=— ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN CHOWAN COUNTY Volume XXll.—Number 47. let us deroutlu oire thanks to the for the manu and oreal blessinos we havereceived Tom's Thankful - - This hifili-flvinu lurktv hopes to make il the liolitlny season without havinK hi" noose cooked. If vm.’.l do likewise SHOP.NOW, while there’s a generous assort ment of Rift items in the stores, and while merchandise is fresh. Plans Being Rapidly Whipped Into Shape For Staging Local Christmas Party And Parade *-■ ■ . Those In Charge* Pre dict Biggest Affair Ever Held • * By EVELYN G. LEARY An air of excitement and enthus iasm is bring created amnnf tin' small fry of Chowan County a ; plans co into completion for the hie Christmas pa rad,, a tul party to be held Thursday, December I. un der the sponsorship of the Eden ton Business and Professional Wo men’s Cluh and local merchant This event is a'hva.vs looked for Ward to by the youngsters. for it not only gives them an opportunity to witness a glittering parade hut a chance to talk with their favor ite subject, Santa Claus, to say nothing of the goody bags they re- 1 reive at the party. Electric and Water Depart men l employees liav e already placed the Christmas lights and decorations in the business district, ready to lie ' lighted on the night of the party. Edenton merchants will also have windows decorated with Christmas merchandise, ready for the official opening of the holiday season. Mrs. Margaret Phthisic, general chairman, says that plans are to have the affair the biggest and most attractive yet for the thous ands of children expected, and that the steering committee has spared 1 no efforts to accomplish this. Many floats will take part as well as clowns and other added attractions. Business concerns are invited and Continued on Page fi—Section 1 Local Jaycees Begin Contest To Name Most Outstanding Edenton Young Man For ’55 Nominations Received , I From Today to De cember 22 | c f In keeping with presentations to ( be made on a nation-wide basis by ( Junior Chambers of Commerce f during Jaycee Week, the Edenton | Junior Chamber of Commc-rcp wilt ] present a Distinguished Service f Award key to Edenton's outstand- ing young man. The award will be ( presented at a special banquet to ( be held during Jaycee Week Jur.u- ( ary 14-21. In order to determine FJdenton’s ( outstanding young man for 1955, j nominations can hg submitted by THE CHOWAN HERALD New Edenton Radio Staton WCDJ On Air Since Saturday Judge Fountain to Preside Over Term Os Superior Court; Term Is Scheduled 9:110 A. M„ a gif on Fri day from 10 to 12 noon. December term of Chowan Coun. | ty Superior Court w ill convert,, in the Court House Monday morning, November 28. | Methodist ladies plan to stage their annual bazaar Thursday, De cember I, beginning at 10 A. M. in the educational building. A turkey I dinner will he served from 12 ’ Continued on Page 2—Section 1 | that his Aces have been ediminat | ed from tile North Carolina foot | ball race. In retrospect he can | think back to several situations in I which, had his nlafers acted just a little differently, they wouldn't have lost to Cary last Friday night 13 to 12. A loss by a single point is al ways a heart-breaker, but the one dealt the Aces was a doubly cruel one. Especially when just about everyone who saw the game will tell yon straightforwardly that Edenton has a better football team than Cary. Coach Billings and a lot of Eden ton fans who saw the game at Greenville, which gave the Region One title to Cary, are still wonder ing if it pays to do things right. The loss was that type of a crush er that stuns its victims. The tiny grid general from Ca tawba, brooding like a man with Continued on Page 3—Section 1 !Substantial Expansion Os Edenton's Naval Auxiliary Air Station Aired In Report Postmaster Chestnutt Urges Early Mailing For Christmas Edenton’s Post Office 1 ! Getting Prepared For Big Rush "It's time to start those Christ mas mailings!” Postmaster J. F. Chestnutt Warned this week, launching his 1955 “Mail Early for Christmas” campaign. “On the calendar it’s a month away but here in the Post Office it’s Christmas today—and every day until December 25th,” he said. Extra mail carriers and office help have been secured, the delivery trucks services, Post Office ink wells filled and in fact everything is ready for the mammoth flood of Christmas mail that as expected to smash all records. The Post Office has already dis patched a tremendous quantity of i: gift packages headed for members j of the Armed Forces overseas. Christmas cards for service person nel can still b,. delivered in time if they are sent by air mail before December Ist. In the U.S.A., smart people are now mailing gifts to friends and relatives living in! other states. Postmaster Chestnut especially calls on housewives to help in his effort, to deliiver every package and Christmas card before December 25th. “The lady of the house,” he emphasized, “is really in charge of each family’s Christmas mailing program. She selects the Christ mas cards, buys most of the gifts and sees to it that the mailing list of friends and loved-ones is up-to date. “Actually, success it) having all Christmas gifts and greeting cards delivered on lime is largely a mat ter of advance planning and prepa ration which should bp done this week,” Postmaster Chestnutt point ed out. He urges that you take the fol lowing steps at once: Get out your Christmas card list and carefully Continued on Page 6 —Section 1 Marines Plan Ring Down Grid Curtain In Benefit Game Proceeds Would Go to New Field House At Hicks Field An all-star six-man football game, matching the champions of the Edenton NAAS League, VMA -225, against a team made up of the top players of th P loop's other four teams, has tentatively been sched uled for Friday night, December 9, at Hicks Field. The contest, proceeds of which will go toward th e construction of | a new field house for the Edenton stadium, would ring down the cur tain on football activity in the area for the season. No admission fee would be rharg, ed for the game, but donations to the Field House Fund would be ac cepted at th e gate. The Edenton Aces, Albemarle Conference Cham pions, are to make their last show ing as a unit at, halftime, and the Edenton High School Band is set to provide halftime entertainment for the final time in 1955. Several former college players will be seen in action in the con test, featuring th e fast, wide-open six-man game. Final plans and lineups will he announced in next week’s Herald. A crowd of over 1,000 is expected to watch th P Marine® tangl e for the benefit of the improvement of the high school’s athletic plant. $2.00 Per Year In North Carolina | State Winner ]j | /si RICHARD LOWE Chowan County boasts another 4-H Club Slalp winner, with Rich, ard Lowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Lowe, being declared the 1955 State 4-H peanut winner. Dirk raised, 2,904 pounds of pea nuts on a x (re to win the coveted State honor. Prominent Singers Will Take Part In ‘Hansel And Gretel’ Grass Roots Opera to Be Presented Mon day, Dec. sth Grass Knots Opera, which will appear in Edenton Monday night, ■ December 5, in the operas "Hansel ' and Gretel and The Telephone”, looks with pride on many of its young artists who are making names for themselves in music all over the world. Norris Greer toured the nation with the Wagner Opera Company’s | production of , Madam Butterfly last season, following a nationwide tour with Musical Americana. Greer will be remembered in Eden ton as Ernesto in Don Pasquale. Vera Scammon, soprano, sang one season with City Center Opera in New York and toured southeast ern Asia this past summer. She appeared in many concerts in the! Midwest during 1954-55. Imogene Gunter, brilliant young | coloratura, recently returned to the | United States after having appear- Contimied on Page 6—Section 1 I Edenton Aces Lose Region 1 | Championship T o Cary 13-12 In Heartbreaker F riday N ight Local Outfit Goes to | Pieces After Two ■ Early Scores Starting off with a bang and j scoring two touchdowns by about midway of the first quarter, some ■ thing happened to the Edenton Aces Friday night in Greenville, so that they and a host of faithful but 1 disappointed fans returned to 1 Edenton with the short end of a 1 13-12 score, thus losing the Region ! 1 Championship to Cary, and put- ■ ting an end to Edenton hopes of competing again for the State Class A football championship. At the outset it appeared that 1 the A.ces would win by a one-sided SLOW DOWN AND LIVEI l Harvey Point Is Also Considered For New Seaplane Base According to reports, Northeast ern North Carolina, especially I Chowan and Perquimans Counties, is being given serious considera tion by the Navy Department in plans for expansion of its air fa cilities. Two specific projects already are in the thinking and planning stages, according to a report. These being expansion of the air station at Edenton and construc tion of a seapian P base at Harvey Point. Costs of the two projects were said to be in excess of sixty . million dollars. j In connection with Harvey Point, a high ranking Navy official con firmed that the Harvey Point site is a “logical possibility” for the planned new seaplane base, needed t within the near future of opera-® tions of the newly developed Mar tin P6M Sea Master, a four-jet bomber type water craft. One of the basic reasons for the selection of Harvey Point, the re port stated, is its remoteness from cosmopilitan areas. Operations of the Sea Master would be limited or cosmopolitan areas. Operations of almost impossible in congested residential and industrial areas. The Harvey Point area wag sub mitted as a possible site for the new seaplane base when the Navy asked for recommendations for a seaplane base meeting the require ments. A feasibility study of the Harvey Point site is now under way and it is likely a decision will be made on the matter very soon due to the Navy needs. Full development of the Edenton base is expected to make that sta tion comparable in size to the Oce. ana Jet Bas e near Norfolk, which cost 70 million dollars. The development of the two pro. ! jects, if given final approval, is expected to take some five years. ECC Alumni Form Chowan Association At a meeting of alumni of East Carolina College held Thursday I night at the Edenton Junior-Senior | High School a temporary organi zation was formed for the college alumni in Chowan County. Mrs. Louis George Wilkins was elected acting president and Mrs. Murray Byrum, acting secretary, and it was decided to organize a ! permanent alumni association early I in January. James W. Butler, alumni secre jtary of ECC, was the principal I speaker at the meeting, using as his subject “New Look and New I Outlook at ECC.” •• —— score, but after the two touch downs, except for a few minutes near the end of the game, the Edenton team looked like anything else but the team which had fought its way to the Regional playoff. They hav e defeated much better teams than Cary had on the field, but somehow they could not click. Cary kicked to start the game and in three plays the Aces made a first down. Holland returned the kick from the 22 to the 36. On the first play Billy Bunch rammed the line for three yards. Chan Wilson then added six yards and on the next play Jerry Downum bulled his way u> the 46 for 11 yards. On the next play Stuart Holland lat- Centinued on Page B—Section 1