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SECTION TWO urn ’; 4? L~ g !§&< Wernher von Braun has inti mated that the main reason Russia has beaten the United States to the punch in major space projects, is that we are too cautious. And that, in a nutshell, particularly where hu man beings would be in jeop ardy, is one of the basic dif ferences between our philosophy of life and Russia’s. With us, a human being is not to be sacrificed heedlessly in a rocket, until every precaution has been taken, and every mechanical working part is functioning per fectly—over and above the ele ment of chance. With Russia, when they orbited a man into space, the entire equipment, in cluding the man, were expend able. What was one rocket, or man, to them?—they had more. ‘Now that the forore of the speech-making, milling around of the crowd, the picture snap ping and the .general confusion of the day is over, this is my personal tribute to Inglis Fletch er: I shall sit down and re-read 1 Gov. Terry Sanford’s Address At Inglis Fletcher Dedication As one who is dedicated to a New Day on a New Frontier, I am grateful for the honor of par ticipating in this pilgrimage to cradle of North Carolina. It is appropriate and it is benefi cial for us to pause in our race for space to commemorate the past. Much of the history of North, Carolina had its origins in the Albemarle Sound area. And, of course, “Ye Towne on Queen Anne’s Creek” was the corner stone for the history of the Al bemarle. Much history has been made here in Edentoiy- and the Albe marle and, Ujajlks to the lady, we honor todaSLmuch of the bet ter history of North Carolina was written hews. Patrick Henry, no mean writer himself, once wrote, “I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.” If Patrick Henry was right, Edenton and Chowan County, the Albemarle area and all of Northeastern North Carolina hold the poten tial for a prosperous future. For this old town and this whole broad area is rich in history. The stories that this Court House could tell if it could speak. And the stories it does tell us in its records. You know a lawyer doesn’t get by his apprenticeship before he delves deeply into the history of the county in which he is practicing. He is researching the history of land when he goes through that generally demeaned legal oddity of title-searching. The lands of Chowan County have been searched and re searched, sold, bought, mortgag ed, foreclosed, surveyed and re corded here in this Court House for 194 years. I don’t Know if any of you lawyers present here today have had the same experi ence that one lawyer had in showing clear title to some land in Louisiana. Perhaps you’ve heard his story j He had to show clear title to a piece of land in order to se cure approval by one of the war time bureaus in Washington for a loan. The lawyer was meticu lous so his search of the title was diligent, all the w.ay back to the time of the Louisiana pur chase. He sent his exhaustive work to the Washington Bureau. The bureau wrote back asking: But who owned the land before eju ■ Wlfm M W * T DEPEND OKI it BOTH DAY AND NIGHT, THIS GAS WILL ALWHYS WM The Roundup By WILBORNE HARRELL all of Mrs. Fletcher’s novels . . . the greatest tribute anyone can pay a writer, is to read that writer’s work. If the Hotel Joseph Hewes building is torn down, Edenton will see one of its oldest land marks removed from the Scene. It has been an authentically his torical tavern site since Colon ial days, and the razing of the present building will lessen greatly Edenton’s overall his torical atmosphere. STREET SCENE—He was blind. He was accosted by someone he hadn’t met for a long time. After a lengthy conversation, They took leave of each other, and the blind man said, “It’s been nice seeing you.” Cour age can be found in many places, but the quiet, unexpect ed kind of courage is the best. These North Carolina rocking I chairs that have recently be come so popular, largely by i the fact that JFK prefers them, ' this? Somewhat annoyed, the lawyer wrote back pointing out to a bu reaucrat who didn’t know his tory, that France owned the land. Good, wrote the bureaucrat, but who owned the land before Napoleon Bonaparte. Exasperated, the lawyer wrote: Napoleon acquired the land by a coup d’etat from the French No tional Assembly, which acquired I the land by revolution from King Louis, who acquired the land by conquest trom Spain, whose ruler [acquired the land by right of ' discovery. Just to make >wre he hdd.#qne back far enough, the lawyer pointed out:’ “King Ferdinand land Queen Isabelle were anoint ed rightful rulers of Spain by ' the Pope at Rome, who, in turn, is a .direct successor of the dis ciple Peter, who, in turn, was designated by Jesus Christ, who acquired his rights from the Cre ator of the earth.” Happily, you don’t have to be a lawyer, or even an historian to appreciate and enjoy history in this town. All you have to do is walk down the street and you can see living monuments of co lonial America. You can see the markers of where lady patriots drank yaupon tea rather than pay oppressive tribute to an alien king. You walk the same paths that one of our signers of the Declaration of Independence, Joseph Hewes, walked. And I suspect if you look closely enough, down along the Sound, you will find the hiding places of pirates and, maybe even rum- Six? All 6-footers? In one compact? 1 HAUBIBB HAS HIP 8008, THAH ANV OTHER COMPACT CAR ..... ........A,... SkeSnc*«rf tFree Car X*Ray Books at Any Rambler Dealer N DID YOU KNOW— that the Classic is the only middle sized car—a compact with big-car room, ride and per- V t formance, plus small-car economy and maneuverability ? tjm “Rambler Classic is the all-purpose compact P' /i —Excellence No other car is built • rattle-free, all-welded, safer, /jSBv 1 ° oiner car is duhi stronger single-Uhit construction. A f like, saves like, lasts . deep-dip rustproofing, up to wiwjm* like the Classic with roof, fights rust longest. I , _ •PROVED LONG-TIME ECONOMY, W*** standard of Rambler lLXCellence outstanding gas savings. compact car excellence EDENTON MOTOR IX). North Broad Street Dealer License No. 1610 THE CHOWAN HERALD :are potent supplements to I spring fever and complacency. I Many a lawn will go unmown ' and spring cleaning will no f doubt suffer a letdown, because of their debilitating efficiency. Let us hope that JFK will not get such a dose of rocking chair fever, that he will not keep his weather eye on the world she j nanigans that’s going on around i us. I i OVERHEARD “Bring me a | burlap bag,” this fellow was asked. “Burlap bag? What kind ’o bag is that?” "OK, I forgot that you were a farm liaised boy—bring me a tow j sack.” Received a chain letter the | other day which promptly went into my trash basket. Aside : from my strong disapproval of letters of this type of corro | spondence, I don’t have the | time to write ’em, and I cer tainly don’t intend to waste any money on postage to mail ’em. No compromise with communism! runners. Inglis Fletcher has found those hidden spots. She has searched the history of this land, these waters that surround it and the people who for three centuries have made their living upon these lands and the waters. She has carefully documented and skillfully described the stories of pirate, patriot and planter of the Albemarle. In fact, theie is ,no area of North Carolina, and few in the nation, that has been so well re duced to u riling than this area of the Albemarle, thanks to Inglis Fletcher’s Carolina Series Dike the great poet. Carl Sandburg, who lives in the mountains of cur state, the lady we honor today came from Illi nois. She first came to North Carolina to trace one of her an cestors. Once siio started her research on her Tar Heel ancestor, she became enamored or this areS, its people, its land and its his tory. So rather than stopping at her family tree, Mrs. Fletcher wrote “Raleigh’s Eden.” There is a passage in that book that seems to me to be as true today as it was when Mrs. Flet cher wrote it and as it was in the 17th century. She had Adam TOR Contract AJNI) Repair Work CALL Twiddy Insurance & Real Estate, Inc. PHONE 2163 EDENTON Rutledge say: “Commerce and j trade will come, but land is, and always will be, the basic source ! of wealth.” That theme finds j itself in most -of her books about j North Carolina. It is this fact that makes me | so interested in the agricultural I economy of our state and the proper conservation and de- I veiopment of our lands of North j Carolina—whether they be the sandy soils ol Eastern North Carolina or the red clays of the Piedmont or the black loam of the mountains Mrs. Fletcher’s knowledge of our potential is proved by her 1 dialogue—“land is, and always, will be, tne basic source of I wealth.” Then, you readers of Mrs. Fletcher’s works will recall the.; i last line in Pay Pack and Fol low ’ . . . for the land remains, vital and eve* g.ving of its rich ness to those wno cherish it.” We are not going to forget i this. 'lhe impiovement of the economy ol .this part of the state 1 is found in these words. As we ; work to improve the per capita income of our people, we Wilt encourage commerce and indus t.y to come, but wj are not go ing to fo-ee’. wealth to be found in the land. 1 was happy to.see, in flying over the land as we came here this morning, the modern soil conservation mactices under way on farms whose owners live in century-old homes. It is good to see 1961 tractors at work tilling the soil on farms that once Were tided with hoes.. This is a good marriage, this : wedding of tne best of the new ■ with the land and homes of the old. But then, North Carolina is supposed to be a state where we < are not the first, the old to cast ! aside, nor the fast the new to : accept. 1 The, history of North Ca'olma is just well begun. A significant J chapter of new historv was re- 1 corded yesterday in Raleigh in t Room 513 of the Revenue Build- 1 ing. You and I are living in an i age when the heritage of our < past, and the demands of our c present, demand making a good 1 & A ■. . - Jr NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY GOING TO PRESS Please check your listings in the current directory to make sure they are correct. If you wish any change made, notify our business office now. While checking your present listings, why not also consider extra listings. If your business deals with a va riety of services or products extra listings can prove very valuable. Our business office will gladly give you information on this low-cost, high-convenience service. Any Changes Desired Must Be Given To Us Before 5:00 P. M., Monday, May Ist The Norfolk And Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. AH, SPRING—Knorke, a go rilla in the Berlin, Germany, zoo, seems to be waiting for the vernal equinox. He re ceived the flowers on h : ~ fifth birthdav. history, for the future t As we. enter a New Day in North Carolina, we readily rec ognize that it is possible only because of the foundation laid by our forefathers. We will ever cherish these beauti.ul magnolias that have stood for so many years.. But we will plant loblollies so that when the magnolias have been felled bv mime, our grandchil dren will know that we were in terested in their future as wall as our picsar.t and our grand father’s past. By the authority you have so graciously invested in me. I cm honored now to open officially the 1961 Pilgrimage of Historic Edenton and Countryside and. to proclaim this day to be in honor of North Carolina’s First Lady of Historical Literature, Inglis Fletcher. || Lunch Room Menu 1 i | Mencs at the John A. Holmes High School lunch room for the week of April 24-28 will be as follows: Monday: Grilled lunch meat, | garden peas, gingerbread, milk, buttered potatoes, bread, butter. Tuesday: Tuna fish salad on lettuce spiced apple rings, block i pineapple cake, butter, crack | ers, green snap beans, milk, j Wednesday: Southern fried I chicken, succotash, ice cream, | potato salad, hot rolls, butter, | milk. | Thursday; Stew beef with | potatoes and gravy, hot cheese j biscuits, strawberry shortcake, | butter, turnip .greens, milk I Friday: Sliced ham, sweet, j potatoes, apple pie. steamed, | cabbage, bread, milk, butter. I CARD OF THANKS The family of the late Mrs. ’ Victoria E. Bowser wish to ex press sincere appreciation to the ' many friends for their kind ex pressions of sympathy and ser vices rendered at the sudden passing of dear Mother. May | God bless each of you, c THE CHILDREN. is ‘8 aa 11 a i " stop" SWARMING TERMITES I # \ uv 'CTWma IN EDENTON !l is ihe latest fashion lo save! - yes,and more and more people are savin** al Peoples hank. Open YOUR aeeounl soon! I H &P& maJee Me cfi/j-eteftce a£ wm*m ■ tSa/ife. cmd Thuit Cempawi EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA 3% Interest Paid On Savings Accounts MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION DEPOSITS INSURED TO 110,000 Indention, North Carolina Thursday, April 20, 1961. Negro Citizens Urged To Help Cancer Fund Members of the Edenton Ne gro Woman’s Club call attention to the fact that Friday, April 21. is canvassing day in Eden ton for the cancer drive, Club members or a represen tative will, call ai homes for contributions and urge those called upon to give as much as they are able. Those who are not at home when the .canvassers.- call ...'are. urged to send their contribu tion to Mrs. N. F. Wilson, 416 North. Oakum Street-. Prescription Service * —by REGISTERED PHARMACISTS D ni 9 hl ! l «k»7 pnysic.an fjm,” 'I callus! f in :m\ %Pgj | W i /- /'/( /. • ~ * I • .! \J:> /)/• /./17‘./v * * * kitchener’s Pharmacy 301 S. Broad Street -:- Edenton, N. w. MARTIN LUTHER STORY TO BE PRESENTED ON SUNDAY The Young Churchmen of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will show the “Martin Luther” story in full length Sunday, April 23. at 7:30 P. M., in the Parish House. Tickets may be secured fiorn members of the Young Church men, proceeds of which will be used for ti 1 e missionary work of the youth group in the diocese. Imagination disposes of every thing; it creates beauty, justice, happ.ncss. which is everything in ’ mis world. —Pascal.
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