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olume XXII. —Number 12.
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Reported Rumors
Cause Comment By
Col. M. K. Peyton
Points Out Unfairness
To Marines at Ro
tary Meeting
I)(ir In fircubitinn of rumors. Cot.
M. K. Peyton, commanding officer
at the Edenton Marine Corps Ati- .
xiliary Landing Kiddy at last
week’s Rotary meeting appealed for
the cooperation of not only mem
ers of the Rotary Club, hut citi
zens in general to place Marines •■ n
the same level as local citizens. .
Col. Peyton prefaced his remarks
on rumors coming to hint which, he
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paid, wore increasing, as welt as
answers to a questionnajrr* he re*
cently distributed aniofij? the per- *
sonnel at tin- base*
One of the principal complaints
was that excessivr* rents are hi-imr |
charged nie.ni.bers of tie Marine*l
Corps. Col. IVytim stated th.it in i
answer to one of his questions on
the questionnaire ..many of th«* Ma
rines ('\pressed a prefen*nee to live |
within a reasonahle radius of l.d« n- j
ton where they can Secure cheaper j
rent, In other words, the rumors j
were to the effect, that there are j
two levels of rentals in Kilenton. j
one charged for civilians and one
for service pi'ople.
Continued on Page 2—Section 1
Senior Play Will Be
Staged March 31st
Group Will Present
“Our Hearts Were
Young and Gay”
C'
“Our Hearts Were Viiing and j
(lav." h'y Cornelia Otis Skinner and'
Kmilv Kimbrough, will he presented!
on Thursday night. March •‘•1, at
8:15 o’clock in the Element ary ,
School auditorium hy the Senior!
Class of tire Junior-Senior High. ;
School.
This is tin- laughable st-pry of the
escapades of two young college
girls enroute to Europe and in l'ar
is. The cast is as follows: Ste-|
ward, Sid Campeii: Mrs. Skinner.
Anna Partin: Cornelia Skinner,
Mary I.eggett Id-owning; Ot is Sk n j
ner, Robert Kennan: Ivmily Kim i
I trough'-. Dolly Kehayes; Purser..
Hilly Eason; Stewardess, Lois Pri-I
vott; Dick Winters, lay P.yrum:
Admiral. Pin Pond: Harriett St.
John, Evelyn- Hunch; Winifred,
Plough, Parhara S|»encer; I eo Me-1
Kvoy, Jimmy Harrison; Inspector,
Melvin Harrell; Therese, Petty
Rowell; Madam Klise,Carolyn Ash
ley; Monsieur de la Croix, Pobhy |
Smith; Window Cleaner, Charlie:
Griffin.
Tickets will he sold in advance j
hy members of' the Senior Class j
and also at the performance. I
Directors Os Edenton’s USO Hubs "]
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In the above picture are members of the Executive (oin'mi l lee
of the two USO Clubs recently established in Edenton. This com
mittee meets once a month and since the opening of the l SO’s, both
the white and colored organizations have been » huge success.
Serving on the board are, seated, left to right. Mrs. H. A. Campen,
representing PTA: Mrs. Thomas Ashley and Mrs. Gerald James,
* junior hostess chairmen; Mrs. R. I*. Badham, staff aid to l SO;
Esther Hobowsky, secretary; Mrs. la*e Breeze, senior hostess chair
man; Hattie Jerkin, staff aid to Brown-Carver Colored I SO.
Standing, left to right. Major R. T. Bergren, director of USO: Fa
ther Francis Smith, USO chairman; Col. M. K. Peytori. command
ing officer Marine Aircraft Group 11 of Edenton Marine Base, and
Tom Sharpe, chairman Colored USO. —(Evelyn Leary Photo) I
THE CHOWAN HERALD
civic calendar]
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Sponsored hy Ihe Edenton Wo
man’s Club another pilgrimage of
Colonial Edenton and .Countrywide
Hill he held Kriday and Saturday,
April If. and 16.
Coon dog field trial al Chowan
High School Raster Monday. April
11, beginning al 9s3<) A. M.
The annual Flower Show spon
sored by the Kdenlon Woman’s
Club will be held Tuesday, May 3,
at the I’enelope Barker House.
Chowan Council No. 54, Degree
of Pocahontas, will sponsor an Ras
ter dance in the Kdenlon armory
Saturday night, April !>, starting
. at !) o’clock.
Revival services will begin at
! Ballard’s Bridge Baptist Church
| Sunday. March 27. and continue
through Sunday. April 3.
i Continued on Page 2,—Section 1
222 Enrolled In
I Hospital Auxiliary
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lEn joyable Meeting Is
Held Friday In the
Nurses’ Home
1A t ;i .meetinit' of thi’ Chownn Hos
pital Auxiliary held in the nurses |
i heme Friday at tecnooh, Mrs, Scott
! Harrell, chairman (if the inemher
| ship drive,: reported that 222 m.em
| tiers had liern enrolled to date and
that returns hail net been com
pleted.
Mis. .1, W. I*avis. house chair
man, reported that flowers for the
; hospital had Seen supplied during
; the past month liv the I)< gree of
j Pocahontas, the .Macedonia Sunday
i School, the colored auxiliary and
: Mrs. W. O. Elliott, Jr.
! Raster fray favors will ho made
I hv the pupils of Miss I.elm Jones
j grade.
The Auxiliary, in cooperation
with the American Red Cross blood
I hank, has . ucceeded in engaging
j Mis. J. 11. Conger. Jr., to head
volunteer -ei-vice.- and Mrs. J. M.
Bond and Mrs. J. I>. Kllintt to re
cruit donors.
There wa- a thorough discussion
of the \i.-iting problem in the hos
pital, and tile auxiliary pledged its
support m trying to accomplish a
more satisfactory situation.
T.-u was served by Mrs. George
\. Itvrum and Mrs. Graham White,
Jr.
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POC\HONTAS MEETING
| Clmwalioke Council. No. 5.4, De
j groo .of Pocahontas, will meet Fri
|day. night, March 2-7, at 8 o’clock
jin . the .Parish . House, Mrs, Irma
j Allshrook, Pocahontas of the Coun
loil,-' urges ('Very member to attend,;
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 24,1955.
Vile Introduces
Two Local Bills In
GenerajAssembly
Two Call For Salary
Increases For Pub
lic Officials
Representative John F. White
last week introduced three local
hills in the General Assembly, two
of which have to do with increasing
salaries of public officials.
Oft Wednesday Mr. White intro
duced House Bill 5117 which, if
passed, authorizes Town Council
and tlie hoard of trustees ol the
Kilenton City School Administrative
Knit to execute conveyance dividing
between themselves the property
known as Town: Commons or Hicks
Field.
f)n Friday Mr. White introduced
House Bills 641 and 642. The first
of these two hills calls for rewrit
ing chapter 44 lj Session Laws of
1945, fixing the compensation of
the Mayor and Councilman of the
Town of Rdenton. Provision of the
hill calls for the salaries of Coun
cil men to he increased from $4.00
per month to $lO per meeting, and
the mayor’s salary increased from
SSOO per year to SIOO per month.
House Bill 642 provides for re
writing chapter 120, Session Laws
nf 1951 fixing the salaries of the
Judge, the Solicitor and Clerk of
the Chowan Recorder’s Court. 1 ri
der this hilt the judge’s salary will
he increased from $175 to $275 per
month, the Solicitor from $l5O to
$.250 per month and the clerk from
$l5O to $250 per month.
Large Number
Get Assistance By
Easter Seal Sale
Last Year 3,457 Handi
capped Children
Were Helped
A record number of 8,457 handi
capped children and 801 handicap
ped adults received help from the
V. C. Society for Crippled Chil
dren and Adults during the past
year. <i. B. Potter. President of the
Chowan County Society discloses in
the annual -society report released
tty tile State Executive Director.
The assistance afforded twiee as
many persons than ever before in
one year with a total expenditure
of. $86,579, of which $55,899 was
made by the 95 county Chapters and
$30,670 by tile state office, the re
port shows. The services were for
children and adults handicapped by
polio, congenital deformities, am
putations, speech defects, cerebral
palsy and crippling conditions due
to accidents.
“It is significant,” the Execu
tive Director states in the report,
“that the Raster Seal Society op
erates at the local level entirely
without any paid staff members,
j All services arc provided hy volun
teers.”
Continued on Page 3—Section 1
Coon Dog Field
Trial April 11th
Full I)av of Entertain
ment at Chowan
High School
A coon dog field trial will lie held
Easter Monday, April 11, at Cho
wan High School, starting at 9:30
A. M. Trophies for final winners
will be awarded and an entire day
of entertainment and fun is as
sured for the entire family. There
will be no admission charged and
drinks and sandwiches will be for
sale on the ground.
Two other features of the trial
will be crowning of the field trial
I queen and an ugly man contest.
Proceeds of the affair will go to
ward building a ball park at the
school. The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
ROTARIANS MEET TODAY,
Kdenton Rotarians will meet this
(Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock
in the Parish House. The program
will he in charge of Lloyd Bunch j
and President Gilliam Wood urges!
every Rotarian to be present.
[ CITIZENS OF TOMORROW II
John IV. l'loars II Dick Goodwin Malcolm C. Dixon
V** o' J I jßti' M
W. t. 1 . u MTJI:
Patricia Anne Phthisic Margaret Holmes Scarlett Kuncn
Susan Holmes Ralph Vann Ward Sharon Kay Hare
Another installment of The Herald’s feature “Citizens of To
morrow” appears above. Pictured are: Top row, left to right,
John W. Floars 11, 7 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N.
l-’loars: Dick Goodwin, 11 years old. son of Mrs. R. H. Goodwin and
the late Mr. Goodwin; Malcolm C. Dixon; 4' 2 years old, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie T. Dixon; middle row, left to right, Patricia
Ann Phthisic, 9 months old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McKay
Phthisic; Margaret Holmes, 12 years old, daughter of Air. and Mrs.
William D. Holmes, Jr.; Scarlett Bunch, 23 months old, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Deroy Bunch; bottom row, left to right, Susan
Holmes, 9 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William I). Holmes,
j r „ Ralph Vann Ward, 10 months old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
B. Ward; Sharon Kay Hare, 8 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William N. Hare.
Machinery Set Up
For Town Election
Tuesday, May 3rd
Candidates Must File
For Office By Fri
day, April 22
With Town Council officially
calling a town election for Tues
day. May 3, machinery has been set;
up for the ('lection of town officials.
Officials to he ejected; include a
Mayor, a Councilman front each of
the four wards, two (’ouneilmen-at
large. treasurer and three members
of the Board of Public Works. Ihe
term of office will be for a period |
of two years, beginning July 1.
Attention is especially called to
all voters that a new registration
in Edenton has been called, so thatj
irrespective of how long, a name |
has been on the registration hook, |
to he eligible to cast a vote in tile!
election, the voter must, register in |
Interest Gradually Increasing
In ’55 Pilgrimage Os Edenton
Big Affair Only Three Weeks Off; Requests
Continue to Pour In From Far and Wide
For Information About Tour
With the Pilgrimage of Colonial
Edenton & Countryside only three
weeks off. (April 15th and 16th),
final details are being ironed out i
by Mrs. A. F. Downum, general
chairman of the tour, and other
committee members of the Wo- i
man's Club, sponsorers of the tour. (
Requests for folders and informa
tion continue to pour in, and to i
date over 1,700 folders have been (
mailed. ;
Information has been sent many ;
newspapers and publications not
only by the Pilgrimage Committee, <
ttut through the splendid coopera
tion of Town Clerk Ernest J. Ward. ,
Mr. Ward has aided the publicity :
of the tour with giving many hours (
of his time in answering letters ]
sent to the town concerning the
tour, and in addition is sending in- j
formation and pictures to many ra- i
dio and TV stations. 1
New pictures are now being :
made for use in a television pro
gram which will he shown on April
17th, over WUNC-TV, channel 4,1
between 3:30 and 4:00 P .M This
the ward in which lie resides,
‘ Saturday, April 23, lias been des
ignated as challenge day. Any per
son has the opportunity ta chal
lenge a name on the registration
hooks by advising the Registrar
. and Judges of election, who will set
. a date and time for a hearing prior
to Monday, May 2.
Registration books will be open
for voters to register Saturday,
April 9 and will close at sunset
Saturday, April 23. Each day, ex
; cept Sunday, between these dates
■ the hooks will lie open at the home
lof the Registrars until sunset, but
on each Saturday the hooks will be :
open at the Various polling places 1
from 9 A. M., to sunset,
j Candidates for any of the town
I offices are required to file with
Town Clerk Ernest J. Ward, Jr.,
on or before Friday, April 22, in
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program will originate in the Wo
man’s College Studio of WUNC-TV.
Several members of the Woman’s
Club will he guests of Station
WUNC-TV, Raleigh, N. C., on (
April 1.3, at 9:00 P. M„ at which .
time they will be interviewed with
questions relating to the tour.
The Pilgrimage, of 1955 will he .
the fourth held in this historic old j
town of Edenton. The first Pil- |
grimage was held in April, 1949, (
and has been held biennially since, j
Following are the places to be |
open for the tourists:
Randon Plantation. The original
grants were to Thomas Bray, 1717, i
and Edward Moseley, 1719, by Lord
Granville. In 1774, it was owned
by William Boyd, who sold it to
Parson Daniel Earle “with all edi
fices, buildings and orchards”, 1758.
Os the early dependencies three
buildings remain: the old kitchen,
smoke house and school house .
where Parson Earle and his daugh
ter Ann, conducted a classical
boarding school for boys. The pres-
Continued on Page 2—Section 1
Chowan County’s
Quota In Cancer
Drive Is $1,003.20
i
Campaign Will Be In
Progress Through
out April
Chowan County’s quota for the
1955 American Cancer Society’s
crusade, which will run throughout
April, has been set at $912.00, and
the goal, which represents an in
crease of ten per cent over the
quota, has been set. at $1,008.20.
Mrs. Daniel Reaves, chairman of
the campaign here, announced this
week.
This quota is an increase over
the 1954 quota, which reflects the
need shown hy the whole underly
ing situation in the war against
cancer. It represents Chowan
County’s share of the increase in
the national goal -from $20,000,000
a year ago to $24,000,000 for 4955;.
The 1954 national mark was oxer
subscribed by $1,700,000.
“Our population is growing old
er, people are living longer, and as
a result the incidence of cancer
Continued on Page 6—Section 1
Salvation Army
Captain Speaker
At Lions Meeting
Roy A. Tolches Gives
Brief History of
Organization
Although the fine work that is
being done throughout the world by
the Salvation Army is generally
known by almost everyone, how
ever an even better understanding
of the problems and their solutions
} cable to the members of the Eden
j ton Lions Club when they were ad
dressed by Captain Roy A. Tolcher
at their Monday evening meeting:
“In the year 1865 a young assist
ant pastor of a church in England
went out into the streets of the
East Side of London and gathered
together a bunch of dirty and rag
ged urchins,. He led them into the
church during their services, much
to the consternation of the ushers,”
said the speaker. “All pews were.
rented in those days, so the ushers
escorted them under the choir loft
where temporary seats were pro
vided.
“That was the inspirational spark
that lighted the way for this youth
ful minister, the Rev. William
Booth, whereupon he set out to or
ganize the Salvation Army,” con
tinued Tolcher.
“Fifteen years later the idea was
introduced in America when in one
man and seven women perfected
Continued on Page 6—Section 1
Special Baptist j
Youth Rally Being
Planned March 25
Meeting of Chowan
Association In Berea
Baptist Church
Young people of the Baptist
churches of the Chowan Association
have planned a youth rally for Fri
day night, March 25, at 7:30 o’clock
tin the Berea Baptist Church, just
north of Elizabeth City. A very
interesting program of music, talks
and panels has been arranged and
it will be carried out in every de
tail by the young people of the
Chowan Baptist Association. The
inspirational address is to be de
livered by the Rev. Junius Foster,
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Chaplain Yeltman
Will Preach Sunday
At Methodist Church
Chaplain D. K. Veltman of the
Edenton Marine Corps Auxiliary-
Landing Field will preach at the
Methodist Church Sunday night at
7:30. Mr. Veltman is substituting
for the pastor, the Rev. J. E. Rich
ardson, who is preaching evangelis
tic sermons at Sunbury,
$2.00 Per Year In North Carolina
New Registration
Os Edenton Voters
April 9 To April 23
I Revival Speaker ]
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REV. WALTER L. JONES
Revival services will begin at
Ballard's Bridge Baptist Church
Sunday. March 27. with the Rev.
Walter 1.. Jones of Hinton, W. Va„
preaching the sermons. The revival
will close Sunday, April 3.
Mike Malone Wins
Angier Duke Prize
One of 15 Awarded
Scholarships Satur
day at Durham
A total of 15 of the Southeast’s
most 'outstanding high school stu
dents. received Duke University
scholarship awa rd s potentially.
worth $4,000 each at Duke Univer
sity Saturday.
Eleven North Carolina young
sters.and four from out-of-state re
ceived coveted Angier B. Duke
Prizes and Regional Scholarships
in the. University’s annual compe
tition.
Michael Taylor Malone, son of
Mr, a ltd Mrs. W. E. Malone, was
winner of the Angier Duke prize
for , the. eastern region for men.
The 15 awards are- among 22 an
nual Angier Duke, regional and na
tional prizes, with a total value of
SBB,OOO. At a later date seven reg
ional scholarships identical with
those awarded Saturday .will he
given to four seniors in Florida,
Tennessee, Georgia;, and West Vir
ginia. and t" three women winners
of national scholarships.
All winners are chosen on the
basis of academic ability, charac
ter and promise of future achieve
ment.
‘Third Degree Tonight
I Al Masonic Meeting
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W. Overman, master of Una
nimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M.,
has called an emergent communica
tion of the lodge tonight (Thurs
day) at. 8 o'clock. The purpose of
this meeting is to confer the third
degree so that a large attendance
is urged..
ij RECEIVE GIFT FROM JAYCEES j
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Pictured in front of the Municipal Building are some of the trash
cans recently contributed to the Town of Edenton by the Edenton
Junior Chamber of Commerce. Pictured are, left to right, Thomas
Byrum, J. Edwin Bufilap, Street Commissioner, Mayor Leroy Has
kett and Leonard Small. The cans were presented by J. H. Con
ger, Jr-, Jaycee president, who is not in the picture. By rum and
Small are members of the committee which purchased the cans, *
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SUPPORT THE
RED CROSS . . .
ENROLL NOW!
Each Voter Must Reg
ister In Order to
Cast Ballots
Voters in Edenton are reminded
that a new registration has been
called, so that in order to cast a
ballot in the forthcoming munici
pal election on May 3 and future
elections names must appear on the
new registration book in each of
the four wards. Regardless of how
long a voter has been voting, he or
she must register again in order to
lie eligible to vote.
The new registration was called
by Town Council due to the deplor
able condition of the present reg
istration books which contain
names of voters long since dead,
some who have moved away and
many appearing in one ward while
the voter has moved to another
ward.
Tint registration books will ho
, open Saturday, April 9, and will
close tit sunset Saturday, April 23.
During this period voters may reg-
I ister at the home of registrars any
day except Sunday until sunset, ex
( cept that on each Saturday the
registrars will he stationed at the
various polling places from 9 A. M.,
to sunset for the purpose of. regis
tering voters, Saturday, April 23,
| will hr challenge day.
The following information is fur
nished in order to acquaint, voter.;
. with the boundaries of the wards,
Continued on Page s—Section 1
Over 200 Witness
: Annual Art Show
| Large Number of Ex
j Dibits on Display In
J Badham Building
. Over two hundred art lovers at
tendedthe 'Annual Art Show held
at the former Badham Bros, store
by the Woman’s Club. March 20-21.
The two Edenton schools, Cho
wan High .School, Rocky Hock
School, Mrs. Louise Dixon’s art
class, the kindergarten and adults
submitted entries.
James A. Walker, critic teacher
of art at East Carolina College,
acted, as judge and the following
ribbons wore given:
Kindergarten Wesley ('hesson,
blue, ribbon; Kathy Wcathers.hce,
white ribbon; Mural by Johnny
Dowd and Wesley ('hesson, red rib
bon. ■ -I
First Grades, Edenton School -
Patricia Dixon, blue ribbon: Vivian
Whiteman, white ribbon, and Tim
Maxwell; Barbara Adams arid Jim
Elliott, red ribbons.
Second Grade, Edenton—-Peggy
Ward, blue ribbon; Sharlie Fair
cloth, white ribbon, and Brenda
Perry, Mary Lou Grasscr, red rib-,
bons.
Second Grade, Chowan High -
Wanda Parker, blue ribbon; Mar
garet Rountree, white ribbon, and
Charles Chappell, ted ribbon.
Third Grade, Edenton—Herbert
Continued on Page 3—Section 1