ONLY NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED IN
CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXlX.—Number 317
Farm Bureaus Os Gates,
Chowan And Perquimans!
Have Office In Hertford!
Groups Combine In
An Effort to Expand
Service to Members;
In Three Counties
The Farm Bureaus of Chowan,
Gates and Perquimans counties
will combine their .. efforts and
open a central office in Hert
ford August l.
Clifford Winslow, president of
the Perquimans Farm Bureau,
announced last week that the
central office would open in the
'4 J. C. Blanchard & Company
building beside the Perquimans
County Court House.
Walter Humphlett, Jr., has
been named office manager and
Mrs. Fannie Hurdle secretary.
Winslow explained that the
three bureaus had met on sev
eral occasions and discussed the
possibility of combining their
offices. The decision was made
„ at a recent meeting in Hobbs
ville. i
The purpose of the combining
of the three counties farm bu
reaus is to expand the service
to the 600 members in the three
counties, according to Winslow.
Directors of the Tri-County
Farm Bureau are Rollo White,
Dan Berry and Clifford Wins
low of Perquimans; Marvin Wig
gins, Frank Russell and Alfred
Stallings, Jr., of Gates, and
Woodrow Lowe and Winslow is
David Bateman of Chowan.
Chairman of the group is
Woowrow Lowe and Winslow is
secretary-treasurer. The direc
tors met Monday night, July 30,
in the new bureau office in
•4 Hertford. \ I
Goodyear Offering
List 119,220 Prizes
First Prize Provides
For Free Vacation
In Paris
Know your auto license plate
number? It may be the ticket
to a free vacation in Paris or
make you the owner of your
own swimming pool or boat.
These are among the 119,220
prizes to be offered by the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Com
pany during its six week “Mil
lion Dollar Lucky License
Sweepstakes,” August 6 through
September 15.
During the. sweepstakes, week
ly list of the “lucky license num
bers” will be posted at the
Goodyear Service Store at 412
S. Broad Street.
* “There’s nothing to write or
fill in,” said Tom Ford, the
manager. “The only qualifica- 1
tion to win a Paris vacation or '
( one of the many other prizes is '
to own a registered car.”
Nearly 20,000 “lucky license
numbers” will be selected every
week during the sweepstakes.
Prizes, with total retail value 1
of $1 million, range from six
vacations for two persons in
Paris, steel swimming pools and
all-aluminum boats to color tele
vision sets, wrist watches and
major appliances.
20 Years Ago];
As Found In tlm Files Ot j ,
The Chowan Herald | ]
■" ~ <y>.—/* (
In view of the ever-increasing
demands made on the three prin
cipal , members, of the Chowan
County Rationing Board, A. G.
Byrum, w. W. Byrum and Dr.
W. S. Griffin, eight others were
appointed to assist at perma
meni deputies. The appointees
were G. B. Potter, Leroy H. Has
kett, W. J. Berryman, Marvin '■
P. Wilson, W. J. Tajflor. John 1
A. Holmes, Ralph Parrish and
v Hector Lupton. <
Eighteen while men left Eden
ton for Fort Bragg to be exam
ined for military service.
El.ren
THE CHOWAN HERALD
i, Meeting Changed j
, V.
Mayor John Miichener an
nounces that the regular Au
gust meeting of Town Council
has' been changed from Tuesday
night, August 14, to Thursday
night. August 16. The meeting
will be held in the Municipal
Building beginning at 8 o'clock.
The change in meeting, said
Mayor Mitchener, is due to a
conflict of another very import
ant meeting.
Methodist Society
Meets August 7th
The Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service of the Methodist
Church will hold its monthly I
meeting Tuesday night, August
7, at 6:30 o’clock. The meeting
will be in the form of a covered
dish supper at the home of Mrs.
Hiram Mayo.
Outside speakers have been
secured for the meeting, so that
it is hoped that all women of
the club will make a special
effort to be present.
Two Agricultural Officers From
Kenya Plan To Visit Cliowan
During the week of July 30-
Augusl 6 two Kenya assistant
agricultural officers from Af
rica will visit Chowan County
to observe farm, home and com-j
munity life. They are John
1 Madete from Kakamega, Nyanza
1 Province, Kenya, and Tukiko,
Olang, Kisli, Kenya,
j They* are with a group 6f 11
who are spending six months in
the United States through the
Agency for International Do- j
velopment, United States De
partment of Agriculture and
, Land-Grant Institutions cooper
Contract Awarded
For Golf Course
Work Expected to Be
Completed In About
Three Months
At a meeting of the board of
directors of the Edenton Golf
and Country Club held Monday,
a contract was awarded for con
structing a new golf course. The
successful bidders were C. C.
McGuiston and Philip Ball of
Morehead City.
The contractors were schedul
ed to begin work Tuesday and
estimated they would complete
the course in about three months.
Most of the building which
will house the Country Club has
been moved to the .new site and
should be entirely put in place
by the last of this week.
Members of the organization
appear very enthusiastic regard
ing the progress being made
with the project.
VFW AUXILIARY MEETING
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Wil
liam H- Coffield, Jr., Post No.
9280, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
will hold a business meeting to
night (Thursday) at 8 o’clock.
Mrs. George Comer, president, is"
very anxious to have a large at- i
tendance. I
Miss Patricia Waff Schedules
%
Edenton Art Exhibit Aug. 6-10
Miss Patricia Waff will hold.
an Edenton art exhibit during
the week of August 6-10 in the j
windows of Perry’s Fabric Shop
on West Water Street.
Patricia, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Waff of Edenton, is
i junior double art major at
-East Carolina Colleges. She plans i
to obtain a 8.8. degree in art(
education , and eventually do j
graduate work.
Although she has worked in;
several studios, her main area
of study is painting, but the
[various media and studios will!
Ibe represented oil, tempera,
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 2,1962.
Jaycees Sponsor
Sale Os Football
j Tickets For Aces
Group Anxious to Get
Coach Jerry McGee
Off to Good Start
i For His First Season
i
Edenton Jaycees this week be
! gan selling season tickets and
program advertisements for the
1962 home football games of the
Edenton Aces.
Pete Dai,, chairman of the
ticket committee,, announced this
week that season tickets are
available from all Jaycees. Re
served seat tickets are $7.50 and
regular passes are $5.00.
j The 1962 Edenton schedule
j will consist of ten games, six
j of which will be played on Hicks
j Field. Local Jaycees are anxi
ous to get Coach Jerry McGee’s
first season in Edenton off to a
good start, and they emphasize
! the savings available with the
season tickets.
! Richard Dixon is chairman of
the program committee, which
is now active selling advertise
ments to local merchants for the
colorful programs sold at all
Edenton home games.
The Jaycees urge all reserved
seat -holders to buy their tickets
as soon as possible if they wish j
to get the same seat they held
last year.
ating. Madete and Oiang will
work with the Negro county ag
ricultural and home economics j
agents in their regular program.
This will include visiting farms,
homes, meeting with organized
groups, other agriculture agen
cies, professional groups, the
churches and other educational
institutions. They live witti'TOr.
and Mrs. Augustus' Roberts in
the Green HaH community.
These facts about Kenya will
interest readers:
This newly independent coun
'"•onlinnpo on Faqe 4—Sectir*
Douglas Holland i
Ordained Minister
former Edenton Boy
Accepts Call at Ash
land, Mississippi
Edenton friends will be de
lighted to learn that Douglas
Holland, a former Edentonian,
was ordained to the gospel min
istry Wednesday of this week,
August 1.
Douglas has accepted a call
from Canaan Baptist Church at
Ashland, Mississippi, He was
recently released from the Unit
ed States Air Force and is pres
ently a student at Blue Moun
tain College in Mississippi.
Douglas’ parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George P. Holland, are residing
at 601 Office Street in Edenton.
He is married to the former
Miss Lois Privott, daughter of
Lindsey Privott, Route 2, Eden
ton.
Bible Study Hour Is
Scheduled At Library
A Bible story hour will be
held at the Shepard-Pruden Me
morial Library Monday morning
at 10 o’clock by Anita Sexton
and Jean Goodwin. All chil
i dren between the ages of five
! and eight are invited to attend.
c
. pen and ink, chalk, pastel, col
! lages. ceramics, graphics and
5 sculpture.
Patricia has exhibited (through
the college) in Rocky Mount,
Tarboro, Wilmington, Greenville
Art Center and the annual stu
dent art shews at the college,
t Two of her paintings are on ex-
I h'bit for one year in the home
of Dr. Leo Jenkins, president of
jEast Carolina College. In May,
; Patricia received the award for
jthe most outstanding underclass
iman art student of the depart
ment The selection was made
by the art faculty.
| Colerain Man Outstanding Airman )
* -
tißgg&igSp- ** .
■ .
r ■ ngg^
iayr. liuoii C. ('helps oi me Air Reserve Records Center in
Derver, Colorado, has been named the outstanding active duty air
man of the Continental Air Command. He wdl be an honored
guest at the Air Force Association convention at Las Vegas, Ne
vada, September 18 23. Sgt. Phelps, who has been assigned to the
Center since Julv, 1959, is chief of the Quality ExamiraLons Branch
of the Plans and Operations Office. He is a veteran of more than
17 years military service, including three tours of overseas duty in
the Philippines and Japan. Okinawa and Saudi Arabia. During
World War II he served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Opera
tions. He is a native of Colerain, where h s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy L. Phelps, still live. He is married to the former Annie Ruth
Baker of Merry Hill, and they have two children, Elliott C„ Jr.. 14,
and Pov Keith, 10. They live at 12537 East 30th Avenue, Aurora,
Colorado.—Official U. S. Army Photo.
Congressman Herbert Bonner
Is Grateful Chowan County Is
J
Included For Emergency Loans
With the announcement last
week that Chowan County had :
been declared an emergency loan :
area as a result of the crop loss
caused by excessive rains and
flood water during the period ‘
June 27 through July 5, Con
gressman Herbert C Bonner i
this week sent the following let
ter to The Herald:
“I am grateful that the 11
Farmers Horfie Administration i
has included Chowan County 1
among the counties in Eastern i
Carolina eligible for emergency <
loans pursuant to Section 321(a)
of Public Law 87,-128, through
June 3(f! 1963.”
Congressman Bonner further i
advised that the farmers of :
Chowan County who desire in- :
formation with respedt to emerg
ency loans and ether types of as- i
sistance should contact Donald i
W. Norman. County Supervisor.
Farmers Home Administration.
Davenport Building on Market ;
Street in Hertford. 1
Mr. Norman said same indivi- ;
Yeopim Revival towSocia! Security
Is Scheduled For jOffice Dedicated In
Aug, 13To Aug. 18 Greenville Aug. 6th
The Rev. Terry Jones,
Newly Ordained Pas
tor, Will Be Evange
list For Meetings
Plans are forming for the an
nual fall revival at Yeopim
Baptist Church. The meetings
will begin Monday night, August
lj, at 8 o’clock and continue
through Saturday night, Au
gust 18.
The Rev. Terry Jones, the 21- j
year-old newly ordained pastor
of the church, will be the speak
er for the week. He is to enter
his third year at Campbell Col- j
lege this fall.
There will be special music
by the church choir, plus visit- j
ing choirs from churches in the j
Chowan Association each even
ing. I
The public is cordially invited
to attend all of these services.
Two Local Cadets
Complete Training
Cadets Miles A. Hughes, Jr.,
and Clemon E. Bass, Jr., from
Edenton are scheduled to com
plete six weeks of training at ;
the Reserve Officer Training
Corps (ROTC) summer camp at ]
Fort Bragg, N. C., August 3-
The men are active in the
ROTC program at North Caro
lina State College' of A & E, Ra- j
leigh.
Cadet Hughes 20, whose par- j
ents live at 116 W. Gale St., is j
a. 1059 graduate of John A. I
Holmes Hieh School. He is a
member of Phi Karma Tau and
’■’hi Fta Sigma fraternities.
Cadet Bass. 21, whose' parents
Rve in Edenton, is a 1959 grad-!
rate of John A. Holmes High)
School.
--
dual farmers in Chowan County
received up to 50 per cent dam
age and loss to their tobacco
crops as a result of the excessive
rains and flood water. Exces
sive water also caused substan
tial damage to other crops in the
area.
Emergency loans bear a 3%
interest rate and may be made
to eligible farmers in the a--ea
for the purchase of feed, seed,
fertilizer, replacement of equip
ment and livestock, for other es
sential farm and home operat
ing expenses and for the re
placement or impair ors build
ings. fences, drainage and irri
gation systems on individual
farms that were damaged or de
stroyed by the disaster.
Loans may not be made for
refinancing existing debts or to
compensate applicants for their
losses.
Loans for production purposes
are expected to be repaid from
crops and livestock as sold but
Continued on Page 5, Siecl’on 1
Public Invited to At
tend Ceremony Be
ginning nt 3 O’clock
At 205 Boyd Avenue
Icen E- Wilson, district man
| ager, announces that on August
6, at 2:00 P. M-, there will be
a dedication of the new Social
Security District Office at 205
Boyd Ave., Greenville, N. C.
M. D. Dew Derry, regional rep
resentative of the Bureau of
i Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
! will make the dedication. Dis
tinguished guests will include
| Charles E. King, Mayor of
I Greenville; Hon. Herbert C. Bon
ner, Congressman First District
of North Carolina; Hon. L- H.
i Fountain, Congressman Second
j Continued on Page 3—Section )
Four Local Students
On ECC Honor Lists
Three lists of students at East
| Carolina who have received of
ficial recognition from the Col
lege because of their excellent
records in academic work during
i the spring quarter of the present
school year have just been an
; nounced.
Included on the lists are the
names of 698 students, of whom
262 are men and 436 are women.
North Carolinians number 637
| and students from outside the
| state 61.
Chowan County is represented
I on the honors lists as follows:
All A’s—Grace H. Whiteman
, of Edenton.
1 Dean’s List—Patricia A. Waff
t of Edenton.
1 Honor Roll—Jerry R. Tolley of
j Edenton and Kathryn M. Tynch
of Route 3, Edenton.
McGee Teaching
Driver Training At
Local High School
New Coach Is Now
Instructing 17 Stu
dents; Course Ends
August 10
The second session for teach
ing driver training at the John
A. Holmes High School started
Wednesday, July 18. Jerry Me- i
Gee, new head football coach at
the Holmes High School, is
teaching the course. The course
will continue until August lfl.
Those taking the course are
Joyce Alexander, Claire Belch,
Janies Brabble. Susan Syrian,
Sharlie Fairelotii. Arlene Fry,
Phil Harrell, Ed Jenkins, Hiram
Mayo, David Parks, Elaine parks,
Sylvia Pen we 11. Wayne Sawyer,
Anita Sexton, Lula Stroud, Har
ry Tribou, and Miriam Willis.
A reduction in the insurance
rate is offered to each person
who successfully completes the
course.
Chowan Comity 4-H Delegates
Make Good Showing In Raleigh
“ t?
Chowan County 4-H delegates
to State 4-H Club Week were
state winners in two of the state
demonstration contests. Miss
Judy Evans, Route 1. Edenton,
and Miss Kay Bunch, Route 3.
Edenton, were state winners in
the dairy foods demonstration
(team) contest and Lester Ray
Copeland. Tyner, was state win
ner in the poultry barbecue con
test. Judy and Kay received an
expense paid trip to State 4-H
Club Week from the American
Dairy Association of North Caro
lina, sponsors of the district
dairy foods contest.
While at. spate 4-H club Week
they appeared on television over
ECS Office Is Now j Robbery Unsolved
In New Quarters At George Concern
Office Moved From
Bank Building to
N. Broad St
Effective early this week the
Edenton office of the North Car
ilina Employment Security Com
mission moved to its new offices
at 709 North Broad Street.
The local office will occupy
a new building built expressly
for the ESC by John A. Mitch
ener, Jr. The facility was built
by specifications set by the State
Commission, which will rent it
r rom Mitchener.
The local office opened at its
new location early Tuesday
morning. All of its business will
be carried on at the new site.
Revival At Center
Hill Begins Aug - . 5
The annual fall revival ser
vices at the Center Hill Baptist
Church will begin Sunday morn
ing, August 5. and continue
through Sunday, August 12.
Guest speaker for this revival
will be Dr. Stewart A- Newman,
professor of theology and phi
losophy at the Southeastern Bap
tist Seminary at Wake Forest.
Services will be held each
evening at 8 o’clock, including
Saturday. At 10 o'clock each
morning there will be a special
fellowship prayer hour led by
the pastor of the church, the
Rev. Henry V- Napier.
Dangerous Corner Again Seene
Os Accident Saturday Morning
The corner of West Queen and j
Mosley Streets was the scene of i
a third accident in a month Sat-1
urday morning of last week
when a truck failed to stop, en- j
tered the intersection, and struck |
a car carrying a group of Cho- !
wan County 4-H members.
Floyd Davis, Jr., 23. of Wen- :
dell, was charged with failure to
yield the right of way after the i
1959 Ford truck he was driving ;
struck a 1959 Ford station wag-j
on driven by Harry Venters, as
sistant county agricultural agent
from Tyner.
Venters was returning with a j
, group of 4-H’ers from Raleigh
$2.50 Per Year In North Carolina
Local Jaycees Abandon
Go-Kart Racing As Well
As Livestock Show-Sale
Deadline Is Past
For Dog Licenses
Police Ordered to Pick
Up Dogs Without
License Tags
Chief of Police Leo LaVoie
reported early this week that
dog and bicycle licenses should
have been purchased by Wed
nesday, August 1.
. Chief Lavoie especially warn
ed dog owners that all dogs
without license tags will be pick
ed up by the Police Department.
Dog licenses are still available
at the Town Office: and bicycle
tags may be secured at the police
station.
TV station WRAL in an inter
view with Miss Pauline Callo
way. home economies agent, and
Mis. Joe Gilmore, food.'nutrition
specialist. North Carolina Exten
sion Service. They were also
recognized at the state recogni
tion banquet held on Fridav
night, at which time all state
winners were recognized and
presented awards in their par
ticular categories. Judy and Key
were each awarded a certificate
as state winners and a gold
watch. Each of their longtime
records in food preparation,
along with state winner in the
individual dairy food demon-
Conlinue cage 2. S-wtion >
8246 and a Revolver
Stolen Wednesday
Os Last Week
I No new clues had been found
by Edenton Police early this
week : in the robbery at the
George Chevrolet Company
which was discovered early
Wednesday morning of last
week.
The thief or thieves stole $246
in cash and a .32 calibre re
volved after gaining entrance in
to the concern by breaking out
a rear window. Police and of
ficials. reported that they had no
idea how the safe was opened.
N. J. George reported that
SI 50 in change was overlooked
in the robbery. Papers were
scattered about the office and
some gas credit cards were sto
len.
One suspect was questioned
last week, and SBI Agent O. L.
Wise of Elizabeth City was call
ed in to investigate.
Enterprise Group
Will Meet Tonight
The Enterprise Community
Development meeting will be
held tonight (Thursday). The
meeting will be held at the Zell
Ward cabin and is scheduled to
begin at 8 o’clock.
All families in the community
are especially urged to attend.
i when the accident occurred. Tn
j the group were Leon Evans,
! Gene Harrell. Johnny Winborne
; and Lester Ray Copeland.
Davis’ truck entered the in
i terseetion from the north, crash
ied into the front and left side
|of Venters' car, turned over
' once and came to an upright halt
j 75 feet from the impact point.
I The Venters car was spun
I around.
Police estimated damages to
j the truck to be S4OO, while Ven
i ters’ automobile absorbed SSOO
in damages. There were no ser
jious injuries resulting from the
! crash.
FIGHT CANCER
WITH A CHECKUP
AND CHECK
Lack of Interest Re
sults In Action Tak
» en at Meeting Held
* i Last Week
, The Edenton Jaycees have de-
L J cided to discontinue their go
kart racing program and the
; Chowan County Livestock Show
{and Sale. The action came dur
ing their regular meeting at the
■ Edenton Restaurant Thursday
t night of last week.
1, President Carlton Jackson told
- : the club that there had been a
! gradual deficit of income be
. ! cause of the lack of interest
s shown in the races. He told
- j The Herald last week that neith
.j; er sped a tors nor workers had .
* shown up at the races.
The Jay,, c go-kart track on
- j the former Marine Air Station
I was opened last summer and en
' I lived a very successful season
j! during 1961. Crowds have been
j aart e this year, however, and
I jniy Jii karts turned out for the
L] races last Sunday afternoon to
j constitute the biggest racing card
. jat the local track this season.
The Livestock Show and Sale
l J was discontinued for a number
! «if reasons, the main one of
* | which was the fact that it had
i not created interest in the rais
jmg of livestock in the county.
In oilier a. me Jaycees
' gave official approval of the
I Javcette program for Edenton
and opened their campaign to
sell season tickets and program
advertisements for the Edenton
Aces home football games.
BridgeAndTunne!
. Over Cliesapci&.e
' Third Completed
Estimated That 5,000
. Vehicles Daily Will
Cross Span In First
Year of Operation
Word has reached the Chain
' her of Commerce that approxi
’ j fnatoly : one-third of the tunnel
'; sections for the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge-Tunnel will be in place
’ i within the next few days. Joe
Conger. Jr., president, reported.
Tunnel sections are being laid
’jin trenches dredged under major
’! shipping channels at the mouth
’; of the bay. This will be the
' I sixth tube placed under the
' j Baltimore , Channel. Six others
Mare in position under Thimble
i Shoal Channel, Conger said.
II The trench-type tunnels are
* | hmilar in design to the Bah
imore Harbor Tunnel and the
* i Hampton Roads Tunnel, it was
■ earned. They will provide a
1 tiro-lane roadway 24 feet wide
for vehicles using the new 17.5-
■ mile crossing between the tip of
- | the Delmarva Peninsula and the
’ Virginia, mainland, to he readied
iby early 1964.
j Traffic engineers estimate more
than 5.000 vehicles per day will
L use the new crossing the first
year and double this amount by
' \ 1970. Conger stated.
i f civic calendar]
Miss Patricia Waff will stage
an art exhibit in Perry's Fabric
Shop window on Water Street
August 6-10.
* A Bible story hour will be
held at the Shepard-Prudett
f Memorial Library Monday morn
s ing. August 6, at 10 o'clock.
Enterprise Community Devel*
l opment meeting will be held to
, night (Thursday) at 8 o'clock at
; the Zell Ward cabin.
Chowan County Commission -
- ers will hold their August meet
- ing Monday morning. August 6,
: at 9 o'clock.
r Edenton's Town Council will
t hold its regular monthly meel
_; ing in the Municipal Building
i Thursday night. August 16, at
8 o'clock.
t> Annual fall revival services
- are scheduled to be held at Yeo
-9 pirn .Baptist Church Monday
- night. August 13. through Sal
e urday night, August 18.
1 Continued on Pecs s—Section l