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1. ' ft Volume XIVNumber 33 j Hertford, Perquimans County, NorEh Carolina, Friday, August' 15. 1947. $1.50 Per Year. TOWN COARO VOTES BOND ELECTION TO DETEOUE PURCHASE OF NEW ICE PLANT Town Attorney Author- ized to Prepare Elec f tion Papers J? Hertford's Town Board, meetmglit v' regular session Monday night, voted ' .-, to call a special election for the pur ig lwse of determining , whether or not ' the Town will borrow $15,000 to " finance the purchase of a new ice plant. The final decision on the pur ' ' chase of the equipment will rest with the voters of Hertford, who must paas upon the question before the Board can be empowered to issue the necessary bonds needed to finance the - project During a discussion or the propo- . sal, it was pointed out that the pres ent ice making equipment, owned by the Town, is insufficient to supply the present demands for ice. The equip ment' now in use is capable of pro ducing only slightly more than nine ;tons of ice daily and the present re quirements make it necessary for the Town to purchase ice elsewhere, hav ing it hauled here, to supply local customers. The Board proposes to purchase additional equipment which will enable the local plant to produce an extra 14 tons of ice daily. Bids placed with the Town for the installation of the equipment calls for approximately $15,000. This in cludes the purchase price of the equipment and its installation. following a vote by the Board, calling for the special bond election, lown Attorney Charles E. Johnson was authorized to draw the necessary papers for the action and to set the date of the election. Full details of the election will be given the public as soon at the attorney can'determ ine the date and draw the ordinance calling for the voters to pass upon the proposal. The Board adopted a tax .rate of 1.10 per 1100 property valuation for the current t fiscal year. This rate is the' same aa levied by the Town dur ing the past fear, , Aa ordinance regarding the use of narkinir mafanvm fVfc.Tvnn. - IT.- ford, was also aV,-nd the Drovi. iions of tMs ordi '4 will b mih. a resolution ex pattest was wMm ,by the Board t be presented to offi- 2,163 Motor Vehicles Registered In County rerquimans uouniya ranits tusi in the State's 100 counties in the num ber of motor-vehicles registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles, according to a report released by the Department this week. Perquimans had 2,163 motor ve hicles .registered, as compared with 802,349 for the entire State. Of these 778,769 were autos, trucks and trail ers, while the remaining 23,580 were dealers' and state highway vehicles. Probable Cause Is Found In Case Of Booby Trap Shooting Defendant Held For Su perior Court on $1,000 Bond wals of the Norfolk Southern Rail road regarding the discontinuance of door to door freight delivery within this community. Grid Tryoijts To Start August 20 Tryouts for the 1947 version of the Perquimans Indians football team will get under wuy here next Wednes day afternoon, August 20, according to Joe Levinson, athletic, director at the Perquimans High School. The first practice session has been called for 2:30 in the afternoon next Wednesday, and Coach Levinson re quests all high school students desir- fng to try out for the team to come to the high school at that time pre pared to begin practice. He requests 11 players to bring with them clothes auitable for practicing and taking of texeipise. Each boy : should bring itati&tfol impair of tennia or bisket- a r sneakers. -" -Jfractlee session are'ex frfcted to 1 devote prac tices and discussion of rule "and cat. U sthenics, preparatory to heavier amis later on after school has opened. , A schedule of about nine games is expected to be played this year with the Indians partfcinatinr in th Al bemarle Conference, composed o Co lumoia, riymoutn, WUllamstoivWind or, AAoskie, Scotland Neck . and Hertford. Two home games with Co lumbia and. Ahoakle are on tan and Coach Levinson hopes to contract for hed to the issuing of the warrant mi, louh' vnv www: nome games aur- ing the season. ' REVIVAL SERVICES AT, BETHLEHEM CHURCH A series of revival services will be conducted at the Bethlehem Church beginning Tuesday August 18, and continuing for ten - days, it wa an nounced hero today. The-Rev. W. O Henderson will do the fa&t&wi'i ' ' HOOKS SAM. PIFSBl" :T r R. S. Monds, vacationina last week Ut Morehead City, caught a aix ieet, fai .-n t vif. j, i . . uiree iifvu , sail usn wuiie nsning m the g-'mm!llbUoldr,- catch was oo';(f , flyi iMC.iit:iCugh, in North Caroliin waters, thi year. H -"W. M., 8. TO-MEET,; ' The Womim'ir JMiBBioijW I of the Baptist Church will meet Mon-j day nignti August 18tlv at o'clock -,t the . church.'' All members are rged to attend. Mrs. L A. Ward will resKie. ':.A Probable cause Was found in the case of Wayland White, Jr., chanted with, breaking and entering the smoke house of H. A. Turner, of the Nicanor community on the nic-ht of June 19. The verdict was returned by Judge Charles E. Johnson, in Perquimans recorder's court Tuesday afternoon, after the State had pre sented evidence from three witness es, who gave testimony regarding the circumstances of the case, The State charged White as being: the man who attempted to break into the Turner smoke house, and who was shot in the attempt. According to testimony given by H. A. Turner. he (Turner) had rigged a boobv traD xor the purpose of scaring any per mob -who attempted to break into the smoke house. Turner stated he riir- ged up a shot gun about six feet from the doorway of the smoke house, pointed in such a manner that if the tPfi waa tripped ffee shot would pass i9SttJt4!Hbout three feet MmmmMUtd that tt night oujune.M he left home mdoot awn. ana arove to Nicanor and laler upon returning home he discov ered the shot gun had been discharg ed and the smoke house door chain broken. He testified further that he investigated the scene the next morn ing and found tracks leading from the smoke house to a spot near a swamp, where the tracks ended. He later called Sheriff M. G. Owens, who investigated the circumstances sur rounding the case and later Sheriff Owens issued a warrant charsrine Wayland White, Jr.r with breaking and entering the smoke house. Dr. J. E. Rawls, Jr., of the Lake view Hospital, Suffolk, Va., testified that Mr. White was admitted to the hospital on the night the shot gun was round exploded by Mr. Turner, suffering from a gun shot wound in the right limb, shot having penetrat ed White's leg at various points be tween the knee and waist. Dr. Rawls testified that Mr. White told him he was shot at his home when some dogs or puppies tripped over his gun and it exploded, the shot hitting him. The doctor testified White suffered a bad wound and appeared as suffer ing some shock at the time he was admitted to the hospital.. He added tnat,attr. Whita waa patient at the Hospital from June 19 to July 12. Sheriff Owens was the last witness placed .on the stand by the State. The Sheriff told of his investigation or ue attempted breaking in of the Turner smoke house and said he re quested hospitals of Elizabeth City, Suffolk and Edenton to notify him of any person appearing for treatment of , gunshot wounds. He testified that upf being notified that White had Dean admitted to the Suffolk Hosnital he. Continued his investigation which EDITORIAL IT'S DISCRIMINATING Action taken this week by officiate of the Norfolk Southern Railroad Company in ordering local freight agents to discon tinue the service of delivery of intrastate freight, wfen in lots of less than car load,, will no doubt-back fire on the company, Especially will the back fire be heard in the 24 towns and cities of North Carolina affected by he order. The action itself is discriminatUig in view of the fact that the railroad has ordered this action only in towns where they are1 without competition, towns sucli as Hertford, Edenton, Elizabeth City and others located in the central part of the State. The company, it seems to us, has no idea of curtailing its services where merchants and manufacturers have a choice of placing freight business. There has been no announcement by the railroad that it will reduce freight rates for the mer chants in the towns affected, but these merchants will continue to pay the same rate as those in towns where Norfolk South ern will continue to give added service. To us that is dis crimination . . . take it or leave it. To our way of thinking, utilities, especially those having a complete monopoly, should be forced to give the same service in every community in which they operate, be it large or small, with or without com petition. Several weeks ago the Norfolk Southern Railroad Company 1 made much of the news that a reorganization of the company had been effected and it presented the view that the present officials of the company were engaged in plans to build up the railroad, its physical equipment and good will. If this order sent out this week, notifying local agents to discontinue a vital service to local merchants, is a sample of the effort to build up good will for the company, we think the plan should be junked, for in our opinion it will have an effect just the opposite. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD ORDERS DISCONTINUANCE OF FREIGHT DELIVERY Revival Starts Sunday At Mt. Sinai Church A revival meeting at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church will begin Sunday, August 17th, at 3 P. M., and run through the following Sunday at 3 M- The Rev. M. W. Grissom of Shiloh Baptist Church will bring the messages each evening at 8 o'clock and each afternoon at 3 o'clock. William Lamb will be present to lead the singing. The pastor, the Rev. Oscar Wil- lams, cordially invites the public to attend these services. Indians Tighten Hold On Third Place In Albemarle League Team Assured Position In Play-offs Which Start Next Week A motion of non-suit made by de fense attorney) W. H. Oakey, Jr., was not allowed by Judge Johnson, who ruled the chain of evidence as pre sented oy tie State was sufficient to go to a Jury, and, therefore,' a ver dict of probable cause was returned. White waa bound over1 for a hearinsr at the October term of Sunerior Court, and was released on a bond of ,1,000. . The Court ordered James Carr. Ne gro, charged with vagrancy, to stay but of ; Perquimans ,f County for a period of two years, or a ervti, a road sentence 6 six months. , Carr enterr etf plea of guilty q th .charge. A motion. lor juts' juUV waa allowed in the' case of James Blount, Negro, charged with driving drunk and driT- ingwithout.4. licfflise.:..i LV WUUaJn! Browa, Nerro; was found guilty of being drunk jmd was fined $10 and ordered to say. the costs of court, .. He waa found not guilty, on cnarge ; 0. . carrying concealed l weapon, Hertfords baseball club, by divid ing games with Windsor and Coleraih during- the past week, has tightened its hold on Ale third place position in the Albemarle League, and seems destined to finish the season in that position, guaranteeing the team as contenders in the play-offs which are expected to get under way about Sunday, August 24. No definite date for the start of the play-offs has been set by the league directors, but since the season p!ay ends August 21, it is assumed the play-offs will start shortly thereafter. Hertford lost to Windsor last Fri day night by a score of 6-3, then turned back the Rebels in a came on Memorial Field Saturday night, 5-4, in a ten-inning affair. Colerain over whelmed the Indians at Colerain Sun day afternoon, winning by a score of lU-b. the Indians countered bv tak ing Colerain into camp here Monday night 6-4. Taylor started the game as Ditcher for the fndians at Windsor, but was relieved in the second inninir bv Oil- kerson. Taylor allowed threp hits. walked two and three runs scored be fore Gilkerson went to the mound. Windsor collected one hit off Gilker son and scoreM three more runs in the third. From then on the left hander from Hertford held the Wind- sor team hitles. Hertford tallied once in the fourth 'and twice in the eighth for its three runs. Bauer weht the route for Hertford in the Saturday night game and allowed five hits. Windsor scored three runs in the third and one in the fifth. The Indians scored two in the first and eighth and won the eame in the tenth by pushing one run across the plate. Taylor and Smith did mound duty for Hertford in the game with Cole rain on Sunday, but thd Trappers, attempting to catch the first place Colonials, went on a batting spree to win 10-6. . Gilkerson allowed eight hits in the game Monday while his teammates collected eight hits off Mustain. Cole rain scored in the first, second and fifth innings; while Hertford counted one in the first, two in the third and one more in the sixth. The Indians have six more aramM left on their regular schedule and also five rained out games. Suffolk plays here tonight, Windsor oh next Tues day and Edenton is here on Augusj The Indians, scoring four runa in the seventh inning, turned back the Elizabeth City Senators in a game on Memorial Field Wednesday night The final score was 4-1. The Sen ators tallied one run in the fifth. Bauer did the' mound duty for Hert ford, striking out seven, t while Saw yer pitched for the Senators, strikin out three.' Bauer allowed six hits, while the Indians collected four off Sawyer. The Indians' big inning i , (Continued on Page Eighty - Special Days For Lost Colony Over Coming Week-end Showings Also Schedul ed For Three Monday Nights Parity For Peanuts Results In Brighter Outlook For Farmers Growers Will Receive Highest Price In History The Lost Colonv's Drourram of TBPeciarflays for its tenth anniversary season will come to a climax this week-end, with Dare County Veter ans Homecoming Uay scheduled on Friday, Greater University of North rnrnlinn Dhv nYi SfltnrHv. and Vir- ginia Dare Day on Monda (August buy second and Iower Srade 18). Veterans' day will feature a par ade beginning at 3 o'clock, an ad dress bv Representative Harold D. Cooley of Nashville High School, and a dinner on the school grounds, given by the Dare County Board of Commissioners. Music for the occasion will be fur nished by the Fifteenth Air Command Band, from Fifth Naval District Headquarters in Norfolk. Cooley will be introduced by Representative Herbert C. Bonner of the First North Carolina District. The program will end with the night's performance of The Lost Colony. Representatives of American Le gion and Veterans of Foreign Wars Posts from Elizabeth City, Edenton, Plymouth and Hertford will join Dare County veterans in the parade, for which the Coast Guard Company f Elizabeth City will furnish the color guard. Lenoir Chambers, editor of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, will be the principal speaker on Saturday, ap pearing at a luncheon in the Caro linian Hotel for alumni of N. C. State College at Raleigh, the Univer sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Woman's College at Greens boro. The president of the univer sity, Dr. Frank P. Graham, will make a short talk at the theatre just before Saturday night's performance of The Lost Colony. The Lost Colony Company will give- a special Virginia Dare Day performance Monday night. Other Monday performances are scheduled on August 25 and on the last day, September 1. During other weeks the showings are held Wednesday through Sunday nights. The July If) parity of 11.1 cents per pound for farmers' stock peanuts set by the United States Department of Agriculture and the peanut diver sion program, acceptance of which has been announced, promise a "bright future" for peanut growers and end users, peanut industry lead ers say. Ralph McMillan, president of the National Peanut Council, asserted that "consumers will not find peanut end-products as high as previously thought, even though peanut farmers will receive the highest price in his tory per pound for their 1947 crop." Prices to producers will be sup ported at 90 per cent parity by means of a loan and purchase support pro gram by the Commodity Credit Cor poration. "The peanut industry has a bright future as a result of these develop ments," Roy E. Parrish, chairman of the National Peanut Industries Com mittee of 1947, commented. This committee initiated the peanut div ersion program whereby CCC would shelled peanuts from shellers "Farmers are guaranteed their prices," Mr. Parrish said, "and the manufacturers should expect higher at the Manteo Quality shelled peanuts than they nave oeen receiving Because shellers may divert the lower grado shelled peanuts into oil under thi'j program without undue loss." Peanut farmers are now receiving on their 1946-47 crop approximately 100 per cent of last year's parity of 9.55 cents per pound. Although CCC is guaranteeing only 90 per cent of the July 15, 1947 parity of 11.1 cents per pound, the l947-4a crop is ex pected to bring peanut farmers great er returns than ever before in pea nut history. The Department of Agriculture purchase and loan support prices run as follows: $203 for Spanish and Valencias east of Mississippi; $201 per ton for Spanish and Valencias west of Mississippi; $185 for runners and $196 for Virginas. These are base grade prices for peanuts which have a sound mature kernel content of 66 per cent in the case of Vir ginias and runners and 70 per cent for Spanish and Valencias. Provision is made for an allow ance of $2.90 per point on or off of the grades are higher or lower on Spanish and Valencias, $2.80 per point for runners, and $3 per point for Virginias. Thirty cents per ton will be added for each 1 per cent of extra-large Virginias. Action Effective Sep tember 1; Protest Be ing Entered Merchants of the Town of Hert ford, along with merchants of 23 other towns in North Carolina will be faced with the problem of trans porting their own freight from the Norfolk Southern Railroad stations, beginning September 1, it was learn ed here this week when notices sent out by the company officials notifieu local freight agents that effective on the above date the com pan v would 'discontinue the service of delivering intrastate freight in less than car load lots. I According to the information gath ered by this newspaper the railroad 1 will discontinue this service only in North Carolina towns, where the rail road is without competition. In any jlocation served by another company the Norfolk Southern will continue to I render this service. The discriminat ing action will affect the merchants of Hertford no little, as well as mer chants of Elizabeth City and Eden ton. No such action will be taken at iPlymouth or Washington, both of which are served by the Atlantic Coast Line as well as the Norfolk Southern. The action is tantamount to an in crease in freight rates for the mer chants of the towns affected by the order, inasmuch as the railroad, in the past has paid an employee for delivery of freight at the rate of 12 cents per hundred weight. When lo cal merchants have hauled their own freight from the station the railroad has allowed a five cent rebate on the freight bill, thus paying the merchant when he hauls the freight himself. Under the order issued this week the railroad has made no definite statement regarding this procedure, but it is presumed rates will remain as is, and merchants will be put to the trouble and expense of hauline freight, when the amount is less than car load lots. Protests against the proposal were voiced here immediately when the lo cal merchants learned of the plan, and these protests are expected to be lodged with the officials of the Nor folk Southern in an effort to have the order rescinded. Harvey Point Rumor Squelched By Navy A rumor making the rounds in Hertford of recent days that Harvey Point Navy Auxiliary Air Station is to be reopened by the Navy Depart ment and a number of men located at the base was squelched this week by the Navy Department. An official of the Fifth Naval Dis trict, in reply to a query by this newspaper, stated that while the Air Station has been removed from the War Assets Administration surplus and taken over by the Navy, there are no plans to reopen the station and that no men will be located there. This official, however, advised that according to his information the property may be leased ami that the buildings are for sale War Assets sale of property locat ed at the base have stopped and it was learned here last week that stop orders have been released as to the sale of some items at the station for merly being offered to the public. Gas Tax Revenues Reach New High Ina Dale Meekins To Wed Burwell Evans The Rev. and Mrs. Earl R. Meekins I of Tyner announce the approaching marriage of their daughter, Miss Ina Dale Meekins, to Burwell Atkin son Evans, son of William Evans and the late , Mrs. Evans of Atlanta, Ga. ' .. The marriage will be solemnized Saturday afternoon, September 6, at 4 o'clock in the Center Hill Metho dist Church with Miss Meekins' father, pastor of the church, officiat ing. No formal invitations have been mailed in the county, but the public H 'cordially Invited to attend he oerentony . . . Goodwin Funeral Held Thursday Afternoon Sidney Jacob Goodwin, 36, life-long resident of Perquimans County, died at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening in the Albemarle Hospital. Mr. Goodwin was the son of Mrs. Fannie White Goodwin and the late Revenues from the 6c State gaso line tax paid by North Carolina mo torists during the first six months of 1947 totals $19,422,054.96, according to S. Gilmer Sparger, executive sec retary of the North Carolina Petro- leu Industries Committee. This represents a 13.7 increase over the first half of 1946, setting a new high in the 27 year history of gasoline tax collections. During the first six months of 1941, when automobile registrations were at their peak, gasoline tax reve nues amounted to $14,648,335.00. Spe cial taxes paid by motor vehicle own ers rose from a 1941 figure of $80.27 per vehicle to $94.66 in 1946, reflect- the increased use of, and de- Levi Goodwin. Besides his mother, he is survived ing by his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Copeland pendente of the Dublic on. cars and Goodwin; two daughters, Ruth' and trucks. The total 1947 srasoline tax Janice Gdodwin, and a son, Ray Goodwin, all of Hertford; five broth ers, Wallace of Hertford, Joel of Newport News, Levi of Elizabeth City, Ernest of Edenton and Johnnie Goodwin of Portlock, Va.; four sis ters, Mrs. A. L. Sawyer of Gregory, Mrs. Clifford Gregory and Mrs. T. D. Copeland of Elizabeth City and Mrs. C. P. Skinner of Carrollton, Va. Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon 'tt 3 o'clock at the Great Hope Church under the di rection of the Lynch Funeral Home. bill alone is expected to reach $39, 500,000.00, Mr. Sparger said. "In terms of highway construction," he added, "this means that motorists will pour $61,700,000.00 in gasoline taxes and registration fees into the state highway fund this year. "Even though we have 'become ac customed to talk of roads in thou sands of miles and road funds in mil lions of dollars, there is an element of awe in the fact that North Caro lina motorists alone paid a gasoline tax bill of $19,422,054.76 during the I 1 'A v,v I ) !V
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