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NATIONAL CONSTITUTION WEEK IS SCHEDULED TO BE (THERVED WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 17-23 r f ONLY NEWSPAPER 1 PUBLISHED IN j CHOWAN COUNTY Volume XXll.—Number 36. Zdenton’s DAR Chapter Will! Join In 168th Observance Os National Constitution Week Everybody Is Urged to; Read and Consider i Constitution Members of the Eddftton Tea! Party Chapter. Daughters ot the American Revolution, call 'attention to the observance of National Con stitution Week which Will be observ. ed throughout the nation Septem ber 17-23, in commemorate n of the 168th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. During the week Mrs. R. P,' Rail ham, regent of the {Menton DAR! chapter, requests merchants todis- . play the American flag and espe-j cially urges everybody to rend the. Constitution of the United States.j She also announces that a special program will be presented at. the] DAR meeting which will he held in! the Iredell house Wednesday after- ] noon, September 14, i‘ 3:30 o’clock j and asks every member to make a I special effort to he present. j The Constitution Was signed Sep tember 17, 1787, with three North Carolinians adding their names to the famous .document;. The three were William Blount, Riri ard Dobh Spaight and Hugh Williamson, the latter of Edenton. whose picture j adorns the wall of the panel room, in the Chowan Court House, Members of the DAR chapter in Edenton point out that the! basic; ed in the nation today is the 1 A servation of constitutional govs V .rnent and in oid-r to protect cUis priceless heritage under our unique form of government it is| essential to support the Constitu-j tion, the most wonderful, work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. For its proper support, it is necessary that, our citizens understand its provis ions and .principles and appreciate , its values and benefits as the grei' ; e'st document for human liberty in 2.000 years of recorded history. i Mayor Ernest. Kely'yc:-. has pro- 1 Continued on Page 2—Section 1 ; Dr. M. Ray McKay Will Preach Again At Baptist Church Will Be In Pulpit For Both Services Next Sunday Members of the pulpit commit tee, and members of the Baptist. Church, are quite pleased that Dr. M. Ray McKay, professor of preaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake For est, has accepted the invitation to preach next Sunday, September 1 1, in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. R. N. Carroll, who is on vaca tion. He will preach during both sendees —the morning Worship hour at 11 o’clock and the evening wor ship hour at 7:30 o’clock. Having filled the Edenton pulpit last Sunday, and oh previous oc casions, Dr. McKay needs no intro duction to Baptist audiences and members of the congregation will welcome another opportunity to hear this forceful speaker and dili gent preacher of the Bible. The service of Dr. McKay to the local church presents a realistic ex ample of the far reaching ministry f the Southeastern Baptist Theo gical Seminary in Wak 0 Forest. -very Sunday, members of its fac ulty and student body find their places primarily in North Carolina and southern pulpits as well as in special speaking, leaching and ad visory engagements as the need presents itself. Truly North Caro lina is blessed by the coming of this beneficient institution within its boundaries. Regular services of the day and week will be observed: Sunday School at 9:45 o’clock; Training Un ion at 6:15 o’clock, mid week pray er service at 7:30 o’clock on Wed nesday evening; Bible study hour] at 7:30 o’clock on Friday wpmn«. THE CHOWAN ft'ERALD Booster Tickets Put On Sale j |To Help Raise Finances For Athletic Programs At School Ticket Includes Ad mission to AH Home Athletic Events Gerald ..James, principal of the Edenton Junior-Senior High School,| j announces that Booster Tickets are t now on sale in order to raise money j for athletic activities at the school. | | T!m tickets are spiling for $7.50 I and include reserved seats for all | , home football games thus season as i | well as admission to all baseball j ! and basketball games played inj !' Edenton, j Mr. James points out that school I ! athletics are financed solely by, I gate receipts, for no funds are ap- j preprinted 'by .'the school trustees for this purpose. It is, therefore, j his hope that many will buy these j Booster Tickets, thus reflecting their interest and support of the school's athletic teams. There are 336 Booster Tickets for -ale and Mr. James says single admission for a reserved seat, if any are available, will he $1.25 at the gate on game nights. General .admission to football games will he sl.no with student tickets being 50 cents unless they are purchased in the school the day of the game, ! when the price will be 25 cents, i The importance of raising money b|,’ the sale of Booster Tickets is I 1 st ressed by Mr. James, who says it I costs sl2i> to outfit one football player, not to mention the inereas-! e.d. cost, of other items used in the I various contests. j Mr, James says friends may pur chase blocks. of reserved seats in 1 order to he together at football | games, and that orders for such j. blocks should be filled out in an advertisement elsewhere in this is-] sue of The Herald or they may be| reserved by contacting Mr. James' office, phone 785,. The tickets will lie sold Monday of next week by students, so that no special seats ran be guaranteed after that time. | It is hoped all of the 386 reserved j seats will lie sold. Enrollment Higher For Opening Day In County Schools | 909 Enrolled First Day as Against 898 First Five Days Last Year Schools in the Chowan County administrative unit opened Thurs day morning of last week with a first day enrollment higher than the enrollment for the first five days of last year, This year’s first day enrollment totaled 909 as against 898 for the first five days of last year, and more are expect ed to enroll. In the Chowan High School 133 students enrolled as against 123 last year, while 335 enrolled in the elementary school. In the Rocky Hock elementary school 61 enrolled, making the first day enrollment in the two elementary schools 396,1 Slightly below last year’s first five days, when 408 were enrolled. In the White Oak Consolidated School 380 were enrolled the first day as compared with 367 for the first five days last year. The first day was devoted to as signment of classes and the schools are now operating on regular schedule. Only two changes have been made in the faculty of the schools, these being at Chowan High School, 1 j where Miss Ethel M. Murray suc ceeds Miss M' nm e Warren as En . ... '' .. .... ' ' " ===== Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 8,1955. 11 c i WAR 0N... Mosquitoes Under the direction of Mayor Er. 1 nest Kehayes and with the help of f i Street Department employees a program of spraying is under «ay , 1 in an effort to get fid of some of | the mosquitoes which have been I plaguing Edenton residents since I the recent high water in connection ! with Hurricanes Connie and Diane. | bast week somu spraying wasj done and though some good was , realized a breeze was blowing ) | w hich reduced the effectiveness oi j ( the spray. However, on Tuesday j j night another round was made and. it is hoped the efforts meant the I death of many of the pests. Group Os Edenton Stores Continue To Close Wednesdays Though the summer season j* about at an end. a group of Ed.-n --ton stores will.'continue to oiis. rvo th ( > Wednesday half holiday, el", ing their doors at I o’clock each Wednesday. The stores which have agreed S > continue the Wednesday half-day I closing are as follows: Forehand Jewelers. S.' 0:. Mills j Barber Shop, Ralph K. Parrish, i Bell’s, Thrif-T-Gas Company, C. N. j Kicks Jeweler, Ward’s Barber Shop; * Hughes - Darker Hardware, t pm-. 1 paiiy, Jo * h Century Barber Shop,! Qtiinti : Furniture Coni puny, Cam-1 pen’s Jewelers, Edentcm Furniture Company, Western Auto A so<a i'tc ! Store, By rum H ‘idvare. Delay's Barber Shop, .: Miashew's Barber | Shop {ind I'rrry Reeves'- Barber Shop. TOWN COUNCH, MEETING Town Council:.wdt hold its Sep tember meeting next Tuesday night at 8 o'clock iu the Municipal Build ing. glish and French teacher, and Bob by Godwin, who succeeds Joseph' Deaton as science teacher and ath letic director. The remainder of the Chowan High School faculty includes: R. H. Copeland, principal; Miss Louise Wilson, social studies: E. S. White, vocational agriculture; Mrs. I.or aine H. Rogerson. vocational and home economics; Mrs. Thomas W. Elliott, eighth grade; Mrs. Margar et Smithson, seventh grade; Mrs. Myra B. Stokley, sixth grade; Ralph A. Spainhour, sixth grade; Mrs. Ella Mae Nixon, fifth grade; Miss Hattie Hudgins, fourth grade; Mrs. Marguerite B. Burch, third grade; Mrs. Margaret F. Rountree, second grade; Miss Jane Haisiip, second grade; Miss Ada Morring, I first grade; Miss Susan C. Wi 1- 1 loughby, public school music teach er, and Mrs. Ralph White, piano teacher. At the Rocky Hock School the faculty is composed of the follow ing: Mrs. Mattie Nixon, sixth and seventh grades; Mrs. Mae P, As bell, third, fourth and fifth grades, i and Mrs. T. C. Chappell, first and second grades. At the White Oak Consolidated School the faculty includes: W. H. j Creecy, principal and eighth grade; , Raymond Purnell, eighth grade and j Continued c ,r% . 1- "f l’' 1 r - - 1 It s "Back to School” in Turkey, Too! •; FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL takes courage, but these jaunty little ,! lasses have plenty of that. Their “little red schoolhouse” is likely to be white, but like American youngsters, they can look forward to a good education—even though they live in a tiny village. The I Turks believe in "education for democracy." That’s why they have ■j a public school system that is free from kindergarten through '! college. Determined to raise the educational level of the country I I even further, they have more than doubled the allotment for ;| education in the last five years. When the school bells ring this r year, almost two million children will answer them—a record • I number for Turkey, |BPW Club Holds Initial Meeting Os ! Fall September 15; Miss Inez Felton, New President Lists Va rious Committees ’ Miss Inez Felton, new president ’ of the Edenton Business and Pro fessional ■Women’s Club announces ’ that the first, fall meeting of the • organization will he hold Thursday • j night, September 15, at the. Barker • Community Building beginning at '• s o'clock. This " ill he. a regular. ■ business' meeting and several pro ' [ ject.; now ill the making must come ’ up for discussioii. .so : that all mem bers .are urged to lip present. ' Miss FCton also lists! the new; r committee chairmen fn- the year,! ’ and members who will serve on these committees: Education and Vocation.—Lein Jones, chairman, Nora Boyce and ' Ella Mae Robbins. Finance—Annie Mill chairman. ■ Bertha Bunch, Elizabeth Ashley, Celia Boyce. Health and Safety Margaret I White; chairman. Opal Wood, Ade -1 laid,- Clmsson, Emma Perkins. International Relations - Anne Jenkins, chairman, Cofinne Long. , T-es.sie Bunch. 1 egislation—Josie R. Carr, chaiv nmn. Id * Campen. Evelyn Leary. Captola Jackson. I Membership —.Mildred Munden, chairman, Goldie Layton. Anne ) Cates. I Public Affairs—Margaret Phthrs. ( ic, chairman. Kate Wozelka. Doro thy Phelps. Lena Lcarv. Hospitality and..Recreation'—'LnLc Smith, chairman. Myrtle Cuthroll. Beulah Perry, l it Daniels, New, Service Evelyn I eary. ' Program Coordinator —Margaret 1 Phthisic. .j National Security' Committee will I • | lip composed of all chairmen. [civic calendar] Stockholders of the Edenton Dc-j velopment Corporation will meet at the Court House Monday night, September 12, at 8 o’clock. Sponsored by the DAR, National | Constitution Week will be observ-: ed September 17-23. Special program in connection w ith Constitution Week w ill be pre-' sented at the meeting of the Eden-, ton Tea Party Chapter. DAR in the Iredell home Wednesday afternoon. September 14, at 3:30 o’clock. Edenton's Business and Profes sional Women’s Club will hold its : first meeting of the fall Thursday night, September 15, at the Penel-, ope Barker house at 8 o’clock. Town Council will meet in regu lar monthly session Tuesday night, , September 13, at 8 o’clock. Edenton Business and Profession- Continued on Pane Section 1 Legion Post Will Stage Fisb Fry At j Meeting Sept 13 ■! Annual Drive For New: Members In Post to Be Launched Thurman Harrell, commander of Ed Bond Post No. 40 of the Ameri can Legion, announces that a fish ( fry will be held at the regular meeting of the post Tuesday night, September 13, at 7 o'clock. Not only Legionnaires and their wives are urged to attend, hut members j of the Auxiliary, as well as all vet- ( cnins who are not members of the j Legion, are cordially invited, j The purpose of the fish fry. ac- i I cording to Commander Harrell, is j to launch a new membership drive, so that lie hopes a large number will turn out. , A special feature of the meeting i will he addresses by R. A Clack of i Rocky Mount, division commander, i and W. L. McMillan, also of Rocky ! Mount, division membership chair- i mail. i Record Number Os Chest X-Rays At Health Department ! Monday and Thursday Set Aside For This Work Tlie month of August was one of the heaviest for chest X-rays ever i reported at the District Health De , partment in Elizabeth City by the ! Pasquotank - Perquimans - Camden j Chowan Tuberculosis Association. I A total of 305 people bad chest , X-rays taken, of whom 226 were ! from Pasquotank County, 35 from Perquimans, 20 from Camden, 7 | from Chowan, 13 from Gates, 1 I from Dare and 13 from Currituck. Mrs. Alice Sawyer. X-ray tech nician has been serving for six ; years in this work. Monday and Thursday have been , j set aside, for chest X-ray days so ! that everyone will have an oppor- ( j .trinity of using the X-ray machine j | which was given by the Lions Club I for the general public. Since Janu- , } ary, 1955, 1,578 people have had j I chest X-rays, This total does not "include chest. X-rays made in Cho- Continued on Page s—Section 1 ROTARIANS MEET TODAY ! . Edenton Rotarians wilil meet this < (Thursday) at 1 oVloek in the Par- i ish House. The program -will be in ! charge of R. N. Hines and Presi- 1 dent Cera Id James is r.rt'og’ a 100 : -..er rent aitenda vif.f-, Haiti Boy Scouts j Forced Down At Local Air Station Group Entertained By Edenton Scouters Monday Boy Scouts of Edenton and Haiti had an opportunity to mingle to gether Monday at the Edenton Na val Auxiliary Air Station. The op portunity arose when a plane was grounded while the Haiti Boy] Scouts were enroute home after at- 1 tending the eighth World Boy Scout Jamboree held in Canada. The plane grounded due To Un settled weather conditions in the Caribbean Sea and on it were 18 Boy Scouts, four Scout leaders, a priest and a newspaper reporter. The plane landed about 2 o’clock Monday afternoon and proceeded On its journey homeward Tuesday afternoon. They slept and were fed at the base. The Haiti group was entertain ed by Scoutmaster Jack Habit, As sistant Scoutmasters Horace White and Bill Andrasevic. The Haiti Scouts were taken to j the local Scout cabin, which they i thoroughly enjoyed. Monday night] the group was taken to the movies' at the base, after which a swap ping session was held with an ; Edenton group who visited them before retiring for the night. The get-together was very enjoy able on the part of both the Haiti’ and Edenton Scouters, for some of. the Haiti Scouts spoke English! very well while others depended j upon an interpreter. They left high in praise of the hospitality af forded them on their brief forced stay- in Edentfin, and before leav ing extended an invitation to Eden ton Scouts to visit a Haiti Scout camp during the Easier vacation. rOCAHONTAB MEETS FRIDAY Cbowanoke Council No. 51, De gree of Pocahontas, will meet Fri day night, September 9. at 8 o'clock in the Red Men hall. Mrs. Myrtle Hollowell, Pocahontas, urges every member to attend. LIONS MEET MONDAY NIGHT After an interruption of meet- 1 ings during the summer months, the Edenton Lions Club will resume its regular weekly meetings next Monday night, September 12, at 7 o’clock. President Al Phillips urg es every member of the club to be present Monday night. 15 More Enrolled In White Schools First Day Than Last Year Colored School Enroll ment Drops Due to J Lack Bus Drivers John A. Holmes, superintendent! of Edenton schools, reports that en rollment in schools on Tuesday, the opening day of school, was 987 and that before this week is out he ex pects the enrollment figure to pass the 1,000 mark. The first day’s enrollment ex ceeded last year by 15. In the Edenton Junior-Senior High School! 383 enrolled which is three more I than last year. In the Elementary School Principal Ernest. Swain re ported a first day enrollment of 604, which is 12 over the first day last year. D. F. Walker, principal of the Edenton colored schools reported a total enrollment of 825, as com pared with 867 last year, a loss of 42. However, this loss is attribut ed to lark of school bus drivers. Os the eight colored school buses reany for transporting rhildren,| only four were in operation despite the fact that children in the rural section were standing along the highway waiting to be taken to j school. The trouble as pointed out ■ bv Prof Walker is ’bar dny.rs $2.00 Per Year In North Carolina ! Edenton Aces Open ’55 Gridiron Season At Roanoke Rapids —— ■ ■ ■■ —-N Meeting ) W. P, Jones, temporary chairman of the Edenton Development Cor poration. again calls attention to a meeting of the stockholders sched uled to be held Mond.iv night. Sep tember 12, at 8 o’clock in the Court 'l House. The principal reason for this meeting is to elect permanent of ficers of the organization, so that every stockholder is especially urg ed to attend. Jaycees Will Again Sponsor Fat Stock Show And Sale Second Annual Affair j Scheduled to Be Held In May | Several Chowan County 4-H Club members hav e expressed a desire i to fatten, out, a hoof steer to.be en- I t.ered in . the Chowan County show | and.sale next May. The second an [nuaj fat. stock show and sale will j again he sponsored by the Edenton Junior Chamber of Commerce, j FEA and 4-H Club members from Chowan County are eligible to enter steers and hogs in the sale. In case there are FFA and 4-H Club members who are inter ested in entering a steer or hogs in the show find sale they should Con tact E S. White, vocational agri cultural teacher at Chowan High School or the County Agents' of fice. Steers which will he entered in the show and sale must.be strictly ! meat type and they should be oh-[ tained in the near future. Club] members can attend one of the many sales! which will be held in j September; and October and select a good steer for fattening out. The . following sales will be held: Laurel Hill—September 21. Rocky Mount—September 22.. I Goldsboro—September; 23. W. Jefferson—September 27. | Other sales will be held at later dates in the upper Piedmont and mountain areas. have not secured driving licenses. ! In fact, enrollment of Edenton col lared children was about 65 over I last year, but du e to inability of I rural children to ge, to school, the | total enrollment was forced below last year's first day. In the colored Elementary School the first day’s enrollment was 653 as against 645 last year, a gain ot 8, while in the high school the enrollment Tuesday was 172 as against 222 last year, a decrease of 50. However, when all the bus es are operating Prof. Walker ex j peets the enrollment to exceed last ! year. This year’s faculty includes nine new teachers in the white schools and six in the colored school. The latest teacher to be added to the Junior-Senior High School faculty was Miss Gloria Mae Mc- Collum, who arrived from Fair mont, N. C., Tuesday afternoon to teach English and serve as the freshman home room teacher. She is a graduate of Duke University and last year taught in the George I Washington High School at Dan ville, Va. She returned only Sat urday after spending the Summer traveling in Holland. I Aside from Miss McCollum the | faculty at the Edenton Junior rpntinnft/1 flji Pipe F—•S\.*2tiOTl 1 j xk SLOW DOWN , AND LIVE! j Friday Nig-ht’s Prob j able Lineup Released l By Coach Billings After several weeks of strenuous practice sessions, the Edenton Acea are about ready for the opening game of the 1955 gridiron season which will be played in Roanoke Rapids Friday night, September 9. 9 I Coach William Billings,who. has " had, for the most part, inexperietic * ert material, to work with, is mak ing no predictions hut. feels sure his 1955 edition of the Aces will give a good account of themselves this season, “We will get pushed about a lot,” he says, “hut the boys are developing very, creditably, so that they should make a good showing against this year’s opposi tion. | Some 40< boys reported at the * first cull for football, recruits, but some have dropped out, so that the 1955 squad includes only 25 boys. * On the squad are: Ends —Johnny Kramer, Bobby Pratt, Larry Tynch. Donald Roche, Sid White and Wayne Emminizer. I ( Tackles—David Fletcher. Carl r Forehand, Lloyd White, John . Speight and Sherwood Harrell. Guards—Richard Canjpp. Wayne Keeter, Ralph Chappell and Gary j Hail. , Centers—Albert Ward and Eddie George, Backfiejd—Stuart Holland, Chan Wilson, Billy Bunch. Tom Bass, Jerry Downum, Clarence Lup ton; j Bruce White and Ray Hollowell. Wayne Keeter and ; Stuart Hod land are co-captains for this year’s team. Coach Billings announced early this week that file starting lineup for the Roanoke Rapids game will most likely be as follows: John Kramer. . Left End 1 Albert Ward, -Left Tackle. i Wayne Keeter _ Left Guard John Speight,. ....... Center 'j Gary. bail ........ Right Guard ‘ I David Fletcher Right Tackile 1 i Wayne Emminizer. j... Right End : Stuart Holland ..Quarterback Billy Bunch ... Halfback I Jerry Downum ..... ...iHalfback Chan Wilson w; ... .Fullback Woman's Club To Hold Thrift Sale September 16-17 Mtembers of Club Now Soliciting Contribu tions Fn* Event • The Edenton Woman’s Club is planning a thrift .sale on Friday and Saturday, September 10 and i, 17 and is asking for donations of - clothing from anyone who might} r have some -which they cannot use. f Several Marine families have al e-: ready contributed toward this pale, v i pointing out that they were plan ning to move and had some dis- J carded clothing Which they did not 3 want to pack. The club greatly ap f. predates their help, and wishes to e solicit contributions from not only s its members, but people in tha e community as well. i. The proceeds of this sale will ga - toward charity and community pro t jects here in Edenton and in the county. Mrs, R. J. Boyce at 367 e or Mrs. A. M. Stanton at 758 will s be glad to pick up any clothing do nated. i 1 Sales Tax Collections In Chowan Hisrber o In July Than June e A report of sales and use tax col e lections made by the North Caro y lina Merchants Association reflects e an increase of gross collections for - the month of July over June in - Chowan County. r Gross collections for July of this year amounted to $13,419.21, which e compares with $11,863.92 for June. - The collections 1"i Inly. l»M, ‘era $10,488 56,
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