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14 A VTIM NEWSPAPER FOOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume VII. Nurribcr 8:
Hciiifeil6quiman3 County, North Cayolina, Friday,, February 23,
$1.25 Per Year.
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C!h!j Vomeii Jteliie
Oamonstration
Dpitiiit
Club Member Points to
Accomplishments of
Department; 290 Club
Members Today
Arnold To Meet With
County Farm Bureau
Conclusive evidence that the worn
en of Perquimans County value the
iHome Demonstration Department is
.received in a letter this week from
.Mrs. L. J. Winslow, of Belvidere, a
cSub member.
"Indeed, says Mrs. Wmslow, "we
Appreciate and value the efforts of
our home agents who have helped
us to make the world in which we
live more beautiful. We hope that
our county will always have this
aid."
"And did you know, " continues
Mrs. Winslow, "that four and a half
years ago when Miss 'Gladys Ham
rick came to Perquimans County as
home demonstration agent there
were only two clubs in the county?
One was at Bethel and the other at
Belvidere, with a total membership
of about 40.
"Compare those figures with to
day; now there are twelve clubs with
296 members, 'four 4-H Clubs with
144 members, and at present there
are 82 pressure cookers in the county.
"When we are asked, 'what is the
value of all this?" In answer 'for
instance, compare the homes, both
interior and exterior, the foods pre
pared, the stress on health for chil
dren, the economy in clothing 'for the
family,' the scenes on our highways,
and a thousand other smaller things
Compare them with a few years ago
and you see the difference
"And for serving us the past four
years," Mrs. Winslow continues, "we
wish to express our thanks and gra
titude to Miss Hamrick for her con
structive efforts. We appreciate all
the department has done for us in
" our county.
"We heartily welcome our new co
worker, Miss Franeea.Ma'rjess, and we
hope for her the same success as her
i n 't . 'V .
E. F. Arnold, executive secretary
of the North Carolina Farm Bureau
Federation, will be in attendance at
a meeting of the local bureau in the
Agricultural Building- on the evening
of Friday, March 1st, at 7:30 o'clock,
according to an announcement of the
meeting by Irvin Nixon, secretary
of the Perquimans County Farm Bu
reau. ""' '" '
Jhe executive secretary comes to
Hertford at the invitation of Mr.
Nixon who urges all members to be
present.
Mr. Arnold notifies that he will
bring several Extension Service spec
ialists with him. The specialists are
not connected with the Farm Bureau,
and will talk to Perquimans County
members along the lines in which
they specialize. The names of the
Extension men will be published in
the next issue of The Weekly, on the
day of the meeting.
Wmfcll Safe From
Isolation Until
After The Hearing
Matter Is the One of
Eliminating Danger
our' .Curves at Win
falf Date Not Set
According to authority on the
matter, the State will take no action
on the Winfall Elimination Highway
Project until a public hearing can be
arranged.
The above term has come into pop
ular use to describe the projected
change in United States Highway 17
which would tend to remove the vil
lage from highway maps.
Winfall residents objected ... to
the point of circulating one or more
petitions. The Board of County
Commissioners objected ... to the
point of registering a protest with
the State Highway Commission.
The project, the subject of wide
spread talk, is the road the State
would build from the north end of
the causeway to a point near the
county home, eliminating the two
dangerous curves in Winfall as well
as other curves in the vicinity.
Officious-appearing persons, with
blueprints and road maps at the
north end of the causeway, excited
a small amount of interest Monday
morning causing Winfall to wonder
if the State Highway was going a
head with the project in the face of
the County Commissioners' protest.
Nothing will happen, at least, not
ior the present, to remove Winfall
from U. S. 17. "No action will be
taken until a hearing is held," and
no date' has been set for the hearing.
Fishing Boundary
Argument Still
Hanging
Officials and directors of the Hert-
J. ford-Banding Company attended the
. me. rmuij Hf fr lszTvTimSutS Strict OnrVeMHW in.
West Hertford In
Club-Sponsored
Heat Yard Contest
Cash Prizes Offered For
Best Improved and
, Neatest Yards Dur
ing Contest
The Home and Garden Club, mem
ber club of the Federation of Home
Demonstration Clubs, is offering
prizes for the best-improved and
neatest yard in West Hertford.
Yards and lots will be inspected
during the month of March before
any work has been undertaken, and
again in September to determine the
winners.
Two women from the local clubs
will) act as judges in the contest, and
cash prizes will be awarded on
Achievement Day.
Hinting v at plaeeft to improve,
Miss Frances Maneas, county demon
stration went, suggests that un-
n sightly garages can he made more
End Of Ca
geSeas
At Hid; Locals
Face Big Schedule
U aifftctr and
AM 1VV ana snruDS, ana mat neater yaras
I II I can be had by raking the lawn, cut
tlll& blio giaoo aiuug nanvno aim
frimmincr flnwAr twin.
I West Hertford, the name used in
print here for the first time, is the
section of town lying on the west
side of the Norfolk Southern Rail
road tracks.
State To Receive
Bids On Center Hill
Roil Next Tuesday
Notice to Contractors
Calls For Grading and
Structures Over 4.11
Miles In County
According to the North Carolina
State Highway Commission's "Notice
to Contractors," bids will be receiv
ed on the Hertford-Center Hill Road
on February 27th.
The notice describes the project as
County 180, grading and structure
4.11 miles from the Chowan County
line to Hertford.
-This step would indicate that all
opposition to the road and projected
path of the road, cutting out curves
and shortening the distance between
the two points, has been removed.
The 4.11 miles is the connecting
link between the end of the nine-foot
concrete road on Cedar Stretch in
this county, and the end of the wider
hard-surfaced road from Center Hill
tn thu rniintv linp
"Grading" being one of the prelimi
nary steps in road-building, "struc
ture" applies to new bridges, one of
them being a bridge over the Bear
Swamp Canal at a new location.
The engineer's map in the court
house lobby show3. the projected
road as almost a straight red line
from the canal to the county line,
many curves and corners on the pres
ent road being eliminated.
It is understood that the new all-
weather road will be of the modern
18 or 20-foot variety. Actual work
usually starts soon after the bid-re-
ceiving.
Elizabeth City Is
Scene Of Bankers
District Meeting
Shows Appreciation
To Volunteer Firemen
In appreciation for the services
of Hertford's volunteer fire depart
ment in helping to save his home
from the ravages of fire on January
17th, A. W. Hefren has privately
added a dollar each to the fee paid
by the town for each fire call.
Discovered about 9:30 o'clock, the
fire had spread rapidly from an over
heated kerosene burner which fired
the wood paneling of the bathroom.
The house was badly damaged and
the firemen had a difficult time in
localizing the blaze. Mr. Hefren was
duly grateful for their services and
the firemen were properly apprecia
tive of the gift.
Nine Scrimmages on
Tap" For Next Six
Days; Roper Here on
Monday Night
The final week of the current cage
season is no gravy train for the In
diana and Squaws of the Perquimans
. High Reservation, ' ,
The boys, with six wins and seven
defeat to date, have, a chance to
split the' -season bettef- than even,
Both the boys and the girls engaged
Elizabeth City last night (Thursday).
Saturday the warriors invade Vir-
srinia to come to irripa with the
Woodrow Wilson Junior Presidents.
On Monday night Roper cornea a
cross the new Sound bridge to argue
with both braves; and Squaws. Tues
day is the' night both lodal squads
descend on . the capital of Chowan
County -to ring up second wins each
. against the best Edenton offers.:
Wednesday is the season's finale
i' as Woodrow WilBon pushes down
liere to Indian territory' in an effort
1 to even the win the Indiana will pro-
' bably take Saturday night. On the
J same evening's .bill "of fare, i Coach
Jimmy Johnson hopes-to make it a
r,J double feature; -1 the- local .Indypwvd
fentB tusseling probably with .i3Jiza
! Wh fStva CftwlnarariXlSSr': -
;teth Citra CaKtaalfQ V .
Goose Hollow Boys
sof the North
inservation and
i word has been
disposal of the
Parity Payment
Rates For 1940
Announced By AAA
Payments Made on Nor
mal Yield of Produc
er's Acreage Allotment
Found Guilty On
Assorted Charges
-Te, SnUwtfo V
nea vjbflir,, 'andp seven wove
' "catedColurdbia-Plyriiouth-l
- .er.' Edehtoh- and Chowan Jx
' twice; losing only to, Central twice,
nd to Elizabeth 'City. K" J"r-'.
" ' Here'i the way the ,warriow chart
of past .performances -reads They
wn over Gatesville. Columbia twice,
s-Hoper; Edenton and Hobbsvilles1 They
. lost to Elizabeth City, ' Plymouth
twicei Central twice, , and ' Chowan
.High twice--' - "-.-v
- -,:, The -boys, and "reading .almost; in
acoring honors order, are: Zack
Harris, Percy Byrumi Clarkp Stokes;
George -Fields, Noweii, Billy JtJlanctt
, Qard and Francis Nixon. " "
EIIiTII ANNOUNCI ''T ,
Mr. and Mrs: A. C. S)unr.cj ' ouse,
' vf rctiyT-V.rMi Cltv.' wish te.,anr.'"''oe
t e tirth cf a daughter ont
'Al'riiJ-rle, Hospital.:.,
Parsons Guilty of Trans
portation In Listless
Session of Court; Oth
er Cases
David Spivey, Edward White and
Willie Wright, all. Goose Hollow Neg-
roeSjfwere found guilty in Kecoraers
Court Tuesday morning on assorted
charges of assault, cursing on the
streets, and assault on a female.
s Recorder Granberry Tucker decreed
that each of the defendants should
pay one-third the coats of court un
der penalty of 30 days in jail, upon
Condition of good behavior for one
year,'.
Archie Bembery, Negro, in an un
spectacular session of the county
tribunal, was found guilty of allow
ing hia truck to perate with inV
sufficient, brakes and was taxed, with
tha iinttta tit courts Bemberv i. the
tjrucv vonn-
is still in the hi
Carolina Board of
Development . . . n
received here of fin;
matter.
A special! committee has the con
troversy under corifliieration, but, at
nresent. no action . ather than the
hearing of both sidW of the argu
ment, has been taki
The commercial
snorting fishermen JTKave both laid
their views beforejthe Conservation
Board ... each wkh a petition or a
counter-petition.
Here is the argument:
The sportsmen ask that the com
mercial boundary be moved to a
point six miles down the river . . .
100 yards beyond Button's Creek.
. The commercial fishermen give rea
sons why the boundary should re
main where it is. at the railroad
bridge.
The outcome depends on the Board
of Conservation and Development.
Elizabeth City Thursday as bankers
from Northeastern North Carolina
assembled in the Pasquotank capital.
Among those present were Gurney
P. Hood, State Commissioner of
Banks, and J. H. Waldrop of Green
ville, who responded to Mayor Jerome
B. Flora's address of welcome at the
opening session at 2:30.
N TCItnn Avdlett of Elizabeth City,
ermen and the presided as toastmaster at the ban
quet at seven o'clock, ana waiter
W. Cohoon delivered the address of
the evening.
G. R. Tucker of Hertford, is a
member of the executive committee;
nrtiers beinir T. M. Condon, of Mur-
freesboro, J. F. Hoffler, Jr., of Wind
sor, and L. E. Grimn, of kaenton
Officers of the district association
ick. chairman: H.
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S. Gunranus. cashier of the Guaran
ty Bank and Trust Company at
Wnahinirton. N. C. vice chairman;
H. B. Copeland, cashier of the Bank
of Ahoskie, secretary-treasurer,
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration has announced the rates
of the parity payments that will be
made to producers who plant within
their 1940 acreage allotments of
cotton, corn, wheat and rice.
Wheat and rice being of little con
sequence in Perquimans County, here
are the announced rates for cotton
and corn. Cotton, 1.55 cents per
pound; corn 5 cents per bushel.
These price adjustment or parity
payments,, which supplement the reg
ular agricultural conservation pay
ment, will be made under the Agri
cultural Appropriation Act of 1938,
and the 1940 Department of Agricul
ture Appropriation Act which pro
vided $225,000,000 to be paid to pro
ducers of five major crops.
The 1940 Act provides Tor these
payments to be made on the five
basic crops in 1940, if the 1939 aver
age farm prices were less than 75
percent of parity. Since the esti
mated 1939 season average price for
flh Jcinri of fcohacca was above 75
percent of parity, n adjustment
payments will be made on that crop
in 1940.
The cotton parity payment this
year is almost the same as last
year; the difference being five
hundredeths of one cent per pound.
Conservation payments are like
wise down; from 1.8 last year to 1.6
per pound this year. Payments had
to be reduced because so many farm
ers participated.
No Answer From Bus
Company; Johnson
Writes Winbbrne
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I CAN YOU PROVE HOW OLD YOU ARE?
nab. dealer .owner of, the,
ion .irial, acorda .Colast
jt r
s
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formerly,- I
UwtSfm qns mnjrffrA&ws
with possession and' transportation,
was found guilty on the second count,
and ordered to pay: a a line ana
the costa of court.. ) -f .
James' Overton, ' Negro, . found
fcttilty of ,recklesa driving, was fined
?25. and assessed witn- costs inane
matter.-' J--1 ,cuf, " -4
The case of Claude Dail, white
man; charged irith. illegal possession
and resisting an offker,-waS continu
ed tintil the March 5th term due tto
absence of witnesses.
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aiaaison,i-yi8.--guinea 1 vrooy f
student at the tTniv,.f,;tyi.,V'iscon
sin estimate Jhaf T. tUl t M
Documentary ' evidence ot a per
son's age, ranging irom a oirui
tificate to Qife wsurance policies is
going to have an increasing import
ance as the FeMeral Government's
old-age arid survivors insurance pro
gram developV,' according to Horace
k: DiVkaon. minaKer of the Social
Security Boaid field office at Nor
folk, Va? M. Dickson explained
that the Government will insist upon
; the tf wf'lf uhe'a declaration of age
before bisifkiH payments are made.
Thi law iribWSs that monthly pay
ment may -T-yinail wbtes;o
have reached tha'5ag6rf -S-af.13key
nnif-'v mii: lt r.-r&ltaWassr-it
wiliccept'tjl lodBaUmenls
vfThf age oiT jforker'a wife or widow
nr nf' hia children must be proved
before" they can receive, any of the
supplementary' benefits provided un
dr the revised Social Security Act
"But a claimant will 1 be given
ftbobrtunity." said Mr. Dickson,
i-iV,Viitti1 v the reauired proof. The
applicant probably will be asked if
he- has v. a birth certmcaw. a
matter of fact, birth certificates ox
persona: now . 66 years old or more
Sre' scarce.' In only eight states and
the District of .Columbia 'had tfce
ftrartir of kenin birth certificates
hn aIontMl' before 1874.' lTha DJ8-
Wlcl bl Columbia began tho ioeplng
of sue record fa W4i yirjini n
ip-" rin.-'i hi 1865:' Maasachnaettii
i in "
.1 ore than 2?, -. n. '
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Matter of Bus Service
Will Be Taken Up
Seriously With Head
Utilities Commission
"Hertford Must
Grow Upward
In Smokestacks"
Chairman Lions Club
Industrial Committee
Tells of Plans to At
tract Payrolls
"If Hertford ever expects to grow,
it must grow upward in smoke
stacks!" The Perquimans Weekly reporter
was questioning Norman N. True
blood, chairman of the Lions Club
Industrial Committee, and was ask
ing what to expect from the com
mittee. "Don't expect miracles," the chair
man said. "We don't anticipate any
miracles, but we do intend to go
about this in a systematic manner."
The Industrial Committee is the
Lions Club group working on the
project of attracting more industry
to Hertford and environs.
"Just as it takes a fruit tree some
time to begin bearing fruit, so the
committee expects to do a lot of
elementary foundation work before
producing results," Mr. Trueblood
said. "We expect to work not only
through the proper government bu
reaus, but we intend to contact na
tional manufacturers and their traf
fic agents as welL
"We intend to cataHogue Hertford's
advantages of location, transporta
tion, available ability of labor and
sites. We intend to paramount the
advantage that Hertford enjoys over
other towns and cities further south
and west in the matter of territorial
location which in most cases provides
Hertford with preferential freight
rates ... a big item with manufac
turers. "We also intend to determine the
chemical requirements of a city's
water supply as it influences differ
ent types of manufacturing, and to
find what must be done to meet
these requirements."
Back to the matter of preferential
freight rates, Mr. Trueblood ex
plained: "This advantage to Hert
ford will be all the more marked
when and if the differences, in rates
between Northern and Southern ter
ritories are elirriinailaV'
The Industrial Committee is se
rious; it iloes not itnd(to wind up
as another chamber of commerce or
league of town criers,
"We have already - eontacted at
least one organization which has
given us valuable advice as to the
proceedure to follow," Mr. Trueblood
continued, "and when our plans reach
a certain point we intend to call a
mass meeting and induce a committee
of merchants to wwrk with the Lions
Club in carrying out the plans."
"It is not altogether improbable,"
he ended the interview, "that at some
future time we may issue a booklet
and distribute it far and wide to
manufacturers who may want to lo
cate or re-locate."
"But don't expect miracles. Pro
gress may be slow; it may seem even
to stand still, but this isn't a pub
licity gag. We intend to get results."
in 1857."
The keeping of birth records ir.
North Carolina, said Mr. Dickson,
was begun in 1914.
Mr Dickson added that in the
event an applicant is unable to pro
duce a birth certificate or a church
record, such as the baptismal record,
he may submit the statements of the
doctor or midwife witn personal
knowledge of his birth. But recog
tfiaf , this tvoe,' otijevidence
wouW,:' inmost (jaseaauliayail
M tn a. man of 65 M'a'Wrth certi
ficate
ing of family records, the date and
p)ace of his birth.
"If. however, it becomes evweni
the claimant cannot produce a birth
certificate, a church record or similar
document, he may submit the state
ments of two other persona who nave
personal knowledge that he was born
on a certain date." Mr. Dickson add
ed but since Buch persons win do
even older than the claimantthe ob
taining of this evidence ia difficult.
If it cannot be produced,, the Board
will open the way to the presenta
tion ofca miscellaneous lot of evi
dence, which, when viewea aa a
whole;, may be tfegardded aa auffl
oiunf TKia totui at evidence Rwilt in
clude pulftk diew4l',n
nature, such a man's, army, ma-
thar, school MMfe,jf -JIaJaf
No word having fbeen received
from the bus company in answer to
Mayor V. N. Dardetfe letter of a
week ago requesting the company to
take steps to improve its bus facili
ties in Hertford, town Attorney
Charles Johnson has Written to Stan
lev Winborne, Commissioner of Utili
ties, for advice as methods oi
forcing the company to take action.
Mayor Darden, aaihead of the
board of town commissioners, has
written twice to the jNorfolk South-
Bus Corporatio complaining
To Lead Off In Series
Of 4-H Club Broadcasts
Tomorrow Morning
cm
that the busses
two routes
thjSough JffBaineithet
Ute-two rotrtea. has a definite atoff1
Wtik plaC&iermore, that thwe
ored or white passengers.
Mr. Johnson, being authorized at
a recent meeting of the town commis
sioners to investigate ways and
means, consulted with Attorney Gen
eral Harry McMullan, and when the
answer from the Attorney General
was received, the second letter was
immediately dispatched to the bus
company.
No answer has been received, to
either letter, according to Mayor
Darden, and now the matter is in the
nanus oi we uuubib vmuuu"rci.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
' Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis Perry, of
Windsor, hav announced the birth
&Wit m WJndoi Hoapital. Mrs.
rvwaHj-iwnerly , Miss Hattie
Weivef iddick, daughter of Mr., and
Perquimans County 4-H Club mem
bers will inaugurate a series of
broadcasts from the Elizabeth City
station tomorrow (Saturday) morn
ing at 10:15 o'clock.
Other counties to participate in
the programs from time to time, are:
Pasquotank, Camden and Currituck.
The program tomorrow morning
will be in the form of a dialogue
telling something of 4-H Club work
in this county. The dialogue will be
given by Delia Evans and Bobbie
Elliott, members of the Hertford
Grammar, School .Club,.
:35ra!tr fc'iptaaetn 'Eiinot-nKjiron j
aaCpJif. the Zfofi&fatitoic'z
:ar:laea)a-;
cftsst. Brighton Dl .wiirjrive a
report on the 4-H Camp at Millstone
last yeai
Radio Troup Will Be
At Central Grammar
School Tonight
,'The Crazy Tennesseans," of W.
P. T. P. Radio Station fame, will
appear in person on the stage of the
Central Grammar School in winfall
tonight (Friday) at 8 o'clock.:
The troupe is appearing in Winfall
tonight for the first time in this part
of the State. Proceeds are for the
benefit of the school.
TO SPEAK OVEaWRC
Allan White will apeaf over itatioa
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