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Volume Xvfk— No.'lß. S Only One Contest In] Municipal Election Toße Held May Bth M Harless Declines to j u File For Re-election As Councilman . LITTLE"pTEREST Two New Candidates Provide Race In Third Ward With last Friday being the dead line for candidates ito file for office in the municipal election on Tuesday, May 8, only one contest for office developed. It appeared that there 'would be ifcwo contest® by virtue of R. E. Leary, former Town Clerk for many years, filing as a candidate to oppose , Henry Gardner as treasurer. Mr Leary, (however, on Monday of this week decided to withdraw, so that the only contest will be for Council-! man in the Third Ward. f A. B. Harless, a very efficient of | 1 ficial, declined to file for Third Ward Councilman, but John Mitchener, Jr., - and (Edward Wozelka fried to provide the* only contest-in the election. Officials who have no opposition and will, therefore, be elected to another two-year term on May 8, are the fol lowing: Mayor—-Leroy OH. (Haskett Treasurer—Henry Gardner. 'First Ward Councilman —J. Clarence Leary. Second Ward Councilman—Graham Byrum. Fourth Ward Councilman —Clyde Hollowell. Councihnen-at-large J. Edwin Bufflap ami W. "J. Yates. . Board of (Public Works —J. H. Con ger, Dr. J. A. 'Powell and Ralph E. Parrish. (Little interest in the election de veloped prior to the deadline for can didates to file for office, so that a very light vote is anticipated on May 8. ■ Music Service At St Paul’s Sunday Hugh T. Harrison and Norman Cordon Will Take Part (Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock -there will be held in St, Paul’s Episcopal Church a program of sacred music in connection with the 250th anniversary celebration of the church. “We are happy to present for the * pleasure of the people of -this area (Norman Cordon, of Metropolitan Opera fame and now connected with the University of (North Carolina, who will sing four -selections and Hugh T. Arrison of Suffolk who will play three selections on the organ,” says the rector, the -Rev. Gordon 'Bennett. In order that the people may partici pate in this service we have selected three familiar hymns known and loved by all Christians. “We extend a most cordial welcome to you and -hope that you will be able to join us in this concert.” HOMEWARD BOUND According to information released byt Army Authorities, 44 North Caro linians are homeward bound from Ko rea, aboard the USNB Gen. Leroy Eltinge. Among the number is Major Harry C. Hand, son-in-law of Mr. and iflUrs. J. Frank White. ■NOR WOMAN’S CUB Wli SPONSOR MCYQfSAfFTY PROGRAM MAY 7 TO II * Prizes Will Be Awarded For Posters and Slogans; Parade Scheduled to Be Held Friday Afternoon, May 11 j • i Sponsored by tile Edenton Junto Woman’s Club, a bicycle safety pro gram will be held in 'Edenton frani May 7 to Hi. The project is part o ** the Chowan Safety 'Counoil’a program of having one organization sponsor a program each month. k During the week safe driving will . be emphasized, with a film to be f shown in the white and colored schools Monday morning, posters made and , slogans written, for which prizes will T be awarded. On Friday afternoon a parade will t m be held ia which tire Edenton Band ■ Bay Scouts and bicycle riders will par THE CHOWAN HERALD |_ future Bites _ According to N. J. George, sec retary and treasurer of the Cho wan Wildlife Club, 150,000 rock fish fry have been obtained from, the N. C IFish Hatchery at Wel don to restock local waters. This is in addition to several thousand bream which were re cently obtained from the Fayette ville hatchery for local fishermen. New members in the dub are solicited. Chowan Club Women IHelping To Improve j Various Communities Home Agent Will Be Glad to Assist With Improvements Chowan County club women are ob serving National Home Demonstra ' tion Week, April 29-May 5 in various ways. It is a good time to check on individual and d-ub accomplishments, t and to renew efforts to improve homes and communities. . "Have you noticed improvements that have been made in your community, l Did yiou help, Do you see your house and farm as others see it? .» 'Some of the things that have been 'done to improve the appearance of Chowan County are: Mail boxes on . appropriate poets and painted, with . the name of the owner on the box; k nice looking fences, and attractive . home grounds. Why .not enter the Stats Model affile Contest ? Get details from the Home Agent’s office. This is your county and state. Do you have junked ma chinery and trash heaps around your f farm yard, are there trash piles along the roads? These are very unsightly and give a bad impressions of the en tire community. Advertising signs [ cannot be tacked on your barns, fences, or trees without your permission. Think how much they detract from the appearance of your property and the roadside. Stores and filling sta - sitions can also help make Chowan l County a more attractive place in , Which to live. r While driving through one communi ty recently the agent counted a dozen > improved mail boxes within about a t mile. This is not the only evidence ! (Continued on Page Four) 1 Tickets On Sale For J Varsity Club Banquet 5 Tickets to the Varsity Club’s Sports Award 'Banquet on (Monday night, . May 14, went on sale this week and I will be available to the public until 1 May 11. Varsity Club members anticipate a , large crowd at this year’s banquet that s will feature Everett Case, head basket ball coach at N. C. State College, as principal speaker. Efforts are under way to secure outstanding athletes in each of the three major sports to par I ticipate in the program. President Joe Conger, Jr., announced • this week that plans are going along ’ smoothly for the affair. C. A. Phillips ' is general chairman of the banquet I Tickets may be obtained from any member of the Varsity Club. ticipate. Prizes will be awarded for the most attractive bicycle, the oldest bicycle and most comical bicylcle, as ’ well as other prizes. Each afternoon members of the : Junior Woman’s dub will ride around to spot bicycle riders to see if they ‘ give proper signals, ride on sidewalks, observe traffic signals and drive care fully. Each day the women will make a thorough check and those bicycle < riders who are found obeying* all the ; safety rules will be given ice cream , cones or passes to the Rheatrs. \A patrolman will Speak on safety i iat a chapel program in the schools. , Edenton,* Ch owan bounty, North Carolina, Thursday, May 3,1951. | CELEBRATING 250th ANNIVERSARY jaßMsagfcj-- - s|L » . Church will on. Sunday celebrate the 250th anniversary of the church. The pres ent building was erected In 1736, and the above picture was taken prior to the rebuilding program fotlowing a fire tTi 1950. Rotarians Entertain Group Os 4-H Boys In Peanut Contest Leon Privott Winner In Field of Seventeen Contestants Edenton (Rotarians entertained Cho wan 4-*H Club boys who participated in the 1960 peanut contest and their j ■ dads at a meeting held Thursday! night iin the Parish House. The contest is sponsored annually (by the Rotary J Club, and the Albemarle and Edenton • Peanut Companies. After a delicious meal assistant! ' County Agent Robert Marsh presided and explained the rules of the contest, i First place winner was Leon Pri vott, who had a total score of 100% and had a yield of 2,657 pounds per acre. Merrill • Evans was second with 1 a score of 96.44 and a yield of 2,040 pounds per acre. J. C. Boyce was third i with a score of 96.67 and a yield of i 2,178 acre. Each boy was awarded S2O and young Privott was awarded a beauti : ful loving cup. He was also district i winner comprising 18 counties. Each ! boy in the contest received ($2.00 in cash. After the prizes were awarded young Privott made a brief address, telling how he raised his peanuts. Seventeen boys took part in the ■ contest and raised a total of 28,945 i pounds of peanuts or an average of . 1,702.64 pounds per acre. i The 17 boys in the contest were: ! Leon Privott, Merrill Evans, J. C. ißoyce, ’Sanford Byrum, Roger Bunch, Dick Lowe, Larry Love, Billy Ray ' Turner, David Byrum, Jesse Byrum, Emmett Perry, Malcolm Copeland, i Dick Warren, Roy Edgar Lane, Her bert Ray Lane, John Tynch and Sidney Perry. * A.T. Perry Attacked At'SignPine Store Brutally Beaten and Robbed Saturday Night * 'A. T. Perry, who operates a store at Sign Pine, was brutally attacked Saturday night and is now a patient in Chowan Hospital, where he is suf fering with a broken jaw, broken ribs and a hole in his head. Mr. Perry, alone at the time, had closed the store and was leaving when i he was attacked. It is (believed hs • was relieved of from between SBOO and S7OO. He has operated a Store in upper Chowan County for 56 years. While the criminal or criminals have not been apprehended, Sherif ] J. A. Bunch is being assisted by OB agents. i " i MOVES OFFICE 1 Goldie Layton, branch manager of ] Carolina Motor Club and Farm Bureau . Mutual Insurance Company agent, has moved her office from East Eden j Street to 112 West Water (Street. The , move was caused by the collapse of the < old armory building Sunday night. Boy Scout Camporee Atfdenton Base Next Saturday And Sunday Schedule Includes En tertainment and Oth er Activities The annual District Boy Scout Cam poree will be held Saturday and Sun ■ day, May 5 and 6 at the Edenton Ma ! rintf Corps Air Station. Plenty of en tertainment and activity has been ar -1 ranged for the occasion and all Scout 'officials, committeemen and Boy | Scouts are asked to bring their own j blankets. The schedule of events follows: Saturday, May sth. 1:00 to 3:30 P. M.—Registration and check in. 3:30 to 6:00 P. 'M.—Organize and set up camp. j i6:00 to 8:00 P. M. —'Prepare and eat] supper, 8:00 to 9:15 P. M.—Campfire. Troop stunts, skits, contests, group singing. 9:15 to 10:00 P. M. —Troop games. 10:00 P. M. —Taps. Sunday), May 6th. 6:30 A. M.—ißevielle. 6:45 to 8:00 A. M.— (Prepare and eat breakfast. Clean up. 8:30 to 9:00 A. M.—Chapel Service. 9:00 to 10:00 A. IM.—Troop games. 10:00 to 11:00 A. M.—Troop 'Recre ation. 'Swimming and games. I 111:00 A. M., to 1:00 P. M.—Pre pare and eat dinner. Clean up. 1:00 to 2:30 P. M.—(Break camp and pack. Police grounds. 2:30 to 3:00 P. M.—Presentation of awards. War Orphan Writes ' Letter ToBPW Club Italian Girl Grateful to Edenton Ladies For Interest In Her Members of. the Edenton Business and Professional Women’s Club were delighted recently to receive a letter from an Italian war orphan, Paola Sclip. The letter follows: To the .president of the BPW Club, Mrs. IR. S. Carr: I was so happy to receive your beau tiful letter which has been brough. to me personally by one of the ladies of the (Foster Parents (Office. I have received the box you mention and my godmother has already thanked you because I was not able to write. lam in bed in the orthopedic clinic *nd on 13 January I have been operated on again. I think that you know that I am affected by a pathological dislo cation with acute arthritis results. The professor who cures me says that now I am doing well. However, God only knows when I will 'get well. I thank you, together with all the other ladies of the club, for the wishes for a complete recovery. There is not much I can tell you about myself. I am spending nyr childhood and youth always in the clinic. I am 16 years old and I will (Continued on Page Four) Junior^ % VsClub SpringV lower Show Scheduled May 18th [_ Busy Day! _) It will be interesting to Herald readers to learn that two sets of twins were born Monday in Cho wan Hospital. One of the moth ers, is Mrs. Clyde Chappell of Ty ner, who gave birth to two girls. One weighed seven pounds and the other four pounds and seven ounces. The other mother is Mrs. Kathleen Holland of Edenton, who gave birth to a boy weighing five pounds and 15 ounces and a girl weighing five pounds and seven ounces. As’ of Tuesday there were six babies in the hospital’s nursery. St Paul’s Church Win Celebrate 250th Anniversary Sunday Several Interesting Ser vices Planned In Honor of Event St. Paul’s 250th anniversary cele bration and the 68th annual diocesan : will be held at ISt. 'Paul’s Chux-ch Sun day, Monday and Tuesday, May 6th 7th and Bth. .Services are as follows: Sunday morning at 8 o’clock there will be a celebration of the Holy Communion, the Rt. 'Rev. Thomas ! H. Wright, Bish op of East Carolina, celebrating; at 11 M., the apostolic rite, the Laying On of Hands or Confirmation, will be administered to persons now assum ing their full responsibility in the church. This will Ibe a most impres , sive service. 'At 4 P. M., the sacred r music conceit with Norman Cordon as soloist and Hugh T. Harrison as or 1 ganist. At 6 P. M., a buffet supper will be served to the clergy and dele gates of the convention, and at 8 o’clock the chui-ch will be honored by 1 a visit from the Rt. Rev. Richard H Baker, Bishop Coadjutor of North Caroling, who will deliver the ser mon. "| Monday the convention convenes for I business sessions and at 8 P. M., there ' will be a great missionary service, the ' Rt. (Rev. John B. 'Bentley, vice-presi dent of the National Ooxincil of the Protestant Episcopal Church o f America, delivering the sermon, j “We are most fortunate in having such outstanding persons participate with us in these services,” says the rectoi - , the (Rev. Gordon Bennett. “The clergy will march in procession at the evening services, adding greatly to the pagentry of this wonderful oc casion. Red has been chosen as the I predominating color for this anniver sary and convention, red signifying r the Ghost who should be the guiding factor in our lives.” 1 “The convention will adjourn Tues day at 4 P. M. “We sincex-ely hope that many will I have an opportunity to participate in , the seiwices with us,” adds Mr. Ben- I nett. VIRGINIA LEAGUE BASEBALL SEASON WI.L OPENFRHUYfMHTONEOCHTONIIHMOMD ! Edenton Colonials Making First Attempt at Pro : fessional Baseball; Mayor Leroy Haskett Will Toss Ball Officially Opening Season Edenton’s Colonials open the 1951 baseball season Friday night playing Red Treadway’3 Suffolk Godbers on Hicks Field beginning at eight o’clock. The Colonials will be making their first attempt at professional baseball as a member of the Class ID Virginia League, replacing Hopewell. Spring drills have (been going on since April 9 and local officials are pleased with some of the prospects for the team. Gashouse 'Parker, beginning his fourth year as manager of the Co lonials will present a formidable team, one that will be a good representative for Edenton. Although no predictions are being made by local officials as to where the Colonials will finish this season, it is an established fact that Edenton has always finished at the top or near to it. For five years in the Albemarle League, the Colonials won every pen nant and copped three championship \ $2.00 Per Year. Festival Will Be Staged At Hotel Joseph Hewes STARTS AT 11 A. M. Exhibits Must Be Enter ed Not Later Than 10 O’clock The Edenton Junior Woman’s 'Club will sponsor its annual flower show in the Hotel Joseph IHiewes on 'Friday, May 18, beginning at 11 o’clock. The program for the day, planned by Mrs. J. B. Harrison and her Home and Garden Committee, begins with registration at the door of the Hotel at 8 o’clock. No entries will be ac cepted later than 10 o’clock. The Judges will be from the Ahoskie Garden Club and will begin promptly at 10 o’clock. They] will be given one hour to complete their judging with the show opening immediately there after. For all exhibitors desiring -to have ( their entries picked up, please call Mx-s. Frances 'Baer, telephone 307, not later than Thux-sday afternoon, (May 17 th. ■ A cordial welcome is extended to as many entries from the county as desire to participate. Prizes will be offered to entries in the following categories: I. Grand Prize: Best Cultured flower. (a) Rotating Silver Bowl. 11. Quality Prizes: Single or ar rangement. fgs 1. Roses (a) Blue Ribbon—First (Prize. (b) Red Ribbon—Second Prize. 2. Iris (a) Blue Ribbon—First Prize. (ib) Red Ribbon—Second Prize. 3. Snapdragons (a) Blue Ribbon—'First Prize. (b) Red Ribbon —Second (Prize. 4. Pronies (a) Blue Ribbon—First Prize. (b) Red Ribbon —Second Prize. Til. Arrangement 'Prizes: Judge for artistry. (a) Three Blue Ribbons—(First Prize, - (b) Three Red Ribbons—Second Prize. IV. Most unusual arrangement: Thought and Interest. i(a) Blue Ribbon—'First Prize. (h) Red Ribbon—'Second Prize. V. Miniature arrangement—Artis try. (a) Purple Ribbon. VT. Honorable Mention—S ingle flower or arrangement. (a) Twelve White Ribbons. VII. Sweepstakes Prize—Greatest number of entries. (a) Gold Ribbon. A food bazaar will be held under the able supervision of (Mrs. Corrine Thorud with cakes, pies, cookies and other delectable week-end goodies be ing prepared by members of the Junior Woman’s Club. Further details will be published in following editions of The Chowan Herald. BIBLE CLASS MEETS TUESDAY The Young Woman’s Bible Class of the Baptist Church will meet Tuesday night at the church at 8 o’clock. This will be the anniversary meeting, no that all members are Urged to abtencf. playoffs. They’ll start Friday night in quest of their sixth straight pen nant. The support of Edenton fans, and of fans in the surrounding area, will be the big boost to the Colonials in this season’s play and local officials are hoping that fans will give their support in every manner to the Co ■ lonials. Dick 'Brockwell or Monk 'Baines will probably pitch the opening game for Edenton against Suffolk. Both boys are righthanders and are exceptional ly fine pitchers. Brockwell was with the Colonials during the 1950 cam paign that was halted in mid-season and posted an imposing 14-3 record. He pitched for Burlington of thq Caro lina League in 1949 and had a* 14-e record. He is on option to Edenton by the Atlanta Cbuckers. Baines is a rookie, tbp pitching sen sation of the semi-pro IFahnefcto Lea (Continued op Page Six)