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'Vol. XXXII.—No. 9.
v Chowan’s Native Industry -|,|
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New Fishery Now Nearing Completion
Chowan County has a new in
dustry. It is locally owned. Will
•be locally operated. And will de
pend on local products.
It is Peele’s Fishery at Rocky
Hock Landing, 11 miles from
Edenton. It is owned and oper
ated by J. D., Lloyd and Wallace
Peele. Their product' will prim
arily be herring.
Commercial fishing is nothing
new for the Peele brothers, while
this type operation is. They have
W great deal of faith in the Cho-
Nwan River herring and have built
si big building to prove it.
j An attractive building is near
ing completion with a giant freez
er, a cold storage room and a
small office. It is located just
back from the river far enough
to allow a parking area.
Peele’s Fjshery 'will be in the
retail as well a,s the wholesale
business. They will fish 22 nets
' end work approximately 10 people
during the peak season. v
The freezer which they have
installed will accommodate 350,000
pounds of fish. They expect to
. fill it with 3,5f0 one-hundred
pound boxes of herring during
this season. The herring will be
surplus fish-—that which cannot be
Isold fresh. It wi'l be quick-frozen
and sold as bait all along the
eastern shore.
The freezer is 30 by 40 by 10
feet and has machinery to draw
the temperature down to, 90 de
grees below zero. The cold stor
age room will be between 30 and
degrees above zero.
The Peele’s will operate two
£L>ats but a third boat will be
nshing 20 nets out of the Peele
Sanding.
Wallace Peele said in the past
they have sold their surplus fish
to other fisheries but decided this
yeaf* to make arrangements to
(handle all the fish they catch.
(Ilte |lublic Parade
RIGHT TO KNOW—Senator
„Sa#> J. Ervin, ls a cham
pion of the people’s right to
know what their elected of
ficials and governmental agen
cies are doing.
He has again co-sponsored a
'Freedom of Information bill.
This bill provides that every
agency must make its records
available promptly for any
person, unless the information
falls within certain excepted
and it allows per
sons denied information to ask
a Federal court to order pro
duction of records improperly
withheld.
' This bill would also do a lot
to open the doors of so-called
executive sessions” of commit
tees, boards, etc.
lOne of North Carolina’s most
respected editors says it is
/the special responsibility of
/the press 'to keep the people
informed about what goes on
in their government. This can
■only be done when elected of
ficials transact public business
in the open.
This does not mean that re
porters should have special
privileges.
Tom Lassiter of the Smith
field Herald puts it this way:
“The fundamental right is
l not that of a newspaper re
porter but of a citizen to ob
serve and listen while his
elected representatives discuss
and transact the business of
local governnient. It is incon
venient for most citizens to be
J there, so we go for them.”
• "Secret service” should be
left to the body that is re
af sponsible, among other things,
for .the protection of the Presi
dent of the United States.
There is only one place to
discuss and transact public
business. That is in public.
I 'LITTLE' CHOWAN BIG
f- SCHOLAR—Keith Rollins has
I brought a great honor to him
self and Chowan High School.
1 He has won a coveted More
head Scholarship to the Uni
' versify of North Carolina.
I ®ius, Keith becomes the
first Chowan County student
.to gamer such a scholarship.
It is, both a credit to the stu
dent and th* Chowan County
* a* Cr'hnlnr from a school
THE CHOWAN HERALD
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James M. Robinson, who left
as executive secretary of the
Edenton Chamber of Commerce,
hailed the venture as a good ex
ample of the faith local people
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NEW INDUSTRY—WaIIace Peele, right, shows James M.
Robinson of Edenton Chamber of Commerce, a new sign which
points the way to Chowan County's newest industry—Peele's
Fishery. Located at Rocky Hock Landing, about 10 miles from
Edenton on the Chowan River, the new venture includes fa
cilities for freezing 350,000 pounds of herring for sale as bait.
Peele find two brothers, J. D. and Lloyd, expect to employ 10
people during the peak herring season on the Chowan,
Scholarship program.
His principal, superintendent
and fellow students are proud
of him. The entire communi
ty should also swell a bit and
carry their head a little higher.
Making Morehead Scholars
is not easy. It takes a boy
with ability, parents who en
courage and a school which
offers a balanced curriculum
and other activities.
So, to Keith, his parents and
his school, we offer congratu
lations. ‘Little’ Chowan has
produced a big scholar. Who
will be next?
SLOPPY JOB— All is well in
the State Department of Ar
chives and History. They have
ifhe valuable pre-Revolutionary
Chowan records which two lo
cal men saved from destruc
tion.
'An assistant director of the
state agency \yas in Edenton
on Friday to pick up the rec
ords.
While he was signing a re
ceipt for Robert B. Smith and
Grayson Harding,' Dr. C. C.
Crittenden, archives director
was attempting to explain how
his investigators missed the
■collection.
Dr. Crittenden said his staff
members never saw, the rec
ords, as reported. He said
when an inventory of old Cho
wan County records was made
in 1960, these particular docu
ments were mixed Up with a
group of worthless tax scrolls
which were not on the inven
tory. *
However, local sources re
member different facts. They
report that the state depart
ment did make an inventory
in 1960. Then about a year
ago an old building was being
razed to make -room for the
off-street parking lot behind
■the Hotel Joseph Hewes and
more records were disc° vere d- j
The county commissioners
notified the department aind
four men came to take a look.
They said the papers were
worthless. Just before they
were hauled away, Smith hap
pened along. He asked the
person in charge of tearing
down the building to sell the
five boxes of old papers to
him. He was denied. But the
contractor gave them -to Smith
to save him the trouble of
hauling thdm off.
Smith teamed with Harding
to publish two booklets about
Chowan County Taxabies for
soon Tealiwi a
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Edei Chowan County, North Carolina 27932 Thursday, March 4, 1965
; have in the commercial fishing
: industry in Chowan.
, The Peeles thought that fancy
talk was all right, but what they
i are waiting! for are the herring.
50 Jnrors Drawn
For March Term
Fifty names have been drawn
for prospective jurors in the
term of Superior Court which
opens here March 29.
■ Judge George Fountain of
Tarboro will preside over the
session at which both criminal
and civil cases will be heard.
The jury list, as drawn by
Chowan County Commissioners,
includes:
Isaac Overton, John P. Arcaro,
Clarence L. Badham, Horace D
White, J. C. Jordan, Carl M.
Cayton, Vivian O. Copeland,
Lassell E. Chappell, L. David
Bass and Jesse Austin.
Also, W. W. Bunch, Jr., Willis
Walter Rawls, Frank Robert
Jones, Wilford N. Toppin, Mer
rill E. Copeland, Herman Lane,
A. J. Evans, Hubert E. Harris,
F. M. Francis and William I.
Dail.
And, Lycurygus Perry, Alton
Williams, Frank Miller, G. H.
Harding, Bryant F. White, Elvin
L. Spivey, Wayland Byrum,
Claude Perry, Claude E. Roger
son ancj Louis C. Britt.
Also, Hector Lupton, Raleigh
Elliott, O. M. Blanchard, J.
Haywood Bunch, Thomas F.
Hopkins, Richard L. Lovitt, Ed
mond White, Wilbur T. Jordan,
Daniel P. Reaves and Horace
Parks.
And, Sydney Lee Perry, Leslie
W. Nixon, Wallace B. White, J.
Bertron Hollawell, William R.
Ashley, Sr., Walter L. Moore,
Jr., J. S. Turner, Anthony .Hath
away, Jr., R. Graham White and
Kesler M. Phillips.
HERRING BREAKFAST
The Methodist Men of Edenton
Methodist Church will have an
other pickled hairing breakfast
Saturday from 7 A. M. to 9 A. M.
at the church. Roe will be served
and the public is invited to par
ticipate in this church project.
Keith Rollins Wins Morehead Grant
CHAPEL HELL William
Keith Rollins (Keith), the son
-of Rev. and Mri, W. L. Rollins,
Route 1, Box 292, Hobbs ville,
has been presented a Morehead
Award to the University of.
North Carolina, it was an
nounced Tuesdly.
The announcement and the
presentation of awards were
""made by Hu#i G. Chtftham of
Elkin, ’a member of the Board
of Trustees of the John Motley
Foundation.
Rollins is a siudent at Cho
wan High School in Tyner.
He is one of 67 boys to receive
the valuable awards this year.
The are worth $5,800 to
No{tth Carolina residents for
A i . w , t . .
Entire Faculty
At Rural School
Put On Probation
The principal and faculty a‘
White Oak Elementary Schoc.l arc
on probation for the remainder ol
the school term as the result oj
an investigation into daily at
tendance recoids.
Chowan County Heard of Edu
jation Monday night voted unani
•nousiy to accept the recommenda .
tion of Supt. C. C. Walters i;
reprimanding Principal W. H
Cieecy and the entire faculty an
placing them on probation.
Supt. Walters and O. C. Lone
Jr., chairman cf the board, hav.
been called to Raleigh to person
ally explain the boaid’s action t
the Mate Hoard of Public In
;tru; tion.
T..e action came following mor
than a month cf inve.-.tigatio
into the daily attendance record
it the Negro school and nunter
jus meetings of the school board
Investigators with the state de
partment called the local board’;
ittenticn Go the matter at th
board’s regular meeting in Fob
ruary. Creecy was called to a [>
pear and denied that he had in
dructed the teachers to file re
ports which showed students pres
ent when they were- not.
Tire school board then inter
viewed each teacher and all buv
one gave statements which showed
they had been pressured into keep
ing inaccurate records on attend
a nee.
(Teacher allotment in school
is based on average daily attend
ance. It has been said that Whit-
Oak School received funds fo'
teachers in excess of $ 15,00*
which were not substantiated b;
rttendance).
During Monday’s meeting, on<
■number of the county board saic
he thing which made the situa
ion at White Oak worse was that
Greecy had teen placed on preb i
tion approximately five years ag•
"or a similar offense. Because o
his, it is not known what actioi
lie State Board of Public In
traction will make today (Thurs
lay) when thpv meet to hear Lonj
and Supt. Walters.
(Supt. Walters said he is con
vinccd that the principal and :d
faculty members are aware of th
mistake* they made in keeping th*
■f-cords and he thinks they can b'
rehabilitated.
After lengthy discussion th*
Hoard voted to reprimand the
group and place them on proba-
Conlinued on Page Six
Local Police Give
Various Citations
Several arrests for minor vio
lations have been made by
members of Edenton Police De
partment in the past week, ac
cording to Chief James H. Grif
fin.
William Johnson, 28-year-old
Negro, Route 3, Edenton, and
Jimmy Marshall Perry, 19, of
Edenton, were cited for having
improper mufflers on their ve
hicles.
John Wright Floars 11, 17, 321
West Queen Street, was given
a citation for disregarding a stop
sign.
Cited for improper passing was
John " Arthur Wheeler, 68, 119
Morris Circle. Edward Lee
Newsome, 25-year-old Negro, was
booked for breach of peace.
Amos June Hobbs was given
a citation for failing to dim
the lights on his car.
GUEST MINISTER SUNDAY
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Eugene Tolestedt, senior student
at Union Theological Seminary,
will be guest minister at the
(Edenton Presbyterian Church Sun
day morning, March 7 at 11
o’clock.
The \ public is cordially invited"
to attend the service.
yearbook staff, vice president
of the junior class, treasurer
of the senior class, chief mar
shal, a member of the Beta
lUSIIH L
Town Election Becomes Chief Topic
With Many Names Bouncing Around;
Mayor Expected To Seek Re-Election
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FAREWELL TO 'JIM'—If James M. Robinson, center, had his bags packed to return to Cary
he will have to make room for a handsome silver service which friends in the Edenton Cham
" ber of Commerce presented him Friday night. Making the presentation is Mayor John A. Mitch
ener, Jr., left, and W. E. Bond, chairman of the Chowan County commissioners. Robinson re
signed recently as executive secretary of the Edenton Chamber of Commerce for reasons of
poor health. He has headed the chamber here for more than four years.
Community Leaders Praise
' Work Done By Robinson
The final chapter in James M.
Robinson’s book of memories of
work with Edenton Chamber of
Commerce will be water marked.
It was that kind of farewell.
Edenton Chamber of Com
merce officials and corhmunity
leaders honored the executive
secretary last week with a ban
quet at Edenton Restaurant.
High tribute was paid Robinson
by chamber presidents who had
served with him and local busi
nessmen who expressed appre-
Registration Sol
For An Classes
Don Durland, assistant pro
fessor of art at East Carolina
College, will be in Edenton
Tuesday night to greet prospec
tive members in the Art Coun
cil’s adult art class. Durland
received his Bachelor of Fine
Arts from Miami University and
his masters degree from Bradley
College.
Registration for the'adult class
will be at 7:30 o’clock in the
Art Council Studio above the
Edenton Savings & Loan office.
The class is an East Carolina
Extension Course and may be
taken for college credit. The
course will last ‘through the
spring quarter and will cost $25.
A minimum amount of art
supplies will be required and
will be available in Edenton.
Those interested in the art class
who are unable to attend regi
stration are advised to call Mrs.
L. Polk Williams,' Jr., before
Tuesday.
Club, the Monogram Club, the
Library Club and the Glee
Club. He is also a member
of the varsity basketball and
baseball teams and is co
captain of the varsity basket
ball team. He plans to study
accounting.
The Morehead Awards were
first presented in 1951. They
are presented cm the basis of
' outstanding merit reflected in
academic ability and attain
ment, character, leadership,
ambition, unselfish service and
physical vigor, without con
sideration of need.
Supt C. C. Walters of Cho
wan County Schools was high
in hjs praise of Rollins. “He
is a fine student and we are
extremely pleased that he has
won this coveted scholarship”
he paid •"
elation for his accomplishments.
And when ii was all over.
Robinson, with a lump in
throat and tears in his eyes,'
packed up a beautiful silver ser
vice and said farewell to men
he had worked with almost daily j
for four and a half years.
“It is nevei- easy to arrive at j
a swan song situation,” the
chamber official said. He de
scribed the banquet as a high
point in his life and said: “I will
always treasure the memory.”
After hearing several eloquent
speeches, Robinson said: “You:
people did the job . , . I only
kept the train on the track.” j
He .added: “You have exaggerat-j
ed my usefulness.”
Mayor John A. Mitchener, Jr.,
was master of ceremonies and
was the first to express deep
appreciation to Robinson for his
■tireless efforts to make Edenton
and the entire Albemarle Area
a better place to live and do
business. He said Robinson, in
the time he was with the cham
ber, was most successful in get
ting the name of Edenton be- ;
fore the public.
Mayor Mitchener cited the
Hall of Fame for Patriots of the
Revolution as a typical Robin
sonism. He said the citizens of
this entire area will be indebted
to him for years to come.
W. P. (Spec) Jones, the first
past president to speak, said Rob
inson’s doctors say he can fill
his own prescription. Jones said
Robinson had been writing peo- j
pie about how good fishing,
hunting, etc., is in the Edenton
area, now he should enjoy it
himself.
Bruce Jones, Joe H. Conger.
Jr., and George Alma Byrum fol
lowed suit. They all lauded
Robinson for his ability to get
a job done, his vast storage of
ideas and his dependability.
President Alton Elmore said
a committee is now working to
select a replacement for Robin
son but the job is not easy.
However, he said several good
men are being considered.
Approximately 30 people at
tended the banquet.
Lions Club Favors
Time Change Bill
Edenton Lions Club has gone
on record favoring Daylight Sav
ing Time.
The club will write Rep. W. J.
P. Earnhardt, Jr., asking him to
support the bill which is now
before the General Assembly.
During discussion on the mat
ter, local Lions said the time
change would .be of value to this
area because Virginia is on Day
light Saving Time.
Productions Set j
By Choral Group |
The choral ' society of Albe-i
rnaile Area Development Asso
ciation has planned a concert j
for April il, the final day of
the Pilgrimage of Colonial Eden
ton and Countryside.
Directed by Dr. Clifford Bair,
the combined society, with the
added voices of the College of,
the Albemarle Carole, will be in
concert at 4 P. M., at Edenton
Baptist Church. The program is j
expected to last approximately J
one hour.
The .members of the northeast ;
and southwest divisions are now
in practice for the presentation
of the Easter portion of Handel’s
“Messiah”. The Canticle of the
Martyr by Dr. Vittorio Giannini;
will also be presented, Dr. Gi- i
annini is president of the N. C.j
School of Arts at Winston-
Salem.
The chorus has been invited'
to appear at the AADA meeting
at Nags Head on April 26.
Also, plans are now being
made for presentation of English
Madrigals and the staged pro
duction of the musical play.
'Down in the Valley” by Kait
Weill in May.
Masons To Honor
Former Masters
I
A stated communication of
Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. &
A. M., will be held tonight
(Thursday) at 8 o’clock. Carroll
Boyce, master of the lodge,
states that Past Masters’ Night
will be observed, so that all;
Masons are especially invited to I
attend.
High School Science Fair
Is Open To Public Tonight
The annual Science Fair at
John A. Holmes High School will
be held Thursday and Friday
with students in five grades par
ticipating, according to Mrs. Clara
Boswell.
Mrs. Boswell has announced
that four faculty members at the
College of the Albemarle in Eliza
beth City will act us judges for
the event, to be held in the high
school gymnasium.
Miss Claje Aylett of the math
department, Austin J. Foard of
the chemistry and physics depart
ment and J. Parker Chesson and
Robert L. King of the biology de
partment, wiH judge the entries.
Four trophies will be awarded.
Two of them will be in the field
of junior science and two in the
area of senior Science. These
trophes are made available by
George Chevrolet Company.
Also, Mrs. Boswell announced
A Newspaper Devoted
To the Progress of the
Albemarle Area
Single Copy 10c
Seats On Council,
Public Works Up
For Vote On May 4
Political winds are beginning
to blow in Edenton. However,
with the municipal election 60
days off, they are not expected
to reach hurricane velocity for
another month.
Edenton’s Town Council will
get machinery into motion next
week when they call for the
board of elections to set the
election for May 4. The filing
deadline will be set by the elec
tions group.
At stake in the forthcoming
balloting is the office of mayor,
three seats on the council and
two seats on the board of public
work:s
The election for the .mayor
will be for two years while
those elected to the boards will
serve for four years.
Mayor John A. Mitchener. Jr.,
is expected to run again. He
i has not publicly announced but
he has indicated he will stand
for re-election.
Councilmen whose terms ex
pire this year are Elton Fore
hand, Ward Three; Luther C.
Parks, Ward Four; and George
Alma Byrum, at large. Like
Mayor Mitchener, these men
have not formally announced
their intentions although most of
them are at the present expected
to seek a four-year term.
The councilmen who run this
year are t'ompieting a twVycar
term under the town's new
staggered term system which be
gan in 1963.
Councilmen who have two
more years to serve are J. D.
Elliott, Ward One; C. A. Phillips,
Ward Two; and J. Edwin Buff
lap, at large. Phillips will not
be able to serve out his full
term as he is now building a
new home outside the town
Continued on Page Four
Meeting I’lanncd
By IJINC-G Group
A luncheon meeting of the
alumnae association of the. Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Greensboro will be held here at
noon March 18, accoiding to Mrs.
Wood I’rivott, 125 Blount Street.
The meeting will be held at
Edenton Restaurant.
Alumnae of the University
from District Nine including !2
counties Bertie, Canuien, Clio
wan. Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hert
ford, Martin, Pasquotank. Per
quimans, Tyrrell and Washington
—will attend.
Mrs, Adelaide Holdcchess, im
mediate past president of the, as
sociation and chairman of the
alumni district council and Miss
Barbara Parrish, alumni secre
tary, will be the principal speak
ers. They will be overnight
guests of Col. and Mrs. W. h.
Rosevear.
Mrs. George Barden of Ply
mouth is director of District Nino
and Mrs. Privott is luncheon
chairman and alumni representa
tive for Chowan County.
that 12 medals will be presented
to students with winning entries
in the Science Fair.
Judging will be held at J
p. m, Thursday and the gymna
sium will be open to the public
from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. that
night.
Also, the entries in the Science
Fair will be on public display
from 8:30 a. In. to 3 p. m. on Fri
day and again Friday night from
7 to 9 o’clock.
Students in grades seven
through 12 will have entries in
the event Which normally draws
a tot of local interest. Much time
and effort has gone into making
these displays and the school of
ficials invite the general public to