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The Chowan Herald
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1953.
A^TSTIFOR^TObAY
. . . Give an account of thy stewardship.—Luke 16: 2.
Accountability to God gives eternal significance to
what we do and how well we do it. In addition to talents
and opportunities, God has put his infinite resources at
our command —and he expects something of us.
Our Father, may we not presume upon Thy unfailing
Mercy; but so number our days that we may make all of
them count in Thy Work.
Mixed Up Affair
On Monday night another effort was made to or
ganize Edenton merchants, the plan being to form
a Merchants Committee which should pass on poli
cies affecting the merchants as a whole.
At that meeting, represented by 26 Edenton
business concerns, the majority voted to close for a
half holiday, beginning Wednesday of this week, at
12 o’clock noon. Since that meeting a group of
other stores have decided to close each Wednesday
at 1 P. M., starting Wednesday of this week
through September 2. Grocery stores have decid
ed to close at 1 o’clock Wednesday throughout the
year except the month of December.
To say the least, it is a mixed up affair so that
shoppers will be puzzled to remember when any
particular store is closed.
Call it Chamber of Commerce, Merchants Asso
ciation, Merchants Committee or what not, no or
ganization will reach its zenith of effectiveness un
til all are willing to be governed by the majority
—that’s democracy.
Don’t Be An Easy Mark
We are living in an age when the fine art of try
ing to get something for nothing is being practiced
by nations, states, cities, and on down to the low
liest pick pocket and professional writers of bad
checks.
Fred Johnson. Vice President of the American
Stores of Philadelphia, has compiled information on
the growth of the bad check racket. It reads like
a fast moving story. For example, he points out
that in the trading area of the American Stores a
certain group of banks formerly turned back from
three to five worthless checks a day. Now they
turn back eighty each day. The recent crime in
vestigations have caused certain lawless elements
to switch their activities into other types of swind
ling, particularly the pushing of bad checks among
merchants, with shoplifting, and counterfeit money
as side lines.
After listing scores of examples of the way mer
chants and individuals are imposed on and bilked
by the bad check artists, Mr. Johnson gives some
sound advice: "Checks should never be cashed
on the basis of casual acquaintance, sympathy,
hard luck tales, distress telegrams, vague answers,
altered credentials, haste, bluff and bluster, of
fended dignity, personal resentment, threats to re
port to the main office, or alleged friendship with
an official of the company. Phoned instructions to
cash checks, regardless of the source, should be
disregarded.”
There is one safe rule to follow. Don’t cash a
check for anyone whom you don’t know or who
cannot furnish you with absolutely satisfactory
credentials.
Yes, There’s Gold In Grass
Grass Is Gold! That is the dramatic slogan of
an extensive grasslands program which is spon
sored by the Portland, Oregon, Chamber of Com
merce. The w r hole idea, based solidly on practical
experience and scientific knowledge, is that one of
the greatest opportunities for agricultural improve
ment lies in growing more grass and better grass.
The fact that an urban chamber of commerce
has sponsored the work is significant. Generally
speaking, these chambers are primarily concerned
with seeking new factories and other industrial de
velopment. But the Portland Chamber realizes
that the welfare of industry and of the cities de
pends in the long run upon the welfare of the
farmer and of the rural districts.
The Grass Is Gold movement has the active sup
port of many elements. Federal, state and univer
sity agronomists, forester sand soil conservation
experts serve on committees. The Union Pacific
Railroad, long an aggressive force for better farm
ing, has played an important role.
The Grass Is Gold idea can be profitably applied
to every agricultural state and area. It presents a
great and inviting challenge to the fanner.
A lot of the community’s dirty linen would never
be paraded if it were not for the love of scandal
ous gossip by some waggy tongues.
' THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENION, N. C, THURSDAY TANUARY 8, 1953.
Heard & Seen
Bv “Buff”
Some time back I was reading that a Boston bank was
experimenting with making its checks and check books
attractive for its customers. For the ladies there were
checks in jewel tones of jade, coral, amethyst and tur
quoise, with book covers in red and blue print. For men
gold, green, pink or blue checks were placed inside dark
blue silky plastic covers. I don’t know how dt is working,
but as for me, the color of the checks would have little
to do with my bank balance.
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Then I was also reading about movement of perch in
Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, being recorded with the help
of an echo-sounder mounted on a 40-foot Navy launch.
It was reported that perch move in large schools at a
depth of from 25 to 35 feet below the surface. At sun
down they move toward shore until they reach the bot
tom, at which time they disperse and each fish quietly
sinks into the sand and stays there for the night. At
daybreak the perch congregate back into schools and
move back into the deep water. Thought some of our
fishermen might be interested in this information.
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If any town in the State has any more insurance agents
per capita than Edenton, I’d like to know where it is.
In fact, there are so many in Edenton that one of ’em
was telling me they are thinking about wearing buttons
so they’ll not be trying to sell insurance policies to each
other.
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All during the holidays and even after we’ve had snow
like weather —in fact several good chances to snow went
by the board until Sunday when those who crawl out of
bed before noon had an opportunity to see snow falling.
However, the flakes were mingled with rain, so that no
trace of the snow was left on the ground. If it keeps
on messing around, maybe we’ll have a snow one of these
days after all.
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Up around the Post Office lately it sounds like a gang
of woodpeckers at work. However, they’re a gang of
cement peckers in the basement trying to out a door
through a cement wall reinforced with steel bars. What
actually is going on is that Uncle Sam is trying to pro
vide a little more space for the county agents and the
PMA office. Charlie Overman, county agent; Miss Re
becca Colwell, home agent, and J. M. Price, PMA repre
sentative, are crowded into three small offices like sar
dines in a can —so bloomin’ close that none of ’em can
cuss (and I reckon they feel like cussing sometimes) with
out the whole works hearing it. The former Post Office
storage room in the basement will be used for office
space, so maybe there’ll be some cussing going on to see
who gets what extra space.
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Folks in Rocky Hock are angling for a preacher in the
Rocky Hock Baptist Church to succeed the Rev. R. E.
Gordon, who resigned to enter missionary work. 'Sev
eral prospects have preached trial sermons, but up until
last Sunday no decision was reached. While talking to
one of the members of the church, he said “we want a
skinny preacher who we can fatten up.” But another in
the group replied, “What about Frank Gale—he never
got fat.” Well, as a matter of fact, Frank was raised in
Rocky Hock so ha was used to the good eating in that
neck of the woods.
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Speaking about Christmas, Santa Claus was good to
Willie Saunders. Willie received a huge pipe, a pack of
Granger tobacco (my brand) and a box of toothpicks to
put in h : s mouth while smoking. Who said nobody can
do more than one thing at a time? Well, Willie can
smoke a pipe and chew the dickens out of a toothpick all
at the same time.
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I was among Raleigh Holiowell’s friends who paid him
a visit over the week-end. Raleigh says he has been in
“low cotton” for quite a spell, but I was delighted to see
him looking almost natural. He’s able to be about the
house for short periods now and here’s hoping he’ll soon
be strong enough to be able to be out and increase the
number of insurance agents running at large in Eden
ton. He’s also greatly missed at the Red Men meetings.
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I haven’t seen it, but I was told that just about the
most outstanding Christmas decoration in this neck of
the woods is out at the Marine Corps Air Station. The
Marines fixed up a manger scene with lifelsize characters
and Christmas carols are broadcast over a public ad
dress system. The display is still up and Col. Brackett
has allowed the station to be open to the public tonight
(Thursday) from 7 to 9 o’clock so civilians can go out
and see it. The display made the Christmas spirit con
tagious among the service men, so how about going out
tonight to see it before it is taken down. It will not hurt
to prolong the Christmas spirit a little while longer, and
the Marines will enjoy civilians seeing it.
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Both the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams of the Eden
ton Junior-Senior High School will tackle teams com
posed of members of the school faculty Saturday night
in the school’s gymnasium. The first gam© is scheduled
to begin at 7:30 o’rlock, and that will be one time the
teacher will not be able to dictate. Imagine one of the
students getting ready to shoot a goal and a teacher say
ing, “Don’t you throw that ball in .the basket.” Any
way, both games should be good and it is hoped a large
crowd will turn out. * '
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I thought I’d heard about all the fish stories, but the
other day I saw in a Baltimore newspaper the picture of
a fish said to be 50,000 years old. It was said to be a
prehistoric Coelacanth Latimeria, which fjrst made its
appearance on the earth 300,000,000 years ago and which
until recently was believed to have become extinct at
least 50,090,000 years ago. The thing was caught near
a remote Indian Ocean island. Scientists believe it will
prove to be the long-sought •“missing link” in the evolu
tion of land animals from the age when the earth was
populated only by fishes. It’s too darned much of a fish
story for me.
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Os course, January is still yofng, but it will not take
long for it to slip away. During January you must list
your property for taxation, so that the sooner this is
done, the better it will be. The tax listers urge taxpay
ers to list their proptray as soon a« possible, for, as al
ways, there will be a big 1 rush during the. waning days
of January. It’s one of those things which just has to
be done—like it or not. The listers say quite a few have
already listed, but not as many as they would like.
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Our Neighbors j
By MISS REBECCA COLWELL
Chowan County Home Agent
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• Perhaps there are many, even some
, of the Home Demonstration Club
members, who do not know just how
1 their contributions to “Pennies For
Friendship,” and dub dues are used.
1 “Pennies For Friendship” are a gift
; from countrywomen to the Associa
i ted Country Women of the World
i which is a world organization of coun
try women. The members of its Con
stituent Societies, scattered all over
the world, are united by friendship and
the aims they hold in common. Mrs.
i George Apperson of Mocksville, N. C.,
. is National President of the Country
Women’s Council which is the U. S.
branch of AGWW.
These “Pennies” are important to
A.C.W.W. because this fine organi
zation could not carry on its work
’ without them. In 1951 A. C. W. W.’s
income was 7,500 pounds. 5,300
pounds of this came from “Pennies
for Friendship.”
These “Pennies” are used to finance
the Triennial Conferences; to run the
central office; to find letter friends
for members; to link Institutes and
groups in different countries; to ar
range “Exchange Programmes” be
tween groups in different countries;
to publish the A. C. W. W. newn sheet |
“The Countrywoman”; and to send
representatives of country women to
meetings of the United Nations.
Mrs. Godfrey Drage, A.C.W.W.
member of Honor, thought of this
i plan to raise funds for A.C.WJW. It
enables thousands of country women
to make a personal contribution to
A.C.W.W. their international organiza
tion. This is completely voluntary.
Home Demonstration Club dues
which are paid by each member at
their January Club meeting are uqed
for the following;
State, District, and County AjC.W. I
W. dues, delegates fund, “Penny For
■ Friendship”, amounting to a total of I
61c ,per member. Os course, some
of the clubs pay about 40c club dues.
Even SI.OO per year is a small mem
bership fee in any organization.
SCHEDULE
January 12—Chowan H. D. C., 2:30
Community Building.
January 12—Advance Community
Development Committee meeting, 7:30 ]
January 13 —Beech Fork H. D: C. 1
7:30, Mrs. Paul Ober. ;
January 14—Ward H. D C„ 2:30 ■
Mrs. A. D. Ward. Jr. !
January 15—Canter Hill Communi- 1
ty Development Committee meeting, 1
2:30 Community Center. ‘
Tobacco Specialist
Speaks To Growers
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as the crop is harvested. Other to- <
bacco diseases affecting ithis area J
were discussed and control methods <
explained. J
Mr. Nau is of the opinion that it is <
necessary for Chowan tobacco growers !
to use a black shank resistant variety <
but even a resistant variety must be 1
used in as wide rotation as possible J
in order to avoid the disease. While !
Dixie Bright 101 is not considered a J
perfect tobacco variety, it has proven <
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shank resistant varieties on an aver- ,
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