PUBLISHED IN |l CHOWAN COUNTY '«- ■ . s. Volume XXX—Number Chowan's Leading Peanut Growers Will Be Guests At Banquet January 15 Awards Will Be Pre sented to Those Who Qualify For Ton-and a-Half Club More than forty of Chowan County top peanut growers will be feted at a special banquet Tuesday night, January 15, at the x Edenton Restaurant, Leonard f Small, chairman of the Edenton Chamber of Commerce Agricul ture Committee, has announced. The occasion is to present i awards to those qualified for the v Ton-and-a-Half Peanut Club con test which is sponsored by the Chamber. Qualifiers are those farmers who grew 3,000 or more pounds of peanuts (dry weight) to the acre on their enftire peanut acreage quota. As 1962 was an exceptionally good year for pea nuts, there were 15 more farm ers to qualify this year for the Ton-and-a-Half club as did in (.961 even though the qualifiers n 1961 were only required to ;row 3,000 pounds or more on ust one measured acre. Astor Perry of 'Raleigh, peanut specialist from N. C- State Col ege Extension Service, will be he principal speaker for the ‘veiling. Also expected to at- Jontinued on Page 5. Section 1 \(’.P Sign-up , ! Jan. 17 To 31 The initial sign-up period un- M der the 1963 Agricultural Con- V servation program will be held ht{ during the period January 17 j r 1 through January 31. Produoens I '/who plan to file a request for •/ cost-sharing on conservation practices to be performed dur ing the first half of 1963 should visit the A9CS office during this time. 32 JAILED IN DECEMBER M Jailer Bertram Byrum reports hat during December 32 per |ns were placed in the Chowan punty jail, with confinements anging from one to 31 days. “fThe expense, including jail and /turnkey fees amounted to $344.77. 20 Years Ago As Found In In Files Os The Chowan Herald Chowan County Commissioners voted to discontinue considera tion of purchasing the Citizens Bank Building, at least for the duration of the war, to house all of the county offices as well ay provide a modern jail on the third floor to replace the present jaiL Chowan County Commissioners voted to purchase eight lots in the new development of Beaver Hill Cemetery in order to pro vide a decent resting place for 64 bodies for the poor of the county. - As the result of many hogs in Chowan County being victims of cholera and other diseases, coupled with the prevailing pric es being paid for pork, the be lief was advanced that meat un fit for human consumption had been put on the market as food. Continued on Page 4 flection 1 Extension Workers Present Report Of-Activities In 1962 Chowan County Commissioners | at their meeting Monday were I presented a report of 1962 Ex-; tension agriculture and home economics work in Chowan County. In part the report follows: v Chowan County has approxi ktipjatelv 660 farms and about 1000 farm families There are 4,415 persons in these farm families, according to the 1969 Census. The average farm consists of 105 acres, one half of which is clear ed. The average gross sale per farm was $6,943 THE CHOWAN HERALD New Master ! \ f 1 ■'' ** j: t im*.' / fefc/ au I T. B. WILLIFORD At Thursday night's meeting of Unanimity Lodge INo. 7. A. F. & A. M.. T. B. Williford was in stalled master for the year 1963. j LIONS MEET MONDAY Edenton’s Lions will meet on Monday night, January 14, at 7 o’clock at the Edenton Restau rant. President Herbert Hollo well, Jr., urges every Lion to be present. High Point Minister Speaker For Jaycees’ '62 DSA Banquet Nomination blanks are now. available at Mitchener’s Phar macy and Hollowell’s Drug Store to vote for the most outstanding young man in Edenton for the year 1962. The winner will be preseifted - the -Distinguisbed Ser vice Award at the annual Junior Chamber of Commerce bosses' and ladies’ night banquet. The banquet will be held Monday night, January 21. in the Masonic Temple beginning at 6:30 o’clock. The early hour is due to the regular meeting of the Eastern Star Chapter which is scheduled for the same night. Edenton Savings & Loan Assets Soar To High Os $3,660,389.89 Assets of Eden ton Savings &, , Loan Association increased by j $452,838.73 during 1962 to a total j of $3,660,389.89 at year’s end, ac cording to James M. Bond, sec retary. Mr. Bond stated that the new mark represents a record one-year gain of 14 - per cent from assets reported at the end of 1961. According to the institution’s 1962 annual report, net savings gains recorded during the year totaled $327,576.41, bringing to tal savings held by the associa tion to an all-time high of $3,- 307,287.59. The ■ association also reported JAYCEES MEET TONiCHT Edenton’s Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight (Thursday) at 7 o’clock at the Edenton Restaurant. President Carlton Jackson states that plans for the DSA banquet and March of Dimes campaign will be con sidered, so that he urges every Jaycee to be present. | Carolina by 1.6 billion dollars lin 1966. j The Chowan County Extension Advisory Board, made up of rep resentatives of the Home Dem onstration Club Council, Board of Agriculture; 4-H Council, farm organizations, business and church leaders, studied the farm income situation in Chowan County. They set as a goal an income increase of over one mil lion dollars or 17% to be reached by 1967. This increase in income is to be attained through im proved J production of all com- Edenton, C 6 an County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 10, 1963. Dorothy M. Harbin New Director Os Pettigrew Library Staff Meeting Held Ir Plymouth Wednesday To Meet New Reg ional Director Shepard-Pruden Memorial Li brary and Brown-Carver Li brary were closed Wednesday January 9th for a staff meeting at Pettigrew Regional headquar ters in Plymouth. The meetinf was called at this time to mee‘ Miss Dorothy M- Harbin, the new regional director who succeed.' Mrs. Eugenia R. Babylon, wh' organized the three county re gion in 1955. Mrs. Babylon re signed in 1960 and since thai time the region has been with out a directdr. During the interioi the Region al Eoard and the staff have di rected the work with the assist ance of the State Library in Ra leigh. Miss Harbin holds an AB de gree from the University of Chi ago and a master of librarian ship degree from Emory Univer sity at Atlanta. The Pettigrew Regional Li brary is made up of libraries in Washington, Tyrrell and Chowan counties. The Washington Coun ty Library in Plymouth is head quarters. The DSA is sponsored annual ly by the Edenton Jaycees and goes to a young man between the age of 21 and 35 years, whose service to the community is deemed .most outstanding. The selection will be chosen . -from the nominations received.. The nominations may be mailed to any Edenton Jaycee who will in turn present them to a se cret committee made up of prominent citizens, which will make the selection. The speaker for the occasion will be the Rev. Tom Haggai, pastor of the Emory Wood Bap tist Church at High Point. ; record dividend payments of! j $121,254.54 based on a dividend ! rate of 4 per cent. The annual report also reveal ed that the association’s mort-1 gage lending volume rose to a record $2,893,494.12 in 1962. “The stronger mortgage lend ing activities of our association, and for the savings and loan business as a whole, in the face of a relatively modest national demand for housing, indicates that our association is steadily reinforcir.g its leadership in this field,” Mr. Bond said. He forecast a slight increase in housing and mortgage lending! activities during the coming year.; Sheriff Arrests Turkey Thieves Sheriff Earl Goodwin last week arrested five young Negro j men and thereby broke up a j theft ring which had been in j progress for about five weeks. 1 The sheriff said the quintet! had stolen in the neighborhood of 100 turkeys from the farm Lester Copeland in the Ryland section since the Thanksgiving holiday. Those arrested were Emmett Riddick, 26, of Belvidere; Char lie Frank Holley, 19, David Wal ton, 27, Elijah P. Privott, 20, of Tyner, and David Jordan, 18, of Corapeake. Sheriff Goodwin said the group admitted they went to the Cope land farm and carried away turkeys, 20 being the highest number to be taken at one time. The Sheriff made arrest af ter an intensive investigation and trailed the thieves to the Riddick house. jL, •• POCAHONTAS MEETING Chowanoke Council No. 54, De gree of Pocahontas, will meet to- I nifiht rTThursdfly) a o^clock*l ■s First Lot Os Steers On Way To Market a '3 1-- . I iMMhi j { v iii Mfr I 1 Wt mm** ■ u. r> * 1 2. ’ - : .... SOj ■■ • _j— —<■ I i 9g%lm » * ?%&& ras&f Tii * •* bs ' a* i ■ r.j --■ ; - .. :s*% H .- > V Pictured above is the first lot of 100 fai steers as they start to market from the Diamond P Ranch feed lols on ihe former air base concrete runways. The 234 acre feed lot is an enterprise of Perlin Packing Company who operate a million-dollar meat pro cessing plant in Norfolk, Va„ and was purchased by Perlin at pub lic auction in April, 1962. Diamond P Ranch manager Jack Thomas says 1,200 head are being fed now and this number will rise to 3.600 by early summer. Ultimate feed lot operation will total 40.000 head annually. Cattle are bought weighing approxi mately 750 to 800 pounds and marketed 17 weeks later around 1,050 to 1.100 pounds. At ton steers are pictured in pen and in center they are herded into trucks to be transferred to the Perlin plant in Norfolk. Teenagers Held For Superior Court In Store Robbery Quartet of Portsmouth Youths Placed Under .152,000 Bond In Re corder’s Court Four Portsmouth Negro teen agers in Chowan Recorder’s Court Friday entered pleas of guilty on clsrges of breaking in the P&Q Super Market on De cember 27. They were bound over by Judge William Privott to the April term of Chowan Su perior Court, with bonds set at $2,000 each and placed in the Chowan County Jail. In the group were Warren Herring,' 13, who in December escaped from the Norfolk City Jail as well as the Perquimans County Jail; Arthur Lee Carter, Continued on Page 3—Section 1 250 Attend First District ASC Committee Meeting In Edenton In the neighborhood of 250 at tended a First District ASC meeting held in the Edenton ar mory Monday of this week. iW. R. Carver, district field man, presided and recognized each county group. There were eleven counties present. After recognizing each group, Mr. Car ver introduced W. I. Bissette, vice-chairman of the ASC State Committee. Mr. Bissette gave a message from the state commit the, speaking of the importance of local county and community committeemen in administrating the various farm programs. He told tire committee that they I were the key people in making ' the farm programs a success. 9HL > .. Warden Retires As President Os Remington Arms Husband of Former Marguerite Goodwin Os Edenton; to Con tinue as Director Edenton friends will be inter ; esteef to learn that Maxwell R. , Warden of Fairfield, conn., will on January 31 retire as presi ' dent of the Remington Arms Company of Bridgeport, Conn. 1 Mr. Warden is a son-in-law of Mrs. Henry Goodwin and will . continue as a director of the company. ■ Prior to joining Remington, Mr. Warden had been with the Du 1 Pont Company for 18 years in r ' the fields of engineering and ; ! construction of commercial and . | ordnance plants throughout the . Continued on Page 3—Section 1 A. P. Hassell, Jr., state execu tive director, gave an interesting talk explaining ASCS programs. He stated that the success of these programs depends on the committee system. He told the group that this part of the coun try understood the need of sound management of production to go along with the need of price support and should help lead the way of the entire nation in this philosophy. J. L- Nicholson, chief of Pro duction Adjustment Division, spoke on the tobacco program. He brought to the attention of the committee that this iprogram ha