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PU BUSSED IN'
CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXX —Number 28.
Assistant Chief Os Police
Leo LaVoie Is Discharged
From Police Department
Action of Chief James
H. Griffin Is Causing
Considerable Dissat
isfaction In Edenton
Assistant Chief of Police Leo
LaVoie was discharged from the
Edenton Police Department on
Wednesday of last week by
Chief of Police James H. Gris-j
fin. The discharge was a cli
max to disagreement between
ULaVoie and Griffin relative to *.
rchange in LaVoie’s rank and un
satisfactory reports to Town
Council by Mayor John Mitch- 1
cner and Elton Forehand, who
compose the Police Commission.
Chief Griffin, in an interview
with The Herald, stated that he
wanted to put the Police De
partment on a more systematic
basis and that in order to pro
vide proper ranks he had ar
ranged to give LaVoie the title
jof captain, but that he would
still remain assistant chief of
police.
Griffin stated that when he
took over the duties of Chief
of Police there was lack of re-'
spect for LaVoie and more or
less lack of cooperation among
the members of the force.
Chief Griffin said he had a
•onference with LaVoie relative
to a change in rank, though
there would be no change in au
thority or salary. He said La-
Voie was receptive to the change
but soon thereafter registered
some resentment and said he
would not accept the change in.
title.
Griffin also stated that LaVoie
was requested, along with all of
ficers, to attend a class for in
struction on a time clock for
registering speed on the streets,
but that LaVoie failed to attend.
In another instance, he said, a
conference dt all officers was
galled but that LaVoie again re
fused to put in an appearance.
Elton Forehand, who is assist
ant police commissioner, report-
Cont’d. on r> ag« 2—Section 1
Rocky Hock Bake
Sale Planned July 27
IThe Rocky Hock Community
ill sponsor a bake sale Sal
day, July 27. The sale will
: held in front of Belk-Tyler’s
ore beginning at 9 A. M.
All kinds of cakes, pies, cook
s, cup cakes and candy will
lk for sale.
20 Years Ago ]
As Found In Ijo Files Os I
The Chowan Herald
|t~.
Chowan County Commission
en officially adopted a tax Ate
of 80 cents per fIQO property
valuation. Town Council adopt
ed a rale of SI.OO.
Due to a shortage of engineers,
pirns for letting contracts for
erection of barracks and other
accommodations far 440 Lady
Marines and 32 officers were
postponed.
Inglis Fletcher rad her hus
band, John Fie tcWar, presented
the; town and coUety a hand
some portrait of the Duke of
Albemarle to be |ung in the
Assembly Room of the Court
House.
Fourteen colored faductees left
the Edenton armfhr to take
Centtnuea on POaett—leek'~u I
Federate| Qul^OfD^
Will Hol| Institute At Camiden
Club leaders frkn the 13~j
Women’s Clubs ant the two
Junior Women’s Cluk of District
16 will attend the fnnual sum
mer Institute meetiifr Saturday,
July 20, in Camderij Hostesses
for the day will be Itvembers of
the Camden Woman’! Club. Mrs.
J. D. | Elliott of Edaiton, N. C.
district president, will preside at,
the leadership confeilnce which
will he held at tA .Camden
“ 3 i
institute f re&llv .■r
workshop for dull leaders, I
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Guest Speaker
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DR. FRED GARLAND
A series of meetings will be
held July 18-20 at the Edenton
Independent Baptist Church,
when Dr. Fred Garland of Roa
noke, Va.. will be the speaker.
Chowan Cattle
Will Be Treated
ForTßAndßangs
Goal Is to Test All
Cattle So That Coun
ty Can Be Consider
ed Brucellosis Free
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Dairy and beef cattle in Cho
wan County are now being test
ed in order to reaccredit the
county this fall. C. W. Over
man, County Extension Chair
man,’ Said that this routine test
is done every three years. Mr.
Overman said that the goal is to
test all cattle in the county. If
no infection is found, following
test of all cattle, the county can
then be considered brucellosis
free. Certified completely free
counties are tested every five
years.
Every effort will be made to
test the animals at a time that it
will best fit the farm work
schedule. The program differs
to that of former years in that
heifer calves between four and
eight months old will be en
couraged to be calfhood vacci
nated.
The TB and brucellosis (Bangs)
work will be done by Dr. H. C-
I Jackson, veterinarian (disease
control), who is stationed in
Edenton. The program is spon
sored by the Agricultural Re
search Service, and is done
without cost to the cattle own
ers. When funds are available
the local veterinarians are ask
ed to assist in the program.
Deadline Set For
Those Who Play In
Tennis Tournament
With a tennis tournament
scheduled to begin in Edenton
Monday, July 22, Paul' Stanton,
summer recreation director, is
planning for the various games.
Mr. Stanton early this week
announced that all who are in
terested in participating in the
1 tournament should contact him
'by Friday, July 19.
'Council Institute in Raleigh,
will present the Federation pro
gram. The local club presidents
will be instructed by the district
president.
Mrs. J. C. Liebhart of Morgan
ton, second vice president of the
State Federation and Mrs.
Charles G. Mackintosh of High
E president of the
n, will conduct a
swer period. Mrs.
y of Ahoskie and
ieak briefly from
deration level on
rogram after the
larily for local
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday. July 18, 1963.
'Post Office At 1
| Tyner Scheduled |
| To Be Improved
I Competitive Bids For
Work Are Requested
To Be Submitted Be
fore Friday, Aug. 9
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Congressman Herbert C. Bon
ner announced last Week that he
has been advised by the Post
Office Department they are
seeking competitive bids for an
improved building to house its
postal operations at Tyner.
The Post Office Department
will award a contract to the
bidder who designates a build
ing suitable to the department’s
needs and agrees to improve it
(or provide a new building) ac- <
cording to departmental specifi
cations and then rent it to the
department for a basic period of
five years with three, five-year
renewal options. j
The departments capital in- 1
vestment will be limited sub-1
Istantially to postal equipment.'
The building will remain under
private ownership, with the
owner paying local real estate
taxes.
The modernization program by
the Post Office .Department will
make a dual contribution to im
proving the economy of Tyner,
Continued on Page 3—Section 1
Town CouncHmen
AdoptTaxßateOf
SI.OO For 1963-64
Also Decide to Pave'
Parking Area Adja- 1
cent to Three Stores
Without Meters
In a brief meeting of Tow*
Council held Tuesday afternoon,
the Councilmen adopted the
budget for 1963-64 which was
previously approved as present
ed by the Finance Committee.
The Overall budget provides ,
for estimated expenditures of
$246,569, which is somewhat
higher than last year. However,
the tax rate has been set at I
SI.OO per SIOO property valuation,
which is the same rate as last
year. . - ,
During the meeting the Coun
cilmen voted to pave the park
ing area adjacent to Belk-Tyler’s l
store, Edenton Furniture Com
pany and P&Q Super Market.
It was also decided that while
the area will be marked for •
parking, there will be no park
ing meters installed.
Emmanuel Baptist
Church Officially
Organized July 7
New Congregation Is
sues Call to Rev. Bob
Ware to Serve as
Full Time Pastor
The Rev. Roy A. Harrell has
announced that the Emmanuel
Baptist Church organized a new
Independent Baptist Church in
Edenton on July 7, 1963.
The new chupch was organized i
from a mission established by
the Emmanuel Baptist Church of
Elizabeth City a little more than
a year ago.
Mr. Harrell moderated the
meeting and there were 40 char-1
ter members. The body called
the Rev. Bob Ware, who had
been directing the mission, as.
full time pastor,
Th? new church will be known |
as the Emmanuel Baptist Church
and will continue to meet on
Continued on Page 3, Section 1
Edenton’s Jaycettes
Will Meet Tonight
Edenton’s Jaycettes will meet
tonight (Thursday) at 1 o’clock, j
The meeting will be in the form
of a cook-out at Sandy Point
Beach. j
Mrs. Ethel LaVoie, president,
j 3 g iss Wool Needlework 1963
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STEPHANIE POWERS
Above is pictured Stephanie Powers, selected as Miss Wool
Needlework 1963 as she tends to her knitting and suggests that
Chowan County women do so, too, by entering the 1963 National
Wool Needlework Contest which will be judged locally at the
Chowan County Fair September 16 to 21. Miss Powers, who co
stars with John Wayne in "McLinlock," was chosen by the Na
tional Hand Knitting Yarn Association and the American Wool
Council, co-sponsors of the contest.
Medicsl Staff Os Chowan
Hospital Elects Dr. Hardin
New President Os Staff
Succeeds Dr. E. Bond,
-Who Served During
Illness of Dr. Frank
Wood |
At the regular medical staff |
meeting of Chowan Hospital held
July 2, .Dr. Richard Hardin was I
elected president to succeed Dr. ]
Edward G. Bond, who had acted
-as president of the staff during
the illness of Dr. Frank Wood.
| Other officers elected were
Dr. Roland Vaughan, vice presi
dent, and Dr. David O. Wright,
secretary- treasurer.
Dr. Hardin is a native of West.
Jefferson, N. C. He graduated |
from Wake Forest College and;
the Bowman-Gray Schcol of i
Medicine. He served three j
years in the U. S. Navy as a
i flight surgeon before starting the
general practice of medicine in
Edenton 13 years ago.
He expresses his appreciation
to the hospital staff for making |
it possible to have the hospital
accredited in April, 1962.
Dr Hardin in a statement had)
this to say: “We of the staff'
will continue to give the high
degree of medical care to the
public that Chowan Hospital has
[always given. It is a pleasure
to announce the following chiefs'
Os service: Chief of Medical
Service, Dr. Edward G. Bond;
chief of Surgical Service, Dr.
L. P. Williams, Jr., and chief of I
Obstetrical Service, Dr. Roland
Vaughan.”
ROTARIANS MEET TODAY
Edenton Rotarians will hold
their weekly meet this (Thurs
day) afternoon at 1 o’clock in
the Parish House. The program
will be in charge of Richard F.
Elliott, and President Hiram J.
Mayo urges every Rotarian to
be present.
(Local Boy Scouts Win Honors
Last Week At Scout Reservation
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Two of the '-three weekly
'awards given at Camp Kiwanis,
Pipsico Scout Reservation, last
week were earned by Scouts of
Edenton Troop 156.
Tony Twiddy received the ob
stacle course award when he al
most broke the all-time camp
I record for the course with a
time of 46 seconds,
j Steve Jackson was given the
waterfront award for the week.
Both boys were given appropri
jate plaques at the last campfire
of the camping week.
A number of boys passed or
worked toward merit badges,
while others worked toward first
Special Services At
Emmanuel Baptist
1 Church July 18-20
Dr. Fred Garland of
Roanoke, Va., to Be
Speaker for Series of
Meetings
The Rev. Bob Ware, pastor of
I the Edenton Independent Baptist
I Church, announces a series of
'meetings with Dr. Fred Garland,
I nationally known evangelist from
j Roanoke, Va., as speaker. Mr. |
Garland, editor of ‘“The Voice of'
Truth” and author of several
booklets, will speak each night
at 8 o’clock Thursday through
'Saturday, July 18-20, at the
| American Legion building. A
film will also be shown each
I night.
j Thursday night the film will
be “One World Government. One
World Church and One World
Ruler”; Friday night, “Operation
Abolition Revolution Begins
Russian Style”. On Saturday
the film will be “Flaming Teen
age”, the life story of Dr. Gar
land. This film tells the story
of Mr. Garland in graphic detail
I Continued on Page 2—Section I
Clements Is Named
Acting Police Chief
Chief of Police James H.
Griffin early this week ap
pointed W. S. Clements as as
sistant chief of police to succeed
Leo LaVoie. The appointment
is on a temporary basis until
action is taken by Town Council.
and second class rank advance
ment.
Adults spending two nights
each with the boys were Tom
Cross, Elbert Copeland and I
Scoutmaster Jack Habit
Scouts attending were: Ron
nie Alexander, Jimmy Bond, Cam
Byrum, David Copeland, Tom
Cross Joey Covington, Mike Cov
ington, John Douglas, Mike Er
vin, George Holmes, Steve Jack- |
son, Steve Johnson, Frankie
Katkaveck, Jeff Mabe, Allen 1
Mills, Leo Nixon, Durrel Parker,
Robert Smith, Tony Twiddy, j
Mike Twiddy, David Ward and
White. 4y 1
Bids Opened For
Watershed Project
In Pollock Swamp
Contract Expected to
Be Awarded Within
Few Days; Low Bid
$136,187
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The Chowan County Drainage
District No. 1 is expecting to
award its first contract within
the next few days, according to
Wallace Goodwin, Sr., chairman
of the district. B. Warner Evans
and J. C. Hall are the other
drainage commissioners.
The district opened the bids
last Thursday afternoon. Hig
gerson & Bucannon Corporation
of Norfolk, Va„ submitted the
low bid of $136,187. The high
bid, $161,889.60, was submitted
by T. L. McLamb Construction
Company of Little River, S. C.
Five bids were submitted.
This contract will include 191,
acres of clearing right-of-ways,
13.5 miles of stream channel im-'
provement, 8 miles of drainage
ditch construction, 179 culverts
and surface inlets furnished and
installed and one grade control
structure. Other contracts to
cover other phases of the pro
ject will be let later.
The contractor will have ap
proximately 20 days to begin
work after the contract is
awarded and after construction
begins approximately 10 months
in which to complete the work.
Bill Leary To Be
Ordained Sunday
Service Will Be Held
I At Rocky Hock Bap
tist Church at 3:30
On Sunday afternoon, July 21,
at 3:30 o’clock, Bill Leary will
be ordained for the gospel min
istry at the Rocky Hock Baptist
Church. Mr. Leary is a gradu
ate of the University of North
Carolina and is presently enroll
ed at the Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Wake I
Forest, N. C., where he will be'
in his second year of study this J
fall. He is serving as pastor of
the Rehoboth Baptist Church in 1
Currituck County.
Mr. Leary is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. S. Leary of the
Rocky Hock community. He is
married to the former Magdalene
Hill of Greenville. She is a
I graduate of the North Carolina
! Baptist Hospital School of Nurs-'
I ing. They have four children I
I and are living on the church 1
I field they are serving in Curri
tuck County.
Ordained ministers, deacons
and the general public are cor
dially invited to attend the ser
vice.
Dog And Bicycle
Licenses Now Due
Arrest Faces Owners
Os Dog’s After Aug
ust 15th
William B. Gardner. Town
Clerk, calls attention to the fact
that dog licenses and. bicycle
licenses are now on sale and
must be purchased in order to
avoid arrest.
The dog licenses can be se
cured at the town office, which
are SI.OO for a male dog and
$2.00 for each female dog.
Bicycle licenses are on sale
at the police station, the fee be
ing 25 cents for each bicycle.
Attention is called to an or
dinance which provides for the
arrest of any dog owner who
fails to purchase licenses before
August 15.
i Third Degree Tonight
At Masonic Meeting
A stated communication of
Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. &
A. M., will be held tonight
(Thursday) at 8 o’clock. T. B.
I Williford, master of the lodge,
has announced that the third de
-1 gree will be conferred upon a
'candidate and for that reason a
| large attendance is requested.
Refreshments will be served fol
lowing the meeting.
$3.00 Per Year In North Carolina
County Education Board
Employs Nashville Man
As New Superintendent
New Staff President^
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DR. RICHARD HARDIN
At a recent meeting of the
medical staff of Chowan Hos
pital Dr. Richard Hardin was
elected president of the staff,
tie sue.teds Dr. Ed Bond, who
served as president during the
illness of Dr. Frank Wood.
PulpwoodTn
T0ta1ed546,478,000
During Year 1962
Production of Wood
For Pulp and Paper
Industry Part of All
Time High
Purchases of pulpwood grown |
in North Carolina and delivered
to pulp and paper mills during
1962 totaled $46,478,000, it is re
ported by H. J. Malsberger'of
Atlanta, general manager of the
Southern Pulpwood Conservation '
Association.
Last year’s total for the state,
he added, was one per cent high
er than the value of $45,838,000.
recorded for 1961 deliveries.
These figures were based on !
the results of a 12-state pulp
wood production survey made
by the U. S. Forest Service Ex
periment Stations at Asheville,
N. C., and New Orleans, La., in
cooperation with SPCA.
Among the 96 counties in
North Carolina where pulpwood
was produced, the three leading
counties, and the value of de
liveries shipped from each, were
Beaufort, $1,822,020; Pender, sl,-
247,300; and Brunswick, $1,139,-
620.
North Carolina's share in the
production of wood raw material
for the pulp and paper industry,
Mr. Malsberber explained, was
part of an all-time high pulp
wood harvest for the South as a
whole.
DURWOOD B. TOPPIN IS
PROMOTED IN GERMANY
Germany—Durwood B. Toppin !
of Edenton has been promoted!
to airman first class in the Unit- 1
ed States Air Force.
Airman Toppin, son ®f Mr. and i
Mrs. Nolan B. Toppin, Route 1,1
Edenton, is assigned to the 36th j
Civil Engineering Squadron at j
' Bitburg Air Base in Germany;
as a roads and grounds special-1
ist.
| The airman is a graduate of
Chowan High School. I
Congressman Bonner Opposes
President’s Civil Rights Package
Representative Herbert C. Bon
ner announced late last week
that, after study, he could not
vote for the legislation recently
introduced in the Congress, at
the request of the President,
commonly referred to as the
“Civil Rights Package”. *
The veteran Congressman said:
“In my 23 years in the House,
of Representatives I have en- j
deavored to represent all of the l
citizens of my district, without'
regard to race, color, religion or
national origin, and without dis
crimination as to the rights and
proper interests of one group as
opposed to another. I have fol
' lowed the same principles in j
carrying out my duties in the i
Congress, in its committees, and'
jon the floor of the House in re-!
| gard to the broader interests of 1
FIGHT CANCER
WITH A CHECKUP
AND CHECK
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! Members Now Con
sidering Applications
For Principalship of
Chowan High School
' Following the resignation of
W. J. Taylor as superintendent
!of the Chowan County School
Administrative unit, Geddes Pot
ter, Chairman of the Chowan
County Board of Education, late
, last week announced that the
! board had employed C. C. W»l-
I ters to succeed Mr. Taylor. The
vote was unanimous.
Mr. Walters took the oath of
office Thursday morning with
Mrs. Lena Leary, Clerk of Su
perior Court, officiating.
Mr. Taylor resigned the super
intendency following a squabble
among Board of Education mem
bers which resulted in a 3-3
deadlock vote to rehire him for
another year.
Mr. Walters comes to Edenton
from Nashville, where he has
served as principal of Nashville
High School for 10 years. He
also was principal at Sunbury
High School for a short time
and also taught at Mars Hill
and Bear Grass schools.
Mr. Walters is 47 years old
and is married, and the father
of a daughter. He was born
in Jamesville, from where he
graduated from the Jamesville
High School. He has an AB de
gree from Atlantic Christian Col
lege and a master's degree from
■ Columbia ’ University in New
York. He also attended East
! Carolina College and the Uni-
I versity of North Carolina.
I He served three years in the
U. S- Army during World War
II and at Nashville was a deacon
in the Baptist Church. He is k
Mason and at Nashville was
; president of the Lions Club.
I There is still a vacancy for
'the principalship of Chowan
High School, but Mr. Potter
states that the board has several
I applications for the position.
' Some action is expected to be
taken very shortly with the as
sistance of the new superintend
ent
(civic calendar")
Edenton Jaycettes will hold a
cook-out at Sandy Point Beach
tonight (Thursday) at 7 o’clock.
Rocky Hock Community will
sponsor a bake sale in front of
Belk-Tyler’s store Saturday, July
27, beginning at 9 A. M.
Federated Clubs of District 16
will hold the annual summer in
stitute Saturday, July 20, at the
Camden Methodist Church.
A tennis tournament is sched
uled to begin Monday, July 22.
Bill Leary will be ordained
for the ministry at Rocky Hock
Baptist Church Sunday after
noon, July 21, at 3:30 o’clock.
A stated communication of
Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F.
j & A. M., will be held tonight
(Thursday) at 8 o'clock.
Edenton's Rotary Club will
meet this (Thursday) afternoon
at 1 o’clock at the Parish House.
William H. Coffield, Jr. Post
No. 9280. Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will meet Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock.
Dog and bicycle licenses are
I now on sala in Edenton.
the United States as a whole in
its national and international af
fairs.
“I do not believe in class leg
islation. I have never voted for
class legislation. This new civil
rights bill is class legislation. 1
cannot vote for it.
“This bill, under the guise of
I putting an end to racial dis
crimination, would firmly plant
■ the seeds of federal dictatorship
■in the fields where relations be
tween private citizens have
heretofore flourished without in
terference. The freedoms, which
under our Constitution have
made our country great, would
| become the subject of political
< control.
“Our private enterprise system
| would be distorted beyond rec-