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CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume xxm.— dumber &
Commissioners Feel CertOT
present $ 1.53 Tax Rate Can
Be Maintained For 1956-57
Most of Meeting Mon
day Devoted to Bud
get Figures
Chowan County Commissioners
devoted most of their meeting
Monday to considering various bud
gets for the county and while only
the welfare budget and the budgets
for the county and city administra
tive units were approved, the Com
missioners appear optimistic that
the present tax rate of $1.53 can
be maintained for the 1966-57
year.
The welfare budget shows the
largest increase in appropriations
for the year and with the Welfare
Board meeting jointly with the
Commissioners the budget was ap
proved.
The over-all welfare budget for
estimated expenditures of slOl,-
330.80, which is $16,886.20 above
last year when the total budget
w%p $85,444.60. The county’s part
this’year will be $26,054.80 as com
pared with $17,836.60 last year.
This year the anticipated balance
amounts to $2,900, so that the
Commissioners will have to levy
for the remainder of the county's
part which is $23,154.80.
Os the $101,330.80 total welfare
budget $75,276 will be paid from
state and federal funds.
The increase in the budget is
caused primarly due to increased
patients and cost of hospitalisation.!
It also provides for a S2O per
month increase in salary for the
welfare superintendent and $lO per (
month increase for the typist-clerk. <
Both the school budgets showed
slight decreases, the county unitj
asking for about S6OO less than last •
year and thedty-Onjt ifeoiMi s7B{3
less. i • i • rS -V •'
The county budget requests a to
tal appropriation of $30,828, made
up as follows: .Current expense,
$19,464; capital outlay, $10,475 and
debt service, SBB9. Last year’s
budget was $31,427.67. j
The budget for the Edenton unit
calls for $62,617 as compared with
$63,402 last year. Th.-> appropria
tions are: current expense, $48,-
Continued on Page 7—Section 1
36 Lions Cited For
Good Attendance
Tailtwister Chagrined
When 12 of Number
Are Absent
T. B. Williford, chairman of the
attendance committee of the Eden
ton Lions Club, was scratching his
head in perplexity over an unusual
event which occurred at the club
meeting Monday evening.
It is a part of Williford’s duty
to check up on members who are
absent at each meeting. However,
at. the Monday evening meeting
Secretary W. J. Taylor read the
names' of 36 members who had
earned a button for having a per
fect score for attendance during the
past 32 weeks.
Whereupon, Tailtwister Williford
was considerably chagrined when
12 of these members were found to
be absent. "They must have got
ten confused about our summer
schedule of meetings, but I will see
to it that some ‘tailtwisting’ is done
before the next meeting,” observ
ed Williford.
Normpn “Skip” Leonard was in
ducted into the dub as its newest
member! The induction ceremon
ies were performed by Leroy Has
kett and T. B. Williford. He was
extended a cordial welcome by
President A1 Phillips.
Lieut. Dick Frohnen, Hie new
Cub Scoutmaster, reported that a
very large number of the bo*s and
their parents attended the outjng
at Sandy Point last week. ,
Milo Malone was a guest of his
father at the meeting. -
President Phillips reminded the
membership that the club is now
operating under the summer ached
(nnofiliffO fA Ka V|f»ld f>l) An I
UW| tne meetings w uo j
THE CHOWAN HERALD
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Boy Scouts Now Engaged In
Scrap Metal Drive To Bolster
Fund For Summer Camping
Chow Mein Supper to
Be Sponsored By
Scouts June 20
Continuing their efforts to raise
enough money to spend a camping
trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains
this summer, Edenton Boy Scouts
are now engaged in a scrap metal
drive. The boys are anxious to t
gather together all the scrap metal
possible, so that they will appre
ciate it if anyone Mil inform them
where any metal can be picked up.
They welcome information from
people in Edenton, in the rural
area and even at the Edenton Na
val Auxiliary Air Station. If the
boys cannot be contacted, any in- (
formation will be relayed to them ■
by Scoutmaster Jack Habit. j
According to Mr. Habit, the
Scouts are at about the half way
mark in their goal. The actual
cost is about S9OO, but they are
shooting at SI,OOO in order to pur
chase some extra equipment neces
sary for the trip.
The Scouts will also sponsor a
chow mein supper Wednesday, June
I 20. The proceeds of this affair w T ill
' also go into the camping fund.
Chow mein will be sold for SI.OO
, per plate and will be delivered at
i the time desired. Tickets are now
' on sale and it is hoped many plates
, will be sold.
'Knight ’Resigns As
Pastor .Os r BaHard’s
Bridge Baptist Church
The fey. Ralph W. Knight ias
resigned as pastor, of the Ballard’s
Bridge Baptist Church and has Ac
j cepted the pastorate of the Wil
mont Baptist Church in Charlotte.
Mr. Knight a few years ago re-j
signed at Ballard’s Bridge to. ac
cent a call to the same church,!
where he later resigned to return
to Chowan County.
At SUMMER SCHOOL
Miss Lula Williams, director of
the Edenton Junior-Senior High
School Band, left Tuesday for f
Boone, N. C., where she will attend,
summer- school at Appalachian
State Teachers College. Miss Wil
liams will return in the fall to re
sume her duties at the Edenton
school.
Clinton Davis Finishes School
Career With Twelve-Year
Perfect Attendance Record
61 Students Chalk up
Perfect Attendance
For Year
Sixty-one students in the Eden
ton Junior-Senior High School had
perfect attendance during the 1955
56 school year and were awarded
perfect attendance certificates.
Those who were neither tardy or
absent during the year were:
Seventh Grade: Andrew Jackson
Sawyer, Judith Ann Israel, Emo
gene Kennan, Linda Kay Wheeler,
Peggy Ann Williams, Joan Garrett,
Lula Rogerson, Alexander Kehayes,
Carol Dean Twiddy, Dianne Good
win.
, Eighth Grade: Edwin Byrum,
James Ellis, Sadie Crummey. Mar
garet Holmes, Donald Mitchell,
Peggy Twiddy, Lorean Wright,
Ronnie Bass, Johnnie Forehand.
Norma Blanchard, Patricia Waff,
Ruth Wright'
Ninjth Grade: John Melton Ad
ams, Richard Wess Copeland, Cal
vin Lee Foxwell! Franklin Allen
Jahudon. Philip Carroll Weat,_Jua
nite James Oossens, Betty Lou
■Mater. Gene Ashley. Jack Bunch,
i Ted Hardison. John Mitehener. Paul
JMo*W Bupnight, Peggy
North June 7,19567"
Mrs. Babylon New
Vice President Os
Alumni Association
; Meeting of School of
Library Science Held
At Chapel Hill
Mrs. Eugenia Babylon of Eden
ton was elected vice-president of
the ' Alumni Association of the
School of Library Science at . the
• University of North Carolina at
1 the group’s annual meeting at
I Chapel Hill over the week-end.
’ Elected editor of the organiza
tion’s bulletin was’W. R, Pullen of
the UNC Library staff. Both new
officers were named for two-year
terms.
Continuing as president through
1957 is Miss Elizabeth Walker of
East Carolina College, Greenville.
The main speaker, Chancellor
Robert B. House, told the alumni
and guests that the School of Li
brary Science, now in its 26th year,
“is one of the most successful
schools in UNC history in selecting 1
and placing its graduates.
“We are on good, solid footing
as a graduate school,” he continued,
“and our next objective is to serve
, bettpr the , state, /particularly the
school system, • and "the ’ southern
region.”
The Chancellor paid tribute to
Dr. Louis Round Wilson, founder
( and first director of the school, and
Dr. Susan Grey Akera? first dean
from 1932-54, who were special
guests at the luncheon meeting.
! He also paid tribute to the Car
negie Corporation, represented by
I Harry Lydenberg of Greensboro,
noted library official for many
years. The Carnegie Corporation
gave the original endowment for
the University Library and has
since supplemented it, now carry
ing foreward scholarships and one
professorship.
RED MEN MEETING
Chowan Tribe of Red Men will
meet Monday night at 8 o’clock.
Willie H. Bunch, sachem of the
tribe, urges a full attendance.
Lloyd E. Bunch Is
Appointed Member
Os Welfare Board
Succeeds Dr. Martin
Wisely, Whose Term
Expires July 1
Chowan County Commissioners
on Monday appointed Lloyd E.
Bunch as a member of the Chowan
County Welfare Board. Mr. Bunch
succeeds Dr. Martin Wisely, whose
term expires making him -ineligible
for reappointment.
Mr. Bunch’s appointment is for
a three-year term which will' begin
July 1.
With Dr. Wisely’s tertn expiring
the Commissioners, as well as Mr -
J. H. MeMullan, welfare superin
tendent, highly praised him for his
faithful and valuable services while
a'member.
TOWN COUNCIL MEETING
Eden ton’s Town Council will
meet Tuesday night J™ l*. *
o’clock in the Municipal Building.
Crowned King And Queen *)
IH ;
M.jor Emtat Kehaye. ia shown crowning Debbie Halsev aa
Queen after already pronouncing John Raines as King, in the Boy
1 Scout-sponsored baby contest which closed Wednesday night of last
week with ceremonies held in the Scout cabin. The youngsters
polled the highest votes in the penny-a-vote baby contest to win this
honor. Debbie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Halsey and
John is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Raines. The purpose of the
contest was to raise funds for the Scouts’ camping trip this sum
mer. —(Evelyn Leary Photo).
JohnßainesJr. And
Debbie Halsey Win
Scout Baby Contest
Parker Hudgins and
Joanne Warner Are
Runners-up
Little John Raines, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Raines, and
Debbie Halsey, daughter of Mr. and!
Mrs. Johnny Halsey, were crowned
King and Queen as a climax to the j
’ Boy Scout baby contest. The
orow.iung took afct.ee in the Boy
| Scout Cabin Wednesday night of
1 last week. Runners up in the con
test were Thomas Parker Hudgins,
| Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Parker Hudgins, and Joanne War
ner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Warner. |
Mayor Ernest Kehayes acted as
master of ceremonies and at the
outset introduced to the group as
sembled in the Scout cabin all of
1 the babbies who were entered in
the contest. “All of these babies
deserve to be King and Queens,”
said Mr. Kehayes, “but there can
be only one in a contest.” He con
gratulated the Scouts and those
who planned and steered the con
test for staging a successful affair.
Continued on Page 6—Section 1
Need For Employment
For Youth In Area
The State Employment Office in
Edenton states that it has quite a
sizeable number of young people
registered for summer work. This
group includes some of this year’s
graduating class, college students
home for summer vacation, and
younger persons who will return to
high school next term.
Milton E. Bass, manager of the
Edenton office, points out that this
younger group generally are not
experienced but possess youthful
energy and are anxious for work.
He stressed that all employers
should give consideration to these
young people for jobs that can be
filled by younger persons.
Anyone interested in assisting
these young people may place an
order with the State Employment
Office, Room 204, Citizens Bank
Building, Edenton, Monday through
Friday, 8 A. M., to 5 P. M. The
j phone number is 124 or 875.
; Miss Frances Boyce
i In Beauty Contest
Miss Frances Boyce, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boyce is
• among 19 young ladies of the Al
i bemarle section who are participat
ing this week in the Miss Albe
; marie beauty contest in Elisabeth
. City. The contest it sponsored by
the Elizabeth City Jaycee*.
i Judging will be based on three
; phases, with a talent conteat held
Wednesday night of this week. J
Tonight the girls will he Indeed in J
bathing suits and on Friday they
1 will be judged in evening dreases. '
I The contests are being held in
Love’s State Theatre.
Dr. Carter Speaker
For Chowan High
Graduating Class
21 Graduates Receive
Diplomas Wednes
day Night
Graduation exercises were he!*!
at. Chowan High School Wednesday
.night of last week when Dr. E. .1.
I Carter of East Carolina College
I was the principal speaker.
Dr. Carter, who was introduced
by Superintendent W. J. Taylor,
emphasized the importance of the
graduates in considering not only
their vacation, but in choosing :i
wife and deciding just what type of
person each desired to be. To be
successful and happy, he recom
mended serving God in every walk
of life.
Jeanette Bunch, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Bunch, was present
ed the Rotary cup, while other
awards went to the following:
Bus drivers, Joe Privott and Cal
vin Davis; current events, Joe Hol
lovvell; commercial awards, Barbara
Bunch, junior bookkeeping; Emma
Lou Harrell, senior typing; Jean
ette Bunch, senior bookkeeping;
Joe Privott, junior typing; four
year activities award, Stuart Hol
lowell; Mitehener science cup, Wal
lace Evans; freshman cup, Jerry
White; FHA cup, Jean Peele; home
(Continued on Page 7, Section 1)
Edenton Police Make
52 Arrests In May
Chief of Police George I. Dail
reports that Edenton police made
52 arrests during May of whom 44
were found guilty as charged. Mis
cellaneous traffic arrests led the
list at 16, followed by 12 arrested
for being drunk.
Os those arrested 20 were white
males, eight white females, 22 col
ored males and two colored fe
males.
Fines amounted to $395 and costs
$341.35 or a total of $736.35.
Police during the month answer
ed 66 calls, investigated four acci
dents, worked seven funerals, re
ported 45 street lights out, extend
ed 20 courtesies, found 31 doors
unlocked, made 25 investigations,
answered two fire calls and issued
629 traffic citations, live police
made 843 radio calls and were on
the air one hour, 10 minutes and
15 seconds.
TAX COLLECTIONS
I During the month of May Sher
iff J. A. Biinch reports that 1955
taxes collected amounted to $lO,-
626.12. This brings total 1955 tax
es collected to date to $177,269.28.
$
I Dr. Leo Jenkins Is j
Speaker At Final
School Exercise
Warns Graduates Not
To Be Too Hasty In
Marriage
Members of the 1956 graduating
class of the Edenton Junior-Senior
High School received their diplomas
at graduation exercises Friday
night in the Elementary School au
ditorium and thus ended their high
school career.
The principal speaker for the oc
casion was Dr. Leo W. Jenkins, vice
president and dean of East Caro
lina College in Greenville, who was
the commencement speaker in
■ Edenton about 20 years ago.
In opening his remarks Dr. Jen
kins expressed his appreciation for
being invited to Edenton a second
time, to speak to a graduating class.
He said he wanted to play the role
of father with the graduates as his
children.
True happiness was woven into
his remarks as ho urged the sen
iors to try to become what they
want to become and being what
they can become. He pointed put
that each one should alone make
their decision rather lha.a do pri- j
marily what others want them r o J
do. Singling out the girls, he said, j
“the greatest concern of girls!
should be to become good mothers.
The greatest strength of the nation
Continued on Page 6—Section 1
Baptist Vacation Bible
School Begins June 11
A vacation Bible school, is sched
» uled to he held at the Edenton Bap
\ tisf Church beginning Monday,
June 11 and continuing through
Saturday, June 16.
*i Registration for the school will
he held next .Sunday following the
Sunday School session. .Classes
have been arranged for all ages,
with competent teachers for every
group. *
' Classes will begin at 9 o’clock
each mornling and continue in ses
sion until 11:30 o’clock.
Graduation exercises for the
school will be held Sunday night,
' June 17, at 7:30 o’clock.
'[ New Meat Manager
r At Colonial Store
T. T. Harrell of Hertford on
v Monday of this week took over thei
managership of the meat depart
• ment in the local Colonial store.
‘ He succeeds James Byrum who re
l' cently resigned to become associat-j
ed with Dail’s Superette.
Mr. Harrell has previously work-.
- ed at the Edenton store and made j
many friends and invites them to i
* visit him in his new position. •
r Chowan Produce Exchange
Reports Brisk Business First
Day Os Operation Monday
T Over 2,000 Hampers of
Beans and Sauash
1 Are Sold
e I
* The Chowan Cooperative Produce
Exchange opened for business Mon
e day of this week, when over 2,100 |
hampers of snap beans and 29 of
squash were sold, according to E. L.
e Pearce, president.
Auction sales of beans
ranged from $2.05 to $3.90 per
g bushel. Bountiful flats sold from.
$2.05 to averaging about;
$2.40 per bushel. Round type
‘ brought $3.05 to $3.90 averaging
about $2.45 per bushel. White
sauash brought $1.75 to $2.40 av
eraging $2.10 per bushel. Yellow
squash sold from $2.25 to $2.75,.
I averaging $2.50 per bushel.
Approximately 600 hampers of'
n round beans were moved to direct
j orders by the Exchange. Mr. Bak
er, the market manager, eaid he
thought these would average the
grower about $3.75 per bushel.
The Exchange board of directors
- met Monday night following the
5 first day’s sales. Ther? were sev
eral problems encountered during
- j the day that had to be worked out.
1.1 Continued on Page 6—Section 1
$2.00 Per Year In North Carolina
| Edenton National
Guardsmen Leave
For Camp June 10
j HELP!I
Next week The Herald plans to
begin publishing a church feature
and in order to make the feature
more interesting it is the purpose
to list all of the churches in Cho
wan County, together with the
names of the pastors and the sched
ule of services.
Some of this information has al
ready been received hut in order
to have a complete listing, we are
appealing to the pastors of church
es not listed at the outset to send
or bring to The Herald office the
information requested.
Awards Presented
At Class Night For
Jr.-Sr. High School
I Theme Selected For
| Program ‘A Roman
Holiday*
i
Considerable interest prevailed
at class night exercises held in the
Edenton Elementary School Thurs
day night when coveted awards
were presented to outstanding
members of the 1956 graduating
class of the Edenton Junior-Sen
ior High School.
The program opened with the
impressive daisy chain ceremony
with sophomores participating.
Following an address of welcome
by Albert, Ward, the theme turned
to a “Roman Holiday” when the
class history was 'read by Alma
Hardison and Lin Jordan read the
class prophecy. Frances Boyce
Continued on Page 7—Section 1
Jaycee Broom Sale
On Friday Night
Junior Chamber of Commerce
members will be selling brooms
door-to-door in Edenton Friday
evening of this week to raise funds
for the Teen-Age Club.
Jaycee President Dick Dixon said
i he expects many Edenton residents
to be waiting to buy a broom for
SI.OO when a Jaycee salesman
comes to the'door. Dixon declared
1 the brooms are “of good quality”
j and that the profits “will be used
. for the important Teen-Age Club”.
Tom Byrum is chairman of the
i broom sale and Leonard Small is
~, . , . •
I assistant chairman.
ll CIVIC calendar]
9 '
i Edenton Boy Scouts now engaged
| in scrap metal drive to help raise
money to go to camp this summer.
Edenton Jaycees will stage their
semi-annual broom sale Friday
night, June 8.
Chowan County Commissioners
will meet in special session Mon
day morning. June 18, at 10 o’clock
to consider the 1956-57 budget.
Daily Vacation Bible School will
be held at the Baptist Church Mon
day morning, June 11. until Sat
urday, June 16.
The Edenton Methodist Church
will hold a vacation church school
from Monday. June 11, through
. Friday, June 15.
Edenton National Guardsmen
1 will leave Sunday morning, June
10, to spend two weeks in camp at
Fort Bragg.
Edenton Boy Scouts will sponsor
a show mein supper Wednesday,
June 20. Plates will ho delivered
to homes.
Chowan Tribe of Red Men will
meet Monday night at 8 o’clock.
The Ward’s Homo Demonstration
Club will meet in the Community
Continued on Page B—Section 1
■ 11
SLOW
DOWN
AND LIVEt
Division Will Spend 15
Days Training at
Fort Bragg
i ■
1 National Guardsmen of Heavy
1 Mortar Company, 119th Infantry,
1 . North Carolina National Guard will
join nearly 10,000 oth' >■ n.embers
■ of North Carolina’.': famed 30th In
fantry Division at Fort Bragg for
15 days of active duty training be
ginning Sunday, June 10. This is
the second summer encampment for
, the “Old Hickory” division since it
became an all-Tar Heel division in
October, 1954.
The entire division, which is com
manded by Major General Claude
T. Bowers of Warrenton, will be at
Fort Bragg, except for the armor
ed and anti-aircraft elements which
train at Camp Stewart, Ga., in Au
gust.
Training for the local Heavy
Mortar Company has become more
intense as time for summer camp
draws hearer, according to Ist
Lieutenant Charlie W. Swanner,
who said that the 15-day active
duty period is the climax of the
year's work for local Guardsmen.
Highlight of the first week of
camp will be the divisional parade
-Saturday. June 16. when the en
tire division will pass in review.
The division will form three com
bat teams for the move into the
field on Monday of the second
week.
During the five days in the field,
Lieut. Swanner said, aggressor
units, simulating enemy forces, will
harass the Guardsmen of the local
Heavy Mortar Company, requiring
them to be alert day and night.
The division will return to the
R.T.C. area of Fort Bragg op Fri
day. June 22. Saturday .will be
payday for the 10,000 Guardsmen,
who draw regular Army pay for
the 15 days of training.
At present nearly 12,000 citizen
soldiers are members of the North
Carolina Army and Air National
Guard.
New Assignments
At Edenton Base
Changes Made Due to
Departure of Col.
R. R. Baker
New assignments for top-ranking
officers of Marine Aircraft Group
14 at the Edenton Naval Auxiliary
Air Station were made public lata
I last week. The routine orders are
iby direction of Col. L. K. Davis,
Commanding Officer of MAG-14.
Reassignments began with the
announcement that Lt. Col. R. R.
Baker, MAG-14 Executive Officer,
is being transferred to Camp Le
jeune as Air Officer f >:ie- 2nd
Marine Division, f ncl Baker
was relieved by Lt. Col. R. J. Hoini
[ effective Saturday. Colonel Holm
I moves up from Group Operations
1 Officer to become Executive Offi-
I cer.
1 Lt. Col. H. A. Eisele relieved
. Colonel Holm as Group Operations
' Officer as of Friday/ Colonel
• Eisele was relieved as Command
ing Officer of Marine Air Base
i Squadron 14 by Lt Col. W. N.
, Case, effective Friday.
; Lt. Col. R. T. Whitten relieved
Colonel Case Friday as Command-
I ing Officer of Marine Attack
Squadron 211.
Lt. Col. J. E. McDonald became
Group Logistics Officer, also es-
I fective Friday, relieving Lt. Col.
J jD. E. Wiley.
j Maj. N. D. Butler. Jr., relieved
1 : Colonel McDonald as Commanding
j Officer of Marine Attack Squad
■ I ron 225 on Saturday.
1 j Maj. John R. Hyneman has been
t j assigned duty as Assistant Grduo
I Logistics Officer, effective June 18.
r I ROTARIANS MEET TODAY
1 Edenton Rotarians will meet this
(Thursday) afternoon at 1 o’clock
I in the Pariah Hone*. Geo*- *■•«* Aim.*
Byrum, new president of the ctat*, 1
n will preside and asks every Retar
r ian to be present. The program'
will b« in charge of Jimmie Rieka,