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i|| St' JglftSTOR LUPTON V - certain* Manager
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B as second-class matter August 30, 1934,
I post Office at Edenton. North Carolina,
K£f- [he act of March 3. 1879.
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the L« rd .. rountHw them rs
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! nouhced the miraculous birth . ot . d ’L Son f hl ° r u gh
find’s kingdom there is no privileged. Thiougn
■ and love all-wise and simple rich and
hear the angels sing and draw neai
f ■ Wm Bethlehem.
■ P Open our hearts to the song of the angels, we
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Edenton has outgrown its present trash pile,
US that it is good news to hear from t on-
Herbert €. Homer, that the General
Administration has authorized the
«Mignment of 32 acres of the former l . S.
Auxiliary Air Station to* the*Secretary
- Health, Education and Welfare, which de
llH«tment will convey the ! ' roperty t 0 thc
iffin of Edenton.
"JrM-iis piece of land lies back of the former
|r|V Parrish home and will be used by the
of Edenton as a sanitary land fill area
tFreplace the present burning operation with
in the city limits.
Acquisition of this property will solve at
least .two serious problems for Edenton. In
the-Wst place the presenVtrash pile has been
filled to such proportion that it is next to
impossible to dump any more garbage and
‘ trash. In fact the trash pile has considerably
encroached upon the small creek which is one
of the principal outlets for a considerabde
arbount bf, the towns storm drainage.
Mther problem to be solved in the im
e rtbighborhood of the trash pile is the
ve/odors a> times caused by burning
e,iiid >rash, not to -sav anything about
isance of ashes and smoke. Then. too.
mnient of the trash pile will to a gicat
eliminate the rat nuisance.
I course, changing from the burning op
m will cause an initial expense to the
In the first place a tractor will be ne
ry to dig and cover trenches in which the
ige will be deposited. T hen. too, it is
lery practical to convey trash and gar
to the new site in the present trucks.
11, therefore, be necessary for the town
irchase an enclosed water-tight body for
ig the town’s garbage and trash,
is new method of disposition of the
’s garbage and trash is a step forward,
he public interests are served from a
h standpoint, as flies, mosquitoes, rats
other disease-carrying vermin are elimi-
L Fire and odor nuisances are also
nated.
Os course, there will he an initial outlay
Lto.put the land fill system in operation, hut
Ift progress can he made without some out
of money. The new system will be a big
Kpt to Edenton and will without doubt help.
Edenton a cleaner arid better place to
. ftro say the least, town officials feel very
TJftteful to the General -Services Administra
for the government land. It will solve
which has for a long time worried
*®wn "Councilmen, so far "as trash and gar
disposal is concerned.
Ifti* Ont 1 Vote!
every election millions of Americans
the right of franchise fail to exer
ffiLft*%. Apparently they reason that one vote
T<ftgi’f amount to anything.
if they can think at all. the last elec
|Mftould cause them to think again. The
WB/m returns show that Mr. Kennedy s
WMm over Mr. Nixon was under 112.000
Sg&jH&ut of a total which approached 70
, The President-elect's edge was the
. Bln delation to the total vote in all ot
HftHHftpecially dramatic example ot the im
of every vote is provided by the
H first, Mr. Nixon
the state with a
recent tabulations
85,000 cast!
vote would have
which the slakes
make every ncm-
sJfeard & .Seen
By Buff
William S. Powell, librarian at the University
of North Carolina Library, is about to complete
work on a North Carolina gazetteer which will
list and briefly describe cities, towns and named
communities, rivers and other streams, lakes,
sounds, bays, rivers, creeks and other bodies or
streams of water, mountains, gaps, pocosins and
swamps and other geographical features in North
Carolina. The main entry in every case will be
under the present or last used name of such
feature, but he’d like to know of former names
which are no longer used or which ceased to be
used. He also hopes to explain the origin, mean
ing or derivation of the names and in as many
cases as possible to indicate when cities, towns
and communities were first settled and when
they were incorporated. He will be grateful to
Herald readers for any information of this na
ture which they can supply. He would like
them to distinguish between what they know for
a fact and what is simply tradition handed down
10 them. Such information may be sent him in
care of the University of North' Carolina Library.
<>_—
Gary Martin, who is now operating the Albe
marle Restaurant and Motel, had a surprised
look on his face the other night after Dusty
Rhoades had tinished eating a T-bone steak..
Gary sor.t of thought he’d have a little meat to
feed a dog, but when he looked at Dusty’s plate
there was no semblance of any meat left on the
bone. Dusty is a past master at getting meat
from a bone and he doesn’t pick the steak un in
his hands to eat it. either.
Mrs., Roger Spivey, the very efficient secre
tary oC'the Edenton Chamber of Commerce, sev
ered her connection with the Chamber the last
of December after a year’s service. In "What’s
New,” published by the Chamber of Commerce,
the following appears: "The stork will visit the
Spiveys before the very first flowers of spring
will appear. So our secretary will devote her
self to more loving tasks than changing a stub
born typewriter ribbon. We all will miss Mae’s
cheerful efficiency and wish her and her hus
band the best of everything.”
Also in the same issue of "What's New” a re
port on the recent membership drive appears.
As of the date of issue, new members added to
the Chamber of Commerce included the follow
ing: David L. Bass, Belch Motor Express, Birt
cherd Dairy, Colonial Motel and Restaurant, Co
lonial Motor Company, Harmon TV & Radio
Service. Holland & Warren, CPA, N & R Clean
ers, G. B. Potter, Seabrook Blanching Corpora
tion, John E. Shackelford. Southern Dairies,
Thomas & Howard, Triangle Restaurant, West
over Service Station and Albemarle Electric
Membership Corporation.
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Winks Bond is in sort of a delimnia, for he
received four different brands of cigarettes as
Christmas presents. He started out to trade ’em
in tor his. favorite brand, but discovered that
each package had an advertisement printed on it.
So for a while, at least, he'll be smoking almost
any kind of cigarette.
Mrs. Irene Dunbar had a lot of company at the
Western Gas Service Store Monday. She had a
color television set rigged up to receive the Rose
Bowl parade and even had a gang of chairs ar
ranged in the store for her guests. Here's one
who had a front seat for a while and thoroughly
enjoyed the beautiful colored pictures of the big
affair in California. It was so real looking that
I imagined I could smell the roses, but it must
have been perfume used by some of the ladies
among the guests.
o
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Parrish and Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Twiddy won the two top prizes for the
best out-door Christmas decorations, but Haugh
ton Ehringhaus could have won a prize for the
most unique Christmas tree. In the Hotel Joseph
Hewes lobbby Haughton decorated a cactus
plant which attracted just about as much atten
tion as the other Christmas decorations. The
cactus didn’t have many leaves, so that it looked
sort of like a rooster with most of his feathers
picked off. .
o
Anybody have a spare dime while parking in
the business section? It has been agreed that
all dimes found in the parking meters during
January will be turned over to the New March
of Dimes campaign. Os course, the dimes will
not register any parking time, but they will reg
ister a little boost in the March of Dimes con
tributions.
o
Arthur Chappell has moved his billiard parlor
from East King Street to the building on Broad
Street for many years occupied by the Edenton
Restaurant. Chap has fixed up the place so that
it is attractive and he figures the new location
is a better stand. He’ll be glad to meet his
friends m his new quarters. Besides a billiard
parlor, ht will also serve light lunches.
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Well are now. over and most
doubt had a fine time. I heard
one fellow say the other day that now that
Christmas is over, everything with no whiskey
in it tastes funny to him.
o
Now that the State Highway is planning to
have a central'warehouse up near the old county
home, the wafchouse used on Granville Street
back of the hospital will be abandoned. Winks
Bond on Tuesday morning asked W. F. Sessoms,
district engineer, what will be done with the
warehouse. “The hospital needs a building to
store lawn mowers and other equipment,” said
Mr. Bond. “At present it is necessary to store
this sort of equipment under the trees.” But
D. M. Bridgeman, maintenance supervisor, quick
ly chimed in, “Well, they might just as well store
them under the trees as in that old building.”
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About the best that an eel gets in this neck
of the woods on the part of sport and commercial
fishermen is a good cussing, but Darrell E.
Louder, writing in the January issue of the Wild
life RMnurrM Prwnmissions monthly magazine,
IMCM Carolina,” ha/tfci. L m
THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY JANUARY 5, 1961
about the eel:
“North Carolina is stuck with
the eel, and we might as well
learn to like him. The eel lives
out his murky existence under a
shroud of misinformation. Some
people consider him a snake,
others call the eel a male cat
fish, and most fishermen simply
ignore the eel as far as fishing
is concerned. The eel is a true
fish, and is iouna all over the
eastern United States. Spawn
ing grounds for the snake-like
fish are far to the south, in the
Sargasso Sea between Puerto
Rico and Bermuda.”
Louder describes the long one
way journey for adult eels, and
the arduous return trip for young
eelets. Dams and other obstruc
tions that block the way for
young eels are bypassed on damp
nights, he says, when they slith
er through wet grass to reach
the waters above. The biologist
says that the role of the eel in
fresh water streams and ponds
isn’t completely understood, but
says that they can’t be con
demned as, real trouble-makers.
Even thougn they can be re
moved temporarily, there’s an
annual crop of new migrants
from the Atlantic each year, he
concludes, and so we might as
well leam to like the eel, or at
least tolerate him.
Even if Mr. Louder says the
pesky eel should not be con
demned as trouble-makers, I’d
like to see him up iiie creek
when speckled perch are biting
and hook one of the bloomin’
things and get it off the hook.
WSCS MEETS TUESDAY
The Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service will meet Tuesday
night, January 10, at 8 o’clock
in the home of Mrs. John Pri
vott on East King Street. All]
members are requested to -at- J
tend.
relwSng company
IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT
“SINCLAIR PRODUCTS”
- WILL NOW BE MARKETED IN THE EDENTON AREA
-by --
JOHN M. ELLIOTT ,
{Sinclair}
MIL W. J. YATES, DUE TO AGE. IS RETIRING FROM BUSINESS AND
URGES ALL OF HIS CUSTOMERS TO CONTINUE DOING BUSINESS
WITH “SINCLAIR’' AND
JOHN M. ELLIOTT
OPERATING AS
ELLIOTT OIL COMPANY |
Edenton, N. C.
FOR THE FINEST IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND CONTINUED EF- U
FICIENT SERVICE... PHONE 3215. ■
“DRIVE WITH CARE AND BUYSINCLAIR”M
1 20 YEARS AGO |
Continued from Page 1, Section 1
New officers for U nan unity |
Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M.,j
were installed With G. A. Helms 1
susceeding C. W. Sawyer as mas-,
ter.
j C. W. Overman, county agent j
i in Dare County, was detained at J
i the Manteo oifire so that he was
j unable to begin his servises as i
! county agent for Chowan County I
for 10 to 15 days. I
Badham Bros, store and Mrs.'
R. P. Badham won top prizes
for the best business and home
decorations for Christmas. The
| decorations in Edenton surpass
ed previous years both in num
and beauty.
Lieut. Carr of the U. S. Army
Engineer Corps was in Edenton
to make their headquarters in
the Edenton armory. In the
| corps were 50 .xen who made
| surveys throughout the section.
The Christmas Stocking Fund
] was able to deliver presents to
' 104 children in 31 families.
C. H. Barker was installed as
new sachem of Chowan Tribe ot
Red Men.
Four Chowan County farmers,
John G. Wood, B. W. Evans, T.
: C. Byrum and A. C. Boyce re
| ceived federal payments in ex-
I cess of SI,OOO for faithful com-
I pliance with the 1938 agricultural
| adjustment program.
;f Lunch Room Menu \
IS.
| Menus at John A. Holmes High
i School lunch room for the week]
of January 9-13 will be as fol-1
lows:
Monday: Weiners, pork and;
beans, pickle relish, block choco- J
late cake, butter, weiner rolls,
cole slaw, mustard, milk.
Tuesday: Meat loaf with gra- |
vy, creamed potatoes, hot bis- j
cuits, milk, garden peas, butter. 1
peach halves.
Wednesday: Chicken pan pie
with yellow corn, candied yams,
fruit jello, bread, blitter, milk.
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Thursday: Beef vegetable soup.l
pimento cheese sandwiches, salt
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ter sandwiches, milk.
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Friday: Stew beef with pota
toes and onions, green string
beans, hot biscuits, butter, milk,
apple pie.