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I I DECLARES PATCH BBK - Hertford Mayor Cox is shown signing a proclamation declaring the week of Fob. 5-11 as Pateh The Pony Week locally. Looking on is Jeannie Umphlett, Patch The Pony Chairperson for the Per quimaas County Jaycettes. (Staff photo hy Kathy M. Newbern) Patch The Pony Week activities announced Patch The Pony Week will be celebrated in Per quimans County Feb. 5-11. Patch The Pony is a pro ject conducted by the North Carolina Jaycettes con cerning child safety against strangers. In conjunction with the state sponsorship, the Perquimans County Jaycettes will be sponsor ing Patch The Pony ac tivities locally during Patch Week. The major emphasis of Patch The Pony Week will be the showing of a film featuring the symbol whose slogan is, "Nay, Nay From Strangers Stay Away." The film will be shown to all kindergarten through fourth grade students in Perquimans County. It em phasizes three points: that children should not get in automobiles with strangers, that children should not accept presents, candy, or anything else from strangers, and that children should not follow strangers anywhere. The film will be shown to children on Monday in the day care programs offered by Mrs. Maxine Cherrix, Mrs. Amos Stone, and Mrs. Margaret Ann Williams. Then, on Thursday, children at Hertford Gram mar School will see the film, and it will also be shown to students at Per quimans Central Grammar School on Friday. Marshall Merritt, Hert ford Police Chief, will also visit the two schools to talk about the subject in con junction with the film showing. On Friday, a special wrap-up to the week-long activities will come when a real pony, representing , Patch The Pony, will visit both schools. All students viewing the film and participating in the study of awareness of strangers will receive a certificate for partici pating and a Patch coloring puzzle. .Cooperating with the Per quimans County Jaycettes in their effort to inform children of the danger in talking to strangers is Pat Harrell, Superintendent of Perquimans County Schools and the school principals. Parents interested in finding out more about Patch The Pony may con tact Jeanie Umphlett, Patch The Pony Chairper son for the Jaycettes. Highway program approved RALEIGH - The North Carolina Highway Improvement Program, calling for highway construction expenditures of approximately $313 million annually in five of the next seven years, was given for mal approval recently by the State Board of Transportation. The program, a project-by project schedule of road building across the State, received ap proval by the Board at its regular monthly meeting in Raleigh. Transportation Secretary Thomas W. Bradshaw Jr. said the update of the continuing program "emphasizes the major need for East-West highways to connect our ports to the Piedmont and West. It reflects Governor Hunt's in sistence on a forward-looking pro gram that will contribute to the State's economic growth and to the quality of life our people want and deserve." The Secretary commended the Board and department staff members for what he termed "months of dedicated work developing a program that will beneficially affect every citizen of North Carolina." The Highway Improvement Pro gram is a planned and program med course of highway construc tion that balances anticipated revenues against estimated project costs through 1984. The update ap proved recently is required an nually to add new projects and ac count for fluctuations in revenue and costs. Projects are selected for the pro gram on a basis of long-range studies, previously approved pro jects, local support, statewide need and relative benefits to the greatest number of people. Current needs for the State's 75,000-mile highway system have been placed at $7 billion. The seven-year program just approved will make available approximately $2 billion to begin addressing those needs. The program reflects in creased revenues resulting from passage of the $300 million bond issue in 1977. Bor-* money in the amount of $60 million will be fed into the Highway Improvement Program and the Secondary Roads Program in each of the next five years. The new program also reflects views and suggestions expressed by local officials, community leaders and interested citizens in a series of 14 public meetings held last summer, one of which was held in Hertford. Bradshaw said publk input into the programs has been significant in Influencing Board decisions on a wide variety of projects. "Our meetings across the State," he said, "clearly indicate that the people want transporta tion progress that creates economic opportunities. This is totally compatible with the Gover nor's balanced growth concept, and it is the premise on which decisions were made in developing this program." Bradshaw said ahother series of public meetings will be scheduled in late spring or early summer to hear suggestions for consideration in next year's update. The Secretary stressed the fact that all projects already in the pro gram and all projects suggested for inclusion this year were studies closely by Board members and Department staff professionals. As approved, the program's pro jected annual expenditure from normal revenue sources and bond issue funds will provide $75 million for interstate projects, $122 million ' for rural highways, and $32 million for urban highway improvements. Funds totalling $43 million will be made available this year through four special programs. These include: Appalachian Pro gram, improvements to routes in western counties for the specific purpose of stimulating economic growth ($6 million); Bridge Replacement Program, to replace or repair functionally obsolete bridges throughout the highway system ($20 million); Federal Aid Safety Program, to eliminate high-hazard locations and make other safety, improvements throughout the highway system ($10 million); and Federal Aid Off-System Program, to provide federal funds for improvements on routes not" included in the federal highway system ($7 million). Of North Carolina's <5,371 highway miles, 17,016 miles are included in the Federal Aid System . In addition, the State's Secon dary Roads System will benefit from the expenditure of approx imately $41 million during 1978. ' Bradshaw cited a variety of newly-approved projects reflecting the East-West orientation of the new program. Of specific interest locally are the following approved projects; U.S. 64 ? Rocky Mount to Tar boro, construct four-lane divided highway. $26 million; U.S. 64 - N.C. 171 to Plymouth, widen t^p-lane highway to fonr lanes, $13 miffioo. U.S. 264 - Wilson Connty line to Farmville Bypass, widen to fcmr lane highway, $1$ million ; U.S. 264 - Farmville Bypass to Greenville Bypass, widen to tour lane highway, -$13 million. Bethel Market hold-up reported A robbery occurring Wednesday around l:$o p.m. at Bethel Market resulted in the theft of $}40. Mrs. Doris Crandell, co owner with ber husband, Mervin, was alone in the store located on Snug Har bor Road when two masked men, one armed with a rifle, confronted her. She said the armed man carried a rifle with a telescopic sight and wore a stocking mask. The other wore a ski mart. The taller of the two was the only one who spoke tad to her words, "ho had an educated voice." The man ordered her to take all the money from the register, put it to a sack, then l|e oo the floor. Mrs. Crafcdell reported that throughout the con frontation, the man kept the muxxle of the rifle about one inch from her body. Reportedly, the two men had parked at a church near the store, watching it unUl the woman was alone. Complete EMT course Completing the <1 hour Emergency Medical Technician Course are the following 18 students. The course was given at the Perquiiniui County Rescue Squad Building. Herbert Nixon, Odie Gilstrap Helen Timms, Cecil Timms, Betty Swind wll, Marion Haskett, Donna Willis, Margaret Stowe, Robert Richards, Christopher Peckham, Ernest Little, Brooks Hart, Talmadge Lawing, Dorothy Sams, Atvis Jordon, Talmadge Rose, Barbara Rose, John Danchise. Coordinator was Bill Underkauffer. A special thanks goes to H.B. Miller, Dan Berrj, and Elden Winslow for preparing the students for the practical Exam. COUPLE TREATED FOR INJURIES - Win ton and Clara BuBois, residents in this overturned mobile home at Miller & Meads Trailer Park on Rt. 1, Hertford, were treated for minor injuries at 5:30 a.m. Thursday at Chowan Hospital in Edenton. Following the incident, Mrs. DuBois suffered a spontaneous abortion and her husband received stitches in his knee. The mobile home was overturned by high winds, recorded up to 96 miles per hour, occurring Wednesday night and Thursday morning. (Staff photo by Kathy M. Newbern) MEAT OR KEF OSCAR MAYER tlM FRANKS SI FILBERTS MARGARINE 2at'l
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