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Volume 30 No. 21"
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 23, 1974
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NOMINATED The Sutton-Newby House in Perquimans County has v
been nominated for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places
: by Dr. Thornton Mitchell, acting state historic preservation officer. The
' register is described as a national list of distinctive properties worthy of
1 preservation because of their historical or other cultural value. The
Sutton,-Newby! House is probably one of the oldest surviving
buildings in tjie state. Its early history is.uncertain, but it was evidently
built for Joseph Sutton I or Joseph Sutton II in the early eighteenth
century. It is one of a small group of eighteenth century houses in the
state with frame front and rear elevations and brick ends. (One of the
. brick ends survives at the Sutton-Newby House; the other is gone.) The
Shop In
Hertford
If you are a senior citizen,
this is your week to shop in
Hertford.
In recognition of Senior
. Citizens Week, participating
r merchants are offering a
-deduction of up to 10 per
' cent, based on retail prices,
on purchases made. .
Dates for this special
shopping offer are Friday
and Saturday. So bring your
shopping; lists to your
. favorite stores chances
are they are Senior Citizens
. Week participants.
Mark ; . Friday and
Saturday on your calendar if
you are a senior citizen.
Those are shop'n save days.
Elects Youth
Mike ' Hagan and , Mike
Hoggard were unanimously
elected co-chairmen of the Snug
Harbor Youth Group at the
meeting on May 18. ,
. The meeting was held at the
, home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Thompson of Snug Harbor.
Projects were set up for
various age groups. These
projects will be sold at the
annual Snug Harbor Bazaar on
Labor Day weekend. ' -
: MEMORIAL SERVICE
' J.R. Ball, Commander of
William Paul Stallings Post .
' 126, -. American .Legion,
' extends a Welcome to the
' - public at a; Memor' I Day
service. The service will bev
held Sunday, May 26, at 4
p.m. at the American
Legion plot in Cedarwood
cemetery, The ceremony
will h in memory of all
votrr'
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DINNER MEETING The Perquimans County Chamber
of Commerce held its annual dinner meeting of past
presidents Monday night at Angler's Cove. Shown, from
left, are Ed Nixon, vice president and Wayne Winslow,
president of the local chamber of commerce. (Photo By
Ray Ward)
Schools Get $57,465
Of the over $26 million
appropriated by the 1974
General Assembly tt in
crease the state-supported
kindergarten program next
year, Perquimans County
Schools will receive $57,465,
State School Superintendent
Craig Phillips announced
recently. Each school unit's
allocation was figured on its
1973- 74 first grade'
enrollment, based on the
highest average , daily
membership for three out of
the first four months of the
school year, said Phillips.
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Jhe allocation will enable
Perquimans County Schools
tq' operate three kin
dergarten classes during the
1974- 75 school year, which
will serve 69 children, The
State will have a total of
1,392 classes in operation
next year, serving 32,016
five y.- r-c! 's.
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Im t approving the
allocations, the State Board
of Education earmarked
$243,600 , for ' inservice
training for kindergarten
personnel and $90,460 for
evaluation and assessment
of the program., This money
is not included in each
school unit's net per pupil
location; however,
Perquimans County Schools
will receive $525 for in
service training and $195 for .
evaluation and assessment
of the unit's overall kin
dergarten program.
RAKE SALE
. The Hertford B.P.W. Club
will host a bake sale
Saturday; morning begin
ning ' at 10 a.m. on the
courthouse square.
. Many baked items will be
offered.
; Proceeds go toward the
scholarship fund.
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patterned glazed brickwork of the brick end is also important, and it
relates the house to the Newbold-White House. The house remained in the
Sutton family until 1787 when it was purchased by a son-in-law, Francis
Newby, in whose family the property continued until 1841. The
nomination was submitted in connection with the Division of Archives
and History's long-range program to identify and document the
authenticity of historic properties in North Carolina. Approval of the
nomination by the Department of the Interior usually takes about six
months and will be announced through the state's congressional
delegation.
Ms. Alexander In Finals
Miss Donna Alexander
was fifth runner-up in
America's Junior Miss
Pageant.
The unique aspect of Miss
Alexander's participation
is, she was the only and first
black girl to make the
national finals in Mobile,
Ala. and secondly, she is the
granddaughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W.R. Privott of 331
Dobb St., Hertford.
It was an exciting week
for the Privotts as they '
watched the finals in Mobile
with their daughter K. Edna
Privott Alexander, of East
Orange, N.J.
i The" 17-year-old Miss
comes from a long line of
educators. Her parents were
both administrators in the
school systems, her grand
parents are both retired
school teachers, and her
older sister Princeton
University.
But Miss Alexander is no
exception, she is a senior
and top member of her
graduating class in East
Orange. She is active in
many of its activities.
All total she won $4,000 in
scholarships after par
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ticipating in America's
Junior Miss pagent. She won
over all other 49 girls to take
the scholastic award.
Not only did she appear on
national television, but she
i made her Hertford grand-
parents very proud.
Remove
Hazards
Workers began May 13 to
remove some of the hazards
to boaters and water skiers
on the Chowan River, ac
cording to an official of the
N.C. Division of Com
mercial and Sports
Fisheries.
Pound net fishermen use
stakes to hold their pound
nets upright in the water.
Each pound net set requires
several stakes. The stakes
are solidly anchored in the
bottom and stick out of the
water 4-6 feet, or more. In
some areas the stakes have
not been removed when the
fishermen quit fishing;
consequently, after many
years the abandoned stakes
have rotted and broken off
near the surface creating a
dangerous situation for
boaters and water skiers.
The N.C. Board of Water
and Air Resources and the
N.C. Division of Com
mercial and Sports
Fisheries are jointly
financing the project; to
remove the dangerous
obstructions.
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Fisheries Division per-
sonnel, aboard the
Division's 110 foot self
propelled barge used in the
stake removal project,
began work on the Chowan
River near Edenton.
County'sph&r0f
Federal Funds Up
What have Federal
grants-in-aid and revenue
sharing been producing for
Electricity Is
CostingMore
Electricity will cost the town of Hertford and REA
subscribers more in the coming months.
Virginia Electric & Power Co. was forced to
increase rates per killowatt hour, due to the
skyrocketing cost of fossil fuel. Fossil fuels such as
coal and oil, which are used to make electricity have
become increasingly expensive.
The cost of oil per barrel in '72 was $2.96. In March
of this year the cost was set at $9.63. The cost of coal in
'72 was $14 per ton; that same ton of coal costs
VEPCO $35.68 per ton in March.
The commission approved VEPCO's increase to
begin in February of this year.
Slowly VEPCO has been passing on the charge to its
customers.
VEPCO uses 25 million barrells of oil and 3V2
million tons of coal per year.
However, a VEPCO official explained the cost
would be more if VEPCO were' not getting 26 per cent
of its power from nuclear generations.
Cancer Society
Meeting Is Set
i Dr. Edward Hoffman, of
the Woman's Clinic at
Elizabeth City, will be the
speaker at the Perquimans
County Unit of the American
Cancer Society meeting on
Monday, May 27, at 8 p.m. in
the REA Building.
Dr. Hoffman's Topic will
be Culpscopy", a newly
developed method used in
detecting Uterine Cancer.
An examination of this type
insures about 98 percent
accuracy along with the Pap
Smear and is generally used
on pregnant women with
unusual Pap Smear results
DESIGN The construction crew continues to work on the courthouse annex. This photo
shows the many shapes of things to come on the completion of the new annex, i FraiK iiK
Sawyer Photo v '
Week
Perquimans County in the
way of money?
To what extent did the
and is done on an out-patient
basis.
He has done un
dergraduate work at the
University of Rochester,
N.Y.; attended University
of Maryland Medical
School; interned for 1 year
at South Baltimore, Md.
General Hospital; 1 year at
Wesson Woman's Hospital
in Massachusetts; and spent
3 years at Tulane Univer
sity. Everyone is invited to
attend this meeting any
step in the detection of this
disease is welcomed by
women of all ages.
local area share in the $42.8
billion that was distributed
in the last fiscal year,
compared with the amounts
that went to other com
munities? On the basis of Treasury
Department figures and a
state-by-state analysis of
them made by the Tax
Foundation, a non-profit
organization that keeps
track of government
taxation and spending,
Perquimans County's share
was relatively large.
An estimated $1,472,000 in
grants were awarded for
local purposes in the year
under a variety of aid
programs.
The total allotment for the
State of North Carolina as a
whole amounted to
$937,000,000. It covered a
number of aid programs,
such as public housing, child
welfare, hospitals and
health, roads, schools and
urban renewal.
The figures take into
account only grants-in-aid
and revenue sharing and do
not include other govern
ment expenditures in local
communities for goods and
services.
As to the cost of these
benefits, they are met by
each locality, in whole or in
part, by the portion of their
income and excise taxes
that go into the aid
programs.
Perquimans County's
contribution for such pur
poses last year was ap
proximately $1,354,000,
according to a breakdown of
the figures. Statewide, the
cost was $857,000,000.
Not included in these
amounts were the matching
funds that had to be put up
locally in connection with
many grants.
The seeming inequity is
due to the fact that
distribution of aid is in
tended to be in terms of local
requirements and not on a
dollar for dollar basis.
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