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f. 1 J' i 1 wmBMmwmM weekly 1 .';;" , -J : A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TOTHE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY Volume XIII. Number 13. Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, March 29, 1946. $1.50 Per Year. y " S5 1 -,;:.' OtSeltl U. 8. Htrr fhttoptpk . ' Above is pictured the aircraft carrier Saratoga, oldest in the Navy today, one of two car riers to undergo the atomic bomb testa scheduled to be held at Kikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in July. The "Sara," seven times announced sink by the Japanese, has been in 17 major engage ments or air strikes, from the early attacks on Guadalcanal to the final blows against the Japanese home islands. She was torpedoed twice, and at Iwo Jima sustained the heaviest Kamikaze at tack on a single ship to that date. JtitinsppingCaseSet For Hearing At April Term Superior Court Recorder's Court Busy Tuesday Disposing: of 15 Cases Sidney Goodwin, apprehended by Deputy Sheriff M. G. Owens and ' State Patrolman Charles Payne early this week near the Perquimans- Chowan County line, on a charge of -kidnapping Mrs. .Jesse Morgan and her five children, will be given a hearing at the April --term of Su- perior Court following action by the Stat taken In Perquimans Record er's. Court .Tuesday; -; The State re- .. quested a trjal by fury and Judge Charles ;; E.-, Johnson remanded the ase to the Superior Courts docket Another; case hargin; Goodwin wtChj ,: children was continued vntil, .tie .'April 23 term of Recorder's court Goodwin was taken to the Chowan ' County jail following adjournment of court here Tuesday for a hearing to be held Monday in Edenton on the r.hildmn wan enntiniuuf unffl tiialMina Wnlria TTnint. tin . revocation of his probation sentence 'under which he was placed by the Chowan court last year. ' ' The local court had a busy session here Tuesday in disposing of a docket : of 15 cases of a varied nature m- uding the one charging Henry Bol ;en, Negro, with larceny of a car, hit nd run, reckless driving and driving Irunk. Bolden, through hia attorney, ntered a plea of guilty to the charge driving under the influence and a juai proa was taken on the charge of larceny. Bolden. according to the testimony, took a car parked on the stmets of Hertford and started to ve to Edenton. He had driven a short .distance from Hertford when Patrolman Charles Payne began chas- , ing Uni, and later Bolden smashed in to a car being driven by Joe Harrell. Bolden overturned the, car in which he was driving and escaped apprehen- ston out was. arrested the next day. Ha was given 12 month on the roads, sentence: to be suspended upon pay ment of a fine of (500 and costs. Wallace Lyons, Negro, was found not guilty r on a charge of assault ith a deadly weapon. William Phillips, Negro, was found Mty .or starting a fire without a jrmit and received a 60-day sus pended sentence upon payment of a fine of 50 and costs of court. 1- Walter Holmes, Negro, was . fined ; $5.00 and -ordered to pay ! the court costs after pleading guilty to driving without va license. , (" ,v M Lonnie Thatch. Nadto.' wan tATv) with the court costs for driving with out sufficient naam.j?'i l-Yr$'A'& ; William Hunter, Negro, was: given ' a 80-day suspended sentence and or dered to pay -a, fine of 110 and eosts on a char ct driving without 11 ::ThevStafci: took not proi In ,two cases charging James Winslow, white, and Clifton Winslow," Negro, with reckless drivbg following settlement f a civil nature between the two de-ndanlJ;-'-t:"j'f;,; Dan':;, BlitobWIi!?etiw' fined 3 and coats for permitting opsra on of his car by a driver without a nsu S;; iv'-v -William Brooks, Negro, was fined 19 and costs for driving without a Jc'Je Burkei Negro, was ordered Jo 7 tie costs of court after pleading; 'y to a charge of being drunk, and 3 ; IIsTell, ; Negro, was taxed ' .a r 1 cf court on a charge 1,;' ' v'V:' . "':'mj; -. r , i c . ' ' f t on a THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES After what seemed to be a peace ful opening of the Security Council of the United Nations, held Monday, in New York, dissension appeared among the members Tuesday, when the Russian delegate served an ulti matum upon the group which stated Russia would boycott the meeting un less the discussion regarding Russian troops in Iran was postponed until April 10. The United States and Britain immediately accepted the challenge and demanded that Iran be heard on the matter. Only Russia and Poland voted against the move. Previously Russian, leader Joseph Stalinr had voiced Approval of UNO and the need for world peace and an bounced Russian troops were to be moved from Iran. This announce ment eased, somewhat, the tension amonsr tne nations last week. Mine Workers ' Union,' has authorized his miners to strike on Monday. He stated mine operators had agreed to higher pay for miners but refused to grant other, concessions. The strike, if called, will be another step in holding up reconversion in this country as the stock pile of coal is not sufficient enough to last manu facturers many days. President Truman announced this week that food rationing in this coun try would be of no help now in feed ing the hungry of other nations, and that his famine emergency; commit tee does not recommend that ration ing in the United States be reinstat ed. It was pointed out that it would take four months to re-establish ra tioning here, and it was useless to consider the matter for the present emergency, Trustees of Wake Forest College are reported, as being in favor of the College accepting the offer of the Reynolds Foundation for a gift of 10 to 16 million dollars, 'providing the college is.moved from Wake For est to Winston-Salem. The offer was tendered by the Reynolds Foundation early this week, but final decision by the Baptist Convention is not expect ed to be known until this fall. 'IPiani for the atomic bomb test, to be made by the Navy upon a number of old ships in the Pacific have been postponed for about six weeks, but an announcement was made this week that scientists' have discovered a method which will harness the atom for peace-time, industrial uses. The new method was 'discoveredithrough uio umimiij ot nuromun, wmcn was round usable for industrial pur poses but ofc fox bombs. y ; Union Meets Aprils The Chowan-Perauimam Youth Fellowship Union, fat expected to be organized Friday night, April 12, at young people of the two .counties, to gether with their leaders, friends and pastors are invited. ;; Ministers who tan attend are to be given brief parts on the program. V Religious exercises are ;to ,M vonducted ' byltiUi Evans group, v, A business session ;is to be held, followed by a social hour : f . Bischargedlff Jack ? Karioy, t who has been sta tioned at Eglin' Field, fla., haa Te ceived an honorable dischar -e-from . tho ArmyVi and f! with jds il e , will make his nome here, - -f;; iSi s. E. M Newby, who las teen ccr."; 1 to fcar tome because-of eiJc. Principal Releases Central Honor Roll Forty-seven pupils of the I'erquim- r;.ti r,,,o. !,,., ' ans central urammar acnooi were listed on the honor roll for the third grading period, it was announced this week by G. W. Baker, principal. The students showing outstanding scholastic work were: First Grade Monon Trueblood, Ar chie Godwin, Arnold Winslow, Paul Wood, Pat Harrell, Sylvia Copeland, Jesse Boyce. First and Second, At wood Chappell, Ann Sawyer, Isabell Midgett and Winston Chappell. Second Grade Charlie Morgan Umphlett, Janice Stallings, Ann Elisabeth White, Donna Ray Jordan, Pauline Frances Wood, William Frank Bray, Lois Violet Winslow, Ju dith Devona Winslow, Wallace Baker, Guy George Russell, Alfred Winslow, Barbara Ray Lane. Third Grade Darvl Allen. Patricia Mom. Frances Earg, CharJes.SmitH fvyT0"'11 f Hfc"011. meeting.in special Stallings, Evelyn AnnStanton, Erne- lie Rebecca White. Fourth Grade Yvonne Cartwright, Betty Lou Chappell, Hudson Fisher, Myrtle Gordan Williams, Willis Hal sey, Lillian Harrell. Fifth Grade Kay White Stanton and Billy Chappell. Fifth and Sixth, Pauline JJurbage, Doris Rountree, Shirley Eure, Shirley Copeland. Sixth Grade Amy Van Roach and Maruina White. Seventh Grade Mary Sue Cook and Doris Faye Allen. Attending Conference Mrs. W. H. Pitt, Mrs. C. T. Skin ner, Mrs. Henry Stokes, Mrs. Will Trueblood and Mrs. B. C. Reavis left Tuesday to attend The Womans So ciety of Christian Service conference at Durham for several days. Peanut Growers' Hope Lies In Improved Strain, Cooperative Franklin, Va. "The immediate hope for peanut growers is in im proved strains that will produce uni form peanuts regularly at the rate of 1,800 to 2,000 pounds per acre," James H. Beattie of Mellville, Md., Agriculture Department peanut spe cialist, told a gathering of peanut in dustrialists and peanut farmers here recently. Beattie was called to Franklin to confer in a project spon sored by the Growers Peanut Cooper ative, the. aim of which is to locate foundation, stocks of seed peanuts and build up a peanut seed industry. Beattie declared that Virginia Type peanuts can be grown "to perfection" in thia area, and that "it can't be done elsewhere." . Declaring that research must have the support of the peanut industry as a whole, Beattie suggested that fellowships should be placed at ex periment stations to encourage re search. ; i :';u' : , Seed catalogs, he pointed out, pay scant attention to seed peanuts, de voting ' their space to garden beans and other crops of lesser magnitude. This would not be the case, he said, if 100-pound bags of peanuts bear ing a stamp of .approval a the strain of peanuts desired Were ; available. Shelters, he said, seem to be the ideal agencies . to see that select seed f known strains go Into planting stock. "We have a job ahead in seed im provement,". Beattie said.; "We can not afford to pass it by." ' .' W. B. Birdsong, Suffolk, Va., mil ler, pointed out that the millers of North Carolina and Virginia have al ready launched " an extensive v cam p&'srn of advertising to. encourage more careful selection of seed, While Er ."H d j-'ared that there are strains Legion Auxiliary Meeting Set For Friday, April 5th Membership Of Unit Shows 30 Charter Members Signed The newly organized unit of the American Legjon Auxiliary of Win. Paul Stallings Post, No. 126, will meet at the Agricultural Building in Hertford Friday night, April fi, at 8 o'clock. The local Auxiliary has .'to charter members to date and new applica tions for membership are being re ceived by officers of the unit. The date for charter membership expires March 28, which marks the end of the thirty-day date after which the local application for charter was signed by Commander V. N. Darden and Ad jutant B. C. Berry of the local T.egion Post. ' Mrs. Mary G'. Brinn is president of the local Auxiliary and Mrs. Annie Mae Haker of Belvidere is secretary. Among the projects to be discussed at the- April meeting of the Auxiliary will be selection of a meeting place! '", l" f' hut for I'quimans County; Poppy Day sales for disabled veterans; i Memorial Day services at a local ! church and the seairiiij; of ,y,nilrr ship in the Auxiliary of all (iold Star Mothers of Perquimans County. , It was announced that application for membership in the Auxiliary may be made to any member of the unit, j The April meeting of the Wm. Paul , Stallings Post of the A merican Le-1 gion will also be held on Friday j night, April 5, at 8 o'clock, and Com mander Darden stated this meeting of the Legionnaires will be held in the Court House. Street Improvement Voted By Town Board F ollowing action taken by the Hoard of i Commissioners for the session on Tuesday night, plans are now being made for the construction of sidewalks and curb and gutters on East and West Academy streets on the Grammar School side. The Town Board voted to assist the Hoard of Education with the project and work is expected to get started on the improvement as soon as all arrangements are made. Cotton Report Gives 1945 Gin Figures A census report, issued this week by Willie M. Harrell, special agent, showed that 1,586 bales of cotton were ginned in Perquimans County from the crop of 1945, prior to March 1, 1946. This was compared with 4,463 bales ginned from the crop of 1944 during the same length of time. Group Is Told of larger type peanuts that yield on a par per acre with smaller pea nuts which are generally believed to bring more money per acre. The problem, Beattie said, is to locate these strains or foundation stocks, increase them and make them available much in the same manner that the different corn strains are made available. To carry the project through, lo cate foundation stocks and encourage their perpetration, Mayon Parker of AhoBkie, N. C, president of the Growers Peanut Cooperative, Inc., appointed a committee representing all segments of the industry. He named C. B, Pond of Suffolk as the millers' representative; W. T. Hun nicut of Stony Creek, Va as the GPC delegate from Virginia, and J. B. Fearing of Windsor, N. C, as the GPC delegate from North Carolina; Dean I. O. Schaub or his representa tive from North Carolina State Col lege Extension Service; Dr. L. B. Dietrich or his representative, of the Virginia Extension Service; H. N. Young, director of the Virginia Ex periment Station; Dr. L. D. Baver, director North Carolina State Col lege Experiment Station; T. E. Ben nett of the North Carolina Crop Im provement Association; F. S. Grubbs, chief of the field force of the Vir ginia State Certified Seed Commie sion; and J. N. Bryan, Jr., of Wind sor, N. G representing the National Peanut Council.' ' The committee met in Suffolk last week and laid plans for beginning its work at once. x It was agreed, however, that little more than pre liminary work could be accomplished before the 1946 planting season get underway. " , Dates For Precinct County Meetings Set C. P. Morris, chairman of the Per quimans County Democratic Execu tive Committee, announced today he had been notified by the State Ex ecutive Committee that April 20, 194fi has been set as the date for holding precinct meetings in the county, and April 27, 1940 as the date for the county convention. Location of the precinct meetings will be announced later. The county convention will be held in the Court house on the afternoon of the 27th, w'ith a large attencanee being urged by the County Chairman. aster Seal Sales To Aid Crippled Kiddies Opens April! The 1946 Easter Seal Sale, spon sored by the Perquimans County Welfare Department, for the aid of crippled children, will open on April 1, and will continue through April 20, it was announced today by Miss Grace Knowles, Superintendent of Welfare. Ti. r-,-eve u and i nation to he t'" is an annual pa i lic.puu'd in by the !p thousands of young- sters, bodies handicapped with crippled Fiftv percent of the funds raised remain for use in this coun ty and, according to Miss Knowles, the fund is very active here in pro viding aid to the county hildren. The remaining fifty percent of the funds raised here is sent to the State League for Crippled Children to be used on a .State-wide scale. In previous years the local Wel fare Department has raised around $200 during each F.a.sler Seal cam paign, last year the sum reached $235.:i0, and the local Department hopes to raise an even larger sum this year for the benefit of the Crip pled Children of the nation. The drive will be directed by Miss Knowles, who will have the assist ance of the school children of the eounty- The children "-wtH nit neighborhood canvasses, while the Welfare Department will contact business and professional people for contributions. Baseball Season To Open Next Week Perquimans High School's baseball team will open its 1946 season next Friday by playing a night game in Memorial Field, it was announced to day by C. E. Woodard, principal. Arrangements for the opening game have not been completed yet, as Coach Max Campbell is endeavoring to locate a strong team ior the first encounter on the new diamond at the local school, but plans call for about five home games to be played during the current season and all of these games will be played at night under the lights of Memorial Field. Games have already been scheduled with Elizabeth City, Edenton and Creswell, and the school officials hope to arrange games with Chowan and Moyock to fill out the schedule. New Florist Shop To Open Here Soon An announcement was made here this week that a new florist shop will be opened in Hertford within a short time. The new shop will be located in the Winslow building at the rear of the State theater, and will be under the management of Mrs. Julian A. White. No date was st for the opening of the shop, but announcement said that plans call for the renovation of the site and as soon as this is com pleted the shop will open. AAA Limestone Still Available For Farmers W. E. White, Secretary of the Perquimans County Triple A, today called to the attention of local far mers that AAA Limestone is still available to those who have been unable to obtain this material from other sources. Applications are now being taken at tile AAA Office for this material and farmers who need limestone to complete their soid building program are urged to place orders at once. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT : Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Sullivan an nounce the birth of a son, Jerry Jet sup, bora Thursday, March 21, 1946 at the medical center, Elizabeth City, Mother and son art doing nicely; Board Of Elections For County Named; Organized Friday Dates For Preliminaries Announced By State Officials Organization of the Perquimans County Board of Flections was per fected here last Friday night, fol lowing the naming of A. W. Ilefren, W. F. Ainsley and Cecil C. Wins- low as members of the hoard hy the State Hoard of Flections. At the meeting last week A. W. Hefren was named as chairman of the local board and Mr. Ainsley and Mr. Winslow as members. All three members are residents of Hertford. Mr. Hefren replaces L. N. Hollowell as chairman, the latter having re signed the post early last year, and Mr. Ainsley replaces Dr. F. S. White as a member of the board. According to a schedule announced earlier this year, dates for the nec essary preliminaries to tiie May 25 primaries are as follows: April 6: County boards of elec tions meet and appoint registrars and judges of election. April 13: Filing deadline for can didates to the General Assembly and for all county offices. May 4: Registration period of three weeks opens. During that per iod registrars will be at precinct pol ling places from 9 a.m. to sunset on the three Saturdays and will register at their homes during the week. May 18: Registration period closes. May 25: Primaries. Although provision is made for holding both Democratic and Republican primar ies on this date, the Republican Par ty usually has no contests. Draft To Call Ten Five Vets Separated With reports from Washington in dicating Congress will extend the Selective Service Law past its May expiration date, the local board is preparing to send out orders to ten white selectees to report for pre- induction examinations and induc tion during the month of April. Mrs. Ruth Sumner, clerk of the Perquimans Board, stated Monday the local office had received two calls for next month. Five white men will be ordered up for preinduction exams on April lb, and nve wnite registrants will be ordered for in duction on April 17. The office has no calls for Negroes for the month of April. Mrs. Sumner also reported that five more county veterans have been discharged from the armed forces and have returned to their homes here. The veterans who reported their separation during the past week were Johnnie Jordan, David Loyd Chappell and Thomas Nixon, white, and Robert Creecy and Jasper Ar chie, colored. More Contributions ToRedCrossFund Additional contributions, made to the 1946 Red Cross Fund, has raised the total amount in this county to $2,328.19, Miss Frances Maness, co chairman of the drive, announced this week. The original quota assigned the county was $2,000, and this amount was raised by the solicitors during the first week of March, the addi tional contributions were made by community chairmen and was not in cluded in previous announcements. Miss Maness stated she expected additional small sums to be reported by some solicitors who had call-backs to make in their territory, and it was believed that the final figures for the annual drive would reach $2,350. Union Services At Methodist Church As is the custom on each fifth Sun day, the Baptist and Methodist con gregations of Hertford will meet for a union worship service next Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock, it was an nounced today by the Rev. B. C. Reavis, pastor of . the Methodist Church. The services this time will be held at the Methodist Church with the Rev. C, W. Puling, pastor of the Baptist Church, doing the preaching. The public is cordially invited. . i, . '4 A. Mr V h 1 UJ . f
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