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Volume XVII. Number 6. Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, February 10, 1950. V.1-:rs In Dicycb Safety CLTElgn cca Oy Loc DP Wide Interest Shown In - Project; Parade At- ..; tracts Large Crowd - , Mom than 200 children participated in, the big- bicycle parade conducted lore last Saturday in connection .with tho Bicycle Safety Campaign sponsor- ed by the Business and Professional Woman's Club, it was reported Mon day by Mrs. Lawrence Towe, presi dent of the Club. . ; The week-long campaign created much. Interest among the .children of the county and the judges of fhe vari ous contests, held as part of the pro gram, had difficulty in making final selections of winners. -!" Prizes for the winners were award ed on Saturday, just before the parade by members of the BPW Committee in charge of the project. The various contests included a radio quiz, scrap books, slogan and decoration of bi cycle The children were divided in- - 1 to three divisions, 1, first tnrougn uie - third grades; 2, fourth through seven ', th grades, and 8, eighth through 12th . -grades. .... The winners as announced by the club committee were, Radio quiz, Car- olyn Lewis, first; Christine Winslow, second; Scrap Book, group 1, Mar ' garet WilKams, first; Jimmy and y Tommy Morgan, second; Lettitia Mc Googan, third; group two, Evelyn Ann Stanton, first; Lucy Mae Eure, aec - ond Anne Chappell, third; Slogan, Jtroup L Letltia McGoogan, first; her - ?wn ra "Rteht Way is the Safe - WayVClay Stokes, second Johnny Everett, third; group; two, Charles -- Smith, first; his slogan was, 'Good Brakes aves Aches. Alice ; Jean - - .Tu.icMn. saeond: Carl Barber, third. - Group three, Lloyd ? White, first? : his ' slogan wm "Bike Safety, I4?e Safe- ty", Howard Williams, jr., gocuntr, ' Mathews. Jr.. third. ' During the parade Saturday after noon the judges selected Anne Brinn as having the best aeconweu oi, ituoW Cat., as havinor the cutest dec- orsrted bike, Jill Miller the fwvmest, and Jack Broughtpi as the oWast S- 7"- Ion. which was also idvide fatwhuS- es similar to those in the -white schools were : Radio quiz, Mary Belle J 1 midbee, first, and George Wood sec ond. Scrap Book, group ,1, Barbara Ann RSddick, first; Mel van Riddick, second; Second grade room Hertford school. Group two, Jarvis Newby, first; Eva Has3ell, second; Willow - Branch School, third. Group three, Jessie Norman, first; Lillian Cope land, second; Francine Mitchell, third. ' Slogan, group one, Doris Sutton, first; . whose slogan was "Be i Wise, Save Lives; Phyllis Johnson, second; Doro thy Sharpe, third; group two, Parry r Parson, first slogan, "While On A Bike Be Safe and Right," James Fel . . , (Continued on Page Seven! DssddFcisTo f,:c3t Frday flight Burning: Permits Now Being Issued J. W. NoWell, Perquimans County Fire Warden, announced today that 16 persons throughout the county are now issuing burning permits,.- and called attention to the law which for bids the starting of fires in woodland sections without first obtaining a per mit. He wired all individuals to com ply with the law and to help prevent forest fires. Individuals empowered to issue burning permits, as announced by Mr. Nowell are: Odas Mansfield, I. C. Long, C. R. Chappell, John Corprew, Jr., Jack Benton, Seth W. Long, R. E. Perry, E. S. Winslow, Lawrence Per ry, Henry Riddick, Earl Perry's store, New Hope; Mrs. John Symons, Chap anoke; Wade Jordan, Bonner's Corn er, Ray Gregory, Woodville; W. W. Whedbee, Burgess and Blunt Eure, Winfall Fire Tower. $1.50 Per Year. tater ' A meeting of Perquimans County -i baseball fans has been called for Fri- day night February 10, at eight o' clock In the Court House in Hertford -": nr Ah nurooae of determining if there is sufficient interest In the game 'for an attempt to be made In fielding a semi-pro team here during wis com r. . intr nmnvM. .. r-. . . 'A. WHeften; president" of the cluM last year, has called the meeting ana jie urges all interested fans to attend. Tlimrtors of the Albemarle League will meet in Edenton next Monday sutomer, and it is e desire of local baseball directors to be in position to ' advise the league whether r not Hert ford will take part in the po nwrnibM- at the leaKue."' S, ;-?' Edgar Morris, Business Manager of the Perquimans Club last year, stated, "We are hoping, that fans will turn out for the meeting tonight and ": rive u their vjewa; rWe hope to find ot-t if ttf fans want faseball here summer in flfiw that we can tet the AlebmarJe League know.aefinitely as to our participation. TWs meeting is solely for the purpose of determin ing whether or not fans want baseball this year; there win be no attempt to raise money, io we want the fans to come out and give us their views con cerntog Ihe situation for this year." An Albemarle League-meeting was scheduled fof this week but was post poned untaihext Monday when it was learned, that only Plymouth, thus far, had made plans for fielding a team Cis coming season. 1 League: officials , ' aJ Hint it was their, hope that the I ?ie will M coninfie4 with the i tsm a last year wi'.i cither" ion-or WiUIamston taiiivg the tf E:: 'cth City, which - has la:"' circuit" . Indians To Play In Conference Tourney At Vi'Iiamston Coach Ellie Fearing's Perquiinans Indians will match cage talent with other members of the Albemarle Con ference in an animal tournament sche duled to get underway '.next week at WflBaiiston.y The ; stchedule for the tourney was drawn at meeting of conference officials last week and matches the Indians gainst Scotland Meek in the first round. This game will be olayed at 7:30 o'clock next Wednesday night. The winner will meet Williamston in the. senafinals. The other bracket places Plymouth against . Columbia with the winner meeting Ahoskie in the semi-final'? The conference tourney this year win be comptwed of boys' teams only. NoafltJstt b for the jfirls teams of thecoiaerence. During the past week the Indian? lostvgames to the league leading teams from Ahoskie and Williamston. Ahoskie turned back the Indians last Friday by a 68-36 count and Wuhan b torn trounced the Indians 69-43 in a mwne here Tuesday night. Cannon had 13 points to lead the Indians in scorine at Ahoskie and aumner tal lied 7. umphlett was tne big gun ior Ahoskie, scoring a total of 22 points. Cannon. Tilly and Towe led the In dians' scoring in the game with Wil liamston here Tuesday, but the taller Green Wave outfit swept over the In dians by an overwhelming score. Wil Uamston led throughout the contest, holding a 11-5 lead at the quarter and pushing this to a 33-21 margairi . at Kalf time. The final score was 69-43. In Dreliminary games the' Indian Squaws won from the Ahoskie girls by a margin of 43-z. rerry ana White starred for. the Indiana with 18 and 19 points, while Conger count ed for 12. for the losers. , ;v " The Squaws , lost a heart-breaking decision to the Williamston girls 83 32 on Tuesday; Perry was high point getter for the locals with 14, . White and Symons ; had f nine each,, while Peek starred for Williamston with a total of IS points. An ofncial ruling (Continued on Page. Ten) TliirdPGriodi:: Rg!1 nc!aascd Today E. C. Woodard, principal at Per aolmans High School, this week re leased the names of 33 students on the honor roll at the school for the third grading period, which ended last Fri- dayi The eighth ana izax graaes jea the other classes witH the anmber of students listed on the rolL with eight boys and girls from the eighth and seven from the 12th, excelling in their tudieev.,i'fe'f tts;-' The honor roll by grades Hollows: ' 8th grade: Tilson ChJappeM, Hud son Fisher, John Morris, " " Marshall Winslow,' Katherine Ann Ward, Jean Butt, Margaret Harrell, Joanne Lane. th grade: Ruth Dawson, Kay Stanton, Mabte Martin Whedbee, Janie Winslow, Nan Ella White, 'Mollie Lee Yeates. - 10th grade: , Lewis' Dawson, Tom my Sumner, Marguerite Butler, Marr vJna White, Pauline Burbage, Amy Van Roach. ' - - lltti grade: Calvin Butt, Percy Rogerson, Doris Faye AllenVirginia Gay, Catherine . Goodwin, Mary Sue Cook. 1 12th grade: I Eutt, Jean Lay den, Marjorie , IV ye Kay y Tvom, Watle Jor' i, CL-Ire lluntor K.n.,T - ' - ' Mating Plans Fdr Annud Roll Cl'I Committees Named at Meeting Held Last Thursday Night Tentative plans for the annual Red Cross Roll Call, which will be conduct ed here during the month of March, were reviewed at a meeting of the Perquimans County Red Cross Chap ter, held at the Court House last Thursday night with Charles Henc, CQunty chairman, presiding. Henry Clay Stokes, who will .serve as 1950 Fund Drive chairman, spoke on the plans now being formulated for the anpual drive. He reported that the quota for this county for 1950 will be $1,395. The Chapter voted to allocate and pay the sum of $180 iper year to help pay the expenses of the. blood bank program now being carried out by the Red Cross in this area. Chapter mem bers were advised that the Norfolk Chapter had assumed the costs of this project, but circumstances forced this chapter to request financial aid from other chapters cooperating in the pro gram. The total annual cost of the project was announced as $13,000. Thus Perquimans County agreed to pay one per cent of this total. A report on the success of this blood bank program was given by Mr. Henc, Three committees for the Perquim ans Chapter were named at this meet ing included the Executive committee, composed of Robert Hollowell, Rev. C. W. Duling, C. T. Banks, and Mrs. Robert Applewhite; the finance com mittee, CP. Morris and Robert Hollo well and the program committee made up of Mrs. Chas. E. Johnson, Mrs. Lawrence Towe and Mrs. J. H. Towe. Mrs. F. 'C. White, production chair man stated that another meeting of the committee chairmen will likely be held prior to the opening of the roll call campaign early next month. Probzbl&Cause ii In AssaultCase A verdict of probable cause was re turned by Judge Chas. E. Johnson in Perquimans Recorder's Court here Tuesday morning against Harry Powell, Negro, who is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with in tent to kill. Powell was bound over for a hearing at the April term of Superior Court and bond was set at $1,000. According to testimony offer ed at the preliminary hearing Powell stabbed Henry Riddick five times with an ice pick. " Other cases heard at this week's session - of recorder's court included those of J. W. Sawyer, Edward Melf tand, James Bell and John Priston, all of whom entered pleas of guilty to charges of speeding and paid the costs of court. A fine of $5 and costs were as sessed against Rose Bogelman and Gordan Preutt, who entered pleas of guilty to charges of speeding. Costa of court were taxed against Vaughan Rue, who pleaded guilty to a charge of passing on a curve. Frank Jones, Negro, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of failing to observe ; a stop "sign. He paid the costs of court. ' Robert Bray, , charged with driving without a license, plead guilty and paid a fine of 426 and costs. Joseph Bubose was fined $35 and costs of court on a charge of reckless driving. William Rountree and Pauline Rountree were found' not guilty on charges of letting a non-licensed op erator to drive a car without a license. William Patillo, Negro, entered a plea of guilty, to driving without, a license.. He was fined $26 and costs. Ralph Bailey paid, a fine of $10 and costs after pleading to a charge of reckless driving, t Farm Li re I . Hold Cc:iVvon ; 5' Three members U the Perquimans Farm Bureau w..l attend the State Convention starting in Raleigh on Sunday: The local delegates are Mil ton Dafl, Warner Madre and Raymond Euro. 1 , , , ' ! A. C. Edwards, president of the; State Farm Bureau has appealed to members to make an extra effort to attend ' the 14th annual ; convention pointing out that the ( yearly meeting provides Farm JBureau members with the means of obtaining first hand in formation" on agriculture problems. The convention starting Sunday will continue -through Wednesday. ; -r . Boy Scout Week Barents to Participate In Event to Be Held At Court House Hertford Troop 155 of the Boy Scouts will bring to a successful close its observance of National Boy Scout Week with a Court of Honor to be conducted at the Court House in Hert ford Friday night starting at 7:30 o'clock. Boy Scout Week has been a busy one for members of the local troop, on Monday night, a Board of Review was held at which time many of the boys qualified for awards to be made at the Court of Honor, and plans for the court were completed. It was an nounced that the event Friday night will be a boy and parent affair, with parents presenting awards to their sons. Presentation of the awards to the parents will be made by Wm. A. Sutherland, Field Scout Executive from Elizabeth City. The public is cordially invited to attend the meet ing. Members of the Boy Scout troop opened activities for Boy Scout Week by attending church last Sunday at the Hertford Baptist church, they wall attend the Methodist Church next Sunday. On Tuesday night the following members of the troop, Conbin Dozier, Howard Felton, John Holmes, Eugene White, Charles Whedbee, Crafton Mathews, Herbert Nixon, Jr., Tal madge Byrum, Eugene. Myers, Carl ton Sutton and Corbm Cherry, conv posed a first aid team which put on a demonstration for the District Court of Honor which was held in Eden ton The local boys displayed a splendid exhibition and were highly commended by the scout officials. In connection with National Boy Week, a display of scouting activities has, been placed in the window at Nix on' and will remain the balance of thiweek. ' :p- ONE CHILD KILLED, FIVE INJURED IN SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT LAST THURSDAY B&L Stockholders Re-elect Directors' Stockholders of the Hertford Build ing and Loan Association held their annual meeting at the Court House in Hertford on Wednesday afternoon and re-elected the association's present board of directors for a period of one year. Directors re-elected were A. W. Hefren, C. P. Morris, J. P. Perry, J. W. Ward, V. N. Darderi, Max Camp bell, Chas. E. Johnson, Claude White, R.. M. Riddick. Dr. C. A. Davenport, and Julian A. White. Following the stockholders meeting, the directors met and re-elected pres ent officers for the coming year. A. W. Hefren was elected as President, J. P. Perry and C. P. Morris, vice presidents and Max Campbell, secre tary. Health Department Reports 19,592 X ray Films Made Dr. B. B. McGuire, District Health Officer, reported today that a grand total of 19,592 X-rays were mare in the four county health jnhit in Jthe sur vey conducted during Ttfecember and January. Pasquotank county had 10, 097, Perquimans, 4,326; Chowan, 4,037 and Camden, 1,132. . Final results of the survey are not complete Dr. McGuire sated, since many persons in all four counties who were requested to have a large film made have not done go. He pointed out that it is of special importance that all those persons come at once for this large film. The request for the large film does not necessarily in dicate that the person has active tu berculosis, but instead, it is necessary to rule out pulmonary tuberculosis. Miss .Audrey Umphlett, County Health Nurse, stated that a follow up unit making large films is at the local health office in Hertford and films will be made from 9 A M., to 1 K M, daily from February Sf through Feb ruary 17, Sundays and Mondays ex cepted. Individuals who have been re quested to have a large film made are asked to bring their letter from the Health Department and get a large film made without delay. County Board Holds Meeting On Monday Commissioners for Perquimans County met in regular session here on Monday and passed upon a number ox fiscal matters presented during the No action was taken on the request tiiat poll taxes of , members of the Hertford volunteer Fire Department be rescinded, pending decision by the Attorney General as to the legal light to do so. - .The Board turned down a recm mendation that grants to blind indi viduals be increased to 100 per cent of budget, needs.. It also rejected a number of application for assistance from the, Poor Fund..,. v- Members of the Board of Education annaared before the Commissioners concerntogaj decision regarding the construction of Negro (schools, how ever, the Commissioners advised the Board of Education that it considered the matter closed through. ti recom mendations, made by'the Negro school committees. v. - Board Of Education Asked To Reconsider Negro School Site Members of the Perquimans Board of Education, meeting in regular ses sion here on Monday, were requested by a delegation of Negro citizens, rep resenting the Hertford district, to re consider proposals to construct a un ion school for Negroes at Winfall. This delegation told the Board it has discovered another site, suitable for a high school in Hertford and asked that this site be considered before construction of a building started at Winfall. The Board, according to J T. Biggers, superintendent, advised the delegation that it will consider the request and have the site investigated by a State engineer. This action on the art of the dele gation was a reversal of a decision made three weeks ago when school committees for the Hertford and Win fall districts met and recommended that the final decision as to the high school location be made by State School officials. These officials rec ommended the construction of a union building at Winfall. vWhat delay, if any, this request will have concerning the building program for Winfall will depend upon decisions made by the State Engineer. Details concerning the fatal bus accident on last Thursday were re viewed by members of the Board and a resolution was passed requesting the State Highway Conraiission take im mediate steps to improve the ap proach to the Hog Neck bridge and to widen this bridge. The Board authorized the Superin tendent of Schools to clear and drain the school grounds at Perquimans Traininir School for playground area He was also authorized to secure bids for seats in the new gymnasium at Perquimans High School. Kavmond Fuson, architect for thu building, appeared before the Board nH made a oratress report o:i the construction. Peanut School Drew Large Crowd Here A one day peanut school was con ducted on February 2 at the Agricul tural Building. The various phases of peanut production including soil re quirements, seed bed preparation, ier tilization, cultivation, insect and di- seaaa control, and harvesting were discussed. . Approximately lifty farmers at tended. Interest was good with many farmers entering into the discussion. Dr. E. T. York, who is connected with the Upper Coastal Plain Experiment Station, at Rocky Mount led tne dis cussion on fertilization and liming of peanuts. W. D. Lee, of State College discussed the types of soil and soil requirements of peanuts. George D. Jones. Extension Entomologist led an interesting discussion on the insect program and recent experiments wrcn different insecticides. N. C. Teter, and G. W. -Giles of the State College Engineering Department, discussed mechanization and told of experiments now in progress to develop new types of neanut harvesters. Dr. E. R. Col lins, Extension Agronomist discussed different types of result demonstra tions which would be carried out with peanuts. He also explained work which has been done to develop a hy brid peanut. - x, i" Following ; the peanut school, a brief Dealers Insecticide School, was conducted by G. D. Jones and Dr. E. R. Collins. Fifteen dealers and other interested persons attended. . . j Matter May Be Placed Before Grand Jury at April Court A Perquimans County Coroner's Jury, after hearing testimony pre sented concerning a highway accident involving a school bus and a log truck, in which a 10-year old girl was killed and five other .school students injured, returned a verdict that it was the jury's opinion that both drivers were obeying the law. The coroner's inquest on the acci dent was conducted by Dr. C. A. Dav enport in the office of the superin tendent of schools last Friday morn ing at 10:30 o'clock. The jury was composed of Lawrence Towe, John O. White, Jr., Charlie Elliott, T. W. Nix on, J. P. Chesson and Joe Perry. A large number of witnesses gave testimony at the hearing and there was some variation as to the manner and the exact spot that the accident occurred. Killed in the accident, which hap pened last Thursday afternoon at about four o'clock on the highway be tween New Hope and Woodville, was 10 year old Irene Foreman, who it was reported, died of a head wound. The list of injured students included Jesse Jacocks, James Banks, Mildred Welch, Patey Lee and Charles Overton. The school bus transporting chil dren from the Perquimans Training School at Winfall, to their homes was traveling toward New Hope, it was reported by Patrolman B. R, Inscoe, who investigated the accident. Testimony presented at the inquest by Patrolman Inscoe revealed evidence that the accident occurred at a bridge near the Hog Neck road. The Patrol man stated that debris on the high way indicated that the accident hap pened at the south side of this bridge but that there were no tare tracks plainly showing the paths of the ve hicles. Tannis Spellman, Negro, driver of the log truck which collided with the school bus, told the jury that as he rounded a curve in the road he saw the bus approaching and that the bus was across the center line of the road. He stated he attempted to turn out of the way of the bus but had insuf ficient room to avoid hitting the school bus. He stated that he had crossed the bridge and that the acci dent occurred on the Woodville side of the structure. He told the jury that he was traveling at approximate ly 20 miles per hour. Jonas Whedbee, Negro, driver of the school bus, stated that he saw the truck approaching around the curve and that he was just crossing the bridge and pulled the school bus to the right as much as possible to avoid a collision. He stated that the truck was traveling at about 40 miles pr hour. He stated that the wheels of the log truck were over the center of the road. Several of the students riding on the school bus testified before the jury, and three estimated the speed of the log truck at about 40 miles per hour. The jury was advised that the school bus had a governor on it and (Continued on Page Seven) Polio Campaign To Close Next Monday Contributidns to the Perquimans March of Dimes fund reached a total of 1720.85 this week, according to James E. Newby, drive chairman, who stated that the sum reported repre sented contributions turned in from the Town of Hertford, the State Theatre and Perquimans High School. He pointed out that as yet he has not received any reorts from rural com munities or special events staged by local civic organizations. "With the reports yet to be receiv ed, I believe we will reach more than a thousand dollars," Mr. newby said. The chairman requested that all solicitors make every effort to report returns to him not . later than Satur day of this week, as the committee desires to bring the drive to a close this week. Solicitors unable to re port by Saturday are asked to do so by next Monday.' '' Total contributions received to date were broken down by the chairman as follows: Business jgection of Hert ford, $256; State Theatre, $114.71; Perquimans High School, $13.72, and residential Hertford, $336.42. Special events staged by local clubs for the benefit of the March of Dimes were the bingo party sponsored by the ; Lioness Club and a rook bridge party given by the Perquimans BPW Club. The VFW Poet is sponsoring a dance Saturday night and proceeds from this event will be contributed to the fund, a 7