Volume XX.—Number 26.
Clinics Scheduled
To Be Held In County
On July 7,14 And 21
Children and Adults Are
Urged to Attend
Nearest One
SCHEDULE LISTED
Importance of Immuniz
ing Infants Is Em
phasized
The Chowan County Health Depart
ment will hold immunization clinics in
the county during the month of July.
The following schedule has been re
leased:
Tuesday, July 7, 14 and 21
Valhalla 9 A. M
Eocky Hock Church 10 A. M.
Elbert Peele’s Store 11 A. M.
Center Hill 12 Noon
Arthur Byrum’s Store 1 P. M.
Gliden Fork at Morris and Hinton’s
Esso Service. Station 2 P. M.
It will be noted that several loca
tions previously used as clinic points
have been discontinued because of
poor attendance. At these clinics, the
Health Department will be prepared
to give the following immunizations:
Diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus
and smallpox to children and typhoid
to .both children and adults. The
Health Department also conducts a
weekly immunization clinic at the
Department, Friday from 1
P. M. to 5 P. M. throughout the en
tire year.
The Health Department would like
to stress the importance of diphtheria
and whooping cough immunizations to
all infants and urge that these be giv
en during the first year of life by
your family physician or at clinics as
scheduled above.
N.C.Jayceessponsor
Program For Felons
Efforts Made to Secure
Jobs For Released
Prisoners
The North Carolina Junior Chamber
of Commerce sponsored Released Pris
oner Rehabilitation project is now well
underway and is receiving enthusias
tic support, according to J. Lloyd
Langdon, State Jaycee chairman.
The Jaycees working with the offi
cials of the North Carolina Prison
Department voted last November to
undertake this project on a state-wide
basis. Since that time the North Ca
rolina Prison Assistant Director,
Blaine M. Hadison, and the State Jay
cee Civic Improvement Committee
have been working constantly to assist
local Jaycee clubs throughout the
State in putting the project into ef
fect.
The project is designed to help con
victed felons to get jobs upon their
release from prison and to assist them
in becoming readjusted to civil life in
their communities. The program does
not apply to parolees, who are requir
ed to have a job waiting for them be
fore a parole is granted, and does not
apply to short-term prisoners who are
not convicted of a felony.
Since the program was activated
last fall 260 released felons have been
assisted upon their return to their re
spective communities by the following
Jaycee clubs: Aberdeen, Ahoskie, Al
bemarle, Asheville, Benson, Burling
ton, Carthage, Chapel Hill, Charlotte,
Dunn, Durham, Elizabethtown, Enfield,
Farmville, Fayetteville, Franklin, Fu
quay Springs, Goldsboro, Greenville,
Greensboro, Henderson, Hickory, High
Point, Kannapolis, Kinston, Lexington,
Lincolnton, Lumberton, Morgantoq,
Nashville, Raleigh, Rocky Mount, San
ford, Shelby, Siler City, Tarboro,
Thomasville, Warsaw, Washington,
Waynesville, Wilmington, Windsor and
Winston-Salem.
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District TB Association
Directors Meet Tuesday
The first executive meeting of. the
Pasquotank - Perquimans - Camden-
Chowan Tuberculosis Association was
held Tuesday night at the Municipal
Building in Hertford.
The board includes the following
member^:
Chowan: W. J, Taylor, Ralph Par
rish and L. S. Byrum.
Perquimans: Dr. A. B. Bonner and
Archie Lane.
C&nM)jg; J. F. Pugh and Phillip
‘ Pasquotank: R. L. Garrett, Mrs.]
. David Fearing, Dr. J l . H. Bonner, J.
H. Moore and Charles Ward, Jr. I
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
[First Cotton Bloom |
Floyd W. Griffin on Monday
morning brought to The Herald
office the first cotton blossom of
the current season. The blossom
was picked from a field at Straw
berry Hill, owned by A. C. Boyce.
A few minutes later Mr. Grif
fin’s brother, Asa C. Griffin, also
brought in a cotton blossom,
which he picked from a field on
the star route.
Several blooms, both white and
red, were brought to the Herald
office Tuesday morning by Charles
Tyler. They were picked from a
field on N. J. George’s farm in
the Center Hill section.
V
Outer Banks Ferries
On New Schedule
Week-end Visitors Re
minded of Possible
Long Delay
The State of North Carolina oper
ates free ferry connections to the
Outer Banks. New summer schedules
| went into effect in June and a copy
may be obtained on request from the
State Travel Bureau, Department of
L Conservation and Development in Ra
' leigh. Two of the ferries extend U. S.
Highway 64 to Roanoke Island by
providing crossings of the Alligator
River and Croatan Sound. The third
bridges Hatteras Inlet, providing ac-|
cess from Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hill
and Nags Head to Hatteras Island, on
which a paved highway is being com
pleted. The Hatteras ferry has a ca
pacity of only 8 to 10 vehicles, and
visitors are warned against using it
during week-ends and other periods of
congestion unless they can accept the
possibility of long delay in making
the crossing.
The summer schedules for the three
ferries, from June 10 through Sep
tember 10, follow:
Alligator River Ferry
Leave Sandy Point: 7:00 A. M.,
8:30 A. M., 10:00 A. M., 11:30 A. M.,
1:00 P. M„ 2:30 P. M., 4:00 P. M., 5:30
P. M., 7:00 P. M.
Leave East Lake: 6:30 A. M., 7:46
A. M., 9:16 A. M„ 10:45 A. M„ 12:15
P. M., 1:45 P. M., 3:15 P. M., 4:45
P. M„ 6:15 P. M.
Crossing time, 30 minutes; capa
city, 18-22 cars.
Manns Harbor-Roanoke Island Ferry
Leave Manns Harbor: 7:00 A. M.,
8:15 A. M„ 9:00 A. M., 10:15 A. M.,
11:00 A. M., 12:15 P. M., 1:00 P. M.,
(Continued on Page Eight)
Bank Qf Edenton Will
Be Closed On July 4th
Though practically all places of
business in Edenton are scheduled to.
remain open Saturday, July 4, and
close Monday, July 6, to observe In
dependence Day, the Bank of Eden
ton will be closed Saturday, July 4,
and will be open for business Mon
day, July 6.
Important banking business should,
therefore, be transacted accordingly.
Eastern Star Meetings
Off During Summer
In accordance with the local by
’ laws, the Edenton Chapter of the
Eastern Star has suspended regular
meetings during the summer. The
next regqlar meeting will be held the
first Monday night in September.
However, Mrs. E. B. Edwards,
worthy matron of the chapter, says
there might be a few special meetings
called in the meantime.
HOME ON SICK LEAVE
Miss Carolyn Swindell, a junior at
the Medical College of South Carolina
School of Nursing at Roper Hospi
|tal, Charleston, S. C., is home on sick
• leave. Miss Swindell is now a patient
lln the Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth
I City, under irtedical observation.
Edentoi^Chowan(^un^NorthCarolma, Thursday, June 25,1953.
Motorists Warned To
Take AH Precautions
For Holiday Driving
More People Will Travel
In Automobiles Than
Ever Before
| Can you make quick decisions? If
you can’t, you had better stay off the
nation’s highways and streets over the
Fourth of July week-end, the National
Safety Council advises.
“It has been estimated that the
average motorist has to make from 20
to 50 decisions per hour, depending on
the traffic” the Council said, “and a
wrong decision can be fatal. In ex
tremely heavy traffic, like that during
holidays, a driver is never more than
a second away from an accident.”
' The Council expects more pleasure
seeking motorists to climb into more
cars and roll up more miles during
this three-day week-end celebration
than ever before in the nation’s his
tory.
Nearly 40 million motor vehicles
are expected to jam the highways,
and their speedometers are expected
to clock close to four billion miles.
The increasing number of new cars on
tha road and the substantial rise in
gasoline consumption, plus the fact
that many summer vacationists will
use the three-day week-end as the be
ginning or end of their regular vaca
tion periods, threaten a heavy death
toll unless extra care is used, the
Council warned.
The Council is coordinating a na
tionwide campaign to hold down the
holiday toll, and 161 national organiz
ations have joined in the united ef
fort. The campaign is designed to in
crease public awareness of the extra
holiday hazards and the extra caution
| needed to overcome them. It also
i seeks to help officials, traffic officers
and safety leaders in their efforts to
reduce traffic accident over the Fourth.
■ Urging public support of the cam
paign, Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the Council, said excessive speed con
tributes to one out of three fatal traf
fic accidnts.
“Speed control is the personal re
. sponsibility of every driver,” he said.
. “A heavy foot on the throttle can
. mean a heavy heart for someone.”
. Advising an early start for holiday
• (Continued on Page Eight)
94 Children Taking
1 Swiping Classes
Alternate Days Adopted
To Take Care of All
Children
As of Wednesday morning, 94 chil
dren had enrolled in the swimming
classes which are being held five days
a week at the Edenton Marine Corps
Air StatiQn in cooperation with offi
cials of the base.
Coach Ben Perry, who arranged the
swimming lessons with Marine offi
cials has adopted alternate days for
the learners with about 20 in each
group so that all will be able to take
advantage of the opportunity to learn
to swim. In the group are 64 boys
and 30 girls.
The boys and girls are transported
to the pool in the baseball bus, leav
ing the school at 9:46 and returning
home at 12 o’clock.
The Marines have shown the great
est degree of cooperation in the pro
ject and supply life guards and assist
ant instructors who are helping Coach
Perry to teach the youngsters to
swim.
Erie Haste Second In
i Chowan Boat Races
Eleven Edenton boat enthusiasts
,J participated in the Chowan River
. boat races held at Colerain Sunday
afternoon.
Erie Haste won second place in the
unlimited class, averaging 34.7 miles
per hour over the 46 nautical mile
course from Colerain to Winton and
return. He was presented a beautiful
’ trophy. Haste was beaten for first
place by a Roanoke Rapids boat.
ROTARY MEETS TODAY
Edenton’s Rotary Club will meet
this (Thursday) afternoon in the Par
ish House at 1 o’clock. J. L. Chest
nutt will be in charge of the program
and President W. T. Harry is appeal
ing for another 100 per cent meeting
before he goes out of office next
Thursday, -fie- will be succeeded by
John A. Kramef.
DIME SOCIETY MEETS TUESDAY
The Dirhe Society of the Edenton
Baptist Church will meet Tuesday
night, June 30, at 8 o’clock at the
home of Mrs. C. T. Doughtie. All
member* are urged to attend.
Religious Services
FeaftureTrainingat
Fort McClellan, Ala.
Edenton Unit Expected
To Return Home
Sunday
High attendance marked the relig
ious revival services of the 30th “Old
Hickory” Division as its first week of
summer training came to a close at
Fort McClellan in Alabama.
Daily mass was held during the
week on the post by two Catholic
chaplains who reported the attendance
as “good.” Some 1,000 men attended
seven Wednesday meetings held for
Protestants on the post and in the
field. Jewish services were held Wed
nesday night by Rabbi Harold Fine
berg, who was secured by the post
chaplain. Chaplains were available to
the men for counsel at all times dur
ing the week.
Major General Paul H. Jordan of
Chattanooga, Tenn., who is the 30th
commander, innovated the unique re
vival. General Jordan explained that
the purpose of the revival is to send
the Guardsmen home at the end of
training “physically, mentally, moral
ly and spiritually improved.”
Pleased with the attendance of the
past week’s services, Lt. Col. James
N. Kelly, division chaplain from Shel
byville, Tenn., said, “This is certainly,
the best response we have had in any
summer camp of the 30th so far.”
Many units are still moving into the
field as a continued part of their two
weeks of training. Much work is still
ahead of the North Carolina and Ten
nessee men but ample facilities are
being provided for their off-duty re
laxation by Major Charles C. Stott,
special services officer, and Sfc. Chas.
Gaddy, enlisted chief of the special
services section.
“Curtain Call,” a musical variety
show, was given in the post ampi
theatre for the men Wednesday night
by the Army special services of Ft.
Benning, Ga. Afterwards young ladies
from nearby Gadsden, Anniston and
Jacksonville College in Jacksonville,
Alabama, found many willing partners
among the men of the 30th at a dance
held on the paved area in front of
one of Ft. McClellan’s enlisted men’s
service clubs.
Members of the Edenton Heavy
Mortar Company are expected to re
turn home next Sunday.
Wheat Allotments
For Some Farmers
Application Forms Are
Available at Local
PMA Office
Farmers on land on which no wheat
was seeded for any of the years 1951,
1952 and 1953 may apply for a 1954
wheat acreage allotment, according to
W. A. Harrell, chairman of the Cho
wan County Production and Market
ing Administration Committee.
To be considered for an allotment
on a farm which had no wheat seeded
for any of those years, the farmer
must apply in writing to his County
PMA Committee by June 30, 1953.
Blank application forms are avail
able at the County JMA office for use
in filing requests for allotments.
Civic Calendar
VFW fish fry at new Post home
on old Hertford road Tuesday
night at 8 o’clock. Veterans of
all wars who served overseas are
specially invited as guests of the
Post.
Chowan Tribe of Red Men will
elect officers at next Monday
night’s meeting at 8 o’clock. Re
freshments will be served after
the meeting.
Mobile laboratory in Edenton
making a study of the Chowan
River Basin relative to provisions
of the State Stream Sanitation
Law.
Immunization clinics for chil
dren scheduled for July 7, 14 and
21 at Valhalla, Rocky Hock
Church, Elbert Peelers store, Cen
ter Hill, Arthur Byrum’s store
and Morris & Hinton’s Esso Sta
tion at Gliden Fork. See‘schedule
on this page.
Continued on Page Eight)
H. A. Campen Presents
Program For Rotarians
H. A. Campen presented the pro
gram at the Rotary Club’s meeting
Thursday of last week. He resorted
to “Echos,” the Rotary Club’s weekly
bulletin in which word portraits of
each member of the club has appeared
in the past. ✓
Mr. Campen read the »word por
traits and in every instance the Ro
tarian was recognized.
Mobile Laboratory
In Edenton To Study
Chowan River Basin
| Leaves Post Office |
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PARKER HELMS
The appointment of Parker
Helms as agent for the Farm
Bureau Insurance Companies of
i Columbus, Ohio, in Edenton, is
announced by W. A. White, vice
president. Helms will join the
staff of over 3,000 other Farm
Bureau agents now serving in 13
States and the District of Co
lumbia. His offices will be located
in the Bank of Edenton Building.
Rev. Gordon Bennett]
Camp Leach Director
About 40 Young People
Already Enrolled In
l Camp
Senior camp at Camp Leach began
last Sunday, with the Rev. Gordon
Bennett, rector of St. Paul’s Episco
pal Church in Edenton as director.
About 40 young people from the ages
of 14 through 20 are attending the
camp. Registrations took place last
Sunday afternoon and camp will break
next Sunday after lunch. Assisting
Mr. Bennett are the Rev. Ed Sharpe
of Lake Landing, the Rev. Thomas j
| Hastings of Williamston and the Rev j
George Field of Creswell. <
Interesting courses are being taught
! that will be of great benefit to the
young people. Also, instruction is be
ing given in swimming, boating, arch
ery, handicraft and sports. Each
evening a complete program is plan
ned to the mutual interest of all pres
ent, Miss Catherine BroWn of Eden
ton is serving as counselor at the
1 camp and Miss Margery Thigpen is‘
pianist and organist. Sharon Lupton
and Mike Malone are attending as
campers. Mrs. Bennett and three
daughters, Pat, Pam and Deborah, are
with Mr. Bennett at the camp.
Mr. Bennett will also direct the
Music Camp, which began last Sun
day and lasts for one week. The ob
ject of this camp will be to teach the
people a proper appreciation of church
music and a fine faculty of musicians
has been selected.
Mrs. Burch President
Os Student Association
At Long-wood College
Mrs. Marguerite B. Burch of Eden
ton has been elected president of the
Student Government Association by
the student body of the summer ses
sion at Longwood College at Farm
ville, Va.
At the same time Miss Mary Lou
i Barlow of Smithfield was elected vice
president and Miss Mary Christian of
Tunstall, secretary.
Red Men Will Elect
Officers Monday Night
At next Monday night’s meeting of
Chowan Tribe of Red Men the nom
ination of officers for the next six
months’ term will be closed and new
officers elected. |
Refreshments will be served after|
the meeting, so that C. C. Wiggins,
present sachem of the tribe, urges all
i members of the tribe to make a Spe
cial effort to attend.
|
County Commissioners
Will Meet July 7th j
r Chowan County Commissioners will
’ hold their regular July meeting Tues-i
1 day morning, July 7, at 10 o’clock in
the Court House. Monday is the
• regular meeting date, but the day was
(changed due to the general observ
iance of Independence Day on Monday.
$2.00 Per Year.
Public Hearings to Fol
low Regarding Classi
fication of Water
CHEMIST IN CHARGE
Pollution One of Princi
pal Factors Being
Investigated
Two mobile laboratory units under
the control of the State Stream Sani
tation Committee left Raleigh last
Week for the coast, according to E. C.
Hubbard, executive secretary.
One laboratory will be located at
Edenton to make a study of the Cho
wan River Basin. The main tribu
taries of the Chowan River are the
Nottoway and Blackwater Rivers in
Virginia and the Meherrin and Wicca
con Rivers in North Carolina. The
study will include many smaller tri
butaries of the Chowan River, as well
as Edenton Bay. These tests on the
Chowan River and its tributaries will
determine the volume of flow, the
points of pollution, the pollution load
ings and the other necessary data re
quired for classifying these waters in
accordance with the provisions of the
State Stream Sanitation Law. The
chemist in charge of this laboratory
is Fred Sessamon, Jr.
' The other laboratory unit will be
1 located at Morehead City to make a
study of Newport River, North River
'and Bogue Sound. Much of the work
| here will’ be in connection with de
] termining the pollution in the inland
waterway and the effects of the tides
thereon. Later in the summer this
mobile laboratory will move down the
coast to study also the White Oak and
New River Basins. The chemist in
charge of this laboratory is Ben Ste
phenson. Both laboratories are under
the general supervision of Lloyd P.
Tyler.
When these studies are completed, a
detailed report will be made for each
major river basin. After this infor
mation has been made available, pub
lic hearings on the proposed classifica
tion of these waters will be held, af
ter which the final classification of the
various stretches will be adopted by
the Stream Sanitation Committee in
accordance with the provisions of the
j law. Only then can the abatement
I provisions of the law be put into ef
j feet for the reduction of pollution in
these waters of North Carolina.
Mr. Hubbard explained that the
stream sanitation program was de
signed to prudently utilize the water
resources of the State in the best in
terest of the people by protecting the
water requirements for health, recrea
tion, fishing, agriculture, industry and
animal life not only for present needs,
but also for the future needs as well.
Big VFW Fish Fry
On Tuesday Night
Overseas Veterans of
All Wars Invited to
Be Post’s Guests
Next Tuesday night, June 30, Wm.
H. Coffield Post, No. 9280, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, will stage a fish fry
in its new home on the old Hertford
road near Speight’s gin.
Bill Perry, commander of the Post,
as well as present members, cordially
invite all veterans of all wars in Cho
wan County who served overseas to be
their guests for the affair.
To these veterans Commander Per
ry issues the following invitation:
“Come out and enjoy our fish fry with
all the trimmings. We want you to
enjoy yourselves and look over our
new Post home. We want you to en
joy yourselves—eat and get better ac
quainted with each other. There will
be no long speech-making, and we will
be honored by your presence."
Clifford Overman Home
I From Boys State Session
I Clifford Overman, son of County
Agent and Mrs. C. W. Overman, re
turned home over the week-end after
attending Boys State held at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
Young Overman was chosen to at
tend the Boys State sessions by
Edward G. Bond Post, No. 40.
J RECUPERATING IN HOSPITAL
i Mrs. Bill Goodwin underwent a ma
■ jor operation in Chowan Hospital Fri
i day of last week. She is making sat
isfactory progress and is expected to
. be released Saturday.