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1953 Cotton Crop
Below Last Year
Estimate as of August
1 Reports Crop to Be
460,000 Bales.
Based upon August 1 prospects as
reported by growers throughout the
State, the North Carolina 1963 Cot
ton Crop is estimated at 460,000 bales
(500 pounds gross weight). Such a
crop would be 19.2 per cent less than
the 569,000 bales produced last year
and 11.9 per cent below the 10-year
(1942-51) average production of 522,-
000 bales. *
The 1953 growing season for cot
ton got off to a favorable start with
stands reported to be the best in sev
eral years. Weed growth and fruit
ing were good until late in July when
shedding of squares and small bolls
became heavy due to a combination of
dry weather and weevil damage.
Weevil infestation is much heavier in
practically all sections of the State
than a year ago. Loss to the weevil
is expected to run considerably above
average.
Assuming average abandonment af
ter July 1, the acreage for harvest
this year would be 759,000 acres, com
pared with 745,000 acres harvested
last year.
I Minutes Os Board I
Of Public Works|
Aug., 5, 1953, Edenton, N. C.
The Board of Public Works met this
day in the Town Office at 8 o’clock
P M., in regular monthly session.
Present: J. H. Conger, Chairman and
Dr. J. A. Powell.
The following bills for the month
of July, 1953, were examined and ap
proved for payment:
The Texas Co., $11.65; Hughes-Hol
ton, $42.30; Edenton Ice Co., $9.75;
Thurston Motor Lines, $11.02; Elec.
Equipment Co., $787.38; R. J. Boyce,
$7.50; M. S. Davis, Jr., $30.00; M. G.
Brown Co., $14.00; Car. Machinery &
Supply Co., $41.60; News and Obser
ver, $52.36; Carolina Rim & Wheel
Co., $22.36; Chowan Herald, $22.48;
Mueller Co., $28.71; Gray & Creech,
$51.40; Graybar Elec. Co., $404.08;
Edenton Tractor Co., $24.00; Economy
Typewriter Co., $8.70; Wood & Gard
ner, $195.00; Dail & Ashley, $4.00;
Byrum Hardware Co., $8.34; N. C.
State Board of Health, $16.00; R. D.
Wood Co.. $5.76; Portable Light Co.,
$27.12; Tidewater Supply Co., $15.82;
Dillon Supply Co., $281.58; Bunch's
Garage, $14.55; N. C. Tel. & Tel. Co.,
$24.00; Railway Expresit $3.39: Va.
Elec. & Power Co., Clar
ence Spruill, $8.00; Postmaster, $34.-
60; Sinclair Refining Co., $59.29; gen
eral salaries paid for month of July,
1953, $2,968.95; total, $12,287.39.
Received from collector for current,
water merchandise, $23,893.10.
Amount of receipts in excess of dis
bursements, $11,605.71.
Huge Outlays Planned
In County For Repairs
Chowan County home owners will
spend an estimated $201,000 during
1953 on repairing and modernizing
non-farm dwellings.
“As the great postwar home build
ing boom begins to slacken, home re
pair and reconditioning will assume
major importance to the building
trades in every community,” said Rob
ert Bailey, chairman of the residential
construction committee of the Tile
Council of America, which released
the estimate.
Nearly two of every three home
owners here will make some expendi
ture during the year to improve their
property, according to the report.
Painting of either the exterior or in
terior will be the most common re
pair, with replacing or repairing roofs
second.
Home repair expenditures through
out the nation will total almost $4
billion in 1963, the Tile Council re
port estimated. This will be one of
the heaviest outlays in U. S. history
for such work.
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Production Os Egg’s In
July At Record High
North Carolina farm flocks pro
duced a total of 109 million eggs dur
ing July—an increase of 9 million
eggs over the July 1950 production,
the previous record holder for July
output.
The number of layers on farms dur
ing July is estimated at 7,638,000.
This compares with 7,245,000 layers
on farms during July, 1952.
The rate of lay for July was 1,432
eggs per 100 layers, compared with
1,333 during July of the previous year.
This also set a new record high, ex
ceeding the old record of 1,277 set in
July, 1951.
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Proceedings |
Aug., 11, 1953, Edenton, N. C.
The Town Council met this day in
regular session at'B P. M.
Members present: Mayor Leroy H.
Haskett, J. Clarence Leary, John
Mitchener, Jr., Clyde Holloweil, Geo.
A. Byrum, J. Edwin Bufflap and G.
M. Byrum.
Motion was made by John Mitchen
er, Jr., seconded by George A. Byrum,
and duly carried that the following
ordinance be adopted:
Be it ordained that it shall be un
lawful for any person to drive a ve
hicle on Granville Street in the Town
of Edenton between the intersections
of Freemason and Water Streets ex
ceeding twenty-five miles per hour.
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have been conspicuously placed giv
ing notice of the speed limit for said
portion of said street.
Any violation of this ordinance Bhall
constitute a misdemeanor punishable
by fine not to exceed Fifty ($50.00)l
Dollars or a prison sentence of not
more than thirty days.
Motion was made by John Mitchen
er, Jr., seconded by Clyde Holloweil, ■
and duly carried that an ordinance be
adopted that the following intersec
tion be declared a stop intersection
when entering from the street first
named: Gale Street before entering
Granville Street. Further reference
is made in Article 6, Section 2, Sched
ule 10, of the Town Code of Ordi
nances.
Motion was made by George A. By
rum, seconded by John Mitchener, Jr.,
and duly carried that the following
ordinance be adopted:
Be jt ordained that when signs are
placed, erected, or installed, giving no
tice thereof or the curbing has been
painted yellow in lieu of such signs,
no person shall park a vehicle at any
time upon the East side of Granville
between Gale Street and Freemason
Street.
For violation of this ordinance a
penalty of SI.OO shall be imposed.
Further reference is made in Chap
ter G., Article 5, Section 3, Sched
ule 1.
Motion was made by J. Clarence
Leary, seconded by G. M. Byrum, that
the Town grade an area in the rear
of the Edenton Junior-Senior High
School for a parking lot and that a
drive be paved from Armory Street
to said parking lot. Motion carried.
On motion of J. Clarence Leary,
seconded by John Mitchener, Jr., the
following resolution was adopted:
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ing to $2.27 and represented by tax
receipt number 267 is hereby cancel
ed for the reason that the property
covered by said assessment was doa
ble listed and has 'been paid by Mrs.
Mildred Spruill and the Town,Clerk is
hereby directed to note on said tax
receipt the cancellation of same under
authority of this resolution.
Motion was made by J, Clarence
Leary, seconded by John Mitchener,
Jr., that 1951 taxes paid by Joseph
Roberts be refunded aue to the fact
that his property lies outside the cor
porate limits of the Town of Edenton.
Motion carried.
On motion of Councilman J. Clar
ence Leary, seconded by Councilman
J. Edwin Bufflap, the following reso
lution was adopted:
RESOLUTION OF THE
TOWN COUNCIL OF THE
TOWN OF EDENTON
WHEREAS, on the 7th day of Aug
ust, 1953, the property owners on that
portion of East Church Street lying
between Court Street and N. S. Rail
road filed with town clerk a petition
for improving said street in the fol
lowing manner: A sidewalk four feet
in width on the North side of East
Church Street from the Southeast
comer of the Maude Brunson lot to
the railroad tracks of the Norfolk-
Southern Railway Coihpany, be paved
with a substantial hard surface pave
ment and,
WHEREAS, the town clerk has cer
tified to this board that said petition
is sufficient in all respects, the same
having been duly signed by a majority
in number of the owners, who also
. represent a majority of all the lineal
feet of frontage of the lands abutting
upon the street or portion of a street
above described:
t No; Therefore, be it resolved by the
Town Council of the Town of Eden
ton.
_ 1. That the above mentioned peti
tion is found to be sufficient in all
respects.
2. That that part of East Church
Street lying between Court Street and
N. S. Railroad be improved in fol
lowing manner: A sidewalk in the
area described above under and by vir
tue of Section 160-78 of the General
Statutes of North Carolina, 1943, as
amended and the procedure thereun
der.
3. That fifty per cent of the total
cost of said improvement be hereaf
ter assessed upon the lots abutting di
rectly upon the street or portion of
the street described herein, exclusive
of so niuch of the total coßt as is in-
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their respective frontages By an equal
rate per foot,of such frontage.
4. That the assessment herein pro
vided for shall be payable in cash or
if the property owner should so elect
and give notice of the fact in writ
ing to the town clerk in accordance
with the provisions of Section 160-92
of the General Statutes, 1943, as
amended, he shall have the option
and privilege of paying the assess
ment in 5 equal annual installments.
Said installments to bear interest at
the rate of six per cent per annum.
5. That this resolution shall be pub
lished in the Chowan Herald on the
20th day of August, 1963.
LEROY H. HASKETT,
Mayor.
Attest:
ERNEST J. WARD, JR.,
Toyn Clerk
This the 11th day of August, 1953.
Motion was made by Clyde Hollo
well, seconded by George Alma By
rum, that E. £ W. Department bills
in the amount of $9,318.44 be paid.
Motion carried.
Motion was made by John Mitchen
er, Jr„ seconded by J. Clarence Leary,
and duly carried that the following
Town of Edenton bills in the amount
of $1,971.22 be paid:
Chowan Herald, $9.75; Norfolk £
Carolina Telephone £ Telegraph Co.,
$7.56; American Bank Stationery Co.,
$124.15; Sinclair Refining Co., $156.-
29; Norfolk £ Carolina Telephone £
Telegraph Co., $10.35; Hirscn Tyler
Co., $52.00; E. R. Tolley, $16.00; Cho
wan Herald, $68.45; Chas. H. Jen
kins Motor Co., $58.21; Sinclair Re
fining Co., $11.77; Norfolk £ Carolina
Telephone £ Telegraph Co., $6.50;
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heating oil GULF OIL PRODUCTS
Bishop Laundry, $6.00; Elliott Co.,
$6.60-, Hughes-Holton Hardware Co.,
$75.44; Pay fo£ Volunteer Firemen,
$75.00; Sinclair Reitjulng Co., $277.19i_ i|
The Texas Co., $18.18; Ack Ack m
terminating Co., $15.00; Hughes-Hol- ii
ton Hardwire Co., $23.80; M. G. 1
Brown Co., Inc., $70.00; Byrum Hard- '■%
ware Co., $4.85; Edenton Ice Co.,
$3.25; Thurston Motor Lines, $2.00;
Larsen Products Co., $84.00; J; R.
Peele, $12.50; Byrum Implement £
Truck Co., $2.60; W. H. Bunch’s Ga
rage, $19.39; Hobbs Implement Co.,
$8.81; Jones Truck Line, $0)6.25;
Hughes-Holton Hardware Co., $8.60;
N. C. League of Municipalities, $107.-
23; Railway Express Agency, $2.66;
Ralph E. Parrish, $89.95; R. C. Hol
land, $11.55; E. J. Ward, Jr., $45.00;
Wood £ Gardner, $430.50.
There being no further business, the $£
Council adjourned.
ERNEST J. WARD, JR., $^
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