Hertford. Perauimans CoYmtv.-North
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Navy Department Requsc
$48 Million For SeaplaL
Base At Harvey 1 Point Sl:
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to secure title to a .tract
'iiml as a site for the new Hert
... d Grammar School, the Board of
' ication, meeting in special ses
l a hcrfi last' Friday night, voted
start ndemnation proceedings
t 'i. on ire 14.2 acres of land known
;.i (' a Puttie Wood Warren land,
t ' nt to Woodland Circle.
Local school authorities, for the
past two weeks, had been negotiat-
r with the, owners of this tract
t being unable , to reach agree
: nt as to a sale price -moved to
re the matter before the courts
j i (.race to expeuiie BecureiiiBiii, ui
i land and proceed with plana for
: ruction of the new school.,.
'.-It was leaYned Saturday a group
owning 9.2 acres of the 14.2 acres
enr-H notified the Board of Edu
t ,w,.n' they would accept the
I. aid's "offer of $13,500 for this
l ,a-ticular tract of land.
In connection with the condem
nation proceedings, the Board of
Education employed Silas M. Whed
bco to act, as attorney for . the
Eoard.
J. W. Griffin, architect for the
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loug ftwnil.nl u.'fision on n,e
state of hcaVi of President Eisen
hower was revealed Tuesday .fol
lowing, a" medical examination of
t'.c President by a group of -physicians.-'
They reported the Presi
dent should be able to carry on in
active work for another five to ten
years. The doctors told newsihen
ThaG vile 1 renmyiit iuu 1 nicw w
f .ii.l rfedvery -from the hoart at
U suffeixJ last fall. With the
nc.''ral; examination over .the
ident is
j n a dec';
expected to make
n concerning his fu-
r '' ' 1 plans l
ut March 1.
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cd a. sketch-drang of the new
facilities. It was revealed, in
talks with the architect, the new
building will require a lotj which
will .provide for 357 feet off front
age for the structural. Tlje plan
presented by Mr. Griffin was ap
proved Jy the Board, and 'orders
issued to him to proceed immedi
ately with other ; plans for the
building. ' ,
The Board also voted to" adver
tise and sell, as salvage the gram
mar school building "which was de
stroyed by fire January 9. Under
the terms of the sale the buyer will
purchase only the 'materials,-remaining
from the fire, and same is
to be removed from the site.
A resolution was adopted by the
Board approving teacher participa
tion in'social security, in connection
with State retirement - .
The Board voted" approval of a
six weeks leave of absence grant
ed by the School committee to Mrs:
C. H. Holmes, English teacher at
Perquimans High School.
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Making good on two foul shots to
the' final 15 seconds of the ball
gan e the Plymouth Funthers edg
o'ut the.Perquimans,-,8 by
a.sco.a of B2'-l61 In. tHe finiir bas
ketball feame of fhe aeaso here' on
Tuesday night ' It waa the second
Victory of the season for the Pan
thers over the Indians.
Several' errors committed by the
Indians during the final ?, period
paved the way for Plymouth to
come from a deficit of six' points
at the close of the third period to
score the" win. ' ;
Plymouth opened the game fast
going into a 12-4 lead but the InT
dians fought back and trailed 17
19 at the end of the quarter and
Uncontest was tied-up at the half
31-all. Perquimans mpved into a
47-41 lead at the end of the third
quarter but lost this advantage in
tie f ' 1 cnto.- . 1 '
I lymou'.Vs 'center",, tuke, was
high scorer of the game with 17
points, while Eray hit for W for
the Indians. Howell, with 14 points
was. runner up f or the Xerquimans
tp;m while Erown scored A4 for
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. e I".. -i Sir's defeated the
I. " a ' in t!ie prelimhrtiry
el- ii -int marg'n, 44-
'. L. 1 1 J Plymouth s?or-
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s wr.ue scorii.j
v "re S.tokes with
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i 1 1 on even1 terms
t l.'i'.f v'.ich ended
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Sunday, Feb. 23Ui .
, Heart Sunday is the one day in
the year When volunteers call upon
their neighbors to contribute funds
which support the ""fight against
heart diseases our country's num
ber one killer. February 26 has
been designated as Heart Sunday.
This is the first year in which
Hertford" has 'participated in this
worthy cause on a wide; scale ba
sis. ' The Rev. James O. Mattox,
pastor of the Hertford Baptist
Church will": serve as chairman;
Tommy Byrum will serve as treas
urer and the following ladies' will
serve as captains over their des
ignated sections of the town: Mrs.
E. C. Woodard for Woodland Cir
cle," Mrs. Marion Swindell for area
from ' city limits to the 'railroad,
Mrs. Torn Harrell for the area
front railroad to Covent Garden,
Mrs. J. T. Bigegrs for area from
Covent Garden to Front Street, and
Mrs. R. S. Monds for Front Street
and the north -end 'of .Church be
ginning at Grubb.. , " ', i '
-The drive. Will '.-be for one day
only for two hours only February
26th between 2 and 4 o'clock in the
afternoon.. The contributions will
go to the National Heart Associa
tion to-'be ,used for research and
prevention of dreaded heart disease
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Scs:::C.ini;:i3y
Commissioners for the -Town .of
Hertford held their February meet
ing in the Municipal Building here
on last Monday night, with only
routine fiscal matters being dis
cussed. ' ' - . , , ''
v Upon recommendations of Mayor
V. N. Darden, the Board took un
derbid visement a proposal that the
Town purchase, a new and modern
street sweeper, tt was pointed out
the present machinery used for this
purpose is inadequate for keeping
town streets in a clean and, sani
tary condition. - It was agreed that
prices -lind specifications .of new
machines will Jie 6ought with the
idea of purchasing a new machine
at some future date. ,
Mayor Darden, also reported to
the . Board on the progress of in
stallation of new water Bnd sewer
lines now being installed on King
and adjacent streets.
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'Oscar Hunter Jf Hertford, Route
3, suffered painful injuriesi early
Tues.'.y morning when he ippar
ey lost control of his automobile
as he was driving to Columbia to
, voik. .
r i.s'' r'ding. alone in a
t .vhen '.he 'accident DC
t f iS oVJock' in the Old
i I n New Hope
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t';e road
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BARBED WIRE is tte great obstacle to an M-41 Walker BuUdof
U(ht tank, but It's a signal of caution to tankers and riflemen
of the Sixth Armored Cavalry as they clean out an "enemy held"
town at the Grafenwohr, Germany, 'training center.
Three1 St
Heard By
Tuesday
Three defendants, "charged" with
operating stills within- Perquimans
County, and manufacturing npn tax
paid liquor,, were given hearings
before Judge Charles' '..K: Johnson
in Recorder's Court, on Tuesday.
Dallas Gilliam, Negro,, was found
guilty of the charges and he was
given a six months road' sentence,
to be suspemleW ,upon payment of
a fine of 200 amt costs, wfll As
Icew, Nepro', enured a.cV? jliN
ty to' the charge and ;he.iwas or
AoraA in rinv the rnKts iif courr aad
be of Ijood behavii'r tvt a pribdfdi
one year. ' Askew testified Gilliam
had setup a still within the kitch
en of the Askew home ;and both df
the defendants were connected With
its operation.
i Mark Downing Negro, also' en
tered a plea of guilty to operating
a still. He was given a six months
sentence, suspended upon payment
of a fin of $50 and costs, and the
condition he be of good behavior
for two years. 1
Seven defendants, all charged
with speeding, submitted to the
charges and paid the costs of court
and fines indicated f ollowing ; tne
name: John; Woodard, Dominick
lengo $5, Paul Bell $20, William
Dillard; William Ralph, Lindsay
Barber25, and Robert Nixon $15.
' Prayer for judgment was - con
tinued in the case of Harold Cope
land, found guilty ion charges of
failing to report an Occident . Immediately,,-
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K. H. Hoffler, Jr., charged With
reckless driving was found guilty
of speeding and ordered to pay a
fine of $20 and costs of court s
Wilbert Mann; Negro, entered a
plea of guilty to- charges of driving
drunk. He paid a fine of $100 and
cpsta of court. . "t ' i
Ernest Bowe Negro, entered, al -m Bay Branch area at the home
plea of guilty to larceny and Sam-. 0f;Miss A4elaide jHurdle with the
mie Felton, Negro, was found gull-1 following officers' elected:
ty of the charge in connection with President, Mrs. Katherine Hunt
the loss of 17 old batteries from' er; secretary, Miss Hilda Winslow;
Fred's Place in Winfall.'. Prayer ( treasurer, Mrs. Elnora Victoria Bil
for judgment was continued in the) ypg, business manager, Miss Ade
case of Felton and Bowe was or- ia:(ie Hurdle . :
dered to pay a fine of. $25. and
costs, ' Each of the defendants
was ordered to pay Fred's Place
$11.2 to cover the loss of nine old
batteries. Eight of the stolen bat
teries were recovered. . .
C ' i of court were paid by Mel-
...Lree who submitted to
f failing to observe a step
S" 1 and . CI.'." ;
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vehicles iii'-
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Recorder
Morning
'wrong side of a highway.
. Roger Evans submitted to a
charge of being drunk on a high
way and paid a fine of $10 and
costs. :'.',:
y-, Bennie White,vNegrot paid the
costs of court after pleading guil
ty to charges of failing to yield the
right-of-way. v ,
Boail Of Education
To Offer Burned1
Building For Sale
Preparations for removing the
ruins of the Hertford Grammar
Schoql, which was destroyed by
fire last January 9, are being jnade
by the Board pf Education, it was
anonunced by J. T. Biggers, super
intendent, who stated . today the
walls of the building and salvage
materials within the walls will be
offered for sale at public auction on
Saturday, February 25.
The Board of Education, Mr.
Biggers said, will, at this sale,, sell
only the damaged building and its
contents. No portion of the land
will be sold at this time.
Under the terms of the sale, the
buyer will be required to 'remove
the debris and level the building
site with .the surrounding land,
within a period of sixty days.
- Bidding on the salvage job is
open to the public. '
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Homemaking Class
Recently Organized
An adult, homemaking class was
organized on Thursday, ! February
: The class ie being sponsored by
the home.making department of ithe
Perquimans graining School with
Misg Vyvfan J. Harris as instruc
tor. ; '
A unit on clothing .construction
is being offered first and all per
sons interested in attending are
asked to be present at the Bay
i Branch Community " Center on
; Thursday, ' February 23, ,at 3:00
i P. M. '
rl'Fira Awarded
1 Ccrliltr.ts "
. 'I Gas and Coal Company
I: ...."ord has been awarded
t ji'ace certificate . for sales
' '1 in the South Atlantic
. f Tyro' x Gas Service for
9 a' --ed here this
Athletic Officials
Draw Schedule For
Baseball Season
Meeting in the Perquimans High
School at Hertford Wednesday
evening of last week, members of
the Albemarle Athletic Conference
set up plans for the annual basket
ball tournament to be held at Tar
boro Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, February 22, 23 and 24,
elected new officers, made plans
for picking an all-conference bas
ketball team, arranged baseball
schedules for next season, : ',
Only five teams will play in the
basketball - tournament, for Wil
liamston wijl participate in the
Martin County tournament. .
A meeting of the coaches and
conference officials will be held at
Tarboro on opening night of the
tournament, Wednesday, February
22, to select an all-conference bas
ketball team for the current season.
After considerable discussion
and one vote on officers, the con
ference decided to set up a new sys
tem of choosing officers. Begin
ning September, 1956, the officers
will serve in alphabetical order of
the schools with A. Woodrow Tay
lor, Ahoskie principal, as president;
Gerald D. James, Edtnton princi
pal, as vice president- and E. C.
Woodard, Perquimans principal,
secretary and treasurer. The next
year James will be president,
Woodard vice president, and. J. S.
Fleming of Plymouth secretary
treasurer and so on down the list
.through Tarboro,and Wlliamston.
.njtneW member will be laddtidiiit
(he bottom' (if i the list and rotated
in order as the others. .
; Football charms were passed to
'the winners' coaches and it was an
nounced' that trophies .are being
engraved and will be ready soon. .
The basketball schedule for the
next season will be just as this
season with the sites reversed:
A drawing was held for the base
ball schedule places and all games
are to begin at 3:15 except where
agreement is made between the
schools involved in any game. The
schedule as presented by B. G.
Stewart of Williamston and adopt
ed unanimously sends Williamston
to Hertford on March 30 to open
the season with Ahoskie at Ply
mouth and Edenton at. Tarboro on
the same date. : . -: . '
The remaining schedule : '
, April 3--Tarboro at' Ahoskie;
Plymouth at Williamston; Hert-.
ford at Edenton; 6 Ahoskie at
Hertford; Williamston at Tarboro;
Edenton at Plymouth; 10 Wil
liamston at Ahoskie, Plymouth at
Plymouth at Hertford; 17 Hert
ford at Tarboro, Edenton at Wil
liamston; 20 Plymouth at Ahos
kie, Tarboro at Edenton, Hertford
at- Williamston; 24---Ahoskie at
Tarboro, Williamston at Plymouth
Edenton at Hertford; 27 Hertford
at Ahoskie, Tarboro at ; William-1
Tarboro; 13 Ahoskie at Edenton,
ston, Plymouth at; Edenton.
May 1 Ahoskie at Williamston,
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Rites I!:!-! Sunday
FcrQs, Richmond
Mrs. Nannie Mack Richmondt 58,
wife t of the Rev. I. S. Richmond,
pastor of the Hertford Methodist
Church, died early Saturday at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Dudley
Whitley in Pine Tops, following a
lingering illness. -
Surviving besides the husband
are one daughter; Mrs. Charlie Ed'
wards, of Kinston ; , five sisters,
Mrs. Whitley, Mrs.' John Little and
Miss Ruth Brown, all of Pine Tops,
Mrs. W.' M. Liles of Lilesville and
Mrs.. Oren Thomas of Wilson Coun
ty,! and one grandchild.
' "Funeral services were conducted
f t 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at
; Tine T. IT. ".ocr 1 Church by
e v. 7 , f'tor : '
Fingerlings Placed ;
In Perquimans River
Hugh Robertson, District Wild
life Game Protector, . reported to
day the Wildlife Service had placed
3,000 Robbin : fingerlings in the
I Perquimans River during the past
week, and plan to place some bass
and bream fingerlings 'in the
stream later this spring.
' The fingerlings received ' here
this week were supplied by the
State Fish Hatchery at Fayette
ville. .-v
To Sponsor Annual
Poster Contest
F. B. Skinner, John A. Bray and
George G. Winslow, Perquimans
County Supervisors of the Albe
marle Soil Conservation District,
mot nn KViflnv TToliwiaiMT 1(1 f n
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work out Dlans for snonsorine a
conservation poster contest.
It was decided that the poster
contest would be held in the same
manner as last year. The contest
will be for the fifth, sixth and sev
enth grades of the Central Gram
mar School at Winfall and the
fifth, sixth and seventh grades of
the Hertford Grammar School. The
fifth grade in the Central Gram
mar School will compete with the
fifth grade in the Hertford Gram
mar School to determine the fifth
grade dinner. ' The sixth, ancl sev
enth grade winners , Willi be 'deter
mined in'(f .feihetojahner., $4
jTha supervisors are offering a
first' land second prize for each
grade., The contest will be "held
during the month of March.
This will be the third year that
the supervisors have sponsored a
conservation poster contest. Last
tun,, efillAnto maA 1QQ MAnaAwirn
tion posters. "
Sod Supervisors
Local PTA Vote
Funds For School
Equipment Need
The Hertford Grammar School
PTA held its February meeting in
the Perquimans County Court
House Thursday night with Mrs.
Jack Brinn, president, presiding.
After the devotional given by
Mrs. H. C. Sullivan, Mrs. T. P.
Brinn, a member of the Board of
Education, talked briefly to the
group about the coming School
Bond Election.
The PTA decided by a majority
vote that it favored Raleigh as
headquarters for the state PTA
Miss Thelma Elliott, principal,
explained that approximately $9,
000.00 worth of school equipment
such as maps, pictures, projector
and films, etc., was destroyed in
the grammar school fire with no
insurance coverage. The PTA vot
ed to give the sum of $250.00, its
balance on hand, toward replacing
a part of this equipment, .
,' Announcement - was made con
cerning a basketball game to be
staged by the Jaycees and VFW
Club proceeds of which would be
used for the benefit of the school.
Francis Nixon was in charge of
the program the subject of which
was civil defense, Charlie Skinner
spoke on "Civil Defense inf Peace
and in War." Jarvis Henry spoke
on the' need of volunteers for the
Ground Observer Corps. . ;'
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Parker Per
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ry or Mexico uity, announce the
birth of a daughter, Sarah Brinn,
born January 80.
E4:;r, sals satuhday
.T V',. C " 'i-ine Auxiliary of
t'n T ' J C 'it'M '
I Additional plans for constructi.
of a seaplane base at Harvey Poiiu
J were revealed Thursday morning in
, an announcement from Washington
) that the Navy Department has re
quested $48 million dollars for com .
pletion of the base. - ' , t
A new 48 million dollar seaplane
base for the use of heavy jet bomb
ers will be built at Harvey's Point
near Hertford if the Navy's plans
materialize. - - "f ' ,
Initial construction on the baser
would begin with funds requested
in the military budget for the fis
cal year beginning July 1. The inl-
tial request was for six million
dollars. , .
The base would be constructed
on the site of a Navy patrol plane
base used during World War II. It
is located on the Perquimans River
about 11 miles east of Hertford -'
near Harvey's Inlet, where the riv
er empties into the Albemarle
Sound.
The base would tie in with pres
ent heavy fortifications and miliy
tary installations already establish
ed within a 40 mile area, including
the Navy and Coast Guard stations
(at
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Elizabeth City and the Navy
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u.u., ., u.a8 , ,
rines; and the Navy's lighter than
air base at Weeksville.
The initial funds would be used i
for airfield pavements, water fronts
fuel storage and dispensing, air- ,
craft and station maintenance fa- .
cilities, navigational aids, utilities,
nd other work.
A few buildings erected at'the .
site during World War II .still re- - ,
main, but the report stated these
would be torn down and new ones
built. ..I. , ' ' ' !
The Marine Corps has asked fojv',
$13,926,000 -fo; build up the Navy's
aiiitiliaiV landing field at Edenton,
plus another $6,736,000. The mon
would be spent beginning July .
1 of this year for aircraft and sta t
tion maintnenace, fuel dispensing,
operational, administrative, person
nel, communications, and communi
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Tourney Schedule
Drawings for. the Albemarle Con-
ference basketball tournament,
which Will open Wednesday at Tar- i
boro, were announced today by E
C. Woodard, principal of Perquim--ans
High School.
In the first' round of play the
Perquimans Indians and Squawa
will play Wednesday night. The .
Indians meet Tarboro and 8 o'clock
and the Squaws play Plymouth at
9 o'clock. ,The winner of the Per-'
cjuimans-Tarboro game will play .
Edenton Thursday at 7 P. M., and
the winner of the Perquimans-Plymouth
girls' contest, will play -in
the semi-finals on. Friday night. .'
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Contributions to the PerquimaM
County March of Dimes fund have
reached a total of $1,036.86", it was
reported! Wednesday by Henry C
Sullivan, drive treasurer.
He stated practically all rr
turned over to date have come :
solicitors canvassing within
Towri of Hereford, and a nur.'
reports are yet to be receiv "
county solicitors. When i
ports are in the county c
believes the fund t ' ?
son; vhere necr f 1.' .
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