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CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXll.—Number 27.
Boy Scout s
in Camp This Week
<i
Group Left Sunday
Afternoon For Dar
den Reservation
Members of Edenton Boy Scout
Troop No. 156 were a happy group
of boys Sunday afternoon as they
left for a week’s camping trip t;>
th e Darden Scout Reservation near
Franklin, Va. The boys gathered
at the Scout cabin, where they
were assigned to various cars with
a truck provided to carry their
luggage.
Although a few of the cars got
lost on their way to Camp Dar
den, all the boys arrived in time
for supper and soon were set up
to spend the night. They will re
main in camp this week and return
home next Sunday.
A special invitation is extended
to parents and friends of the
Scouts to visit Camp Darden Fri
day night when a camp fire will be
held.
Spending some time at intervals
with the Scouts in camp are Jack
Habit, Scoutmaster and Percy Dail
and Horace White, Assistant Scout
masters.
Scouts who are in camp are:
Fred Britton, Arthur White, Ed
gar Halsey, Robert Halsey, Billy
Harry, Bobby Hall, Jack Overman,
Jimmie White, Donald Welch, Paul
Twiddy, Bill Cates, Bill Goodwin,
Roland Vaughan, Frank Williams, j
Bert Harrell, Douglas Ward, Dick
Goodwin, Creighton Hughes, Bert!
Willis, Alex Kehayes, Tommy Ke
hayes, Joe Campen, Billy Lane, R.
B. Keeter, Leroy Spivey, Billy
White, Donald Faircloth, Lloyd
''ills, Dickie Pate, Billy Dail, Dal-1
Stallings arid Cecil Fry. I
reanut Election Is j
Scheduled July 23
Growers Will Vote on
2-cent Assessment
Per 100 Pounds
The question of continuing and
increasing a promotional assess
ment on peanuts will be derided by
North Carolina peanut growers
July 23.
Plans for a referendum on the
matter have been announced by C.
S. Alexander, of Scotland Neck,
president of the North Carolina
Peanut Growers Association. The
proposal to be submitted, he said,
will be for an assessment of two
cents per 100 pounds of peanuts
produced and sold during the crop
years 1956, 1957 and 1958. The as
sessment in effect since 1953 has
been at the rate of one cent a hun
dred pounds.
Voting by growers on such as
sessments is authorised by a state
law for the promotion of use and
sale of agricultural products. The
amount of a promotional assess
ment Is limited to one-half of one
per cent of the value of a crop.
Alexander said the peanut refer
endum will be held jointly in the
peanut-producing counties with the
referendum among tobacco grow
ers on continuing an assessment of
10 cents an acre to be used by To
bacco Associates, Inc., to promote
the sale of flue-cured tobacco. The
polls will be open from 7 A. M.,
to 7 P. M., at the usual ASC poll
ing places.
Any land owner, sharecropper or
tenant producing peanuts will be
eligible to vote. A two-thirds ma
jority is required for approval of
the proposal.
Alexander said that the peanut
referendum in each county will be
-der the supervision of a director
• he Peanut Growers Association
the county Farm Bureau presi
-nt.
Visiting Speaker At
Methodist Church
Guest speaker at the Edenton
Methodist Church at 11 o’clock
Sunday morning, July 10, will be
R. Maxie Hearn. Mr. Hearn is a
Methodist layman from Suffolk,
Va., well known in his community
for his church and Sunday School
work.
Mr. Hearn will be presented by
W. T. Harry who will preside at
next Sunday’s service.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Capt Wm. Whichard
Intelligence Officer
At Fort Denning, Ga.
Will Serve Six Weeks
Training 1,300 Stu
dent Cadets
Capt. William A. Whichard has
arrived at FoVt Bonning, Georgia,
where he will serve, as Intelligence
Officer f«»r the 11)55 General Mili
tary Science Reserve Officer I’rain
ing Corps Summer Camp.
Capt. Whichard, a veteran of six |
years military service, is regular
ly assigned as Assistant Professor
of Military Science and Tactics at
North Carolina State College,
During his six weeks at the home
lof the United States Infantry [
School he will assist in the train- 1
ing of more than 1,300 student-ea- f
dets representing 34 senior edu- (
cational institutions from the seven
state Third Army area, and Puerto
Rico who will undergo extensive
military training designed:to better
fit them for the job of leading a
unit in combat.
! Colonel Kelley R. Lemmon
i (DSC), Professor of Military Sci- .
ence and Tactics, a graduate of the
U. S. Military Academy is the Pep- (
uty Camp Commander. The objec
tive of the summer camp is to sup
plement, the instruction received by|j
I the cadet at his institution, much
j of which is theoretical in nature, by j
| additional api'iicatory training in |:
I order to qualify him for appoint-
' ment in the Regular Army or Army
I Reserve. ,
Capt. Whichard has heed award- ,
ed the combat infantryman badge, ,
the silver Star, the bronze star, the
purple heart, presidential unit ci- 1
tation, parachute wings, victory ,
medal, the United Nations medal, ,
and the National Defense medal. ,
Upon completion of the summer .
camp on August 4th Capt. Which
ard will return to his regular as- ,
signment at N. C. State. |
J. E Richardson Is
Returned As Pastor!:
Methodist Church
The Rev. P. M. Porter
Is Pastor of Chowan 1
Charge
At the North Carolina Confer
ence of the Methodist Church held*,
in Fayetteville last week, the Rev. i
J. E. Richardson was returned to I
the Edenton Methodist Church. The [
Rev. C. Freeman Heath was also
re-appointed superintendent of the-
Elizabeth City District. The Rev.
P. M. Porter was assigned to the
Chowan Charge.
Friends will be interested to
know that the Rev. E. B. Edwards,
who preceded the Rev. J. E. Rich
ardson as pastor of the local
church, was transferred from a.
Fayetteville Church to LaGrange in ,
the Goldsboro District.
Rotarians Install
Officers Today
Gerald Janies to Suc
ceed Gilliam Wood
As President
Edenton’s Rotary Club will meet
| this (Thursday) afternoon at 1
o’clock in the Parish House. The
, feature of the meeting will be in
- stallation of officers for the new
, Rotary year, when Gerald James
[ will succeed Gilliam Wood as presi
dent of the club.
»
’ George Alma Byrum will be the
[ new vice president, and the follow
ing earlier in the year were elect
’ ed directors: Elton Forehand, J.
; P. Ricks, Jr., William Holmes and
Bill Cowart,
Edenton. Chowan County. North Carolina, Thursday, July 7,1955.
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DESIGNED FOR POLIO VlCTlMS— Designed for use by nearly
paralyzed polio victims who still have control of neck and facial
muscles, the motorized chair pictured above is the development of
Ed Tildcn Atkins, of Chicago, 111. Instrument panel before the
patient's face may be actuated by a stick held in the mouth, pro
truding rod is nose operated; controls forward-reverse motion of
chair. Fashioned of aircraft parts, mechanism is powerful enough
to pull portable chest respirator as well as patient, as modeled by
Mrs. Barbara Pollard,
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Chowan County ]
A Brief But Interesting Treatise on Chowan County j
Written By J. L. Wiggins i
—
Recently a distinguished visitor i
was in our town, and while I was!:
in conversation with him on the 1
Court House Green, he asked me' t
to give him some of the highlights <
of Chowan County.
To do this my thoughts went s
I hack for a period of more than .
I three hundred years—seventy-five ]
'years before North Carolina came j
[into being and one hundred and sis- ‘i
ty years before our United States :
was established. So I started out i
by telling him that unlike New
Bern and Wilmington, which were
settled by colonists who came di
rectly by sea. Chowan County and .
the whole of the Albemarle was (
settled by hunters, tradesmen and i
woodsmen who drifted down the
Chowan River from the colony at
Jamestown, Va,
These Colonists were Englishmen
who fame to the new world and]
landed at Jamestown. In order to I
seek freedom from that pest rid
den island and also to escape the
tyrannical government of Sir Wil
(liam Berkeley and others They
built themselves canoes and rafts
;and floated with the current down
stream to the Chowan River and A!
bemarle Sound. This happened
sometime between the years oi
1620 and 1660, and prior to that
time the white man had never
placed his foot upon the banks of
Chowan River.
Th e river, like the county, was
named for the Chowanoke Indians,
who had a large village on the
I bluffs of the river at Bandon, and
'another village on the present site
of Edenton.
These settlers came singly and in
'pairs, first setting up cabins on the
banks of the river, following with
| trading posts and later with the <
establishing of plantations.
I told our visitor that Chowan
County as it stands today is like a
The Fabulous Peanut
i
Whoever coined the phrase “low
ly peanut” must have been kidding.
They are fabulous. They are worth
more than diamonds. At least, our
peanut crop last year was worth
$25,000,000 more than the diamonds
we imported.
How come these peanuts are so
valuable? The answer is simple.
Everybody likes ’em. Any monkey
knows that. Just toss a few into
the monkey cage at the zoo and
you’ll see what we mean. You will
attract bug-eyed attention and cre
ate screams and chatterings of joy.
Monkeys, elephants, squirrels and
the birds are smart about things
to eat. They know a good vitamin
when they see one. And so do
most humans.
The chief elements that make
peanuts so popular are taste-appeal
and nutrition. They have been
called many things, including “Na
ture's masterpiece of food values.”
According to the biochemists this
peanut is really loaded. It contains
j lot of tits essential A, B and C
w'
hoot on Albemarle Sound. The heel!
and toe are divided by Edentonl
Bay, at the head of which is our
town of Edenton, often called the
cradle of the colony.
Historically, Chowan County!
stands at the head of the one hun
dred counties of the state. We
have visitors almost every day com
ing to see the landmarks and build
ings where America began, such
as the Cupola House, buiilt by
Charles Corbin, Collector of the
Post.
The Cupola House was so named
from thA cupola on top of it used
as a lookout and to give warning
of the approach of Indians or oth
er enemies from the landward or
wooded areas to the North, and al-,
so to signal the approach of vessels
from abroad coming into Edenton
Bay to unload and load on the docks
jat the waterfront. Other land-
J marks are St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, built of bricks which were
brought from England and the old
colonial Court House also built of
bricks brought from England.
Overlooking Edenton Bay at the
foot of the Court House Green
there are mounted three Revolu
tionary cannons, which were
brought f'rrom France, during the
Revolutionary War by Captain Bo
ritz on a ship named The Holy
Heart of Jesus. There were origi
nally thirty-three of the cannons to
he paid for upon their delivery at
the rate of one pound of tobacco
for a pound of cannon. Rut upon
Captain Boritz’s arrival, there was
no tobacco to trade, so Captain Bo
ritz in a fit of anger threw the
cannons overboard, took his vessel
a short distance up Pembroke
Creek and sank it. He and his
crew scattered and became resi
dents of the colony.
The James Iredell house, in which
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vitamins, such as Thiamin, Ribofla
vin, Niacin, Carotene and Ascor
bic Acid. They are also rich in
protein and carry a hunk of cal
ories.
However, those who worry about
the old waistline are told by pea
nut experts not to fret about
these calories because peanuts cre
ate quick energy. You may have
noticed that at the ball park. It’s
always the peanut-crunching fan
who jumps up and down and yells
as though he were a bit tipsy—
same thing, quick energy! That
burns up the calories and builds
muscle. Just like the kids who
romp and play till oldsters exclaim,
“I don’t know where they get all
the energy.” Chances are they’ve
just consumed a flock of peanut
butter or peanut candy'.
So, advise our peanut friends, if
you want a slim figure and loads
of energy, take a lesson from the
monkeys and the kids (affection
ately called “little monkeys”) and
cat plenty f nature’s finest Uv i
Changes Made In
Various Clinics At
Health Department
Shortage of Nurses In
District Reason For
Changes
Dr. B. B. McGuire, District
Health Officer, ‘announces that it
has been necessary to make chang
es in clinic schedules in the District
Health Department, which he hopes
will cause no hardship no the pub
lic. The changes are necessary due
to shortage of nurses and to enable
many people to attend at more con
venient hours.
The clinic schedule at the Eden
ton health office will be as follows:
Immunization ami Food Hand
lers, 1:00 P. M„ to 5:00 P. M., Fri
days.
Venereal Disease, 2:30 P. M„ to
3:30 P. M., Fridays.
Midwives, 1:00 P. M„ to 4:00
P. M., third Monday at Hertford.
Pre-natal and Well Baby, 1:00
P. M„ first Wednesday.
Orthopedic, 8:00 A. M., to 12:00
noon last Tuesday each month in
Elizabeth City.
Pre-natal, Well Baby and Immu
nizations, 1:00 P. M., third Tuesday
at White Oak School.
Cancer clinic For information
(.hone 5420 Elizabeth City or write
I Drawer 651, Elizabeth City, N. C.
From 2 to 3 P. M„ Dr. McGuire
| will be in the following health of
j ficcs: Edenton, Mondays: Hert-
I ford, Tuesdays; Camden, Wednes
| days.
Dr. McGuire may he seen in the
Elizabeth City offices Monday
through Friday around 4:00 P. M.
Edenton Colonials
To Be Bolstered
t By Three Players
Parker, Griffin and
Raines In Colonial
Uniforms
After being shoved out of first
place in the Albemarle League race
and as of Tuesday being in third
i place back of Elizabeth City and
: Hertford, Coach Alton Brooks has
high hopes of regaining the lea
gue’s lead by the acquisition of
three new players, all well known
to Edenton and Albemarle League
fans.
The three players who will be
seen in Colonial uniforms are Monk
Raines, Gashouse Parker and Claud
Griffin, all of whom have made
names for themselves in previous
Albemarle League competition.
Raines will undoubtedly strength
en the Colonials’ pitching staff,
: while Parker will no doubt take
. over his old position at first base
and Griffin will most likely ram
ble around in the outfield. All
, three have been dangerous at bat,
with many fans remembering Park
er’s rough treatment with the bail
by walloping it over fences in var
ious parks in the Albemarle Lea
gue circuit.
(affectionately called “peanuts”).
Americans eat about 500 thous
and tons of th e things annually.
We raise only about 10 per cent of
the world crop but consume them
in more ways. In the rest of the
world peanuts are used mainly for
; oil, with only a small percentage
eaten as food.
That’s because American manu
i facturing and distributing genius
i has solved the problems of getting
: them to us as finished food pro
■ ducts. Other peanut-raising coun
t tries have yet to learn how to ac
; complish these things,
i American Gl’s know how the
, kids—and adults—of other coun-
I tries were thrilled by peanuts, pea
> nut candy bars and peanut butter
t when they tasted them for the first
time. Yet many of these same
f countries raise more peanuts than
5 we do. They just do not know how
; to get them to th e urban areas as
- finished food products.
1 Millions of people, especially
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New Military Construction
Bill Includes $1,421,500 For
Use At Edenton Marine Base
FRESH
PFACHES wST
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WHERE’S GEORGIA’S PEACHES?-
at Georgias peach stands this year. Discovering this is Mrs. J.
Howard Crane of Atlanta. And the 25-cents-each price tag isn t
all that surprises her. The fruit, usually plentiful in Georgia,
are imports from California. The “peach state has no peaches
of its own this year because the late frost killed them this spring.
Edenton Colonials Drop Back
Third Place In League Race
Only 11/?,I 1 /?, Games Sepa
rate First Four
Teams
During the past week the Eden
ton Colonials lost their grip mi
1 filist place in the Albemarle Lea
-1 gue and as of Tuesday they were in
third place, trailing Elizabeth City
a full game for first place and half
a gamp behind the Hertford In
dians for second place. Colerain is
in fourth place, half a game be
hind Edenton, while NAF is in the
fifth spot and Chowan still claims
the cellar position, 6'i games be
hind the league leaders.
Tonight (Thursday) Edenton is
scheduled to play in Hertford. Eliz
abeth City at Chowan and Colerain
at NAF.
Friday night Chowan is sched
uled to play Edenton, Hertford at
Colerain and NAF at Elizabeth
City.
Tuesday night, July 12, Eliza
beth City is scheduled to play in
Edenton, Hertford at NAF and
Colerain at Chowan.
Edenton 1, Hertford 2
On Hicks Field Tuesday night of
last week McKay Riddick. Hertford
moundsman, held the Edenton Co
lonials at his mercy by allowing
only two hits, enabling the Indians
to win over the Colonials by a score
of 2 to 1 in one of the best games
played thus far this season. Wayne
Emminizer, on the mound for Eden,
ton, also turned in a splendid per
formance, allowing only six hits.
The game was a 0-0 scrap until )
the fourth inning when the Colon
ials scored their only run. Bunch
was safe on a fly back of second
and after Jordan and Brooks were
out, Bill Elliott hit a triple to cen
ter to score Bunch.
The Indians scored their two
runs in the fifth. Pierce was safe
on an error, who scored on singles
by A. Winslow and Morris. Wins
low scored on a hit by Hunter. Ted
Chappell then beat out a grounder
which loaded the bases with one
out. Emminizer pulled out of this
hole by fanning Mathews and Stall
ings popped out.
Chowan 0, Colerain 3
Tn Colerain Tuesday night Cho
wan again lost by a score of 3-0.
Wayne Belch, Colerain moundsman,
had things pretty much his own
way as he gave up only two hits
and fanned 15 Chowan batters. He
was given gilt-edge support, so that
at no time did he appear in dan
ger.
The only scoring in the well-play
ed game was in the first inning
i when Colerain scored all of its
runs. White singled, stole second
; and went to third on a single by D.
Farless. Tracy Hughes then dou
r bled, scoring White and Farless.
(Continued on Pag* B—Section l.»
$2.00 Per Year In North Carolina
Native Os Chowan :
Given 10 Years In
2nd Murder Trial
Marcus R. Nixon Pre
viously Sentenced To
Life Imprisonment 1
i
Marcus Ray Nixon, 35-year-old :
native of Edenton and an ex-GI, (
who previously was sentenced to t
life imprisonment for killing a Fort t
Meade soldier almost two years |
ago. was sentenced to 10 years in i
prison in a second trial at Anapo
iis Friday of last week. (
Nixon pleaded guilty of man- ’
slaughter in the retrial which was |
ordered by the Court of Appeals, j
At the first trial he was sentenced ]
to life imprisonment after Nixon’s j
lawyers entered a plea of guilty'. ]
The Court of Appeals upset the ,
first sentence on grounds that tes- .
tininny about the condition of a ,
waxer handle found by the body of ,
the victim. Corporal Donald Lassi- 1 ,
ter of Conway. N. C., should have ,
been heard.
Nixon testified Lassiter beat him
in a fight behind a restaurant near
the army post August 27, 1953. as- 1
ter ill feeling developed between
the two men regarding dating a
28-year-old waitress who was sep
arated from her husband,
j Lassiter died from two bullets
fired by Nixon, who said he bought
the gun for protection because he
was carrying S6OO separation pay
at the time,
VFW AUXILIARY MEETING
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of William
H. Coffield, Jr., Post No. 9280,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
meet tonight (Thursday 1 at 8
o’clock in the post home. Mrs. El
la Potts, president, urges all mem
bers to attend.
f civic calendar]
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Members of Boy Scout Troop No.
■ 156 are spending this week at
1 Camp Darden, Virginia.
Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. V.,
! & A. M., will hold a stated com
: munication tonight (Thursday) at
8 o’clock.
Chowanoke Council No. 54, De
■ gree of Pocahontas, will meet Fri
• day night, July 8, at 8 o’clock in
; the Red Men hall, when new offi
-1 cers will be installed.
VFW Auxiliary will meet tonight
■ (Thursday) at 8 o’clock in the
• VKW hall.
Continued on Page B—Section 1
DO YOUR PART *
DONATE TO THE
SWIMMING POOL/
*
Money Will Be Ear
marked to Build 105
Houses on Base
North Carolina military installa
tions, including the Edenton Ma
rine Corps Auriliary Landing Field
moved a step nearer to a 33 million
dollar construction program Fri
day when the U. S. Senate approv
ed the Military Public Works Au
thorization Bill, which had previ
ously been adopted by the House.
The amount authorized to be
spent at the Edenton base is sl,-
421,500.
Other amounts authorized to be
spent in North Carolina are:
Fort Bragg Army Base—sls,-
659,000.
Seymour-Johnson Air Base at
Goldsboro—s7,429,ooo.
Pope Air Force Base at Fort
Bragg—s2,s4B,ooo.
Marine Corps Air Station at
Cherry Point, $1,762,000.
Marine Corps Air Facility at
New River—s2,762,ooo.
Marine Corps Base at Camp Le
jeune—$ 1,059,000.
Navall Air Facility at Weeks
ville—s342,ooo.
The appropriation, according to
information, will he earmarked for
construction of 105 housing units to
be built on the base property in
order to relieve the housing situa
tion for families of Marines.
Stem Rot Disease
Attacking Peanuts
Chemicals Being Tried
In Effort to Control
Disease
The southern stem rot disease
has caused a considerable loss to
peanut growers for many years.
Scientists have been looking for a
chemical that might be applied to
the soil or plants that will control
the disease, that will be easy to ap
ply, and that will be economical to
use.
Dr. J. C. Wells and Dr. W. E.
Cooper came to Chowan County on
Wednesday of last week and ap
plied a chemical to a portion of a
field of peanuts belonging to Ray
Byrum. This field was already
found to be affected with the stem
rot disease. These specialists stat
ed the chemical has given very
good results on control of the di
sease at the Experiment Station
and that plants have been inoculat
ed to be sure that they have the
disease.
“Peanut growers can do much to
ward avoiding the stem rot disease
, by avoiding covering up the pllants
I or portions of the plants with soil
during cultivation,” says County
Agent C. W. Overman. “If portions
of the peanut plants are covered
with soil it provides an ideal con
dition for the stem rot to start
working.” jji'
New Concern To
Locate In Edenton
J. D. McCotter, Inc.,
Plans to Add An
other Plant
J. D. McCotter, Inc., with head
quarters in Washington, N. C., an
nounces that in the near future an
other ready-mix cement and build
ing supplies plant will be opened
in Edenton. The concern, besides
the Washington plant, also has a
plant at Williamston.
The date and location of the new
plant in Edenton will be announced
very shortly and besides ready-mix
cement, it will handle sand, gravel,
roofing products, millwork, lumber,
hardware, bricks, blocks, paint and
septic tanks. It will also rent
equipment such as cranes, bulldoi
ers, water graders and draglines.
Until the Edenton plant is open
ed, customers in this area will be
served from the Williamston plant.
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