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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Volume 40, No. 5 USPS 428-080 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, February 2, 1984 25 CENTS (Top photo) Pictured is the 1982 Mustang that was totaled in a fatal accident near Bagley Swamp Road Monday night. (Bottom photo) Rescue workers from Perquimans County work to free the driver of a tractor-trailer truck after the collision. ? PIC receives funding for Region R A program designed to provide job training and employment for economically disadvantaged people is implemented in Region R (Cam den, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hyde, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington counties) by a Private Industry Council (PIC). A Federally funded program, the Job Training Partnership Act, em phasizes a significant involvement of the private business and industry sector, in partnership, with public service agencies. Region R received $499,669 for operating programs until June 30, 1M4. A portion of those funds were ?et aside for use in the upcoming fiscal year with the following programs currently training people throughout the region: Individual Referral ? places participants in existing classes in local community colleges. Em ployment Security Commission is the contractor for this program, providing recruitment, screening and placement services in cooperation with the community colleges. On-the-Job Training ? trains a participant on a job with a local business and pays one-half the wages for a specified period of time. At the end of the training period the par ticipant is hired by the firm on a full time basis. Employment Security Commission is the program operator. Job Placement/Dropout Company announces sale ofRH. Rose HENDERSON. NORTH CAROLINA ? Rose's Stores. Inc. announced last Wednesday the closing of the sal* of S3 of its P. H. Rose variety stores to Variety Wholesalers, Inc. of Raleigh, North Carolina, including the store located la Hertford. The sale was a cash transaction in which Roses sold Variety Wholesalers the assets of the SS ?Mores and the right to opeate under the "P. H. Rom" name for up to six months. ' y According to Mr. L. H. Harvin, III, President and Che If Executive Officer of Rom's, "the sale should prove to bo to both con pantos. As we have previously In dicated. the sale wffl provide ad ? jt?- JL _ ditional funds for use in our ex pansion and remodeling plans as well as allowing management to con centrate its time and efforts on the Roses discount stores." Mr. J. G. Min too, senior Vice President of Variety Wholesalers, Inc. said "we will continue to operate the S3 stores with no change in store management personnel. With the addition of the S3 stores, Vairety Wholesalers will be operating a total of 395 stores in 14 soothe astern states.". Rose's has closed three of the P. H. Rose stores where the leases expired and #01 continue to operate the P. H. Rose stores ia Henderson. North Carolina and Williamsburg, Virginia. Prevention Centers ? are programs operating in local high schools designed to prevent students from dropping out of school and to provide career counseling in conjunction with labor market information. The Department of Public In struction is the operator of this program and three centers were funded in Region R in Camden, Dare and Hyde counties. Edcuational Training/Basic Education is a program opeating at College of the Albemarle (the Bridges Program) designed to provide high school equivalency training in preparation for taking the GED exam and to bridge the "readiness-gap" between academic training and job readiness. The Private Industry Council, whose members are appointed by the local county commissions, has twenty members, 10 representing each of the ten counties; business and industry interest; and ten representing various service agencies. The membership roster includes: E. C. Top pin, Edenton, Chairman (Veterans Representative); Erna Bright, Elisabeth City (organised labor); Dr. John B. Dunn, Edenton (public schools); Frances Eure, Gatesville (Gates County); Abe 11 Fulford Jr., Swan Quarter (Hyde County). Others included; Rev. Callie C. Moore, Manteo (Dare County); Fentress Morris, Edenton (Com munity Based Organisations); Norman Norfleet, Elisabeth City (Community Colleges); Delmar Owens, Columbia (Tyrrell County); Ben Rlnehart, Edenton (Chowan County); James Ryan, Columbia (Department of Social Services). sun others included: Jan Spniill, Hertford (Perquimans County); C. M. Stokes. Roper (Economic Developmant); William J. Taylor, County woman killed in car-truck accident A Perquimans County woman was fatally injured Monday night in a collision that occured when a tractor trailer truck crossed over the center line on U.S. Highway 37 between Winfall and Belvidere hitting a car and causing both vehicles to flip over off of the road and into a ditch near Bagley Swamp Road. Anne Nowell Lane, age 36, of Route 1 Box 283, Belvidere, died of injuries sustained in the accident that oc cured around 6:00 p.m. Monday evening as she was enroute to her home. According to Trooper Danny Parker of the N.C. Highway Patrol the 1982 Mustang driven by Lane was struck by a tractor-trailer truck driven by Charles Barber, age 24, of Conway, N.C., as it entered a curve In th^ road. The car went under the truck, and was drug by the truck to the side of the road, where the truck overturned onto the car when it hit the dirt. The Lane vehicle was trapped un derneath the truck, which was carrying feed, and the grain poured out of the truck and onto the car. Assisting Parker with the rescue work was the Perquimans County Sheriff's Dept., the Perquimans County Rescue Squad, the Hertford Fire Dept., the Winfall Fire Dept. and the Belvidere Fire Dept. Barber, a driver for Perdue Inc. of ' Lewiston, N.C., was treated and released at an area hospital. He has been charged with operating left of the center line, exceeding a safe speed, and death by a motor vehicle. A trial date is scheduled for February 22, 1984 in Perquimans County District Court. Mrs. Lane was a native of Perquimans County and was the wife of James F. "Jimmy" Lane and the daughter of Mrs. Maywood Pierce Nowell of Hertford and the late George Elwood Nowell. Mrs. Lane was employed as a cashier with People's Bank and Trust Company in Hertford. She was a member of Hertford Baptist Church, the Dick Brewer Sunday School Class and the Helen Gaither Home Ex tension Club. Besides her husband and mother, survivors include two daughters, Suann Lane and Ellen Lane, both of the home; a brother, G.E. "Jack" Nowell, Jr. of Belvidere and her Maternal Grandmother, Mrs. Nell Pierce ff Hertford. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Swindell Funeral Home with Rev. Raymond Needham and Rev. Irving Cook officiating. Burial was in Cedarwood Cemetery. Chamber plans to hire new director Edenton (Employment Security Commission); Roosevelt Topping, Shiloh (Camden County); Travis W. Twiford, Camden (public schools); and Gene Zachary, Elizabeth City (vocational rehabilitation). At the present time Pasquotank, Currituck and Washington counties do not have a representative. Technical assistance is provided by Ruth J. Leggett, Manpower Planner, at the Albemarle Com mission. By JANE WILLIAMS Approval was given by the Board of Directors of the Perquimans County Chamber of Commerce this week to solicit an individual to serve in the position of a paid director for the Chamber of Commerce. The newly installed Board of Directors for the Chamber met earlier this month to discuss drawing up a job description for this position before making a final decision on hiring an individual to act as Secretary/Manager for the Perquimans County Chamber of Commerce. The new Chamber Secretary/Manager will be em ployed on a part-time basis to act as the chief admiministrative officer of the Chamber of Commerce, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors, and will serve as an ex officio member of the Board of Directors and all standing com mittees of the local Chamber of Commerce. Other duties of the Secretary /Manager will include receipt of all monies incoming and outgoing of the Chamber office, handling the bookwork for the Chamber and all corre: pondance of the Chamber of Commei ce. According to Shirley Perry, President of the Chamber of Com merce in Perquimans County, plans are to eventually hire someone in a full-time capacity to serve as a director of the Chamber. "We have been very fortunate in the last few years to have a person that was able and willing to dedicate so much time to the Chamber on a volunteer basis," Perry said. In other action the Board of Directors laid the groundwork for the third Annual Indian Summer Festival and set the festival date for the two-day event on September 14 and IS. Perry reported to the Board that she and former Chamber President Mary Harrell and Becky Winslow attended a Chamber of Commerce Leadership conference in Raleigh on January 23 and 24. Final plans for a three-county promotional map and a county service directory were discussed by the board. A final draft of the map should be presented to the Board within the next few weeks for approval and last minute changes. The County Service Directory is expected to be completed within the week and distributed throughout the county late next week. "Short Course" farming scholarship awarded to Pierce Ben Berry of Peoples Bank and Trust in Hertford presents James R. "Bud" Pierce with a scholarship check to pay his expenses to the "Modern Farming Short Course" from January 30 through February 10, at North Carolina State Univer sity. With them is Perquimans County Agricultural Extension Chairman, Sill Jester. Each year a young far mer who has shown special ieadership qualities is selected to represent Perquimans County at the Ihort Course. The "Modern Farming Short Course" is sponsored jointly by the North Carolina Bankers Association and the North Carolina Agricultural extension Service. The Short Course program this ' fear will Include a broad overview of Lbe problems and issues agriculture will face in the SO's as well as in depth sessions on specific farm com- n. C. S. U. gives the participant a modities. A review of Ag research at special insight on the future. Ben Berry of Peoples Bank and Trust Company in Hertford is shown presenting Bud Pierce with a scholarship check for a farming short t course as County Agricultural Extension Chairman Bill Jester looks on.
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