THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 54, No. 25 USPS 42I-M0 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, June 24, lt84 23 CENTS
NATURE'S BEST? One of the prettiest sights you'll ever see
are the roses in bloom during the late spring and early sum
mer months. Photographer George Wilmore spotted this
beauty during a recent outing with his camera, and shares
the beauty with us.
Hurricane threats call for preparation
If a hurricane threatens, keep
listening to your local radio or
television station for the latest
* National Weather Service advi
sories, as well as special instruc
tions for local government,
according to Keith W. Haskett,
Perquimans County Emergency
Management Coordinator.
Hurricanes can cause power
failure and contamination to the
water supply. Check battery
powered equipment such as ra
dios and flashlights now. Your
' battery radio could be your only
source of information in a hurri
cane emergency. Store a supply
of drinking water in clean bath
tubs, jugs, bottles, and cooking
utensils. Your town's water sys
tem may be contaminated or
damaged by the storm.
Fill your car's fuel tank to be
prepared in case evacuation
. should be necessary. Also, there
I is a possibility that service sta
tions may be inoperable after a
storm strikes.
Board up windows or protect
them with storm shutters or
tape. Small windows are easily
broken by wind-driven debris.
Larger windows may be broken
by wind pressure. Tape may not
keep a window from breaking,
but it is an effective way of pre
9 venting flying glass.
Secure outdoor objects which
may be blown away. Garbage
cans, garden tools, toys, signs,
porch furniture, and a number of
harmless items can become
weapons in hurricane winds.
Boats should be moored securely
before the storm arrives, or
moved to a designated safe area.
Residents of low-lying areas
which may be swept by high tides
or storm waves should evacuate
such areas without delay. It
would be extremely dangerous to
be caught in your car on an open
coastal road. Roads to safer
areas could become flooded be
fore the full force of hurricane
strikes, and getting out of such
areas could be further compli
cated by the fact that the density
of the population in some areas
makes it imopossible for a few
roads to accommodate everyone
within a short amount of time.
If authorities advise evacua
tion of your area, Do So Immedi
ately. Keep listening to your car
radio for further instructions,
such as the location of emer
gency shelters.
If you live inland, away from
the beaches and low-lying
coastal areas, your home is well
constructed, and local authori
ties have not called for evacua
tion in your area, stay home and
make emergency preparations.
As you monitor National
Weather Service advisories, be
alert for tornado watches or
warnings.
Tornadoes are often spawned by
hurricanes. Should your area re
ceive a tornado warning, seek in
side shelter immediately, pre
ferably below ground level.
Once the hurricane has
reached your area, remain in
doors. Blowing debris can injure
and kill. Travel is extremely dan
' Lois Asbell Stokes
scholarship given
ELIZABETH CITY-Carrie L.
Twine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy R. Twine, has been named
the recipient of two private schol
^ arships at College of the Albe
marle for the 1986-87 school year.
The rising sophomore, who is
enrolled in the General Office
Technology program at the com
munity college, will receive the
Lois Asbell Stokes and George J.
Winslow scholarship awards. She
has maintained a 4.0 grade point
average, the highest attainable
level a student can achieve aca
demically.
Twine is a 1965 graduate from
John A. Holmes High School. She
ranked eleventh in her class of
184 graduates. She was a mem
ber of the Art Club, participated
in numerous art exhibits, and
contributed to the school literary
publications. She also was a
Royal Flush member and
worked as an assistant in the li
brary.
She currently is a member of
the college Nu Nu Chapter of Phi
Tbeta Kappa national honor fra
ternity for academic excellence.
Am an annual staff member, die
strittHI in (hf production of the
1968 editkn the CQA yearbook.
gerous. Be especially wary of the
"eye" of the hurricane. If the
storm center passes directly
overhead, there will be a lull in
the wind lasting from a few min
utes to half-an-hour or more. At
the other side of the "eye" the
winds will increase rapidly to
hurricane force and will come
from the opposite direction.
Winfall Council
debates retaining
police department
By JANE B. WILLIAMS
Winfall Town Council mem
bers met Monday night to com
plete a final review of the town's
proposed Fiscal Year 1986-87
Budget prior to adoption on June
30, 1986. The meeting led into a
discussion on the abolishment of
the town's police department.
The tentative budget calls for
an estimated revenue of
(125,689.42, balanced out by ex
pected expenditures of an equal
amount. Operation of the Police
Department is budgeted at
$25,532.13.
The department, which has re
cently completed its third year of
operation, has come in under
budget at the end of each fiscal
year.
A delegation of Winfall citizens
were present at the meeting to
discuss what the town should do
about the department. Some of
those present, along with some of
the board members feel that
since the current Chief of Police
has received the Democratic
nomination for Sheriff of Perqui
mans County, the department
could be dismantled, and the
sheriff's department could han
dle the police work needed within
the municipality.
Others within the group that
was present at the meeting, ex
pressed a concern that the town
would be regressing by abolish
ing the department.
Chief Joe Lothian, sheriff elect
in Perquimans County, told the
Board that he felt that there is a
need for the department to con
tinue its operation in Winfall af
ter he takes office in December.
He stated that since the depart
ment's inception they had han
dled more than 60 felonies within
the town.
Others present stated that the
town "could not afford" to keep
the department without raising
taxes in the future, suggesting
that upon Lothian's departure,
the money budgeted for the de
partment be deposited in the
bank to build up the town's re
serve.
After a lengthy discussion
among board members and citi
zens, a suggestion was made to
put the issue on a referendum
and let the people within the mu
nicipality decide the fate of the
police department.
Board members took no action
on the suggestion Monday night,
but they did not rule out the pos
sibility of a fall referendum. The
meeting adjourned with council
members deciding to submit the
budget as had originally been
presented with the department
left intact. A final determination
will be made on Monday, when
the board will meet at 7:00 p.m.
to adopt the town's budget for
Fiscal Year 1986-87.
Newbold- White garden planted
Newbold-White, North Car
olina 's oldest house, is
looking even older these days.
There are zigzag rail fences,
strange crops like flax and to
bacco, and a real 17th century
scarecrow to protect the
crops.
The 17th century garden is
a project of the Perquimans
County Four Hundredth Anni
versary Committee, and is
being funded by a grant from
Carolina Telephone and Tele
graph Company. Jeanne
White, Cahirman of the Com
mittee, and W.C. Meekins,
Jr., Community Relations
Manager for Carolina Tele
phone, looked over the garden
last week and expressed ap
preciation for the volunteer
effort which made the garden
possible. Dr. John Crawford,
Eldon Winslow, James Houli
han, and Leigh Winslow have
helped David McCall, Pro
gram Director at Newbold
White, with breaking the land
and planting the crops.
North Carolina was a
strange, new world to the first
English colonists who came
to Perquimans. Tobacco
proved to be the principal
money crop as smoking to
bacco was very fashionable in
London society. Tobacco was
used as money in many trans
actions. Another important
crop was flax, which provided
fibers for cloth for table and
bed linens. Flax fiber were
woven with lamb's wool to
make a tough fabric, called
linsey-woolsey. It is said that
this cloth was so tough that
britches made from it were
handed down from the oldest
to the youngest son.
In addition to tobacco and
Jeff Rohrer, Star Scout, made
this 17th century scarecrow for
the Four Hundredth Anniversary
garden at Newbold-White. When
the first colonist came to Roa
noke Island they found the Indi
ans using live "scarecrows" to
keep the animals and birds from
the crops. One such guard is seen
in John White's drawing of Seco
tan. Jeff made the Newbold
White scarecrow as part of his
American Heritage merit badge
project. He has earned 25 merit
badge project. He has earned 25
merit badges and will become a
Life Scout at the end of July. Jeff
is the son of Captain and Mrs.
William M. Rohrer,
flax, all necessary food could k
be produced on the planta
tion. The Newbold-White gar
den has various peas and
beans, squash, Indian corn,
pumpkins, melons, and sunf
lowers flourishing. Dried
peas, beans and corn were ex
ported as well as stored for
winter use.
"Newbold-White is the only
visible symbol of 17th century
life in North Carolina", said
Mrs. White, "and our Com
mittee felt that by growing
these old-time crops we could
recreate some of the way of
life of the 17th century."