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ME :PE-'RQUMANS WEEKLY
i Volume XXL-Number 29.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, July 16, 1954.
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Forlndos;
Team
Loses Tot City
' Rocky Hock And Eden
: ton Play Here Next
Tuesday and Wed.
The Perquimans Indians had a new
, manager this week when Ike Perry,
. high school coach, succeeded Ab Wil
' ; liams as team director for the Albe
. marie League entry. Williams noti
' v fied the team directors last week he
' I wished to be relieved of the duties as
manager ana rerry accepted me post
for the balance of the season. .Wil
liams will continue as a player for the
Indians. i
Perquimans dropped a close decision
to Elizabeth City on Monday night by
a 4-2 count The Colerain game of I
last Friday night was rained out !
Th A Jndiana ohrarad mtiMi ImnvnVA.
i ment in the Elizabeth City game, and
. secured a two-run lead m the fifth
' ' when Carver and Morris scored on hits
jby ' Carver, Winslow, Morris and
1 Chrlstgau. Elizabeth City tallied one
f' run in the seventh and got three more
In the eighth.
Perquimans collected 10 hits, Vem
' on White 2, Billy Winslow 2, Carver
;2, and Chappell, Chrlstgau, J. Towe
. and C. Towe, one each. Elizabeth
; rCity tallied seven bits off White, who
pitched for the Indians.
,i The Indians bounced back on Wed
. nesday night to take a win from
Rocky Hock by a score of 5 to 4. Per--;
quimans had a big first inning, scor,
- ing four runs on four hits. Morris,
Christgau, Matthews and Stallings hit
safeties accounting for the scoring.
.,; Next week's schedule calls for the
'; Indians to play in Colerain on Mon
' ' day night; they will play Edenton here
vi on .Tuesday night and Rocky Hock
here 6n Wednesday night Friday
- : night the team will travel to Eliza-
beth City. , .'
THISOTS
Secretary of State Dulles flew to
Paris this week for a conference with
British and French officials concern
is ing a division of Indochina, and a pos
sible truce in the fighting there. A
report stated the western officials
jp were near accord on a settlement but
f Dulles was quoted as saying he was
J thinking in terms of collective securi
ty for Southeast Asia.
I Following a speech by Prime Minis
(tre Churchill,, before Parliament, this
j week, it appears there will be no
strenuous effort to seat Red China in
.'the United Nations this year. Sir
Winston,' it was reported, said he be
lieved the time, was not yet here for
voting Communist China into the or
ganization. The U. S. is completely
opposed to the proposal, and there is
much 'discussion of the subject in the
capitals of the world.
'' From Raleigh Wednesday, it was re
ported the State Highway Patrol has
.purchased additional "whammies" to
- be used on the highways to eon trol
speeding. The announcement stated
the Patrol is highly pleased at the re
sults secured through the use of the
number of whammies now in operation
and have ordered 30 more of 'the ma
rchines. A ;
' Governors of the States, meeting
f-hia vroolr of Rnlfmv T.nnHinr 'M V..
have called for a reduction on somei30- wishes to uuuik an ine oDser -
. federal, grant-in-aids, and a lessening
iof federal taxation. " The Governors
were divided over President Eisenhow
er's plan for a gigantic road pro
! gram and agreed a conference was
.needed to iron out the plans for the
program. .
Three prisoners, awaiting trial in
. 'Chowan County, escaped from jail in
.Edenton sometime Monday night by
sawing through the bars of their cell.
Two of the three men were recaptured
Tuesday evening and oficera are con
tinuing a search for the third escapee.
Sullivan Names
Rotary Chairmen
,', Chairman for the four major com
mittees of the Hertford Rotary Club
were appointed by Henry C. Sullivan
at a meeting of the club held Tuesday
night at the Hotel Hertford. "
A. W. Hefren, vice president of thei
club, was named to head the Club
Service Committee, Robert L. Hollo-,
well will serve as chairman of the Vo
cational Service Committee; Dr. A. B.
Bonner will head the Community Ser
vice Committee and Max Campbell is
chairman of the International Service
Committee.- ; 'l'":::::: ;
: During "1955 Rotary International
1 celebrate its 50th anniversary and
. S. Monds, Jr., was named to serve
4 chairman of the Golden Anniver
ry Committee.- ; ,,i ;
Concession Stand
Robbed Tuesday P. M.
Officers are investigating a break
in of the concession stand, at Memor
ial Field last Tuesday night when
thieves smashed in the door of the
stand and stole one carton of cigarettes
and a carton of crackerjacks.
Officials of the baseball team be
lieve the work was that of a youth,
judging from the articles taken. H.
N. Nixon, business manager of. the
team, stated Wednesday, following the
discovery of the break-in, he would
like for the public to know the base
ball team has no money and if it did
it would not be left in the concession
stand. He also pointed out any rob
bery of the concession stand, and its
merchandise just means a loss to the
ball players who are trying to pro
vide entertainment and amusement for
the public, inasmuch as the proceeds
from this stand goes into the players'
pool.--
County School Bus
DprsREcemng
Merit Certificates
Safety award certificates are in the
process of being distributed in Per
quimans County to school buse drivers
who successfully completed the 1958
54 term by conforming to prescribed
safety rules and regulations.
The awards are presented annually
by the Safety Division, N. C. Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles, and the N. C.
State Automobile Association, the
South's largest Motor Club.
The winners in Perquimans County
rim vMmMm'-om w.,J.tutm tor treatment in the, event he
Clifton Hollowell, RFD, Hertford; lWli,B w ;.
Avery True -
EES "TK: .-SS SIX
lUl i f 4JUIH IkUUt M. IUViWIi AH MJf
Hertford; Katherine Ann Ward, RFD,
Hertford; Lawrence Winslow, RFD,
Belvidere; Vivian Baker, RFD, Belvi
dere; Steve Perry, Durant's Neck; Bil
ly Elliott RFD. Hertford; Daryl Al
len, Woodville; Phillip Bunch, Winfal;
Clarence Chappell, RFD, Hertford;
Jerry Nixon, RFD, Hertford; ' Hazel
Euro, RFD, Hertford; and Seth Mor
gan, RFD, Hertford: f ;
Perquimans County Training School
at Winfall Nathan L. Copeland, Win
fall; Melvin L Hunter, Route 1, Hert
ford; James R. Winslow, Route 2,
Hertford; William H. Foreman, Route
3, Hertford; John W. White, Route 1,
Hertford.
William E. Wills, Route 3, Hertford;
William Welch, Route 3, Tyner; Gar
land Reginald James, Dobb Street,
Hertford; Warren Overton, Route 3,
Hertford; Joseph Riddick, Route 3,
Hertford; Mary Louise White, Route
1, Belvidere; James W. Hunter, Route
1, Belvidere, and Wilton M. Revel,
Route 1, Hertford. ,
Observer Post
MertLastFriday
The Hertford Ground , Observer
Corps was given a surprise alert last
Friday afternoon along with the other
posts in North Carolina as part of a
nation-wide exercise to test the sys
tem's effectiveness. The local post
was in operation from 6:00 Friday af
ternoon until 2:00 Sunday afternoon
when the alert was called off. A total
of 28 observers 'participated in this
test .?.
Mrs. Marion Swindell, post super-
I vers, particularly those wno woricea
.the night shifts and those men who
I volunteered, as observers when they
learned of the shortage of observers
at this post.
The following people participated in
the alert: Henry Stokes, Jr., George
White, Jr., Karl Dunsmoor, Jr., Mar
ion Swindell, J. T. Biggers, Silas
Whedbee, Charlie Skinner, Jr., Edgar
Fields, Jr., Billy White, C P; Mor
ris and C. F. Sumner. Miss Hulda
Wood, Mrs. Jack' Burbage, Jimmy
Wheeler, Dean Britt, Mrs. Charlie
Skinner, Mrs. Lawrence Towe,, Bebbie
Tucker and Dickie Owens.
Also Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Webb, Jar
vis Henry, Eldon Winslow, Louis Tar-
kington, J. T. Lane, Bill Elliott and
Harry Winslow. 1
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Jaycees And Scouts
Assisting Ball Club -
Members of the Hertford Junior
Chamber of Commerce and . the Boy
Scouts have joined together to help
make summertime, baseball a success
ful program this year. The groups
are working the concessions at Me
morial Field without charge, for the
Perquimans Indians baseball team, and
all proceeds from' the sales are paid
into the club treasury to aid in de
fraying team expenrrs.
The success of the venture, thus
far, has aided materially in helping the
ball club financially.
Had Emergency
Recorder's Court
HereLastTuesday
Defendant Assessed For
Damages To Car In
volved In Wreck
A varied docket consisting of four
teen cases was. disposed of in Per
quimans Recorder's Court in session
here last Tuesday with Judge Chas.
E. Johnson presiding.
Dave Rosenthal was fined $10 and
costs after submitting to a charge of
speeding and costs of court were taxed
against Harold Hatcher who also en
tered a plea of guilty to speeding
charges.
Charles Craley and Raymond Dick
ens, charged with following a vehicle
too closely, submitted to the charges
and paid the costs of court.
E. E. Bushnell, L. A. Gavin and Rob
ert Bradley each paid the costs of
court after entering pleas of guilty to
charges of fishing without a license.
Carl Neal and Sherman Overton,
Negroes, were fined $2 each and or
dered to pay the costs of court after
each was found guilty on charges of
simple drunkenness.
Fred Revells, Negro, was found
guilty on two counts, being drunk and
assault with a deadly weapon. He was
ordered to pay a fine of $2 and costs
on the first count and prayer for judg
ment was continued in the second
charge upon payment of court costs.
T. J. Bass was found guilty on
charges of being drunk. He was or
dered held in custody of the police,
pending admittance to a state insti-
1 a verdict of not guilty was return
the case in which Herbert Brown,
Negro, was charged with assault,
James Haynes, Negro, found guilty
on charges of reckless driving, was re'
leased upon payment of $5 in damages
to George Trueblood, for repair of a
bicycle.
Raleigh Pierce entered a plea of
guilty to charges of reckless driving.
He was given a 90 day jail sentence, to
be suspended upen paywient of court
costs and the sum of $900 to Peanie
Sutton, for damages Pierce done to
the Sutton car.
Premium List For
Farmers' Day Ready
Carson Spivey and Mrs. John Hur
dle, co-chairmen for the Farmers' Day
state that plans are progressing nice
ly. The premium lists have been
print defor the Women's Division and
they are available at the Home
Agent's office.- Mrs. Archie White
will be in charge of a booth featuring
(corn Shuck chair bottoms. Mrs.' John
Hurdle is responsible for a booth on
Refinishing furniture and Mrs. Wal-
lace Bright will have charge of an edu
cational exhibit. Those in charge of
individual exhibits are as follows: Mrs.
R. L. Spivey, Flower Exhibits; Mrs.
J. B. Basnight, Clothing; Mrs. C. T.
Rbgerson, Jr., Canning; Mrs. Warner
Madre, Baked Goods; Mrs. Joe Rog
erson, Gardens, and Mrs. Ned Nixon,
Arts and Crafts. Mrs. Colon Jack
son is doing an excellent job organiz
ing the concession stand.
I he irrigation Demonstration will
(take place sometime during the day
on tne rarm or Joseph Froctor. There
jin ai80 be a tractor rodeo and a car-
cass demonstration. All exhibits must
be in place by 6:00 on Tuesday, Au
gust 10th.
Twenty Three 4-H
Clubbers At Camp
Twenty-three 4-H Club boys and
girls left Perquimans County Mon
day morning to. attend camp at the
Roanoke Island 4-H Camp. They were
accompanied by "Pete" Thompson,
Farm Agent and Clara Mason, Assist
ant Home Agent While at camp the
boys and girls will have classes in
swimming, recreation, handicrafts and
electricity. Those who wish to attend
-ine ixst uiony , win he given an
opportunity to, do so. Recreation will
be provided on the camp grounds each
night and the day will be closed with
a short Vesper service. The campers
are expected to return around noon
time, on Saturday.' ;:
Those attending are as follows: Earl
Owens, Edward Lee Nixon, Billy Nix
on, Julian Howell, Roland A. Tripp,
Jr., Warner Lee Madre, Vernon Wins
low, Wayne Howell, Raiford Copeland,
Lloyd : Ray Morgan, Carson Spivey,
Jr., Whltie Matthews, Linwood Hur
dle, Ervin Mansfield, Billy Hudson,
Daniel Ray Eure, Judy Benton, Kay
Howell, Carol McDonnell, Joyce Fare
Owens, Jeannie Copeland. Mary Ellen
Edwards and Betty Brown, . e - t-...
At Agenfs Office
Municipalities To
Appeal Rate Case
To Supreme Court
Utilities Commission Re
jects Appeal For Re
hearing Matter
Eight Eastern North Carolina towns
including Hertford, are expected to
appeal to the State courts for relief
from an electric rate increase granted
to the Virginia Power and Electric
Company, following a ruling handed
down last Thursday by the State Utili
ties Commission which rejected an
appeal made the towns for a re
hearing of the proposal.
The towns are now free to presume
the efforts for relief through the
courts inasmuch as a petition for re
hearing is a statutory prerequisite to
appeal.
Unless they follow through, a com
mission order which allowed VEPCO to
raise its rates in North Carolina an
estimated $235,000 a year will stand.
1 The towns are concerned only with
VEPCO rates for municipalities. They
buy power wholesale from VEPCO and
resell it to their citizens through mu
nicipally owned power systems. None
of VEPCO's approximately 36,000 oth
er North Carolina customers in 22
northeastern counties bothered to join
the battle.
The commission said the towns' pe
tition alleged mainly that rates made
effective for municipalities are:
1. Unjust, unreasonable and exces
sive. 2. Result in unreasonable prejudice
and disadvantage to municipalities
When compared, with rates VEPCO
charges REA cooperatives and a spe
cial industrial rate, Schedule No. 11,
made available to Halifax Paper Cor
poration. .
The towns and William C. Lassiter,
Raleigh attorney whose law firm was
retained as their counsel, alleged al
so that the commission had erred in
conferring privately with VEPCO rep
resentatives after the formal hearings
were completed.. -
Because of Hie:"d1scrimination''"and
the "private conference," the towns
contended they felt they could not; ob
tain "a legally adequate rehearing . . .
without prior instructions to the com
mission from either the Superior Court
or the Supreme Court."
Flim-flam Artist
Takes Lumber Firm
With Bad Check Deal
A flim-flam artist, using the name
of R. P. Snell in a fraudulent check
deal, hoodwinked the C. D. White &
Son Lumber Company out of $20.30
last Saturday, it was reported by Sher
iff Mi G. Owens, who is investigating
the matter.
According to the report a man, giv
ing the name as Snell, called the firm
and ordered some lumber, relating he
was engaged in some work at tbe
Hertford Mfthodist Church. He re
quested that the lumber be delivered
to the church, along with change for
$50. '
TTT1 .1 . .
wnen im lumDer was delivered a
man identifying himself as the pur
chaser, paid for the order with a $50
check drawn by T. B. Smith wick, Jr.,
on a Florence, S. C, bank, and accent
ed $20.30 in change for the check. The
man then asked that the lumber be
taken to the edge of town, near Per
quimans High School, where it would
be picked up l.y a red pickup truck.
Needless to say,' the red pickup
truck has not shown up, the check was
a bad one, and the sheriff is look
ing for the man calling himself Snell.
Bethlehem Church
To Hold Revival
; A series of revival meeting services
will be held at Bethlehem Christian
Church on Pender Road, beginning on
Sunday night July 18, and continuing
through July 23, 1954.
"The gueBt speaker will be the Rev.
W. O. Henderson of Four Oaks, N. C.
Services begin at 8 o'clock each even
ing. .;;-.v,",,,;v , 7,;.
o BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. and Mrs. Harrell Johnson of
Southern Pines anonunce the birth of
a daughter, Barbara Lee, born Wed
nesday, July 7th. r
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
, Mr. and Mrs. James Wilder an
nounce the birth of a son born Wed
nesday, July 7, at the Albemarle Hos
pital in Elizabeth City. Mother and
son have returned to their home and
are getting along nicely.
i BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lewis announce
the birth of a son born Sunday, July
11 at the Albemarle Hospital in Elix-
abeth City. . -i v, , 7; , ;
Town Commissioners Tentatively Set
Tax Rate At $1.35 For Coming Year
Teachers Signed To
Fill Local Vacancies
School Superintendent J. T. Biggers
announced last Monday two vacancies
on the faculty of the white schools of
the county had been filled by the
Board of Education.
Elected as teacher at Hertford
Grammar School was Mrs. Beth Ed
wards Morgan of Sunbury. Mrs. Mor
gan is a graduate of the University of
North Carolina and holds an A grade
certificate.
Mrs. Annie P. Asbell, a former
member of the faculty at Central
Grammar School, was elected to fill
the vacancy in that school.
Mr. Biggers stated the faculties of
the white schools are now complete,
and one vacancy exists on the faculty
for the Negro schools.
Local Tourists
Two Hertford residents, Miss Kate
Blanchard and Miss Dorcas Knowles,
who are now touring Europe and Af
rica, missed out on an official wel
come to Hertford England, it was
learned this week when V. N. Darden,
Mayor of Hertford, N. C, received a
letter from W. V. Proctor, J. P., MayT
or of Hertford England, reporting he
and his family had made arrangements
to entertain the two ladies on their
arrival in Hertford England, but Miss
es Blanchard and Knowles arrived and
departed from the English town with
out the knowledge of Mr. Proctor. La
ter efforts to have the ladies return
to the town proved futile as they had
already left England on their tour.
In his letter to Mayor Darden, Mr
Proctor ' stated: "In these circum
stances I can only write you and of
fermy sincere regrets and apologies,
for what happened, and to ask that
you will be good enough to pass these
on" to Miss Knowles and Miss Blanch
ard.v Please assure them that arrange
ments were made for their reception
and that the Mayoress and I and my
family had been looking forward very
much indeed to meeting them.
"It seems that their journey to
Hertford was not entirely wasted as
other Burgesses were able to be of
some assistance and guidance, and the
visitors were enabled to see around the
Castle, but to me this is little conso
lation as I hold so dearly to the view
that everything possible should be
done to meet our friends from the
United States of America, particularly
those. from places there which bear
our name, to assist towards achieve
ment of full understanding and friend
ship."
in District Honors
The Eastern District 4-H Elimina
tion Contests were held in Washing
ton on Thursday, July 8th. Sixteen
counties were eligible to be represent
ed. Approximately 275 people at
tended. Clarence Chappell, Jr., won first
place in the Beekeeping demonstra
tion. Wallace Baker and John Hill
won second place in the Farm and
Home Electric Demonstration. Jul
ian Howell was only one point behind
the first place winner in the Forestry
Demonstration. Billy Hudson and
Lloyd Ray Morgan were declared the
Junior winning team in the Soil and
Water' contest Joseph Rogersori
placed third in the Tractor Driving
contest. The score was based on a
written test on the care of a trac
tors actual driving and safety. Sec
ond place in Vegetable Production
went to Clarence Chappell, Jr., and
Lois Violet Winslow. Bobby Smith
won first place in the District in the
Boys' phase of Public Speaking. Blue
Ribbons were won in the talent contest
by Jean Long, Phyllis Trueblood,
Johnny Phillips and the Keel sisters.
These four winners will audition to
appear on the talent show at 4-H Club
Week in Raleigh July 19-24. Others
entering contests from Perquimans
County were Rachel Spivey, giving an
individual dairy foods demonstration;
Annie Lou Lane and Annette Proctor,
giving a Vegetable Use Demonstra
tion; Lois Violet Winslow and Anne
White, giving a Dairy Foods Team
Demonstration. Other talent entries
were Patsy Elliott Wendy Matthews,
Dianne Divers and Mary Frances Bak
er. Kay Howell represented Perquim
ans County in the Girls' Public Speak
ing Contest
Competition was very keen and ev
erybody from Perquimans County did
an excellent job.
I Forty-one boys and girls, agents,
parents and leaders represented Per-
quimanB County at the contest '
Missvelcomeln
Hertford England
County 4-H Clubbers
Appliance Dealers Re
quested To Make Old
Ice Boxes Safe
The Town of Hertford will rpt.fl.in a
tax rate of $1.35 per hundred dollar
valuation, the same as it has been for
the Dast Vear. it was rennrtpd nt Hip
meeting of the Town Board last Mon
day nignt. ine lown Commissioners
tentatively set the rat at S1.3K. nnh.
ject to final approval of a budget for
13&4-55, to be made at the conclusion
of an audit of the town books.
During the meetiner the Board His.
cussed the possibilities of the purchase
of a spraying machine, to be used in
spraying the area of the town as nm-
itection against mosquitoes and other
insects, jno action was taken on the
matter, it beintr exnlained that send
ing projects will use all available
funds during the next few months, and
the budget for the coming year, as yet,
has not been drawn.
The Board voted to request all ap
pliance dealers within the town to co
operate in makinc old mp hnvoa aofa
from possible harm to children playing
at or near places where old boxes
mitrht be stored. The Healpra nro tn
be asked to remove the lock or hinges
irom the doors of all boxes stored at
or near their places of business. May
or V N. Darden recommended the ac
tion to the Board after having report
ed he had noticed a nnmhpr of oM
ice boxes stored at the rear of build
ings, facing Church Street. He told
the board children play near thesa
places and it was possible some of the
children might become locked in one
of the boxes and suffocate before be
ing discovered.
The Mayor also reported to the
Board, officials of the State Highway
Commission are running a soil test on
the roadway of Woodland Circle and
a paving project on this street will be
started ahort.lv after the findino-a of
these tests are compiled.
NamedBy J.T.Lane
Committee appointments for the
Hertford Lions Club, for the coming
years, have been completed by J. T.
Lane, president of the club, and are
announced as follows:
Attendance, Charles Harrell and
I Dan Berry; Constitution and by-laws,
R. R. White, J. T. Biggers, Norman
i Trueblood; Finance, Joe Tunnell, T. P.
Byrum, Louis Tarkington; Education
and initiation, A. T. Lane, Sidney
Blanchard; Membership, F. A. Mc-
Iroogan, W. S. Long, Harry Winslow.
Program, R. M. Thompson, C. T.
Eley, G. C. Buck; Publicity and Greet
er. Jim Bass, Jack Symons, I. C. Ya
gel; Food, A. H. Edwards, W. W.
Trueblood, Bill Fowler; Civic, Com
munity Improvements, E. C. Woodard,
L. B. Cobb, Zach Robertson; Sight
Conservation, Dr. I. A. Ward and C.
R. Ward.
Barker Rites Held
Saturday Afternoon
Funeral services for Charles B.
Barker, 51, who died at his home in
Arlington, Va., Thursday of last week
after an illness of three days, were
conducted Saturday afternoon at the
Lynch Funeral Home by the Rev. A.
L. Chaplin, pastor of the Hertford
Methodist Church.
Mr. Barker was the son of the late
Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Barker of Ahos
kie, and the husband of Carolyn Rid
dick Barker. Besides his wife he is
survived by one son, Charles B. Bark
er, Jr.; four sisters, Mrs. Talmage
Baker of Ahoskie, Mrs. Joseph Brown
of NorfolkMrs. Eddie Scagg of Chap
el Hill and Mrs. Eddie Barker of Mel
bourne. During the services the choir of the
Methodist Church sang "Old Rugged
Cross."
Pallbearers were Edward Weeks,
Charles Wood, Edgar White, Marion
Riddick, Hugh Dukes, Raleigh Baker,
Bundy Brown and Joe Brown. ;
Burial was in Cedarwood Cemetery.
Albemarle League
Schedule For Week
Thursday, July 15 Colerain at
Rocky Hock; Edenton at Hertford.
Friday, July IS Elizabeth City at
Edenton; Hertford at .Colerain. -
Monday, July 19 Elizabeth City at
Edenton; Hertford It Colerain.
Tuesday, July 20 Colerain at Rocky
Hock; Edenton at Hertford.
Wednesday, July 21 -Rocky Hock at
Hertford; Colerain at Elisabeth City.
Lions Committees
For Coming Year