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vv •*' - THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Volume 59, No.45 USPS 428-080 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, November 8,1990 30 CENTS Feature: Homecoming king and queen crowned Friday night at PCHS: Page 3 :■' r ‘ • : • '• >v' v-';' -y-; Sports: • Special Olympians Win medals: page s • Soccer team plays well in tourney: page 2 Briefs Property owners meet Snug Harbor Property Owners Association annual meeting will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10 . in th,e clubhouse. Governors will be elected to fill terms expiring on Dec. 31. Members in good standing are urged to attend. Lions plan drive The Hertford Lions Club will be selling brooms and light bulbs on Nov. 13 in Hertford. The brooms are made by the blind and the pro ceeds will be used by the club for ... .various projects, including pro grams for the blind. »If you are not contacted during this drive and would like to pur chase a broom or light bulbs, con tact Bob Clinkscles at 426-7720. PCHS presents drama ‘ Tbe Perquimans County High School Drama Club will present three one-act plays on Monday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the school’s ^auditorium. ^‘The Necklace’ by Guy De Mau passant features Rosa Riddick, Trevor Vaughn, and Ann Miller. ■r. Trevor Vaughn, Dena White, Duffy Franco, Tanya Trueblood, Linda Layden, Stephanie Ferrell, and Barry Seebo will present ‘The Cry of Crows.’ f". ' W. Gordon Mauermann’s ‘Just Us Girls’ will be performed by Pat ricia Tekaucic, Lakeisha Brown, Suzanne Eiland, and Jenny Roffo. The students are working dil igently learning lines and rehears ing scenes. The plays will showcase some of the county’s finest young talent. ! Christmas Ramble set ; ' The annual Christmas Ramble ; sponsored by the Perquimans . County Extension Homemakers ; and Agricultural Extension Service will be held on Thursday, Dec. 13 ; from6:30-9:30p.m. Homes on tour will include the homes of Sadie Eure of New Hope, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Copeland of Winfall, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Hayes of River Croft, and Audrey Orlikowski on Hopewell Road, who has restored the old Creecy home. ; Refreshments and displays will be at the Perquimans Center on the Newbold-White historic site. The tour can begin at any home. Tickets are $2 for adults and (1 for stu dents. Tickets will be on sale at each home. (l The homes will feature a variety * of old and new. There will be indi vidual styles at each home which reflect taste, interest, unique fur nishings, and collections. -. yr Patrons will be able to begin the «if tour at any location. It is suggested that tourists stop in at the Newbold White House as they cross from one community to another to avoid con ■ gestion at the Perquimans Center. . For more information, call the ; i Perquimans County Extension Of <;-(foeat 426-7697. - - V DEADLINES FOR THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY ARE AS FOLLOWS: RELEASES .. .3:00 PM ADVERTISING .3:00 PM tffl? 3:00 PM j MONDAY PRIOR TO r 'THURSDAY PUBLICATION PERQUIMANS WEEKLY I19W. Grubb St 426*5728 I AM-5 PM, MON.-FRI. TT"" Fire ravages police station Arson suspected A Winfall man has been ar rested and charged with setting the fire that swept through the building housing the Hertford Po lice Department and the Perqui mans County Chamber of Commerce last Wednesday. Christopher Scot Dance, 26, of N.C. 37, Winfall, was arrested on Oct. 31 and was confined to Albe marle District Jail in lieu of a $15,000 secured bond. Hertford Fire Chief Edgar Ro berson said his department re ceived the summons to the blaze at 6:39 a.m., and personnel were on the scene by 6:41. The fire was extinguished within 10 minutes, Roberson said. He said that there were indications that the fire might not have started acci dently, and his department turned further investigation over to the Hertford Police Depart ment. Hertford Police Chief Aubrey Sample said that the fire did not appear accidental. “There was evidence indicating that it (the fire) was intentionally set,” Sam ple said. He said that there ap peared to be several points of origin, some of them being lo cated in the former squad room The portion of the building that formerly housed the police de partment was the most severely damaged. In addition to damages to the building, the department also suffered heavy equipment, supply, and record losses. “We lost some original re cords,” Sample said. "We’ve got some that were totally destroyed, some partially destroyed. We’re trying to salvage what we can.” Although the files kept at the Police department are backed up y computer histories, Sample said it will take numerous man hours to reconstruct each file. Since the department does not have a computer terminal which can access the information stored in state and federal files, Sample said he will ask the state for a loaner. He said it will probably take one hour to reconstruct 12 files. Sample said the department suf fered heavy equipment losses. An inventory is stul being completed, ^o no dollar amount can be placed on the losses yet. However, among those pieces of equipment lost was an answering machine, a breathi lyzer, photographic equipment, identification equipment, radio equipment, ammunition and fire arms, a computer, a typewriter, uniforms, telephones, radar units, and other large-ticket items. Photos by Susan Harris Above, (I to r) fire chief Edgar Roberson, police chief Au brey Sample, secretary Ai leen Maillett, and captain Brad Krause survey the dam age to the Hertford Police station after fire swept through the building Wednesday. At right, officer Tommy Teague, rakes through the debris left by the fire. Also damaged was a patrol car parked behind the police station. Sample said the windshield was cracked, the front lights and grill were damaged, and the blue lights melted. The car is, however, still operational. The department has set up tem porary headquarters at the county extension building, and officers are using sheriff’s department fa cilities and equipment to process those arrested. Salvageable office equipment is being thoroughly cleaned and aired out. Efforts to move to the temporary location have been hampered several times, Sample said, because evi dence supporting the alleged ar son continues to come to light. “We’re still finding physical evi dence,” Sample said. He stated that each time new evidence is found, the cleaning and moving ef forts must stop to allow further in vestigation. “I feel it’s a total loss,” said Hertford Mayor W.D. ‘Bill’ Cox about the building owned by the Town of Hertford. “I don’t believe they can repair that as economi cally as they can tear it down and build it all over again from scratch.” The insurance company, how ever, has not determined whether they will declare the building a to tal loss. Cox said that the Interlo cal Risk Financing Fund of North Carolina, an N.C. League of Mu nicipalities self-insurance fund ad-' ministered by Johnson-Higgins, has surveyed the damage and should make a decision this week. “I anticipate it will take four months if everything moves as it should, and it may possibly be longer than that (before the build ing is replaced),” Cox said. He added that the insurance company must settle before the town coun cil can make a decision on the building’s disposition. The Chamber has moved into the municipal building, and is back in business. Chamber Exec utive Director Mary Harrell, sec retary Betty Waters, and cleaning crews have scrubbed and aired most of the Chamber equipment and fixtures. Cox said the county had rallied to help the town. “The county has been very helpful and I appreciate it,” he said. Democrats take county Perquimans voters turned on en mass Tuesday, and voted over whelmingly in favor of Democratic candidates. Almost 60 percent, or 3,153, of the county’s approxi mately 5,500 registered voters went to the polls Board of Elections Su pervisor William Buddy’ Tilley said the number of people voting may be a record. Mack Nixon defeated H R. ‘Bobby’ Jones by over 800 votes, 1840-1020, for the New Hope Town ship seat on the Perquimans County Board of Commissioners Nixon garnered a majority vote in each of the county’s seven pre cincts. Encumbents R.M. ‘Pete- Thomp son and Vernon James will con tinue to represent the 1st District in the N.C. House of Representatives The two collected 2,055 and 1.925 votes, respectively, in Perquimans County, and 19,108 and 18,631 over all. Republican challenger Shirley Perry received 1,289 votes in Per quimans and 12,080 across the Dis trict. Perry’s strongest local showing was in the Bethel Town ship, where she earned 309 votes to Thompson’s 313 and James’ 283. Janice McKenzie Cole swept Per quimans in her bid for the district court judgeship in the 1st Judicial District, taking 2,015 votes to John Flora’s 933. Cole also took the dis trict 17,297-10,279. Perquimans voters vetoed the prison bond referendum, 1,462 1,442, but early indications are that the measure will receive accep- * tance statewide. On the national level, the county ' backed Harvey Gantt over incum bent Jesse Helms for the United States Senate by a narrow margin, 1,552-1,514. Helms, however, is ex pected to stymie Gantt statewide. Representative Walter B. Jones captured 1,800 votes to challenger Howard D. Moye’s 1,116 locally. Jones is expected to win statewide. Running unopposed locally were Albemarle Soil and Water Conser vation District Supervisors Carroll R. Williams and J. Floyd Mathews Sr., State Senator Marc Basnight, District Attorney H.P. Williams, District Court judges Grafton Bea mon and J. Richard Parker, Clerk of Superior Court L. Gail Godwin, sheriff Joe Lothian, and first dis trict county commissioner candi date Leo Higgins. All vote totals are unofficial. Photo by Nancy Royden-Clark Ruth Winslow (left) is offered refreshments by Centura Bank customer representative Ann Stallings during the bank’s first day in business. Peoples and Planters banks officially became Centura Bank on Monday. Executive officers say that Centura will continue the tradition of friendly, courteous service and quality banking services previously offered by both banks. Broughton Building may be torn down By NANCY ROYDEN—CLARK Pwquknanarapotwr The Broughton Building, owned by Hertford resident Claude Brinn, could be torn down next month, said Town Attorney Walter Ed wards Tuesday afternoon. ;, > 1 A letter was drafted to Briim. from Building Inspector Aubrey Onley Jr. on Feb. 20, 1989 asking him repair the building, and other attempts were made more recently in writing to correspond with Brinn. In a letter, Onley stated that there “is a large crack in the east wall that seems to be separating from the top of the building to the bottom.’*«. The letter also states that Onley , “saw Hertford resident Lester Keel storing miscellaneous items which MVa A ‘ • ' V • V /. thebuildingand creating a fire haz ard to the entire block.” During a town meeting months ago a Hertford resident expressed her concerns over' the possibility that windows could shatter and fall from the building, injuring a pedes trian. Also under consideration for fur ther condemnation proceedings are several other structures. Two women fall prey to scams of con artists Two pairs of flim-flam artists have allegedly visited Perquimans County within the past two weeks, according to reports received by the Perquimans County Sheriff’s Department and the Winfall Police Chief. Sheriff Joe Lothian said he re ceived a call from an elderly woman in the Bethel community who gave $500 to men she said were posing as law enforcement officers. The woman told Lothian that two men approached her at her home and identified themselves as police officers. The two allegedly showed her a badge and informed her that they were investigating an armed robbery and murder that had taken place in Washington. “Sometime during their conver sation, Uiey asked the lady if they could come inside her house,” Lo thian said. “They talked to her about a subject named ‘Betty Da vis.’ The Bethel woman knew there was no one in the area by that name.” Hie men entered the house, the woman told Lothian, and asked her if she kept any money in the house. When she replied that she did, they told her they were looking for some marked bills from the robbery. The woman said she handed over her money for inspection. She said the men diverted her attention and switched her money for pieces of newspaper that, inside an enve lope, felt like real money. One of the men involved in the scam is described as a heavyse white male. He was wearing a gra suit at the time of the incident. Hi accomplice is a black male, ove six feet tall. Both were well-dresse and well-spoken, according to th woman. The sheriff’s department is in vestigating the robbery. Anyone who has information which may lead to the arrest and/or convic tion of the pair is asked to call the sheriff’s department. The second incident also in volved an elderly woman, this timeinWinfall. Winfall Police Chief Dale van Scoy said he was notified that a woman had been robbed by two men posing as rug salesmen from Greenville. “She told them she didn’t want any rugs, but they stepped right inside her door in the kitchen,’’ van Scoy said. One asked for a drink of water. Hie other held up a piece of carpet to demonstrate. The woman told van Scoy she did not actually she the men enter an other room, but after they left she discovered that her purse, con taining an undisclosed amount of cash, was missing. The woman described the two as white males, approximately 22 years-old, of medium height. Van Scoy asks that anyone with any in formation on the incident call the police department. The alleged crime is still under investigation.
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