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Volume 30 No. 31
Hertford, Perquimant County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 1, 1974
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Aging Unit Goals
Will Be Expanded
The Albemarle Aging Unit
operating under the, local
Kponsnrship of Albemarle
iegiona ; Planning &
povejopmeht Commission
has released its major
objectives of its program,
t-Summary includes
coordinating available
services for persons . 60
years and over.
Encouraging the expansion
of existing services for this
age population. Introducing
.ind prompting the
development of needed but
non-existing programs and
activities for the 60 plus
Hpulation.
Information and Referral
Services. , which are
designed to serve two
primary functions: (1) the
assemblage and provision of
information to link older
persons with the op
portunities, services, and
resources that will enable
; l hem to meet their par
ticular problems and needs,
and (2) the collection, use,
and dissemination of in
formation about the needs of
older people and the
adequacy" of resources
available to them. -
Elements essential to the
provision of comprehensive
information and referral
services are identified as
follows:,, -. "
Wilson Killed
In Auto Crash
Thomas Calvin "Buck"
Wilson, 49, was killed at
12:20 a.m. last Wednesday
on RPR 1221.
- According to investigating
officer,1 Y.Z. Newberry,
Wilson was driving his late
model car west on the road.
The car ran off the road in a
sharp curve on the right of
the road, went into a ditch,
struck a culvert end over
turned several times,
pinning the driver in the car.
. The car was totaled.
A native of Perquimans
County and a retired Air
Force Major with 23 years of
(AnnAA Via tar a a f Ka kiwkaMil
service, he was the husband
of Mrs. Anita ' Gulledge
Wilson and the son of Mrs.
Susie Roberts Wilson and
the late James Christopher
. Wilson. He was a member of
the Hertford Rotary Club,
,' ' American Legion, Air Force
f , Association, and attended
Patrol
(Cracking
Down
. The North Carolina High-
way Patrol Initiates a New
' Speed Control Program for
x Primary . and Secondary
, 'Roads.'
The Highway Patrol plans
to begin forewarning
motorists that their speeds
will be clocked. The plan
provides for troopers to be
"equipped with reflectorized
metal signs with the war
ning "Speed Check Zone'?
.printed in bold letters. The
signs will be bolted to
existing highway sign posts
. to notify drivers that their
speed will be checked by
troopers during the next 20
miles.
According to Colonel E.
W. Jones, Fatroi com
mander, this unique ap
proach to speed control v rs
fenerated by Ncr'.i
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(1) Organization and
Facilities Under this
heading, such matters as
nature and location of the
information and referral
facility, clientele served,
range of problems and
needs covered, and cor
porate status. are
registered.
2 Resource File This
will identify the local op
portunities, resources, and
services available to older
people in meeting such
needs as consumer in
formation, education,
employment, health ser
vices, housing, income,
legal assistance - and
recreation.
(3) Staff - Staff
capability should relate to
compiling and maintaining
a resource file, and
responding to visits or
telephone calls from or in
behalf of older people for
directing or linking them to
needed resources, and
recording and providing
information to planning
agencies. .
4 Access To insure
that all older people shall
have reasonably convenient ,
access to information and
referral services (i.e. toll
free calling, answering
service for emergency
outside normal work day
OafcGrove United Methodist
Chun : .
Surviving besides his wife
and mother are two sons,
Thomas C. Wilson Jr. of
Cullowhee and Joel Andrew
Wilson of Rt. 4; two
daughters: Misses Anita
Susan and Elizabeth Wilson,
both of Rt. 4; two brothers;
James C. Wilson of Rt. 4 and
Dr. George C. Wilson of
Wilson, N.C.; four sisters:
Mrs. Albert Ross, of Key
Biscayne, Fla.; Mrs. Robert
Marsh of Roper; Mrs. Max
Jackson of Athens, Tenn;
! and Mrs- Peter Warner of
, Balboa Canal Zone. V
Jackson of Athens, Tenn;
Balboa Canal Zone.
A graveside service was
held Thursday at 3 p.m. at
Oak Grove United Methodist
Church cemetery by the
Rev. W.R. Pinner and Rev.
H.D. Scott. -
Swindell Funeral Home
had - charge of
arrangements.
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Set Aue-8
Football practice begins
for Perquimans High School
potential players, Aug. 8 at 9
a.m. in the high school gym.'
The first session will be a
meeting for all those
students interested in
playing the grid iron game.
Coach Celvin Webster
wants to remind young men
to get their medical forms
from the high school office
in order to get a medical
examination to qualify for
the team.
The coach' urged all
football playing hopefuls to
begin preparing themselves
for the practice. ,
Webster is ; attending a
coach's clinic in Greensboro
July 29 through Aug. 1.
Book Available
In last Thursday's edition
of the Ferqi&sans Weekly,
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and walk-in centers.
(5) Interviewing, Infor
mation Giving and
Referral This involves
receiving calls from or on
behalf of older persons,
understanding the nature of
the information or service
they require, and directing
or referring them to an
agency or organization able
and willing to assist them.'
(6) Follow-Up - This
represents an effort by I&R
Services to determine
whether or not an older
person established linkage
with an agency to which
directed and whether the
desired service was
received and was helpful.
(7 Publicity and
Outreach This involves
the use of media and other
mechanisms to apprise
older people, the general
public, and providers of
services, of the availability
of information and referral
services.
(8) Escort and Tran
sportation Services These
are two forms of assistance
given to older people who
require help in getting
linkage with a i service
agency. Through these
services, arrangements will
be made with appropriate
community agencies or
organizations of older
people to:- :'r,v
' ( 1 ) Escort older persons
requiring assistance due. to
physical or mental im
parity, timidity, or fear for
personal security and-or in
the presenting cir
cumstances to agency
personnel. (2) Transport
older persons who are
limited in mobility, lack
access to public tran
sportation, or who are
unable to pay transportation
costs.
(9) Records and Reports
This element will be used
in (a) evaluating in
formation and referral
services and (b) in com
munity planning and (c) in
closing gaps in community
services.
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VHlSleV VOtCS
For County
Rufus Edminson, won the
state nomination for the
Democratic Attorney
General position, in Raleigh
this week-end. i
W.F. Ainsley of Hertford,
represented Perquimans
Countv as member of the
execuuve comminee to voie
for the county.
Completes Training
Army . private Ellis C.
Sutton, 19, son of Mrs. Eliza
- Sutton, 1225 Steiner St., San
Francisco, completed nine
, weeks of advanced in
dividual training at the U.S.
Army Infantry Training
Center, Ft. Polk, La. ,
:, He received general
training as a light weapons
infantryman and as a
mortar and recoilless rifle
crewman, in addition to
specialized weapons in
struction. He also was taught the
proper use of high ex
plosives and the placement,
detection and disarming of
mines.
Teamwork was em
phasized while he learned to
work as a member of a rifle
suad, mortar squad or
direct fire section. Each
team member completed
the trai:"j well qualified to
perform o.er jets in case of .
casuz-'.llrs. , . ' '
K;s Mary, lives at
1224 Pierce St., San Fran-
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SITTIN ON TOE DOCK OF THE RIVER Two youths, the beautiful Perquimans
River, summer sunshine, was the setting this week, as these fellows contemplate school
beginning and the leaves turning colors. However, it is doubtful if these two youngsters
were thinking it all would be over soon. (Newbern-Sawyer Photo)
Emergency Officers
Elected In Edenton
In the absence of tem
porary chairman, T.R.
Spruill, Mac McKinney
acted as chairman until the
elections were held. The
invocation was given by Bill
Griswold and the minutes of
the last meeting were
dispensed of as all members
received these by mail.
McKinney introduced the
principal speaker, Jim
Page, of the State Office of
EMS. r Page presented
McKinney with a check for
$12,500 which is Region R's
portion of State EMS funds.
This money is designated
for a secretarial-clerical
staff, office space, supplies
and equipment in order to
maintain, and inform the
Council. Page pointed out
funding sources and ex
plained how these monies
will be divided and
distributed. He stressed that
Emergency Medical Service
was a local problem and
that . EMS Councils were
organized to allow the,
people to decide how to
Whitehurst Attends
Council Leadership
Anthony Whitehurst of
Perquimans County High
. School attended ' . the
.Workshop for Student
Council Leaders and Club
Officers sponsored by the
student personnel depart
ment of Chowan College.
"The three-day workshop
included thirty participants
from eleven different
schools, public and private,
large and small, from
Charlotte, North Carolina to
Falls Church, Virginia,"
' said Dean Earl Dilday, who
, directed the program.
The program included,
; parlimentary 4 procedure,
. styles of leadership, "
. prcj -cts fre"o:;t!y , 6pon-
E"::i by Ei:.:ol-ponEored
c-'Tizsticr.s, , public
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approach this problem on a
local basis.
Elections were held for
Council offices. The results
are as follows: Chairman
Murray Ashley, Edenton
Chowan Rescue Squad and
Civil Preparedness Agency;
Vice-Chairman Bill
Hartman, Pasquotank
County Coordinator;
Secretary Barbara Cale,
Director of Nursing at
Chowan Hospital.
Bill Griswold gave a brief
presentation on Operations
stressing Ambulances,
Communications, Facilities,
and Training. He named the
Coordinators for the 81 hour
Training, the areas they will
cover, and the starting dates
; for the courses.
Murray Ashley appointed
Committee Chairmen who,
in turn, will appoint four
other members to serve on
their committees. The
following were appointed:
Budget and Finance
Committee Robert Jef
fries, Medical Advisory
relations, news writing, and ,
faculty-student-principal
relations. Visual aids and
discussions reinforced
lectures from :, Chowan
faculty and staff members,
Dilday noted.
'The workshop was
planned from two assump
tions," said Dean Vicki
Tolston, Associate Dean of
Students for Women, "that
the principal has the legal ,
authority and the prime
responsibility for the
operation of the school and
: that the school should be a
better place in which to
learn as a result of student
council and dub activities.
Anthony ; of Route . 1,
Eelvidsre is the son of Mr.
and !rs. Roy Vhiish-srst.
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Committee Tom Surratt,
Facilities and Equipment
Committee Durwood
Evans, Organization and
Training Committee Dan
Berry, Evalutation Committee-
D.F. Walker. The
Executive Committee will
consist of the Committee
Chairmen and Executive
Agents of AHRDS.
John Outten announced
two minor changes in the
temporary By-Laws con
cerning the responsibility of
the Council in Article V and
the time of meetings in
Article IX. He made a
motion that the By-Laws be
adopted as written. This was
seconded by Tom Surratt
and was unanimously ac
cepted by the Council.
Mr. Paul Graeter was
commended for his out
standing work in Region R
and EMS.
EAT WHILE YOU WORK
eat some beans and sausage.
beans in their skillet on the
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Farm Festival
Ending Today
Today is the last day of the second annual farm festival
sponsored by the Perquimans County Young Farmers and
Ranchers Committee.
The activities will begin at 9 a.m. with the opening of the
festival's second day at the high school gym. An event
which proved to be successful last year will begin at 10 a.m.
For both the young and old, the sack race proves to be full of
fun and tumbles.
Winners will be awarded ribbons.
A big turnout is expected at 1 p.m. for the drawing of the
$50 savings bond. The prize is being sponsored by Bank of
N.C., People's Hank and Hertford Savings and Loan. There
will be a game or contest at 3 p.m. which will be announced
during the festival. The day's events will end at 8:30 p.m.
Booths have been set up in the gym by local businesses,
clubs and organizations advertising their projects or ex
plaining some phase of their work. The public is invited to
browse around and ask questions. Also, many items have
been entered for judging in the various categories which
include handicrafts, canning goods, clothing, and farm
grown items for example. This year, cash prizes arc being
awarded.
If you were not able to visit the festival yesterday, then
you still have one more chance.
So. Come on Down.
Inspect Peanuts
Before Harvest
Inspection of peanut fields
for mold infection before
harvest may protect profits
on the uninfected portion of
the crop, advises a U.S.
Department of Agriculture
(USDA) scientist here.
Pre-harvest inspection
cfn pay off, particularly this
year, since peanuts infected
with the mold Aspergillus
flavus are automatically
classified as segregation-3
and are not eligible for
(iovernment price support.
Sold as oil stock for
nonfood uses, peanuts may
be worth half what they
would be if eligible for
support prices. Presence of
only a few kernels with A.
flavus mold could put the
whole load in the
segregation-3 category, so
inspection and separate
harvesting could pay big
dividends.
Research of the Depart
ment's Agricultural
Research Service (ARS)
has shown that A. flavus
mold found on farmers'
stock peanuts often grows
before the peanuts are dug.
Also, drought after the
peanuts are formed, but
before they are dug, is
conducive to mold infection.
Damage from lesser corn
stalk borer might also favor
this infection. And, infected
peanuts are often found only
in certain areas of a field.
"If A. flavus infected
peanuts can be isolated in
concentrated areas and
harvested separately,
farmers can avoid con
tamination of the remainder
of the crop, which is still
eligible for price supports,"
says ARS agricultural
engineer James W. Dickens
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The men working over at the courthouse take time out to
While the men are no Julia Child, they cook up a good pot of
courthouse lawn. (Sawyer Photo)
,a , ., ... "-'v.; .;-;.' . !
stationed at North Carolina
State University.
Brief instruction should be
enough to equip a peanut
grower to identify most
badly infected A. flavus
kernels with the naked eye.
and field inspection with a
small hand magnifier will
aid in more positive iden
tification. There are several
sources of this instruction,
including the Federal-State
inspection service, county
extension agents and peanut
grower organizations.
Initially, all types of
damaged pods suspected to
contain damaged kernels
should be selected for
examination. However,
experience with finding
moldy kernels will show
which type of damaged pods
within a particular field
most probably contain A.
flavus kernels.
When infected kernels are
found, a more intensive
sampling procedure should
be followed to determine the
perimeter of the area
containing infection.
Mr. Dickens explains that
examination of kernels from
at least one damaged 'pod
from each 20-foot segment
of every fourth windrow
should detect the presence
of A. flavus kernels. Given
an average yield of a ton per
acre, this procedure would
provide for examination of
over 180 damaged kernels
per ton. On the average, less
than 20 damaged kernels
per ton are examined during
grading at the buying
points.
Further observations will
be needed to develop
specific guidelines to pin
point A. flavus kernels.
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