Volume XVIII.—No. 15. Edenton Pilgrimage Friday And Saday - ■-«** * ** “■*-*-**^^*'*‘ J *^'**^^ J> -* - - - - Ad« IVVtAftAAftArVVVVJVWXArirvVVUVxnAAA VVVVVAVm 1 ** ■ r Town Councilmen Call City Election For Tuesday, May 8 — ♦• Registration Books Will j Be Open 20 Days Prior to Election WARDSCHANGED Deadline For Candidates To File For Office April 27th In compliance with law, Town Councilmen at their April meeting held Tuesday night, officially called an election for Tuesday, May 8, for the naming of Town officials. In the election a Mayor, Treasurer, three members of the Board of Public Works, a Councilman from each of the four wards and two Councilmen at-large will be elected. Registration books will 'be open 20 days prior to election, and it should be noted that due to a change in boundaries of the Second and Fourth wards, voters living on the north side of Church Street to the south side of Carteret Street will be obliged to reg ister and vote in the Second Ward in stead of the Fourth Ward as hereto fore. To vote a person must have lived in the ward in which he votes three monJis, he must have been a citizen of Edenton foj> six months and must have lived in the 'State f 1.2 months, j The Councilmen named the follow- j ing Registrars and Judges of Elec- , tion and polling places: 'First Ward—J. J. ILong, Registrar; . Mrs. Sadie Hoskins and George Twid-j dy, Judges of Election. Polling place, Municipal Building. ]' Second -Ward—(Mrs. (Daisy -Lee Cobb, | Registrar; G. E. ICullipher and John ' L. Goodwin, Judges of Election. Poll- ! ( irig place, Court House. ), Third Ward —'Mrs. 'Grace Sawyer j' Registrar; J. F. Miller and W. H.j. Parrish, Judges of 'Election. Polling ' place, W. H. Parrish’s store. |. Fourth Ward—l Mrs. Jessie iL. Porter, Registrar; P. B. Dail and W. L. Lang dale, judges of election. Polling place,' 1 Edenton armory. In event any of these election offi-j cers cannot serve, IMay-or Leroy Has- 1 •kett is empowered to appoint others. Due to the election falling on a ' regular imefeting of Town 'Council, the I May meeting will be held on Tuesday night, (May 16. Mary Lee Copeland President Pi Chapter Officers Elected at Sor ority Meeting Held Saturday iMiaa Mary Lee Copeland, of the Edenton City (School Faculty, will head Pi Chapter, of Delta Kappa Gamma, National honorary Sorority for Wo men Teachers, as president, for the coming year, with Miss Thelma Elliott, principal dlveral consecutive meetings, one of : which is the OIPS instructional meeting < to he held in Elizabeth City. * A new date for the meeting will b .< announced later. '• ■ . -.if* ; f.:. TJj . . • THE CHOWAN HERALD |_ Resigns _| Albert Byrum, who early in March accepted the appointment as Chowan County’s chairman for the Offic of Price Stabilization, resigned Monday! of this week. iMr. Byrum informed Mayor Le roy Haskett, who appointed him, that he knew very little about the program, that he had received no information about it and that it was very embarrassing to him to have questions asked which he is unable to answer. Mayor Haskett up until Wednes day had not appointed another chairman. Instruments May Be Rented For New High School Band i All Students Will Have An Opportunity to Enroll | 'With the intentions of recruiting a large number of students for the high school band, Bandmaster Ernest Gen [tile has announced that all students I will bie given an opportunity to enroll |in a new band to be formed in the near .future. j, ] j While conferring with Superinten dent John A. Holmles, the decision was peached that all students would be .tested with a scientific teat to check | their musical ability, -and that ar rangements would be made whereby 'instruments could foe rented for -three -months -to determine the instrument best suited to each individual child and his interest in it. This method of starting children on musical instru | ments is being widely used by schools throughout the country wth great suc cess Lessons will foe furnished by the school. “’Now is the logical time for children to start,” says Bandmaster Genitile, “and it will only be a mat ter of months before they will be giv en -an opportunity to Win a chair in the regular 'band and to participate in all of the school -band functions.” Lions Realize Goodly Sum From Minstrel Entertainment Is High light of Club’s Meet ing Monday Featuring the Lions Club meeting -Monday night was a report of the annual minstrel presented Friday night, which, although incomplete, showed receipts at about SSOO, includ ing -advertising sold in conjunction with the show. It is believed that -af ter all expenses are paid the club will net several hundred dollars, with which it can continue the work among the blind. 'A report by (Earl Harrell indicated •that the -total receipts of the Easter -Seal Sale will amount to about 9700 a substantial amount of which will al so be devoted to blind work other worthy projects. A netw member, Erie Haste, was in-: ducted into the club by Dr. W. S. I Griffin. The club also discussed plans for staging a donkey baseball game at Hicks Field on April 20. A new amendment adopted by the club calls for election of officer* for the year 1961-52 on next Monday, April 16, which is a month earlier than heretofore. At last week’s meeting Dr. T. CL Johnson, Commissioner of Paroles, gave a most interesting and enlighten ing talk on the operation of the pa roles system for (North Garolian. He presented some Startling figures con cerning (the system in relation to crime v and> also interspersed his remarks with bits of humor. He Was accom panted by his assistant, Mr. Woolard. 4 " ' k Y-.*V ' .«♦.’{ ’ . Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, April \2, 1951. Lions Club Minstrel < Most Successful Os Any Ever Presented Spacious School Audi-1 torium Filled to Capa city Friday Night Edenton Lions Club’s annual min strel held Friday night in the high 1 school auditorium was ithe most sue 1 cessful affair -ever staged by the club. < The spacious auditorium was filled ( to capacity, with many obliged to be; satisfied with standing room. |( The show was well executed which 1 reflected credit on the director, Nick, 1 George, as well as all who participated, 1 The entire audience appeared to enjoy every minute of the entertainment which was well balanced from start ' to finish. j To single out any particular per formance is riext to impossible, for several persons and acts prompted en core after encore. Many favorable erm ments were heard and not a few were directed at the several been-age performers who so ably assisted in making the show such a big success. -Those taking part on the program in various roles were IWest Leary, Lillian Leary, Carolyn 'White, Mildred Small, IDorine Alexander, Virginia Downing, A1 Phillips, Dr. A. F. Downum, Hay wood Bunch, J. P. Partin, Earl Harrell, * John Mitchener, M. A. (Hughes, Jesse k Harrell, J. Clarence Leary, Norman ' (Skip) Leonard, Shirley Keeter, George Thompson, (Bill Gardner, Fran cis Hicks, Richard Hines, -Freddy By rum, Mike Malone, Betsy Duncan, Miriam IScott, Juanita -Bennett, Fran : ce.'i Bennett, Grace Hudson, Medlin 1 Belch, Dr. Rishard Hardin, Ralph Par • rish, Kenneth Floars and IGeddes Pot !,ter. I Director George and the Lions Club ‘j as a whole desire to express their sin- Jcere appreciation to all who in any ■ way contributed to the success of the' i show. ' . i. ' Local Post Os VFW i Installs New Officers • < Past Commander Henry ’ G. Quinn In Charge of Ceremony '( Henry G. Quinn, through a warrant • issued by VFW Department 'Command ■ er, swore in the following officers o i - Wm. H. -Coffield, Jr., Post 9280 ii I * Edenton Tuesday night, April 3. Commander, James tl. 'Basnight. iSenior Vice-Commander, Bill Har ris. Junior Vice-Commander, Tom Lane. Quartermaster, James -Bond. ['Chaplain, Cliff Keeter. Advocate, Henry Quinn. Trustee for three years, Merriell By rum. Mr. Quinn, who is a past Command ed of the Post and resigned district Commander, made a very impressive talk in his installing ceremony, and asked for a vote of thanks for the efforts of outgoing Commander W. C. > Moore, Jr., which was given by all * members present 1 Comnjander Basnight took the chair ’ after the installing ceremony and ap pointed the following -appointive of -1 fleers: I ’ Adjutant—-Jimmie Church, j Officer of Day—J. L. Baker. 5 Assistant Officer of Day—'W. C Moore, Jr. . 'Service Officer—-Ed Parker. Historian—Bill Crummey. r (Public Relations Officers —Jimmie Church and Henry Quinn. The meeting dobed with everyone r well pleased with the new officers and ( with many vows to push VFW for ■| ward in the coming VFW year. . New BPW Officers To Be Elected April 19th Edenton’a (Business and (Professional > Womenfc dub will hold its regular ■ monthly meeting at (the Joseph H«wes , Hotel Thursday night, April 19, a ■ 7:30 o’clock, at which time new offi ccm for the coming year will be elect . ed. Members of the club will please - note -the change of time for the meet • ing. An interesting program has been ar ' ranged by (Miss Inez Felton, chair man of public relations, for the new voters in Chowan County. This is an i important meeting sq it is hoped that every member of the 'organization will attend. . Action Os Congress | Will Allow Added j : Acreage Os Peanuts, Belief Expressed That' 16% Cut In 1950 Will I; Be Restored The allotted peanut acreage for the | North Carolina-Virginia edible type " peanuts will be increased for 1951, ac cording to legislation passed by Con gress 'and the Senate last week, says Paul Ober, secretary of the Chowan Coun-y Farm Bureau. The exact per centage of the increase has not been definitely announced as of this date, jit is believed .that this legislation *vill ac least restore the 16% cut from the 1950 acreage and possibly do some better -than that. j The Chowan County Farm Bureau, along with the other peanut counties I cf North 'Carolina and Virginia, -and] the State Farm Bureaus as a whole, put every effort possible -behind the I ■ passage of this legislation. Our Con-' - gressmen and Senators, backed by -the - Farm Bureau, are to foe congratulated ci: the success of their efforts. Many Chowan County Farm (Bureau mem bers threw their whole-hearted sup port into the passage of this bill. Sev eral members made one or more trips to Washington. Many -sent telegrams and many wrote letters and used the telephone as instruments of contact with national leaders. “This is one of the many things the Farm Bureau is doing,” says Mr. Ober. “Every peanut grower and every other farmer in Chowan County should take stock and ask himself the question, ‘Am I a member of the Farm Bureau and doing my part by keeping my membership up in this organization or am I one who is riding the train while others pay the fare and shovel in the coal?’ Mr. Farmer, if you are not a .pember of the county Farm Bureau and backing vhe organization that is '.working for you, you should give care ]ful consideration to the above ques -1 tion, realizing -that you have a defi nite part to do and get your m