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Contribute to The Boy Scout Fund! Volume XV.—Number 33. Scout Contributions Now Only One-third Os Quota For County George Twiddy Reports S4OO Collected Up to Tuesday George Twiddy, chairman of the West Albemarle District, reported Tuesday that the Boy Scout drive is sadly lacking in. that only about S4OO has been reported of Chowan County’s quota of $1,200. Although the report was incomplete, Mr. Twiddy express ed some concern for the ultimate success of the drive, for the reports lacking included only Rocky Hock and several of the lady solicitors in Edenton. Mr. Twiddy emphasized the im portance of raising the quota, for the amount is absolutely necessary if the Chowan County troup of Boy Scouts are to maintain membership in the Tidewater Council. Due to the apparent lack of success in the drive, Mr. Twiddy stated that the campaign will be continued in the hope that $1,200 will \>e raised. He urges all solicitors to report to him , as soon as possible any contributions they may have in hand, and to chpck over their territory to see that no one is missed. Baptist Junior BID In Charge Os Church Service Ji Sunday Young People Plan In teresting Program at Night Service On Sunday night, August 15, the Junior Training Union will have charge of the church service at the Baptist Church. The ttiembersL<of this union will take part in an interesting , and appropriate program including f items of special music. Members of the Intermediate Training Union will sing in the choir and the Junior boys will usher and receive the offering. Included in the program will be a demonstration of the Junior Memory Work Tournament by Estelle Stall ings who has just recently returned from the State-wide tournament at the Baptist Assembly Grounds near Carolina Beach, known as the Sea side Assembly. In this tournament she was one of the four state-wide winners with a perfect record and this demonstration will be quite in spiring. These young Training Union mem bers will provide the entire order of service Sunday night under the direc tion of the Junior B. T. U. leader, Miss Mildred Munden and the spon t sor of the Union, Mrs. R. N. Carroll. The public is invited to attend and observe the talents of these youthful workers. i Mrs. E. L. Ballenger And Two Sons Leave For Trip To Guam Mrs. E. L. Ballenger, the former Miss Dorothy Moore, and two sons, Biff and Bill, of Norfolk, left Tues ! day morning by plane for San Fran cisco, from where they will board a Navy plane for a 9,000-mile trip to Guam on the Mariana Islands, where Mr. Ballanger is stationed as Chief Boat Master in the U. S. Navy. The Ballengers are former Eden tonians, but have befen living in Nor folk for the past five years, Mr. Bal lenger leaving Norfolk in March for a two-year tour of duty on Guam. Mrs. Ballenger and two sons were very much excited over their forth ► coming trip and the prospect of liv | ing at least two years in the Pacific islands, where a home iB already ready for them overlooking the ocean, together with servants. Since leaving Edenton Mrs. Ballen ger has taken up a career of writing, which she will continue in far-away ft Guam. A poet, who has confined her work/ mostly to juvenile verses and 1 contributed to 12 magazines, she has || arranged to write a series of articles K for “Our a naval magazine published in Brooklyn, N*Y. Educa- P tion, religion and clubs are Subjects she has chosen already. PH On the way to Guam, the Ballen r gers will make stops at Pearl Harbor, It- Johnston Island and Kwajalein. , ' i ■ i MRS/ JONES IN HOSPITAL fc. Friends will regret to learn that It Mrs. H. B. Jones is a patient in j §T Chowan Hospital. -'She was admitted | Sunday and latest reports are to the ! efFect that her condition is encourag- THE CHOWAN HERALD Old St. Paul’s Reveals Its Secrets « / By PETER CARLTON A great deal of excitement has been 1 caused and a great deal of interest aroused as the floor of the historic St. Paul’s Episcopal Church has been re moved to make way for restoration as I well as for research purposes. This is the first time in 138 years that any attempt has been made to delve into the secrets contained in and about the ancient shrine, which is the first incorporated church in the State of North Carolina. Under the expert guidance and su pervision of J. Everette Fauber, ar chitect and archaeologist, the church is being completely dismantled, and the plaster from the walls, the floor ing and every part of the interior is 1 in the process of being carefully re moved for restoration and research. The vestry of St. Paul’s Church, beaded up by J. H. Conger, has re tained Mr. Fauber as director of re search and architect. His experience in this work includes work on the Wil liamsburg project under John D. Rockefeller, Jr., restoration of the in terior of the old Presbyterian Church at Fincastle, Virginia, and a present engagement in similar work on the York-Hampton Church at Yorktown, , Va. C. B. Mooney, local Edenton con tractor, experienced in church con struction work, is handling this end of the activity. P & Q Food Center Plans To Open For Business On Tuesday Most Modern Independ ent Grocery Ever Op erated In Edenton Edenton’s newest store, the P & Q Food Center, expects to open its doors for business on the northeast corner of Broad and King Streets next Tuesday morning, August 17, at 8 o’clock. The new concern is a partnership composed' of HaywJoa Phthisic and Henry G. Quinn. Mr. Phthisic has been in the grocery and meat business for 12 years, operating a store on the Edenton-Hertford high way, a short distance from the Eden ton city limits. Mr. Quinn has been connected with chain grocery stores for 11 years and has been manager of the Edenton Colonial store for about two years. He is a veteran of World War II and served with the Army in the European theatre. The store, formerly occupied by the A & P Tea Company, has been completely Tenovated and has modern equipment in every respect. It will be a self-service store, with a full line of groceries, vegetables, western and native meats and seafoods. It will be the most modern independent store ever operated in Edenton, so that both members of the partner ship invite their friends to visit the store. Board Public Works Adopts New Policy No Adjustment Will Be Made Hereafter For Water Registered Faced with many requests to ad just water bills, the Edenton Board' of Public Works has adopted a policy which will be strictly adhered to in the future. < Hereafter the Board announces that it will not be responsible for any leakage or wastage on the customer’s premises. It is felt that any leakage on the customer’s side of the meter i% a responsibility of the water user, so that customers will be billed for the amount of water registered on meters with no adjustment allowed. If any consumer of water feels that the water bill is excessive, a check should be made to determine if there is a leak between the water meter and the outlets. Dr. George Crawford Has Rotary Program Dr. George Crawford will be in charge of the program at the Ro i tary meeting today (Thursday) at 1 o'clock in the Parish House. Dr. Crawford will present a variety en , tertainment entitled “Things Are Not What They Seem”, which will be of interest to every Rotarian. ■ Every member of the club is urged ; to be present by President J. E. i Wdod. At last week’s meeting Philip Mc * Mullan presented a very Interesting local angle of the Edenton Cotton Mill. _ Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 12,1948. An intensive search for document ary evidence is on in conjunction with the work. Agents of the director of research are making searches in the archives of the Society for the Pro pagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, located in England. St. Paul’s in Edenton was a mission field of the Church of England under the juris diction of the Bishop of London. Agents are also studying files in Ful ham Palace, home of the Bishop of London and in Lambeth Palace, the official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The archaeological and exploration work on the colonial relic has been quietly in progress since May. Very , careful steps are being taken so as , not to mutilate any single object. As yet no formal reports have been made • to the vestry members, but Mr. Fau ber states that considerable has been learned about the interior arrange- ■ ments and appointments (furnishings, pulpit, pews, altar) prior to 1775. The present interior of the structure was begun around 1810. Exploratory trenches are being made in salient places. Every bit of dirt is being screened for artifacts and relics. Two coins have been found, one dating back to 1782. Four graves with : marble markers looking as though they were laid but a few years ago, were uncovered. Various unmarked nz CITIZENS OF TOMORROW ! | Above appears the final in stallment of The Herald’s aCTM - *. series of youngsters' pictures - *s • ML. Ufc * who will he the citizens of to- aß* JEssl. morrow. Pictures here are. .* *. 0 ' y '• V ‘tr J 3Jfc left, Kathryn Wozelka, j daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. i§ f H. Wozelka. and Betty White, -- ,■ 11 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. *’ t B. White. | Another Try For Jids On Chowan ' School Addition Frank Benton Author ized to Again Adver tise For Prices The Chowan County Board of Edu cation at its monthly meeting last week devoted a portion of the time to reviewing a new sketch of the pro posed physical education and garage building at Chowan High School. A former plan was rejected due to bids being what was considered too high, so that the Board instructed Frank Benton, - Wilson architect, to make new plans and specifications on a less elaborate scale. Mr. Benton was instructed to ad vertise for bids on the new proposal. Superintendent • W. J. Taylor was authorized by the Board to purchase chair* for the lunch rooms at the Rocky Hock and Chowan High Schools. Midshipman Burton Jones Now Cruising On USS Princeton Midshipman Burton Hathaway Jones, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Jones, 112 Blount Street, is par ticipating in the two-month Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Cruise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton. Young Jones reported aboard the carrier in San Francisco, Cal., and departed for the Hawaiian Islands ,on June 26. During the week spent en route to the islands and for ten ad ditional days the midshipmen under went intensive training. True Hawaiian hospitality was ex tended the visitors when Hawaiian bands and hula girls greeted the ship with “Alohas” and entertainment in port. Parties,, dances and fours of the islands were conducted to provide a welcome break for the future re serve officers. After departing from Pearl Har bor, the Princeton was to proceed to San Diego, Cal., to participate in am phibious operations and training ex ercises. The midshipmen are sched uled to return to San Francisco on August 21st, and then to the colleges and universities from which they came. MASONS MEET TONIGHT Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M., will meet tonight (Thursday) at 8 o’clock- No meeting materializ ed last week due to the baseball game, so that all members are urged |to attend the meeting tonight. graves were also uncovered, one un der the altar. It is the opinion of the Rev. Harold W. Gilmer, rector of the church, that it holds the remains of some high church personage, prob ably that of Parson Earl, the first rector of the church and who figured so much in the history of Chowan and historic Edenton. His home, Bandon Plantation, is presently owned by Mrs. Ingfis Fletcher, writer of his torical novels on Edenton and the Al bemarle. But whether or not the re mains in the unmarked grave in the apse (semicircular portion of the church) are those of Parson Earl, re mains for research to determine. No one has done more to make this church. Parson Earl and many of the personages living in Edenton in the colonial days appear living and vital as did Chowan’s Inglis Fletcher, author of “Men of the Albemarle,” “Lusty Winds For Carolina,” “Ra leigh’s Eden” and “Toil of the Brave.” Her new book will appear in October ] entitled “Roanoke Hundred.” Her t books, based on former inhabitants of i Edenton, weave a romantic story of ] the days when Edenton was the proud ] mistress of the Albemarle and the ] home of the royal governors. Com ing back to the church edifice, the present structure was begun in 1736 and finished in 1774, the year of the ( (Continued on Page Eight) Rapond C. LeHew 1$ New Manager Os Local Colonial Store Number Improvements Contemplated In Store Raymond C. LeHew arrived in Edenton Saturday to assume manage ment of the Edenton Colonial store, succeeding Henry G. Quinn, who re signed to enter business for himself. Mr. LeHew was transferred from Richmond and has been employed by the Colonial Stores for a period of 11 years. Mr. LeHew is a veteran of World War 11, having served in the Army 4!4 years, two of which were spent in the European theater as a member of an Armored Division. He is married, with no children, and is seeking an apartment or small house. According to the new manager a third checker will be added to the local store in order to relieve conges tion and a number of improvements will also be made to the interior of, l the store to make it more convenient for customers. Estelle Stallings Wins State Contest Is Youngest Contestant Ever Competing From Edenton Church Estelle Stallings, daughter of Mrs. Willie West and a member of the Edenton Baptist Junior Training Union, was declared a perfect record winner in the State Junior Memory Work Tournament held at the state Baptist Assembly Grounds near Caro lina Beach on August 4. Estelle was one of four winners with a perfect record and she is the sixth contest ant from Edentin to enter the con test in recent years under the direc tion of Miss Mildred Munden, Junior B. T. U. leader. At the age of ten years she is the youngest contestant to ever go out from the Edenton Training Union and this adds to the remarkability of her achievement. In order to qualify for the state tournament, Estelle won fn the Associational Elimination Tournament at Elizabeth City and at the Regional Tournament held in Edenton during the annual regional convention of the Training Unions of the Chowan and West Chowan As sociations. She is the'granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Chappell of Hertford. Edenton’s Tax Rate Set At $1.50 For Hext Fiscal Year In Long Meeting Tuesday Colonials Leading Albemarle League Three Full Games Local Team Wins Five Os Seven Games Dur ing Week STANDING OF THE CLUBS W. ' L. Pet. Edenton 39 23 .629 Colerain 35 25 .583 Windsor 30 31 .492 Hertford 29 31 .483 Plymouth 27 32 .458 Elizabeth City 22 40 .355 Winning five of the seven games played during the week, the Edenton Colonials maintained the lead in the Albemarle League, standing out in front of Colerain by three full games as per Wednesday of this week. Dur ing the week the Colonials defeated Colerain twice, Elizabeth City once, Windsor once and split in two games played with Plymouth. The Colonials’ percentage is .629 with 39 games won and 23 lost thus far in the season. Edenton 12, Plymouth 6 In Plymouth Tuesday night the Colonials reaped revenge for a defeat , the previous night in Edenton. The Colonials collected 12 hits off Demp sey and Andrews to win 12-6. The Colonials scored in every inning ex cept the first, fourth and ninth, with Manager Parker hitting a home run in the second. Plymouth got next to Herman, on the mound for Edenton, in the second inning, when four runs were register ed,, two of which were home runs. He was relieved by Wade, who held the i Rams to three hits for the remainder i of the route. Edenton 3, Plymouth 7 On Hicks Field Monday night the Colonials dropped a game to the Plymouth Rams by a 7-3 count. It was a case of too much Ted Miller, former Windsor pitcher who is now playing with Plymouth. The veteran i moundsman allowed the Colonials . only eight hits, which were so well scattered that they never caused any . serious threat, and at the same time, to help his own cause, Miller hit a i home run with a runner on base, as well as a double scoring another run • ner. The visitors scored first in the I third when Ferrell singled and scored on Walker’s single. In the fourth , Ellis walked and romped home on . Miller’s double. Two runs were made i in the fifth when Livick walked and ; Holliday slammed out a home run. In the eighth two more runs were added when Ellis singled and Miller , hit a circuit clout. Another run was chalked up in the ninth when Holliday doubled -hnd scored on a single by ■ Ellis. Th6 Colonials were held scoreless until the eighth when Stalls was safe on an error. Murphy singled and Russell Wheeler slammed out a neat double, scoring Stalls and Murphy. Another run was scored in the ninth when Joe Wheeler doubled and scor -1 ed on Parker’s grounder. , Monk Webb went the entire route on the mound for Edenton, and was touched for 11 hits. Ferrell, Walker, ; Miller, Holliday and Ellis made two hits each for the visitors. For the Colonials Webb and Murphy led at bat with two hits each. (Continued on Page Two) Richard D. Dixon i Plans To Open Law Offices In Edenton ' Former Judge Will Be Located at 114 West King Street l : Friends will be interested to learn ■ that Richard Dillard Dixon plans to t open law offices in Edenton, which i will be located at 114 West King l Street. i Mr. Dixon was for many years 1 clerk of Chowan Superior Court, and i is a former Judge of the Superior : Court of North Carolina. He re • cently returned from Germany, where ’ he was a judge of the War Crimes Tribunals at Nuernberg. Contribute to The Boy Scout I "TSulffer Year. Leasing or Selling Town Lot Now Under Con sideration BUSY "SESSION Police Headquarters to Be Moved to Former Power Plant Faced with many matters, includ ing consideration of the 1948-49 budget, Town Councllmen were held in session until almost 1 o’clock Wed nesday morning. The proposed budget was present ed by the Finance Committee, com posed of J. Clarence Leary and J. P. Partin, and after each item was tak en up separately, the budget was ap proved with practically no changes. The rate for the year will be $1.50 per SIOO property valuation, the same rate as last year. Except in a few cases, the budget calls for pretty much the same expenditures as last year, with the total'amount of an ticipated expenditures totaling SBB,- 181.53. Based on anticipated revenue of $24,550 aside from the tax levy, $63,- 000 must be raised by taxation. With the city’s property valuation being $4,200,000, a levy of $1.50 is neces sary to raise the amount needed. For administrative purposes the budget allows $5,295. The Police De partment calls for $15,127.50, the Street Department $39,137.92, which includes a new trash truck and pav ing Johnson Street. The Fire De partment is allowed $8,465.20, ceme tery $1,720.56, parks and playgrounds $3,000, Health Department SI,OOO and other expenses $14,436.35. West Byruin and J. H. Conger, representing the Country Club, re quested the Town to provide Build ing No. 60 at the base free for oc cupancy of Billy Biggs, golf pro. No action was taken. The colored Legion Post was given the frame home on town property on Freemason Street, which will be mov ed and used as Legion headquarters. During the meeting a petition was presented signed by 24 residents on West Albemarle Street in the vicinity of the cemetery asking for the ex tension of a water main. Agreement was made to furnish the town suit able right of way for location of the main and to pay connection charges when a bill is presented. The Council men authorized the Board of Public Works to install the water main. The matter of either leasing or selling the Town lot on the north west corner of Broad and Water Streets was considered, and J. Clar ence Leary and J. Edwin Bufflap were appointed to investigate the ad visability of either leasing or selling and to report back as to the amount to he realized in each case. Mrs. John Kramer appeared in be half of the playground appropriation, which was reduced from S3OO to $l5O. Peter Carlton requested an appro priation of SIOO which was to be in way of payment for service as public relations officer and to be applied toward the purchase price of a camera. The request was denied. A letter was presented from David E. Hervey in which he requested schedule 7 instead of schedule 6 for electricity used at the base. Mr. Hervey stated that he is overcharged, which violates both the spirit and letter of the agreement arrived at in Federal Court in Elizabeth City, so that all electric bills have been paid under protest. Town attorney J. N. Pruden ruled that there is no violation of any agreement in that several schedules of electric rates are now in effect for individual and commercial consumers, the same varying with the amount of electricity consumed. A copy of Mr. Pruden’s ruling was sent to Mr. Hervey. In considering the budget, provis ion was made for changing police headquarters from East King Street to the northern end of the Town plant on South Broad Street. This move will save the Town present rent paid for headquarters and it was the consensus of opinion that the Broad Street location will be more appro priate for police headquarters. I KERR SCOTT EXPECTED TO ATTEND LEGION MEETING Kermit Layton, commander of Ed i Bond Post of the American Legion, I informed The Herald Wednesday • morning that he expects Kerr Scott, • recently elected Governor, to attend s the meeting of the local post next I Tuesday night, when he will install new officers.
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