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THURSDAY. MARCH 14. IWO
A LIFT FOR TODAY
W I am the vine, ye are the branches: He
that abideth in me, and I in him, the same
much fruit: for apart from me ye can
d °CHRIs¥-ABIDING >hn BRANCHES bear such
fruits as love, peace, patience, meekness, purity (
and temperance. All ,the riches of spiritual re
sources belong to us *if we abide in the vine.
Christ has said, “If ye ask anything in my name,
j will do it,” and he never fails to keep his
promise —provided we meet his conditions.
Wo pray, O God, that tv may express Christ
in all our thoughts, words and deads.
Worth Emulating
It is interesting to note that a major fund
raising campaign has been inaugurated for
the restoration of Old Salem jn the western
port of North Carolina. The goal for the
campaign is $1,250,000 to be raised locally,
which is expected to be realized- by May 21.
Later in the year an extension campaign for;
a matching goal of $750,000 will be com
pleted throughout North Carolina and the na
tion by selective solicitation, including in
dividual friends of Old Salem, corporations
at>d foundations.
Old Salem plans to celebrate its 200th an
niversary in 1966. It is reported that the
$1,250,000 will be used to continue the res-
toration program begun in 1950. By restora- ;
ticn is meant not only restoring authentic
old buildings to their structural design, ma
terials and floor .plans but it means the re<- i
toration of Salem much as it existed in the
first quarter of the 19th century.
Edenton in some respect might emulate |
Salem, but even then Edenton has quite an
advantage over our we-tern neighbor in that
practically all cf our historical shrines need
not be restored. In Salem there are eight !
or nine buildings which are planned to be re
stored at an estimated cost of $507,000.
"» There is a vein of thought that for Edenton
an<| Chowan County to undergo a restoration
or ;even an improvement program it will
necessary to find a fairy queen to shoulder j
all or the major portion of the cost. Some
restoration projects have benefitted by bene- j
factors, but the example at Salem points out
that if a strong enough desire permeates the
dtieens of a community much can be accom
plished without the aid cf a Rockefeller or
ford.
Edenton and Chowan County people can
rightly point with pride to the place this par- i
ticular area holds in history. However, his
tory is being made today just as much so as
when those of colonial days did what they did
df which we of today are so justly proud.
If those of other days were no more pro- j
gressive than most of us are today, the
chances arc that we would have very little
to offer in the way of historical interest.
Our fcrebearers made it and it is up to us
of today to preserve and maintain it so that
Viliat was left to us can be preserved for gen
erations to conic when history becomes more
Valuable as the years roll on.
In one instance, one of the most valuable
historical buildings in Edenton. in the opin
ion of this writer, is about to disappear, and
ere long the only tangible recollection of the
'Tea' Party House will be the bronze teapot
beside the Court House Green. Much has
been written and spoken about the Edenton
Tea Party, and it is next to a crime to have
allowed the house to deteriorate even as what
is left of it today. This is one phase of
restoration which should interest Edenton
people in particular. There are other ways,
too, that funds could be used to enhance lo
cal history.
If Old Salem realizes the wisdom in restor
ing historical sites, surely Edenton and Cho
wan County might think seriously along simi- ,
fer lines.
It has frequently been pointed out that
the tourist business is a big business even
though some people more or less frown upon
rite idea. But it cannot be disputed that mil
lions of dollars annually are spent by tour
ists bent upon visiting points of historical in
terest. There are enough of these points of
interest in Edenton and Chowan County to
attract far more people here than heretofore,
but we cannot sit down, do nothing but rest i
upon the laurels of our forefathers and expect *
tourists to flock here to see what we haye and j
spend their money like at so many other
places which have no more and some even
tests than we fe offer.
After the ambulance takes away the vie-
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Mrs, William Adams has bet* having a
hard time lately, with some of the lime be
ing spent in the hospital. On that account.
Boric, her husband, has had to be chief cook
and bottle washer and., of coarse, has got
! ten far behind with his fishing. However,
there's no ill wind that does not blow some
good and in this case it affects Boat's daugih
! ter. The other night she told her father.
I “Daddy with you doing the cooking I’m cer-
I tain to lose some weight.'’ Gosh, at that rate
maybe a lot of Edenton women would like
Boric to be their cook.
o
John Mitchener, Jr„ several days ago was
named on the Dean's I-ist at the University
i of North Carolina. His y oungest brother.
Bill saw it in the paper and said to his dad
dy, “Say. daddy, John must be pretty smart
for he's cn the Dean's List. Were you ever
on the Dean's List when you went to col
lege? 1 ' Mayor Mitchener studied a few sec
onds and then replied. “Yes. son. when I was |
in college I stayed cn the Dean’s List.'’
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Thanks to Bill Rosevear. 1 recently learn- j
ed an almost perfect way to make soft-boiled i
eggs without sitting and watch the seconds!
j tick off for three minutes. 1 was telling him :
about a favorite breakfast 1 nuke which in- I
eludes soft-boiled eggs on toast bread. Then j
jwuring on hot milk, to which 1 add a big |
hunk of butter, some sugar, salt and pepper.
After telling Bill how I make it, he said,
“What, and no whiskey! " 1 don't know
what sort of a recipe it is. but 1 like um.
It’s only natural that when somebody is
in the hospital that a lot of friend- and rela
tives want to visit a patient. However, things
arc about to get out of control at Chowan
Hospital and things must come t.' a screech
ing hah Why Tom Ridgeway, the admini
strator. says there have been times that the
hospital took on the air of a convention hall
instead of a hospital. He and the medical
staff are very anxious that friends and rela
tives strictly observe visiting hours and that
when signs are placet! cn doers they mean
what they say. Apparently a lot of visitors
have not been the least bit superstitious by
not believing in signs. Anyway, visiting
hours, the number ft visfrork*aflpwH! in a
roan at one time and other instructions are
primarily for the benefit of patients and are
not intended to be a hardship on visitors.
Mr. Ridgeway says that it frequently hap
jxns that when a patient is apparently" on the
mend and then has a great deal of company,
a change tor the worse occurs. The patientV
welfare is the paramount concern of all those
connected with the hospital, so that friends
and relatives of patients are urged to comply
with all regulations.
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Edentons Aces on Tuesday won the own
ing baseball game of the season by defeat
ing Windsor High School 5 to 1. However,
had it not been for the players, nobodv would
have been on the ball field. Edenton has a
change of heart sc far as baseball is concern
ed. Time was about the time I came to
Edenton that when a baseball game was on
tap it was next thing to a holiday. And for
many years after that Edenton was a hotbed
k.r baseball. It doesn't require much of a
memory to recall when it was necessary to
go to the brill park at least half an hour be
fore the game started in order to get a seat.
In recent years, however, a baseball game
hardly attracts a crowd large enough to pay
for the balls.
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Edcnlonians will have an opportunity to
hear what some oi the state's candidates have
on their minds. Walter Jones of FarmviHe,
candidate t'er Congress, spoke to the Lions
and Legionnaires early this week. Today be
is scheduled to speak to the Rotarians. On
April 11 Dr. I. B. Lake is scheduled to speak
at a Lions meeting and then on April 25.
Herbert Bonner is stated to speak, followed
by Malcolm B. Searwell can May 9. There
will, no doubt, be others, so rrH up your
pants a little, fellows.
Edentcn Cotton Xli'l was hast t» a group
cf high school seniors from a group of north
eastern counties Tuesday at a fried chicken
dinner at the Edenton Restaurant. The boys
and school officials apparently earned the
affair and Elton Boswefl must have figured
the appetite for a boy 1? «r 1$ yews chL
The plates were piled high with fried chick
en. but just about every ben made a deaa
sweep of their plate. The group was then
taken on a tour of the cotton sail under the
direction of Rupert Riley, superintendent
Why I was invited 1 do net know, but here's
one who would hke to he hi the stone cohere
of life as the boys are. WonMaT a Mho
do a lot different if he canM five he fife \
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i Letter To Editor
In ;
1* RE THE EDENTON
'•OMAR'S cum
In dtscussing the issue ot The
Chowan Herald dated March IT,
the withdrawal of their request
to move the Confederate monu
ment foot® its present location!
to the foot of Broad Street the
Edentow Womans’' Club has ser
ved notice on the 10,000 or It.
eitnens of Edenton and Cho
wan County that they intend to
persist in their efforts to have
the monument moved without i
giving the people of Edenton!
and Chowan County due chance
off voting to approve or disap-!
prove its removal,
I think there is one great
foot the Womans' Club has ©ver
’ooked altogether. We are liv
ing under a democratic form off
government—this sea kind off
government in which the people
mle by a majority vote, amd|
this is the way we eleet our I;
Governor and other state ©Hi- 1 ,
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.. . the Red Cross serves
■[ because of you
Opoa You give . . . and when disaster strikes, the Red Cross is there,aHidf with
*"***'*^ 1 ' mere *^ u *. a for suffering- victims. You give . . . and the Red (Sossiielps
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W our members of the Board
1 off County Commissioners and
I Town Council—and even our
representative to the State Leg
islature. And since the removal
off the monument affects every
naan, woman and child in Eden- j
ton and Chowan County, it is
iaeonceivahle to me that either
the present Board of County
j Commissioners or any future
board will permit a group of
30 or 40 women to move the
Confederate monument without
jiving the 10,000 or 11,000 peo
ple of Edenton and Chowan
County a chance to voice their
j approval or disapproval of its
removal. This smacks too much
■off the tail wagging the dog.
The Womans’ Club knew or
March 14, and they know now
that if the removal of the Con
federate monument ever comes
before the citizens of Edenton
and Chowan County for approv
al or disapproval it will be over
whelmingly disapproved, and
that is why they resorted to the
subterfuge that the question of
the removal of the monument
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It had become involved in politics
tiand that since they, as a body,
’! could not engage in politics they
I would hav£ % wjfodrawr their
[request fog permission to move
'the monument. Afhd this unfor
tunately led to the cancellation
i of the referendum ordered by
• the County Commissioners at
' their meeting of March 7th to
* be held pn May 28. This ref
erendum could have bfeen held
at approximately no cost to the
county and the request of the
Edenton Woman’s Club for per
mission to move the Confederate
monument would have been
settled once for all. In my
opinion it is indeed regretable
that the referendum was can
celed by the County Commis
sioners.
In calling on people in be
half of my candidacy as repre
sentative to the General Assem
bly I have been remarkably im
pressed in that I. have yet to
find one person who is in favor
■if letting .thp Confederate monu
ment be mobed from its present
location to the foot of Broad
Street among all that rubbish
1 1 talk to ask me why a group
|of a small number of women
i should be allowed to move the
‘monument against the wishes of
a vast majority of; the people
of Edenton’ and Chowan CJoupty.
Why is the Edenton Woman’s
Club so determined to prevent
the citizens oif Edenton and Cho
wan County from voting their
approval’ or disapproval of their
plan to move the monument?
Those of us who are opposed to
the removal of the monument
would like to get an explanation
of this ’ from some responsible
officer of the Edenton Woman’s
Club.
ERNEST W. LEARY
Development Goals
Topic Os Meeting
Last. Thursday night at 7:30
o’clock a group representing the
various communities of the
county met at the Advance
Community Bui’ding to discuss
a considerable _
amount 1 'wns turned in. Quite*
a bit more work has to be doM
to mee| th£ goaf but the group
agreed H could be done.
It ws/sl dffcidjbd that another
meeting?be held the last
of ind up the cam
paign. “»V
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Raleigh The Mb tor Vehicles
Department's summary of traffic
deaths through 10 A. M., Mon
day, M&reh 21, 19& is as fol
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