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S~H E L L TO FEATHERS fW &wm rWtimlwiXyyv w Senior Biological Larry Privoit v •X ' - ’ i Science Fair Big Success; District Event Is March 26 Twelve students at John A. Holmes High School will enter their prize winning science pro jects in the district Science Fair in Greenville on March 26. Nineteen others, whose pro jects in the local fair last week won honorable mention-, will at tend the fair, according to Mrs. Clara Boswell and Mrs. Sandra Askew, science teachers here. In the junior, division, Lanny Hollowell and John Douglas en tered the winning project'in the (biological section. Second place went to C. Y. Parrish with the third place medal going to Blair Council Appoints 3 To Commission The Edenton-Chcwan Airport Commission wap officially formed , Tuesday night by action of Eden ton Town Council and the three members were appointed. Dr. Richard Hardin, James Gardner and W. P. (Spec) Jones will serve on the new commis sion as formed by the council and Chowan County Commissioners. They will meet and elect officers. The action to dissolve the old Edenton Airport Commission came upon motion of Councilman R. Elton Forehand, who served on that body with Dr. Hardin anil W. E. Bond, chairman . of the county commissioners. At the same time Councilman Forehand said lease negotiations with United States Lumber Com pany has resulted in the town securing a portion of an existing hangar at Edenton Municipal Air port for use by the commission. Therefore, one cf the principal financial obstacles facing tile new commission was removed. Dr. Hardin had estimated that a new hangar would cost approximately SII,OOO. He bad said use of a portion of the big hangar would provide adequate facilities for years to come. f Roy Harrell, a local citizen at tending the council meeting, in quired as to the number of planes which use the airport. Adminis trator W. 'B. Gardner said eight to 10 planes are regular users of the facility at this time and ac.- tivity is increasing almost weekly. Mayor John A. Mitchcner Jr., appointed Councilman Forehand and Councilman J. D. Elliott to a committee to gather information for the Filbert’s Creek drainage project. The federal government has funds available to .spend in Edenton and Chowan County on the project, which has been es timated to cost SIOO,OOO. Gard ner said there was a lot of dam age along the creek in 1960 and the town and county must now determine the extent of this dam "age to prove that the expendi ture of federal funds -would be feasible. Mayor Mitchener said the Fii- L Continued on Page Three r Light Conversation Held With Fire Chief “Any news this week,” Chief?” “Ne, thank you.” That was the extent of the con versation The Herald had this week with Fire Chief W. J. Yates. Like law enforcement agencies, Chief Yates is always pleased with a lack of activity by his de partment. Concert By Little Symphony Set Friday The North Carolina Little Symphony, under the direction Benjamin Swalin, will present, its annual evening con cert in Elizabeth City on Friday, Marth 12, in S. L. Sheep Audi torium at 8:30 P. it, with Giorgio Ciompl, violinist, as guest artist. The orchestra appears under Gibson and Miriam Bissette. Ed Hassell won first place in the physical section of the di vision. Second place was won by Tommy Shepard, while David Copeland won third. The senior division biological award went to Larry Privott. Coming in second Was Grace Sawyer with Mary Jo Wozelka taking third place honors. First place in the physical sec tion of the division was awarded to Suzanne George with Ann Parrish winning second and Rita Wheeler placing third for a com plete female'sweep of honors. Honorable mention in the jun ior division went to Cam Byrum, Earl Chesson, Janet Sadler, Alan Hughes, Joey Covington and Chris Venters, all in the bio logical section. Donald Jordan, Ginna Jones, Dabney Forehand, Mary Sexton, Nellie Furlough and Mike Fair cloth won honorable mention in the physical section of the jun ior division. Those whose projects won honorable mention in the bio logical section of the senior di vision included: Stanley Pratt, Vennie Wright, Sylvia Jordan, Martha Leary and Ann Harrell. Taking similar honors in the physical section were Norfleet Pruden, Dianthia Sexton, John Floars, Bill Mitchener and Mary Vivian White. Two hundred eighty-five pro jects were submitted and the science teachers selected 59 jun ior projects and 57 from senior students for the Science Fair. Mrs. Boswell said this was the 'biggest and best fair the school has ever had. She said the jun ior projects this year were equal to the senior projects two years ago. Trophies were given first place winners by George Chevrolet and medals by the school. Sec ond and third place winners al so got medals. The trophies will remain at the school with the names of future winners being added. The fair received •a good re sponse from the public as the displays in the gymnasium were open to area folk Thursday night and Friday. Following are descriptions of the winning projects, written for The Herald by those who made them: * FROM SHELL TO FEATHERS By Larry Privoit My project was basically a study of the development of a Continued on Page Seven Methodists Having Lenten Luncheons Rev Harry Jordan, pastor of the Methodist Church in Mur freesboro, spoke at the Lenten Luncheon in Edenton Methodist (Jhurch Wednesday. This is the first in a series of luncheons to be held in the Methodist Church each Wednes day from 1 P. M., to 2 P. M., during the lenten season. The whole community is in vited to attend the luncheons which will include a fellowship meal, a hymn sing, prayers, Scripture readings, and a spirit ual address by an outstanding Methodist pastor on the theme: "Christ Speaks to Our Needs”. The program will conclude promptly at 2 o’clock for those persons who need to return to work. % ence. The first portion of the evening’s concert will be con posed of Handel’s Overture to Esther, Symphony No. 23 in D Major (K 181) by Mozart, Bi zet’s “Carmen Suite No. I”, and “Valse de Concert” toy Gla zounov. Immediately following inter mission, Dr. Swalin will present Giorgio Ciompi, yiotonist, who will join the orchestra in a per ; Hogoo wpnccioso , opus 2o» MBSm m/gm- £k- HK c«ov> .*>? .v. HP IHBh '2 d. ( TWO PS SWAM NYVT? *TK jHHf MBB s - « wm* * ; ; Mill lijßH 7?« • **•*•«■.-»• .... B Senior Physical Suzanne George THE CHOWAN HERALD Yi)l XXXII.—No. 10 public parade NO HELP WANTED A concrete example of an ap pointed state body meddling in the affairs of an elective couhty board has made its way along The Public Parade. The citizens of Chowan County should express their disap proval. Elsewhere on this page is a story about the Chowan Coun ty Board of Education taking steps to “uphold (their) honor” in the White Oak Elementary School attendance matter. They will hire an attorney to ad vise them. By unanimous vote little more than a week ago, the Chowan board placed the White Oak principal and en tire faculty on probation for the remainder of the term. A reprimand was also given the entire staff. This is pretty severe punishment to profess ional people. The board worked long and conscientiously to resolve the matter of irregular attendance records- at the Negro school. They followed the letter of the law and showed the State Board of Public Instruction the courtesy of personally appear ing to explain their actions. However, the state board was not happy with the ac tion. They turned the records on an intensive investigation over to the district solicitor to determine if a bill of indict ment should be sought. State school laws plainly give the local board final say so in such matters as the White Oak case. However, there is a statute which ap plies where money is involved. The teacher allotment for 1964-65 was based on attend ance during the 1963-64 term. The irregularities discovered are all in the current term, so there appears to be no loss of money to the state/ We were not completely satisfied with the board’s ac tion. We thought it a mite on the lenient side. The board was concerned with the stu dents at White Oak and acted accordingly. The state board admits ir regularities iij attendance rec ords are not uncommon. What is unusual is evidence such as that gained at White Oak. But with this evidence from “little” Chowan they want to impress upon other schools the importance of keeping accur ate records. This should not be allowed to happen. The Chowan board should be commended for their swift action to get all the facts in the White Oak case. The state board should concern them selves with things -in areas where they have legal reasons for action. SAM GETS NABBED—Eden ton Police records this week show that Sam was picked up Friday on South Broad Street. The charge: loitering. He was locked up while loitering in front of Peoples The remainder of the program will include Satie’s ‘Oymnopedie No. II”, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from The Nutcrack er by Tschaikowsky, the Rogers arrangement of selections from The Lost Colony and “Finlandia” by Sibelius. The Lost Colony selections were especially arranged "by Marion Rogers, Assistant Con ductor of the North Carolina Symphony. So far as can, be determined, this is the first time any of the' music from Paul adapt&d" |or oidv&Btfa, Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina 27932 Thursday, March 11,1965 Bank & Trust Company. Gra ham White declares that he didn’t call the officers even though he was concerned about Sam coming in to make an unauthorized deposit. Sam was released Monday when Joe Thorud paid for his keep over the weekend. Joe had gone to Raleigh with George Alma Byrum, Tom Byrum, Joe Conger, Jr., and Bruce Jones. He didn’t worry about his friend Sam as he is an institution around the bank building. But he forgot to sufficiently inform Sam of his whereabouts. When Sam showed up at the bank to see Joe he got nabbed. You see, Sam is a dog and he didn’t have a collar. To day he is a walking testimony to the seriousness of local po lice in their bid to pick up dogs without collars. Strays or yes, even Sam. AN INVITATION— It is good to get away. But it is better to return. We are delighted to be Edentonians and our chest swells when we talk with peo ple who have fond remem brances of our town. We were in Statesville over the weekend to attend the wedding of former State Sena tor C. V. Henkel and Mrs. Ju lie Holcombe. Everyone want ed to talk about Edenton—in cluding us. C. V. is a friend of long standing and let us try our wings in hotel management at his plush Vance Motor Inn. Julie is a former Fourth Es tates At the wedding we ran into Rep. James Broyhill of the Ninth Congressional District. He joined Gov. and Mrs. Dan K. Moore, State Senator and Mrs. Emmett Winslow of Hert ford and State Senator and Mrs. Wilbur Jolly of Louis burg and other special guests for the noon nuptials. The congressman inquired about things in Edenton, hav ing made many friends in the Northeastern area shortly af ter beginning his career in his father’s Broyhill Furniture Company as a salesman. He also had kind words for Rep. Herbert Bonner. During ■our conversation we mention ed that we knew Rep. Bonner toy • reputation • only. We ex plained that we were new in Edenton and had neither met nor communicated with him. Rep. Broyhill is a walking public relations agency . . . with his product being one James Broyhill. So, as we moved away to speak to oth ers, he replied: “Well, Bud, come to Wash ington to see me and I’ll intro duce you to your congress • man”. PURSUING AN AFFAIR— Jay Huskins, who rides herd over North Carolina’s fastest growing afternoon daily in Statesville, recently came call ing. In his daily column, “Down In Iredell”, he passed this word along to his 14,000- plus subscribers: Well, we spent the week end down in Edenton, ye towne on Queen Anne’s Creek, with which we have had an affair for 30 years or more. We went down to see the L. F. Ambums, Jr., and find out how he was doing with The Chowan Herald, in which we recently became associated. We found him having a won derfu. time, but not making much 1 money, which seems to be the story of eastern North Carolina. We first found Edenton about 30 years ago under somewhat unusual circum- Coniiaued oa Page Five ST !■■>. IK' 'W' P mmm iJ! Junior Physical Ed Hassell * pit. '-'iS GOV. DAN Ft. MOORE Governor Moore To Keynote Rally j Democrats from Caowaii Countv | " ill participate in a district rally : in Elizabeth City Saturday night i to raise a portion of the county’s j quota for the forthcoming Jeffer | son-Jackson Day Dinner in Ra | leigh. 1 Gov. Dan K. Moore will key ! note the raiiy. Tom Shepard, chairman of the Chowan County Democratic Kvo cative Committee and James Bond, treasurer, have tickets for the rally. The tickets are $lO each, but if a man and his wife desire tickets the price is sls for both. Snepard said the Pasquotank County Democratic Executive Committee will be paid for the cost of the meal and the remainder of the ticket price will go toward the local quota. “We expect to have a good rep resentation at the rally,” Shepard said. Those who plan to go can obtain tickets from either cf the two local officials. b The 7 P. M. rally will be held in the ballroom of the Virginia Dare Hotel in Elizabeth City. Gov. Moore will be making one of his first appearahees in the northeastern area since he took office January 8. He is expected to make an address dealing with his legislative program now in the General Assembly. JAVCEES MEET TONIGHT Edenton’s Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight (Thursday) at 7 o'clock at the Edenton Restaurant., President Pete Dail urges every Jaycee to be on hand. Governor Plans To Salute Area Development Workers <iov. Dan Moore has planned a Governor s (Salute to community jind area development in North Carolina to be held in Raleigh on Tuesday, March 23. The salute j wiH be presented at a 'dutch luncheon at the Hotel Sir Walter, j Invitations are goihg to the of- 1 fleers, <iirectors and committee members of area development or ganizations and associated spe cialized promotional groups. Oth ers interested in community and area development also are being invited. “I am planning, this salute as a means of thanking the volunteers working with the 12 community and area development organiza tions in our state for their ef forts,” governor said. “I want to give recognition to what they have done and are doing to ward the total development of their communities and areas, in cluding agricultural, industrial and travel and recreation pro gress.” Speakers at the luncheon, be sides Gov. Moore, wHI be Wil- P. Saunders, director of the Mayor Files For Re - Election In May Municipal Balloting County Board Plans Fight Over White Oak Matter I Moving to “uphold (their) hon ! or’’, Chowan County Board of Education has expressed dis pleasure with the state board's refusal to accept as final their action in the White Oak Ele mentary School attendance mat ter. Meeting in called session Tues day night, the board unanimous ly voted to hire an attorney to advise them. They also instruct ed their chairman, O. C. Long, to write the State Board of Pub lic Instruction expressing their Heart Fund Goes Over $1,50Q Goal Final returns of the Heart Fund campaign in Chowan total $1,936.13 as compared with be tween $1,300 and $1,400 a year ago, it was announced today by Tom Shepard, local 1965 Heart Fund campaign chairman. Mrs. J. N. Pruden. Jr., lreas-| urer, said that although the’ campaign drive ended in Febru ary, small contributions are still dribbling in. The goal for Cho wan County last year was $1,200 as compared with $1,500 this year, Mrs. Pruden said. Shepard and Caswell Edmund- j son, city Chairman, said they were delighted with the wonder ful response. “We wish,” they said, “to express our apprecia tion particularly to The Chowan Herald and radio station WCDJ for the splendid publicity ren dered the Heart Fund drive. We are most grateful, also, for the public spirited services render ed by volunteers, campaign leaders, and all news media in support of the Heart Fund. Once again they have demon strated that this community can not and does not fail where the cause is worthy.” State Department of Conservation j and Development; Dr. George j Hyatt, Jr., director of the Agri j cultural Extension Service at | North Carolina State, and Rev. Bob Richards director of Whea i ties Sports Federation. Richards’ j visit is sponsored by' General Mills of Minneapolis, Minn. Registration for the luncheon will begin at 11 o’clock. The pro gram will start at 12:30 P. M. Organizations whose workers arc being invited are: Western North Carolina Rural Community Development Program; Neuse Area Development Association; Northwest North Carolina Area; Development Association; Pied-1 mont Area Development Associa tion; North Central Area Devel opment Association; Capital Area Development Association, Chow anoke Area Development Associa tion; Coastal Plains Planning and Development Commission; Albe marle Area Development Associa tion; Sandhills Area Development ssocifution; Northern Piedmont Area Development Association and Sendland Area Development Asso ciation. ■Hi j jHpdfi'' 'Slfrft SlrißtiS i UEPE .Jk Junior Biological Larry Hollowell-John Douglas feeling on the matter. This action came after Long and Supt. C. C, Walters reported oh a meeting with the state group last Thursday. The board placed the entire faculty on pro bation for the rest of this term. After hearing local officials, the board voted to turn records of their investigation over to the district solicitor. He was asked to determine if a bill of indict ment should be sought. One member of the local board stated: “They (state board) have said the board in Chowan has not done its job and doesn't know how to judge our own people.” N. J. George said the local 'board has complied with the law and the state group is displeased and “gone over our heads in turning it over to the solicitor.” At another point George stat ed: “They are just trying to set an example for the rest of the state. No one is to gain from this action—not even the State i of North Carolina.” After voting to hire legal aid. Dr. A. F. Downum said he wants to “uphold the honor of this, board". Frank Williams said the board should fight any action which would infringe on the rights of 'a duly elected local body. “I think we should throw it back to them,” he added. “The only course will be for ' them to prove that we have ac cepted money which was not due us,” Eugene Jordan said. In discussing the matter, the board reviewed two laws. One gives them final jurisdiction in such matters, but gives the school official involved recourse through the courts. The other deals with cases where money is involved. Supt. Walters said the 1964- 65 teacher allotment was based on 1963-64 attendance, therefore, no money has been received which was not due. The 1963- 64 attendance figures are not in question. In response to a question, Supt. Walters said he expects to lose two teachers at White Oak next year because of attendance. During the meeting in Raleigh, I Dr. Charles Carroll, state super intendent of public instruction, publicly commended the Chowan | board for the handling of the matter. J. A. Pritchett of Windsor, vice chairman of the state board, , said further action should be taken. He said laws are passed to protect the state. The state board admitted that irregularities in attendance fig ures exist in other schools but they have not been able to make a case as strong as in the White ’ : Oak manner. George said the local 'board j ! took action which “we thought best for the children out at White Oak School.” “That is our first responsi bility,’’ Williams added. Long said he was not pleased that the state board did not ac cept the local action. He said he thought the probation and reprimand would solve the problem. Supt. Walters said attendance at the school is now much im proved. ' Single Copy 10c Mitchener First Candidate; More Action Expected Edenton Town Council Tues day night officially called Tor a municipal election on May 4 and Mayor John A. Mitchener, Jr., became the first to file for re election. In a prena red statement to The Herald, the mayor said: “I would like at this time to announce my candidacy for re election as may or of the Town of Edenton. “During the six years that I have had the honor of serving as mayor of this community, we have seen Eden ton advance on many fronts, but there is sti 11 much to be ac complished. §i Mayor Mitchrnrr “I have been associated with the town government since 1951, serving both as councilman from Third Ward and as mayor. The experience gained in these years of service will be of great value to me as mayor, if the voters of the town choose to return me to office. “The years . just ahead will be important ones in the affairs of Edenton and I iook forward to continued growth and progress in all areas. I would like very much to contribute what I can to this growth and progress and I earnestly solicit your support in the coming election.'' , Mayor Mitchener had been re elected for his fifth two-year term as councilman and served only three weeks, at which time he was appointed to fill the un expired term of Mayor David Holton. Mayor Holton died shortly after being elected. The mayor is a leader in all Continued on Page Three Chowan Affected By Court Reform A court reform bill now before ! the General Assembly would place Chowan in a seven-county district with two judges. Dis- I trict 'One would also include Camden, Currituck. Dare. Gates, Pasquotank and Perquimans counties. The district court would re place Justice of Peace courts as well as municipal and county Recorders Courts. In addition to the two full time district judges, magistrates would be appointed by the sen ior resident judge. Each county would have at least one magi strate who would be empowered to hear civil cases involving up to S3OO. Their pay would range from $1,200 to $6,000 and they would be officers of the district court.- District judges would be elect ed for four-year terms and be paid $15,000 per year. Full-time prosecutors would be hired at SII,OOO per year. Previsions are also made* to hire a full-time assistant prosecutor for $9,000.. Clerks irf Superior Court would hav * dudblfc duty and therefore, get a pay “Increase In the case of Chowan, the clerk would have a salary $6,500 annually.