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Volume XlX.—Number 49. ‘
4953 Pilgrimage Os
Colonial Edenton Is
Set For April 10-11
Already Nine Homes
And Four. Public
Shrines on List
MORE EXPECTED
Woman’s Club Enter
tained By Mrs. Brown
ing’s Choral Group
r ■
At the December meeting of the
Edenton Woman’s Club, held Wednes
| day of last week at St. Paul’s Pariah
* House, members and their guests en
■ joyed a program of Christmas carols
/ presented by Mrs. Mary Leggett
Browning’s choral group from Edenton
High School. This entertainment by
Mrs. Browning’s group has become
a tradition at each December meet
ing and is always delightful.
Another custom of the Woman’s
Club which came under discussion
during the business meeting is the
aiding of a needy family at Christ
mas. Mrs. James Bond, chairman of
the Welfare Committee, announced
that a family has been chosen and
members will be contacted for contri
butions of food, clothing, or toys. Her
committee ig authorized to purchase
additional necessary items. Mrs. Bond
also announced that the TB Seal sale
sponsored annually by the club is
underway.
Mrs. T. C. Byrum, Jr., reported
that the Tom Thumb Wedding and
baby contest was a financial success
and proceeds will be used toward res.
toration of the Penelope Barker
House. Mrs. J. H. Conger, Jr., presi-
J dent of the Club, reported briefly on
plans under discussion by the Penelope
.Barker House Governing Board for
repairs to the house.
Another feature of the business
session was the report of Mrs. John
Graham, general chairman of the 1953
*f^lgrimage of Colonial Edenton and
Countryside. She announced the dates
of the pilgrimage—Friday and Satur
day, April 10 and l'l —and stated that
block tickets will sell for $3.00 to
adults and SI.OO to Students. Tic
kets to individual homes may be pur
chased for 50c to adults and 25c to
students. A 10 per cent discount will
be allowed for groups numbering more
than twenty. At this writing, nine
homes and four public shrines will def
initely open, with the possibility of
others being added to the list later.
In addition to Mrs. Graham as gen
eral chairman and Mrs. R. N. Hines
«s her co-chairman, other committee
heads are as follows:
Publicity, Mrs. W. J. P. Earnhardt;
Co-chairman, Miss Elizabeth Moore.
Tickets, Mrs. Willis MdClenney; co
chairman, Mrs. W. T. Harry.
Tea, Mrs. M. R. Wisely.
Hostess, Mrs. Richard Goodwin.
Advertising, Mrs. W. D. Holmes,
Jr.
Markers, Mrs. Frank Holmes.
Auxiliary Os Legion
Will Stage Party For
legionnaires Dec. 15
Two Prominent Legion
naires Scheduled to
Be Guests
Announcement has been made that
the American Legion Auxiliary will
stage a party for the Legionnaires at
the Legion Hut on the Windsor high
way Monday night, December 15,
starting at 7:80 o’clock.
Two prominent Legionnaires are ex
pected to be special guests for the oc
casion, Department Commander Roy
Shuping of Greensboro and Division
Commander Rill McMillan of Rocky
(Mount.
All Legionnaires and ex-service men
7 are cordially invited to attend the ,
party and each one is requested to
; take a gift costing not over 50 cents.
'The gifts will be exchanged among |
jnthose present
B* -- i
J First Degree Tonight
At Masonic Meeting
u Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. A
[fk. M., will meet tonight (Thursday)
HR* 8 o’clock in the Court Housi. At i
Bm meeting the first degree will be
upon a candidate, and W. A.
master, urges a good attend
plince- He especially extends a cordial
Onvttation to visiting Masons to at
«*nd the meeting.
THE CHOWAN HERALDI
j| Half And Half |
According to a letter sent to
Governor W. Kerr Scott, eighth
graders at Chowan High School
are of the opinion the school term
is too long.
In a letter to the Governor 34
students signed their names to the
letter which read thus:
‘‘We will make this letter short
by getting down to business. We
want three more months, which
will make six months of vacation.
Six months going to school is long
enough. This is our ‘Declaration
of Independence,’ and we hope
this will be granted.”
According to a report, the Gov
ernor’s Office referred the letter
to the Department of Public In
struction.
“Declaration of Independence,”
or not, the letter will hardly
change the State’s school system.
R. H. Holloweli Wins
Soil Conservation Job
•
Receives 61% of Votes
Cast In Election Held
Last Week
R. H. Holloweli, a farmer of the
Small’s Cross Roads section of Cho
wan County, was re-elected to the
Chowan County Board of Soil Conser
vation Supervisors as a result of the
county-wide election which was held
last week. Mr. Holloweli will serve
for a term of three years, beginning
on January 1, 1953.
. The results of last week’s elec
tion were certified to the State Soil
Conservation Committee by L. C.
Bunch, Chairman of the Albemarle
Soil Conservation District, on Satur
day night, December 6. Besides Mr.
Holloweli, the other candidates in the
election were T. A. Berryman and A.
V. Asbell. According to Mr. Bunch,
Candiate Holloweli received a little
better than 61 per cent of the votes
cast in the referendum.
The Chowan County Soil Conserva
tion Committee for 1953 will be com
posed of L. C. Bunch, farmer of the
Braille community; Joe A. Webb, Jr.,
a farmer of the Yeopim community,
and R. H. Holloweli.
This committee will organize a
chairman, vice-chairman, and secre
tary with the chairman being ex
officio member of the Albemarle Soil
Conservation District Board of Su
pervisors, Mr. Bunch stated.
The committee will represent Cho
wan County in matters relating to
Soil Conservation and will exercise
general supervision over the program
of the Soil Conservation Service and
will engage in activities for its pro
motion in this area. This will be car
ried out, Mr. Bunch said, through par
ticipation in the program of the Al
bemarle District.
C.T. Griffin Elected
Master By Masons
Public Installation Cere
mony Will Be Held
December 18
Members of Unanimity Lodge, No.
7, A. F. & A. M., elected officers for
the year 19S8 at their meeting held
Thursday night.
C. T. Griffin was elected master,
succeeding W. A. Harrell. Other offi
cers elected were: W. M. Rhoades,
senior warden; C. W. Overman, junior
warden; C. H. Wood, treasurer, and
Louis George Wilkins, secretary.
These officers, together with the
subordinate offices appointed by the
new master, will be duly installed at
a public installation service in the
Court House Thursday night, Decem
ber 18. H. A. Campen will be mas
ter of ceremonies and attending the
meeting as special guests will be EM
T. Howard of High (Point, deputy
grand master, and iWilliam J. (Bundy,
of Greenville, past grand master, who
will make the principal address for
the occasion.
At the conclusion of the meeting
refreshments will be served. This
will be the first public installation of
Masonic officers to be held in Edenton
in many years, and the public is
cordially invited to attend.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 11,1952.
Court Os Honor In
Methodist Church
Next Tuesday Night
Advancements Will Be
Made By Local Troop
In All Ranks
Plans have been announced for a
1 Court of Honor for the West Albe
marle District, Boy Scouts of Ameri
ca, which will be held in - the Eden
ton Methodist Church Tuesday night,
December 16, starting at 7:30 o’clock.
J. L. Maston, District Advance
ment Chairman, will be in charge of ;
the ceremonies, to which the public
is cordially invited.
Advancements will be made in every
rank of the Edenton troop of Boy
Scouts as follows:
Tenderfoot—Ralph Chappell.
Second Class —Ralph Chappell, Jack
Overman, Dallas Stallings, Arthur
White, Terry Bennett, Tommy Ke
hayes, Robert Boyce, Bill Harry and
Oscar White.
First Class—Caleb White, Stuart
Holland and Miles Williams.
Star—Robert Earl Edwards and
Caleb White.
Life—Gordon Proctor.
Eagle—Clifford Overman and the
Bronz Eagle Palm will be awarded
Ben Browning, an Eagle Scout,
i Merit Badges will be awarded as
| follows:
Ben Browning—Landscape Garden
ling, Leatherwork, Rowing and Wood
carving.
Clifford Overman—Rowing, Leath
erwork, Canoeing, Woodwork, Wood
, (Continued on Page Eight)
Town Councilmen
In Long Session
On Tuesday Night
Various Matters Claim
Attention Until Af
ter 10:30
Town Councilmen had a busy ses
sion Tuesday night, bolding them in
sessioii until close to 11 o’clock.
Present at the meeting was Col. El
mer Brackett, commanding officer of
the Edenton Marine Corps Auxiliary i
Landing Field. Col. Brackett appear
ed in the interest of the Marines using
the Edenton armory as part of the
recreational program at the base.
After discussing the matter the Coun
cilmen delegated author'ty for use of
the armory for athletic purposes to
Capt. Cecil Fry, commanding officer of
the local National Guard' Unit.
A representative of the Camp Man
ufacturing Company of Franklin, Va.,
requested permission to remove, by
use of dynamite, the old pilings on the
company’s property next to the Eden
ton Bay Packing Company. The Coun
cilmen were assured there would be
no damage but that a loud report
would be heard from the explosion.
Permission was given to dynamite the
piles after an argument was executed
by the concern to be responsible if
any damage might occur. The work
will probably be done before Christ
mas, so that citizens are advised not
to become excited if they hear the
explosions along the waterfront
More requests were made for taxi
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Lt Morris T. Griffin
Killed In Jet Crash
Parents Notified and
Now Awaiting Word
From Air Force
Mr. and Mrs. Monte T. Griffin
have been notified that their son,
Lieut. Morris T. Griffin, Jr., was
killed in an airplane accident about
25 miles north of Blythe, Calif.
The Griffins were firrt notified by
the Air Force that their son was miss
ing, but late Tuesday night Lieut.
Griffin’s wife informed them that he
was killed. The wife of Lieut. Grif
fin left Tuscaloosa, Arizona, prior to
her husband’s last day oi training be
fore leaving for Korea. He was pilot
on an FB4 Thunderjet fighter plane.
The wreckage was found on the
western edge of the Mosave Desert
after fishermen and Indians reported
the crash and seeing a parachute.
The body was sent to Edenton for
burial, but Mr. and Mrs. Griffin are
awaiting information from the Air
Force.
The wife of Lieut. Griffin is now on
her way to Edenton and upon arrival
will make funeral arrangements.
”
Restoration Work Started
On Penelope Barker House
Now Located On Waterfront
TRUSTEES OF EDENTON SCHOOL VOTE TO
LEAVE NORTHEASTERN CONFERENCE TO
AFFILIATE WITH ALBEMARLE CONFERENCE
i Motion Carries With It Provision That Football
Games With All Conference Teams Will Be
Scheduled For Next Season
At a meeting of the Edenton School
Trustees Monday night members were
■ presented the findings of a commit
tee appointed a few weeks ago to de
[ termine popular sentiment regarding
Edenton High School leaving the
Northeastern Conference to accept an
invitation to affiliate with the Albe
marle Conference.
The committee appointed included
C. W. Overman, Bill Cozart, George
Twiddy, Gerald James and J. Edwin
Buff lap. In the absence of Mr. Over
man, chairman, Bill Cozart was
spokesman for the committee and
informed the trustees that, as the re
sult of the committee’s work it was
learned that sentiment by far was in
favor of severing relations with the
Northeastern Conference in favor of
the Albemarle Conference.
After listening to the arguments pro
and con concerning both -conferences,
various members of the school trus
tees asked questions and after a
thorough d’scussion a motion was
made and passed that Edenton with
draw from the Northeastern Class A A
Conference and join the Albemarle
Class A Conference. The motion, how
i ever, carried with it the provision
that the Albemarle Conference would
schedule footb.all games for Edenton
Glee Club Plans
Candlelight Service
Sunday, Dec. 14th
<ln School Auditorium
At 5 O’clock In the
Afternoon
The Glee Club of Edenton Junior-
Senior High School plans to present
its second Chrirtmas candlelight ser
vice in the grammar school auditorium
on Sunday, December 14th, at five
o’clock in the afternoon. The service,
which will be entirely musical except
for brief interludes by a narrator,
is non-sectarian, and there will be no
admission charge.
The chorus, consisting of 28 girls
and 20 boys from the Senior High
School, will present a program of tra
ditional music. Margery Thigpen will
act as accompanist, and John Dobson,
president of the Student Body, as nar
rator.
Varsity Club Plans
Christmas Dance
Music Will Be Furnished
By Dick Levin and
His Orchestra
Edenton’s Varsity Club will sponsor
a Christmas dance, which will be held
in the Edenton armory Thursday night
from 9 o’clock to 1 o’clock.
Music for the dance will be pro
vided by Dick Levin and his State
College orchestra.
Reservations for the dance can be
made by telephoning 674-W or 505-W.
Advance Club Will
Sponsor Sale Dec. 13
On Saturday morning, December
13, at 9:30 o’clock Advance Home
Demonstration Club will hold a food
and Christmas decoration sale in
Quinn’s Furniture Store. Proceeds
ifrom this sale will go toward the new
community center which the people in
Advance community are building.
These club women will have the fol
lowing articles for sale: Cakes, can
dies, pickles, (including watermelon
rind, artichokes), holly, mistletoe, red
berries, silver leaves, berries, etc.
Aside from holiday decorations the
ladies will alto aril delicious cakes,
candies and other foods.
next fall with other schools in the
conference. It was generally under
stood that this would be done.
By joining the Albemarle Confer
ence the Edenton Aces will be group
ed with Ahoskie, Columbia, Hertford,
Scotland Neck. Tarboro, Williamston
and Plymouth. According to confer
ence Ailes high schools may play only
10 games a season, so that there will
be an apportunity to schedule games
with teams in the Class AA Con
ference on open dates or with Class
AAA teams if desired.
In the Northeastern Conference
Edenton was group with Elizabeth
City. Greenville, Kinston, New Bern,
Roanoke Rapids and Washington.
The principal reason advanced for
affiliating with the Albemarle Con
ference was that Edenton will be com
peting with schools more its size
and that present and future potential
manpower in Edenton cannot hope to
compete with the larger schools in the
Northeastern Conference.
Both conferences desire to have
Edenton as a member and not only the
school trustees but many other in
terested c’tizens expressed a reluct
ance in ' leaving the Northeastern
group where relations have been so
pleasant.
Cape HatterasSlteOf
Boy Scout Camporee
Over This Week-endi
75 Boys From Perquim-I
ans, Gates and Cho
wan Will Attend
All Boy Scouts and Explorers of
the West Albemarle District of the
Boy 'Scouts of America will go to Cape
Hatteras this week-end, December 13
and 14, to hold their Fall Camporee.
Sidney Campen, chairman of the
camping committee, has made plans
for the boys to have a very interest
ing and educational trip. They will
leave at 6:30 Saturday morning from
the Edenton Armory and 7 o’clock >.
from the Court House in Hertford.
The Edenton National Guard will pro
vide transportation.
While camping near the Cape Hat
teras Lighthouse, Scouts will tour
such historical spots as the first
building to be authorized by U. S.
Congress, visit the newly discovered
graves of the crew of the Monitor,
climb the Lighthouse, visit the citrus
fruit orchards, and view the ruins of
the wrecked ships.
Seventy-five Scouts from Gates,
Perquimans and Chowan Counties are
expected to participate in this event
Each troop will come under its own
leadership. Patrols will be judged
on ability to camp and conduct them
selves in a Scout-like manner.
District Meeting- Os
Boy Scouts Tonight
The West Albemarle District of the
Boy Scouts of America will hold a
meeting tonight (Thursday) at 8
o’clock in the Agricultural Building in
Hertford. John Biggers, acting chair
man for the district, will preside. One
of the important items of business to
be handled will be the election of a
new chairman to replace W. T. Harry,
who resigned.
Plans for the annual banquet to be
held during Boy Scout Week in Feb
ruary will ibe discussed.
Chowan PTA Will
Meet Tuesday Night
The Chowan Hifch School Parent-
Teacher Association will hold its
monthly meeting in the auditorium on
Tuesday evening, December 16 at 7:30
o’clock. All parents and friends of the
school are invited to be present and
enjoy the exchanging of gifts and
singling Christmas carols. Light re
freshments will be served at the con
clusion of the meeting.
Christmas Greetings
$2.00 Per Year.
Representative of Three
Sponsoring Groups on
Governing Board
SECURE ARCHITECT
Hoped to Finish Work
In Time For Edenton
Pilgrimage
Citizens of Edenton interested in
seeing the realization of a local com
munity house and the preservation of
an important historic home were
pleased to see work begin on the
Penelope Barker house this week.
The three organizations who have
undertaken this project, the Business
and Professional Women's Club, the
Woman’s Club and the Edenton Junior
Chamber of Commerce, have appointed
■two representatives and the president
of each club to serve as the Penelope
Barker House Governing Board. This
Board, realizing that repair work must
begin this winter in order to save the
house, decided to proceed immediate
ly with repairs to the exterior. This
included the front porches, tearing off
the old kitchen and bay and replac
ing it with a new stoop, repairing the
window’s and a possible leak in the
roof.
The Blades Lumber Company has
generously donated paint for the out
side. It is hoped, particularly by
the Woman’s Club, that this much
work will be accomplished in time for
the 1953 Pilgrimage of Colonial Eden
ton and Countryside. April 10-11, so
that the house may be opened to the
public at that time.
The former owmers of the house, the
Misses Moore, made it possible for
the Board to secure the services of
; Finley F. Ferguson, architect of Nor
folk, Va., w’ho Edentonians will re
member worked on the restoration of
St. Paul’s Church. The American In
stitute of Architects have notified him
that the house has been properly au
thenticated, historically and archi
itecturally, as the home of Penelope
Barker. Having done considerable re
search on thr> house prior to this for
j Miss Elizabeth Moore, he came to
i Edenton during the past month to in
spect it since it had been moved. He
expressed approval of the moving job
and of the way in which it was placed
on its new site. A few’ days ago he
sent a list of recommendations for
the Board to follow as their finances
i permitted, and as soon as the Jaycees
finish the job of dismantling the old
kitchen he will return to take a good
look at the back prior to drawing up
plans for a new stoop.
After consulting the local contrac
tors, the governing Board decided to
award the construction job to Pickier
and Faircloth.
To raise money application has been
made to the Society for the Preserva
tion of Antiquities for financial aid.
In addition the Board plans a Home
Talent Follies in March, directed by
local people, pending the approval of
the three clubs.
The Board has not had an opportuni
ty to contact all possible donors, but
this will be done in the near future.
Meanwhile any gifts will be most
gratefully appreciated.
Philip McMullan presented to the
Association a piano and it has already
been placed in the house.
Hospital Auxilary
Will Meet Dec. Bill
Mrs. William Doub Ben
nett Will Present
Program
The regular meeting of the Cho
wan Hospital Auxiliary has been call
ed one week earlier, and yvill be held
it 3 o’clock Friday afternoon, Decem
ber 12, in the nurses’ home.
Election of officers and plans for
the annual Christmas party for the
staff will be the principal business for
the day.
The Auxiliary is very fortunate in
I having Mrs. William Doub Bennett for
the afternoon’s program. Mrs. Ben
ndtt is the wife of the laundry owner
in Edenton and Rocky Mount. 'She
has had wide experience in Garden
Club work and extensive training in
flower, arrangement. Her specialty is
Christmas decorations, which she will
show in great Variety.
All members of the Auxiliary are
especially urged to be present and
the public is also cordially invited.