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JL.ll; dume XVI Number 2. T "Hertford, Perquimans County, N orth Carolina, Friday, January 14, 1949. $1.50 Per Year. LccdCcnrtTerfis C;id2 Gemss ViUi , L City EiidPlymouth Two Games OruTap For This Week; Indians' Improving Perquimans High School . basket .ball teams divided their games last week losing both ends of a double header to the Elizabeth City boys and 'girls but bouncing back to trounce ithe Plymouth girls and boys in the first game of the Albemarle : Conference play. t The games at Elizabeth City, play , ed last Thursday, were return games and were bitter losses for the In dians and Squaws. The Yellow Jacket outfits having previously won from the Indians earlier in the sea eon. TJie score of the girls' game at .Elizabeth City was 30r20 while the hoys game, ended 31-21. .Traveling to Plymouth last Friday sight, the Indians, and Squaws play ed the first of their conference games and came"" home on the long end of the scores. - The Squaws bested the Plymouth gdrls .by a 30-26 count, with Jean Chappell tallying 19 points for the Indian Squaws. Carr collect ed 16 of the Plymouth points; In the boys game both teams ' battled back and worth throughout most of the contest with neither side gaining much of an advantage. The Indians shooting was off slightly but in the closing minutes of the game the Indians pulled into a small lead and maintained this margin until the final whistle. The game ended with the score 24 to 22. ' , Pitt held the scoring honors for the Indians for the evening, racking up a total of nine points while his teammate Edward Lane counted for , five.' The rest of the Indians points Ware divided "between Layden, Pe fcratn . and Jordan. Davis : led the Plymouth team in scoring with eight SDolntS. . v&'.'.pi ;' ; ,. Two .games are on taps, for Coach Joe Levinson's teams this woek ac cording to the Coaoh. -Weeksville WfteVliThursday nigh?layJh g , the Perquimans Indians and the Jun ior .Varsity. On Friday", night the 'boys and girls team ' journey to Jamesville to Dlav that school in a conference contest T I HIS WEEK'S HEADLINES Draft Board Calls Halted Sixty Days Two selective service calls, on order at the - Perquimans County draft board, are expected, to be post poned for at least sixty days on a report issued in Washington earlier this week announcing that because voluntary enlistments, recently, have surpassed the needs of the army in maintaining its full strength draft calls are expected to be halted until April First. Mrs. Ruth Sumner, clerk of the local draft board, stated - that the local board had been ordered to send four men for pre-induction examina tions on January 18 and to order two . selectees up for induction on January 20. She also reported that there will be a regioual meeting of selective service officials and clerks in Eden ton on January 20. ' Calling for more than five billions in new taxes, President Truman pre sented a record peacetime budget to Congress this week for enactment for : the fiscal year beginning July 1 and running through June 1950. The larg est portion of the budget requested! goes wwaru jwuviiu uueiuo cutu ' to foreign countries. The total budget , figures are $41,900,000,000. Reports - from Washington indicate that it is likely the budget will be adopted with out much slashing. Meanwhile in r, Washington Congress is getting down to work on a program which will probably get underway after the in auguration next week. There is likelihood that taxes will be increased i but until Congress begins working-oh ' the bills 'presented no one guesses , what brackets will be etfected,,;; ' In Raleigh, the General Assemhly is " "beginning to go about , its task of studying Governor Scott's . program ' Planted last week. The legislature is starting action on WUa being present ed daily but thus far it is too early to report definite trends on what the body will adopt. Few 'changes have been made itt top spots among State office-holders but some are expected, probably after adjournment of the leg - . islature. Hudson Butler Dies After Short Illness; Funeral Held Monday - Ersell Hudson Butler, 40, promin ent young man at Hertford, died at the Albemarle Hospital. in Elizabeth City last Saturday night at 10 o'clock after an illness of ten days. A native and lifelong resident of Perquimans County, Mr. Butler was engaged in business for a number of years in Hertford but in recent years had been employed by the Berkley Feed Company of Elizabeth City and was widely known throughout the Albemarle area He was a mem ber of the Baptist Church. . Surviving are the, widow, Mrs. Ruby Simpson Butler, two children, Marguarite and David; his mother, Mrs.' George Butler; five sisters, Mrs, Charles Cam pen of West Palm Beach, Fla., Mrs. R. M. Reid of Honolulu, Miss Mattje Butler of Elizabeth City, Mrs. Irvin Barclift and Mrs. Henry Lewi3 of Hertford: foul; brothers, Fenton of Oregon, Colon, George and Wayland Butler,' all of Hertford. ' Funeral . services eaucta at the Lynch Funeral Home Monday afternoon at four oclock by the Rev. C. W. Duling, pastor of the Hertford Baptist Church. The choir sang "Still, Still My Soul" and "The Lord's Prayer". Pall bearers were J.H. Towe, D. M. Jackson, W. D. Cox, Julian A. White, Fenton Britt and Joe Hill. Interment followed in Cedarwood Cemetery. Handbooks Issued At Perquimans High At a special chapel program held Wednesday, January 5, the Student Council of Perquimans High School distributed handbooks to the student body. ' ' " - ' "After the distribution of these books. Bettv Ruth Chapell, Student Body President explained certain por tions of the Handbook to the student body. It was announced that the point system would go" into effect at once. Pupils wit;' 30 points all exclusive of athletics will. be awarded minor let ters at an annual award day in April. Presidents of various organizations explained the work of his organiza tion.; It was announced that the an nual' will go to press this week. " H 'Most of the money for the, publish ing of this - handbook was raised by the Student Council Play, "Here Comes. Charlie.- j This is the first issue of these hand books, and, they .will be given to. in coming eight grades each year, Advised Budget For Nelson-Mobley Vows Spoken in Florida Year Is Ample, Consolidation Of Color ed, School Meets Board Approval Despite extensive repairs, which were carried out on most of the school buildings of the county dur ing the past summer, the fiscal bud get will not be overspent, according kto John 1. diggers. County School Superintendent, who reported to the Board of Education, at a meeting last Monday, that the financial con dition of the school system was fav orable. He reported that repairs will exceed the budget slightly but sav ings on other parts of the budget will permit the schools to close out the year within the budget adopted last August. Other matters handled by the Board of Education at the meeting this week included the Board's ap proval of the consolidation of the Winslow Grove and Nicanor Colored schools. The consolidation was ef fected the first of this month and is proving a successful venture. The board authorized the Superintendent to sell the Winslow Grove building. The Board voted to pay the sum of $170 toward the construction costs of the agriculture building, at the Perquimans Training School at Win fall. This building was constructed by the veterans taking a training course at the school, and the sum was needed to complete payment of con struction costs. A motion was passed by the Board setting up machinery for the pay ment of a $25 damage . claim pre sented by Mrs. Pauline Bateman of Columbia, N. C, whose car was damaged in a collision with a school bus last year. Much time .was consumed by the Board in considering the above mat ters . and an important item of dis cussion of the building program for county schools Was postponed until the next meeting of theBoard. Authorization was granted for the County Colored schools to close on April 22, to permit attendance at a State meeting. However, this day must be made up at the close of the school yeah"" ' Old Man Winter flung another' icy hand at the middle and far West early this week. 'Hardest hit section was California, wher lea and snow, ,rare !y seen in soma sections of that state) covered the ground. Lost in the citrus fruit industry was reported near the sixty million dollar mark. Motorists were again stranded in many sections and railroad traffic was tied up at several points in the Rocky Mountain area. . , ,'v " . - J V The FBI quickly olved;a 131,700 tar'x robbery, which took place at An lir.J r pn Docember 80. Three men, al 1 "y involved in the theft of the i r'fe have been arrested -for ' T-e FIre:orted that ap- lot had L I The . wedding , of Miss Katharine Mobley,' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.'Mobley of Everette, N. C, and I Wesley E.";r Nelson, son- of Mr. and sources. which : took place at ' Jacksonville, Florida, November 16, 1948, was an nounced here last Friday. - Mrs. Nelson has been , employed her si manager of Rose's Store for the past six years. ' Mr. ' Nelson is connected with the v State Motor Vehicle Department as License Ex aminer. ' The couple ar making their home in Hertford. -, Soil Conservation Chairman At Meeting L. C. Bunch, Chowan County, Chairman of the Albemarle Soil Con servation District, plans to be vin Charlotte January 13 and-14 for the sixth annual meeting of the North Carolina Association of Soil Conser vation District Supervisors. . Chair man Bunch will report on the Albe marle District progress in 1948 and list accomplishments expected in 1949. The speakers at the meeting in clude Representative Harold D. Cool ey Congressman from the Fourth Congressional District and Chairman of the House Committee on Agri culture; Dr. J. H. Hilton, ' Dean of Agriculture at North Carolina State College and - Director of the North Carolina Experiment .Station; Mr. W. K. Beichler, State Forester; Dr. T. S. Buie, Southeastern Regional Conser vator for the Soil Conservation Ser vice, of Spartanburg, S. C; and Kent Leavitt, , President of the , National Association of "Soil Conservation Dis tricts, of MillbrooVN. Y. Studies made by District Super visors last year on each district's land Hand wter resources will be summarized at the meeting. Each district has made . recommendations for tiie conservation treatment, im provement, and use of these re- I'on Suit Granted In Trespass Case Heard Here Tuesday fit t'e ... : . ,ti t f- Central PTA Meets ( Next Monday Night ' The Parent Teacher Association of Central Grammar School will hold its rt'fclar'mermg'Kdnday night ft.7.'30 o'clock; ' f-jS: . T."ev.v:. -ton tommnnity ir, n li f t'irmV'th'ubJect ' a A Eesponstf of ' ST 'I '-:y'r V.-r- :? V i i aracr;ed to attend and Game Warden Reports Hunting Season Oyer Eldon Winslow, Game Warden for Perquimans County; today reminded local hunters and sportsmen that the hunting :; season for this year has closed and that it will be appreciated if game laws will be observed. He expressed his l appreciation to local sportsmen for. past" cooperation and said that he -believed the wild life program will be complete success providing sportsmen help carry out the regulations. . He -added that trapping, season will continue until February 15. - Varied Docket Dispos ed In Session Of Recorder's Court Charges of trespass filed ajrainst JJewey ferry, K. N. Chappell, John O. Chappell, W. D. Perry, Sr., and Thomas Chappell in Perquimans Re corders Court were nonsuited Tues day when N. W. Chappell, prosecut ing witness had completed his testi mony before Judge Charles E. John son. Judge Johnson ruled that the matter involved, which appeared from the testimony to be some sort of a land dispute, was a civil matter and therefore being heard in the wrong court. Immediately following the action by Judge Johnson, the de fendants in this case were served with summons to appear before Judge Chester Morri3 on January 29 to determine the matters. Charged with speeding the- follow ing defendants all entered pleas of guilty and paid fines of $10 and costs of court: Rudolph Tausky, Henry Soule, Harmin Visocki, An drew Gay, Orla Helmserder, Samuel Nalhern), Margaret Crawford, W. C. Markham, Ray Jones, Stanley Beed on, Harry Weisman, Milton Phelps and Edward Young, Jr. John Leveroni and Frank Provo entered pleas of guilty to charges of speeding and paid fines of $5 and costs of court. Court costs were taxed against Morris Hicks, who plead guilty to a charge of passing on a curve. Willie Walker, Negro, was found guilty on charges of being drunk and resisting an officer. He was given 30 days suspended upon payment of fine of $25 and costs. He ' was found not guilty of driving drunk. Samuel Taylor, Negro, was fined $25 and costs on a charge of allowing his car to be operated illegally. Hoace Wiggins, Negro, was fined $10 and x;nsts for driving a car which had not passed the State Inspection lane. Herman Brickhouse, Negro, paid a fine of $25 and costs on a charge of driving without a license. ' Emma Winslow, Negro, was found guilty on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. She was given a 30 day jail sentence. Local Men Appointed On G. A. Committees Representative E. Leigh Winslow and State Senator J. Emmett Wins low have been named to a number of important committees , at the meeting of the 1949 General As sembly, according to a report re leased from Raleigh on Tuesday. Representative Winslow, who is serving his second term in the low er house of the General Assembly has been appointed to the following committees: Agriculture, Commer cial Fisheries; Finance, Manufac turers and Labor, Mental Institu tions, Public Welfare, Veterans Leg islation, Wildlife Resources, Library and Trustees of the University. Senator Winslow was appointed to the committees for Congressional Districts, Education, Justices of Peace, Military Affairs, Penal in stitutions, Public Roads, Public Wel fare and Veterans Affairs. Monds Funeral Held Sunday Afternoon rplTH ANNOUNCEMENT . Mr; and Mrs. Felix Zeros; of Pa tuxent : River, Hd : announce the birih. , tt daughter, born December Ju. lira. Zaroa sefn' r mar riage was L's Lillian . . rry. Mrs. Millie L. Monds, age 88, died suddenly Saturday morning at 6:10 o'clock at the home of her nephew, N. W. Dale, at Tyner. She was a member of the Church. Survivors include several nieces and nephews. FFA Seed -Team 10th In State Competition On January 6th the Perquimans F.F.A. Seed Identification and Judg ing Team took part in the State Seed Identification Contest held at Concord, N. C. Seventy-seven teams took part in the contest. A perfect score was 2400 points. The Per quimans F.F.A. Team made a score of 2056 points, which gave them tenth place out of seventy-seven. They made a very creditable show ing, and the district and state officers were highly pleased with the showing that the Perquimans, Team made. The members of the team are El wood Long, William Umphlett and Eugene Boyce. They were accom panied by their agriculture teacher, G. C. Buck, and two other members of the Perquimans Chapter, Melvin Colson and William Penn Chappell, made the trip with them. Legion Post Plans Membership Contest During Next Month Members of the William Paul Stal lings Post voted in favor of winding up their membership drive at a meet ing held Friday night in the Agri cultural Building in Hertford, by conducting a membership renewal contest to be held during the coming month. The membership drive to be con ducted by the post was the main subject discussed at last night's meeting and it was decided by mem bers that the drive would be a county wide affair and would be undertaken by two competitive teams seeking membership renewals with the losing team having to fete the entire group at a dinner which is scheduled to be held at the end of the drive. The two teams are headed by C. R. Vann and Elliott Layden respective ly. Vann will lead his Army team, composed of the following Legion naires: W. T. Willoughby, Ralph White, Charlie Skinner, Russell Bak er, Thomas Morgan, -William Belch, Noah Gregory, Anderson Layden and Francis Nixon against Layden and his Navy team which includes Shel- ton Chappell, W. G. Hollowell, Dow- ard Jones, Fenton Hurdle, Archie Riddick, W. S. Evans, L. A. Proctor, Paul Fisher and B. F. Proctor to determine who will foot the dinner bill. During the meeting it was also de cided that an invitation would be is sued to the Women's Auxiliary to meet with the local post at the March meeting at which a program along with a buffet dinner will be held. Winslow Rites Held At Rocky Hock Monday Funeral services for Elbert Lafay ette Winslow, 79, who died at his home after an illness of five weeks, were conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Rocky Hock Bap tist Church by the Rev. W. C. Fran- . . .i ,t t- .i -1. cis, assisted Dy tne ev. tan jueeK- ins and the Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson. Mr. Winslow was the son of the late Dempsey and Martha Winslow of Perquimans County. Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters. Mrs. Tyree Buck of Wintervdlle, and Mrs. Eleanor Wins low of Chowan County, one son, Way- land C. Winslow of Lakeland, Flor ida, two brothers, Ira and L. Jay Winslow, both of Belvidere and one sister, Mrs. Delphinia Winslow, also of Belvidere. Burial was in the Beaver Hill Cemetery. Older Model Cars Up for Inspection Committee Names January 24-29 As Campaign Week Concentrated Drive Planned To Raise $2,200 Quota January 24 to Januarv 29th will be March of Dimes Week in Per quimans, it was announced today by Silas M. Whedbee, chairman of the annual March of Dimes campaign. Mr. Whedbee is beine assisted in th drive by Dr. T. P. Brinn and Max Campbell. This btoud met Wednes day night to outline plans for con ducting the campaign which will be made in an effort to raise the sum of $2,200, the local quota for the In fantile Paralysis fund for 1949. Mr. Whedbee stated that by short ening the length of time allowed for the campaign that the committee be lieved a quick concentrated drive will achieve the results needed to have Perquimans County listed as among the Counties of the State con tributing, fully, toward this great cause. He added that the committee has selected a number of solicitors for each blsck in Hertford and each neighborhood in the county, and these individuals are now being con tacted in regards to carrying out the task of making a house to house canvass for funds. During the past summer North Carolina went through a most severe epidemic of Infantile Paralysis 'and funds raised through March of Dimes campaigns, from all over the nation, was sent into this State to help combat that epidemic. Now the people of North Carolina are being asked to help replenish the treasury which was practically depleted by last summer's epidemic and for this reason the quota of counties in this State have been doubled over pre vious years. With this fact the local committee is urging the people of rerquimans to contribute liberally when contacted during March of Dimes--Week. The March of Dimes campaign will close here on Saturday, January 29, when the local Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' will stage a dance at Harvey Point, the proceeds of which will go to the March of Dimes fund. The VFW committee handling this dance, successfully conducted a New Year's dance at Harvey Point, and all signs point toward an other grand social evening when , the March of Dimes Dance is staged January 29th. Town Board Hears Parking Complaints Inspection schedules of automo biles and trucks for the year 1949, have been released by the Depart ment of Motor Vehicles and individ- Center Hill Baptist uals owningr cars 0r trucks of the vintage of 1936 and prior are re minded that they must have their vehicles inspected again before-Jan- Funeral services mere" conducted'- 81j at the - Center Hill Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at three o'clock by the Rev. W. C. Francis. Inter ment :$ followed in -the, church cemetery. FfcA.Team Receives $1OT Contest Prize' Ov C. Buck, coach and teacher of the Perquimans FFA team on Re cital and Parliamentary Procedure, which, engaged in a State-wide con test last Spring, today reported the receipt of; a check in the amount of $150, won - by the team in 1 placing second' 3bT the contest " , Mr.' Buck stated that the prise will be-dtvided among the fire' members of the team, namely Dolan Winslow, Bob tyden, Jofc Askew,, Trafton rcJ2lpend Leon Lane. .-w - v The inspection lane will be in Hert ford next week for the purpose of Inspecting .these model cars, and others whose owners appear at the inspection lane. Indians Jayvees Trounce Edenton Led by Joe Towe who tallied to tal of 11 points, the Perquimans Jun ior Varsity basketball team trounced the Edenton Jayvees in a game play ed here' Tuesday afternoon. 'Playing outstanding hall the local Jayvees had little difficulty in winning from the Edenton Juniors, the final score was Perquimans 47, Edenton 36.V"; Main scoring cogs for the-Indians were Tow with 11 points, Hopkins with seven," Sumner, seven, Britten, sJjv Thatch jar 1 A. Wood with. few. Members, of the Hertford Town Board, meeting in regular session Monday night, disposed of routine fiscal matters brought to their at tention and heard a complaint regis tered regarding illegal parking of trucks in several sections of the town. The complaints given concerning the parking situation stated that trucks and cars were being parked over curb and gutters on several streets of the town and this situation was leading to ruination of grasd plots between curbs and -the side walks. The Board discussed the matter and advised Mayor V. N. Darden to have the situation handled under the parking ordinance of the Town. This ordinance forbids such illegal parking. W. G. Newby, clerk to the board, gave a review, of the Town's finan cial condition and also reported that the Harvey Point account now has a balance of approximately $1423.00. The funds collected from rental on Harvey Point are being placed in a separate fnnd by the board for the purpose of establishing a cash re serve with which to build a municipal building. Whedbee Services Conducted Tuesday Funerafservices for Billie Carroll Whedbee, three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Whedbee of St Brides, Va.,-who died at her home Sunday afternoon at 12:15 o'clock were conducted at the Lynch Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 by the Rev. Herbert Miller, pas tor of the St. Brides Baptist Church. Besides her parents, the child is survived by two;? sisters, Marjoiie and Sophia . Jean, and her gnad parents, Mr. and ' Mrs. 3. L. Harrell and Mr. and Mrs. fHsbury Whedbee. . Burial was in. , the Cedarwood rawdfai s - v s - w i .Ji-:i -.-.