North Carolina Newspapers

Volume XV.f-Number 39. Hertford Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, September 24, 1948. $1.50 Per Year, ek By Perquimans Board 193 Registered By Local Board; , Office Hours Announced w e ' 1 Four hundred ninety-three Per quintans County youths,' 18 through -25, registered for selective service with the local Draft Board during the period ending last Saturday, it was announced Monday by Mrs. Ruth Sumner, clerk of the Board. Regis tration cards received by the local Board from other stations will push -the total number of youths from here oyer tne ouu mark, Mrs. Sumner said. With the registration period over, the local Board began this week mailing out questionnaires to men in the older age groups. Registrants who have received these forms are ad vised that they have ten days to fill in the answers and return,, them to the draft office; Upon receipt of a number of these forms the local Board will begin holding regular meetings tot the purpose of classify: ing men. "' ; -: : Selective Service headquarters has filed with local Boards a number of regulations to be followed in classifl- cation. ' Included in these orders are a number of physical defects which Will disqualify a registrant from ac tive service. This list is similar to ' the one used during the war, but in cluded this time as a physical defect is flat feet, which was not cause for deferment during the war. Local offices of Selective Service were opened here Monday by Mrs. Sumner. The offices are located on the second floor of the bus station building, corner of Church and Grubb Streets. Mrs. Sumner announced that the offices will be opened each day Monday through Friday from 9 A.M. to 1P. M. Tin offices will not be opened on Saturdays, i Youths who become 18 years of age during the months ahead must register for the draft, and according to the law. most appear at the local draft offic with-j ftt flv Hnv f nllnwiTtiv that Mi4Mawfe I ceive no questionnaires, Mrs. Sumner said. Regulations state that ques tionnaires are mailed only to regis trants 19 years old and over who are eligible for service. Eighteen-year -olds will receive questionnaires after passing their' 19th birthday. Schools To Continue On Regular Schedule Perquimans County , schools will not. observe a "harvest holiday" this year, according to John T. 'Biggers, superintendent, who announced .today that the Board of Education, at its meeting this month, voted that all schools should continue to operate on regular schedule. . During the past several years lo ichobJtf , have closed down for a period of one to two weeks during the harvest rush season but a survey conducted this year indicated this procedure to be unnecessary. The State Board of Education has ruled that where students are needed at home to help with the harvesting of crops that excuses from classes will be granted those students. Hertford PTA Vote To Sponsor Local Girl Scout Troop THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES ,Two white men and four Negroes were being held by . authorities, of Tyrrell County in connection- with the robbery of the Columbia Bank, which took place' about 11 o clock Tuesday morning. The bandits rifled the bank while forcing bank employees and customers to lie on the . floor of the bank, making away with an estimat ed $60,000. An alarm was immedi ately given and police officials from several .counties formed a posse, trailed down the robbers. The ban dits abandoned theirr get-away car near Creswell and took off into the woods. FBI, SBI and State and lo cal police encircled the robbers in the woods and captured six of the rob bers before midnight Tuesday. One of the bandits, a Negro, was serious ly wounded by gunfire, when he was discovered in the woods and opened fire on the officers. Doctors at the Columbia hospital, who operated on 'the man, stated he had slim chances nf nwoverlnir. Officer had recovered i j - - " J $58,267.25 of the loot by late1 Tues day night. . w The United Nations opened an im portant session at Paris this week and tne success oi tne u may ae- nend upon the . work accomplished during the European meeting.. High ly explosive subjects may be injected into the UN meeting, which has pos sibilities of disrupting the entire or ganization.. These subjects are. the problems of Palestine, especially since the slaying of the UN representative, Count Bernadotte, which occurred in Palestine last Friday, and the Berlin blockade.; Reports from Europe in dicate that (talks between the West ern Allies ij and i Soviet officials at Moscow have broken down and the Western Allies 'may throw tne matter before the UN Assembly. A tropical hurricane missed Miami after striking a severe blow at the j "Florida Keys late Tuesday. The hur I rfcane was described as a' small but severe blow, which was expected to cause thousands of dollars worth of damage to the citrus industry" in Florida. ": Missing Miami, the bun ane swerved inland, headed for Lake Okeechobee, where it was expected to - I. . I t- 1 Jll H- i .11. ' K ' J Members of the Parent-Teacher Association of the Hertford Grammar School held the first meeting of the school year last Thursday evening in the auditorium of the school.' Mrs. D. M. Jackson, president, presided over the business session of the meet ing. The meeting opened with the fol lowing chairmen and committees be ing appointed for the coming year: Program chairman, Mrs. Ben Thach; membership chairman, Miss Mary 'Sumner; music committee, Mrs. R. M. "Riddick, Mrs. Fred Mathews and Mrs. Charles Johnson;" lunch room com mittee, Mrs. G. R. Tucker, chairman; Mrs. Henry Clay Stokes, Mrs. Charles Williford, Mrs. H. C. Sullivan and Mrs. Charlie Vann; publicity, Mrs. Norman Elliott; finance committee, Mrs. Martin Towe, chairman, and Mrs. Hudson Butler; hospitality com mittee, Mrs. Clifford Banks, chair man, Miss Mildred Reed and Mrs. J. A. Leete; publications committee, Mrs. Vivian Mathews; room repre sentatives, Mrs. T, P. Brinn; health and .. summer round up, Mrs. T. C. CHappell study, eftttrie, . Mrs.v Carson oweH; school ground committee, Mrs. Fred Mathews, Carson Howell and Silas Whedbee, chairman; play ground committee, Mrs. Corbin Do zier. During the business session a mo tion was made to sponsor the Girl scouts again this year and it was decided to continue the same project worked on last year, that of getting playground equipment. Following thee business session a program was given on the subject of Health. It included a talk on basic health services needed in any com munity by Miss Hulda Wood, county health nurse. It was also decided that the PTA would meet the second Thursday night of each month at 8 o'clock at the Grammar School. Judge Orders Shot Gun Used In Assault Cases Be Destroyed Varied Docket Heard In Recorder Court Here Tuesday Morning A deadly weapon, a .12 gauge shot gun, used by Lester Hurdle, Negro, in an assault case last Saturday night, was ordered destroyed by Judge Charles E. Johnson in Perquimans Recorder's Court here Tuesday morn ing, after Judge Johnson had sus pended a six month road sentence on Hurdle who was ordered to pay a fine of $50 and costs and placed on good behavior for a period of 12 months. The court disposed of a varied docket of some 18 cases, many of which were tried quickly when de fendants entered pleas of guilty to traffic violations. Fines of $5.00 and costs were taxed against John Baker and Bill Hollo man, both of whom plead guilty to charges of speeding. Robert Gurney was fined $25 and costs on a charge of speeding. Costs of court were ordered paid by Willie Boyce and John Spence, who entered pleas of guilty to charges .of passing a school bus while it was un loading children. IPaul Holubek, Vernon Rice and Walter Ballance were ordered to pay the costs of court on charges of speeding in a construction aone. Harry Upton and William Lassiter, entering pleas of guilty to charges of reckless driving, were fined $25 and ordered to pay the court costs. A nol pros was taken in the case charging Donald Myers with fraud. Court costs were assessed against the prosecuting witness, Elijah Hollo well, in the case charging Henry Whedbee, Negro, with reckless driv ing. Mack Brite entered a plea of guiHy to charges of driving drunk and paid a fine of $100 and costs of court. LaSalle Bright was taxed with a fine of $25 and costs on at charge of driving without a license. j,.- Fleet ,Cper, Negro,- pajdlthe cost oi courtfon a cnarge or oemg drunk. Court costs were assessed against the prosecuting witness, Beatrice White, in the case charging Dorsey White with assault on a female. Prayer for judgment was continued in the case charging Delmar Spear with fishing without a license. Carlton Nixon was found not guilty on a charge of speeding in a con struction zone. James Spence entered a plea of guilty of riding a bicycle on the left side of the road. Prayer for judg ment in the case was continued. Civic Committees Map Plans For Mail Project Committees representing five civic clubs of Hertford met at the VFW hall Wednesday night and . mapped out plans for conducting a campaign to promote additional mail services for the Hertford Post Office, it was announced today -by W. F. Ainsley, president of the Rotary Club, which is sponsoring the project. Representatives of the Lions Club, PTA, American Legion and VFW joined with the Rotary committee in praising the proposed project which will seek to obtain delivery of parcel post within the Town of Hertford and also calls for adding another city carrier for delivery of first class mail. " During the meeting Wednesday a complete discussion of the tasks to be performed was held and assign ments of work on the project were given each group. The tasks of com piling information and data on sur veys is expected to be started at once by the committees assigned to these jobs and it is the hope of tne civic clubs to have petitions for the ser vices ready for presentation to the Post Office Department within a short time. 1 Central PTA Holds First Meeting Mon. 4.: Western Auto Store To Open In Hertford An announcement was made here this week by D. M. Jackson, who is constructing a new building on Mar ket Street, that one-half of the build ing has been leased to B. J. Hollo- man, Jr., of Jacksonville, N. C, who is expected to open a Western Auto Store in the location. The Parent-Teacher Association of Central Grammar School held its first meeting of the year on Monday night, at 8 o'clock. The president, Mrs. Eddie Harrell, called the ' meeting to order and "America the Beautiful" was used as the opening song.- The Kev. Coy b. Saunders conducted the devotional, using verses of Scripture frdm Psalms, Genesis and I Corinthians. George farrar sang as a solo, "Give of Your Best to the Master." . After the business meeting, at which the chairmen of the standing committees reported their plans for the year, J. p. Snipes, principal, in troduced the new superintendent, John T. Biggers. Mr. (Biggers told about the repairs to all school buildings in the county during the previous sum mer and also plans of improvement for the future. Mrs. T. P. Brinn talked on the Girl Scout - movement in this county. It was decided that the PTA sponsor this movement, and a committee was appointed to organize this group. Mrs. Graham Wood gave an inter esting talk on the subject "Good Health For North Carolina's Chil dren.'' She gave as the school's re sponsibility three important factors: School lunch program, physical edu cation program and mental health program. Mrs. E, B. Edwards conducted a recreational period, with many par ents and teachers picked at random taking part.- The attendance prize, a famous Daintinsr, -was awarded to the First and Second Grades, Mrs. Mary White, teacher.'. ' 1 Indians Open Grid Season With Game At Windsor Tonight Twenty-eight Players to Make Trip; Game Will Start at 7:45 P. M. After several weeks of hard prac tice, the Perquimans Indians will open their 1948 football season in a game at Windsor Friday night. The game will start at 7:45 o'clock, it was announced by Coach Joe Levinson, who stated that a 28-rhan squad will be taken to Windsor for the opening game. The Indians went through a hard scrimmage practice on Monday and then began tapering off in practice sessions during the remainder of the Week. All of the players, excepting Nathan Spivey, who was injured slightly in the practice Monday, are in good condition and expect to make an excellent showing against Windsor in the opening contest. L. C. Elliott and Jack" Symons were elected co-captains of the 1948 In dians team at a meeting of the squad held Monday. Coach Levinson stated' that the probable starting line-up will be Bob Layden and Howard Pitt at ends, Ray Kirby and Earl Winslow at tackles, Bob Jordan and Jack Symons at guards, Robert Evans, center, L. C. Elliott, Bill Pegram, Bill Boyce and Edward Lane at backs. This start ing team will average about 168 pounds, the coach said, giving the in dividual weights as follows: Layden 150, Pitt 180, Kirby 175, Winslow 205, Jordan 160, Symons 170, Evans 172, Elliott 140, Pegram 160, Boyce 164 and Lane 178. The Indian line is expected to show up exceedingly well, inasmuch as all of the players are veterans with at least one year of experience, while the backfield shows possibilities of being one of the best in the Albe marle. Elliott has been doing a great job at blocking, while Lane is rated as one of the best runners in this section. Other players expected to see -soim Action in i tW opening game are Dail, Clinton Winslow, Ar chie Lane, Paul Smith, Futrell, Spi vey, Simpson, Bright. These players have shown some fine playing in prac tice sessions and Coach Levinson be lieves they will provide good reserve force for his team. Other players who will make the trip to Windsor are Berry, Robertson, Chappell, A. L. Lane, Shackleford, Dolan Winslow, Jones, Wood and Julian Robertson. For the first game of the season! the Indians will be decked out in their new uniforms of red and gold, this color scheme for the new uni forms was selected to give the In dians different colored suits from other teams in this section, many of whom have the same school colors as Perquimans. Robbers Crack Winfall Store Safe And Make Away With Eight Thousand Dollars License Examiner Off Duty Next Week i W. E. Nelson, State automobile li cense examiner for Perquimans County, will not be in Hertford on Wednesday or Thursday for the next two weeks, September 29 and 30, and October fi and 7, he announced today. He stated he will resume his duties here on Wednesday, Octqber 13. Motorists whose last name start with E, F or G are now renewing their operator's license but accord ing to Mr. Nelson this group is slow in applying for renewals. He urged all motorists in this category who have not renewed driving licenses to do so as soon as possible. Hertford Firemen At Whitestoh Blaze Members of the Hertford Volunteer Fire Department answered a call to the Clifton Stallings saw mill at Whiteston Tuesday night and aided in controlling a fire which swept the slab wood yard of the saw mill, caus ing several thousand dollars' loss. The local fire department received the call for help at about 7:30 o clock Tuesday evening and shortly thereaf ter arrived at the scene of the fire, which was visible for miles, and be gan throwing water on the blaze. The fire had gained considerable headway before the arrival of the Hertford fire truck and the fire fighters, hampered by the lack of water, worked only to confine the .flames to the wood pile. This effort, however, prevented the spread of the fire to the saw mill and to large forests nearby. Having only a 250-gallon water tank on the fire truck, the firemen were forced to drive about two miles frequently to refill the tank, but after fighting the fire for several hours additional water supply was available when J. Emmett Winslow sent his huge transport truck, holding 3,900 gallons of water, to the scene. Later the JSdenton fire company sent one of its trucks and the blaze was confined to its small area. Inspection Lane Does Rush Business On Three Day Tour Motorists, taking due note of the deadlines in the State's new vehicle inspection program, rushed the crew of inspection lane No. 36, when it came to Hertford Tuesday for a three day stay. Nearly one thousand cars went through the lane during the three days, according to D. S. Skiles, supervisor of the lane. Three hund red fifty cars were checked on Tues day and 227 more had passed through up to noon Wednesday, and the wait ing line seemed just as long as it had been earlier in the day. The cars came from everywhere, Ahoskie, Creswell, Pasquotank and Gates counties and from Edenton. Motorists who had driven from these distant points were appearing at the lane for the second time, previous trips being disappointments by reason of receiving the red rejection stickers. Mr. Skiles told this reporter that mo torists receiving rejection stickers have ten days, to get cars fixed, then ,Tport back. the, lane for a .second inspection. If motorists fall to re port back to the lane by the deadline, they are subject to a citation to the lane by a patrolman. A total of 190 cars were rejected here from the first 577 cars inspected and two of these cars were condemned by the crew. Bad steering assembly and headlights was the cause for more rejections than any other type of defect. Perquimans County motorists who received rejection stickers at the in spection lane this week and who did not get back to the lane before it left this county can get another inspection by driving to the lane while it is at Coinjock from September 25 to 28; Manteo, October 1 or in Elizabeth City October 2. The inspection lane will return to Hertford on October 20 for a three day stay. At that time vehicles of the year models 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944 and 1945 will be inspected. Three White Men Seen Near Scene at Time of Robbery; Sheriff Con ducting Search Robbers broke into Fred Winslow's store at Winfall Wednesday night, cracked the safe in the store and made away with between seven and eight thousand dollars, it was re ported here early Thursday morning by Sheriff M. G. Owens, who was cauea id me scene oi the robbery a few minutes after the men drove away. An eye witness to the robbery was Cook Chalk, who saw three men walk ing toward the store. One man re mained outside as a lookout, while the other two entered the side door of the store. Mr. Chalk left the spot and went to a nearby house to call the sheriff, who arrived at the store within five minutes. However, the robbery had been completed and the robbers had left within that time. According to Sheriff Owens the robbery was done by experts, persons who seemingly knew their business in cracking a safe. The lock of the safe was chiseled off and the money in side the safe was removed by the thieves. A report stated that as the men left the scene they walked down the road and evidently got away in an automobile. Bloodhounds from the Williamston prison camp were brought to the scene but were un successful in locating any trails. An investigation of the robbery is being carried out by Sheriff Owens, Walter Spence of the SBI and State Highway patrolmen. EASTERN STAR TO MEET , The Hertford Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star will meet next Mon day night, September 27, at 8 o'clock in the lodge. rooms, v All members are urged to be present Named Navy Flight Instructor In Florida . Richard Spivey, son of Mrs. Hattie Spivey, who was recalled to active duty by the U. S. Navy with a rating of Lieutenant (jg), has been assigned to duty as a flight instructor at the Navy AirlStation at Pensacola, Pla., according to word received here Tues day. Lieut. Spivey reported for his new duty at Pensacola las Monday. Boy Scout Campaign Nets $350 In County Hertford's troop of Boy Scouts was placed in good standing with the Tidewater Council of Boy Scouts by virtue of meeting its 1948-49 finan cial goal of $300, it was announced this week by Robert Hollowell, who acted as chairman of the Boy Scout committee, which handled the drive for funds for the Boy Scouts during the past five weeks. A total of $350 was raised by So licitors seeking funds for the local troop, and the excess of the year's goal of $300 was spent to provide equipment for the local boys. The remainder of the fund was forwarded to Scout headquarters. Reporting on the success of the drive, Mr. Hollowell stated that the public was liberal in support of the campaign and that he wished to ex press his appreciation to the public and to each of the solicitors, who gave freely of their time, cooperating in the drive which will assure the local Scout troop of its place in Scouting during the months ahead. Hertford Lions Club Conducting Annual White Cane Drive The North Carolina State Associa tion for the Blind, which was created by North Carolina Lions Clubs, is conducting its annual White Cane Sale and membership enrollment drive this veek, it was announced today by Bill Cox, president of the local Lions Club. C. R. Vann, who is serving as local chairman of the White Cane Sale and membership enrollment, announced today that the local Lions Club had unanimously endorsed the campaign, and that its members, assisted by Lionesses and other local friends of the blind, are conducting an active drive here during the September 20- 25 campaign period. The buttons are being sold directly to the general pub lic. They will be exchanged for nom inal contributions and there is no limit to the amount interested button purchasers may contribute, any amount from 10 cents up. One-third of the funds derived from the sale of the White Cane buttons will be retained by the local club, Mr. Vann said, for use in the program of its own blind aid and sight con servation committee, which is the major project committee of all Lions, clubs. Aid to the blind and sight conservation long have constituted the major project of the International Association of Lions clubs. The lo cal club makes its- work for the blind its major activity during the year. Mr. Vann said the remaining two thirds of the proceeds from the sale of the White Canes, together with all of the funds derived from member ship fees in the State association, will go to the association toward meeting its $25,000 goal for the 1948 campaign. Local Nurse Accepts Foundation Position ,Miss Polly Tucker, RN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Tucker, has accepted an assignment from the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, and left Monday for West ern Lone Hospital at Greensboro to assume her duties. Miss Tucker graduated from Med ical College of Virginia at Richmond last week with a class in physical therapy. New Class Organized At Perquimans High A new class which will stress the teaching of journalism, dramatics and special writing, has been organized at Perquimans High School, it was an nounced last Friday by E. C. Wood- ard, principal. Instruction in the class is offered to any student of the school and is under the direction and supervision of Miss Frances Cely. Members of the class include stu dents who make up the staffs of the school paper, annual and the drama tic club. A portion of each school term will be devoted to special study of the three phases offered in in structions.: At the present time the class is studying journalism and on last Fri day had as a guest speaker Max Campbell, editor of The Weekly, who discussed the topic of newspapering. He outlined briefly to .the students routine followed in editing and print ing of a weekly newspaper.