Down With Christinas
'By TERRY JONES
unto you is born this day
iih the city 0* David a Saviour,
twhich is Christ the Lord.''
.—(Luke 2:11).
-ft is told that a man from a
fforeign country arrived Tn one
of our large cities for his first
visit in the United States. It
just so happened that the time
he arrived was the Christmas
season. He observed all the
bright lights; the parades; the
wild parties; the Christmas
dances and the whir of the add-
Bnachines. His reply was,
here is just like
tjtgan festivals of toy. na
v I am not saying we
should take the laughiejvqut of
Christmas, nor the spirit of giv
ing gifts, nor the get togethers,
nor the simple holiday parties.
I’m all for having Santa pay a
visit and having a delightful
| time. Gs course I also believe
Ichristmas should be a time for
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‘had ‘been violated. The
•status of the .trees was that pe-
Jcans were .gathered .by almost i
in many instances for;
Jihe purpose of sale, which fact
| was opposed by 'many people in
Jfroni of whose property the
R&ees .were located, some of
* n DHom swept up leaves and even
watered and fertilized trees, so
they contended they should be
entitled to the pecans. Many of
the pecan trees were planted by
the town on town property
about 20 years before and since
they had tome fruit, there had
baen a conflict of opinion as lo
who was entitled to the nuts.
.Mayor Leroy Haskett and J.
Clarence Leary were instructed
to confer with Town Attorney
W. D. Pruden lo see if an ordi
nance could be legally passed
whereby the pecans would be
long lo the parties in front of;
whose property the trees were !
planted.
The Chowan Herald received
an award of merit as a token of
appreciation from the Newspaper
Pulpwood Committee of the
American Newspaper Publishers
i Association.
Paul Olsson. who was making
bis home at the Masonic and
Eastern Star Home at Greens
boro, completed a life size pic
ture of Christ in the Garden in
the chapel at the home.
Mrs. Eleanor Sawyer, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Saw
yer, received from the Navy
Department the Purple Heart
decoration in honor of her hus
band, Foster Sawyer, who lost
bis life when the airplane car
rier Wasp was sunk by the
Japanese.
In a long session of Town
Council it was decided to order
the clock atop the Court House
to continue to strike day and
night. For manv years the clock
had been sinking the hours un
til about a year previous, when
Ki‘ was silent from 10 P. M. un
tiNf-A. M. due to a complaint
that it (disturbed guests at Hotel
Joseph 'Hewes.
Mr. and Mrs. Royal Jones bad
.the misfortune to lose Iheir
khome at Edenhouse when it was
destroyed by fire.
Ts With a steady downpour of
f rain, Erenlon's community
Christmas celebration on the
. Court House Green was forced
»to be abandoned.
I The- word that is overbearing
is a spur unto strife,
i .—Pindar.
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meditation and deep thought
But I am dead set against the
idea of celebrating Xmas. By
this I mean taking Christ out oi
Christmas, not by writing Xma.-,
on the window, but by truly
■making Christmas a pagan festi
val. Christmas becomes a pa
gan festival when people have
to celebrate by throwing wild
parties, staying out all night, get
ting drunk and everything else
under the sun. It really takes
the cake when people who live
perfectly sane lives all year sud
denly go nuts when the time
comes to celebrate the birth of
the Lord. It’s a pitiful situation
when we say, “Thank you God
for your Son”, by making our
selves giddy and actually mock
ing His image. I hope you and
your family will thank God for
Christ by celebrating CHRIST
mas instead of Xitaas.
My wife and I wish you a very
Merry Christmas and a Hapjiy
New Year.
Mrs. Evelyn Williams
Passes Away After
Illness Os Two Years
Mrs. Evelyn Byrum Williams,
53, died Thursday morning at
■1:30 o’clock at Chowan Hospital
after an illness of two years.
A native of Chowan County, she
was a daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Byrum and
for the past eight years filled
the office of Chowan County Ac
countant.
Surviving are her husband,
Charles Joseph Williams and five
sisters, Mrs. W. H. Hollowell,
Sr., Mrs. W. A. Harrell, Mrs.
E. E. Harrell, Mrs. Henry Haste
and Mrs M. L. Bunch, all of
Edenton. She was a member of
the Edenton Baptist Church.
A funeral service was held at
the Williford Funeral Home Fri
day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
The Rev. R. N. Carroll .pastor
of the Edenton Baptist Church,
officiated, assisted by the Rev.
Thurman W. Allred, pastor of the
Rocky Hock Baptist Church.
Burial was in Beaver Hill Ceme
tery.
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SCOOTS IN TRAFFIC—
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problems in the Bronx,
N.Y. She scoots to and
from work on a scooter.
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1963.
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Yellow jackets
Turn Back Aces
Junior Varsity Boys
Win 42 to 41
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Edenton Aces were defeated
by the Elizabeth City Yellow
Jackets 54-42 in Elizabeth City
Friday night. In a previous |
meeting in Edenton the Aces. I
nosed by the Jackets 51-50.
The Jackets led after the first
quarter 11-9 and each team bag- s
ged 12 points in the second
quarter, so that the Jackets led
23-21 at the half
The Jackets continued to ooze
ahead and at the tnird quarter)
they led 3fT-?0. In tile final !
quarter the Jackets scored 13 I
points with Edenton trailing'
with 9.
Jorash led the Jackets with 21
points. Mel Barnett led the
Aces with 16 points.
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42-41. Wesley Chesstm led the!
Edenton team with 12 points. |
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beth City team with 21 points.
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