ONLY NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED IN
CHOWAN COUNTY
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Volume XXll.—Number 28.
0 No Change Made In
Organization T own
Council For Year
«s
Much Business Trans
acted In Record
Time
Though Town Councilman were
faced with a full agenda Tuesday
night, the business was transact
ed with dispatch, so that the meet
ing was over before 10:!10 o'clock.
Being the first meeting of the
fiscal year, an organization was
perfected which resulted in no
change from the previous year.
The various officers will be as fol
lows :
Mayor pro tern —J. Clarence
Leary.
Town Attorney—J. N. Pruden.
Chief of Police—George I. Dail.
Fire Chief—R. K. Hall.
Finance Committee —J. Clarence
Leary and John Mitehener.
Street Commissioner —J. Edwin
Bufflap.
Parks and Playgrounds Commis
sioner—Granam Byrum.
Assistant Fire Chief —W. J.
Yates. *
Clerk—Ernest J. Ward; Jr.
Assistant Clerk —Celia I). Spiv y.
The appointment of a building
inspector and harbor master was
postponed due to considering a full
time man for this position.
Penelope Hathaway requested thej
Council to adopt a name for tliei
street running from Highway 17 to
the Blades Lumber Company. It
is now known by several names, so
tliat it was decided to name the
Street Coke \ venue, as referred to
♦ 'n a number of old deeds.
) Town Attorney J. N. Pruden was
lUthorized to file a quit claim de-d
on the property now occupied ny
the Edenton Veneer Mill. A .deed
was given by Town Council in the
late 1800’s to the Norfolk South-i
ern Railway Company without I
proper authority so that the quit]
claim deed will clear the situation
and the town will own the propert y.
Mr. Pruden was also authorized
to prepare deeds for the Kdemop
City Schools and Town of Edenton
property transfer on Hicks Field
as previously agreed upon.
It was reported that the X. 0.
National Guard is prepared to take
over the armory as soon as t.-.e
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Three Edenton Scouts
Win Membership In
Order Os The Arrow
While the Kdenton Boy ' .Seoul
were at Camp Darden last week an.
clcct'on was held to elect memh-os
for the Order of the Arrow. Among j
those elected were Scoutm i -tc i-
Jack Habit, togethei with two oiu-j
er Scouts, Tommy Kehayes an 1
Tack Overman. The Order of tie
Arrow is an association composed
of honor campers.
While at camp the highest award
for daily inspection was won by t!t<■
Edenton troop and during the week
Edenton Scouts eiirned JO merit
badges.
E. W. Spires Resigns Position
As Accountant For County
Mrs. Evelyn B. Wil
liams Appointed as |
Successor
Clerk of Court E. W. Spires, who
lias also served as County Account
ant for 14 years,'submitted his res
ignation of the latter position at
the meeting of the County Com
-•jb lissioners held Wednesday of last
, ee ]{ The resignation is effective
August 1.
In tendering his resignation. Mr.
Spires had this to say:
“I hereby submit my resignation
as County Accountant, effective on
August Ist, next, or at such time
as you can find a successor.
“As previously explained, the
volume of work in all four depart
ments of my office has doubled ir
the past three years. Therefore, it
is not practical for me to continue
doing the county accountant work,
as there is not sufficient space i:.
my office for a third person to.
work.
“It has i'.e v’.e • ■>l ;
THI CHOWAN HERALD
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| Rotary President
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GERALD I>. JAMES
At last week’s Rotary meeting.
Gerald D. James was installed
president of the Edenton Rotary
Club, succeeding Gilliam Wood.
Leol Lavoie New
Edenton Policeman
Patrolman H. J. Lup
ton Is Promoted to
Sergeant
The Edenton Police Department
has a new patrolman iti the person
of Leo G, Lavoie, who wont in
duty last week to succeed John
Woods, who resigned to accept a
| position with the Fire Department
j at. tile Kdent.ui Marine Base,
I Mr. Lav.de is. a former Marine.
Who was stationed at the Kdenton
Base in 195! and later married the
former Miss. Ktiiel \\ bite. He is
a native of K ils River. Mass.
Another change ill the Police Pe
p. • • irn w :is the promotion of Pa
trolman 11. .1. I ini'on to the rank
of so am ant. tile position lcld by la.
!;. Tolley a hen lie 'recentlyresign
ed.
Edenton Boy Scouts
Return From Camp
Members of Kdenton Boy Scout
j Troop Xo. 56 returned home Sat
jnrday afternoon from the Darden
I Reservation at SeViley. \ a.. whe v e
they spent a week in camp. The
; hoys were ~ in- high spirits . and
! thoroughly enjoyed the outing.
,1 The Kdenton troop, orio of the
largest attending camp, hung up
I si vend, records during their l amp
ing activities, and Scoutmaster
Jack 11 ahi t and Assistant Scimt
i masters Harare White and Percy
Pia.il are very appreciative for the
inter, St and cooperation of lMeti
ton people ill making it possible
for the hoys to sp.md the week in
ca mp. _ _
ing with you in this capacity dur
ing thi'- past 11 years and I wish
[to. assure you of my deep apprecia-
Ition of your kindness and your un
derstanding consideration at all
times.
“I pledge you my future coopera
tion in all things tending toward
the best interest of our county.”
I The Commissioners highly prais
ed Mr. Spires’s work as Accountant
and asker him to reconsider his res
ignation. However, air. Spires stat
ed, that, in justice to his health, he
could not, so that his resignation
was accepted with regret.
With Commissioner Raleigh
Reele taking W, W. Byrum’s seat
as chairman, Mrs. Evelyn B. Wil
liams was appointed to succeed Mr.
Spires as County Accountant.
I.EGION MEETS TONIGHT
Edward G. Bond Post No. 40 of
the American Region will meet to
right (Thursday) at 8 o’clock in
the Region hut, Thurman Harrell,
new commander of the Post, urges
all memhei'- • i ••si. u m iie
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 14,1955.
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Landmark Now In Edenton
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Above is pictured the old Roanoke River lighthouse which has
been abandoned and moved to Edenton by Emmett Wiggins on his
war surplus LCI. The picture was taken in the Edenton harbor
where it was docked to remove a quantity of heavy iron prior to
being taken to Mr. Wiggins’ lot along Pembroke Creek, w here it
will he repaired and transformed into a dwelling house. —(Photo by
Evelyn Leary).
Edenton Scheduled To Have
New Doctor About August 1
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I)r. Edward G. Bond
And New Bride Select
Edenton as Home
On or about August 1 Edenton
will have another doctor, when Dr.
Edward Griffith Bond will open an
office on East King Street next to
John W. Graham s law office.
Dr. Bond on Saturday married
Miss Vivian Phipps at Chapel Hill!
and upon completion of their honey
moon the newlyweds will live in
1 the Earnhardt apartment on North I
Broad Street.
Dr. Bond attended the University I
of North Carolina, where he was j
a member of Sigma Nu social fra
ternity and is a graduate of the
School of Medicine at the Univer
-1 sity of Virginia, He interned at
1 the Medical College of Virginia,
Richmond, and served residencies
in internal medicine at the Virginia
Mason Hospital in Seattle, Wash..
Veterans Administration Hospital, |
Coral Gables, Fla., and N. C. Me
morial Hospital, Chapel Hill. He
served as a medical officer with
the First Marine Division in Ko-|
rea from 1951 to 1953 and has just
completed a residency in cardiology j
at the Veterans Administration
Hospital, Richmond, Va.
Dog And Bicycle
Licenses Now Due
Town Clerk Ernest J. Ward, Jr„
calls attention to the fact that dog I
and bicycle licenses are now on j
sale. The dog licenses must ..be I
purchased at the Town office, while
bicycle licenses can be secured at;
the Police Station.
The fee for each male dog is
SI.OO and $2.00 for each female.
The foe for each bicycle is 25 cents.
Mr. Ward points out that accord
ing to law a dog owner is subject
to arrest if he or she fails to pur
chase licenses for dogs before July
31st.
First Degree Tonight !
At Masonic Meeting
C. W. Overman, master of Una
nimity I.odge Mo. 7, A. F. & A. M ,
announces that an emergent com
munication of the lodge will he
held tonight (Thursday) at 8
o’clock. The purpose of the meet
ing is to confer the first degree
so that a large attendance is urged.
I The Fabulous Peanut
AN ARTICRE PREPARED BY THE NATIONAL PEANUT COUNCIL
' (Continued from Last Week) j
The spread of peanut cultivation
■ from Virginia to the other states
: had its greatest impetus when cot
ton crops were wiped out by the:
■ boll weevil. Farmers in Alabama,
' faced with the need to find a new
1 source ox revenue, planted peanuts.'
In Enterprise, Alabama, there is a
1 monument to the boll weevil. It
f was erected by the grateful farm
■ ers who came to regard the boll
• weevil blight as a blessing because
it caused them to discover this new
money crop.
Peanuts are so important to the
’ agriculture and economics of the
South that they have been declared,
i by Congress to be one of the Na-|
, tion’s six nasie crops.
! | About half of our pea ti.its arc
> raised in the Southeastern states
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fAdopt Taxßate^j
Chowan County Commissioners
at their meeting Wednesday of last
week took a filial glance at the new
1955-56 budget and adopted the
I tentative rate of $1.53 per SIOO
I property valuation, the same rate
ias last year. The $1,53 rate, how
i ever, applies only to the residents
i of Edenton, for those living outside,
j the corporate limits will be obliged]
to pay taxes at a rate of $1.63.
The extra 10 cents on the rate is
j due to a recent election calling for
jan assessment for fire protection
furnished by the Edenton Fire De
partment.
Miller Resigns As
Townshio Constable
John Frank Miller at last week’s
meeting of the County Commission*
J ers tendered his resignation as con
stable.
fn his: letter of resignation Mr.
Miller said: “Having moved my'
! residence from the precinct fori
I which I was elected to serv,. as!
j constable, 1 hereby respectfully I
submit my resignation as such of-!
fiver."
The .Commissioners accepted Mr.i
Miller’s resignation, and a sucres-!
sor will be named later.
Edenton Colonials Drop Into
Fourth Place In League Race
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Only 2 Vo Games Sepa
rate First Four
Teams
As of Tuesday of this week the
Edenton Colonials were in fourth
place in the Alheifiarle League
standing, but only 2 1 g games be
hind the leader, Elizabeth City.
' Hertford is only half a game be
hind Elizabeth City for the lead,
while Cpferain, in third place, is
IM> games out of first place, MAE
■ is fifth, 7 1 g games, behind, while
■ Chowan still claims the cellar po
-1 sition, 9 games behind the league
leaders.
The only home game scheduled
for the Colonials during the week
I About 20 per cent are raised in the
Southwest (Texas. Oklahoma and
j New Mexico) where production is
i almost exclusively in the type
! known as Spanish Peanuts.
These are those small round ones
with the red skins that you find in
' vending machines, Spanish Pea
nuts are also used in candy and
peanut butter. The balance of the
Crop comes from the Virginia-Caro
l'-na area and are the large type
• used mostly as blanched salted pea
•jnuts and for roasting (baseball
I peanuts).
• ] The peanut crop moves from the
j farm into shelling and crushing
I I mills. They are cleaned and shell
|, d. When the hulls have been re
■ moved, the nut meats are graded
and sorted for quality. Only the
i perfect kernels are graded for edi
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Red Men’s Annual
| Banquet Will Be
j Held Friday Night
i John A. Holmes Prin
cipal Speaker For
Occasion
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1 Preparations have been oomplet
i ed for the annual banquet of Cho
wan Tribe, No. 12, Improved Order
i of Red Men, which will be held in
i the Ameriean Legion hut on the
! Windsor highway Friday night,
I July 15, at 7:30 o’clock.
Various committees have been
appointed to make the necessary
arrangements, and it was reported
at Monday night’s meeting that
close to 200 Red Men, their wives,
members of the Degree of Poca
hontas and their husbands will at
tend the banquet.
The principal speaker for the oc
casion will be John A. Holmes and
J. Edwin Bufflap was appointed to
act as toastmaster.
Another Concern
Conies To Edenton
Outland Supply Com
pany Will Operate on
North Broad Street
Effective Monday, July 18,. Eden
i ton will have a new busiiies con
cern when the Outland Supply
Company opens for business Mon
day morning, July 18. The new
concern, owned by C. T. Outland of
Colerain, will be located in the
building on North Broad Street for
merly occupied by the Jolly Roger
Boat Company.
Mr. Outland will handle a com
plete line of building material and
builders’ hardware, including roof
ing, siding, plywood, insulation
hoard,' wail board, -windows, doors,
window frames, door frames, sec
tional garage doors, cement, mor
tar mix, and in fact practically any
-1 tiling needed in the building line.
1 LIONS MEET MONDAY
I Kdenton Lions will meet next
j Monday night, July 18, at 7 o’clock.
| President A1 Phillips urges oil
' members to make a special effort
! to be present.
will be Friday night, July 15, when
they meet Colerain on Hicks Field
at 8 o’clock.
Edenton 3, Elizabeth City 11
In Elizabeth City Tuesday night
of last week the Albies went on a
hitting spree to defeat the Eden
ton Colonials 14 to 3. Manager
Jim was on the mound for
Elizabeth City and allowed only.,
seven hits. He was in no partieu-j
lar trouble except in the eighth
inning when the Colonials scored
all of their three runs.
Wayne Emminizer started on the
mound for Edenton, but gave Way
to Manager Alton Brooks in the 1
fourth inning after the Albies j
scored eight runs on nine hits.
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for crushing into oil.
This grading is carried on with
meticulous care. Every shelled pea
nut passes, on a conveyor belt,
through a line of inspectors. Per
fect kernels are allowed to pass and
imperfect kernels are flipped aside
for oil. Each kernel passes the
inspection of at least half a dozen
workers and those cleared for edi
ble use are of very high quality.
This physical inspection is aug
mented by electric-eye machines.
The peanuts not only pass inspec
tion by people but they have to
pass a battery of electric-eye ma
chines where so much as a single
moisture speck on a kernel will
cause it to be discarded.
Even after they are sold to man
ufacturers of candy, peanut butter
and salted peanuts, they are again
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Rocky Hock Baptist Church
Planning For Homecoming
Day Observance On July 31
| Fifth Major Building Program Completed j
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In the above picture appears the new educational building recent.
!y completed at the Rocky Hock Baptist Church, the fifth major
building program in the 120-year history of th e church. In the
bottom picture appears members of the Building Committee who
are: Front row, left to right, J. Gibson I’errv. Tom Bunch and
Murray Tynch, Sr. Back row, left to right, O. C. Long, chairman,
Raleigh Peele and Carey Evans. The seventh member of the com
mittee, Mrs. Lonnie Harrell, was not present when the picture was
taken.
Grand Master nil
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CHARLES H. PUGH, M.D.
Included among guests of Una
nimity Lodge No. 7. A. F. & A. M„ j
Thursday, July 21, when a meeting!’
of the Second Masonic District will
hi held in Edenton will he (has. ‘
H. Pugh, M.D., Grand Master of
Masons in North Carolina.
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Masons of the Second Masonic
District wall meet in Edenton
Thursday, July 21 with Unanimity
Lodge, No. 7, A. F., & A. M., as
host lodge.
Flue-cured tobacco growers will
vote on marketing quotas in a ref
erendum to he held Saturday, July
23rd.
Rocky Hoik Baptist Church will 1
observe a homecoming day Sunday.;
July 31, from 10:30 A. M„ to 3:30
P. M.
Edward G. Bond Post No. 40 of
the American Legion will meet to
night (Thursday) at 8 o’clock in the
Legion hut.
A special meeting of Edenton
Chapter No. 302, Order of the East
ern Star will be held in the Ma
sonic Temple Monday night, July
18, at 8 o’clock.
Edenton Lions Chib will meet
Monday night. July 18, at 7 o'clock.
Chowan Tribe of Red Men will
hold its annual banquet Fridav
night, July 15, at the American
Legion hut at 7:30 o’clock.
An emergent communication of
Unanimity Lodge, No 7, A. F, &
CCLtin.i'fC, uV: 1
$2,00 Per Year In North Carolina
New Pocahontas
Officers Installed
Mrs. Myrtle Hollowell
New Pocahontas of
Council
Mow officers for Chowanoke
Council No. 54. Degree of Poca
hontas were installed at a meeting
of the Council held Friday night in
the Red Men hall. The installation
ceremony was performed by Mrs.
Hilda Bass, Council Deputy: who
was assisted by Mrs. Martha Crum
moy. Great Minnehaha of the
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Special Meeting - Os
Eastern Star July 18
Mrs. Frances Wilkins, worthy
matron of Edenton Chapter No.
302, Order of the Eastern Star, has
called a special meeting to he held
in the Masonic Temple Monday
'night. July IS. at 8 o’clock. This
; is a very important meeting, so
that Mrs. Wilkins especially urges
■ every member to be present.
Gerald D. James Installed As
New Rotary Club President
Committees Named to
Serve During- Ro
tary Year
At last Thursday’s Rotary meet
ing, Gerald D. James was installed
president of the Edenton Rotary
Club, succeeding Gilliam Wood. In
J the change of administration Mr.
| Wood was highly praised for the
j successful year he served as presi-
I dent which was cflimaxed by being
i presented a Past President’s pin by
Robert S. Marsh.
Mr. James in taking over the
presidency also complimented Mr.
Wood for his wonderful record as
president and appealed to the Ro
tarians for their interest and sup
port to the end that Rotary in
Edenton will continue to prosper.
The new president named his
committee appointments, which are
as follows:
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DO YOUR PART f
DON ATE TO THE
, SWIMMING POOL!
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j Program Will Be Held
* From 10:30 A. M. to
3:30 P. M.
On Sunday, July 31, a homecom
| ing day is scheduled to be held at
j the Rocky Hock Church, on e of the
oldest Baptist churches. The
church is 120 years old, having
celebrated its centennial in 1935.
The occasion for th* homecoming
day is the completion of a new
educational building which repre
sents the fifth major building pro
gram in the 120 years of the his
tory of the church.
' The first building was construct
/ ed of logs. The interior lumber
was rip-sawed. It was a frame
building constructed about 1855 on
ithe present site. The church was
rebuilt in 1903 and 12 new class
rooms were added in 1924.
| The fifth and present project
consists of a two-story building
45 x 70 feet of block brick con
struction containing 19 rooms. It
1 was erected and equipped at a to
• tal cost of $39,645.16. *The con
tract was given to the Edenton
Construction Company in Decem
ber, 1954. The building was com
pleted for use in May of this year.
The building committee included 0.
C. Long, Jr., chairman, J. Gibson
Derry’, Tom Bunch, Murray Tynch,
Sr., Raleigh Peele, Carey Evans
and Mrs. Lonnie Harrell.
Rocky Hock Church has had at
least 16 pastors, four of which are
still living. W. F. Cale, Jr., is lo
cated at Culpepper, Va. The Rev.
W. C. Francis has a church at Kan
napolis, N. C., and will bring the
morning address at the homecom
ing program. The Rev. R. E. Gor
don is now serving as a missionary
in the Philippines under the Bap
tist Foreign Mission Board.
Rocky Hock has sent out at least
11 young meit- to'enter the Gospel
ministry. They art George W.
White, W. H. Hollbwell, Normart
Ashley, Frank Cale, Jr., Paul Han
rell, Ralph Harrell, Robert Harrell,
Lindsay Harrell, a missionary in
the Amazon, John Privott, Robert
White and the latest is Raymond
White, who was licensed July 3 of
this year.
An interesting program has been
planned which will feature former
pastors, Rocky Hock “preacher
boys” and special music. The pro
gram will begin at 10:30 A. M., and
will end about 3:30 P. M.
Former members and friends of
the church are cordially invited to
attend. jJd
TAX COLLECTIONS
Sheriff J. A. Bunch reported to
the County Commissioners at their
meeting Wednesday of last week
that 1954 taxes collected during
June amounted to $747.06, bringing
total 1954 tax collections to date
to $172,074.28.
Pre-payment of 1955 taxes dur
ing June amounted to $22,283.
ROTARIANS MEET TODAY
Edenton Rotarians will meet this
(Thursday) afternoon at 1 o’clock
in the Parish House. Gerald James,
; th e new president, urges every Ro
tarian to attend the meeting.
hand, director, Marvin Wilson and
C B. Mooney.
Community Service—J. P. Ricks,
Jr., John Kramer, Warren Twiddy
and R. H. Kennan.
International Sen-ice William
Cozart, director, Col. M. K. Peyton
and Elwood Nixon.
Club Service—George A. Byrum,
director.
Attendance Committee Frank
Holmes.
Program Committee—W. T. Har
ry and H. A. Campen. •
Rotary Information—George S.
Twiddy.
Club Bulletin—Robert S. Marsh j
and R. N. Hines.
Fellowship Committee —C. W.
Overman.
Public Information J. Edwin
Bufflap.
Magazine—J, L. Chestnutt and
J. E. Wood.
Classification—John A. Holmes,
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