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ur PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Volume XXVII. Number 11. Town Board Names Gibbs As Gaptaic ;Ardi:3T.USr. CliUi Representative Archie T. Lane, Sr., Perquim ans County farmer and chairman ; of the board of directors of the . Albemarle Electric Membership Corporation, announced Monday r he will' be a candidate for the office 6 Representative for Per auimansi County in the 1961 Lee- islature, r subject to the Demo cratiq primary on May 28. "k- - Lane previously served Per quimans County as a member of the Board of County Commis sioners for' a number of years and was ! chairman of this board for eight years. J He is) a , member of Great Hope Baptist Church, member and past master of Perquimans Lodge No. 106, A. F. & A. M.; member iand past president of the Hertford Lions Club, and past deputy district governor of Lions District 31-CV He. is also a member of the district TB As- sociation. committee and Tide water Council for Boy Scouts of America. ' ;,-..-''. t He assisted in organizing the original 'Chowan - Perquimans soil; conservation district and served, as; chairman of the board of supervisors, having been ap pointed by Dean Shaw of N. C. State College. ; . In announcing his candidacy Mr. Lane said he will seek the active support and vote of all voters of the county and if elected to ? the office he will strive, for ;a program "of progress for North (Carolina and Perquim ans County in- keeping 'wiWT the advancement "of the times. He said, also, he will strive to ren der ah 1 assistance ' possible in bringing industry into the county. He said, if elected, he will . work for a better educational program in the county and state and that he will favor a change in the operation ' of the State Highway S Commission, bringing it back closer to the people in individual counties. Science Fair Is Planned At High School Next Veek -The-1 Science Department ; at Perquimans . High School will sponsor 'its second annual science fair -at the school 'during the week 'of March 21, it' was1 report- : ed by Mrs. " Claraf Boswell on Monday.. ' All parents and friends of the students are invited and urged to attend the science fair which will be dpened to the public for 'ihe first time on next , Tuesday. Thei exhibits will be set Tip in the auditorium at the school and will include models of the van guard' f. rocket, .: atomic power plant,' jet engine, the solar sys tem and exhibits on. how elec- tricityUs generated, the Wilson Cloud Chamber, exhibits on the human brain,, eye, ears and lungs, Considerable interest is being shown on the part of the stu dents in this science fair, and faculty sponsors are well pleased with the work completed by the students in' all phases" of the fair. -V , t Elwood Nowell V; I Seeks Re-election 1 Elwood .Nowell, County Com missioner for , Belvidere Town ship, announced Monday he will seek re-election to the office in the Democratic primary to be held May 28. Mr. Nowell was elected to the office for the first time in the election two years ago and will how seek a second term in the office. ' ' rEAKE SALH , 2 fit. Catherine Auxiliary of 1 ' ' "mitv EoiscoDal a li 1 a, ' ' ? sale on' '-it at Acting to' fill a vacancy on the Hertford 'Police'Department, due to the resignation of Robert A White, effective April. 1, Com missioners for the Town in reg ular meeting Monday night ap pointed B. Lv Gibbs to 'the post as captain of the department. Gibbs, former manager of the State Theatre in Hertford, has been serving as deputy sheriff for Perquimans County since last July. He had . previously notified the Board of County Commissioners of his intentions to apply for the local police job He will continue as deputy sher iff through the end of this month. ' Other .matters handled dur- ing the Town Board meeting included a final report on the sale of $100,000 of water bonds. Mayor Darden advised the board members the architect and en gineer' for this project had in formed him bids will be re quested soon for the construc tion work in connection with the renovation of the present town water plant. In connection with this pro ject Commissioner " W. A. White inquired if sufficient investiga tion had been made in the mat ter of -the purchase of pipe to be used in -his project. He told the board he had been contacted by a pipe salesman offering as bestos cement pipe at a price lower than cast iron pipe which was purchased. Mayor Darden advised the board he lias in quired into the feasibility of us ing this type of pipe but had learned it was not suitable for the terrain through which it will be installed without : spending additional money to dig deeper trenches to hold th pipe. He pointed out, also, the town would have to maintain two supply stockpiles, " whereas by using cast iron pipe, as now used, will require stocking only one type of pipe. He also ad vised . the board the cast iron' pipe had cost the town $2.44 per 'foot as compared with a bid of $2.18 for the asbestos ce ment pipe, and the difference wil be slaved through the in stallation. '.. Mayor Darden and Commis sioner Henry Sullivan were re appointed as the board's repre sentatives on the Firemen's Re lief Fund. On motion duly adopted, property owned by J. H. Towe, at the corner of Hyde Park and Dobb Streets was rezoned from residential to business. ,. ' Charles Harrell, Carson Spl vey and Erie Haste, Jr., repre senting .'the ' Chamber of Com merce, . appeared before . - the board requesting . the board to contact the County Commission ers on' a matter of reconsider; ing the valuation on the proper ty : now occupied, by the ". Don Juan :. Company, - The :. board agreed to confer with, the coun- ty board on this matter during this week. Final action of the .meeting was the election of a new police officer and Gibbs was selected from a list of 10 applications. Langston Funeral Rites Wednesday ' Miss Eddie Thomas Langston, 53," -of Richmond, died at a Richmond hospital after a short illness. She was a native of Hertford and resident of ' Richmond for the; past 25 years. Daughter of the1 late Timothy and Lavinia Langston. ' 1 Surviving are one Sister, Mrs, N. W. Going of Hampton, Va., and a brother, T. E. Langston, Jr., of Richmond. : , v Funeral services were con ducted at the Lynch Funeral Home Wednesday morning by the Rev.; Norman Harris, pastor of the Hertford Baptist Church. The-' choir sang ; "Abide With Me" and "My Faith Looks "Up to Thee." The pall was of white mums and pink carnations. Pallbearers were Julian A. White, J. H. Towe, Henry Clay Stokes, Chas. E. Johnson, David Lenrston and Harry Langston, . " 1 v"? in' C ' rwood Hertford. Perquimans County. North fa. ' ;-'f; I''.' ' J ' . -9 WHEELS-UP LANDING in Kansas is cased by four inches of now snow on the runway. The j TWA plane, with six passengers abyard, lost its port wheels as it took off from Chicago on a ' scheduled flight to Peoria, 111. Snowy but safe set-down was made at Olathe Naval Air Station, near Kansas City. - ' Norman Elliott Died Suddenly Tuesday Morning Norman Elliott, 56, died sud denly at the Chowan Hospital Tuesday morning at 6:30. A native and life-long resident of Perquimans County, he resided at 510 Pennsylvania Avenue. He was the son of the late Charlie and Janie Norman El liott, owned and operated the Elliott Taxi Company and was a former logging contractor. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marie Spivey Elliott; three daughters, Mrs. Frances Smith of Portsmouth, Va., Mrs. Myrtle Norman Glur of Columbus, Ne braska, and. Miss Anne Elliott of Hertford; one sister, Mrs. Janie Williams of Hertford; three brothers, Josiah and Charlie S. Elliott of Hertford and Robert S. Elliott of Route 1, Hertford; nine grandchildren. - Funeral services will be con ducted Friday 'morning at 11 o'clock in the chapel of the Swindell Funeral Home by the Rev. Norman Harris, pastor of the Hertford Baptist ' Church, and the Rev. Charles Duliu of Windsor, former pastor. Burial will be in Cedarwood Cemetery. Superior Court The March term of Perquim ans Superior Court convened here Monday morning with Judge Chester Morris presiding over the civil calendar of 15 cases. Moving with dispatch the Court cleared the- docket of sev en cases on ' Monday when an annulment was granted Henry Martin and a divorce was grant ed to Robert Luther Perry. Compromise judgments were reported in the cases of Isaac Lowe vs. Lemar Redmonr W. R. Baccus vs. Ralph Perry; Dewey Wells, Adm., vs. Odell Aycock; Lucian Cox vs. Harriet McNider and E. P. Stallings Vs. O'Dell Askew. , Three cases, those of Wiley Welch vs. Frances Welch, Bar bara Melton vs. William Melton and Dr. A B. Bonner vs. Ronald Bateman, were conducted until the next term of court. The . suit , in which Rose E. Lowe, Adm., seeking $35,000 from Johrt William. Trueblood, as damages because of the death of William , Isaac. Lowe, was started Monday and continued through Wednesday. ; The plain tiff sought to recover in the death of her husband, who died from injuries, sustained in ah ac cidenjyihich occurred i in Janu ary 9ffl959,!, The jury received the lawsuit at about 4:,30, o'clock jdpie day aftefnb'dn,' and (afr a(, de liberation sf : abbuf ' 3f 11 mlnu'tes returned a verdict favoring fhe defendant,?- John Williarti True blood, : finding his '' negligehcy had- not contributed to Lowe's death.1 '-.'''f--- -'"?' :'!' ' "The case of Rosa Russell vs.1 T. C. Story was started Thurs-J day' morning, and was expected! to continue throughout the day. ON DEAN'S LIST ; Raymond A. Winslow, Jr., a student - at the University of North Carolina, was among the UNC students listed on , the Dean's List at the school. He is a freshman at UNC and is the son of Mr. and Mrs., R. A, Wins- Farm Leaders Plan Area Development Program In County On Monday night a group -r jccls members of the commun leaders from each community U.V work on together. The fourth met in the Agricultural Build-; soul is a youth program. This ing in Hertford to learn about program should not be planned the Community Development lor the youth, but with the Program to be carried on in ' youth. Everyone knows that if Perquimans County. The Peo- 1 Ihe youth in our communities pies Bank & Trust Company of have no place to go in the coin Hertford has given $750 to bo niunity, they will go elsewhere used as awards. ! to find recreation. A good Robert Long, community de-j.Vuth program in the commun velopment specialist Lorn N. C.;i,.V is one of the best things that State College, explained the,1'"" wme out of this whole pro Community Development Pro- g'"ni. gram. He told the group that Perquimans County was divid community development has four ed into seven communities. The main goals. First of all, in-! representatives of each conimun creasing income in' the com-'ity met to decide if they munity. This can be done by thought their communities would following the recommendations like' to participate in the Com of the land-grant colleges, or munity Development Program, maybe getting together on the All seven of the groups decided production of certain vegetables in favor of the program and or any other methods of in-j they also decided on a date and creasing income such as adding j time for the explanation of the something .new to the present', program to the people of their farming program on the farm in ' communities. When this meet our . communities. The second ing is held in your commuriity, goal is home improvements. The please make every effort to at increase in farm income could tend. These meetings will be possibly affect this goal very most beneficial to you and your much! Such conveniences as children and your community, running water in the home, im-: The meeting dates are as fol provement of Jhe bathroom, kit-, lows: Beech Springs, March 21, chen o! living area of the home. 7:30 P, M. at the Agricultural Also 1 home improvements in- ciuae cleaning p arounci me home, improving the family rec reation area at home and many other improvements such as painting homes and barns or planting shrubs and flowers around the home. The third goal is community projects. This goal Would be accomplished by people in the community work ing together to clean up grave yards, churches, schools, com munity Dunaings ana ouier pro- Don Juan Manager Guest Speaker At Jape Meeting Charlie Schneer, local mana ger of the Don Juan Manufac turing Co., was speaker at the monthly dinner meeting of the Hertford Jaycees on Wednesday night. : Introduced by Charlie Skinner, program chairman, he spoke on the work of the Don Juan plant, the number of peo ple employed and its general mechanics. Marion ' , Swindell, president, welcomed six members of the the Hertford Club with, the dis-l trict "Bouncing' .Ball". ,; A, sym bol of ihtqrclub relations, "the ball has ' to! ' be passed on to another distridt club within two weeks after ; receiving it. ; During-? the ' 'short . business! meeting,' plans were made to at tend 1 the ' -district' meeting ' ,in . . : . .. t AnosKie . on Apru p. neporis were heard from Ab Williams, "My True Security" Chairman, Gil Underwood, Chairman of "Teenager' of the Year." Hilton White, Membership ' Chairman. John Beers, .co-chairman of the Red Cross Blood program, an nounced the Bloodmobile will, be in Hertford on March 28 and urged the; support of all the members. - . , . MASONS TO MEET . Perqulmaiis Masonic Lodtfe No. .in6, . A. P.. & A. M.. will incut Tuesday niiilU t 8 o'clock, Carolina, Friday, March 18, 1960. Building in Hertford; Winfall March 22, 7:30 P. M, at Winfall Community Building; New Hope, March 24, 7:30 P. M. at New Hope Community Building; Woodville-Chapanoke, March 28, 7:30 P. M., no meeting place at present; Bethel, March 29, 8 P. M., the Bethel Community Building; Whitestan, March 31, 7:30 P. M.j at the Whiteston Community Building, and Belvi dere, April 4, 7:30 P. M. at Bel videre Community Building. Baptist Sunday School Meeting Set March 20th C. R. Vann. superintendent of the Chowan Baptist Association al Sunday School, has announced that the second of two spring meetings will be held Sunday afternoon, March 20, in the Great Hope Baptist Church, at 3 o'clock. It will begin with a demonstration of an opening as sembly by Joe Gantt of Edenton, which will be followed by a question and discussion period on the Opening assembly. The general them for the session is the '. ministry of the Sunday School 'as a Unit and as part of the church ministry. ; These departmental ' superin tendents will lead the discussion: Mrs. Carol Jackson, cradle roll; Mrs. Lynn Davenport, .nursery; Mrs.' Harley Berry, ; beginner; Mrs. Cecil Basnight, primary; Miss Anne Wells, -junior;', Mrs. A. ; R. Cook, : intermediate; Al Newsom'e, , young people; ' Mrs. G. M. Singletary, extension. ' The superintendent of train ing; A. J. Eure, Jr., has arrang ed a display of literature and periodicals for Sunday School use which are available from the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Conven tion. " i, John M. Elliott of Edenton is secretary-treasurer for the As sociatibnal Sunday School or ganuatiotu . ' ToStartMouday With 1200 Quota ': ;.; r. . .. . t ;4 . Perquimans County's annual Red Cross fund drive will get underway next Monday, accord- ling to an announcement, ; by I Claude Williams, chapter chair I man, who stated the 1960 quota j for Perquimans County is $1,200. Fund chairmen for each of the I five townships of the county are , being selected to direct the I fund campaign in their respec : tive townships. This list is still j incomplete but will be announc ed at a later date, j Funds raised in this drive will j be used to carry out the Red i Cross program within Perquim ans County which includes home service, the blood program, dis aster program and others and at the same time helps supple ment the national fund chest. Mr. Williams urges the public to give generously to the Red Cross fund, pointing out a full membership is only one dollar. I and he hopes every citizen will j join when asked, to help Pct jquimans County reach its $1,200 goal. ; House to house canvass will be made by volunteer solicitors and individuals are urged to be prepared to make their dona tions when the solicitor calls the first time. This will aid the so licitors to complete the drive by the end of March. Rev. Brown Speaks At PTA Meeting On Thursday night, March 10, the Hertford Grammar School PTA met in the auditorium of the school for their regular meet ing. Mrs. Robert Hollowell, president, called the meeting to order and presented Carroll Williams, who used Psalm 23 as the devotional and remarked that it is the "tranquilizer" of all j times. Program chairman, Mrs. : Talrnadge Rose, introduced the j guest speaker, the Rev. W. S. Brown, pastor of Woodville Bap tist Church. Speaking on the topic "Our Children Cur Concern," Mr. Brown stated that parents have a responsibility that is unequal I in raising generations of lead-' ers. Since serving on a juvenile ; delinquency committee in South Norfolk, most of his remarks concerned this problem. One of these remarks was that juvenile delinquency begins with paren tal delinquency. Emphasis was j period. placed on the fact that if par-1 Miss Yamada will be the ents don't teach their children to wetk-end guest of the Rev. and respect authority, they fail .their j Mrs. James A. Aimian. On Sat-(.-hildren. Mr. Brown also said j urday afternoon , at 4 o'clock she that a child who knows discip- j wjn mmt wjtn the primary and line is the happiest child, be- junior boys and girls of the cause he knows someone . loves j church, who would like an op and cares for him and is' con- j pwiUnity to know more about corned about his direction. It Japanese Christian living: Sun was pointed out that an import-1 day morning at the church ant contributing factor towards ; scnoo) hour, Miss Yamada will juvenile delinquency was the , .spcak to the Adult Division, as lack of Bible training in the lnc three classes meet together home -parents will not find a j for 'her message, higher code of ethics than the1 ones found in the study of the i Bible. In closing, Mr. Brown! said, "begin in the home to change the trend of juvenile de-j linquency." j Mrs. Hollowell presided at the j business meeting; the secretary, Mrs. John Winslow, read the ' minutes of the last meeting, which were approved. The treasurer, Mrsi" Freeman Long, reported a balance of $743.05 in the treasury. The study chairman, Mrs. Walter Edwards, extended her Continued on Page Six Indians To Open Baseball Season ; Perquimans High Schbot will open its 1960 baseball season next Tuesday with contest to be played at Chowan High School. E. C. Woodard, school principal, announced the 1960 schedule is as yet incomplete but Coach Ike Perry is working to secure a number of games to fill out the season, along with the Albemarle Conference games. PTA TO - MEET The PTA of Central Grammar School will meet next Monday night, March 21, at 7:30 o'clock in the auditorium at the school. All members - are urged to attend, Board Concludes Equalization,' Job On Property Values Japanese Student To Keynote Rally Methodist Church Miss Masako Yamada, Jan ar.ese student at Louisburg Col lege, will be tile keynote speaker M the Elizabeth City District Methodist Youth Rally Satur day, March 21. beginning at 11 o'clock in the morning at First Methodist Church in Hertford Several hundred young pco.ile from tne district tire expected to 'attend this annual spring rally which will also highlight Chris tian vocations. During the morning hour there will be three brief talks by Herbert. Harrell, a student at Duke University; Harry Thomas, vocational counsellor at Eliza beth City High School, and Mrs. Charles Saunders, . clistrk:; director of church school work. District Directors of Youth Work, the Rev. Robert Bundy of Swan Quarter and the Rev. Owen Fitzgerald ot Murfrees uoro, vi bo in charge of this session. Miss Yainacia w ill speak dur ing the afternoon session, which will follow a picnic lunch at 12:30 in the fellowship hall of the host church. The Rev. James Aunian is host pastor. Franklin McGoogan' is president of the Methodist Youth Fellowship of the Hertford Church and will preside at the opening service. Larry Willis of Hertford will lead the opening devotional 4-H County Council Given Reports On Club Activities The Perquimans County 4-H Club County Council held its regular meeting March 10 at the Agriculture Building with 40 4-H'ers parents and friends present for the .meeting. Ver non Winslow presided over the group. Ann Benton- had the devo tional. Committee reports were heard from the National Club Week committees. The finance committee ; chairman, Carolyn Faye Rogerson, reported that ap proximately $140 was made from the barbecue chicken sup per. She reported that at a meeting the committee had dis cussed, selling Perquimans Coun ty license tags, litter bags and the possibilities of sponsoring a dance. Beth Hurdle reported that exhibits had been placed downtown and posters distribut ed over the county. Joe Towe White reported on the 4-H elec tric workshops, j He said that the group was, making extension cords at the present time. ' The group voted to sell 4-H (Couliuuad oa Pays I) V, L ' K. I 5 Cents Per Cop?. Commissioners for Perquimans County, silting as a board of equalization and review, con cluded the task of reviewing property values for 1961 taxes on Tuesday of this week, after handling a very limited number uf complaints arising from the revaluation project now being completed. Opening the review meeting :i Monday the board conferred . with about 21) property owners the first day and a lesser num ber on Tuesday. Following these hearings the Commission ers reviewed a number of list- ; inys e:ted during informal hear ings conducted by the appraisal company which supervised the l evaluation program. Notices on action taken by the Board of Equalization and ' Re-, view will be mailed to the in terested property owners within the next few days. ' Under the state law governing listing and assessing, no changes can now be made by the Com missioners until March of 19C1. Lack of protest on the part of a large number of property own ers indicated most of the county.-': is picascd with the results of the revaluation, even though values have been increased counly-wide. placing assessments .m a more equal basis and m line with present day values. One property owner appearing jel'ore the Commissioners ex pressed satisfaction with the , program and reported that the salues placed on propcrtv m Perquimans is in line with values used in other Counties . ivlvch hav : made a revaluation during the past three years. Under the revaluation p;o grani. final figures, wULjiol-, available for several weeks yet, pending completion by the tax supervisor, it is estimated real . property values in Perquimans County will about double the figures for the current year. Some reduction will be noted in the total value of personal prop erty but the overall totals will peimit the Board of Commis sioners to make a substantial , reduction in the cojnly tax rate I for 1961. Perquimans High Honor Roll Lists Fifty-one Pupils Firty-one students at Perquim ans High School were listed on -1he school's honor roll for the lourth grading period, which closed last Friday, according to an announcement by E. C. Wood-.; aid, school principal. Students winning scholastic honors were: Ninth Grade: Reggie Baker, Freddie Combs, Perry Monds, Jimmy Perry, Charles Woodaird, Irma Bundy. Mary Beth Hurdle, Gloria Miller, Lydia Riddick, Price Monds, Wayne Chaippell, Rachacl Bass. Susan Cox, Jo Ann Holloman. , Ninth Grade: Betsy Barbee, Mike Holloman, Janice Stan ton, Wayne Winslow, Verna Ann Perry, Judy Baker. Tenth Grade: Frank Ainsley, Sidney Long, Paige Chappell, Wade Morgan, Percy Davis, Googan, Pete Alton Daniels, Franklin Mc Cook, Brenda Smith, Eleventh Grade: Hubert Bur den, Linda Bass, Dianne . Hollo well, Carroll McDonnell, Mary Frances Baker, Connie Boyce, Phyllis Mendren. Twelfth Grade: Willis Wil liams, Pauline Baccus, Linda Lou Elliott, Mary Lee Glenn, Clay Stokes, Linda Kirby, Bren da Elliott, Selba Jean Hall, Sanne Lane, Katherine Sawyer, Arlene . Stallings, Carolyn . White, Bar bara Colson, Frances Winslow, Carl Skinner. Recorder's Court In Recess Tuesday Perquimans Recorder's Court was in. recess Tuesday of this week due to the April term of Sapericur Court which convened on Monday! , Cases listed on the I Recorder's docket are - set for healing newt TucsJuy,.,-