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Volume XXII. Number 33.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday August 19, 1955.
5 Cents Per Copy
-WEEKLY
Farmers
Due to weather conditions which
: -were brought about by Hurricane
. Diane, Perquimans County Farm-
crs' Day wag postponed ' until
Thursday of this week.
On Tuesday the merchants and
:. ' farmers completed booths and ex
hibits which were much better
than the ones in 1954. . Personal
Yexhibita brought in by the. rural
: people were in much larger quan-
: titles than those before. More
. merchants took part in Farmers'
V . Day plans and aided in making the
- exhibit hall very decorr.tive.
Those merchants having booths
. were: Darden Bros., S & M Phar-
:; macy, 'Winslow Oil Co., J. C. Blan
chard & . Co., Winslow-Blanchard
Motor? Co.j Hellowell Chevrolet
Co.", Harris Building & Supply Co.,
Towe Oil Co., Pitt Farm Equipment
Co., Milton V Bail & Son, Towe
Webb Motor Co., Hertford Motor
Co., Byrum - Furniture Co., Hert
, ford Hardware & Supply Co., -Har-
rell Gas & Coal Co., Reed Oil Co.,
Andraar Appliance Co., Hertford
.-:-.,. Furniture Co., Byrum Implement
Co., Albemarle ' Rural Electrifica-
tion Co-bp, Perry Electric Co.,
Culligan Water Softener, Neece
, Tractor Co., Culpepper Motor Co.,
" and Farm Bureau.
, Educational booths were display-
ed by: Perquimans 4-H Clubs,
Future Homemakers of America,
""- .Future Farmers of America, Soil
' : 'Conservation1, Service, Ruritan Na
tional and Whiteston Home Dem
onstration Club. . '
-Judging of exhibits . ha4 not
been completed in time for this is
sue. However, winners pf exhibits
and contests will be announced in
next week's Issue. ("i V
In spite) of , weather Icoriditftjns
naine sme,v nuee crowas
turned e 'to'Atkyi tVl ;V,
,Vlsty Jood waj bi
the day by" !'the business and' Pro-
; fessionaf Woman's Club and Home
, Demonstration Clubs of the cooun-
ty. ' All 'in all the- second annual
, : Perquimans 'County Farmers'. Day
- was termed a very successful event
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LastSaturdayP.Tt.
Miss Maude Arlean porter, 64,
' died Friday morning at 2:30 o'clock
in the Albemarle Hospital after an
illness of four days. She was a
native of Moseley, Va., but had
lived in Elizabeth City for the
past 10 years. "
Miss Porter was the daughter of
the late Morton Eugene and Flor
ence Bailey Porter, a member of
the First Baptist Church, Greens
boro and wag employed at the NAF
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. ; She is survived by three sisters,
Mrs. W. L. McClamroch of Dur
ham, N. C.J Mrs. R. W. Cooper of
. Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. V. N.
Dardefr of Hertford; one brother,
Dr. John E. porter of San Diego,
Cal, and several nieces and neph-
. Funeral 'services were conducted
Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock in
'-. the chapel of Twiford'g Funeral
Home in Hertford by the Rev. E,
, G. Purcell, Jr., pastor of the Ahos
, kie Methodist Church. . . -,' (
, Soft musical renditions were
Porter Rites lid
played during the service by Mrs.
J. Ellie White at the organ. :
;,; The. casket was covered by a pall
of pink roses' and pink carnations
. .aftd.fenu. r s ;
Pallbearers : were Douglas Dar
, &?rii Corbin, Dozierf Henry Gill, F.
D. Barrow, Wlliam P. McClara
. roch, Jr., and E.'L.' Baker, s
, , - Burial, followed in the Cedarwood
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. L.irsrted Found, ,
SherifT J. Kelly White reported
last Monday he had been, qtivised
that Mrs. Sarah Squires, reported
. missing from this county since July
80, had returned to the home of
. her parents at Marietta, Indiana.
A search for ' the woman, carried
out for the paat two .weeks, has
been halted. .
Program
Lucky Pig :
' One near casualty of Hurricane
Connie was a small dog.- Only
pup he is, and he is owned by Per
ry and Price, 8-year-old twin sons
of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Monds.
,- It happened on Friday when the
wind and the tide were getting' in
some of their very best licks of the
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, The waves were beating furious
ly against the breakwater where
the river and the back lawn of the
Monds home meet. Perry and
Price, with, some other, playmates.
were running aleng the baak, with
the little dog frolicking as small
dogs wiill, then splash! right
over into " the seething, whirling
mass of water went the pup. '
. Well, dogs an swim; even very
small dogs take to the smooth wa
ter. . Maybe "Toppy" might have
made it. even in this vortex, but
Perry didn't wait to find out . Right
over he went,, too, and clutching
his dog, scrambled over tHe break
water to safety. .
Lucky dog! Happy boy! :
Farm Census
In Use Of Laid
. According to the January, 1955,
Farm Census Survey for Perquim
ans County, the 106,656 ' acres of
farm land wag utilized in 1954 on
about the game basis as the previ-
oug year. Crops, vwei .harvested
jfroVo-isaaii 'uia sir
ing 2,829 . acres , were, in pasture
and idle ' crop land.
- Corn and soybeans, for beans
were the two major crops harvest
ed, accounting for 46 and 41 per
cent respectively of all the crops
grown. ; The cotton acreage ; wag
decreased but wheat, oata, milo,
lespedeza for seed,, hay crops and
other vegetables grown for sale, all
showed some increase over the pre
vious crop year. The livestock in
ventory reflected an - increase In
sows nd beef cows, but not much
change in the number of milk
cows. The survey reported 3,549
cords of pulpwood cut, and also
listed 467 peach trees on farms in
the county,
; Corn led all other crops harvest
ed, showing a' 150 acre' increase;
peanuts, one per cent and the sum
of all crops harvested were three
per cent higher than 1953,
According to the report during
1954 Perquimans County had a to
tal of 106,656 acres in farm land;
47,969 of these' Were harvested crop
land, 827 were idle crop land, 2,135
were 1ft- improved pastures, 378
acres in other :' pasture land and
55,858 consisted of all other land,
woods and waste,
Acres planted during the year to
major crops were; Corn, 21,854;
cotton, 1,619; peanuts, 8,456;
wheat, 142;, oats, 329; other small
grain, 14; soybeans, 19,364
. ' Crops harvested for hay were
soybeans (acres) - 126; lespedeza,
78. ,w
r. Acres of vegetables harvested
were Irish potatoes, 44; sweet po
tatoes, 74; other vegetables, most
ly for sale, 643. . ;
' Livestock owned as of January 1
was reported as follows: ; ?s .'
- . Sows and gUts, 1,937; cows and
heifers (milk), 437; beef, 1,237;
hens and pullets, 81,030.
The over-all report for the coun
ty; was compiled and summarized
from the various township reports
air taken by the county list takers.
PolioVictim
JLeroy East,! 11-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter' East, Hert
ford, has beert admitted to the
Maryview Hospital at Portsmouth
suffering from polio. The hospital
reported the boy was stricken with
the disease August 7 and admitted
to the hospital, August 13, where
he is undergoing observation and
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ETES FRONT AND CENTER These young Americans are aU eVes and ears as they listen to the
absorbing' tale Corporal Robert GHdden of Kalamazoo, Mich., has: to tell of the turret gun on a
Patton 48 tank. They are members of the Colorado Springs YMCA Summer Adventure Club and one
of their big adventures was to visit Fort Carson and observe life at this typical Army post. . '
District
FH A Of f icals Was
Held Here Tuesday
A meeting of , Farmers Home
Administration county supervisors
and county ' . committeemen from
Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Curri
tuck, Gates, Halifax, Hertford,
Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank,
Perquimans, Terrell,' Warren and
Washington Counties was held in
Hertford at thVAgricultural Build-
i ."i'iiR putpytft pt; -Jfje nitjnjg.was
to; acquaint - 'county committeemen
with the Farmers Home Adminis
tration program th specific em
phasis on the duties and responsi
bilities of the county committee in
administering the program in its
respective county. ,
Horace J. Is'enhower, State Di
rector, pointed out to the county
committeemen that i the Farmers
Home Administration is a credit
agency in ; the Department of Ag
riculture but that the credit the
agency supplies does not compete
with banks or other crodit The
credit that the agency supplies
supplements other credit as loans
are made only to families who can
not get ; the needed credit else
where. " '"
The committeemen were told, that
the Farmers Home Administration
program in North Carolina Tanks
near the top in so far as volume
of business is concerned. The ap
propriation for loans during the
1956 fiscal year passed by the re
cent Congress is $137,500,000 for
production and - subsistence loans
and $19,000,000 for farm ownership
loans and $11,500,000 for soil and
water conserytion loans. In addi
tion to-'1 direct appropriation for
loans, real estate loans are being
made on an insured loan basis.
with a slight increase in appropria
tions and the insured loan author
ity the Farmers Home Adminis
tration should be able' to provide
more families. with loan assistance
in 1956. , Farmers receiving the
services of the Farmers Home Ad
ministration, have' improved their
status as a' result of such assist
ance. ;;'.:v':
Mr. Isenhower pointed out that
the records of more than 900 fam-1
iiea repaying their operating loan
In full during the 1954 crop year
show- that ' the average1 family in
creased their net worth value of
everything they owned; minus any
indebtedness '. from : $4,493- ' to
$6,172 or 37 per cent during an
average of three .years . they were
receivinffoan. WJtdatortm.
gistance through the v Farmers
Home Admmistration. Similar pro-
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He furthet pointed out that al-
though, none of these families had'
enough security to qualify for ere-
dit front other sources at the time j
they applied for loans to the Farm-
ers Home Administration, most of
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them now are in a position 'tot
finance thfcir -iopwaUontf without!
Meeting Of
I furtI?er '5(TOwin? "r are able to
oDtain any runner loans irom pri
vate or Cooperative sources.
. Ralph W. Turner, farm manage
ment specialist, discussed the ob
jectives of the Farmers Home Ad
ministration with the committee
men. It was pointed out, that, .the
Farmers Home,',,A$minitaafjion' s
an agency in the United Sitates
MiItBfcAgtue'1 et tip
ttf assist farmers to help them
selves.; The agency extends credit
and supervisory assistance to elig
ible farm families to help them
operate, buy or improve' their
farms. The primary objective be
ing to enable farm families to be
come soundly established in a well
balanced system of farming which
can be successfully carried on with.,
out further aid from the Farmers
Home Administration. He further
pointed out how efficient this ag
ency does its work in the county
depends to a great extent upon the
understanding and interest taken
in the program by the County
Committee. :
r James O. Buchannan, farm own
ership officer, explained to the
committee the different types of
real estate loans available through
theN agency and the purpose and
objective of each loan and defined
the county and committee duties in
connection with applicants for real
estate type loans and their duties
in connection with the farm being
purchased or improved by the applicant...-'-
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: Herman B, Riggle, production
and subsistence loan officer, dis
cussed with the committee pur
poses of production and subsist
ence loans pointing out' that they
are made primarily to enable fam
ilies to become established success-'
fully in a sound well balanced sys
tem of farming in order to make
full and efficient use of their land
and labor resources". It was ex
plained that the maximum initial
loan is $7,000 and that such loans
are to be repaid in one to seven
years. He' further discussed the
duties of the County Committee in
connection with these loans. It
was pointed out that no loan can
be made to any applicant until
such 'applicant is certified by the
County Committee as being eligible
and qualified to receive such as
sistance but the. County Committee
has no responsibility for determ
ining the amounts of loans or the
parf m the meet!,
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PW V. Parks, area supervisor,
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The - Woman's Missionary Soci-
ety of the' Baptist Church will
meet Monday night at & o'clock at
jiie- church.
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Highway Group In
Meeting Here Over
Windsor By-Pass
More than 50 interested citizens
from Edenton, Hertford, Camden,
Elizabeth City and Windsor at
tended a meeting at the Municipal
Building in Hertford Tuesday night
to state their position relative to a
by-pass at Windsor and to solicit
the support of Highway Commis
sioner J. Emmett Winslow.
The group went on record as fav
oring a bv-Dass to the south and
east pf Windsor; for the :follbwinr
1. there is more traffic bn ft .
17 than on XJ. S. 13 and a by-pass
around Windsor should favor the
most heavily traveled highway.
Traffic surveys made by the N. C.
State Highway and Public Works
Commission show that three times
more out of state passenger cars
travel on U. S. 17 in the north
eastern section of North Carolina
than on U. S. 13.
2. There is by far a greater in
vestment in hotels, motels, restau
rants and service stations for tour
ist traffic on U. S. 17 than on
U. S. 13. The following reports
were presented by committees pre
viously named to secure the amount
of this investment in each county
affected:
Pasquotar-k $1,797,000.
Perquimans $425,000.
Chowan $1,118,000. .
Bertie County, east of Wind
sor $225,000.
3.1 More money is spent for
traffic promotion on U. S. 17 than
on U, S. 13. In the 21 years that
the Ocean Hiway Association has
been promoting tourist traffic, it
has spent $1,757,500. This figure
does not include the money spent
by individual firms for advertising
and . promotion in newspapers,
magazines, etc.,
4. A by-pass to the south and
east of Windsor will be much
cheaper than a by-pass to the north
and west; of Windsor.
Relviderft Girl
Tapped For Club'
-Among the 28 4-Hers from all
over North Carolina during the re
cent 4-H Club Week at N. C. State
College, Raleigh, Miss Lois Violet
Winslow of Belvidere was tapped
into the honor club, , one of the
highest honors a 4-Her can attain.
Lois Violet is the first 4-H girl
of . Perquimans County to have re
ceived this honor. Clarence Chap
peil, Jr., .and Bobby Smith of the
county are also members of the
club. I
New members are elected by an
unanimous vote :. of . honpr club
members on the basis of their .out
standing records and achievements
in 4-H work, character and leader
ship ibility in - church and com
munity service. f:r-:r"n''::'-r:-':
These young people are to be
congratulated . and should encour-age-others
to attain similar honors.
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Football practice for the 1955
Perquimans Indians started here
last Monday with 36 candidates re
porting for try-outs for. the team,
it wag reported by Coach Ike Per
ry, who said he was pleased with
the large turn-out of members of
the freshman class.
Coach Perry stated he will hold
practice sessions each afternoon
from 3 to 5 o'clock until the close
of the present baseball schedule,
after which he will hold two drill
sessions daily from 3 to 5 and from
7 to 9 P.M.
The Indians lost four first string
players from the 1954 team, Paul
Matthews, Arnold Chappell, D. A.
Carver and John Hill. Coach Per
ry said prospects for the 1955 team
appear gooa, but he was expecting
to have a problem in filling the po
sitions of center and fullback. Five
members of last year's line are
back for this season and the In
dians are expected to have one of
the better lines in the AJbemarle
Conference.
A ten-game schedule has been
arranged for the Indians, accord
ing to Perry, who said the season
will open here on September 16
with Churchland, Va., furnishing
the opposition. Churchland is
coached by Ellie Fearing, former
mentor at Perquimans High. The
Indian schedule is as follows:
September 16" Churchland here.
September 23 Ahoskie here.
September 30 Tarboro there.
October 7 Plymouth there.
October 14 Williamston there.
October 21 Edenton there.
October 28 Columbia here.
November 4-Spring Hope here.
November 11 Elizabeth City
there.
November 18 Morehead City
here.
On Monday afternoon and rflght,
August 22, the Rocky Hock Bap
tist Church will be host to the an
nual mass meeting of the Training
Unions of the Baptist churches of
the Chowan Association.. This
meeting culminates the Training
Union year of work and it has
been planned for two sessions, the
afternoon session opening at 3
o'clock and the. evening session
opening at 7:20 o'clock. Between
the two sessions there has been
scheduled a period of directed fun
and fellowship on the church
grounds at 5 o'clock; an old-fash
ioned basket supper at 6 o'clock
and a twilight vesper service at
6:45 o'clock.
The program, committee has
planned a well balanced program
for each of the two sessions con
sisting of music, conferences, talks,
a talking film projection, an inspir
ational address and other interest
ing features. The message of the
film "Beginning of the Rainbow"
promises to be very impressive and
presents a very worth-while mes
sage. One of the interesting fea
tures of the evening session each
year is the election and installation
of new officers for the new year of
training work and all Training
Union enthusiasts will be interested
in this part, of this year's evening
session. This Bession, closing at 9
o'clock, will bring to a close an
other annual training meeting of
fellowship, inspiration ! and infor
mation and all interested are invit
ed to share it with Training Union
members and workers.
Bids Asked Local
Highway Project
The State Highway Commission
has advertised for bids on 17 pro
jects involving 58.035 miles of road
work in 21 counties. The letting
will be held August 23. -
Included among the projects is
one calling for three bridges four
reinforced concrete ; box culverts,
one reinforced box culvert exten
sion and several pipe lines to be
constructed on N. C. 37 between
Winfall and U. S. 13 north of Gates
in Gates County. ,.".'' -.V ;-":
One of the bridges to be con
structed, it is understood, will be'!
on N. C. 37 at Belvidere.
For First Football
Practice Monday
Baptist Training
Unionf'ectingltt
Rocky Hock Church
Hurricane Connie
Caused Only Slight
Damage In County
Diane
Diane, the fourtn hurricane of
the year, which blew inland near
Cape Fear early Wednesday morn
ing, made itself felt throughout
Perquimans County by producing
strong winds with gusts estimated
up to 60 miles per hour,. Rain
squalls were frequent and the Per
quimans River rose to a higher
mark than was recorded from
Hurricane Connie last week.
Some property damage resulted
from the storm but few reports
had been heard up to the time this
newspaper went to press. Crop:
damage was expected to be great
er from the effects of this storm
than from Connie. ?
High water over
at Hertford forced
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the Highway
Department to close Route 17 to all
traffic early Wednesday morning.
The highway had not been opened
Thursday morning.
Fifteen Cases In
Fifteen cases were disposed of
in Perquimans Recorder's Court
this week after the court had been
in recess on Tuesday of last week.
Costs of court were taxed
against John Bell, John Klevit,
John Wrather, Murray Crawford
and Anthony Horvath, after each
had submitted to charges of speed
ing. Costs of court and fines as listed
Were paid by the following, who
entered pleas cf guilty to speeding
charges: Lorrain Lang, $8;. Jean
Dubonel, $3; Nathan Giwerta, $7;
Robert , Strahgv ,.$i0i -1 .and. Joseph
Bass, r 'i-.
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Indians Win First
Play - Of f Contest
From Albies 4 To 0
Manager Ike Perry's Perquimans
Indians exploded for four big runs
in the first inning of the Albemarle
League play-off game Tuesday
night to win a 4-0 decision over
Elizabeth City.
The victory gave the Indians a
1-0 lead over the Albies in the
three out of five semi-final seric3
to determine which team will meet
the winner of the Colerain-Edenton
series in the final play-off for the
league title. .1
McKay Riddick and Williams
were the opposing pitchers in the
opening game, with Riddick haying
the edge over Elizabeth City's
Williams. Riddick struck out eight
men, walked four, while Williams
fanned six, walked one and hit two
Indian batters.
Perquimans opened the game
with Morris walkings Christgau
was safe on an error and Hunter
filled the bases when he was safe
on an error. Allan Winslow, who
led the Indians with two hits,
banged but a triple to score three
runs. D. A. Carver then singled to
score Winslow, giving the Indians
a 4-0 lead. Neither team scored
after that.
The league play-offs were ar
ranged at a meeting of the direc
tors held ; in Hertford Monday
night. Colerain, finishing the sea
son at the' top, was assigned to
play Edenton, : which finished the
season in fourth place. The In
dians,- finishing second, were match,
ed with Elizabeth City, third place
in. the-standing.
The two winners of the semi
final round of play will meet next
week in a four best out of seven
series for the league title.
In setting up arrangements for
the play-offs the directors voted
not to play rained out games, in
order : not to V prolong the season.
Colerain had completed its sched
ule but Edenton had five games to
make up, while Perquimans had
four and Elizabeth City twev
The third hurricane of the 'sea
son, named Connie, passed through
Perquimans County last Friday
evening causing only slight dam
age to property and crops, accord
ing to general reports. , , -r
County residents, given ample
warning by the storm which hov
ered off the coast near Wilmington
for two days, were fairly well pre
pared for the hurricane which had
diminished in strength by the time
it reached this area. Many local
merchants taped display windows
or tied them with rope to reinforce
them against high winds. Most
stores in Hertford closed at least
part of the day Friday, permitting
employees to go to their homes.:
Highest winds of the storm
struck the county Thursday night,
it was generally believed, and these
winds caused some damage to the
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the Department of Agriculture
Economics, N. C. State College,
was in Hertford Tuesday morning
following completion of a survey
of crop damage in Perquimans and
he reported the survey revealed 25
per cent of the corn crop had from
one to five per cent blowing dam
age; that is the corn was bent from
the winds; 10 per cent of the crop
had from 6 to 15- vr "nf- Mowing
da-nipf -.
Mr. Curtis said there appeared
to be very little damage to the
cotton and soybean crops in Per
quimans. High tides resulting from the
storm forced the Perquimans River
to flood low areas in a large nuru
ber of pJa'Ces and some property
damage occurred from this source.
The high, water rose several inches
above the causeway ahel, Uf S. 17
was closed, to all traffic for sev-.
eral hours Saturday. State higfc
way employees h; were .kept " on the
alert and .permitted ohe'-wajf traffic
t'.isevf -?iiirS8twrday at-,
ternoon
The next game between Per
quimans and Elizabeth City, will
be played in Hertford Wednesday
night if weather permits. The
third contest will be played in
Elizabeth City, the fourth game in
Hertford and the fifth contest in
Elizabeth City.
Rites Held Monday
For Mrs. Dobson
Mrs. Maude Leigh Dobson, 80,
died early Sunday morning at the
home of her niece, Mrs. Clyde Mc
Callum, with whom she had made
her home for the last several
years. '
She was the wife of the late John
Dobson and daughter of the Iat
Edward Augustus Leigh and Crist
elle Jacocks ' Leigh. She wag; 4
member of the Holy Trinity Epis
copal Church. . ;
Survivors are one daughter, Mrs.
Robert Kahn of Huntington, West
Virginia; two grandsons, John Per
ry of Huntington, West Virginia,
and John Dobson of Edenton and
two granddaughters. i 'r
Funeral services were conducted
at 11 A. M. Monday at Holy Trin
ity Church by the Rev. Paul Shultz,
rector of the church. The casket
was covered with a pall of purple
asters and white gladioli. The
church choir sang "O God Still
Keep Me." 'e
Pallbearers wre : Trim "Wilsonv
Walter Oakey,, Henry CJay Sulli
van and Dr, C. A. Davenport.
Burial followed in the church
cemetery.
BAKE SALE "
' A bake sale, sponsored by the
Youth Fellowship groups of Piney
Woodg and Up River Friend
Churches, will be held Saturday,
August "27, at the Hertford Furni
sure Store, . '