ONLY, NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED IN
CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume xxvnl— Number W
Edenton Citizens Will Vote On $543,000 Bond Issue Tuesday
Stage Set For Watershed
Celebration In Edenton
Today; Governor Speaks
Very Interesting Pro
gram Arranged In
| Connection With Lo
cal Event
Farm and city people are
partners in progress.
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This theme is of special sig-|
riificance in northeastern North 1
Carolina as the nation begins
its annual observance of farm
city week, a Kiwanis-sponsored
event which ends on Thanks
giving day.
At Edenton a three-fchase
event will point to future abund-j
ance in a setting where the past
will be revered. Several hun
dred people will attend to see
at first hand a newly completed
project which will enable farm
ers to produce at lower costs
the food and fiber needed for a
fast-growing America. They will
hear .Governor Terry Sanford
pay tribute to sponsors of two
watershed projects and to other
f leaders of the movement to con
serve the soil and water re
sources of that part of the state.
> They will hear Donald A.|
Willems, Washington, D. C.,'
Administrator of the Soil Con-'
servation Service, report on con
servation activities across the!
nation, and make formal dedi-|
cation of the completed Burnt
Mill Creek watershed protection
and flood prevention project
near Edenton. At the same pro-!
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Six Qualify For Local
T Ton And A Half Gub
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Wesley Chesson, Jr., Chair- 1
man of the Chamber of Com
merce Agricultural Committee,
sponsors of the Chowan County
Ton and a Half Peanut Club,
reported early this week that
six peanut farmers have quali-j
fied as members.
The six are A. C. Griffin, Wil-!
liam Forehand, Paul Ober, Carlj
Ober, David Ober and Randolph 1
Ward. • • ■ I
Any other peanut farmers who'
can qualify for membership in j
the club is requested to notify
Mr. Chesson or C. W. Overman.
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20 Years Ago
As Found In Tha Files Os 1
The Chowan Herald
S. A
Governor Melville Broughton
announced the appointment of
seven Edenton people to be in
cluded among the 322 members
, -of the local advisory councils
of the Unemployment Compen
sation Commission representing
employers, employees and gen
. eral public. Those appointed
. were Henry Rogerson, Gurnie C.
’ Hobbs. J. W. Davis, Ralph E.
Parrish. J. H. McMullan, Mrs.
C. T. Hollowsll and J. Edwin
Bufflap.
Judge R. Hunt Parker was
speaker at an Armistice Day
Program sponsored by the
American Legion and Auxiliary
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; William S. Privott Speaker For
Local Veterans Day Program
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by the American
iigion, the VFW and their Au-j
xiliaries -a very impressive Vet- 1
f erans t>ay program was held on 1
the Court House Green Sat
urday morning.
The# John A. Holmes High
School Band presented several
open' the program. The mvoc*
tlon was given by the Rev. 3.
& Paul Holoman, after which the;
■j^following were recognised: Rob-!
t ert Powell, commander of Ed;
Band Post of the American Le- 1
THE HOWAN HERALD
Voull Be Called
That very few Edenton peo
| pie will be permitted to forget !
to vote in Tuesday's $543,000 j
i bond election is assured by the
I Edenton Woman's Club.
I Members of the club plan to
be on the telephone all day
Tuesday to remind voters to go
to the polls and cast their bal
lots in the bond election for the
purpose of constructing a sew
' age disposal plant for Edenton.
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Play Friday Night
Curtain Will Rise on
“Hillbilly Wedding”
At 8 O’clock
The Junior Class of Chowan
High School will present its
I class play in the school audi-
I torium Friday night, November
.17, at 8 o’clock. This year’s ;
| play is “Hillbilly Weddin’.” It
; is directed by Miss Patsy Oliver.
Some of the members partici
l pating in the play are Jimmy
Allred, Frances Jordan, Jo Ann
Copeland, Frances Smithson,
I Betty Jean Smith, Nancy Par
: rish, Edith Nixon, Sunny White,
1 Richard White, Milton Tynch,
I Carroll Bass,
; Jimmy Ward, Judy Lesfke, San
dra Copeland, Jimmy" Simpson
I and Billy Hollowell.
I The play promises to provide
an evening of delightful enter- 1
, tainment.
Coronation Service
I AtWarwickChurch
I f
I Queen Crowned Dur
' ing Impressive GA
! Program
“For God So Loved,” was the
program theme for a beautiful
and inspiring GA coronation
■ service at Warwick Baptist
1 Church on Sunday evening, Oc
. tober 22.
June Carol Spivey was crown
ed queen, with her little sister,
Debbie, as her crown bearer and
Cindy Bass and Cathy Bunch
as her'flower girls. June Carol,.
, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har- i
vey Spivey, is the first GA to'
Continued on Page 3, Section 1
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LEGION MEETS TUESDAY
, AT TRIANGLE RESTAURANT
Ed Bond Post No. 40 of thej
American Legion, will' have a
dinner meeting at the Triangle
Restaurant Tuesday night, No
vember 21, at 7 o’clock. Com
j mander Robert Powell requests
j a large number of Legionnaires
' to be present.
president of the VFW Auxiliary.'
The color guard of the local,
I National Guard participated in;
1 die program and the Rev, Hugh (
Evans gave the benediction. j
The principal speaker wets
William S. Privott, whose re-1
marks follow:.
1 am grateful for this oppor- j
tuaity to participate in this Vet- 1
erans* Dkgy memorial .service. As j,
a veteran of World War II and |
the Korean War and the son of a
veteran of- World War I, I wel
come the privilege of- paying
tribute to the heroes: who died
so bravely on the battlefields of j
the world for the cate se of free- i
dom. .Let us never say he lost
llpve of country is ever .made in
■J f s on, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 16,1961
PRINCIPALS AT TODAY’S WATERSHED CELEBRATION !
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COV. SANrORD DONALD A. WILLIAMS HERBERT^C^BONNER
Among the prominent guests who will attend the eradication of Burnt Mill Creek Watershed and
groundbreaking of Pollock Swamp Watershed today (Thursday) will be Governor Terry Sanford
who will ba the principal speaker at a banquet in the Edenton armory at 6:30 o'clock tonight.
Donald A. Williams, national administrator of the Soil Conservation Service of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, will be the principal speaker at exercises to be held this (Thursday) a.ter
noon at 2 o'clock at the farm of L. C. Bunch, near Hancock Station. Mr. Williams will be intro
duced by Congressman Herbert C. Bonner.
Publishers This Week Release
New Edenton City Directory
If you didn’t make the current
social register, or “bluebook,” let
it disturb you no longer. The!
Edenton City Directory publish-1
ed by Hill Directory Coptine.,l
of Richmond, Va., is out this
week and you’ve probably made
that —if you live or work in
Edenton or vicinity and are at j
least 18, that is.
The City Directory is a pe
culiar book, alone in its field, 1
and with a style all its own.J
Like the dictionary, it says
much in a few words, many of!
them abbreviated to a “skele-j
ton”. While it does not attempt
to rate credit, it does furnish j
clues in this direction; it dis-!
tinguishes between corporations'
Sanford Appoints Atkinson On
State Better Schools Committee
R. S. Atkinson, Jr., vice presi
dent for Peoples Bank & Trust
Company in Edenton, has been
appointed by Governor Terry
Sanford to the North Carolina
Citizens Committee for Better
Schools.
As a member of the State
Committee, Atkinson will par
ticipate in a state-wide campaign
to promote and support school
improvement. The Committee
for Better Schools will work
with state and local educational
leaders to help build public un
Local DAR Joins Scout Roundup
In Safety Contest Rally On Nov. 18
Edenton Tea Party Chapter of
the DAR is joining with the Na
tional Society, Daughters of the
j American Revolution in the
I 1961-62 traffic safety contest.
All chapters of the National
| Society, Daughters of Ameri
! can Revolution in the United
! States are eligible to compete in
| the campaign and three prizes
are offered, SIOO, $75 and SSO
U. S. savings bonds.
Projects included in the con
test include: Adult driver clin
ics, pedestrian safety, high
school driver education, periodic
motor vehicle inspection, chemi
cal tests for intoxication, pub-j
lie support for traffic safety, pe-!
riodic re-examination of all i
drivers, improved driver license;
examinations, better law en
forcement, uniformity of traffic
laws, bicycle safety, teenage
1 safety conferences, strict high
way speed control and acurate
traffi accident records.
Hospital Auxiliary
Will Meet Friday
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Chowan Hospital Auxiliary
' will m&et in the nurses’ home
■•Friday morning, November 17,
at 10 o’clock. are
urged to note the change of
| time to morning instead of af
ternoon.
Mrs. Frank Holmes is in
charge of, the program and has
secured .as a speaker Paul Stan
tom who will discuss the new
ur££s aII memb-ers to stt&nci.
: and copartnerships, bachelors
; and benedicts, misses and ma
>! trons, employers and employees,
I executives and janitors. It is
.! democratic in that alphabetical
i sequence is the ironclad rule of
. priority in the listings. Thus
‘one may note that here for once
, I pauper and millionnaire, raga-
I muffin and Beau Brummel,
■ workman and “big wheel”, hod
■carrier and captain of industry,
I scrubwoman and social dowager,
;■ “Judy O’Grady and the Colonel’s
’ Lady,” rich man, poor man, beg
j gar man and thief, rub elbows.
The new edition is a substan
,l tial handy volume, listing 3,782
. i names in Edenton and vicinity,
i' Continued or. Page s—section 1
derstanding and support of high
quality education.
One of the first responsibili
ties of the members of the Bet
ter Schools Committee will be
to work with local school offi
cials to organize an education
rally in the county to which
the Governor will be invited to
speak. At the rallies, emphasis
will be placed on citizen, parent
and student responsibility for
school improvement.
The education rally will be
Continued on Page 8, Section 1
Boy Scouts ai)d leaders of the
Albemarle District of the Tide
water Council will stage a
round-up rally at the Elizabeth
City High School Memorial
Field beginning at 5 P. M., on
Saturday, November 18.
The entire event will be un
der- the supervision of the Al
bemarle District Commissioners
staff and the Order of Arrow.
The rally will start with g
flag ceremony of every troop
present with their troop flag.
The activities will include a
three legged race, string burn
ing, pup tent pitching contest a
Continued on Page 3. Section 1
Big Up County Still Destroyed
• Above is pictured a portion of a liquor still discovered early
Saturday morning in upper Chowan County by ABC Officer Troy
Toppln and Sheriff Earl Goodwin. The still was the largest to be
Mail Early For
Christmas Says
Local Postmaster
|
IJ. L. Chestnutt Is Al
ready Preparing to!
Handle Avalanche of i
Holiday Mail
“It’s time to start planning j
your Christmas card and gift
mailings,” Postmaster J. L.!
Chestnutt said this week as he'
launched his 1961 “Mail Early
|For Christmas” campaign.
I In this connection Mr. Chest- j
j nutt said:
“Check your Christmas card,
| and gift fiSf.s carefully. Be sure
'each address is complete with
j full name, street and number,!
1 city, zone and state.
“For your gift packages, se-i
[cure heavy wrapping paper,!
j sturdy corrugated cartons, strong!
(cord and adhesive tape. Re-j
•member, also, that you can in-j
Continued on Page 3—Section 1
Chief Os Police j
George Dail Given i
Leave Os Absence
I
Councilmen Dispose of
Full Agenda Tues
day Night at Novem
ber Meeting
A feeling of regret was urfani
mously felt at the close of Town
Council’s meeting Tuesday night
when Mayor John Mitchener
read a letter from Chief of Po
lice George I. Dail, who re-j
quested a leave of absence due
to his health. His request was
granted.
Chief Dail’s letter to the
Mayor and Councilmen follows:
“It is with sincere regret that
I must request a leave of absence
from my office as chief of po
lice, effective November 18, 1961.
Continued on Page 3—Section 1
Christmas Seals Officials Os Town In Full
s n en JJ° Cite Accord With Bond Sale
Os Chowan County To End Water Po , lution
Parrish Points Out
Important Part Con
tributions Take In
Fighting TB
Ralph Parrish, secretary-treas
urer for the 55th annual Christ
mas Sea! campaign in Chowan
County, on Monday mailed
batches of the 1961 Christmas
Seals to people in Chowan
County. i
Mr. Parrish points out that in
North Carolina in 1959, the lat
est available date, figures show,
there were 1,440 newly reported
cases of tuberculosis. In thej
state'’ 193 persons died of the:
disease and of this number one
was a resident of Chowan
County.
In March of 1960, when a pa
tient census was taken, there
Were 1,610 North Carolinians in
tuberculosis hospitals in thej
state. Seven of these patients!
were from Chowan County.
It is estimated that one out
Continued on Page 7, Section 1 i
Big Liquor Still Captured And
Destroyed In Upper Chowan
The largest liquor still to be 1
discovered in Chowan County
this year was destroyed Satur-;
day morning. The still was
found by ABC Officer Troy
Toppin and Sheriff Earl Good
win.
The still, apparently in op
eration only a short time, was
located in the upper end of the
county on the Selwyn road near
the Gates County line. It was
later destroyed with the assist
ance of William Johnston, ATU
Guidance Supervisor Will Be
Speaker At Meeting Os PTA
Edenton’s Parent-Teacher As-|
1 sociation will meet Tuesday j
i night, November 21, at 8 o’clock!
■ in the auditorium of the Eden- 1
I ton Elementary School,
j A feature of this meeting will'
be an address by Miss Ella Bar
rett, supervisor of guidance of,
the State Department of Public j
| Instruction in Raleigh. Missj
j Barrett is scheduled to speak
about the guidance program in'
the schools today. '
Thanksgiving j
Dance Nov. 22
I
Affair In Armory Is
Sponsored By Eden
ton Jaycees
Sponsored by the Edenton 1
Junior Chamber of Commerce, a<
Thanksgiving dance will be held 1
Wednesday night, November 22. \
The dance will be held in the |
Edenton armory, beginning at 9j
o’clock and continuing until 1,
A. M. Music for the dance will
be provided by Ray Abernethy,
and his orchestra from Rocky
Mount.
Jaycees are expecting a large j
crowd to attend the dance and]
point out that profits from the
dance will be used to sponsor ,
a Christmas shopping tour for
underprivileged children in
Edenton.
The Jaycees are also now sell
ing candy to help raise funds.
Employment Office
Closed November 23
Buell Bailey, manager of the
local N. C. Unemployment of-1
fice, announces that the office'
will be closed Thursday of next;
week, November 23, due to the
observance of Thanksgiving.
Mr. Bailey says tljat people
who would normally file for un- j
employment compensation must
file for two weeks payment the I
following Thursday, November
30th. {
$2.50 Per Year In North Cafrolim.
j Early Next Week
Due to the Thanksgiving holi
day next week, November 23,
The Herald will go to press a
i day earlier than usual. The
! Herald will be printed Tuesday
; afternoon instead of Wednesday, ,
i so that news and advertising
i copy must be in the office not
i later than Monday in order to
appear in next week's edition.
i Firemen Plan
;j Turkey Shoot
j
l Firemen of the Center Hill-
I Cross Roads Fire Department 1
.'will hold a turkey shoot Satur- 1
.day afternoon, November 18.;
The shoot will begin at 1 o’clock 1
,! and continue until 9:30 o’clock 1
; ' at the fire station grounds,
j Drinks, hot dogs and sand- 1
I wiches will be served at the
i fire station. 1
Officer from Elizabeth City. It
required 41 sticks of dynamite
to wreck the installation.
Destroyed was a 5-foot low
pressure steam boiler, two 470-
gallon stills, one 300-gallon pre
heater box with copper coil, one
360-gallon cooling box with cop
per coil, two 55-gallon doublers,
thirty 220-gallon fermenting bar
rels, 4,200 gallons of fermenting
mash, 109 cases of empty one
gallon jars, and a quantity of!
sugar and rye meal.
| For the first time a guidance
j program is in effect this year at
| the John A. Holmes High
I School and Miss Barrett will
j elaborate on this program and
others throughout the state.
1 Warren Twiddy, PTA presi
dent, urges all parents to attend
, this meeting.
On Tuesday afternoon at 3:30
! o’clock Miss Barrett will ad
! dress the teachers of grades one
' through 12 at the Edenton Ele- (
' mentary school. j]
METHODIST WOMEN PLAN i
CHICKEN SALAD SUPPER
l
The Women's Society of Chris- 1
| tian Service of the Methodist
[ Church will serve a chicken
! salad supper Thursday, Novem
j ber 30. Plates will be delivered
J by members of the society. Any
one desiring a plate is requested
; to call Mrs. Cecil Fry, phone
i 3579.
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ROTARIANS MEET TODAY j
Edenton’s Rotary Club will 1
J meet this (Thursday) afternoon
j at 1 o’clock in the Parish House. |
j The program will pe in charge,
I of Richard F. Elliott and Presi-,
dent Richard Atkinson urges a'
i 100 percent attendance. I
Information About Edenton’s
Bond Election On November 21
This is the last in a series of
articles which has been prepar
ed by Town Council members to
show the people of Edenton why
Town Councilmen are for and
reasons why citizens should* vote
“Yes” for the proposed pollu-,
■ tion abatement program Tues-1
day, November 21. Even though
Edenton does not have a sew
-1 age processing system at the;
present time, the people are cer-j
; tainly paying for one. We pay
by having the loss of industrial,
business, and real estate rev
enues, and by the sacrifice of
| social, cultural, and recreationalj
opportunities. Perhaps you no-!
I ticed from the above mentioned
list of losses, we did not men-j
. uon the possibility of a water!
[=“=■“
FIGHT CANCER
WITH A CHECKUP
AND CHECK
Polls In Town’s Four
Wards Will Open at
6:30 A. M. and Gose
At 6:30 P. M.
Next Tuesday, November 21,
an election will be held in
Edenton to decide if the Town
of Edenton will be authorized to
sell bonds in the amount of
$543,000. The purpose of these
bonds is for a proposed pollution
■abatement program which in
cludes the construction of a
sewage disposal plant, extension
of lines and other necessary ex
pense.
A similar election was previ
ously defeated by Edenton vot
ers, which put the Town of
Edenton in had light with the
State Stream Sanitation Com
mission. but an extension was
granted in order to hold another
election on the issue.
The purpose of the sewage
abatement program is to prevent
dumping row sewage into local
waters, a situation which state
agencies say must be stopped.
Town officials as a whole are
in favor of the bond issue and
hope the voters will this time
cast their ballots favorably
Aside from the pressure being
brought on the part of state of
ficials, town officials are of the
opinion that many advantages
will result if a sewage disposal
plant is constructed.
Both the Town Councilmen
and members of the Board of
Continued on Page 6—Section k
Tetanus Shot
Clinics Nov. 2 J>
Sponsored by • the Edenton
Junior Chamber of Commerce
and the local Medical Society,
the second of a series of tetanus
shot clinics will be held Tues
day night, November 28, at 7:30
o’clock.
The clinics will be held one
night only at the following
places: Penelope Barker house,
St. Luke’s Church on Paradise
Road. Rocky Hock Community
Building, Center Hill Cnmmuni
ty Building, St. John’s School
and Ryans Grove Church.
["civic c alenda r 1
Edent-on citizens will vo*e on
a $543,000 bond issue Tuesday.
November 21, for a proposed
water pollution abatement pro
gram.
The local Soil Conservation
Service will hold a meeting in
Edenton (today) Thursday to
dedicate the watersheds in the
Edenton area.
Edenion's annual Christmas
parade and partv will be held
Friday afternoon. November 24,
beginning at 2 o'clock.
Junior Class at Chowan High
School will present its annual
play, "Hillbilly Wedding," in the
school auditorium Friday night,
November 17, at 8 o'clock.
A story hour will be held al
Continued on Page 7, Section 1
shortage as has been previously
stated in this series of articles.
Edenton’s water supply is not
unlimited at the present time.
The possibility of a water short
age could be virtually eliminat
ed by you voting YES for the
! proposed pollution abatement
program on November 21.
If the people of Edenton do
; not do their part toward the
! pollution abatement program,
the demand for water will over
take the supply in our great
country, and land of abundance.
In the year 1900 the demand for
l pure water was 45 million gal
i lems per day. Today the de
| mand for pure water is 325 mil
lion gallons per day. and the
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