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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 <xf the Hertford Elementary School, as vice-president. Other of ficers named (by the Sorority’s nomi nating committee, at a luncheon giv en at Chowan Community House, on Saturday, (April 7, were (Mias Bonnybel Evans, (Manteo, Recording Secretary; (Mias Matilda Alexander, Creswell, Corresponding Secretary, and Mrs. Marguerite Burch, Chowan High 1 School, as Treasurer. Mias Copeland, who succeeds Mrs. ' Mabel Evans Jones of Manteo, as president of The Chapter, is the third president of the Sorority, which was organized in 1946, with Miss Paulina' 1 * Hassell, ctf the Edenton City Schobl Faculty as its head. GneSt speaker for the Saturday’s luncheon meeting was Superintendent I R. OP. (Lowery of (Plymouth, who was < (Continued on Page Seven) WILDLIFE DINNER POSTPONED i 'Announcement was made Tuesda that the Chowan County Wildlif , Club’S dinner meeting, scheduled t be held Friday night, has been post i poned. Reason for postponement wa > 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<mber ship'in the Farm Bureau Without de lay,” says Ober. “W-e are .proud of ihe success of this legislation which will mean so much| to peanut growers in 'Chowan County,' as well as all of the peanut counties! in North 'Carolina and Virginia. “Our trouble in the past has been that we were too much asleep and did | not keep ourselves well informed andj alert as -to the efforts needed to pro-1 teat our -own interests. While the -exact acreage and benefits of this leg jislation lie in the hands of the Secre tary of Agriculture, efforts are being made -to impress upon him the neces sity of providing a sufficient acreage of the edible type peanuts to meet the . market demands.” National Guard Unit Adds More Drills Number of Men In Out fit Have Been Recent ly Promoted In Rank The training program for the Eden ton Heavy Mortar Company has been increased to 12 extra drills, which are to be held between now and July 1. These extra drills are of four hours duration, and part of them will be used for week-end firing of small arms. It is -the unit's desire to complete firing of small arms before leaving for field training this summer in order that more training can -be used on the 4.2 inch mortar, which is the principal weapon in the company. 'Field Training will be conducted this year at Fort McClellan, Alabama, from August 19 to (September 2. The following -promotions have been made in the local company: John Lee 'Spruill promoted to ser geant first class. Dallas L. Jethro, Robert P. -Lane and David G. White have been (promoted to Corporals. (Continued on Page Two) Post Office Will Oose Wednesday Afternoons Effective Wednesday of this week, the Edenton Poet Office will close alt 12 o’clock noon Wednesday.- This schedule will remain in effect during the summer months when local stores end business establishments observe the summer half holiday. • ' Everything Now In Readiness To Greet Throng Os Visitors | All Welcome! _| .Mrs. Jimmie Earnhardt, gener al chairman of the second pilgrim age of Colonial Edenton and Coun tryside, extends a cordial invita tion to people in Edenton and Cho wan County to take part in the tour Friday and -Saturday. Mrs. Earnhardt stated that she is rather under the impression that some local people believe the pilgrimage was planned only for visitors from other sections, which is not the case. As a matter of fact, it is hoped many Chowan -County people will participate, ‘for they will be as welcome as visit ors and can help make the affair a success by greeting and ming ling with those who come from more distant points. Passage Os AFBF Agreed Peanut Bill Interests Farmers i Secretary of Agriculture Will Increase Present Allotments Chowan County farmers are especi ally pleased with the recent action taken by Congress whereby they will be -enabled to increase peanut acreage for peanuts. ! Paul Ober, secretary of Chowan j County’s Farm Bureau, this week re-; reived the following letter from -R.- Flake 'Shaw, executive vice-president | of the N. C. State (Farm Bureau, which worked hard for the legislation: “I am very happy to report that j Senate Bill 742 (AFBF Agreen Peanut j Bill) passed th-e House in Washing-; j ton, D. C., on April 4, and will become! law as soon as the President of the 1 i United States signs the measure. | “This legislation has received the] united support of the Congressional; delegation from North Carolina. The! acreage of peanuts allotted to the growers in the state this year will be! revised considerably as the legislation! permits the 'Secretary of Agriculture [ to increase the allotments in states! producing a type of peanut in short] supply by whatever acreage may be necessary to provide an adequate sup ply for edible trade demands, but not ( to exceed the 1947 harvested acreage. | “I am sure that the 'Secretary of| Agriculture, as soon as the Bill has, been signed by the President, will take ( steps immediately to advise producers of the revisions in the allotments.” Methodist Revival Week Os March 23 The Rev. R. L. Jerome of Elizabeth City Will Be Guest Preacher The Rev. E. B. Edwards, pastor of the local Methodist Church announced ?. revival meeting which will foe held at the church from Monday, April 23, through Sunday,. March 29. The Rev. R. L. Jerome, pastor of the 'First Methodist (Church of Eliza beth Gi-ty, will -preach (for the revival. Mr. Jerome has the refutation- for be ing a splendid preacher and the pub lic is cordially invited to hear him. 'Services will be held each night at 8 o’clock, with morning services scheduled to begin Tuesday morning, March 24, at 10 o’clock. Jaycees Conduct Scrap Paper Drive Saturdays Members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce call -attention to the Scrap paper drive which they conduct every Saturday afternoon starting at 2 o’clock. Anyone having scrap -paper to contribute is asked -to put it on the porch where H can easily be seen by the collectors. $2.00 Per Year. Hostesses Asked to Be On Duty Half Hour Before Time RADIO BROADCAST Any Information Will Be Available at Head quarters Everything is in readiness for the second pilgrimage of Colonial Edenton and Countryside which will take place Friday and 'Saturday of this week. Headquarters for the tour will be Ho tel Joseph He was. No small amount of work has been done under the direction of Mrs. Jim my Earnhardt, who is again general chairman of -he .pilgrimage. Os course, many visitons will make the tour in their own cars, but arrangements have been made with the four local automo bile dealers, who will have cars avail able for any who do not have trans portation. Town employees, upon. advice of the Junior Woman’s Club, sponsor's of the tour, have placed signs at the 31 places to be visited during the tour. Station WGAI of Elizabeth City will broadcast from headquarters at the Joseph Hewes Hotel on Friday from 10 A. M., to 1 P. M. Mayor Leroy Haske-t wdll give the address of wel come. Officers of the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs will be {interviewed over the radio, as well as Mrs. Inglis ‘Fletcher and various visit ors who will be at headquarters. At 11:45 the Edenton High School Band ; will present a concert on the Court l House Green. ! All persons who act as hostesses at i the homes that will be open will wear j ribbons. These hostesses are asked to ! get advance information from the - home owners concerning the home and -the rooms where they will serve in or , der that a really conductive tour may |be held. It is advised that hostesses - be on duty at least a half hour before ! their hour of serving so that they can 'get any last minute information from I the home owners. Hostesses serving in the town places are asked to see .that the American j fiag is displayed by the opening hour ' ar.d down by the closing time. Home owners are asked to see that I a table and chair is available for regi stration, and if the weather permits lit is suggested that this be placed -j outside the home. 1 Headquarters are open as of Mon- Ida y, April 9, and the special Pilgrim age Headquarters phone number is j 686. Members of the Woman’s Cluib '] will be on duty there throughout each . day and anyone desiring any informa tion are asked to call there. The pilgrimage is expected to at tract many visitors not only from North Carolina, but from other States as well. 'Citizens have -been very co eperative this week cleaning up around premises, so that with favor able weather i-t is hoped those who participate in the tour will -be favor ably impressed not only with the point of interest visited but the town and countryside as well. Pfc. Walter Taylor Now At Maxwell Field, Ala. Walter J. Taylor, Jr., private first class, UiSAF, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Taylor, has arrived at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama for duty, it is announced by Colonel 'Leslie G. Mulzer, base commandant. iPfc. Taylor arrived at Maxwell Air Force Base from Fort Francis E. War ren, Wyoming, and has been assigned to the 0804th Maintenance Squadron and will work at Grou-p Headquarters as a clerk. Cora Edward Bond Delegate To NCEA 'Miss Cora Edward 'Bond, daughter of 'Mrs. E. -W. (Bond, has been selected as a delegate to the (North Carolina Education Association meeting in Asheville April 112-14. Miss Bond was invited -as a delegate from ECTC at Greenville, and will take part in a - naneil discussion on the subject "Pub lic Relations In (Business Education.” Miss ißond is a merUber of the San ford school faculty.