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... -Jf."' V? jr ' ' xitl 'li-t'f f&k, EKLY 1" 1 A' WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TfctE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY Volume XIILNumber 14. Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, April 12, 1946. $1.50 Per Year. r. ' ' yy IMS wjKi J if April Term Pcrqulmcns Superior Court Opens Monday; Docket Lists 33 Cases v Judge C. E. Thompson To Preside; Session Expected All Week The April term of Superior Court will convene in Perquimans County next Monday morning, (April 16, with Judge C E. Thompson; Vesfting, ac cording to W. H. Pitt, clerk of the court. The docket released today by Mr. Pitt shows 38 cases listed for trial. Sixteen of these make up the crimi nal docket while 22 are listed as civil actions. There is some prospect that the criminal docket may be complet ed quickly but the civil suits, expec ted to be tried, will consume consider able time. i Among the cases toJbe tried during the criminal session are those of Sid ney Goodwin, who is charged with kidnapping. John Grant and Lawrence iCayton will be given hearings on charges of robbery. .Marie Bowen, Isaac Johnson and George Ferebee, Negroes, will be tried on two counts each, breaking and entering and larceny. This trio w'as apprehended by local police last Week after they had broken into the J. C. Blanc hird store. Johnson and the Bowen woman have confessed to tfcfeir part in the crime. The civil docket for this term of court is larger than usual due to the fttt that the January term of court wis suddenly adjourned when news of this death of the lister of the presid ing judge was received hire. , 3e jurors who will serve at this term of court are: Milton Dail. Sr.. Vtkrd Hunter, Joseph A. Winslow, Al vin Winslow, Vivian Matthews, John . P. Part?. Nathen Sawyer. , ; yf.i-MK sawyer, rvimant , t'illie Lamb. W. I Wood. w, s. M. Long, Pweton Layden.John T Lane, Jr.- William Nixon, Charje Kiddie lBwy,' RoNxtJ- rell, John tassiter, Arthur Pierce, W. P. Lane, E. Q. White and E. D. Mat hews. HIS WEEK'S HEADLINES Iran has requested the Security Council of the United Nations to re tain the question involving that na tion with Russia on the agenda of the meeting now being held at Hun ter College in New York. Russia has proposed that the matter be dropped by the council, since, Russia claims, the matter has been worked out by the respective governments. The Uni ted States and Great Britain are ex. pected to 'side with Iran and work toward the UN solving the problem. The House Military committee this week approved legislation extending the Selective Service law for a period of nine months, however, under the terms of the extension of the law, which was due to expire, May 15, fa BOyce. 8 uopeiana, Cbbelend i lintt. Alnhnnrffi DhUj Tj P. BwirttL: JE. I WWJ? The8e con ' then and essential farm workers will Dot be inducted into the army. This action is expected to aid the Army's " present enlistment campaign to main lain the of the army at slight ly- Jqre than one million men by July. Action is also being sought in Congress for raising the base pay of members of the armed forces in order to increase the number of en listments for definite periods. Loretta Brozak, charged jvith kid napping little Terry Taylor, niece of Henry Clay Sullivan, from her Char- lotto home, several weeks ago, won several months reprieve from prose cution in North Carolina? when fcer lawyer succeeded in tying -up jfextra Authorities believe the girt ot face trial on the charges before June. 'A new plan for the unification of ' the armed forces of th United States was "revealed in Washington this -week However, the new plan calls , not only iot the grouping under one leadership of the army, navy and air ' force; but alt forces dealing with the defense of the nation. Under the! plan a single department would be created for common defense and the armed ' forces would be under the direction ft Eeconversion continues to be held up because of strikes. ' Reports this week;i IndMliilhtti; : Hmt CrvanusMnk may take some action in relieving the conditions brought on by the coal :str' V-f " " ; 'r-"ft:y' bo'.,t tuJ c. - a.l tte union tluit e-h vj ,.'. "Jsj v in the "effort- to Rotary Club Elects New Directors Tuesday Members of the Hertford Rotary Club elected directors for the new I club year, at a meeting held Tuesday night. The new directors are Dr. A. B. Bonner, W. H. Hardcastle, Max Campbell, W. F. Ainsley, R. C. Mur ray and Henry C. Sullivan. Officers of the club will be chosen from the board of directors at the meeting next week. A large number of members of the local club are making plans to attend the International convention to be held at Atlantic City, N. J., the early part of June. Dr. Mixon To Preach Convention Sermon At Elizabeth City The sermon of the annual Regional Training Union Convention for Chow an and west Chowan Associations is to be preached by Dr. F. Orion Mixon, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Raleigh. Dr. Mixon will be remem bered as the N. C. State Chairman of the Crusade for Christ in 1945 and is one of the most outstanding minis ters in the state. His subject is "Christ Above All In Our Hearts." Dr. Mixon will deliver his message during the Saturday morning session of the convention which meets with Blackwell Memorial Church in Eliza beth City APri 26-27. The con vention eoWprfBes four sessions, be ginning at 2;6S Friday afternoon and extending through Friday night, Sat urday morning and Saturday after noon. Training Union Members and Workers w Interested to learn the lon. These fereaces will be led by outstanding workers in the region. The conference for ages 9 to 13 will .be led by Miss Josephine Hair, Educational Director of the First Baptist Church of Ahoskie while Mrs. John Senterfitt, .Young People's Leader of Edenton Baptist Church, will lead the conference for ages 14 to 25; and Rev. J. B. Folds, pastor of the Aulander Baptist Church will lead the conference for Adults, Pastors and General Officers. These conferences under such able leadership are designed to be very helpful in every day living. An other series of conferences dealing with the methods and practical side of the training union work is sched uled for Saturday morning. For the first time in the history of the convention a Hymn Festival has been scheduled for the Saturday af ternoon session of the convention. The purpose of the festival is to cultivate a deeper appreciation, proper inter pretation and rendition of the gospel hymns. It is to encourage a more ac tive participation in the singing of the gospel hymns. Vocal groups from various churches of the region will demonstrate good use of hymns and will be judged by competent judges. Because of war conditions and reg ulations it was not possible to hold the convention last year and for this reason training union members, work ers and friends are looking forward to the renewal, of the convention in Elizabeth City at the Blackwell Mem orial Baptist Church on April 26-27. The public is cordially invited to at tend any and all sessions of the con vention which will be both interesting and helpful. Mrs. F. N. Mansfield Injured In Accident Mrs. Freeman Mansfield, wife of P, N. Mansfield of Route 1, Hertford, received a broken arm and suffered other serious Injuries tn 8h aufomo o'clock Sunday night on the Center Hill road, near the Chowan County line..1' v.'.' Mrs. Mansfield, with otter mem bers of her family was 4 returning home, after a trip to, Wilmington, and had stopped, at the point f the ac cident to meet her husband. -As. she started across the road a car driven by Earl Rlddick struck the Mansfield truck, which in turn hit Mrs. Mans field. She was knocked down and un conscious at the time. V H Reports from Albemarle ' Hospital, where-she was taken following the accident, says she is dojng'as well as could be expected. '-''!' "birth announcement Mr. and Mrs: D. D. Fullef 'announce the birth of a eon,' David r-wd, born April 7th at Watts HospiUJ Durham. Mrs. Fuller is the former Kiss Pa tricia r'hens. . ,-, ' " Representatives Of Eight Counties At HOC Meeting Thurs. All Day Session Held at High School; Local Clubs Hosts Representatives and members of Home Demonstration Clubs from eight Northeastern Counties, repre senting the sixteenth District Federa tion, held their annual Federation meeting at the Perquimans Coun ty High School Thursday. This all day session opened at 10::t() o'clock with prayer by the Iiev. C. W. Duling. Mrs. George Jackson, representing the Perquimans Clubs, welcomed the visitors and Mayor V. N. Harden wel comed the proup to the Town of Hert ford. Greetings to the club members were issued by Mrs. A. W. Pierce, president of the State Federation of Home De monstration Clubs. Following a brief business session, a quartet, Mrs. Fred Mathews, Mrs. Howard Mathews, L. W. Anderson and C. W. Overman, rendered a selection of songs. This was followed by reports from the var ious county clubs. Reports were heard from Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquo tank, Camden, Currituck, Hertford, Gates and Dare. Following announcements made by committee groups luncheon was serv ed by members of the Perquimans County club. During the afternoon session which began at 2 o'clock, reports were made by committee groups, followed by a report of Jane S. McKimmon Educa tional Loan Fund, given by Mrs. By ron Sawyer of the Pasquotank Club. The principal address of the meet ing was delivered by Hon. Thomas J. Pearsall, widely known farmer and representative of Nash County. The theme of Mr. Pearsall's talk was on the work being carried out by the Home Demonstration Clubs of this District and State. The speaker was introduced by Miss Pauline Smith, Northeastern District Agent. .. Installation of officers for the Dis trict followed the speech by Mr. Pear sail. Mrs. T. M. Griffin served as a mem ber of the Resolution Committee and Mrs. E. M. Perry was a member of the Gavel Committee. 4-H girls of Perquimans County served as regis tration assistants, ushers and pages for the meeting. Athletic Committee Lays Plans To Finish H. S. Memorial Field Plans fox completion of the Perqui mans Memorial Athletic field were discussed at a meeting Monday night of the committee handling this pro ject. It was disclosed that $1500 was needed to complete the field accord ing to plans originally made by the group, and members of the commit tee agreed to make a canvass of the county for contributions to raise this sum. The money to be raised will be used in the construction of a grand stand for baseball spectators, a bath house for players, and other minor work which remains to be done to the field. , Volunteers, among the group which met Monday, assumed the responsi bility of raising $950, leaving $550 to be assumed by other committee mem bers but it was pointed out that since this project is a county affair, all residents are urged to take a hand and contribute a portion of the amount needed to complete the field. The committee plans starting im mediately on the task of raising the money-and persons contacted are ask ed jto give what they can to help com plete' the job in order that the field can be dedicated as a living memorial to the youth of this county Who ser ved ill World War II. CentralPTAToMeet Monday Night At 7:30 The Parent-Teachers Association of the Central Grammar School will pre sent a mock wedding, Oh Promise Me, Willie, at its meeting- next Monday night, April 15. The meeting will start at 7:30 o'clock., Rev. Claud Bullock win make a short talk on Together toward a Bet ter, World Understanding. Others list ed on the program are Mrs. F. C. White, Norma Winslow and Mrs. E. S. White. " , ' The public is invited to attend. , i BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT , Mr. and Mrs. A! Hendley announce the birth Tf a son born Saturday, April 6th ir Charlotte. Mother and son are ".:' j along mceiy. . Quiet Democratic Primary In County Expected This Year Seven Candidates Have Filed; Two Days Re main For Filing Indications are today that the Dem ocratic primary to be held May 25 wifl offer no hotly contested races for office. With only two days remaining for candidates to file with the chair man of the board of elections, several offices remain without candidates. A .W. Hefren, chairman of the elec tion hoard, stated that only six candi dates have filed their intentions of seeking office. These are K. Leigh Winslow, for representative, M. G. Owens, for sheriff, Dr. C. A. Daven port for coroner, Max Campbell, for treasurer, H. T. lirinn, for commis sioner I: ; ; ... . nship, .iiv! -t-rol! V:;k- i-n-.l .MiI'.mi A. Whin- t'-r the boa- (I of .1 ' i. Other in-, iiiohi .il count;, officials whose terms piiv this year, are expected to offr for renomination be fore the filini; deadline at six o'clock Saturday, April 1.'5. These offices in clude those of the four other coun ty commissioners, and the clerk of court. Despite the lack of contests for local offices there is a three way race for the State Senate, with Charles H. Jenkins, of Ahoskie, Lorimer Mid gett and Phil Sawyer, both of Eliza beth City, seeking the two scats at stake. Little interest has been shown thus far in the contest for the seat in Con gress for the First District between Herbert C. Bonner and Dr. Robert L. Humber, however, this race is expect ed to pick up some before primary day. 'Mr. Hefren announced today that the board of elections will meet next week for the purpose of naming reg istrars and judges for the primary, and ihat the officials would be ins tructed as to their duties regarding! the"ilection, Indians Split Games With Central Hi And Elizabeth City Nine l'erquimans High School's baseball team won its opening game from Central High School by a one-sided score, 14-4, last Friday nipht, then lost a tough battle to the Klizabeth City High School on Tuesday after noon. The score was 6-1. Paul Smith, pitching both games for the Indians turned in an excellent record for the two trips to the mound. He struck out nine Centrr.l batters, in five innings, and then against Eliza beth City he struck nut nine during the nine inning tilt. Against Central he allowed two hits and against Eliz abeth City four. The entire Indians team played well in both games, however, in the scrape with Elizabeth City errors proved costly to the local boys, and some bad base running cost the Indians the game. Twice the Indians had the bases loaded and both times two of the Indians were found on the same base and were tagged out to retire to the side. George Wood, veteran catcher for the Indians, played well in both games as did Chester and Earl Win slow and Josiah, Smith, who was hold ing down second base. L. E. Elliott, trying out for the team for the first year, has been playing well at first base. Ward, Lane, Hollowell and Webb have shown up well in the outfield. Against Central the Indians scored in every inning of the game with the exception of the fourth. They tallied four runs in the first, five in the sec ond and one jfn the third and two in the fifth and sixth. At Elizabeth City the Yellow Jack ets scored twice in the third, then the Indians pushed in a run in the sixth. Elizabeth City came back to score two more in this inning and two again in the eighth. Two County Students In College Festival Two Perquimans County students at Louisburg College will take part in tiw college's annual May Day Fes tival, according to announcement made this week. Ida Lee White, daughter of Mrs. L. S. White, senior at the college, was recently chosen by the student body as an attendant for the May Court, and Dorothy White; daughter of Mr. and Mrs, C. D. White has been chosen to terre on the publicity -committee for the May Day Festival. The event will take place May 4. - " Telephone Patrons Register Complaints With Officials At Meeting Monday flight Baseball Meeting At Edenton Tonight Baseball representatives from Hertford, Elizabeth City, Edenton, Ahoskie, and other nearby towns, in terested in the formation of a base ball league for this section of the State, will meet at the Courthouse in Edenton Friday night for the pur pose of working out plans regarding a league. A. W. Hefren of Hertford is serv ing as temporary chairman of the group and he will preside at the I meeting tonight. Just what action will be taken at the meeting tonight is still unknown, several of the towns represented, it is reported, favor placing an all-paid team in the field while other commun ities desire the league to he formed of local talent players. Indications are, however, that Hertford will have a semi-pro team this summer if plans for a league do not materialize. Town Of Hertford To Withdraw Aid To Health Department Members of the board of commis sioners for the Town of Hertford, meeting on Monday night, authorized W. G. Newby, Town Clerk, to notify the Secretary of the State Board of Health that the Town was withdraw ing its financial support to the Pasquotank-Perquimans-Camden District Health Department effective June 30. During the past three years, while the Perquimans Health Department has been in operation the Town of Hertford has paid twenty five per cent of the costs assessed against Per quimans County for its portion of the 'costs of the district -health depart, ment. The action taken by the Town Board has been under consideration by the members for some time and was fin ally acted upon in order to give the State Department sufficient notice in advance prior to the setting up of a budget for the next fiscal year. One of the reasons, given by the board, for the action, it was pointed out was the fact that since the Health Department is operated through a tax levy, and the people of the Town of Hertford are assessed a proportional part for the County's payment for this operation that the citizens of the Town should be relieved of the addi tional burden of having to pay twice for the maintenance of the depart ment. In addition to the action taken re garding the Health Department the board handled the usual financial matters and other routine business before adjourning the meeting over to hearing complaints registered by telephone patrons of the town. Treasury Agents Get Still And Sugar Treasury agents, operating out of Elizabeth City, captured a 200 gallon copper pot still, 400 gallons of mash and 400 pounds of sugar in a raid conducted last Saturday morning in the Belvidere section. Along with the above the officers conducting the raid took possession of a mare mule used by one of the two youths arrested at the site. According to the officers, the dis tillers had recently operated their outfit with an oil stove, which had been discarded for a wood furnace when the stove wore out. Hearings were held before Thomas Markham, U. S. Commissioner, for Wayland White, Jr., and Daniel Hur dle, who were charged with operating the still. Both were placed under bond pending hearing in federal court. Four Cases Tried In Recorder's Court Four cases were disposed of by the Perquimans Recorder's Court here in a short session Tuesday morning. Ro bert and Mary Williams, Negroes, paid the costs of court after plead ing! guilty to charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Will Sawyer, Negro, was fined $10 and ordered to pay the court costs on a plea of guilty to a charge of speed ing. Edward Harvey, Negro, was assess ed with the court costs on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, Levy Revells, Negro, pleaded guil ty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly. He paid the costs of court Phone Official States Service Conditions Is Unknown to Office Dis-satisfaction over the telephone service being received by phone cus tomers in the Town of Hertford rea ched a climax here Monday when a large number of the customers ga thered at the meeting of the Board of Town Commissioners to voice com plaints to representatives of the phone company. The utility officials came to Hertford at the request of the Town Board, whose members have been receiving complaints for weeks. The chief complaint registered by customers was the one dealing with a long delay in hearing the dial tone when customers sought to use their phones. Another one was the trouble customers have in reaching long dis tance operators at Elizabeth City and Edenton. Harry Dewey, manager of the telephone company stated that his office was unaware of the dissat isfaction over the local service and that complaints called into the office had not been received by him or the official handling complaints. Mr. Dewey denied that the local dial system is not equipped with suf ficient mechanical gadgets to handle the traffic of the local office. He sta ted that his company had just recent ly employed an expert to check the local exchange and a report made by this expert disclosed sufficient equip ment to handle local traffic. The com pany official stated that the number of calls placed each day through the local system varied with a peak load being about 2800 calls, in recent weeks, while during the time the Har vey Point Naval Base was in opera tion between five and six thousand calls a day were handled. Despite his report that the local dial system is so equipped to handle an calls placed here without delay, Mr. Dewey was unable to state why any such delays, as has occurred, should happen. He did state that the number of calls that could be made at one time over tire local system was 26. Twenty local calls could be made and five long distance calls. Regarding the trouble experienced by customers in getting better ser vice between Hertford and Edenton, Mr. Dewey stated another circuit is being installed between the two points which should make for quicker service. Legion Auxiliary Holds First Meeting The American Legion Auxiliary of the Win. Paul Stallings Post held its first regular meeting last Friday night at the Agriculture Building in Hertford. The meeting was presided over by the President, Mrs. Mary ('. Brinn. Opening prayer was given by the chaplain, Mrs. Kula M. Cranford. After the roll call and minutes were read a treasurer's report was made by Mrs. Thelma Hollowell and the membership report was given by Ru by B. White. Various committees were appointed by the president and Pop py Day sales were discussed. The Auxiliary voted that all Gold Star mothers would be accepted as honor members with dues paid by the Auxiliary. The members decided to limit all meetings to one hour's duration, and mention was made of the District meeting that would be held in Wash ington, N. C, on April 18, and all members were urged to attend. Four Vets Discharged, Four To Take Exams Four more Perquimans County Vet erans reported at the local draft of fice during the past week and filed their discharge papers with the local board, Mrs. Ruth Sumner, clerk of the board, stated Monday. The veter ans who reported this week were Os car Jones, Jack Kanoy, and Carl Lew is White, and Wained Hurdle, colored. Mrs. Sumner announced that two selectees will leave Hertford next Monday for Fort Bragg to undergo preinduction examinations. The two who have been ordered to report are Gale Winslow, Herbert Lane. On April 17 Norman Godfrey and Bar ney Higgins will leave for induction into the army. DISCHARGED FROM SERVICE Harry Overton who has just return ed from the Pacific Area has received an honorable discharge from the ser vice. ACCEPTS POSITION Francis Nixon, recently discharged from the U. S. Army, has returned to his position at the Towe-Webb Motor Company. ' - V V v ' T ' 1 1 'A - I
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