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"A Newspaper Devoted To the Progress of the , Albemarle Area * Volume XXXl—Number 2. Edenton Headquarters For Technical Study Os Area Processing Plant •Funds Now Available; Outgrowth of Eden |on-Chowan Planning Board 'Edenton will serve as head quarters for several technicians Sam the Economic Research Di-j vfcion of the U. S. Department rtf Agriculture who will make a $34,000 economic feasibility study f#r future vegetable and fruit processing plants in Chowan and adjacent counties it was an nounced Monday by West W. Byrum, president of the Eden tan Chamber of Commerce. The funds were requested through the Edenton - Chowan | Planning Board of which Mr. Byrum has been the chairman sirice it was officially establish ed! July 1,1962. The funds will be provided by the Area Redevelopment Ad ministration of the Department of Commerce and the study will include three phases. The first will survey crop po tentials to see if processing plants Could be profitable in this area. If they are considered feasible, the study will then outline the number, size and lo cations of such plants and de tailed plans for investment, labor] Continued on Page 7, Section 1 j. R. Peele Dies Suddenly Friday Served As a County Commissioner For 21 Years James Raleigh Peele, 70, died at 2 o’clock Friday morning in Chowan Hospital after an ill ness of only one day. lie was a native of Chowan County and lived in the Rocky Hock com munity all his life. He was a retired farmer and fisherman and for 21 years served as a member of the Chowan County Commissioners. Surviving are his wife, Mrs Myrtle L. Peele; four sons, Lloyc M. Peele, James D. Peele and Wallace Peele of Edenton and Henderson Ray Peele of Tyner: a daughter, Mrs. Edith P. Bunch of Edenton; a brother, Elbert Peele of Edenton; two sisters. Mrs. W. G. Forehand and Mrs J. B. Bunch of Edenton; 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild. He was a member of the Rocky Hock Baptist Church, where a funeral service was held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The Rev. Thurman W. Allred officiated, assisted by the Rev. George Cooke, pastor of Ballard’s Bridge Baptist Church. Burial was in Beaver Hill Cemetery. 20 Years Ago As Found In The Files Os The Ohowan Herald V. r* Tragedy struck in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Harrell in the Cowpen Neck section when their 17-vear-old son fell dead in his father's store. Ed Bond Post of the Ameri can Legion received colors to present to the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station. D. M. Warren, chairman of the Chowan County Commissioners, was authorised to invest SIO,OOO Continued on Paqe 4—Section 1 Woman’s Club To Sponsor Hat Show Tuesday, January 14tli r— . 1 I The Edenton Woman’s Club will hold a spring hat show on Tuesday, January 14, at the Pe nelope Barker house at the foot of Broad Street, starting at 10 o’clock in the morning and last ing until all hats are sold. Over 200 neW hats will be on sale and there will be no two alike. All hats are priced at $3.95 and $4.95 and there are none higher. Mrs. Joseph Thortid, chairman erf this sale, suggests that if any-' THE CHOWAN HERALD Mayo Included In Who’s Who Hiram J. Mayo, superintendent of Edenton City Schools, has been listed in “Who’s Who In American Education,’’ according to Dr. Robert C- Cook, editor in-chief. Dr. Cook informed Mr. Mayo this week of the selection and his picture and biographical sketch appearing in the 21st edi tion for 1964. “Who’s Who In American Ed ucation” is an illustrated bio graphical directory of eminent living educators of the United States and Canada. Commissioners In Favor Amendment Each One Contributes Toward Expense of Advertising David Bateman, president of the Chowan County Farm Bu reau, appeared at Monday’s meeting of the County Commis sioners on behalf of one of the constitutional amendments which will be voted on Tuesday, Janu ary 14. Mr. Bateman pointed out the advantages to Chowan and oth er rural counties in voting for the amendment on reapportion ment of the Legislature. The amendment, if passed, he said, will insure fair representative _gqvernfncnt for all people in North Carolina by having one j house of the Legislature based 1 entirely on area and one house 1 based entirely on population. Mr. Bateman is very anxious to have Chowan County voters go to the polls on January 14 and vote in favor of the amend ment and requested the Com missioners to sponsor an adver tisement in The Chowan Herald oointing out the advantages of he amendment and urging vot ers to cast their ballots in favor jf the amendment. The Commissioners are unani mously in favor of the amend ment, but expressed the opinion that it might be unwise to spend taxpayers’ money for any items which are of a political or con troversial nature. They, there fore, decided not to make an appropriation for the advertise ment but that each would per sonally make a contribution to the expense of the advertising. ‘Teenager Os Month’ Is Guest Os Jaycettes Edenton Jaycettes had as their special guest Miss Sandra Cale at their meeting Thursday night, 'January 4. Miss Cale is the second “Teenage Girl of the Month” chosen by the Edenton Jaycettes. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd H. Cale, and is a senior at John A. Holmes High School. Miss Cale has been in the John A. Holmes High School Band for five years. She was a majorette for three years, a pony for one year and assistant chief majorette during her senior year. She played basketball in her junior year and was a mem ber of the Library Club. She is secretary of the senior class and also a member of the Stu dent Council and FHA. i body has a hard-to-match cos- L tume that they bring this along and let some of the ladies of the club help to choose a hat to match. At this price some may 1 want to purchase several. Proceeds from this hat sale will go into the Educational i Scholarship Fund of the Wo i man’s Club. Other Woman’s ; Club members assisting Mrs. > Thorud are Mrs. John Douglas, Mrs. J. D. Barnhill, Mrs. Au i brey Hardison and Mrs. Jerry McGee. . .. , ! Eden ho wan County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 9, 1964. - . . . _ ———————— ———— \*c> r ' . ■- -1 || I- I. <2 CO ' —M———" nillllll—lHl 111 jump I i v•'w * m ■l a | MB m i h Bn s • -.m iyr rc: ■■ '■ jy. y ■■ ’ igvf BWtefohr..-. TBS™ u. 1 i||| ''"x ''’■ . <x r "'' ' ' IpHT m W gs SMALL FLY—Barbara Burkhead, 8, is perhaps the youngest airplane owner in the United States. She anchors her plane next to the big birds at her father’s Lumberton, N.C., airport after checking it out. Pop made the plane out of plywood and sheeting. - Jaycee Distinguished Service Award Banquet January 23 Edenton’s Junior Chamber of: Commerce will hold its Distin-! guished Service Award banquet at the Masonic Temple Thursday night, January 23 at 7 o’clock, i At this banquet the Jaycees will announce the outstanding citizen for the year 1963. Jaycees are requesting local citizens to fill out nomination blanks for the -young man be tween 21 and 36 years of age who they think is deserving of this honor on the basis of his interest and activities for the progress and welfare of the com munity during the year 1963. Nomination blanks can be Great Pocahontas; InEdentonTonight Covered Dish Supper, Will Be Served at 6:30 O’clock Chowanokc Council No. 54, Degree of Pocahontas, will meet tonight (Thursday) at 8 o'clock. A covered dish supper will pre cede the meeting at 6:30 o’clock. A feature of the meeting will be the official visit of the Great Pocahontas, Mrs. Goldie Learned of Shiloh. Mrs. Learned will install officers for the local i Council and will make an ad dress. Mrs. Herbert Baker, retiring Pocahontas, urges all members to make a special effort to attend this meeting. Resolutions Passed For County Officials Chowan County Commission ers at their meeting Monday morning expressed their deep regrets at the recent loss of a county official and a former County Commissioner. The county official was Mrs. Evelyn Williams, County Ac countant and J. Raleigh Peele, who served as a County Com missioner for 21 years. Mrs. Williams died December 19 and Mr. Peele died suddenly Friday morning, January 3. The Commissioners ordered resolu tions of respect to be prepared expressing their sympathy to (both families, and their appreci ation for the services both ren dered to the county. Band Parents Will Meet January 13th ] Edenton’s Band Parents Asso ciation will meet Monday night ■ January 13. The meeting will | be held in the band room at 7:30 o’clock and President Herbert Hollowell urges all members to attend. : picked up from Caswell Ed ! mundson at the Western Gas j Service, 313 South Broad Street, or Tony Miley at Hollowell’s Drug Store. These nomination ! blanks must be returned to Mr. Edmundson on or before Wed nesday, January 15 i There will be a few tickets sold for this banquet on a first come first-served basis, and can be '.secured by contacting Mr. Edmundson at the Western Gas Service or telephoning 482-3122. ; The principal speaker at the ■ | banquet will be Dr. I. Beverly ] Lake of Raleigh, one of the an nounced candidates for Governor -1 of North Carolina. ; School Drop-Outs j Chowan PTA Topic i I !Mrs. Roy Leary Is Speaker At Meeting Monday Night The Chowan High School Par ; ent-Teacher Association held its ' first meeting of 1964 Monday j j night in the school auditorium, j Mrs. Jane Joyner presided and: tthe invocation was by the Rev.] | Thurman W. Allred, which was taken from the 12th chapter of ] Romans. ' Mrs. Jack Leary outlined the I program and introduced the guest speaker, Mrs. Roy Leary, education chairman of the Cho wan Home Demonstration Club, i Mrs. Leary spoke on school ! drop-outs and stated that Cho wan County has the second low-1 est percentage of school drop-1 outs in the state. After encour-! aging everyone to keep up this] i good record and be conscious j i of this problem in event Chowan] is faced with the school drop- Continued on Page 8. Section 1 David Wheeler Allred VS ill Be Ordained Wednesday, Jan. 15 Project Planned To Determine David Wheeler Allred will be | ordained to the Gospel ministry j in a special ordination service j which is being planned for Wed nesday evening, January 15, at the Rocky Hock Baptist Church., The service is scheduled to be gin j£t 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Allred) was approved for ordination by a fecial council composed of , ministers and deacons of the, churches of Chowan Baptist As sociation which council met dur ing last week at the Rocky Hock Baptist Church. The council then recommended to the church j that David be approved for or dination. This action was taken' by the church on Sunday even-! ing, January 5. This young .minister, 22 years of age, completed his work at t Furniture At Nurses Home To Be Sold At An Auction Sale Sale Will Be Held Sat urday Morning, Jan uary 11 Beginning at 10 O’clock Due to the Chowaji Hospital nurses’ home being converted in to a nursing home, quite a few items of furniture will be sold at an auction sale. The sale will be held Saturday morning, Jan uary 11, beginning at 10 o’clock and all items purchased must be removed from the building before Monday, January 13. H. A. Campen will be the auctioneer, and says the auc tion sale will be held rain or shine. Included in the items to be sold are bedroom furniture, din ing room furniture, a sewing machine, washing machine and electric fans. A complete list of items which will be sold will be found in an advertisement elsewhere in this week's issue of The Herald. MRS. PARTIN RESIGNS AS CIVIL DEFENSE SECRETARY Mrs. Eleanor H. Partin has tendered her resignation as sec retary to Murray D. Ashley, di rector of civil defense in Cho wan County. Her resignation is to be effective Friday, January 17th. Mrs. Partin has accepted a position with the Agriculture Soil Conservation Service. MASONS MEET TONIGHT A stated communication of Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A.. M., will be held tonight (Thursday) at 8 o’clock. W. M. Rhoades, master of the lodge, invites all Masons to attend. Wake Forest College last spring and is currently enrolled as a first year student at Southeast ern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest. During the past few years he has supplied vari ous pulpits and served for a year as interim pastor of the Beulah Baptist Church at Sun bury. During the past two sum mers he has served as summer activities director of the First Baptist Church at Greensboro. He has been called and is cur rently serving as pastor of Jonas Ridge Baptist Church of the Avery Baptist Association. He is a son of the Rev. and Mrs. Thurman Allred. The fa ther is pastor of the ordaining church, Rocky Hock Baptist Church. Building Razed To {Make Way For New Municipal Building Work Is Begun On A Modern Municipal Building to Cost Ap proximately $127,000 Waff Bros, this week leveled to the ground the building at the lower end of Broad Street which has been used by the Edenton Police Department for many years. The building was also used for many years as a power house, where electricity was generated for Edenton citizens. The building was torn down to make room for Edenton’s new municipal building, which is es timated to cost about $127,000. Driving of piles is expected to begin next week for the new structure and actual construction will begin shortly thereafter. Dawson Construction Com pany is the general contractor for the new building, which will be modern in every respect. It will be used as a town office, and calls for a Councilmen’s Chamber, Mayor's office and the police station. Just what will be done withj the present Municipal Building) has not been decided. Town j Councilmen are and have been l considering converting the entire ] building into headquarters forj the Fire Department. However, j there is some speculation that a new site might be secured for a new fire station, and in that event a request has been made to use the building as a library. Altar Society Will Hold Card Party The Altar Society of St. Ann's Catholic Church will hold a card party on Tuesday night, Janu ary 14, at 8 o’clock in the Parish Hall. Dessert and coffee will be served, and there will be door prizes. Everyone is invited to come play bridge, Canasta, or I their favorite card game. Tickets will be si.oo a per- i son, or $4.00 a table, and may . be obtained in advance by call l ing Mrs. Edward W. Groves, I Jr.. 482-2490. iToppin Appreciative j To Be Named Deputy j Troy Toppin, who last month' was appointed a deputy sheriff to serve upper Chowan County, wrote a letter of appreciation for his appointment to the Cho wan County Commissioners. In his letter Mr. Toppin said he deeply appreciated the ap pointment and he promised to] continue his efforts toward the j reduction of crime in any of its facets within the boundaries of Chowan County. Wood To Speak At Lions Club Meeting Edenton Lions will hold their weekly meeting Monday night, l January 13, at 7 o’clock at the] Edenton Restaurant. Highway Commissioner Gil liam Wood is scheduled to be a guest of the club and will speak about the road situation in Cho wan County and the First Dis trict. , “Round Up Sunday” At Immanuel Church i Sunday, January 12, has been designated “Round-Up Sunday” ' at Immanuel Baptist Church. Every member of the Sunday School has been urged by the as sembly’s superintendent, Wayne Mizelle, to “round up" two visit , ors for that day and bring them to the morning service. The goal, according to the Rev. Bob Ware, pastor, is to ,! have 150 persons in the Sunday School. This would be a record attendance for the Sunday . School, although crowds have . reached that number in special services as homecomings, etc., several times. JAYCEES MEET TONIGHT Edenton’s Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight I (Thursday) at 7 o’clock at the ; Edenton Restaurant. President jjack Habit urges every Jaycee to be present. $3.00 Per Year In North Carolina Citizens Urged To Vote On State Amendment In Election January 14th Month’s Teenager i k Li ! SANDRA CALE Edenton Jaycettes named Miss Sandra Cale as the second ! "Teenage Girl of the Month." I She is the daughter of Mr. and j Mrs. Flovd H. Cale. Perry Speaker At | Jaycette Meeting Outlines Program For! March of Dimes In j Chowan Edenton Jaycettes held their] regular meeting on Thursday ] evening, January 2. at 7 o’clock ! at the Colonial Restaurant. Mrs. ] Betty Rawls, president, presided. Mrs. Irene Patten was recog nized as a new member. Mrs. Lucille Stalls was elect ed as first vice president to fill the vacancy created when Mrs. Betty Rawls stepped up from that office to become president } when Mrs. Margie Ford resigned in November. The second “Teen-Age Girl of .the Month” was introduced by J Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Dail. She I is Miss Sandra Calc, daughter of I Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Cale, and a senior at John A. Holmes High I School. Speaker of the evening was j James O. Perry, a local Jaycee, j whose subject was the March of ] Dimes. His talk was interest ing and informative and of par ticular concern to the Jaycettes as they are taking an active part | in the campaign being held this month. Guests welcomed to the meet ing were Mrs. Angie Wright. ; Mrs. Lorraine Braxton and Miss! ! Sandra Cale. 23 JAILED IN DECEMBER Jailer Bertram Byrum reported this week that during December only 23 persons were placed in the Chowan County jail. Con finements ranged from one to 17 days and the expense, in cluding jail and turnkey fees j amounted to $151.48. JOINT DINNER MEETING William H. Coffield. Jr. Post No. 9280. Veterans of Foreign ] Wars, and the VFW Auxiliary | will hold a joint dinner meet ing Tuesday night, January 14, at 7:30 o’clock. All members of both organizations are urged to attend. Feasibility Os Processing Plants In Eight Northeastern Counties Congressman Herbert C. Bon ner stated late last week that the Area Redevelopment Ad ministration, Department of Commerce, approved a technical assistance project to help an eight-county area of northeast ern North Carolina to deter mine the economic feasibility of establishing fruit and vegetable processing plants. The counties covered in the project are Ber tie, Chowan, Gates, Hyde, Pas quotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington. Congressman Bonner further stated that a one-year study will be conducted by the Eco nomic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture which will cost about $34,000. The Area Redevelopment Administra tion will provide approximate For Quick Results . . . Try a Classified Ad I In The Herald One Especially Should Interest Those Liv ing In Sparsely Pop ulated Areas Chowan County voters, along with the remainder of the citi zens of North Carolina, will have an opportunity to go to the polls Tuesday, January 14, to east their ballots for or against two constitutional amendments. One of the amendments pro vides for increasing membership of the State Senate from 50 to 70, providing for compulsory re districting of the Senate and re ducing the number of Repre sentatives from 120 to 100. The second amendment, if passed, will empower the Gen eral Assembly to make the rights of husband and wife the same in each other's separate property. The first amendment, 1:.,0wn as the "Little Federal Plan,” provides for one representative front each county, thus prevent ing the more populous areas to outnumber the smaller counties. The Senate, on the other hand, will be assigned strictly on a population basis, the same prin ciple on which the United States Congress has operated since its Continued on Page 7, Section 1 Carl Bailey, Jr. Lions’ Speaker Attorney From Ply mouth Backs ‘Little Federal’ Plan Carl Bailey, Jr., Washington County Representative in the General Assembly', was guest speaker at the Edenton Lions Club meeting Monday night. Mr. Bailey presented a very infor mative address on the consti tutional amendment, the little federal plan, which will be vot ed on in an election Tuesday, January 14. His remarks re volved about geographical rep resentation such as in the U. S. Senate. He spoke in favor of the amendment and pointed out that the greatest task of man has been to formulate laws to govern society. Guests at the meeting includ ed Allen Schaffer of Raleigi, who was a guest of George Lew is, and Dr. Musallam S. El bualy. son-in-law of West Leary. [civic calendar] Edenton Woman's Club will sponsor a spring hat show at the Penelope Barker House Tuesday, January 14, beginning at 10 A. M. Jaycee Distinguished Service Award Banquet will be held at the Masonic Temole Thurs day night, January 23. at 7 o'clock. An auction sale of furniture in the Chowan Hospital nurses’ home will be held Saturday morning. January 11. at 10 o'clock. Continued on Page 7. Section 1 ly $25,000, and the Department of Agriculture will provide around $9,000. Mr. Bonner said that this will be a three-part research study and will include under Part 1— market and production surveys and analyses to determine if fruit and vegetable processing is feasible in that area. If that phase proves favorable. Part 2 will determine the size, type, numbers and locations of pro cessing plants. Part 3 will de velop detailed plans on invest ment requirements, major needs and wage scales, operating costs and estimates of probable financial returns to capital and management, labor and growers. Congressman Bonner further said that this project originated in Chowan County.