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WEEKLY
Volume 30 No. 29
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 18, 1974
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A LOVELY PICKER Lean Winslow, cute with freckles and red hair, was in the warm
July sun picking snap beans. Leah was out in the county not far from Belvidere. Cute as
a June bug in July. The garden looked nice also. (Francine Sawyer Photo)
LARGS r TTI f: SNAKE Lewis Stallings, Perquimans County forest agent, shows
thelarfe 5 feet 2 inch long rattle snake which is 816 inches around, weighed 5'4 pounds
and had 14 ratcs on its tail. Stallings warned persons to he aware of these and any
snakes during the hot weather. This particular rattle snake was killed on Old Swamp
Road. Someone shot it in its head. With Stallings is his daughter Lynn, ! ; t w '
Savirip Bond Sales Increase
Sales of Series E and H
Savings Eonds . in
Perquimans County during
May were $8,508.00.
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Savings Bonds in North
Carolina amounted to
$9,216,079,23.2 percent
above May 1973.. Jan
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comparable period since
1945. Thisrepresents43.9per
cent of the state's 1974 dollar,
goal of $92,500,000. ,
Nationally, May gales of
Series E and H Savings
r.or. 'o totaled $;r.2 million,
11.1 percent below 1973 sales
cf C "5 ni'.lion.
Recreational Activity
Available To County
Sports and recreation of
all types will soon be
available to residents of
Perquimans County.
Through the work of the
newly formed Perquimans
County Recreation
Association, one phase of the
program has become a
reality. A Softball League
has been formed. Seven
softball teams will be
battling it out every Wed
nesday and Friday night un
til September.
Listening Session Set
For C oastal Commission
The first Coastal
Resources Commission will
be just a few hours old when
it seeks the viewpoint of the
general public and local
officials at a "listening
session" at 7:30 p.m. today
at Carteret Technical in
stitute in Morehead City. At
11 a.m. on the 18, the 15
member commission will be
English Lady
Seeks Penpal
A story appeared in last week's Perquimans
Weekly concerning the return home of Harry Winslow
and his family after a year's slay in Europe. While
there, the Winslow family visited a town in England by
the name of Hertford. As a result of that visit, a
resident of Hertford, England has sent a letter to Bill
Cox, mayor of Hertford, N.C. requesting a pen pal.
The letter follows:
Dear Sir:
I have today read with interest the Stephen Lee
Column in our Hertfordshire Mercury newspaper,
which stated that one of your residents, a Mr. Harry
Winslow, who with his two boys, visited our town while
on a trip to London, as your town is named after ours,
though pronounced differently.
Mr. Winslow suggests that a lot could be done to
"unite" the two towns, and I think this is a very good
idea ; and I hope it will be as popular in your town as it
will be here. I would like to do my own little bit
towards uniting by asking you to help me find someone
I could write to in your town, to exchange views,
comments, etc. I am a housewife in my forties and
have two teenagers; a boy and a girl in high school. I
like gardening, reading, walking, etc.; and anything
concerning my family, including football!
I like doing welfare work, and used to do a lot for
the aged, called aptly "Age Concern", but now I am
helping younger wives who are "battered" by their
husbands, called "Women's Aid". This is a situation
that is only just coming , to light in this country
unfortunately, but is of vast proportions it seems. We
try to provide "homes" for these women to go to, if
they are in terror of their husband's behavior.
I hope you will be able to find someone for me to
start off the first friendship between our two towns.
With kind regards, ,
' Yours sincerely, .
Margaret A. Bourne
Anyone interested in writing Ms. Bourne may do so
at the following address:
Mrs. M.A. Bourne
120 Longwood Rd.
SeleFarm
Hertford SG14.2JW
Hertfordshire
, England "
Spellman
Earliest Spellman a
recent graduate 1 of
Perquimans County High
School placed fourth in the
Junior Olympic regionals
held in Spartanburg, S.C.
recently.
Spellman jumped 21 feet
U :4 inches in the broad
jump. .
There were 16 contestants
coming from many states.
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Joseph Turner of Ten
nessee won the broad jump
with a 22 feet 7 inch jump.
Coach Celvin Webster of,
PCHS accompained
There will be two games
played each of these night at
the Perquimans High School
ball park. The first will
begin at 7:30 p.m. and the
second will start at 9: 10. The
teams of the League are
the County Odd Fellows,
Albemarle Home Builders,
Jackson Wholesale, Kilow
atts, Soul Brothers,
Byrum's Electric and the
Jaycees.
The Recreation
Association
sworn in at the Technical
institute. The two-day
commission meeting will
begin at 10:30 a.m. on July
18 with speech by James E.
Harrington, secretary of
state department of Natural
and Economic resources.
"There will be many other
opportunities in the coming
months for the commission
Places 4th
Spellman to the regionals.
Spellman plans to enter the
Army in a month. ' .
Perry Is
Promoted
The Air Force has promo
ted Allen Perry Jr., son of ,
Mr.' and Mrs. Allen Perry
Sr. of Rt. 2. Hertford to ,
airman first class.
Airman Perry is serving t
at Kirtland AFB, N.M., as a
vehicle operator-dispatcher. ,
, The airman is a 1972 ,
graduate of Perquimans :
High School.
will attempt to have sports
year round and they will be
open to everyone. Activities
will include Horseshoes,
Team Volleyball (men and
women), Basketball, Ping
Pong, Badminton and Shuf
fleboard. There will be an
age limit of 18 or above for
the first year on a trial ba
sis. Future information will
be published in the Per
quimans Weekly as activities
are formed and you may
contact Sidney Eley for
further information.
to receive input from the
public and local govern
ment, officials, but we felt it
impreative that from the
beginning this commission
should be accessable to and
interested in what the
people and coastal govern
ment leaders are thinking,"
Harrington said. "Con
sequently, we decided on
this listening session."
The commission was
established with passage of
the Coastal Area
Management Act of the 1973
Gen. Assembly.
Some of the commissions
major responsibilities in
clude approval of land use
planning guidelines, ap
proval of land use plans,
designation of areas of
environmental concern and
issuance of permits for
construction in those areas
of environmental concern.
The majority of the two
days will be taken up with
briefings about the coastal
bill and the coastal area.
$43,000
FHALoan
Approved
Cong. Walter B. Jones, D
lst district, announced
recently a loan in the
amount of $43,000 by Far
mers Home Administration
to Gates County drainage
district No. Three, Hobb
sville, Watershed project. .
These funds will be
utilized to finance, local
costs of a drainage project
that will benefit five square
miles of farmland. The
project will be located 10
miles east of Gatesville.
Drainage channels will have
their outlets at Troutmans
Creek.
Other funds in the amount
of $181,600 will be provided
by the U.S. soil conservation
service state of North
Carolina and assestments
will be paid by
beneficiaries., The loan from
FHA will be repaid in 17 ,
years at an interest rate of
4.02 per cent.
Meeting
Friday
The Democratic
Executive ' Committee
meeting will be held Friday
at 8 p.m. at the courthouse.
Delegates and alternates
to go to the district con- ;
vention are urged to attend. -
MEETING INGA.
Mr. and Mrs. Fenton
Eure, Jr. spent last week in
Savanah, Ga. attending the
Georgia Seedsmen
Association's annual
meeting.
The following is a sched
ule of the Softball League
games:
July 19
Soul Brothers vs. Kilowatts
Byrums vs. Jacksons
July 24
Odd Fellows vs. Kilowatts
Jacksons vs. Soul
Brothers
July 26
Byrums vs. Soul Bothers
Jacksons vs. Jaycees
July 31
Albemarle Home Builders
vs. Jacksons
Odd Fellows vs. Byrums
Aug. 2
Soul Brothers vs. Jaycees
Kilowatts vs. Jacksons
Aug. 7
Albemarle Home Builders
vs. Byrums
Odd Fellows vs. Soul
Brothers
Aug. 9.
Kilowatts vs. Jaycees
Albemarle Home Builders
vs. Odd Felows
Aue. 12
Byrums vs. Jaycees
Odd Fellows vs. Kilowatts
Aug. 14
Jaycees vs. Odd Fellows
Soul Brothers vs.
Albemarle Home Builders
Aug. 16
Soul Brothers vs.
Jacksons
Kilowatts vs. Byrums
Aug. 21 ..,
Jaycees vs. Albemarle
Home Builders
Jacksons vs. Odd Fellows
Aug. 23
Jacksons vs. Byrums
Kilowatts vs. Soul
Brothers
Aug. 28
Jaycees vs. Byrums
Kilowatts vs. Albemarle
Home Builders.
Aug. 30
Jaycees vs. Jacksons
Soul Brothers vs. Byrums
Sept . 2
Byrums vs. Odd Fellows
Jacksons vs. Albemarle
Home Builders
Sept 4
. Jacksons vs. Kilowatts
Jaycees vs. Soul Brothers
Sept. 9
Soul Brothers vs. Odd
Fellows
Byrums vs. Albemarle
Home Builders
Sept. 11
Odd Fellows vs.
Albemarle Home Builders
Kilowatts vs. Jaycees
Officials
Attending
Conference
Superintendent C.C.
Walters and Assistant
Superintendent Pat Harrell
of Perquimans County
School system will be at
tending public education
superintendent conferences
in Wilmington this and next
week.
Harrell went to the con
ference Wednesday, July 17
and will return Saturday.
Walters will leave July 21
and return Wednesday.
These school officials will
be among many from across
North Carolina.
Topic programs include
new state legislature,
program developments in
state, accrediation,
guidelines and proceedure,
personnel .staff develop
ment, evaluation and
human relations, and new
regional center develop
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The conference programs
will be handled by state
department of public in
struction officials and a
guest speaker will deliver
the keynote address.
- Harrell will be speaker on
the accredidation panel
during his attendance at the
conference.
Auto
Knua
A three-year-old girl was
killed by an auto last
Thursday on RP road 1225,
north of Hertford.
Killed was Angela Yvette
Godfrey, of Rt. 2, Hertford.
She was the daughter of
Linwood and Armenta
Godfrey of the same ad
dress. According to investigation
officer of the North Carolina
Highway patrol, C.H. Mims,
an auto driven by Doris
Holly Slade of Edenton was
traveling west on 1225 about
40 to 45 m.p.h. when the
child ran from the left side
of the roadway. The vehicle
struck the pedestrian and
the right rear wheel ran
over her. The pedistrian
came to rest at the back of
Investigation is con
tinuing. School
Agenda
Public
School superintendent
C.C. Walters has released
the '74-'75 school calendar
for the Perquimans County
school system.
August 14 Teachers
Begin Work
August 26 Student
Orientation Day
August 27 Begin 180
Day Term
September 2 Labor Day
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nuiiuay
October 10 Teacher
Work Day End 1st 6
weeks
October 11 Teacher
Work Day District NCAE
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November 22 Teacher
Work Day End 2nd 6
weeks
November 28, 29
Thanksgiving Holidays
December 18 Christmas
Holidays Begin at Close of
School Day
January 2 School
Begins After Christmas
Vacation
January 20 Teacher
Work Day End of
Semester
March 7 Teacher Work
Day End 4th 6 Weeks
March 28, 31, April 1
Easter Holidays
April 21 Teacher Work
Day End 5th 6 weeks
June 4 School Ends
June 5, day June 6
Extended Work Days For
Teachers
June 9 - 13 Teacher
Annual Leave Days and
Holidays
Teachers will be em
ployed for ten calendar
months, and will receive
1.25 days annual vacation
leave per month employed.
They will also receive
holidays equal to those set
by. the State Personnel
Council for state employees
which occur during period of
employment. This amounts
to 21'j days for 1974-75. .
Merchants meeting
" The merchants committee
of the Perquimans County
Chamber of Commerce will
have a meeting July 22 at
9:30 a.m. at the Municipal '
building. All merchants are
invited.
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