—SECTION TWO PAGE EIGHT County \'m i [ By MRS. ROLAND EVANS j An Easter sunrise service was held at Rocky Hock Church Sunday morning at 6:30 o’clock. Macedonia and Rocky Hock pre sented the program. Prelude was rendered by Miss Beulah Evans; invocation .by Wallace Bass; Macedonia congregational hymn, “At The Cross;” welcome by Thurman Allred; special mu sic by Rocky Hock choirs—“He Is Not Here, But Is Risen!”; prayer by Henry Bunch; special music by Macedonia choir; Eas ier message, the Rev. Gordon B. Shaw, pastor of Macedonia; con gregational hymn, “Crown Him With Many Crowns”; benedic tion by the Rev. Thurman W. Allred, pastor Rocky Hock; post lude. The service was well at tended; A program of Easter music was presented Sunday night at 8 o’clock at Rocky Hock Church. The Rev. T. W. Allred was in charge. Taking part were the youth choir, adult choir, young people’s choir, male quartet, girls’ sextet, duets, primary choir, junior girls’ trio, young men’s quartet, junior choir and congregational hymns. Accom paniment was by Miss Beulah Evans and Mrs. Mary Perry, di rected by Mrs. T. W. Allred. Mrs. Peggy Hooper, Master Scottie Sawyer of Elizabeth City visited Mrs. Edith Perry and Mrs. Evans on Monday. Shut in for week at Rocky Hock is Mrs. Dixie L. Nixon. Training Union hour 'has been changed from 6:30 to 7:00 P. M., Frankly Speaking I By Ftiac First of all, my thanks to Toni Shields and Jerry Holmes for taking over some of my broad casting activities last Monday and Tuesday whilst we took a quick trip to New York. Two days traveling and one day with the family, but it was worth it. Have been reading with inter est the flood situation in Water loo, lowa. That’s where I did my first television shows, and it’s a typically nice mid-western city. The Cedar River, which caused all the flood damage, flows through the heart of Waterloo and was only about seven or eight blocks from where I lived, so I’m sure my old house was one of the prop erty victims. Senator Goldwa ter always has to do something to keep his name in the news. He released a report cheering Denver, Colorado’s Mayor Sam Mardian for telling President Kennedy 'to go to he—. Turns out Mayor Mardian not only said no such'thing, but had written President Kennedy praising him for his work concerning the fed eral urban renewal plan. Cof fee drinkers who object to in stant coffee have a new threat, synthetic coffee. Researchers are working on it now. Did you know that the Pennsylvania Railroad received federal aid back in 1828? Wonder what t'he reaction of the 19th century conservatives was? Signs of spring: girls with shorts, base ball, green grass, open-top con vertibles and girls with shorts. Ever notice that there are more dogs that chase cars on Para dise Road than any other local thoroughfare? Ever notice that there are more limping dogs on Paradise Road? Movie notes: Look for Dis- Chateaux GRAPE FLAVORED VODKA B 9 3 1 4/5 QL 05 OTatl "pin* _ Va. V. MJKI I^o Pr tj ■*■ *® W^a—imaaaßtaßSfe^A# Mmitm HBUK «.. CUMMT, *T. ■ at Rocky Hock. Family Night meeting will be held Thursday night at 8 o’clock ait the church. Associational Youth 'Night will be held Saturday night at 7:3C 'o’clock in the Edenton Baptist Church. A feature of the pro gram will be a film “Miracle In Manhattan.” The clubs in Rocky Hock com munity held a chicken supper Tuesday night at Rocky Hock | Community Center, j Training Union Elimination ; Contests will be held April 9 at 2:30 in the Warwick Church. The annual Regional Training Union Convention and Tourna ments will be held at Winton Baptist Church April 10. Our Associational Missionary, the Rev. Don Pryor, will par ticipate in the Jamaica Evange listic Crusade. He will leave April 14. Pastors’ Conference will be held April 10 at Rocky Hock Church, beginning at 10:30 A. M. Nursery will be provided and host church will serve lunch. The Rocky Hock Baseball Club will psesent the Oriole minstrel at Chowan High School tonight (Thursday), sponsored by the Fire Department. Congratulations to the winners of the Fat Stock Show held last week and also to those who took part. Sympathy goes out to the fam ily of Jimmy Crummey. Students home for the holi days were: Faye Ober, Kath ryn Tynch, Betty Bunch, Janet Parrish, Emily Leary, Ruth Leary, Betty Ann Harrell, Jim my Allred, Barbara Allred, Ger ald Harrell and Zackie Harrell. ney’s two new pictures. One is an all-cartoon feature called “101 Dalmatians,” and the other is regarded as one of the funni est movies in a long time: “Ab sent-Minded Professor,” with Fred Mac Murray as same. I thought “Godgo” was the best monster-type picture since “King Kong.” It was amazing. I’m a sucker for those things if they’re done well, as “Gorgo”, was. 6’ 6” Clint Walker believes in realism when making a movie. During filming of “Gold of the Seven Saints,” he worked in 120 Did you know Gasoline is Taxed at a Rate 5 Times as High as Diamonds? t IN NORTH CAROLINA.YOU PAY sl!2 TAX ON 10 GALLONS OF GASOLINE Gasoline taxes will be lowered if the latest temporary Federal gasoline tax increase expires on June 30th as scheduled by the 1959 Federal Highway Act. Along with all good citizens, we are in favor of building the roads that the motoring public needs. But, in the last 10 years alone, Federal and State taxes nationwide on gasoline have skyrocketed 51% —sky rocketed to a point where gasoline, a basic commodity, is actually taxed at a rate five times as high as luxuries like diamonds and mink coats. Must gasoline taxes be so high? Most people believe that gasoline taxes are high because the money is needed to pay for our national highway program. This is not so. The fact is that out of every highway-user tax dollar collected last year by the Federal government, more t/um 40 cents was diverted to non-highway purposes. II these highway-user tax revenues were spent for high ways—as they should be—gasoline taxes could be lowered, and the highway program given a boost. In fact, the Federai-Aid Highway Act off 959 provides that when the added temporary Federal gasoline tax ex pires on June 30th, 1961, as scheduled, some SBO2 mil lion a year in highway-user taxes—now diverted to the U. S. Treasury’s general fund—will instead be deposited in the Highway Trust Fund. As a result, if the latest Federal temporary gasoline tax The Gasoline You Buy Is Taxed Too High! Presented in the public intere*t by the Gasoline Tax Education Committee, 575 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, HL Y. %&* ' ; THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, NORTH CANOfUHTA. THNMPAT. APRIL*, IMI J&. ■ m % jL'\ K ' Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in a wcene from David O. Selznick's production of “Gone With the Wind.” One of the great motion pictures of all time, the screen version of Margaret Mitchell's famous novel is presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in tribute to the Year of the Civil War Centennial. degree temperature, .he chewed < salt to get that parched look, he • didn’t use an air-conditioned , trailer provided by the studio i and when ne was supposed to be i carrying 250 pounds of gold, he did just that. Don’t know if ] actress June Thorburn believes : in fairy tales, but she’s appear- , ed in “Cinderella,” “Tom ; Thumb” and now in “The Three j Worlds of Gulliver.” i Closing thought: I chose my wife, as she did her wedding . gown, for such qualities as would i wear well. N. C. Women In The Confederacy ! Continued from Page 1, Section 1 shoes (many made of wood) were in good condition or had enough foundation to re-sole. The best and the warmest cloth | was made into clothes for the j soldiers and a clean suit was al ways on hand in case any of them should come home. The women had to find sub stitutes for food, such as sugar, coffee, soda or tea. Sorghum was used for sugar, rye, wheat J and okra for coffee; ashes of corn cobs for soda, and any suitable dried leaf for tea, such as sassafras and blackberry. Candles were made by putting or placing drippings in a pan with a woolen rag for the wick. Pine knots were also used. Soap was made by boiling scraps of meat, meatskins and bones in lye, obtained by placing wood ashes in a keg or barrel and dripping water through. Christmas fruit cakes for the soldiers were made out of dried cherries, dried whortle berries, candied watermelon rind and molasses. When ther.e was not any tallow for the candles syca more balls were soaked in fat and burned in pans for lights; or strings twisted hard were put in bottles filled with grease or bees-wax. Ink, colored with indigo or berryjuice, was madel from oak and cedar balls. Old) scraps of wall paper were used | to carry tender messages to soldiers far away. Women of the sixties were pharmacists as well as chemists. They com pounded from herbs many sim ple remedies for their children and servants when there was no medicine to be had. Nitre for ' ?un powder was often dug by increase expires on June 30th as scheduled—the national highway program will actually get $225 million more each year than it now receives from the latest Federal , temporary gasoline tax increase. In January of this year, after an exhaustive 2-year sur vey of national transportation policy, a special U. S. Senate study group confirmed the wisdom of this decision. This will be good news for you. You will be able to enjoy a steadily improving highway system, at a lower gasoline tax-rate. HERE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT TODAY'S HIGH GASOLINE TAXES • In North Carolina, you pay sl.lO tax on 10 gallons of gasolina. • You pay 11 4 tax a gallon—4s in Federal taxes plus 74 in State taxes. • Gasoline is taxed at a rale 3 Hmes os High as diamonds. . U T • • The average North Carolina motor vehicle I owner pays $96 a year In gasoline taxes. • Since 1951 there hove been three increases in the Federal gasoline lax diene. wide have skyrocketed 31%-yet the natioeoi averoge price of gasoline itself has then only 5.5% during the same period. v . '- ~ -‘sit . v ; "'.j. *' — ■ii'uAit*.: -- ‘ • •• S' • .’v S the women from old smoke houses and tobacco bams. Wool from old mattresses was often recarded and spun into yam for socks to keep the soldiers from halving cold feet. Carpets and draperies were un raveled and woven into blankets for the army. In answer to a call for silk for war balloons used for the first time in this war, discarded silken dresses were pulled apart and the silk furnished. The homespun cloth, which was woven at home, was a uniform for.men, women and children. To relieve the ugliness the women concocted dye of various kinds from poke ber ries and elder l berries. The Con federate girls wore them proud ly, singing the patriotic song of the South: My home spun dress is plain, 1 know My hats palmetto too; But then they show what South ern girls For Southern Rights will do. Miss Brenda Mooney On Concert Tour Edenton friends will be inter ested to know that Miss Brenda Mooney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. 'B. Mooney, former Edentonians now living in Ra leigh, is on a spring concert tour of the Midwestern States. Miss Mooney is a member of the Shenandoah Conservatory Choir which performed in Springfield, Ohio; Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana; lowa City and Des Moines, lowa. She spent the Easter holidays sightseeing in Chicago. Another Mooney daughter, Pat, sang for the North Carolina Leg Eddie Wheeler Exterior And Interior PAINTING ALSO GENERAL REPAIRS AND INSTALLATION OF ASBESTOS SIDING Phone 3103 313 North Granville Street Edenton. N. C. islature Friday, where rite was very well received by the legis ! lators. „ ■' ' • TYRRELL NATIVE DIES Miss Laura V. Pennington, 84, died Sunday at the home of a nephew, Lewis Pe«nin,jfton, at Great Bridge, Va., after an Al ness of 2% years. She was a native of Tyrrell County, daughter of the late Eliza Wynn and Andrew Pen nington. She was a member of the Hertford Methodist Church. Survivors are a nephew and two nieces. Graveside services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Cedarwood Cemetery in Hert ford. The Rev. James A. Auman officiated. i Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. —George Eliot. L C. Harrell, Jr. Radio &TV t Service Valhalla, N. C. PHONE K. L. 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