ONLY NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED IN
CHOWAN COUNTY,
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Volume XXX.—Number 25.
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Reading "the minutes" by Mrs. Roland (Jerry) Evans of Chowan County highlighted a pajama
party of HDC'ers attending Homemaker's Week (June 17-21) at N. C. State College in Raleigh.
The 18 women present, although dormitory space did not permit all to be pictured, represented 12
(Rome Demonstration Clubs in eight counties, Alamance, Anson, Caswell, Chowan, New Hanover,
Rockingham, Mecklenburg and Montgomery. Mrs. Evans is past publicity chairman of Chowan
tljounty Home Demonstration Clubs. Mrs. Glenn Holladay. at far left, is president of the Alamance
HDC County Council. Mrs. Tommy Hughes, center back, a member of the Stoney Creek-Union
Ridge HDC Chib, was host for the meeting—Photo by Pat Bailey.
Local National Guardmen
Was Among Battalion To
Achieve Highest Rating
Members of Edenton
Unit Returns Home
From Fort Bragg on
Saturday
Members of Edenton’s unit of
the National Guard returned
Saturday after a two-weeks
training period at Fort Bragg, j
Northeasterd North Carolina
National Guardsmen achieved the
highest rating for battalion size
unit during the 30th Infantry
Division’s annual two week sum
mer encampment.
Commanded by Lt. Col. Em
mett Ingram of Elizabeth City,
the 4th Battalion, 119th Infantry
was the only battalion in the
Noyth-Carolina division to have
dvery company rated superior by
regular Army evaluators assign
ed to grade the units and their
traihing.
In .addition to its high grades
for training, the 4th Battalion,
because of its high state of read
iness, was alerted last Tuesday,
June 18, for possible riot control ;
duty in Fayetteville.
The alert was called off after.
expected race demonstrations in {
Fayetteville failed to material- 1
ize. , •*. * • v
The battalion’s selection sor 1
Continued on Page 6, Section 1 i
1
20 Years Ago J
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As Found In I.* Files Os ]
The Chowan Herald I
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In a sna&eup of the Edenton
Police Department Town Coun
cilmen, in a special session, em
ployed J. R. Tanner as chief of
police to succeed George A. j
Helms, who resigned, failed to
re-employ any of the present
'-policemen, rescinded an ordi
nance which for many years
vested in Town Council the
power to employ and discharge
members of the Police Depart
ment add set salaries of all
Continued on Page 7—Section 1
Direct Loiig Distance Telephone
Calls Go Into Effect October 6th
The Norfolk & Carolina Tele
phone & Telegraph Company has
Announced that it is on schedule
Wife the Installation of new
equipment which will make it
possible to dial long distance
calß direct from your own tele
phone /This new system of dial
ing will go into efl&t on Oc
tober 6, 1963.
DuD is the fastest and most
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worm. a% woo tuw r v **
to prootioft';* on. ft . trial basis in
THE CHOWAN HERALD
[Earlier Next Week]
In order to allow Herald em
ployees to observe Thursday of
next week, July 4, as Independ
ence Day, The Herald will be
printed a day earlier. The last
section of the papej ..wiU be
puttied Tuesday in
stead of Wednesday afternoon, 1
so that all advertising and news
articles must be received a day
earlier.
Lions Will Install
Officers Monday
Dr. A. F. Downum to
Succeed Hollowell !
As President
I
Officers for the new year for ;
the Edenton Lions Club will be
installed at the club’s meeting
Monday night, July 1. The 1
meeting will be held at 7 o’clock
at the Edenton Restaurant and
outgoing president, Herbert IJol- j
lowell,' urges every member of
the club to be present.
The officers to be installed in
clude: President, Dr. A. F.
Downum; first vice president,
Joe Thorud; second vice presi
dent, Dr. Richard Hardin; third
vice president, Daniel Reaves;
tail twister, Leo Katkaveck; Lion
tamer, Gene Perry; two-year,
directors, Hector Lupton and,
Jesse Harrell; secretary and
treasurer, W. J. Taylor.
Edenton Libraries
Closed July 4 And 5
Shepard-Pruden Memorial Li
brary and Brown-Carver will be ,
closed July Fourth for the na
tional holiday and July fifth for
a regional staff meeting.
throughout the nation have con-1
verted to DDD. In all of these
locations it has met with wide
scale acceptance by the public.
“DDD will be available for use
by either residence or business
subscribers on station-to-station
calls,” pays L. S. Blades, Jr.,
president of the local telephone
company . “Person-to-person,
eredrt--card, pay station, collect
calls, and some dther types of
long distance calls must be
I placed through an operator.
I Station-to-station calls .are- gftn-1
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, June 27, 1963?
Miss Jean Goodwin
Is Honored At Girls;
State Last Week
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Edenton Girl Elected
Attcrrhey General at
24th Session Held at 1
Greensboro
Jean Goodwin, daughter of,
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Goodwin, |
Was signally honored at Girls’
State which was held at Greens
boro last week.
Miss Goodwin, sponsored by
JBfin '‘S: Holmes High School,
was elected attorney general
from 318 “legislators” attending
from all over the state to study
government. The girls elected
their own state officials and
went to Raleigh to take over
for one day.
Prior to the inauguration, the
Senate and House members con
vened to pass legislation, most
of which was proposed earlier
in Greensboro and Which was
approved oh third reading. One
1 bill. approved called for a re
union for Girl Staters of 1963.
Two other girls from Chowan
County and sponscred by the
Legion Auxiliary, were Sandra
Bunch and Lois Ann Chappell.
They returned home Saturday.
Fisheries Group
Meets July 13th
All Commercial Fish
ermen Invited to
Attend Meeting
The Commercial Fisheries
Committee of the State Board
of Conservation and Develop
ment will hold its summer meet
ing at 10 A. M„ Saturday, July
13, in the Dare County Court
House at Manteo.
The meeting, required by law, j
will be held oh the eve of the)
sessions of the State Board of.
Conservation and Development
in the Manteo High School at
! Manteo on Monday and Tues
day, July 15 and 16, Robert L.
Stallings, Jr., director of the
SUite Department of Conserva
tion* and Development, says.
Matters dealing with commer
cial fishing in the state will be
taken up by the committee,
whose chairman is Eric W. Rod
gers of Scotland Neck.
Members of the State Advis
ory Commercial Fisheries Board
will attend the meeting of the
Commercial Fisheries Committee.
Commercial'fishermen are in
vited to attend the meeting and
present any matters dealing with
commercial- fishing, Rodgers said.
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OOUIfTY
WILL MEBT_ON JULY Ist
Chowan - County Commission-j
1 1963-64 county budget will be
lirti iiilitl '
’Special Events At I
i Golf And Country
I Club On July 4tii
,1 ature Will Be Scot
ill sh Foursome With
ooth Men and Wom
en Participating
The Chowan Golf and Coun
try Club will have as special
events July 4th a Scottish Four
some golf match. The match
will consist of foursomes made
up of men and women golfers of
the club. The matches will be
gin at 12 o’clock. At 2 o’clock
there will be bridge and card
gdmes for those members de
siring to play cards. Prizes
will be awarded for winners
and runnersup of both these
events.
I At 6:30 P. M. Mrs. .Dave Tosh,
new club hostess, will serve a
buffet dinner. All members are
urged to attend and participate
in these activities.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hopkins,
chairmen of the Entertainment
Committee, announce the fol
lowing Entertainment Commit
tee members to have charge of
events of the club for the com
ing year:
July-October: Mr. and Mrs.
Keith Reeve, Mr. and Mrs. Sid
i Campon and Mr. and Mrs. El
ton Forehand.
August-November: Mr. and
'Mrs. Bill Easterling, Mr. and
Mrs. John Woolard and Dr. and
Mrs. Richard Hines.
I September-December: Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Jones. Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Elliott and Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Earnhardt.
Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins also an
nounce that there will be at
I least two club functions per
I month the remainder of this
I year.
George A. Conner
Goes To Currituck-
Served 'ln Edenton
Office For 14%
Years
George Conner, *'Jr., soil con
servation technician for the past
14 Vi years in Chowan County,
has received a promotion and
been transferred to Currituck
County. Mr. Conner has done
an outstanding job here in as
sisting fanners apply soil and
water conservation practices on
their farms. He will be the
service representative in charge
of the conservation program in
Currituck County, working un
der O. C. Abbott, work unit
conservationist, who will have
the administrative responsibility
for Pasquotank, Camden and
Continued on Page 4 —Section ’
Mrs. 0. M. Blanchard
Is Scholarship Winner
Mrs. O. M. Blanchard cf
Hobbsville, a member of the
Wards Home Demonstration
Club, received one of the 12
Julia F. Cuyler music scholar
ships given in the state to Home
Demonstration Club members,
according to Miss Pauline Cal
loway. home economics agent.
Mrs. Blanchard is attending
I the State Music Workshop at
I Woman’s College in Greensboro
.this week. During the week the
state public school music faculty
will present classes on music
appreciation, combined chorus
a.nd choral reading and phrase
developing; conducting (begin
ner and advanced classes); read
ing score; church music, speech
and voice classes.
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Some Changes Made In State s
Hunting Regulations For ’63*64
Tar Heel hunters will have a.
greatly simplified squirrel season
this fall. At a meeting of- the
North Carolina Wildlife Re
sources Commssion held in Ra
leigh last week, 99 counties were
included in a uniform squirrel
season, beginning October 15 and j
fending January 1.
| The decision for the state-wide‘i
I season was based on research,
which shewed that Tar Heel
' squirrels produce young twice a
year, usually in March and July,
'it was also found that very few
New And Old School Trustees’ Chairman
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PHILIP S. McMULLAN
Alter serving as a member of the Edenton School Board of
Trustees lor 31 years, Joseph H. Conger, Sr., resigned at the last
meeting of the board. Mr. Conger has served four years as chair
man. succeeding the late Thomas Ohears. Philip McMullan, a
member of the board for 18 years, was elected to succeed Mr.
Conger as chairman. Mr. Conger's replacement on the board will
be elected at a joint meeting of the school trustees and Town
Council.
Evans Introduces Another
Bill In House In Effort To
Settle School Squabble
New Bill Would Vali
date Retirement Sys
tem to Employ Tay
lor Another Yeai*
With the Chowan County
Board -of Education school squab
ble still not settled regarding re-
I appointment of W. J. Taylor as
Superintendent, Representative B.
Barner Evans last week intro
duced another bill in the House -
of Representatives in the hope 1
that it will settle the argument, j
Mr. Evans stated that this bill
is not a directive to the local
board, but that it will qualify j
i the action of the retirement!
system in granting Mr. Taylor J
Serf extension of one more year.'
Under the law a teacher or j
state employee is automatically,
Edenton Will Join Nation In
Ringing Bells On July Fourth
Edenton will join in the cele
bration of the Fourth of July
this year by the spontaneous
ringing of bells in hamlets and
cities across the nation at .noon
on Independence Day.
The local observance is spon
sored by the Edenton Tea Party
Chapter of the DAR, to call at
tention to the nation’s birthday.
“It is particularly fitting that
Chowan County participate by
having all bells in the town and
county ring, as it was here that
early citizens played an import
ant part in gaining our coun
try’s independence,” Mrs. J. P.
Ricks, Jr., regent, stated.
Governor Terry Sanford has
asked the citizens of North
Carolina to participate with the
other states in the nationwide
celebration.
Lessons In Bridge
Will Begin In July
Bridge lessons will start the
first week in July. For definite
date call Mrs. John Douglas,
482-3436 or Mrs. Frances Hol
lowell 482-3649.
• BANK CLOSED JULY 4
Pe*ples Bank & Trust Com
pany and the Consumers Credit
Branch will be closed next
Thursday, July 4, in observance
of Independence Day. Any im
portant business should, there
fore, be transacted accordingly.
of the March broods are around
for the gun season in the fall,
while the July crop furnishes
most of the fall hunting. All
across the state, most of the July
squirrels are weaned by the'
middle of October. Biologists
believe that since the nimrod’s
gun is'only one of the several,!
factors in squirrel mortality, the
hunting season should begin
when the late crop has left the
nest This will give the sports
man more hunting that previ-
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J. H. C JNGER, SR.
retired upon reaching 65 unless
their employer requests and re
ceives approval for an extension
of service. This request, how
ever, has not been made by the
school board.
Mr. Evans says the school
squabble is unfortunate and ex
pressed the hope that it could
be resolved by the board mem
bers.
Mr. Evans previously intro
duced a bill which would have
[directed the reappointment of
Mr. Taylor. It cleared the
[House, but at Mr. Evans’ request
was killed in the Senate due to
hearing considerable opposition,
j The school squabble has been
[going on since the April meet
ling oi Lh&, school board, when
[ there was a 3-3 tie vote on the
I matter of reappointing Mr. Tay
, lor.
Mayor John Mitchener and
W. E. Bond, chairman of the
Chowan County Commissioners,
have endorsed the ringing of
bells locally.
In a joint statement they said.
“As the great chorus of bells
swells across the land, it will be
heard by families at home, on
the lake shore, in the mountains,
wherever Americans gather on
the Fourth. The sound will
come ,as a thrilling reminder of
what the Fourth of July stands
for, challenging each of us to
remember the heroic resolve
formed by the men who pledged
their lives, their fortunes and
j their sacred honor 187 years
ago.”
The bell ringing project was
first described in the February
17, 1963, issue of This Week
I Magazine.
U.S. Savings Bonds
Sales Total $8,712
In Chowan County
Graham White Says
Goal Is One Bond
For Every American
Family >
R. Graham White, volunteer
chairman for the U. S- Savings
Bonds program in Chowan Coun
ty has announced that during
May Chowan County citizens
purchased $8,712 of U. S- Sav
ings Bonds. For the year their
purchases amount to $31,026.
This is 27.9 per cent of the
Continued on Page 3—Section 1
ON DRAN’,S LIST
Bill Goodwin; son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Goodwin, was one of
seven students in the School bf
Journalism at die University of
North Carolina to be named on
the Dean’s List 'for the spring
semester.
Young Goodwin during the
summer is working on the
Times-Herald of Newport News.
North Carolina
Two Killed, Five Injured
In Automobile Accident
Near Virginia Fork Sunday
Rev. L C. Sheaf Is
New Minister For
Methodist Church
Rev. Van T. Crawford
Is Placed on Retired
List; Son Sent to Mil
ton Circuit
At the North Carolina Metho
dist Annual Conference which
! was held last week at Green
. ville, the Rev. E. C. Shoaf was
l transferred to the Edenton Meth
odist Church to succeed the
Rev. Van T. Crawford. Mr.
'Crawford, who has been seri
| ously ill for several months, has
been placed on the retired list.
| His son, the Rev. Van T. Craw
ford, Jr., has been filling the
I local pulpit during his father’s
i illness.
Mr. Shoaf comes to Edenton
'very highly recommended, com
ing from the Edenton Street
Methodist Church in Raleigh,
! where he has been assistant pas
| tor. He also served as assistant
i pastor at Duke Chapel and has
filled a pastorate at Lillington.
Continued on Page s—Section I
New Electric Speed
Watch Planned To
! Check Speed Cars
Gadget Is Expected to
■ Be Put In Operation
On Edenton Streets
In About Two Weeks
According to Chief of Police
James H. Griffin, the Edenton
i Police Department now has a
1 new machine known as the
electric speed watch, which will
|go into operation in about two
■ weeks. Mr. Griffin also says
I signs have been erected at each
j approach to the city warning
motorists of speed being elec
trically timed, so that people
are informed of the new de
vice to check speed.
Chief Griffin also reports hav
ing received several complaints
about children in Morris Circle,
Pembroke Circle and Westover
Heights trying to ride on the
rear of delivery trucks travel
ing in these areas. He desires
to urge parents to caution their
children about this danger.
Youngster Injured
When Hit By Car
Kenny Lyons, 4-year-old boy,
I narrowly escaped serious injury
, Thursday when he reportedly
j ran into the path of an auto
j mobile driven by James Carroll.
, The accident occurred about
3 o’clock in front of the home
l of his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Roman Jethro.
I The boy was taken to Chowan
I Hospital where it was learned
he suffered only a few bruises
and face lacerations. He was
[released the next day and the
| accident was termed unavoid
able.
Bright Outlook For State Funds
For Edenton Historical Work
Unless sidetracked in the leg
islative mill, a museum of the
I Albemarle at Elizabeth City and
for historical restoration work
in Edenton will benefit to the
tune of $67,700. An appropria
tion for this amount was made
by the Senate last week, with
$4,600 to be used in conversion
of the highway patrol station
near Elizabeth City into a show
place to preserve early culture
of the history of the area.
The Edenton allocation calls
for $24,100 to be used in restora
tion work at the Cupola House
and the Penelope Barker House.
.Both measures will be held up,
pending approval by the State
Historical Advisory Committee,
FIGHT CANCER
WITH A CHECKUP
, AND CHECK
Charlie Spruill, Jr. and
Young Daughter of
Columbia Lose Their
Lives
In a head-on collision about
I 8 o’clock Sunday night, two p?r-
I sons were killed and five in
jured. The accident occurred
near the Virginia Fork Service
Station on Route 32 north.
1 Charlie Spruill, Jr., 26 of Co
jlumbia, died shortly after ar
rival at Chowan Hospital and
j his 10-months-old daughter E isa
died while on the way to the
hospital.
' The injured included Mrs.
Frances Spruill, 18, who receiv
ed lacerations about the mouth,
broken teeth, injuries to a leg
and many bruises; Mrs. Eleanor
Bowen, 41, fractured thigh and
lower right leg, bruises of the
chest and hand; Patricia Bowen,
11, concussion and bruised left
knee; Lundy Bowen, Jr., 7, and
Maxine Bowen 4, lacerations, and
Charlie Ben Biggs, 34 of V/ii
liamston, lacerations of the facrj
and arm.
State Patrolmen S. 11. Lassi
ter and Wayne Rawls investi
gated the accident and according
to their report Biggs was alone
jin a 1955 Pontiac driving north
|on the wrong side of the road.
Spruill, driver of the other car,
!was heading south in a 1951
Buick.
J Biggs was arrested and will
lbe charged with manslaughter.
The deaths were the first
: highway fatalities in Chowan
(County this year.
i Rotarians Install
! Officers Today
Hiram J. Mayo Will
1 Take Over Reins
As President
Officers for Edenton’s Rotary
Club will be installed at the
.club’s meeting this (Thursday)
j afternoon at 1 o’clock in the
Parish House. Following the in
stallation ceremony a program
! will be presented by Frank
\ Holmes.
i Officers to be installed are:
.President, Hiram Mayo; vice
president. West Byrum. and the
following new directors: Rich
ard Dixon, Zech Bond. Blair
| Gibson and W. B. Gardner.
Outgoing president, W. B.
Rosevear, urges a 100 per cent
attendance for the occasion.
[ CIVIC calendar]
Edenton will join the rest of
the nation on July 4 in ringing
bells to celebrate Independence
Day.
Chowan Golf and Country
Club will stage special events on
July 4.
Chowanoke Council No. 54.
Degree of Pocahontas, will meet
tonight (Thursday) at 8 o'clock.
Edenton Jaycees will meet to
night (Thursday) at 7 o'clock
at the Edenton Restaurant.
Bridge lessons will begin the
first week in July.
Edenton Rotarians will meet
this (Thursday) afternoon at 1
o'clock at the Parish House.
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(established only a few months
ago for protection against “pork
barrel” historical appropriations.
Sponsor of the measure, Cho
wan Rep. B. Warner Evans, said
he had “no fear but what the
Historical Advisory Committee
will approve it.”
“I’m very much pleased with
its passage through the legisla
ture and rather proud of it,”
Evans said, “especially since so
| many of the bills are being
knifed in the closing days of
the Assembly.”
Evans said he felt the legis
lation’s enactment "Will proba
bly be a new incentive to the
people of Edenton to do more
in the restoration of our historic
homes.” ‘