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Lions’ Eye Bank * Seeks Donations ./ Goal of Club Set To Have 20 People Will Their Eyes . A campaign for willing of eyes to the eye bank is being conducted by members of the Edenton Lions Club during Feb ruary. The eye bank was organized here by the Lions a year ago. To date 20 persons have willed eyes, to the bank in the hope that some day others may see. Already one person in North j Carolina has been recipient pf eyes as a result of the local program. I The goal is to obtain at least 100 persons who will dohate their eyes, Dr. Richard Hardin, chairman of the program, an nounced. Forms and information about •filing eyes may be obtained from Dr. Hardin, Lions Club members or the Chowan Hos pital. j “Good eyesight is not neces sary,” Dr. Hardin says, “as it will not affect the desirability of the cornea.” He added that usually the older the persons, the more suitable the cor.nea is for transplantation. I —■■■ I [civic calendarl Continued from Page 1, Section 1 dier of the Eastern Star, will observe Love and Loyally Night at its meeting Monday night, February 19, at 8 o'clock. Edenton's Business and Pro fessional Woman's Club will hold its annual Bosses' Night Banquet Thursday night, Febru- ! ary 22, at 7 o'clock at the Ma sonic Temple. A stated communication of Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. Sc ! A. M„ will be held tonight i (Thursday) at 8 o'clock. Chowanoke Council No. 54,1 Degree of Pocahontas, will en- J lertain tbeiT husbands at a din ner in the Red Men hall Tues day night. February 27, at 7 o'clock. Ed Bond Post No. 40 of the American Legion will hold a dintner meeting- at the Triangle Restaurant Tuesday night. Feb ruary 20, at 7 o'clock. Advance Home Demonstration Club will hold its annual bene fit supper at the Community Building -.Tuesday night, Febru ary 20. from 6:30 to 7:30 o'clock. Edenton's Rotary Club will meet this (Thursday) afternoon at 1 o'clock in the Parish House. A club assembly will also be held at the Edenton Restaurant tonight at 7 o'clock. Edenton BPW Club will hold ‘ its Annual Bosses' Night ban quet Thursday night, February WEEK-END SPECIALS AT THE D & M SUPER MARKET sHOP 'AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY PHONE 2317 FOR FREE PLENTY OF FREE DELIVERY ON ORDERS ... . irr OF $2.00 OR MORE! 1A....1NG SI ALI CJrade A Dressed Whole Only FRYERS lb. 28< Economy Cut Pork Chops lb. 49c Cedar Farm Sliced Bacon . . . ~ lb. 39c Fresh Neck Bones ... lb. 15c Fresh Pig Feet lb. 15c jlamestown Brand Pure Pork 3-lb. pkg. { Sausage Meat .. . . ..« 99c No. 2Vz Can Martindale pweet Potatoes . . . . . 19c 303 Cans Bed & White Apple Sauce 2 cans 25c k • peanut Butter . . . jar 29c barge .... box ouc 22, at the Masonic Temple at 7 o'clock. Edenton Lions Club will meet Monday at 7 o'clock at the Edfenton Restaurant. William H. Coffield. Jr.. Post No. 9280, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Chowan Tribe No. 12. Improv ed Order of Red Men, will meet Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. Edenton Jaycees will sponsor a Valentine dance in the Bden ton armory Saturday night, Feb ruary 17, from 9 o'clock until midnight. Safety Magic Show In Edenton Schools Continued from Page 1. Section 1 Kent County Sheriff’s Depart ment, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Lt. Pike has spent over 20 years as a policeman and later police safety officer at Jackson, Michi gan. During that time, he help ed to train schoolboy safety pa trols, assisted 'in the develop ment of driver education and safety projects and originated his unusual “Safety Magic” show. In addition so his humor, he performs many sleight-of-hand tricks, including pouring endless amounts of water from a sin gle jar, making flags and ban ners disappear then reappear, and many others. Each trick illustrates some point of safety. Ho uses five trunk-loads of equipment. He begins his program with a short talk about several of the accident cases on which he worked and then explains how it could have been avoided. “This is one of the most ef fective means of teaching traf fic safety to young people that I have had the good fortune to observe,.” says George Maddrey, Consultant in Driver and Safety Education, N. C. Dept, of Pub lic Instruction. Lt. Pike has previously ap peared in more than 80 North Ca<plina schools, 48 states, to nearly four million students. His schedule includes a per formance at the Edenton colored h : eh school Friday morning, February 23, at. 10 o’clock and again at 2 o'clock at the John A. Holmes High School. YKAUS AGO Continued from Page 1, Section I maining from the last Demo cratic campaign. The amount to be raised by Chowan was $125. Edenton was again chosen as spring training quarters for two professional clubs, Norfolk of the Piedmont League and Bing hampton of the New York Stale League. Mrs. C. T. Hollowell was elect ed president of the Edenton Gar den Club. The Chowan County Tire Ra tioning Board announced that 26 persons Would be allowed to THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY IS, 1962. i . ■ ■ ... . purchase tire*. A 12-year program was the principal topic at a meeting of the Schoolmasters Club held in Edenton. Edenton's churches began holding services according to war time basis. t Edenton's Rotary Club cele brated its 16th anniversary when r a special program was arranged. Activity among Edenton's Boy Scouts was rapidly increasing . under the leadership of C. W. Overman. J. R. T. Perry, 77, died at his home in the Beech Fork section as the result of an attack of pneumonia. Miss Emily Bella Shaw became the bride of Luther C. Parks in a ceremony hold at South Mills on February 4. As the result of a Negro min strel held at Chowan High School. S2O was donated to the Red Cross. Miss Faira Hughes died in the Windsor Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. W. S. Griffin was honored as a Lions executive when he received an award for the growth of his region. Dr. Grif fin was govenor of District 31-C. I Lunch Room Menu 1 I Menus at Chowan High School lunch room fbr the week begin ning February 19 will be as follows: Monday: Milk, franks, pimen to cheese sandwiches, beef and I vegetable soup, crackers, butter, rice and raisin pudding. I Tuesday: Milk, meat loaf and gravy, mashed potatoes, turnip greens, sauerkraut, rolls, butter, French apple cobbler. Wednesday: Milk, cube steak, French fried onions, buttered po j tatoes, toss salad, rolls, butter, I cocoanut pudding, j Thursday: Milk,, roast turkey and gravy, Spanish peas, sweet ' potato puff, cranberries, rolls, j butter, jello with fruit. Friday: Milk, fish sticks, cole slaw, potato sticks, blackeye i peas, hushpuppies, butter, lemon pudding. I 1 Alligator Bridge Open For Traffic j Continued' from Page L Section 1 ■ 2.8 million dollars, joins Tyrrell land Dare counties from Sandy ■ Point to East Lake. | Appropriate exercises were , held in connection with the bridge opening with dignitaries | attending including Congressman Herbert Bonner, Governor Terry Sanford, Highway Commissioner Merrill Evans and Senator Lind say Warren, for whom the bridge is named. The bridge writes “finis” to the state operated fer ries, which made the last trip across the river as part of the ceremony. Mr. Bonner welcomed the large number on hand for the cere mony, despite the inclement weather, on tin; Tyrrell County side, after which the two ferries made their final run. They were dc-commissioned by Mr. Evans, after which a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held with Gov ernor Sanford cutting the ribbon which officially opened the new bridge. A motorcade followed with Governor Sanford's car in the lead which ended at the Co lumbia High School, where the Columbia Woman’s Club served a luncheon in honor of distin guished guests. The bridge was built by T. A. Loving Company of Goldsboro and was completed in two years, five months ahead cf schedule. Firemen Called Out Twice On Friday Edenton firemen were called out twice Friday afternoon. The first fire occurred at the dwell ing of Annie Edney on East Church Street about 3:15 o’clock as the result of a faulty flue/ Two rooms on the first floor and two on the second floor were badly damaged with dam age estimated at about $2,000. The second fire occurred later in the afternoon as the result of a flue fire at the home of Robert Francis near Bolton’s bridge. No damage resulted from this fire. Plans Are Complete For Valentine Dance On Saturday Ni^ht Plans are about complete for a Valentine dance which will be held in the Edenton armory Sat urday night, February 17, from 9 o'clock to midnight. The dance is sponsored by the Convention Club, of the Edenton Junior Chamber of Commerce. Music will be provided for the dance by the Bill James Combo of Elizabeth City and table res ervations can be made by con tacting David Ottoway, phone 250 L Town Coundlmen Hold Brief Session Continued from Pag* 1, Section 1 a permit to sell wine off premi ses at the Boyce Grocery. , Approval was also given to the U. S. Lumber Company sub leasing a portion of the cold storage plant at the former Edenton Air Station to the Cho wan Processing Company. Councilman Luther Parks pre sented a report on the tennis courts, saying that he had an estimate of about SIB,OOO to con struct new and modem courts. The Councilman turned thumbs down on this proposal in the belief that the work can be done more cheaply and further de layed action until a conference can be held with the Edenton school trustees, owners of the property. Mr. Parks also presented a re quest from the Woman’s Club to place a slab of cement on the playground to place some equip-j ment, as well as a covering. It was agreed to provide the ce-, ment but not the covering. During the meeting the Coun cilmen voted to purchase a $25,- 000 certificate of deposit at Peo ples Bank & Trust Company for a period of six months. Property back of the stores on the east side of Broad Street be'wecr Edenton and King Streets was given consideration, it being hoped that the various merchants will purchase this land. ■ The Councilmcn also agreed to take the proper steps to es tablish a line at the trash pile Classified Ads EASE THROAT! Buy soothing, sanitizing, OLAG Tooth Put* at the drug store. FOR SALE —ONE SET COLE planters and fertilizer sowers, | 1 John Deere tiller, 1 Nixon 1 rotary peanut weeder. All equipment in very good con dition. Phone 2923 or see W. D. Pruden. ltc UNFURNISHED HOUSE FOR •rent. Located on West Queen Street. Call Mrs. L. C. Bur ton, phone 2572. Feblstf FOR RENT OR SALE—TWO bedroom house with floor fur nace, water heater, range. Located in Albemarle Court. Phone 3122. Fcbßtf FOR RENT TWO- BEDROOM house in Westover Heights. Partly furnished, $36 per mo. Call 3082, Mrs. Dixon. Febßtf NOW AVAILABLE TO DO ODD jobs of carpentry work. Phone 3591, E. E. Goodwin, Edcnton. Febls.22p WATCH REPAIRING JEWEL, ry repairing and engraving . . . Prompt service. Ross Jewelers. Phone 3525. tfc FOR SALE SECOND HAND electric refrigerator and elec tric stove. In good condition. Call Mrs. L. C. Burton, phone 2572. Fcblstf TOR SALE TWO SETS OF used John Deere Planters No. 2128 and fertilizer attachments in good condition. One set fits 40 John Deere, S4O; one set fits 50 John Deere, SSO. Con tact Edward phone 3046, Edenton, Route 1. Fcblh,22,Mchl,Bpd WANTED —MAN OR WOMAN for insurance agency. Experi ence not necessary. No debit. Full or part time. Hospitali zation and life. Write Box 213, Williams ton, N. C. exMchßp WANTED SMALL BREED puppy for a child’s pet. Phone 3031. Pc TOR SALE SPINET PIANO. Wanted: Responsible party to take over low monthly pay ments on a spinet piano. Can be seen locally. Write Credit •' Manager, P. O. Box 215, Shel byville, Indiana. Febls,22,Mchl,Bpd FOR RENT—2 AND 4-ROOM, apartments with bath, hot wa ter heater and space heater On mail and school bus route. Good fishing site. Phone 3472, Louis E. Francis. tfc S4OO MONTHLY SPARE TIME Refilling and collecting money from New Type high quality coin operated dispensers in this area. No selling. To qualify you must have car, references, S6OO to SI9OO cash. Seven to twelve hours weekly can net up to S4OO j monthly. More full time. For personal interview write 4010 West 65th St„ Suite 207, Min neapolis 24, Minn. Include phone, llpd on West Carteret Street, so that this property can also be dis posed of. William Davis presented a re port of his recent visit to Ra leigh, where he attended an in , slitute having to do with Street Department work. Heart Facts From the Chowan County Heart Council Question: Is there anything which an individual can do to protect his heart from disease? Answer: One noted medical authority put it this way: To avoid a heart attack, keep your weight low, eat less fat and ex ercise moderately and often. Your Heart Council adds: your I own doctor can advise you best on how to protect your heart. Arrange for a periodic health and heart chock-up. I. Question: Is there any way to guarantee good health? ! Answer: Not completely. But your Heart Council suggests: sit dotVn with your physician and do some stock-taking about your health and your heart. In the past few years research has de veloped important new tools to help you and your doctor pro tect your health. WILL FEED HUSBANDS Chowanoka Council No. 54, Degree of Pocahontas, will stage ■ a dinner for their husbands Tuesday night, February 27. The dinner will be served at 7 o’clock in the Red Men hall. LOST—KEY FOLDER. REWARD if returned to Geddes Potter. Phone 2658. ltc FOR RENT THREE-ROOM furnished apartment with bath, 1 second floor. Phone 3753, Mrs. R. L. Boyce, W. Queen Street, Extended. Febl,B,lspd, SALESMEN WANTED YOU don’t need to'worry about get ting or holding a job with j your own Rawleigh Business where the more you work the 1 more you earn in Chowan County. Thousands prospering every year. Write at once for! more information. Rawleigh’s' Dept. NCB-210-802, Richmond.! Va. Feb 1,8,15,22 p ] FRUIT TREES, Nut Trees, Berry Plants, Grape Vines, Land scape Plant Material —offered by Virginia’s Largest Growers.! Ask for Free Copy 56-page Planting Guide Catalog in j color. Salespeople wanted! WAYNESBORO NURSERIES. | Waynesboro, Virginia. Feb1,8.15,22c FOR SALE TWO SETS Ol used John Deere Planters No 2128 and fertilizer attachments in good condition. One set fits j 40 John Deere, S4O; one set! fits 50 John Deere, SSO. Con tact Edwards Evans, phone 3046, Edcnton, Route 1. Jan18,25,Feb7,14p CABBAGE PLANTS FOR SALE. Early Jersey Wakefield, Charleston Wakefield, Ferry’s Round Dutch. Flat Dutch. Al so Heading Lettuce. Set now for early spring heading. Com plete line of vegetable and flower seeds. E. L. PEARCE, Seedsman Phone 3839 Edenton Janlltf WANTED —POPLAR LUMBER, dry or green. Write or phone ■for prices. Phone LO-34511, Walton Lumber Co., Mebane, North Carolina. exMarß FOR RENT 3-BEDROOM brick house on W. Queen Street. Mrs. Haywood Phthisic Phone, day 3331; night 3558. tfc. PICTURE THE best in custom picture framing see John R. Lewis at the Eden ton Furniture Company. Com plete Jine of moulding to choose from/ tfcj TOR SALE—GOOD USED GAS ranges as low as $35.00. West ern Gas Service. Phone 3122, Edenton. i ;une2tf — lll ' ’ . | YOU* USCO HOMI tUHOKR HZ: You’ll ORBIT M SPACE IN Best'S A LESCO HOME... All 9m tortly. tivabk «P»c» yeu'v* W6C ' PHONE ijW Warren J. Twiddy i Methodist Rally In Hertford Friday Continued from Page 1, Section 1 Board of Evangelism, a former member of the General Board of Lay Activities, a trustee of St. Paul Theological College at Kansas City, Missouri, and has been a delegate to the General 1 Conference in 1942, 1946 and 1960. i Bishop Paul N. Garber, resi dent bishop of the Richmond area, who is in charge of the work of the North Carolina Con ference of the Methodist Church, will also speak at the rally about church extension and lead in a service of consecration for 111 lay leaders who will con duct church services in the ru ral churches during the six weeks prior; to ’Easter. Nelson Gibson of Gibson, lay leader of the North Carolina ( Conference, will introduce the speakers. He reports that last ] year the nine district rallies had ; an attendance of 4,500, which i exceeded any conference in ] Methodism and he expects a total attendance of over 6,000 ■ this year. , John Turner of Elizabeth City, ] . IT S NEW AJ^ lipK i m Newsi " milm the dresses girls adore! S “MISS i* . §|bsr l 1 DRESSES If %r " 2.99 Jjfh i 3.99 styles, fabrics, colors, patterns galore! Variety is the spice of this bright and shining Rp collection. A wide range of fetching fabrics, sheers, woven jacquards, checks, prints, solidsl lots of pretty accents! And mony sister styles included in the group. Come take a look— you'll be glad you did. A. Woven border pattern cotton, 2-lone piping on Peter Pan collar. Gold, teol. I. Pastel sheer cotton, eyelet trim. Maize, pink, #BELK'S for bottor selections! j BILK'S for certified better values! BELK - TYLER'S - edenton lay leader of the Elizabeth City 1 District, will preside over the meeting. In the neighborhood 1 of 20 Edenton Methodists are ex- j pected to attend the meeting. t Latest Edenton Booklet Off Press Continued from Page L Section 1 homes. ! This is the fourth printing and the demand fer copies was the reason for the new edition. Proceeds from the sale of the booklet ($1.00) will go toward the SB,OOO estimated for beauti fying the Court House Square. The green cover features a sketch of the teapot on the front and on the inside front is a highway map locating Ede.nton. A number of new photographs have been used and for the first time information on the Masonic chair and Yeopini Church, first Baptist Church in the county, have been included. There is also a history from the North Carolina Guide and a map of historic points of interest. The booklet was made pos sible by the advertisements of over 50 businesses It was printed by the Chowan Herald. —SECTION ONf PAGE THREE ’ Copies are available at local businesses and the Woman’s Club. | Safety Skit On Local j Radio Station Sunday A safety skit, sponsored by the Edenton Tea Party Chapter DAR will be broadcast as a pub * lie service feature Sunday at 2 P. M„ and 4:30 P. M„ over radio station WCDJ. The special radio program is 1 part of a safety campaign now under way by the chapter. The short skit will concern the driving habits of a teen ager, but applies to adults as well. The show centers around a teenage boy, who has had his driver’s license a short time. He will be played by Roger Lamb:*'Also in the skit are his sister, played by Phyllis Twiddy and the mother, Mis. J. P. Ricks, Jr. LIONS MEET MONDAY Edenton’s Lions Club will meet Monday night, February 19, at 7 o’clock at the Edenton Res taurant. President John Mitch oner urges every member to be present.
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