ONLY NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED IN
CHOWAN COUNTY
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1 iume XXll.—Number 11.
Woman’s Club Will
Stage Another Art
Show March 20-21
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Exhibits will Be on
Display In Former"
Bad ham Store
Jumps A. Walker, critic teacher
of art at Hast Carolina College ami
art supervisor of the .Oreo.nv.jllo
City Schools, will act as the ju<U»
of the Woman's Club annual Art
Show to he held Sunday and Mon
day, March 20-21 at Badham’s
store. It had been planned previ
ously to have the show at the Hark- |
er House, hut the house is in the
midst of plastering and repairs
for the coming Home and Garden
tour. The hours are to he from
2:00 P. M., to 5:00 P. M., Sunday
ami from 10 A. M.. to 12 A. M..
and 2:00 P. M., to 5:00 P. M.. Mon
day and it is hoped that a largo
crowd will attend. There will he
no charge.
In addition to the paintings of
many adults and the art students
of Mrs. Richard Dixon, there will
he exhibited drawings hy the school
children of the Kdenton Gradeil
School, Kdenton High School. Cho
wan High School and Rocky Hock
Central School.
Mr. Walker, who will arrive Sat
urday to do the judging, is bring
ing a few of his own paintings to
be displayed at the show. In addi
tion to his teaching Mr. Walker is
an artist in his own right. Ho has
had one-man shows at the Norfolk
Museum of Art and Sciences, the
Greenville Community Art Gallery.
Peace College and the Fannie Mi
liame Ralph Memorial Art Gallery
at Belhaven. He has been repre
sented also in group shows such as
_4he Irene Leach Memorial at Nor
4k, the N. C. Artists Annual Com
)ftion, the Southeastern Artists
tual in Atlanta, the Washington
. atereolor Club and tTiF~Crenfive
Gallery in NVw York City. Art
Critic, Bertha Fanning Taylor has
Said of his watercolors that “they
are characterized hy ah exuberant
inventiveness.” “His art,” she con
tinues, “is a presentation of deli
cate fantasy and sure eraftmun
ship.”
State Dentist Now
Treating Children
At Chowan High
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Inspection In Edenton
White Schools From
March 25 to 29
Dr. A. B. Edwards, dentist with
the State Hoard of Health, who is
working in the Pnsquotnhk-I'er
quimans-Camden-Chowan H ea 1 I li
District, has completed the Camden;
white schools and will he: working
at Chowan High School through j
Monday, March 21. From March!
22 through March 24 he will lie at I
the Rocky Hock School.
From March 25 through March j
29 Dr. Kdwards will he in the |
Edenton school for inspection only. I'
The children in the Kdenton and.
Elizabeth City white schools under
1H years of age will he treated dur- j'
ing June and July. Appointment:
will be made for these.children and j
Dr. Edwards will notify each child |.
when to come.
It is hoped that all these appoint
ments will ho kept. Dr. Edwards
in all cases obtains signed permis
sion from the parents that they de
sire this service for the children.
The Health Department has been
tentatively promised a colored den
tist soon after schools open next 1
fall to work in all of the colored 1
schools.
£ t Campen Is May
At St. Mary’s
Miss Kitty Campen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Campen was re
cently elected to reign over May
Day festivities at St. Mary’s Jun
ior College at Raleigh, where she
is a senior.
Miss Campen has served as chief
marshal, vice president of the sen
ior class, worked on the college pa- .
per and annual staffs and is a
member of Sigma Pi Alpha.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
11 Art Show Judge
j vmks k. w alkkk
For tlit* Kclenlon Woman’s Club
annual art show Sunday and Mon
day in tin* form or Itadliam store,
James Walker of (ireenville,
\. (■’., will act as jiwlge of the vari
ous exhibits.
Contributions For
Heart Fund Now
stands At SBOO
'of Contribu
tors Far Ahead of
Last Year
Dr. A. M, S frt<w:. irinTin of
the ('iiow.im ('•*u niy Mc.i rt Commit
tis triad 1" uinniiiifv th.it the
1 Heart l*’rmd finally reached
.'SOU. Os ilii ; amount, -SM-iO came
from the Mali i a most rreiierous
irift.
Th-f . (.ouii! y t'.tal .of s j:»u repiv
sont.s an iiK'r-M-e -if ML <■ over tile
I DAI total. Id" t of all :is tin* , in
crease from sn contril»iity»rs to
To flies*- kin. I |noll i i mom hers
of th*' H- ;ii t < 'oeanittoe are e\-
hom.lv ar.it. hi. and Dr. Slant (in
wants tin in to Mow that their
Vtiffs wll I" aeknewled'sed as soon
as possible.'
Edenton Woman’s
ClubAgainSponsor
Local Cancer Drive
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Mrs. Darn'd I*. Reaves
Appointed Chairman
For Chowan County
Tin- I'.il'.-ntoM \V’>m;m\s flub will
agilin tlii- ponsop ;lii' cam
paign for rii. rni:' . finals for the
ATllt'l'icau fiinn r Sochly's fight
ay a i nst cancer. Appointment of
Mrs. Ibum I f’. lb i v:. Welfare
Chairman of tin- Woman'.- Club, as
(I! a i!' Ia a n of the American ('a tire r
Society’s 1 :»r.r. edue.il inha I and filial
raising eric-ado in Chowan County,
Has been confirmed l>y l)r, John ;
I!. Kernodle, StntoCumpuign Chair
main for th< North Carolina Di
vision. The month-long campaign
will begin April 1.
“Urgency of the cancer fund ap- j
peal and the .educational program
in conjunction with it cannot be
overemphasized,” Mrs. Reaves de
clared in accepting the job of
sparking this year’s drive,
“We are living today.” she point
ed out, “in an era of fear of sur
prise atomic or hydrogen bomb at
tack fill tile United States. To
guard against this threat, our gov
ernment is spending billions of dol
lars annually for national defense.
This, civilization-shattering attack
may—we hope—never materialize.
“Rut our country is faced with
another deadly attack that is not
just a threat. It is a grim reality.
Last year cancer killed 2XO/100 men.
Continued on Page 3—Section 1
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 17, 1955
Interest Mounting
In Forthcoming '55
Tour Os Edenton
Many Requests Being
Received From Afar
For Literature
According to the number of in
ouirics being received hy the Eden
ton Worn.-in’s Club, interest is rap
idly increasing in the forthcoming
Pilgrimage of Edenton: and Coun
tryside which is scheduled to he
held Friday and Saturday, April 15
and Hi. The pilgrimage will lie the
fourth sponsored by the Woman's
Club.
Already many requests have been
received for folders and other in
| formation about the tour. Requests
| have been received from the states
of Ohio, New York, Virginia, Con
necticut. North Carolina, Massachu-
I setts, Maryland, Colorado, Wiscon
sin, Texas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky,
; Florida and South Carolina.
I Those who make the tour will
become acquainted with this charm
ing old Southern town. Founded
! before 1710, it was the capital of
( the colony and home of the early
I Governors of the Albemarle. For
j many years Carolina was a single
' i province and the title North C’aro
'jljhit wits not used, The Indians
I called the English settlement the
Town in Maleeomak Greek. It was
also known as the Port of Roanoke
and Queen Anne’s Towne. In 1722
I the settlement was incorporated its
j Kdenton in honor of Governor
Charles Eden, who had recently
|
I died.
|| Mrs. A. F. Dnwnum, general
, chairman of the Pilgrimage, with
■ her committee chairmen and club
members, are working diligently on
all details to make this year’s Pil
’ gri mage even more successful than
tlie Pilgrimages of 1949, 1951 and
1955, when thousands of visitors
enjoyed the tour.
jBPW Club Meeting Is
j Chafed To March 24
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•j Mrs. Adelaide Ches Son, president
: ' of the Edenton Business and Pro
fessional Women’s. Club, announces
that* the regular monthly meeting
■ of the organization scheduled to
' meet tonight (Thursday) has been
. postponed until Thursday night of
i | next Week, March 24, at 8 o’clock
jin the. panel room of the Court
1 1 House. The postponement is due
•t to revival services being conducted
i i this week at the Kdenton Baptist
' Chu reh.
Baptist Revival Is
Now In Progress
Sermons Preached I>y
The Pastor, The Rev.
R. N. Carroll
Revival services began in the
Kdentbn Raptist Church Sunday
I morning and will continue through
this week. Services begin at 7:30
i o’clock each night except Saturday
! and will come to a close next Sun
| day night.
The pastor of the church, the
I Rev. R. N. Carroll, is preaching for
the revival and large crowds have
attended thus far. A cordial invi
tation is extended everybody to at
tend.
Pocahontas Elects
GC Representative
At. Friday night’s meeting of |
Chowanoke Council No. 54, Degree
of Pocahontas, representatives to
the Great Council of North Caro
lina were elected. The representa
tive elected was Mrs. Hilda Hass
and alternate Mrs. Margaret
Phthisic.
The Great Council will meet in
High Point in May.
CITIZENS OF TOMORROW
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Allen (plain Barbara Anne Parrish Marsha Dixon
If» r* •* W ***^^^H
u B ~ I . i Mim
Michael Dowd Susan Jordan Mary Alice Byrum
III S>l*ia Sawyer BobbyEvaiw
Above appears another installment of Ihe Herald’s feature, ’’Ci
tizens of Tomorrow.” The pictures include: Top row, left to right,
; Allen (plain, 11 months old, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Quain; Bar
bara Ann Parrish, 6 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L.
, Parrish: Marsha Dixon, 15 months old. daughter of Mr. and Airs.
(’ T Dixon. Jr.: middle row, left to right. Michael Dowd, 7 months
* old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry M. Dowd; Susan Jordan, 8 months
old! daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Jordan: Mary Alice Byrum.
Hi months old, daughter of Air. and Airs. Graham M. Byrum: bot
tom row, left to right. Cam By rum 111, 3 years old, son of Air. and
Airs. Thomas (’. Bvrum, Jr.; Sylvia Sawyer, 1 years old, daughter
1 of Air. and Airs. Forest Lee Sawyer; Bobby Evans, 2 years old, son
i of Mr. and Airs. Robert O. Evans.
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West ver Heights Residents
j Request Area To Be Included
Within Edenton City Limits
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Action Awaiting Map
Which Points Out
Boundaries
Armed with a petition signed by
almost every person living in West
over Heights, a delegation from
that community appeared at a spe-.
oial meeting of Town Council Tucs- J
day night requesting that Westoverj
Heights he taken within the cor-}
potato limits of Kdenton.
The petition was signed hy N'ath
an Dail. W. T. Harry, .1. W. Davis,
Parker Helms, Jess M. Wilson, J.j
D. Elliott, Cecil Fry. John A. Kra
mer, Ralph E. Parrish, Ralph K.I
Parrish, agent. J. E. Chestnutt., G.;
M. Belch, H. M. Phthisic, E. W.
Spires. Dr. A. M. Stanton. Annej
and Henry C, Jenkins, Mr. and Mrsp
E. K. White, Lewis E. Deary, Er
win C. Griffin, Mrs. D. J'. Dunbar,
W. C. Kenter, Dr. G. I„ Gilchrist,
Dr. Richard Hardin, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph R. Hall and Mr. and Mrs.;
Robert C. Powell.
It was also stated that residents,
across the highway front Westoverj
Heights as well as other nearby
areas are also interested in being
included in the town, so that in j
the neighborhood of 55 houses I
Would he affected.
While the Town Councilmon fa-!
voted extension of the city limits,
it was, pointed, out that in order to
annex an area to the town it is
mandatory that the property must
be contiguous, so that no definite
action could be taken in that prop
erty .-between the present town lim
its and Westover Heights was not
involved. ;
To conform to the law the peti
! Honors were instructed to furnish
a map showing exactly what area
is to be taken into the city and af
ter itO days notice a meeting will
he called to consider the request.}
At that meeting any objection on
the part of residents in the area af
fected may be made and upon pres
entation of a petition an election
will bo called hy Town Council
which at its discretion can be held
only in the area affected or in the
| town as a whole.
. It was the opinion of the delega
tion, however, that 15 per cent of
the residents would not object to
the annexation.
During the meeting various prolv
lems in connection with extension
of the city limits were discussed,
principal among which was water
Continued on Page 7 Section 1
Chowan Fair Will Be
Held October 17-22
Va. Greater Shows to
! Provide Attractions
On Midway
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On Monday, February 28, the
executive hoard of the American
Legion Fair Association of Eden
j ton, including W. J. Yates, Edmund
I Mills and? E. J. Hobbs, Jr„ went io
| the Winter headquarters of the Vir
ginia Greater Shows in Suffolk to
j contact Roceo Masucci, general
I manager and William C. Murray,
1 business agent,
i The purpose of the visit Was to.
contract with the well known Vir
ginia Greater Shows to furnish
their carnival attractions for the
j Legion Fair midway this year.
The dates set for the fair this
J year were October 17 to 22. The
i Virginia Greater Shows furnished
| the midway attractions for two
i years when the Lion Fair was first
held on tho local armory grounds.
Members of the Legion commit
tee feel fortunate in securing this
i midway attraction which promises
| the cleanest type of concession
games and allowing no crooked gyp
games of any nature. The midway
will bring 11 rides including four
special rides for children, clean'
tent sideshows that cater to women |
and children and a fine array of j
games where prizes can he won.
The Legion Fair this year is ex
pected to he bigger and better than
ever, with several extra tents con
tracted for to house automobile,
poultry and cattle displays.
Mrs. Elton Boswell
Is Assistant Agent
On Full Time Basis
As of last week Mrs. Elton Bos
well became full time assistant
home agent in Chowan County. She
was so employed by the County
Commissioners at their meeting
last week.
For a year Mrs. Boswell has been
employed jointly hy Chowan and
Perquimans counties as assistant
agent which required time to be
devoted to clubs in both counties.
Under the new arrangement she
will devote all of her time to clubs
' in Chowan County.
BPW Clubs Hold
District Meeting
With Hertford Club
Clubs Invited to Meet
In September at
Rocky Mount
Thirteen members of the local
BPW Club attended the Eighth
District meeting of the N. C. Fed
eration of Business and Profession
al Women’s Clubs held Sunday at
the Grammar School in Hertford
with the Perquimans Club as hos
tesses, Approximately 100 ladies
were present . from the ten clubs
comprising the district, including
Ahoskie, Edenton, Tarhoro, Eliza,
both City, Nashville, Scotland Neck,
Roanoke Rapids, Rocky Mount,
Washington and Perquimans.
Mrs. Emily T. Harrell, president
of the Perquimans' Club, presided
and Mrs. Hazel Wheeler, district
director, was in charge of the dis
trict business, Mrs. Dora Riddick
played for the invocation and the
emblem benediction and Airs. Bet
ty Swindell gave the address of j
welcome, responded to by A! iss Itae
Cutler of Washington.
The president recognized the fol
lowing guests,' after which a de
licious luncheon was served: Aliss
Lois Frazier, Raleigh, first vice
president: Miss LesSle.Cogdell, Ra
leigh, editor of the clubs’ maga
zine. “The Tar Heel Woman”: Mrs-, j
Bert Tyson, Greenville, state chair
man legislation committee; Airs, i
Alice M. Towe, Perquimans C|ul>G
state chairman education and voca
tions. and chairman of nomination j
committee for new district direr
tor; Miss Chnstaire Rabin, Tar-j
boro, state chairman . fact, finding j
committee for retired business wo- j
men; Mrs. Hazel Wheeler, Roanoke
Rapids, district director; Mrs. Car
ter Croft, Roanoke Rapids, secre
tary-treasurer; M iss H nrlon se i
Boomer, Elizabeth City, member i
Tar Heel Woman committee; Airs, j
Dorothy Whitehead, Scotland Neck. l
member Elsie G. Riddick loan fund; |
Mrs. Myra P. Mitchell, Ahoskie,
member home project committee,
and Mrs. Rose Marie Adams, Kin- 1
ston, State News Service Chair
man.
Mrs. Bert’’*Tyson of Greenville
was guest speaker and was intro
duced by Mrs. Louise Felton. Mrs.
Tyson gave an interesting talk on
“Legislation,” during which she
urged those in attendance to “Know j
your legislators, and let them know;
you.” She stressed the importance •
of letting your legislators know j
what you want. “The people who
want things get out and get them,” |
she said, “If you don’t want it,
then work doubly against it. Until ,
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Farmers In Chowan
Are Urged To Save
Acreage Allotment
Must Plant or Else!
Sign Release to Oth- j
er Farms
1
Several important facts relative j
|to our 1955 Allotted Cotton Acre-|
age was brought out in a District j
! Cotton meeting held at Washing |
| ton, N. C„ Wednesday of last week ;
jfor County Extension Agents. “Wo |
have been gradually losing cotton:
'acreage and the acreage in the ir
rigatetd sections of the California
and New Mexico areas has gradual
ly been increasing. Why is this
taking place?” asks County Agent
C. W. Overman.
“In the first place,” says Mr. j
Overman, “the small cotton grow-1
er in this area has been given the
advantage to some extent. Failure
to grow up to the full allotment
gradually results in an accumulated
decrease in allotment. When a
grower fails to release his part of
the cotton allotment for other
growers to use in a particular year
and also fails to grow it himself,
this is a definite score against him
in reducing his allotment. Loss of
allotment due to failure to plant
cannot'be alloted to other farms or
other counties in the State. This
accumulated loss of allotment goes
back to the national pool and natur-
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$2.00 Per Year In North Carolin
Fe w Pertinent F acts
Listed About Your
Red Cross Chapter
f Easter Seal Girl ]
W
The little girl shown above is one
of thousands helped last year with
.funds received through the Easter
| Seal campaign. Thy Chowan Coun
;ty Society lor Crippled Children
and Adults is conducting the 1955
Easter Seal campaign from Alarch
10 to Easter Sunday, April 10.
CIVIC CALENDAR
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Sponsored by the Edenton Wo
man’s Club another pilgrimage of
! Colonial Edenton and Countryside
will be held Friday and Saturday,
j April 15 and 16.
The annual Flower Show spon
sored by the Edenton Woman’s
'Club will be held Tuesday, May 3,
at the Penelope Barker House.
New officers for the Edenton
Chapter No. 302, Order of the East
ern Star, will he installed Mon
day night, Alarch 21.
Chowan County Fair will be held
: October 17 to 22.
i Annual art show* sponsored by
, the Edenton Woman's Club will
he held .Sunday and Alonday, Alarch
20 and 21. at the Penelope Bark
-1 er House.
Chowan Council No. 54, Degree
of Pocahontas, will sponsor an Eas- '
ter dance in the Edenton armory
Saturday night, April 9, starting 1
at 9 o'clock.
Alonthly meeting of the Edenton 1
Business and Professional Women’s?
| Club will he held Thursday night,,
Alarch 21. at 8 o'clock, in the panel. I
room of the Court House. |
j VFW Auxiliary will meet tonight
(Thursday) at 8 o’clock at the
VFW home.
A staled communication of Una
nimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. AI„
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Chowan Juniors
! Practicing Play
i“For the Love of Pete”
Will Be Presented
March 25
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Members of the Junior Class of
Chowan High School are hard at
work on the production of “For the.
Love of Pete”, a three-act comedy
by Tom Erhard, to be presented in
| the high school auditorium Friday
j night, March 25, at 8 o’clock.
I Proceeds from the play will be
used to help finance the Junior-
Senior banquet, and prom in April.
Members of the cast include:
Stuart Hollowell, Jeanette Punch,
Sidney Perry, Jeanette Chandler,
Thelma Lane, Wallace Evans, Mary
Louise Nixon, Hilly Goodwin, Shel
by Jean Parrish. Judy Knight, Da
vid Bateman, Carolyn Lane.
Technical assistance is being fur
nished by the following chairmen
and their respective committees:
Business manager. Jimmy Jordan:
stage manager, Dallas Bunch;
prompter, Marlene Layden; posters,
Mary Louise Nixon; publicity and
programs, Emma Lou Harrell
support the 1
RED CROSS . . .
, ENROLL NOW!
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County Now Endeav
oring - to Raise Its
$2,910 Quota
The American Red Cross needs
$85,000,000 for its work in 1955.
‘ More than half of this staggering
(sum is to he used by the local chap
ters which raise it. The rest is to
lie used by the National Red Cross
for them. Even $40,000,000 may
seem an unreasonable goal for the
National Red Cross until one stops
to realize that after one hurricane
out of three last fall, North Caro
lina, one out of six states hard hit,
had to have more than half a mil
lion dollars in disaster relief paid
hy the National Red Cross. Bruns
wick County alone had to have
more than $225,000 in disaster re
lief—more than 156 times as much
as Chowan County turns into the
National Red Cross. Suppose Cho
wan County had suffered the fufl
violence of that storm!
The county goal for 1955 is $2.-
910, More than half of this re
mains in the county, for use by
the Chowan County Chapter of the
American Red Cross. It pays the
county’s share of the operating ex
penses of the Blood Center in Nor
folk and the cost of cleaning the
armory and stocking the Canteen
on Blood Bank days; supplies first
aid kits for every school in the
county; affords disaster relief for
groups of less than five families;
provides a fund for home service
loans to servicemen, veterans, and
their families; and covers all chap
ter expenses such as the rather
large telephone and telegraph bills
for home service..
What is all this Rod CrosS work
worth to Chowan County? Take
the blood program for an example.
Last year 202 civilians in Hie local
hospital had to have transfusions
amounting to 402 pints of blood.
Several of them had to have as
much as eight pints each. If we
had no blood hank, 402 pints of
blood, at the standard price of $25
each, would have cost these pa
tients $10,050, an average of SSO
per patient. How many citizens of
the county are willing to give that
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Easter Seal Sale "
Now In Progress
Contributions Will Be
Solicited Until Eas
ter Sunday
America’s “greatest discovery,”
is defined by G. B. Potter, presi
dent of the Chowan County Society
for Crippled Children and Adults.
It is the discovery of human
lives—the lives of crippled persons
which have been converted into
“priceless gems of usefulness”.
He said that America’s recogni
tion of the usefulness of disabled
persons in industry, professions
and business has heen the great
est discovery in the past quarter
century. But, he added, “the great
est work is yet to come. The Cho
wan County Society is helping to
make it possible:”
Potter traced the evolution of the
public’s acceptance of the crippled.
“Not long ago,” he said, “even as
recently as 25 years, handicapped
children and adults were hidden
away by their families, devoid of
human dignity and a chance at par
ticipation in life.
“Strides in medical science and
technical skills have helped to erase
the old stigma of crippling, and
gradually, man has made his great
est discovery. He has tapped the
reservoir of human greatness and
has begun to find that those he
once thought useless can be con-
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Junior-Senior Prom
On Friday, April 15
Announcement was made this
week that the Junior-Senior Prom
at the Edenton Junior-Senior High
School will be held Friday nignt,
April 15. The affair will take
place in the gymnasium, wiui mus
ic furnished by Dick T i ~ and his
orchestra