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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
i Volume X.Number 12.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, March 19, 1943.
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s PERQUIMANS COUNTY HEALTH SERVICE
; BEGINS ACTIVE OPERATION THIS WEEK
Clinic Held Wednesday;
Schedule Pre -School
Clinics
The Perquimans County Unit of
the Public Health Service began full
operations here this week, according
to Dr. D. C. Hackett, County Health
Officer. Complete service was es
tablished in spite of the fact that all
furniture for the local offices has
not yet arrived; but the offices are
complete enough to carry on clinics
and a full health service, Dr. Hackett
stated.
The first clinic conducted under
the1 new service was a venereal dis
ease clinic held Wednesday. Patients
examined and treated were from
those listed at the local draft offices
who had been rejected for military
sendees due to the disease.
Dr. Hackett announced that Miss
Hazel Mathews has been employed to
Serve as secretary for the County
Unit and Miss Audrey Umphlett has
been named as County Health Nurse.
Both of these young ladies have as
sumed their new duties at the local
office.
-, Although, due to rush conditions
and some shortages of materials, the
local office is late in getting into
operation and because of this tardi
ness Dr. Hackett announced that the
State Board of Health has assumed
part of the costs of setting up the
Perquimans Unit. The County and
Town governments signed up for the
Unit some two months ago, and Dr.
Hackett stated that the State Board
as well as himself was sorry that
conditions delayed operations, but
the local office is now complete and
a" full service program has been out
lined.
In connection with this program,
'. pre-school clinics will be conducted
by Dr. Hackett, beginning this week
and continuing through the close of
rchools n this county.
k ATkeBe pre-school clinics will be
conducted for those children who will
. enter the first grade next fall. All
children must be examined and the
; clinic will be conducted at each
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Seven Cases Heard
" By Recorder Judge
At luesday Session
Seven minor cases were disposed
- of in Perquimans Recorder's Court in
, a short session held Tuesday morn
, ing. The case charging A. W. Hof
. fler, Negro, with trespass was.dis
f missed and a verdict of not guilty
, was returned in the case charging
Norris Nixon, Negro, with reckless
- driving.
1 . Judge Charles Johnson sentenced
, Alex McCoy, Negro, to 60 days on
the roads, after finding him guilty of
driving drunk. Sentence was sus-
vended upon payment of a fine of
$50 and costs.
' LeRoy Stokley, Negro, was assess
ed costs of court after pleading guil
ty to being drunk and disorderly.
. William Bateman entered a nlan
L- of guilty to being drunk and disor-
aeny ana was given a 90-day sus
pended road sentence upon the con
dition he be of good behavior for one
year.
Frank Worley was fined $10 and
costs for allowing his car to be
driven without an operator's license.
Louise Ward pleaded guilty to
driving without an operator's li
cense and was taxed $10 and court
ri.COSt8.
Oratorical Contest
To Be Staged Here
Next Tuesday Night
An oratorical contest between
teams representing Edenton and Eli
zabeth City will be conducted at the
Hertford Grammar School next Tues
day night at 8 o'clock.
The contest, sponsored by the
American Legion, will be on an his
torioal subject and will be judged by
members of the Wm. Paul Stallings
Post Inasmuch as a strong: rivalry
exists between the participants, it
was deemed best to ask the Per
quimans Post to provide the judges
for the occasion.
' Tne pnblie is cordially invited to
attend the speaking.
; Rev. E. T.Jilson Holding
Services In Greenville
The Rev. E. T. Jilson, rector of
Holy Trinity Church in Hertford, is
ow conducting services on the sec
ond and fourth Sundays at the Epis
copal : Church . in Greenville. The
' Rev. Mr. Jilson announced this week,
however, that he will bold regular
Easter services at Holy Trinity on
Easter Sunday. . '
Two Bills Affecting
County Passed Final
Week Of Assembly
Two bills, affecting Perquimans
County, were presented and ratified
in the General Assembly during the
final week of the short session com
pleted by that body last week.
The bills ratified pertained to the
salary of the Recorder's Judge and
commissions allowed the Sheriff, or
tax collector for the years "1942-43
and subsequent years. The board of
county commissioners was empower
ed by the bills to set the salary of
the Recorder's Court Judge at not
less than $50 and not more than $75
per month. The commissioners were
also empowered to allow the sheriff
or tax collector a commission of 5
on all taxes collected for the county.
i HIS WEEK'S
HEADLINES
Allied forces in Tunisia are all set
to start the knock-out blow to the
Axis forces in Tunisia. In fact, the
offensive may be started before this
gets into print. Reports from Lon
don on Wednesday stated that Amer
ican and French forces in middle
Tunisia may begin the drive to cut
tne Uerman forces in parts. Rommel
has given up his offensive fight
against the British 8th Army on the
Mareth Line. Allied airmen have
been blasting Nazi shipping into
Tunisia and this may be the telling
blow which will give the Allies all of
Africa.
Reports from EuroDe this week
have stated that Hitler withdrew
many of his best soldiers from West
ern Europe to renew the attack in
Russia. The Germans have retaken
Kharkov in the South, but are still
losing pound to the Red drive
arouna smoiensier Moscow reports
heavy German losses of material in
tne Knarkov battle but it is believed
that both the German and Russian
armies are still intact, ready for
battles.
General MacArthur's airfleet
smashed another Jap convoy this
week. It was reported that eight
Jap ships were headed for Australia,
in what might have been a thurst to
Btop heavy American attacks on Jap
positions. However, American fly
ers located the Jap convoy and sunk
or damaged most of the ships.
Fighting continued this week in
Savoy, in the French Alps section,
between Frenchmen and Vichy militia
and German artillery. The French
men are resiting a Vichy attempt to
recruit them for German labor.
Meanwhile, various French factions
now fighting the Axis seem nearer
to unity. General Giraud has ap
pealed to all Frenchmen to fight for
Allied victory and the Free French,
under General DeGaulle, may join
forces with this North African
French group.
An unofficial report this week an
nounced that the OPA is considering
a 33 per cent increase next month
in the ration points allotted for pur
chase of canned and nha nwwonj
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Toods. This will raise to 64 the nros-
ent 48 point ration. OPA also an
nounced an increase in the allotment
of tires, beginning next month. Hold
ers of B and C gas cards will be
permitted to purchase Grade I and II
tires and the number of these types
will be increased.
Indications are that there will be
no forgiving of the 1942 income tax.
With millions of income tax pay
ments made on March 15. the Wavs
and Means Committee seems set on
voting down any plan calling for
cancellation of any part ,of 1942
taxes.
J. .S. Vick Honored By
Hertford Rotary dub
For outstanding public -service,
rendered in connection with the
building of the observation post for
the Town of Hertford, and serving as
chief officer for the observation post,
J. S. Vick was named as an honorary
member of the Hertford Rotary Club
at a meeting of the club held Tues
day night. K
Mr. Vick, single-handed, construct
ed the observation tower, looted at
the Perquimans River bridgjjp, and
until, his recent illness, served on a
24-hour basis, spotting airplanes for
the Hertford post' His services have
beenoutstanding and have been -noted
by the Army Air Command at
Norfolk, Va.
USDA War Board
Requests Court Take
Action On Vagrants
Points Out Great Need
For More Men to
Work on Farms
In an effort to alleviate the se
rious shortage of labor in this county
the Perquimans USDA War Board
has requested Recorder's Court Judge
Charles E. Johnson to take necessary
steps to enforce the State law on va
grancy, and to see that every able
bodied man, without visible means of
support, is put to some type of de
fense work.
The request to the Judge was
made by the following letter:
"The Perquimans County USDA
War Board in executive session, this
12th day of March, 1943, recognizing
the acute demand for laborers in the
county for essential work in connec
tion with the war effort and knowing
that there are able-bodied, capable
workers in the county without visi
ble means of support who should en
gage in some essential activity,
therefore:
"The Perquimans County USDA
War Board hereby petitions the Hon
orable Court to instruct the officers
of the law to be diligent in the en
forcement of those laws pertaining
to vagrancy in the State of North
Carolina and that the Honorable
Court use such powers at his com
mand to require such persons to be
come regularly engaged in an essen
tial activity of the war effort."
There has been criticism of the
apparent lack of effort on the part
of certain residents of the county to
become engaged in laboring during
this present shortage, and the War
Board hopes by its action to see that
this fact is stamped out to every de
gree. In connection with this effort, the
Perquimans Draft Board has, during
the past several weeks, notified sev
eral, non-workers that they must
either get into work or face induction
into the armed services.
The shortage of labor in this area
is acute, manufacturing plants as
well as farms are suffering from
the condition, and with spring culti
vation facing the farmers, it is neces
sary that they have everv assistance
possible. There is no excuse for any
person being without a job under
present conditions and those who
are unwilling to work should be
forced to do so.
Treasury Announces
13 Billion Dollar
Loan Drive In April
The U. S. Treasury will conduct
its second War Loan Drive during
the month of April, Secretary Mor
genthau announced this week, and
will borrow 13 billion dollars for the
purpose of carrying on the war
effort.
"Eight billion dollars of this to
tal," he said, "will come from non
banking investors and the balance
from banking sources, including the
increased weekly offerings of Treas
ury bills.''
"This monev. needed to back tin nur
armed forces, will be raised through
tne continuing sale of war bonds,
Tax Savings Notes, Treasury bills
and the offering of a number of new
Treasury issues designed for all
classes of investors.
"As we move forward into full
production for the war effort, it is in
creasingly important that
American invest in his Government's
securities to the limit of his or her
ability," the Secretary said.
R. M. Riddick, chairman of the
Perquimans War Savimrs Staff atat.
ed this week a comnleta
will be held in this county to raise
part of this 13 billion dollars, and
investors wishing complete informa
tion on the types of bonds, in addi
tion to the regular war bonds being
offered, can obtain this data from
the Hertford bank.
Navy Examinations
To Be Held April 2
Qualifying tests for students and
recent graduates of high schools who
wish to seek officers' training from
the Navy, Marine Corps or Coast
Guard will be conducted at the Per
quimans Hif'h School on April 2nd.
In last week's i issue of The Weekly
it was announced that the examina
tions would be held on April 12.
This date has been changed to April
2nd, and young men who wish to
take this examination should contact
Superintendent F. T. Johnson for full
particulars.
Fuel Coupons To
Be Renewed By Mail
APO Board Advises
Ration Book II Being
Issued Now at Local
Board Office
In order to save time, gasoline
and tires, the Perquimans County
Ration Board will renew domestic,
institutional and agricultural fuel oil
and kerosene coupon books expiring
March 31, by mail, Miss Helen Cof
field, clerk of the Board, announced
this week. Miss Coffield stated that
forms will be mailed those users
whose books expire on this date and
when these forms are returned to the
local office the coupons will be re
newed. This affects only those cou
pons expiring on the above mentioned
dates.
The local office is now registering
persons for War Ration Book II, and
those who failed to register for this
book during February must now ap
pear at the office, with War Ration
Book I, in order to receive Book II.
Book II is used for the purchases of
canned goods, and beginning next
month for meat and other products.
It has been announced from Wash
ington that rationing of meat, canned
fish and other commodities will be
gin on March 29, although at the
present time the local Ration Board
has not been informed of such moves.
Tire certificates are still being is
sued by the local office, although
the local supply is insufficient to
meet the demands. There is some
prospects that this situation may be
remedied soon as some of the local
tire dealers state that they expect
new supplies soon.
Permits issued last week by the
Board went to the following motor
ists: Truck tires: T. B. Sumner, 2
tires and 4 tubes; E. N. Miller, 2
tires and 2 tubes; G. A. Chappell, 2
tires and 2 tubes; J. T. Wood, 2 tires
and 4 tubes; O. J. Lane, 1 tire; N. C.
iState Highway, 3 tires; S. M. Long,
1 pick-up tire.
Passenger Tires: Grade I Preston
Hall, 1;,J. A. Gentry, 2 tires and 2
tubes; C. S. Kerr, 2 tires and 2 tubes.
Grade II Herbert Nixon, 2 tires and
2 tubes; Clifton Stallings, 1 tire; C.
E. Vick, 2 tires and 1 tube; Ashby
Jordan, 1 tire; Travis White, 2 tires;
L. E. Walker, 2 tires. Grade III
Wm. Johnson, 1 tire; George Skinner,
1 tire; James Lambeth, 1 tire; C. C.
Simons, 1 tire; Sanford Lane, 2 tires;
Forester Felton, 1 tire; Simon Ellis,
1 tire; L. L. Whedbee, 1 tire; T. S.
White, 1 tire; Julius Parsons, 1 tire;
Wm. Hall, 2 tires; William Billups,
2 tires and 2 tubes; Sim Burke, tire
and tube; William Overton, 2 tires
and 2 tubes; Early Goodwin, 2 tires.
Tractor Tires Fred Mathews, tire
and tcl
Purchase Certificates for new auto
mobiles were given to J. Oliver White
and Archie Godwin.
R.M. Riddick Heads
County Committee
To Secure Air Cadets
Following the Navy announcement
of the formation of a new class, V-5,
for procuring aviation cadets from
high school youths of 17, R. M.
Riddick, cashier of the Hertford
Banking Company, has been named
as chairman of the Perquimans Civil
ian Committee which will assist the
Navy in this procurement work.
Mr. Riddick stated that a local
committee will be formed to aid the
Navy, and youths eligible for this
new Naval Class may contact any
member of the committee for aid in
enlisting in the class. Some of the
requirements for enlistment are:
Applicants must be 17 years of age
and must not have reached their 18th
birthday; if in high school they must
graduate by June 30; applicants
must be in the upper one-half of their
class, scholastically. Applicants must
also be recommended by a board
composed of no less than three mem
bers of the school faculty.
Youths who enlist in this class will
be permitted to complete their high
school studies. After they graduate
and reach the age of 18, they will
begin flight training which leads to a
commission as flying officer.
Commissioners Sit
As Review Board
Sitting as a Board of Equalization
and Review, the Perquimans County
Commissioners were in session most
of Monday hearing appeals for lower
valuations on county tax listings.
Few taxpayers 'appeared this year
and the work of the Board was com
pleted early this week.
INCOMPLETE REPORTS SHOW RED CROSS
WAR HIND DRIVE IS LAGGING IN COUNTY
To Present Program
At Grammar School
Friday, March 26th
A patriotic program will be pre
sented at the Hertford Grammar
School Friday night, March 26, un
der the direction of Mrs. B. G.
Koonce, who has selected a cast of
local people to give interesting
sketches of war-time America. The
proceeds of the program will be
contributed to the Red Cross War
Fund drive now in progress.
A feature of the program will be a
presentation of a large American
Flag, donated by the Boy Scout Troop
155, honoring all men from Per
quimans County now in the Armed
Services. The Flag will be flown
from a staff to be erected on the
Courthouse Green.
Small Contingent Of
White Men To Leave
For Camp March 23
War Board Requests
Deferment For Eight;
50 Called In April
One of the smallest contingents of
selectees, within recent months, will
leave Hertford for Fort Bragg to
receive their final physical examina
tion on March 23, Mrs. Ruth Sumner
clerk of the local draft board, stated
this week.
The March 23rd call was for C5
white men, but the local board nas
been able to classify and order for
induction only ten local men. The
board had placed 18 registrants in
Class I -A for the call, but due to the
new regulations, whereby the War
Board may request deferment for
registrants engaged in agriculture,
eight of the men were deferred until
the War Board can investigate their
statjs.
The men ord ved for induction are
e Proctot, William Tarkenton,
William Bateman, Wrightson Jackson
Jasper Winslow, Kyree Copeland,
Leigh Winslow. Jr. fiv wkk tu
Munns and Raymond Rogerson.' The
rigm 1-as deferred included Odell
Baccus, Robert Rnunt
Winslow, Joseph Elliott. Hubert Dail,
an Ltis, W.iliam Trueblood and
Walter tiathews, Jr.
Mrs. Sumner stated that several
men between the ages of 38 and 45
had not received 4-H classification
cards, while others nf tho o,
bracket had. All 4-H classifications
nave Deen cancelled and these cards
will not be issued further. Men thus
classified into Class 4-H will be re
placed into the class they were taken
from . . . that is, if a man of this
age was in Class 3-H, he will be re
placed back into that classification.
The local board has received two
calls to be filled during the month of
April, Mrs. Sumner said. Th r,t
call is for 25 white men to be in- !
ducted on April 5, and the second call
is for 25 Negroes on April 22. With
the large number of registrants listed
here engaged in afirriciilhir. aA
with these men now placed in the es
sential ust, it is hard to say what
percentage of the April calls the local
board will be able to fill.
Hertford Grammar PTA
To Elect New Officers
The Hertford Grammar School
Parent-Teacher Association will hold
an election of officers for next- ve;.r
at its meeting in April. A nominat
ing committee was appointed by the
president, Mrs. Corbin Dozier, at the
meeting held last Thursday night,
and the committee will report at the
meeting next month.
Members of the Association were
presented a program by the Girl
Scout troop, which the P. T. A. spon
sors. The Girl Scouts gave en inter
esting report on work arcomnliiihml
during the past months, and awards
oi mem were given the members of
the troop who had completed the
necessary work to be eligible.
An announcement was made that
members of the P. T. A. wishing to
attend the State P. T. A. meeting
will be granted gasoline privilege
for this purpose, and all members
were urged to attend.
Receives Promotion
Robert Hollowell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. N. Hollowell, has been pro
moted from the rank of ensign to
that of Lieutenant (jg), according
to an announcement received here this
week. Lieut. Hollowell is stationed
at Davis Bay, R. I., and is assigned
to duty as a Supply Corps Officer.
Solicitors Urged to Re
port This Week; $1364
Turned In
Perquimans County's Red Cross
War Fund drive, off to a slow start,
is still lagging, according to Mrs. C.
P. Morris, chairman of the campaign.
Incomplete reports turned over to
Mrs. Morris during the past week
show that a total of thirteen hun
dred, sixty-four dollars and twenty
three cents has been received and is
on deposit. The goal given Perquim
ans is thirty-six hundred dollars.
Mrs. Morris pointed out, however,
that the amount reported is incom
plete, as she has not heard from a
large number of solicitors, known to
have sums to report. The chairman
urges all solicitors to make a com
plete report by this week-end in or
der that the committee may know the
exact figure for the drive here.
The War Fund drive is scheduled to
close on March 31, so only about ten
more days reruain for the county to
raise its quota, and those solicitors
who have not yet canvassed their
territory are urged to get at the
work now in order that Perquimans
may be among the list of those coun
ties reporting 100rc at the close of
the drive.
The chairman has not yet received
reports from the Hertford business
section, Chapanoke, Winfall, Park
ville, Durants Neck and Woodville.
Most of the reports received here
have been good, but even larger con
tributions will have to be made if
Perquimans is to meet its quota.
Reports received by the chairman
up to Monday were: Hertford,
$557.52; Belvidere, $232; Whiteston,
$117; Bethel, $87.75; Wynfork, $63;
Hurdletown, $61.50; Snow Hill,
$43.05; Beech Spring, $33.16; Bagleys
Swamp, $33; White Hat, $32.75;
Ballahack, $43.25; Hopewell, $25, and
Andersons, $21.25.
Mrs. Morris expressed the hope
that Perquimans residents will rally
to this cause during the closing days
of the drive and that the county will
reach its goal. She urges persons
desiring to make contributions not to
wait until asked by a solicitor, but to
contact either she, or S. M. Whedbee
at the Hertford Postoffice, and to
give freely for the Red Cross.
County War Board
To Aid Deferment
Of Farm Laborers
In a move to relieve the shortage
of farm workers, the Perquimans
County USDA War Board has been ,
asked to make requests for defer- A
ment of farm workers to local Selec
tive Service officials, according to
Dr. E. S. White, chairman of the
Board.
Under a new program announced
by Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
and Selective Service Director, Lewis
B. Hershey, County USDA War
Boards have been askc-d to take steps
to place farm workers in deferred
classifications even though the work
er or his employer does not seek de
ferment, the chairman said.
If a local draft board finds a farm
worker is not producing enough war
units to warrant deferment, it must
refer the case to the local war board
and allow 30 days for the worker to
be placed in another job before call
ing him for induction into the armed
forces, it was pointed out. Cases of
farm workers producing ap insuffi
cient number of war units for defer
ment previously have been referred
to the U. S. Employment Service.
"This latest move by the Man
power Commission is designed to
keep as many workers as possible on
farms in order that the nation's food
production goals may be met this
year," Dr. White said. "The memo
randum to draft boards provides that
farm workers are to be retained in
deferred classifications, even though
it means quotas for the armed forces
cannot be met immediately. The
County War Board also has been
given the privilege of appealing from
decisions of local draft boards."
He said draft boards also have
been instructed to classify as farm
deferred, either in Class II-C or III-C,
any man with farming experience
who is now engaged in other work if
he goes back to farming before be
ing called to appear for induction.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Godwin an
nounce the birth of a son, James
Vista, born Wednesday, March 10.
Mother and baby are doing nicely.
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