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CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXVll.— 'Number 32. =
Edenton Aces Will
Begin Practicing
Monday, August 15
Schedule Includes 10
Games, Six of Which
Will Be Played On
Home Field
Coach Bill Billings is expect
, ed to issue a call for John A.
Holmes High School football
candidates to report for the
Ylirst practice sessions Monday,
'August 15. Mr. Billings has
been spending the summer at
Monroe, La., where he has tak
en a special course at North
east Louisiana State College
and returned home early ' this
week. He will again be assist
ed by Assistant Billy Hardison. |
Due to his absence, his evalu-;
ation of the 1960 Elentoq Acesi
is not known. However, very
few of last year’s Aces have
been lost, and with experienced
reserve material available, local
fans are of the opinion that the
Aces will be able to be de
veloped into one of the strong
est teams at the school in many
years.
The schedule has already
been made up, which includes
10 games, six of which will be
home games. However, three
of the biggest money-making
will be played away
m home, including Elizabeth
City, Hertford and Ahoskie.
The home games will include
the following:
September 2 —Camden.
September 9—Roanoke Rapids.
September 23—Williamston.
September 30—Scotland Neck.
October 14—Open.
November 4—Plymouth.
Games played away from
home will be:
September 16 Wallace-Rose
Hill.
October 7—Elizabeth City.
Octobfr 21—Hertford.
October 28—Ahoskie
Reserved seat tickets are now
being printed and will soon go
on sale. It is hoped all of the
reserved seats will be sold be
fore the first game in order to
bolster the season's finances.
[civic calendar]
» Eden Jon Jaycees. in coopera-j
+*ti6n with Edenton doctors, plan*
to sponsor a polio shot clinic i
Friday. August 26. from 7 to
IP.K I
Revival services begun at the 1
Center Hill Baptist Church Bun- i
day morning. August 7. and will
continue through Sunday night
August 14.
Ed Bond Paqt of the Ameri
can Legion will meet Tuesday:
night August 16, at I o'clock. 1
Center Hill Home DMpnnatra-l
lion Club end dsvSlsgmenl
program will hold a fried
chicken supper at fhg Center
Hill Baptist Churchward Tues
day evening. August 16. at 6
o'clock.
Chowan Council No. St De-I
greo of Focahonotas, will meet
tonight (Thursday) at 6 o'elock.|
Eden ten's Junior Chamber of;
Commerce will meet tonight
(Thursday) at 7 o'clock ft the
Edenton Restaurant
a Revival services will be held
> ®n the Yeopfan Baptist Church
Monday night Augudt 15th.
through Sunday night August
21st Services will begin at •
o'clock each night
ConHnued on Page 8 Bmßon I '
Emmett Wiggins Performs Feat
In Floating His Vessel Big Wig
Emmett Wiggins, an Wanton
native, has been right much
in the news the past week in
connection with salvaging work
at False Cape, Va.
* Mr. Wiggins, with his vessel
Big Wig, has been salvaging
valuable marble from the Scot
tish bark Cynthia which sank
|n 1894.
Friday’s tropical storm Bren
4a. dro v e Mp - Wiggins’ Big Wig
toward shore, where kt was,
Wbunded, with seme specula-1
•tion that H oould not be rafloet-|
ed. However, fit. WggW
would not give Os despite ef
forts of other vessels to get the
Big Wig into deeper water. La
:|pr, with the Ude high, ICr. Wig
|hi fastened a crane to the
iu|t into dfifOftr wittt lt WIM
THE CHOWAN HERALD
| Hole In One
Fifteen-year-old Frank" John
ston, ploying golf with Jimmy
Johnston and Joe Debnam in
Plymouth Friday afternoon made
0 hole in one. This is guile a
feat for a golfer of any age
and qualifies Young Johnston
for membership in the Elite
Club, an organisation of Kole
in-ones and crack golfers.
YeopkiTßevival ~~
; Begins Aug. 15j
Rev. Lamar Sentell'
Will Be Evangelist
During Week
Yeopim Baptist Church will
hold its revival beginning on
Monday, August 15, through
Sunday, August 21. Services
will be held each night of the
week beginning at 8 o’clock.
Guest evangelist for the re
vival will be the Rev. Lamar
Sentell, pastor of Ballard’s
Bridge Baptist Church.
The Rev. A. J. McClelland,
pastor of the church, extends a[
cordial welcome for everyone to
attend any or all of the ser
vices.
1960 Cotton Crop
Below Last Year
The North Carolina Crop Re
porting Service has forecast pro
duction from the 1960 cotton
crop at 310,000 bales (500-pounds
grogs weight). This estimate is
based on August 1 reports from
growers, ginners, and others
throughout the cotton growing
areas of the State. If the Au
gust 1 forecast materializes, a
crop of this size would be 12,-
000 bales or 3.7 percent less
than the 322.000 bales harvested
last year and 67,000 bales less
, than the 1949-58 average of
377,000 bales.
j It is estimated that 395,000
1 acres will be harvested this
I year for an average yield of
377 pounds per acre. The ex
j peeted acreage to be harvest
, ed is 5.000 more than was har
i vested last year, but it is 180,-
000 acres below the 1949-58 av
erage harvested acreage.
Legion Changes
Meeting Nights
i
1 David White, commander of,
Ed Bond Post No. 40, of the)
American Legion, announces l
that meetings of the post have,
I been changed from the second)
and fourth Tuesday nights toj
the first and third Tuesday!
j nights in each month.
; The post will meet Tuesdayj
night, August 16, and Mr. White,'
requests a large attendance. j
,
SERVICE CANCELLED |
The 8 o’clock service at Saint
Paul’s Episcopal Church in
Edenton has been cancelled for.
this Sunday, August 14. Only
(the 10 o’clock service will be
■ conducted.
damaged and taken to Norfolk
lor repairs, after which Mr.
Wiggins plans to resume the
Salvage work.
The sunken Cynthia carried
I,WO tons of statuary marble
bound from Genoa, Italy to
Baltimore when it sank in 1894,
Previous attempts to salvage
the marble had failed, but up
until the Big Wig got in trou
ble, about 125 tons of the mar-
I ble had been salvaged.
During the storm the Big
Wig’s main engine stopped and ■
there was no radio with which
tp call for help as the ship
drifted before the gale. Mr.
Wiggins managed to reach the
begch in a rubber raft and
walked to Little Island lifeboat
l SIT “ rnak "
Edenton, Gftowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 11, 1960,
{Six Jaycei v tend
Meeting Cl| iard
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Four of Gro 1 % take
Trip to Wru 2? ille
Beach By Boat
Six Edenton Jaycees attended
the first quarterly board meet
ing of the North Carolina Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce which
was held Friday, Saturday and
Sunday at Wrightsvllle Beach.
Four of the group traveled
by boat, leaving the Edenton
Marina at 3:45 P. M., Thursday
and arrived at Wrightsville
about 29 hours later at 8:30
P. M., Fridav over three hours
behind schedule. The group en
countered rough water especial
ly near Morehead City which
was responsible for their delay.
Traveling by boat were James
Perry, Bill Gardner, Leonard
Small and Scott Harrell who
was skipper of the boat.
John Goodwin and Tom I
Ridgeway also attended the
meeting but traveled by auto
mobile.'
Center Hill Groups
Plan Fried Chicken
Supper August 16
, * i
Center'Hill Home Demonstra-!
tion Club and the community
development program plan to
stage a fried chicken supper at.
the Center Hill Baptist Church)
yard Tuesday evening. August
16, at 6 o’clock. An invitation)
is extended to everyone in the
community, as well as visitors,'
to enjoy the affair, for the two
groups hope that a large num-j
ber will attend.
A business meeting in the as-'
sembly room of the church will
follow the supper.
Thurman Goodwin
Stationed In Hawaii
Army Pvt. Thurman Thurman!
Lge Goodwin, son of Mr. and)
Mrs. WilliamUL' GfiOdwin, .Route
1 3, Edenton, recently arrived in
Hawaii and is now assigned to
the 25th Infantry Division.
Goodwin is a rifleman in
Company B of the division’s 14th
Infantry. He entered the Army|
last February and completed)
basic training at Fort Riley, l
Kansas.
Goodwin is a 1959 graduate of
John A. Holmes High School. I
SHELTON GOODWIN NOW AN
EXPERT FIRING M-l RIFLE
Army Specialist Four Shelton;
L. Goodwin recently qualified as
expert in firing the M-l rifle
while serving with the Fourth '
Armored Division in Germany. |
Specialist Goodwin, a member
of Battery B of the division’s
78th Artillery in Crailsheim, en
tered the Army in October,
1958, completed basic training at
Ford Hood, Texas, and arrived
overseas the following April.
The 24-year-old soldier, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Good
win, Route 1, is a 1959 graduate
of Chowan High School.
SALES TAX COLLECTIONS
, IN CHOWAN ARE HIGHER
I
j The Retailer, published by thei
(North Carolina Merchants As-!
sociation, has just released fig-’
(ores for sales tax collections in
North Carolina for the month
of May.
, In Chowan County sales tax
collections for May, 1960, were
$13,151.01, which compares with
$11,373.28 in May, 1959, and
$10,334.12 in April, 1960.
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| Elizabethan Garden Opening August 18 J
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I «- ► -'>h«'than n-> •<«-»« n* Mar'eo will be ‘o'tna'ly opened on
August 18th from 2 to 6 P. M. by the Garden Club of North Caro
lina, Inc. Exercises will be he,d at 3 P. M.. followed by a tea.
.numbers of me can ot the Lost Coiony will participate in the pro-
I gram. Mrs. J. B. A. Daughtridge. president ol the Garden Club.
1 will attend, as well as all the stats officers and Garden Club mem
bers of North Carolina. Hostesses will be Mrs. J. R. Bennett of
Rocky Mount, chairman of the trustees of the gardens: Mrs. Cor
bett Howard of Goldsboro, chairman of the garden committee a-»d
members of the trustees and committee of the gardens. The public
is cordially invited to attend, free of charge. o
Death Knell Sounds For Ferrv
Service In Eastern Carolina As
Alligator Bridge Pushes Ahead
According to the State High- j
way Commission, visitors to'
North Carolina’s Outer Banks
may not realize it, but they are
taking one of their last ferry- j
boat rides across the Alligator i
River.
The activity underway at the
western shore of the river is
part of the job of spanning the
waters of the Alligator with a
I bridge, eliminating ferry service
'and providing a direct access to
| the Outer Banks. By the sum
mer of 1962. the bridge, -
the largest ever buffi 5n North
Carolina, will be under traffic
and the three ferries which now I
transport vehicular traffic across
the river will no longer be
[needed.
Opening of the bridge to traf
fic will bring the Dare resort
areas closer to the central part
of the slate by some 40 miles.
I The bridge will provide a shot in
1 the arm for all tourist interests
i,n the area and will mean un- (
interrupted driving along U. S. |
i 64. 1
Another bridge scneduled for
future letting is the Oregon In
■ let structure, providing quicker,
access to Hatteras Island and the |
Seashore National Park, first of
its kind in the nation. ]
A new way of life has been
predicted for all of Northeastern
North Carolina with the comple-1
tion of the bridges. Several
years ago, the Umstead Bridge
at Manns Harbor was opened to
traffic, and since that time there
has been a.n upsurge in activity.
there. New motels, service sta
tions and restaurants have ap
peared and party boat fishermen
report increased business.
This community already is
witnessing a change. The unde
veloped country around the fer
ry landing has been transformed
into a miniature city, complete
with night watchman and long
before actual construction was
begun on the bridge, crews
moved into the area and built a
harbor for use in transporting
materials to and from the scene.
Several miles away, a trailer
| park was set up to accommodate
I the T. A. Loving Company em
ployees who will call Sandy
Point home for the next two
i years.
j The biggest “do it yourself"
’ project ever witnessed around
these parts was set up only a
few feet from shore, where low
ing makes his own prestressed
concrete piles and girders for the
bridge. The easting yard was
built on the spot as an economy
measure, saving the cost of
. transporting piles and girders
from commercial yards as far
away as Raleigh or Wilmington.
I By building the piles and
girders at the construction site,
the Goldsboro contracting firm
has established a first in North
Carolina road-building. This is
the first time that a contractor
has undertaken the job of east
ing his own piles and girders on
location, according to Loving's
superintendent on the job. G, B,
Trimble.
| The casting yard consists of
(two casting beds, equipped to
cast six piles each at a time. The
piles, ranging in length from 46
to 94 feet, are reinforced with
1 20 strands of 716 inch cable,
manufactured in Italy. Some ot
1 the first piles put into place on
the bridge were reinforced with
Japanese-made cable, according
Ito Trimble, who sard the orig
inal shipment from Italy was de
layed in port in New York by
[ the longshoremen's strike.
1 It takes 7 cubic yards of eon
, crete to cast a 94-foot pile, and
1 12 hours later, after steam curing
at 150 degrees, there emerges a
giant pile, weighing more than
19 tons, and ready to take its
place in the new bridge.
Following the curing process,
the piles are transported by
crane to a storage area nearby,
or to the bridge site out over
the water.
The casting yard also is equip
ped to cast 8 girders at one
time. Each is 36 inches deep
and 50 feet, 2 inches in length,
for a total lineal footage of
Continued on Pag* V Section 1
Revival At Rocky
Hock WK Begin
Monday, Aug. 22
Pastor’s Brother Will
Bring Messages For
Week’s Services
The Rev. Thurman Allred,
pastor of Rocky H.vk Baptist
Church, announces that revival
services will begin at tfu church.
Monday night. August 22, and
continue through Sunday night, 1
August 28.
Services will be held every'
night during the week, nvelud-■
ing Saturday, which will begin I
at 8 o'clock. Mr. Allred stated
thai two services will be held;
Sunday. August 28. one at 11
A. M„ and the other at 8 P. M. *
The guest evangelist will be)
the Rev. Hoyle T. Allred, pas-,
tor of West Albemarle Baptist]
Church at Albemarle, N. C, Mr.]
Allied is a brother of the Rev.!
Thurman Allred. Special mu-!
sic for the services will be)
furnished bv the choir groups 1
of the Rocky Hock Church, |
The oublic is cordially invited
to attend all of the services J
Local Little League l
Ends Season's Plav
* i
The Little League finishes
play this week with two all-)
star games. The all-stars will
play the Varsity Club, which
is the league leader. Dave Hol
ton will pitch for the Varsity')
Club and Mike Phelps will
pitch for the all-stars. 1
The Little League All-Stars
finished play for the season
Monday night by defeating
Hertford by a score of 14-2 j
The winning' pitcher was Hol
ton; the losing pitcher was Bass.
Final Top Tan Batters
AB H Pit.
Ronnie Harrell 57 29 .arts
Dave Holton 24 12 .500
Rusty Bootwright 36 18 500
Jimmy Bass 26 12 .462
Rudy Tolley 63 28 444
Wesley Chesson 82 14 .438
Charles Swanrrer 45 19 .422
Earl Bunch 49 20 .408
Mike Phelps 59 24 .407
Jim Elliott 40 Id 400
Final Team Standings
W l. Pet.
Varsity IS 5 722
Rotary 9 8 529
Lions 7 10 413
Jaycees 6 12 333
Firemen Called Out
Three Times In July
Fire Chief W, J. Yates re
ports that Edenton firemen were
called out three times during
July, twice tor tires in Edenton
and one time out of town They
were out an hour and 30 min
utes tor the Edenton fires and
an hour and 80 minutes out of
town. The firemen were on the)
atr 30 seconds in Edenton and
20 seconds out of town. j
For the Edenton fires thej
firemen traveled two miles and!
15 miles out of town. Thirty!
volunteers responded for the]
Edenton fires arid 20 out of,
town.
Property involved was $19,200j
in Edenton and $10,500 out of
town. Damage in Edenton was!
$35 arid $2,000 out of town.
Insurance in Edenton was $12.-
000 and $5,500 out of town.
During the month the fire
men held one fire drill, answer
ed two still alarms and refilled,
tw'o fire extinguishers.
52.50 Per Year In North Caroiim
Town Required To
Show Progress For
Disposal of Sewage
Dr. Walker Moving
To Citizens Bank
Dr, Archie D. Walker. Jr.,
who has been associated with
the Chowan Medical Center, an
nounced this week that he will
| open an office in the Citizens!
j Bank Building
He plans to be ready for the
'general practice of medicine mj
his new quarters about the
first week in September.
Jaycees Sponsor
Polio Shot Clinic
Tentative Date is Set
For Friday, Aug
ust 26
Edenton's Junior Chamber of
Commerce, tn cooperation with ;
local doctors; will sponsor a' 1
polio shot clinic The tentative i
date for starting the clinic will ■ 1
be Fridav. August 26 The i
clinic will be held from 7 to i
9 P M.
This will be the first of a •
three-shoi series. Shots will be -
free to all under 18 years of
age and expectant mothers. All 1
others will be SI.OO each. -
The Jaycees urge all who
have not had their shots to at
tend this eitntc.
c
1 lines Completes
Course In Texas j
i
First Lieutenant Richard N. t
Hines Jr son of Mr and Mrs.
R. N Hines ot Edenton complet
ed the military' orientation. ,
omis, «t Unmake Army Medical i
Center, Fort Sam Houston. Tex- I
as, on July 23. i
Lieut. Hims received training !
iri thv' treatment of battle in- '
juries, core oi personnel suffer
ing from combat exhaustion and 1
prevent iv o medicine procedures 1
used to detect health hazards '
and avoid epidemics. *
He was graduated from the ;
Virginia Episcopal School in 1
Lynchburg, Va.. in 1953 and re- '
reived his B S degree and D.D.S. '
degree from the University of.'
North. Carolina in 1957 and 1960
■ y
respectively
Hines .s t member of Zetal,
Pst, Delta Sterna Delta. Phi Eta j
Sigma. Ph; Beta Kappa, and Al
pha Epsilon Delta fraternities. ( [
20 Years Ago !
As Found jn tbo Files el
The Chowan Hamid
V Ail
In on* of the wont fires in
recant years, die major portion
of the M. G. Brown Lumber
Cccrpeny was totally destroyed
with the loss estimated at up
wards ot 560.000.
Piles were being driven just
across from the county d*>ck by
the Chesapeake-Camp Corpora
tion of Franklin. Va- for the
purpose of building a dock for
loading pulpwoed on barges.
J. E. Phillips of Wilson, an
experienced registered pharma
cist. began his duties at Sut
ton's Drug Store.
A membershio drive was
started by rite Edenton-Cho
wan Chamber of Commerce. ,
Around 1.500 cans of garden
produce was resorted canned in
the new agricultural building at
Chowan High School.
Fifteen Chowan County -wo-j
man were in Raleigh attending
Farm and Heme Week at State
College.
With a new roof being added
to the Court House and other
improvements planned. Fire
Chief R. K. HalL altar an in
spection. reported that faulty
wiring prevailed throughout the
building, especially over the
coiling on rite second Boer.
A fan heuse at the M. G.
Brown 1 .umber Cempeny wni
totally destroyed By Bra.
Mbs Kathryn Am Hataaes
and Richard H. Gendwhi war*
united fa marriage at the Edea-
Rev. E. L. Welts aWriatfag.
FIGHT CANCER
WITH A CHECKUP
AND CHECK
Plan Now Is to Call
Another Election or
Sell Revenue Bonds
To Do Work
Two major items of business
were responsible for a lengthy
meeting of Town Council Tues
day night resulting in the Coun
cilmcn remaining in session un
til after the midnight hour.
Present at the meeting was
A. C. Turnage, district engineer
of the Greenville office of the
State Stream Sanitation Com
mission. who discussed the pro
posed sewage disposal plant for
Edenton almost two hours. Mr.
Turnage frankly stated at the
outset that he wanted to know
what plans the town had made
and what it will do next to
ward construction of a sewage
treatment plant
Mr. Turnage pointed out that
the Commission has been work
ing lour years with the Chowan
River Basin and that not very
much has been done to show it.
He also emphasized the fact
that the present permit to clump
raw sewage into local waters
will expire February 28. 1961,
and that time is short to begin
actual construction of a plant.
Mr Turnage was informed
that some consideration had been
given to constructing a plant on
a pay-as-vou-go basis. Under
this plan funds from the Board
of Public Works would be paid
as they materialize and it was
calculated that about five years
would be required to get a plant
in operation. Mr. Turnage. how
ever. was frank to say that he
felt reasonably sure the Com
mission would not go along with
such a program
After a great deal of dis
eu-sioo, Mr. Turnage agreed to
go along with a proposed plan
by the Councilmen to proceed
in calling another bond election
to sell general obligation bonds
or st 11 revenue bond.-. Mr.
Turnage agreed to withhold any
recommendation to the Com
mission and stated that if the
town carries out its intentions,
he felt reasonably sure a con
sent order would be issued ex
tending the permit to dump raw
sewage into local waters for a
period of three years for com
pletion of the project.
Another time-consuming item
was presentation of a drainage
study by George Freeman, the
town's engineer.
The report included detailed
description of the existing prime
storm drainage system, .he tum
ble spots, the proposed im
provements. the recommended
project priority and estimates of
cost.
The priority schedule of im
provements were in the follow
ing order:
1— East Water Street. East
King Street. Court Street. East
Queen Street and East Gale
Street: Morris Circle: enlarging
the ditch between Highway 32
and Filbert’s Creek. The esti
mated cost to do this work is
$52,000.
2 Broad Street at Peterson
Street and Pembroke Circle.
This cost is estimated at SlO,-
500.
3 Line running north from
Edenton Bay across West Wa
ter. West King, West Eden and
West Queen: East Albemarle
and East Carteret. The estimat
ed cost is $24,000.
4 Oakum Street. This work
is estimated to cost $6,200.
To do all the improvements
which are considered necessary
to make storm drainage more
adequate will cost an estimated
§92,700. Mr. Freeman suggested
that upgrading of the storm
sewer system should be planned
over a period of time, but that
some work should be done as
soon as possible to remedy con
ditions.
The Councilmen agreed to
purchase a leaf and litter-getter
which will aid considerably in
gathering leaves and other trash
along the streets. The machine
will be purchased from Tarrant
Continued on Page s—Section I
VFW MEETS TUESDAY
William H. Coffield Post No.
9280. Veterans of Foreign Wars,
will meet Tuesday night. Aug
ust 18. at 8 o’clock. Command,
er John Ban urges a full It
tendance.
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