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EMU I MAMS W: U G1 1 4 JLL-La Scl th 'Volume XXVII-No. 16 Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, April 29, 1971 1 0 Cents Per Copy P Perquimans High School Beta Candidate Wins State1 Post It was not an easy task for Linda Evans, a Beta Club can didate of the Perquimans High School, to win the five-way race for the coverted post as secretary of the State Beta Club Convention which convened at Asheville April 16-17. Her op ponents were: Vivian Shaw, Raleigh; Cynthia Garrett, Rockingham; Andrea Scar borough, Millbrook; and Daphne Smith, Black Creek. Linda with her strong, determined club entered the Haste Files Hertford Town Board rr. ...it wit . ..si . ' V T. Erie Haste Jr., manager of Hertford Hardware & Supply Co., Inc. is the latest to file for a seat on the Hertford Town Board. An active member of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, he has served on the Vestry in the capacity of Secretary. He was instrumental in organizing the Perquimans County Chamber of Commerce in . 1960 "serving as the organization's first treasurer. At wown Elections And Winfall, Tuesday, May 4th 'Tuesday, May 4th is "election day" in the towns of Hertford and Winfall. : Each town will vote on a Mayor and town commissioners. : In Hertford, Incumbent Mayor Emmett Landing is facing op position, W.D. "Bill" Cox and Claude Brinn. , - ;- : Two councilmen's seats are up for vote. Incumbent Jesse Harris is seeking re-election and the other seat to be voted on is the seat formally held by W.D. "Bill" Cox who is seeking the Mayor's Post Other candidates seeking one of tne wo seats are: W.F. Ainsley, George W. Cooper, H.N.y Nixon, Erie Haste, Jr., Billy Winslow, and Wesley Nelson. Id Winfall, incumbent Joel F Hollowell, Jr. is seeking re election. He is opposed by a farmer Mayor Elijah (Toss) Vhlte. - . Seats on the Town Board in the 'infall election are being sought y incumbents Joel F. Hollowell, D.R. Tineblood, and CD. irclift. New candidates are T. jlton Morgan and J. Emorj; ..ana. J The polls will open on Tuesday, r.lay 4t& at 6:30 a.m. and close at ::30 p.nv :f The candidates in both towns, c-a prominent energetic men, positions that won't permit i c:a time consuming "house ' ruse" convassing of votes. : political contest to win the, honored title. This, they ac complished. The new officer will serve as both state and district secretary for 1971-72. The newly elected secretary ran her campaign on the timely theme "Happiness Is. . .". Participating in her skit were, above, left to right, Jann Dillon, Violet; Martha Watkins, Frieda; Bobby Hollowell, Linus; Beth Brinn, Lucy; and Wayne Procter, Charlie. For Seat On present he is the president of the "Chamber of Commerce. He is a past president of Hertford Rotary Club presently member of , the Board of Directors. - A past member of Hertford Jaycees and .past director of Perquimans County Industrial Development Corporation. He has been a director In Albemarle Area Development Association since 1963, serving as treasurer 1964, Chairman of Travel and ' Recreation Com mittee, AADA 1966, District Vice-President 1968, President AADA 1969. Presently serving on advisory board to the president. He was instrumental in the organization necessary to get Perquimans and surrounding counties EDA designation. He is presently a member Board of Trustees, Museum of the Albemarle and member Board of Directors, Bank of Hobbsville. Haste has been recently ap pointed to the steering com mittee to work with the East Carolina University officials in the quest for a Medical School. He is married to the former Patricia Howard of High Point and has three children. For Hertford Be sure and vote, it is your civic duty. The government boards cannot operate alone -they need your interest in the election and afterwards. Get out and vote, then attend the town meetings if you have business that will be of help in the com munity. That is the medicine that will see Hertford and Winfall grow. The potentials at present are excellent and the future looks the brightest for this county than it has in many years. Landing And Winslow Attend EJJ.C Meet Mayor Emmett Landing and 1 Town Commissioner C.C. Winslow attended E.P.I.C. 1 Annual meeting in Raleigh Monday. E.P.I.C. is an organization made up of forty five towns and cities owing their own electrical system plus thirty Electric Membership , Corp. These organizations are joined together to study the feasibility of building their own generating plants and transmission lines. The meeting was held at the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel and was attended by about three hundred representatives from all over North Carolina: The letters E.P.LC. itand .for Electric Power In Carolina. Ainsley Receives Appointment W. F. Ainsley of Hertford, who was appointed recently by Governor Scott to help armed forces veterans find jobs in North Carolina, Tuesday at tended a meeting of the Governor's Committee for Promotion of Employment for Veterans. Ainsley is one of 23 men in the State assigned by the Governor to help relieve high unem- . ployment among ex-serviifemen and women. j The Raleigh meetingbrought I the group together to hear various officers of tire State and Veterans Employment Service discuss some ofthe problems being experienced by veterans and what services are available to them. Veterans Administraton regionaMrector W.R. Phillips of Winston-Salem Voiced his organization's concern, and Henry E. Kendall of Raleigh, Chairman of the Employment Security Commission, discussed his agency's role in veterans job placement. Marvin Burton and Lawrence Britt, officials of the N.C. Veterans Employment Service, appeared on the program. The program was concluded by Jack Bass of Charlotte, chairman of the Governor's Committee. Unemployment among Vietnam veterans is currently about double the national average, a - situation which prompted President Nixon last year to initiate a nationwide Jobs for Veterans campaign. Sub sequently, each state appointed a governor's committee on veterans employment and numbers of local committees are also being established to promote employment for veterans. Rites Held For Miss Wikander - Miss Marie Hannah Wikander, 77, of the Old Hope Farm, Rfc-3, Hertford, died Saturday at 7:10 a.m. in the Chowan Convalescent Home, Edenton, N.C. after a long illness. A native of Stockholm Sweden, she was a daughter of the late Jon and Mrs. Hannah Nordstrom Wikander. She was retired from the Norton Company of Warchester, Mass. She lived in Florida for approximately ten years prior to moving to Hertford in 1967. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Kater Fulford, Rt. 3, Hertford; two nephews, Jon W. Fulford, Silver Spring, Md. and Nathaniel Fulford IV of Falls Church, Va. A graveside service was held Monday at 2:00 in the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery by the Rev. Edwin Williams. The casket pall was made of pink carnations and fern. Pallbearers were Nathan Spivey, Silas Whedbee, Walter Oakey, Bob Spivey, Herbert Nixon, and Julian Winslow. White Assigned To Security Policeman Duty Y Airman Wendall L. White, sob of Mr. and Mrs. Menford L. White of 310 Covent Garden St., Hertford, N.C, has received his first U.S. Air Force duty assignment after completing basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. The airman has been assigned to a unit of the Strategic Air Command at Pease AFB, N.H., for training and duty as a security policeman. Airman White is a 1970 graduate of Perquimans Union . School, Winfall, N.C Carmen Sutton Carmen Ann Sutton, eighteea year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Sutton of Route 3, Hertford, has been named 1971 State Winner in Girl's 4-H Achievement Project. She is a senior at Albemarle Academy. Carmen has been a 4-H Club member for eight years and at present she is a member of the. Senior 4-H Club. Her project accomplishments include food preservation for six years, having canned over 1900 pints of fruits and vegetables, 1300 pints of meat, 110 pints of stew, 22 pints of nuts and 76 ears of corn. Completed two years of gar dening project for a total of twenty-three different varieties of vegetables. In the foods and nutrition project for eight years with a total of 2400 dishes prepared and served. Carmen has a total of 60 health im provements made in completing eight years in the health project. She has also been active in the Home Management Project for six years, clothing project five years and better grooming two years. Her 4-H activities include music, recreation, dress revue and citizenship. In the food preservation project she has given a total of six demon strations at the local level, fifty' four at county, four at District, three at State, two interstate and one at the National level. Her total exhibits in the food preservation program consist of ninety-three at the county level and fourteen at the state level She has given a total of eighty two talks before 4-H groups and thirteen 4-H talks before other groups. She has a total of seven radio appearances, eleven TV appearances and has written twenty 4 H news stories Carmen has attended citizenship Short Course and she is a member of the North Carolina 4- H Honor Club. While attending the National Junior Horticultural Association Convention in Denver, Colorado she was elected N.J.H.A. Vice President for 1971. She also served as N.J.H.A. Secretary for 1970. Carmen has received many) honors during her 4-H Career. She was State Winner in Food preservation in 1969 and at Perquimans County District Court Convenes Judge Wilton Walker presided at the Wednesday session of Perquimans County District Court and heard the following cases: Leon Anges, charged with public drunkenness and possession of non-tax paid whiskey, received a 20 day suspended sentence on the first charge for 12 months and given a fine of $10.00 and costs and or dered not to be convicted of PD or possession of non-tax paid whiskey; on the second charge the defendant, was given a 30 day sentence to be served at the expiration of the 20 day sentence. The sentence was suspended upon payment of a fine of $25.00 and costs and ordered to comply terms of suspension; Clarence Spence, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, was given a sentence of 90 days which was suspended for 12 months with the following conditions 1. pay fine of $25.00 and costs; 2, pay all medical expenses of Ervln Jackson; 3. not to be convicted of public drunk or narcotic drugs for 12 months. Prayer for judgment was continued for 12 months in the cases of Catherine Lamb and Pat Carver, both charged with assault; ; Louis Earl Riddick was given a 60 day sentence which was suspended for 1 year with the conditions that he pay a fine of $25.00 and costs and not violate any traffic laws for 12 months or allow anyone driving his vehicle to violate any traffic laws after he was found guilty of allowing W.L. Harris to operate his motor vehicle with no operator's license; William Hill Black, Jr., charged with driving with license revoked and speeding, received a 30 day sentence which was suspended upon payment of a fine of $25.00 and costs. An appeal was noted and Bond was set at $100.00. . The State took a Nol Press in the case of Robert Lee Smith, charged with driving under the influence of intoxicating liquors; Ambrose Junior Evans, charged with driving under the State Winner ft- " , tended National 4-H Congress. In 1970 she attended National 4-H Conference. Carmen was the N.J.H.A. Achievement and leadership winner in 1969. She received a travel scholarship to Miami for the American Hor ticultural Society Convention. She won an eight-day trip to American Institute of Cooperation Convention, has been third runner-up in the state 4-H Dress Revue, won four ex pense paid trips to North Carolina 4-H Congress, and has been county champion in many projects among which are canning, freezing, horticulture, foods and nutrition and junior leadership. Carmen's 4-H leadership activities include president, vice president, Secretary-Treasurer, Reporter, song leader and recreation leader in her local 4-H Club. She served as District 4-H President in 1969. She has also held numerous 4-H offices at the county level. In her four years as junior leader, she has assisted a total of thirty-eight members with projects, demonstrations, and in workshops on food preservation. She also organized a small sing group of eight young 4-H'ers. Carmen will be working at Camp Cale in Perquimans County as crafts instructor this summer and in the fall she is planning to attend Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky tot major in Fine Arts. influence of intoxicating liquor (2nd offense), received a 6 month sentence which was suspended upon payment of a fine of $25.00 and costs. An appeal was noted and. Bond was set at $500.00. James Junor Winslow, charged with driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor and improper passing, was given a 4 month sentence which was suspended upon payment of a fine of $125.00 and costs and ordered not to operate a motor vehicle for 12 months. An appeal was noted and Bond was set at $250.00. James Garfield Randolph received a 60 day sentence which was suspended upon payment of a fine of $50.00 and costs after the court found him guilty of reckless driving; George Ervin Jackson, charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, received a sentence of 10 days which was suspended upon payment of a fine of $10.00 and costs; Speeding violators and fines were Willie Dudson Colson, Jr., $25.00 and costs; Bruce C. Stephenson, $10.00 and costs; William James Gibbs, $10.00 and costs; Calvin Conrad Bowen, costs; and Cleophus Rountree, $25.00 and costs. SCU Intern Teachers Number 445 For Spring (Quarter 1971 East Carolina University in tern teachers number 445 for spring quarter 1971, in North Carolina public schools. The intern teachers came from 69 counties and 13 other states. According to Dr. Thomas A. Chambliss, director of student teaching, each intern will con duct regular classes under the direction of a supervisor and will receive a grade for this per formance. :.''-":r.'?V"- Perquimans intern teachers are Miss Carolyn A. White, Rt. 1, Hertford, Adams Elementary School (Wilson), Special Ed.; and Miss Jan B. White, 210 Woodland Circle, Willlamston High School, Biology. 110 Acres Forest Burned In Perquimans Three separate forest fires burned an estimated 110 acres last Thursday in Perquimans County. The first fire was reported around 3 p.m. Reports of the other two were made shortly afterwards. All three fires were brought under ontrol by 7:30 p.m. Members of the N.C. Forest Servfte ao6 volunteer fire departWijfe from Hertford and Bethel aided in fighting the fires. Heavy eoipment and airplanes that dropped fire retardant chemifals helped to extinguish the Tne fires were in the southern part of the county. The land reportedly is owned by Albemarle Paper Co., Weyerhaeuser Co. and in dividuals. School Supts. Meet At ECU For Special Seminar About 30 public school superintendents at East Carolina University April 15 for a special seminar, offered by the ECU School of Education and the ECU Division of Continuing Education. Featured were two panel discussions. Discussants of the topic "Grouping" were Paul Tyndall, superintendent, Onslow County, and Joe Acree, assistant superintendent, Bertie County. "Revenue Sharing: Per formance Contracts was discussed by Gray Hodges, superintendent, Beaufort County ; Jamie Teeter, assistant superintendent, Pitt County; and Dr. Milam Johnson, director of the ECU Computer Center. Awarded Commendation Medal Edward L. Wilson was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal by direction of the Secretary of Defense for exceptionally meritorious achievement in the performance of his duties as chauffeur and courier for the Secretary Joint Staff and Command Group, United Nations Command United States Forces, Korea. The citation which ac companied the award stated that, "Specialist Wilson's daily performance of his duties in support of the senior officers of the command group was characterized by a willingness to do any task, at any time, with a cheerful and positive attitude Through his initiative and perseverance, he developed a knowledge of contact points and personages within the Seoul area, and performed numerous duties not required of his primary assignment. Specialist Wilson frequently volunteered his off-duty time and personal service to support the command group and arrange for VIP (Very Important Person) tran sportation requirements when support personnel were not available. His pleasant spirit of cooperation, cheerful attitude, and willingness to assist others often elicited complimentary remarks from high-ranking military and civilian officials. Specialist Four Wilson's distinguished performance of duty is in keeping with the highest traditions and reflects great credit upon himself and the military service." ,;- Wilson is a 1964 graduate of Perquimans Union School, and the son of Mrs. Lona Wilson, Dobb Street, Hertford. Q Horse And Saturday, MICHELLE BOYCE SHOWS Perquimans County Horse and Pony Club will sponsor an all Western Horse Show Saturday May 1, 1971 at 1:00 p.m. The Showring is located 1 mile West of Hertford on Preston Nixon's farm. Mr. Gene Howell from Ayden, North Carolina will be judging the approximate twenty two events which will include Halter Classes for both Pony and Horse's. Western Pleasure for Children, Youth and Adults Pony Pleasure Driving Class, Roadster Pony Class, and many Speed events such as Barrett Racine, Ring Spearing, Pole Farm Bureau Opposes Federal Government Truce Regulations Albert D. Eure, president ofi the Perquimans County Farm Bureau, has called for an all-out effort to obtain modification of the farm Jruck driver qualifications recently established by the U.S. Depart ment of Transportation. The federal regulations would require, effective July 1, 1971, that all drivers of farm trucks, including pickups, in interstate commerce meet the following requirements: (1) Be at least 21 years of age. (2) Carry a cer tificate, executed by a physician during the preceding 24 months, evidencing fitness to drive a truck. (3) Pass a road test in truck operation. (4) Take an examination on the federal Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations. (5) If the driver is an employee of a farmer, he must supply the farmer with evidence of compliance with the four requirements above, plus an application for employment which shall disclose traffic violations and disposition thereof, plus an annual sup plemenatry statement relating to traffic violations. A farmer who employs a driver would be required to "verify" the driver's driving record - and to maintain for each driver a file containing items 1 to 5 above plus a record of the employer's verification of the employee's driving record. The U.S. Department of Trans Perquimans Towns To Receive 30,009 in Powell BUI Funds The towns of Hertford, Winfall and Woodville, hi Perquimans County will receive ap proximately $30,00l in Powell Bill funds for the upkeep of their streets in 1972 An increase in the amount of gasoline tax moneywhich the General AssemblvYecently gave the state's municipalities will not be reflectedhi actual payments until October 1972, a State High way Commission official said today. "There seems to be some misunderstanding on the part of some cities who think the payments will be doubled in the checks mailed this October," said W. F. Caddell, who heads the Planning and Research Department of the State High way Commission. "Actually, the extra one-half cent of the gas tax which the cities will receive and the change in the formula for allocating the money will go into effect on July 1 of this year." "The money collected during the next fiscal year will then be Pony Show May 1st v i MNtt&MtlftfiUsi OFF "HOL! Y RUN KIDD" Bending, and Fastest Pony and Horse around the ring. There will be plenty of char coal hot dogs, hamburgers, and steak sandwichs, drinks, and many home made treats on hand in the concession stand. This show, like all of the shows that Perquimans Horse and Pony Club present the gate admission is free to the public, and we do hope that you will come out and see a good show and give these riders your support. So remember the date Saturday, May 1, 1971 at 1:00 p.m. portation developed these regulations, it is reported, without consulting farmers, or any farm organization. Neither was the U.S. Department of Agriculture, informed of what was coming. Application of the regulations to small farm trucks was deferred until July 1 after Farm Bureau and other groups had sought a postponement. The following six changes are recommended in the truck driver qualification regulations: (1) An exemption with respect to small farm trucks under 10,000 lbs. gross weight. (2) An exemption for local farm hauling. (3) An effective date at least six months after the promulgation of the revised regulations applicable to farmers. (4) A news media in formation on program to acquaint farmers with the qualification regulations and what a covered farmer should do to get information he needs. (5) Distribution of a summary of the regulations applicable to far mers. (6) A procedure for the development of permanent regulations with adquate farmer representation. B.C. Mangum, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau has urged each county Farm Bureau in North Carolina to contact John A. Volpe, Secretary of Transportation, as well as U.S. Congressmen and Senators uring acceptance of the Farm Bureau recommendations. .distributed on the new basis to the cities and towns in October, 1972.' The General Assembly voted to increase the allocations under the state's Powell Bill, and changed the formula, which had been based 50 per cent on street mileage not on the state highway system and 50 per cent on population. The new formula will be based 75 per cent on population and 25 per cent on mileage. Delinquent Taxes To Be Advertised During May A. Marvin Hunter, Hertford Town Clerki has announced that by order of the Town Council, all 1970 delinquent taxes in Hertford will be advertised' in" May. The sale of same will be held on Monday, June 14th, 1970 at U o'clock noon at the Perquimans Court House door.