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CHOWAN COUNTY
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Stage Set For
/ Lions Variety
Show Tonight
Curtain Scheduled to
Rise Promptly at
8 O’clock
* Final arrangements have been
completed for the ninth annual
Edenton Lions Club show to be
held tonight (Thursday) at 8
o’clock in the Edenton Elementary
School auditorium.
Douglas Ames of radio station
WCDJ will be master of cere
monies while Lt. Jim Bowers will
> be production manager and Con
leth MacDonald will be musical di
rector. An excellent variety show
has been planned for the evening.
West Byrum, Jr., chairman of
the show, is well pleased with the
progress that has been made in
selecting talent in Edenton and
Chowan County, including the
Edenton Naval Auxiliary Air Sta
tion, and feels that those who at
tend will have a real treat in store
for them.
The Edenton Lions Club uses the
receipts from this show for blind
rehabilitation and conservation of
sight in Edenton and Chowan
County. Last year several pairs
of glasses were purchased for
needy children and several children
were sent to clinics for eye treat
ment.
The program for the evening
follows:
Lt. Jim Bowers, “You’ll Never
Walk Alone”- The Tailfuse “7”,
“When the Saints Go Marching
In”; The Starllghters, “Shh Boom
and Angels in the Sky”; Bibb
Swain and Faye Spencer, Song and
Dance Routine; Sunny White,
“Dungaree Doll”; Bill Davenport,
“Tutti Fruitti”, Heartbreak Hotel”;
Chowan Rhythmettes, “Band of
Gold”; Lt. Jerry Phillips, Comical
lirtpersonatl’hs; Conleth MacDon
ald, “Bumble Eodgit;"; Tailiuso “7“,-
“Darktown Strutters Hall”; Lewis
Evans and His Uke, “This (Me
House”; Pat and Jack Mooney,
‘‘Daddy Dear”; Tailfuse “7”, “Five
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Jurymen Selected
For Term Superior
Court April 30th
Only Civil Cases Will
Be Scheduled to
Be Tried
With the May term of Chowan
Superior Court scheduled to con
vene Monday, April 30, Chowan
County Commissioners on Tuesday
chose from the jury box 35 names
who will be summoned for jury
' duty during the term. This term
will be for civil cases only with
Judge J. Paul Frizelle of Snow
Hill scheduled to preside.
Those picked for jury duty in
clude:
D. F. Hopkins, R. F. Jordan, C.
B. Mooney, Bertram Byrum, M. L.
Bateman, Walter Humphlett, Rus
sell Byrum, Louis George Wilkins,
M. A. Hughes, Herman Layden,
Jr., W. D. Garris, William R. Ash
ley, L. E. Bateman, R. C. Nixon,
D. E. Copeland, Marvin Smith,
Lindsey H. Bunch, Roland Ashley,
George C. Swain, Jesse L. 'Byrum,
Ralph E. Parrish, Elton Morris,
Earl White, C. C. Bunch, Allison
H. Campen, Clarence Bass, W. H.
Parker, Carroll A. Evans, John A.
Bunch, Clarence Bunch, Wendell H.
Copeland, Herbert Sutton, G. Louis
Goodwin, McKay Washington and
Horace M. Basnight.
Petition Is Signed*For
State Take Over Road
• In Westover Heights
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Chowan Commissioners at their
meeting Tuesday morning received
a request to petition the N. C.
Highway and Public Works Con?
mission to take over, a road i#
Westover Heights.
The petition balls for grading and
I hard-surfacing. the road leading
, from U. S. Route* 17 and connect
ing the road at the rear of the pro
ject. The road is approximately
£ feet, long with 10 houses al
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
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In top picture Mayor Ernest P. Kehayes is presented a copy of
“The Edentonian” by Frances Boyce, editor-in-chief, at special
ceremonies held Thursday morning in the Junior-Senior High
School gymnasium. Bottom picture shows Mrs. W. H Hollowell,
Jr., for whom the annual was dedicated this year, being presented
a copy of the book by Wayne Keeter, president of the Senior Class.
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1956 Yearbook Os
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is-Now Distributed
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Surprise Program Is
Held In Gymnasium
Last Week
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The 1956 issue of Edenton Jun
ior-Senior High School yearbooks
“Edentonian” arrived last week and
a surprise program was held in
the gymnasium Monday afternoon,
March 26, to celebrate the occas
ion. Frances Boyce, editor-in-chief
of the annual, unveiled a large
book-shaped frame in which she ex
plained the theme of the book and
told about the work of the staff
during the year. The frame was
constructed by Albert Ward and
Wayne Keeter printed the cover
page.
Members of the staff are:
Frances Boyce—Editor-in-Chief.
Alma Hardison —Business mana
ger.
Wayne Keeter—Art editor.
Faye Haste—Organizations edi
tor.
Pat Partin—Organizations edi-
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Truck Driver On Rampage
Damages Nine Automobiles
On Broad Street Monday
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Hertford Man Facing
Three Charges In
Recorder’s Court
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In a brief but wild ride on Broad
Street Monday night Joe Edgar
Copeland, 51, of Hertford, damag
ed nine automobiles before his pick
up truck stopped.
Copeland, driving south on Broad
Street first, hit a car parked in
front of the Colonial store. He
swerved in and oat until his truck
finally came to a stop against an
other car in front of the Citizens
Bank building after nine cars were
hit and pushed together, doing con
siderable damage to the rear ends
and sides of the cars. ;
The accident occurred, about 7
o’clock when many people were at
tending the Taylor Theatre so that
the parking area was filled with
cars.
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 5,1956.
About Half County
Drainage Work Is
Completed To Date
$17,292.70 Is Spent In
Opening Swamps
And Creeks
Chowan County has completed
just about half of the drainage
work for which federal funds were
allocated as the result of damage
done by last year’s hurricanes.
For this work the government
grant was $35,280 and up to this
week $17,292.70 was spent, leav
ing a balance of $17,787.30.
Work already done in the county
includes the following:
Pembroke Creek, $7,415.25, Mid
dleton Creek, $1,343; Black Hall
Swamp, $1,911.05, Rocky Hock
Creek, $6,623.40.
LIONS MEET MONDAY
Edenton Lions Club will meet
Monday night, April 9, at 7 o’clock.
Last week’s meeting was called off
due to observance of Easter Mon
day so that President Al Phillips
urges every member to make a
special effort to attend.
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Bids Sought )
W. J. Yates and Joe Webb, Jr.,
members of the Chowan Fire Com
mission, appeared before the Coun
ty Commissioners Tuesday in the
interest of purchasing a truck and
equipment for fighting rural fires.
They were authorized to secure
bids for the truck needed, as well
as equipment, and report at the
next meeting of the County Com
missioners. Money has been com
ing in from the special fire pro
tection tax and it is believed ar
rangements can 'be made to pur
chase the equipment.
TAX COLLECTIONS
Sheriff J. A. Bunch reports that
1966 taxes collected in March
amounted to $6,918.76. oTtal
taxes collected to date amount to
$164,788.48.
1 Willie Elton Taylor
Given 20-22 Years
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On Murder Charge
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v Chowan County Commissioners
on Tuesday ordered Sheriff J. A.
Bunch to advertise delinquent 1955
I tax payers. The delinquent list will
be posted at the Court IHouse
Monday, May 7, and will be pub
lished in The Herald Thursday,
May 10.
Delinquents are, therefore, urged
to pay -their taxes before the dead
line in order to save both embar
rassment and extra expense.
Junior High School
Chorus To Present
Play On April 13th
60 Pupils to Take Part
In “It Happened In
Holland”
The Junior High School Chorus
of the Edenton Junior-Senior High
School will present the operetta “It
Happened in Holland”, on the night
of Friday, April 13, in the Elemen
tary School auditorium. This will
be the school’s first dramatic musi
cal production since “Miss Cherry
blossom,” which was given in 1953,
and will be the first ever attempt
ed here with a cast and chorus
drawn from the seventh and eighth
grades only.
“It Happened In Holland,” as its I
, name indicates is a Dutch story,
I and involves a cafct and chorus of.
60 Junior High pupils. The set
tings, by George Gelbach and his
Stagecraft Club, promise to be
unique and interesting. The pro
duction is under the direction of
Mrs. Alice Belch and Mrs. Mary L.
Browning of the school faculty.
The hour is 8 o’clock and a small
admission will he charged.
RESTAURANT ROBBED
Thieves some time Thursday
night broke into the Boswell Res
taurant on the Windsor highway
and made away with a large quan
tity of cigarettes. Edenton police
have found 28 cartons of the stolen
cigarettes, but have made no ar
rests.
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As deceiving; ms it may be, the above picture is none other than
Thomas Chears, Jr., an Edentonian now practicing law in Manteo.
Mr. Chears is doing his part tbward making sure the Dare Coast
Pirates’ Jamboree, starting April 27, has the appropriate atmo
sphere, for he has one of the finest beards among the many that
are being raised for the occasion. It is reported that on a recent
visit to his mother-in-law in Edenton, Mrs. J. A. Powell, she was
rather reluctant to alluiw him to enter the house Until someone
proved his identity,
| (Only Criminal Action
Tried In Spring Term
1 Os Superior Court
Judge J. Paul Frizelle of Snow
I Hill opened the spring term of Cho-
I wan Superior Court promptly at 10
o’clock Tuesday morning. The
1 term began a day late due to the
observance of Easter Monday.
W. T. Harry was chosen as fore
man of the Grand Jury which, aside
I fom Mr. Harry, included the fol
lowing: Brice Everett Ashley,
Ralph Peele, T. O. Asbell, K. L.
Perry, M. L. Evans, F. A. Jordan,
G. T. King, Ralph W. Blades, Den
nis W. Basnight, Lloyd Bass, Os
car R, Layden, Leslie Jackson,
James Jordan, C. D. Bunch, Wil
liam M. Morris, J. R. Byrum and
J. N. Jordan.
In charging the Grand Jury
Judge Frizelle said there was nev
er a finer opportunity to serve the
county and state than serving on a
Grand Jury. “Some people,” said
the judge, “think that the only
qualification to be a member of the
Grand Jury is to have enough in-
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Final Plea Is Made
For Easter Seals
Hoped County’s Goal
Will Be Reached
By April 10
A final plea is going out to eiti-
I zens of Chowan County who have
not yet made their contributions to
. the 1956 EasterSeal.campaign.
Ernest jf. Ward, Jr., president’ of
the Chowan 'County Society, Urges
residents of Chowan County to par
ticipate in the annual campaign so
that the society’s goal might be
reached by April 10.
“So much depends upon the suc
cess of the appeal,” Ward declared.
“The future of every crippled child
in North Carolina is at stake. The
Chowan County Society has ac
complished tremendous strides
throughout the years, and as new
advances in treatment for the han
dicapped are made, we must keep
in step with them, providing the
best possible services. All of us
can give our crippled children a
new lease on life by contributing to
their welfare today.”
( UNUSUAL EDENTON ACCIDENT )
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Above is seen (he hoom on an Electric and Water Department
truck which hit a wire extending across Broad Street from Cuth
rell’s Department Store to the Hughes-Parker Hardware Store
Tuesday morning of last week The wire was used for Christmas
decorations and pulled out a portion of the Cuthrell building and
falling bricks ruined a metal awning. Nobody was hurt in the acci
dent and damage was estimated at several thousand dollars.
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Local Credit Union
Victim Os Daylight
Robbers Last Week
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Chowan Commissioners on Tues
day made an appropriation of SIOO
toward the expense of staging an
other Fat Stock Show and Sale in
Chowan County. The first of these
affairs, sponsored by the Edenton
Junior Chamber of Commerce, was
held last year and proved very suc
cessful. This year the Jaycees,
with the experience gained, feel
certain art even more successful
show and sale will be held.
Easter Sunrise Service
Attracts Large Crowd
With ideal weather prevailing
Sunday morning a goodly number
gathered on the Court House Green
to attend the Easter Sunrise Ser
vice sponsored by the Edenton Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce.
Various ministers took, part in
the service and an appropriate and
very interesting message was de
livered by the Rev. Ralph W.
Knight, pastor of Ballard’s Bridge
Baptist Church.
BOV BREAKS LEG
Claude Barnett, a member of the
ninth grade at the Edenton Junior
| Senior High School, had the mis
fortune to break a leg in an acci
dent at the school Wednesday of
last, week.
The accident occurred while the
boy was playing soccer. He was
admitted to Chowan Hospital,
where, the leg was put, in a cast and
later released. He is now getting
along as well as can be expected.
Fire Alarm And Sprinkler
System To Be Constructed
At Auxiliary Air Station
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Bids Will Be Received
Until 2 P. M. Tues
day, May 1
The Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Department of the Navy, has is
-1 sued an invitation for bids to in
stall fire alarm and sprinkler sys
tems at the Edenton Naval Au
xiliary Air Station.
Sealed bids in duplicate for furn
ishing all labor, equipment and ma
terials and performing all work for \
the project will be received until 2
P. M., Tuesday, May 1, in the Dis
trict Public Works Office, Fifth
Naval District, U. S. Naval Base,
Norfolk, Va.
The fire alartn system shall in
clude an outdoor and indoor coded J
system, evacuation alarm systems,
in 18 buildings connected to the j
coded system, and supervision of |
the sprinkler system in three build-1
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i Two Men Force Clerk
Into Back Room at
Gun Point
1 Edenton on Wednesday afternoon
| of last week experienced a daring
daylight holdup, when two Negroes
‘ at gun point made away with about
i $l4O from the Chowan Credit Un
■ ion office on South Broad Street.
According to reports the two Ne
' groes entered the office and asked
Gladys Morring, a clerk, if she
could change a $lO bill. She told
them she could, hut was then told
the bill was left in the car. Upon
, re-entering the office a gun was
pointed at her and she was ordered !
to go into a back room and not
come out until they were gone. Be
fore the Negroes re-entered the of
fice Miss Morring became some
what suspicious and hid some of the
money, so that only $l4O was rea
lized by the robbers.
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Edenton PTA Will
Meet On April 10
The Edenton Parent-Teacher As
sociation will hold its regular
monthly meeting Tuesday night.
April 10, in the Elementary School
auditorium at 8 o’clock. W. T.
Harry, program chairman, has an
nounced that there will be a musi
cal program furnished by the high
school band. Preceding the meet
ing, there will bp a Board meeting
at 7 o’clock in the faculty room.
Members of the National Honor ‘
Society will serve as baby sitters,
so that it is hoped a large number
of PTA members will attend.
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Dr. B. B. McGuire, District
Health officer, reports that the
Health Department has received
another limited supply of polio
vaccine The vaccine will be giv
en to children on a first come first
served basis.
Edenton hours for administra
tion of the vaccine will be Monday
l afternoons from 2 to 3 o’clock and
Friday afternoons from 1 to 5
o’clock.
52 JAILED IN MARCH
Jailer Herman White reports
that during March 52 persons were
j placed in the Chowan County jail
. with confinements ranging from
j one to 31 days. The cost amount
|ed to $472.11 which includes jail
I and turnkey fees, scouring the jail,
telephone 'bill and soap and powder. 1
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{Cancer Drive
Is Under'Way
.To Get SI6OO
. Volunteers Will Make
House-to-House
Canvass
After weeks of preparation, vol
unteers got into action this week
in the American Cancer Society’s
1956 educational and fund-raising
crusade. Nationally that organiza
tion is seeking $26,000,000 this
| year for its three-front cancer con-
I trol program of medical and scien
j tific research, public and profes
| sionai education and service to pa-
I tients.
The quota for Chowan County is
| $1,600.
i Many of the volunteers began a
door-to-door canvass of homes
throughout the city, in most cases
being assigned to their own neigh
borhoods or to other areas with
which they are familiar. Others set
out to canvass offices, industrial
plants and stores.
“Fight cancer with a check-up
and a check” is the slogan for the
1956 campaign.
“Besides soliciting funds, our
volunteers are carrying on a vital
educational drive,” Mrs. Richard
Hardin declares. “At every house
and business establishment visited
they are leaving life-saving litera
ture. This material accents hope
and assurance in the cancer fight.
It points out the great importance
of periodic' health examinations as
a safeguard against that disease,
and tells of cancer’s seven danger
signals.
“The fine spirit of all those tak
ing part in the campaign promises
complete success for it. We con
fidently rest our case against can
cer on their efforts and on the con
cern of the people of Chowan Coun
ty in saving lives from man’s crud
est enemy.”
Proposalsßeceived
For Revaluation Os
Propertyln County
Committee Will Soon
Set Up Specifica
tions For Bids
Chowan County Commissioners
at their meeting Tuesday morning
reported receipt of sealed proposals
from four or five concerns to re
value property in Chowan County
and to furnish a map.
The proposals were turned over
to the Revaluation Committee, com
posed of J. N. Pruden, Philip Mc
' Mullan, William P. Jones, Ernest
Ward, Jr., and West Byrum, who
will immediately open the propos
als and after making a careful
study prepare specifications to be
submitted for bids.
The Commissioners are very an
xious to get the revaluation work
started as soon as possible.
MASONS MEET TONIGHT
Unanimity Ix)dge No. 7, A. F.,
& A. M., will hold a stated com
munication tonight (Thursday) at
8 o’clock. Ernest Kehayes, mas
ter, urges a large attendance in or
der to consider holding a banquet
in the very near future, as well as
making preparations for confer
ring the third degree at a Masonic
school of instruction which will be
held in the Edenton lodge room in
May.
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Edenton Lions Club will present
a variety show in the Elementary
School auditorium tonight (Thurs
day) at 8 o’clock.
The Junior High School Chorus
of the Edenton Junior-Senior High
School will present the operetta “It
Happened it Holland,” Friday
night, April 13, at 8 o’clock in the
Edenton Elementary School audi
torium.
Town Council will hold its April
meeting in the Municipal Building
Tuesday night, April 10, at 8
o’clock.
The Edenton Parent-Teacher As
sociation will meet Tuesday night,
April 10, at 8 o’clock in the Ele
mentary School auditorium.
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