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The Chowan Herald
Published every Thursday by The Chowan
Herald, a partnership consisting g£ J. E.
Buflflap and Hadtor Lwpton, at 423-426 South
, Broad Street, Eden ton, N. C.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1954.
aTift for today™
Lord, teach us to pray.—Luke 11:1.
Prayer is the only gateway through which we can de
velop into God’s will for us. „ ,
O, God, help us to listen to Thy voice, as well as to
talk to Thee.
The Voters Speak
Chowan County’s Democratic primary election held
Saturday was one of the most unpredictable in many
years. While there were contests for only two of the
county offices, it appeared that the usual election fore
casters were reluctant to predict which candidates would
emerge the victors.
The three candidates for Sheriff and two for Clerk of
Superior Court worked hard, to be sure, to win votes in
their behalf. They covered practically every section of
the county soliciting support, and it is some consolation
that none of them resorted to mudslinging or in any
way degrading any..opponent.
The voters registered their choice for the two offices
by their votes, so that while J. A. Bunch and E. W.
Spires will continue in office, they can begin a new term
without any ill feeling toward their opponents. There is
nothing wrong with any qualified citizen seeking an of
fice which is decided by the vote of the people. In fact,
opposition tends to make better officials of those who are
elected to office by the voters, whom they serve.
While the outcome tvas very much in doubt until Sat
urday night, The Herald compliments all of the candi
dates for waging a clean campaign. Dirty, mudslinging
and underhanded political maneuvers apparently have
had their day, for in she majority of cases they lose
votes rather than win votes.
Tips For Vacationists
“During July and August about 8.600 people are kill
ed in the United States in automobile and water acci
dents,” Dr. Charles Cameron, Chief, Accident Prevention
Section, North Carolina State Board of Health, of Ra
leigh says.
That’s 135 a day or one every' ten minutes according
to National Safety Council estimates.
About three-fourths of these deatns are due to motor
vehicle accidents and nearly a fourth result from drown
ings.
To guard against the hazards of heavy vacation travel
and recreational activities, Dr. Cameron offers these
tips to summer vacationers:
1. Plan your trip so that you can make it in short, easy
stages. Start early. Don’t drive when you’re tired.
Stoo in time to. get a good night's rest. Stop occasionally
d" ing the trip to stretch and relax.
L. Drive carefully. Because they may be different than
those you are used to, watch highway signs and obey
them. Adjust your speed to conditions —slow down in
wet weather and after dark. Never pass on curves or
hills.
3. Take your swimming, sunning and boating in easy
doses. Vacations are for recreation, not for muscle
cramps, sunburn and heat exhaustion.
4. Swim near the shore in patrolled areas.
5. Ts the area is not patrolled, find out about water
purity, depth and under water obstructions. Never dive
into unknown waters.
6. Don’t take a boat out in threatening weather.
7. Don’t overload a boat or change positions in deep
water. Horseplay in a boat is taboo.
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I Heard & Seen
! By “Buff”
Occasionally Leon Halsey is obliged to leave his Check
erboard Store near The Herald office, but when he leaves
he puts up a sign: “Call 36-J—will come a-running.
Well, almost any merchant would accommodate a cus
tomer after a store is closed, but not all of ’em would
come a-runnin’.
o
Not so many fans were on hand for the Rocky Hock-
Elizabeth City exhibition game Monday night. One ar
dent baseball fan down town said he isn’t going to a
game until he can feel comfortable without wearing a
coat. Another fan at the game said to another, “Are you
up to your old mess again?” Sort of puzzled the other
fan asked “What you mean?” The reply was “Why going
to every baseball game.” Well, after the Albemarle
League opens next Monday night, baseball officials hope
a lot of fans will attend every game—that’s where the
1 bulk of the money will come from in order to operate
! the league.
o
With a very close vote in Saturday’s Democratic pri
mary election for sheriff and clerk of superior court, un
! til East and West Edenton precincts reported, the office
1 of Clerk of Superior Court had somewhat the atmos
\ phere of a waiting room when a man is waiting nervously
. to become a father for the first time. The candidates,
as well as relatives and friends, were tense as they wait
ed for further reports. So if any man wants to, in some
way, realize how it feels to await word from a delivery
room, let him run for office and have a close count of
votes.
o
Though some aspects of the U. S. Senate campaign
were disgusting, despite the eagerness to win as Sheriff
and Clerk of Superior Court in Chowan County, it was a
clean campaign from start to finish. None of the five
candidates involved in the two contests, so far as I can
learn, heard of a single candidate making any degrad
ing remarks whatever about any of their opponents—
which is as it should be. So that while all the candi
| dates tried to win, they are as good friends after the
election as they were before—which, too, is as it should
be.
Here’s one who wasn’t exactly nervous about the elec
tion, but did cause a little excitement in the clerk’s of
fice. In order to be a little more comfortable while wait
ing for the votes to be counted I tilted a chair against the
wall. I had just settled back when the legs of the chair
slipped on the floor and down I went like a bomb, my
head hitting the wall a solid wallop as I was going down.
In fact I saw plenty stars and it was some time before
| I could get myself together. The crash sounded like a
1 pistol shot, so that a few' people came rushing in the
room. However, the election wasn’t that hot. Although
a headache developed, my elbow skinned, having a crink
in my neck, and pretty well shaken up I did manage to !
j get off the returns so that Chowan was the first county !
to report complete figures for the election. So, while
, it seemed to take a long time, Chowan election officials
did a good job of counting the ballots.
o
Baseball fans had an opportunity Tuesday night to
watch a game coatless. It was regular baseball weather,
hut the last two games played consumed too much time
for some of the fans. If a game lasts from 10:30 to 11
o’clock, maybe starting time should be set up to 7 or
7:30 o’clock. Anyway, after some of the kinks are work
ed out and the boys get going, maybe the games will lie
played in shorter time. A fellow likes baseball-—but not
too much of it in one night.
o—
i And speaking about nervousness, some of the high
school graduates appeared to be a bit shaky as they very
| slowly marched in and out of the auditorium during the
| commencement exercises. Many of us would like, no
doubt, to turn hack the pages of time and put ourselves
j again in their places. I’ve always wondered, anyhow,
j why it was necessary for the graduates to walk so bloom
in’ slow in and out of the auditorium.
New 1954 Highway
Maps Distributed
Chairman Graham Says
10,000 Copies Have
Been Printed
The new State Highway Commis
sion maps which have been revised to
1954 are off the press and ready for
distribution, according to Highway
Chairman A. H. Graham.
The maps which are free have been
printed in black and white. There
have been several changes since the
last black and white highway maps
were printed in 1951. The new map
has a panel on the reverse side with
detail sketches of eight of the largest
Tar Heel cities showing the streets
over which US and NC primary high
ways have been routed. Another pan
el gives the size and weight laws of
the State regarding trucks. Penalties
for truck weight overloading are clear
ly spelled out There is a new illus
trated panel on highway safety which
explains the use of radar by the State
Highway Patrol to apprehend speed
ers, saturation (“On various Tar Heel
highways, identified as particularly
hazardous, dozens of State troopers i
’are occasionally massed to conduct j
closely integrated patrols”), and un
marked cars (“Not every North Caro
lina patrol car is easily identified as
such. To apprehend the wilful speed
er and other violators about one third
of the patrol’s fleet appears on the
highway in various colors. The troop
er, of course, is in full uniform.”)
The schedules of the free ferries
operated by the State Highway Com
mission at Oregon Inlet, Sandy Point-
East Lake, Atlantic-Ocracoke, and
Hatteras-Ocracoke Island have been
condensed as the schedules are subject
to slight changes due to traffic vol
ume and weather conditions. There is
an index to cities and towns and
points of interest. The “rules of the
road” are clearly explained.
On the front or map side there is a
mileage chart which gives the dis
tance by miles between cities and
points of interest. The “rules of the
road” are clearly explained.
On the front or map side there is a
mileage chart which gives the dis
tance by miles between cities and
points of interest.
Graham said that 10,000 of the new
black and white highway maps hail
been printed. The colored tourist map
outlining the principal highways in!
red with colored pictures on the back!
should he ready soon for distribution,
he added. I
Henry C. Goodwin Dies
At Home Wednesday
Henry Caleb Goodwin. Sr., age 73,
died at his home in the Greenhall sec-J
j tion of the county Wednesday night.
May 26. Ho was born March 6, 4881. [
on the same farm, the son of the late
Amanda Copeland and Caleb Richard i
Goodwin.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Margaret
Byrum Goodwin, whom he married on
December 2, 1900, he is survived by
| the following children: Henry Caleb
j Goodwin. Jr,, of Franklin, Va., Mrs. 1
M. R. Warden of Fairfield, Conn.,
Carol G; Goodwin of Atlanta. Ga.J
Mrs. J. D. Sewell of Drexel Hill, Pa.,
and J. Wallace Goodwin, Miles Earl
Goodwin and David K. Goodwin of!
Edenton and Chowan County. Fif-J
; teen grandchildren and three great
grandchildren, two brothers, George
S. Goodwin and Noah J. Goodwin of
Chowan County and one sister, Mrs.
Haywood Saunders of Norfolk, Va.,
also survive him.
He was a life-long resident of Cho
wan County and served as Deputy
Sheriff for 16 years. In 1952 he was
appointed Country Squire by Governor
Scott.
Funeral services were conducted at
the Edenton Baptist Church of which
he was a member, Friday afternoon by
his pastor, the Rev. R. N. Carroll, and
burial was in Beaver Hill Cemetery. .
Active pallbearers were nephews of
,Mr. Goodwin and were as follows:
Woodrow White, Watson White, Lloyd
White, Frank White, Noah Goodwin,
Jr., and Leonard Bass.
Sweet and Low
Higgs—l asked the hotel manager if,
it was a lively place and he said things !
were always humming.
Biggs—Yes: he means the mosqui-1
toes.
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Goody Number At
Class Night Program
i Several Special Awards
Presented During
Program
A good .crowd attended the opening
commencement exercises held at the
Elementary School auditorium Friday
night, when the senior class of Eden
ton Junior-Senior High School pre
sented their Class Night program and
annual awards.
The entertainment opened with the
traditional daisy chain processional
and song by the Sophomore Class,
with the senior class responding. Bar
bara Dail, salutatorian, greeted the
audience and Shirley Winslow render
ed a solo, “With A Song In My
Heart.’”
The class then presented a playlet
in honor of the valedictorian, Marj
orie Webb, with Gene Saunders relat
ing the history of the class along
with the skits. The presentation of
gifts to members of the senior class
was made by Betty Smith, giftorian.
High tribute was paid and gifts pre
sented to the following by senior class
Clifford Overman: Super
j intendent John A. Holmes, Principal
Gerald James, Mrs. E. B. Edwards
and Victor Tucker, sponsors of the
class, Archie Patterson, incoming
president for next year and Emmett
Wood and Sharon Dunbar, mascots.
In presenting the annual awards.
Principal James said of Marjorie
Webb and Barbara Dail, valedictorian
and salutatorian, respectively, "These
two girls are true champions. They
have been competitors throughout
school and are still the best of
friends.” Hazel Elliott was recogniz
ed as an honor student.
Other awards presented by Mr.
James went to Talbert Jackson, for
the most outstanding senior citizen;
Ben Browning, outstanding senior in
activities; Ted Wright, best boy ath
lete and Shirley Bunch, best girl ath
lete.
Gifts were presented to the senior
class officers, including Clifford Over
man, president; Bobby Whiteman, vice
president; Barbara Dail, secretary,
and Hazel Elliott, treasurer. The vale
dictorian address was then made by
Marjorie Webb and the exercises clos
ed with the farewell song.
Ushers for the evening were Mike
Malone, chief, Mary Leggett Brown
ing, Carolyn Ashley, Frankie Privott,
! Jimmy Harrison, Evelyn Bunch, Alice
I Parrish and Bobby Smith.
Edna Boswell Romine was chairman
,of the program committee and the
; stage setting was under the direction
of Ellis McClenney, president of the
Stagecraft Club.
Thank You, Voters
I personally want to thank each one of you
that helped me in any way during my cam
paign for Sheriff of Chowan County. It is a
great satisfaction to know that I have the con
fidence of so many people. Again, I say thank
you.
Sincerely,
EARL GOODWIN
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FORMER RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. Zita Perry Sharber, 59, died
Saturday morning, May 28, at her
home in the Newland section of Pas
quotank County. She wag a native
of Chowan County but had been liv
ing in Newland since her marriage 23
years ago, and had been in failing
'health for several years.
Surviving are her husband, Gan R.
Sharber; one sister, Mrs. W. H. Hobbs
of Colerain; three brothers, James A. '
Perry of San Riego, Cal., M. H. Per- 7Q
ry of Gliden and John F. Perry of
Edenton; one half sister, Mrs. J. H.
Layden of Hertford and one half
brother, A. T. Perry of Tyner, and
several nieces and nephews.
She was a member of the Newland
Methodist Church, where funeral ser
vices were held Sunday afternoon at
4 o’clock. Her pastor, the Rev. Mr.
Taylor, officiated and burial was in
Westlawn Cemetery, Elizabeth City.
Nephews acted as pallbearers.
COMMISSIONERS MEET MONDAY
Chowan County Commissioners will
hold their June meeting in the Court
House Monday morning, beginning at
10 o’clock. Various budgets are ex
pected to be presented at this meet
ing.
Suspicious
“I wonder if I should call the FBI ?
My boy, Ernest, was out in the front
yard yesterday when a man in a
turned-up collar stopped on the side
walk and asked him: “What are you
doing, little boy?”
“Digging a hole down to China,”
said Ernest.
"Capitalist spy,” muttered the
stranger, and walked on.
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