ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN CHOWAN COUNTY Volume XXVI.-Number 32. Highway Officials Plan To Consider Local Road Needs Plan Is Suggested to Centralize Mainten ance Operations In Chowan County Ernest Ward, Jr., spokesmen for property owners at Nixon’s Bepoh, appeared before the County Commissioners Monday asking the Commissioners to use * their influence in having the State Highway Commission wid en the Indian Trail road as well as place rock on the road lead ing from the Indian Trail road to Nixon’s Beach. Before the Commissioners ad journed W. F. Sessoms of Ply mouth, First District engineer, turned up and held a confer ence with the Commissioners • concerning road matters. Mr. Sessoms told the Commis sions that very Shortly, possibly at the next meeting of the Com missioners, Harold Makepeace, secondary roads officer, Division Engineer W. N. Spruill and him self will meet with the Com missioners to determine priority work to be done. “We will put on the table the amount of money allocated for road work in your county,” said Mr. Ses soms, “and it will be up to you gentlemen to decide what work { you want done first, so long as the work is in accordance with the secondary road program.” * Mr. Sbssoms also stated that it was the purpose to centralize maintenance operations in Cho wan County. At present a yard is located on Granville Street I back of Chowan Hospital and an other at Ryland. To centralize the work, Mr. Sessoms said about an acre and a half of land' would be necessary which should! be in Ihtf of’Jhei county, home. Because the coun ty home property is scheduled toj be sold,'it wds the opinion that! th Ed Bond Post No. 40 of the American Legion will meet Tuesday night, August 11, at 8 o’clock. David White, the new commander, is very anxious to see many Legionnaires turn out Sot the meeting, v ... . $2.50 Per Year In North Carolina September Term Os Superior Court Convenes Sept. 14 } Public Hearing ] A public hearing will be held by Town Council and the Zon ing Commission Tuesday night, August 11, at 8 o'clock in the Municipal Building. The pur pose of the meeting is Jo con sider zoning policies of the new ly annexed area on U. S. High way 17 north. Anyone interested in the zon ing of this area is invited to attend the meeting and taka part in the discussion. Center Hill Juniors Form New Club | Mary Privott Elected President of New Group The Center Hill Local 4-H Club, meeting for the month of July, met at the home of Em mett Jones. Jr. The meeting was called to order by the president. Emmett, Jr. led in a devotional. The roll was called and the min utes were read and seconded. I The business was then talked j over. Junior 4-H Club members' were welcomed to the meeting, ] They were as follows: Linda! Goodwin June Turner, Peggy, Monds, Mary Privott, Philip Smithson, Robbie Boyce, Robert Bulls and Phyllis Bulls. These junior members decided to form a junior club of their 1 own instead of meeting with the! senior club. They decided toj elect their own officers. They ' are as follows: President, Mary] Privott; vice-president, Linda Goodwin; secretary and treasur er, June Turner; assistant secre tary and treasurer, Robbie | 3ovce, and reporters, Peggy Monds and Philip Smithson. After all the officers were nominated, Miss Catherine Aman explained to all the new mem bers the meaning of the 4-HJ Club. She told them about the' various projects they could! choose and the new projects they could take, After the meeting | was closed a few songs were »ung. Refreshments were served and enjoyed by all. Yeopim Revival Will Begin August 10th | Revival services will begin in; the Yeopim Baptist Church Mon day, August 10 and continue through Sunday, August 16. The pastor of the church, the Rev. A. J. McClelland, announc es that the visiting evangelist will be the Rev. A. J. Eure, pas tor of the Coinjock Baptist Church. Services will be held each night at 8 o’clock with special music furnished by neighboring churches. Monday night the music will be furnished by the Calvary Baptist Church of Eliza beth City. Tuesday night a quartet from the Hertford Bap tist Church will sing. Wednes day night the music will be pre sented by Mrs. Hal left Rountree and Miss Treena Rountree. On Thursday night the Yeopim Church choir will furnish the music and on Friday the Youth Choir of Macedonia Baptist Church will present the music. 1 Billings Chosen To Help Coach All Stars For Shrine Bowl Game Edenton friends will be pleas ed to learn that Coach Bill Bill ings has been selected as a coach for the North Carolina all star annual Shrine Bowl game which will be played in Char lotte. He will assist Coach Bill Eustler o£ Rockingham. It is the second consecutive year Coach Billings has been asked to coach in all-star games. Last year he and Coach Honey Johnson of Elizabeth City were ( named t 6 coach the East-West game. However, Coach Johnson suffered, ft heart attack and i George CUhwa <4 Roxboro wag FIGHT CANCER WITH A CHECKUP AND CHECK Judge W. K. McClean Os Asheville Sched uled to Preside In stead of Morris Chowan County Commission ers at their meeting Monday morning picked 50 names from the jury box, all of whom will be summoned for jury duty at the next term of Chowan Su perior Court. The term will be held the week of Monday, September 14. It will be a mixed term, in cluding a murder case transfer red from Tyrrell County. The presiding judge will be Judge W. K. McClean of Ashe ville, resident judge of the 28th , Judicial District. Judge Mc- Clean will preside instead of Judge Chester Morris < who was originally scheduled to serve. Judge McClean has notified Clerk of Court Tom Shepard that court will convene at 9:30 Monday morning instead of 10 o'clock as usual. Jurors will, therefore, be required to be on hand by 9:30 o’clock. He fur ther stated that after Monday court wil] convene at 9 o’clock in the morning and continue un til 12 o’clock. The afternoon session will be from 1 to 4 o’clock. Those wiio were picked for ■ jury duty included the following: Gerald W. Blanchard. V. E. Tynch, William B. Wilkins, 1 Richard A. Hollowell, Robert Hughes, Graham Bvrum, David I K. Goodwin, Thomas E. Bunch, I Edward J Chappell, Willie J. I Byrum, James Edward Hare, ! Lassell E. Chappell, Sherill | Boyce, L. H. Haskett Rufus j Irvin Bunch, Irvin D. Spivey, , James Albert Alexander,. Jesse |W. i te, James D. Swindell, C. D. Bunch, Haywood Ziegler, Jr., C. H Davis. Jr., J. R. Tynch, Robert L. Byrum, Jr., J. C. J Perry, L. C. Bunch, Elijah Blount, Louis A. Chappell, W. L. Bateman, Major M. Wright, Geddes B. Potter, J. F. Ward, L. P. Chappell, Henry Allen Bunch. Thomas J. Brabble, I Charles Clifton Granby, E. D. 1 Copeland, John E. Perry, Jr., ! Albert L. Gray, Charlie Elliott | Peele, G. O. Chappell, Horace | M. Basnight, C. C. Baker, Jr., ' J. L. Winslow, John K. Wine coff, Clyde Elbert Bunch, Jr., Willie W. Spruill. T. L. Ward, Jacoh Spivey and E. T. Bunch. J ;[ CIVIC CALENDAR Edenton Chamber of Com merce is planning to stage a fishing contest over the Labor Day week-end. Band Parents Association will meet in the band room Wednes lay night, August 12, at 8 o'clock. September term of Chowan Superior Court will convene Monday morning, September 14, at 9:30 o'clock. The Ryland community will have a picnic at the home of Mrs. H. I. Ward Friday after noon, August 7, at 6:30 o'clock. Revival services will begin at the Rocky Hock Baptist Church Sunday morning, August 23, and continue through Sunday. Aug , ust 30. A public hearing will be held by the Zoning Commission and Town Council Tuesday night August 11, at 8 o'clock in the Municipal Building to consider ‘Continued oa Page 6—Section 1 called in to assist Billings. Coach Billings, with his assist ant, Billy Hardison, left Tues day to attend the coaches’ clinic at Greensboro. Billings this season will begin his sixth year as Edenton’s coach. In the five years his teams have won three state titles and in the other two years they went as far as the eastern cham pionship games, taiag both games by a single |Agt During his five £den ton Billings-coached tfkms have 'woo 49 games, lost UWttod 3, i