Volume XTfSfumber 27. Overs,oooExpected At Farm Home W eek In Raleigh Aug. 8-12 Chowan Farm Men and Women Urged to At tend Sessions FINE PROGRAM Bob Hawk, Radio Quiz master Scheduled to Participate More than 5,000 Tar Heel farmers and homemakers ate expected to gath er on the State College campus in Raleigh early next month for what promisee to be the most outstanding Farm and Home Week program ever held in North Carolina, John W. Good man, assistant director of the State College Extension Service, said this week. The four-day annual event, not held last year because of a polio epi demic, will begin with registration on Monday, August 8, and continue until Thursday night, August 11, when Bob Hawk, national radio show quiz master, will (preside over a grand finale contest during which more than $5,000 worth of farm machinery and equipment will be given away. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, author of the much-discuss ed Brannan farm program, will head line a list of notable speakers for the occasion. He will address a joint ses sion of men and women on Tuesday night. Other featured speakers will be Governor Scott, himself a farmer and former county agent; Rep. Harold D. Cooley of Nashville, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee; Mrs. Camille McGhee Kelly of Memphis, Tenn., one of the best-known juvenile court judges in the nation; and Mrs. Raymond Sayre, President of Associ ated County Women of the World. Congressman Cooley .will speak on proposed national farm legislation and «then participate W * rqund-table ussion on the same'subject with Dr. J. H. Hilton, dean of the State College School of Agriculture; L. Y. Ballentine, State agriculture com missioner; R. Flake Shaw, executive secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau; Harry B. Caldwell, master of the State Grange; G. T. Scott, State director of Production and Marketing Administration) E. B. Garrett, State soil conservationist; and Dr. I. 0. Schaub, director of the State College Extension Service. In addition to the outstanding speakers there will be excellent dem onstrations and meetings of interest to men and women. These will include the latest information on Farm and Home practices, and equipment. The entertainment each night will of special interest to the hundreds of rural men and women attending Farm and Home Week. There will be talent contests each night which any farm group or individual may enter. Some suggestions would be choruses, solos, musical instruments, recita tions, tricks and stunts. The grand finale will be held on Thursday night with final contests, (Continued on Page Seven) Richard H. Goodwin Leaves For Scotland Local Man Expects to Be Abroad From 18 To 36 Months Richard H. Goodwin left Wednesday morning for New York, from where he will take a plane for Scotland, ex pecting to arrive there Friday night. He rs connected with the M. W. Kel logg Company and only recently re-, turned from Kansas City, where he has been located about a year and a half. Mr. Goodwin expects to be located in Scotland from a year and a half to three years. Mrs. Goodwin and eon will go to Scotland a little later on and while there the Goodwins will live in Grangemouth, Sterlingflhire. MAYOR RETURNS Mayor and Mrs. Leroy H. Haskett returned home Sunday night after a 2V» weeks vacation spent in Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio and Illinois. Mr. and 'Mrs- Haskett spent much of the time as guests of Mr. Haskett’s bro ther and sister-in-jaw, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Haskett in Rochester, Indiana. Both Mr. and Mrs. Haskett report their trip ais one of the ipokt delightful vacations they have ever had. THE CHOWAN HERALD on «.c.Hlo««,rs * - -» 1 Killed July 1 through July 4 13 Injured July 1 through July 4 173 Killed through July 4 this year 369 Killed through July 4, 1948 323 Injured through July 4 this year 4,202 Injured through July 4, 1948 3,477 From midnight Friday through mid night Monday, 12 persons were killed ; in highway accidents and 163 were in jured, the Highway Patrol reported. Vegetable Growers Decide To Improve Handling Os Crops Committee Appointed to Make Study of Im proved Methods At least a small group of vegetable growers in Chowan County have reached the conclusion that they can greatly improve their methods of harvesting, grading, packaging and marketing their vegetables. L. L. Johnston, Extension Marketing Speci , alist, spending Friday afternoon at the vegetable auction market ob serving the quality of vegetables brought in, making a study of the selling price as compared with the quality. For example, two lots of unwashed and bruised squash sold for 75c and 90c per bushel basket re spectively, while one lot of washed and carefully handled squash sold for $1.55 pgr basket. Beans and some other according' ’as to quality. As the result of a recent meeting of vegetable growers a Commuter has been appointed to make a careful study of improved methods of pre paring produce for market, parti cularly cantaloupes, and outlined a demonstration plan in coopreation with the county agent to be tried this season. This committee consists of Carey Evans, Lloyd Bunch, W. A. Harrell, T. S. Leary and Clarence , Bunch. L. C. Bunch and Edgar Pearce were selected as a Committee to investigate types of containers, source of supply and prices of containers. On Thurs day, Bunch and Pearce, accompanied by County Agent Overman, visited the Riverside Manufacturing Co. at Mur freesboro and also Vernon Ramsey of Suffolk, getting information on types of containers and prices. Several growers have agreed to cooperate in trying the packaging of 1 cantaloupes and shipping in crates with an attractive label as compared with the old bulk method of handling cantaloupes this season. Commissioners Grant Jurors Higher Pay According to action taken by the 1 County Commissioners at their meet ing Wednesday morning, jurors in I Chowan County will receive a boost in I i pay. Th9 pay for jurors in both Re corder’s and Superior Court has been $2.00 per day, but hereafter the pay will be double, or $4.00 per day. Rev. Paul Lemon New Minister In Chowan ] The Rev. Paul Lemon of Eureka ] has accepted the pastorate of the < Center Hill and Warwick Swamp Bapr , tist churches. Mr. Lemon succeeds j the Rev. W. C. Francis, who recently i resigned to accept the pastorate of a , church in Nash County. < 1 , j Firemen Called Out Two Times Sunday 4 Edenton’e firemen were called out , twice Sunday with very little damage ( resulting at both fires. _ j The first fire occurred about noon 1 at the home of Ambrose White, be- 1 yond the city limits, where a leak in a gas stove caused a blaze. < About 7 o’clock -Sunday night the i firemen were called «o~the Evans mill 1 on North Broad street, due to a cross ed wire on an electric pole. The wires 1 repaired by employees of the 1 Virginia Electric Company. < ~Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 7,1949. Edenton’s Colonials Lose First Place Slot In Albemarle League Plymouth Heads Teams As Result of Week’s Play STANDING OF CLUBS W L Pet Plymouth 16 10 .625 Edenton 17 12 .586 Colerain t__ls 11 .577 Hertford 14 13 .518 Windsor 12 16 .429 Elizabeth City 7 19 .269 Edenton’s Colonials lost ground during the week and as a result were shoved out of first place in the Albe marle League. Plymouth, as of Wed nesday morning, was in first place with 16 wins and 10 losses, while Edenton was trailing with a 17-12 record. Colerain is in third place with a 15-11 record, followed by Hertford with 14-13. Windsor, with a 12-16 record is in fifth place, while the Elizabeth City Senators still are in the cellar position with a 7-19 count. Edenton 4, Windsor 5 Edenton lost a heart-breaker to the Windsor Rebels in Windsor Tuesday night, with home Tuns playing the major role. The final score was 5-4 and was won by the Rebels in the seventh when .Tependino walloped a home run with two men on base. Os the nine runs scored by both teams, five were home runs clouts. Manager Gashouse Parker hit two homers for Edenton, while Stott, W. Taylor and Tependino hit home runs for the Rebels. Herman went the entire route for the Colonials, while Corriher for the Rebels occupied the mound the whole game. Edenton 2, Windsor 4 Windsor’s Rebels, aided by two home run clouts, defeated the Eden ton Colonials Thursday night on Hicks Field by a score of 4-2. Quite a factor, too, in Edenton’s defeat was Moe Bauer, pitching for Windsor this season. Bauer put the brakes on Colonial batters, letting them down with only five hits, two of which were made by Art Hoch, Bauer’s teammate on the Wake Forest College team. | Bill Herman was the Colonial moundsman, but gave way to Schadel in. the final inning. Tepedino and Wilhelm made the two Rebel home runs, each of which came when a runner was on base. The Colonials scored a run each in the fourth and seventh inning. The game was well played through out by both teams. Edenton 10, Elizabeth City 4 In Elizabeth City Friday night the Colonials had little trouble defeat ing the Senators 10-4. In this game the Colonials 7 fattened their hatting average a bit by chalking up 18 hits. Hoch and Bohonko led the attack with three hits apeice, while Parker, Fulghum, Phillips, Pavlich and Good win each made two. The Senators used two pitchers, Spitzer and Sharp, hut the Colonials apparently the slants of both. Earl Goodwin went the entire route on the mound for Edenton, giving up only three hits. It was a close ball game for six innings with the score tied 2-2 at the beginning of the seventh. In the (Continued on Page Seven) STUART STEPHENSON CONSIDERED ONE OF LEADING ALABAMA SPORTS ROOSTERS, Referred To In Feature Newspaper Article Writ- C ten By William O. Smith, Jr., as Montg-om- J ery’s Sports Good-Will Ambassador I ■■ i I Friends of Stuart X. Stephenson of Montgomery, Alabama, a former Edeniton boy, son of Mrs. S. X. Steph enson and the late Mr. Stephenson, will be interested in a feature news paper article appearing in the Mont gomery Advertiser-Alabama Journal, which refers to Mr. Stephenson as one of Alabama’s leading sports boosters. Mr. Stephenson is president of the Southeastern League and former sports editor of The Advertiser. The article goes on to say: “Stephenson was selected by The Advertiser’s 3ports staff as Sportsman of the Week because of the outstand ing work he has done promoting ath letics in this section, especially base ball. “Stephenson’s career in sports start ed in his home town of Suffolk, Va., where he played baseball, football and ! basketball in high school. ; < “His .greatest love then was base- a ball. ‘I was just a mediocre pitcher,’ he said. ‘The only thing that 1 had a on the ball besides hope was control.’ Chowan Committee Will Make Survey Os Unpaved Roads , Recommendations Will Be Presented After 1 Study One of the most important items of business transacted by the County Commissioners at their meeting Wed -1 needay was the appointment of a ’ county-wide committee to make a sur vey of the county’s unpaved roads ’ and to present a recommendation to 1 the County Commissioners as to the roads to be paved and listing them in order of their importance. This committee was deemed essen tial in order to share in Governor Scott’s road building program, au thorized in the recent huge road bond election. W. J. Berryman was named chair man of the committee and Gillam Wood secretary. Members of the committee appoint ed by the Commissioners follow: First Township—W. J. Berryman, J. H. Morgan, H. T. Hobbs and W. ,H. Hollowed. Second Township—Stillman Leary, R. H. Hollowed and W. T. Bunch. Third Township—Carey Hollowed, T. A. Berryman and Vernon Jordan. Fourth Township—Gillam Wood, J. A. Webb, Jr., and J. D. Swindell. Family Relations Meeting July 7th Specialist Will Speak at ■ Cross Roads at 3 : O’clock Mrs. Corinne Grimsley, Extension t Specialist in Family Relations, will j hold a meeting in the community f house at Cross Roads on Thursday ] afternoon, July 7, at 3 o’clock. ( F’amily life leaders in the Home . Demonstration clubs, rural ministers, \ teachers, PTA Presidents, and the , county nurse and librarian are urged to attend this meeting. Also repre- ■ sentatives from any other agencies ] I especially interested in promoting \ living in the county, j < Masonic Meeting At i j 7:30 O’clock Tonight i Richard P. Baer, master of Unani mity Lodge, No. 7, A. F; & A. M., i announced Tuesday that the regular c monthly meeting of the lodge will be held tonight (Thursday). Mr. Baer f stated that the hour of meeting will be 7:30 o’cloclj, instead of 8 o’clock, f due to a scheduled baseball game. Mr. Baer urges members to be t present promptly at 7:30, so that 1 business can be attended to in time c for those who so desire to attend the r ball game. CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES Services at the First Christian ■ Church have been announced as fol lows by the pastor, the Rev. E. C, Alexander: Bible School, Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. Morning service at 11 o’clock. Young People’s meeting at 6:30 P. M. Evening service at 7:30 o’clock. Wednesday evening prayer service at 7:30 o’clock. “Although Stephenson is still one < of the state’s biggest boosters of 1 sports, he says he has ‘put all my ath letic eggs in the bag and concentrate 1 on fishing and golfing for my own en- ( tertainment.’ 1 “He reached the pinnacle of his ( sports boosting career in 1938 when t he was named president of the South- c eastern League. He helped reorgan- I ize the league in 1937 and served that c year as the league’s executive sec re- i 'tary. He has served as president t every year of the loop’s operation t since 1938, except for one year, 1942. t “He came to Montgomery in 1928 e after five years of sports writing in s Philadelphia, Pa., and Asheville, N. C., c and immediately took over the reins as sports editor of The Advertiser. “For ten years he held that job. He resigned on March 15, 1938, be- t cause he 3aid he thought ‘the pastures i might be greener in other endeavors.’ s “Stephenson thinks that the fans s toughened him up for the job of t (Continued on Page Nine) 2 Californian Sends Check For Building Fund A^l^lul’s | Cotton Blossom a West Coast Though there had been some j doubt that cotton would be in WRITER E’T'ITTTID bloom in Chowan County before mUt ' a UK July 4th, some fields defied ad- Ip. , _ _ verse weather conditions to send * I3IIS 10 Make ToUF of !r.»{ SET Wor " ! South In Not Too Dis- W. Sanford Bass of th# Ma- tailt Flltlire cedonia section was the first to 1 bring a cotton blossom to The Richard M. Cantwell, a subscriber Herald office this year. Mr. Bass of The Hearld who lives at Sausalito, found a number of blossoms in a California, this week sent a very in cotton patch Friday morning and teresting letter to the editor in which picked one to bring to The Herald was enclosed a check for $5.00 as a office - contribution to the building fund of Earl White of the Green Hall St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, recently section brought in several bios- destroyed by fire. Mr. Cantwell ex soms which he picked Tuesday. pressed regret that this calamity has ~ fallen upon Edenton, and in reading Interest Mounts In ££* tzszzz For the benefit of Herald readers, n—l. I Mr - Cantwell’s letter follows: Knee Pant League sis check to cover the subscription to your Two Teams Are Now In un “ ,he “ d of ,h ' cu ™"‘ Tie For Leadership ou may wonder what interest we Os T pomip have in the neWjs of Edenton. Well, VJI DCdgUC it’s this way: The writer spent some of his early years in Elizabeth Citv HOW THEY STAND and in addition his father was a na- W. L. Pet. tive ‘Tar Heel’ from Fayetteville and Dodgers 4 3 .571 Wilmington. And during many family Yankees 4 3 .571 discussions anent the ‘High Cost of Athletics —-- 3 4 .428 Living’ on the Pacific Coast, I made Tigers —-: — 2 4 .250 the assertion that living costs were much lower in North Carolina, and Interest among Edenton’s youngs- especially along the seaboard, than ters playing knee pant baseball is at here on the Coast and to prove it I fever pitch with two teams, the Dodg- sent along a dollar bill for some is ers and Yankees in a tie for the sues of a small town paper, chosen at league lead. The Athletics are only j random, to prove my point. But alas one full game behind and the Tigers , it appears that once again my wife are in the cellar position, through not j was right. Rents, property and food, too far away to replace one of the I seem to be about equal’ here and other teams. j there. Except for collard greens, with- Coach George Thompson announced out which I can get along right com a number of changes which has ap- fortabiy, and fat back, ditto, its about patently evened up the strength of all a standoff. In fact your ‘P & Q’ and teams. The Dodgers traded Bobby o ur local ‘Safeway’’ ads could have Gray to the Tigers for Pay Bunch, been written by the same person, as while Tom Bass, a newcomer, was you may observe from the copy of added to the Tiger lineup. Wayne the Sausalito News which 1 am s’end- Keeter goes to the Dodgers from the ing a |ong for whatever interest you Tigers. might find in looking it over. Coach Thompson says there is still “This surely is an interesting con room for more boys and he will wel- dition—here are two towns something come any boys who report to play. over 3,00(1 miles apart and yet the Wednesday morning the Tigers de- integration of our economy ’is such seated the Athletics 15-0, while on that jt di ff ers i n detail to such a Tuesday morning the Yankees won sma]l degree over this great distance from the Athletics 7-6. and area Mr. Thompson is very much en- “Apart from the economic angle, thused over the earnestness of the both Mrs. Cantwell and myself find boys and invites any grown-ups to t be Her a ld a source of lively interest drop around at Hicks Field during the each week W(? follow the do j ngs 0 f morning and watch the boys play. the Edentonians and the affairs of ~ . your city because of different views— Dopant Uoauw Rome slie is * ntereste<^in the historical past ElCLulll RCdVy IldlllO especially in regard to many famous * old places in the region in and around PoilCf! Prnn ilortlOfTO Edenton, while 1 like to look over the LmUSn Is till UdllldzLlf s ers and Yankees in a tie for the i league lead. The Athletics are only ] one full game behind and the Tigers j are in the cellar position, through not - ■ too far away to replace one of the j. other teams. , Coach George Thompson announced a number of changes which has ap- : parently evened up the strength of all ; teams. The Dodgers traded Bobby , Gray to the Tigers for Fay Bunch, ] while Tom Bass, . a newcomer, was , added to the Tiger lineup. Wayne ] Keeter goes to the Dodgers from the j Tigers. j Coach Thompson says there is still room for more boys and he will wel- c come any boys who report to play. , Wednesday morning the Tigers de- ; seated the Athletics 15-0, while on Tuesday morning the Yankees won t from the Athletics 7-6. . Mr. Thompson is very much en thused over the earnestness of the | boys and. invites any grown-ups to drop around at Hicks Field during the ( morning and watch the boys play. j Recent Heavy Rains | ( Cause Crop Damage In Chowan County Tobacco Especially Vic tim of Last Week’s Downpours ■County Agent C. W. Overman re ports that excessively heavy rains last week have done considerable damage to many Chowan County crops, parti cularly tobacco. “Practically every field of tobacco is showing little to 1 much water damage,” says Mr. Over- 1 man. “Some tobacco fields are show- i ing practically 100 per cent water damage, some of which may be a total loss.” Rains also have held up the dust ing program to control boll weevil in i cotton. A few growers began dusting 1 last week and the first of this week, i Cotton growers are urged to start- < their dusting program for boll weevil i control just as soon as the weather permits, making 4 to 5 applications j of 20% Toxaphene, 10 to 12 pounds per acre, per application at 5 day in tervals. Although no severe infesta tion of boll weevil has been observed to date, practically every cotton field examined has weevils in it and a few 1 small spots have shown a high per- 1 centage of young squares punctured, t GEORGE GELBACH AT DUKE i George K. Gelbach, a member of i the Edenton High School faculty is attending Duke University for the summer session. The Duke summer - session started June 14 and will con- i tinue through July 21 and from July ‘ 22 through August 31. $2.00 Per Year.