THE CHOWAN HERALD4 HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY

Volume XIII.—NuVnber 3' Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 19,1946.

| Noted Viloinist Here Fridayiinni—rm—I^—TTIIIIII l"l"nrj‘"! “fl

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LEONA FLOOD, internationally acclaimed Americanviolinist, is scheduled to present two performances Friday inthe Edenton High School auditorium, one program to he givenat 2:15 in the afternoon for the benefit of school children andagain at 8:40 at night. Miss Flood’s appearance in Edenton "

is sponsored by the Edenton Rotary Club and it is hoped acapacity crowd greets the talented artist,

Hector Lupton, Jr.And Polk WilliamsPass Eagle Scout

—— IJohn Goodwin, Jr., Also

Passes RequirementsFor Star Scout

Tidewater Council. Boy Scouts ofAmerica, announces that„at a Boardof Review for Troop No. 156, heldThursday night. Hector Lupton, Jr.,and Polk Williams successfully com-pleted the requirements! for the cov-eted rank of Eagle Scout. Both hoysearned the required 31 merit badges,15 of which are specified to becomeEagle Scouts, At the same timeJohn L. Goodwin, Jr., attained therank of Star Scout by virtue of hav-

(ing attained five Merit Badges.The following boys were promoted

from Tenderfoot to Second Class:Willie West, Jr., Gene Taylor. Wil-liam Cruiuuiey. W. O. Speight. ByronKehayes, Mack Privott a.id FrankHughes. The following Merit Badgeswere awarded: John Goodwin', per-

sonal health, swimming and public.ealth; Polk Williams, camping andswimming; Frank Hughes, wood Car-ving, home repairs, basketry, cookingand personal health; Hector Lupton,Jr., pioneering, camping, bird study,basketry and marksmanship; CharlesLee Overman, personal health andbird study.

| War Bride Os MurrielByrum Now In Edenton

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Murriell Byrum, twin soil of Mr.[and Mrs. Graham Byrum, arrived inI the States last week after serving '8liionths with the U. S. Army in Ger-many. At the same time, but on a dif-ferent boat, his Polish bride arrivedjin New York and is now at the ho le(of h-T husband’s parents awaiting! his discharge at Fort Bragg,j The parents of Murriell met their!daughter-in-law in New York after)

Iquite a bit of difficulty, and return-!ling home are very much gratified |'to know that the war bride is taking |a liking to her new home in a new

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Benefit Game OsBaseball Is Planned

| For Friday NightProceeds Will Go to Un-

fortunate Family InBertie County

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Another baseball game is scheduledto be played on Hicks Field Friday:

night, when a team . composed ofKdenton stars will play the BertieCounty Ail Stars in a benefit game.

All of the proceeds of the game will,go to the “Rock” Perry family nearPerrytown. Mr. Perry was killed in'an automobile accident during thebaseball season and a 3-year-old sonwas so seriously hurt about the facethat plastic surgery is necessary,j Players in both counties haveagreed to play without play and Les-ter Jordan and Ted Miller will opposeeach other on the mound, So that a

good game is expected.Contributions have already been

taken in Bertie County for the un-fortunate fan ily, and the game was

planned to boost a fund which willhe needed for costly operations, as,well as helping the family financially.

Mass Meeting PlannedIn Methodist ChurchIn Interest Os CollegesWednesday night of next week at

8 o'clock a mass meeting will be heldin the Methodist Church in the in-terest of the Methodist College Ad-vance. The principal speaker will be !Dr. Gideon Humphreys, president ofH igh Point College, and the Rev. AI-1lan Brantley and District Superinten-dent Herbert Miller of Elizabeth City .also expect to be present.

C ,v,irches in the Albemarle areaare expected to be represented at themeeting in the interest of the Metho-dist movement to raise §2,075,0(10. to

support Methodist colleges.

ATTENDS CONFKRENCE! Miss Elizabeth Moore, home ser-| vice chairman of the Chowan Chapterof the Red Cross, attended a home

| service conference in Charlotte this'week. ,

Proclamation By Mayor Leroy Haskett IThe Rdenton Community Concert Association next week will hold

a campaign for members for the purpose of assuring a series of con-certs by world famous artists here during the coming months.

Every community is improved by advantages of sound businessestablishments, industries, good schools, churches and various munici-pal improvements. The availability of fine music presented by authori-tative musicians is another advantage which will benefit those makingtheir homes in Edenton.. Having become interested in music through the excellent instruc-

tion in ,our schools and by our private teachers, through the many radioprograms bringing these treasures freely into our homes, through mo-tion pictures, many of us will be glad to welcome these gifted artiststo our own community for the enjoyment and cultural development ofourselves and the education and pleasure of our children.

Therefore, as Mayor of Edenton, I proclaim the week of Septem-ber 23rd to September 28th officially as Community Concert Week.

LEROY H. HASKETT. Mayor.'I . . J i

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Machinery Put In MotionWith Goal Set To Insure

• Staging Series Os Concerts450 Adult Memberships]

Necessary to Guaran-tee Programs

NON-PROFIT BASIS

Opportunity to Hear Fa- imous Artists Perform

In EdentonMachinery lias been put in motion j

for a campaign to assure a series ofhigh-class concerts in Edenton, the jappearance of a group of world fa-!mous artists depending upon the 1number of memberships secured next jweek, September 23 to 28. An or- jganization was set up for this pur-jpose which will endeavor to sell 450 jadult memberships at $5.00 each in;order H> guarantee the concerts.!

. Janies 1. Wolfe, director of the NewYork office, will be in Edenton during jthe week in order to stimulate inter-1est and assist with the campaign, jAside from the atiult drive, a con-test will be in progress in the schools, ¦where three memberships will be giv-en in the county and city units t?i thestudents selling the highest numberof association memberships.

The series of concerts is the ideaof the Parent-Teacher Association,which enlisted the support of the "Ro-tary and Lions Clubs, American Le-gion, as well as other groups. Theassociation will operate on a non-profit basis, so that the more mem- 1hers enrolled, the better will be theartists selected for the concerts. I

The executive committee is com-1posed of J- W. Davis, president: J. ILConger, first vice .president; Mrs.Richard Elliott, second vice presidentand general chairman; EdmundSchwarze. secretary and W. H. tiard-

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\ces Open FootballSeason Friday By

Playing GreenvilleCoach Tex Lindsay Re-

leases Tentative Line-up For Opener

Edenton High School’s footballteam, operating from the deceptiveT-formation this year, stepped uptheir afternoon drills in preparationfor their first gridiron tilt ofseason against the powerful Green-ville High squad of Pitt County,Friday night, Sept. 20, in Greenville.

A week’s intensive practice inter-spersed with a glimpse of the highpowered Washington Redskins of pro.football fame Sunday afternoon atForman Field in Norfolk climaxedthe pre-season practice sessions withonly a light workout expected this(Thursday) afternoon.

Several intra-squad games havebeen played under lights before theAlbemarle League- baseball seasonfolded. The first squad showed upwell with Jack Habit and Poss Whit-son getting otf for long runs. On thedefensive side of the ledger, PeteManning and Teddy Lupton excelled,smearing the opposition for big los-ses. f

rfThe tentative starting lineup forFriday’s game includes the followingyoungsters:Stancil Davenport Left EndEdgar Rogerson Left TacklePete Manning Left GuardFrank Habit —-CenterA1 Habit -

Right GuardTeddy Lupton Right TackleRussell Wheeler Right EndPoss Whitson QuarterbackCurtis Pressley FullbackJack Habit Right HalfbackBobby Byrum Left Halfback

Others slated to see action in theline are Jim Earnhardt, Bobby Jor-dan, Joseph Privott, Haywood Roger-son and Rodney Harrell. Reserveends will be Paul Hassell and DougAllen. Included on the relief back-field are Jimmie Cates, Dick Hollow-ell, George Habit and Ralph Ward.

While Coach Tex Lindsay says his

• rys are in good shape, he expects> send in a number of reserves dur-

ing the game in anticipation of atough game. He hopes to be ableto take 35 boys On the trip, but earlythis week he was faced with theproblem of transportation. Anyonewho will drive a car and take someof the boys is requested to contactCoach Lindsay at the high school atonce.

Membership DriveI For Farm Bureau

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(President W. A. HarrellAppeals For United

Front

The annual Farm Bureau member- ,

(ship drive is progressing "slowly in

(Chowan County, according to W. A.(Harrell, County President. A check- |jup ineeieting of officers and workers[was called at Chowan Community iiBuilding on Friday night, when 15workers reported a total of 101 re-newals and new members. Twenty-|six workers were absent and madeno report.

I Chowan County has a goal of 518members for this drive. This goal

(was set by the State Farm Bureauoffice as Chowan’s proportional shareof the 1940 47 State goal of 00,0001members,

"Chowan farmers have and are be- Inefiting by the state and national |Farm Bureau organization just asfarmers in other counties and states,”says Mr. Harrell. “Our large bene-fits obtained through national legis-lation just come to us and we do not

I realize just what the motivating pow-er was that brought about legisla-

tion and planning resulting in betterI crop prices, support programs, ar-ranged for supplying certain vital.materials needed on the farm andmany other benefits,

j “Our boys have just fought a warduring and after which we are enjoy-

| ing good prices. Who is going toitlike up the battle to see that we far-riers continue to get our fair and

[just share <>f the national income?| if We farmers do not join together in.mir efforts and look after our inter-' ests we need Hot expect anyone else

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I I “farming is the farmers business.1 1 We can work ever so hard for twelvellong months producing crops but un-less our products are marketed so asto give us fair prices our efforts inlabor are largely in vain. We workthat we may maintain a fair stand-ard of living. We can do lots ofwork individually but unless we standtogether in selling and planning weare at the mercy of other groups.

I "At the present time we are far!1 short of one-half of our membership (

, goal. Three dollars is very small.compared with the returns from yourorganization. Chowan County is oneof the best counties in the State andwe are proud of it. We can't be

| proud of a farmers’ organization’which we do not support. See oneTof the workers at once and join.CLet’s have a Farmers’ organization! (we are proud of!”

[Legionnaires Meet InEnlisted Men’s Club

IGroups Delighted With

New Headquarters.j At Base

I Members of Ed Bond I’ost, the[j Auxiliary and specially invited guests

.[met night in the’enlisted jI (men’s club at the Edenton Naval Air!

• (Station, the prospective new home of!| the Legionnaires. A large percent-j

: !age of both organizations were pres-,[ [ ent and apparently all were very well[pleased with the new headquarters.

;| Commander William P. Jones pre-,:j sided and after a brief business meet-.

: ing those present were invited to (• roam about the spacious building inorder to form an opinion as to theadvisability of using it as a Legion

1 home. New members and visitors: were introduced and after a verypleasant meeting refreshments wereserved.

Revival Begins MondayAt Center Hill Church

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i Revival services at the Center Hill¦ Methodist Church are to begin Mon-

i day night, September 23, at 7:46i o’clock and will be held each nighti from then on through Sunday night,

: September 29. The Rev. G. C. Wood: of Aulander is to do the speaking.

The public is invited to attend.

551.50 Per Year.

Negotiations Under Way ByTown Os Edenton To LeaseEdenton Naval Air StationLeona Flood, NotedViolinist Will Appear

In Edenton Friday;Two Performances Will

Be Presented at HighSchool

Leona Flood, noted violinist from j(Spokane, Washington, will appear in ja recital Friday in the High Schoolauditorium, her appearance beingsponsored by the Edenton Rotary

Club. Miss Flood will appear at a

(matinee at 2:15 for the benefit ofstudents, with the night performance

scheduled to begin at 8:40 o’clock.,Tickets for the recital are now on

sale at Leggett & Davis, Mitchen-

er’s and Leary’s Drug Stores, andevery member of the Edenton Rotary

Club has a number of tickets to dis-pose of.

Miss Flood’s manager, I’hil Rubin-off, was in Edenton last week busy-ing himself with arrangements aridurging the sale of tickets in the hopethat a capacity house will greet the

[accomplished artist. Mr. Rubinoff,[himself a violinist, graduated from[the Cincinnati Conservatory of Mu-

Jsic in 1929 and for 19 years was'manager of Dave Rubinoff of radio(fame. He announc'd that his client.,[will present 62 concerts iri tho Carojlinas which opened in Morehead Cityon September Hi. She is scheduled •

'.to present two performances every

'day until December 13. Mr. Rubin-

Joss refers to Miss Flood as undoubt- ,ledly one of the greatest artists in herprofession. "Miss Flood understands

[what the American public wants,” hesaid. "She understands American

[youth anil the spirit of 194ft”,| No,other, violinist has attempted .

a tour to equal that scheduled forMiss Flood. When she comes to

Kdenton she will have with her aStradivarius violin valued at 825,000which she will use for both perfor-mances.

i Miss Flood has been playing aviolin since she has been; five years:

join. She was horn in Spokane, Wash,

and has traveled Europe extensivelyon concert tours.

[ Her program will be quite diversi-¦ tied. Mr, Rubinoff stated, for the.matinee performance numbers havebeen carefully selected to appeal to

jyounger listeners, but she also in-,eludes many difficult and maturecompositions in her repertoire.

Rev. 0. C. Crawfordi Preaches Farewell

Sermon On SundayLeaving Next Week to

Accept Pastorate InTennessee

I The Rev. D. C. Crawford, Jr., pas-tor of the Edenton Presbyterian.Church, will preach his final sermonin Edenton Sunday morning at 11o’clock, his subject being “TheChurch Victorious,”

Mr. Crawford recently resigned aspastor- of the local church to acceptthe pastorate of the First Presbyter-ian Church at Trenton, Tennessee,and he and Mrs. Crawford plan to

leave for their new field Wednesdayof next week.

j The Rev. Mr. Crawford has been'pastor of the Edenton Church since

March, 1942, following lvis graduationfrom Union Theological Seminary at

I Richmond. He served as student| pastor at the* church while in theseminary and was ordained in thelocal church on June 13, 1943.

tJnder the leadership of Mr. Craw-ford, a new Presbyterian Church hasbeen erected at the corner of Queenand Mosley streets, which is one ofthe most efficient plants in the Al-bemarle Presbytery. He is cub mas-ter of the Cub Pack No. 159 whichis sponsored by the PresbyterianChurch and has, during his stay inEdenton, taken a leading part incivic affairs and has been very activein working with young people.

The public is cordially invited to• hear Mr. Crawford’s farewell ser-

i mon Sunday morning.

[lndiana Folks Very Fav-orably Impressed With

Local Set-up

| SUBMIT PROPOSALS

Town Makes Reserva-tions For Possible Fur-

ther Use of Base

[ Negotiations are now under way[between the Town of Edenton and[Raymond Umbaugh and David Her-

| vey of Indiana for the Town to sub-lease the Edenton Naval Air Station.Hervey and Umbaugh met with mem-bers of Town Council and the Cham-

[ber of Commerce Monday night af-ter having a few days before goneover the base for a complete inspec-tion. They stated that they werevery favorably impressed with theset-up and were ready to submit twopropositions. One is for permissionto take over the entire base, while theother is to lease only the portionsneeded, in both cases, however, pro-|vision will, be made for the Town to

utilize what it desires, including thehospital,

Mr, Hervey represents the HerveyFoundation, a lion-denominational or-ganization incorporated in the Stateof Maryland for the purpose of fur-thering educational and religious in-stitutions all over the world. It isoperated on a non-profit basis. Theconcern manufactures pre fabricatedhouses of a high type and Mr. Herveystated that at the outset he wouldbring in $30,000 worth of machinerynow ready for shipment, and to startwith would employ about 15<t ,> r mis,

!with prospects of this number beinggreatly increased. The cop in isadequately financed, and bus., largeholdings in timber land end saw

'mills. Labor for the ..os part willbe employed locally and raw ma-terials will also be purchased on alarge scale, for the. houses will bedistributed on a nation-wide basis.

Mr. Umbaugh, a scientist, heads afoundation devoted lie biological re-search in the inter st of breedinghigh class cattle. He will set up aschool which is expected to attractprominent scientists from all over theworld, as well as include classes forstudents. By scientific process, Mr.

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Edenton ColonialsLions Club’s Guests

R. €. Holland Extols Ac-complishments Dur-

ing Season

The Edenton Colonials celebratedtheir first successful post-war tenureas Albemarle League championswith a testimonial .dinner tendered

f by the Lions Club, Monday night.| In a speech lauding the merits ofthe home town club, that climbedfrom fifth place to first place in a

! matter of a few weeks by virtue ofI nine straight victories, R. C. Holland

I praised the team, its officials and or-ganization for the great contributionit made to the town’s entertainmentprogram. Lion Holland called on

[former manager Jim Partin to pre-sent the players and men responsible(for Edenton’s successful season.I Mr. Partin, in turn, introduced theplayers, managers and directors inan impressive ceremony that lastedthrough the evening.

While some of the players wereaway at college and others were out

| of town working, a majority of the. squad returned for the farewell

banquet.In concluding,, Mr. Holland offered

a toast to future Edenton Colonialteams, saying, “To the AlbemarleLeague pennant—long may it waveover Hicks Field.”

Presbytery MeetingIn Edenton Church OnTuesday, September 24

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’! The regular fall meeting of the Al-bemarle Presbytery will be held inthe Edenton Presbyterian ChurchTuesday, September 24. Approxi-mately 60 ministers and elders areexpected to attend the meeting, com-ing from every section of the Pres-bytery.

The meeting will convene at 10:30o’clock Tuesday morning and lunchwill be served by the women of thechurch.