Volume XIV. —Number 15.
17 Candidates Now Entered
In Race For Town Offices
Primary Election May 6
Five More Announce
Candidacy during
Past Week
FIVE CONTESTS
All Incumbents Finally
Decide to Seek Return
To Office
With fiv; more announcing their
candidacy for office in the Town Dem
ocratic Primary election May (i, there
are now 17 candidates in the field for
10 offices to be filled. Those who have
announced they will be candidates
since the last issue of The Herald
are J. i*. I artin, Graham Byrum, W.
M. Wilkin-, David Holton and W. H.
Gardner.
All of the incumbents are now
seeking r '-election, and at the time
The Herai-i went to press five con
tests have developed. These are for
Mayor, *“th Mayor Leroy Haskett
apd former Mayor J. L. Wiggins as
candidates.
The contest for First Ward Council
man involves J. Clarence Leary, in
cumbent, and Frank Holmes. It is
Mr. Holmes' first hid for public of
fice. In the Third Ward J. I’. Partin,
incumbent, is opposed by George
Twiddy, while in the Fourth Ward
W. M. Wilkins, incumbent, has Clyde
Hallowell as an opponent. Both
Twiddy and Hollowell are seeking
public office for the first time.
For the two offices of Councilman
at-large there afe four candidates.
The latest to announce for this office
is David Holton, who was elected in
1941 and defeated in the 1943 elec
tion. The other candidates are W. J.
Yates and .i. Edwin Bufflap. incum
bents. and Ld Habit.
Graham Byrum has no opposition
Councilman in the Second Ward,
1 ' is the case with W. H. Gardner
r treasurer and the three members
of the Board of Public Works, J. H
Conger, Geddes Potter and O. B.
Ferry.
Barter theatre Will
Present “State Os
Hie Union” April 23
Appearing Under Spon
sorship of Junior
Woman’s Club
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Sponsored by the Edenton Junior
Woman’s Club, the world famous
Barter Theatre of Virginia will pre
sent the 1946 Pulitzer prize play,
“State of the Union,” in the Edenton
High School auditorium Wednesday
night, April 23, at 8:30 o’clock. Per
mission to present the play has been
granted by Howard Lindsay and Rus
sell Crouse, who won the Pulitzer
prize.
The political satire, which ranks
with “Life With Father” as one of the
finest comedies of the contemporary
theatre, was produced by Leland Hay
ward and opened in New York No
vember 14, 1945. The setting is
Washington and New York, and the
play satirizes political bosses, lobby
ists, isolation publishers and bigots.
“State of the Union” presents situa
tions familiar to those who have fol
lowed the political panorama during
the last decade or two, and calls big
wigs by their names. In capsule, it
tells of the airplane manufacturer
who is groomed for the presidency by
political bosses, falls for the lures of
a woman publisher, but is won back
to the people by his faithful wife.
The Barter Theatre, first state
theatre in America, is a far cry from
the depression inspired experiment
that Robert Porterfield, founder and
director, launched with a hope and a
string bean at Abingdon in 1933.
That was the year Porterfield led
22 hungry and unemployed fellow ac
'rs from the inhospitable sidewalks
Broadway to the warm hills of his
tive Virginia highlands. They
4>ened in the old Abingdon municipal
auditorium, popularly called “The OF
Opera House” (built in 1830) the
night of June 10 to a full house and
a box office that resembled the cor
ner green grocery. Thus was born
the first playhouse to function on the
produce exchange basis.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
a mourn umwmfapk x devoted to tmb imtemeetm of cmowam coumtx
Barter Pig
Here Robert Porterfield, found
er and director • of the Barter
Theater of Virginia, is shown
with the original “Barter Pig”,
turned in at the box office in Ab
ingdon for a season ticket in
1933. All royalty hams have
come from descendants of this
pig. The Barter Theater presents
“State of the Union” in the Eden
ton school auditorium April 23rd.
The play is sponsored by the
Junior Woman’s Club.
LH. S Senior Play
Is Scheduled To Be
Presented April 18
Ten Members of Class
Casted In “Ready
Made Family”
Friday night of next week, April
18, the Senior Class of Edenton High
School will present its annual play,
“Ready Made Family”, a three-act
farce-comedy, beginning at 8 o’clock.
The play centers around the theme of
a widow and a widower who marry,
only to find that they are getting
themselves "ready made families”.
The antics performed by the members
of these families to prevent the mar
riage and the surprise twist at the
end promise laughs from beginning
to end.
This class is the same one which
presented another farce-comedy,
“Here Comes Charlie”, which was
very well received last year. B. F.
Askew, of the high school faculty,
who did a very praise-worthy job of
directing last year, is again guiding
the students as director. Joyce Moore
has been chosen as student director
and prompter. Senior class officials
who have seen rehearsals thus far
predict that this year’s play will be
as big a hit as was the one last year.
The cast of four men and six wo
men represents the best acting talent
of the Senior Class. Those casted
are: Beverly Moore, as a handsome
widow of 40; Davey Lee Ward, as a
good-looking boy of 20; Nelle Perry,
playing a pretty young girl of 18;
Charlotte Bunch, in the role of a child
of 11, of the “Little lodine” type;
Ruth Goodwin, acting the part of a
dowdy-looking old maid of 50; Mar
ian Alexander, portraying a vivacious
girl of 17; Rodney Harrell, as a good
looking 19-year-old boy; Juanita
Harrell, as a typical Negro cook;
Melvin Ashley, as a Negro handy
man; and Erie Coffield, in the role
of a business man-widower of 45.
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| Suit |
In connection with the Town of
Edenton’s suit against the Hervey
Foundation, the latter, in connec
tion with its answer, has institut
ed a counter suit in which dam
ages in the amount of SIOO,OOO
are listed.
The Foundation claims it wsa
wrongfully charged in the Town’s
complaint relative to breach of
contract and that because of the
suit and appointment of a receiv
er its credit has been endangered
and that loss from profits have
resulted.
Business damage is. listed at
$75,000 while lost profits are list- *
ed at $25,000 and continued dam
age of SIO,OOO a month as a re
sult of the litigation.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 10,1947.
Student Council Club Women Os 16th
Congress Meets In District Will Convene
Edenton On Friday In Edenton Thursday
i
Theme of Meeting “The Mrs. Harriet Pressly of}
Outlook of Youth’s Raleigh Principal
Future” Speaker
GOOD PROGRAM ALL DAyIsESSION
Miss Charlotte Bunch Is Meet at School House
President of Eastern With Lunch Served
District At Armory
On Friday of this week the eighth j Today (Thursday) the Sixteenth
annual meeting of the Eastern Dis-I District Federation of Hogne Demon
trict of the North Carolina Student stration Clubs will meet in Edenton
Council Congress will be held at the when State officers arid representa-
Edenton High School. The theme of tives from eight northeastern couli
the meeting will be “The Outlook of ! ties ale expected to attend. Counties
k outh’s Future.” lin the district include Camden, Oho-.
. Registration of delegates will be wan, Currituck. Dare, Gatos, Hert
in progress from 9to 11 o'clock in j ford, Pasquotank and Perquimans. j
the morning, with the first genera! The meeting will begin at 10:30:
business session scheduled to begin this morning in the high school audi-'l
at II o’clock. Miss Charlotte Bunch torium. with Mrs. 0. S. Fairless, j
is president of the organization and chairman of the Sixteenth, District,
will preside over tHe meeting, i The presiding. Singing of “O Worship!
devotional will be in charge of Davey the King” will open the meeting, fol- j
Lee Ward. lowed by invocation by the Rev. H. F. i
A welcome to Edenton High School Surratt. Welcome addresses will be
will be delivered by Joseph Privott, delivered by Mrs. W. A. Harrell,
vice president of the Edenton Student President of the Chowan Federation
body, while John A. Holmes will also of Home Demonstration Clubs, and
deliver an addresfc of welcome to the Mayor Leroy Haskett. The response ,
visitors. ‘ will be made by Mrs. T. C. Perry,!
The principal address for the President of the Perquimans Feder- j
morning session will be made by J. ation of Home Demonstration Clubs.
G. McCracken, superintendent of Greetings will then be brought by
Elizabeth City schools. Mrs - p . Gregory, vice president of
Following Mr. McCracken’s ad- the State Federation of Home Dem
dress, Miss Bunch will recognize of- onstraiion Clubs; Miss Verna Stanton,
fleers, the roll will be called by assistant State Home Agent, and
Martha Winslow of Goldsboro, sec- Mrs - Green, president of the
retary, who will also read the minutes Sixteenth Federation Women’s Clubs,
of the seventh anuual Student Coun- ext a s °l° will be given by Mrs. i
cil Congress. Frank Elliott, followed by roll calk
Items of business to be considered and minutes and the report of the (
include tha appointment of standing treasurer. Mrs. C. A. Perry. The
committees by Miss Bunch, nerniin- Iri-dup xvill then sing “Hail Club Wo-!
ation of candidates for offices and an- men, Crowned Through Service”. Re
nouncements. This session is sched- (Continued on Page Eleven)
uled to end at 12:30, and at 12:45 a
luncheon for official delegates and ad- PM O flnLolOf'C lA/lfl
visors will be served in the school Lf|.W« UuUdlCI 0 If II
] ibr«iry.
The second general session will
convene at 2 o'clock, which will open I U I IIhT I .imTP\T
with campaign speeches. The dele-1 I * HHIgUIUI • UUIIIUOI
gates will then adjourn to discussion j _____
groups where topics in keeping with A n „H IQ
the theme “The Outlook of Youth’s jGO 10 GreeilV llle April lO
Future” will be presented. Leonard: To CoiTipctC For Dis-
Fulghum of Goldsboro High School j . . , TT
and Joe Taylor of the Grainger High i XFICI HOIIOrS
School at Kinston will lead the dis- :
cussions. Edenton High School’s debating
j Following this phase of the pro- team won both sides in the triangular
(gram Erie Cofield, treasurer, will debate held Wednesday of last week
(present his report, committees will when the affirmative debaters won
| report and election of officers take out over the Elizabeth City negative
‘place. Final announcements and rec- team in Hertford and the Edenton
( ognition of new officers will follow negative debaters in Elizabeth City
with the meeting scheduled to adjourn were declared winners over the Hert
at 5 o’clock. ford affirmative team.
Friday night, a dance for the dele- Edenton's affirmative debaters were
gates will be staged at the armory. Marian Alexander and Harold Webb,
Music will be furnished by aii or- while upholding the negative side
chestra from East Carolina Teachers were Su.-an Thigpen and Peggy
College. White. The query debated was, “Re-
President Bunch, Mrs. John Mor- solved, That the Federal Government
gan, faculty advisor to the Council, Should Provide a Complete System
and the Councillors are looking for- of Compulsory Medical Care to Citi
ward to a successful Congress, offer- zens.”
ing much information which will en- By reason of winning both sides
able many high schools to more es- of the debate, the Edenton debaters
ficiently exercise student self-govern- 1 will go to Greenville Friday of next
ment. week to compete for district honors.
Student Council
Congress Meets In
Edenton On Friday
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Theme of Meeting “The
Outlook of Youth’s
Future”
GOOD PROGRAM
Miss Charlotte Bunch Is
President of Eastern
District
On Friday of this week the eighth
annual meeting of the Eastern Dis
trict of the North Carolina Student
Council Congress will be held at the
Edenton High School. The theme of
the meeting will be “The Outlook of
Youth’s Future,”
. Registration of delegates will be
in progress from 9 to 11 o'clock in
the morning, with the first general
business session scheduled to begin
at II o'clock. Miss Charlotte Bunch
is president of the organization and
will preside over tHe meeting.' The
devotional will be in charge of Davey
Lee Ward.
A welcome to Edenton High School
will be delivered by Joseph Privott,
vice president of the Edenton Student
body, while John A. Holmes will also
deliver an address of welcome to the
visitors.
The principal address for the
morning session will be made by J.
G. McCracken, superintendent of
Elizabeth City schools.
Following Mr. McCracken’s ad
dress, Miss Bunch will recognize of
ficers, the roll will be called by
Martha Winslow of Goldsboro, sec
retary, who will also read the minutes
of the seventh anuual Student Coun
cil Congress.
Items of business to be considered
include the appointment of standing
committees by Miss Bunch, nomin
ation of candidates for offices and an
nouncements. This session is sched
uled to end at 12:30, and at 12:45
luncheon for official delegates and ad
visors will be served in the school
library.
The second general session will
convene at 2 o’clock, which will open
with campaign speeches. The dele
gates will then adjourn to discussion
groups where topics in keeping with
the theme “The Outlook of Youth’s
Future” will be presented. Leonard
Fulghum of Goldsboro High School
and Joe Taylor of the Grainger High
School at Kinston will lead the dis
cussions.
I Following this phase of the pro
gram Erie Cofield, treasurer, will
(present his report, committees will
; report and election of officers take
1 place. Final announcements and rec
ognition of new officers will follow
with the meeting scheduled to adjourn
at 5 o’clock.
Friday night, a dance for the dele
gates will be staged at the armory.
Music will be furnished by ah or
chestra from East Carolina Teachers
College.
President Bunch, Mrs. John Mor
gan, faculty advisor to the Council,
and the Councillors are looking for
ward to a successful Congress, offer
ing much information which will en
able many high schools to more ef
ficiently exercise student self-govern
ment.
ENLISTMENT IN EDENTON CANNON UNIT
OF NATIONAL GUARD Wtl BEGIN FRIDAY
NIGHT IN ARMORY: FULL STRENGTH IS 101
Annual Payroll Is Estimated at Approximately
$20,000; Wm. P. Jones Commanding Os ficer
And Jesse Harrell First Lieutenant
Cannon Company, 119th Infantry,
Third Division of'the National Guard
has been designated for Edenton by
Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts
ak of April 1, and a recruiting period
will begin in the Edenton armory
Friday night at 8 o’clock. *
William P. (Spec) Jones has been
named Captain and commanding of
ficer of the outfit, and Jesse Harrell
first lieutenant. In order to be rec
ognized by the Federal Government,
the company must have two officers
and 30 men, though the full strength
of the company is 101 men, made up
as follows:
One captain and commanding of
ficer, two first lieutenants, two second
lieutenants, one first sergeant, three
technical sergeants, four staff ser
geants, 10 sergeants, 16 corporals, 11
technicians fourth grade, 11 techni
cians fifth grade, 29 privates first
class and 11 privates.
The age limit is from 18 to 55 and
any qualified enlisted man is eligible
for the three remaining commissions
of lieutenant.
Organization of the company means
an approximate payroll in Edenton
of $20,000 annually. The pay scale
for members for each drill night
is as follows:
First Sergeant ——— $5.50
Technical Sergeant 4.50
Staff Sergeant —— 3.38
Suck Sergeant _ —>—- 3-33
Corporal . __-3.00
Technician Fourth Grade 3.33
Technician Fifth Grade 3.00
Private First Class ——— 2.67
Private ---
The company will be a part of the
30th (Old Hickory Division) which
broke the Hindenburg Line in the
First World War and played an im
portant role in the last war. It will
be under the command of Major Gen
eral John Hall Manning of Raleigh.
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lAbT* ty
Town Council t/iricially
Calls Election For Edenton
Officials Tuesday, May 6th
1 Note, Parents!_|
Parents of white and colored
children from six months to six
years are asked to bring them to
the Health Department on the
second floor of the I’ank of Eden
ton or take them to a private
physician to he vaccinated for
diphtheria, smallpox, whooping
cough or typhoid fever.
Hours for‘administering these
vaccinations in the Health De
partment are Fridays from 9 \.
M. to noon and Saturdays froni
9 A. M. to 12 o’clock noon.
Mrs. Nathan usil
1 Names Chairmen
In Cancer Drive
Chowan County’s Goal
Is Set at $800; Great
Need For Funds
•
Mrs. Nathan Dail, chairman in
Chowan County for the Cancer Drive,
this week announced the various
chairmen who will have charge of
the canvass for funds. The drive
will be held the week of April 14-19,
.during which a goal of SBOO for the
county has been set.
Those named by Mrs. Dail to have
charge of the canvass are as follows:
Mill Village—Clarence Cates.
Rural Section—Miss Rebecca Col
i well.
! North Edenton- —Mrs. William
| White.
Colored Section—Prof. D. F. Walk
|e'r.
( The town proper, Morris and Pem
broke Circles, industries and business
(houses will be solicited by members
j of the Junior Woman’s Club, sponsors
(of Chowan’s drive.
| “Inescapable is the fact that 184,-
(300 Americans will die of cancer in
1 1947,” says Mrs. Dail. “That is 520
j every day or one every three minutes.
‘Tragic as those figures are, it is
even more appalling to know that on
the basis of today’s knowledge, 30
to 50 per cent of cancer’s victims
might be saved through early rec
ognition and prompt treatment. This
year 55,000 Americans—some of them
probably residents of Chowan County
—need not have died had they been
aroused to the danger signals of can
cer that give first warning.”
Mrs. Dail calls attention to the
fact that money contributed helps
finance research to find the cause of
cancer, thus developing new hope
for thousands and helps pay for
equipment that some day may save
many lives.
“During April, the American Can
cer Society must raise at least $12,-
000,000 to continue the multi-million
dollar research program which has
already been instituted for the pur
pose of finding the cause and cure of
cancer,” says Mrs. Dail. “We dare
not delay or halt this work when
American lives are at stake.”
A&PChangesTo
Self Service Store
Closed Three Days In
Order to Make Neces
sary Alterations
After being closed since Saturday,
the local A & P store reopened its
doors this (Thursday) morning prac
tically a new store. The establish
ment was closed in order to make the
necessary changes to operate a Self-
Service store, by which customers
can wait on themselves, go to the
•fcashie? and leave without the neces
sity of waiting for a clerk to attend
to their wants.
. The entire interior of the store
has been renovated and redecorated
for the purpose, with merchandise at
tractively and conveniently displayed,
properly priced, so that the customer
.knows the price of each item pur
chased.
For this opening of the new Self-
Service plan the A & P has a full
line of merchandise, some of which
is listed in an advertisement appear
ing on page ten of this issue of The
Herald.'
$1.50 Per
I Registrars and Judges
Os Election Named
To Serve
POLLING PLACES
Registration Books Will
Be Open 20 Days Be
fore Election
Town Council Tuesday night offi
cially called a Town election for Tues
day, May 6, and subsequently set up
' machinery for carrying it out. In the
(election the following will be elected:
Mayor, treasurer, three members of
the Board of Public Works, two coun
cilmon-at-large and one councilman
| from each of the four wards.
The following registrars and judges
)of election were appointed by the
|(Councilmen from the respective
1 wards:
First Ward—J. J. Long, registrar;
| H. T. Miller and W. A. Everett,
1 judges of election. Voting place, the
Municipal Building.
Second Ward—O. C. Davis, regis
trar; G. E. Cullipher and C. T. Dough
tie, judges of election. Voting place,
1 Court House.
' Third Ward—L. S. Byrum, regis
-3 trar; Sidney Campen and W. H.
f I Parrish, judges of election. Voting
e | place, W. H. Parrish’s store.
’! Fourth Ward—Paul Holoman, reg
istrar; R. L. Ward and Thurston
| Stallings, judges of election.
? 1 Registrars are required to keep the
• j registration books open for the reg
-1 istration of voters at some convenient
‘ place’2o days prior to the election.
At Tuesday night's meeting the
'[Councilmen emphasized the fact that
(to vote in the Town election, it is ne
‘ cessary to be registered on the Town
(books. There are some voters who
"(are registered on the county books
s and are of the opinion that this en
-3 titles them to vote in a city election.
s There are two separate sets of books,
so that to vote on May 6 a citizen
must be registered on the book in
1 either of the four wards.
1 Town Clerk R. E. Leary on Wed
• nesday morning notified the regis
-3 trars of their appointment and all
1 have agreed to serve.
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\ Rev. Lee Sheppard
; Listed As Speaker
For Training Union
. j
‘ | Convention Opens April
18 In Aulander Bap
tist Church
, Among the outstanding speakers on
, the program of the annual Regional
Training Union Convention in Au
r lander, April 18-19, is the Rev. Lee
, Sheppard, pastor of Pullen Memorial
, Baptist Church in Raleigh. Mr.
Sheppard will preach the annual con
vention sermon during the Saturday
morning session. His subject will be
i“The Book’s Message—Go Ye." Mr.
(Sheppard is very popular with the
Training Union fortes of the State
and is very active in promoting such
work among the Baptist youth. He
has been pastor of I*ullen Memorial
Church for quite a few years and this
[ church would be considered that of
the Baptists attending N. C. State
College. For this reason he is inti
mate with the problems and outlook
of college students and other youth
of the State. This well qualifies him
’ to bring the annual sermon to the
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i [Hospital Booster!
1 ( One of the most enthusiastic
boosters for the Chowan Coun
ty Hospital is I. E. Halsey, who
I was a patient seven days while
undergoing an operation for ap
, pendicitis recently. Mr. Halsey
is high in praise of his treat
ment, saying he cannot begin to
say what he would like to say in
behalf of his treatment on the
I part of Dr. Frank Wood and the
l entire staff.
Mr. Halsey says he could not
» have fared better in every respect
in any hospital anywhere.