XVIII—No. 33.
.Colonials Trailing
1 City VA Games
E For Second Place
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Locals Break Even Dur
ing Week; Play Eliza
beth City Sunday
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STANDING OP CLUBS
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Petersburg —6B 33 .673
Elizabeth City 56 '46 .549
i Edenton 55 47 .539
T Suffolk 47 54 .465
Franklin 42 61 .408
Emporia -1 37 63 .370
Edenton’s Colonials broke even dur
ing the past week, winning four
games and losing four and as a result
are trailing Elizabeth City a game
and a half for second place in the
, Virginia League standing. In the
dog fight for second place the Co
lonials lost considerable ground Mon
day night when they dropped two
games to Petersburg while the Eliza
beth City Albies won a double header
Tfram Suffolk.
The next homie games for the Co
lonials will be night with
Franklin, Sunday afternoon with
x City and Tuesday night
with Suffolk.
Edenton 13, Franklin 0
C Manager Gashouse Parker cele
brated his return to the Colonials’
lineup Wednesday night, after three
days suspension, by hitting two home
runs, 21st add 22nd, on Hicks Field
when the Colonials ran rough shod
over the Franklin Kildees by a score
of 13-0. Besides Parker, Anderson
and Bagwell hit homers for Edenton,
who were defeated twice the previous
night by Franklin.
Monk Raines was on the mound for
the Colonials and gave up only five
hits. One hit was made by Collins in
the first inning, and the visitors went
hitless from then on until the seventh,
when Collins again singled and Mc-
Quillen singled. Ugarte singled in
the 1 eighth and Clark in the ninth.
Raines’ shut-out- was threatened in
the seventh • and ninth, but double
plays in each inning cut short the
threats. .
Tomasy was on the rmfund for
Franklin and was touched for 12 hits.
Messina and Parker led the assault
with three hits each. Anderson and
Bagwell made two hits each.
The Colonials drew blood in the
third inning when two runs were scor
ed. Messina singled and scored on
Anderson’s triple. Parker then sin
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Towii Councilmen
Concerned About
4 Oakum St Paving
Mayor Requested to Ar
range Meeting With
Highway Officials
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Spurred on by the baseball game
Tuesday night between the Colonials
and Petersburg Town Council met at
7 o’clock instead of 8, and rushea
through a considerable amount of
business so that members were en
abled to witness about half of the
game.
A considerable amount of time was
devoted to completing paving of Oak
. um Street and Mayor Haskett was
instructed to attempt to arrange a
meeting with State Highway officials
to see what can be done.
Town Attoney E. W. Hooper was
asked to attend the meeting and was
authorized to proceed with legal Steps
to dispose of all property for delin
quent taxes.
B. W. Evans appeared at the meet
«ing requesting renewal of a lease for
the veneer mill which is located on
town property. Action was deferrea
until the next meeting.
The matter of widening King Street
was again considered and it was de
cided to make further investigation
relative to reducing the width of the
sidewalk on only the south side In
stead of both sides as previously con
templated. The widening of this
street is being considered due to con
gested traffic.
The idea of selling timber adjoin
ing the cemetery was also discussed.
The Street Commisioner reported that
• there is now and will be considerable
more objection registered on the part
of ladies in town iff this timber is
• sold and cut down.- In- view of this
- objection it was decided to abandon
7 the idea at present at least
f Several concerns were given permis
sion to place benches on the sidewalk
’ for the convenience of the public.
These concerns were Leggett * Davis,
Mjtchener Pharmacy, Harry Chummy
at his station and at the town of
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THE CHOWAN HERALB-
I Speaker Fof Revival I
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REV, SAMUEL E. MADDOX
The :Rev. Samuel E. Maddox of
Richmond, Va., will .assist in the
annual revival at Rocky) Hock
Church, of which the Rev. R. E.
Gordon is pastor. The revival
will begin Sunday, August 26 afid
continue through Sunday, Sep
tember 2.
Revival At Rocky
Hock Church Will
Begin Next Sunday
The Rev. Samuel Mad
dox of Richmond Will
Be the Speaker
The annual revival will begin at
Rocky Hock Baptist Church Sunday
morning, August 26, and continue
through September 2. There will be
services at 3:00 P. M., and 8:00 P.
M., each day. Assisting the pastor,
R. E. Gordon, will be the Rev. Sam
uel E. Maddox of Richmond, Va.
Samuel Eaton Maddox, son of mis
sionary parents, was born in Rio de
Janeiro. He was educated at Bello
Horizonte, Georgetown (Ky.) College,
and Soutjhsm Baptist Theological
Seminary. He was-a chaplain in the
U. S. army for five years. He and
his wife, the former Nadine Sanders
of Carthage, Missouri, were appoint
ed missionaries to Brazil after his
discharge. Detained,in the States by
the illness of a son, Mr. Maddox was
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
Florence, Alabama, from 1946 until
he resigned his pastorate to accept
the Foreign Mission Board’s appoint
ment as its personnel secretary. He
assumedihis duties at the home office
in Richmond, Va., in May 1948.
It' is his duty to contact all those
interested in seeking appointment as
foreign missionaries in Baptist Col
leges and seminaries and elsewhere.
Much of his time is spent in taking
the missionary cause to the hearts of
the people in the Southland in assem
blies, state and associational meet
ings, as well as in churches.
“The public is cordially invited to
share the rich blessing of having this
distinguished minister in our coun
ty for a week,” says Mr. Gordon.
“Come with us and we will do you
good.”
Miss Ruth J. Boyce
Given Scholarship
Will Enter East Caro
lina College at Green
ville This Fall
The North Carolina Veterans Com
mission has announced that Miss Ruth
Jeannette Boyce has been designated
as one of the recipients of the State
Scholarships awarded this year to eli
gible ichildren of disabled veterans of
World War I and World War 11. i
Miss Boyce, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William O. Boyce, of Tyner,
graduated in May of this year from
the Chowan High School. She will
enter East Carolina College, Green
ville, this fall to begin four years of
academic work under the scholarship
awarded her. One of the qualifica
tions required for a State Scholarship
is a high scholastic average which
Miss Boyce attained during her at
tendance at Chowan High School.
] Dressing Up j
The Cupola House Is now re
ceiving a much needed coot of
point, which Is being dene by* the
Edenton Women’s Club. Aside
from this needed improvement,
some necessary interior repairs "
also are hefay made to the pho*
Eclentdn, Chowar County, North Carolina, Thursday? August 16,1951.
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Area Rent Director
Urges Not
To “Jump The Gun”
Petitions Necessary Be
fore Increasing Rent
Charges
John R. Morris, Area Rent Director,
says he hoped that landlords would
not “Jump the Guns” and increase
their rents without first' filing the
necessary petition in iho area rent
office. Morris stated thgt refunds
and penalties for the iftonth of July
amounted to $3,999J)1. ,o®JJiis amount
$1,105.00 was paid into-vthe Federal
Government as penalties while tenants
received the balance as refunds. This
amount does not include refunds made
on retroactive orders issued by the
Director. The above ajmount is re
funds and penalties on overcharges
which tenants were forced to pay
landlords.
The new Housing and ftent Act pro
vides for an increase of 20 per cent
of the rent which was in force on
June 30, 1947. No landlord can In
crease the rent without first filing
the proper application in the Area •
Rent office. Many landlords have al
ready received 15 per cent increase on
the rent which was in force on June
30, 1947 either by entering into a
lease with the tenant or by filing a
short form in those areas where the
Rent Advisory Boards recommended
such an increase to help compensate
the landlord for a substantial increase
in the. cost of operating and main
taining the accomodations.
The Area Rent Office is distribut- .
ing the new forms throughout the
area and if landlords prefer to write
in for these such forms will be dis
patched immediately. The form must
be executed in triplicate for each
house or each apartment. If land
lords write in for their forms they
should keep this fact in-' mind so that
they will give the correct number to
be mailed.
The Director again warned land
lords not to increase their reals wi h
out filing the petition in the Area
Rent Office. No tenant, who lives in
a controlled housing accommodation,
should pay any additional increase in
rent until he receives an order from
the Area Rent Office.
Revival Meetings
At Ballard’s Bridge
Will Begin Sunday
New Pastor Will Preach
And W. J* Daniels
Song Leader
Revival services will begin at Bal
lard’s Bridge Baptist Church Sunday,
August 19, and continue through Sun
day, August 26. Services will be at
the regular hours on Sunday, 11 A.
M., and 8 P. M., and there will be two
services each day during the week, 3
o’clock in the afternoon and 8 o’clock
each evening. '
The new pastor, the Rev. Ralph
W. Knight, will do the preaching at
each service and W. J. Daniels will
lead the singing. Gospel preaching,
praying, and singing will prevail
throughout the meeting and everyone
is invited to attend the services.
The subjects for Sunday are “The
Kind of Revival We Need,” and
“Preparations For a Blessing.”
Other topics for the week will in
clude:
“The Unchanging Christ”, “Count
ing the Cost,” "Prepare To Meet
God,” “The Scales of God,” “Hell’s
Highways,” “The Unpardonable Sin,”
“The Return of Jesus,” “Be Sure
Your Sins Will Find You Out,” and
other worthwhile Biblical messages.
Two Convicts Make
Break For Freedom
Two convicts of the State road gang
made a break for freedom about 10:30
o’clock Thursday morning while work
ing on a piece of Toad at Waff’s Fish
ery near the Chowan River bridge.
The two convicts were Robert King,
19, and Daniel Henson, 25, working
ourt of the prison camp at Gates
ville.
The men fled into the swamp near
the bridge and bloodhounds were sum
moned to put on their trail. They
I were captured the same day between
the Chowan River bridge and lEden
ton.
•C ROTARY MEETS TODAY
Edenton’s Rotary Club wiH meet
today (Thursday) at 1 o’clock in the
Parish House. President J. L.'Che&t
nutt is esoecially anxious to have S
full attendance..
Red Cross Asked To
Double Conkjbution
For Hood Victims
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Chairman Geddes Pot
ter Says Contributions
Coming In Slowly
All jphapters of the American Red
Cross hava been requested to double
the minifnum goals assigned to them
earlier/in the disaster fund appeal.
This increased goal was announced
after if had been determined that reg
istrations for emergency and rehabili
tation kid from the Red Cross will
total .at least 26,000 families, a fig
ure which has been climbing steadily
since survey, teams have been able
to nuujje more complete surveys of
flood fipreckage, and flood-hit fami
lies h#ve made their needs known to
Red Qtoss registration stations set up
throughout the flood areas. The Red
Cross estimates that at least 7,600 of
these must- have help from
the Red Cross in either completely
rebuilding or repairing their,homes.
More ithan 11,500 families are expect
ed to'need financial aid in replacing
'or repairing destroyed or damaged
household furnishings.
Estimates of Red Cross expendi
tures necessary for flood relief pur
poses have doubled since the $5,000-
000 fund appeal was launched.
Urgent appeal has been sent to
chapters to intensify their efforts in
the fund appeal and create or per
fect the necessary organization to so
licit corporations, businesses, big giv
ers, foundations, large employee
•groups, etc. It also has been urged
that the facts of the disaster, the ur
gency: of the fund appeal continue to
be impressed on the general pub
lic through all available means of pub
licity, and that the public be given an
opportunity to contribute to the fund.
Geddes Potter, Chairman of the
Chowan County Red Cross chapter,
said qarly this week that contributions
are coming in very He said no
canvass would be mkde, so that any
contributions should be sent to him,
V s. Joe Thorud, treasurer, at the
Bank of Edenton or to the Herald
office.
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OPA Compliance
By Retail Concerns
Is Being Checked
Special Agents Will Call
On About 1,200 East
ern Carolina Firms
A survey to determine compliance
by retail firms handling consumer,
goods covered by Ceiling Price Regu
lation 7 is underway in eastern North
Carolina by the Office of Price Stabi
lization, it is announced by Enforce
ment Director James F. Latham.
In conjunction with a nation-wide
drive to check the filing of price
charts on the part of retail dealers in
apparel, furniture, household wares,
radios, television sets and related
fields, special agents of the OPS En
forcement Division will call on an es
timated 1,200 firms here in eastern
Carolina within the next week.
In outlying areas, calls by special
agents will be coordinated with the
services of business analysts from the
Price section, who are instructed to
give help and information. This ad
ditional effort is being made in areas
where the availability of technical
assistance has been limited, and where
it was felt there had been an inade
quate distribution of explanatory ma
terial.
The survey is to check on the ac
tual filing of charts, and not for
technical errors on the part of retail
ers, the OPS announced. Approxi
mately 2,600 price charts have been
filed with the OPS in Raleigh. At the
conclusion of the survey, OPS will
have a record of compliance for each
retail establishment in the district,
Latham noted.
“No other OPS regulation affects
more directly the cost of living of ev
ery family in North Carolina. The
majority of retailers have recog
nized their responsibility; the others
must do so,” the Enforcement Direc
tor said.
Betsy Wood Models
For Fashion Magazine
Edenton friends will be delighted
to know that Miss Betsy Wood is fea
tured in the current issue of the
ladies’ fashion magazine Mademoi
selle. Miss Wood is shown modeling
latest fashions for fall and winter.
Mias Wood, daughter oft Mrs. Fred
P. Wood and the late Mr. Wood, is
an active and popular student at Ran
dolph-Macon -College.
Revival Spqjfoer |
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REV. DOUGLAS >l. BRANCH
Revival services will be held at
the Warwick Baptist Church from
Sunday night, August 26 through
Sunday morning, September 2.
The Rev. Douglas M. Branch,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church at Kannapolis, will preach
during the series of meetings.
Revival Services At
Warwick Church
Begin August 26
The Rev. Douglas M.
Branch of Kannapolis
Will Preach
Revival services at the Warwick
Baptist Church, Chowan County, will
begin Sunday night, August 26, at 8
o’clock, and will conclude with the
Sunday morning service, September
2. Afternoon services Monday through
Saturday will be At 3 o’clock.
The Rev. Douglas M. Branch, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church, Kan
napalis, will bring the messages. The
singing and special music will be un
der the direction of John Holmes, Ra
leigh.
Both the preacher and singer are
widely known in North Carolina, the
Rev. Mr. Branch having been pastor
in Scotland Neck for several years
before going to Kannapolis. Mr.
Holmes was minister of music at
Tabernacle Baptist Church, Raleigh,
for several years.
The Rev. Paul Lemons, pastor of
Warwick Baptist Church, extends a
warm invitation to the general public
to attend these meetings.
New Children At
School Requested
To Register Names
Registration Scheduled
To Begin Wednes
day, Aug. 22
All children who will attend the
Edenton City schools for the first
time this year, or who attended an
other school last year, are asked to
come to the school on Court Street
to register for the coming year. Any
student who will be in one of the
first six grades will register with Mr.
Swain in the principal’s office. Those
in grades seven through twelve will
register with Mr. Powers in the prin
cipal’s office.
Registration will begin Wednesday,
August 22, at 9 o’clock.
Any high school student who de
sires to change his schedule for the
coming year is asked to report to the
school so a new schedule can he work
ed out before the opening of school
on September 5.
Edenton’s National
Guard Unit Leaves
For Camp Saturday
Edenton’s Heavy Mortar Company
of the North Carolina National Guard
will leave Saturday afternoon for
Camp McClelland at Anniston, Ala
bama, for two weeks of intensive
training. They will remain in camp
for two weeks. The group will travel
on a troop train.
An advance detail ieft Tuesday of
this week at midnight and will be at
Camp McClelland when the company
arrives.
MASONtS MEET TONIGHT
Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. &
A .M., will meet tonight Cnrarsday)
in the Court House at 8 o’clock. Due
to no home baseball game scheduled,
i C. B. Mooney, master of the lodge,
i urges a full attendance. Visiting Ma
sons are cordially invited to attend
the meeting.
Per Year.
Edenton’s Schools
Will Open Sept sth
For 1951-52 Term
Faculty and Buildings
Will Be In Readiness
For Opening
According to Superintendent John
A. Holmes, the Edenton schools will
open for the 1951-52 term on Wed
nesday, September 5. All teachers
have been employed except one, that
being for the commercial department,
and this vacancy is expected to be
filled before the opening day. Aside
from this change, there will be only
one new teacher for the school facul
ty. Mrs. J. O. Powers, wife of Prin
cipal Powers, will succeed Mrs. Lloyd
Bunch, who resigned.
At present repairs and renovations
are being made at the school build
ing, so that everything will be in
readiness when school opehs on Sep
tember a.
There is so m e disappointment
among school officials due to inabili
ty to use the new high school now
under construction on Hicks Field. It
was thought the plant would be com
pleted in time for the approaching
school year, but various delays have
held up completion of the building.
Mi - . Holmes is hopeful it will be ready
for use by Thanksgiving.
At the colored school Principal
D. F. Walker has one vacancy to be
filled. This teacher is expected to
be secured within a few days. At
the colored school various repairs
have been made and some tidying up
done, so that both buildings will be
ready for the opening of school.
Farmers Ur?«TTo
Continue Dusting
To Combat Weevils
High Infestation Is Re
ported By Assistant
County Agent
Chowan cotton farmers are urged to
continue dusting their crop to control
the boll weevil says Robert Marsh, as
sistant county agent.
“The two fields examined on Mon
day and Tuesday of this week showed
the highest infestation of adult weev
ils that has been seen at one time,”
states Marsh. In two of the fields
examined the assistant county agent
found 89 grown weevils in 400
squares. Five squares had four adult
weevils each, ten had three weevils
and 30 squares had two weevils each.
These two fields have been dusted, but
at least two more (and possibly three
more) applications should be applied
to control the weevils. In these fields,
a total of 224 squares were punctured,
which is unusually high. More fields
will be checked later this week.
“Toxaphene will control boll weevils
and boll worms,” says March. Ten
to 15 pounds per acre should be used,
and it should be applied 5 days apart.
“If Red Spiders are present, dust
cotton with 15-20 pounds per acre of
dusting sulphur.”
L W. Hooper New
C. Os C. Secretary
Headquarters Will Be In
New Office of E. W.
Hooper
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Effective today (Thursday) the
Chamber of Commerce office will be
in the office of Town Attorney E. W.
Hooper, who has moved to the Eden
ton Building and Loan building at
the corner of Broad and King Streets.
He will occupy the room formerly
used by Edenton Florists. The office
was formerly C. B. Mooney’s office
on Broad Street.
With the change in the location
of the office there will also be at
change in secretary. Mr. Hooper will
serve as secretary, succeeding Miss
Naomi Copeland, who has been acting
secretary in connection with her other
duties since the Chamber of Com
merce was revived a few months ago.
Archie Templeton Out
Os Colonials’ Lineup
Archie Templeton, popular Colonial
rigljtfielder is out of the Edenton
lineup due to a knee injury which oc
curred last week in Franklin when
he slid into second base.
He is expected to be out of the line
up tor several more games.