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Yt'C WEEKLY Volume XVI Number 15. Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina. Friday, April 15, 1949. $1.50 Per Year. 1IZBffiDli.lTiIMlIS-i:IBHiI'-. ATIi:ESISCi:OOLLASTFRiDAYi;:0IT Si? Small Sum ; of Money Taken; Sheriff Is In vestigating ; x i Thieves broke into the office of the principal at Perquimans High School last Friday night and made away with a sum of money reported as amount , ing in the neighborhood of $76, and evidently searching for a larger sum of money, scattered papers and books around the, off ice. 0 Sheriff M. G. Owens is investigating the crime but reported early this week that few clues were left by the person vor persons responsible for the break in. ,-.-;..-According to Sheriff Owens the en try was made into the building i , through a window at the rear of the t - building and a jimmy was used to gain access to the principal's office. Other jimmes were used to break : open several cabinets in the office, ' , one of which contained the mcney tak en. , These funds were kept on hand - '. by the principal for use in the lunch ' , and part of the money belonged to the i Beta Iub of the school The loss was discovered early Sat urday morning by E. C. Woodard . principal of the school who immedi " . ately notified Sheriff Owens. Time of the robbery was believed to have been after the performance of the class play held at the school Friday night. , Money collected as admission to the play, amounting to more than $100 j '. was not left in the building but had fc been in possession of Mr. Woodard V during the night. ; A . A large number of persons attended i the cldss play last Friday night and it ' u ,was reported believed that the entry , , into; the principal office took place v after the pliy. ended arid, the audience '? had left building, inasmuch at the ' , Off ice had-ntrt been bothered -tt-tthe ' - time Mr;: Woodard closed- it and left r the buflding for tha iuWr n ? ' - f A numsr off iner nrints andel PPAt&X Vft? HEheriftOt M 4unngtia7VH'r - " are expected to'- bs, ufceff in eon- ... . wiiunia -vug iifTvigawviiir v - & -. THIS Mors HEADLINES The State Legislature this week showed signs of completing its work in Raleigh when the Speaker of the House appointed a calendar com tnittee to handle all new bills sub mitted to the House. The regular House .committees will wind up ac tions on measures already submitted V but will receive no new bills. Mean' while, dn the State Senate this week a drastic reduction was made in the Appropriations bill., The school pro gram suffered most in this action as the Senate cut more than 20 million dollars ' from "school : appropriations. One group, it was .reported, seeks to ' use 26 millon do'llars of - surplus money for school construction and raise 26 million dollars more through ' a Dona issue,. .. -, , . . . , Rescue workers in California early this week worked frantically to save the Me of a three-year old child who had fallen into an open abandoned well near San Marino. The .public followed the efforts of, , the rescue crews as they dug some 90 feet into the earth to save little Kathy Fiscus but after hours of work , the crews reached the child too late, 'She was found dead at the bottom of the welL .The United States will continue its Marshal Plan aid to Europe for -an other 16 months. Congress this week voted 864 to 48.. to appropriate the sum of $5.8 billions to carry ' out -economic assistance to the nations in Western Europe. Aa attempt by , Republican congressmen to slash the appropriations failed. ,. Musical Program Draws Large Crowd One of the largest crowds to wit ' neas a special event at. Perquimans High School , was present Tuesday bight when members of the Glee Club and Band presented a musipal pro gram.' The auditorium was filled to capacity and those attending were high with praise of the performance. - Demonstrations were given by the first grade majorettes and junior maj orettes which were thoroughly enjoy ed as was the singing by the Glee Club and the music rendered by the Utni. ' . r . The Glee Club was under the direc tion of Mrs. Charles E, Johnson and . Bert Ainsworth s the band instruc tor. Kiss Pat ,i:orri was t'zX PMA Of f icers Get Crop Acreage Data ; The County PMA Committee, W. E. White . and.JIisa, .Helens Nixon, at tended a district PMA meeting in Elizabeth -City last week. Mr. White, PMA secretary, stated that the pur pose of the meeting was tq discuss the assembling of crop acreage data which is to be used in establishing cotton and wheat allotments. Every farmer will have to be contacted in order for the County PMA office to determine the acreage of all crops grown in the years 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947 and 1948. Wheat allotments are to be mailed to producers before June 30 and a wheat referendum held in July. Allotments for cotton will be determined and mailed to. producers by September 30 and a cotton refer endum wdll be held in November or December. Sheriff Arrests Men On Liquor Charges Troy Elliott,) Joseph Elliott and D'Autry Riddick, Negro, were ar rested Tuesday night at about 10:45 in Winfall .by-. Sheriff M. G. Owens on charges of possession and trans porting bootleg whiskey. Sheriff Owens reported Wednesday that while in Winfall Tuesday night summoning a witness -to appear in Superior Court here next week that he walked upon a car and found the three men in the car and also a five gallon jug containing approximately three to four gallons of bootleg li quor. He took possession of the whiskey and -the keys to the car and then placed the men under arrest. He reported that Troy Elliott resist ed ' arrest but that he . brought all three into Hertford to the Court $ i and r had warrants drawn cMnrgif l we" with violations. He ffietf ettgSV. Police- Officer Trot- man:, Miller to vtake charge of ' the prisoners while h returned to Win fall to recover the car. .While the Sheriff was leaving the court house he heard a commotion in the office 'of Clerk of Court W. H. Pitt and re turned to find that Troy Elliott had smashed the jug containing the whis key. ' ' The men will face a hearing in Perquimans Recorder's Court on April 26. Meanwhile they have been released from custody on bond. County Clubs ii Win Attendance Award , Sixty nine club women from Per quimans County attended the annual meeting of the Home Demonstration Clubs held at South Mills on Tuesday April 12. Miss Nina Braswell, Coun ty Home Agent, reported thai the Perquimans Clubs won the gavel for having the largest attendance, in re lation to miles traveled from the county seat, at the meeting. Mrs. J. B. Basnight from Burgess represented Perquimans County by giving the report for the accomplish ment in 1948. Mrs. Pauline S. Al- ford, the District " Agent, praised our leaders for their outstanding work during the months that we were without an agent . Members of Home Demonstration. Clubs in Cam den, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Dare and Perquimans Counties en joyed a well planned program, and a well prepared lunch. Trueblood Rites Peld Tuesday P. M. ' Funeral services for William Ellas Trueblood, 69, who died Sunday after noon at 12:45 at bis Chowan County home, following a . lingering illness, were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the Lynch Funeral Home at 2 o'clock. Mr. Trueblood was the son of the late' George and Maggie -Winslow Trueblood. Besides his wife, Mrs. Lillie Lane Trueblood, he is survived by two sons, Charlie of Perquimans County and George of Chowan Coun ty; three daughters, Mrs. Grace t M. Chappell, Mrs. Maggie B. Nixon and Mrs. Martha1 A. Boyce, all of Chowan County, and J one : brother, Madison Trueblood of Perquimans County. Burial was made : In the family cemetery near Belvldere.., . 1 "!V '-' "J". :. i "I i ' i.t ' i : ' 1 ' , "ri'si ?','.';- . 'BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Meaner of West Chester, Pa., announce the birth of a son, John Thomas, born March 23rd. Mrs. Meeener is the former lfyra Chappelle, of Tyner, N. C. Hertford Lions To Hold (Mer Party AtHarvey Point Outstanding Program Planned; National Of f icers Attending Walter C. Fisher of Queenston, On tario, Canada, who is first vice presi dent of Lions International, will be the guest speaker at the tenth anni versary charter night celebration- of the Hertford Lions Club, which will be held at the Harvey Point Naval Station at 7:30 P. M. tonight Several committees of the Hertford Lions have been working for some time on the many various plans and arrangements for this meeting, and it is believed that the meeting will be one of the largest and most elaborate meetings ever held by Lions in this area. Reservations have been received from Lions all over Eastern North Carolina, and several International Counsellors, including Thomas S. Payne of Washington, Sam. Alford of Henderson, Jesse A. Jones of Kins- ton, James A. Glover of Nashville, Okey J. Allison of Winston-Salem and Norman Trueblood of Elizabeth City, are expecting to be present. Guests of honor n addition to Vice President Fisher and his family, will include International Director and Mrs. Edwad H. McMahan of Brevard, N. C, and District Governor and Mrs. Joe W. Hood of Wilmington, N. C. Most if not all of the District Gov ernor's cabinet, composed of Deputy District Governors Ballard S. Gay of Jackson, Louis K. Day of Rocky Mount, Norman K. Shannonhouse of Elizabeth City, Jimmy Merntt of Kinston and H. B. Barbee of White villetogether with Cabinet Secretary Treasurer Wallace I. West of Wil mington, are also expecting to attend this meeting. Zone chairmen expect ing to attend include W. J. Dunn of Washington, J. A. Lupton of Swan Quarter, Mike Josephsorf of Weldon, W. O. Rosser of Whitakers and Ralph White Hertford. V . , Ten-year charter chevrons will be presented to nine members of the Hertford club. Four tenyear perfect attendance buttons andseveral five year perfect attendance buttons will be presented, along' with two high key awards. The meeting will be called to order by President William D. Cox of Hertford. The invocation will be asked by Lion G. C. Buck and words of welcome will be spoken by Lion Ralph White, both past presi dents of the Hertford club. The re sponse to the welcome will be given by Lion William S. Privott, who was president of the Eden ton Lions Club when the Hertford Club was organiz ed under the sponsorship of the 'Eden ton club. The District Governor and his cabinet will be introduced by Deputy District Governor Norman Shannonhouse, a past president of the Elizabeth City Lions Club, which was sponsored by the Hertford club Director' McMahan and. Vice Presi dent Fisher will be introduced by Dis trict Governor Hood. Special music will be rendered by a quartet from Belvidere, and special entertainment will be provided by Lioness Deanie Phillips, accompanied by Lion W. L. "Strut" Waldorf, of Elizabeth City. Dinner will be prepared and served by the Woman's Missionary Society of Bethel Baptist Church. Interna tional Counsellor Norman Trueblood will act as toastm aster. ; Prizes ; will be presented to all ladies attending and a dance will fol low the dinner meeting with music (Continued on Page Seven) Perpnos Nine Divide Basefell Games This Week Jamesville Is Trounced After 'Loss to Gates ville Monday Perquimans High School's baseball team bounced back into the victory column Tuesday afternoon by trounc ing -the Jamesville nine, in an Albe marle conference game, after being licked by a strong Gatesville team Monday afternoon. The score of the game at Jamesville was 19-1 in favor of the Indians. Vance Bright did the pitching for the Indians and held the Jamesville boys to three hits. It was a field day at the ba,t for the Indians and practically each one of the local players hit safely and scored runs. Gatesville surprised the Indians dn a seven inning contest which was played on Memorial Field here Mon day afternoon. While the Indians outhit the Gates county boys, errors were costly and the visiting team won a o-.i decision, karl Rogerson started on the mound for the local nine an'd struck out five men, walked five and allowed five hits, before he was relieved in the sixth inning by Billy Winslow. The latter struck out two men and allowed one hit. Hill was the Gatesville pitcher and he allowed seven hits and walked two players. Leading hitters for the Indians were Earl Winslow with two for two, Edward Lane, two hits out of four trips to the plate and Howard Pitt who hit one for three. Lane got a triple and both Winslow and Pitt slugged out doubles. To date the Indians have beaten Washington, Columbia and James ville, the latter two teams being Al bemarle conference opponents, and lost to Gatesville. The next game on the Indians' schedule is with Elizabeth City, the game to he played in Hertford on Memorial Field on Wednesday night, April 20. This will be the first night game of the season and a large crowd of baseball fans are expected to turn out for the contest.' BPW; Club To Hold Dinner Meeting Members, of the Perquimans Busi ness and Professional Woman's Club will hold a dinner meeting at the Ho tel Hertford Friday night, April 22, at 6:30 o'clock. : All mnmtani ant reouested to no tify Mrs. Ethel Perry, supper chair man, not later than April 20. It is important that ; Mrs. Sally Bonner, vrocrram. chairman, know who will be present as special plans are being made, to observe the first anniversary of the club. ' Central PTA Meeting Set For April 25th Tha Kxniini. Tnoptino- of the Central Parent-Teacher Association,; schedul ed for next Monday , night, will be held on Monday, April 25, at 8 oVIock at ths f school in . Wmfall,,? Junes Snipes, , principal ol the school, an nounced today, ' The change in the meeting" night, Mr. Snipes said, was dua to the Easter holiday -foing ob served by ths school on next Mon day. District Meeting Of VSCS April 21 The annual district meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Ser- Ivice will be held at the Hertford Methodist Church, Thursday, April 21 from in a. m to 3 d. m.. it was an nounced today by Mrs. E. R. Meekins, president The four points of advance will be triven bv Mrs. Georsre Jackson, sec retary of the Elizabeth City district Mrs. J. H. Cutcmns, president or the N. C. Conference of WSCS. Mrs. H. I. Glass, vice president of the N. C. Conference and Mrs. D. t. routs, Southeastern Jurisdictional secretary. Mix Rillincslv. of the Divisional office of New York will be the prin cipal speaker on youth work. All women of the district are unr cA in Attend. Lunch will be served at the church, according to Mrs. Meekms. TOWN BOARD RESCINDS VOTE TO HALT ELECTION ON ABC ISSUE; ENDORSES BILL Health Department Conducting Clinics The District Health Department be gan a series of pre-scnool clinics throughout 'Perquimans County on Tuesday of this week and will con tinue the clinics through Thursday, April 28, it was announced by Miss Audrey Umphlett, County Nurse. All four doctors in the county are cooperating with the Health Depart ment in conducting the clinics and parents are urged to bring children to the clinic nearest their home. Clinics were conducted at Hertford Grammar School on Tuesday and at Central Grammar School yesterday. The schedule for next week calls for clinics at three Negro schools in' the county. On Tuesday, April 19, the- clinic will operate at Hertford High School; Thursday, April 21, at Perquimans Training School in Win fall, and on Thursday, April 28, at Galatia School. The clinic at the Hertford High School wil lopen at 10 Hertford High School will open at 10 start at 9 A. M. Six Cases Heard By Recorder's Court Six cases were disposed of in Per quimans Recorder's Court here last Tuesday morning. Costs of court, were taxed against C. R. Phelps, who entered a plea of guilty to driving without a license. Don Lutz entered a plea of guilty to charges of speeding and paid a fine of $10 and costs. A fine of $15 and costs was taxed against William Ward, charged with speeding.'.'- Odell Murray and Frank Chamblee, charged' with fishing without a li cense, entered pleas of guilty and paid the costs of court Court costs'- were taxed against Gladys Cooper, Negro, in the case charging Fleet Cooper, Negro, with assault. ' Western Union To Resume Full Service Henry Clay Sullivan, acting agent for the Western Union Telegraph Company in Hertford, reported this week that he has been advised by a representative of that company that full Western Union services are to be resumed in Hertford just as soon as the company can arrange for instal lation of a teleprint machine here. The service was curtailed several weeks ago when Western Union was requested to remove its facilities from the station of the Norfolk Southern Railroad, and were advised that the railroad would no longer serve as agent here. Western Union then secured Mr. Sullivan to act as temporary agent until full arrangements could be made regarding the service. At first, the company planned to use only a telephone system in this community and all messages would have been sent to and from Elizabeth City by telephone. Protests made to the Western Union by business men and indivi duals of Hertford won a review of the situation by Western Union which then announced that the complete ser vice will be restored as soon as all arrangements can be completed. VFY Post Installed Officers Monday Members of the Garland H. Onley Post of the VFW conducted installa tion services of the Post's new offi cers at a meeting held at the VFW hall last Monday night. Henry Stokes, Jr.. was installed as commander of the Post, and other officers installed were Broughton T. Dail, senior vice commander; Doward Jones, junior vice commander, and Otis White, quartermaster. Appointive officers of the Post will be named by Commander Stokes at a meeting in the near future. During the business session, fol lowing the installation services, plans were made by the Poet hold a dance at the club room on Saturday night, April 23,. the proceeds from which will be donated to the Perquimans County Baseball Club. Tickets for the dance will be placed on sale this week-end. Action Taken In Special Meeting Wednesday; Petition Presented to Board Final Report Made On Red Cross Drive Perquimans County oversubscribed its 1949 American Red Cross roll call quota by several hundreds of dollars, it was reported this week by C. K. Vann, chairman of the campaign. A Members of Hertford's Town Board, meeting in special session here Wed nesday morning, voted to reconsider action taken at a regular meeting last Monday night, at which time the Board voted to withdraw a bill be fore the General Assembly granting permission to hold an ABC election in the Town of Hertford. At the special session the Board unanimously passed a motion to re consider a vote taken at its regular meeting Monday whereby the Board rescinded action endorsing a bill in the General Assembly providing for an election for an AliC store in Hertford. A second part of the mo tion pointed out that the Board had in its possession a petition signed by voters of the Town of Hertford rep resenting more than 25 per cent of the number of votes cast in the last municipal election. This action taken by the Board in special session leaves the ABC issue as it stood prior to the regular meet ing of the Board Monday night, and Representative E. Leigh Winslow was advised of the action by the Board and requested to replace the measure before the Legislature. The bill, if passed by the Legislature, will grant the voters of the Town permission to hold an election to determine the is sue. Opposition to the proposed election was presented to the Board Monday night. A special hearing was con ducted in the Court House, at which time a number of residents of the town, spoke against establishment of an ABC store here. The Rev. C. W. Duling, pastor of the Baptist Church, was the first speaker and he told the Board that the delegation had ap peared after hearing reports that the Board intended to call for an election. He stated that the people were op posed to the establishment of a store, and also that people who wanted whiskey could get it. He added that only a. few people had asked that a store be- established in Hertford. -- The Rev. D. L. Fouts then spoke in opposition to the proposal. He said he believed it was unwise to take this move and that he would hate to see Hertford do this sort of thing for moral reasons. He said that it would cause more harm than good. About 125 to 150 persons were present during ' the meeting, about one-third of the number being resi dents of the county. Other persons who spoke in opposition were Mrs. R. M. Riddick, the Rev. E. B. Edwards, Mrs. . Oscar Hunter, Mrs. B. W. Pen nington and Tim Brinn. The Rev. Mr. Duling then spoke again and made the request that the Board reconsider the action it had taken and withdraw the bill from the Legislature. At this point the hearing was clos ed and members of the Board re turned to the Town office to handle its regular business meeting. The Rev. Mr. Fouts and the Rev. Mr. Duling reappeared before the Board which was discussing the re ( Continued on Page Ten) -t.-v: Rotarians Plan For District Convention A number of Hertford Rotarians made plans at a meeting of the club Tuesday night: to attend an annual conference of : the 189th District whkh Is scheduled to be held at Nags Head .May: .1,-2 and A A fine pro gram has been arranged for the con vention and several headline speakers have been secured to take part in the activities. ' . ' v'. Robert Hollowell is to represent the Hertford club as delegate, with James Landlords Urged To Cooperate On Rent Control Propm Landlords of Perquimans County are being urged by public officials to be cooperative and moderate in in creasing rents on housing units, un der the de-control plan established by the Federal Housing Officer. Thus far no reports or complaints have been made regarding exorbitant increases in local units. Some ten ants have reported notices of in creases but in the main rental units are being leased under a fair ceilinsr. total of $1,500.58 was collected byl. Inasmuch as the rent ceilinn hi tne solicitors ana turned over to une rerquimans vounty were decontrolled local Red Cross chapter. The quota assigned the county, ac cording to Mr. Vann was $1,019. In making this final report on the drive Mr. "Vann expressed his ap preciation for the splendid support given by the public and the effort extended by. individual solicitors who donated their time and effort to bring the campaign to a successful close. W. M. S. TO MEET The Woman's ' Missionary Society of the Baptist Church will meet Mon day evening, April 18, at 8 o'clock at the church. All members are urged to' attend. - by the Federal Housing Officer, the control can be returned by the of ficial. This action, local officials be lieve, will be forthcoming if rent ceilings here get out of line and rents rise too far and too fast. Most local public officials believe that all landlords are entitled to fair return from rental units but feel that with conditions being what they are, landlords should refrain from taking unfair advantage of tenants. They believe that such action will bring control back into this county and it is their desire that the situation re main decontrolled with landlords co operating . with tenants la sstabtlslK. ing fair prices. . .iVv.'.-.h ? H:f-