Lets Have
A Band!
Volume XIV.—-Number 44.
Parking Meter Opposition
Growing In Edenton; Some
Merchants Claim Big Loss
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Matter Will Be Brought
Before Town Council
For Airing
COUNCILMEN CALM
Official Family Will No
Doubt Hear Both Sides
Before Taking Action
That there is an apparent growing
dislike for Edenton’s parking meters
is evident by the fact that informa
tion has reached The Herald to the
effect that Town Council will be re
quested, either by a petition or dele
gation, to have the meters removed.
Use of the parking meters went into
effect October 15 and while violators
have been for the most part only
warned, Mayor Leroy Haskett stated
early this, week that as of Monday,
November 3, the .police will be more
strict in carrying out the parking or
dinance, which requires payment f&r
parking at the rate of one penny for
12 minutes.
Reaction to the meters has been
varied, for there are some merchants
and rural people who resent the use
of the meters, while on the other
hand other merchants and out-of-town
people welcome the system.
So strong has been the opposition
in some instances that it was sug
gested a special meeting of Town
Council be called in order to consider
the matter at once. In one or two in
stances merchants have reported that
this past Saturday marked the first
week in their recollection that their
bank deposit did not include phecks
from Bertie County, as well as Wash
ington and Tyrrell counties. It was
alsa stated that business has dropped
td a great extent stnct tha
were installed.
Another complaint registered is,
that with far fewer cars parked in
the business section since the meters
were installed, the effect is detrimen
tal to business as well as the travel
ing public. The argument is advanced
that the more cars in evidence, the
more people will want to stop and
trade.
Just what action Town Council will
take in the matter, The Herald does
not know. , The meters were installed
in an effort to relieve a crowded park
ing situation which many times has
resulted in requests for a remedy, and
in the belief that it would he bene
ficial to merchants, as well as those
who come to Edenton to trade. The
meters, according to the contract, are
on an 8-months trial, so that before
Town Council takes any action, it is
presumed that the Councilmen wall
want to hear from those who favor
the meters, as well as those who op
pose them.
$6,000 Goal Now In
Sight For Edenton
High School Band
"Thermometer” at Bank
Registers $4,200 Tues
day Night
Reflecting the determination of
Edenton Parent-Teacher Association
members to secure a band at the
Edenton school, the large ther
mometer in front of the Bank of
Edenton Tuesday night registered
$4,200, which is only SI,BOO short of
the $6,00(1 goal.
Canvassers are still at work mak
ing contacts in an effort to secure <
contributions, and due to the fact that ■
some promises have been made and :
some prospective contributors have
not yet been contacted, those in ‘
charge of the drive feel confident that :
the goal will be realised.
Mrs. John F. White and Mrs. Earl i
Goodwin, co-chairmen of the drive,
are appreciative for the support thus <
far given the drive and urge various :
organizations and individuals who i
have not yet contributed to do so at ;
once in order to terminate the cam
paign. “The PTA is depending upon i
the support of all townspeople,” said
' lbs. White, "they must not let us
down in this very important under
r taking which is now so near realisa
tion and which will so greatly benefit
our .town.”
In event anyone who will make a
contribution has not been solicited,
THE CHOWAN HERAIfI
[_ Boat Races _J
One of the feature attractions
for the Legion Armistice Bay
celebration on November 11 will
be boat races. Commercial and
speed boats will compete in the
races, and any one who desires
to place an entry is requested to
contact either Willis McClenney
or Emmett Wiggins at once.
Edenton Aces Meet
New Bern Bears On
Local Field Friday
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Two Schools on Even
Terms In Series of
Games Played
Edentoh’s Aces are scheduled to
meet the New Bern Bears on Hicks
Field Friday night at 8 o’clock in
what is expected to be a hard-fought
game. The Aces will exert every ef
fort to win in order to break the tie
of games won and lost. To date they
have won three, and lost three. ’At
the same time the Aces will try to
break a tie so far as games won and
lost from New Bern is concerned.
Thus far the Aces and New Bern
have met on the gridiron four times
and each has won and lost one game,
with the record books showing two
tie games.
, The first meeting of 4ha_two schools
was in 1934, when the Aces’ Class
B Championship team palyed the
semi-final game with New Bern in
Rocky Mount. The Aces won 7-0 in
a hard-fought game. In 1939 the
game resulted in a 0-0 tie and again
in 1940 the two teams played a 6-6
tie game. In 1941, the last time the
two teams met, New Bern gave the
Aces the worst licking of the season
by a 28-0 score.
Little is known of the strength of
New Bern, though the Bears were
the Conference champions last year.
Coaches Tex Lindsay and Nick
George are, therefore, expecting a
rugged team to invade Hicks Field
Friday night and are drilling the
boys in every department of the
game in order to be prepared for a
tough opponent. The Aces are im
proving with each game, so that
football fans can expect a thrilling
battle. All of the boys are in top
shape for the game and plan to try
their best to add another victory to
their list.
Members Os Legion
Start Ball Rolling For
Memorial Home Fund
Over $5,000 Pledged at
Pep Meeting Tuesday
Night
With the starting gun primed to be
fired Monday morning, November 3,
officially opening the county-wide
drive for funds to build the Edward
G. Bond Post American Legion Mem
orial Home, over 100 Legionnaires of
Chowan County responded to a called
“Build or Bust” pep meeting Tues
day night at which a considerable
amount of fried chicken was con
sumed by those present.
Kermit Layton, chairman of the
“Build or Bust” Committee, gave a
resume, of the progress made by the
various committees in their work to
insure Chowan of having an appro
priate and interesting November 11
celebration. The events scheduled
for the day are for the most part as
sured at this date. Next week’s
paper will announce speakers, bands
and other activities,, as well as an up
to-the-minute schedule for the day’s
events.
The one hundred or so Legion
naires started their own fund raising
drive by pledging over $5,000 towaid
the $36,000 goal set as necessary to
erect a Legion Memorial Home in
memory of Chowan’s war dead.
'When it is considered that the ma
young men who have ae yet made no
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fcdenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 30,1947!
| PLAYS IN EDENTON NOVEMBER 5 |
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SOLVEIG LUNDE
Appearing in the first of Edenton’s series of community con
’ certs is Solveig Lunde, gifted young American pianist, who will pre
sent a concert in the high school auditorium next Wednesday night,
November 5. The concert will begin at 8:30 with admission limited
to holders of Community Concert Association membership cards.
VFW Now Seeking
Members For Post
Local Organization Now
Handling All Vet
erans’ Affairs
Members of William E. Coffield, Jr.,
Post No. 9280, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, are now endeavoring to se
cure more members in order to be of
more service to veterans. An active
group of veterans have joined the
Post, but with so many more eligible <
members in the County, it is the -
hope that the membership will be
more than doubled.
The local Post is now handling all
veteran affairs, taking the place of
the recent Veterans Administration
office in Edenton. Ed Parker is ser
vice officer, to whom any veteran
should apply for dental work, hos
pitalization, educational benefits, pen
-1 sions, disability claims and the many
other benefits to which veterans are
entitled.
JOINS EASTERN STAR
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Mrs. Peter Carlton on Monday
night became a member of the East
ern Star, woman’s branch of the
Masonic fraternity, being initiated by
the Perquimans Lodge. Mrs. Carlton
I was agreeably surprised when she
I was presented a combination of
Masonic and Eastern Star jewels.
|| ONE VOTE AGAINST CLOCK STIHKMGj;
Nell Battle Lewis Comments Upon Edenton’s His
, torical Significance In Her News and Ob
server Column "Incidentally”
Nell Battle Lewis, prominent writer
for the News and Observer, in her
column, “Incidentally,” last Sunday!
registered her dislike for the clock on
top of the Court House striking off
the hours during the night. In her
column she also refers to Edenton’s
past and by her permission .that por
tion of her column pertaining to
Edenton follows:
On a calm, pellucid October day
like the one on which I recently saw
it, there is no sweeter spot in North
Carolina than the green at Edenton,
with big maples and elms on two
sides of it, and with the lovely red
brick Georgian colonial court house at
one end and the bay, a sparkling blue
whpn I was there, at the other. To
me, there’s something quite special
about Eastern North Carolina, any
way. Maybe this is due just to imag
ination or sentiment or some such
valueless thing, but when I get down
there among the pocosihe and the
two-wheeled carts and the affability,
I feel peculiarly and most pleasantly
at home.
"This is, indeed, sweet!” I said to
myself on Edenton’s green, taking a
picture of the placid spot, like any
tourist. But one thing man it. “Pro
gress” seems determined not to let
well enough alone either in the Cap
itol Square in Raleigh or on Eden
ton’s court house grew. Mpfctng *
big St. Andrew’s cross through the
grass of the green are coaent^Mte.
Scheduled Nov. 1
Exhibition and Sale Will
Be Held In Edenton
Armory
The 4-H poultry show and 3ale will
be held next Saturday, November 1,
at the Edenton armory. Judging will
begin at 1 o’clock and the sale will
begin promptly at 2 o’clock.
Offered in this sale will be 120 out
standing "New Hampshire pullets rais
ed by ten 4-H Club members. Each
of these ten club members were giv
en 100 U. S. certified high producing
R.O.P. pullet chicks by the sponsor,
Home Feed & Fertilizer Company.
Each Club member is to bring in 12
of his best pullets for the show and
sale. The sponsor is donating prizes
for the* show. The pullets will he
placed in pens of 12 each and will be
sold at public auction to the highest
bidder.
Persons interested in obtaining
some high quality pullets for home
egg production, or for commercial
egg production, or for hatchery egg
production should avail themselves of
the opportunity to purchase good
birds at this sale, according to Robert
Marsh, assistant County Agent. The
proceeds from the birds sold will go
into a fund to purchase chicks for 10
or more club members next year.
• “Aren’t they awful!” said Miss Sophie
■ Wood, whom I’d had the good luck to
meet. “They certainly are!” I agreed,
[ thinking how much more in keeping
: with the charming simplicity of the
place walks of white sand would be.
Still in my role of tourist, I- read
the verse on the shaft on top of
which, with his back to the bay,
stands one of those Confederate sol- ■
diers who bear such a striking re- ’
semblance to their comrades on monu
ments in thousands of Southern
towns:
“Gashed with honorable scars,
Low in glory’s lap they lie; 1
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendour through the
sky.”
War’s “glory” . . . Well, there
wasn’t much “glory” about Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, was there?
How many of our public monu
ments are connected in one way or '
another with war! And the three old
cannon pointing out across the bay
at the foot of the green recall two—
! the Revolution and the fratricidal
struggle of the ’6o’s. Those guns
! were bought in France for Governor
Caswell and brought to Edenton in
; 1778 on a boat named “The Holy
Heart of Jesus.” (Quite a combina
! tion —“The Holy Heart of Jesus” awl
instruments of carnage!) In 1862 the
Yankees spiked them and Broke off
’ remounted^ 0118 In 1928 t*y were
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First Os Series Community
Concerts Scheduled To Be
Held At School November 5
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[Have You Given?]
With just a few more shoves,
the “thermometer” at the Bank
of Edenton will register $6,000,
which amount insures a band for
Edenton. If a large group of
people give a small amount, the
goal will be reached.
Have you contributed to this
very worthy cause? If not, send
a contribution at once to the
treasurer, H. A. Campen.
Coach Tex Lindsay
Releases Statement
Concerning Initiation!
Burning of Gene Spruill
Termed An Innocent
Accident
During a Monogram Club initiation
Tuesday night of last week, Gene
Spruill, a member of the Edenton j
High School football team, was burn-'
ed, necessitating confinement in the!
Chowan Hospital. The incident has
caused no little comment and criti
cism, so that Coach Tex Lindsay sent
the following letter to The Herald in
explanation of the incident:
“Last Tuesday night a very unfor
tunate accident occurred at the an
nual initiation of the Monogram Club,
when Gene Spruill, a member to be
initiated, suffered a burn which was
ah innocent accident.
“All members of the Monogram
Club were hurt to the core, and have
done everything possible to correct
the situation.
“Gene and his family have been
very considerate about the whole af
fair. They know and realize that it
was an accident and have not had half
as much to say about it as many of
the people who did not have any con
nection at all with the incident.
“As reports have come in I, as
coach, have been given a big part of
the blame. However, no coach or fac
ulty member is supposed to be pres
ent at any initiation. I did not know
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Treat In Store For
Edenton Youngsters
At Playground Friday
Hallowe’en Party Plan
ned Which Will Start
At 7 O’clock
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j Edenton’s • youngsters have a real
j treat in store as the result of a Hal
! lowe’en party which is scheduled to
be held on the community playground
at Hicks Field Friday night. The
party is sponsored by the Junior Wo
man’s Club and will be “engineered”
by H. A. Campen, a past master at
such affairs.
Plans have been completed for the
party which will surely delight the
children and will be a source of plea
sure to grown-ups as well. Included
in the entertainment will be a Mar
rinette show, fish pond, fortune tell
ers, talking witch, music and other
features. Pop corn, peanuts and
candy will also be distributed among
the boys and girls.
A parade will be held on the play
ground with all of those in costume
expected to participate. Prizes will
be awarded to the one dressed in the
best costume, and another .prize going
for the most comical outfit. Judges
to be appointed will decide the win
ners.
The playground will be lighted and
decorated in keeping with the spirit
of Hallowe’en. Mrs. Rupert Goodwin,
chairman of the committee in charge
of the party, urges all children to be
on time to participate in the grand
march, which will begin at 7 o’clock.
All in all, the affair is planned to
entertain the children of the com
munity in a rather unique way, and
it is hoped many will be <Jn hand to
participate and enjoy the evening.
Grown-ups, too, are cordially invited
to come out to the playground to
watch the youngsters have a good
time.
M|e Your
Contribution!
$1.50 Per Year.
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Solveig- Lunde, Talented
Pianist, First Artist
To Appear
STARTS~AT 8:30
Admission Is Limited to
Holders of Member
ship Cards
Solveig Lunde, referred to as “the
most musical of the brilliant young
artists of our day,” will present the
first of a series of three concerts
sponsored by the Edenton Community
Concert Association in the high school
auditorium Wednesday night, Novem
ber 5, beginning at 8:30 o’clock.
| Miss Lunde was born in California
i of a Norwegian father and mother of
French-English extraction. She is
) one of three children. At 15 she
studied through the entire violin-pi
ano literature with her father, an ex
cellent non-professional violinist, and
played chamber music with his string
quartet.
When her formal academic educa
tion was completed, Solveig’s profes
sional music studies began. She
studied with Harold Logan in Berke
ley and remained his pupil until 1940,
I when she was awarded a fellowship
|at the Juilliard Graduate School to
study with Madame Olgo Samaroff-
Stokowski.
The concert pianist who made her
debut recital at New York’s Town
Hall in December, 1944, and whose
appearances include radio and recital
engagements from coast-to-coast, has
also been guest soloist with the
Chautauqua Symphony, the Scranton
Philharmonic and the Rhode Island
Philharmonic.
In reviewing Miss Lunde’s perform
ance at the Berkshire Music Festival,
one critic found her refreshingly at
tractive enough to warrant extra-mu
sical comment: “Miss Lunde makes
a beautiful and statuesque appear
ance. Her long titian hair surmounts
a tall, erect and well poised figure.
The last gram of unhurried poise is
still to be admired in her general
grasp of her music.”
Reflecting her unpretentious tastes
in all things, Miss Lunde dresses
simply and generally prefers to wear
suits. Her favorite colors for her
clothes are green and brown, although
she professes to like red but qualifies
“only on other people” . . . probably
in deference to her own radiant hair
color.
25th Anniversary Os
' Demonstration Clubs
Very Delightful Event
Mrs. R. H. Hollowell Is
Outstanding Member
For Past 25 Years
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| Home Demonstration clubs of Cho
. wan County observed their 25th an
. niversary with a deljghtful banquet
1 Thursday evening, October 23, in the
American Legion Hut.
Guests and friends were welcomed
. in the reception room by Mr. and
. Mrs. R. T. Harrell, where delicious
punch was served by Mrs. Lindsay
I Evans and Miss Jessie Byrum. While
. members and guests were registering
. Miss Susan Thigpen played several
• selections on the piano. Mr. and
Mrs. J. Cameron Boyce and Mrs. B.
• W. Evans invited everyone in the
dining room and a delicious dinner
was served by the American Legion
> Auxiliary.
[ A very interesting program was
( arranged for the evening with Mrs.
• Percy Smith as toastmistress. C. W.
i Overman led the group singing and
. the invocation was given by the Rev.
Frank Cale of Culpepper, Va. The
I County Council president, Mrs. W. A.
: Harrell, gave the welcome address
> and the Rev. J. T. By rum responded.
. Sam Bundy of Farmville, N. C., was
; the principal speaker for the occa-
I sion, delighting his audience with
I many humorous jokes. More serious
ly, Mr. Bundy spoke on “Relation
. ships,” as pertaining to husband and
1 wife, parent and child, teacher and
> child and parent and teacher. His
address was very much enjoyed and
1 added much to the success of the oc
j caaion. He was introduced by the
| Rev. W. C. Francis.
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