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CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXll—Number 30,
o Mid Inoculation
u( Salk Vaccine Is
Ready For District
)
Administered In
Health Office Mon
day Afternoons
Dr. B. B. McGuire, district
health officer, last week announced
that Salk vaccine sufficient for the
second inoculation of children in
this Health District is now ready
for all children in the first and sec
ond grades for the school year
1954-1955 and who had the first
dose before schools closed.
While no mass inoculation will be
ents desiring that their children
have the second dose now may get
it by bringing their children to
their county health offices accord
ing to the following schedule:
Edenton —Mondays 1:30 to 3:00
P. M., beginning July 25th.
Hertford—Tuesdays 1:30 to 3:00
P. M„ beginning August 2nd. -
C a m d e n—Wednesdays 1:30 to
3:00 P. M„ beginning July 27th.
Elizabeth City—9:oo to 12:00
Fridays beginning July 29th.
Airplane Spraying
Is Now Available
Ahoskie Concern Well
Equipped For Com
plete Service
Airplane spraying is now offer
ed farms of Chowan and adjoining
-"ties by the Jemigan Spray
». 'e of Ahoskie. In announcing
6* jrvice L. S. Jemigan, Jr., says
oeans in particular are now be
ing attacked by insects which punc
ture. the leaves as well as cut the
blooms and tender pods. In many
cases, says Mr. Jernigan, losses can
amount to three to five- bushels
per acfc if not treated.
The concern can spray 40 to 50
acres per load in any point in Cho
wan or Perquimans County, with
applications recommended during
August. Mr. Jernigan will be glad
to quote prices for spraying as well
as check fields to determine if soy
beans are being damaged.
Art Bush Dies At
Home At Center Hill
Art Bush, 68, died Wednesday
morning at his home near Center
Hill after a brief illness.
Surviving are his wife and one
daughter, Mrs. Faye Byrum.
The body was removed to the
Ziegler Funeral Home. Funeral ar
rangements were not complete
when The Herald went to press
Wednesday.
LIONS MEET MONDAY
Edenton’s Lions Club will meet
Monday night, August 1, at 7
o’clock. With only two meetings a
month during the summer, Presi
dent A1 Phillips urges a 100 per
cent meeting.
Leaf Hopper Now Attacking
Peanuts In Eastern Carolina
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Farmers Urged to Ob
serve Fields and Dust
For Control of Pest
The leaf hopper infestation in
the peanut field of eastern North
Carolina is the greatest that it has
been in several years, announces
e S. Sugg, Executive Secretary,
-th Carolina Peanut Growers
lociation. The high per cent in
.estation of leaf hopper is causing
considerable damage to the pea
nut crops and will show up much
worse within the next few weeks,
according to Mr. Sugg. He stated
that there have been certain fields
where the foliage has been damag
ed as high as 50 per cent, and if
something isn’t done immediately
to eradicate the leaf hopper, accord
ing to Sugg, the yields of the pea
nut crop this fall can be reduced
as much as 50 per cent by this in
sect.
The treatment as recommended
by North Carolina State College,
said Sugg, i» relatively simple and
THEICHOWAN HERALD
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REAL, LIVE GAME —Chess comes to life in Helsinki, Finland, as a ‘'dead” pawn is carted from
the huge playing board by living chess pieces not yet in play, during an open-air exhibition game.
Chess greats Osmo Kaila apd Esmo Ritala gave directions to their costumed players via loud speaker
during the fevival of the living game, popular among the nobility at the time of the Renaissance-
Dr. H. Broadus Jones, District
Rotary Governor, Will Visit
Local Rotarians Next Week
Now Making Official
Visit to 39 Rotary
Clubs
Edenton Rotarians will be host
next Thursday, August, 4, to Dr.
H. Broadus Jones. Governor of the
278th District of Rotary Interna
tional, who is making his annual
official visit to each of the 39 Ro
tary Clubs in this district, which
extends from Burlington and Yan
ccyville eastward to the coast. He
will address the club in its regular
dinner session at t o’clock and con
fer with President Gerald D. James,
Secretary Thomas C. Byrum, Jr.,
and committee chairmen on Rotary
administration and service activi
ties.
Dr. Jones is head of the English
department of Wake Forest Col
lege. He was graduated from
Wake Forest and received the Mas
ter of Arts and Doctor of Philoso
phy degrees from the University
of Chicago. He is a charter mem
ber of the Rotary Club of Wake
Forest, which was organized in
1937, is a past president of that
club and past secretary.
He was elected District Govern- j
or of Rotary Intel-national for the
1955-56 f iscal year at Rotary’s J
Golden Anniversary Convention in j
Chicago last June. He is one of j
238 district governors supervising
the activities of some 8,700 Rotary
clubs which have a membership of
414,000 business and professional
executives in 92 countries and geo
graphical regions throughout the
world.
“Wherever Rotary clubs are Id
eated." President Gerald James
stated in commenting on the Gov
ernor's visit, “their activities arc
similar to those of the Rotary Club
of Edenton, because they are based
on the samp general objectives-—de
veloping better understanding and
fellowship among business and pro
fessional men, promoting communi
ty-betterment undertakings, rais
ing the standards of business and
professions, and fostering the ad-
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can be applied fairly inexpensively
by every farmer. He recommend
ed that each peanut grower exam
ine his fields, and where the pres
ence of the little green leaf hopper
is observed that DDT at the rate
of 1 lb. technical DDT per acre be
applied either as a straight DDT
or in combination with the Copper
Sulpher dust being applied at this
time of the year by most farmers.
If Copper Sulpher dust is being
used, Sugg suggested that material
containing 5 per cent DDT be sub
stituted in place of the regular ma
terial. Where farmers are not us
ing Copper Sulpher, he recommend
ed that DDT dust be' applied in
sufficient quantity to be sure that
a minimum of 1 lb. of technical
DDT be on each acre.
Each farmer should observe his
fields and make sufficient applica
tions of dust containing DDT to
adequately control the leaf hopper.
The County Agents in each of the
peanut producing counties will
gladly advise the peanut farmer in
connection with their leaf hopper
control problems.
fdenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 28,1955.
On Official Visit j
H. Broadus Jones
On an official visit as District
Governor, Dr. 11. Broadus Jones of
Wake Forest will attend the meet
ing of the Edenton Rotary Club
Thursday afternoon, August i, at
1 o'clock in the Parish House,
Parents Urged Use Common
Sense Precautions To Guard
Against Spreading Os Polio
Health Officials Expect High Incidence In
State During Coming Months Following
Results of Recent Study of Disease
The use of Salk poliomyelitis
vaccine may not. materially influ
ence poliomyelitis rates in North
Carolina in 1955, and parents of
children who receive the vaccine
trust continue to exercise rommon
sense precautions to guard young
sters against the disease in the
coming months of expectedhigh in
cidence.
This was the two-fold warning
issued by officials of the N. C.
State Board of Health and the Uni
versity of North Carolina School of
Public Health in making public,
the results of a study designed to
predict the influence of the wide
ly acclaimed anti-polio vaccine in
the Tar Heel state.
The study', conducted by Dr. Ber
nard G. Greenberg, professor of
Biostatistics of the School of Pub
lic Health and Dr. Charles M. Cam
eron of the Division of Epidemiol
ogy of the State Board of Health,
was based on the official results of
the Salk vaccine Evaluation Study
conducted by the University of
Michigan and on the past history
of poliomyelitis outbreaks in this
state.
The authors state that on the
basis of the Michigan report, the
effectiveness of the Salk vaccine
against reported cases of poliomye
litis of all types is 49 per cent.
This indicates that among persons |
inoculated, 49 per cent will be pro
tected against the disease.
In their part, released hv both |
state public health agencies, fig
ures are cited which show that ini
an average year. North Carolinians
may expect about 630 cases of po
liomyelitis to be reported and if all
persons in the state receive vac
cine, there would still occur 321
Jaycees Emphasize
Safe-Sane Driving
By Drivers Os Autos
! Grim Reminder Now
On Display Near
Police Station
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Sponsored by the Edenton Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce, assisted
by Highway Patrolman Mack Rog
erson, a grim reminder of tragedy
en the highways was this week
placed on the boulevard in front of
the police station. A badly wreck
ed automobile is now on display as
part of the Edenton Jaycees’ ef->
fort, tc cooperate in the Slow Down
and Live program now in progress
; under the sponsorship of the N. C.
i State Highway Patrol.
L As a further effort to cooperate
. in safe and sane driving, the Eden
! ton Jaycees have purchased a safe
ty sign 4 feet by 8 feet which i-m
--plmsizes the Slow Down and Live
I program and will b e erected near
f| Edenton. The State Jaycees at
their annual convention agreed to
purchase I*lo of these signs and
I the local Jaycees purchased one as
I I their part in emphasizing safety on
' the highways.
i cases of the disease due to th‘-
- limitations in the effectiveness of
l the currently available vaccine.
f The use of the vaccine among
>' first and second grade school chil
-'dren under the program sponsor
• ed by the National Foundation for
' Infantile Paralysis will have even
- less effect on the total number of
eases in 1955, the public health au
rj thorities revealed.
. j “During an average year, 630
-[cases of poliomyelitis are expected
f, to occur. Should 1955 be a high in
,, cidence year, the predicted total'
i number of cases will reach 987 and
- if a low incidence year, the figure
ijis predicted as 409 cases. These
predictions are based on the num
bers of cases which have occurred
E in the state in the past five-year
- period.
“The use of Salk vaccine among
■ first and second grade school chil
. dren will reduce the 630 cases ex
'jpected in the average year to 576,
’ the high figure of 987 to 914, and
: the low figure from 409 to 368.”
’ Drs. Greenberg and Cameron
; stated that according to the offi
cial evaluation report released
’ April 12, the Vaccine is 72 per cent 1
1 effective against all paralytic '
1 forms of poliomyelitis and again :
using these figures predicted what
influence its use might have on 1
: i North Carolina’s paralytic cases. <
“Os 630 cases which may be pre- <
I dieted in the so-called average year
I in North Carolina, 350 will finally|
| be diagnosed as paralytic poliomye
il litis. If every resident of the state
i received Salk Vaccine this figure [
might be reduced as low as 98, 1
however, with the vaccine being 1
used chiefly among first and second
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Homecoming To Be
Held Dn Sunday At
Rocky Hock Church
Very Interesting Pro
gram Arranged For
Occasion
Next Sunday, July 31, homecom
ing day will be observed at the'
Rocky Hock Baptist Church, which
is 120 years old. Th e occasion for
this event is the recent completion
of a new educational building,
which is the fifth major building
program in the history of the
church. The new addition is of
block brick construction 45x70 feet
and contains 19 rooms. The con
struction and equ'PPmg represents
a total cost of $39,645.16.
An interesting program has been
arranged for homecoming day,
which will begin at 10:30 A. M.,
and end about 3:30 P. M. Mem
bers of the congregation, together
with the pastor, the Rev. B. L.
Raines, extend a cordial invitation
to former members of the church
and friends of the church to at
ttnd.
The Rev. W. C. Francis, one of
the 16 former pastors of the
church, who is now pastor of a
church at Kannapolis, N. C„ will
,be the principal speaker at the
morning service.
Freak Accident At
Providence Church
Does Much Damage
Entire End of Colored
Church Caves In
Unexpectedly
Considerable damage was done td
Providence Baptist Chutch by a
freak accident Tuesday night of
last week, when the entire rear end
of the church building collapsed.
Members of the congregation, of
which the Rev. C. C. Boone is pas
tor, were in the process of build
ing an addition to th e church and
had dug trenches in which to pour
concrete for the foundation of the
new building. However, it rained
Tuesday night and it is believed the
water caused the ground to cave in
adjoining the church thus weaken
ing the foundation of the main
building and caused the entire end
to topple to the ground. ForAin
ately, the accident occurred at
night after all the workmen had
left the church, so that nobody was
injured in the crash.
The congregation began immedi
ately to clear the debris and work
men are now proceeding with re
pairing the damage done to the;
church and adding a new section.
Davey Crockett
At P & Q Market
Friday-Saturday
Popular Character Is
Anxious to Meet All
Youngsters
Youngsters in Edenton and sur
rounding territory will have an op
portunity to meet P & Q Super
Market’s "Davy Crockett” in per
son Friday and Saturday of this
week. “Davy Crockett” will be in
the Edenton store both days, when
he will be delighted to meet all the
boys and girls of the community.
Aside from entertaining the
youngsters, gifts will be distribut
ed during the two days, so that
Henry G. Quinn and Haywood
Phthisic, owners of the store, are
expecting a large crowd of boys
and girls to meet the popular char
acter.
STATIONED IN KOREA
A /3c Bobby Briley has been as
signed to the 6184th Disp. and
is doing duty in Korea with the
United States Air Force.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clincy Briley of Edenton, K-ut c 2.
Chowan Peanut And Tobacco
Growers Join Overwhelming
Vote To Continue Programs
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AERIAL HAZARD —The hazard on the fourth hole at a recently*
II completed municipal golf course near Cincinnati, Ohio, is not to
I the game but to aerial navigation. Mrs. C. M. Erickson scans the ,
sky over a Lunken Airport runway in compliance with sign at'
the tee, to be sure she> doesn’t sink a high one in some piloCaj
| windshield as he’s coming in for a landing.'
t Tight Race Developing For
Lead In Albemarle League
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. One Full Game
l Separates First 4
Teams
1
Though still occupying fourth j
place in the Albemarle League up 1
' to Tuesday of this week, Mana- \
ger Alton Brooks’ Colonials!
I were only one full game back of j
Hertford, the league leaders. Hert-j
! ford, however, was leading Cole-
rain and Elizabeth City by only!
half a game, so that the race has
developed into a tooth and nail
fight between the top four teams. |
Chowan is B*4 games out of first,
place and Weeksville NAF, still oc
cupying the cellar position, trails
by 10'A games.
Edenton 3, Chowan 1
On Hicks Field Wednesday night
the Edenton Colonials defeated
Chowan 3 to 1 in one of the best
played games of the season. It was |
a mound duel between Ray Roger
son for the Colonials and Bill Wil-i
liford for Chowan with Rogerson I
allowing only three hits while Wil-1
liford allowed only four hits.
It was a nip and tuck affair ex-j
cept in the second inning when ‘the I
Colonials scored all of their three I
runs. Gashouse Parker walked, thej
, only man given four balls by Willi- 1
ford during the game. Brooks, j
next up, singled and Bill Elliott j
was safe on a bunt which filled
the bases. A score took on a
gloomy aspect as Billy Forehand
and Tommy Bass were out by wav
of the strike-out route. However,
Rogerson connected for a double
which' allowed all three runners to
scamper home. The Colonials made
ro further scoring threat as Willi
ford gave up only one other hit, a
single by Billy Forehand in the
seventh inning, and retired 14 men
in a row.
Chowan’s only run was scored in
the sixth after two men were out.
Clyde Briggs doubled near the left
field line. When the ball was re
turned it. got away from Bass at
second and rolled in right field.
Parker threw to Jack Bunch, who
missed the ball and Briggs was
safe at third. He scored later
when Jordan missed Sexton’s fly in
center field.
Both teams played a good brand
of ball on the field with a number
of plays thrilling the spectators.
Edenton 6, NAF 5
In another hard-fought game
played on Hicks Field Thursday
night the Edenton Colonials man-
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I Rocky Hock Baptist Church will
observe a homecoming day Sunday,
, July 31, from 10:30 A. M, to 3:30
J P. M.
Furniture refinishing workshop
scheduled for Edenton and Chowan
• County women Tuesday, August 30.
Advance Home Demonstration
Club will hold a chicken fry at the
Advance Community Building Mon
day night, August 1, at 6:30 o’clock.
Gum Pond Home Demonstration
i Club will hold its annual picnic at
the Central School Wednesday
night, August 3, at 6;30 o’clock.
Woman's Missionary Society of
the Baptist Church will meet Mon
day night, August 1, at 7:30 o'clock
at the church.
Center Hill Home Demonstration
Club will hold its annual picnic at
I the Center Hill Methodist Church
grounds Thursday, August 4, at 6
P. M.
i
I A demonstration. “Wise Invest-
I nients," will be giver at the Rocky
l Hock Home Demons*ration Club's
J meeting Tuesday, August 2, at the
j home of Mrs. Henry Bunch.
Ed Bond Post of th e American
I Legion will meet in the post home
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Large Number Masons Meet
To Conduct District Meeting
Grand Master Charles
H. Pugh Explains
His Program
Many Masons from the Second
Masonic District gathered in Eden
ton Thursday of last week to par
ticipate in a district meeting with
Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F., &
A. M., as host lodge.
The first session was held in the
Masonic Temple at 3 o’clock, when
an open forum was held with Judge
Advocate Dudley Humphrey of
Wilmington presiding. During the
session, which ended at 5:30, many
matters having to do with Masonry
were explained.
At 6 o’clock members of the
Eastern Star served a dedicious
dinner in the dining room at the
Masonic Temple, after which a
stated communication of Unanimity
Lodge was held with many promi
nent Masons in attendance. After
C. W, Overman opened the lodge
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SLOW 1
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Only 12 Cast Ballots
Against the Peanut
Assessment
Chowan County joined more than
97 per cent of the tobacco and pea
nut growers who voted in Satur
day’s referendums in favor of con
tinuing marketing quotas for to
bacco and price supports at 90 per
cent of parity and to continue and
increase as assessment to support
the North Carolina Peanut Grov
ers Association, Inc.
Peanut growers voted to increase
a levy of one cent per hundred
pounds of peanuts to two cents per
hundred pounds. This money will
be used by the Peanut Growers As
sociation to continue its work for
the best interest of growers of the
Virginia type peanuts.
C. Shields Alexander of Scotland
Neck, president of the Peanut
Growers Association, was very well
pleased with the favorable peanut
assessment vote. “The increase in
size of the vote,” he said, “shows
that peanut growers are anxious to
help themselves through their own
efforts and their own organiza
tion.” The number who voted for
the increased levy was almost dou
ble the number of ballots cast in
a similar referendum in 1953 when
the one cent levy was approved by
peanut growers.
Tobacco growers voted to con
tinue marketing quotas, acreage al
lotments and 90 per cent price sup
ports for three years, 1956, 1957
and 1958. A reduction of 12 per
cent in acreage allotments for next
year has already been announced
by Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son. An assessment of 10 cents
for each acre of tobacco grown will
i go to Tobacco Associates, a pro
' motional sglf-fiiilp organization:
Chowan County’s vote ih Satur
day’s referendum was:
Tobacco Marketing quotas for
three years, 118: for one year, 0;
against quotas, 5.
For Tobacco Associates assess
ment, 109; against, 1.
For peanut growers’ assessment,
245; against 12.
Fire Commission Will
Have Called Meeting
W. E. Bond, chairman of the
Chowan County Fire Commission,
has called a meeting of the group
for Monday morning, August 1, at
11 o’clock.
Members of the Commission are
requested to meet in the Court
House with the Chowan County
Commissioners with the principal
business scheduled to be the ap
pointment of a permanent com
mission of three members.
LEGION MEETS TONIGHT
Ed Bond Post No. 40, American
Legion, will meet tonight (Thurs
day) at 8 o’clock in the Post home
on the Windsor highway. Com
mander Thurman Harrell is very
anxious to have a full attendance.
t
he turned the gavel over to Ernest
P. Capps of Williamston, district
deputy Grand Master of the Sec
ond District.
During the meeting Leon Gray,
superintendent of Oxford Orphan
age, gave a stirring address con
cerning the children at the Oxford
Orphanage and thanked the Masons
of the Second District for their
loyal support of the children.
George Bennett, superintendent
of the Masonic and Eastern Star
Home at Greensboro, also painted
an appealing word picture of the
group of old men and women who
are spending the twilight of their
lives in the home, where they are
happy and contented. He made
special reference to Paul Olsson, a
member of Unanimity Lodge, who
spent his last days at the home,
where be left a lasting memorial
by a beautiful painting in the
home’s chapel.
The principal address was made
by Dr. Charles H. Pugh of Gas-
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