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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TfiVblSlD TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
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ABOUT ROAD-BUILDING PROJECTS AND
PROSPECTIVE PROJECTS; SURVEY ON 17
F. J. McQuire Bids Low
Again on Center Hill
And Hertford Grad
ing Job .
TO WIDEN U.S. 17
Survey Is Being Made
From County Line to
Dairy to Tie In With
.Planned Shortcut
finrvewira nrc at work measuring
United States Hurhway 17 for a wid
ening operation from a point at the
new Elmwood Dairy to tne Pasquo
tank County line.
At the dairy site the plan ia to tie
in the wider road with the survey al
ready made' for a new road from the
dairy to the north end of the cause
way. At the Pasquotank County line the
Little River Bridge has already been
widened to take care of the addi
tional four feet in width of the high
way, giving a twenty-foot highway
all the distance from Hertford to Eli
Pt zabeth City. The Pasquotank Coun
ty side has been constructed.
The fact that the survey ends at
the site of the dairy and does not
provide for widening the road on into
Winfall over the Dresent route ot U.
S. 17 would seem to indicate that the
State Highway intends to go ahead
with plans for the cutoff from the
north end of the causeway to the
dairy.
The engineers are concerned only
with their immediate assignment,
and do not know when the work of
widening is scheduled to get under
way. Bidding again at a letting early
this wek IV WcQuiriof Wash
burton. N. CLlnanded intha low esti
mate for griding on the Hertford-
. . Center Hill rad, at s figure about
? 600 le thsUW peiginal Mdjtn
January ssawu -
The SUta. .riway , and PttSe
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Town Fathers Smile
With Favor On Walt
Disney Characters
It sema that Walt Disney,
creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald
Duck, Snow White, and a dozen
other cartoon characters, holds the
edge with the town council when
Sunday movies come up for dis
cussion. The council in meeting Monday
night decided to let the State
Theatre offer a program of Sun
day movies on April 28th. The
feature to play on that date is
Walt Disney's "Pinocchio."
"Pihocchio" will be the second
Sunday movie in the history of
Hertford. To Disney also goes
th credit for the first Sunday
mnviA. "Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs."
Holmes Announces
His Candidacy For
Place In Senate
Wants More Money Al
located on Secondary
Roads; Farm-to-Mar-
ket as Well as Farm
To-School
Eastern Carolina
Peanut Growers
FOUR YOUTHS CHARGED WITH $13,000
RODDERY OF NEW HOPE MERCANTILE FIRM
SMALLER SALES TAX
Highway Funds on Ba
sis of Needs Rather
Than on Population
And Area
Win Their Point
Dozen Eastern Carolina
. Planters Convince Of
ficials They Were
Wrong
GET ADDED ACRES
Hertford Man Among
Those In Representa
tive Group Making
Demands
Poster And Essay
Contests To Bring
Eight Cash Prizes
Home Demonstration
Clubs Sponsor Event
In Connection With
Better Homes Week
session subject ttapproval
of the
United States Bureau of Public
Roads ih projects iusing Federal
State NOtsrhway engineers in the
office here, asked about the Center
Hill Rod work, said that the struc
tures jolt, awarded in the first letting
to ColbbT and Homewood of Chapel
Hill, isBlmost complete with the ex
ceptionifof the largest structure, a
75-foot bridge across the Bear
Swamp Canal.
Asked when the McQuire Company
was scheduled to move in and begin
the grading, the engineers could not
say. They stated, however, that it
is customary for the contractor to
begin work within twenty days after
the contract is awarded.
It is likely that equipment will be
gin coming into the county within
the net two weeks as soon as it can
be moed from other jobs
It wa further learned from the
engineers that the 4.11 miles between
TTavtA&l on1 ftia ffrnwATi Cnlintv line
is not$o be hard-surfaced under the
appropriation made this week. It is
nuitft likelv. thev said, that the road
willl b hardsurf aced under another
rnntrrtk at a later date, but the
present project is only for grading
Theiroad will be made wider; "
irood road." they said, with many
riirvoai nnH corners eliminated, but
not hsjrd-surfaced.
Club Members Tour
Cuirtt County
OnFerm-lfomo Trip
"-v i.-iv Several , Weinberg o - Perquaanfl'
..Wr!Wj4,ured in Corrituclq.County xusdajr
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XrMrAinir to Miss Frances Maness,
- demonstration agent, the practice, of
v vinltinor. in other counties will i be
V continued . Visitinsr club members
? v will be invited to tour in Perqiiim
ans County shortly, ihe says." '
C I Among those touring Currituck In
company with - Miss Maness, w,ere
Mrs. L. L. Lane of Whiteston; - Mrs,
w -n TAtidimr.-' Mrs. B. T. Wood
and Mrs. C. L. Uail or Heraora, ana
Mrs. J. C. Wilson of Chapanoke. A
number of farmers motored over to
Currituck with L. ,W." ' Anderson,
county agent, on the same tour.
: J vm. e : j.mnnaf rntinn club tourists
' visited new hornet and rebuilt homes
t in Currituck County on a piannea
i'-V's v..j... nil in mimeoerapned
' . ' ThBir visited poultry farms,
.f i''-; . "fi,o. nrnioAta and gathered
. " .V Ideas and Information to make farms
more profitable and homes more uv
Poster and essay contests are be-
injr conducted in the county schools
in connection with Better Homes
Week . . . cash prizes contributed
by local and county merchants are to
be awarqea to tne winners.
to the Ugh school and the poster
brleltet to the county's grammar
schools. The wholfc 'tiling is spbn
tored by the Federation of Home
iMbett ihfeh school
Ulty ana oxner aisinLeresteu uuv-oiub
persons will act as judges in both
sets of contests, according to Miss
Frances Maness, home demonstra
tion agent.
Joe and Bill's Service Station and
Bill and Viv's Service Station are
furnishing the prize money for first
and second places in the essay con
test. The essav competition is in
progress now and the contest comes
to a close on April 17th.
A first and second place cash prize
will be awarded in the Hertford
Grammar School, the Central Gram
mar School and the New Hope
Grammar School. Each school com
petes separately . . . not in competi
tion with the other two grammar
schools.
These prizes are contributed Iby
Fred Winslow, the Winfall Service
Station, the One Stop Service Sta
tion and the New Hope Mercantile
and Milling Company. . The poster
contest closes on April 19th.
First riHace in the essay contest
will be $3: the second place will re
ceive an award of $1.60.
In the Doster contests, three sets
of nrizes consisting of ii for first
place and 50 cents for second place,
mill h awarded in each- oi tne
county's three grammar schools.
Georcia Nearo Tenor
To Entertain At Local
Church Tuesday Night
John Redding, Georgia Negro
tenor, will direct "Jung aoiomons
Weddinir" at the Hertford Colored
Ponfi'af rrhnrrh Tuesdav eveninsr.
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A special section win d reserveu
nrM'a friahda' 'in 'the church, and
hat who w,v1ire.j(nvjSd to attend.
tjjst of itotd. .vMj&'fttDm
cording to"Iteddingl '
1 Redding, organist and pianist, as
wall 9 mincer. kODeared before the
Rotary Club Tuesday evening. His
selections were well received.
He is a graduate of the Boston
School of Music, and is putting1 on
"King Solomon's .Wedding" for the
benefit of the church. "
Standintr on a platform to support
a measure reducing the sales tax and
eliminatinsr exemptions and advocat
ing more highway funds to be spent
on farm-to-market and farm-to-school
roads, C. R. Holmes of Hert
ford, has announced his candidacy
for one of the seats in the State
Senate frqm the First District.
Mr. Holmes has been a practicing
attorney in Hertford for a number of
years, coming here from tarmville
after graduating in law from Wake
Forest College. He married Hannan
Mae Fleetwood ,a daughter of the
late J. J. Fleetwood. They have two
children-
"In response to ureinir by mends
in my own and other counties of the
First Senatorial District," said Mr
Holmes, "I announce ray candidacy
for one of the seats in the State
Senate from the First District, sub
iect to the Democratic Primary,
May 25th, 1940.
"In the first place if honored with
the nomination and election by the
good people in the District, I shall
utand to and abide by the traditional
custom in the District of not seeking
more than two successive terms in
the Senate. This custom is one of
lone ntanriinsr. and I believe should
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To Draw Straws For
Job As life Guard
At Local Beach
Registrars And
Election Judges
Assigned Duties
New Books? to Open on
April 27th; Hollowell
Sees No Last Minute
Filing Rush
T. S. White was among a repre
sentative group of peanut growers in
Washington on March 20th which
contended that either an error had
been made or there was discrimina
tion against North Carolina in deter
mining the 1940 allotments.
An increase of 9,850 acres in North
Carolina's 1940 peanut acreage allot
ment has now been ordered bv the
Department of Agriculture, Repre
sentative Lindsey Warren revealed
last Saturday.
The action followed a series of
conferences between the First Dis
trict Congressman and department
officials.
In the group with Mr. White were:
R. C. Holland, J. E. Debnam and J.
C. Leary of Edenton; Bart Fearing
of Windsor; Mayon Parker of Ahos
kie; L. E. Hassell of Roper; C. J.
Shields and J. S. Liverman of Scot
land Neck; and F. M. Manning of
Williamston.
The upward adjustment, allowing
North Carolina the additional acres
comes as the result of a re-check on
which AAA officials finally agreed.
Of the added acreage, 8,000 acres are
set aside for growers in counties
which are not designated as commer
cial peanut counties in 1940.
In explaining the revision, Agri
culture Department peanut experts
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Cooper Lambasts
Parasites; Vows
To "Clean 'Em Out"
Clarke Stokes and Charlie Ford
Sumner, III, will draw straws for
the job of being life guard at the
local beach this summer, it was
decided at the meeting of the
town council Monday night. The
drawing will take place at the
next meeting of the commission
ers, on May 6th.
The two young men submitted
the only applications for the sum
mer job, and since both are equal
ly capable and qualified as life
guards, the straw-drawing seemed
like the fairest method. The one
who draws the long straw will get
the job . . . or vice versa.
Largest Store In Village
Entered Friday Night
And $1,800 In Cash
Taken
George Boyce Not
Guilty Of Driving
Under Influence
Attorneys For Defense
Scathe Former Li
cense Examiner Chief
Witness For State
Colorful Mayor of Wil
mington Arrives on
Sound Truck; Town
Decked With Banners
U. D. C. MEETING
able- and," efficient. -
Skinner-Jones Chanter of United
Daughters of the Confederacy ,v was
entertained at the home of Mrsl Thos.
Thursday afternoon. The
president,' Miss ,Mary. Sumner, ;, had
prepared a very interesting. program.
After the business session? tnenost
The District meeting of the Vfy
C. will be . held In. the AgrteuitJirM
Ttuildinsr on April 20. Luncheon will
Lb seryeOy.-Sfc., Catherine's Guild.'
With two dayffJeft in which to file
for office, L. N. Hollowell, chairman
of the county hoard of elections, is
looking to no last minute rush of
candidates who want to put their
cash on the line.
The last possible filing minute is
at 5:59 p. m., Saturday. After six
o'clock the (rates are closed.
The new resnstration books will oe
opened on April 27th and will close
on May 11th. Here is the list of
registrars and judges of the election
as released by Chairman Hollowell.
Rolvidare J. M. Cooeland, regis
trar; Hemby Chappell and Linwood
C. Winslo, judges.
Bethel Township E. Y. Berry, reg
istrar; J. C. Hobbs and Arthur Jor
dan, judges.
Hertford Township Mrs. ts.
Koonce, registrar; Tim Brinn and T.
C. Babb, judges.
New Hope Township Mrs. W. E.
Dail, registrar; W. W. Spencer and
C. W. Umphlett, judges.
Parkville Township Ray Elliott,
registrar; A. R. Winslow, Jr., and
Nelson Smith, judges.
. When the books open for new reg
istration on;?,April 27th, Perquimans
CarintovwiH embarkinff on its first
nelgjsijitilon in more year, than
nS'ipeopli iare to remember, f The
diaincldHhree Saturdays, and
Cnairman : lioiiowell is hoping that
every eligible voter will find time to
register witji the officials in nis or
her respective township.
Evervone .must declare his or ner
party affiliations before registering,
and register in the proper book. It
is the purpose of this to impress tne
importance: of registering. ' Those
nrVin An tint rpmster cannot vote in
tfin nrimarv.
Thn new remstration (or re-nstmg
in manv counties) is only one of the
far-reaching changes in the election
i J 1 lnt Hnnnl-Ql A C-
awa maun u v uiu loot
snWiKVi. ' TiaVatsi-faiw. onlv the crener
oi olacfinn . rptrist.rfltion book had
M .4WVw i - O
Kaon hbaH for both primaries and
elections. Under the new law there
will hc RAnArate registration books
inr nrimaries and elections.
V Among other things, -absentee vot-
the nW law.
"Elect me governor and I'll clean
out the parasites," Candidate Tom
Cooper promised a large group of
listeners from the observation plat
form nf his colorful sound truck
bandwagon Wednesday morning.
Cooper told a, tale of Any Number
of $8,000-a-year judges, who retire
whenever thev feel like it on two-
thirds pay. These he called the par
asites, and if elected, he promises to
clean them all out, along with hun
dreds of other types.
It was a great show; the amplify
ing outfit blared "God Save Amer-
ica" and rne btar spanieu Ban
ner." It was very appropriate.
Snmfthodv had decided to give Cooper
n raal wplcome. American banners
lined Church Street on both sides.
The flags are privately ownedv and
several of them weren't out to greet
the candidate.
Cooper's touring headquarters
stopped in front of Morgan Walker's
place. A large crowd had been wait
ing for him more than half-an-hour.
Traveling companion W. H. Hen
derson, Jr., (not his ampaign man
ager) did the introducing. Press Re
presentative Rob Sparrow (no) his
MMnnimi mnnftpprl handled;' the
sound apparatus, and Tom 2oper
bandied tne oratory. ,
It was difficult to tell what Kina
of an impression he made. He had
a good audience, and ne taineu im
things, sales taxes and such, that
people like to hear about. Ihey HKe
to hear sales tax relegated to me
past ... and Cooper promised to rt
legate it, by degrees.
The license-examinine department
of the State Highway Safety Division
went on trial in county court Tues
day. The case was one wherein
George Boyce of near Hertford was
charged with driving drunk, but at
torneys for the defense made much
of the action of a former license
examiner who was the chief witness
against Boyce.
After a lengthy trial, and after
many witnesses for the State and
the defense were interviewed, Judge
Granberry Tucker handed down his
decision. "Not guilty," he, said.
' George Boyce was arrested on a
warrant sworn out by Sergeant G. I.
Dail of the State Highway Patrol, 11
blotto oftor an nccurrenre on the
Edenton Highway which involved the!
license examiner. j
According to James S. Moore, the
former license examiner, he was rid-1
ing a bus carrier to Edenton. Ac-j
cording to another of the State's 1
witnesses, the bus driver, a Mr.
Nash, his attention was directed to
Boyce's car by the reckless manner
in which it was driven.
The driver in turn directed the at
tention of Moore to the Boyce car.
The bus stopped in front of Boyce's
car. Moore got out and asked or or
dered Boyce to move over, and drove
the car to Edenton himselt.
In Edenton he made a notation on
Boyce's driving permit, according to
testimony. He suspended the license
for 12 days.
Had the charges stuck against
Boyce and had he been convicted on
Hip rase would
fflyuica tco.iiuvi'jj
have set a precedent. It would
have been the first time a driver
was convicted of drunken driving by
a license examiner.
W. G. Edwards and J. S. McNider,
tliP Hpfense legal battery, scathed
the license examiner, saying he was
in orrnr in the first instance and
then attempted to see the thing
through.
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PAPERS BURNED
Bold Burglary of Build
ing Housing Post Of
fice Heavy Loss to E.
City Man
Four youths were held in Hertford
today (Thursday) after Judge Gran
berry Tucker found grounds for pro
bable cause and ordered them detain
ed for action by the grand jury when
Superior Court comes here next
week.
The men are Dock Phelps, Eliza
beth City man about 30 years of age,
who was sentenced in Elizabeth lty
Monday for jail-breaking, Oscar
Bogue and. Shelby Casper, both of
Elizabeth City and both twenty years
of age, and Joe Roughton of Nor
folk, Va.
These are the men who will pro
bably stand trial next week on
charges of breaking and entering the
New Hope Mercantile and Milling
Company store last Friday night.
The robbery at New Hope, which
Sheriff J. Emmett Winslow tenta
tively placed at 2 a. m., Saturday
morning, brought to the little Per
quimans County village an impress
ing array of officers including State
Bureau of Investigation Men, a pos
tal inspector and two Federal men,
in addition to the Sheriff.
While less than $1,800 was actually
tkaen from the two safes in the New
Hope establishment, the robbers de
stroyed more than $11,000 in valuable
notes and records, Paul Jackson of
Elizabeth City, member' of the Mer
cantile firm, told The Weekly re
porter Saturday.
Entrance was gained through a
side door by the jimmy method. Two
safes, one a huge affair weighing
more than 800 pounds, and the other
a smaller one weighing 'approxi
mately 300 pounds, were carried, ap
parently by truck, to a spot two
two miles from New Hope where
they were forced open.
The cash was removed from the
two safes as well as from the cash
register in the store. The valuable
papers were piled in the two safes
and set afire. They were complete
ly destroyed.
The "Company Store", as it is
called in New Hope, is also the Post
Office of Durants Neck, the smaller
safe contained Post Office Depart
ment' property, money order blanks,
stamps, etc.
Postmaster Steve Perry, also clerk
in the store, notified Postal Inspector
F. D. Conderman in New Bern as
soon as he learned of the robbery.
Mr. Conderman arrived on the scene
shortly after State Bureau of Inves
tigation Men Gatling and Zimmer
man of Raleigh, had begun checking
for possible fingerprints.
Madison Lee, a Negro, who lives
down the River Road discovered the
burning safes shortly after six
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Ruth Davenport's Car
Destroyed By Fire
An automobile owned by Miss
Ruth Davenport, County Welfare
head, was completely destroyed by
fire about 2:30 Thursday morning.
The car had been-parked in the
Hrivewav at the residence of Mrs.
Thomas Nixon with whom Miss Dav
enport makes her home.
Firemen believed the blaze was
caused by a short circuit in the wir
ing system.
BAND ON AIR
County Grammar School
Minstrel Well Attended
a lor., nnrliPTiPR. enioyed the Mins-
fro! oHvpti at the Central Grammar
LC.t,ni ir, Winfall Fridav nisrht. Bill
KIVUVVl " ' " ' -
Madre, as interlocutor, was well-sup-
pprted by six black-lace ena-men
and a selected chorus.
Among the song hits heard during
the presentation were "When You
Wore a Tulip," "South of the Bor
der" and "Faithful Forever." Pro
ceeds derived from the show will 'be
directed to the school library.
Clyde Erwin. State
Superintendent At
P. T. A. Meeting
Clyde A. Erwin, state superintend
ent of public instruction, was the
pricnipal speaker at the second an
nual banquet of the Parent-Teachers
Associations of the county at the
high school Wednesday night;
Tho hnnnnet was. a county-wide
affair, and the three associations of
the county were represented by more
than a hundred members. Mrs. John
Symons of Chapanoke, county council
president, presided.
The different schools represented
by the P. T. A. group had parts on
the program, and Robert Rhodes,
band instructor at the high school,
gave a violin solo. A duet was given
and. Mrs.
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Mr, T? M. Riddick's Rhythm Class, oy mra. inun na.ic.i
.:n 0r. smtinn WTAR in Jack Benton of Snow Hill
will ur iii. -"'
Norfolk, Va., tomorrow (Saturday)
mbrning at 1J. o'clock.
The class entertained before the
Parent-Teachers Association in E-
denton on Tuesday evening.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Odell West of Fay
etteville, announce the birth of a
daughter on Thursday, April 4. Mrs.
West is the former Miss Ethel Tolar,
daughter of Mr: and Mrs. J. M.
Tolar, of Woodvifle.
Amnncr other nut-of-town P. T. A.
officials at the county council ban
quet were Mrs. Erwin, wife of the
State Superintendent, and Mrs. W.
L. Walston of Elizabeth City, anoth
er State officer in the Parent-Teacher
group.
Among local State officers pres
ent were: Mrs. I. A. Ward, district
director, and Dr. Ward, Mrs. F. T.
Johnson, district magazine chair'
or,,! m .Tr.hr.Hnn. county super-
IIMIl, " ' - . '
intendent, and Mrs. J. R. Futrell,
State publicity chairman.
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