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f ONLY NEWSPAPER ]] PUBLISHED IN CHOWAN COUNTY J[ —Number 16 = Stage Set For Pilgrima ;Of Colonial Edenton April 19 To 21 Over 20 Historic Houses And Buildings To Be Open For Benefit Os Visitors H Headquarters at Hotel Joseph Hewes Sched uled to Open Thurs day The doors to old homes will open Friday, Saturday and Sun day (April 19-21) to welcome thousands of visitors to the Pil grimage of Colonial Edenton and Countryside. The tour, being held in con nection with the Carolina Char ter Tercentenary observance, is sponsored by the Edenton Wo man's Club. Nearly half of the over 20 his toric homes and buildings to open date between 1683 and 1763, the period designated for the ob servance. In addition to the homes a dis play of colonial arts and crafts will be held at the Barker House Friday and Saturday from 2 P- M., to 5 P. M., and 7 P. M-, to 9 P. M., by the Home Demonstra tion Clubs. Downtown windows will be decorated with old items and unusual relics. Waterfront tours will also be held for visitors. The headquarters at the Hotel Joseph Hewes will open Thurs day. Hours for the tour are | Friday and Saturday from 10 A. M., to noon and 2 P. M-, to j 5 p. M., and Sunday from 2 P. M., to 5 P. M- Block tickets! are $4 and individual admissions! s<nSents. Visitors are requested to wear I heeled shoes for their own comfort and to help preserve the irreplaceable floors and fine rugs. Scuffs will be provided for those wearing high heels. This year’s tour promises to be one of the most outstanding and includes Sycamore, the old est house in North Carolina, built in 1660 on the Albemarle Sound by Thomas Norcum. A feature attraction will be Hayes, begun in 1789 by Samuel Johnston, early Governor and continued on Page 2 —Section 1 20 Years Ago) As Found In 1-,* Files Oi J The Chowan Herald J L " Closely following a drive to curb loafing in Edenton, nine young men were rounded up and arrested on charges of vagrancy. Recorder Court Judge Marvin Wilson, realising the necessity of (working or fighting in the war time emergency, fined some and ordered others to leave the county. • Due to a very high wind, some equipment at the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station was lost. A dredge used to pump sand from the bottom of Albemarle Sound was sunk, a tug boat washed ashore, a house boat sunk and several small boats were also sunk. R. N. Hines was elected presi dent of the Edenton Rotary Club. Shad gill net fisherman were given a break when the fishing season was extended 10 days. Cont'd. on Page 4—Section 1 National Library Week Will Be Observed Week Os April 2127 National * Library Week will, begin in The Pettigrew Regional | Library wia a speaker at the headquarters in Plymouth onj Sunday afternoon, April at 2:30 o’clock. The speaker will, be Dr. William Whitehurst and, the subject of his lecture will be “Some Reflections on the Twen tieth Century”. |t is hoped that it Will be pf interest' to aduhs as well as high school students and is a JJ- JSJSw Vucat THE CPOWAN HERALD b Given Scholarship ■IP JOHN A. MITCHENER 111 Information reached Edenton last week that John A. Mitch ener 111, son of Mayor and Mrs. John Miichener, had accepted a fellowship under the Rockefeller Theological Fellowship Program. He plans to enter Yale Univer sity next September. Final PTA Meeting Os Year To Be Held Tuesday, April 23 Feature Will Be Play By Group of Young sters; Officers Will Also Be Elected Edenton Parent-Teacher Asso ciation will hold its final meet ing of the year Tuesday night, | April 23. The meeting will be jheld at 8 o'dlock in the Edenton ' Elementary School auditorium, at .which time new officers for the new year will be elected. A feature of the meeting will be a play, “The Toy Shop,’ 1 which will be presented by pu pils from Mrs. John F. White’s third grade and the kindergarten class taught by Mrs. John J. Ross. 1 Included in the play will be about 45 children in attractive 1 costume. They present a play each year which always attracts and delights a large number of jpeople, so. that it is hoped every PTA member will attend. Story Hour April 26 At Local Library | In connection with the observ-1 ance of National Library Week \ April 21 through April 277, a j story hour will be conducted at ■ the shepard-Pruden Memorial Library, Friday, April 26. The story hour will be held from 4 to 5 P. M.,' with Mrs. ■ C. E. Britton and Mrs. George Byrum in charge. Children from i 5 to 10 years of age are es- I pecially invited to attend and are requested to be on>. hand a few minutes early. .War 11. He received a BA de- Igree from Washington and Lee 'University in 1050; an MA de ! pee in history from the Uni versity of Virginia in 1951 and Ph-D. degree in history from West Virginia in 1962. Since 1960 he His been a member of the Department of History at Old Dominion College. He was appointed Dean of Students in 1961. He is a member of the Public Affairs and News Depart ment of WTAR-TV and host on the program “Dr. William White hurst Repeats” on /daughter island /son Edenton, ( Mrs. J.P. Ricks, Jr. ElectedAsßegent Os OAR Chapter Members Thanked For Efforts In Connec tion With First Day Stamp Sale Mrs. James P. Ricks, Jr., was elected regent of the Edenton Tea Party Chapter, DAR, at the April meeting at the James Ire dell House. Also elected for two year terms were Mrs. William E. Bond, vice-regent; Mrs. Thomas W. Elliott, second vice-regent; Mrs. George M. Mack, secretary; Mrs. Ray Hollowell, correspond ing secretary; Mrs. R. N. Hines, treasurer; Mrs. Mary Browning, registrar; Mrs. G- Medlin Belch, historian; Mrs. J. L. Pettus, chap lain, and Mrs. N. K. Rowell, li brarian. Mrs. Wood privott, DAR dis trict director, announced that a District 8 workshop will be held May Ist at the Town and Coun try Restaurant in Williamston. Mrs. George Hoskins, regent, expressed appreciation to mem bers of the chapter who helped prepare the coffee hour held April 6 for the Carolina Charter first day stamp issue day, and also those who conducted out of-town guests on a tour of his toric sites in Edenton in the af ternoon. The members voted to use the proceeds from the sale of com memorative stamp programs for an outstanding piece of furniture for the Iredell House. The regent reported on the W. Bruce Jones Dies' Suddenly William Bruce Jones, 65, died suddenly in Chowan Hospital aSturday .morning at 2 o’clock. \ native of Chowan County, he vas the son of the late Thomas P. and Margaret Fletcher Jones. He was a partner in the Albe marle Motor Company, local Ford dealers, member of a Ma sonic lodge in Norfolk, Edenton Lions Club and Edenton Baptist Church. Surviving are 'his wife, Mrs. Ida G. Jones; • a son, Bruce F. Jones of Edenton; a daughter, Mrs. William N. Weldridge of -Virginia Beach and six grand -hildren. A funeral service was held at .he Baptist 1 Church Sunday af ternoon at 2:30 o’clock with the pastor, the Rev. R. N- Carroll, officiating. Burial was in Beav er Hill Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Claude f. Stillman, Luther Parks, James 1. Penwell, Thomas Hopkins, Gilliam Wood and William P. Jones. Honorary pallbearers were George A. Byrum, Thomas Shep ard, Elton , Forehand, Graham White, John Mitchener, West By rum, Jr., Joe Conger, Jr., and West Leary. Four Chowan Booths At Craftsman’s Fair Chowan County Home Demon stration Club members have four educational booths ■ with demon strations at the Albemarle Crafts man’s Fair held in Elizabeth City Wednesday and today (Thursday) according to Pauline Calloway, home economics agent. Educational booths include stool bottoming, demonstrated by Mrs. Carlton Perry, Route 3, Edenton and Mrs. Harold Lloyd Bunch, Route 1 Edenton; chair oaning Mrs. T. J. TjVood Mrs. Graham Byrum and Miss Harriet Leary Edenton; pine needle craft Mrs. Jesse Hannon Edenton and Mrs. Glenn Langley, Tyner; and fish netting by members of the Beech Fork Home Demon stration Club. --- j Ryland Home Demonstration [Club has charge of the conces sion booth which is open from 1 to 9 P. M., each day. The I public is invited to attend the | Fair whkh is being held at the National Guard Armory off Ehr- ,n County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 18, 1963. EDENTON PILGRIMAGE Are f. if-::' Jfflr fc. V m m Hi# Sg£v : M m mSBEm & S ’IS A \ % , gRCIjH; IH mw- "p' iff Sri Hi fjlf ’" ■ m jaljßjlalß B &«§ Wim itlP —PMPH aPi iPi| ag ■ h| PILGRIMAGE OF COLONIAL EDENTON AND COUNTRYSIDE being held in connect ion with the Carolina Charter Tercentenary observance will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday (April 19-21). Over 20 historic homes and buildings will be open to the public for the tour sponsored by the Edenton Woman's Club. Headquarters will be the Hotel Joseph Hewes. Children in colonial costumes play on the green in front of the Chowan Court House built in 1767, the finest Georgian court house in the South. Voters Moving From One Ward To Another Must Re-register In Order To Vote In Election May 7 j With Edenton’s municipal elec tion scheduled to be held Tues- day, May 7, P. S- McMullan,. Chairman of the Chowan County Board of Elections, this week is sues information relative to vot-' era moving from one ward, to an-, other. Any voter who has moved from one ward to another with- j in the past two years, or sines the last Edenton election, will be required to register in' the j ward to, which he has moved.: It will be necessary, therefore, i for such voter to contact the | registrar in his present ward in j order to be listed in the registra-. tion book so that he will be eli gible to vote. Registration books will be open , in the various wards Saturday, | April 20, from 9 A. M-, to 5! Hoskin S. Bass Is ( Honored For Work At Jacksonville, N. C. \ Hoskin S- Bass, Fire Chief | of Marine Corps Air Facility at New River, Jacksonville, N. C., was awarded a letter of appre ciation by the Air Facility Com manding Officer, Colonel E. C- Fusan. Chief Bass received the letter of appreciation for excellent work in the Aircraft Crash Training Conference held at the Air Facility for the Eastern Car oline Firemen’s Association. Chief Bass is a graduate of John A. Holmes High School and presently resides in Jack sonville with his wife, the for mer Hilda L. Smith. METHODIST MEN'S CLUB WILL MEET TONIGHT The Methomst Men’s Club will meet tonight (Thursday) at 6:30 o’clock at the church. Nathan Owens, president, requests all members to be present. Cancer Crusade Chairman Asks Prompt Contributions To Fund Mrs. Lewis Leary, Cancer Cru- | sade Chairman, reminds Chowan | citizens that the drive to obtain contributions with which to fight j cancer will be in progress throughout April. Contributions' up to the present are somewhat lagging so that she is making an appeal for all who will contrib ute to do so at once. Mrs. Leary points out that more than 0100,000 people are' alive today in the United States,, cured of cancer. . | An additional 700,000 cancer; patients diagnosed and treated within the last five years will live to enter the ranks of those called cured. Ibis means there P. M., and will remain open for i seven days, excluding Sunday. The same hours will be observed each day except Saturday, when the registrars will be on duty , until 9 P. M. 1 For the information of voters ,who .may be affected, following I are the polling places and regi strars in the four Edenton wards: | First Ward: Mrs. Sadie Hos kins, Registrar, polling place, Municipal Building. ! Second Ward: Mrs. Ruth Stoke ! ly, Registrar. Polling Place, [Chowan County Court House. | Third Ward: Mrs. Corinne jThorud, Registrar. Polling place, I Electric and Water Plant on I West Freemason Street. Fourth Ward: Mrs. W. W. Por j ter, Registrar. Polling Place, i National Guard Armory on ! North Broad Street. Herring Breakfast To jße Served Saturday At Methodist Church In connection with the Pil grimage of Colonial Edenton and Countryside over the coming week-end, the Methodist Men’s Club will hold a herring break fast at the Methodist Church Sat urday mornirfg, April 20- Breakfast will be served from 7 to 9 o’clock and George Lewis, chairman, says pickled as well as fresh herring and herring roe will be served at SI.OO for all one can eat. A similar herring breakfast was served during the last pil grimage, which proved very popular among many visitors who were in Edenton. MASONS MEET TONIGHT | A rtated communication of I Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A- F. i & A. M-, will be held tonight i (Thursday) at 8 o’clock. T. B. 1 Williford, master, urges all Masons to attend. I arp actually 1,900,000 Americans | cured of cancer today, although 700,000 will not be counted for jmally as cured until they have completed the five years. 1 A person is considered cured if i there is no evidence of the di sease five years after treatment. Against,this bright side of the fight against cancer there is a dark one. ' Some 46,000,000 Am ericans now living will develop | cancer if present rates continue. | It is estimated' that one half 'of all cancer patients can be saved by early diagnosis and prompt treatment. Yet only one out of three is saved. Continued on Page 2—Section 1 Edentonians Hosts ForN.C.Legislators I Lack of Time Limits Entertainment to Brief Tour Edenton joined Elizabeth City and Hertford in entertaining members of the North Carolina General Assembly Wednesday, after it met for an official ses sion at Halls Creek in Pasquo tank County, where the first of ficial assembly of the Albemarle ! was held in 1665. An elaborate program was held in Elizabeth City, after which 1 the legislators were taken on a I brief tour of Hertford. I Late in the afternoon the nine buses carrying the legislators were met at the Chowan County line and escorted into Edenton, 'where they were taken on a tour to show the historic spots on Edenton. Nine ladies attired in colonial costume served as a guide on each bus and explained the various buildings as the bus es passed. Due to lack of time, the tour was brief, with the arrangements made by Mayor John Mitchener. George A. Byrum, president of the Chamber of Commerce. .DAR ladies and members of the Eden ton Woman’s Club. ’)r. Polk Williams Jaycette Speaker Edenton’s Jaycettes met Thurs day night, April 4, at the Eden ton Restaurant. They welcomed three visitors, Dr. and Mrs. L. P. Williams, Jr., and Vivian Smith. Since April is cancer month, Dr. Williams, the guest speaker, gave a very interesting talk on cancer. ‘‘Everyone should have a yearly check-up and most of all,” explained Dr. Williams, “don’t try to hide from cancer. Look for the seven danger sig nals and if you notice a knot or something that you cant ex plain, see your doctor.” In closing he urged everyone to support American Cancer So ciety with the hope that some day there’ll be a cure for can cer. The Jaycettes voted to make a donation toward the purchase |of a useful item for the loan j closet. i Pre-School Clinic At Chowan High Friday | A beginners day for pre-school 1 children will be held at Chowan High School Friday morning, April 19, at 9 o’clock. Parents of all children tcrenter school in September, 1963, should bring their .children at this time. Parents are also requested to bring their children’s birth cer tificate and immunization record if available. $3.00 Per Year In North Carolina Group Os Old Pictures Os Edenton To Be Displayed For Week-end Pilgrimage Jaycee Speaker P>. vv > 1, Ail JOHN L. KENNEDY Principal speaker and install ing officer at the Edenton Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday night, April 23, at the American Legion Building will be John L. Kennedy of Fay etteville, president of the North Carolina Jaycees. Jack Habit Elected New President Os Edenton’s Jaycees Officers Will Be In stalled at Meeting Tuesday, April 23, In Legion Building Members of Edenton's Junior Chamber of Commerce at their regular meeting Thursday night elected officers for the year 1963- 34. Jack Habit was elected president to succeed Carlton Jackson. Other officers elected were: First vice president, Pete Dail; second vice president, Billy Boyce: secretary, David Ottoway; corresponding secretary, Tom Ford; treasurer, Clyde Williams; state director, Tony Miley; chair- Coniinued on Page 4, Lection 1 Another First North Carolina, or at least Chowan County, can chalk up another ''First". And Mrs. Inglis Fletcher, too. experienced an other "First" last week. Much to the noted novelist’s surprise, she received a long dis tance telephone call from Co i lumbus, Ga- where a group of high school students requested an interview with Mrs. Fletcher, i They were interested in creative ! writing and spoke with Mrs. Fletcher for 40 minutes. "They were a very interesting and in ' telligent group of students," said i Mrs. Fletcher, "and it was the 1 first time I had an interview on j writing over the telephone." The telephone company at Co lumbus fooled the bill for the i 40-minute interview. John A. Mitchener 111 Awarded Rockefeller Fellowship At Yale Edenton friends were delighted . to learn last week that John A- Mitchener 111, son of Mayor and ; Mrs. John Mitchener, had accept-1 ed a fellowship under the Rocke- ' feller Theological Fellowship Program. He plans to enter, Yale University next September. I Young Mitchener is one of 60 students throughout the country who were offered such a fellow ship by the Rockefeller Founda tion. The one year award is for study towards consideration of the Christian ministry, but will be under no obligation to pursue this career. 1 Mr. Mitchener graduated from \ FIGHT CANCER WITH 4 CHECKUP , AND CHECK Will Be Seen In Win dow of Consumer’s Credit Branch of Lo cal Bank Sponsored by the Cupola House Association and with the Peoples Bank & Trust Company bearing the expense, a very in teresting group of pictures taken in Edenton about 1890 and even during the Civil War period . have been collected. The pic tures were re-taken and will be on display at the Consumer’s Credit Branch of Peoples Bank & Trust Company during the Pilgrimage of Colonial Edenton and Countryside. After the Pil grimage they will be put on dis jplay in the Cupola House rau- I seum. I Due principally to the efforts of David Warren, the pictures were reproduced from old pic tures loaned by some of the old |er residents of Edenton. I Among the pictures are scenes jof Water Street, Queen street, .Church Street, Court Street, the ! John W. Garrett train ferry, grandstand at the old fair- I grounds. Court House, the pres ent home of Col. and Mrs. W. B- Rosevear with cows feeding on j the lawn, Beverly Hall, Sarah) ! Valentine's house, the last house on Cheap Side which burned in 1893 in the Cheap Side fire, St. Paul’s Church, Bay View Hotel. , corner of Broad and King Streets showing the old well in the middle of the street, a num ber of steamers in the harbor, (Baptist Church, Woodard Hotel, .Franklin Street showing the old I Edenton Post Office and black smith shop and others. The old pictures will, no doubt, he of interest to visitors while in Edenton, and will be of spe jcial interest to Edentonians to 'compare the pictures with the same present day sites. Ashley To Speak At Rotary Meeting Edenton's Rotary Club will meet this (Thursday) afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Parish House. A feature of the meeting will be an address on Civil Defense by Murray Ashley, Edenton and Chowan County Civil Defense director, president W. B. Rose vear is especially anxious to have a 100 per cent attendance for this meeting. fciviccalendar] The Pilgrimage of Colonial Edenton and Countryside will be held April 19-21. An election will be held Tues i day. May 7. to elect officials for i the Town of Edenton. Edenton’s Parent-Teacher As ' sociation will hold its final meet ing of the year Tuesday night, I April 23. at 8 o'clock in the au i ditorium of the Edenton Ele i mentary School. | National Library Week will be . observed April 21 through April > 27th. Continued on Page 8, Section 1 John A. Holmes High School with honors and was winner of the Rotary Cup for scholastic ex cellence and leadership in extra curricular activities. He will graduate from the ’School of Pharmacy of the University of North Carolina in June of this year. At the University he has been a member of the Men’s Honor Council, presidential as sistant and was elected to the Society of Janua and Order of the Old Well. He is a member of th« American and North Caro lina pharmaceutical Association and was also named to Rho Chi, highest scholastic association of the School of Pharmacy.