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THE PEMUIMAM
Volume XXVII-No. 43
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, December 2, 1971
10 Cents Per Copy
SWI
LY
Airman M.R. Lilly,
Jr. Completes
I Basic Training
- Airman Melvin R. Lilly Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin R.
Lilly of Rt 3, Hertford, N.C., hat
completed his U.S. Air Force
basic ' training at the Air
Training Command's Lackland
VAFB. Tex He has hn
aissigned to Keesler AFB, Miss.,
for training in the air traffic
control field. Airman Lilly is a
1971 graduate of Perquimans
High School.
Belvidere Fire Dept.
Sponsor Auction Sale
S the Belvidere Fire Depart
ment will sponsor an Auction
Sale on Saturday, December 11
k at 10 a.m. They will have both
old and new items there for sale.
A few antiques will be put up for
auction, also 2 ponies will go at
mis' auction. . . --.:.'
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Norfolk & Carolina Tel. & Tel. Co. Expansion
Program In Excess of 3.5 Million Dollars
New, telephone exchange
buildings at Woodville and
Piney Woods, an addition at
' Mamie; new, replaced, or re
ar anged microwave towers at
Manteo, Waves, Buxton,
' Elizabeth City, Hertford, Welch,
Coinjock and Corolla; new cable
snaking overhead and buried
along innumerable new and
"beefed up" routes; reduced
: milage charges for many rural
residents; -these are some of the
visible and obvious results of the
most ambitious expansion
program ever attempted by The
Norfolk & Carolina Telephone &
i Telegraph Company. In an 18-
--month period it will spend in
excess ot 3.9 munon apuars in its
- service area from the Chowan
River to Hatteras Inlet. The
aims of Its program are (1)
.'reduction of mileage charges for
f those living distant from ex
changes, (2) add to and improve
microwave routes, and (3)
eenerallv; cover the never.
y ending demand for telephone
' service throughout virtually
every corner of its service area.
ELIMINATION OF MULTI
PARTY LINES, MILEAGE
CHARGES REDUCTION,
, BROADER SERVICE
p To reduce mileage charges,
more efficiently add telephone
" subscribers, and allow more 1
and 2-party service, several
approaches were used. '
-Woodville Exchange-A new
. exchange will be cut over
December 19, 1971, with its
'central office in the Woodville
. Community, serving eastern
i Perquimans and t western
Pasquotank counties. With
approximately (00 subscribers,
, mis exchange will have toll-free
calling, or extended area ser
vice TEAS) with all Albemarle
Metro only 1 and 2-party
service will be offered within the
- base rate area (area with no
' mileage charges), and only 1-, 2;
fjand 4-party service will be
'oSered . in its more distant
reaches. Base rates will be the
same, but many subscribers'
bills will be less for mileage,'
since C ry are now being served
rom EMzshcth City, Hertford,
r weeksviile, which are more
' tont With central office costs
rf tl53,C3) and outside costs of
,;;3, Cm new exchange will
- t fci excess of (C3,CC3.
Tissy ?oods Exchange-A
FirstChristmas Concert
By COA Set For Dec. 5
The 1971 season of special
Christmas Music will be ushered
in by a series of sectional con
certs featuring soloists and
choristers from the three
divisions of the Albemarle
Choral Society and the East
Carolina University String
Ensemble. The first concert will
be given in the Edenton Baptist
Church, ,. Edenton, Sunday,
December 5 at 4:00 PM and the
second on Monday, December 6
at 8:00 PM in the College of The
Albemarle auditorium, the
public is cordially invited to
attend the concert nearest them.
The program will open with
two selections for string or
chestra: The "Abdelazer Suite"
by Henry Purcell and a tran
scription for orchestra of the
popular "Air for G. String" by
J.S. Bach. These selections will
be followed by a shortened
version of Handel's famous
choral work, "The Messiah"
with string orchestra and organ
accompaniment sung by the
Choral Society and members of
the Northeastern High . School
Chorus who will assist in several
selections.
The East Carolina String
Ensemble, composed of faculty
and graduate students at the
University include: Prof. Paul
Topper, Director; Joan Bath,
Linda Gibson and Mary
Richards, Violinists; Nancy
Chappell, viola; Barbara Smith,
cello and Sherry Jones, bass
viol.
In keeping with the choral
society's goal to provide ex
perience in major concerted
WV ?H?2
new exchange will be cut over
December 19, 1971, with its
central office west of Hickory
Crossroads, serving Hickory,
Hobbsville, Joppa, Nicanor,
Snow Hill, Belvidere, and other
areas of north Perquimans
County. With more than 600
subscribers, this exchange will
have the same EAS area, rates,
and service offerings as
Woodville, but in addition it will
have EAS with Gatesville Ex
change, which is Jointly served
by this company and Carolina
Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany. Present service is from
Hertford and Welch. Central
office costs of $125,000 and
outside costs of $156,000 put the
total exchange costs at ap
proximately $281,000. --
Re-alignment of Coinjock'
Moyock-Shiloh-Elizabeth City
Exchange boundaries to more
efficiently serve the burgeoning
growth of mobile home and
standard subdivisons in nor
thern Currituck County. Again,
no one's rates will be adversely
affected and most milege
charges will be reduced. ,
' Hertford's base rate area
will be expanded to include
Winfall, thus , elimipating
milegae charges in this town.
Elimination of multi-party
lines (5 to 10 parties)-Over the
past few years, the company has
been quietly eliminating multi
party, service, and has a
program which will completely
eliminate it by June 30, 1972. In
February, 1971, there were still
2,421 subscribers with this
service. Already there is no
multi-party in Moyock, Kill
Devil Hills, Manteo, Waves and
Buxton. Woodville and Piney
Woods will have none when cut.
By year-end it will be eliminated
in Edenton, Elizabeth City,
Shlloh, Welch, and Gatesville.
By next June, the balance of the
exchanges will be completed
and the company will no longer
offer multi-party service.'
, -'One-and Two-Party Zone
Rate Plan-Thls is a f plan of
cuttingmileage charges-some by
two-thkdMtarted in 1969, with
the first conversions last year
and with all exchanges to be
completed by year-end 1973.
-'Within the next year or two,
It is planned that all 4-party
offering within base rate areas
will be eliminated.
1
Pa
sing solo passages in the two
sectional concerts: Fred Ashley,
J.R. Baxley, Gil Burroughs.
Nelson Chears, Janice Davis.
Jim Earnhardt, Esther Elliott
and Nelle Jones (S.W. Div.);
Mary B. Aydlett, Gwen Bell.
"Virginia Lee Bell, Heywood
Houtz, Ed Kelley, Craig Mad
dox, Myrtle Pritchard, Victoria
Bobbins, William Thorn. Gene
Sawyer and David Warren
(N.E. Division; Deloris
Ferebee, J.J. Harris, Karen
Neverdousky, Grace Sawyer
and Wade Sawyer (COA
Chorale).
That this feature of the
Society's program is bearing
fruit is evidenced by the growing
number of reports of former
soloists and choristers who are
continuing their participation in
college and community choral
concerts in other areas of the
state and nation. Friends of
Richard Simmons, presently on
tour in Europe with the
Collegiate Singers, will be in
terested to know that among
other solo assignments he is
scheduled to sing the tenor solos
in Bach's "St. John Passion",
which he sang last spring with
the Choral Society in Germany,
Austria and Italv.
Presented under the auspices
of the COA Lyceum Committee
and Adult Extension Division,
the production staff includes:
Dr. Clifford Bair, Director;
Anna Withers Bair, Organist,
Dorothy Morse, Accompanist;
Mary Vaughan, Program; J.R.
Baxley, Andrew Stoll and Pat
Twiddy, Managers ; Betsy Jones
and Harold Knight, Music
Materials. "' ' '
MICROWAVE IM
PROVEMENTS In association with the Piney
Woods Exchange, an additional
microwave route is being
established between Welch and
Hertford and on into Elizabeth
City. Increased toll traffic
between ' northeastern North
Carolina and the rest of the
world has required a larger
radio system between here and
Norfolk. Service to the
Currituck Banks (north of
Duck) will be via a Corolla
Coinjock microwave hop. Over
two years of study by some of
the nation's top microwave
engineers have resulted in
changes in towers and radios
which will improve Dare County
microwave routes south of
Manteo.
OTHER PROJECTS
Elizabeth City Exchange is
seeing one of its largest
programs ever. A 1000-line
addition, costing in excess of
$360,000, and major cabling
projects in and near the city in
excess of $100,000, will give the
city needed flexibility in
telephone growth, especially in
the Ehringhaus Street-Hughes
Boulevard-Riverside areas.
Other central office additions
completed or scheduled soon are
Edenton, Welch, South Mills,
Weeksville, Shiloh, Coinjock and
Mamie.
Altogether, the company has
in excess of twenty outside and
inside plant projects, each
exceeding $25,000 in cost.
PTA Will Meet
Dec. 2
The Perquimans County High
School PTA will meet Thursday,
December 2, at 7:30 p.m. The
Glee Club under the direction of
Miss Caroline Wright will have'
the program.
American Legion
Will Meet Tonight
The American Legion Post 126
will meet Thursday night at 8
o'clock at the Post Home.
All members are urged to
attend this meeting.
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J Dr. Bruce Whitaker, 1971 Christmas Seal Chairman and
President of Chowan College examines the 1971 edition of
Christmas Seals. The Christmas Seal and the double
barred cross have symbolized the fight against tuber
culosis and respiratory problems since their inception in
1904.
The 65th Annual Christmas
Seal Campaign is underway in
the Eastern Tuberculosis and
Respiratory Disease
Association's twenty-two
counties. Dr. Bruce Whitaker,
President of Chowan College
and Chairman of the 1971
Christmas Seal Campaign,
reports that 128,272 Christmas
Seal letters were mailed from
Greenville. This amounted to
approximately 5,688 pounds ofWe.rsis.Rmi. prevalence, finding a
mail-the largest single mailing
in the history of Greenville post
office, said Postmaster Mills.
The Christmas Seal,
Association, based in Green
ville, develops and presents
educational health programs
throughout the Eastern coun
ties. Seventy percent (70 per
cent) of the contributions
received are allocated for public
and professional education,
community services and patient
services, including maintenance
of breathing machines available
to victims of emphysema.
A major task is to keep up
Pre - School QLinic Here Dec. 5th
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Tears and fright were part of this boy's
rubella inoculation Monday at Grandy
Elementary School in Camden County.
Jaycette Rita Roberts, foreground,
reaches out to dab the boy's arm with a
cotton swab as Pasquotank County Public
Friday,
Underway
- ,
public awareness of a desease
(TB) which the public tends to
believe is about to be wiped out.
In North Carolina last year
there were 1,234 cases of
tuberculosis-only slightly below
the 1960 figure of 1,440 cases.
There were 2 cases of tuber
culosis reported in 1970 in
Perquimans County. (1 white
and 1 nonwhite) As TB in this
area recedes into "pockets" of
new case becomes more ex
pensive in time, labor and
money. ..pursuting TB in the
"pockets", such as rural
communities or city ghettos,
means seeing TB control en
tangled with all the other
problems of those areas, such as
poverty ...therefore, the
remaining TB is harder to find
and control than it was in the
days when it could be found by
an X-ray bus on any street
corner. At the present rate of
decline even the year 2000 will
not see TB wiped out. .far from
it.
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If.
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Health Service Nurse, Mrs. Harriet
Taylor, helps him get through the line
quickly, A Pre School Clinic will be held
.Sunday. Dec. 5th at the Perquimans
County Health Department on Charles St.
from 3 PM to 5 PM.
Chamber of
Sponsoring
The Perquimans County
Chamber of Commerce
Christmas Parade will be held
tomorrow (Friday. Dec. 3) and.
hackneyed as the phrase sounds,
should be the biggest and best
yet.
More floats and bands than
ever before-more interest and
participation are the reasons
you'll want to watch this parade
So bring the children, the entire
family, friends (including those
from out of the country) for a
real good time.
New Books For
Perquimans County
Library
This weeks list of new books in
the Perquimans County Library
contains five memorials. The
American Heritage History of
Notable American Houses is in
memory of Mrs. Mary Hunter;
Mansions of Alabama is in
memory of Mrs. Nancy Pilchard
Payne; The Story of American
in Art is in memory of Jacob L.
White; Entries From Oxford, by
Thad Stem, is in memory of Chip
Winslow; and North Carolina
Landscape Plants is in memory
of Jarvis Winslow.
Other new books in the library
are: Honor Thy Father, by
Talese, Truth is Stranger, by
Ann Landers; Ann Landers
Talks to Teen-agers; The Bell
Jar, by Plath; Lighthouse, by
Eugenia Price; Krumnagel, by
Peter Ustinov; The Journey of
August King, by Ehle; Is the
Grass Greener, answers to
questions about drugs, by
Whipple; Black Americans, by
Franklin; Fun With Ecology, by
Watson; Fair is my Love, by
Moore; Promise of Love, by
Sears; Man Size, by Hodges
Jennie, the Life of Lady Ran
dolph Churchill Vol. 2, by
Martin; and Collecting Copper
and Brass, by Wills, and The Art
and Craft of Hand Weaving, by
Lili Blumenau.
For young people the library
has It's Smart to Use a Dummy;
by Hilton The Mysterious
Disappearance of Leon, by
Raskins; Mandy, by Edwards;
and The Kitten's Little Boy.
4 D
Com merce
Gala Event
A record nu
will participa;
mber of nine floats
te. Representation
the Perquimans
i Health Careers
er-County Volun
Dept. (ladies
. Albemarle
)iscopal Church
hmen, Hertford
h, First United
'hurch. North
west Service
will be from
High School's
Club, the Int
teer Fire ;
auxiliary ),
Academy. E
Young Churc
; Baptist Churc
1 Methodist C
( Carolina Fi
( represented i
I Bear) and the
jy Smokey the
'. Hertford Fire
I )epartment.
There will be
a nd it will be l
J ohn A. Holme
E land from E
tl leastern High I
E lizabeth City ar
C ity State Unive
The Perquin
IV. (arching Unit, C
N o. 155 and Chb
C. hargerettes wi
m tarch.
plenty of music
supplied by the
s High School
Identon, Nor
School Band of
id the Elizabeth
rsity Band,
nans County
'ub Scout Pack
wan Academy
11 be o the
On wheels will
Vi irsity Cheerli
Junior Varsity (
from the high sch
be rt Jordan with
Fc ird.
be the Senior
eaders and
Cheerleaders
ool and Her
his Model-T.
f there are
or janizations or ind
wc Hild be interested
Ch amber of Comn
toe lay.
1 Don't forget thi
tic ipants will meet
scl lool at 3:30 p.m..
be ;ins at 4 p.m.
( )ne last remine
yoi angsters. Santa ;
hai nd with some goo
any other
ividuals that
, contact the
lerce office
it all par
at the high
The parade
ler-for the
will be on
dies.
Homei nakers Award
Pro, gram Held
1 -he Perquimans County
Ex tension Homemake rs Award
Prt )gram convened Wt Bdnesday,
No vember 17, 1971, at ; 2:00 P.M.
in the Auditori urn of
Pei rquimans County Office
Bui ilding. Mrs. Joe Tow 'e White,
Sr. presided over the meeting.
An . inspirational devol ion was
give en by Rev. J. Waldi J Smith,
Pasitor of Up River Friends
Chi ireh. The devotion al was
tak en from the sc ripture
refe irence St. Luke 10:38-. 42. Rev.
Smi th stated that "s piritual
touc ih is the one thing tha t needs
to i be incorporated in to the
horn emaking of every
horn emaker, and if t was
cons: idered more as a rt mst in
the n laking of a home am i all of
our h omes, we would hav jmore
than s just, nice houses where
peopl e within the memberj ihipof
the fi imily just sleep an i eat,
and c Dme and go sporadj cally.
He en couraged the homem akers
to reai i the Bible. Study the ' lives
of out: Standing Christian w omen
of the community and chut ch in
which you grew up, and; now
live. S itudy their lives am i ob
serve the role they playe d in
homen taking. What will be the
most o utstanding character istic
about them?" Homemak ing,
furtlier ' states Rev. Smith , is
very ii pportant. Regardlesi i of
how we 11 balanced or attrac tive
one see ks to make the hous e a
home if ; God is not put first i and
last in every effort ! of
homemi iking, you are 'just ' a
house 'keeper and not a
homeim tker. No matter h ow
hard you ) may strive to be a go od
homema ker, you really have n't
done yot ir best until you hai ve
permitte d Christ to be the "gOi 3d
part" in all your housekeepu, ig
and hon lemaking." The gue, st
speaker, Mrs. R.W. Humphrk ss
of Gates County and. 1st Vifl e
Preside nt, Northeaster, n
District E Extension Homemaket S
Associati in, was introduced b, V
Mrs. T.T. Harrell. Mrs. Hum -
pries ch allenged the clul
members to be eood leaders
The sne icial cuest. Mr. ant
Mrs. Her fn&n Sawyer wer4
introduced by Mrs. M.B. Taylor,
Home Ec bnomics Extension
Agent. Mr and Mrs. Sawyerj
gave a dene (onstranon on laeas
for Christmt is Decoration. A trio
m
Airman Chappell .
Assigned To Lowry
AFB, Colo.
Airman Willie W. Chappell,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer B.
Chappell of Rt. 1, Belvidere.
N.C., has completed his U.S. Air
Force Basic training at the Air
Training Command's Lackland
AFB, Tex. He has been assigned
to Lowry AFB, Colo., for
training in the supply field.
Airman Chappell is a 1971
graduate of Perquimans High
School, Hertford.N.C.
Don Juan Presents
Gifts To Headstart
Thirty Headstart children
were as excited as if it had been
Xmas-thanks to Charlie Shneer,
Vice President of Don Juan
Factory, who contributed
colorful shirts to the Headstart
Center. ' ?v
The Staff and parents wish to
thank him very much. V
from Eager Beaver 4-H Club
entertained the group by ren
dering three selections. Mrs.
C.T. Rogerson, Jr. gave the 1971
Accomplishment report by club
members. The perfect at
tendance awards were
presented by the Home
Economics Extension Agents.
Mrs. Paige Underwood
presented the perfect at
tendance award. They were
presented to the following
Homemakers: Mrs. J.B.
Basnight and Mrs. Maurice
Cridlin-33 years; Mrs. John E.
Wood, Sr.-30; Mrs. M.T. Griffin
22 years; Mrs. Annie Jones and
Mrs. Mary B. Skinner-7 years;
Mrs. Donald Madre-6 years;
Mrs. T.T. Harrell, 5 years; Mrs.
Ray Brockett and Mrs. E.T.
Stallings-4 years; Mrs. Sam
Trueblood, Mrs. Nannie White,
Mrs. Eula Riddick, Mrs. Elsie
Felton, Mrs. Talihue Perry,
Mrsl Vanora Brothers, Mrs. v
Isetta Hollo well. Mrs. Bettie
Modlin, Mrs. Dellann Boyce,
and Mrs. Naomi Perry-2 years;
Mrs.HattieWilliamston.Mrs. Er
nestine Felton, Mrs. Emma
Blanchard, Mrs. Minnie
Gregory Gilliam, Mrs. Reba
Hurdle, Mrs. Marian Friereon,
Mrs. Emily Lilly, Mrs. Eva
Hurdle, Mrs. Vasthi Lilly, Mrs.
Eliza S. Perry-.Mrs. wauace
Bright,Mrs. M.C Boyce, Mrs.
Whit Cartwright, Mrs. Delwin
Eliza S. Perry, Mrs. Claude
Winslow, Mrs. Mattie Whed
bee, Mrs. Lucille Turner,
Mrs. Wallace Bright, Mrs.
M.C. Boyce, Mrs. Whit
Cartwright, Mrs. Delwin
Eure, Mrs. Robert Turner, Mrs.
Freeman Umphlett, Mrs.
Robert Sutton, Mrs. Vera
Batten, Mrs. Mark Gregory and
Mrs. C.T. Rogerson, Jr., Mrs.
M.B. Taylor presented the A and
P Leadership Awards. 'The
recipents were Mrs. : T.T.
Harrell- Burgess club,' and
District winner, and Mrs. E.T.
Proctor, Sr.- Bethel Club. They
adjourned with the group
repeating the Club Collect in
unison. The refreshments were
served by the Foods' and
Nutrition leaders. The members
of the award committee were
Mrs. C.T. Rogerson, Jr., Mrs.
Marian Frierson, and Mrs. T.T
Harrell. ' "
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