Lunch menues
are released
The following arc the
lunch menus (or Per
quimans County Schools for
the week of Feb. 20-24:
HERTFORD GRAMMAR
PERQUIMANS CENTRAL
PERQUIMANS UNION
Mon. Feb. 20
Welners k Raked Beans
Slaw
Applesauce
School Baked Rolls
Milk
Tues. Feb. 21
Beef-A-Roni
Lettuce & Dressing
Fruitcicle
Bread
Milk
Wed. Feb. 22
Beef Vegetable Soup
Buttered Grilled Cheese
Sandwich
Fruit Cup
Peanut Butter Cookie
Milk
Thurs. Feb. 23
Hamburger on Roll
French Fries
Lettuce & Tomato
Ccokie
Milk
Fri. Feb. 24
Turkey Pot Pie
Candied Yams
Creen Peas
Cranberry Sauce
Bread
Milk
PERQUIMANS HIGH
Mon. Feb. 20
Lasagna OR
Hot Dog oo Roll
Cole Slaw
Baked Beau
Applesauce
Milk
Tuer Feb. 21
Beef-A-Roni OR
Fish Sandwich
Lettuce & Dressing
Buttered Corn
String Beans
Fruitcicle
Hot Rolls
Milk
Wed. Feb. 22
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
OR Luncheon Meat
Sandwich
Beef Vegetable Soup
French Fries
Fruit Cup
Peanut Butter Cookie
Milk
Thurs. Feb. 23
Hamburger on Bun OR
Bologna & Cheese
Sandwich
French Fries
Lima Beans
Lettuce & Tomato
Salted Peanuts
Milk
Fri. Feb. 24
Turkey Pot Pie OR
Chuckwagon with Gravy
Candied Yams
Green Peas
Congealed Salad
Cranberry Sauce
Hot Rolls
Milk
Special day to
be observed
Girl Scouts from Gdenton
and neighboring counties
will celebrate International
Girl Scout Day to promote
Girl Scouting in the area on
Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. until 4
p.m. at the National Guard
Armory in Edenton.
The day's activities will
include displays on Girl
Scouting, Rent-A-Camper
from the Girl Scout Countil,
and the Girl Scouts Van
with a field director Phyle
Gordon. Each of the troops
in Edenton will have a
display on a country in the
World Association.
Displays will also be
featured by troops from
Perquimans, Currittick,
Pasquotank, and Camden
counties.
Girl scouting in eastern
North Carolina is in need of
leaders and assistant
leaders.
The public is invited to
visit the Armory in obser
vance of International Girl
Scout Day on Saturday.
Also during the day, the
Edenton Girl Scouts will be
holding a bake sale, white
elephant sale and cake
walks.
Letter* From Our Readen:
Editor's
MaUbag
Some thoughts
on education
TO THE EDITOR:
These are a few thoughts I wish to share with the good
people of Hertford. I am not good at this, but, I want to
share them with you. Your children are in trouble and they
need your help. There will come a time when they will want
to share the good things in life ? A job they can take pride
in and a place of dignity and respect in their communtiy.
Come help them get this. Give of yourself. Our teachers
need your help in class and involvedwith their activities.
They can't give your children the individual attention they
need, only a few will excell. And, you have so much to offer.
Just teaching a child to swing may bring that self con
fidence needed to read those first words.
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Now is your next chance to give of yourself. Remember
investing in their future is going to be cheaper than paying
for your mistakes later.
Thank you for letting me share these thoughts with you.
. STEVEN A. WEINER
Hertford. N.C.
TILE SYSTEM BEING USED - J.B. Rountree's crew is
shown installing tile on the William Charlie Roberts farm.
Over 15,000 feet of tile will be installed in Perquimans
County this spring. (SCS Photo)
System can
increase cropland
While the price of
farmland in Perquimans
County continues to rise,
several farmers have found
a way to increase their
cropland without buying
additional lana. They are
installing tile drainage to
replace open ditches in
areas where the conditions
are suitable. An open ditch
1,000 feet long usually takes
up about one-third acre of
valuable farmland. In
many cases this ditch can
be eliminated by installing
a tile system. Tile can also
be used to drain small wet
areas scattered throughout
a field.
Several factors need to be
considered before tile is in
stalled according to the
Conservation Service. The
soil properties have to be
such as to respond to their
underground drainage
method. Sandy soils, wet in
nature with a friable sub
soil respond most readily.
In these areas tile works
more effectively than open
ditches and requires less
maintenance. Open ditches
cut in three type soils
usually cave badly and
have to be cleaned out
often.
One limitation many sites
have is the lack of an ad
quate outlet. The tile line is
placed about 3.5 feet below
the surface of the ground so
the area where the water is
emptied from the tile line
must be at least 4.0 feet
below the field level. Some
fields are too flat to drain
with tile.
Most of the tile being in
stalled in this area is six
inches in diameter and
come in monolithic rolls of
110 feet in length.
The service points out one
misconception about tile is
that it will pull the water
table down during a
drought. Actually the tile
removes only the excess or
free water from the soil.
This lowers the water table
in the spring and allows the
plant to develop a good
deep root system which
normally would be impeded
by a high water table. When
a drought occurs the plant
has a better root system to
take up the capillary water.
The plant will usually sur
vive the dry weather as
good or better with tile
drainage than it would if in
an undrained soil.
The cost of installing tile
runs about 75 cents per
linear foot at this time.
Elmer Lassiter, a super
visor with the Albemarle
Soil Conservation District,
says that the tile will pay
for itself in reducing ditch
maintenance, making more
land available for crops,
and making farming more
MAYTAG
RINGER WASHER
*233.45
AUTOMATIC WASHER
*338.25
Fngidare Gas
DRYER
'230.75 1 ur
Fngidare Dishwasher
(1) *175.00 -08.LE
convenient. In Perquimans
County, farmers lose much
more crop yields to wet con
ditions that to dry weather.
Cost sharing for installing
tile drainage is available
through the ASCS Office.
Farmers from Per
quimans County who are in
stalling tile this spring are
Elmer Lassiter, Carroll
Williams, Carroll Baker,
Robert Phthisic, and
Wallace Chappell. Anyone
interested in seeing if a
field can be drained with
tile, may contact the Soil
Conservation Service Of
fice in the Agricultural
Building in Hertford. Free
assistance is available to
anyone to help design and
layout a tile system on their
land.
Honor
Listings
Chowan Academy has
released the names of the
following students named
to the school's honor rolls:
A HONOR ROLL
Ninth Grade: Frances
Winslow
Twelth Grade: Amanda
Bunch
A-B HONOR ROLL
Seventh Grade: Tim
Morgan, Scottie Winslow
Eighth Grade: Calvin
Askew, Suanne Bass, Janet
Hollowell, Phil Smith,
Natalie Taylor, Joey
Tynch, Linda Winslow,
Flora Hall Wood
Ninth Grade: Benbury
Wood
Tenth Grade: Edith
Cowper, Sambo Dixon
Eleventh Grade: Virginia
Evans, Melanie Morris,
Angela Taylor
Twelth Grade: Cathy
Cale, Dawn Dozier, and
Fran Hollowell
Perform a
death
defying
act.
Give
Heart
FUnd.
Give
Heart I T J
Fund M/
American Heart Association
T aking a look backward
FEB. 1M0
By VIRGINIA WHITE
TRANSEAU
FORMER PCHS GIRL
HONORED AT
BOANOKE: Miss Winnie
Lee Winslow, who was
valedictorian of Per
quimans County High
School's Class of '37, made
first distinction on the
Honor Roll at Roanoke
Junior College for the fall
semester. Miss Winslow is
a junior and has been on the
honor roll since entering
the college. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Allen J. Winslow of this .
county.
WINDS BLOW WATER
OUT OF THE RIVER: The
water blew out of the
river.. ."Way out beyond
the old log that turtles sit on
in the summertime. The
wind rolled, the water back
_
TIME SAVER
When scheduling two or
three wash loads for one
day, do the items to be
ironed in the first load. You
can finish the ironing as the
other loads are washing
and drying.
DON'T OVERLOAD
Do not overload the
washer in an attempt to
conserve water. Dry, un
folded clothes should be
placed loosely in the
washbasket, not packed in,
for free circulation.
The
Perquimans Weekly
Court House Square
HERTFORD. N.C. 27944
Entered a* second class
matter November 15, 1934
at Post Office in Hertford,
N.C..
RAY WARD
General Manager
KATHY NEWBERN
News Editor
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Monday-Thursday
PHONE 426-572*
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Phone 426-5576
from the shore and exposed
the snagatrewn river.. .not
u pretty as when the river
bed la filled with bright blue
water." Thia was
Wedneaday afternoon about
five o'clock. A strong
northwest wind had been
blowing since before noon
and had moved the water's
edge at least SO yards from
shore. Nearby creeks were
more ditches. Gullies that
feed the creek were
trickleta, and the river was
fast becoming a narrow
channel between two wide
mud flats as dust
descended. j
BIRTH ANNOUNCE
MENT: Mr. and Mrs. Haxel
Mathews announce the
birth of a son, Hazel Benton
Mathews Jr., on Thursday,
February 8th, 1140.
* ANOTHER LIFT FOR
THE FARMER: One of the
most encouraging signs on
the horizon of the American
farmer, faced as he Is with
the persistant "agricultural
problem," is the way in
which industry in this coun
try is laboring to find new
uses for farm products and
to increase the current use
of these products. All over
the country, in industrial
research laboratories, the
process of turning farm
products into new
materials is going on at a
tremendous rate. Every
new success in the field
means a lighter burden, a
lessening of his surplus, (or
the American fanner. A re
cent example offers an in
teresting case in point: four
or five months ago, a plant
was opened in the South to
manufacture cigarette
paper from American
Sown flax fiber, thus tarn- .
g a formerly waste ,
material to the use of pro- '
duction of a higher stan
dard of living for all
concerned.
Your Pharmacist I
Charles Woodard
Says ? '
? Wee4er#s Hm wi), 101 N. Church Sir? I
Hartford, N.C T?i. 426-3327
Heart patients
can recover
There's good news for
heart patients and others
suspicious of potential
heart disease, according
to the Longevity Research
Institute. You may have
seen it on "60 Minutes."
The LRI has developed a
low fat diet and exercise
program that is quite suc
cessful at healing and pre
venting diseased hearts.
Write our Clipping Serv
ice for the LRI Report,
Box 5051, Raleigh,
N.C. 27607. I feel
this report will enlighten
you considerably. But be
certain to show it to your
Doctor. It's never safe to
do-it-yourself in medical
matters.
Prater iptlon SpKioitoti
Woo dard's Pharmacy
Dial 426-5527 Hertford. N.C.
Loved ones are close
by when a telephone
is close at hand.
"The doctor says it's not serious . . . he'll be in
the hospital a few days. Just thought I'd call and let
you know. Yes, I'll keep you posted. We're fine. Say
hello to the kids for me. "
When you have urgent news . . . what
do you reach for? The telephone, of course.
Family and friends are not so far away when
a phone is close by. So remember, the ones
' you love are as close ss the nearest
telephone.
NORFOLK CAROLINA
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AT, PS, AC.
75 Chev, 2-dr., V8, AT, PS, AC.
74 Ford Elito, 2-dr., VS, AT,
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74 Dodp Charier, V8, AT, AC,
P^
74 PoRttac Wagon, ?, AT, AC,
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74 Dodjo Challongor, V8, AT,
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74 Capri, 2-dr., 4<jL, 4-spd.
73 Ford LTD, 4-*., VS, AT, PS.
73 Ford Gran Tariaa^ 2-dr.,
VS, AT.
72 Ford Gal 500, 4-dr., VS, AT.
71 LTD, 4-dr., VS, AT, PS, AC
70 Ford S^iiit **?, VS, kf,
AC.
77 Ford, F100, S<|L, LB, AT.
7* ChovCIO, 4x4, VS, AT, PS.
76 Ford F100.V8, AT, PS, LB.
75 Ford F100, V8, SS, LB, PS..
75 Ford Suporub, V8, AT, PS.
74 MIC, 4*4, ?8, AT, PS,
74 fad F100, V8, AT, SB.
73 Ford F100, VS, ST, LB, PS.
73 Fowl F250, VS, AT, PS, AC.
73 Ford F100, Cab & Chasns
72 Chcv. C-10, VS, ST, LB.
72 Ford F100, VS, AT, JJ, PS.
71 Ford, VS, Li, SI
70 Ford F100, S-cyL, SS, LB.
S9 Chow. C-20, VS, LB, SS