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Volume VIINumber
Old Post Onico
Location f, lay Be
KelBi
Workmen Begin Altera
tions; Patrons View
Carrier Change as
: Needed Improvement
Th location of the old postoffice
at the corner of Church and Grubb
Streets is undergoing a process of
alterations. Rumor has it, uncon
firmed, that the place will be used
as a bus station.
- Workmen were moving out the old
post office cages and equipment
Wednesday and preparing to install
new ceiling plaster, the front was
getting a new coat of paint and the
inside of the former-post office was
being stripped down, apparently, in
preparation for greater changes.
The prospect of a new bus station
is connected with the work in the
building on the corner because it is
known that the carrier company has
been negotiating' with the owners in
regard to a lease.'
No public announcement has been
made, either by the owners or the
bus company, or by Morgan Walker,
present agent for the company, who
says he has no indication that the
agency is to change hands.
Mayor Vivian N. Darden, for the
town board of commissioners, has
requested the bus company on two
occasions in the past year to im
prove its facilities here, complaining
that the present set-up does not pro
vide rest rooms for both colored and
white passengers and the system of
loading and unloading passengers is
contrary to local ordinances.
The site of the projected station, it
is saidj is a ideal location; beisg on
a corneMthCxit8 froatmg &both
the motfeaie AcaV tiawu
the curb next to fiie station whether
traveling north or south.
Rumor also has it that Tom Brown
will be the station agent. If so, then
Hertford is to be introduced to an
entirely new system of bus service.
For the first time, since busses
designated Hertford as a routine
stop, passengers will wait in quar
ters not annexed by or housed in
some other business. For a long
time the bus station- was in Josiah
Elliott's drug store on Market Street,
once it was in the hotel lobby, then
it was in the Hollowell Chevrolet
Company showroom, and then , Mor
gan Walker took it over in his store.
The newest development, the pros
pect of a bus station as a bus sta
tion, with- probably a neon" sign in
front to designate it as such, is
Considered largely as a welcome im
provement. Red Cross Quota
far
Is 6G0 Dollars
Chairman Taking Con
tributions; Says No
House to House Can-
jsStation
ForVi
Refugees
l vass at Present
Perquimans Count; is asked for
$600 in the Red Cross, drive for re
lief for war refugees in France, ac
cording to Silas M. Whedbee, chair
man v of toe ,j Perquimans, County
Chapter. .
' -f;ThF raota, he, wioV-was .-doubled
-;iithin .four days .aftef 'thai flint call
i'ivas received. 'eiJX:-:"
f. Of :the amount f Asked,' $7.6Yhaa
,been raised, contributed, by " the Mt.
SioaC Baptist Church. ; X fJ'Vr
fvi Asked about a house-to-house can-
i vass in behalf of the war-sufferers,
Mr. Whedbee said, "There will be no
active house-to-house canvass at this
time, but we. are ready and, anxious
;to receive contributions.",. 4 -
There are no Outside workersin
j this, call, but Mr. Whedbee tesid the
'contributions" may be turned of ex to
him'at'th post office.- "
" The county wai v originally , asked
to raise $30d, but as in other coun
i iies and 4 cities all ? over the United
-States, even the $600 quota will pw
fcably be lifted, in' few days, waen
the chairman will be asked to regard
that fisrure as a minimum and go as
high above it as possible . . .. without
luuivauuus. i , i 4
. ROTARY CLUB MEETS
The Hertford Rotary Club held its
"t "- -t ' meetin?- at 1 Hotel
VESKLV ?EF. DEVOTRD TO THE UPHUILD1N0 OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
23.
Hertford,
Not To Draw- Straws
The Town Fathers had settled
on an unique plan to determine
"who was to get the job" when
Clarke Stokes and Charlie Ford
Sumner, Jr., made applications for
the position as life guard at the
municipal bathing' pier, got to
gether and worked out another
plan themselves.
Both Sumner and Stokes were
equally qualified and the Town
Fathers were at a loss to make a
decision. So they decided to let
the applicants draw straws . . .
the long straw got the job and
the short straw meant unemploy
ment, .ji
Stokes and Sumner decided to
split the duties between them
selves. The Town Fathers were
agreeable and so now Hertford
has two life guards instead of one.
Is
Named Queen For
Potato Festival
Four Strangers Make
Choice From Array
Of Twenty-five Con
testants Four strangers, guests at the
Hotel Hertford, were; hard-pressed to
reached a decision Monday night at
the State Theatre that finally result
ed in the selection of blonde Marie
Anderson to represent" Perquimans
County at the potato Festival in Eli
zabeth City yesterday. (Thursday).
Twenty samples of jung feminine
beauty were parade& across the
stage before each ot$h$ four judges
selected a favorite four beauties
were selected from the-total in the
first elimination.
Called back for a second viewing
were the winner, Miss Anderson,
Sybil 'Layden, JJSlry. Thad Chappeli
and. Pnf It u TTnllniiiwlT
rIb-eitAivUortd -elimination,
the contest harroWed' '4own to Miss
Anderson and Miss ChappeK . . .a
blonde and a brunette.
Finally, Norman N. Truehlood,
master of ceremoies, announced that
the judges had reached a decision . . .
and thus was selected Perquimans
County's queen to ride on the float
with queens from other counties in
the Albemarle.
Among those in the contest, enter
ed from "The Land of Beautiful
Women," were Mary Wood Koonce,
Katherina Jessup, Margaret Whed
bee, Margaret Mayes, Wally Cobb
Mayes,' Nancy Darden, Florence Dar
den, Cleo Trueblood, Minnie Wilma
Wood, Helen Mae White, Jean White,
Mary Thad Chappeli, Marie Ander
son, Ruth Hollowell, Sybil Layd.en,
Geneva White, Marian Phelps, Annie
Mae Matthews, Hazel Madre and
Janet Murray.
Miss Anderson, the daughter of
County Agent L. W. Anderson, finished-
this spring at Flora McDonald
School. She was given a ticket for
herself and escort to the Little Jack
Little Potato Festival Ball last night
and rode on the Queen's Float yes
terday afternoon.
Farmers Selling
Cabbage To SCC .
"""
A number of Perquimans County
farmers are selling cabbages to the
Surplus Commodities Corporation de
livered at the receiving station in
Elizabeth City and getting 45 cents
a basket for them, L. W. Anderson,
county agent, said Tuesday. ..:
t The baskets at this price are con
taining one and a half bushels to
the-basket and not' esv than 61
pounds- to -ijh& ,baakt Hyi : rS"
i;-TJie- tab pages; 'hpultt not ; wetga'
lestti tHAn. one Jna a nwiiTwunas per
JhtaSi he saidr and there should not
be more than four flat leaves to the
cabbagV"" ; 1 4 . -
The . cabbages are bought at the
Norfolk "Southern Freight Station in
Elizabeth Citv at the foot of Water
Street, packed In refrigerator cars
andt earned . to other, points zor dis
tribution to needy families served by
the Surplus . Commodities j Corpora-
tionla . . u .
i This proceedure, the county agent
said, tends to keep the cabbage mar
ket irom depressing, provides ; coql
modities ' for needy' .persons, ; sad
keeps "the" cabbages from rotting In
the fields for lack of k market.' ' ,
MISSIONARY MEETING ?S
POSTPONED TO JUNE .15 ' ' - ;
Tbe annual Missionary meeting of
Piney Woods 1 Friends "-Church had
been postponed from June 8, to June
15. . . The meeting will be held at the
hme of the Misses Lucy, Clara a-i
v" ,w , , . .
Marie Anderson
Perquimans Qountyr North - Carolina, Friday, June
Bathing Pavilion
Proving Popular
Municipal Recreational
Center Not Quite
Finished; Life Guards
Take up Duties
The new municipal bathing pier,
not yet completely outfitted with
electric lights and showers and
dressing rooms, is proving very
popular with the youngsters.
The diving platform, mounted on
piles in twelve feet of water at a
distance o about sixty feet from the
river-end of the pier, is also draw
ing its share of attention. There are
no spring boards on the diving plat
form. Workmen Tuesday were finishing
interior paint jobs to the locker
rooms, shower rooms and bath
houses.
There still remains the filling-ln
of the shore-end of Grubb Street
where it approaches the pier. It is
understood that the Grubb Street
approach will be filled in to a level
even with the floor of the pier.
Youngsters bathing at the second
level, in about four and a half feet
of water, said Monday that the bot
tom on the south side of the board
walk was only slightly muddy, but
that the north side at the same level
is extremely muddy.
At the first level, less than two
feet, the bottom is all-sand, which
makes it a more desirable bathing
spot for the young children those
too small to swim.
With the diving platform, ideal
for sun-baths, excepted, it appears
that the second level on the south
side of the boardwalk will be the
most popular bathing spot.
The old municipal bathing plat
form, down behind the J. P. Perry
and R. M. Fowler residences, is not
made deserted by the opening of the
new recreation center. It is still the
place most convenient and "desirable
to those on the north end of Front
Street, who believe the water is
cleaner at that point than at the site
of the new pavilion.
Clarke Stokes and Charlie Ford
Sumner, Jr., the life guard forces at
the new beach, have already taken
over their duties, alternating at
stretches on watch. Their hours are
from 2:30 until 5:30 or 6 o'clock.
Perquimans County
Farmers Obtaining
longer Loan Terms
Reducing Payments on
Commissioner Loans,
Way Is Opened to 84
County Farmers
The opportunity to reduce the an
nual principal payments on Land
Bank Commissioner loans by re
amortizing them over a longer period
of years has been opened to many of
the 84 Perquimans County farmers
who have Commissioner loans, ac
cording to a statement received to
day from the Farm Credit Adminis
tration of Columbia.
There were about $101,700 of Land
Bank Commissioner loans outstand
ing in this county at the beginning
of 1940 and, in addition approximate
ly $167,100 of Federal land bank
loans. Some of these loans have al
ready been reamortized.
Much of the Federal land bank
loans are already written for long
tems up to 80-odd ,yearsr ut the
oimoissiofo . origi-
oaBy jiiad. ina. 10-year "basis, requiring-
considerably heavier princi
pal payments. -
In a recent statement from Wash
ington, A, G. Black, Governor of the
Farm Credit 'Administration, said
many of the 'Commissioner's" loans j
were being reamortized, over a longer
period of years In order to ease the
payments farmers with, the heav-
test mortgages. r Spreading out the
payments over 4a longer period will j
provide, these Jarmers with , the same
opportunity. olt 'working out of debt
as already provided for Federal land
bank, borrowers through long-term
repayment 'periods;' Governor Black
saidAvFedaUland bank loans are
tdp.-jitgajge. .Joans whereas thei
Commissioner's )oans are. made on
both: first 'and second mortgage se
curity. VU '. 1V'( - -
y VV MASONS MEEfr.r:. T '
. Perquimans lodge Nc. 1M,. A.; F.
nA A: M.. : it lwmilar- com-
mur-Mwyvtey :veningw '
With Youngsters
Cusses Model A Ford
Gits Thirty Days:
Otsr Court Cases
Gasoline Comes High to
Four Negroes; $27.20
Per Gallon In Theft
Case
"Cussin' a Model A Ford," consti
tuting a violation of the Benton Act
which has to do with cursing on the
highways, and being drunk and dis
orderly brought down a 30-day jail
sentence on the kinky head of Shad
rach Boone in Recorder's Court on
Tuesday.
Shadrach, witnesses said at the
trial, was "cussin' a Model A Ford"
on Majjket Street, brandishing a
knife anil threatening to "cut its guts
out." r$
"Wht were you doing with the
knife?" Judge Granberry Tucker
asked when Shadrach said he had
just bought it that night.
"I had to have a knife to open
cans with," the defendant answered.
"Wouldn't a can-opener have serv
ed as well?" His Honor prodded.
"I didn't think of that," Shadrach
mumbled.
In another case a very repentent
Arthur l'elton, Negro, apologized
profusely for having "caused the
law any trouble" but failed to side
step a 60-day road sentence for as
saulting a female, Azeala Felton, his
wife.
I was just natchul-born orunk,"
Felton 4aid through bandaged lips
which Azeala sad she had damaged
when h tore all her clothes off last
sunaay aiternoon. I would never
had did it if I'd been sober."
Azeala had three gashes on the
shoulder, inflicted, she said, by some
unidentified weapon in Arthur's
hands.
The only other case in Tuesday's
session of county court involved the
theft of a gallon and. a half of gaso
line from a local service station.
The hfc than . two gallons of gas
came at a nign price to wemon ivie
bane, Highpockets Felton, Dick Park
er and Henry Hurdle, all .Negroes.
It cost them exactly $40.80; the a
mount of court costs incurred in the
matter.
Battle Of Flanders
Ends But War Takes
On Greater Fury
Censored Figures Shed
Little Light on Real
Magnitude of Losses
In Men and Machines
Winston Churchill made a speech
this week. He said in effect that
the British Empire would fight the
Nazi scourge as long as there was an
Englishman left to fight . . . that
there would be no peace offers.
He asserted that even though Ger
many should take over the British
Isles or even a part of them
though he didn't see that event in
store, the British Empires across the
sea would continue the fight.
"Empires across the sea", brought
up immediately to millions of those
over here visions of Canada and Aus
tralia and South American states
tangled in war with Hitler's hordes.
And at the same time, as the
greatest battle in all history the
battle of Flanders ended in bloody
defeat for the Allies and after the
rear guard fight of the British Ex
peditionary Forces at Dunkerque was
assured a place in history as the
most heroic stand of all time, A
mericans remembered that the Unit
ed States would not countenance the
subjugation of any state in the
Western Hemisphere by a foreign
power.
(In short, a war that involves
Canada, or South America or Mexico,
also involves the United States. This
is a promise. It is well and good to
avoid war scares, but it is neither
well nor , good to !"-d onesself to
evident possibilities that point to
war).
The Battle Of Flanders
As the. fall 6f DunkeVque signals
the end of the. great Battle of Flan
ders and leaves the Germans in com
plete possession of all Holland, Bel
gium and approximately 10,000
square miles of northern France
the Allies and Germans take stock
and reveal to the rest of the world
conflicting reports of losses in man
power and equipment.
The facts are grossly contradicted
as figures : released by both sides
piaimy snow . . v
J'' v (Continued On. Page Eight) '
7, 1940.
Lions Convention
A. Linwood Skinner, charter
member of the Hertford Lions
Club, now a member-at-large who
retains his name on the scroll
here, has written that he expects
to see a number of local members
at the Lions Convention in Dur
ham, on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday.
Neil Hester, district Governor,
has told Norman N. Trueblood,
secretary of the local club, that in
recognition of the excellent record
the club has made, he expects
Mr. Trueblood to have a part in
the program at Washington-Duke
Hotel, convention headquarters.
Mr. Trueblood and other mem
bers of the club are planning to
attend. It is not improbable that
the Hertford club will bring back
some trophies for achievement
and net membership.
Young Joe Tucker
Killed In Tragic
Danville Accident
Shelton Tucker and
Wife Also Injured In
Crash Which Claimed
Three Lives
Joe Tucker, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Tucker, formerly of Hert
ford, now of Columbia, was killed, in
an auto accident near Danville, Va.,
on Sunday night. Two other young
men were killed in the same acci
dent, reports reaching Hertford said,
and Joe's older brother, Shelton
Tucker, and Shelton's wife were in
jured. The body was brought to Hertford
for burial Wednesday afternoon when
funeral services were held at Holy
Trinity Church. Burial was in Ced
arwood Cemetery.
Pallbearers were' young fr ierf
and relatives of the youth. Among
his relatives in Hertford are: Wil
liam Tucker, an uncle; Beverly Tuck
er, Reginald Tucker, Mrs. Durwood
Reed, cousins; and the McMullans on
his mother's side of the family. His
mother is the former Miss Jessie
McMullan.
Joe was twenty years old; Shelton,
who Ls still confined to a Danville
hospital, is 22. Reports reaching
Hertford say that neither Shelton,
nor his wife of eight months, is se
riously or critically injured as first
reports Monday morning had it.
Detai.s of the fatal accident are
lacking, but it is understood that the
car in which the five people were
traveling near Danville, Shelton's
residence, crashed into an abutment
killing Joe instantly. The other
two young men are said to have died
in hospitals shortly thereafter.
Surv.oi-s include, besides his par
ents, a sister, Eva Anne Tucker; two
brothers, Shelton, of Danville, and
Donald Tucker, of Columbia; and his
grandfather, Dr. W. S. McMullan, of
Elizabeth City.
The funeral services were conduct
ed by the Rev. Edmund T. Jillson,
rector of Holy Trinity Church, and
the Rev. Wood Gaither, rector of the
Columbia Episcopal Church.
Horton Decision
Ends Speculation
On Second Primary
Lieutenant - Governor
Concedes Nomination
In Interest of Party
Harmony
Monday Lieutenant-Governor Wil
kins P. Horton announced that he
will not ask for a run-off primary to
determine the Democratic guberna
torial nomination for North Carolina
and immediately put a stop to what
ever speculation there was in Per
quimans County as to Horton's
chances here against J. M. Broughton
who ran second to Candidate A. J.
Maxwell.
Horton's decision was announced
shortly after the Board of Elections
certified results of the first primary,
staged on May 85th.
The certified results show that
Horton trailed Broughton by 41,000
votes. The Lieutenant-Governor said
he was conceding the nomination to
his opponent in the interest of party
harmony. ". -V'
J. M. Broughton s the governors'
elect; the routine election -considered
for ht-ia isrortlu .s.o
$1.25 Per Year.
Indicated County
Will Not Appeal
From Road Decision
County Apparently Re
signs Efforts to Keep
Village of Winfall on
U. S. 17
It is indicated from several sour
ces, including the Board of County
Commissioners after their regular
meeting in the courthouse Monday,
that the county will take no further
action on the Winfall Road decision
as handed down by the State High
way's committee sent here to con
duct a hearing last Wednesday.
The committee head, T. B. Ward,
of Wilson, said at that time that the
committee would recommend to the
State Highway Commission that the
road be constructed as the plans laid
out, but that the people of Perquim
ans County had the right to register
another protest with the full Com
mission. Asked Monday if the board plan
ned to appeal from the decision,
Chairman E. M. Perry spk" . "It
doesn't seem to be of much use."
The county's side of the issue,
which would tend to isolate Winfall
as far as United States Highway 17
is concerned, was laid before the
three-man committee at the hearing
last Wednesday by Charles Whed
bee, N. N. Trueblood for the Lions
Club, the Rev. J. D. Cranfonl for
Winfall, B. B. Dawson, J. S. McNider
and others.
Winfall residents, in particular,
were caustic in their criticisms of
the committee for what appeared to
be a decision already reached before
the hearing was conducted. The
committee was sympathetic, but ap
parently was operating with its
hands tied.
It appears that the building of a
modern .bigh-rpeed highway, nuxve,
eliminating stretch from thS Tiorth
end of the causeway to a point just
beyond the Elmwood Dairy, will soon
be in the course of construction.
Tf other bodies than the board of
county commissioners are planning
to appeal from the committee's de
cision, the action has not been made
public.
jimmie White Will
Preach At Baptist
Church Sunday
Son of Blackwell Mem
orial Pastor Is Stu
dent, at University of
Virginia . : 1
J. L. (Jimmie) White, 3rd, of Eli
zabeth City, ministerial student at
the University of Virginia, will
preach at the Hertford Baptist
Church on Sunday at the morning
and evening services, according to
an announcement from Dr. I. A.
Ward, chairman of the Board of
Deacons.
Young Mr. White preached at
Blackwell Memorial Baptist Church
in Elizabeth City last summer dur
ing the Youths Revival and was
heard by several young Hertford
people at that time.
He is the son of Dr. J. L. White,
Jr., pastor of Blackwell Memorial
Church, and went to Mars Hill Col
lege before entering the University
of Virginia, where he will be a junior
this fall.
School For Club
Leaders Next Week
A leaders' school in refinishing
furniture to be conducted by Miss
Mamie N. Whisnant, assistant spec
ialist in home management and house
furnishings, will be held at the
Agricultural Building on the morn
ing of June 12 at 10 o'clock, accord
ing to an announcement by Miss
FranceBS ManeB8, county demonstra
tion agent..
Miss Maness urces the leaders of
all clubs in the county to be present
at the School and to bring a piece of
damaged or worn-out furniture to be
rennisnea : , In demonstration under
Miss Whisnant's supervision.
'The school is particularly timely,
Miss -Maness said, since refinishing
furniture is to be the subject of club
meetings during the month of July