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ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN CHOWAN COUNTY Volume XXVll.—Number II Woman’s Club Viithdraws Proposed Improvements Mrs. Emmett Elliott Named ‘Woman Os Year* By BPW Club £ • i Honor Is Bestowed at { Bosses’ Night Ban quet Held Thursday * Night By EVELYN LEARY "Mrs. Emmett N. Elliott of Tyner was named "Woman of the Year” by the Eden ton. Bust- i ness and Professional Women's ] Club at its annual Bosses’ Night banquet held Thursday night at i the Masonic Temple Mi's. Elliott was bora ip Edgecombe County, the young- , est of eight children. She was : taught by a governess at home | thiough'the first few grades and < after graduating from the Tar-1 boro public schools, attended St. 1 Mary’s Junior College in Raleigh | for two years. Her talent and ability as a home economics stu dent was recognized to the ex tent that she enrolled at a spe cialty school. The Thomas Nor mal Training School in Detroit, Michigan, where she completed '■ a two-year course in one year, i Mrs. Elliott taught as a home economics teacher for several years in Indiana and Rocky Mount, N. C., and then came to Edcnton as Chowan County's first home demonstration agent. She married Emmett Elliott of Chowan County in 1926. Mrs. Elliott has served on the Chowan County Welfare Board, Chowan Hospital Board and is an active member of St Paul’s Episcopal Church and Chowan Hospital Auxiliary. For mapy years she was active in the Democratic party activities of Continued on Page 3—Section 1 Rotarians Entertain | Boy Scouts Today Edcnton Rotarians will meet this (Thursday) afternoon at 1 o’clock in the Parish House. , Edenton Boy Scouts will be, 'guests of the club and will pro-j sent a program. A feature of this program will be a Court of- Honor in which John Marshall,! son of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Per ry, will be promoted to Eagle Scodt. Taking part oh the program beside the Scouts will be George I A. Byrum, Jasper Hassell, Scout- | master, and Jack Habit, a former j Scoutmaster. President Jemmy Eamhadt I ■ujgcs every Rotarian to be present. Fashion Show | C ; A fashion sho», sponsored by* the Edenton Business and Pro fessional Women's Club, will be held in the John A, Holmes High School auditorium Friday night. April I, beginning at 7:90 o’clock. Local merchants wll bade on display latest spring and sum mer wearing apparel, featuring Easter outfits. The clothes will be shown by models coming from Eden ton's attractive young ladies. I Baptist Sunday School Meeting At Great Hope Church Sunday C. R. Vann, superintendent of j the Chowan Baptist Association - al Sunday School has announced j that the second of two spring] meetings will be held Sunday i •Rernoon, March 20, in the] Croat Hope Baptist Church at S o’clock. It will begin with aj demonstration of an opening as-, dembly by Joe Gantt of Eden ton.! which will be followed by a’ f «L the opening assembly. The fejSTL* and*K Srfrf THE CHOWAN HERALD f Sate Rejected ] r jj*~ * At its meeting Monday of last week the Chowan County Board of Education rejected the hid of SL2SM fer the abandoned Rocky Hock School propesty. The property was sold several i tunes after the bid had been raised and was dosed when the above bid was made at the last sale by the Rocky Hock Com munity center, which was not raised within the prescribed time. The board members discussed ( the matter at length and finally :a motion was made and passed |to enter into private negotia | traits for sale of the property with the Rocky Hock Comm uni- i ty Canter. 57 Students Make Honor Roll l1 At JOIIII A. Holmes High School Hiram Mayo, principal of the j i John A. Holmes High School, j , carly> this week released the i Inwkw roll for the fourth six- j ■ weeks term. I Fifty-seven students were in- I eluded on the honor roll as ’ follows; i Seventh Grade—Marshal Bout ! well, Wayne Brabble. Joe Har- j rell, Kenneth Harrell, David j Holton, Hiram Mayo. Charles j I Overton, Mike Phelps. George i Wilkins. Claire Belch. Pat By ] rum, Johnetta Davenport. Car ] men Goodwin. Nancy O'Neal.j | Brenda Stallings and Lula Stroud. , I Eighth Grade—Jimmy Cordon, 1 Sandra Bunch. Jean Goodwin,' , Patsy Mooney and Mary Thorud.; Roger C. Bunch I Honored At State Is Named Most Out 4 standing Senior In Agriculture Roger C. Bunch, son of Mr. > and Mrs. George W. Bunch of Route 1, Tyner, received the award for being the most out standing senior in agricultural education at K. C. State Col lege. Mr. Bunch graduated from N. G. State College February 1. 196 b. and since that time has held the position of agricultural teacher at Coopers High School in Nash County. He entered N. C. State Col lege September 15, 1956, after completing four years in the U. S. Navy. While at N. C. State, he was active in the Agri culture Club, the Agricultural Education Club, the Agricultural Education Student Council, the Y.D.C. and the Kappa Phi Kap pa, National Education Frater nity. The award was presented Thursday night. March 19, at N, C, State College. Mrs. Cecil Rasnight. primary; IMiss Anne Wells, junior; Mrs. jA. It Cook, intermediate; Al I Newsome, young people; Mrs. IG. M. Singletary, extension. The superintendent of train line. A. J. Eure. Jr., has arrang ed a display of literature and I periodicals for Sunday School ’ use which are available from ! the Sunday School Board of 'the Southern Baptist Conven tion. John M. Elliott of Edenton is secreUry-treasurer for the As aociarional. Sunday School cr -5 All pm**. Sunder School Mrs. W. D. HJLis Endorsed For (MR National V.P. Post State Group Votes En j dorsement at Annual Convention Held In I Winston-Salem • Mrs. W. D. Holmes, Jr., State ' Regent of the Nor.h Carolina 1 Society, Daughters of the Amer ; iean Revoi'.iti'>n, was endorsed . by the Society at the 60th State i Conference held in Winston i Salem, N. C., March 7-9, to run >| in 1961 for office of Vice-Presi : dent General on the National ticket. Mrs. Holmes is the youngest State Regent in the history of the NCDAR. At this Confer ence, her daughter, Miss Susan Holmes, served as her personal page, and as far as is known, this is the first time a daugh ter of a North Carolina State l Regent has served in this ca i Continued on Page 6—Section I I Ninth Grade Jack Ashley, i Wayne Ashley, Billy Harrell, i John Marshall, Tim Overman. Jim Partin. Dianna Brabble, I Carolyn Griffin, Jo Ann Leary, Nelia Lowe, Ann Wells and Annie Laurie Whiteman. , Tenth Grade—Herbert Adams, Jimmy Dail, Walter Holton, . Dickie Hobowsky, Joe Mitchen | er, Jeanette Ashley, Marion Bunch, Linda Dail, Ann Hobbs, j Anne Jenkins, Judy Riley and Phyllis Twiddy. Eleventh Grade Bill Good : win, Erwin Griffin, Jimmy Rog | erson, Sally Privott and Kath -1 ryn Wozelka. Twelfth Grade—Edwin Byrum, Harret Bond, Mary Harrell, Kay i Lowe, Patricia Waff, Dolly j Wright and Lorean Wright. IBtonForehandNew President Os Rotary Club Officers Elected At Meeting Thurs day Afternoon ! Edenton Rotarians at their meeting Thursday of last week elected Elton Forehand as presi dent to succeed W. J. P. Earn hardt. Other officers elected were Richard Atkinson, vice president, and the following directors: j Lloyd Bunch, Bruce Jones, Hi ram Mayo and Harry Smith, Jr. Os course, the new president and outgoing president are also members of the board of direc-i tors. Mr. Forehand will be install ed as president at the first meet ing in July. Evans Candidate For County Commissioner C. M. Evans of the Rocky Hock community announced ] early this week that he will be a candidate for County Com missioner from the Second Township in the Democratic primary election on May 28. 1 J. Raleigh Peele, incumbent,, and dean of the County Com-: onissioners, has announced that he will definitely not seek, re-j election. Mr. Evans has served a num ber of terms on the Chowan County Board of Education. 20 Years Ago At Found 9 the FUe« of Thu Chowan Harold la an effort to raise money for Buy Scouts, the idea was advanced to secure from SO to )0B people who would contribute SB cento par month toward the Scouts. Mrs. J. M. Jones was itiiiMis Os a committee to m. Chowan County, JNortn Carolina, Thursday, March 17, IiXSO. Mrs. E. N. Elliott “Woman Os Year” 1 aSB fl f B %bf■ W If. * jj| f I^bUm •liaql I F MMHBBi r'-• ms mm I 11 fI <9m\ j l B y >>, ? W W j J: imV BB ml L ■ Pictured above in center is Mrs. Emmett ri. Eiiiolt, who was named "Woman of the Year" by Edenton's Business and Pro- 1 fessional Woman's Club at its annual Bosses' Night Banquet held Thursday night in the Masonic Temple. Mrs. Elliott is shown receiving a. bouquet of beautiful red roses from Mrs. , Lena Leary, left and at right is Mrs. Warren Twiddy. presi dent of the Edenton club.—'Photo by J. P. Ricks, Jr.) C. Os C. Posters Point Out Way j To Boost Farm Income For Y)0 Posters showing farmers how, to inert "se 1960 income from' peanuts and hogs are being dis-j tributed throughout Chowan Counts by the Chamber of Com-1 merce Agriculture Committee. The attractive two-colo; post ers, which will be placed in 1 country stores, feed and fertiliz er firms anc- other plates, rec ommend ten steps which if fol lowed by the county’s farmers should bring higher yields in peanuts and seven steps which should promote greater profits from hogs. Peanuts and hogs] produce more faim income in' Chowan County than any other two farm commodities. I Lions Club Begins 1960 Easter Seal Drive; Seals Mailed Today j Edenton Lions got the annual, j Easter Seal campaign under way i by stuffing and mailing several , thousand sheets of Easter Seals ! {at their meeting Monday even-| j ing. Ernest Ward, Jr., is cam-j | paign chairman. Mr. Ward stat-j led that the mailing would bei done on Thursday, March 17,- and that since this is St. Pa-] ! trick’s Day he hoped the cam-1 paign would “have the luck of; the Irish”, Ward explained that the drive in Edenton and Chowan County 1 is being conducted in order toj j raise money for crippled chil dren and adults. He stated that 1 1 there are around 1,650 localities, conducting drives at this time. 1 Masons Will Observe j Past Masters’ Night Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F.! & A. M., at its stated communi-, cation tonight (Thursday) will j observe Past Masters’ Night. | The meeting will begin at 8 o’clock and past masters will be • called upon ‘to fill all of the{ various stations and places. / .McKay Washington, master ofl j the lodge, urges a full attend ‘ ance for the occasion. RED MEN MEETING Chowan Tribe of Red Men .will meet Monday night, March 1 21, at 7:30 o’clock. Guy Wil- I liam, sachem of the tribe, is •very anxious to have a large 1 [ attendance. Mrs. Mary Nixon Resigns From County Board Os Education At the March meeting of the J Chowan County Board of Edu- i cation held Monday of last] week, Superintendent W. J. i r Taylor read a letter of resigna- j i tion from Mrs. Mary D. Nixon. | ) Mrs. Nixon has been a member » since April, when an entirely > new board was appointed fol i lowing a mass meet'ng held at > ChoWan High School. At that meeting Representative Albert j r Byrum complied with a request’ 1 that in the future members of, i the County Board of Education] xfcouU be elected by Chowaai : The Chowan County farm im i provement plan is explained in I detail by a supplementary leaf- I let which is being distributed I with the posters. | Chairman George W. Lewis ! said “agriculture is still our 1 most important industry in the 1 county. If we can obtain sub stantial increases in yields per acre of peanuts and litters sav ed in pigs, it will not only help the individual farmer but also ; will improve the economy of the area.” Steps recommended for great er peanut ; ields incluude proper soil testing and fertilization; I Continued on Page B—Section 1 l; According to Chairman Ward, 66% of the money raised re- I mains in Chowan County; 23.7% (is used for statewide services; 18.3% helps suppert the nation j wide program of the National 1 ! Society for Chipp’.ed Children and Adults, and 2% supports a 1 national research program. The campaign gets under way 1 on Thursday, March 17, and runs ■ ; through Easter Sunday, April 17. ■ ! All persons receiving enve lopes are urged to mail in their ! contribution as soon as possible, j “If anyone is overlooked,” stat ed Ward, “he or she may mail 1 their contribution in a plain en | velope to Easter Seal Campaign, 1 i 'Edenton, N. C.” )• Jaycees Light Bulb Sale March 25th Edenton’s Junior Chamber of ! .Commerce will hold its annual j: light bulb sale Friday, March]] ’ 25. All proceeds from this j < year’s sale will go toward t'nej; • purchase of rescue equipment to] ■be used by the Edenton Fire ! < I Department. J I The most important equip-j Continued on Page 6—Section i MEN'S CLUB TO MEET The Men’s Club of the Metho dist Church will meet tonight (at the church. Dinner will be served at 6:30 o’clock and Presi dent Oscar Griffin urges all •i members to'be present and on ■ time. | County voters as a whole. Mr. i Byrum subsequently introduced j a bill to that effect in the Gen ; eral Assembly which was pass- J ed. In the May election, there- I fore, members of this board will j |be elected to office instead of being appointed by the County Representative. Mr. Nixon stated that her resignation was tendered due to her health, which she felt j will not permit her to render the necessary service needed to i carry on the educational pro- I gram. Her resignation was ac i pepted with regret. _ I Large Delegation Plans To Attend Industry Meeting Conference Scheduled Thursday, March 31 At Goldsboro; Gover nor Will Speak A large delegation of local | businessmen, officials of the I Chamber of Commerce, the | Edenton Development Corpora - I tion and representatives of other | groups are planning to attend ! the Eastern North Carolina In dustrial Development Confer ence in Goldsboro on Thursday. March 31. | R. S. Atkinson. Jr., chairman |of the Chamber’s Industrial De -1 velopment Committee, invited ! anyone interested in industrial ! development in this area to join j the group. Those wishing to at- j ! tend should notify Atkinson or, ! Harry Smith, Jr., at the Cham- j ! ber office. The conference »s sponsored I i by the Committee of Commerce i and Industry of the State Board J of Conservation and Develop-1 | inent. Governor Luther Hodges | and other leaders in the state’s ] campaign to promote industrial * development will attend. Subjects included for discus- j sion are “what industry looks j for i,n a community,” ‘financing: industrial development,” “de- i veloping an industry of your own.” “food processing and Eastern North Carolina,” "shell industrial buildings” and “com- ; munity and area development." I The conference will open at 111 A. M. in the Hotel Goldsboro. • The Governor will speak to the group at a "dutch” luncheon at . 1 P. M. followed by an after noon session. Atkinson said that this is an excellent opportunity to hear in dustrial problems discussed by outstanding leaders and to show by good attendance that Eastern North Carolina is interested, willing and ready to accommo- ! date new industry. Mrs. Inglis Fletcher Speaker At Annual Convention Os DAR Meeting- Which Was, Held In Winston-; Salem First to Bel Held In Snow Storm i, The N. C. Society of the i j Daughters of the American Rev- j olution held its annual convert- i 1 tion in Winston-Salem, March ‘ 7-9, for the first time ever, ini’ a snow storm. Mrs. W. D.] Holmes. Jr., State Regent, ot. ■ Edenton. presided over the j scheduled business which was!' pushed through in two day’s, be-! cause of the weather, to end a scheduled three-dav convention. 1 The snow, which measured! over 15 inches by Wednesday j : Continued on Page 3— Section i j t Courtesy Inspection Os Motorboats At Edenton Marina Sponsored by the Wildlife Re sources Commission, three cour tesy inspections of all motor boats have been scheduled in the Albemarle section. The first of these inspections was held at the Sportsman Ma rina at Camden Wednesday and today (Thursday) one will be held back of the Municipal Building at Hertford front 9 A. M., to 6 P. M. The third inspection will be held at the Edenton Marina Fri day, March 18, front 9 A. M.. to 6 P. M. EASTERN STAR MEETING Edenton Chapter No. 302. Or der of the Eastern Star, will meet in the Masonic Templle Monday night March 21, at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Helen Wood, wor thy matron, urges all members • to be present New officers of the chapter will be installed at >j an open meeting Friday night l March 25. at 8 o'clock. $2.50 Per Year In North Carolina Commissioners Call Os f Special Election ;iTo Decide Proposal | Award Winner ■ m. I Roger C. Bunch of" Tyner re ! ceived the award for being the, I' most outstanding senior in agri cultural education at N. C. State College, April sth Deadline To Declare Cotton! Allotment For ’6O Failure to Plant 75 r c Or Release Acreage, Will Means Loss of! Allotment i . j Cotton farmers are reminded - that April a is the deadline for I them to release their allotments 1 i for the 1960 iv’Hii crop. It is I pointed out that if a farmer does 1 not plant at least 75" of his al- : lot men t or releases it to the ] county committee, his history': j will be cut in 1961. 1 Various concerns are vitally ( . interested in farmers, and the 1 Icounty as well, not losing their ; cotton allotment, so that nine , Chowan County concerns have 1 Continued on Page 5. Section 1 Lieut. Frank Hughes Receives BS Degree At College In Hawaii First Lieutenant Frank A. Hughes, son of Mi's Frank L Hughes, and t-e late Mr. Hughes, was recently graduated from Jackson College. Honolulu. Hawaii. He received a Bachelor of Science degree. Lieutenant Hughes is a pilot assigned to the 50th Air Tians porl So uadron. Hickam Air Force Base. Hawaii. The 50th is a unit of the Military Air Transport Service, the nation's only strategic airlift force. A graduate of Edenton High School, he attended North Caro lina State College for two years. He has been in the Air Force over five years. His last duty station was at Brook ley Air Force Base. Alabama. Albemarle Conservation Poster Contest Sehednled For April 15 The Elizabeth City Chamber'i of Commerce will agam sponsor 1 \ | the Albemarle Conservation ( Poster Contest, according to Grady Stevens, chairman of tne , Chamber's Agriculture Commit- j< tee. This is a District Contest and will be held in the Chamber : of Commerce off ce in the Vir-| ginia Dare Hotel Arcade on April 15lh. The public is cor dially invited to visit the Ar- \ cade on that morning to inspect] the posters. The Albemarle Conservation Poster Contest is the last phase of an area contest as each of the five counties in the Albe i marie Conservation District have, F their preliminary contest dur-' t ing which a first and second , winner is chosen from all of the> fourth, fifth and sixth grates,' FIGHT CANCER WITH A CHECKUP AND CHECK j Ladies Abandon Idea I)ue to Issue Devel oping Into Partisan Politics Mrs. Wesley Chesson. Jr., president of the Edenton Wo man's Club, along with Mrs. W. J, P. Earnhardt, chairman of the Community Planning Com mittee of the Woman's Club, ap peared before the Board of the Chowan County Commissioners on the morning of March 15. j with the following letter: Mr W E. Bond. Chairman Board of Commissioners Chowan County Edenton. X. C. Dear Mr. Bono: RetWoman's Club Proposal This is in reference to the Woman's Club proposed plan for removal of the Confederate monument which now stands on the Court House Green, to a j parkway at the south end of Broad Street and The imnrove intents of the Court House Green. This proposal was made as a first step in a long-range plan to ■ beautify tht'se two sites. In \ iew of the action of the Board of Chowan County Com missioners at their meeting held I Monday. March 7th. in calling a I referendum election whereby j the voters of Chowan County will vote on the quc'stion of moving the Confederate monu ment. we feel that the matter has become a political partisan matter. i Since it is a tradition of Wo |men’s Clubs, local and state, not to participate in partisan poli , ties, the decision of your Board [ leaves the Edenton Woman's i Club with no alternative but to ; withdraw its proposal at litis Time. A copy of this letter is being sent to the press. Sincerelv vours. EDENTON WOMAN'S CLUB. Mrs. Wesley Chesson. Jr . President. The ladies pointed out that the referendum election is strict ly a straw vote and not a bind ing decision, therefore seems tin necessary. They reminded the Commissioners that when they were individually" approached and given a detailed description of the proposed plan, that each of them had admitted at that Continued on Page 6—Section 1 VFW Auxiliary Will Elect Officers Tonight j The VFW Auxiliary will meet tonight (Thursday) at S o'clock at the home of Mrs. W H Cof field. A feature of this meet ing will be the election of offi cers. so that Mrs. Doris Toler, president, urges all members to make a special effort to be pres ent. I civic calenoak] Sponsored by the Eden on Business and Professional Wo man's Club, a fashion show will be held in the auditorium of the John A. Holmes High School Friday night. April 1. beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Chowan Hcsp : ial Auxiliary Continued on Page 8. Section 1 of that particular county. The first and second winners of these grades in the counties arc brought to the district contest in Elizabeth City making a to tal of 30 posters from which the district winners of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades are cho sen. Trophies for the first and sec ond place winners in each of the grades are furnished by the ■ Elizabeth City Chamber of Com ! merce each year. For details , concerning the Conservation Poster contest in the five Albe marle counties, the County Soil Conservationist in the follow ing counties should be contacted: Pasquotank and Camden coun ’ ties, Ray Hollowell; Perquimans County, F. A. McGoogan: Curri -1 tuck County, W. C. Smith, and Chowap County, J. H. Griffin.