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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume XIV: Number 9.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, February 28, 1947.
$1.50 Per Year.
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Perquimans Basketball Teams To Play
In Conference Tourney Next Wednesday
Tourney Officials In
Meeting This Week
Plan Annual Event
By virtue of their play during the
past season, both the girls and boys
basketball teams of Perquimans High
School won places in the annual rural
conference tourney to be played -at
Central High School beginning next
Wednesday night. The Indian Squaws,
by finishing in a tie for first place
during the season, won a seeded berth
in the tournament.
Plans for the tournament were com
pleted Wednesday night when officials
of the Conference met to draw a sche.
dule for the eliminations. Teams en
tered in the meet this year are Per
quimans, Central, Manteo, Poplar
Branch, Columbia, Gatesville, Moyock
and Weeksville girls; Perquimans,
Central, Columbia, South Mills,
Weeksville, Gatesville, Poplar Branch
and Moyock boys.
The tournament this year is ex
pected to be one of the best ever held
by the Rural Conference, as many of
the teams are about of equal strength
and hard fought games are expected
from the opening night on throughout
the meet.
In the girls' division Perquimans,
Central and Manteo finished in a tie
for first place during the season and
the conference officials decided at the
meeting Wednesday the conference
cup will be awarded the team advanc
ing the fartherest during the tourna
raent
The tournament will get under way
Wednesday night with four games be.
g played, two boys' games and two
Is games. Four games are also
tap for Thursday and Friday
its and the charanionship games
wjn be played Saturday night.
-Having finished their season Tues
da nht, the Ferqufirians tea! are
now practicing dailyJpi5.th''tough
too roam schedule 'ahcOd tw
expected to make a -line stowing, in
the" elimination. '.. .The -' Squaws are
pre-tourney favorites, with Central
and Manteo and the Perquimans boys
are looked or. as possible dark horses
to upset favorite in the boys' divi-
THIS. WEEK'S
HEADLINES
The high cost of living was news
again this week with reports showing
prices advancing on many food com
modities over the nation. A bill was
reported in the Senate calling for a
10 per cent increase in rents, and pork
prices soared at various markets.
Generally, housewives were meeting
the situation with selective buying
which may put a check on the rising
markets. The price of hogs reached
$30 per hundred pounds and this' led
to a report that bacon may soon cost
one dollar per pound.
United States' demand for trustee
ship over Pacific islands received a
backer this week when Russia an
nounced her stand favoring the ac
tion. In a note to the State Depart
ment, Russia stated she believed the
U. S. entitled to the trusteeship due
to the bloodshed in evicting Japanese
from the islands. Russia had been
expected to side with England and
Australia contention that the matter
should not be decided until some fu
ture date.
Unionized labor received a blow in
aouB.V(rtsd t;i)an the dosed shop'.
itt hkia, passes tha Jeirte Ji iWflr
MtamUm th-pn- -will lose
.persra-jaw we unwn an et to
work In k!4nie4rh.!rM, bflt
:: ' passed to 'Kdeig ''ir'a1intffr'to"6ne
v already adopted by the State of Vir-ginia.
Great Britain's foreign minister,
Ernest BeVins, this week found a !
goat for British trouble in Palestine
by blaming President Truman for
England's failure in negotiating a
peaceful settlement of the immigra
tion problem jn the Holy Land. Bev
Ins stated that if President Truman
had not issued a statement during the
lection last November calling for the
admission of 100,000 Jews Into Pales
tine, Britain would have been able to
work out a solution. ,
PIANO CLASS TO GIVE
ENSEMBLE RECITAL
, The piano class of Mrs. B.' M . Rid
' . dick will give an ensemble recital at
-v .8 o'clock Thursday night, March 8, b
: the lower hall of the Hertford Gram-
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State Tax Official In
Hertford March 7-8
R. F. Tuttle, deputy collector of
North Carolina Revenue, will be in
Hertford on March 7, 8, 10 and 11 for
the purpose of assisting local resi
dents in filing State income tax forms
and intangible tax returns, he an
nounced today.
The deputy collector may be locat
ed in the office of the Hertford Police
Department, above the town clerk's
office, on the days quoted above.
Future Of Chowan
College In Balance
In joint assembly in Edenton on
March 18 the people of the Chowan
and West Chowan Baptist Associa
tions will face the responsibility of
deciding on two major questions to
determine the future of Chowan Col
lege at Murfreesboro. The century
old institution is romantically cher
ished in the hearts of alumni and
friends as a guiding light that has
blessed the section's motherhood with
greater religious and educational
light.
Re-opening plans approved by the
West Chowan Association in 1944,
and favored by the Chowan Associa
tion in 1945, came upon unforseen
obstacles because of the unsettled
Wake Forest question during 1946.
Many people- have become disturbed
because of the unsettled fate for
Chowan College. In the 'present veil
of uncertainty, many benevolent citi
zena have volunteered their pledge
of-fan support for re-opening of the
institution at the earliest moment.
Th , Rcy. Lemnie Sasser, director
of the Chowan College Re-opening
teres among the, people of the two
associations to carry .forward plans
for re-establishing the school to a
creditable status as an educational
institution.
"There has never been a greater
need for colleges in North Carolina,"
says Mr. Sasser. "Even if the Wake
Forest Junior College is established,
Chowan re-opened, and other junior
colleges continued, the need will not
be filled for years to come in North
Carolina's expanding demand for
higher education."
The two questions to be decided
by the associations at the March
meeting in Edenton will be:
1 Do the Associations wish to
carry on the campaign to re-open
Chowan College?
2 If the decision is against open
Ing the College, then what shall be
done with the property!
Itaymen are requested to think
clearly over the matter and be pres
ent at the meeting to align their sup
port behind a decision for the better
ment of this section of the State.
Norfolk Baseball
Club To Arrive For
Training March 21
Members of the Norfolk Tars base.
ball club, farm team of the New
York, Yankees, will start arriving in
Hertford on March 21 to prepare for
spring training, H. P. Dawson, busi
ness manager of the club, told a re
porter of this, newspaper last Friday.
Mc Dawson was in Hertford check
ing on arraiigemtbta concerning the
uaonin program . ro tne ejuo ana no
wilt nartkioate-'in the tralhin here.
uingnamtont ' Reaver ana orf ojkv
will train hers and at EdentonV ' The
entire Binghamton team and most of
the Denver club will train at Eden
ton.
Tentative arrangements are being
made now for the Tars to play a col
lege team in Hertford in an exhibi
tion game the latter part of March.
However, : most of the pre-season
games for the Tars will hi played on
the team's diamond in Norfolk.
Weekly Editors To
Meet In Hertford
The Northeastern North Carolina
Weekly Press Association, composed
of weekly newspapers of the north
east corner of the State, will hold a
meeting at the Hotel Hertford Fri
day night -
Approximately, 25 representatives
of. weekly papers' from this section of
tha State are expected to be present
W. C. Manning ' of , Wi!!amston is
president of the group. ' , '? '
Lunchroom Program
Facing Crisis As
Funds Are Depleted
Additional Charge to
Be Made to Pupils Be
ginning March 1
North Carolina's school lunchroom
program is facing a critical situation
at this time due to an increased par
ticipation and an insufficient amount
of Federal funds to carry on the pro
gram as usual, it was pointed out to
Superintendent F. T. Johnson by
Clyde A. Erwin, State Superintendent
in a letter received here this week.
Mr. Erwin stated that presently the
program is caring for more children
than planned last fall. About 289,520
pupils are eating lunches each day at
schools throughout the State and the
amount allotted by the Federal Gov
ernment is fast being used up to pro
vide the low cost meals.
The State Superintendent stated,
"Because of the inadequate Federal
funds available and the faint hope
of getting any additional appropria
tion, we are asking the schools to as
sume the responsibility of making up
the deficit caused by the exhaustion
of Federal funds for reimbursement
in order to operate the remainder of
the school year for the benefit of the
children of our State."
It is suggested that each school in
crease the charge per pupil meal 5 to
10 cents, effective March 1 in order to
make up the deficit. Reduction of
free meals to a minimum is also rec
ommended, as is a careful check of
the operating costs of each lunch
room.
Mr. Erwin added that the North
Carolina lunchroom program must be
kept in operation, since the welfare
of the children Is at stake. To cur
tail the program at this time would
be a definite step backward for the
State. - - - ' '
In connection with the program in
in this county, Mr. Johnson said that
the plan to be followed and any
change In the price of meals will be
announced at each of the schools op
erating lunchrooms.
Niece Of Local Man
Asphyxiated In FI&
Mrs. Allen Ellington, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. J. I. Chappell, of St
Louis, Mo., and niece of N. E. Chap
pell of Hertford, and her nine-year-
old son, Billy, were asphyxiated in
their home in Tampa, Florida, on
February 18, according to word re
ceived here this week.
Tampa authorities said Mrs. El
lington and her son were overcome by
fumes from both a kerosene and gas
stove, which were burning to afford
warmth against the low temperature.
The husband had departed for his
place of employment prior to the ac
cident. The parents of Mrs. Ellington had
just returned to St. Louis after spend
ing a month with their daughter when
they received the news of the death
of the daughter and grandson.
The boy was beyond medical aid
when discovered, and efforts by doc
tors and firemen failed, to revive the
mother.
Funeral services for the victims
were conducted at Tampa, Fla., on
February 20. 1
Stallings Rites Held
Last Friday Afternoon
vmmssSf!: died; .t to
hwn.sjgere Iswt.Thursde'y' -J
-ytrJBoa of'tht late Patlie and Cyri-
thia-Hobbs Stalling!, he was a native
"of QateS County, sad had lived In Per
quimans County several years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Cora Stallings; four daughters, Mrs.
Howard Garland and Mrs. N. A. Bak
er, of Chase City, Va.; Mrs. E. H.
Jones of Edenton, and Miss Ida Stal
lings of Perquimans .County; two
sons, J. A. and T. J. Stallings of Per
quimans County; a sister, Mrs. Celia
King of Gates County, and two broth
ers, J. D. and M. L. Stallings of Gates
County.
Funeral services were conducted
Friday at 4 o'clock at the Lynch
Funeral Home by the Rev. A. L. G.
Stephenson, pastor of Wesley Chapel
Methodist Church. Burial followed in
Cedarwood Cemetery.
GUEST SPEAKER SUNDAY
The Rev. Harry F." Bear will be the
guest speaker at Whiteville Grove
BaptlBt Church on Sunday, March 2.
Services will begin at S o'clock tn the
aftnrnoon and the public is cordially
Invited.'" ".,' r ' ' 1
Indians And Squaws
Win Victories From
Hobbsville Netters
Perquimans Divides
Games With Manteo
Last Friday
Perquimans High School basketball
teams rang down the curtain on the
schedule of Rural Conference games
Tuesday night by winning victories
from the Hobbsville girls and boys.
The Squaws won easily 34 to 21, while
tha Indians had things all their way
to chalk up a 40-27 win from the
Hobbsville boys.
The games, played at Gatesville,
may prove costly to Perquimans, as
M:iry Ruth Wood, star forward for
the local girls, suffered a concussion
when she fell upon the concrete play
ing lloor. It is not definitely known
if she will be able to play in the con
ference tournament which starts next
Wednesday.
In games played at Manteo last
Friday night the Indian Squaws lust
a hard fought tussle to the Man'eo
girls ul-lfi and were thus placed in a
tie for first place in the conference.
The Indians defeated Manteo boys
20 to 18.
At Gatesville Tuesday night the
Squaws opened the game by piling up
a 12-6 advantage during the first
quarter and continued to hit. the bas
ket in the second period to gain a 25
12 lead by half time. The hobbsville
girls were no match for the pace-setting
Perquimans girls. The reserves
played during most of the second half
and made a good showing by racking
up nine points to the host teams
nine. The final score was 34-21.
Jhe Squaws found the going diffi
cult at Manteo and were unable to
cope with the fast playing of the
Dare County girls. The Manteo
team Diled uh n 14-A Iina4 Jnnn. ,
.UWwiod and then rjoarfe it 22 to 8
at half time. The first half of the
game proved costly for the Squaws
as both teams played even during the
second half, scoring nine points each.
The Squaws found themselves during
the third perjod and played ahead of
the Manteo sextet but the lead held
by Manteo was too great to over
come. The Perquimans boys closed out
the season with a record of nine wins
and nine looses, by turning back both
Manteo and Hobbsville, The Indians
trailed Manteo during the first quar
ter but forged ahead in the second
period and maintained a slight lead
throughout the game. However,
Manteo tied the count Beveral times
during the final period when Perquim
ans lost points called back by the of
ficials. The final count was 20-18.
At Gatesville the Indians had no
difficulty in winning from Hobbsville.
They jumped into a 9-4 lead during
the first period and increased this to
a 20-13 advantage at half time. The
entire squad of players saw action in
this final game and the scoring was
almost equally divided. The score at
the third period was 32-22 and during
the final cento the Indians racked up
eight points to Hobbsville's five. The
final score was 40-27.
New Pickle Plant To
Operate In Summer
Work on the new $20,000 pickle
plant of the Bloch & Guggenheimer
Corporation, located at Winfall, has
been completed and the plant will be
placed in operation this summer, it
was announced today by Fred Wins
low, local representative for the com
pany. ...
The new plant will relieve the bot
tleneck Jn one of the county's latest
agriculture developments by offering
quicker and .greater service to farm
ers engaged in growing of cucumbers.
Bloch & Guggenheimer entered the
local cucumber business last year and
aided in building up a fast growing
market for an extra money crop for
Perquimans farmers. The Winfall
plant handled a capacity crop last
season and Mr. Winslow tjifH ,
expected a larger crop to be grown
locally this year.
Farm Plans For Soil
Building Being Made
Farm plans for earning pra?tice
payments are now bainnr drawn at
the oTce of W. E. White, sacretary
of the ACA, it was announced todav.
Farmers of. the countv desirincr to
earn certain payments for carrying
out any of the practices lit-d in th.
handbook oijtl-'ning soil Wldp "oa!s
are reouested to call H the ACA of
fice an file a plan form.
No date has ben t for the clos
ing of the HW bnt Mr. WMr etafM
this; dat w?a ftfcttd rhortlv.
Perquimans County Annual Red Cross
Campaign Quota 5650; Drive Opens Sat
County Agent Urges
Greater Cotton Yield
In a letter mailed all cotton pro
ducers in Perquimans County this
week, I. C. Yagel, assistant Farm
Agent, urged cotton growers to gain
a greater production this year by
using better seed and practicing bet
ter control of weevil.
Mr. Yagel pointed out that from all
indications a greater yield is justified
and he believed the crop could be in
creased iffyproducers tisid care in se
lection of s ed and then carried out
the practices recommended by the
E .tension Service.
He stated his o"'u'e has convicted
several certified seed growers and can
assist producers to obtain the seed if
they will slop in at his office and
leave an order. March 10 is the dead
line for placing orders.
Legion Perfecting
Membership Survey
Legionnaires in this and ether
counties of the .State are now per
fecting county organizations as they
proceed with plans for what has been
termed the largest survey campaign
ever undertaken by the North Caro
lina Department of the American
Legion.
Assisted by members of the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary and the Forty
and Eight, honor Bociety of the Le
gion, the goal of the State Depart
ment of the Legion is 107,149 for this
year. The quota was set by the Na
tional Department of the Legion .and
is based on the census that there are
459,330 veterans of World War I and
II eligible to join the Legion in the
State, according to Paul R. Younts,
executive vice " Commander of the
North Cardlina Department of the Le
gion. Considerable enthusiasm was shown
at the recently concluded series of di
visional meetings held at WilliaVns
ton, Clinton, Durham, Salisbury and
Asheville and attended by divisional,
district and post commanders as well
as other Legionnaires, members of the
Auxiliary and the Forty and Eight to
discuss and perfect plans for the
house-to-house canvass to invite all
veterans to join the Legion, Younts
said.
Emphasis Is being put on the cur
rent drive to find out how many wi
dows and orphans of veterans of the
past two wars who are not receiving
the rights and benefits accorded them
under the laws passed by Congress
for their welfare.
"We are urging everyone engaged
in the membership canvass to find out
how many of these widows and or
phans who are not getting what they
are entitled to under the law," Younts
informed local Legion officials. "If
they are not and if there are reasons
why they cannot get them, we will
take steps to provide for them out of
the $7,000,000 child welfare fund of
the National Department of the
American Legion. This is one of the
most important projects of the Le
gion." Teachers To Get
Bonus This Week
The white teachers of Perquimans
County will receive the bonus voted
by the present session of the Gen
eral Assembly with, their next pay
check, which is due Wednesday,
County Superintendent of Schools F.
T. Johnson stated .Monday. Checks
to the Negro teachers in the county
will go out with their next regular
checks also Johnson added.
This supplementary money was
authorized by the Legislature after
much debate in lieu of pay raises and
ranges from $144 per teacher upward
and was voted by the present session
to fill the gap between the first of the
year and the beginning of the next
fiscal year in July, at which time a
general monthly increase of from 20
to 30 per cent is expected for teach
ers in North Carolina schools.
Recorder's Court In
Recess; No Cases
Perquimans County Recorder's
Corrt reo''Wd immediately after the
opaning of court Tuesday morning
due to a lack of business. For the
fis-. t'mo in months thre was not a
singli ense listed by the clerk foij a
hiarinf Wn wwk.
Local police offldels reported the
pi ?k-rnd one of the quietest in
months,
Roll Call Chairman Re
quests Solicitors Re
port March 8
Miss Frances Maness, chairman of
the 1947 Red Cross drive for Per
quimans County, announced today
that the quota for the county in this
year's campaign is $G50, and solici
tors will begin Saturday to make a
house to house canvass soliciting
membersh;!) in the Red Cross.
The quota requested from the
county this year is about one-half of
the amount requested and raised last
year and Miss Maness is of t!i" opin
ion that the campaign can be com
pleted within two weeks. She is urg
ing all community solicitors to make
reports to her by Saturday, S.arch 8,
and to complete the canvass not l::t:-r
than March 15.
The s n.'ill quota a-'.siRiU'd ti!" co"n
ty this y ar is d " to the fa''' that
the tr asury of the local ch:'0' r is
al'"os! suP'.ce nt to carry tl" lo-al
I, :.r, !!i;o,":h the yar anil tin'.- a
i;r a' :' n rn n! ;: of the money
'1 ' !! will he forward' il !o the
n-Ui.-iH o "'vs of t'v R'd -'ro ; As
in th" v p....b T-siVn in 'h" U d
Cross is gained by making contribu
tions of at least one dollar.
Solicitors who are assisting in the
campaign this year were announced
today by Miss Maness as follows:
Mrs. Reginald Tucker, co-chairman.
Mrs. Julian White and Mrs. L: R.
Sitterson, Grubb and Covent Garden
Streets; Hazel Dail, Edenton Road
Street; Miss Helene Nixon ai d Mrs.
C. A. Davenport, Front Street; Mrs.
Ray White, Market and Academy
Streets; Mrs. Anse White, Dobb
Street; Miss Mary Helene Newby,
Mrs. Fred Morrill and Miss Ma'ry
Alice Cohoon, Church Street: Mrs.
Frank McGoogan, Woodland Cir'l";
Mrs. Charlie Elliott and Mrs. T orrnza
Chappell, West Hertford; O. P. Mor
ris, A. W. -Hefren, W. H. Hard -ltle,
J. H. Towe, V. N. Darden ai J S. M.
Whedbee, business district..
Belvidera, Mesdames Olive- Wir
low, Claude Winslow, Jerome Hurdle,
M. D. Lane and Louis Winslow;
Hickorv Cross, Mrs. F. R. .Chappell
and Mrs. N. D. Chappell; Ballahack,
Mrs. M. M. Elliott, Mrs. Freehand El
liott and Mrs. B. P. Monds; Ander
son's, Mrs. Joseph Rogerson; Wyn
fork, Mrs. Milton Dail; Hopewell, Mrs.
M. T. Griffin; Bethel, Mrs. E. T. Phil
lips and Miss Blanche Goodwin: Bur
gess, Mrs. Tommv Matthews: Snow
Hill, Mrs. W. M. Knight: Bagley
Swamp, Miss Minnie Lee Winslow;
Winfall, Mrs. A. R. Winslow.
Solicitors are yet unnamed for
Chapel Hill, Beech Springs, Parkville,
Chapanoke, Woodville, White Hat,
Durants Neck, Cumberland, Hurdle
town, Newbolds and Old Neck. How
ever, Miss Maness stated these com
munities will have a solicitor i taking
a canvass by next Monday.
The colored division will be under
the direction of E. H. Brown, William
Stroud and King A. Williams.
Board Expected To
Name New Ageni
At Meeting Monday
Equalization and Re
view of Tax Lists Will
Start March 17
The naming of a new farm agent
for Perquimans County is expected to
be considered by the Board of County
Commissioners when they meet in
regular session next Monday. The
Perquimans Weekly learned this week
that the State Extension Service will
recommend I. C. Yagel to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of L. W.
Anderson.
Mr. Yagel has been assistant coun
ty agent here for the past six months
and has proved himself a willing and
capable worker in the department. He
has been acting county agent for the
past two months.,
The final decision for filling the
vacancy rests with the Board of
County Commissioners.
Another important duty facing the
Commissiontrs begins March 17, wh-n
they will wt as a Board of Equaliza
tion and review the tax listing for
1947. The Board will meet from day
to dS until all taxpayers have had
an opportunity to appear before them
for any adjustment being sought in
connection with valuation of property
listed during January.
CIRCLE NO. 5 TO MEET
Circle No. 6 of the Baptist Church
w1' wMtfnnii( nfgft at 8 o'clock :;
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