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PAGE FOUR a—SECTION OWE llie Chowan Herald t*ubiished every Thursday by The Chowan Huilil a partnership consisting o£ J. Edwin itiiffiap and Hector Lupton, at 423-429 South taruad Street. Edenton. North Carolina. Vlm» AMSOCiAnGh J. CD WIN BUFFLAP Edit* # hBOVOB LUPTON Advertlitaa Manager SUBSCRIPTION KATES: ' One Year (outside North Carolina) 53.00 One Year (in North Carolina) Six Months filtered as second-class matter August 30. at the Post Office at Edenton. North Carolina, under the act of March 3. 1879. Cards of thanks, ooieuanes. resolutions or re spect. etc., will be charged for at regular ad vertising rates. . THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1961. hft FOR TODaV" Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.— Exodus 23:2. ... , , • Wickedness may prosper for a while, but in the long run he that sets all knaves at woik will Pa jumighty Father, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. . Higher Tax Rate Taxes, like death, have been and will al ways be with us, and both are more or less | dreaded by the majority of people. So that] whenever it is necessary to raise taxes, there is usually an outcry. Chowan County Commissioners, it will be noted, have been forced to raise the tax rate for the fiscal year 1961-1902 in the amount of 22 cents on the SIOO of property valua tion, so that the new rate will be SO2 as compared with sl.lO last year. Os course, taxpayers outside the corporate limits of Edenton will be obliged to pay a rate of $1.42 due to a special tax levy for rural fire pro tection. The Commissioners and the County Ac countant spent a great deal of time working on the new budget in an eflnrt to hold the rate as low as possible. In fact, they were more or less agreeably surprised to come up with a $1.32 rate, for when the budgets from the various departments first came in, there was sort of a feeling that at least a 35-cent boost might be necessary to meet the anti cipated expenditures. However, some reduc tions were made so that the rate is not as high as at first anticipated. The major cause of the increase is due to the cost of operation of schools in the county. This requirement alone calls for a budget of $177,799 which, after deductions of revenue anticipated from other sources, calls for 76 cents of the $1.32 tax rate. Town Councilmen are also no to their necks in figures in preparation for the budget which will determine Edenton’s tax rate. While no indication has been forthcoming as to the pos sible tax rate, every effort will be made to precent an increase. Operation of town and county governments is an expensive business, so that those whose duty it is to make up the budgets deserve not only the well wishes but sympathy as well of those whom they serve. Giving Good Driver His Due Announcement in Massachusetts of a merit .rating plan for automobile liability insurance premiums is in line with a movement that has spread through 20 states in the last two years and should soon become nationwide. The rising cost of such liability insurance, which is needed for the protection of the pub lic, stems basically from the accident rate. There are also factors such as fraudulent claims, excessive jury awards, and —until com pacts —the price of parts for larger, more ex pensive cars. But if more of the cost of in surance can be placed on those responsible for most of the damage, this will not only serve the interests of fairness but may also act as some deterrent to carelessness. Otis M. Whitney, insurance commissioner for Massachusetts, believes the means are available to begin to do this. He finds that for every motorist with a “bad” driving rec ord there are five whose records, taking the preceding year as a basis, are clear. He proposes therefore to balance the total pre mium intake of the companies by giving a 2 per cent reduction to each “good” driver (or car owner) and assessing a 10 per cent in crease against owners on whose accounts in surance payments were made for bodily in jury or property damage. Other States, notably California, where the selective premium plan was introduced in 1959, make a wider spread in immediate pen alties and rewards, often based on three-year records. Through a year-to-year cumulative feature in Massachusetts, a series of years in which claims were paid could become quite expensive to an insuree or a 10-year clean record, for example, could result in substan tial saving. An earlier plan in this state was thrown out after a short, perhaps too short, trial. Mr. Whitney attributes this to the fact that de merits were charged for traffic violations which did not result in accidents. Other states have found a distinct correlation be tween such offenses as speeding or drunken driving and some of the accident-prone driv ers. In any case, a higher iterance prem ium on gently negligent sbould put a pocketbook premium on driv - rT "‘ _ ace on , WMUeaJ Seen ■I Byßuff In last week’s issue of The Herald an item was used which was written by Sam Ragan of the Raleigh News and Observer. The paragraph had to do with mo-ving the Confederate monu ment in Edenton and in answer to Mr. Ragan’s remarks, Mrs. Elizabeth Wiggins Hassell has re plied as follows: Dear Mr. Ragan: A quotation from your weekly column in the News and Observer used by ’Mr. Bafflap in his Heard and Seen column of The Chowan Herald, June 15th issue, in ferred your surprise at the lack of concern the actual relocating of the Chowan County Confed erate monument created a year after the “vio lent opposition which almost became a battle roval.’’ To clear your mind as to the feeling of many of us who ‘ vioienuy opposed’’ the moving of the monument from the Court House Green to the lower end of Main Street, I wish to give as brietly as. I can the strategy of the coup .d’etat that so successfully brought about this “revolu tion” in Edenton to which you referred to as going unnoticed and ask you “What do you think?” On March 7th, 1960, the Chowan County Com missioners, consisting of W. E. Bond, chairman, Gilliam Wood, Cary Hollowell, Dallas Jethro and veteran commissioner of thirty years ser vice, Mr. Raleigh Peele, turned down a request for approximately one-half of $10,000.00 and refused to give the Woman's Club of Edenton permission to move the Confederate monument by a vote of 3-2. Mr. Bond and Mr. Wood be ing the minority, in turn they voted by the same ratio and by the same commissioners to carry the controversy of the Confederate monument to the people themselves —to let the citizens of Chowan County decide this important issue by the right to express their wishes at the May election of 1960. This, the Womans Club re fused and withdrew their request for funds and the removal of the monument. In the fall of 1960, the Edenton Woman’s Club again appeared before the commissioners and requested that the commissioners look into the advisability of removing the paint from the Chown Court House, thus restoring it to its or iginal unpainted brick condition and if found to do no harm to the Court House to proceed to have the paint removed. This was voted to be done and after tests were made, the commission ers authorized the removal of the paint at a ccst of $4,750.00, plus repairs to bricks and chimneys amounting to $4,880.00 —a total of $9,630.00. Please take note that there was no protest by the taxpayers at this expenditure of taxpayers’ money at the request of the Womans Club, although opinions have been expressed that some preferred the Court House painted to its present condition and it seems to me when I saw Independence Hall in Philadelphia it was painted red, too. On May 10th, 1961, a special meeting of the Town Council of Edenton was called. The pur pose for which this meeting was called was to decide whether the town of Edenton would en u>r the bids for the sale of Government property, namely the old Edenton Fish Hatchery. A group of women representing the Edenton Woman’s j Club were present also. I was told a year be fore by Councilman-at-large George A. Bvrum that no group of persons could come before the Town Council without first asking for a hearing making known their requests and being approv ed by being placed on the agenda for said meet ing, so definitely the knowledge' that the Club would make their request at this meeting was known by the Council. The Club asked per mission to place the Confederate Monument on town property supposedly even before they knew they were going to have permission to move it from the Green. The motion was made to grant this request, seconded by Elton Forehand and carried by. the Council. As important an issue as this was to the citi zens of Edentcn and Chowan County as testified by your so-called “battle royal” that went on in the Court House in 1960 not one word of this re quest by the Woman's Club and the granting of the request was published in any paper until af ter the Commissioners had met and granted the complete carrying out of the Woman’s Club plans. Chowan residents read both the News and Ob server and Virginia-Pilot every day and report ers are employed to furnish such pertinent hap penings to their publications. As important an issue as this was to the citi ’ zehs of Edenton and Chowan County not one inkling of what was underfoot leaked —not at the coffee hour at Hollowell’s Drug Store, not to wife, husband, or friend who might let drop a clue to what was in the process of becoming a Blitzkrieg of 1961 as Miss Bufflap has so aptly stated. Six days later on May 16th at another special call meeting the County Commissioners adver tised to hf ar complaints about a coming bond issue cf 5289.000.00 for schools. Quietly the dele gates from the Woman’s Club again were on hand and asked permission to carry out their orig.nal plans for the removal of the monument this time at the Club’s expense. This time be cause no funds were requested (so we are told) Ihe motion was made by Gilliam Wood to allow the Woman’s C'"V> to carry out their plans for the Court House Green in its entirety, seconded by Cary Hollowed and after hesitancy and de lay on the part of Mr. Evans (elected in Novem ber to succeed Mr. Peele upon his retirement) and Mr. .Te*h”' the motion was carried unani mously. Less than an hour Edenton was stunned and bewildered. Why did the Commissioners think it was of les- importance to the citizens of Chowan in Mav 1961 to be allowed to vote on the issue of the Confederate Monument than they did in March 1960? if it was right to refer the matter to the voters in 1960, why not in 1961? It could not have been (as they have said) in the interest of taxes beralse they didn’t hesitate to spend $9,630.00 at the Club's request for paint removal and subsequent repairs. What do you think? Before the Monument was moved, Mrs. Robert Grady Johnson of Burgaw, N. C., State President of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of North Carolina, having been informed and very much concerned in the issue of the removal of the Monument called Mr. W. E. Bond, Chairman of the Commissioners and asked for a hearing to appear with the past president of the U.D.C., Mrs. Henry Stevens (wife of Judge Stevens) be fore the Commissioners. She reports that after iaiking with Mr. Bond in which he refused her (without consulting other members of the board of Commissioners) a hearing, telling her the Monument would be moved the coming week and there was “nothing she could do about it” she regretted very much ever ta!k : ng to Mr. Bond and was “thankful she did not live in Chowan County.” The removal of the Monument was completed from the Green to the foot of Main Street in one day by a local bull-dozing and dragline concern. My husband having recently required the services of this name concern on his farm I am in a position to state that their services to us were at the rate of $15.00 (Fifteen dollars) per hour: Contrast tms with the amount spent on the Court House without protest from the taxpayer and see it you can come up with the answer that the main opposition was based on the tax Chowan County has been unfortunate in and the loser of this controversy because of lack of organization to fight organization. The opposi tion has been widespread bat not organized. Some wanted to jweort to an function to stop TUB CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA. THPREPAT. JtJVZ 21 WI. and often grows into a long drawn out costly court battle with ensuing suits. Mr. Ragan, you referred to “time having .a wav of heslm** and sometimes it may apply to the Civil War.” We do not want to forget the love of native soil and the desire for the free dom to decide their own prob lems that inspired -the boys and men in Grey in 1861-65 who faithfully served and laid down their lives to preserve the way of life of free men. , Their brav ery and sacrifices may be match ed but they can never be sur passed. Neither can we forget that here in Chowan County in the year of our Lord 1961 when we as a nation, we as a state, and we as individuals, are pro claiming to the world our belief in democracy and freedom of choice by expressing our wishes by the ballot, citizens can be denied and refused the right to settle an issue that has so much appeal to nearly every man, wo man, and child. We had every right to believe that when and if the issue was revived it would be referred to the voters to de cide. The Commissioners com pletely about-faced, not caring to find out the wishes of the peo ple. They cannot justify their contention that when funds were not wanted the battle was over because evidence overwhelming ly points otherwise .and they would not allow their theory to be tested by vote. How many times in the future when they say one thing will they about lace and do the opposite. We wonder! In conclusion, Mr. Ragan, if any organization should in years or months (who knows) to come, decide' they want the Confed erate Monument moved from the Capitol Square in Raleigh tell them to come to Edenton for ex cellent advice on the technique of such an operation. Our elect ed officials of town and county know all the answers of how it can be done to a trusting and unsuspecting public. Chow^l News By CATHERINE AMAN Assistant Homs Economics Agent Twenty-four Chowan 4-H’ers attended 4-H Camp Millstone last week. In addition to an enjoyable week —even though it did rain and turn very cool — the 4-H’ers brought back seven awards. Rita White, Ivy Lowe, Bobby Winborne and Johnetta Davenport won awards in Hand icraft for doing some outstand ing work on their jewel box which was made in the handi craft class. Ivy Lowe won the breath-holding event in the swim meet; Johnetta Davenport was selected as the outstanding girl camper from the Health Group and also Girl Captain; Bobby Winborne was the outstanding boy camper in the Hands Group and also was the Boy Captain. In addition to the names above, the following 4-H’ers at tended camp: Linda Ashley, Emily Powell, John Dußois, Douglas Maxwell, Malcolm Dix on, Yvonne Wright, Gail Neil son, Ann Castelloe, Cal Good win, Carroll Lassiter, Chris Ven ters, Peggy Monds, Linda Hollo well, Doris Roberson, Marvin Hare, Don Evans, Mary Lou Dail, Joyce Byrum, Allen Swan ner and Sanfra Ange. Two adult leaders were award ed camp scholarships to attend along with the 4-H’ers. Mrs. Carlton Perry of the Advance Community and Alphonso Rob erson were the leaders. This was the second year at camp for Mrs. Perry. These scholarships are awarded annually and are based on the camp quota per county. This is an excellent way for adult leaders to learn more about the total 4-H pro gram—and also provides a week full of other opportunities and enjoyment. The group we carried to camp this year was certainly one of the finest groups ,I’ve had the pleasure of camping with. They attended the four classes daily, which consisted of: Swimming, recreation, handicraft, and two days of wildlife and two days of electric classes. Even though a bit hesitant to rise at 6:30 each morning, the 4-H’ers man aged to clean the cabins and get to flag raising on time. And so went the busy schedule until taps blew at 10:30 each night. For a much fuller and more de tailed report, just ask any 4-H’er who went to camp; I’m sure they can fill you in on many subjects of camp I’ve left un touched! The Eastern District 4-H Dem onstration Day was heW at the Chocowlaity High School in Chocowinity, N. on Tuesday, June 20. Chowan County had the following 4-H’ers participat ing in events: Lois Chappell, Dress Revue; Judy Evans and toßwudGm r. —r —7 ■ ; Copeland, Poultry Barbecue; Johnny Winborne and Jerry White, Soil and Water Conser vation; Lewis Evans, Hubert By rum, John Dußois, Jakie Boyce, Susan Evans, Richard White, Frances Smithson, Sunny White, Jimmy Turner, Mary Lou Dail, Emmett Jones and Jo Ann Cope land in the Talent Division. Running for District Offices are: Judy Evans; president; Leon Evans, vice president; Richard White, secretary, and Kay Bunch, historian. Lee Ven ters will represent Chowan County in casting our ballots and during the council meeting. y Others attending the Demon stration Day included: Mrs. Les ter Copeland, Nelia and Ivy Lowe. Jaycees Leading Softball League Interest continues to mount in the Edenton Softball League with a goodly number of fans attending the games. Rain has more or less played havoc with the games with three out of five games being rained out. The Varsity Club is setting the pace with three victories to no defeats, but the P & Q team, Red Men and Jaycees are hop ing to improve in order to de velop a hot race for the lead. League Standings W L Pet. Varsity Club 3 0 1.000 P & Q 2 1 .666 Red Men ...1 2 .333 Jaycees 0 3 .000 Tynch Registered For Baptist Meeting An Edenton resident, M. J. Tynch, has registered for the second national conference of Southern Baptist men, which will be held September 13-15 at Memphis, Tenn. More than 10,000 men are ex pected to attend the conference and hear such noted speakers as Charles Malik, former president of the United Nations General Assembly: Brooks Hays, assist ant secretary of state and former Southern Baptist Convention president, and Roy McClain, pas tor of the First Baptist Church, Atlanta. Ga. Theme for the conference is “That the World May Know.” The event is sponsored by the Brotherhood Commission ?ni) state Brotherhood departments. ANNOUNCEMENT The Fruit Stand Operated By FRANK AND HEYWOOD JONES Is Now Open For Business FULL LINE OF CANTALOUPES, WATERMELONS AND PEACHES All Kinds of Fruits and Vegetables WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Highway 17 South 3 Miles from Edenton (No Sunday Sales) PM-ai I I -am “The first big advance in cultivating since the tractor replaced the horse” Many farmers have said it, and they’ve said it because it’s exactly what everyone immediately thinks when they see it. Some of the advantages in using Lilliston’s remarkable new Rolling Cultvatorj % it cultivates all crops, whether they are planted on the level, on a high bed, or in a furrow. In addition, the Rolling Culti vator is adjustable to virtually all row widths. % gangs can be angled to throw dirt toward or away from the plants, tilted to work on bedded land. # gangs can be angled and tilted to prepare beds for planting # it cultivates up to three times faster than other equipment. # it requires less maintenance at considerably lower cost tfeao otbers do. We’ll be glad to demonstrate the Rolling Cultivator on your famv You’ve got to see it to believe it! rolling cultivator Hobbs Implement Company Ffh E M,l . Edenton. N t N. €. Peach Crop i Largest Since 1957 Tsie 1961 peach production for North Carolina is estimated at 1,450,000 bushels and is the lar-| gest crop since 195 T when 1,-1 1 500,000 bushels were produced,, according to the N. C. Crop Re porting Service. In the com mercial counties of the Sandhill area the crop is ■Jn good to excellent condition. Harvest of the early maturing varieties has been under way since the first week of June. Mrs. Lucille Jones Dies In Rest Home Mirs. Lucille Ashley Jones, 75, died Thursday night at Morgan’s Rest Home in Winfall after a lingering illness. A native of Chowan County, she was a daughter of the late Jobe and Delliab Ashley. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Vergie Bass of Edenton and Mrs. Peggy Flynn of St. Petersburg, Fla.; two brothers, Norman Ashley of Philadelphia and Ben Ashley of New York; two grandchildren and six great grandchildren. She was a mem ber of Fairmont Park Baptist Church in Norfolk. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, at 3 o’clock at Williford Funeral Home. The CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our most sincere appreciation for the many acts of kindness shown us during the recent death of our mother, Mrs. Lucille Jones, p THE FAMILY. Legal Notices ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as Admini stratrix of the estate of Luther N. Keeter, deceased, late of Cho wan County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Edenton, North Carolina, on or before the 22nd day of June, 1962, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please m'ake immediate payment. This June 22, 1961. LESSIE S. KEETER, Administratrix of Luther N. Keeter Estf June22,29,Ju1y6.13,20,27p Npfe ; < f MB £ ' W&t 4 f' aK UP* jj TAKES OVER Lt. Gen. Chang Do Yung, above, has, taken over the reins of South Korean govemment following a military coup; Rev. Thurman Allred, pastor of the Rocky Hock Baptist Church, officiated. Rocky Hock Baptist Church Classified Ads TOOTH DECAY. See dentist regularly. Use sanitizing OLAG Tooth Paste. At all drug stores. FOR SALE—ELECTRIC STOVE and refrigerator in good con dition. Will sell cheap. Call 3472, Edenton. Jultfc PAINTING & PAPER HANGING at reasonable prices; clean work. Free estimates. Chas. P. Morgan, phone 2486. Juneltfc FOR RENT—TWO 2-BEDROOM houses in Westover Heights. One partly furnished; $36 per month. Phone 3082, Mrs. Dixon. Juneltfc FOR SALE OR RENT—HOUSE with living room, kitchen, 2(4 baths and four bedrooms. Gas heat Venetian blinds through out. Located 907 Cabarrus Street. Contact R. Elton Fore i hand, phone 3314. Apr6tfc M. G. BROWN COMPANY NOW buying log! and tracts of timber. Highest market prices paid. Phone 3610, Edenton. Apr2otfc FOR SALE OR RENT—2 AND 3-bedroom houses on mail and school bus route. Two miles from Edenton. Aj>ply L. E Francis, Route 3, Edenton. Phone 3472. Mar9tfc PORTO RICO SWEET POTATO plants, from vine cuttings. C. E. Lupton, Edenton, phone 2956. May 18,25, Ju1,8,15,22c FOR RENT—THREE-BEDROOM house on West Queen Street. Apply Mrs. H. M. Phthisic. Phone 3331. May4tfc HAVE YOURS OR YOUR CHILD’S PICTURE tinted or colored at a very reasonable cost. Samples at home. Mrs. Pearl Griffin, 716 Johnston St., Edenton. Mar23tfc BOAT SALE FIBERGLASS RUNABOUTS AND FISHING SKIFFS AT BELOW WHOLE SALE PRICES. All first line new boats ready to go. 16-ft. Runabout, reg. price $995.00, price now $648.00; 15-ft. Run about, reg. price $595.00, price now $395.00; 14-ft. Fishing Skiff, reg. price $298.00, price now $199.95. We also sell trailers and can arrange fi nancing. Open Monday thru Saturday. Sundays by ap pointment. CAROLINA FI BERGLASS PRODUCTS CO.. 510 East Jones St., Wilson. N. C . Telephone 243-3964 or 237-2426. Ju22,29,July«c AT ROCKY MOUNT N. C. SINCE 1925 CANVAS It ALUMINUM Storm Doors And Windows choir sang “Does Jesus Care?” and “Have Thine Own?Way” and Miss Becky Harrell sang a solo, “Beyond the Sunset.” officiated. Burial was in Beaver Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were Edward Har rell, Earl Smith, Marvin Smith, Alvin Evans, Raleigh Harrell and Clarence Bass. Bm WSM {of Ull^^D pX^^ffwnjy 1/ JBmmSmWfTV/S^m FOR RENT FURNISHED apartment at 228 East Queen Street. See C. W. Swanner at 217 East Queen Street. Phone 2544. June22tfc WOMAN WHO CAN DRIVE— If you would enjoy working 3 or 4 hours a day calling regularly each month on a group of Studio Girl Cosmetic clients o.n a route to be estab lished in and around Edenton, and are willing to make light deliveries, etc., write to STUDIO GIRL COSMETICS, Dept. JW-32, Glendale, Cal. Route will pay up to $5.00 per 1 hour. June15,22,29Ju1y6 SALESMEN WANTED —ls you are 40 to 60 years old and have difficulty in getting or holding a job, Rawleigh Re tailing can solve your prob lem. The more yop work, the more you earn. Vacancy in Chowan County. Write Raw leigh, Dept. NCF-210-829, Rich mond, Va. Ju1.8,25,22,29p BULLDOZER WORK LAND clearing and dirt pushing. Phone 2956, Clarence Lupton. tfc FOR QUICK AND EXPERT service on your radio and phonograph, call the Griffin Musicenter, phone 2528. W* carry a complete line 0$ phono needles. WATCH REPAIRING —JEWEL ry repairing and engraving . .. Prompt service. Ross Jewelera Phone 3525. tk PICTURE FRAMING—FOR THI best in custom ,/cture framing see John R. Lewis at the Eden ten Furniture Company. Com* Dlete line of moulding to choote from til FOR SALE—GOOD USED GAS ranges as low as $35.00. West ern Gas Service. Phone 3122, Edenton. ;une2tf Electric Water Coolers IN STOCK With: No Squirt Bubbler Stainless Steel Tops Foot Pedal Control Anti-Splash Basin Cdmpetitively Priced Your Inspection Invited Ralph E. Parrish < INCORPORATED) PHONE 2421 Edenton, N. C. Tfie Home that gives you even more than you expect for your money: _ , The exciting, 1961 Series LESCO HOMES gives expanse, not expense If yen went mpante, witheet expense, the new 1961 series by lesco Homes fcss the big qsece I yotir family wants et e price end I terms you cm. afford. • Cotoni./. 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