ONLY NEWSPAPER
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CHOWAN COUNTY
Volume XXX.—Number 30."
Edenton Merchants Sch lule Dollar Days August 8,9 And 10
Edenton Junior Chamber
Os Commerce Planning To
Conduct Project Survey
Purpose to Find Opin
ion of Citizens Rela
tive to Projects to
Benefit Edenton
The Edenton Junior Chamber
of Commerce will conduct a
survey this Friday, August 2, to
determine from public opinion
what projects or civic duties
should be sponsored or (per
formed in order to make Eden
ton a better place in which to
live for all’ of its citizens.
Jaycees will distribute nearly
100 forms throughout each ward
in town and all Jaycees ask for
cooperation in filling out these
forms. The forms are only two
j pages and will take only a few
minutes to fill out. Citizens
will be asked to fill out these
forms immediately so that they
may be collected the same
’night. After the survey is com
peted, it will be evaluated and
the results turned over to in
terested civic clubs and Town
JCouncil.
\ The survey form consists of
| two parts listed as Part A and
IPart B.
Part A will ask the follow
ing three questions: (1) Is there
anything you particularly like
about this community? (2) Is
there anything you particularly
dislike about this community?
(3) In your opinion, what are'
the five most important things',
which need to be done to make
this a better community?
Pgrt B asks for ratings on
•public facilities, recreational op
/portunities, public services, edu
cational facilities and job oppor
tunities for all ages.
Any citizen not contacted an
Friday night who wishes to fill
out a form may do so by con
tacting Tony Miley.
The Jaycees plan to take
enough time on this project to
make a thorough evaluation.
They feel there are many ways
the community could be im
proved that only a survey of
this type will show.
20 Years Ago
As Found In I.N Fllss Os
Tbs Chowan Harold
Jesse W. White was installed
• as commander of Ed Bond Post
No. 40 of the American Legion.
The board of trustees of the
local firemen's relief fund de
cided at their annuel meeting
to invest SI,OOO of the fund in
Series G War Savings Bonds.
A very important auxiliary
police meeting was called for the
purpose of organising and start
ing a school for training auxili
ary policemen.
Abe Martin, local USO direc
tor, was informed from head
quarters that Mrs. Esther Marsh
burn of Raleigh had been as
signed as his assistant at the lo
cal USO Club. J
Miss Rebecca Colwell, county
home demonstration agent, cell
ed a meeting of all club women
in the county in order to dis
cuss a curb market to be run
by them.
New headquarters for the local
office of the Carolina Motor
Coat'd, ad Page *—Section 1
Chris Venters Winner Os State
[Honor For Poultry Barbecue
Demonstration At 4-H Week
i Wilma Leigh Nixon, Johnny
'Winborne and Chris Venters at
tended State 4-H Club Week
held at N. C. State College in
Raleigh last week. Over 1,200
4-H’ers from 99 counties were
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Edenton On TV
Friday, Aug. 9
Edenton will receive tela
| vision publicity Friday. Aug
ust 9, via a short film made
this week by special pro
gramming personnel of sta
tion WNCT, channel 9 in
Greenville, according to Jim
Earnhardt, chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce Tour
ist Committee.
The film will be shown
during the program "Timely
Tips" at 1:25 P. M. WNCT
claims approximately 125.000
, daytime home TV viewers.
iisSiSF
Resigns Secretary
Os Edenton C. Os C.
Effective Date July
31; Miss Carol Ann
Phelps of Roper Will
Be Successor
Mrs. Sid W. White, Jr., after
■ 2V4 years as secretary of the
, Edenton Chamber of Com
merce, has tendered her resigna
tion effective July 31.
Mrs. White expects her first
child in - the- near " Allure • and
plans to devote her full time to
the career of being a housewife.
Mrs. White is 1960 graduate
of John A. Holmes High School
and the Pan American Business
School in Richmond, Va., where
she completed a business course
prior to accepting a position
with the Edenton Chamber of
Commerce.
Mrs. White’s services will be
missed by many members of the
Chamber of Commerce with
whom she has been in almost
daily contact and by James Rob
inson, executive vice president
of the Chamber, whose “gal Fri
day” she has been since Febru
ary, 1961.
Mrs. White will introduce to
her new duties as the Chamber
secretary Miss Carol Ann Phelps
of Roper, who will assume her
duties August 1. Miss Phelps is
a 1963 graduate of Creswell
High School. She is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Phelps
of the Roper community.
DRIVER LICENSE OFFICE
TO BE CLOSED MONDAY
J. E. White, local automobile
driver license examiner, an
nounces that his office at the
Police Department will be clos
ed Monday, August 5. The clos
ing is due to a district meeting
to be held in Greenville and Mr.
White will be in his office as
usual Tuesday. .
LIONS MEET MONDAY
Edenton’s Lions Club will
meet Monday night, August 5,
at 7 o’clock at the Edenton Res
taurant Dr. A. F, Downum,
president, requests all members
to be present.
Wilma Leigh Nixon played a
medley of songs on the 4-H pa
rade of talent held the last j
night of Club Week. Wilma!
Leigh was a blue ribbon winner
from the Eastern District.
Johnny Winbome served on a
special radio and television com
mittee during the week. His
Job was to report on the many
activities of the week.
Miss Tran McCaskill, assistant
home economics agent, and Har-
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 1, 1963.
.j. Winner a, 4-H Club Week
Pictured at left is L, R. Harrill, State 4-H Club leader, as he is congratulating Chris Venters,
who was declared state winner in a poultry barbecue demonstration at State 4-H Club Week held
at N. C. Stale College in Raleigh last week. At right is the proud father of the boy. Harry
Venters, Chowan County's assistant county agent.
Plans Under Way For Restoring
Cupola House As It Was In 1725
Following the recent General
Assembly’s appropriation of
$22,500 for improving and restor
ation of the Cupola House and
Penelope Barker House, the
Chowan County Historical Com
mission has decided first to re
store the Cupola House, an ex
cellent example of Jacobean ar
chitecture.
Plans are to copy the original
downstairs woodwork and panel
ing now in'the Brooklyn Mu
seum of Art Efforts to obtain
the original, sold to the museum
before 1918, failed.
Mrs. Frank Graham, a com
mission member, reported in a
letter that “the museum is in no
mood to part with the interior
woodwork, as it is considered
among its most prized posses
sions.”
Teen-Dems dub
Will Meet Tonight
Meeting at Advance
Community Building
At 8 O’clock
The Chowan County Teen-
Dems Club will hold a meeting
tonight (Thursday) at 8 oclock
at the Advance Community
Building, club president Douglas
Twiddy has announced.
Plans will be made for the
local club to attend a First Dis
trict Rally Saturday at Washing
ton High School, Washington.
Members attending the rally
will hear speakers and partici
pate in workshops, and a din
ner-dance will be held Saturday
night after the district business
meeting. '
President Twiddy and Mary
Thorud will report Thursday
night on the state Teen-Dem
convention they attended June
13-15 at Raleigh. Club members
and interested persons are in
vited to attend Thursday nights
meeting.
Curtis Twiddy, Jr. On
Honor Roll At College
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis A. Twid
dy were notified this week by
J. Carlyle Sitterson, dean of the
General College, University of
North Carolina, that their son
Curtis, made the honor roll dur
ing the 1963 spring semester.
To be so honored a student must
have a grade of B or higher on
all work taken (not less than
15 hours).
“Less than five per cent of
the “students achieved such high
academic distinction,” wrote Mr.
Sitterson, “so it is a pleasure to
congratulate you on the fine
'work of your son.”
Young Twiddy is now on a
cruise in the Bahama Islands
on the USS Ingr aham DiD-694.1
He is scheduled to return to
Newport, Rhode Island on Sep- 1
The house was purchased by
the Cupola House Association in
1918 from Miss Tillic Bond, in
whose family it had been for
141 years. It was built about
1725 by Richard Sanderson of
Perquimans County.
Serving on a special restora
tion committee from the com
mission are Mrs. W. B. Rose
vear, Miss Elizabeth Moore and
Mrs. John Kramsiv-- Represent
ing the Cupola House Associa
tion are David Warren, Thomas
H. Shepard and Mrs. George
M,ack.
The building now houses the
Shepard-Pruden Memorial Li
brary and a small museum. It
is the commission’s idea to use
the house entirely for a mu
seum.
Brown Company
Adds New Service
W. M. Kemp Now In
Charge Os Pembroke
Creek Shop
M. G. Brown Company an
nounces the addition to the firm
of Pembroke Creek Shop, which
features restoring of antique
furniture, refinishing, reproduc
tions and upholstery.
The shop is in charge of W. M.
Kemp, who has had considerable
experience in this line of work.
Mr. Kemp is a native of Tyrrell
County, but lived in Elizabeth
City most of his life. He, his
wife, the former Doris Lewis of
Perquimans County, and two
children .now live at Chapanoke
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Rocky Hock Group
Meets August sth
The Rocky Hock community
will meet Monday night, August
5 at the Rocky Hock Community
Center. The meeting will begin
at 8 o’clock and all members
are especially urged to attend.
Center Hill Baptists Plan For
Annual Fall Revival Meetings
Plans for the annual fall re
vival services have been an
nounced by the pastor of the
Center Hill Baptist Church, the
[Rev. Henry V. Napier. The ser
vices are planned to begin on
Sunday, August 4, with the
' morning worship hour at 11
o’clock. At that time the wor
ship will center around the ob
servance of the Lord’s Supper
with the introduction by the
church choir and led by the
pastor.
| The speaker for this service
and all the services of the re
vival will be the Rev. Mark M.
Alexander, a Southern Baptist
Group Os Edenton
Skiers Perform At
Kerr Lake Sunday
Many Spectators Well
Pleased; Request Re
peat Performance In
Near Future
George Burdick and a group
of Edenton skiers put on a very
creditable ski show Sunday at
Townsville Landing at Kerr
Lake in Henderson. The show
was in charge of Mr. Burdick
and attracted in the neighbor
hood of 2.000 spectators.
The Edenton skiers included
Mr. Burdick, Rita Mayo, Kappy
Kiri Icy, Gray Kirtley, Scott Har
rell, Jr., Animal LdFavor and
Frank Bunch. Mollie Zebulon
assisted the announcer and
Millie Willis helped the skiers.
Cont'd. on Page 4—Section 1
Sunbeams Hold Day
Camps In This Area
One Is Scheduled at
Macedonia Church
August 7
Woman’s Missionary Union of
Chowan Baptist Association is
conducting Sunbeam Day Camps
again this year in four areas
of the Association. These
camps are for 8-year-old boys
and girls and will give atten
tion to mission study, nature
hikes and crafts. The camps
are scheduled to run from 10
A. M., to 3 P. M., at the follow
ing churches: Macedonia, near
Edenton, Wednesday, August 7;
Providence, Shawboro, August 9;
Sandy Cross, near Hobbsville,
August 12, and Creswell, Au
gust 16.
The camps will be under the
direction of Mrs. Robert Harrell,
Associational Sunbeam Director,
who will be assisted by a group
of ladies and pastors from vari
ous churches in the association.
missionary to Argentina, who
with his wife and son are on
furlough for the year and mak
ing their home at Ocean View,
. Va. Mr. Alexander is a native
of South Norfolk, Va., and grad
uated from high school there.
He graduated from Wake Forest
College and Southwestern Bap
tist Theological Seminary, Fort
Worth, Texas, and served
churches in Currituck County
prior to going to Argentina in
1958. .
Evening services during the
jweek through Friday night, Aug-
Just 9, will be held at 8 o’clock J
[Ronald R. Brown
j Resigns Job Os
j Scout Executive
i
Immediate Steps Be
ing Taken By Tide
water Council to Sc
i cure Successor
Harold V. Pace, Scout Execu
tive of the Tidewater Council,
Boy Scouts of America, has an
nounced the resignation of Ron
ald R. Brown, District Scout
Executive, assigned to the Albe
marle and Coastal Districts serv
ing seven North Carolina coun
ties from his home in Elizabeth
City.
“Brown’s resignation, effective
I September Ist, was tendered to
enable him to accept a business
opportunity,” Pace said. “(He
will continue to live in the area.
“Immediate efforts to find a
successor are being undertaken,
but it may take time. During
the interim, other members of
the Tidewater Council staff wiil
be assigned to attend and serve
major activities and meetings in
the two districts.”
“Fortunately, Scouting is or
ganized to be administered and
carried on by volunteers,” Pace
concluded. ‘“The function of the
Continued on Page 2—Section )
Edenton Boy Promoted To High
Position At Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Edenton friends and relatives
will be interested to learn of
the recent promotion at Cape
Canaveral of Gene W. Spruill,
a native of Chowan County, son
of Mrs. W. W. Spruill and the
late Mr. Spruill.
Spruill, a former teacher at
Cocoa Bekch Elementary School,
Cocoa Beach, Florida, was pro
moted from a Field Technical
Services Representative of the
Polaris program for Aerojet at
Cape Canaveral to office mana
ger for all of Aerojet’s programs
at Canaveral.
Aerojet, a division of General
Tire and Rubber Company, has
four programs in flight testing
Trio Narrowly Miss
Death In Accident
Car With Three Ne
groes Plunges Into
Pembroke Creek
Three young Negro men nar
rowly escaped serious injury and
even death Sunday night when
an automobile crashed into a
creek with the car completely
submerged.
The accident occurred at the
bridge crossing Pembroke Creek
on the Wildcat road about 6:30!
o’clock. State Patrolman D, R.
Cumbo, who investigated the ac- J
cident, reported that three Ne-1
groes were in the car at the
time, including Ray Basnight
and Daniel Holly of Edenton
and John Williams of Norfolk.
The patrolman said Basnight
was the driver of the car. He
apparently lost control causing
the car to hit the bridge railing
and plunging into the stream
when the railing gave way.
The trio escaped with minor
injuries and were taken to Cho
wan Hospital for treatment.
Patrolman Cumbo charged
Basnight with driving too fast.
Ruritan Club Will
Have Benefit Supper
At a meeting of the Chowan !
Ruritan Club held Monday night, |
members voted to sponsor a 1
benefit supper Saturday night, j
August 17.
The supper will be held at'
the Center Hill-Cross Roads Fire
Station from 5:30 to 7:30 o’clock
with the proceeds going to Lu
ther Bateman, Jr.
JAYCETOJS MEET TONIGHT
Edenton’s Jaycettes will meet)
tonight (Thursday) at 7 o’clock i
at the Edenton Restaurant Mrs.
Leo LaVoie, president requests}
every Jaycette to be present
$3.00 Per Year In North Carolina
Many Special Bargains
Will Be Offered During
Event By Local Concerns
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Guest Evangelist
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REV. ROY A. HARRELL
Tent revival meetings will be
; held on East Eden Street August
15-11 with the Rev. Roy A. Har
: rell of Elizabeth City being the
' guest evangelist.
at Cape Canaveral—the Navy's
Polaris engines, the second stage
of the Air Force’s Minuteman,
the liquid fueled engines of Ti
tan I and II of the Air Force,
and the upper stage of the Thor
Delta for space missions.
Spruill, 32, attended the Uni
versity of North Carolina and
received a bachelor of artg de
gree from Atlantic Christian Col
lege in Wilson. He served in
the Air Force and the Army.
He is married to the former Kay
Johnson of Nashville, N. C-, and
is the father of two children.
The family lives at 389 Berkley
Street, Sea Park Homes, Eau
Gallie, Florida.
Tent Revival On
East Eden Street
August 5 To 11
Rev. Roy A. Harrell
Os Elizabeth City to
Be Guest Evangelist
For Meetings
The Rev. Roy A. Harrell will
be holding a tent revival for
the Immanuel Baptist Church
in Edenton August 5-11. The
tent will be located on East
Eden Street diagonally across
the street from Barrow Bottling
Works. Services will begin at
8 o'clock each night, to which
the public is cordially invited to
attend. The Rev. Bob Ware is
host pastor.
Mr. Harrell is a native of I
Edenton and was raised in the I
Continued on Page 4, Section 1
Chowan Farmers Stand To Lose
$29,000 For Not Filing Forms
To Get "62 Gasoline Tax Refund
According to figures released
by the Extension Service at
State College, Raleigh, many
farmers in North Carolina are
losing a considerable amount of
money due to failure to apply
|for tax refunds on gasoline used
for non-highway purposes dur
ing the fiscal year just ended.
The report shows that the es
timated loss in Chowan County
is $29,000. The estimated loss
is based on the number of
farmers who filed last year and
their average "payment as com
pared to census figures on the
inumber of farmers in the county.
Farmers in four counties, Cam
jden, Dare, Perquimans and Tyr
rell, are believed to have re
FIGHT CANCER >
WITH A CHECKUP
, AND CHECK
Sponsored By Merch
ants Committee of
Edenton Chamber of
Commerce
Again this year the Merchants
Committee *of the Edenton
Chamber of Commerce is plan
ning to observe Dollar Days.
The event is scheduled to be
held Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday of next week, August 8,
1 9 and 10. Alton Elmore is chair
man of the Merchants Commit
j tee in charge of the event and
Hector Lupton and Frank Rob
erts are delegated to be in
charge of the advertising.
A special section will be
j printed publicizing the mer
i chants who are cooperating in
I the Dollar Day sales which will
list quite a few of the many bar
gains which will be offered co
,the buying public. The section
will be mailed throughout Eden
ton’s trading area, so that it is
; hoped many people will take
advantage of the money-saving
bargains on sale during the
three-day period.
Continued on Page 4—Section !
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Tennis Tourney
In Quarter Finals
Doubles Play Sched
uled To Begin Com
ing Week
Led by the top seeded duo of
Jerry. Tolley and Bill Boot
wright, eight aspirants of the
first Edenton tennis champion
ship tournament advanced to the
quarter finals.
Matches during the coming
week will pit Bill Bootwright
against Douglas Sexton, David
Holton against Jack Habit and
Jerry Tolley against Webb Grif
fin.
Herb Adams is already a
semi-finalist by virtue of his
victory over Billy Bunch.
Doubles play is scheduled to
begin this coming week.
(civic calendar]
Edenton merchants will stage
a Mid-Summer Dollar Day Sale
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
August 8, 9 and 10.
Chowan Ruritan Club will
sponsor a benefit supper at the
Center Hill-Cross Roads Fire
Station Saturday night, August
17, from 5:30 to 7:30 o'clock.
Chowan County Teen-Dems
Club will meet tonight (Thurs
day) at 8 o'clock at the Advance
Community Building.
Rocky Hock Community will
meet at the Rocky Hock Com
munity Center Monday night,
August 5. at 8 o'clock.
Revival services will be held
at the Center .Hill Baptist
i Church August 4 through Alt
-1 gust 9.
. Continued on Page 6, Section 1
l ceived most of the refunds to
t which they are entitled.
r The Tri-County Farm Bureau
( is very much interested in farm
: ers securing potential added in
r come from gasoline tax refunds,
I so that Woodrow Lowe, presi
• dent of the Chowan County
Unit, has this to say:
“It is a well known fact that
■ farmers are caught in a tight
; cost-price squeeze. And farmers
! certainly should be more aware
1 of this than anyone else. These
refunds should be considered as
added income.
“It i» a pity when farmers do
not reclaim this money simply
because they do not take the
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