1 Volume XVlll.-No. 8.
Further Plans For
Civil Defense Made
At Meeting Tuesday
Control Centers’Selected
For Communications
Committee
RED CROSS HELPING
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Three Schools Outlying
Headquarters In Case
Os Emergency
Chowan County's civil defense co
ordinator, Ralph E. Parrish, met with
various civil defense chairmen in the
(Municipal Building Tuesday night to
further the county’s civil defense pro
gram.
•First on the agenda was sheeting
control centers, with the.police station
being designated as the master con
trol center for communications and the
home of John Ross as t{ie secondary
control center.
Mr. Parrish pointed out that effect
ive at once a two-stags public warn
ing code wjll be used to announce
imminent attack and the subsequent
“all clear.” The “red alert” public
warning signal yill be of three min
utes duration. It will consist of fluc
tuating or warbling signals of varying
pitch by sirens, or a series bf short
blasts by horns or whistles.
The “all clear” signal will be a ser
ies of three steady one-minute blasts
by sirens, horns or whistles, inter
rupted by silent periods of two min
utes each. y
In the event .the red alert is the
first alarm received, mobilization 1 of
civil defense forces should
until immediately after tHe attack
rather than risking the exposure of
the organized services to the hazards
of attack. #
At the meeting Chief of Police
George I. Dail, in charge of police and
traffic control, announced that he will
use 22 auxiliary police And 40 auxili
ary firemen.
, In- case of an emergency, Chowan
High School, Rocky Hock School and
White Oak School were selected as
outlying headquarters to house citi
zens and reader first aid.
The Redl. Cross chapter has offer
ed its cooperation and will, among
other things, teach nursing, nurses’
aides and first aid.
John Roes was instructed to appoint
a group of assistants to serve on the
communications committee.
J. Edwin Buffiap was assigned to
the public works committee and will
have the responsibility of seeing to
it that streets are kept open in case
of an emergency. For the most part
members of the Street Department
will be asked to serve on this com
mittee.
R. N. Hines will be responsible for
the sanitary setwer ami water lines
as well as power.
In order to properly carry out the
civil defense program, Marvin Wilson
has been instructed to prepare proper
legal papers to present to ToWn Coun
cil in order to put in force certain or
dinances.
Os course, there will be some ex
pense to the civil det&nse program,
and after an estimated budget is pre
pared, Town Council and the County
Commissioners will be asked to make
the necessary appropriations.
Laymen's Day At
Methodist Church
(Laymen’s Day will be observed in
the Edenton Methodist CJlurch next
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, with
the service concluding the week of
dedication.
Laymen of the church will be in
charge of the service with John A.
Holmes presiding and the principal
addless to he made by Dr. A. F.l
Doffnum.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend the servioes.
Rent Representative
Cancels Next Visit
John Ferry, Jr., area rent director,
has informed The Herald that no rep
resentative of his office will be in
the Municipal Building Friday due to
the observance of Washington’s birth
day the previous day, February 22.
The next appearance of a rent con
tfol representative will be Friday,
(March 9.
However, Mr. Perry stated that If
any pressing problems develop before
the next visit of a representative,
Town Clerk Wesley Chesson, Jr.,
should be unified and a man will call,
if possible at the time.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
j Put Out Flags |
. iWm. H. Coffield (Post of Veter
ans of Foreign Wars desires to
. remind the citizens of Edenton
that today (February 22) is
, George /Washington’s birthday* a
legal holiday., All who have flags
are urged to display them during
the day.
PTA W SuppeT
Tuesday 7:30 P.M.
• Interesting Program Is
Arranged In (Connec
tion With Affair
• Sponsored by- the Edenton Parent
; Teacher Association, an old-fashioned
; box supper is expected to provide a
' gala occasion. The affair will be held
next Tuesday night, February 27, at
' 7:30 o’clock in the High School au
: ditorium.
The boxes will be auctioned off by
Francis Hicks, well-known Edenton
1 auctioneer. Boxes belonging to teen
agers will be auctioned off separately.
After the boxes are sold the group
will adjourn to the lunch room, where
■ the food will be spread picnic style.
: Free coffee will be served by members
I of the Home Economics Department.
• An interesting program has been ar
ranged as follows:
1 Band concert by the High School
Band, Ernest Gentile, conductor.
(Spseial Dance Brenda Dean
Mooney.
Selections by the High School Glee
Club, Mrs. Mary L. Browning, direct
or.
,Tap Dance—‘lA Little Bit Independ
ent,” Joanqe Leary, Jimmie Cozzens,
Katherine Wozelka, Margaret Holmes,
Susan Holmes and Jane Holland Du
laney.
I Trombone Solo—(Mike Malone.
Tap Speciality—lShirley Keeter.
Tap Dance—“( Nevertheless,” Harriet
Bond, Carlesta Fletcher, Virginia
Jones and Brenda Dean Mooney.
No admission will be charged for
the affair, which will include fun, food
' and entertainment. It is hoped a large
number will attend and enjoy the
evening.
Home Ee Teachers
Planning To Start
Classes In Sewing
Mrs. Edna Reaves' and
Miss Miriam - Scott
Will Teach
Mrs. E(lna Reaves, home economics
teacher at Chowan High School, and
Miss Miriam. Scott, home economics
teacher at Edenton High School, are
planning to begin a beginners adult
sewing class. The classes will be con- '
ducted ait Chowan High School on
Monday nights and at Edenton High
School on Tuesday nights from 7.80
to 9:30 for six weeks.
There will be no charge and class
es will be open to anyone who is in
terested. A definite date for opening
of the classes has not been set, but
any who are interested are asked to
contact either Mrs. Reaves or Miss
Scott.
“IWe would like to emphasize that
this is a beginners course,” said Miss
(Scott, “and the classes will deal with
picking out a simple design to make,
laying a pattern, alterations of pat
terns, actual construction of a gar
ment and how to use sewing machine i
attachments.”
Mrs. O'Neal Presented
Pin By Pocahontas
At the meeting last Friday night of
Chowanoke Council, No. 54, Degree of (
•Pocahontas, Mrs. Willie O'Neal im
mediate past Pocahontas, was present
ed a Past Pocahontas pin and certifi
cate, ,
The Council will meet Friday night
at 8 o’clock and all members are es
pecially urged to be present.
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Edenton, Chowan^ountyT North CaroSnaTTKursday, February 22,1951.
BPWFashionShow
Is ScheduledToße
Held On March Ist
Affair Promises to Be
One of Most Entertain
ing Ever Presented
At a meeting of tho Edenton Busi
ness and Professional Women’s Fash:
ion Show Committee held in the Hotel
Joseph Hewes dining roym last week,
further plans were made for the an
nual Fashion Show sponsored by the
club. Mrs. Percy Smith, chairman,
presided.
The Fashion Show will 'be held on
Thursday night, Match 1, in the Eden
ton High School auditorium. Offi
cials of the club say the show promises
to be one of the most entertaining
ever to be held in Edenton.
Fashions to be featured will be both
old and new, beginning with those of
the Indian Maiden and leading up to
1 the present day styles. Appropriate
music will accompany the showing of
each costume, along with a coramen
• tator.
The following styles will be shown:
Pre-colonization period, Cavalier
period, Early 19th Century, Middle
19th Century, Civil War period, Gay
Nineties, Hoibble Skirt Age, Flapper
1 Period and 1961 styles, which will be
shown by the Edenton merchants.
Local business firms participating in
the Fashion Show are as follows:
Badham’s, Tots & Teens, Preston’s
Belk-Tyler’s, Betty Shoppe, Cuthrell’s
Department Store, Hobowsky’s, Anita’s
Hat Shop and Anne’s Beauty Salon.
Center Hill dub's
Dreams Come True
Group Secures Building
To Use For Various
, Activities
t
In every community, whether it be
a large or small one, there is a crying
need for a place to gather for recre
ational entertainment and other ac
tivities. It is only through complete
cooperation of individuals that su«h a
feat can be accomplished. With the
cooperation and hard work now exist
ing in the Center Hill Home Demon
stration Club of Chowan County, this
hard and rough road has at last be-1
come a passable one. For years they
have needed a building to provide a
place for meetings and activities for
young people, as well as adults.
The Center Hill Cub has undertak
en the responsibility of seeing that
a Community Center /be established.
Their long-cherished 1 dreams and
hopes have at last become a reality.
For their 1951 project, the organiza
tion has secured a building and mem
bers, assisted by others in the com
munity, are now busy as beavers re
modeling and painting the structure.
They are justly proud of their ac
complishment, too.
They not only painted the interior
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| WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY I
Despite a marked increase in activi
ty in each house this week, the pro
gress of the General Assemibly could
not be measured in concrete terms.
Less than 20% of all bills introduced
have received final decision, and
scarcely one could be termed signifi-i
cantt legislation. While legislative
hostility toward the governor’s pro
gram has been assumed by most ob
servers, only Senate action on state
aid for city streets could be termed
revealing. Whether the governor’s
radio appeal to the people will
strengthen legislative support for his
program remains to be determined.
State Aid for City Streets
Governor Scott's radio address on
Friday night left no doubt that he
favors state aid for city streets if fi
nanced by new revenues as recom
mended toy the State-Municipal Roads
Commission, but he is opposed to di
version of existing highway revenues
for this purpose. The Senate has
passed SB 120 which, as amended,
would give the cities %c of the present
gas tax and place streets forming
links in the dtate primary and second
ary road systems under the Highway
Commission. This action, the gover
nor charges, is false economy, will
weaken the primary highway pro
gram, might underline the rating of
North Carolina securities, and will not
provide a permanent solution of the
street problem. While the governor
does not advocate submitting a tax
Bills Introduced To
• Boost Salaries Os
Chowan Officials
Introduced f In General
Assembly By Repre
sentative White
Three bills have been introduced in
the General Assembly by Representa
. tive John F. White, all three having to
, do with increases in salaries for coun
■ ty officials.
•House Bill 320. calls for fixing the
salaries of the judge, solicitor and
clerk of Recorder’s Court. If passed
the bill sets the salaries as follows:
Judge, $175 per month; solicitor, $l5O
per month and the clerk, $l5O. First
payments under the scale are to be
• made July 1, 1951, for the preceding
month.
House Bill 31 is to fix the salary of
' the Sheriff of Chowan County. If
i passed the monthly salary of the
: Sheriff will be $350, the first payment
' under the scale to be made July 1,
1961, for the preceding month. In
addition to salary the Commissioners
ate to pay the. Sheriff on July 1 each
. year, beginning in 1951, the sum of
. SI,OOO for expenses to travel and main
. tenance of automobile to be furnished
■ the Sheriff of the county.
, House Bill 322 fixes the compensa
tion of the chairman and members of
the Board of County Commissioners
of! the County. For attending each
regular, special or called meeting of
' the Board, the chairman is to receive
1 s3t) and each member sls. The bill
1 alio sets the monthly salary of the
clerk of the Board at $l5O, the first
payment to him under the scale to be
made July 1, 1951, for the preceding
month.
All three bills passed in the. house
. on February 16, received in the Senate
I the following day and sent to the com
mittee on salaries and fees.
Betsy Wood Chosen
May Court Attendant
At Randolph - Macon
Miss Betsy Wood, daughter of Mrs.
Frederiok Philips Wood of Edenton,
has been chosen by popular vote of
the student body as one of eighteen
attendants of the May Court at Ran
dolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynch
burg, Va. The annual May Day cele
bration will take place on May 5. Miss
Neva Baine of Weston, Massachusetts
has (been elected Queen of the cele
bration and Miss Phyllis Crichton of
Baltimore will serve as her maid of
honor.
Miss Wood, a freshman at the col
lege, is a Kappa Delta pledge.
Five New Deacons
At Baptist Church
•Featuring the service in the Baptist
Church Sunday night was the ordi
nation of five new deacons for the
church. The service was conducted
by the 1 Rev. E. L. Wells, retired pas
tor of the church.
The new deacons ordained were:
Jesse W. White, Earl Harrell, Scott
Harrell, Louis Francis and West
Leary.
- increase to the people, with the 1949
■ secondary road bond issue as a pre
-1 cedent, he has said he is not afraid to
. carry it to the people.
1 With 9B 120 on its way to the
l House, the strength of the governor’s
i position is due for a positive test.
! The House finance committee has al
■ ready voted to report unfavorably HB
262 which would place exclusive re
■ sponsibility for all city streets in the
I Highway Commission if a lc gas tax
i increase were approved by the voters.
1 It now has before it HB 331 which
i would allocate the proceeds from lc of
highway taxes to the cities, would
increase the gas tax by 7 mills, and
i would give the Highway Commission
i responsibility for all streets forming
■ links in the primary and secondary
■ road systems, all contingent upon ap
i proval by the people. There are re
• ports that the smaller towns do not
i feel that SB 120 will meet their needs,
i and it was charged in the Senate that
, the distribution formula based on pop
; ulation and street mileage in both bills
: will be difficult to administer because
■ “streets” have not been sufficiently
r defined. HIB 331 may provide the
■ basis for a compromise if one proves
I necessary.
Alcoholic Beverages
The perennial controversy over a
; statewide liquor referendum will final
i ly be considered toy the propositions
1 and grievances committees of the
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I
n Chowan
Very Gala
Occasion On Sunday
»
<
J_ Ask For Bill J
Town iCouncilmrn met in special
session at 19:30 o’clock (Saturday
morning to consider the use of
money derived from parking me
ters. A resolution was passed to
request Representative John F.
White to introduce a bill in the
General Assembly by which all
monies received from parking me
ters should be ear-marked for var
ious phases of law enforcement.
The meeting was .also very brief
and Mr. IWhite bas been furnished
the resolution.
Dr. B. B. McGuire
Speaker At BPW
Meeting Thursday
Delightful Dinner Meet
ing Held at Hotel Jo
seph Hewes
At a dinner meeting of the Eden
ton Business and Professional Wo
men’s Club held in the Hotel Joseph
Hewes Coffee Shop Thursday night,
Dr. B. B. McGuire, health officer of
the District Health Department, was
the principal speaker. Dr. McGuire
used as his subject “Public Health,”
which he stated at the outset was not
only for the indigent but for all.
The speaker presented a very in
formative address about the functions
of the Health Depart m&ivt and the
spread of communicable diseases. Dr.
McGuire pointed out that deaths from
communicable diseases have been
greatly redueed due to immunization,
but that many die annually due to
lack Os immunization.
Degenerated diseases, such as can
cer, heart disease, hardening of the
arteries, etc., he said were increasing.
The speaker referred to veneral di
seases, which, he said, if not treated
rtsult in victims being forced to enter
hospitals, and when this is necessary,
the public must pay the bills. “No
home is safe,” he said, “until all homes
are safe."
Dr. McGuire also urged people not
to kill a dog thought to have rabies.
He recommended that the animal be
penned up and if no illness developed
in 10 to 14 days there is no danger
of rabies. The treatment, for rabies,
he said, has often proven fatal.
Dr. McGuire was introduced by Mrs.
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Five Chowan Boys
Enlist In January
Sgt Paul Fisher of the U. S. Army
and U. S. Army Air Force Recruiting
(Station in Elizabeth City, has an
nounced that five Chowan County boys
were accepted for enlistment during
the month of January.
The five are Claxton D. White, Or
ville J. Williams, John H. Thigpen,
Jr., Leamon L. Jethro and Johnnie
Puckett.
Mrs. Inglis Fletcher
Speaker For BAR
Annual Conference
Local Chapter Is Listed
Among Group of
Host Chapters
Mrs. Inglis Fletcher, local novelist,
will be one of the national personali
ties to speak at the 51st annual State
conference of .the Daughters of the
American Revolution. The conference
will open a three-day session Febru
ary 28 at 2 P. M., in the ballroom
of the new Ricks Hotel at Rocky
Mount.
The Edenton chapter will be among
the hostess chapters for the confer
ence.
Mrs. Fletcher will speak bn “North
Carolina and Its Forgotten History.’’
She will be introduced by Mrs. Olivia
W. Davis of Statesville, honorary
state regent.
$2.00 Per Year.
Estimated Over I,oo#
Visit Institution Dur
ing Day
manyltlowers
Hostesses Show Visitors
Various Departments
Os Plant
On Sunday visitors swarmed to Cho
wan Hospital to take part in the open
house inspection of the hospital proper
and the nurses’ home. Too numerous
to register, it is estimated that well
over a thousand people attended, many
from adjoining counties. To say the .
least, the hospital staff was most
pleased to the response.
Mrs. J. E. Debnam and Mrs. W. I. :
Hart, chairmen, arranged a large
group of hostesses from the white and *
colored Hospital Auxiliaries and made !
•the building beautiful with magnifi- !
cent flowers, sent to compliment the |
r occasion. '
The chairmen, as well as the hos- •
pital staff and others interested in the '
hospital, are grateful to everyone who
contributed to the day’s success, and
extend sincere thanks for the flowers
to the following business concerns:
Colonial Store, Leggett & Davis,
the Texas Company, Edenton Flower
[ Shop, Lula White’s Flower Shop, Mit
chener’s Pharmacy, Byrum Hardware ;
Company, Bank of Edenton, Quinn'
([Furniture Company, Hughes-Holton '
, (Hardware Company, P & Q Food Cen-~1
| ter, all of Edenton; Robert Stewart i
, and Powers & Anderson Surgical In- J
strument Company of Norfolk; Owens '
& Minor Drug Company of Richmond; *
Roane & Barker of Greenville, S. C.; »
S & H X-ray Company of Charlotte; •
[ Hospital Savings Association of Chap
■ el Hill. I
, William K. Hauser, technical X-ray,'
i advisor, came as representative froth’*
the S. & H. X-ray Company in Char- ,
, lotte. He demonstrated and explained
to the public the mechanism of the *
. machine and the complete picture pro- f
. cess. According to him the local hos- •
pital has the finest X-ray equipment
. in North Carolina. Mr. Stewart and
[ Mr. Inman of Powers and Anderson,
■ Norfolk, spent the afternoon showing ,
the use and operation of the delivery •
, room equipment Earl Jennings of l
. Elizabeth City was present in behalf •
of the Hospital Savings Association;
; Mr. Fields and Mrs. Nachman of Hert- •
ford represented Hospital Care Asso
, ciation, and Charles Newcombe the Re- ,
I serve Insurance Company,
i lOn display ait the registration table '
was the Memorial Gift Book. The •
Auxiliary promotes this, and will in-*
vest the fund in something needed and ’
suitable. Anyone wishing to send a)
fgift in memory of a friend may phone;
Miss Tillett, who will mail to thei
family an engraved card bearing don-J
or’s name.
Preceding opening day, pencil day»
wa sobserved on Saturday with a very '•
successful sale. Mrs. R. F. Elliott, j
finance chairman, wishes to thank;
Clarence Leary, Jr., and Sidney Cam
pen, Scout leaders, for their help in’
recruiting Boy Scouts to sell the pen-,
cils.
Two Edenton Boys i
In Duke Glee Club
Group of Singers Will
Start on 20-stop Tour *
Early In March i
Two Duke students from Edenton
sang with the 150-man Duke Univer-j
sity Men’s Glee Club at its 24th an!
nual home concert at Durham Fridaji
night.
The home concert opened the sea
son for the Duke singers, who begin a
20-stop tour of the Eastern Seafboan)
and North Carolina early in March. ;
The Duke club’s program covers the
range of musical interests, from clasr
sieal, romantic, and spiritual selections
to variety numbers, including two Gil
bert & Sullivan offerings. ;
The two Edenton students in thfe
Glee dub are Wiley J. P. Earnhardt,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Earn
hardt, and Philip S. McMullan, son df
Mr. and Mrs. P. S. McMullan.
i ROTARY MEETS TODAY
’ Edenton’s Rotary dub will meet to
i day (Thursday) at 1 o’clock in the
r Parish House. President Thomas By
rum urges all Rotarians to attend.