
1 1 J. N. Pruden, County Red Cross j
i i Chairman, whose telephone number J
;i is 80. Any person needing advice i
t j should contact Mrs. Pruden during ;
■ the absence of Miss Moore.
J RELEASED FROM ARMY
1 1 Sgt. Walter H. Bond, son of Mrs.
• E. W. Bond, is now at home in Eden
; ton after being discharged from the
■ Army. Sgt. Bond was last stationed
1 at Self Ridge Field, Michigan, where
j,he was a member of Company C of
ithe 728th M. P. battalion.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 21,1946,
Robert Lee Humber
Now Making Bid Fori
Seat In U.S. Congress'
Greenville Man Makes
Announcement of His
f Candidacy Thursday
| COVERING DISTRICT
Leader In World Feder
ation to Prevent Fu
ture Wars
Robert Lee Humber, a native of)
Greenville, on Thursday of last week !
| announced his candidacy for Con-:
: gross from the First District of
.North Carolina, the seat now held by
l Herbert Bonner. For several weeks'
.Mr. Humber lias been visiting allj
I over "the district in an effort to feel;
j out sentiment and in many conimuu-1
It ins Ire : has been urged to run ami,
I has been promised support.
The welfare aiid problems of the.
' farmer have been a subject of special i
I concern to Mr. Humber, who has;
frequently made speeches emphasiz-j
ing the necessity of stabilizing the!
income of farmers and of keeping!
their revenue on a par with indus-!
trial changes. “Farm income,” he!
I> says, “must be sustained on a high j
level if the prosperity of this nation
is to continue, or else half of the'
■ population of this country will cease'
to be customers and the industrial'
fabric of the nation will crumble.”
IHe has repeatedly stressed the,
; enormous potentialities embedded in
! the soil and climate of Eastern North
! Carolina which have scarcely been,
j touched or developed. “Through the,
i maintenance of a just equilibrium
| between farm and industrial income, 1
the diversification of agriculture and
i the establishment of more small
businesses, the growth of North
; Carolina can be made more secure,";
j he said. i
In 1940 Mr. Humber became vital-;
'ly concerned in an idea of his to;
, prevent wars, and single-handed be
gan a movement for the establish
j meat of a World Federation which
1 seeks to establish law as the means
jof maintaining w orld order by pun- |
| ishing an individual or group of in-;
] dividuals who commit international;
crime instead of the present method
of fighting nations and destroying
through war the innocent as well as!
the guilty. The movement has!
I spread through the. nation, and, fol-1
| lowed by North Carolina, 21 other
states have either endorsed or read
ied favorably to the plan. He has
appeared before over half of the
Legislatures of this country, many
'of which he addressed in joint ses-.
| 1 sions, which has won for him a ua- •
'j lion-wide circle of friends and col-:
- laborators.
Mr. Humber was born in Green-.-
' ville May 2(1, 1898. After attending,
the .public schools of Greenville, he
l was graduated from Wintervillo.
(High School,; completing his high
school course in two years, and en
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Interest Increasing
Fast At CPO Club:
L
• Special Invitation Ex
| tended to Veterans
And Friends
, i
Interest is increasing lately in so-i
’ cial affairs at the Chief Petty Os- j
I ficers’ Club at the Edenton Naval Air;
Station, and on each successive occa-;
sion the crowds have been becoming
i larger.
Chief Petty Officer C. L. Saxton is
' manager of the club and is keenly in-j
- terested in all who attend having a 1
- good time, and due largely to his hos-,
-jpitality and concern of those visiting
, the club, interest has increased so!
r j that the chiefs as well as civilians
i look forward to each succeeding af
t fair at the club.
Chief Saxton extends an invitation,
t to civilians to attend the club’s par-j
t ties and especially veterans and their!
j friends to visit the club at any time.
.■Anyone who desires to visit the club!
. j should call Chief Saxton in order to
>; arrange to pass the gate to the base.
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; Six White Men Take
Pre-Induction Exam
Six Chowan County young men
left Edenton Monday morning for
. Fort Bragg, where they underwent
-a pre-induction physical examination.
? In the group were Ellie Daniel
1 Byrum, Jr., Horace Parks, Lester
s Gurney Byrum, James Decosta Peele,
f Murray Mansfield (Buddy) follow
ell and Melvin Hollowell Evans.
I Graduates As Nurse j
MISS CAROLYN OGLESBY
Ai ceremonies in Hurd audi- 1
toriuni. Johns Hopkins Hospital, j
Baltimore, on February 18, Miss J
; Carolyn Oglesby graduated as a |
I j nurse. She is the daughter of j
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Oglesby.
Weldon A. Hollowell
Seeking Prosecuting
Attorney’s Position
i Second Candidate to
Announce For May
Primary Election
Another candidate threw his hat in
, the ring for the May primary- elec
tion, when Weldon A. Hollowell on
. Tuesday announced that he would be
a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney
l for Recorder’s Court, the office now
j held by J. N. Pruden.
I Mr. Hollowell recently lias been
''discharged from the U. S. Army, and
since has started practice of law in
Kdenton. The son of Mr. and Mrs.
I!. 11. Holloweli, he graduated from
’ Wake Forest in 1942 and immediate
!ly thereafter enlisted in the Army,
j He was overseas 18 months, much of
which time was spent in the South
! i Pacific.
Mr. Hollowell is the second to an
’ j nounce candidacy for office, the: first
: j being A. S. Hollowell; who will he a
'candidate for County Commissioner
in the First Township.
Chowan Board Os
Elections Renamed
, Filing - Applications Are
In Hands of L. C.
Burton
Members of the Chowan County
i Board of Elections were reappointed
at a meeting of the State Board of
1 Elections held Saturday in Raleigh.
Chowan's members are Lloyd C.
Burton, Philip McMullan, Democrats,
'and George W. Leary, the Republi
| can member.
! Mr. Burton, chairman of the
1 Board, has received the forms for
I candidates to file for office, which
I must be done before the deadline at
lif o’clock Saturday evening, April 18.
I Various county boards have been
| instructed to hold an organization
| meeting next Saturday in order to
| begin work of setting up machinery
j for absentee voting of men and wo
j men in the armed forces,
Thus far only two candidates have
expressed their intention of seeking
1 office, one being A. S. Hollowell, who
j announced last week that he will be
; a candidate for County Commissioner
jin the First Township. The other
j candidate is Weldon A. Hollowell,
‘ who on Tuesday of this week an
i nounced that he would be a candidate
for Prosecuting Attorney for Re
corder’s Court.
Misses Mary Berryman
And Charlotte Bunch
! Winners In Sword Drill
Misses Mary Berryman and Char
lotte Bunch were first and second
place winners in the Sword Drill
, held at the Baptist Church Sunday
evening during the Training Union
• general assembly hour. These girls
; will represent the Edenton church in
. the Regional Sword Drill to be held
1 at the Blackwell Memorial Baptist
• Church in Elizabeth City in April.
, Winners at the Regional Conven
• tion will enter the state drill to be
held at Ridgecrest in June.
I Nine Petitions Presented To
Town Council Requesting
Paving Os Edenton Streets
|| Getting Close j
J. Clarence Leary, chairman of
Chowan County’s Red Cross Fund
Raising Campaign, reported on
Wednesday morning that 'contri
butions had reached 82.17.'). w hich
is 8.825 short of the 82,500
quota.
The report is still incomplete.
; and Mr. Leary was optimistic of
reaching the goal by the end of
this week. He urges all can
| vassers to make their reports
as soon as possible and citizens
■ who have not yet made a con
tribution to do so at once.
Mrs. Gladysteen Pait
I Gets Scholarship At
[ Geo. Peabody College
| Local Health Nurse Will
Register at Nashville
On March 25th
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, Mrs. Gladysteen IT. Pait. local i
public health nurse, has been inform- j
ed by the U. S,; Public Health Ser
vice through the X. C. State Board
of Health of a scholarship to George
Peabody College for Teachers, Nash
ville, Tenn. She will register at the
College March 25, for the spring
v quarter.
Mrs. Pait attended the same.school
ion scholarship for 9 months in 1941.
, . At the close of the spring quarter,
June 7. she will receive a certificate
, in Public Health Nursing, from the
[’ school’s Nursing Education Divi
sion.
Miss Lillian Harrell from \tli#
- Bertie-* ’howan-Gates District Health
Department, will relieve Mrs. Pait,
Miss Harrell, Captain in the Army
Nursing Corps, was recently in the.
j K. T. O. for several months.-
20 Scouts Taking
Swimming Lessons
| Glass at Base Pool Now
Being Instructed By
George Willoughby
George Willoughby, who recently
j completed the Red Cross water safe
ty course, this week began a swim-;
, 1 ming school at the Edenton Naval
I Air Station swimming pool for the
j. benefit of Edenton boys. The class
started Monday and the course will
require 15 hours for instruction un
‘ der Mr. Willoughby and two: hours
’ for the final examinations.
Mr. Willoughby was very well
pleased with the first class Monday
' and said the boys were making j
i splendid progress.
Twenty Boy Scouts compose the
class, including the following: John,
' Harney, Jimmie Earnhardt, Bobbj
Jordan, Ernest White, Hector Lup
) i ton, Jr., Paul Cayton, Buddy Crum
,l they, Frank Hughes, Frank Williams,
Billy Bond, Polk Williams, Jr., Gene
| Ward, John Ward, Malcolm Eason,
J.Tom Frank Wright, Philip McMul
' lan, Clifford Overman, Charles Over
’ man, Milton Flynn and Mack Privott.
r County Treasurer Not
r Elected In Primary
An error appeared in a story ap- j
pearing in The Herald last week in
connection with the forthcoming;
May primary election. Among the j
list of offices to be voted upon, the;
I County Treasurer was mentioned,
I which was an error. The County
. Treasurer’s term has been changed
I to a four-year term, so that George
C. Hoskins’ term will not expire un
til 1948, he having been elected in 1
1.1944.
1 The Herald regrets the error and;
y hastens to make this correction.
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s ATTEND MASONIC MEETING I
n j
i H. A. Campen and Richard Baer
t attended the annual banquet of Ske
warkee Lodge, No. 90, A. F. & A. M.,
i- held in Williamston Tuesday night,
e Wade Marr of Elizabeth City was
the principal speaker for the occasion.
$1.50 Per Year.
Ordinance Stops Park
ing On East Church
Street
LONG MEETING
Many Merchants Pres
ent to Discuss Traffic
Problems
One of the largest delegations of
Kdenton merchants ever to appear
! before Town Council was on hand at
last week’s meeting of the City Path
. ers, having attended the meeting at
; till' request of Mayor Leroy Haskett
in the interest of the parking and
; traffic problem. Mayor Haskett brief
ly rehearsed conditions and what has
been done in way of a solution and
requested suggestions . or comment
: from the merchants themselves what
they thought would be a remedy for
| present conditions. Quite a few of
! the merchants took part in the discus
i sion, which for the most part had to
j do with the fin-second double parking
! rule, as well as crowded conditions in
j the business section, especially oti
' Saturdays.
Arguments were advanced against
l the t>o-second double parking rule and
, quite a few suggestions were present
jed as to What were thought to be
! ways’ Os relieving, if not solving, the
situation. These suggestions, ranged
all the way from clerks arid merch
ants using too many parking spaces
to purchasing land for alleyways
-. back of all - business houses. Quite a
• few merchants expressed their wil
• lingness to enter into such negotia
tion*.-' The suggestion was Ynade that
, only one parking space be allowed
I each merchant, that a parking lot
.! should he provided and reserving
, loading zones to be used by all mor
• chants, Considerable time was de
■ Voted to the discussion, but . other
than hearing ideas of the merchants,
>vho arc directly affected by custom
i ers finding parking places, no definite
i action was taken.
Another important matter consiri
■ ored was the Town taking over Bear
■ er Hill .Cemetery as a gift from, the
! Beaver Hill Cemetery Corporation
and th»> Beaver Hill Cemetery Asso
ciation. The offer was made by R. C.
Holland, who represented both or
ganizations, and stated the only con
■ dition being that, the Town properly
maintain the cemetery.
Mayor Haskett read several letters
from neighboring towns which main- ;
tain cemeteries and after some con
: sideration, the Councilmen unani
j.miiusly agreed to accept the gift
when the deed was delivered. It is
expected that the town will take over
the cemetery April 1. The tract con
tains about 12 acres of land.
If plans go through, W. M. Wii
! kins was appointed custodian of the
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Tots And Teen Shop
Newest Enterprise
Mrs. W. J. Daniels and
Miss Inez Felton
Owners
Another new Edenton enterprise is
expected to be ready for business
next week when the Tots and Teens
Store will begin operating in the
store next to the Police Station, un
til recently occupied by Joe Habit.
The owners of the new store arc
Mrs. YV. Jim Daniels and Miss Inez
Felton, who will deal in ready-to
wear for infants and children up to
the teen age.
The store room is being remodeled
and already the two ladies have con
! j tacted northern markets so that mer
! chandise is gradually arriving and be
,| ing stored until the building is ready
for occupancy.
Lions Club Enjoys Film
Treating With Forestry
Featuring the Lions Club meeting
‘Monday night was a sound picture
shown by Coach Tex Lindsay which
|; w-as very enlightening to those who
(Witnessed it. The picture had to do
'with preventing forest fires and the
1 proper method of cutting pulpwood
j which, if followed, not only brings
: j in revenue for owners of timberland,
-1 but also allows proper growth of
, I other trees, thus adding to the value.
. i Next week’s program promises to
?|be very interesting, being in charge
. I of M. A. Hughes.