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CHOWAN COUNTY
'Volume XXX—Number W.
12 Negroes Assigned To
Enroll In White Schools
Beginning Os Next Term
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10 Scheduled to Enter
High School land Two
In White Elementary
School
At a meeting of the Board of
Education of the Edenton City
Schools, held Thursday of last
week, ■ action was takeh on the
assignment of 12 colored chil
« dren. The assignment calls for
10 Negro students to transfer
from the D. F. Walker High
School to John A. Holmes High
School and two to the Edenton
Elementary School.
Members of the board held an
informal conference with par
ents who had, submitted appli
cation for pupil assignment.
In June Negro parents pre
sented reassignment forms to
the school board, but they were
advised that the forms were for
the'county administrative unit.
They were, therefore, given un
til July 8 to present their request
on the proper forms. The
proper forms were subsequently
filled out, after which the school
board approved the change in
pupil assignment for the school
year 1963-64. -
At Thursday’s meeting the
board also employed Daniel
Jones in» to teach English at the ,
D. F. Walker High School for'
the 1963-64 yhar.
Wool Producers
- Receive Checks
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According to the local ASCS
office, wool payments in the
*' amount of $177.45 have been
mailed to 12 eligible producers
in Chowan County.
These payments are, for shorn
Wool and unshorn lambs market
ed from April 1,1962 through
March 31, 1963. The shorn wool
payments to thirty per
cent of the dollar returns each
producer received from the sale
of shorn wool. This is the in
centive required to bring the
average price of wool to 47.7
cents per pound up to the previ
ously announced, incentive level
of 62 cents per pound.
The payment rate' on unshorn
lambs is 57 cents per hundred
weight to compensate for wool
on them.
20 Years Ago
As Found In T /a Files Os
The Chowan Herald
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The* Planning and Steering
Committee of the local USO
Club announced that plans
were being made for a grand of
ficial opening of the club on
August 11. ,
1 An interview with Charles H.
Jenkins revealed the fact that
he would be a candidate for the •
Stale Senate from the First Dis
trict in the next primary elec
i lion.
J. E. Wood, manager of the
Edenton Peanut Company, re
ported having received a large!
number of letters of thanks from |
recipients of 5-pound bags of
peanuts sent by the company to
each person from Chowan Coun
ty serving in the armed forces.
Edenton police reported a very
quiet week-end with only one
arrest being made on the charge
of drunkenness. {The report fol-,
lowed action on the pari of
Town Council in prohibiting the l
, sale of wine from 11:30 Satur
day night until 7 o'clock the
next morning.
> Jnovemenx* ox wwtnntions
Continued on Page 7, Section 1
Six Months Sales Os Savings
Bonds 31,4% Os Year’s Quota
ft. Graham White, volunteer,
chairman for U. S- Savings
Present sales amount to j
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MBS. CLARA M. BOSWELL
With high school teachers from
many states and several foreign
countries in attendance, Mrs.,
Clara M. Boswell last week com
pleted special training at a
summer institute for high school
teachers of science and malhe- j
matics held at the University
of North Carolina. 1
88 More Volunteers Needed For
Peace Corps In India, Pakistan
India and Pakistan have asked
the Peace Corps for 88 more vol
unteers trained in agricultural
skills, County Agent C. W. Over
man has announced.
Training will begin £ep-,
tember for 30 .poultry specialists
and 25 dairy husbandmen re
quested by India and for 22 ag
ricultural extension workers, six
farm mechanics and five voca
tional agriculture teachers to
work in Pakistan, Overman said.
The Peace Corps already has
160 volunteers on the job in In
dia and 205 in. Pakistan. The
call for additional workers re
flects the need for trained agri
culture personnel to help in
crease food and fiber production I
in these and many other develop-1
Mary Still Leads
Little League Loop
Jerry Mathis Leading
League Hitter With
.500 Average
The Rotary Club continues to
hold the in Edenton’s Little'
League with a percentage of .692.
However the Indians are not far
behind with a .571 mark.
Team Standing
W L Pet.'
Rotary 9 4 .692
Indians 8 6 .571
Corvairs 5 8 .385 j
Falcons 4 8 .333
The ten leading batters in the
league, based- on at least 25
times at bat, are:
AB H Pet.
J. Mathis 32 16 .500
E. Wood 25 11 .440
B. Boyce 1...62 26 .419'
J. Douglas 42 16 .381
A. Hughes 1...29 11 .379
P. Lassiter ....49 18 .367
F. Pavlich .1.45 16 .356.
G. Leary —.,....66 22 .334 !
J. Sutton 42 14 .333
D. Copeland ......, 45 14 .311
the state’s 1963 sales goal of!
$50,600,000 and is 3.8 per cent
ahead of sales in the compar- 1
able period of last year.
Total bond sales for this six- j
month period were the highest
they, have been since 1956; and
since the beginning of the an
nual dollar quota system, this is
the highest per cent of an an
nual quota to be achieved in
North in the first half
of any year. ■' '
Edenton, Chowan y, North Carolina, Thursday, July 25, 1963.
July 21-27 ts Being
Observed National
Farm Safety Week
President John Ken
nedy Calls Upon All
Americans to Coop
| erate
President John F. Kennedy
has ptoclaimed the week begin
ning July 21 as National Farm
Safety Week. He calls upon all
•Americans to observe’ this week
and its theme, “Inspection Plus
{Correction Equals Protection.”
People and organizations work
ing with agriculture are especi
ally urged to join in the united
I effort to reduce the number of
; farm, home and highway acci
j dents.
National Farm Safety Week is
! co-sponsored by the Department
|of Agriculture and the National
I Safety Council. They work in
! cooperation with the State Co
operative Extension Services,
| farm organizations, the farm
{press, r.adio, television and other
'groups.
| Slow moving vehicles, hidden
farm access roads, blind inter
sections, inadequate signs and
markings are some of the more
common rural road hazards. Al
ways be on the lookout for them
constantly.
What can you or your group
do? (1) Find out exactly what
your local accident situation is.
(2) Learn what traffic safety
work is now being done and by
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ing nations, Mr. Overman points
out.
The Indian request for more
poultry specialists grew out of a
pilot program started by four
Peace Corps volunteers who de
veloped a new, cheap feed from
easily accessible local materials,
upgraded the stock, wrote a
handbook on poultry manage
ment in the Punjabi language
and streamlined processing and
marketing procedures. So suc
cessful was their program that
the Indian government now
plans, with Peace Corps help, to
launch similar projects in other
parts of the nation.
In addition to the poultry pro
jects, volunteers skilled in dairy
Continued on Page B—Section 7
Rinky Dinks Still
Lead In Softball
Dickie Cobb Leading
Batter With Aver
age of .700
The Rinky Dinks continue to
pace Edenton’s Softball League
with an 8-1 record, followed by
the Varsity Club at 6-1.
Club Standing
W. L.
,Rinky Dinks .............8 1
i Varsity Club 6 1
Red Men .2 5
Harvey Point 2 6
Jaycees 2 7
| The eight leading batters, bas
ed on at least 20 times at bat,
are: -
Ab. H. Pct.j
Dickie Cobb 40 28 .700
Carroll Forehand ,38 24 .631
Leo Kactaveck 22 13 .591
Jim Partin ~ .25 14 .560
Alvin Bunch 29 ' 15 .517
Calvin Harrell 31 16 ~.516
Herb Adams 85 18 .514
Jim Sutton 24 12 .500
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GA Coronation,
Service Sunday
A GA coronation service will
|be presented at the Edenton
Baptist Church Sunday night,
July 28, at.7:30 o’clock.
The .public is cordially invited
to attend.
BAKE SALE SATURDAY IK
FRONT OF BELK-TYLER'S
Sponsored by the Rocky Hock 1
community, a bake sale will be
held in . front ©I Belk-Tyler’s I
Jttre SMurtw. JuTj 11. Tti.
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Twins have been born at Chowan Hospital on mimerc as occa
sions, but ncic caused as much excitement among the hospital
personnel as the twins, pictured above, born to Mr. and Mrs. Gerie
Harrison, a boy and oirl, Robert Williams and Constance Gray.
Mr. Harrison is laboratory technician at the hosiptaL Although
there are twins in their family, it certainly was a surprise thet It
happened to them. The twins are the first-born to Mr. and Mrs.
Harrison. Mr. Harrison was especially excited and made r 'Tri
er-: us phone calls to members of the staff who ware still in bed
at 6 A. M. when the twins were born. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison arfe
natives of Kins*on, N. C.—(Ricks Photo).
Merchants Plan Mid-Summer
Dollar Day Sale August 8, 9.10
The Merchants Committee of
the ’Edenton Chamber of Com
merce voted to hold an August
sales promotion to be designat
ed “Mid-Summer Dollar Day
Sale.” The event is scheduled
to be held three days, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, Au
gust 8, 9 and 10.
All participating merchants
will offer attractive bargains
during the event and in order
Rev. Bob Ware
Ordained July 28
1 Ceremony to Be Held
I At Indian Creek
Church
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The Rev. Bob Ware, pastor of
Immanuel Baptist Church, will
be ordained Sunday, July 28, at
Indian Creek Independent Bap
tist Church in the St. Brides
area of Chesapeake, Va.
Mr. Ware was interrogated by
the board two weeks ago. The
presbytery voted unanimously to
ordain him.
Friends of the pastor and his
congregation are cordially in
vited to attend the service at
the Indian Creek Church.
Mr. Ware is away for a week
attending Bible conferences at
Tennessee Temple College in
Chattanooga, Tenn., and High
land Park Baptist Church there.
He will return Saturday, July
27th.
591 Participate In
Recreation Gaines
Paul Stanton, Edenton’s sum
mer recreation director, reports
that those taking part in the
program totaled 591 from Mon
day through Friday of last week.
Attendance was as follows:
Monday 11l
Tuesday 106
Wednesday 123
Thursday 137
Friday 114
Total 591
Chamber Os Commerce Joining
In Seeking Contest Participants
The Edenton Chamber of
Commerce is on a manhunt that
may bring the city SIO,OOO for
local civic use before the year’s
end. That unusual piece of
news is announced by Chamber
of Commerce President George
A. Byrum, who explained that
his group has been given the
opportunity to represent Eden
iton in a nation-wide search for
'professional authorities in vari-,
ous
I The professionals are needed
for the new ABC-TV quiz show,
“100 Grand”, to fa ce amateur
experts who have to win a se
ries, of such encounters in order
to qualify for a SIOO,OOO prize.
If Edenton’s professional stumps
iwUl new^iv^ixnprovt
to help publicize the sale 8,000
circulars will be printed and
distributed in the Edenton trad- .
ing area.
Hector Lupton and Frank:
Roberts will call on business
: houses to solicit advertising forj
the August promotion. The (
Merchants Committee is hopeful I
that everyone will join in this
; special promotion in order to |
;, make it an outstanding and pro
• I fitable event.
Red Men Tribe
Installs Officers
Fred Keeter Is Now
Sachem of Chowan
Tribe No. 12
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New officers for Chowan
Tribe No. 12, Improved Order
of Red Men, were installed at a
meeting of the tribe Monday
night. The installation ceremony
was conducted by Clyde Hollo
well.
Officers installed were: Sa-1
chem, Fred Keeter; prophet,
Robert Brooks; senior sagamire,
Thomas Jackson; junior saga
more, Leroy Henninger, and
trustee for 18 months, J. Ed
win Bufflap.
The new sachem named the
following appointive officers,
who were also installed;
Sannaps, Clyde Hollowell and
Leroy Harrell; warriors, Robert
Whiteman, Walter Bond, Lloyd
Mills and J. H. Allsbrook;
braves, W. M. Rhoades, Alton
iShaw, Guy Williams and Oscar
I Peeples; guard of the wigwam,
Bill Harris; guard of the forest,
Louis Craddock.
The tribe recommended the
appointment of the Great Sa
chem of North Carolina to ap
point Robert Whiteman tribal 1
deputy Great Sachem.
ROTARIANS MEET TODAY I
Edenton Rotarians will meet
this (Thursday) afternoon at 1
o’clock at the Parish House. The
program will be •in charge of
Bill Holmes and President Hiram
J. Mayo urges every Rotarian to
be present.
ment worth SIO,OOO.
Mr. Byrum stated that the
search here is already under
•way for professional authorities
[in such subjects as baseball,
; opera, the Civil War, the Bible,
'Abraham Lincoln, World War I,
talking pictures and silent mov
ies.
To insure the se
curity for the program, the re
sults of the search will be kept
in the utmost secrecy, thereby
complying with one of the
show’s conditions: the profession
jai authority’s identity will be
known only to the selection com
mittee of the Chamber of Com
merce until shortly before show
time. :
The Chamber of Commerce re-
Edenton Receives
Publicity In New
Telepiioneßooklet
Designated on Map
And Picture Follows
Complaint By Cham
ber of Commerce
Sometimes it is good public
relations to register a complaint.
George A. Byrum, president of
the Edenton Chamber of Com
merce stated this week after re
ceipt of a letter from P. J. Long,
public relations manager of the
Carolina Telephone & Telegraph
Company with headquarters in
Tarboro, N. C.
] “A year ago," Byrum said, “the
Carolina, Telephone & Telegraph
Company published a very fine
I little booklet entitled ‘Welcome
to Historic Eastern North Caro
lina’. On the two center pages
jof the booklet was a map of
[eastern North Carolina but it
failed to include Edenton on the
map or anywhere in its pictures
and text of historic eastern
North Carolina.”
“Os course,” Byrum said, “this
was altogether a natural omis
sion because the Carolina Tele
does not serve this area and the
phone & Telegraph Company
booklet was designed to pro
■ mote tourist interest in Carolina
Cont’d. on 2—Section 1
Mrs. Clara Boswell Completes
Special Summer Training Class
Mrs. Clara M. Boswell of
Edenton has completed special
training at a Summer Institute
for High School Teachers of
Science and Mathematics held at
the University of North Caro
lina June 10-July 20. The insti
tute has been supported by the
National Science Foundation.
| Mrs. Boswell was enrolled in
i courses which present a new
program in high school physics
prepared by the Physical Sci
ence Study Committee, a nation
al committee composed of high
school teachers, university pro
fessors, and research scientists.
Tennis Tournament
Is Now Under Way
[Under Paul Stanton
Final Matches Must
Be Played By Aug
ust 10; Other Regu
lations Listed
Edenton’s tennis tournament,
under the direction of Paul Stan
ton, summer recreation director,
got under way Monday of this
week. Games include 16 and
under singles and doubles and
16 and over singles and doubles.
Mr. Stanton announced early i
this week that the first match
must be played by July 29, the I
second by August 2 and the
third by August 10.
Mr. Stanton also released the
[following rules and regulations
in connection with the tourna
ment:
| 1. It is the player’s responsi
bility to contact his opponent
and make arrangements to play
the match. (
2. Each player will furnish a
can of new balls at his first j
match. Only one can will be |
opened. The winner of the
match will keep the unopened
can for his next match and the
' loser will take the balls that
have been played with.
1 3. Each match will be two
out of three sets. I
4. All players must wear the
proper type of shoes.
5. Report all scores to Paul
Stanton 482-2512 or the school
gym.
JOHN E. PHILLIPS. JR.,
TO COMPLETE TRAINING
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Cadet John E. Phillips, Jr.,
of Edenton is scheduled to com-,
■plete six weeks of training at
'the Reserve Officer Training
Corps (ROTC) summer camp at
[Fort Bragg July 26.
J Cadet Phillips is active in the
ROTC prograin at Wake Forest
College.
| A member of Pi Kappa Alpha
.fraternity, he was graduated
< from John A. Holmes High
(School in 1960. , k
$3.00 Per Year In North Carolina
Edenton Aces Pull Down
1963 Gridiron Curtain
Sept. 6th With Manteo
Completes Course
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CHARLES RONALD PERRY
Entering Newport News Ship
building & Dry Dock Company
Apprentice School July 14, 1959,
Charles Ronald Perry complet
ed the course as toolmaker July
14. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bristoe Perry and was a mem
ber of the Cavalier Club and
Student Council.
This approach to physics is
, characterized by an emphasis on
| inductive learning based upon
j experimentation, the use of de
scriptive material only as a
\ means to lead one to hypotheses
regarding fundamental concepts,
| the omission of most of the
| technology often confused with
i physics, and an emphasis on the
Ibroad generalizations of physics
'(conservation of energy, conser
vation of momentum, the na
ture of fields, electromagnetic
phenomena, etc.). The course
presented physics as the sub
e.onlinued on Page 4—Section ’
West Says Time
Consider Storage
Loans Available For
Erecting Needed
Equipment
“Now is the time to think
about ample storage for your fall
harvested crops,” says H. O.
West, local ASCS office mana
ger.
“If you do not have sufficient
storage on your farm, come in
the ASCS office and we will be
glad to discuss our Farm Stor
age Facility Loan Program with
you.
“Loans for erecting storage
bins and purchasing drying
equipment are available through
the ASCS County Office. These
loans are repayable in four an
nual installments for storage
bins and there installments for
drying equipment, both at four
percent interest.
“Under this program farmers
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Roberts Is Chosen
Director Os Jaycees
At the last meeting of the
Edenton Jaycees, the resignation
of Ken Stalls from the board of
directors was announced.
Frank Roberts, by unanimous
vote, was chosen to fill that post.
Carolista Fletcher Exhibiting
Types Os Art At East Carolina
Now on exhibition in the dis
play cases of the. Rawl building,
first floor, at East Carolina Col
| lege is a varied exhibition of
work in art by Carolista Cabell
, Fletcher of Edenton. A senior,
Mis£ Fletcher is scheduled to
complete work for the B.S, de
gree in art at the end of the
1963 summer session.
The show, open to the public
for the next two weeks, indi
cates her major interests in
sculpture and jewelry design.
Jewelry included in the ex
hibition includes original de
signs of metals and gems in
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FIGHT CANCER
WITH A CHECKUP
, AND CHECK
Prospects Are Bright
With 19 Lettermen
Returning; Practice
Begins August 15
Jerry McGee, football coach at
.John A. Holmes High School,
I announced early this week that
• the Edenton Aces will raise the
1963 football curtain Friday
night, September 6. The Aces
will show their wares to Mon
teo High School an Hicks Field
beginning at 8 o’clock.
Mr. McGee says the Aces have
10 games scheduled for the sea
son, five of which will be played
on home soil and five away
from home. The home games
will include Elizabeth City, Hert
<ord and Ahoskie, all three be
ling big drawing cards.
The schedule follows:
September 6—Manteo here.
September 13—Camden there.
September 20 Williamston
there.
September 27—Scotland Neck
there.
October 4 Elizabeth City
here.
October 11—Windsor there.
October 18—Hertford here.
October 25 —Ahoskie here.
November I—Plymouth there.
November B—Pasquotank Cen
tral here.
At .a meeting of the Albemarle
Conference held in December it
was voted to raise the price of
admission for all conference foot
ball games. Season tickets will
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Hot Dog Supper At
Ryland July 27th
Ryland Home Demonstration
Club will hold a hot dog supper
and bake sale Saturday night,
July 27. The affair will be held
in the Rvland Club House from
6 to 9 o’clock. Froceeus jvill
go to the club house and the
public is cordially invited to at
tend.
( civic calendar]
Edenton merchants will stage
I a Mid-Summer Dollar Day Sale
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
August 8, 9 and 10.
\ A GA coronation service will
be held at the Edenton Baptist
Church Sunday night, July 28,
at 7:30 o'clock.
July 21-27 is being observed
as National Farm Safety Week.
Ryland Home. Demonstration
Club will sponsor a hot dog sup
per and bake sale at the Ryland
Club House Saturday night.
July 27, from 6 to 9 o'clock.
Chowan Tribe of Red Men will
meet Monday night at 8 o'clock.
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.
Chowan Scottish Rite Club
will meet tonight (Thursday)
following the Maionic meeting.
Rocky Hock Community will
sponsor a bake sale in front of
Belk-Tyler's store Saturday, July
27, beginning at 9 A. M.
A stated communication of
Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F.
& 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. 1280, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will meet Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock.
pins, rings, earrings, and brace
lets, and indicates the young
artist’s flair for the unusual and
the artistic.
Among sculptures are a head
of novelist Ovid W. Pierce, pro
fessor of English at East Caro
lina; a miniature torso; and sev
eral modern designs.
Examples of weaving include
costumes coat, scarf, and hat
made from wool materials made
by Miss Fletcher.
Also on display are-e painting,
several drawings shpwing Japa
nese influence, and Ufork m com-
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