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Volume XXVlll.—Number 9.
Lewis Evans Wins
In ’6l 4-H Peanut
Growing Contest
Contestants and 'Their
' Fathers Guests of
Rotarians at Banquet
Thursday Night
At a banquet held Thursday
night in the Parish House, Lewis
Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mar
i'*' vin Evans, was declared winner
of the 4-H Club peanut grow
ing contest. The four top win
ners were announced at a ban
quet of the Rotary Club, spon
sors of the contest, held in the
Parish House.
While Young Evans did not
produce the greatest yield per,
acre, he gained more points ac-1
cording to the rules of the con-:
test which includes, besides
yield, quality, following recom-|
mended practices, proper stack
ing 'of crop and project record,!
Second place was won by |
Richard White, who had the
greatest yield per acre. Third!
was Jack Perry and fourth Car-!
roll Tynch. There were 12 boys
in the contest who, with their
piarents’ name and yields follow:
Richard White, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. S. White, 2,657 pounds. |
Lewis Evans, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Evans, 2,440 pounds. I
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PTA Meeting Now
Set For March 21
Due to the death of John A.
Holmes, the Edenton Parent-
Teacher Association called off its
meeting Tuesday of last week.
The meeting is now scheduled |
to be held Tuesday night, March'
21, at 8 o'clock in the school
auditorium.
As previously planned, a fea
ture of the meeting will be a
panel discussion on “Teenage'
Code of Ethics.”
Adults participating in 'the
discussion will be Joe Thorud,
moderator, Cecil Fry, Mrs. P. C.
Ashley, Mrs. C. A. Phillips and
Mrs. Charles Wood, Jr. Stu
dents participating will be Jim
my Rqgerson, Mack Wright,
Sally Privott and Mary Ann
Hare.
20 Years Ago
As Found |n Iho File* of
Tho Chowan Herald
Representative J. G. Campen
introduced a bill in the General {
Assembly providing for an ex
tra term of Chowan Superior
Court in order to dispose of an
atcummulation of civil cases.
Churches in Edenton joined in
a national Observance of World
Day of Prayer held in St. Paul's
Episcopal Church.
Miss Margaret White Byrum,
daughter of Mrs. Carroll Byrum,
v was elected May Queen at Louis
burg College.
Lester Jordan, star mounds
man for the Mooresville base
ball team in the North Carolina
State League and William Cay
ton, who played with the Poco-
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James Johnston, local repre
sentative of the N. C. Depart
ment of Revenue, announces that
his office will be open April 4
through April 15 from 9 A. M„
to 5 P. M. Mr. Johnston will
be in his office for the purpose
of assisting those taxpayers who
wish assistance in filing their
'income tax returns.
The office is on the second
floor of the Citizens Bank Build
ing. >
Jaycees Sponsor
Hypnotist Ornoff
Proceeds of Show to
Go To Edenton Fire
Department
Edenton’s Jaycees announce
that Ornoff, the phenomenal
mentalist-hynotist, has been se
cured for a one-night -engage
ment on Friday evening, March
31, at 8 o’clock in the Edenton
Elementary School auditorium.
The show will provide an
evening of entertainment for the
entire family. It will be a scin
tillating, educational, informa
tive and dramatic exposition of
hypnosis by one of the world’s
most renowned hypnotists—
Ornoff.
Nathan Owens has been named
chairman for the Jaycees. Tic
kets can be purchased from any
member of the Jaycees. Pro
ceeds from the show will be giv
en to the local -Fire Department
for" purchase of rescue equip
ment!
Revival Services Will Be Held
At Baptist Church Next Week
The annual spring revival will
open at the Edenton Baptist
Church with the morning ser
vice Sunday, March 5, and will
continue through the evening
service on the following Sun
day, March 12. Evangelistic
messages for the week are to
be brought by the visiting minis
ter, the Rev. M. O. Owens, Jr.,
of Gastonia, N. C.
Mr. Owens has previously been
the guest preacher for evange
listic services some few years
ago and will be remembered by
his straight-forward and forceful
messages. He is well known and
very active in both the State and
Fat Stock Show
And Sale March 29
Jaycees Already Set
ting Up Plans For
Seventh Show
• Eden ton’s Junior Chamber of
Commerce is now making pre
liminary plans for the seventh
annual Fat Stock Show and Sale.
The affair will again be held on
the American Legion grounds on
Wednesday, March 29.
Judges have not yet been
named but they will be special
ists from State College in Ra
leigh. , Various committees who
will have charge of this year’s
event will be appointed in the
very near future.
The show and sale will begin
at 9:30 o’clock, when the ani
mals will be judged. The sale
will begin at 3 o’clock.
Inglis Fletcher
Speaker For DAR
! Edenton Tea Party Chapter of
the DAR will meet Wednesday
of next week, March 8. The
meeting will be held at the
Edenton Restaurant at 1 o’clock
when a feature will be an ad-
Fletcher will speak about Afri-
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A group of Edenton people mei at the Court House Saturday to greet three South Korean Air
Force officers, who were accompanied by Mayor Scott B. Berkeley of Goldsboro and two officers
from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base at Golds boro. Front row, left to right. Mayor John Milch
ener, Mrs. J. D. Elliott. Mrs. R. J. Boyce, the three Koreans. Col. Sung Tae Chang. Col. Yang
Myong Lee and LI. Col. Chong In Ma and Mayor Berkeley. Second row. State Senator Emmett
Winslow of Hertford. West Byrum. Jr., Geofge A. Byrum, J. Edwin Bufflap, Capt. Hansel W. Turley,
Eugene Price, editor of the Goldsboro News-Argus and Richard Atkinson. Back row, E. W. Spires.
William Gardner. James Robinson and Major Wilson G. Hail of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.—
(Photo by J. P. Ricks, Jr.)
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HIRAM MAYO
Edenton school trustees at a
meeting held last week appoint
ed Hiram Mayo superintendent
of Edenion schools. Mr. Mayo
succeeds John A. Holmes and
his appointment is for the re
mainder of the school term.
Southern Baptist prqgrams and
has only in recent months trans
ferred from his pastorate in Le
noir, N. C., to Gastonia.
During the week services will
be held at 7:30 o’clock each
evening Monday through Friday,
but there is to be no service on
Saturday. The church nursery
will be open for each service to
take of children through
five years of age.
The public is cordially invit
ed to attend these services and
also the remaining two nights
of the Mission School now in
progress tonight (Thursday) and
Friday at 7:30 o’clock.
Farm Bureau To
Meets March 29
Dutch Supper Served
At Center Hill Com
munity Building
.Woodrow Lowe, president of
the Chowan County Farm Bu
reau, announces that a member
ship meeting will be held at the
Center Hill Community Build
ing Tuesday night, March 14, at
7 o’clock.
A dutch supper will be serv
ed and the principal speaker
will be Alonza Edwards of
Hookerton, former executive sec
retary of the State Farm Bu
reau.
Mr. Lowe especially urges all
Farm Bureau members to at
tend.
Centennial Group
In Monthly Meeting
The Chowan County Confed
erate Centennial Committee held
its monthly meeting at the Jo
seph Hewes Hotel, February 20,
with Mis. Raymond Carr, chair
man,, presiding. Mrs. Carr open
ed the meeting with a request
for a moment of silent prayer in
memory of a departed educator
and historian, Superintendent
John A. Holmes, to be followed
by a closing prayer byttießev.
ROSTER OF COMPANY A
First Regiment, N. C. Volunteers
From Chowan County, 1861 (
EDITOR’S NOTE: In response to many requests that the Centennial
Committee publish the names of the soldiers who went out irom Chowan |
County in 1861, the following is copied from Moore's Roster of N. C. |
Troops in the Civil War. (Submitted in the interest of the Centennial
Committee l»y the Rev. Fred B. I>rane).
T. L. Skinner, Captain, later
promoted to Major. Killed June
26, 1862, at Ellyson’s Mill.
J. A. Benbury, First Lieuten-!
ant. Promoted to Captain.
Killed at Malvern Hill.
F. W. Bond, promoted to Cap
tain. Permanently disabled at
Malvern Hill.
T. L. Johnston. Promoted to
Captain.
John L. Bratton, Lieutenant.
John H. Morgan, Lieutenant,
Perquimans County.
A. R. Stamer, Lieutenant, Per
quimans County.
J. D. Williams, Lieutenant.
T. L. Jones, Lieutenaint.
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Terry Jones Is Given License To
Preach By Macedonia Church
Macedonia Baptist Church, in
regular conference Wednesday,
February 15, voted unanimously
to present “Certificate of Li
cense” to Terry Haywood Jones,
that he might further practice
his gift as a minister of the
Gospel. This came after the
church on several occasions had
heard Mr. Jones preach, and the
deacons and pastor had recom
mended that the church take
this action, which will help open
Unique Window Displays Are
Planned For 1961 Pilgrimage
The Pilgrimage Committee of! to clean up your yards,” says
the Edenton Woman’s Club is j the committee. “We want you to
appealing to Edenton citizens to do that again but aiso clean out
clean up their attics or storage your attics with us in mind.”
rooms in an effort to uncover Some merchants have offered
various items which will form their windows for the Piigrim
an interesting display for visit- age April 14-16 and it is plan
ors who attend the Pilgrimage ned to fill these windows with
of Edenton and Countryside in interesting items of old Eden-
April. ton.
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Flanked by Elton Forehand, president of the Edenton Rotary
Club, on left, and Harry Venters, assistant county agent on right,
appear three of the four top winners in the Chowan County 4-H
peanut growing contest. In center is Lewis Evans, first piece
winner, holding a trophy. Next to Mr. Forehand is Richard White,
second piece and next to Mr. Venter* is Carroll Tynch. fourth piece
winner. Jack Perry, who won third place, left a Rotary banquet
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doors to him in the practice of
his calling.
Mr. Jones, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Haywood Jones, is a native
of Edenton, where he attended
school and is a graduate of John
A. Holmes High School, class of
1960. At the present time he is
a freshman at Chowan College,
Murfreesboro, and is held in high
esteem by his fellow classmen.
He is secretary of the Minister-
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94 Pints Os Blood
Given Last Week
At BtoodmobHe
Dr. Archie Walker Is
Well Pleased With
Response to Appeal
For Blood
Dr. Archie Walker, Chairman
-of the Chowan County Red
Cross blood program, reports
that at last week’s visit of the
Red Cross bloodmobile 94 pints
of blood were donated. The
countyls quota was 105 pints.
Dr. Walker reports that 107 per-1
sons volunteered tq donate a
pint of blood, but of that num
ber 13 were rejected for vari
| ous reasons.
I Dr. Walker is especially pleas-1
ed with the response to the ap-|
peal for blood donations. He!
stated that he was especially!
pleased with the increased num- l
ber of rural people who volun
teered. This number was far
in excess of previous visits of
the bloodmobile. Some reason |
for this is attributed to rnem-j
bers of the Rocky Hock 4-H I
Club, members of which distri- i
buted pamphlets setting out the
need for donating blood.
Dr. Walker extends his sin
cere appreciation ito all who j
volunteered to donate a pint of I
blood or helped in any way to!
make the bloodmobile visit so
successful.
Lions Club Again Sponsoring
This Year's Sale Os Easter Seals
Edenton’s Lions Club will
again sponsor the 1961 Easter’
Seal Sale in Chowan County,!
which begins March 26 and con
tinues through April 8.
In announcing the campaign,
Lions point out that crippling is
one of the major health prob
lems of our county today. They
say jliat while the most im
portant Objective of Easter Seals
is raising funds for treating the
physically handicapped, the an- j
nual messages also tell a story
of aid and hope for the handi
capped. Use of the Easter Seals,
regardless of the contribution
Band Concert ]
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Derwood Bray, director of the
John A. Holmes High School
Band, has announsed that the
band will present its winter
concert Friday night, March 17.
The concert will be presented
in the school auditorium be
ginning at 8 o'rlock.
Panel Discussion At
Chowan PTA Meeting
The selected theme for Cho- j
wan High School’s PTA study
for the month of March is “A
Healthy Child Is A Happy!
Child.” A program of vital in-!
terest to parents and teachers;
has been planned on a phase!
of health which is so very im-!
portant today—Mental Health.
A film, “The Angry Boy,”i
will be shown which reveals the :
importance of ia healthy mind
for a child, so he may face in
telligently, the many problems
and temptations that confront
him in daily living.
A panel discussion will fol
low in which the following peo
ple will take part: Dr. Johnson,
local health doctor; the Rev.
T. W. Allred, pastor of Rocky
Hock Baptist Church; Paul Stan
ton, physical education director,
and Mrs. Jane Joyner, a patron.
The meeting is scheduled for
Monday night, March 6, at 8;
o’clock.
Special Feature At
Masonic Meeting
Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F.
& A. M., will meet tonight
(Thursday) at 8 o’clock. A fea
ture of the meeting will be a
play presented by the Acacia
Club of Ocean View, so that Dr.
A. F. Downum, master, urges a
large turnout of members.
A supper will be served at 7
o’clock in the dining room of
the temple prior to the meeting.
LIONS MEET MONDAY
Edenton’s Lions Club will
meet Monday night, March 6,
at 7 o’clock. James Griffin,
president, requests every mem
ber of the chib to be present
$2.50 Per Year In North Carolina
Korean Air Force
Officials Visit In
Edenton Saturday
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MILTON E. BASS
After serving as manager of
the Edenton office of the Em
ployment Security Commission
since May 10, 1955, Milton E.
Bass has been transferred to Ra
leigh. His transfer will be ef
fective March 6. —(Photo by
J. P. Ricks, Jr.).
made in their behalf, is a defi
nite means of expressing inter- ;
est in the crippled.
Funds raised through Easter
Seal sales finances care and
treatment, education and re
search programs that aid all
crippled persons regardless of
race, creed or handicapping con
dition.
Mayor John Mitchener has is
sued a proclamation designat
ing March 2 to April 8 as Easter
Seal Month and urges all citi
zens to join the Lions Club in
its fight against crippling by
giving generously to this great
cause.
Tom Scott Show
Shows In Edenton
Thursday, Mar. 23
Profits of Show Will
Go to Red Men and
Heart Fund; Tickets
Now on Sale
Chowan Tribe No. 12, Improv
ed Order of Red Men, will spon
sor the Tommy Scott Road Show
which will appear in the Eden
ton armory Thursday, March 23.
The Red Men will share their *
profits from the show with the
Heart Fund, so that it is hoped
a full house will turn out. Ad
vance tickets are now on sale
and Leroy Harrell, chairman of
a committee in charge of the
event, points out that the tribe
will receive 50 per cent of adult
advance ticket sales and 10 per
cent at the door. For that rea
son the Red Men are hopeful
that many advance adult tickets
will be sold so that more profit
is realized. Many children’s tic
kets have already been sold in
various stores and business con
cerns.
The show is a family type
[ show, consisting of the best in
1 country and western music, light
comedy and rock and roll for
the youngsters.
Libraries Will Close
Wednesday, March 8
Both the Shepard J Pruden Me
morial Library and Brown-Car
ver Library will 'be closed all
day Wednesday of next week,
March 8. The libraries will be
closed due to a regional staff
meeting to be held in Plymouth.
ROTARY MEETS TODAY
Edenton’s Rotary Club will
meet this (Thursday) afternoon
at 1 o’clock in the Parish House.
The program will be in charge
of Murray Baker and President
Elton Forehand urges a 100 per
cent attendance. j
FIGHT CANCER
WITH A CHECKUP
AND CHECK
Met By Group of Lo
cal Citizens and Tak
en to Several Points
Os Interest
Edenton had some distinguish
ed visitors Saturday morning
when three South Korean Air
Force officials were shown sev
eral points of interest. They
stopped over in Edenton while
oil a tour from Seymour Johnson
Air Force Base at Goldsboro to
Kitty Hawk.
The Koreans were Coi. Sung
Tae Chang, Col. Yang Myong
Lee and Lt. Col. Chong In Ma.
They were accompanied by May
or Scott B. Berkley of Golds
boro. Major Wilson G. Hall and
Capt. Hansel W. Turley of Sey
mour Johnson Air Force Base
and Eugene Price, editor of the
News-Argus at Goldsboro.
The group was met at the
j Court House by Senator Emmett
i Winslow of Hertford and a group
|of Edenton citizens. After an
! exchange of introductions and
greetings the visitors were taken
[ through the Court House Where
the history of this old building
was explained by E. W. Spires.
The visitors were then taken to
the Masonic Temple, where they
enjoyed seeing the George Wash
ington Chair and the beautiful
interior of the building.
Later the group was taken to
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
where Mrs. George Mack pre
sented a brief history of the
church. It was planned to visit
the Cupola House, but time did
not permit.
The Koreans spoke English
and appeared very much inter
ested and delighted with their
stop in Edenton.
Stops on the tour included
Greenville, Williamston, Edenton,
Hertford. Citv, Kill
Devil Hill and Manieo.
Eastern Star Elects
New' Officers Monday
Edenton Chapter No. 302. Or
der of the Eastern Star, will
meet Monday night, March 6,
at 8 o’clock.
A candidate is scheduled to
be initiated and officers for the
new year will be elected, so
that Mrs. Margaret Bell, worthy
matron, urges all members to
attend. .
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The 1961 Pilgrimage of Colo
nial Edenton and Countryside
will be held April 14. 15 and 16.
Edenton Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation Will meet in the John
A. Holmes High School auditor
ium Tuesday night, March 21,
at 8 o'clock.
Revival services will begin at
the Edenton Baptist Church next
Sunday morning, March 5, and
continue through Sunday, March
12.
The Jaycee sponsored Fat
Stock Show and Sale will be
held at the American Legion
grounds Wednesday, March 29.
Inglis Fletcher will be the
speaker at a meeting of the
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Macedonia Baptist Church on
Wednesday, February 15, voted
unanimously to present Terry
Haywood Jonas a "certificate of
license” to preach &e Gospel.