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Volume XXVII -41
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, October 8, 1970
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"Perquimans Tri
Locals Show Off
Costumes
Colonial coftumet and beardi
not neceuarily on the aame
people - are what we'll be teeing
plenty of next week ai folks dress
up and or go shaveless in
celebration of the county's 300th
birthday. In costume are Jean
Harrison, Chamber of Com
merce secretary and Becky
Winslow. Beneath the beard and
the bowler Is Chamber Manager
Frank Roberts.
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Spivey Named
Chairman For
Disfrict Jail
R.L. Spivey of Hertford has been named chairman
of the Albemarle District Jail and will retain the post
until Jan. 1, 1973 when new officers are scheduled to
be fleeted.
A report of ibejail jconimittee
meeting held Saturday was given
to. Pasquotank Commissioners
this morning by their chairman
Fred P. Markham who also
represents the county on the jail
committee. Elizabeth City Police
ft Chief Clarence Owens is the
' other member of the Albemarle
District Jail committee.
Pasquotank commissioners
approved a sum of $2,730, their
per capita share, for planning of
the new jail facility.
Perquimans' share of the initial
planning fund will be $770.
Markham reported the jail
committee has agreed to allow
Camden County to participate in
the District Jail if they agree to
this action by Jan. 1, mi.
Originally Camden had planned
to be a part of the first regional
jail established in North
Carolina. They later objected to
Pasquotank having more votes
concerning the operation of the
facility. Camden was also
sharing in the jail planning on a
per capita basis and was entitled
to one representative the same
1 as Perquimans.
Mac Miller, Pasquotank
County auditor,' will serve as
treasurer for the new jail and
will be bonded for $50,000 in
connection with this work. The
group also agreed to meet the
first Wednesday night of each
month in Pasquotank Court
house. A representative of J. R.
Williams and Associates, ar
chitects for the jail which will be
located just off South Hughes
Boulevard, will meet with the
jail committee in Elizabeth City
Tuesday morning.
Itymn'i Bap 0t Jfirs"t
4tletrjorjtt ttouer Utfj
' Laymen's Day will be ob
served at the First United
Methodist Church in Hertford on
, Sunday, October 11, at the
morning worship hour. The
general theme for this annual
observance is "Common Faith
Common Commitment". W. D.
Cox is Church Lay Leader, and
will be presiding at this service.
Eddie Barber will lead the
morning prayer; Charles
-' Murray will lead in the reading
of the Responsive Scripture; and
' Charles Eley will read the
; Scripture lesson.
Three" meditations will con
stitute an Important part of the
C, service, as follows: "One Faith
'" One Commitment" by Cecil
Clock To Be
OnDisplay
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This antique clock belongs to
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Jackson and
is one of many old-time Items
that you'll see on display next
week or in the parade' on
Saturday. There will also be
dated copies of the Perquimans
Weekly which you can see in the
courthouse. All are items
designed to evoke memories -
happy ones, we hope.
. A Jetter. .from- Clifton- Craig,
approving plans for the proposed
jail was read. Craig, chairman of.
the Detention Division of the
North Carolina Social Services
Department, had given
Pasquotank until Sept. 26 to have
workable plans for the new
detention facility or face the
possible closing the present jail
constructed in 1889.
Commissioners adopted a
resolution proclaiming October
as United Fund month at the
request of Stanley Peel, drive
chairman. -
Wesley Cullipher gave a report
on the annual state convention of
county commissioners held last
week in Wilmington. He outlined
briefly a resolution approved by
those attending concerning the
"escalating costs and abuses of
Social Service Programs" with
emphasis placed on Medicaid,
The resolution Afurther stated
that services "must be con
trolled with local officials having
a larger voice in the ad
ministration of Social Service
programs and that if the Federal
government determines it is
feasible to provide 100 per cent
Federal financing, of such
programs that local officials
endorse such action."
Pasquotank Commissioners
agreed the resolution as ap
proved would not . bring any
immediate relief to the in
creasing costs of social service
programs.
Cullipher also gave a report of
the organization meeting of the
Economic Development
Association held Friday at which
time he was elected temporary
chairman.
Edward Winslow; "While We
Were Yet Sinners" by James P.
Harrell; and "Communicating
the Laymen's Day Theme" by
Richard Bryant. .
A warm invitation is issued to
everyone to attend this special
observance.
ybodard Passes
; Examination
Charles Twoodard has been
advised that he successfully
passed the State Board Phar
maceutical Examination and is
now a Registered Pharmacist.
Mr. Woodard is currently
employed at Harmon's Phar
macy.
- Centennial Celebration
Winners In Punt,
Pass, Kick Contest
Announced
Cecil E -Winslow of Winslow
Blanchard Motor Company
releases the following list of
winners in the Punt, Pass and
Kick Competition sponsored
locally by Winslow-Blanchard
Motor Company and held Sunday
afternoon at Perquimans High
athletic field.
In the agp 8 group Kenneth
Paul took first place with a total
score of 102. He was competing
with six.
Byron Paul won first in the age
9 group, competing against
seven. He scored 127.
Matthews Miller won first in
the age 10 group. His score was
148.
Kevin Fields won first place in
the age 12 group, competing with
nine he scored 181.
Clark Winslow scored 298 in
the 13 year old group competing
with 7.
The above winners will
compete at Roanoke Rapids, N.
C. Saturday October 10 at 10:00
a.m.
Mansfield Named
To Staff Of
Sandhill College
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Dr. James J. Altendorf, dean
of instruction at Sandhills
Community College, has an
nounced the appointment of
Jesse R. Mansfield to the staff as
(vocational guidance coordinator.
A native of Hertford, N.C., he
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S.J.
Mansfield, and has been serving
as minister of the Selma Baptist
Church in Selma. He also has
served churches in Rocky Mount
and Elizabeth City, and worked
with the College of the
Albemarle.
Mr. Mansfield has a
Bachelor's Degree in philosophy
and religion from Atlantic
Christian College, a Bachelor of
Divinity Degree and the
Master's of Divinity from the
Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
Dr. Gardner
Resumes Practice
Dr. Robert E. Gardner, has
resumed his practice of general
medicine in Hertford following
knee surgery he underwent
during July and his
recuperation.
Still recuperating from the
knee surgery, when asked how
he felt Dr. Gardner who has a
great sense of humor jovially
quoted one of hi- favorite Mark
Twain sayings, "my death has
been greatly exaggerated .
Dr. Gardner stated that at the
present time his office will be at
his home at 508 Dobb Street in
Hertford. The phone number is
426-7979. He will announce his
office hours next week.
Smoke Hampers
Many Perquimans
Residents
Smoke engulfed most of
Perquimans County here
Tuesday morning and caused
many people wno live outsme
Hertford and who work here and
elsewhere to not get to work and
some even ran into the side
ditches because of the visibility.
The smoke coming from woods
fires, and fires from some field
buntings, had not cleared much
by noon Tuesday.
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Tri-Centennial Program
For The Week Oct. 11-17
Sunday, October 11
Horse & Pony Show
Nixon Farm 1:00 p.m.
Preston
Monday, October 12
Pageant Belvidere,
Whiteston, Hickory Cross
Communities Perquimans
County High School, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 13
Spiritual Hymnal Singing,
Perquimans County Courthouse
7:30 p.m., Woodville-Durants
Neck-White Hat-Forrestburg.
Wednesday, October 14
Slides, Albemarle Area,
Courtesy of the Museum of the
Albemarle 7:30 Perquimans
County Courthouse, and
Tri-Centennial Celebration
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It's been 300 years coming but
at last, Perquimans County has a
Tricentennial celebration
coming up. It starts Sunday and
continues until next Saturday,
with something going on every
night and during most of the
daylight hours.
The schedule of events you'll
find elsewhere in today's paper
as well as a story , about the
Saturday afternoon parade.
This Chamber of Commerce
sponsored event has taken
several months to prepare and
has utilized the time and energy
of many good residents. Now all
that's needed is the full and
complete cooperation of the
weather man.
Well there is one more thing
needed. You and your par
ticipation. Join the fun and invite
your family and friends to do the
same.
Remember that in addition to
the events listed there are
displays of many interesting
items in most of the county's
store windows and in the court,
house.
You'll see antiques, dolls
dressed up in period clothers,
copies of the Perquimans Weekly
from years and years back and -you'll
see some of your friends
dressed in colonial costumes or
with beard and old-time hat.
Later in the week there will be
a penny candy store, which
should delight young and old.
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Tom Brown, Perquimans County's Industrial Development
Director, wields an old-fashioned broad axe, typical of those
that were common in this area many years ago. Old-time items,
antiques and the like will be on display during the week of the
Tricentennial celebration. You can see many of them on display
in downtown store windows. They'll bring back memories for
some. For others will, believe it or not,' be something brand
new.
Keystone Cop movies.
Thursday, October 15
Display of old Kitchen, Dar
den's Window, all week, Winfall
Parksville Chapanoke Day.
7th grade tour of the County
(Hertford Grammar School)
Friday, October 16
Tour of Courthouse and
Episcopal Church 10 to 5:00 p.m.
Hertford-Beech Spring-Bear
Swamp Day
7th grade tour of the county
Perquimans Union School.
Saturday, October 17
Perquimans County Day.
Boatarama, Parade, Cake
cutting, Fish Fry, Street Dance.
There will be a few surprises
including some items that we'll
have to categorize as last-minute
ideas and thoughts, still in the
planning stage.
We'll have some special guests
with us, including 1st District
Congressman Walter B. Jones.
So join the Chamber and its
friends for the biiiiig Tricen
tennial celebration. It will be an
education. If you don't like that
though - let us add - it will be a
lot of fun!
An important event during
next week's Tricentennial will be
an open house at Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church.
This will take place on Friday,
October 16 and all of your guides
wi'l be dressed in colonial
costumes. They will show you
many interesting items in the
church and tell you of many
interesting facts about the
church - most of which are not
known by many people in
Perquimans County.
Rev. Edwin Williams extends
a sincere invitation to everyone
to visit Holy Trinity during Open
House on Friday, October 16,
hours 10 to 5:00 p.m.
MORE ON CS TRANSPORT
A House Armed Services
committee has presented a re
port saying the pentagon should
complete the original purchase
order of 120 C5 giant trans
port planes.
Demonstrates0"
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Set Oct.
Commissioners
Increase Sheriff's
Car Budget
The Board of Perquimans
County Commissioners voted
Monday to amend the General
Budget in the amount of
$10,000.00 and transfer same to
the County Board of Education to
supplement the School Budget.
Funds will come from County
Sales Tax.
The Board increased the
Sheriffs Car Budget in the
amount of $1,500.00, with funds to
come from Nationwide In
surance Company, due to a
recent car wreck by the Sheriff's
Department.
The Board also voted to apply
to Farmers Home Ad
ministration for a Grant and
Loan for the purpose of
establishing a Solid Waste
Disposal Program in
Perquimans County.
Haste Gets Chamber
Membership Drive
Underway
The annual Perquimans
County Chamber of Commerce
membership drive is now un
derway giving merchants,
farmers and others the op
portunity to join this busy
organization that has brought
and will continue to bring im
portant programs and events to
the area throughout the year.
Drive Chairman Erie Haste, Jr.
is urging all members to re-join,
give as much as possible. He said
a search is also on for new
Chamber members. The money
is used to promote the county and
programs of import within the
county.
Begins October 10
Saturday, October 10 the
Registration books will open for
voters to register. New residents
and those who have not
registered previously must get
their names on the books in order
to be eligible to vote in the
General Election Tuesday, Nov.
3. 1970.
W. L. Tilly, chairman of the
Perquimans Election Board has
announced the registration books
will be open Saturday, October
10, 17 and 24th for registration.
Saturday October 31 is Challenge
Day. Voters will register on
three successive Saturdays.
Registrars and polling places
are announced elsewhere in this
paper. The registrars will sit at
Dolline places from 9:00 a.m.
until 6:30 p.m. to register voters
Perquimans High
Students Invited
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Perquimans County high
school students, especially
juniors and seniors, are being
invited to attend the annual Open
House program, Saturday,
October 10, at North Carolina
State University in Raleigh.
The Open House is, sponsored
by the University's School of
Agriculture and Life Sciences
and School of Forest Resources.
Open House is held for career
minded high school students,
their parents, teachers and
career advisors. Also invited are
other adults who are interested
in finding out more about the
statewide activities of N.C. State
through its research and ex
tension programs.
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Mrs. Chappell In
Colonial Costume
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Mrs. Doris Chappell, complete
with colonial costume and old
fashioned high-top shoes, shows
off a costume typical of those
that will be seen in the county
during the week of the Tricen
tennial celebration. There will
also be plenty of beards, antiques
on display and a multitude of
interesting activities.
Hertford BPW Club
Selling Candy For
Scholarships
The Hertford Business and
Professional Women's Club
began this week to sell bags of
Halloween Candy for $1.00 each.
Proceeds from this sale will be
used for the scholarship which
the club gives each year to a
graduating senior.
Each person is asked to pur
chase his Trick n Treat candy
from a B.P.W. Club membex.and
at the same time support a
worthwhile project. Mrs. Walter
Humphlett, Jr. is club president.
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Perq. Centennial To
feature A Big Parade
Remember the old song called,
I Love a Parade?"
Well friend, if them's your
sentiments don't miss the giant
sized one the Chamber of
Commerce has lined up for
Saturday, October 17 - with 109
units, so far.
Charlie Skinner was put in
charge of arrangements. And
that's like putting a juicy steak in
front of a starving man.
He dug in and devoted time
and energy to it that, on paper so
far, looks like a long journey for
the participants and a lot of fun
for those of us who can watch the
fun.
It will assemble at the high
school staging area at 3 p.m. and
begin about half an hour later,
going from Edenton Road St., to
Dobb St., past the courthouse
reviewing stand, to Grubb St., to
the shopping center and back to
Edenton Road Street and over to
the staging area - a distance of
about two miles.
The parade will be presented
in three sections, the first
devoted to history.
In that section you'll see a
Jaycee float depicting the well
known oldest deed in the state;
you'll see an enactment of an
early Quaker church service.
There will be a tribute to
Thomas Harvey, a tribute to the
early Methodist circuit riders
and to one of the early Baptist
churches in the area.
There will be a replica of an old
cobbler shop - there will be
Horse & Pony Show To
Lead Off Celebration
Perquimans Horse and Pony
Club, Inc. will lead off the Tri
Centennial celebration week in
Perquimans with a big Horse
and Pony show to be held on their
show ground on the Preston
Nixon farm 1 mile west of
Hertford, Sunday October 11th
The show will consist of Pony
Halter, Halter Class (2 yrs. and
under) ; Halter Class ( 3 yrs. and
under); Children's Go-As-You
Please; Open Go-As-You'
P lease (all ages); Pony Barrel
Race (52" and under):: Open
Barrel Race; Children and
Youth Western Pleasure (16 yrs.
Chamber President
Shows Off Beard
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Chamber of Commerce
President Joe Now ell, Jr. is one
of many in Perquimans County
sporting a handsome (?) beard
for the forthcoming Tricen
tennial. There will also be ladies
in colonial costume, plenty of
antiques on display and enough
events for the eight days of the
celebration to keep everyone
occupied and happy. And
important - be sure to watch the
Mildred Alexander Show,
Friday, October 9 at 1 p.m.
You'll see Joe, you'll see pictures
of the Tricentennial and - you'll
see the now-famed Nowell beard.
Guest Speaker
The Honorable Congressman
Walter B. Jones of Washington,
D.C. will be the guest speaker at
the Whiteville Grove A.M.E. Zion
Church's Annual Homecoming
Services Sunday, October 11,
1970 at 2:00 p.m.
Dinner will be served at the
church. Music will be furnished
by some of the best groups of the.
city, according to the Rev. L.A.
Williams, pastor.
colonial women and children and
senior citizens -- all on the
march.
Antiques on parade? Right1.
Spinning wheels, jewelry, an
organ, a washing machine, a
soap-making exhibit, a shingle
mill, an 85-year-old tractor and
other old farm equipment - even
an old 1800 funeral hearse.
Music? Got the Barber Shop
Quartet that will blend the rich
voices of Pete Riddick, George
Winslow, Tom Byrum and Tim
Mathews.
Section Two of the parade will
spotlight area civic clubs and
other service organizations -scouts,
Legionnaires, the Navy,
4-H, sports and items not as well
known:
Log cutting, beehive, fishnet -even
hospital beds and barber
swings.
There will be fire equipment,
boats, horses, camping items,
dogs, carts and bikes. And -there'll
be ragtime piano with
Jacob Wills Jr. plus - the U. S.
Navy band.
The parade's third section will
pay tribute to industry and
agriculture and will feature Mr.
Peanut, produce and dairy
items, a mobile display by Don
Juan and about 30 other items in
just that one category.
The marching unit, bands and
a few surprises will also be a part
of the parade - so - if you're
going to watch it - get there
early and get a good spot.
Forward maaaaarch! !
and Under); Open Reining;
Children Musical Chairs (12 yrs.
and Under); Open Ladies
Western Pleasure (all ages);
Open Roadster Pony; Western
Horsemanship; Open Pole
oenamg; Mens Western
Pleasure; Costume Class; Open
Ring Spearing; Open Ring
Spearing Jackpot; Open Western
Pleasure; Rider Pickup (single
entry) Jackpot; Fastest Pony
L Around The Ring (52" and under..
16 yrs. & under); Fastest Horse
Around The Ring (Jackpot).
Judge for the show will be A. R
Wall of Knightdale, N. C. .