Volume XlX.—Number 34. '
Schools Os County !
•Will Open Sept. 4th
For 1952-53 Session,
Conferences Wednesday!
For White and Col
ored Teachers
FACULTY" FILLED
Repairs Made So That
Everything Is Ready
For Opening
IChowan High School, Rocky Hock
Central. School and White Oak Con
solidated School will begin the 1952-
53 season, Thursday morning, Sep
tember 4, at 8:30 o’clock.
Wednesday morning, September 3,
at 10 o’clock a conference with all
white teachers will be held at Cho
wan High School. Wednesday after
noon at 3 o’clock a conference with
all Negro teachers will 'be held at
White Oak School.
All teachers have been secured, ac
cording to Superintendent W. J. Tay
lor. Three new teachers have been
employed. Mrs. Loraine H. Rogerson
for Rocky Hock Central replaces Mrs.
Spdie Morris. She will act as prin
cipal and teach the sixth and seventh
grades. Miss Janie Haislip, replaces
Mrs. E. B. Edwards at Chowan High
(School. She will teach a section of
Hie third and fourth grades. Mrs. |
Royce H. Tompkins is an additional |
teacher for White Oak School by rea
eon of average daily attendance.
Mrs. Rogerson and Miss Haislip are
graduates of East Carolina College.
Mrs. Tompkins is a graduate of Liv- '
ingstone College.
School repairs are being made rap
idly as possible and it is expected all
•will be in readiness by the opening
date of school.
Judge Marvin Wdson
Chairman In Chowan
For UNC Scholarship
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Morehead Foundation Is
Offering Scholarships
To H. S. Graduates
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Judge Marvin P. Wilson of Eden- <
ton has been appointed chairman for '
Chowan County of the John Motley
Morehead Foundation program for 1
awarding scholarships to the Univer
sity of North Carolina to graduates
of high schools and preparatory j
schools.
Judge Wilson was presented his
commission at a recent meeting of
the county chairmen in Chapel Hill, i 1
Morehead- scholarships heretofore j
have been available only to graduate,
students.
The undergraduate Scholarships will
be valued at $1,250 a year for one
year, but will be subject to renewal.
These will be available for the fall
term of 1953, but application must
be in the hands of the county com
mittee by November 15. The scholar
ships will be awarded next February
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New Business To
Start In Edentonj
Earl G: Harrell Return
ing to Edenton From
New Bern
Friends of Mr. and Mis. Earl G.
Harrell will be pleased to learn that,'
they plan to return to Edenton to
live. The couple left Edenton several
months ago to make their home in!
New Bern and upon their return Mr.
Harrell will start a new business of
his own, the Edenton Feed & Live- i
stock Company.
The new concern will be located on
Route 32, about one mile north of
, Edenton, where will be bought hogs
and other livestock, peanuts, corn, soy
beans and peanut hay. Hr. Harrell
•will also handle fertilizers and farm
supplies, as well as shell corn at
barns at his wardhouse.
Commissioners Will
Meet On Wednesday
Chowan County Commissioners will
hold their September meeting Wed
nesday of next week, September 8, in- 1
stead of the first Monday, Septem- <
her 1. Postponement of the meeting
is due to Labor Day, which is observed
as a legal holiday.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
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A Chowan native, the Rev. G. 1
Norman Ashley, of Salembnrg, N.
C., will preach at the Rocky Hock
Baptist Church’s revival Aug. *1
to September 7.
Schools In Edenton
WH OpcnSept 3rd
New Students Request
ed to Register Today
And Friday
All students in grades 7 to 12, who
will attend the Edanton City Schools
for the first time this year, are asked
to register at the Junior-Senior High
School between the hours of 1:00 and
4:30 on Thursday, August 28, or Fri
day, August 29, between the hours of
8:80 and 12:00 and 1:00 and 4:80.
As has been announced, the Eden
ton City Schools will open on Wed
nesday morning, 'September 3 at 9
o’clock. School will dismiss at 12
noon on the opening day. On Thurs
day and Friday the school day will be
gin at 8:25 and close at 12:15. The
cafeteria will not serve lunch on these
days, but will be ready to serve lunch
on Monday, 'September 8.
Students in grades 9 to 12, upon
entering the building at 9 o’clock on
the opening day, will report directly
to the home room to which they were
assigned on the closing day of school
last Spring. Students in grades 7
and 8 will report to either of the home
rooms listed below. Rolls of each sec
tion will be called and students as
signed accordingly. Home room num
bers are listed below:
Twelfth—lls arid 205.
Eleventh —201 and 202.
Tenth—2ll and 212.
Ninth—lo 4 and 215.
Eighth—l2s and 118.
Seventh—ll 9 and 124.
Students will march to chapel with
their respective home room groups at v
9:15 for opening exercises. Parents ;
are invited to attend.
4-H Poultry Show
j And Sale Sept 4th
14 Pens Wfflße Sold at
Edenton Armory at
2:30 P.M.
On Thursday, September 4, there
.will be a 4-H poultry show and sale
' at the Edenton armory at 2:30 P. M.
I At this time 14 pens of Parmenter
' red pullets will be sold to the high
est bidder. There will be 12 pullets
in each pen, and bids will be on a pen
of 12 binis instead of individual birds.
These pullets are from Harris’ R.O.P.
Hatchery, Valdese, N. C., which is one
of the best Parmenter hatcheries in
the State. The Parmenter strain of
Rhode Island red chickens is bred es
pecially for its egg laying capacity. '
These pullets are 4-H project chick
ens, sponsored by the Berkley Feed i
Company of Norfolk, Va. Last March
fourteen carefully selected 4-H Club
members were each given 100 day-old
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MASONIC MEETING GALLED OFT
Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. &
'A. M., will not meet tonight (Thurs
day), according to the master, W. A.
Harrell. An emergent communication
was held Wednesday night, when the
first degree was conferred. I
" Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 28,1952.
New Lunch Room
Program Initiated
In Edenton School
Bulk of Students Will Be
Required to Eat In
Lunch Room
At a meeting of the Edenton school
trustees Friday night a set of regu
lations was approved and adopted
which calls for a closed lunch room ;
program which was prepared by Prin- j
cipals Gerald James, Ernest A. Swain ;
and D. F. Walker.
The regulations 'pertain primarily to '
the lunch room, although one'affects
the entire school day. 1
Under the regulations adopted by
the board, there will be a maximum of
30 minutes daily for lunch; children
will be permitted to go home and eat
lunch after the parents b a ve present
ed a signed statement which will be
on file seeking permission for the stu
dent to go home for lunch, but this
permission will be voided in the event
the student is late three times after
having been warned; no child will be
(permitted to eat any place except the
I lunch room or home (lunches may be
brought from home and consumed in
the lunch room); students will be en
couraged to eat in the school lunch
room; any case of financial hardship
will be investigated and if found
worthy, will be provided lunches under
the Federal feeding program; and,
finally, that no student will be per
mitted to leave the school grounds
during the day without the permis
sion of the principal.
Mrs. Josie Ruth Carr
Is Given State Post
By BPW Federation
Edenton Woman Named
State Public Affairs
Chairman
Edenton’s Business and Professional
Women’s Club, and Mrs. Josie Ruth
W. Carr, in particular, were honored
recently when Mrs. Carr was appoint
ed by the executive board to serve
the State BPW Federation as public
affairs chairman.
Mrs. Carr’s appointment brings to
the State Federation Chairmanship,
one who has had much experience in
civic and educational affairs. -In
teaching and In civic work in this,
and another state, she has had oppor
tunities to observe economic, social
and political problems, and has par
ticipated in community activities de
signed to solve them. Besides, in the
teaching profession, her most valu
able experiences have been in holding
positions in the World Service Guild
Voters, the Democratic Party, and the
Business and Professional Women’s
Club.
In accepting the appointment Mrs.
Carr had this to say: “With the world
in need of a moral intellectual and
spiritual revolution, we must be at
our best We, its women in particular,
must realize that we, too, are people,
and that it is our responsibility to
\help raise the standards of the world
by exercising full citizenship, and by l
seeking to have a voice in the policy
making of our beloved country.”
Registration Today For
New School Children
Ernest Swain, principal of the
Edenton elementary school, again calls
attention to parents who have chil
dren who will begin school for the
first time this year, to bring them
to the school on Court Street today
(Thursday) and Friday for registra
tion.
School will open next Wednesday,
September 3, at 9 o’clock, when chil
dren in grades one through the sixth
will be required to report at .the ele
mentary school. Children in the
seventh through the twelfth grades
are required to report at the new
high school on Hicks Field.
POST OFFICE WILL BE OPEN
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS
Beginning Wednesday of next week,
September 3, the Edenton Post Office
will remain open Wednesday after
noons. The Post Office joined other
Edenton concerns in observing the
Wednesday half holiday during the
summer months.
ROTARY MEETS TODAY
Edenton’s Rotary Club will meet
today (Thursday) in the Parish House
at 1 o’clock. President W. T. Har
ry urges every Rotanan to make a
special effort to attend in order to reg
lister another 100 per cent meeting.
Colonials Threaten j
For Second Place In
Coastal Plain Race
As of Wednesday Eden
ton Club Trails Wilson
By Only Half Game
STANDING OF CLUBS
(As of Wednesday)
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Kinston 74 45 .622
Wilson 66 51 .564
Edenton 66 52 .559
Goldsboro 61 66 .521
Roanoke Rapids 59 60 .496
Rocky Mount 56 61 .479
Tarboro 56 51 .479
New Bern. 30 79 .331
Edenton’s Colonials went on a win
ning streak during the week to win
five of seven games played. As a re
sult of the spurt, the Colonials on
Wednesday were threatening to shove
Wilson out of second place. The Co
lonials were trailing Wilson by only i
half a game. Goldsboro, on the heels
of Edenton, was 414 games behind the
Colonials for third place.
The regular schedule will come to
a close next Sunday, with the remain
ing home games as follows: Tonight,
(Thursday), Goldsboro; 'Friday night
Wilson and Sunday afternoon, Roa
noke Rapids.
Edenton 12, New Bern 2
On Hicks Field Wednesday night
the Colonials swamped New Bern 12
to 2. Stinza, Edenton moundsman,
was wild at the outset, but settled
down to allow the visitors only four
scattered hits. In the second inning
he walked four batters, which account
ed for one of New Bern’s runs. Af
ter this inning, however, only .three
visitors advanced as far as second
1 base.
, The Colonials hammered Borden and
■Bevil for 10 hits with Clark, Evans,
. Onan and Anderson each getting two.
Edenton started early by scoring
three runs in the first inning, added
three more in the fourth, four in the
fifth and two in the seventh.
Edenton 4, Rocky Mount I
On Hicks Field Thursday night
Monk Raines, ace Edenton hurler, nar
rowly missed a no-hit, no-run game
when the Colonials defeated Rocky
Mount 4 to 1. Raines pitched hitless
ball until the eighth inning, when
Wellman singled <*id again in the
ninth Ferrora also singled for the
only two 'Rocky Mount hits.
Storch started for Rocky Mount
but was replaced by Kovalchek in the j
sixth after the Colonials had made]
three runs and nine hits. KoValchelr
was touched for three hits and one
run.
Rocky Mount’s only run was made
in the eighth after Wellman singled.
He went to second on Templeton’s
grounder and to third on Mauney’s
had throw to 6eoond. He scored on
a fly hit by Harriman.
The Colonials scored a run. in .the
second when Inge walked and was out
at second on Griffin’s grounder. An
derson popped up. Mauney and
Raines singled in succession to fill
the bases. Clark was safe on an er
ror on which Griffin raced home. In
the sixth two more rung were added*,
Griffin singled and Mauney doubled,
after which they raced home on a
double by Raines. The last run was
scored in the seventh. Horton doubled
and came home when Onan singled.
Mauney was the batting star of the
i night, making four of Edenton’s 12
hits. Horton, Griffin and Raines fol
lowed with two hits each.
Edenton 2, Rocky Mount 5
In Rocky Mount Friday night the
Leafs turned the tables by defeating
the Colonials 5 to 2. .Tommy Reeves
was on the mound for Edenton and
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Town-County Offices
Closed On Labor Day
Town and county offices will be clos
ed next Monday, September 1, in ob
servance of Labor Day, a national holi
day. Any important business should.,
therefore, be transacted accordingly, j
Members of the Street Department
will also observe the holiday, so that
no trash and garbage will be collect
ed. Collections will be resumed as
usual on Tuesday morning.
Haywood Phthisic Is
111 Due To Stroke
Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Quinn had a
three weeks’ vacation unexpectedly
interrupted last week, when Mr. Quinn
was called home due to his associate
in the P A Q Food Center. Haywood
Phthisic being the victim of a stroke.
Mr. and Mrs. Quinn planned to go to
the west coast, but they were contact
ed in Arkansas and hurriedly turned |
eastward, arriving home Saturday
morning.
Mr. Phthisic was stricken Thursday
morning and is confined to his home
in Westover Heights, where his con
dition is reported encouraging.
[Merry
Ask Permission To
Attend Local School
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New Scout Executive
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RAYMOND F. HECK, JR.
With William A. Sutherland
being promoted by the Tidewater
Council, Raymond F. Heck, Jr., ji
has been named Field Scout Exec- 1
utive for the East and West Albe- 1
marie Districts, Boy Scouts of
America.
Rocky Hock Revival
Begins August 31st
Rev. G. Norman Ashley
Os Salemburg Will
Be Evangelist
The Rev. R. E. Gordon, pastor of the
Rocky Hock Baptist Church, announces
that a revival meeting will be held in
. his church starting next Sunday, Aug
’ ust 31 and continuing through Sun
, day, September 7.
The visiting evangelist will be the
Rev. G. Norman Ashley of Salem
] burg, N. C., a native of Chowan, Coun
] ty. “We feel very fortunate in the
, prospect of haring this man of God
with us for these services,” says Mr.
Gordon, who will also assist during
'lthe revival.
,1 There will be two services each day,
'one at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and
the night service beginning at 8
o’clock. The public is cordially in- ■
, vited to attend any and all of the ser
vices.
Football Bleachers
Contract Is Held Up
Town Clerk Goes to Ra
leigh to Have Plans
« Approved
Meeting in special session Tuesday j
night Town Councilmen took another
step toward the erection of new foot- '
ball bleachers at Hicks Field.
A local contractor drew up plans and
specifications, which was submitted to
three local contractors for bids. The
bids were opened Tuesday night and
ranged from $12,000 to SIB,OOO, but
no contract was awarded. Instead
Town Clerk Ernest Ward was in
structed to go to Raleigh Wednes
day to contact Fire Marshal Sherwood
Brockwell’s office in order to pass on
the proposed construction.
The Councilmen will meet again in
. special session this (Thursday) morn
ing at 10 o’clock to award the con
tract if the proposed construction is
satisfactory to the State Fire Mar
shall.
The new bleachers are to be built
(of concrete blocks and will be 168
| feet long instead of 200 feet as origi
inally planned.
There will be 12 rows of seats, and
two dressing rooms 16 feet wide and
1 47 feet long which will 'be under the
bleachers. The old wooden bleachers
have been removed by the Street De- 1
partment, so that work will be start
ed on the project just as soon as the
• contract is awarded.
Coon Dog Field Trial
Labor Day Attraction
1 Chowan County’s Coon Club will
, sponsor a coon dog field trial as a
Labor Day attraction on Monday, Sep
tember 1. The trial will be held at
I Fit Field, near Bandon, about 10 miles
north of Edenton.
Refreshments will be sold on the
• grounds, and the public is cordially in
i vited to attend. The trial will begin
• at 9 o’clock in the morning, with
'no charge made for attending.
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Low Attendance Causes
Bertie School to Be
Ordered Closed
ONLY 52 ENROLLED
Patrons Balk at Order to
Send Students to
Windsor
At a meeting of the Edenton school
trustees Friday night a committee of
parents of the Midway and Merry Hill
communities of Bertie County re
quested permission for Merry Hill
High School students to attend the
Edenton High School.
The request came about due to the
fact that the Merry Hill High School
has been closed by the State and the
students have been ordered to attend
the Windsor High School. Patrons of
the Merry Hill School tried to the last
to save the school, but the State’s
action was due to falling off of attend
ance. Under State law, any high
school where the student body falls
below 60 may be closed and the stu
dents sent to other schools.
The Merry Hill High School enroll
ment has dropped to 52 students, so
that the school has been ordered clos
ed. However, the elementary school
will continue to operate.
While the high school students af
fected were ordered to attend Wind
sor High School, the Merry Hill
committee Friday night pointed out
that the Edenton school would be more
desirable. In the first place, they
said, the Windsor school is smaller
than Edenton and is already crowded.
In the second place, they contended
that people in the affected area do
most of their shopping and banking in
Edenton, which is somewhat closer
than Windsor.
A tour of the new Edenton High
School was conducted and the com
mittee was visibly impressed with
the new structure. The committee
was of the opinion that transporta
tion, despite the work being done on
the Chowan River bridge, could be
easily worked out and would be no
dangerous than the ride over the torn
up stretch of road from Midway to
Windsor.
The spokesman for the Bertie com
mittee was Frank Perry.
The Edenton board was favorable to
the Bertie students attending the local
•school, provided the legal and financial
aspects could be worked out, so that
proper credit would be given in or
der to secure teacher assignments.
According to a spokesman for the
school board, the Bertie County Board
of Education must grant permission
for Merry Hill students to come to
Edenton before the move could be
perfected. It was the belief of those
present that the State Board would
give permission if the Bertie board
did.
The committee, pleased by v the re
ception of the Edenton board, declar
ed they would go before the Bertie
Board of Education as their next step
'in the project of sending their stu
dents to Edenton High School. The
students involved are from the ninth
' grade up.
Edenton Aces Open
1952 Grid Season In
GoldsboroSept. sth
Coach George Thomp
son’s Squad Hurt By
Graduation
'With Coach George Thompson’s
Edenton Aces scheduled to play their
first football game of the season in
Goldsboro, Friday night, September
5, he is busily engaged rounding out
his 1952 gridiron machine. The squad
this year has received a severe blow
due to loss of seasoned players by
graduation, so that this year’s outfit
will necessarily have to be built
around inexperienced players. How
ever, Coaches Thompson and Ben Per
ry are very much encouraged by the
showing in recent practice sessions
when the boys displayed a keen in
trest in the game and a fighting
spirit.
Coach Thompson says he has a fair
y good line on offense and defense,
but that his backfield is lacking ex
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BANK CLOSED LABOR DAY
The Bank of Edenton will be closed
i next Monday, September 1. in obser
vance of Labor Day, a national holi
i day. All important banking business
should, therefore, be transacted ac
cordingly.
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