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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING! OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume V. Number 39.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, September 30, 1938.
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fWekster Plant Here Now Possibility
f erouimans Part In Mi Air
raft tlanenvers Outlined
By Officials Tuesday night
Meeting With Aunty's
I Observers Held In
Court House
OCT. 10 TO 15
Four Stations In ICounty
Will Cooperate In
Warning Net
Lust minute instructions were riv
en to the observers of the warning
net, who have a part in the joint
anti-aircraft Air Corps exercises be
ginning October 10th, in the court-
I house Tuesday night, where Lieuten-
V, ant Griffith, of Fort Bragg and three
assistants were on hand to furnish
technical information.
As explained by the Lieutenant,
the maneuvers are based on the sup
position that enemy air forces are
attempting to attack and destroy the
airdrome at Fort Bragg. Langley
Field, in Virginia, is the supposed
i base for the enemy.
The sector from the northern
boundary of this State to Wilming
ton on the south and westward to
' Fort Bragg, is the area wherein 300
observation posts are set up, one sta
tion to every eight square miles.
Each, station has a chief observer
with assistants. In Perquimans
County the observers are: Hemby
-iChappell, George Jackson, Herbert
jTtoSxon and Irvin Turner.
This section of the area is Zone 3,
with Wilson as relay center for the (
zone
The Lieutenant and his assistants
"Tuesday night were concerned large-!
ly with instructing the observers in
getting their messages quickly and
A 1 A iv "in ir 1 j
accurately to me rori uragg
quarters. Defenses will be assera-
Med there and the warning net of
. observers is designed to notify the
base in time to stave off the air at
tack. Perquimans County people who a
rise early enough will probably have
a chance to witness a small portion
of the maneuvers, bombers, observa-1
tion and pursuit planes flying over
the section. That is, they may fly
nvAr this cwtinn nnH tliAv nnflv Tint
The uncertainty is part of the exer
cises. The following in a tentative ache
kZZr
V dule of four hour periods,
r-JI 1-15, during which observation sta
tions will be alerted, when the ob
servers will be expected to detect the
approach of the enemy and transmit
the irormation to headquarters.
Periods of operation:
Monday, October 10, 4:00 a. m. to"
8:00 a. m., and 6.00 p. m. to 10 p. m.
Tuesday, October 11, 7:00 a. m. to
11:00 a. m., and 6:00 p. m. to 10 p. m.
Wednesday, October 12, 4:00 a. m.
to 8 a m., and 6 a. m. to 10 a. m.
Thursday, October 13, 4:00 a. m. to
8:00 a. m., and 6 p. m. to 10 p. m.
Friday, October 14, 7:00 a. m. to
11:00 a. m., and 6 p. m. to 10 p. m.
Saturday, October 15, 7:00 a. m. to
00 a. m., and 6 p. m. to 10 p. m.
TacJaP'Iarty Friday
- - At Durants Neck
1 For the benefit of the Durants
Nei Club House - at New Hope, a
tacky-party will - be given in the
Vuildin ionigbV (Friday at o'clock.
Asmall'wlmi8sion fee will be charg
- td $nd &1 guests ' are jnvited to eome
. dressed- as tackily as decently poasir
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' County P.T.A. Council
, Meets On October 6th
County Council, P. T. A., , is an
nounced by Mrs. Morris Griffin, pres
ident of the Council. The meeting
will be held in the Hertford Grammar
, School building on . Thursday night,
VOctober '6th,- at 8 o'clock:
' ' All " representatives 5 of County
Parent-Teachers Associations are ex
pected and urged to be present at
this meeting;
I- 'V , Maybe -.;:h;
N A., will missing for, more than 60
,yars was found in a family Bible Jn
Detroit Somebody acddently knock
ed the Bible 1 off the parlor table.
LTacon Telegraph.' ,
Perquimans County
Allotted Seven Boys
For CCC Enrollment
Quota Includes 6 White
and 1 Colored
Youth
SERVE 18MONTHS
Welfare Department Is
Anxious For Early
Applications
A Civilian Conservation Corps en
rollment will be made up on October
8th, and Perquimans County is allot
ed six white boys and one Nlegro
boy. All young men wishing to en
roll are urged to file their applica
tions with the department of public
welfare, of which Mies Ruth Daven
port is the head, not later than
October 6th.
The requirements are the same as
heretofore, at least 17 years of age,
unemployed, and in need of employ
ment. The final destination of those
who jy'n the three C's is unknown, so
it is of vital importance that all boys
who apply, have full permission from
parents or guardians to serve
any. COrps area in the United States,
because, they- may be sent to any
point from Hatteras to the State of
Washington.
The welfare department of Per
quimans County is anxious that all
neau-(VOun? men who want to enrol, make
their applications even tf the allot.
ment ig ftlled B0 that their lica.
fl mo . - t
rollment.
For the benefit of those not famil
iar with the inner workings of the
CCC, Miss Davenport explains that
accepted applicants may serve for
only 18 months. If previously en
rolled and honorably discharged, an
applicant may enroll again provided
he has served one year or less. If
there are dependents, the boy must
make a monthly allotment to them of
22.50.
The total pay is $30 a
If the accepted applicant has
montn.
no dependents, and no legal or moral
obhtiOT he may make monthly de
posits of $22.50 to be withdrawn at
the end of his enrollment.
Applicants who have dependents,
of course, will be considered for ser
vice first.
Saturday's Business
Best In Seven Years
Says Negro Merchant
An enterprising and industrious
young Hertford colored man, Lymon
Lowe, who recently opened a modern
grocery store and meat market at an
old Edenton Road Street stand, re
ports that the establishment did a
larger business on the Saturday just
passed, than on any Saturday in the
past seven years, according
to the
store's records.
v The store has been in Lowe's
SnajM 'new,' for little more thanfa
month" ana" he says business' has in
cmsed every - day. The store fa
equipped I with ' avmodern ; refrigera
tion' system, and is clean and neat
throughout His Increasing ! patron
age indicates that .cleanliness also ap
peals to the Negro customers.
Meeting Of County
fCouncil On Monday
The meeting of the County Council
of Home Demonstration Clubs of
Perquimans County will be held on
Monday, October 3rd, at the Agricul
tural Building. This is the last meet
ing, of. the year. Miss Hamrick,
County Agent, says it is very im
portant that all officers attend.
o :;v; t; v Especially
' Reading In buses is very bad for
the eyes, writes an optician. Espec
ially when the person whose paper
you are reading won't keep
Loadon Opinion, -v . : -
Widening Of Grubb
Street Under Way
By WPA Workmen
Improvements In Town
Made With Aid Fed
eral Funds
BULKHEADS, TOO
Program Also Includes
Sidewalks on Princi
pal Streets
Town improvement projects got
underway last week, with the aid of
federal funds, when a crew of work
men began the task of widening
Grubb Street from Front Street to a
point approximately half the block
from Church Street. The next move,
according to Fred Chalk, speaking
for the WPA, is the building of bulk
heads at the base of Hertford's three
streets which end at the river's edge.
The widening of GruLl Street is a
project now almost completed, adding
approximately six feet to the busy
little roadway which has always been
too narrow to accomodate its share of
town traffic. The service entrances
of two of the town's largest auto
dealerships empty into Grubb Street
at that point, and when cars are
parked there, on either side, the
space left for driving is hardly wide
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onriii crh tn nprm ir r hp naoAina nt twi!
cars. As soon as the concrete sets!
firmly the added space will be ready
for use.
At the river ends of .Punch Alley,
of .Punch Alley,
'Front Street and Grubb Street, con
crete bulkheads will be constructed
and the sunken levels filled in to the
approaching street levels. A s id e!
'.from preventing the washing away
of the street ends, the bulkheads
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provide driveways the whVe distance
to the water's edge on each of the
three streets.
Upon completion of these bulk
heads, the matter of sidewalks will
be taken up. Mr. Chalk is not pre
pared to say, at this time, just where
new sidewalks will be laid, but it is
understood that walks Will be paved
alongside each of the town's princi
ple streets.
County Officials In
Accord With Change
In Term For Sheriff
Amendment Will Be Be
fore Voters In No
vember Election
NOW TWO YEARS
Governor Hoey Among
Leaders For Four
Year Term
Local high officials join with Gov
ernor Hoey, who is among the lead
en in the State, of both the Demo
cratic and Republican parties, in sup
porting the constitutional amendment
to increase the terms of office for
sheriffs and coroners from two to
' four years.
Governor Hoey's endorsement was
revealed Monday ,.in The News and
:QbSfryer a iningr from . t Senator
John D. Larkins, of Jones County
chairman' of the Constitutional
Amendment Committee which is cam
paigning for ratification of the
amendment.
The proposed amendment, authori
zed by the 1937 General Assembly,
will be voted on in the general elec
tion November 8.
Kecorder Granbery Tucker favors
the four years for sheriffs, because,
he says, "the present two year term,
in case of opposition, forces the in
cumbent to spend a large part of his
time ih campaigning for re-election,
consequently drawing on " his effi
ciency." County Prosecutor Charles
E. Johnson, also favors the four year
term.
Governor Hoey's support of the
amendment, according to the Raleigh
newspaper, was made in a public
statement to Senator Larkins:
. "I am heartily in favor of the rati
fication by the people of the constitu
tional amendment providing four-
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Blanctiards Begin
Uiiiiie Plan For
Customers To Save
i
Two Per Cent of Sales
Willie Returned By
Christmas
NEW IDEA
Group! of Ladies Calling
At Homes to Explain
Particulars
Something new and different. A
savings account, with deposits enter
ed every jtime the customer makes a
purchase.!
The idem is a nationwide system of
thrifty spending with two per cent
cash returns coming in juet before
Chrisias, when the funds will come
in very handily.
The plan -is sponsored by "Christ
mas Club," a corporation, and J. C.
Blanchard & Co., Inc., is inaugurat
ing it today (Friday). "Thrifties,"
arte the names of pass books handed
out tc customers at Blanchard s and
each completely filled book is redeem
able for $5.00. A book does not nec
essarily need be completely filled. It
may be redeemed for the value of the
Thrifties it contains.
They are also given on charge ac-1
u.f ow Q;j uafnra tua ifuy,
tuu,lvo f i
of the pnth following the date of '
Phase.
I A Ifoup oi young women will can
at the different homes in this vicinity
to brieflj explain the plan and a
large advertisement appears on
another page of this paper carrying
fu'l details,
WPA Hnxious Help
Secure Workers On
Farms In County
Best Results Realized
By 'Cooperation of
Farmers
MUST WORK
Welfare Head Says Pri
vate Employment
Comes First
The season approaches when farm
ers will be needing laborers to help
with the harvesting, and with the ap
proach of that season, the WPA re
minds that during the past few
months a number of workers, classed
as "farm day laborers," have been,
assigned to work on WPA projects
as a means of tiding them over fi
nancially during the dull farm sea
son. The department of public welfare
solicits the aid of farmers, in par-
ticular, in asking them to notify the
department if a worker refuses to,will abIe to keep out of the gener.
accept private employment with I aj Dase
them, and also to notify the depart-!
ment if they need help on the farm.
la wo s rAnanrlv atatal in rnia no.
per by C. Edgar White, Junior Case
Worker for the Perquimans County
Department of Public Welfare, Miss
Ruth Davenport, head of that de
partment, emphasises the fact hat
WPA designed to pro
vide employment temporarily for per
sons who are hot full time employed.
"WPA is designed to supplement
private employment, and private em
ployment comes first," emphatically
stated Miss Davenport, "private em
ployment does not supplement WP,
it's the other way around.
"To make the program effective and
beneficial to the county and individ
ual alike, an awareness of the prob
lem and an understanding of WPA
policies by the farmers, is very de
sirable. The department of public
welfare cashes at all times to co
operate ith the employers.
"The point t- be considered by
them is this: WPA can and should
be a help in securing labor. It can
provide and does provide employment
for day laborers when the farmer
cannot keep them busy."
A statement from the employer, as
to the number of months and days
he will have work for the WPA ap
plicant, would be appreciated by the
department of public welfare.
Establishment Hinges On
Enough Signed Contracts
Raise Beans and Tomatoes
Prices Set Up For
Peanut Diversion
Program In '38-39
As High as $70 Per Ton
Allowed For U. S.
No. 1 Grade
DIVERT SURPLUS
Conferences Held In
Washington With
J. B. Hutson
The price schedule set up by the
AAA for the 1988-39 Peanut Diver
sion Program, is made public thi?
week by L. W. Anderson, Perquimans
County farm agent. These prices
were set up by the department after
conference with the growers and oth
ers interested, from all the peanut
Bowing
growing areas and the thought is for-
u
ti' that ft flre 8attafac.
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Peanut Stabilization
.
The price schedule. I
U. S. No. 1 Class A, $70.00 a ton;
Class B, $66.00 a ton;'
Class C, $61.00 a ton;'
U. S. No. 2 Class A, $67.00 a ton;
Class B, $63.00 a ton; '
Class C, $58.00 a ton;
u. a. o. a-wass a, od.uu a ion;
Class B, $61.00 a ton;
Class C, $56.00 a ton. ,
All the details for the handling of
this crop are practically complete
and as soon as they are fully com-1
pleted, Mr. Anderson will be notified.
The diversion program is the same
in idea as it was last year, to divert
the surplus peanuts into oil to keep
the market from stagnating.
According to the Cooperative, it
looks now as though the grading w'il
be a little more rigid this year than
it was last year, and the growers
are urged to properly harvest their
peanuts. It is probable that the Co
operative will be called upon this
year to handle the same large bulk
of peanuts that it was called upon to
handle last year. Therefore, the i
county agent says it is absolutely nec
essary that the peanuts to be handled
by them be thoroughly dry and as
free from foreign material as possi
ble. Thi annual meeting of the mem
bership of the Peanut Stabilization
Cooperative, Inc., was held in Eden-(
ton r,n September 2.
In Washington, conferences were 1
held with J. B. Hutson, assistant ad
ministrator, with reference to keep
ing peanuts under a special base.
The conferences were apparently very
successful and hopes in the Coopera
tive are much higher that peanuts
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To Elizabeth City
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hill are moving
their residence to Elizabeth City,
where Mr. Hill has accepted a posi
tion in the service department of
McPherson Brothers Auto Supply
Company. For several years Mr.
Hill has been employed here by the
Hollowell Chevrolet Company.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Laughinghouse
and two children will move to the
residence on Church Street vacated
by Mr. and Mrs. Hill.
Tom Thumb Wedding
Tonight At School
A Tom Thumb Wedding will be
given in the Perquimans County
High School auditorium by the Marking and canning Lima (or Butter)
Towe Circle of the
Methodist Mis
sionary Society on
(tonight) at o'clock.
A small admission
charged at the door.
Friday night
fee will be
The Same
Snythetic Horsehaid is Made From
Grass. Headline. That's how old.
Dobbin himself made it, isn't it?
Arkansas Gaaette.
Purpose to Place Plants
At Elizabeth City
And Hertford
INVITED
Owner Favorably Im
pressed With Condi
tions In Section
If a sufficient number of farmers
in this area contract to grow beans
and tomatoes for the G. L. Webster
Company, Inc., of Cheriton, Va., Mr.
G. L. Webster, president of the
company, said Wednesday, that un
questionably, a large grading and
processing plant, or possibly two
plants, will be established in "cen
tralized locations" in this section of
North Carolina.
A score of prominent farmers of
Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans
and Chowan Counties, with L. W.
Anderson, N. K. Rowell, T. Mc. L.
Carr, county agents, were guests of
Mr. Webster at the huge Cheriton
canning plant on the Eastern Shore
of Virginia.
The four Perquimans County farm
ers, E. M. Perry, chairman of the
Board of
o. Wh.te,
County Commissioners, J.
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enthusiastic, and inclined to favor
tho WpWpr rmnv' nronnsitinn.
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They went so far as to say they were
for the plan one hundred percent.
At the invitation of the president,
the North Carolina men were per
sonally conducted on a detailed tour
of the huge plant and farmg.
Mr Webster, a genial and gracious
no8t entertained the visitors at a
HpllVi.,,. lllnrhpon in a Cane Charles
hotel.
The company is given over princi
pally to the growinc; and canning of
types of vegetables familiar to this
section two of the most popular
items being Lima or Iiutter Beans
and Tomato Juice. Some idea of the
magnitude of the Cheriton opera
tions may be gained from the fact
that the Webster Company processes
and cans approximately 40 per cent
of all the canned Lima Beans eaten
in the United States. It is the larg
est single unit canning plant in the
nation, and the people employed there
number well over a thousand.
At an informal conference in the
afternoon with Mr. Webster, the visit
ing farmers were acquainted with his
proposition. "Suppose Lima Beans
will not grow in our section as they
do here?" asked one farmer.
"When I visited your section and
saw stock peas growing waist high,
and corn growing as high as this
ceiling, I was firmly convinced that
good Lima Beans will grow satisfac
torily there," replied Mr. Webster.
Nothing was definitely settled at
the conference, and as the president
said, "I simply invited you here to
look at the plant and to get acquaint
ed and because I am interested in
your section."
To avoid the long haul to Cheriton
of the raw product, central cleaning
and grading stations would be estab
lished at Elizabeth City and Hert
ford. On the processing and the
operations conducted in these two
towns are the ones that employ most
of the labor. In the words of Mr.
Webster, "In the canning of Lima
Beans, about ninety per cent of the
labor is employed in getting the
beans ready. The actual canning is
done with machinery and a few
skilled workers, by far the smaller
end of the job. Your local labor will
receive most of the profits of the
operation."
The canning industry is not a high
wage industry. It is more compara
ble to farming, and utilizes farm
labor or workers of that class.
In season, from July to October,
the operations would necessarily em-
ploy a number of people.
The Webster Company was process-
Beans and sweet potatoes when the
Carolinians visited there. Under the
guidance of the president, they fol-
lowed the course of the bean from
the company's farms to the sealed
cans. The operations were very in
teresting to watch, and approxi
mately two hours were required for
the party to finally reach the many
, acres of warehouse space where the
boxed cans of foodstuffs are stored.
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