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fel-r;-j-;;. . .. :cly A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. DWOTEn TO TTTF,tmfm.lnTxri nxr uvDiwun Am vronTmr auw rwTTTTmr 1 V WW - & ? Ft a: J' X f :r. v ujhc v ax. ix umuer A WEEK IN CAMP AT NAGS HEAD WITH THE BOB WHITES, HOUNDS, ARROWS, EAGLES Bugler McNider Got 'Em up at 6:30 to Eat Nine Dozen Eggs; Strict Discipline Rigid disciplinary measures during a week's encampment at Nags Head did not detract from the pleasure of living on the outer banks in camn style, as witness the impressions of nna - i.1 Ti CI a wire I11CIUUT7I WJ. Uie DOV OCOUl COm- mittee who SDent several Havs on the Dare County beach with the uu in. 4.i.i Hertford Troop. , Four patrols, numbering 25 boys, made the trip to Nags Head from Hertford, leaving here Sunday af ternoon via transportation provided by the town of Hertford and by pri vate cars furnished by the Boy Scouts' sponsors, the local Rotary Club. "You can quote mo," said W. T. (BUI) Elliott, member of the Scout committee who stayed with the boys a while. "There has never been in the history of Hertford a better be haved lot of boys than these Scouts at Nags Head," Necessarily, there was strict dis cipline. For instance, five of the boya on the trip hold Junior Lif Saving certificates. When the Scouts went swimming in front of the T. J. Nixon Cottage (Headquarters), the junior life guards, stationed at a cer tain depth, did not permit the swim ming Scouts to venture out beyond their stations. No one of the boys was nermitted to go anywhere by himself. A patrol or similar unit could make a hiking excursion, but permission had to be applied for, and the hikers checked in when they came back. It's no easy job to keep track of 26 youngsters at a beach, but this method made it j possible for Scoutmaster W. H. Pitt' any given time Chick Burnette Was carried along to do the cooking, and wlien Chick cooks it takes more than seemingly too-strict discipline to make serious inroads on a Boy Scout's appetite. BUI Elliott says that breakfast iu buiou says iaa Dceaaiasii "m vuvir, unavr tne airec (Contiiitiea OnPagfl- tti3ie Canning Center In Operation; Needs Surplus Products Three Women Till Soil Of Lunch Room fiar- den bv Hand: Has;Sundayareliiou8leaderof a differ TU.AnA Kfi l lUUUtCU W VCUIO MX Food The Parent-Teacher Association in collaboration with the WPA is pre paring for the coming school term, according to Mrs. Lucy Elliott, fore man of the canning center. Mrs. Elliott's work, when the school term opens, will have to do with the Parent-Teacher's lunch room in the Woman's Club Building on the Hertford Grammar School campus. v, . At present,' while canning opera tions are in progress, the sponsor! would appreciate .'contributions ol surplus commodities to. supplement the produce raised in.; the gar den o Grubb Street extended. Mrs. Elliott, speaking ; for -Miss l Maude Hodges, WPA' j iuperyisoif i of some- thing or other j' Stationed Elizabeth City, said that the surplus commodi- ; immediately i be Btocked in cans for consumption curing.;. fjne winter ..months.,, '' '' - ' -' The lunch room garden, started qn : may zard, nai aireaay proaucea more " Jhan, Kflf ?an! of foodstuffs Including ''corn, tomatoes, butter heans, 'snap 'l beans and cucumbers. Three women work he 3.3 acres Iby hand, without Kthe benefit of vplows or other me chanical implements. .. ) t r The Grammar School lunch room, in full operation, feeds anywhere from 80 to 150 pupils; those who can afford to pay are charged a minimum price per-meaL and the under-privi-eged get hot lunches free of charge. The. lunclT room is in i. its third, or fourth year of operation. ' The garden, which also ' provides the source of raw material for the J Negro School lunch room, produces large amount- of foodstuffs needed ? in the two lunch rooms, but not quite enough to v.fill , ther requirements; therefore the call for surplus commodities.',-' ( ' j. j ;V, It- ' ' -Jv'i ' The lunch room, benefitting under? pri;ileged pupils in a concrete man t. , is one of the more popular pro-j- 5 and merits, cooperation. " &v. Hertford;; Missionaries To Africa Visit Over Week-end With Belvidere Friends Jefferson WY and Helen K. Ford, missionaries at the Friends' Mission, Kaimosi Station, British East Africa, on "a deputation trip through The States, spent Saturday and Sunday with friends ia Belvidere. iney were present at the Friends . n i .. I Mlsslonary Society meeting Saturday ""raiiuvii Hem in ui nome oi mr and Mrs. W. L. White, and told of the work being done in Africa, India and other fields about which the members of the Society have studied during the past six months. The presence of the Fords and the messages they gave were a fitting climax to the close of the year's work. On Sunday morning and Sunday evening the Fords gave instructive and appealing messages at Piney Woods and Up River Churches. Methodist Pastor Preaches At Fort Raleigh Sunday Rev. Munns to Officiate At Third Religious ' Service; Cranford to Preach Here Manteo, N. C Rev. R. F. Munns, pastor of the Methodist Church of Hertford iiriH here Sunday, Judy 21st, at 11 o'clock, vices held durinsr the 2B3ri Ann i vir sary celebration of thf! founding of the Roanoke colonies and the birth of Virginia Dare. 4' .' Assisted by the Lost Colony Chor us, composed of met&ezs of the "... ,uiuan ui wuca reiispous service onerea here In connection with the 4th Rummer wmnn nt Paul connection n Dn..1 Green's "The Lost Colony," drama of me Dinn oi democracy in America. With James Hart at the console of the Hammond organ, the Lost Colony Chorus will sing a program of songs fittinir to the brilliant s-roun. wnVn I complete musical background for . j - W uiiitDJICO bllC xne lost Colony," is one of the most -professional in the country. The public is invited to attend the services at Fort Raleigh. Every en . 1?mintion officiates, thus malting this series of services inter esting to all faiths and creeds. The series is unders the direction of D. Bradford Peering, president of the Roanoke Island Historical Associa tion, which presents "The Lost Col ony" as a non-commercial venture The Rev. J. D. Cranford of Win fall, pastor of the Perquimans Coun ty Methodist Circuit, will have charge of the Sunday morning ser vice at the Methodist Church in Hert ford. It has been announced that there will be no Sunday evening ser vice at the Methodist Church. little ActivitvTn Tuesday's Session Of Recorder's Court : vnay a lew minor cases were heard in Perquimans County Record er's Court Tuesday. Mutt Reed and Emma Winnl Negroes, were sentenced to serve 80 oays in jail for being drunk and dis orderly. Sentence was to h ii a. pended upon payment of the costs of court ana on condition . that! they show good- behavior, for one year.,5: ' ' 'John-fc.' Winslow,' Hertford; youth, War found guilty of releravdTivnr Judge' IGraJiberry 'Tuclcer ' ordered prayer for 'judgment "conthiued "' o payment of the costs of court and re pairs to A. W. Hefren's car which was struck by the Winslow car. The case of Wesley Hurdle, who is charged with driving drunk and reck less driving, was continued until th. July 23rd. term. - . , I Holmes At Baptist Church .Sunday 'I - C. ,K. Holme.: Inojir'attftMiaii Wl.. has been heard from the pulpit many times in and around ' Hertford, .il) have charra of the $tonta service , at ; TJie; .prffows Baptist litlDMh. V It hoi tiantC tfnfiMiWMhil J. member of the Board",? ftefortntf there will be no Sunday evening aevoi ice at uift-tfaptist Church., , Peiuimans County, North Carolina, Friday, July NYA lies Some Revisions; Every Youth Now Digible Three Departments Ready to Certify All Youths Between 17 And 25 Years of Age TVio Natimol VMit-l. A ' tion, a recent headache and reason lor voting ana decision reverses a mong the county commissioners, has made two changes in the workings of its organization. e i i . . The alterations, having to do with! age limits and need requirements, make it now proper and legal for all youths between the ages of 17 and 25 to make aDDliratinn fnr NVi work through one of three depart - ments, the Department of Publir Welfare, the Farm Security Adminis tration, or NYA direct. First, the need requirements have been redefined as follows: Youths are eligible for certifica tion if in need of employment, work experience or training. (The depart ment of public welfare is in the courthouse; the Farm Security Ad ministration office is in the old tele phone building, and the NYA super visor of this district is Mrs. Mary Fearing in Elizabeth City.) Youths of families known to the department of public welfare, or in (Continued On Tage Five) Red Cross Refugee Fund Totals About $110 At Present Charlie Skinner Is Now Pinch Hitting For Chairman Whedbee On Vacation Charlie Skinner, .who has been . chairman of the Red Cross, while the I ' postmaster is on vacation, announces that since he took over for Mr. Whedbee on July 8th, the total sum tor war refugees has been swelled by $10. This was at noon Wednesday. The last report came from Red Cross Chairman Whedbee on July 3rd, when he said the total was "about one hundred dollars." These figures would make the to tal at present somewhere in the neighborhood of $110. The goal of the drive is still set at a minimum of $600 for the county. A $300 quota was doubled four days aiier tne nrst call went out more than eight weeks ago. There is still no house-to-house canvass and none is in prospect, but donations are being received by the Rev. R. P. Munns, pastor of the Hertford Methodist Church; Rev. Edmund T. Jillson, rector of Holy Trinity, and at present, by Charlie Skinner in the postoffice, until Chair man Whedbee returns from vacation. Winf alTs New Post Office A Town Credit The new Post Office is considered a credit to Winfall and to its post master, W. G. (Willie) Hollowell, and to the community. The new postoffice is located in the A. White building which has been occupied onfly for a short while. It offers to 'Winfall postoffice patrons the convenience of eaav nemnst tn lock botes after regular office hours. Mr. Hollowell was annotated nnnt- master at Winfall to fill the vacancy rt y We late J. H. Baker. AGltTUE BUILDING TO BE SCENE OF ifeST-Aib TRAINING DURING NEXT WO WEEKS UNDER INDUSTRIAL GROUP Mr..W. L. PowelL safety director of the North Carolina Industrial Commission,, was in Hertford Hast week and, enlisted the aid of R. S Monds, member of the office force of The Southern Cotton Oil Company, in organizing a first-aid ! class in Per quimans County. , : ' , " The WTIA, jh Cooperation with the first-aid expert v. to Hertford for two-weeks' stay" if a minimum class of 12 pupils c&ri he assure 1 Those,, interested, 'm learning, the mtricaciei of jBntJ4''sr instructed to get in touch.with'Ji'rr Monds who aava that the fnrmnAW Ii. nil' fndna. ! trial plants. wQl especially benefit by School System Is Sti Lacking Three Faulty Members Vacancies For Band In structor, Sixth and First Grade Teachers In County System Three vacancies stiUl exist in the faculty of Perquimans County's edu cational system, according to F. T Johnson, superintendent of county schools. Officials at Appalachian Stat Teachers College have notified the superintendent that William Clyne Bray will not come to Hertford to join the faculty of the Hertford Grammar School as was announced 1 last week- Mr. Bray, who was to have charge of one section of the sixth grade, willl take a job closer home in Ire dell County. Mr. Johnson is still looking for a band instructor to replace Robert Rhodes who lent part-time services to the high school band here last year, but will be unable to return for another term due to a full schedule in Pasquotank County. The third vacancy is the post of a first grade teacher at the Central Grammar School in Winfall. Mr. Johnson is not anticipating a great deal of difficulty in filling any of the three positions. 4-H Members Are Camping This Week At Jamestown One 'Hundred Members Fijom Seven Counties Visiting Historic Sec- tipn i 4-H jClub boys and girls from sev en corajties are attending camp this week at Jamestown, .Virginia on the historic James River. Approximately one hundred mem bers, according to Miss Frances Manpgg. Pomin'mono "V....... A .U4...a.IO vuuuij ueiiion - stration agent who accompanied the campers, are attending from Per- quimans nowan, Bertie, Washington and Gates, Tyrrell Hertford, Counties. Perquimans County members join ed the 4-H'ers from the other coun ties in.Edenton early Monday morn ing. Enroute to Jamestown they stop ped for a spell at the Mariners' Mu seum, and while in camp they will make conducted tours to the historic shrines thereabouts. They wii return to Hertford some time late Saturday afternoon or early .Saturday night, Miss Maness said. Tar Heel Farmers At State Convention Calvin Banks and Thomas Lamb will represent the Perquimans Coun ty Chapter of Young Tar Heel Farm ers of America at the State Conven tion held in Raleigh on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, G. C. Buck, supervisor and counselor, said . Tues day. Mr. Buck and the two agricultural students left on the triD Wednesdav afternoon. BASEBALL SUNDAY A baseball team from Eure Sta tion, Gates County, will engage the local Independent team on the hio-h (school diamond Sunday afternoon at a ociock. -';; . taking the course. Certificates will be awarded to v those who pass the examinations at the end of the course. The classes , will be conducted in evening sessions of two hours each in the auditorium of the Agriculture Building on Dobb Street The course begins on the 1 evening of Monday, July 22, at 7:80, Mr. Monds, said. Though exact purposes in conduct ing the classes are not disclosed it is assumed that the Industrial Commis sion is taking the step hr an effort to show a decrease. lr serious acci dents -where a hnowHedra of first-aid proceedure: will prevent ' serious re wltifrolnJui7v,s';" 19, 1940. OEMOCRATS NOMINATE ROOSEVELT FOR THIRD TERM; ADOPT DEFENSE PLATFORM Hefren Named As Rotary Director Elected to fill the vacancy left by R. N. (Dick) Hines, who recently left Hertford to take a position in Kings Mountain, was A. W. Hefren, who wffl serve on the board of direc tors of the Hertford Rotary Club. Mr. Hefren was elected at the j Tuesday night meeting of the club in the dining room of Hotel Hert- i ford. Guests of the club at the j meeting were Clinton Ealey, of the Virginia Electric and Power Com- I pany, now located at Hertford, and j A. A. Brown, of Hillsboro. i 'Surrender Or Be Destroyed' Italy To Great Britain German Chancellor Ad- parently Is Changing Tactics; England An-1 ticipating Attack ' Italy, barking from behind the coat-tails of Adolf Hitler, has with,' fear and trembling offered Great' Britain the alternative of surrender I ing or feeling total destruction. ! It seems that Messrs. Hitler and! Mussolini would serve an ultimatum1 shortly on England offering her the' choice, and Italy, which has more or - - European affairs of late, was in the ie&s uiayea, an lmDromment Dart in "'u LU "uts i'lneugnt anu aeuv- er some ultimatums on her own; with the assurance, of course, that Nazi forces were of the same mind. All this stalling around and threat throwing is inconsistent with the Hit lerian way of doing battle, and indi cates more than anything else that the German War Machine is slowing down. For the very reason that Hit ler got across to the English the same idea some weeks ago and prom ised to blast the British Empire off the face of the globe if surrender fis not immediate. Italy went through the same motions Tuesday. It adds up to the same thing; Hitler, the bit 1 -"6 ""5 " hcvci uans, is uoing am I about-face to become the barking dog that fails to bite. I ing dog who never barks, is doing an The delay in a promised assault on ' the fortified British Isles is all in I favor of the English; surely Hitler knows that, and that every hour he delays makes his slim chances slim mer. Other authorities view the lull in minor sea and air attacks as the calm before the storm. But Hitller strikes without warning; he launches a blitz krieg and talks later. It is not con sistent with reason that he would abandon a system which has worked with such astonishing results. Italy's ultimatum, though boastful, was a frightening-sounding declara tion ... "Preparations will be completed in a very few days. Britain will have to settlle her last account. She will , , i nave to choose between submission to ' me renovating, restorative forces of j Europe or extremely grim violent war in which inexorable destruction, a fateful precipitous step toward final overthrow, will be measured not by years or weeks of which Churchill spoke, but by days or hours." Apparently anticipating a merci less air attack sooner or later, Eng land Tuesday called for American volunteers who are trained for air service and radio. Editor And Mrs. Max Campbell Called To Maryland Editor Max Campbell and Mrs. Campbell were called to Eastern. Maryland, Thursday morning be cause of the serious illness of Mrs Campbell's father, Henry McCly ment. Commissioners In Closed Session The Board of County Commission ers held a closed meeting in the courthouse Friday afternoon. Tha purpose of the meeting, or the re sults, were not madeknown. The commissioners, all in attend ance, went into session shortly after three o'clock and remained in closed session for almost an hour. CIRCLE TO MEET The JfhnieT WUfcon Mtaskmary Ce,iUqtteet'i(ady evening at 8 o'clocdt 't Itheihome of . Mrs: H. C. rfitokes' .'oiif BVont- Street. ' A full at. itendariet is urgecL i " $1.25 Per Year. Political Precedent Was Kicked Out on Ear at Democratic Conven tion at Chicago VICE PRESIDENT? 1940 Platform For In vincible National De fense Is Adopted In Short Order American political precedent took a nose-dive in Chicago Wednesday night and. named F. D. 11. to carry the Democratic banner in November ai?ainst Republican Wendell L. Will kie. For the first time in the history of the Unitod States a president will run for a ?..ird Term in the White House, and it is almost as certain that he will be elected as it was cer tain he would be nominated in the Chicago Convention. The Convention acted still without assurance from the Chief Executive t... ..o. ..o.d acc-i uio iio..i..:ation but it seemed certain that Mr. I'.oose velt would not refuse. The nomination was made in the sweltering Chicago sports arena where Mr. Roosevelt was put up to the country for the first time in 1932. The President won re-nomination a few minutes before one o'clock Wednesday night when a majority of the votes had been cast for him. Three other names went before the Convention, and by a twist of the political fates two of them were men who rode the Glory Road to triumph with Rnnnovo t ; iqqo i looc ...uv.i. 41I A JI OJ1U A Jft. ' One of these was James A. Farlev "irenial Jim" the sm nr. smooth working ora-anizer who Dicked Roose velt as a winner and pledged for him untill he was elected. The other was Texas' John Nance Garner, sage veteran of politics who switched his votes to Roosevelt in 1932 to insure the New Yorker the nomination and then took a seat at Roosevelt's left as Vice-president. The third name presented was that of the lone anti-Third-Termist, Maryland's favorite son, Millard E Tydings, a corps conlttiaiv-'er in the anti-Roosevelt forces. But the Convention was cut and dried long before Big Jim Farley let iaii witn a Dang the gavel that open ed the meeting that did exactly what it set out to do. There wp iaii with a bang the gavel that open- prises nor upsets and the whole Convention went off on sol. Snip Roosevelt being named the Democra tic standard bearer even before the balloting was first scheduled to be gin. Before this is printed, the vice president has probably also been named, but it was thought unlikely that Garner would permit his name to go before the Convention for a Third Term. But Mr. Roosevelt still hasn't pointed the finger at any one of the hopefuls and said "That's the man I want." Such a move alone would name the President's running mate. Most of the "acceptables" are per sonal friends of Mr. Roosevelt. " ..-uouiuc laui inci.NUt will not run if the President express Indiana s handsome Paul mv.w.it es a preference for someone else ocimvor oarKiey ot Kentucky, may be in the running if Roosevelt's stooge at the Convention, Harry Hopkins, can get an Okay from the White House. The stamp of approval is definitely on Secretary of AgricuQture Henry A. Wallace and Louis Johnson, as sistant Secretary of War. There are others plenty of them Barkley, McNutt, Associate Justice William C. Douglas of the Supreme Court, Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and Jesse Jones, the Federal Loan administrator. The race was still wide open Wednesday night North Carolina delegates mm. Ho. j ciding Thursday morning what can didates will receive the State's sup I Prt- ' :!t.."'i 1 The Democratic platform pledges invincible national defense, opposes war on foreign sofl and Is against ! sending fighters outside the Ameri cas unless tne united States is at tacked. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL AT OAK GROVE CHURCH Daily vacation Bihla ed at Oak Grove Church on Monday The Rev. Luther Booth iB in chargf of the schiiol an4 i being assisted by Mrs, a . Quincy, Mrs. Georgs Jackson, Mra. Bmmett Stallings and Miss Doris Lewis. . ', JW. C. T. U. TO MEET ' f.Th i. Woman's l tCIrtatlan Tempsr nct, Valon will meet Tuesday after noon at .nVWlt fa fTi TU- u.. i vr a tn iie.oaisr unnrcn. -u in 4 ' .1 ,V I, c. 1 y-, i t-
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