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Easter Seal Appeal Is
Underway In Perq. Co.
: The 1970 Easter Sat Appeal in
Perquimans County got un
derway this week with 1964 ap
peal letters delivered Saturday
according to Mrs. Marion S.
Swindell, Easter Seal Chairman.
The appeal, now in its 35th year
in North Carolina, seeks funds for
providing rehabilitation services
for crippled children and adults.
Working with this year's Ap
peal are Mrs. Swindell as
chairman, Mrs. Joe Towe White
as treasurer and the Hertford
Business and Professional
Women's Club as sponsor.
: More than 3300 North
Carolinians were helped through
the Easter Seal programs last
year. Primary emphasis locally
I has been purchase of therapy and
! ether care, transportation to
rtnedical centers and
various
other special individual needs
Additionally in N. C., 200
handicapped youngsters and
young adults attend Camp
Easter-in-the-Pines in Southern
Pines each summer. With
specially designed facilities for
the handicapped, the activities at
Camp Easter are geared towards
campers in wheelchairs and withbgrrett of VEPCO.
Chaplain Cherry
To Speak At Holy
Trinity Sunday
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Chaplain Corbin L. Cherry,
Captain in the United Stated
Army, and now at Walter Reed
general Hospital, will deliver the!
sermon ai we service ot Morning
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Prayer at Holy Trinity EpiscopalUuditorium. Tickets are priced at
Church, Hertford
on
Sunday,
March 8 at 11:00
.m.
Captain
Iftrrv ia tha aAn a( . Mm
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zabeth Cherry of Hertford.
CM. Miller, jr. Is State
Winner in Corn Contest
Max and Emory Carland,
Horse. Shoe, in Henderson
County, had the top yield in the
state of North Carolina in the
National ..Corn Growers
Association's 1969 National Non
Irrigated Corn Yield Contest with
a yield of 192.04 bushels per acre
on a 25 acre field, the Association
announced today.- W
Five hundred forty-five en -
tranta in 36 states ranging from
coast to coast competed tor ine a
top national trophies which go to
each of the winners ' in the
Association's two contests - one
for those farmers who grow
Irrigated corn and one for those
who grow with natural rainfall
only; The contest field had to be
at least 25 acres in size. In the
1"C9 National Irrigated Contest 9
c itries had yields over the 200
' 3hels per acre mark and in the
'tonal Non-Irrigated Contest, 4
were over the 200 mark.
-?nd place winner In North
Cuxljia was John C. McLean,
I.orcs Shoe, in Henderson
Ccvjiiy, with yield of 179.45
vcls per acre on a 25 acre
J. B. M. MUler,'., Hertford,
Perqnians County, placed
: i in U.8 state in the National
m-Irrigsted Contest . with a
, c!d of 177.78 bushels per acre on
S acre fldJ. ' .
f William Cretzlra: of Fall
Ivor In Sou-antral Wisconsin
other physical limitations.
Attorney General Robert
Morgan, as 1970 State Easter Seal
Chairman, leads more than 1,000
volunteers statewide in the ap
peal which runs through Eastet -
sunaay, marcn a.
"Heating, Cooling
And Insulating"
"Heating, Cooling, ' and ','. In
sulating" will be the topic for the
fourth in a series of Housing
meetings. The session will be
March 9, 1970 at 7:30 p.m. at the
County Office Building. The
public is invited.
R. M. Thompson, County
Agricultural Extension Chair
man rtiAivan Pntinfv will rw
Lj0(jerator or tne ges8j0n
Resource people who have been
invited to take part in the
program include Joe Conger of
Edenton, George Payne of
Elizabeth City, Paul Byrum of
Hertford, Bert White of Elizabeth
City, Raymond Lassiter of
Hertford. John Coston of
Albemarle Electric, and John
Mrs. Ela Grey White, Home
Economics Extension Agent says
"We hope that, the people of
fa
heating or cooling systems will
nave an opportunity to compare
the various systems and will be
able to make a sound decision in
selecting the one that best fits
their home".
Irving Barclift
Feted On Birthday
Irving Barclift was honored at
uu umay party given oy ma wue
at their home, 507 Penn, Avenue.
'on February .24. .ir'.,; jhk.
serving' table" was centered'
with a floral arrangement and
lighted tapers. Birthday cake,
punch, nuts, mints and chips
were served to the guests.
Attending were Mr. and Mrs.
M. B. Dail, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy
Byrum, Mr. and Mrs. C. D.
Barclift, Mr. and Mrs. Marion
Swindell, Mrs. Sally Rountree,
Mrs. C. E. Cannon, Miss Cornelia
Cannon, Mrs. Norman Elliott,
Mrs. Dilbon Young and John
Young.:'
Y'AU Come
The 1970 Heart Fund Variety
Show is scheduled for Friday
March 6, at 8 p.m. in the PCHS
K1.00 for adults and $.50 for
children.
Everybody come out and help
fn this worthy cause.
won first place nationally in the
National Non-Irrigated Contest
with a yield of 238.42 bushels per
acre. Elvln Remmers of Firth, in
Eastern Nebraska, won the
National- Irrigated Contest at
238.0 bushels per acre. Darrell
Ask, Butterfield, Minnesota, with
a yield of 206.12 bushels per acre
placed Second in the National
Non - Irriiiated and
Irrigated
Contests respectively,
Carland's field was spring
plowed and planted at the rate of
34,000 seeds per acre in 38 inch
rows on April 29. Four hundred
pounds of 12-24-24 and 200 pounds
of Nitrogen were - applied as
fertilizer. At planting time, 10
pounds per. acre of Disyston was
applied as Insecticide. Also at
planting 'time, 1.5 . pounds of
Atrazine and 1.5 pounds of
Slmlslne was applied as her
bicide.
Max and Emory Carland will
receive their first place state
trophy at a presentation to be
made at a meeting honoring state
winners and the 3 top national
winners in both the National
Irrigated and Non-Irrigated
Contests, which will be held by
the National Corn Growers
Association in Des Moines, Iowa,
tat the Fort Des Moines Hotel on
April 7, at the
Association's
Annual Meeting.
Perquimans
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THE PERQUIMANS COUNTY FOOD Commodity Warehouse and
Hertford Freezer Locker Plant on Grubb St. to the former Trl-Wa j
at the end of the Causeway across the highway from Dick's Drive
manager, said that the hours will remain the same, from 8:30 a.m. to
Perquimans District
Court Convenes Wed.
Judge Fentress Horner
presided at the Wednesday
session of Perquimans County
District Court and disposed of the
following cases:
Joe Franklin Brower, Jr.,
charged with driving under the
influence of intoxicating liquor,
driving the vehicle Involved in a
collision and failing to stop, was
given a 6 months sentence, which
was suspended upon payment of a
fine of $300.00 and costs. An
appeal was noted and bond was
set at $500.00;
James Oscar Wells, also
charged with driving under the
influence of intoxicating liquor,
was given an is months road
sentence. An appeal was noted
and bond was set at $500.00;
Oliver Cartwright, charged
with. abandonment, and. .non-
Students Earn
Honor list Places
Nearly one in six East Carolina
University students last fall
made high enough grades to earn
places on the university's official
honor lists.
About 19 per cent of the
students a total of 1818 were
officially commended on the
three honors lists. The honorees
include 1461 North Carolinians
and 357 from out of state.
Most elite among the honor
students are the 157 who made all
A's (1). Next are those who made
the Dean's List (2) by earning a
solid B-plus average with no
krade below C.
The Honor Roll (3) includes
those students who made a B
average with no grade below C.
Students from Perquimans
County listed on the Honor Rolls
are: Gale Sharman Taylor, Jane
Walters, Paul G. Ward, and
Cynthia Ann Winslow.
World Day Of
Prayer
The Women of First United
Methodist and Holy Trinity
Episcopal Churches in Hertford
will join millions of people on
March 6, 1970, in a bond of prayer
spanning six continents.- Prayers
will be offered in seventy-five
languages and thousands of
dialects. World Day of Prayer is
sponsored in the United States by
Church Women United and will
Celebrated in 25,000 ;com-
munities. : , '
The Prayer Service wlU be
conducted by the Church Women
in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
beginning at 4:00 p.m. Par
ticipating will be: , Mrs. Jessie
Harris, Mi s. Walter Edwards,
Mrs. . Chester Andrews, Mrs.
Edwin T. Williams, Mrs. Charles
Skinner, Jr. and Mrs. H., A.
Whitley. '
This annual chain of prayer
links the first voice at dawn in the
tropical Tongas, just west of the
International Date Line, with
millions of others as it passes
throughout the Day across oceans
ind continents. By nightfaU, its
nessage of hope will have
allowed the sun's arc until the
last prayers are said in Hawaii
end the islands of Alaska.. . -
QUIMAM
Hertford, Perquimans County,
County Welfare
i m-- lis i ' liii
support, received a sentence of 2
years, which was suspended upon
payment of $1,000.00 to his wife by
April 1 and $1,000.00 per year for
10 years and also to pay his wife
$100.00 monthly for his wife's
support beginning April 1 until
further ordered by the court. An
appeal was noted and appeal
bond was set at $500.00 and
performance bond was set at
$1,000.00.
A divorce was granted during
the session of Civil District Court
in the case of Emma Liverman
Gibbs vs Cleveland Gibbs.
C0A To Offer
Slimnastics And
DeewurgeQasses
Women's slimnastics and
decoupage will be offered in
Perquimans County by the COA
Adult Education Division. These
classes will begin Tuesday,
March 10. Registration will be
held Monday, March 9, from 7-8
p.m. at the P. C. H. S. library.
Registration fee is $2.00.
Because of the interest in past
classes, an early registration is
suggested. For further in
formation call 426-5344 after 4:00
p.m. ':
Rev. McCarver
Guest Minister
Revival Services
The Reverend C. G. McCarver,
Superintendent of the Wilmington
District, win be guest minister at
the First United Methodist
Church, Hertford, N. C. for
Revival Services, according to
the pastor the Reverend C. J.
Andrews. .'',.
The services will begin March
8th at the morning worship hour
and continue nightly at 7:30
through FridayMarch 13th.
Rev. McCarver is a native oi
Vidette, Ga.; a graduate of the
University of Georgia and Duke
Divinity School. He was admitted
into North ; Carolina Annual
Conference In 1944. In more
recent years, he has served as
pastor of Troy, Washington, N. C.
and Chapel Hill. He has served
with distinction on various
boards and committees in the
conference. . . ;
We are happy to have Rev.
McCarver as our guest minister,
andtake this opportunity to invite
the public to join us in these
services each evening," said
Reverend Andrews.
North Carolina, March 5. 1970
Store Mom
m
office moved March 2 from the
Service Station Building located
In. Mrs. Wallace Morgan, local
4 p.m.
Social Workers At
Two-Day Institute
At Caswell Center
The Social Service Department
at Caswell Center, Kinston, North
Carolina, one of the four state
residential centers for the
mentally retarded, is sponsoring
a series of two-day Institutes for
social workers, public health
nurses, parole and probation
officers, mental health workers,
and other key community people.
The purpose of the institutes is to
present factual information
about the Center, Including its
purpose, goals, limitations and
problems, to stimulate
cooperative efforts on behalf of
the retarded by all community
agencies, and to present an
overview of mental retardation
as a total Community problem.
According to Mr. Melvin Kurzer,
Director of Social Service at
Caswell Center, invitations are
ended to -representatives
serving mental health regions,
and to state consultants for those
regions. Mrs. Mary E. Belch of
the Perquimans County Health
Department, and Mr. William G.
George of the Perquimans
County Social Services Depart
ment, attended the February 26
and 27 Institute.
William Stallings
Aux. Meets Thurs.
The Wm. Paul Stallings Post
126 American Legion Auxiliary
will hold its monthly meeting
Thursday, March 5, at 8 o'clock.
AU members are cordially in
vited to come and celebrate the
birthday of the American Legion.
Local Students
On Dean's List
Two hundred and two Atlantic
Christian College students
earned places on the Dean's List
for academic achivement during
the fall semester of the current
academic year, according to Dr.
Lewis H. Swindell Jr., dean of the
college.
To earn places on the Dean's
List students must achive at least
at 3.20 (B-plus) grade average for
the semester while carrying a
minimum of 12 semester hours.
Students named from
Perquimans are: Joyce Ann
Copeland, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Copeland of Rt. 2,
Hertford, and Richard Riley
Gibbs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Gibbs of Woodland Circle,
Hertford.
County Commissioners
Have Meeting Monday
The Perquimans County Board
of Commissioners -met Monday
for their monthly session and
approved the Road Petition for
improvement of Road 1334, near
New Hope Township, by the State
Highway Commission. ';'
' Richard Bryant of Gatesville
was employed by the Board to
serve as Agricultural Extension
Service Chairman for the County.
Mr. Bryant win replace R. M.
Schoolchildren Urged To
Use Caution with Eclipse
The safest way to watch the
solar eclipse on March 7 is by
viewing the phenomenon on
television, State School
Superintendent Craig Phillips
advised school children this
week.
Paul Taylor, Director of the
Division of Science Education for
the Department of Public In
struction, said "Sunglasses,
smoked glass, exposed
photographic film, and welder's
goggles are not safe for watching
the eclipse. Only by indirect
methods, such as television or by
the indirect pinhole method can
the eclipse be observed without
damage to the eyes."
Thousands of handbills were
mailed to each school system last
week to advise children and their
parents of possible eye damage
while watching the eclipse direct.
The National Society for the
Prevention of Blindness, Inc. and
other agencies are cooperating in
advising the general public.
Taylor said the danger of the
retinal burn comes from the
invisible infrared rays which
penetrate light filters and in
stantaneously damage eyes. The
retina is not sensitive to pain,atehas one Representative in
henceforth, the victim might not
immediately be aware of eye
damage. Retinal burns are in
curable and destroy the field of
fine vision. The victim's ability to
read is lost forever.
In 1959, 170 people (mostly
school children), suffered per
manent damage to the sight of
one or both eyes. In 1963, one-half
Amount Of Income
Determines If Tax
Return Is Required
The amount of your income is a
key factor in determining
whether you have to file a
Federal income tax return, J. E.
Wall, District Director of In
ternal Revenue for North
Carolina, said today.
Anyone under 65 years of age
with a gross income of $600 or
more for the year has to file a
return. This requirement applies
to minors, students, single and
married alike.
No return is required from
anyone 65 or older on the last day
of the tax year unless the gross
income was $1200 or more.
However, when the income is
under these limits a return should
be filed to get a refund of any
income tax withheld from
salaries or wages.
Businessmen, farmers, and
other self-employed persons must
file a return of their net earnings
from self-employment were $400
or more.
Publication 528, "Information
on ruing Your rax Keturn,
furnishes more detailed in
formation. It may be obtained by
dropping a post card to the
District Director, Internal
Revenue Service, 320 South Ashe
Street, Greensboro, N. C, 27401.
Teacher Completes
Workshop At UNC
J. Sidney Eley of Hertford,
teacher at Perquimans Union,
has just completed a statewide
workshop for chemistry teachers
held at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The workshop, sponsored by
the UNC School of Education and
the State Department of Public
Instruction, was funded by the
National Science Foundation.
The Workshop was designed to
upgrade teaching of chemistry in
the state's school system. More
than 100 teachers attended.
Thompson, who resigned to move
to Chowan County.
The Board voted to set the
Sheriff's salary at $6,500.00 per
year beginning Dec. 1, 1970.
A motion was passed stating
that in 1970 aU real and personal
property be in the same is
assessed at 50 percent of the
appraised value and said SO
percent of the appraised value
studl be used for taxing property.
WEEKLY
of the country's ophthalmologists
reported 247 cases of permanent
damage.
"Teachers and parents should
caution children as to the possible
dangers. Without question the
safest method for viewing the
solar eclipse is by watching it on
television," Phillips said.
Elizabeth Tucker
Gets County NC8L
Appointment
Elizabeth Gordon Tucker of
Hertford has been appointed
Perquimans County Represen
tative in North Carolinians for
Better Libraries, Inc. (NCBL).
She succeeds Mrs. J. Emmett
Winslow of Hertford.
State Senator Hector MacLean
of Lumberton, NCBL president,
said Miss Tucker will act as
liaison between library
interested citizens of her county
and Raleigh headquarters of the
statewide organization.
NCBL, a non-profit corporation
formed in 1967 to work for im
oroved public libraries and
librarv services throushout the
each of the 100 counties
Miss Tucker, a native of
Perquimans County, received her
education at St. Mary's Junior
College in Raleigh. She served as
Registrar for this college from
1946 until her retirement in 1968.
She is active in the Episcopal
Church.
The purpose of the
organization, North Carolinians
for Better Libraries, is to foster
more interest in public libraries
in North Carolina. NCBL is
largely responsible for per
suading the North Carolina
Legislature in 1969 to appropriate
one-half million dollars of ad
ditional State aid to public
libraries for the first year of the
biennium, and approximately a
million dollars of additional State
aid for the second year of the
biennium. To assure the con
tinued support of the State it is
vital that the residents of North
Carolina contribute to the
organization which acts as lob-byist-NCBL.
NCBL has assigned to each
county in North Carolina a quota,
according to population, to be
contributed for current
operations and debt retirement.
The quota for Perquimans
County is $18.00. All interested
persons are requested to make
contributions for this cause. The
contributions may be made at
Perquimans County Library, or
to Miss Tucker. April 15, 1970, is
the dead-line date for making
contributions.
R. C. Elliott
Accepts Position
At Windsor
R. C. (Bobby) Elliott has ac
cepted the position of Ad
minlstrator of the Town of
Windsor, N. C. He begins his
duties April 1.
He has served as Clerk of the
Town of Hertford for 15 years and
a member of the Hertford
Volunteer Fire Department for 19
years, serving as its Chief for 13
years.
It is with regret that the
residents of the area see him
leave our town, and we wish him
continued success in the future.
Mr. Elliott is married to the
former Ramona Divers and they
have a daughter, Car la, who is a
senior at Perquimans County
High School.
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Citizens Get Chance
To Suggest Change
In Property Taxes
Citizens who would like to
suggest changes in the way
(property taxes are levied across
j the State will be given the chance
I in a series of public hearings.
I Rep. David W. Bumgardner,
I Jr. ot uasion county, uiairman
i ot the Ad valorem lax &tuoy
i Commission, said Tuesday, Feb.
1 24th, that hearings wouia De neio
!in those areas where there is tne
S most citizen interest,
i Rep. Bumgardner cautioned,
however, that persons objecting
J to the tax assessment ratios or
tax rates in their counties should
'not ask to come before the
Commission since these matters
are under the jurisdiction of
Boards of County Com
missioners. Persons desiring to appear
before the Commission should
send a letter, including their
general topic of discussion, to:
The Commission for The Study of
the Local and Ad Valorem Tax
Structure, 671 Revenue Building,
Raleigh, North Carolina, 27602.
The Commission was set up by
the 1969 General Assembly. Also
serving on the Commission are:
Marvin L. Speight, Jr., Vice
Chairman, Farmville, Rep. Ike
F. Andrews, Siler City, Senator
Harry Bagnal, Winston-Salem,
Mr. Maxton Bass, Newton Grove,
Rep. W. T. Culpepper, Jr.,
Elizabeth City, Senator Edward
F. Griffin, Louisburg and Senator
Clyde M. Norton, Old Fort.
Belvidere Youth
Rescued From
Burning Auto
Oscar Glenn Jones, 19-year-old
youth, of Rt. 2, Belvidere was
rescued from his flaming auto at
12:30 a.m. Saturday after liis 1968
Dodge ran off the road and
skidded about 250 feet.
Charlie Fowler of Winfall
saved the boy and the call was
answered by the Winfall Fire
Department.
Jones is listed in satisfactory
condition at the Albemarle
Hospital.
Investigation is being con
inued by Officer F. A. Wor-
thington.
Two Local Students
Win Essay Contest
At the February meeting of the
Edenton Tea Party Chapter of the
Daughters of the American
Revolution, Mrs. W. B. Shepard,
chairman of the local American
History Essay contest introduced
the four winners of the local
contest, two of whom are from
Perquimans County schools.
Waverly Ann Copeland,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
S. Copeland, a student at Hert
ford Grammar School, won in the
seventh grade, and Joyce Erleen
Hollowell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Hollowell, a student
at Perquimans County High
School was winner in the eighth
grade. This is the second con
secutive win for Joyce as she won
in seventh grade competition in
1969.
The subject of this year's essay
was Tne Declaration oi in
dependence and Its Signers."
Miss Copeland and Miss
Hollowell are to be commended
for their fine work and in
teresting papers. Six schools
participated in this contest, with
a total of 130 papers being en
tered in competition.
March 20 Deadline
Filing For Office
W. T. (Buddy) Tilley,
Perquimans County Board of
Elections Chairman, announced
today that the deadline is March
20 at 12 noon for filing for can
didacy for office during the 1970
Election.
At the present R. S. Monds has
filed for candidacy for County
Commissioner for District 1; G.
H. (Tuck) Webb has filed for
County Commissioner for
District 3; Jarvis Ward is seeking
re-election for Clerk of Court,
Clifford Winslow has filed for
Belvidere Township on the Board
of Education and Ralph F-.
HarreU has filed for New Hope
Township on the Board of
lEducation.