"Volume XVII.— No. 45.
•Gordon Gray Will
Direct Christmas
Seal Sale For 1950
In Statement He Says
TB Still No. I Health
Problem
Gordon Gray, president of the
Greater University of North Carolina
and former Secretary of the Army,
will head the annual Christinas Seal
Campaign in North Carolina to be
conducted from November 20 to
Christmas day, according to an an
nouncement this week by Dr. Henman
F. Easom, president of the North Ca
rolina Tuberculosis Association and
Medical Director of the Eastern North
Carolina Sanatorium in Wilson. A
former WinstonnSalem publisher and
business man, Mr. Gray has long tak
en an active .part in the civic life of
his home city and of the entire state.
•‘lt is with great pleasure,” Dr. Ea
som said, “that I announce the ap
pointment, by the board of directors
of the North Carolina Tuberculosis
Association, of Mr. Cordon Gray to
the chairmanship of the 1950 Christ
mas Seal Campaign and the accept
ance of that chairmanship by Mr.
Gray. Funds derived from the sale of
Christmas seals are the sole support
of the association and with Mr. Gray
heading the drive we are confident of
its success.”
This year will .mark the 44th an
nual campaign to raise funds to fight
the “White Plague” and during that
period rate has fallen from
over 200 per 100,000 population to 23
in 1949. Ninety-ifour per cent of the
funds derived from the sale of seals
remains in this state to carry on an
intensive educational campaign about
tuberculosis, to stimulate early case
finding, adequate treatment and real
istic rehabilitation of the victims of
the disease. Six per cent of the funds
go to the National Tuberculosis As
sociation for research and to finance
the fight against tuberculosis on a na
-4 tional and international scale. Dr.
pavid T. Smith, bacteriologist and
professor at Duke University, is presi
dent of the national organization.
Mr. Gray said plans for the cam
paign, which is conducted almost en
tirely by mail, are now under way and
announcements of local chairmen will
be made as soon as they are appoint
ed. No rtate goal will be set for the
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Junior Woman’s Club
Dance November 21
Old- fashioned Square
Dance Will Be Held
In Armory
The iEdenton Junior (Woman’s Club
annual dance will be held on Tues
day night, November 21, officials of
the organization announced this week.
The dance will be held in the Edenton
armory, beginning at 9 o’clock, and
instead of the usual Thanksgiving
formal, the club this year decided to
stage an old-fashioned square dance.
Norman Phelps and the Virginia
Rounders, well-known entertainers
over radio station WGOH, Newport
News, Va., will furnish music for the
occasion, and two local men, Charlie
and Joe Swanner, will do the figure
galling with such numbers as the Vir
ginia Reel, Paul Jones, eftc.
Tables will be available at the
dance, but no reservations will be
made, say club officials. It will be
a strictly first come, first served af
fair. A Concession stand will be in
operation during the evening.
VFW Square Dance In
Armory Saturday Night
Saturday night, November 18, has
been chosen as ‘'Sadie Hawkins”
night in Edenton. The VPW port
here will celebrate this event with its
annual square dance in the Edenton
armory. Appropriate prizes will be
awarded to the “best dressed” girl
and boy in attendance. The “Bertie
Clodhoppers” with Joe Swanner call
ing figures, will provide the enters
tainment.
The total profits from this affair
go to the Veterans of Foreign
Wars building fond. The theme will
‘ be all together “Dogpatch style.”
The public is invited to attend the
fc dance and have a good time.
H ROTARY MEETS TODAY
SLf JSdenton’s Rotary Club will meet
■■Uby (Thursday) ait 1 o'clock in the
Bgijiafish House. President Thomas
Stun urges all members to attend.
THE CHOWAN HERALf
Zone Meeting Os
Lions In Edenton
On Monday Night
Gala Affair Held In Lo
cal Armory; About 150
In Attendance
A gala occasion was thoroughly
enjoyed by the Lions and their ladies
when over 150 gathered at the Eden
ton armory Monday evening for the
zone meeting of .the clubs from Cole
rain, Hertford and Edenton.
A sumptuous dinner consisting of
turkey and all of the trimmings was
served by the ladies of the Methodist
Church of Edenton.
The meeting was called to order by
Mayor Leroy Haskett, president of
the Edenton club, who introduced J.
T. Biggers, zone chairman of Hert
ford.
A black-face comedy was put on by
Dan Cratch and Ashley Leggett, of
the Washington club, which was en
joyed very much by the crowd.
The principal! address was delivered!
by O. E. Dowd of Greenville, the Dis- 1
trict Governor of 31-F, who paid high
tribute to the work done by West
Leary, Deputy District Governor, of
Edenton.
Dowd, who was introduced by Tom
Payne, International Counsellor, spoke
on the purposes of Lionism.
‘'Lionism was conceived by Melvin
Jones of Chicago about 33 years ago
and he has devoted his life to this
great work ever since that time,” said
Dowd. *1 know of nothing which can
bring men together and make them
work hand in hand so forcefully for
the common weal and the betterment
of a community than civic organiza
tions. Lionism is more than this—it
is a service organization which com
pleted over a hundred thousand pro
jects in America alone last year,” con
tinued the speaker.
“Lionism seeks to inculcate its
members with the spirit of the Gold
en Rule in their business and social
intercourses. We have, a lot of fun,
yet there is a serious side, too. Our
special and tp'feferrtd project is work
among - 'the non-seeing, or blind per
sons.' We have done a great job in
this forceful philosophy and this is
the bed-rock upon which we stand.
“If. every nation had such a wide
spread organization, I venture to say
that we would not have so many
j would-be Caesars, William the Con-;
j querors and Hitlers in the person of
Stalin and other dictators who seek
to enslave the peoples of the world,”
said Dowd.
Dowd urged every Lion to make
plans to attend the international con
vention in Atlantic City next June,
explaining that this will probably be
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BPW Meeting Will Be
Held November 16th
IMrs. Raymond Carr, president of the
Edenton Business and Professional
Women’s Club, calls attention to the
regular meeting of the cluib. which
will be held Thursday, November 16,
in the club room.
All members are especially urged
to attend.
COUNTY OFFICES WILL BE
CLOSED ON ARMISTICE DAY
All County offices will be closed
next Saturday, November 11, due to
the observance of Armistice Day. :
Any important business should, there
fore, be transacted accordingly.
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GORDON GRAY
Announcement was made this
week that Gordon Gray, president
of the Greater University of
North Carolina, will head the an
• nual Christmas Seal Campaign in
North Carolina.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 9,1950."
UN FLAGS PRESENTED IN EDENTON 1
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Above is pictured the presentation of United Nations flags, made
by Chowan County home demonstration clubs, to the Town of Eden
ton and Chowan County. On the left is Town Clerk Wesley Ches
son, Jr., receiving a flag for the Town from his mother, Mrs. Wesley
Chesson, president of the County Council. On the right West Byrum,
chairman of the County Commissioners, is receiving a flag for the
county, presented by Mrs. W. A. Harrell, president of the Enterprise
club. Mayor Leroy Haskett is in the center of the picture.
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Large Group Thanked
For Assisting With
Big Hallowe’en Party
Mrs. Kermit Layton De
sires Names of Any
Likely Omitted
Mrs. Kermit Layton, general chair
man for the annual Hallowe’en party
held Tuesday night of last week and
sponsored by the Edenton Junior Wo-|
man’s Club, desires to thank all who
made any contribution toward the'
wonderful success of the affair.
Mrs. Layton furnished The Herald
a list of those to whom the Junior
Woman’s Cliib is indebted for help
ing to stage this year’s party, but, she
says, if any person was inadvertently
omitted, she will appreciate his call
ing her, iphone 374-J, so that all names
can be added to the records of the
club.
Mrs. Layton’s list of those to whom
a great deal of thanks is extended in
cludes the following:
H. A. Campen, Electric & Water
Department, William (IGashouse) Par-j
ker, John Pavlich, Jimmy Manning,
Edward Wozelka, Bill Cozart, the
Varsity Club, Edenton Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, Edenton Police De
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Thomas 6pm Now
President Os Rotary
Succeeds the Rev. W. L.
Freeman, Who Re
turns to Navy
Thomas Byrum is the new presi
dent of the Edenton Rotary Club, tak
ing over the gavel at last week’s
meeting. Mr. Byrum succeeds the
■Rev. W. L. Freeman, who was called
back into the U. S. Navy.
•Next in line for the presidency was
P. S. McMullan, vice president, but
he declined the position due to the
necessity for him to be out of town
so frequently.
(Armistice Day Service
In Baptist Church
A special Armistice Day service
will be held in the Baptist Church on
Sunday at the 11 o’clock hour, when
the .pastor, the Rev. R. N. Carroll,!
will preach an appropriate sermon.
Robert L. Pratt, commander of Ed
Bond Post of the American Legion,
urges all veterans to attend the ser
vice and to assemble in front of the
church by 10:45 o’clock so that they
can enter the church in a body.
; Band Better [
Football fans who attended
Friday night’s game at Hicks
(Field noted a decided improve
ment in the Edenton High 'School
Band. More members were in
uniform, a better brand of music
wan played and the marching
showed a marked improvement I
over recent previous appearances.
Much of this improvement Ib
contributed to the fact that prac
tice periods have been arranged
during school hoars.
Rev. E. B. Edwards
Succeeds Freeman
At Methodist Church
Assignments Read at
Annual Conference
Sunday
According to the pastoral assign
ments read at the annual Methodist
in. Kinston Sunday, the
[Rev. E. B. Edwards will succeed the
.'Rev. W. L. Freeman, who served the
(local church three years. Mr. Free
l mqi was recently recalled to the U. S.
as a chaplain and left for his
( assignment after the conference.
! Mrs. Freeman and son Billy will con
. tinue to make their home in Edenton.
The new preacher, who was station
: ed at Winfall, is well known by mem
bers of the Edenton congregation and
general satisfaction over his appoint
. ment has been heard from a number
of people.
The Rev. F. S. Love is the new dis
trict superintendent, succeeding the
> Rev. J. H. Miller, who was assigned
i to the Laurinburg Church.
The Rev. R. M. Gradeless was as
signed to the Chowan circuit, succeed-j
ing the Rev. E. R. Meekins, who was,
sent to Columbia.
Light Vote Cast
In General Election'
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Just About One-third of [
Chowan’s Voters Go
To Polls Tuesday
Just about one-third of Chowan
County’s voters bothered to cast a
ballot in Tuesday’s general election,
with -a light vote reported in all of
the county’s precincts.
There was no Republican opposi
tion for district and county offices, so
that Walter Cohoon was elected So
licitor for the First District and J.
Emmett Winslow and J. William
Copeland will be the District Sen
ators.
County officers elected were John ,
F. White, Representative; J. A.
Bunch, Sheriff; E. W. Spires, Clerk
of Court; Marvin P. Wilson, Judge
of Recorder’s Court; Weldon A. Hol
j lowell, Prosecuting Attorney of Re
corder’s Court; Hubert Williford, Cor
•oner, and W. W. Byrum, A. S. Hol
-1 owell, J. R. Peele, E. N. Elliott and
J. A. Webb, County Commissioners.
For Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court, Chowan voters gave
Jeff Johnson, Jr., 588 against 25 for
Guy Weaver, Republican candidate.
Senator Clyde Hoey polled 571
votes to 28 by Halsey B. Leavitt, Re
publican candidate for United States
Senator, while (Willis Smith polled
554 votes against 32 by E. L. Gavin,
Republican candidate for the other
United States Senate seat.
'Sam J. Ervin, Jr., polled 559 votes
against 25 by Robert H. McNeill, his
Republican opponent for associate
Justice of the Supreme Court. The
only other contest was for the First
I District Congressional seat, where
Herbert Bonner polled 571 votes
against 17 by Zeno O. Ratcliff, Re
publican candidate. All other State
officers were elected without opposi
tion.
Barter Theatre Is
Typical American
“Success Story”
Outstanding Group Will
Play In Edenton on
November 28
The story of the Barter Theatre
and its genial, young founder and di- '
rector, Robert Porterfield, which will (
appear in Edenton Tuesday, Novem
ber 28, sponsored by the Edenton Ro
tary Clujb, is a typical American “suc
cess story.” Its achievement has
proven that courage and ingenuity
always pay off.
At the very bottom of the great de
pression, as the banks of the nation
were shutting their doors, Bob Por
terfield conceived an idea. There were
hundreds of hungry acftors looking
desperately for work and there were
thousands of people throughout the
length and breadth of this country
who were eager to enjoy the living
theatre, to see live actors perform in
live plays. Movies and radio were
fine, but the/ could never take the.
place of flesh-and-blood drama. Por
terfield felt that if the theatre could
be brought to them they would payl
to see it. * '
There was only one small flaw in
that reasoning: in 1933 few
had any surplus cash to put out forj
seeing plays. But Porterfield knew,
that back in the highlands of Vir
ginia, where he was bom, there were
plenty of fanners with plenty of sur- j
plus hams and other food they could
not sell. With characteristic Ameri-(
can ingenuity, he hit on the idea ofj
bringing the two hams together—thei
Virginia and Broadway varieties—!
1 with much mutual profit for both. I
Since he and his actors had to eat,
, (though one cynic remarked, “not ne
cessarily”), why not let audiences pay
for seeing shows with ham 3, potatoes,
corn, fruit, vegetables and what-have
you? In short, why not go back to
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Aces Meet Columbia
Wildcats On Friday
Edenton Gridders Still
Smarting Over Worst
Defeat Last Week , j
Edenton’s Aces will play another
home game Friday night, when they
'meet the Columbia Wildcats on Hicks
(Field. The Aces are smarting over
their 32-0 trouncing last Friday
night at the hands of the Washing
ton Pam Pack, and will try to move
(over into the win column.
| The game will begin at 8 o’clock
| and the band will be on hand to add
[(color to the game,
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W. P. Goodwin Now
l Is Certified Lecturer
For Masonic Lodges
W. P. Goodwin, a member and past
master of Unanimity Lodge, No. 7,
A. F. & A. M., last week passed an
examination for certified lecturer for
f the Grand Lodge of Masons in North
Carolina.
The examination was given in
Greenville, and Mr. Goodwin is now
qualified to lecture Masonic lodges in
the ritualistic work. >
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Genial Director Bob Porterfield
who will appear in Edenton with
his Barter Theatre on Tuesday,
November 28, in the school audi
torium-
$2.00 Per Year.
110 Pints Os Blood
Donated Tuesday At
VisitOfßloodmobile
36 of 45 Marines at Ed
enton Base Among
Volunteers
George Alma Byrum, chairman of
Chowan County’s Red Cross blood
program, reported Tuesday night
that 110 pints of blood had been do
nated during the day, when the
bloodmobile appeared at the Parish
House. Although 15 pints short of
the 125-pint quota, it was the larg
est amount of blood donated at any
previous visit of the bloodmobile, and
members of the committee were very
well pleased with the number of vol
unteers.
Mr. Byrum thanks all who volun
teered to donate blood as well as
anyone who had any part in making
the bloodmobile visit a success. He
especially appreciates the work of
Mrs. Nick George, recruitment chair
man; Mrs. George Hoskins, in charge
of volunteer service and members of
the various civic clubs who aided in
the project.
( Mr. Byrum stated that the next
* visit of the bloodmobile will be in
February, at which time he hopes
even more people will donate 'blood,
j Those who donated a pint of blood
,Tuesday were: •*
Mrs. Iceland Cahoon, Joseph Scott
Harrell, Ted Boutwell, Charles P.
(Wales, Jr., Richard E. Aiken, Jr.,
Mrs. Alice May Parks, Rev. Preston
(E. Cayton, Walter Deile, Richard P.
jLachapelle, George J. Borski, Henry
(Phillips, Billy D. Ford, Joseph R. P.
!Roy, Robert M. Miezeo, Ed Arring-
I ton, W. E. Bond, John E. Carey, E.
J. Hobbs, Ep Debnam, Vern L. Cas
'key, William P. Jones, Thurman R.
Harrell, Richard Gruskovak, Oscar
Bunch, Theodore Anthony Czuniak,
Thomas Griffin, Richard Watkins,
Samuel C. Marcus, ’ Mrs. John Gra
ham, ' Robert G. Bell, Harold B.
Kaupp, William Thomas Kulha, Ger
ald Brown, W. D. Anderson, Harry
V. Lassiter, Mrs. Annie Spruill, Wil
liam Newton Parker, William W.
Perry, James B. Stillman, Mary Lee
Copeland, Wesley Chesson, Jr.,
Frank Cox, Ray Grant, Thomas C.
Byrum, Jr., Leslie Bunch, J. C. Parks,
C. B. White, Ben E. Perry, Sam Al
len, Laura E. Harrell, Oscar Duncan,
Robert Kennan, Robert D. Marsh,
George A. Byrum, Herman C. Wheel
ler, Russell Wheeler, Lewis Williams,
Richard Copeland, William I. Hart,
Robert West Leary, Jr., Elisha Burke,
Jr., George Edward Nixon, Forrest
Jernigan, Nicholas J. George, Rich
ard Dixon, Jr., Paul L. Partin, Gene
W. Spruill, Elbert H. Copeland, Wil
liam D. Holmes, Louise Copeland,
Woodrow Hughes, John W. Graham,
Richard V. Huiband, David W. Mor
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New Club Formed
In North Edenton
Second Club to Be Spon
sored By Beech Fork
Club Women
A new home demonstration club
has been recently organized in North
Edenton, the club being sponsored
by the Beech Fork (Club.
Officers of the new Club are: Pres
ident, Mrs. I. E. Halsey, Jr.; vice
president, Mrs. Gene Perry; secre
tary, Mrs. Robert L. Pratt; assistant
secretary, Mrs. Joe Swanner.
This is the second club to be spon
sored by the 'Beech Fork Club this
year, the other being the Gum Pond
Club, which was organized in May.
Pine Seedling Supply
Rapidly Diminishing
Frank V. White, Chowan County
Forest Warden, informed The Herald
early this week that the supply of
pine seedlings is nearly exhausted and
that anyone desiring these seedlings
should apply to him at once.
Mr. White has a few more appli
cation blanks which will be given out
on a first come first served basis.
Edenton Aces Guests Os
Rotary Club On Nov. 30
Edenton’s Aces will be entertained
by the Rotary Club on Thursday, No
vember 30, it was announced at last
week’s meeting.
The banquet in honor at the 1950
football warriors will be held in the
Parish House.