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Volume XXL—Number 11. Officials Os Town Extension ' edenton City Limits Matter Tabled Monday Night Until Later \ Meeting At a special meeting: of Town Coun cil and the Board of Public Works Monday night some consideration was given to extending Edenton’s city limits. A joint committee from both groups has had several meetings in connec tion with extending the limits and at Monday night’s meeting tentative lines were drawn on a large map as a work ing basis which, if adopted, would add approimately 1,000 acres to the area within the city limits. However, the proposed extension lines met with a cool reception Monday night and while it was the opinion that there is a need to extend the lim its, it was decided that too much area would be included as at present pro posed. Without taking any official action, the matter was tabled in order for| town officials to ponder over the proposition and consider proposed ex tension lines at a later meeting. Sheriff J. A. Bunch Seeking Re-election Makes An Announce ment, of Intention This Week Sheriff J. A. Bunch this week an nounced he will be a candidate for re election in the May election. In con nection with his announcement the, Sheriff said: i “I deeply appreciate the honor of | serving as Chowan County’s Sheriff \ and thank each and every voter for his j her support in previous elections, -e-elected, I shall endeavor to dis- M\ ge the duties of the office to the v / best of my ability and to this J ..id I again solicit the vote and sup port of every voter in the county.” ! BPW Club’s Meeting I Postponed To March 25 The regular monthly meeting of the Edenton Business and Professional Women’s Club has been postponed from tonight to Thursday night, March 25, according to an announcement by Mrs. Evelyn Jackson, president. As usual, the meeting will be held in the Barker Community House beginning at 8 o’clock. , ■ i A Stanley Party will be held fol-1 lowing the business session, with Mrs. Josie Gay in charge. Club members j are urged to bring a friend along to i the meeting. ! [_ Drive Lagging J According to N. J. George, Chairman of the Chowan County Red Cross Fund Raising Drive, | contributions are lagging and that | prospects for the county’s goal are discouraging. Early this week Mr. George re ported contributions amounted to , only about S9OO. Os course, the report is not complete. Chairman . | George stated that canvassers , have done a splendid job in con- j tacting homes and business hous es, but quite a few promised to donate later. He. therefore, urg- , es all who will make a contribu- | tion to mail or send it to himself | or R. E. Leary, treasurer. MeasWseal campaign scheduled ?9 GET UNDER WAY IN CHOWAN THURSDAY More Than 100,000 Seals Will Be Mailed to Resi dents of Chowan County; Drive Sponsored By Edenton Lions Club The 1954 Easter Seal campaign will open in Chowan County and through out the nation today (Thursday). G. B. Potter, president of the Chowan County Society for Crippled Children ' dults, announced this week. The will continue through Easter t, April 18. .s 21st annual campaign for crip pled children and adults is expect ed to be the most extensive cam paign in the society’s history. More, than 100,000 Easter Seals will be ( mailed to residents throughout the; county by the local chapter of the Chowan County Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Mr. Potter said. The Seal for 1954 is designed in THE CHOWAN HERALD j Edenton Unit Os NCEA Officers Elected ■ I / —r— * ; ■ ; : i I I I Mrs. Mary Leggett Browning, center, was elected president of the Edenton unit of the North Carolina Education Association at a meeting held last week in the Edenton Elementary School library. At left is Miss lieilig Harney, elected secretary-treasurer, and at right Mrs. Nathan I Dail, vice president. The three were elected delegates to the NCEA Con vention in Raleigh Thursday through Saturday of this week. | j • j , Woman’s Club Art Show Scheduled To Be Held April 10-11 Annual Affair Will Be" Held In Penelope | Barker House RULES~~SFT OUT * J iW. Frith Winslow of ; Plymouth Will Judge Exhibits i The annual Pit exhibit sponsored by ' the Edenton Woman’s Club will be | held Saturday and Sunday, April 10 and 11 at the Penelope Barker house. | Entries from schools must be tum . ed at the principal’s office by Monday, 1 Anril 5, and adult entries will be tak en at the Penelone Barker house on i Thursday, April 8, between the hours of 10 A. M„ and 2 P. M. The club does not assume respon -1 sibility for the loss or damage to any of the work exhibited. 1 For those who enter exhibits, the j following rules have been adopted: J 1 j I—Ail1 —Ail work must be original. Cop j ies of other pictures are not accept - able. I 2—Any medium may be used (such as pencil, ink, charcoal, oils, crayon, (etc.). 3 Any size paper or canvas may be used. 4 Ribbons will be awarded in each ! homeroom in ea'di individual sehool. i 5 First, second, third, and fourth prizes, in 'he form of cash awards. I will be given for over-all exhibits ! from individual schools or school I groups. j q—Adult work will be in a separate class and not placed in competition with that of school children. 7—A hobby corner will be set up! ! where unclassified entries, such as ■ photographs, ceramics, needlecraft, 'tinting of photographs, handicrafts,! I etc., may be exhibited. .< I W. Frith Wihslow, a professional ar-i tist from Plymouth, N. C., will judge the exhibits. The Fine Arts Committee of the I Woman’s Club composes the steering ’committee in charge of the exhibit. bright blue, white and yellow. It in corporates the white lilly symbol of j ‘ the Easter Seal Societies imposed on. a yellow envelope which symbolizes | use of Easter Seals. The chairman emphasized that 91.7 ( per cent of all funds received from’ Easter Seal contributions will re main right in North Carolina to help: its thousands of crippled citizens' through medical care, treatment, phy-| sical training, recreation, vocational guidance and many other services. I Fifty-five per cent of the net gross re mains with the local society and 45 per cent is remitted to State and National Societies. (Continued on Page Seven, Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 18,1954, j|_ WARNING! J County Tax Supervisor W. P. T *»n«'s reports that a number of | Chowan County taxpayers have failed to list their property for 1954 taxation. Acco-ding to law and orders f-om the County Commissioners, the names of all persons, firms and corporations who have failed to list their property will be presented to the Grand Jury at the March term of Superior Court and the law will take its course. William S. Privott Will Be Candidate For Clerk Os Court v. - . Recently Returns Fron Second Tour In U. S. Navy Further ripples appeared on Cho wan County’s political waters Monday of this week when William S. Privott I announced he will be a candidate in the May election for Clerk of Super ior Court. F. W. Spires, incumbent, has also announced ho will be a can didate for re-election. Tn making his announcement, Mr. Privott had this to say: “If elected to the office of Clerk of Superior Court of Chowan County, I expect to continue to render the effi cient and courteous service which has characterized this office for so many (years and to furnish the increased ser vices which a legal education and back ground provide. I “T solicit and extend my sincere ap im eeiation for the vote and support of I r"\ch Democratic voter of Chowan County.” Mr. Pwvott has recently returned home after a second tour in the U. S. Navy, having been recalled to active duty at the beginning of the Korean War. He served as Solicitor from 1932 to 1938. In 1942 he was again elected Solicitor and the same day he took the oath of office he was called back into service and, of course, was obliged to resign. VFW Post Sponsoring: Dance Saturday Night William H. Coffield Post, No. 9280, I Veterans of Foreign Wars, will spon j sor a dance in the Post’s home Sat urday night March 20, starting at 8 | o’clock. Not only members, hut other I guests are cordially invited to attend. Hospital Auxiliary Will | Meet Friday Afternoon i . i CT'<->w\n Hospital Au'’il :nv v will! meet F’idav afternoon. March 19, at' 3 o’clock in the nurses’ home. Mrs. I Georg? Hoskins will preside end states! that a splendid program has been! [planned, after which tea will be ser-- 1 ved. o Rehearsals Slated To Begin Monday For ’54 Lions Club’s Minstrel Show Promises to Be Bigger and Better Than Ever Edenton Lions Club will begin prac ticing next Monday night for its an j Altai minstrel to be held Friday night, | April 9. J. Clarence Leary, chairman of the Minstrel Committee, stated that an excellent show is in the making and a variety of entertainment is planned for the evening. | ! President Jesse L. Harrell announc od at the club’s meeting Monday night that the Lions State Convention will he held in Raleigh on June 13, 14 and 15. The following delegates were ap pointed to attend the convention for I the Edenton club: Jesse L. Harrell, A1 Phillips, W. J. Taylor, West Leary and T. B. Williford. Alternate dele- Igates named are: A. E. Jenkins, G. j B. Potter, Parker Helms, N. J. George ] and O. E. Duncan. William S. Privott was reinstated in the club by W. J. Taylor. Privott was the first president of the club when it was organized in 1937. He has left the club on a military basis in good standing on two occasions. The first time he left was at the be ginning of World War II when he en tered the Navy and again in 1949 when he was called back into service. Heart Fund Appeal Nets Total $278.50 Members of Local Com rutile Expresses Ap preciation For Help Dr. Roland H. Vaughan, chairman of the Chowan County Heart Fund Committee, reports that the 500 let ters sent out on February 15 have brought response from 74 individuals and five business firms, to whom of ficial acknowledgements have been mailed. Contributions amounted to a total of $278.50. Os this, $16.18 went for postal expenses. $65 58 to the Ameri can Heart Association, and $196.74 to the North Carolina Heart Association, and $196.74 to the North Carolina Heart Association. If Chowan County had a Heart Association of its own, affiliated with the State Heart Asso oiation, the latter would get $52.46 instead of $196.74, and the remaining $144.28 would stay in the county for the use of the local Heart Association. The members of the committee wish to record their special thanks to Leg gett & Davis for the use of a window for a week to display Heart Associa tion pamphlets; to J. E. Bufflap for publicity; and to Mrs. R. J. Boyce, Kathryn Brown, Mrs. J. H. Conger, Jr., Mrs. A. M. Stanton and Mrs. Hu bert Williford, volunteers from the Woman’s Club, who helped address letters. Wade H. Jordan, Jr., Morebead Scholar Sixteen new Morehead Scholars have been announced at the Univer- I sity of North Carolina following four days of interviews with members of the Central Scholarship Committee and Trustees Committee of the More head Foundation. Among the winners is Wade Hamp ton Jordan, Jr., of Edenton, a student at East Carolina College. The award carries with it a $1,500 scholarship at the University of North , Carolina. Young Jordan was included in the 1953-54 edition of “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges” and since completing his work at Greenville he has been em ployed as a chemist in the research department of Liggett Myers Tobacco Comnany in Durham. Upon entering the University he expects to work to wards a Ph.D. degree in science. VFW A»ixili‘ary Will Elect Officers Tonight The Auxiliary of William H. Cof field Post, No. 9280, Veterans of For eign Wars, will meet tonight (Thurs day), at 8 o’clock in the VFW home. The principal item of business will be election of new officers, so that Mrs. Ellie Mae Parrish, president, [urges all members to attend. FOOTBALL FILM AT ROTARY I Edenton Rotarians enjoyed a pic- Iture of the Carolina-Virginia football | game at last week’s meeting. The I program was in charge of Gilliam ■ Wood, who secured the film for the occasion. Cancer Drive Will Get Under Way In Chowan April Ist Seeking Re-election . »■ y'.JgssjiSffi ' aI&JS: & Jggllll I |L WSm 1 'i—r" if'/' -' SHERIFF J. A. BUNCH This week Sheriff J. A. Bunch . announced he will be a candidate for re-election in the May elec i tion. One other candidate has al ready announced, so that there will be a contest for the office. , Chowan High Junior j Class Will Present Play Friday Night , “Star Crazy,” Three-ac 1 Comedy Begins at a 8 O’clock s 1 The Chowan High School Junior Class will present its annual play this I Friday night, March 19, at 8 o’clock p | in the school auditorium. -j “Star Crazy”, a throe-act comedy by ) Don Elser will be presented with the / special permission of the Art Craft i Play Co. I “Star Crazy” is the story of .Terrv > Andrews, (Evangeline Copeland), an astronomer’s daughter who spends her > time helping him. When she hears ( that Dick Mallon, (Jackie Morris), a p big league ball player, is to arrive in . town, she regrets having put her ca l reer ahead of marriage to Pick. Don- ; - na, (Peggy Perry), her kid sister, f senses this and set out “to right the 1 - wrong”. The fireworks are started ‘ by a little note. Nothing—not even j , the arrival of Dirk’s fiancee, Joan j , Mayberry, (Janice Harrell) Hollywood I - star —stops Donna and her friend Beth 1 Robinson, (Ida Ann Blanchard) and i the reluctant help of her brother. Bill, j (Fred Layton) from involving every-, one. Even Joe Alleot), DeltOn Bunch) Miss Mayberry’s agent, is going “Star Crazy.” * You will simply give up—you see I the seemingly hopeless situations Bill j ? gets into, smile with amusement at t - good-natured, absent minded Proses-1 rjsor Andrews, (George Jordan) and en-] F joy the grumbling indifferent maid, j ;|lsabella, (Sara Margaret Asbell). The play is being directed by Miss Louise Wilson. > ‘ Entertainment during the interims-1 c sion will be furnished by the Chowan ( j Ramblers. t The public is cordially invited to at- j tend. A small admission will be , charged. j j EASTER SEALS GO ON SALE TODAY ** w Strides in medical science and technical skills have erased the old stigma “a cripple,” and a revolutionary change in the attitude ' of the public has created a new atmosphere of acceptance for them, continuation and expansion of the national movement to rehabilitate the handicapped through services such as those of the Chowan 1 County Society for Crippled Children and Adults is opening new op ■ portunities for independent, happy lives. Contribute to the 1954 1 Easter Seal campaign now! ' $2.00 Per Year. Mrs. Aubrey Turberville And Mrs. W. T. Harry Are Co-chairmen QUOTA”SI,ISS Cancer Now Ranks Sec ond Among Nation’s Killers Mrs. Aubrey (J. Turbeville has been appointed chairman and Mrs. W. T. Harry, co-chairman of the American Cancer Society’s 1954 fund-raising crusade in Chowan County, it was an nounced Tuesday. The drive will open in Chowan County April 1. The crusade will combine an appeal for funds with an educational cam paign to inform the public of the lat est facts about cancer. The national goal for 1954 is $20,- 000,000, an increase of $2,000,000 over | last year’s quota which was oversub scribed by more than a million dol lars. The Chowan County quota for this year has been set at $1,155.00. “In accepting this appointment,” the chairman said, “I am deeply aware Os the important responsibility it en tails. Cancer now ranks second among America’s killer and the annual death toll from the disease is on the in crease. ■ “Increased cancer incidence calls for | a step up in the tempo of the nation wide crusade, spearheaded by the American Cancer Society, to effect an increased number of cures possible with present treatment methods un til such time as the research goal of cures or preventives of cancer has been reached. “I feel sure that everyone in this community will want to have a share in this vital enterprise which has the ultimate objective of banishing the spectre of cancer from the daily lives of future generations of Americans. “Many can take a direct part in the campaign by responding when vol unteers are called for to help in the fund-raising drive. All can partici pate by contributing even more gen erously than they did last year so that we can succeed in meeting out increas ed local quota.” Civic Calendar i Edenton Lions Club Minstrel will be presented Friday night, j April 9, at 8 o’clock in the Ele | mentary School auditorium, i Annual Senior play. “Men Are Like Street Cars,” will be pre i sented in Ihe Elementary School auditorium Friday night, April 2, at 8 o’clock. Chowan Hospital Auxiliary will meet Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the nurses’ home. Annual art exhibit of the Eden ton Woman’s Club in the Penelope Barker House Saturday and Sun day, April 10 and 11. Woman’s Missionary Union of | the Chowan Association will meet in an all day session at the Beth el Church Wednesday, March 24. VFW Post, No. 9280, will spon sor a dance in the Post’s home Saturday night, March 20, start ! ing at 8 o’clock. Edenton BPW Club will meet 1 Thursday night, March 25, at 8 o’clock in the Penelope Barker , house. Community auction at Ameri j can Legion hut Friday night at 8 o’clock. Junior Class of Chowan High School presents annual play Fri (Continued on Page Ten)