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I CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXV.—Number 33.
County’s Schools
Ready For Opening
On September 2nd
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Supt. Taylor Reports
All Teachers Signed
Up For New School
Year
W. J. Taylor, superintendent of
* Chowan County schools, has an
nounced that everything is in
rtadiness for the opening of
schools in his unit. Chowan
High School will open Tuesday,
i September 2, but the White Oak
Consolidated School will open
Monday, August 18, to allow
some time off during the har
vesting of cotton.
A conference for the white
teachers is scheduled to be held
at Chowan High School Friday
afternoon, August 29, at 2
o’clock and the colored teachers
are requested to meet at the
White Oak School Friday after
noon of this week at 2:30
o’clock.
Mr. Taylor reports that build
ings and grounds are being put
in good condition. A new sep
tic disposal system is now in
operation at the Chowan High
School. All school bus pur
chases and replacements have
been completed and principals
have routed the buses and ar
making plans for organization
for the new school year.
■ Mr. Taylor says he has all
teachers for the schools, who are
as follows:
Chowan High School
R. H. Copeland, Principal and
Mathematics; Miss Sharon Lup
toi\ English and Social Studies:
Mrs. Marvis Hobbs Hendrix,
Commercial and English; M. H.J
Jones, Science, Mathematics and
Coach (Health and Physical Edu
cation); Mrs. Shirley Alford Lay
ton, French and . English; Mrs.
Loraine H. Rogerson, Vocational
> Home Economics; E. S. White,
Vocational Agriculture.
Elementary Department
Mrs. Sadie Harrell Britt, Mrs.
Ethel Callis Smith, Mrs. Mar
garet F. Rountree, Mrs. Annie P.
Asbell, Mrs. Hattie S. Byrum,
Mrs. Ruth Boyce Mansfield, Miss
Ada Morris, Mrs. Margaret L.
Smithson, Mrs. Marguerite B.
Burch, Miss Janie Louise Hais
lip, Mrs. Myra B. Stokley, Miss
Ella Mae Nixon, Miss Hattie
Hudgins, Miss Susan C. Wil
loughby, Public School Music;
Conrad Plyler, Piano Instruction
and Mrs. Fronie Lamb, lunch
room manager.
White Oak School
William H. Creecy, Prinicpal
and Mathematics; Miss Margaret
Lsnora Nixon, Bth grade; Miss
, Sarah Price, 4th grade; Charles
L."Fayton, 6th grade; Mrs. Rosa 1
Howcutt Joyner, Ist grade; Mrs.
B. Hicks, 3rd grade; Mrs.
Harriet F. Creecy, 4th grade;.
Mrs. Sarah M. Everett, 2nd '
grade; Mrs. Dorothy Walker, 2nd
and 3rd grades and Librarian;
Miss Mary Francis Bowser, 7th <
grade; Mrs. Elizabeth W. Paul,
sth grade; Miss Elsie Mae Miller.
7th grade and Public School
Music; Mrs. Annie C. Blair, Ist
grade; Mrs. Elizabeth L. Byrd,
Supervisor; Mrs. Bessie Coefield,
lunchroom manager.
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20 Years Ago
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The Chowan Herald
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It iru announced that due toi
the dieeovery of a few surface (
flaws the dale of opening of the
Albemarle Sound bridge was
postponed until sometime be*
tween August IS and August 25.
. tire Chief R. K. Hall cele
brated his Sftth year as a volun
teer fireman in Edenteo.
Lillian Leary and Philip S.
McMullan. Jr, were selected lo
tgieißl Chowan County as
heralds at the Albenaxle *ound
bridge celebration.
sent Edeaton at the Wilson Te-
Except for the placement of
bMide .seating equipment, the
& iif auditorium atyEdenton
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
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The Rev. S. L. Riddle, pastor
'of the Creswell Field of Baptist
Churches, will bring revival mes
sages at the Macedonia Baptist
Church August 17 through Au
gust 23.
John W. Ricks New
Member Os Ricks
Laundry - Cleaners
Ricks Laundry and Dry Clean
ers, Inc., announce that John Wil
liam Ricks of Rocky Mount has
joined the local firm as vice presi
dent.
Mr. Ricks, who was recently
with Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
| was formerly associated with
Bishop Laundry of Rocky Mount.
•J. P. Ricks, Jr., said he looks
forward to. better laundry and dry
-cleaning service for the communi
ty with the addition of his brother
to the company.
John Ricks and his wife, the
i former Carolyn Stancil of Rocky
Mount, their son and twin daugh
ters will move to Edenton in the
near future. In the meantime Mr.
Ricks is residing with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Ricks, Sr., on
Broad Street.
POCAHONTASMEETING
Chowanoke Council No. 54, De
gree of Pocahontas, will meet to
night (Thursday) at 8 o’clock in
the Red Men building. Mrs. Ma
rina Crummey, Pocahontas, re
quests every member to be- pres
ent.
Committees Announced For
Baptist Evangelistic Crusade
According to the publicity
chairman, the Rev. Henry Na
pier, the Steering Committee for
the upcoming evangelistic cru
sade which is to be held in
every Baptist Church in the
United States, has been chosen
for the Chowan Association. It
is made up as follows: The
Rev. D. C. Pryor, Elizabeth City,
Promotional Secretary of the
Chowan Baptist Association,
Chairman of Enlistment; Dr. R.
W. Kicklighter, pastor of the
Blackwell Memorial Baptist
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 14,1958.
Offii it Selected
For Edenton Band
For Year 1958-1959
Members Are Urged
To Sign Up Before
Schedules at School
Are Made Up
Insignia for the Edenton
Junior-Senior High School Band
new system of organization have
arrived and the officers for the
1958-59 school year have been
elected.
• The band captain is Ashby
Tarkington, who will act as
student director for the band.
Ashby plays 'trombone in the
band and has been a member
of the band program for seven
years. He is a junior this year.
First lieutenant and personnel
officer is Bud Skiles, who plays
clarinet in the concert and
marching band and tenor saxo
phone in the dance band. Bud
is another long time member of
the band and will be a sopho
more this year.
First lieutenant in charge of
band equipment will be Buck
Wheeler. Buck will be a sopho
more this year and has been
playing bass for several years.
Buck has recently completed re
pair courses in Rocky Mount and
Raleigh and will be responsible
for the maintenance of the band
equipment.
Second lieutenant and library
officer, Jimmy Baker, is a senior
this year and plays trumpet in
the band. As head librarian, hi
will be responsible for the banc’
■.library and the maintenance and
records of all the sheet music
owned by the band.
Second Lieutenant Priscilla
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Draft Board Office
Closed Aug. 18 To 25
William S. Elliott, Sr., chairman
of Local Board No. 21 of Chowan
County Selective Service System,
announces this office at room 314,
Citizens Bank Building, will be
closed for the period beginning
August 18 through August 25.
Any male persons who become
18 years of age during this period
are advised they are excused
from registering with this board
until August 26.
RED MEN MEETING
Chowan Tribe of Red Men will
meet Monday night, August 18, a
8 o’clock. Caswell Edmundson,
sachem, is very anxious to have
a large attendance.
Church of Elizabeth City, Fi
nance Chairman; the Rev. Henry
Napier, pastor of Center Hill and
Great Hope Baptist Churches.
Chairman of Publicity and Radio
and Television; the Rev. J. O.
Mattox, pastor of the Hertford
Baptist Church, Hertford, and
moderator for the Chowan As
sociation, Chairman of Fellow
ship; the Rev. D. C. Wagner,
future pastor of the Gatesville
Baptist Church, Gatesville, chair-
Coniinued on Page 3—Section 1
[ “HOMEMAKER OF THE MONTH”
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MRS. EMMETT P, JONES
Pictured in her office at the Edenton Cotton Mills is Mrs.
Emmett P. Jones, who was chosen "Homemak.r ol the Month"
by the Center Hill Home Demonstration Club. Mrs. Jones
has arranged her working schedule to fit very nicely in her
day so as not to interfere with her happy family life.
Coach Billings Calls Football
Practice For Friday Morning
In Preparation For ’SB Season
Coach Bill Billings has called
the first football practice for the
Edenton Junior -Se nior High
School for Friday morning, Aug
ust 15, at 8:30 o’clock. Mr. Bil
lings stated that he urges every
boy in high school who is in
terested in playing football to
report for this practice.
Coach Billings stressed the
mportance of football candidates
to report for the first practice
session, pointing out that only
three weeks remain before the
Cancer Group
Meets Aug. 15
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A meeting of the executive
committee of the Chowan Chap
ter of the American Cancer So
ciety will be held Friday night,
August 15. at 8 o’clock in the Pe
nelope Barker house.
This will be an important meet
ing. so that every member is es
pecially urged to attend. Discus
sion of the budget will be one of
the principal items of business
and other matters of vital concern
will also be considered.
Dr. Frank Wood is president of
the Chowan unit, with the follow
ing as other officers: Mrs. L. A.
Patterson, vice president; Mrs. i
Logan Elliott, service chairman:
Mrs. J. D. Elliott, crusade chair
man; James Bond, treasurer; Miss
Inez Felton, secretary and J. Ed
win Bufflap, publicity chairman.
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A meeting of the executive
committee of the Chowan Chap
ter of the American Cancer So
ciety will be held Friday night,
August 15, at 8 o'clock in the
Penelope Barker house.
An adult 4-H Leaders Supper
will be held at the Center Hill
Community Building tonight
(Thursday) at 7:30 o'clock.
While schools in the Chowan
County unit will open Tuesday,
September 2.
Revival services will begin
Sunday, August 17, at the Mace
donia Baptist Church and will
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Col. Joseph R. Little, Jr., New
MAG-14 Commanding Officer
With traditional change of com
mand ceremonies Tuesday of last
week, Colonel Joseph R. Little,
Jr., assumed command of Marine
Aircraft Group 14 from Lt. Col.
A. Feldmeier.
Colonel Little, until recently
Chief of Staff Second Marine Air
Wing, Cherry Point, was a mem
ber of the origiifal Marine Air
craft Group 14 When it was first
formed at Camp Kearney, Califor
nia, in March 1842.
Coir# el Little assumes com
mand of the all-jet MAG 14 only
months after the group bid fare
well to the AD reciprocal type
aircraft. MAG 14 now features
two squadrons of A4D type jet
aircraft. ’
Hie new commander is a gradu
ate of Virginia Military Institute
and has been a Marine flyer since
1938. During the Guadalcanal
I first game of the season. This
■ j opening game will be with
| Roanoke Rapids, a Class AA
j team which the Aces defeated
j in the opening game last season
iby a score of 12-0. This open
ing game will be played on
1 Hicks Field.
Mr. Billings was non-commit
tal about this season’s prospects
j for the Aces. He senses the loss
1 of a number of outstanding
players by graduation, but be-
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Clubs Plan For
> 1959 Program
■ Program planning for 1959 is
- now going on in Chowan Home
■ Demonstration Clubs. T w o
, groups of leaders met this week
[to formulate plans for an inter
esting and informative program
for next year.
The leaders who met Monday,
afternoon discussed the needs
of the county women in refer-1
1 ence to the various projects as
clothing, foods, nutrition, etc.
. The women chose the demonstra
tions which they thought would
be most helpful to the club
members. ‘
On Tuesday afternoon the
leaders met and discussed goals
that the clubs would try to
reach in Community Service,
Health and other subjects.
Those attending the meetings
were Mrs. Woodrow Lowe. Mrs.
Drew Welch, Mrs. E. P. Jones,
Mrs. Wallace Goodwin, Jr., Mrs.
Percy Nixon, Mrs. O. C. Long,
Mrs. Lester Copeland, Mrs. Mel
vin Copeland, Mrs. Marvin Ev
ans, Mrs. A. D. Ward, Jr., Mrs.
M. T. Barrington. Mrs. Roland
Evans and Mrs. H. W. Dale.
ROTARIANS MEET TODAY |
Edenton’s Rotary Club will
meet this (Thursday) afternoon at I
i 1 o’clock in the Parish House.
• The program will be in charge of
J. L. Chestnutt, who will present
i a film having to do with the
• United States mails. Dr. Ed Bond,
I president, urges every Rotarian
to be present.
campaign in 1942, Colonel Little
(then Major) was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for j
heroism as a transport pilot. The,
Colonel participated in the first j
mas* transfer of a squadron of
Marine transport aircraft from the
United States to the South Pa
cific.
Colonel Little served as Aide
! de-Camp to Commandant A. A.
Vandegrift from 1945 to August
1947.
After his tour as Aide-de-Camp 1
■ to General Vandegrift, Col. Little;
attended a 40-week course in
s combined arms at Fort Leaven
i worth, Kansas. i
t In 1954, Colonel Little attended
the Navy War College second
■ year course. After 39 weeks of
i schooling at the War College he
t attended a jet refresher course at
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Town Councilinen
Favor Cleaning Up
Edenton’s Harbor
Adopt Resolution Pre
sented By Chamber j
Os Commerce; Back
ed By Civic Groups
Faced with many items of busi- j
ness, Town Couneilmen were held •
into a late session Tuesday
night.
First on the agenda was a com
mittee from the Chamber of Com
merce with a resolution relative
to clearing the Edenton harbor of
pilings and stakes in the interest
of beautification and safety for
the ever increasing boating and
fishing enthusiasts. With the
Chamber of Commerce Commit
f ee were representatives of vari
ous civic groups who are in ac
cord with the idea of cleaning up
Edenton’s waterfront.
Gilliam Wood was the principal
speaker for the group and at the
outset pointed out that an attrac
live waterfront attracts tourists
and in the main what attracts
tourists also attracts industry. He
emphasized the magnitude and
importance of the tourist bus-ness
and urged the Couneilmen to do
everything possible to attract
tourists so that they will get r
favorable impression of the town
Mr. Wood stated that the ap
proximate cost of removing the
dangerous and unsightly pilings
and stakes was $3,600. He also
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Macedonia Revival
Will Begin Ang. 17
Final plans have been an
nounced concerning a revival at
the Macedonia Baptist Church
the Rev. L. C. Chandler, pastor.
This revival will begin Sunday,
August 17, and continue through
Saturday night with the Rev. S.
L. Riddle, pastor of the Creswell
Field of Churches, as visiting
evangelist. Services will be held
every night at 8 o’clock.
The music will be directed bv
the pastor with special music be
ing provided by the Ballard’s
Bridge Choirs on Monday, Au
gust 18, the Rocky Hock Choirs
on Tuesday, August 19, and the
Center Hill Choir Wednesday, Au
gust 20. The Macedonia Choir j
will also have special music dur-;
ing the week, as well as the
Youth Choir from Macedonia.
The public is invited to all ser
vices and the parking committee
will assist in parking all cars.
Cherry Boyce Acquires Edenton
Restaurant From E. P. Kehaves
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Friends will be interested to
learn that Cherry Boyce has pur
chased and is now operating the
Albemarle Restaurant next to the
Edenton Bus Station. The restau
rant was purchased from Ernest
Kehayes, who has been operating
on part-time basis since he ac
quired an interest in the P & Q
Super Market.
Mr. Boyce successfully operat
ed eating establishments in Eden
ton before, and about nine years
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and Rosemary Holmes of Edenton. The seven-year-olds era
impressed bv the excellent quality of Chgwfcn County tobacco.
The golden loaf the girls are examining is typical of this year's
primings which are expected to bring top prices to ChoWan
tanners, .
$2.50 Per Year In North Carolina
Mrs. Emmett Jones
Cited Homemaker
By Center Hill Club
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The Rev. R. B. Cottingham.
pastor of the Warwick Baptist
Church, will be the evangelist at j
a Revival Crusade for Christ to
held at the church Sunday, Au- '
gust 17 through Sunday, Au
gust 24. •
Warwick Revival To
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Announcement is made of a re-]
vival crusade for Christ to bej
held at Warwick Baptist Church j
beginning Sunday, August 17, and|
continuing through Sunday, Au-|
gust 24. The new pastor of the
church, the Rev. R. B. Cutting
ham. will be the evangelist.
Albert Hobbs will be music di
rector and special music will be
rendered at each service.
A feature of the revival will be
; special roll call service Sunday
night, August 17. when every
resident member of the church is
expected to answer when his or
her name is called.
Services will be held each night
at 8 o’clock, and the public is
| cordially invited to attend.
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LIONS MEET MONDAY
Edenton’s Lions Club will meet
Monday night. August 18. at 7
o’clock. President J R. DuLaney
requests every Lion to be pres
ent. •*
igo he went to Jacksonville, N. C.,
where he also operated a restau
rant.
■ The new owner says he will he
open from 6 A. M.. to at least 9
: P. M„ and will provide a first
; class restaurant, serving regular
■ meals and featuring seafoods. He
! will also provide fountain service.
Mr. Boyce plans to move his
■ family from Jacksonville to Eden
ton by September 1 or before if
; he can locate living quarters.
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ton Mill, Home and
Community Affairs
Mrs. Emmett P. Jones (Mar
guerite) has b' en chosen by the
Center Hill Home Demonstration
Club as its “Homemaker of the
Year”. Although she is not a
full time “homemaker’' having
oeen working for several years
at the Edenton Cotton Mill as
a payroll clerk, she manages her
home and family affairs with
such efficiency as could make
some “full-timers” envious.
While being interviewed, she
was busy finishing the handwork
on a dress she was making for
her vacation. She was asked to
describe a typical day. She said
her husband, who commutes to
the Elizabeth City Coast Guard
Station where he works as an
aviation metalsmith. is the first
one up in the morning around
6 o’clock. Emmett, Jr., their only
child, will be entering high
school this fall and is up at 7
['o’clock, with a busy hour ahead
. j for Mrs. Jones, breakfasting,
J dressing and general “off to
I school” preparations. That leaves
her a half hour for her own
preparations for work, which she
says she uses also for planning
and starting the evening meal.
| She depends a lot on her freez
er and her automatic oven for
J quick nutritious meals, often
‘transferring the meal from the
j freezer to ihe oven before leav
ij ing in the morning and setting it
II to turn on at 4 o’clock. It must
■ |he wonderful to walk in at 5
■ o’clock from a hard day at the
office and smell the delicious
aroma of supper ready to be
transferred from the oven to the
- table. She manages to freeze
enough fruits and vegetables
during the summer to las',
through the year.
Wmdd you think that Mrs.
Jones would have much time for
school, community and church
activities? She has a reputation
for being a very willing and able
participant and is always <■
to the needs of the sick and {fie
bereaved of the community and
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Edenton Explorer
SeontsßaekHoine
From'New Mexico
Alex Kehaves and Bill Good
win, local Explorer Scouts, re
turned last Friday from a three
week trip to the Philmont Scout
Ranch in New Mexico.
The two boys made the trip
with fifteen other Scouts from the
Albemarle and seven boys from
Roanoke. Va. Leaders were Sid
ney Lowe and Elton Miller of
Moyoek and Tony Stout of Roa
noke.
The trip covered 18 states and
about 5.000 miles, with nights
, spent at Travis AFB, near Savan
nah, Ga.: Fort Rucker in Ala
bama: Keesler AFB, Mississippi;
Barksdale AFB, Los Angeles:
] Shepard AFB. Texas: Fort Car
' son, Colorado: Fort Rilev, Kan
-1 sas; Scott AFB. Illinois; Fort
Knox, Kentucky, and Camp Pow
hatan. a Scout camp in Virginia.
While at Philmont the group
cooked their own food and hiked
52 miles. Two mountains, both
j 11,000 feet and over, were scaled
| during one day. Activities during
I stops included horseback riding
and working on merit badges.
Jaycees WinnersOf
Attendance Prize
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Edenton Jaycees won the at
, tendance prize awarded at the
first quarterly board of directors’
. meeting held in Wilmington Au
gust 8, 9 and 10. The prize was
SSO.
Fifteen Edenton Jaycees at
tended the meeting including Tom
Shepard, George Habit, Caswell
Edmundson, Rodney Harrell, Eu
gene Carpenter. Wesley Chess on,
Scott Harrell. Benbury Wood,
Tom Byrum, Dick Dixon, Oscar
Griffin, .Bill Easterly, Warren
Twiddy, John and Tom
Ridgeway,