I The Chowan Herald
Published every .Thursday by The Chowan
Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin
Bufflnp and Hector Lupton, at 423-425 South
Hroau Street. Edenton. North Carolina.
J. EDWIN BUFFLAF Editor
oEOTOR LUPTON y. -ertUlug Manager
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1961.
" YTift TorTuday^
! We are saved by hope.—Rom. 8:24.
When we are despondent and feel that life has
little left, let us take stock of our blessings and
we shall find that we have more blessings than
trials—and always there will be God.
Our Father, we praise Thee for Thy manifold
blessings and know that all things work together
for (food to them that love Thee.
Progress Has Detoured Past The
I Mentally 111 Children
\t Following is a timely editorial which was tak
en from a recent special section of the Charlotte
Observer dealing with “Our Neglected Children :
For two weeks Reporter Don Seaver has been
writing of the plight of the mentally ill child in
North Carolina.
There is much to write fibout, for here is al
most a classic case of public neglect amid priv
ate prosperity. Here is a need, persistent and
growing, which the public has .not only ignored
but scarcely even recognized.
s The professionals estimate that there are as
ipany as 12,000 psychotic children in North Caro
lina —children who sutler from acute mental ill
ness. The state is prepared to treat 10 of them.
There are many times 12.000 who are emo
tionally disturbed in one degree or another, who
heed special treatment or special attention. They
are not getting it. Public facilities are almost
totally lacking at every level —town, county,
State. Private facilities are both scant and ex
pensive. >
"One family just built a fence in. their back
yard and turned their little boy loose, says a
psychiatrist.
“If the parents were millionaires,” says anoth
er, “they might get their child into some expen
sive long-range sanatorium with a big staff. But
it would cost as much as $20,000 a year and
might or might not be able to help."
Outside of a Chapel Hill clinic there arc only
four child psychiatrists in all of the state.
North Carolina has a special education pro
gram for the physically handicapped child. It
does almost nothing for the menially ill child
who might be cured if only the right persons got
to him at the right time.
There is considerable agreement among the
' Itfdfessionals on what must be done.
There must be programs o* early recognition
and treatment in the schools. There must be
counseling staffs and special education facilities
for the emotionally disturbed. The.schools arc
tjbe logical starting place for long-range attack
•4iot only upon childhood mental illness but upon
mental illness in general.
There are only 11 mental health clinics, in
North Carolina. More must be provided, and all
ot them must have more personnel. Treatment
of mental illness in tiie young is even more ex
acting and time-consuming than treatment of
adults.
The larger communities will need to provide
day care or hospital care facilities for the more
seriously ill.
The state must expand its tinv program for
the acutely ill. ,
Representative John Umstead. the chairman of
the State Hospitals Board of Control, already has
called for a major effort in behalf of the psy
chotic children.
He will ask the next General Assembly to
provide beds for 200 acutely ill children under
12 years of age.
He also wants a center to care for mentally
ill adolescents and teen-agers. There is absolute
ly nothing for these older children now; many
of them are housed in the adult wards of state
mental hospitals.
Umstead also asks for an evaluation center
where children can be kept under observation to
determine how seriously ill they are. Such a
center would cut down on waiting periods.
And what of the cost? “It won’t cost as much
as it will cost if we don’t do it,’’ answers Um
stead. ,
i His observation applies to the whole broad
scope of the problem. Human resources' are be
ing pitifully wasted in a society of new cars and
color television and backyard swimming pools.
It wil} cost a great deal to locate sick youngsters
and to help them in the first stages of their ill
ness. It will cost more to ignore them and
to house thousands of victims in state institutions
for the rest o’ their lives.
But the biggest problem is not a cost-con
scious legislature. The biggest problem is pub
lic understanding—the same kind of understand
ing that has led to such tremendous improvement
in care for mentally ill adults.
The children have been left out of this pro
gress. Plans and programs have detoured around
them. Public understanding of their need is the
first step toward public demand for action. And
that action is very much needed at every level of
government from local school board to General
Assembly. ,
The most satisfying thing in life is to be
able to help soirtfe deserving person.
There are two sides to every public ques
tion; the wise man tries to understand both.
Now that the heating bills must be paid,
summer doesn’t seem so bad after all.
PROPERTY MUST BE LISTED IN JANUARY
we All Property Not Listed By February 4«t Will Carry A 10% Penalty
Jdeard (jf .Seen
By Buff
Though it was rather chilly in Murray
Tynch’s Purina warehouse at’ Valhalla Tues
day night, a warm reception greeted about 200
Chowan County farmers who were guests of
the Ralston Purina Company. Home Demon
stration Club members again demonstrated
that they know the way to a man’s heart—by
way of the stomach—for they served a de
licious fried chicken dinner which was still
warm even though a lot of the men were shiv
ering while they were eating it. Women
from the Rocky Hock. Beech Fork and Gum
Pond Clubs served the dinner and as usual,
they did a fine job in feeding so many men —
and most of 'em had their appetites with them.
Among the crowd w r ere Mayor John Mitchen
er and yours truly. With a special Town
Council meeting scheduled at 8 o’clock I left
before Jake Presson completed his discourse
about profitably raising hogs. But. also, when
I went to my car 1 was blocked so that I
could not move it over a foot. Going back
into the building I explained my predictament
to Mayor Mitchener, so he brought me back
to town and also drove me back to Valhalla
after the Council meeting. It was altogether
different when we returned to Valhalla for
my car was the only one parked on the spa
cious parking area at the warehouse. Nope,
there were no parking regulations at that place
Tuesday night. Charlie Overman. Frank
Twiddv and George Lewis of Edenton were
also among the gang who devoured the chick
en dinner. Charlie came in a bit late and,
unlike a lot of others, took off his hat to eat.
He could see no place to hang his hat. so one
of the fellows told him to lay it on a pile of
bags containing fertilizer. "It might help
you to raise a little more hair on your dome,”
he was told. Well, a lot of us there might do
the same thing if we note a little hair spring
ing out on Charlie’s head.
o
Here’s one who saw the Chowan High
School juniors present their play "Outward
Bound” Friday night in the school auditorium.
My hat’s off to members of the cast, for the
show lasted just about two hours with talk
ing going on practically all of ihe time and if
any one of those participating were prompted,
I couldn’t detect it. But not being much of
a theatre-goer, the theme of the play was a
little too deep for me. Anyway the juniors
did a very good job of acting even if I didn't
know what they were talking about half of
the time. ,
o— ——
Somebody was telling me this week that a
radio announcer recently made a statement
that some years ago a Cuban tried to get a
iob playing baseball in the IT.l T . S. professional
leagues. He said the fellow was finally turn
ed down and that his name was Fidel Castro.
Well, if the professional guys never made a
mistake, they made one that time by not sign
ing up the nut. But then maybe they figured
there’s enough trouble already in organized
baseball so that they didn’t need him to stir
things up.
Last week’s Sunday School lesson had some
thing to sav about drinking good wine first
and leaving the sorry stuff for last. The ex
planation was that after drinking enough of
the good wine a guy wouldn’t know what
kind he was drinking. Things haven’t chang
ed much since then. Some fellows prefer a
certain brand of whiskey, but after a few
drinks they’ll guzzle down any kind of rot
gut and apparently not know the difference.
It s all powerful stuff—makes a fellow warm
when he’s cold and the same stuff cools him
off when he’s hot.
There's little time left to do at least three
things—list property for taxes, buy 1961 X.
C. automobile license tags and also city tags.
Property must be listed before January pass
es out and the deadline for displaying motor
vehicle tags is February 15. Some will wait
until the last minute and be obliged to stand
in line for a long time. Os course, there’s
considerable room at the hotel for listing tax
es, but to get the license plates the line will be
out of doors. It might be raining, snowing or
even cold weather, so unless you are a glut
ton for punishment, better attend to these
matters NOW!
o
All kinds of stunts art being held to raise
funds for the New March of Dimes. Have
you given: It should not be necessary lo
have stunts to ooze out a contribution for this
worthy cause.
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1961.
Ordination Service
At Great Hope Church'
According to the pastor, the
Rev. Henry V. Napier, the Great
Hope Baptist Church, near Hert
ford, will hold ordination services
for Jesse Ray Mansfield, who is
a member of the church, on Sun
day afternoon, January 22, at 3
o’clock.
The ordaining council will con- ;
sist of the deacons of the!
church, C. A. Perry, chairman, !
Archie Lane, Robert Hollowell, \
Clinton Ray Winslow, Sammy
Mansfield, father of Jesse Ray
Mansfield and Freeland Elliott,
along with the Rev. D. C. Pryor, j
promotional secretary of the
Chowan Baptist Association with
offices in Elizabeth City, who
will question the candidate on
his beliefs concerning the de
nomination and its programs.
The Rev. Mr. Pryor will also
bring the charge to the church
and the candidate. The Rev.
Russell Cellingham, pastor of the
Warwick Baptist Church will
question the candidate concern
ing the great doctrines of the
Scriptures and bring the ordina
tion sermon The Rev. Norman
B. Harris, pastor of the Hertford
Baptist Church, will question the
candidate concerning Christian
experience and his call to the
ministry and have the ordination
prayer.
Mr, Mansfield has been called
as pastor of the Hickory Baptist
Church near Whitakers, N. C.,
assuming his duties there Decem
ber 1. 1960. The church there
has called for his ordination and
the church of which he is a mem
ber has also issued the call for
ordination. Mr. Mansfield was
licensed to preach by his home
church in 1957 and has acted as
assistant pastor in his home
church for two summers and has
supplied many churches through
out North Carolina while a stu
dent at Chowan College, Atlantic
Christian College and while a
student at Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Wake
Forest, where he is doing work
toward the B.D. degree. He will
serve as pastor of the Hickory
Baptist Church while continuing
his studies at the seminary.
The public is invited to join
the members of Great Hope
Church and the many friends
| and relatives of Mr. Mansfield
i for the Ordination service. The
period of questioning will begin
. at 2 o'clock and the service for
the public will begin at 3 o’clock.
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General Robert E.
Lee’s Birthday
Continued from Page I—Section 1 1
manded a group of United States'
soldiers which captured John!
Brown at Harper’s Ferry in 1859. j
On April 20, 1861, when his na-j
tive state, Virginia, seceded from
the Union, he resigned from the;
United States Army and became!
I a General in the army of the!
| Confederate States of America. |
\ General Lee’s Civil War his-1
I tory relates mostly to that of!
the Army of Northern Virginia. I
and he displayed much military j
skill and knowledge in many
battles of this war. In the Seven j
! Days’ battles around Richmond,!
1 at the second battle of Bull Run,!
at Fredericksburg and at Chan-1
cellorsville. he had much sue-!
cess, but at Gettysburg he suf-1
set ed great losses and defeat. i
! At the Battle of the Wilderness I
| in the spring of 1866, he had his,
first engagement with General |
U. S. Grant, now in command!
of the Federal troops. In Febru-;
ary, 1865. Genera] Lee was made]
General-in-Chief of all of the
forces of the Confederacy. Soon
followed the hard battles around;
Petersburg and Richmond, but he!
finally had to evacuate Rich-1
mond. He retreated to join Gen- j
eral Johnston’s Army, but on
April 9, hemmed in at Appo
mattox. he surrendered to Gen- •
! eral Grant.
About six months after the!
war ended he became president |
of Washington College, later
, Washington and Lee University. 1
, During the remainder of his life
1 he spent much of his time try- \
iny to heal the wounds left in
I the hearts of his countrymen be
' cause of the war. On October
12. 1870. he died, repeating like
many another soldier in death, a
military order of West Point and I
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army days, “Strike the tents!”
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Today, on the anniversary of his t
birth, it is fitting that honor be
given this great American.
Ten Leaders In j
Bridge Marathon
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At the end of the eighlh round !
of the bridge marathon spon- :
sored by the Chowan HoApital
Auxiliary. Dr. Richard Hardin
and Joe Thorud continue in the
lead by 3.720 points.
The ten leading teams and
NOTICE!
This is lo notify the shareholders
and members of the Edenton Say
ings and Loan Association that the
annual shareholders* myelin"; yull
c
he held Monday eyenimr. February
* (
6, 1961, at <>:00 o'clock in lln* Chowan
County Court House, Edenton. V C.
R. E. LEARY
Executive Vice President
JANUARY CLEARANCE!
ON FINE BEDROOM FURNITURE I
These are just a few of our finest suites that we are closing I
out during this sale. Some have been discontinued by the I
manufacturer, some are numbers we are dropping. Regard- B
less, there are big savings in store for you during this sale! 9
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4-PC. SOLID CHERRY by Cni(|ue l-urniutre Makers. Ike suite consists j,
(if lart'e triple dresser ami mirror, huge ehrM of drawers. p>ostcr l>cdr and
commode. Truly a line suite for am one. jtl
r<‘£. p«*ic*e *139.50 - (Jo*COUI Pr iee *3 I 1.93 jj
4-PC. SOLID ROCK .MAPLE by Colonial Lurniimt « ofnpany. You will jM
have to see this line suite to appreciate its value, suite consists <n bookcase B
bed. larirc double dresser and mirror, chest (if drawers and mte table. H
r«*g. price s.Km.oo - Sale Price *289.73 I
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consists of spindle poster bed. law double iiressei and mirror, chest >t B
drawers and nite table. B
r<price 5.% 1.95 - Sale Price *289/75 I
These are just a few of the many suites we have to offer you B
during this clearance. Visit our store and you will no doubt B
find something to please you, both style and price.
Easy Terms Always Available At OiiimA 9
QUINN FURNITURE CO. I
Edenton, North Carolina
their scores follow: ,
I.—Dr. Richard Hardin and i
Joe Thorud. 42.800.
| 2.—Mrs. Kathryn Goodwin and :
| Mrs. Kit Forehand, 39.080.
I 3. —Mrs. Vol Patterson and!
Mrs. Gertrude Rosevear. 33,950.
! 4. —Medlin Belch and A. L.
! Phillips, 36.960
5. —Mrs. F. W. Hobbs and Mi -.
J. H. McMulla.n. 35.540.
6. —N. J. George arid Hiram .
! Mayo, 33.780.
' 7. —Cecil Fry and Mrs. Cor
line Thorud. 33.760.
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, B.—Jesse Harrell and Dick At
; kinson, 31,610. .
| 9. —Mrs. H. A. Campen and
! Mrs. A. M. Forehand, 30.160.
' 10, —Mis. Lillian Leary and
[Mrs. Agnes Harless, 27,580.
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