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SECTION B
From The Chowan Herald Yellowed Pages
39 YEARS AGO
Merrill Evans of Ahpskie
announced that he would
again be a candidate for
State Senator from the First
District.
At a meeting of the trus
tees of the Shepard-Pruden
Memorial Library k was re
ported that the number of
volumes at the end of the
year were: adult, 3,812; child
ren, 2,764, making a total of
0,576 volumes then in the li
brary.
A possibility loomed for
Edenton to become spring
training headquarters for one
of the baseball clubs in a
Moving Ahead-
Community Progress Is Measured
Through Active Civic Clubs
Support Them
DIRECT DISTANCE DIALING
MEANS PROGRESS, TOO
The Norfolk & Carolina
Tel. & Tel. Co.
PUBLIC NOTICE
There will be a public hearing Monday, February
2, at 8:00 P. M., at Chowan High School to hear
the questions:
1. Should Chowan High School grades
10 -12 be consolidated with Holmes
High School?
2. Should White Oak School grades 1- 4
be consolidated with Chowan School?
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
northern baseball league.
Max Bishop of Baltimore,
Md., connected with the New
York - Pennsylvania League,
spent a day hunting with
Dave Holton, together with
Jim Weaver, Wake Forest
football coach and George
Brack ‘sporting goods sales
man, and before leaving ex
pressed the opinion that
Edenton would be an ideal
location for spring training
headquarters.
Edmund Harding, popular
after-dinner speaker from
Washington, N. C., was the
principal speaker at Edenton
Rotary Club's ladies' night
banquet.
E. L. Laughinghouse of
Hertford became associated
with J. H. Holmes Company
in the capacity of assistant
manager.
Neil Hester, district gover
nor of Lions, was guest
speaker at a meeting of
Edenton Lions Club.
Following a preliminary
meeting, all Edenton merch
ants were urged to attend
another meeting for the pur
pose of organizing an Eden
tor. Merchants Association.
The Board of Public Works
decided to abandon the cus
tom of sending out a collec
tor each month to round up
'delinquents which had been
in effect for a number of
years. It was announced
that if bills were not paid by
the 10th of the month, Super
intendent C. M. Hicks had
been ordered to disconnect
service. When service had
been discontinued on account
of non-payment of bill, a
charge of 50 cents was made
for re-connection.
Oil men of Chowan and 11
nearby counties met at Hotel
Joseph Hewes, when Carl
Goerch, editor of the State
Magazine and widely known
radio commentator, was the
guest speaker.
Edenton’s Rotary Club be
gan an attendance contest
v/ith John Graham and C. E.
Kramer as captains of the
twe sides.
Cpl. Joseph L. Hester, U.S.
Army recruiting officer, an
nounced that six recruits had
passed the examination and
bad left Edenton to be placed
in the regular Army.
Eighteen places of business
in Chowan County had been
licensed to sell beer at re
tail.
Chowan County lost its
oldest citizen when Mrs. Liz
zie Bunch died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Ida
Reed, at Center Hill. She
was 101 years old.
20 YEARS AGO
Directors of the Chowan
County Chamber of Com
merce and Merchants Asso
ciation appointed Marvin
Wilson, local lawyer and
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, January 22, 1970.
judge of Recorder’s Court, as
part time secretary of the
organization.
Miss Ora Norvell. a repre
sentative of Empire Produc
ing Company of Kansas City,
Mo., arrived in Edenton to
coach a 10-act comedy, “It's a
Date,” sponsored by William
H. Coffield Post of Veterans
of Foreign Wars, in which
over 150 local people were
scheduled to take part.
Chowan County Commis
sioners and Town Council
nun reached the end of their
leniency with delinquent tax
payers and instructed Tax
Attorney J. N. Pruden to pro
ceed at once to institute suits
for back taxes.
Edenton’s Junior Woman's
Club won the permanent pos
session of the Mary Fearing
Cup for the most outstanding
work among clubs in the 16th
District.
Sam E. Morris celebrated
his 90th birthday op January
14 when a family dinner was .
held at his home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Corbet of
Edgewear, London, England,
on the Chowan Hospital staff,
piesented a very interesting
program at a meeting of the
Chowan Hospital Auxiliary
when she spoke about her
war-time experiences in Eng
land when she was mat ron of
John Groom's Crippleaguv
during the war.
R. E. Leary, secretary of.
Grants Availali!e
For Vocations
A high school senior m
Chowan County could tic i
winner in the annual Clyde
A. Erwin scholarship awards
program, it is announced by
State School Superintendon l
Craig Phillips.
Sixty-three high school
seniors in North Carolina
have been honored with Clyde
A. Erwin scholarship awards
in the past. The annual in
terest from the fund permit
four awards of S2OO each t !
year.
I The scholarship awards arc
available to high school sen
iors who desire to become
teachers of vocational educ i
;tion. One applicant may be
nominated by each hla, 1
school and superintendents
can, in turn, review 1 1, ap
plications and nominate
candidate for their admin
trative unit. Superintender •
must submit their pomuia
tions to the Clyde A F m
Scholarship Committee.
Department of Public In
tion, Raleigh, not later dam
April 1.
Candidates must lie',
pressed a genuine desire
enter a North Carolina a- |
credited college with the
pose of becoming a tear;
vocational education,
must have demolish at ■ 1
standing qualities of h
ship in their school and
munity and have attain* ,i
exemplary record in si ha
ship. Candidates must 1
possess traits of ch;u w
and personality which w
contribute to success a \
teacher, and they must h, a
need of financial assistance
order to enter college.
The winning candidates wih
be presented certificates I
award at the time of their
graduation.
Edenton Building and Loan
Association, announced that
the association would soon
move to its new office on the
corner of Broad and King
Streets. It was formerly lo
cated for 28 years in the Mu
nicipal Building, where Mr.
Leary was also town clerk.
Chowan ’County Commis
sioner::.authorized W. J. Tay
lor, superintendent of Cho
wan County schools, to pur
chase about eight acres of
land for the purpose of build
ing a consolidated colored
school. Mr. Taylor was lim
ited to $4,000, but was au
thorized to sell school build
ing- at Britts, Center Hill,
Huds.o-n Grove, Warren's
Grove, and Green Hall, with
the money from the sale of
these school sites to be ap
plied to the debt service of
the county:
Edenton' firemen were call
ed to the home of J. Edwin
Bufijap two times when a
chiinne;. caught fire, result- :
mg in considerable damage to
three rooms,
The 4-1.1 Club corn contest- !
lints 'lt'.; participated in the
1949 contest, together with
their chics, were dinner
gin . :, of Edenton Lions Club, i
At meeting of New Bern
C'oiisi d ory of Scottish Rite
Poes 1 in New Bern. H. .
A C :111 ■.i wis elected Pri
mate.
Congri -.-mail Herbert Fron
ts and Congressman .Porter ,
1 h iity of Virginia planned to [
rec|ui‘.-i . public hearing con- ;
earning proposed flood con- :
•"I .a the Chowan River to
bf livid ,it Ha Wi/iton Com t •
House. i
The Albemarle Restaurant,: j
ov m d to 1 host P. Kehaytis,
moved from the - building at I
the. corner of Broad and Eden
■'■Streel- to the: Ncjatn build-j
mg next to tire ,bus station',
Mi and M ■ L S. B> rum '
annoin,cvd the engagement of
theii !.au jbh Miss Ruth
Felt R.vVum. to Lt. Willi mi
A, WK hard, son of Dr. M.
P. Wlbchard and the late
Mrs. NVhiehard
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Sale Os Bolls
Set In Raleigh
The N. C. Hereford Breed
ers' Association is having its
19th annual graded Hereford
bull sale Saturday at 12:30
P. M. at the N. C. State
Fairgrounds Livestock Arena,
Raleigh.
All bulls will be graded on
Friday. Bulls that sell will
grade 12 and up. Polled and
Horned Herefords will be of
fered at auction. Most bulls
will have performance test
records.' >
The annual banquet will be
1 ild on Friday evening at the
College Inn Restaurant. For
information concerning this
event, contact Vance E. Proc
tor, secretary, P. O. Box 275,
Jamestown, N. C., or tele
phone (A. C. 919) 454-2217.
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feet to come to a complete
stop.
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