North Carolina Newspapers

Volume XXI. —Number 29. Edenton Chosen As Home For New Boat Building Company B. W. Evans Property Leased For Period of Ten Years MAKE SMALL BOATS Concern Expects to Be In Operation By August Ist In connection with Edenton’s efforts to secure new industries, announce ment was made early this week that a boat factory has leased the B. W. Evans property on North Broad Street and plans to be in full operation by August 1. The Evans property was leased for a period of ten years and work has already started to get the buildings and ground in readiness to be used. The new concern will be known as the Edenton Boat Company and will i make “Jolly Roger Ships,” which in clude small outboard and inboard run abouts and cruisers ranging from 12 feet to 22 feet. At present small plants have been in operation in vari ous parts of the county but a new plan calls for consolidating these small plants so that the entire operation will be under one roof. The concern has two divisions which will be located in Edenton. The nat ional sales organization will be in charge of Franklin H. Smith, Jr., who will be general sales manager and president of the Edenton Boat Com pany. Mr. Smith will come to Eden ‘•m, together with his wife and two #'ren, from Margate, New Jersey, b Tabler of Maxton, N. C., is ident of marine distribution and a be in charge of boat manufactur ing. He is nationally known for his cruise aboard the home-made house boat “Grandma Two”. Mr. Tabler left Mexico June 1 of last year and arriv ed in New York October 23. He cruis ed 3,500 miles across the Gulf of Mexi co and in some portions of the Atlan tic and used only two outboard motors for power. Mr. Tabler wrote a story of his | cruise, which is running in serial form in Motorboating Magazine from June I 1, 1954, through May 1955. He has had! many years’ experience with boats and j has written for a number of sporting' magazines. | The new concern selected Edenton, as a Site because of its convenience to both the North and South. Local la bor will be employed and when in full operation from 25 to 30 people will be employed. In its advertising program the back ground of Edenton will he featured, in cluding the days of Blackbeard the pi rate, as well as playing up the geo graphical situation of Edenton. , Final Immunization Clinic Next Monday Health Department Em phasizes Importance Os Treatments The final of a series of three im munization clinics in Chowan County will he held next Monday, July 26. The schedule will be as follows: Rocky Hock Church—9:3o A. M. Earl Smith’s Store—lo:3o A. M. Center Hill—11:30 A. M. Arthur Byrum’s Store—l2:3o R. M. Morris & Hinton’s Service Station at Gliden Fork—l:3o P. M. At these clinics the following im munizations will be given: Diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and smallpox to children and typhoid to both chil dren and adults. ‘The Health Department emphasizes the importance of these immuniza tions, so that it is hoped many will attend the final clinic. A weekly im munization clinic is held at the Health Department Friday from 1 P. M., to 5 P. M., throughout the year. Hall Is Urging Cleaning °himneys And Furnaces % re Chief R. K. Hall this week is -4 a request that chimneys be clean- 1 ed and furnaces overhauled at th's J time. Mr. Hall said that this work/ should be attended to before coolj weather arrives, when it will be less convenient to have it done. Mr. Hall issues a warning to be careful about smoking, especially in bedrooms. ROTARIANS MEET TODAY Edenton’s Rotary Club will meet this (Thursday) afternoon at 1 o’clock in the Parish House. President Gil liam Wood urges a full attendance. TIiE CHOWAN HERALD Civic Calendai Home Sweet Homemaking Par ty in the electrical appliance de partment of Byrum Hardware Company tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 o’clock. Call made for items to be used in proposed Edenton USO Club. Teen-Age Club open Tuesday and Thursday nights. VFW Post meets in VFW home Tuesday night of next week. Chowan Tribe, No. 12, 1.0.R.M., meets Monday night at 8 o’clock in the Red Men hall. Fund raising drive for the Edenton swimming pool still in progress. Edenton Rotary Club meets this (Thursday) afternoon at 1 o’clock in the Parish House. VFW Post home open every Friday and Saturday night far members and guests. ' Chowanoke Council, No. 54, De gree of Pocahontas, will meet Fri day night at 8 o’clock in the Red Men hall. An emergent communication of Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F, & A. M, will be held tonight (Thursday) at 8 o’clock in the (Continued on Page Five) R. C. Jordan Moves ToUtaden County As Soil Conservationist Popular Among Farm ers In Chowan For 11 Years R. C. Jordan, who for 11 years has been Chowan County’s soil conserva tionist, moved from Edenton this week Jto Elizabethtown in Bladen County, [where lie will serve in a similar ca pacity. Mr. Jordan was very reluctant to leave Chowan County, where be has (done a splendid job and won many | friends, but the transfer was a sub stantial promotion. I Mr. and Mrs. Jordan and son, Rob iert C. Jordan, Jr., moved Tuesday of this week, although Mr. Jordan’s transfer was effective July 18 and he has been working in bis new position since that time. Their daughter, Miss I.uEllen Jordan is in Blowing Rock, where she is working through the summer months. No successor to Mr. Jordan has been named, hut George Conner, Jr., will (continue to serve as aid and will assist farmers until a new soil conservation ist is sent to Edenton by the Soil Con servation Service. New Crop Os 801 l Weevils Working Overman Urges Farm ers to Dust Next Two Weeks A new crop of boll weevils is work ing. Undusted fields show effects. Dusting needs to continue, says Coun ty Agent C. W. Overman. The boll weevil is on the march, ac cording to the cotton insect survey made on Monday. Five undusted fields scattered over the county were ex amined. One or more live weevil were found in each of these fields. The punctured square count ranged from 18 per cent to 30 per cent, averaging 25 per cent of the squares punctured. Eight fields being dusted every Week average 3 per cent punctured squares. Four fields that were not dusted last week averaged 10 per cent punctured squares. Growers should dust this week and the two weeks following according to i Overman’s opinion. Watch fields carefully for red spider infestage. Homemaking Party At Byrum’s Tonight [ Tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 o’clock, ! Byrum Hardware Company will stage *a free Westinghouse Homemaking Party in the electrical department of the store. Two grand prizes, a Westinghouse roaster and a Westinghouse iron, will be awarded and featuring the party will be Miss Betty Faulconer, West inghouse home economist, who will demonstrate various Westinghouse ap pliances. Refreshments will be served and the public is cordially invited to attend. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 22,1954. Legion And Auxiliary Officers Be Installed Next Monday Night John A. Holmes Is New Ed Bond Post and Di vision Commander Officers for Ed Bond Post, No. 40, American Legion and the Legion Au xiliary are scheduled to be installed in the American Legion hut Monday night of next week, July 26, at 7:30 o’clock. Present at the installation will be the Rev. Milton B. Faust of Salisbury, Department Commander, who will be in charge of the instal lation for the Legion, and Mrs. Mary Carravan of Columbia, State presi dent of the Legion Auxiliary. John A. Holmes will be installed as Commander of Ed Bond Post and at the same time as division commander. Quite a few out-of-town Legion naires and Auxiliary members are ex pected to be present for the occasion, for invitations have been sent to Co lumbia, Creswell, Plymouth, Windsor, Gatesville, Hertford, Elizabeth City and Manteo. Herman McLawhon, pres ident of the Go-Getters of the First Division, has been invited to attend. John Holmes has also invited all six district commanders of the First Di vision to be his guests. A “Dutch” barbecue dinner will be served in connection with the meeting. Department Commander Faust is the Director of Evangelism for the North Carolina Synod of the Presby terian Church, with offices in Ra leigh. He has a long record of ser vice in the church and in The Ameri can Legion. A graduate of Catawba College at Salisbury, he was ordained in 1940, ,nd served pastorates in Pennsylvania [and Maryland prior to World War 11. He entered the Navy as Chaplain in 942 and was assigned to an amphibi (Continued on Page Eight' Colonials’ Losing , Streak Sends Team : Further In Cellar i Rocky Hock and Hert ford Tied For Third Position STANDING OF CLUBS . W L Pet. ' Colerain 16 7 .695 i Elizabeth City 15 9 .625 * Rocky Hock 2 __lo 13 .435 > Hertford 10 13 .435 s .Edenton 7 16 ,305 1 Edenton’s Colonials were rained out I two games during tlie week and were t defeated in the three games played, • so that they were shoved deeper into - the cellar position. During the week Rocky Hock and Hertford ended up in a tie for third position and Colerain still holds on to the Albemarle League race only 70 percentage points ahead of Elizabeth • City. On Thursday night all games in the I league were called off on account of rain. The game between Edenton and I , Elizabeth City Friday night was also ! rained out. hut Hertford defeated Colerain 10 to 4. Edenton 1-1, Elizabeth City 3-3 Jim Curtis, Elizabeth City mounds man, played the role of an iron man j Monday night when he pitched and won a doubleheader from the Colonials on Hicks Field. The second game went 11 innings, so that Curtis pitch | ed 18 straight innings, winning both 1 games by the identical scores of 3 to 1. He allowed only five hits in each game. In the first game Elizabeth City scored two runs in the opening frame \ when Fearing and Berry walked and (Continued on Page Five) Bog And Bicycle Licenses Now Due Owners Subject to Ar rest If Licenses Not Secured By July 31 Chief of Police George I. Dail this i week calls attention to the fact that • dog and bicycle licenses were due July Ist. Any person living within the town limits is required to pay a license on each dog owned, the fee being SI.OO for each male dog and $2.00 for each female. Chief Dail stated that the law will be rigidly enforced, which requires the arrest of any dog owner who fails to purchase licenses for his dogs be fore July 81. USO Clubs Opened For Service Men In Edenton Last M Opening of Both Clubs Very Successful; Dance Highlight of Affair Through a concerted effort on the part of the citizens of Edenton and Marine families of A.L.F. Edenton, two USO’s, one colored and other white were made available to A.L.F., Edenton personnel Thursday of last week. The successful openings were held simultaneously at the colored USO (Brown-Carver Library), and the white USO (Joseph Hewes Hotel) on Thursday evening, July 15. A dance was held as the inaugurating event. Music was provided by members of the M.C.A.S., Cherry Point band who flew to Edenton especially for the occasion. Senior and junior hostess es were on hand to make the proceed ings friendly and lively. Senior hos tesses were Marine wives, and ladies of the community, while junior hos tesses, approximately 25 in number, were young ladies of Edenton vary ing in age from 18 to 25. Refresh ments for the evening were provided by the USO refreshment committee. During the next two weeks, planned events will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with A.L.F., personnel in i vited to use the USO as a drop-in ■ lounge from Monday to Friday. There after scheduled entertainment will take place on different days so as to ■ provide weekly enjoyment as well. ■ Dances will be held at least once a month. ; Liberty buses leaving and returning , to M.A.L.F., Edenton, have been re i routed so as to pass both USO’s, there , by making available direct transpor i (Continued on Page Eight) Chowan’s Savings Bonds Sales In June Amount To $14,527 Total Sales For First Six Months In Countv $104,669 A. B. Harless, U. S. Savings Bond Chairman for Chowan County, .an nounces that purchases of Series E & ( H United States Savings Bonds by ; | the people of Chowan County during Jthe month of June amounted to $14,- 527.00. “This brings the amount of I money saved in E and IT Bonds in ; Chowan county to $104,669.00 for the first half of 1954”, says Mr. Harless. A monthly sales report released by State Savings Bonds Director, Walter P. Johnson and State Chairman Wil liam H. Andrews, Jr., showed that for /the State as a whole purchases I | amounted to $3,462,560.00 in Series E I and H Bonds during June. Total pur- j , chases by North Carolinians for the l j first six months of 1954 totaled $24,- ' ' 318.402.75, an increase of 3 per cent j • over the same period a year ago. County Chairman Harless also re-' • ported that according to the. monthly i j sales report, the nation as a whole j achieved the best sales record of E & i II Bonds for the first half of any year since 1945- National sales were 13 j per cent above sales for the first six j months of 1953, and 44 per rent ahead of sales during the first half of 1952.! | The 3 per cent Current Income Be- 1 I ries H Bond continued to grow in pop- l jularity throughout the nation: on June! 17th the amount outstanding of tile j “H” Bond went over the billion dollar I mark. Mr. Harless expressed appreciation j to all volunteers in the county who have encouraged and assisted in achieving the county’s sales reed’d during the first half of 1954. 4-H Club Members Entertain Rotarians Two Chowan County 4-H Club members, Shirley Harrell and Jackie Morris, county and district winners, entertained Edenton Rotarians at their meeting Thursday. They pre sented their demonstration on the use of lighting in the home which was very interesting and well carried out. The 4-H’ers were introduced by Rob ert Marsh for J. Edwin Bufflap, who was out of town and had charge of the program. Jaycees Will Conduct Broom Sale July 29th Announcement was made this week that the Edenton Junior Chamber of Commerce will stage its annual broom sale Thursday evening, July 29, start ing at 6:30 o’clock. Jaycees will make a house-to-house. canvass and they hope many people will cooperate in the sale as they have in the several previous sales. - f ' Campaign Begun To Sell Stock In New Development Corp. | Guest Os Legion | REV. MILTON B. FAUST Featuring a meeting of Ed Bond Post, No. 40, American Leg ion and the Legion Auxiliary Monday night, July 26, in the Leg ion hut will be a visit by the Rev. j Milton B. Faust, Department ( Commanded. Mr. Faust will in stall new officers. » {Chowan School Bus 1 Drivers Get Safety Award Certificates 19 Drivers In County Group Cited For Care ful Driving Safety award certificates are in the , process of being distributed in Cho- , > wan County to school bus drivers who successfully completed the 1953-54 term by conforming to prescribed safety rules and regulations. The awards are presented annually j hy the Safety Division, N. C. Depart | ment of Motor Vehicles, and the N. C. i State Automobile Association, the ' South’s largest Motor Club. Qualified drivers in this state trav el some 220.000 miles daily to haul more than 400.000 school children. ; Congratulations Were offered the ■ winners by John G. Frazier. Jr., presi dent of the Automobile Association: ■ and Edward Scheidt, Commissioner of • Motor Vehicles. The winners in Chowan County in -1 elude: Ellis McGJenney, Mrs. Tda Baker. Larry Lowe, Ben Browning. Douglas | Holland, William T. Moore, Talbert j ‘ Jackson. Zenovah Hugo, Shelton Good-, win. Jack Bunch. Delton Runch. Elbert 1 | Bunch, Lorene Ashley, Mary Emma | Perry, Charles L. Favton, E. S. T’ark ■|er, O. C. Holley, Bessie Coefield and j Irene Rountree. Bloodmobile Returns To Edenton August 4 Quota For County Is Re duced From 150 to 110 Pints !, . . The Red Cross Bloodmobile will again visit Edenton on Wednesday,j August 4. It will be noted that the j day has been changed to Wednesday. and the hours are fom 9:00 A. M., to 3:00 P. M. ; Heretofore, the bloodmobile has | been here on Fridays and the hours , have been from 10:03 A. M., to 4:00 P. M. Those desiring to donate a pint of ; blood should come between the hours j 9:00 A. M.. to 3:00 P. M. The quota has been reduced from 150 pints to 110 pints and it is hoped : that Edenton and Chowan County will contribute this reduced quota. I i — I 23 Chowan 4-Hers Are Attending 4-H Week 1 Twenty-three Chowan 4-H Club | members are attending 4-H Week at State College this week. Sixteen boys and seven girls from the county made the trip. They traveled with the Per quimans County 4-H delegation, and left from the Edenton Post Office at i 4 o’clock Monday morning. . Chowan County has several winners 1 in the district contest who are com- : peting in the State Contest during 4-H Week. < $2.00 Per Year. r Group of Canvassers So liciting Prospective Purchasers SIOO,OOOGOAL Angling With Concern Having SIO,OOO-$15,000 Weekly Payroll Meeting in the Court House Mon day night, the temporary committee of the Edenton Development Corpora tion and others interested in secur ing new industrial plants in Edenton and Chowan County discussed the im portance of raising funds to be used in aiding at least one prospect to lo cate here. The concern is a winter garment manufacturer who, according to information, is very much inter ested in moving to Edenton if a site can be provided. It was reported that this concern has a payroll of between SIO,OOO and $15,000 per week and that the entire community will greatly benefit if this amount of money is released. ' The corporation has set a minimifm goal of SIOO,OOO as stock in the cor poration to he used for sites in order to attract new industry if needed. A number of those present expressed the hope that the goal will be reached and that what stock is purchased will be distributed among a large number of people so that the concern will realize that the community is interested in having it locate here. It was point ed out that every phase of communi ty life will he benefited if this con cern locates here. During the meeting, which was pre sided over by W. P. Jones, it was de cided to inaugurate a campaign to . sell stock in the corporation immedi ately, and early this week the can vassers began soliciting a large num ber of prospective purchasers. The stock will be sold on the basis of 10 per cent down in cash and a demand note for the balance. The canvassing committee is com posed of Mayor 1.. H. Haskett, W. W. Bvrum, Gilliam Wood. R. E. Fore hand. Jr.. H. A. Campon. W. M. Wil i kins. John Mitchenor, Jr.. J. R. Du jlaney, P. S. McMullan, V. T. Harry, j.T, H. Conger, J. Clarence Leary, R. F. Elliott, John Graham, W. W. Perry, Luther Parks, .1, IT. Conger. Jr., ; George Twiddy. Jimmy Ricks, Richard D. Dixon. Jr.. Ernest J. Ward. Jr., Jesse Harrell, E. J. Hobbs. Jr.. Riob jard P. Baer. W. P. Jones, P. C. Ash lev, Jim Basniglit, Willie Spruill. Jim my Earnhardt, W. E. Malone, James Bond, Raymond Tarkington and Wal ter Rond. Members Named On New Fire Commission I Group Will Study Fire Fighting 1 Problem In Chowan County Mayor Leroy Haskett this week ap pointed a representative from Town Council and the Fire Department on the Chowan County Fire Commission. Those appointed were W. J. Yates for the Fire Department and J. Edwin Bufflap from Town Council. The County Commissioners have named W. E. Bond as their represen tative. so that these three, together with one or more representatives from each township in the county, will he charged with making a thorough in |vestigation of the rural fire fighting ! situation and to make recommenda tions to the County Commissioners as Ito the most adequate and economical j program in providing fire protection i for the rural section. The idea of a Fire Commission is the outgrowth of the problem of Eden ton firemen going into the county to fight fires. At present the County Commissioners have agreed to pay the Town of Edenton the estimated cost of answering calls in the county which amounts to approximately S3OOO. The representatives from the vari ous townships will be appointed by the County Commissioners and when nam ed a meeting will be called in order to begin the task of deciding if the present arrangement with the town is the most satisfactory or if some other better plan can be worked out. MASONS MEET TONIGHT W. M. Rhoades, master of Unanimi y Lodge, No. 7, A. F„ & A. M„ has called an emergent communication to he held tonight (Thursday) in the Court House at 8 o’clock. This will be a very important meeting, so that all nemhers are urged to make a special effort to attend.