ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED nr CHOWAN COUNTY 'Volume XXX—Number W. 12 Negroes Assigned To Enroll In White Schools Beginning Os Next Term r- * - *■ S 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 • r- , 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 ~-- r - -> 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 THE CHOWAN HERALD V j Finishes Institute UK mmfr* r I ■ ■ | HH I ■ ■ 1 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 Continued on Page 6, Section 1 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 t t 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. ins Cause Excitement ■ c i t > \£_ I ' j 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 i 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 i 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 I 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 Up -Wiiliiiii | , :f 4«(wa.v W i ll* * siPL t : Wf 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 Continued on Page 6—Section 1 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 9* . < 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