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Check For $3,2001s
Sent To Chowan To
Meet Polk) Expense
Chairman Tom Hop
kins Enabled to Pay
| Outstanding Bills
* . The Chowan County Chapter of
-4he National Foundation for T#
rantile Paralysis has received a
Check for $3,200 to provide finan
cial aid to local polio patients,
%hos. F. Hopkins, chapter chair
man, announced this week.
jhe money was made available
by the Foundation’s national
headquarters when local March ot
Dimes funds raised last January
proved insufficient to cover the
county’s polio fighting needs. The
chapter has given a total of $6,-
272.21 in past financial assistance
to seven patients.
. < '‘lt is reassuring to know that
' the whole March of Dimes organ*
ization stands behind each chap
ter, ready to finance patient care
for, the remainder of the year
where it is urgently needed, as in
r our chapter,” Mr. Hopkins said.
• Although hiass vaccination pro
grams have dramatically lowered
the incidence of polio cases
throughout the-country, financial
aid to patients in all Chapters is
still .estimated at more than $15,-
000,000 for this year.
"At the end of 1956 there were
more than 80,000 persons in this
fountry rityl disabled as a result
of paralytic polio in past years,
people for whom the Salk vaccine
came too late,” Mr. Hopkins said.
"These are persons who could be
helped by further treatment. You
just don’t walk off the battlefield
and leave your wounded behind.
We must do all we can to rescue
them from their world of help
- lessness and restore them to a
* productive and. happy li§ That’s
we mean todas when we
speak of a ‘forward look at the
polio patient’.”
“We know what paralytic polio
i can mean in terms of human suf
fering and the morale-crushing
disasters it can cause when it
strikes in the family,” Mr. Hop
kins said. “The long-range cost
in” reclaiming victims is also an
flpportant factor.
these reasons it is impera
tive that everyone under 40 take
now of the Salk v&c
gine protection. It is the one sure
wßy we have of eliminating epi
demic polio and its crippling es-
froqn-our national life.”
i —•—
Elilily Overman
Wins Firsl Prize
Lin Muffin Bake
BMP- .... ...
y Nix Junior 4-H girls demon
strated their baking skill in the
Benched Corn Meal Muffin Bake
bffeFriday, August 23, at Chowan
Building.
KdUßUtily Ruth Overman took top
in the contest with Caro
lyn Evans of Oak Grove second,
and Sunny White of Center Hill
-Ihlrd. All three of these girls
Will receive prizes of small kitch-
from the American
Corn Millers’ Federation. Miss
Overman Will make muffins to be
exhibited at the State Fair in Ra
. leigh and her record will be en
' Mred for District 4-H' competi
-W&n »■
uon.
vA. Judy Evans, Judy and
L IMary Lon Dail also made excel-
Sjfcpt muffins in the contest which
Hff- judged by Mrs. Mack Roger-'
hlpit. hom%veconomics teacher at
Jfcowan Jfigh School; Mrs. Joe
Webb, former home agent and
. Nancy Henderson, home
agent in Perquimans County.
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THE IHOWAN HERALD
1 Broom Sale
i ✓
Edenlon's Junior Chamber of
Commerce will stage its annual
broom sale Friday night. Septem
ber"*. Jaycees will call at every
home in Edenton during the even
ing and urge women who will buy
a broom to keep lights burning on
porches.
Previous broom sales have been
very successful and the Jaycees
appeal for full cooperation to the
end that this year's sale will be
no exception.
New Books At
Local Library
Mrs. Eugenia Babylon, director
of the Pettigrew Regional Library
announces that a list of books
have recently been acquirecC at
the Shepard-Pruden Memorial Li
brary.
In the group are:
Adult—Graves, “They Hanged
My Saintly Billy”; Fielding, “In
the Time of Greenbloom”; Martin,
“Twelve Girls in the Garden”;
Williams, “The Witches”; Karig,
i “Don’t Tread on Me” (story about
John Paul Jones); Marquand,
i “Life at. Happy Knoll”; Morgan,
Challenge to Venus”; Fleming,
I “Operation Sea Lion”; Freud,
I “Origins of Psychoanalysis”; Vil
liers, “Wild Ocean”; Elliott.
“Through Gates of Splendor”;
Troyat, “The Red and the White”;
“Complete Prophecies of Nos
tradamus”; “Field and Stream
Treasury.” -
JuvenHe-**lrst books of Cary
gress, West Indies, Antaftlc, Jazz,
Words, Television, Caves, Ameri
ca, Roads, Sea Shells, Mythology,
Weather; Zim, “The Big Cats”;
Edmonds, "Cadmus Henry”; Kan
tor, “Lee and Grant at Apjalomat
tox”; Kantor, “Gettysburg.”
The Book of Popular Science,
a 10 volume set of new science
encyclopedias, is in both Shepard-
Pruden and Brown-Carver Li
braries. They were purchased
with federal funds. Broad sub
jects covered are: The universe,
The earth, life, Plant life, Animal
life, Man, Health, Matter and en
ergy, Industry, Transportation,
Communication, Science through
the ages, Society, Household sci
ence and Projects and experi
ments.
These volumes contain many il
lustrations. The articles are ex
cellent for both adults and high
school students.
NO COLLECTION OF TRASH
IN EDENTON LABOR DAY
Due to the observance of Labor
Day, Monday, September 2, there
will be no trash collection in
Edenton. Regular schedules will
be resumed Tuesday.
Get Rat Bait' I
D. B. Brown, district sanitarian,
urgas parsons who 1 are carrying
out a rat eradication program to
coma by the Health Department
for rat bait. “ >
"The bait on hand at the Health
Office may spoiL" says Hr. Brown
in making his appeal for citiiem
'to caU for it thus saving it from
becoming Worthless and at the
same time join In the fight against
Wilbur Joseph Privott, Jr., son,
I MX. ana Mrs. w. j. mvou oi j
PARK AND LONELY day mothers watch their children at play, and the elderly
rest in Highbridge Park, in the Washington Heights section of New York. By night, a deadly
silence fills the abandoned place of fear. A lone policeman watches the shadows. For here a
15-year-old boy, crippled by polio and unable to run. was stabbed to death by a teen-age gang.
Nightfall and fear has emptied this park. But the police are there trying to check the awful rise
in juvenile crime.
Room Assignments Announced
For Junior-Senior High School
Students assigned to the Eden
ton Junior-Senior High School
will return to the classrooms on
Tuesday, September 3, at 9 A. M.
Students will be dismissed at 12
noon on the first day, but will
remain for a regular day on Wed
nesday, September 4, when they
report at 8:30 and remain until
3:20. The lunch room will be in
operation on Wednesday.
In order to dvoid confusion on
the first morning students should
report to room assignments as
listed below. All assignments are
tentative since an increase in en
rollment may necessitate’ some
changes.
Grade-7—Mrs. Alice H. Belch
Room 124
Boys: Leo Boucher, David
Bunn, Louis Craddock, Joseph
Debman, Warren Elliott, Teddy
Feldmeier, William Harrell, Ken
drick Hopkins, Wesley Jones,
Richard Layden, John Marshall,
Jim Partin, Malcolm Privott, Al
lan Smith, Terry Wheeler, Chuck
Boggs, Frank Johnston.
Girls: Frances Ahman, Diane
Brabble, Susan Bunch, Jean Cay
ton, Vickie Cayton, Mary Lynn
Daniels, Joan Goodwin, Susan
Holmes, Lillie Kersler, Nelia
Lowe, Gail Perry, Anita Sexton,
Annie Laura Whiteman, Christine
Armstrong.
Grade 7—Mrs. Margaret DuLaney
Room 119
Boys: Richard Cobb, Ernest
Cullipher, Ronald Forehand, Paul
Halsey, Edsel Lassiter, Eddie Nix
on, Billy Voliva, Bobby Whitten,
Franklin Williams, Terry Vincent,
Ray Gosseth, Jerry Kenneth Yar
borough.
Girls: Joan Alexander, Ella
Ambrose, Betty Arnold, Rosa
Bateman, Virginia Boyce, Doris
Jean Cale, Faye Cartwright, Lin
da Garrett, Marlene Gilley, Paul
ette Halsey, Janet Jones, Jo Ann
Leary, Peggy Marriner, Barbara
Ough, Irene Spencer, Mary Faye
Ward, Betty Jo Webb, Ann Wells,
Barbara Townson.
Grade 7—Alton G. Brooks
Room 104
Boys: Jack Ashley, Wayne
Ashley, - Jimmy Aynes, Steve
Batton, P. L. Beeler, Ray Belch,
David Etheridge, Eugene Evans,
Donald Forehand, Hurley Mit
chelL C. T. Mizelle, Madison
Phillips, Charles R. Irwin, Jon
Scalton, Leonard Speer.
Girls: Brenda Bass, Phyllis
Boucher, Jackie Boyce, Joan
Cayton, Betty Farless, Melba
Continued on Page 7—Section 1
loy Is Awarded
dee Scholarship
I Applicants for the scholarship
were screened first by commit
tees in their home communities
and counties and then by the col
lege committee which decided
upon the list o f winners. f
! * Young Privott will take up
I chemical engineering. He was an
School* a mefnber of the Beta
jitoiy Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday August 29,1957.
! 20 Years Ago
| As Found In the Files of
The Chowan Herald
President Franklin D. Roose
velt. Governor Clyde Hoey and
town folk and other prominent
people spoke highly of Edenton's
official booklet.
Congressman Lindsay Warren
notified Mayor J. H. McMullan
that he was successful in having
SI,OOO directed for removal of ob
structions in Pembroke Creek and
deepening the channel up to the
fish hatchery.
Superintendent W. J. Taylor,
announced a plan whereby text
books for schools from the first to
seventh grades will be loaned free
of charge and supplementary
readers provided costing from 50
to 70 cents for the year.
A large quantity of liquor ar
rived for the new Chowan County
ABC store which was about to
open.
Miss Rebecca Colwell, Chowan
home demonstration agent, an
nounced a fall and winter garden
contest.
Local members of the Woodmen
of the World are attending a con
vention at Hertford.
David Holton and-Miss Kathy
Leggett were married in a simple
but impressive ceremony held at
the home of Miss Leggett's par
ents. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Leggett.
John Curtis Underwood, promi
nent western poet of Santa Fe.
was a guest of Ruth and J. M.
VaiL
Miss Margaret Spires under
went an operation for appendi
citis at Norfolk General Hospi-!
tab
W. Jim Daniels resigned as
manager of the Masonic softball
team.
Work on remodeling and im
proving the Station
was begun.
Mrs. Mattie C. Davis announced
the opening of ''lredell Florist."
Irvin Gaskins leased a restau
rant which whs operated by Ar
thur Chappell on Broad Street.
Local People Plan
Farmorama Trip
Guy Hobbs, : manager of Hobbs
Implement. Company, announces
that at Chowan County
mon. plan tolFttend the mammoth
f*Cfcorama to be held at Monroe,
Gfeorgia, Thursday, September 5.
The three, are C. W. Overman,
James Griffin and Mr. Hobbs.
Mr. Hobfe says the list is not
complete afl?f that anyone who de
sires to attend should contact him
immediately. ' . a
It is estimated that over 30,000
people vriH visit, the farmorama
for the biggest equipment demon
stration :e/fer to be held in the
Southeast, Among the visitors
will be farmers from Chowan,
Bertie, Washington, Tyrrell, Peri
Every need of the .thousands of
Polio Survey Is
Held In E. Gty
A unique and hopeful step was
taken on Tuesday of this week
when a survey of Chowan County
polio victims of past years was
undertaken at the Health Depart
ment in Elizabeth City. Some of
the seven past polios in Chowan
County attended this orthopedic
1 clinic where an evaluation team
i of medical experts gave them a
| thorough medical check-up.
This survey of past polio vic
tims was conducted by the Cho
wan County Chapter of the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis. It is estimated thatj
are some 80,000 polio vie-1
I tims '• throughout the country.)
I There is strong evidence that
some of these' may be aisle to fur
ther overcome the after-effects of
piolio thanks to brilliant achive
'ments in orthopedic surgery, cor
rective devices, and the whole
field of rehabilitation.
The survey of local polio pa
tients at the clinic on Tuesda3 r
was the first stage of a March
of Dimes project that pomises “A
Forward Look fer the Polio Pa
tient.” The program seeks to ex
tend help so patients who could
benefit from care at a respira
tory or rehabilitation center, from
new types of self-help or adaptive
devices, or from recently develop- 1
ed surgical techniques.
The Chowan County Chapter
contacted as many of these pa
tients as possible, but there may
be post polios who do not appear
on its books cither because of
change of address or because they
have never registered with the
Chapter. t
[civic calendar]
Red Cross bloodmobile will
again visit Edenton Friday. Sep
tember 6.
Schools in the Chowan County
Unit and the Edenton Administra
tive Unit will open Tuesday. Sep
tember 3.
Career Wives' Counseling Ser
vice will meet Thursday. Septem
ber 5.
Revival services are in progress
this week at the First Christian
Church and will close Sunday
night, September 1.
Edenton Rolarians will meet
tonight (Thursday) at 6 o'clock at
Sandy Point Beach, where a hot
dog and hamburger dinner will
be served. The affair takes the
place of the usual 1 o'clock meet
ing and Rotary Annas are invited
to attend.
The Wesleyan Service Guild of
the Methodist Church will meet
Tuesday night. September 3. at 8
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Earl
Richardson on West Gale Street
Edenton Jaycees will conduct
their annual broom sale Friday
night Bapfamb«r S, ’ * ,
Dr. M. Ray McKay of the
Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary at Wake Forest will
preach at both morning and even
ing services at the Edenton Bap>
will be held to the Edenton Meth-
Sep-
| County Schools
To Open Term
September 3rd
W. J. Taylor, superintendent of
the Chowan County School Unit,
announces that Chowan High
School and the Rocky Hock
School will open Tuesday, Sep
tember 3.
The White Oak School opened
Mopday, August 19, for a split
session due to the cotton picking
season, when many of the school
children are obliged to help pick
cotton.
Mr. Taylor announces the ac
quisition of three new bus re
placements, two of which will be
used in the county system and
one in the Edenton Administra
tive Unit.
He has also called a meeting
for white teachers which will be
held Friday afternoon, August 30
at 2:30 o’clock at Chowan High
School.
A full set of teachers has been
secured for the term and these
I are as follows:
i Chowan High School
' R. H. Copeland, principal and
I mathematics; Mrs. Shirley Alford
| Layton, replacing Clyde A. White,
j English and French; Mrs. Louise
W. Marsh, history and English;
Gilliam Underwood, replacing
Bobby Godwin, science and ath
letic director; Mis. Marvis Hobbs
Hendrix, English and commercial
subjects; Everett S. White, voca
tional agriculture; Mrs. Loraine
H. Rogerson, vocational home eco
nomics; Mrs. Annie Perry Asbell,
eighth Mrs. Margaret
Smithson, seventh grade; Mrs.
Hattie S. Byrum, replacing Mrs.
Bobby Godwin, eighth grade; Mrs.
Edna Wilkins, replacing Ralph A.
Spainhour, sixth grade; Mrs. My
ra Stokely, sixth grade: Miss Ella
Mae Nixon, fifth grade; Miss Hat
tie Hudgins, fourth grade; Mrs.
Marguerite B. Burch, third grade;
Miss Janie Louise Haislip, third
; and fourth grades; Mrs. Margaret
Rpuntree, second grade; Miss Ada j
Morris, first grade; Miss Susan C. |
Willoughby, public school music:!
Mrs. Allen Phillips, piano teach-'
er»
Rocky Hock School
Mrs. Mattie Nixon, first and
second grades; Mrs. Mae Prycei
Asbell, third, fourth and fifth!
grades.
White Oak School .
William H. Creecy, principal
and mathematics; Margaret Le
nora Nixon, eighth grade; Sarah
L. Price, fourth grade; Charles L.!
Fayton, sixth grade; Rosa Hocutt ]
Joyner, first grade; Annie C.
Blair, first grade; Naomi B. Hicks,
third grade; Harriet F. Creecy.
fourth grade; Sarah M. Everett,
replacing Jane Edith Bonner, sec
ond grade; Dorothy Walker, re
placing Mrs. E. S. Parker, second
and third grades; Mary Francis
Bowser, a new teacher, seventh
grade; Elizabeth W. Paul, replac
ing the Rev. E. S. Parker, fifth
grade; Elsie Mare Miller, seventh
grade and public school music;
Elizabeth L. Byrd, supervisor.
Methodists Plan
Conference Sunday
m
Edenton Methodists will hold
their first quarterly conference in
the church Sunday night, Septem
ber 1, at 7:30 o’clock. The Rev.
C. Freeman Heath, superintendent
of the Elizabeth City District, will
preside.
The pastor, the Rev. Earl Rich
ardson, urges all members of the
official board to be present for
the conference, immediately after
which the official board will go
into a brief session to hear a re
port of the board of trustees.
BANK CLOSED LABOR DAY
The Bank of Edenton will be
closed all day Monday, Septem
ber 2, in observance of Labor Day.
Important banking business
should, therefore, be transacted
accordingly.
; Bids Will Be Opened Today For
, Auditorium At Edenton School
According to Superintendent
John A. Holmes, bids will be
QPtnxj for ft ntw Addition to the
Edtnion Junior-Senior High
School this (Thursday) afternoon
at 2 o'clock in hie office.
The new building, the ceet of
$2.00 Per Year In North Carolina.
Farmers In Chowan
Cast Overwhelming
Election Majorities
See Governor
Mayor Ernest Kehayes, County
Representative Albert Byrum and
Joe Conger, Jr., joined groups
from Hertford and Elizabeth City
Tuesday tor a conference with
Governor Luther Hodges in Ra
leigh.
The delegation met the Govern
or at 3 o'clock and after the con
ference they met with the Board
of Conservation and Development.
The conferences were a climax
to a recent meeting held in Hert
ford at the instigation of Mayor
Kehayes in an effort to call upon
the Governor and Board of Con
servation and Development in the
interest of attracting industry to
the Albemarle section.
Dr. Ray McKay
To Fill Pulpit at
Baptist Church
The pastor, the Rev. R. N. Car
roll. being on vacation. Dr. M. Ray
McKay from rhe faculty of the
I Southeastern Baptist Theological
| Seminary in Wake Forest will
preach at the 3aptist Church for
1 both morning and evening ser
vices Sunday, Seotember 1.
Dr. McKay heads the Depart
ment of Preaching at the South
eastern Seminary and is very
much in demand as a speaker and
interim preacher. Since the
! opening of the seminary some few
I years ago he has filled the Eden
; ton pulpit on several occasions
. and this occasion to hear him will
be- welcomed.
The pulpit committee is pleas
ed to announce his return for
both service's Sunday and the
public is cordially invited to hear
him and to attend the other ser
vices of the church.
MEETING CHANGED
Due to the observance of La
bor Day Monday, September 2,
the Chowan County Commission
ers. will hold their September
meeting Wednesday morning,
September 4, at 10 o’clock in the,
Court House instead of the first 1
Monday.
NEW EDENTON CONCERN
A new business has started in
Edenton, Croom Refrigeration,
which is located at the Edenton
Freezer Locker Plant. The opera-!
tor of the concern is Bob Carra
way of Robersonville, who is ex
perienced in all types of refrigera
tion and welcomes inquiries about
any sort of refrigeration prob
lems.
Closed Tight ]
s.
Practically all business concerns
in Edenton will be closed Monday.
September 2. in observance of La
bor Day. Among those to close
this year will also be the service
stations, including Bunch's Gulf
Service, Bridge-Turn Service Sta
tion, J. C. Parks Sinclair Service
Station. Harold Stokes Sunoco
Service Station. Bill Perry's Tex
aco Service Station and Gene
Peery's Texaco Service Station.
Town and county offices and
other public offices, the Bank of
Edenton, Building & Loan office
and Post Office will also be clos
ed.
Most of the stores which have
been observing a half day holiday
Wednesdays during the summer
will begin remaining open all day
Wednesdays.
SSO. a band room and a room for
public school music.
Due to high building costs when
the present building was con
structed. an auditorium was omit
ted at that time. However the
building was so built so that little
difficulty will be encountered to
tenfc* tto j.
DRIVE CAREFULLY—
YOU MAY SAVE
YOUR LIFEI
! Only 30 Votes Are Cast
Against Both Ref
erendums
1 The “Nickels For Know How”
i and the “Cotton Assessment” ref
■ erendums were favored by a large
majority vote in Chowan County
according to Bristoe Perry, elec
tion chairman. The referendums
were held on Friday, August 23.
Os the 188 votes cast on “Nic
l| kels For Know How”, 174 were
■ J for and 14 were against. The
i cotton assessment plan was favor
[ ed with 150 votes and 16 against,
j Ninety-two percent favored the
I “Nickels For Know How” and 90
per cent favored the cotton as
| sessment plan.
A partial state report repre
senting 61 counties was issued
Saturday. This report shows that
92 per cent favored “Nickels For
Know How” and about 90 per
cent favored the “Cotton Assess
ment Plan”.
If the final vote is favorad by
a two-thirds majority, the pro
grams will run for three years
when another referendum will be
held.
Through • “Nickels For Knew
How”, feed and fertilizer users
contribute one nickel per ton to
be used by the Agricultural
Foundations for increased agri
cultural research and teaching.
Through the “Cotton Assessment
Plan”, cotton growers will con
tribute ten cents per bale to be
used by the North Carolina Cot
ton Producers Association for in
creased research, education, pro
motion and legislation on cotton.
Mr. Perry thanks the 37 store
and service station operators
over Chowan County fbr their
fine cooperation in serving as
pollholders and letting their plac
es serve as polling places.
Twenty New
Teachers Will
Be In Schools
When the Edenton schools
open Tuesday, September 3.
there will be 20 new faces on
the faculties. 12 in the white
schools and eight in the colored
schools.
As of Tuesday morning the
faculties were complete except
for a teacher for home economics
and science in the Junior-Senior
High School.
New teachers in the Junior-
Senior High School are Miss Ann
Lee Mayo, who will teach social
studies; Miss Ann E. Lassiter,
vocational home economics; Miss
Annie Bullock, mathematics and
Mrs. Mary Margaret DuLaney,
[English.
Other teachers will be: Gerald
D. James, principal; N. J. George,
science: Mrs. Gloria M. Bond,
English: Mrs. Rebecca W. Shep
ard. mathematics: Miss Elizabeth
Jane Frieze, English and French:
Mrs. Margaret B. Jenkins, Eng
lish and Latin: William D. Bil
lings, physical education and
mathematics; Cecil W. Fry. in
dustrial arts; Victor J. Tucker,
commercial; Miss Evelyn Kil
patrick, librarian; Alton G.
Brooks, physical education and
[science; Miss Coleen Ward, phy
sical education and science: Mrs.
j Alice H. Belch, social studies;
j Miss Lula Williams, band.
In the Elementary School there
1 will be eight new teachers in
cluding Mrs. Jeannine M. Cole
man, sixth grade; Mrs. Kathryn
L. Holton, sixth grade; Mrs. Bir
ney Miller, fourth grade; Mrs.
Marguerite Mcßride, fourth
grade; Mrs. Laura Mae Fergu
son, second grade; Mrs. Therese
K. Poche, second grade; Mrs. Pa
tricia H. Haste, first grade; Mrs.
Anita Thrift Greenwell, first
grade.
Other teachers, will be Ernest
A. Swain, principal; Mrs. Mary
L. Browning, public school mu
sic; Miss Mary Lee Copeland,
sixth grade; Mis. Ruth D. Bunch,
fifth grade; Mrs. Mollie Hester
Holmes, fifth grade; Miss Minnie
HollowelL fifth grade; Miss Lena
M. Jones, fourth grade; Miss
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