Edenton And Chowan County Gave 177 Pints Os Blood! Match This With $ $ For Red Cross Volume XVin.— No. 11.. Strong Possibility Firemen Will Not Answer Rural Calls < Idea Considered at the Meeting of Town Council VEXING PROBLEM Belief Advanced That Compensation Should ‘ Be Made Town iCouncilmen devoted a goodly portion of their time Tuesday night to the problem of allowing the fire truck to answer calls oultside the <Hty limits, lit was pointed out that fire men "are not paid on trips to the rural section and that city taxpayers bear the burden of any damage and up keep of the fire apparatus, i . The opinion prevailed that the fire department should receive some com pensation for answering calls in the rural section. On several occasions the County Commissioners have been asked to make some provision to pay for fires attended, but the Commis sioners believe it is a problem which neetfe more study. The idea was ad vanced that the person having a fire should pay the firemen, but then it] was pointed out-that in some cases! the party would be unable to pay. Town Councilmen and firemen alike take the attitude that it would be next to criminal not to render aid when possible in case of*a fire, but on the other hand the argument is ad vanced that this service is paid'wholly by Edenton taxpayrs and no little criticism has been registered by some taxpayers for allowing the fire ap ’*■ para.tus to go into the county without some compensation. Some counties have purchased a fire truck to, be used primarily for fire fighting in rural sections. The Cho iwan County Commissioners, too, are of the opinion that the fire depart ment should be compensated for any calls ansiwered in .the county and are axious to have any suggestions from taxpayers. In the meantime there is a Strong possibility that the fire truck will not be allowed to leave the city limits. Fire Chief R. K. Hall reported that in February six calls were answered in Edenton and five out of town. Hospital Auxiliary Meets Wednesday Ralph E. Parrish Will Speak on Gvilian Defense Mrs. J. Clarence Leary, Jr., presi dent of Chowan Hospital Auxiliary announces that the next regular meet • ing will be held on Wednesday after noon, March 21, at 3 o’clock in the recreation room of the nurses’ home. A large attendance of interested members is urged, and the various organizations ane asked-tp have their appointed representatives present. There are many important business - matters to discuss and a program has been arranged. (Ralph E. Parrish Civil Defense Co-odinator for Chowan County, \tfill speak at the meeting on the very pertinent plans that are underway in the community for protecting the pop ulation in the event of disaster. SERVICES AT YEOPIM CHURCH Preaching services will be held at the Yeopim Baptist Church during the week of March 26 in cooperation with * the Evangelist Crusade. (Services will be held each night alt 8 o’clock, with the pastor, the Rev. A. J. Eure, Jr., preaching. [Gels Purple Heat] * Chaplain Harry C. Hand was recently* awarded the Purple Heart Medal for wounds received 7 ' in action in the Korean fighting. k Major Hand was wounded at fTae ' ***** Korea,, on Jnly ewa| ?r th?*a4th Infantry , Major Hand has completely re- Sfj, coveted from Ms wounds and is J«ftw mrn jafotit THE CHOWAN HERALD Edenton Pilgrimage ■ In connection with the forthcoming • ’ Pilgrimage of Colonial Edenton and ' Countryside, which will be held on April 13th and 14th, and sponsored by the Junior Woman’s Club of Eden-1 ton, The Herald will give a list of the! homes and sites to be shown in this! ' and the next four issues of the paper. I ‘ Folders with complete listing are[ being given wide distribution. Head-' ' quarters of the Pilgrimage is the' [ Hotel Joseph Hewes, site of the Homi-1 blow’s Tavern. Here visitors will be' ' welcomed by Junior Club members and the block tickets will be sold.: ! Tickets are $3.00, including tax, and| student’s tickets are $1.60. , Six of the places to be shown are: * IChowan County Court House—'Com | pleted 1767, Gilbert Leigh, Architect. r Considered finest Georgian Court House in the South.. The Assembly i 1 room is said to be the largest panelled | ) room in the Colonies. In continuous j | use since its completion. A chair usedi jby George Washington in Alexandria, ’ Virginia, Lodge, can be seen in Ma sonic Lodge room adjoining the panel [ led room. Open 10 A. M. to 9P. M. : Bond Inn—East King Street, built * 1796. At one time owned by Peggy 1 Hosmer, daughter of Silver Hosmer, Practioner of Physics and Surgery, of [ Pasquotank County. The original ' mantels, floors and hand carved panel- i ' ling are intact. FieseaS own* Mrs. 1 E. W. Bond. Qpen Friday and Sat c urday, 10 A. M. to 12 A. M. and 2 i P. M. to 6 P. M. ' Customs House—On Court House' Green. Used prior to the Revolution j for the Customs House for the Port of Roanoke. Young James Iredell] ’ came here from England as Customs l Officer. Iredell was Associate Jus-! ' tice, appointed by George Washing -1 ton. r This is now the home of Mrs. Clara J Preston. Open Friday and Saturday, April 13 and 14, 10 A. M. to 12 Noon t and 2 P. M. to 5 P. M. j Cupola House—'Broad Street. Early 18th Century. The finest framed Ja cobson tyipe house south of Connecti cut, built circa 1712. Francis Corbin, the last agenit for the Lords Pro prietors, had his official residence here in 1758. About 1769 the Mo ■ ravian Bishop, Spangenberg, signed f papers in this house which gave them the land for this settlement in Caro lina, now known as Old Salem. Open [ 10 A/M. to 9 P. M. (Beverly Hall—West King Street. Was originally one of the three State Banks ‘of North Carolina. Built in 1810 as Bank dwelling. The great vault of the Bank remains in' tire j house. ■ It is the home of Judge and Mrs. _ Richard Dillard Dixon. Open Friday 5 10 to 12 noon, 2 to 5 P. M. ' Pembroke Hall—West King Street. (Continued on Page Twelve) Talent Show Will Be Staged March 22nd r Sponsored By Auxiliary ! Os Legion and future Homemakers The talent show which is bring S sponsored by the American Legion s Auxiliary and the Future Homemakers i of America will be staged Thursday t night, March 22, at 8 o'clock, i Some of those who will participate ,in the show are: Janet and Billy Bunch, Becky Lawrence, Brenda Mooney, Caralista Fletcher, Ginny Jones, Harriet Bond, Ann Spruill, Ba itricia Bunch, Charles HoUowell, Lin da Leary, INbrma Warren, Terry Ben nett, Clarence Lupton, Frances Boyce, Bobby Pratt, George Harris, Hugh Patteson, Robert E. Edwards, Leigh Dobson, Bruce Warren, Bobby Bar nette, ISherwpod Harrell, Mike Malone, Anna Partin, Barbara Spencer, Eve lyn Bunch, Shiriey Keeter, Frances and Juanita Bennett, Grace Hudson, Pearl Berry* Gene Saunders, Iris Jean Leary, Esther Warren, Syf>le Oayton, “the Firehouse Fie© Plus One/* and “The Chowarf Swamp Shakespearean ""Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 15,1951. Executive Croup Is. Handling Affairs Os Edenton Ball dub Plans Discussed By Fans At Meeting Held Fri day Night At a meeting of ,baseball fans held in the Court House Friday night plans were considered for Edenton’s entry in the Virginia League. Work already done in connection with organized baseball was reviewed. Due to a I number of conflicting meetings, the number of fans present was not as | large as expected, so that another j meeting will be held to work on plans, j It was decided to. organize a cor poration for operation of the Colonials land Dr. J. A. Powell, David Holton ! and Gibson Brickie were appointed ■to serve as an executive advisory | committee to continue further organi sation plans. David Holton, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said interest ’ | has already been shown in neighboring 'towns and he is very optimistic con cerning a successful season in or ganized baseball. No manager has as yet been named, ' but negotiations are being made with ball players to join the Colonials. Organ Concert At St PauTs Sunday ; Hugh T. Harrison Will Present Program at ! 4:30 O’clock j An organ concert will be held In ' St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Sunday ] afternoon for the enjoyment of the ‘people of Edenton. J Hugh T. Harrison will give the ! concert. Mr. Harrison received his [ first organ instruction in England j and during World War I was official lorganist for the Second Wing of the ! ißoyal Flying Corps and.special or-, ' ganiSt to Bishop Gore in Oxford, England. After coming to this coun- try he continued his Study at the University of Michigan and has been | organist-director of a number of churches. r Mr. Harrison’s Sunday afternoon concert is arranged to please a wide, variety of musical interests. On the program will be included the beauti- 1 ’ ful and familiar pigees “Jesus, Joy of ’ (Man’s Desiring’’ and “The Palms,” which is used throughout the country on Palm Sunday. t A silver offering will be taken to help defray the cost of the concert. A cordial invitation is extended to ail people in Edenton. The concert has been set at this hour in order that it ’ will not conflict with the services of | any other churches in Edenton. 1 WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY Last week the legislators spent a day at ihe marine base at Camp Le jeune; next Wednesday they will visit Cherry Point. To get home by April 14, and tooth presiding officers have said that this is possible, they will I have to hustle in the 29 legislative* days remaining. Already the calen dars show a backlog of postponed bills, the rate of introduction is on an increase. For the first time this ses ’ sion the houses failed several times this week to agree and sent bills to conference. Hotel expenses are mound ing, and pay stops on Aipril 2. Frayed nerves and deflated pocket-books signal ' the beginning of a concentrated effort to finish the job; night and afternoon sessions are not far off. Reapportionmeot of Legislative Representation , Tentative 1960 census figures set ting North Carolina’s population at 4,062,027 are the basis for bills in troduced on Tuesday for the purpose of reapportioning representation in the General Assembly. SB 803 calls for increasing the number of senator ial districts from 33 to 88, giving 12 senators each. Forsyth, Guilford, and Mecklenburg would re main districts by themselves, but each would get 2 senators rather than 1. HB 626 designed to (reapportion the 120 House seats would make less dras tic bbangeu; rep reservation would re main as it noW is except that the sec ond representatives now allotted both, Cabarrus and (Pitt would be transfer-' | red to Alamance and Rockingham. I Rep. Blackfwell's HB 674, introduced' I Friday, proposes amending the Con-j Dee Skies'Beagle Hound Wins Two First Place Events “Sky Carries Off Honors at Hamp ton and New Bern “'Sky King V,” 111-months old bea gle deriby owned by Dee Skiles, won first place in two different derby field trials in two successive days. Satur [ day, March 10, Sky King won the . Hampton, Va., trials and Sunday, i March 11, he won the Coastal Plain i Trials held at Neiw Bern. In winning these two big club’ championships, “Sky King V” won ■ over the outstanding derbies of East i ern Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsyl l vania and North Carolina. “(Sky King l V” was sired by Field Champion Not ' taway Buddy, who is owned by Win • ston M. Browne of Franklin, Va. His dam is Nottaway Anne. s By virtue of the wins Saturday, ('and Sunday this outstanding little : derby is entitled to run in the East . em Derby trials to be held at York, • Pa., and in the Northeam. Carolina Association trials to be held at Le , noir in April. If he should place at i Lenoir, he will be eligible to run in the Columbus, Ohio, international der by trials for the champion of the United States on April 21. This is the second hound to bring a first place trophy to Edenton. The ■ first was “Rocky Hock Shorty,” owned ' by David Holton. “Shorty” won first place in the Eastern Virginia Club trials last year. . Mr. Skiles had another dog “Sky Callico,” to win fourth place Satur day at Hampton Roads, and David Holton had a male, “Chowan Joe,”' to win third place at New Bern on Sun -1 cay. C. Os C. In Receipt Os I; Government Orders ;j ‘ , | Anyofie Interested Wel ;| come to Secure Same J i At Office f j David Holton, president of the l Chamber of Commerce, informed The 5| Herald this week that the Chamber of } Commerce is constantly receiving -.copies of orders and regulations from fjthe Government having to do with i defense, price control and other in i’ formation. , 'Mr. Holton said that anyone in > terested in various governmental reg . ul at ions are welcome to call at the ! Chamber of Commerce office, where i they can secure a copy. The Cham t ber of Commerce office .is in C. B. ! Mooney’s office, with Mrs. Naomi Copeland acting as secretary. . senators to 60 and the number of rep resentatives to 130, retaining the pres ent system of apportionment. While it is too early to comment on the Blackwell proposal, the other bills in their present form, like those designed t to realign the Congressional districts, seem to stand little chance of passage. City Streets Aid to city streets in the form of the Powell bill (SB 120) seems to be in the home stretch. After receiving approval from the House appropria tions committee on Tuesday by a nar row 24-22 vote, it went to the House floor on Friday, and its proponents fought off several amendments before securing passage on second reading by a substantial margin. Third read ing is scheduled for Monday night and passage at that time with sub sequent concurrence by the Senate in two clarifying amendments seems as sured. Alcoholic Beverages The last substantial hope for a' state-wide liquor referendum before 1962 perished in the House last Tues day when 61 representatives recorded themselves as opposed to a motion to override an unfavorable committee re port and place HIB 186 calling for an all-or-nothing election on the House calendar. Although referendum advo cates. gained a few votes over the 1949 comult, the most that could be] claimed was a moral victory in forc ing the representatives to take* a stand on the issue. With that issue I settled for the time being, two other 'referendum bills were methodically I killed by a Senate committee and a biU, (Continued on Pag* Four) ' ' 1951 fct" % Seal Sale Is Nov wilder Way In Chowan County i | Needs Your Help > BBS® 1 .X- I 1 P : ■ ■HBFIi ■ ■ Above is pictured one of the ’ thousands of crippled children j who look to you for help at Easter time. Lend a hand, won’t you, by buying Easter ,Seals7 ; Edenton BPW Club 1 Will Meet Tonightj Miss Hazel Braswell Will Present Address k On Peace The Business and Professional Wo men’s Club will hold its regular) , monthly meeting at Hotel Joseph! Hewes tonight (Thursday) at s] o’clock. All members are urged to attend, as a good program has been planned. Miss Hazel Braswell, winner of the e recent speaking contest on peace at ® Edenton High School, will speak dur -1 ing the program. She will be intro = duced” by Mrs. Mary Browning. !*. Miss Helen Evans will render stv j seal piano selections and a local club ' member will report on the Eighth j District meeting which was held last ' Sunday at the Virginia Dare Hotel in 'lElizabeth City, e j Uniform Closing * Os Stores Planned . Survey Being Made By Members of Merch ants Committee e s In an effort to adopt uniform holi- day closing •in Edenton, members of j the Merchants ■ Committee of the | Chamber of Commerce are this week ’ contacting various merchants. The proposed holiday closing for 1951 as f suggested is as follows; EasteT Mon , day, March 26; Independence Day, r July 4; Labor Day, September 3; | Thanksgiving Day, November 22 and . December 25 and 26 for Christmas. 5 Wednesday afternoon closing is to 5 begin April 4 and continue through , the last Wednesday in August, r Os the merchants contacted, the | majority were in favor of the above t schedule. ; Training School At Goss Roads Today There will be a training’ school for , Chowan County Home Demonstration 1 Club foods and dairy leaders at the ' Chowan Community Building, Cross j Roads, on Thursday afternoon at 2:30. ‘ This school will be conducted by A. *C. Kimrey of the Extension Dairy Department, State College. These leaders and those wh*o are * assisting 4-H Club girls with dairy foods demonstrations are urged to at * i tend this meeting. ON BRAN’S LEST i. (Miss Charlotte Leary, daughter of i Mr. and Mrs. West Leary, Jr., baa r achieved the Dean’s List at Averett r College. A senior at Averett, Miss 1, Leary was recognised for good schol arship and citizenship. I $2.00 Per Year. Batches of Seals Sent By Mail Throughout County SCHOOLSIIELPING Funds Go Long Way In Helping Many Crip pled Children Chowan County has begun the an nual Easter Seal Sale. Again this year the campaign will be carried on principally through mail, with many batches of the seals sent to individuals and business concerns. The seals will also be sold in the schools of the coun ty as in previous years. G. B. Potter, director of the 1951 Seal Sale, urges all who do not re ceive seals by mail to call telephone >sl-J and thus participate in the 18th |annual drive on behalf of the county’s crippled children and adults. Con jtrfbutions should be sent to Earl Har ■ rell, treasurer. Mr. Potter points out that services for the crippled children are expensive services requiring highly trained pro fessional personnel. Specific services offered by the North Carolina League for Crippled Children includes trans portation, clinics, special schools and classes, diagnostic services, therapy of all kinds, employment services, spec ial training services and braces. There are among other facilities 158 cereb iji-al palsy centers conducted through out the United States. “Only when everyone participates in lour cause will we be able to reach I all crippled children and adults, who need services such as those the North Carolina League for Crippled Chil dren provides with Easter Seal funds,” Mr. Potter said. “We urge everyone to participate by using Easter Seals by giving to the fund which fi nances crippled children’s services. As I a matter.of fact, it is one of the gieat privileges of living in a democracy that we can help our fellow Ameri cans when they need help.” Mr. Potter pointed out that many persons may for various reasons be ) missed in the Easter Seal mailing—an almost inevitable happening in - such a large scale operation. The Easter Seal drive will continue , through Easter Sunday, March 25. L Drives are being held simultaneous . ly in all 48 states,- the District of Co lumbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Hundreds of North Carolina’s 250,- 000 handicapped children will receive benefits under a three-point program of the North Carolina League for I Crippled Children this year, but the extent of this aid will depend on the generosity of citizens in the Easter .Seal campaign now underway. | This statement was made by John ' W. Harden, Greensboro, vice-president of the Burlington Mills Corporation, who is State Chairman this year for the Easter Seal appeal. The three-point program, Chairman Harden said, “calls for increased fa , cilities and trained personnel, for the , care, treatment and training of the ) cerebral palsied; an expansion of the | special education program for the ( handicapped child being directed by ’ the State Department of Public In struction, and direct financial or oth ! er assistance for individual cases need | ing help and for the promotion of lp cal projects. ( “During the past year individual ( services were given to 3,200 of the state’s handicapped children through , the state-wide program of the league, | which is supported entirely by the Easter Seal contributions, and there is a desperate need for the expansion of these services,’’ Chairman Harden said. "I want to appeal to every person • in North Carolina to give, and give i generously to the Easter Seal appeal. « Yonr gifts will bring you ten-fold i satisfaction in the knowledge you have . made some child’s chance for happi . ness 100 per cent greater. Handi i capped people, children and adults, don’t want pity. All they want is a chance,” Chairman Harden «aid. r . BIBLE CLASS OBSERVES ITS FIRST ANNIVERSARY The Young Adult Bible Class of the Methodist Church will observe its first f anniversary Friday night, when a ban -9 quet will be served in the Triangle t Restaurant dining room at 7 o’clock, s<- (Parker Helms is president of the - class and Robert S. Marti is the teach er.

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