North Carolina Newspapers

V" - '(A ' u - " - -r . WEEE SLY Volume XVII. No. 37.; aertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina. Friday, September 15, 1950. 5 Cents Per Copy TII1S VMS IIKLIIJES , United Nations troops opened an offensive on the Korean war front late this week in an effort to wipe out a Red Salient. Communist troops waged all-out attacks along most of the 120 mile perimeter of the battle line late last week but. these attacks were haltedby. United Nations forces. It Gen. Walked, commanderr of the American Eighth Army said early this week .that it was his belief that , the UN troops ' were now sufficiently strong to stop any further offensives by the Reds. v President Truman on Tuesday an nounced 'the resignation of Louis Johnson' as Secretary of Defense. He named General George Marshal to suc ceed Johnson. - A special act of Con gress is needed in order for Marshal to fill the post inasmuch as the law forbids a military officer from serving as Defense Secretary. Congress is exoected to approve Marshal ., this week. Johnson has been called upon to resign his post for the past several months. Foreign Ministers for United States, Great Britain and France are con ferring in New York this week, dis cussing plans for the defense of West ern Europe against Communist ag gression. Chief problem of the meet?, ing is the question of re-arming Ger many and incorporating West Gerl many , into the defense pact of the Western powers. Thirty five members of the Penn sylvania National Guard died in a train wreck in Ohio early this week when a fast passenger train crashed into the rear of a troop train, carry ing the soldiers to amp Atterbury, Indiana for nduction in the Armed Forces. . ;W';wn the' Canadian kayal j. Mounted police, FBI authorities' r-'-, J- rested 10 'serions Wednesday. .an're- . -' ' ported 'the)' had smashed a two million a- ''dollar International jWttery rln Prior WPrtstar ra' tnfflttf ob' rai undistributed lottery tickets.. . , j Silas flUli:i32 tted As Director Of Civilioi DafensD Fcr Pcpmans Meeting Planned To Perfect Organization Of Unit , Silas M. Whedbee, Hertford attoi ney, has been appointed Director of Civilian Defense for Perquimans Coun ty, it was announced here Monday. Mr. Whedbee was nominated for the post by Mayor V. N. Darden and appoint ment was confirmed this week by E. Z. Jones, State Director of Civilian Defense. Mr. Whedbee stated Tuesday, follow ing the announcement of his appoint ment, that a meeting will be held here within the near future in order to perfect the county organization. Reports on the organization of local Civilian Defense units, reveal that many of the plans such as used dur ing World War II will be discarded and entirely new defense ideas will be formulated for civilians. The stress of civilian defense will be based upon possible Atomic war fare and local units will receive train ing along these lines. Plans used dur ing World War II were formulated upon a series of incidents, over a period of time. While complete details for the local organization are as yet unavailable, Mr. Whedbee said that he will call upon large 'numbers of county resi dents to take part in the county unit and he urge all to report for the first meeting and when notified of its date and location. Recorder's Court IN Heavy Docket Si's A a - a WidowsOf Veterans; niiessioniuesnay WiaftrftnsioilfcJ11 Indians lk!d First Smmmaje Drill Dm In pwp&ration for the opening game WiSilW the ftwqimans HighvScCTfpotball team ' held Its first full scale scrjmmage Thursday 1 i ' J T- . 1 T i. ' nigni, unuer w ukuu, wnen a mum ! l tt: l. ci.i, t 1: 1 Harry P. Cain returned ,11' The Indians will open their season next Friday night, against Farmville. Coach Ellie Fearing said today that he will take his entire squad of some 35 players to Farmville for the first Senator from an inspectien trip of European countries and reported to the Senate this week that it is highly probable if Russia opens an aggressive move in Europe any time in the near future w ffca TTnited States will face the ', fighting alone. He told members of("ae- the Senate that only Turkey and Spain apparently had a nucleus of an army that could quickly assemble ,for defense of Western Europe. Teachers And State Employees To Meet There will be an important meet ing of all members of the Teachers and State Employees' Retirement Sys tpm on Thursday. September. 21, at 7:30 o'clock. iMhe auditorium of tteipleaBed witj, tte manner in . which Practice sessions during the past week have revealed that the 1950 ver sion of the Indians will' be somewhat improved over last year. Coach Fear ing will have a light, but experienced backfield, and the line, with veterans Archie Lane, Clinton Winslow, Can non, Sumner, J. Robertson, Askew, C. Robertson and Thach forming the nucleus, should provide plenty of op position for the Indians' opponents. Backfield candidates showing up well in practice sessions are Joe Towe, Gar land Walker, Shackleford Lane, and Freshmen John Morris and Howard Williams. Coach Fearing said that he 1b well Hertford Gramme School, if was an nounced here today. AH members of the group are urged to attend as several important items will be brought up for discussion. , , One of these items will be a move ment to acquaint the general public with an amendment to be voted on at the general election on. November 7. This amendment will be for" the securing and safe guarding of the funds of the Teacners' ana State am nlnvees' Retirement System. . , I Under present laws the funds of this system can be diverted, or bor rowed for use of other State agencies, and it is the desire of the System that through approval of this amend ment at the general election , by, the people of the state; that these fund will remain solely tor the retirement of state employees, and diversion of the funds will be made Impossible by law. m '::;:: The funds of the system are made up of payments each month by the teachers ana state employees, woo pay five per cent of, their monthly ialary into the system for retirement bene fits. . J Health Department i V Goes On 5-Day Week At a meeting of the District Board t Health In the Health Center, Eliza--h City yesterday, the Board voted unanimously to go on a five day week beginning October ,1st Hours ' for ;'l offices will be from! 8:30 to '6:30 onday through Friday, with an hour r tdticht Each office, however, will i c-en during the-lunch period, r " ' -s in the exact time few im n clinics to replace Satusrday - c'.:..Ls will be annouavc- the team is shaping up and that he will probably use a two-team system during most of the season. The Indiana are using the T-for- mation for offense this "season, and this switch is expected to give the light, fast backfield more of a scor ing punch than it had last year when using the single wing plan. County Council To Have Fair Exhibit The Perquimana County Council of Home Demonstration, Clubs are busy completing plans for an educational exhibit for the Seven County Fair to be held in Elisabeth City September 18-28. The subject, of-the exhibit is the reading 'program, which is an important part of the year's program. The exhibit features reading center in the home. , v " The committee consists of Mrs. J. &., Basnight, chairman, , Mrs. E. J. Proctor , and Mrs. . Claude .Winslow. All Home Demonstration Club women are Urged to go by and look at the exhibit .- j. f t ? U,ri O Legion Post Plans ' Armstice Pr6gram'n ': Members of the Wm.Taal Stallings Post of the' American Legion met last Thursday night at the Agricuttan Building, in . Hertford , and. discussed plans for holding an Armstice Day program-on povember ll.-' - Recently elected officers assumed duties of the Post at 'this meeting. Definite plans for the Armstice Day proCTsm will be announced following t..,-n of arrangements' at the nc t rr; '"-j of the Post.-' , Widows of veterans of World Warl I whose income is $1,000 or less" a year are entitled to a pension of $42 a month; from the Federal Govern' ment, Ctfunty Veterans Service Offi cer C. C. Banks, Perquimans County service Officer pointed out today. Those widows with children under certain ages are entitled to extra com pensation provided their income is not over $2500 per year. Service by the veteran must have been between April 6, 1917, and No vember 11, 1918, and discharge or re lease from active duty must have been under other than dishonorable con ditions after 90 days or more of mili tary service. For the purposes of a pension a widow must have been married to a World War I veteran before December 14, 1944 or 10 or more years to the person who served, and must not have remarried. District Service Officers of the N. C. Veterans Commission, County Vet erans Service Officers, and Post Ser vice fficers of the various veterans organizations are ready to assist or advise veterans or their dependents on all . pension or compensation bene fits; and a special campaign is be ing conducted by the N. C. Veterans Commission and the County Veterans Service Officers and the Post Service Officers of all the various veterans organizations from September 15 to December 15 to locate and help such eligible widows and orphans to file their claims properly. Draft Board Receives Report On Draftees A report received here Wednesday afternoon from State Headquarters of Selective Service (revealed that" 14 out of the 25 draftees who underwent physical examination last Thursday had passed these tests and were now eligible for induction into the Armed Forces, it was announced today by Mrs. Enda Winslow, clerk of the looal board. ; ; In connection with the examinations sriven selectees. Mrs. Winslow stated that Selective Service of North Caro lina is following a policy adopted by National Headquarters whereby names of selectees ordered for ex aminations will not be released, how ever, names of registrants ordered for induction will be published, NEGRO GROUP ENTERS SUIT IN FEDERAL COURT TO HALT BUILDING C0,NSTTtUCTI0ii Town Board Grants Permission For Show JJ Morning Term (Following a week's recess, Per- ttiman's Recorder's Court docket con- sited of some 30-odd cases when cdfort convened Tuesday morninjr.. Sev eral of the cases were continued untillor tne iions Llub and presented the Hertford Town Board met in regu lar session here, last Monday night. At the request of the Hertford Lions Club, permission was granted by the Board for the local civic club to sponsor a carnival in Hertford dur ing the week of October 8. Clinton Eley, Sidney Blanchard and John T. Biggers appeared before the Board later terms of court, and four de fertdants failed to appear to answer t4 charges brought against them Judge Chas. E. Johnson ordered these defendants held on bond until the court convened again next Tuesday. William Schram, Richard Browher, Clifton Jones, Douglas Shuler, Norman Boettcher and Milton Cuffie all enter ed pleas of guilty to charges of speed ing and paid the costs of court. Andrew Carroll was ordered to pay a fine of $5 and court costs after pleading guilty to a charge of speed ing. ! Maurice Gilbert, Neil Hill and Rob ert Beasley, each charged with failure to observe a stop sign, entered pleas of guilty and paid the costs of court. Woodrow Miller and Eddie Winslow, Negroes, charged with driving without a license, entered pleas of guilty and were ordered to pay fines of $25 and costs of court. George Butler entered a plea of guilty to being drunk and disorderly. He was given a 60 day road sentence suspended upon condition he leave the county for a period of one year. William Wilson, charged with reck less driving, entered a plea of guilty and paid a fine of $25 and costs of cputt. The State took a nol pros in the ernes of William Bunch and Norman Igbrning, charged with trespassing. Robert Burke, Negro, was found guilty of assault with a deadly wea pon. He was sentenced to the roads for 60 days, sentence to be suspended Upon payments of costs' ahdthat the defendant leave the county for one year. Curtis Shepard and Russell Susi, charged with speeding, entered pleas request for permission to hold the carnival within the town limits. With only routine business matters up for consideration, the Board meet ing was adjourned after fiscal matters had been disposed of by the members. Rotary Governor To Visit Local Club Next Tuesday Night Complaint Charges Un equal Facilities For Negro Children A suit was filed in the Federal Court at Elizabeth City last Friday, by some 25 Negro residents of Per quimans County seeking an injunction to stop construction of the Union School for Negroes, now being erect ed at Winfall, until the court de termines whether the discrimination alleging inequal facilities for Negro children because of their race and color exists. The suit is brought against the Perquimans Board of Education, Supt. J. T. Biggers, the State Board of Edu cation and Supt. Clyde Edwin, super intendent of public instruction. Sign ing the complaint is Wheeler Jones, one of the plaintiffs. Attorneys fcr the plaintiffs are Herman L. Taylor of Raleigh, Roland D. Faley of Richmond and C. J. Cates of Durham. Papers in the suit were served against the State Board of Education Thursday and revealed that the action was brought by Negro children of the COUntv hv thpir Tlpyfr frianii tlm not- The Rotary Club of Hertford on ents of the children. September 19 will be host to H. B. The names of the plaintiffs are: Spruill, Governor of the 278th Dis- Joseph Butt, Nellie James, Raymond tnct of Rotary International, who is Riddick, Ellis Hunter, Daniel Smith, making his annual official visit to Sherman Hinton, John Gordon, An- each of the 37 Rotary Clubs in North ern Piedmont and North Eastern Carolina. He will confer with Presi dent Herbert " Nixon, and Secretary Dave Henry and other local Rotary officers on Club administration and Rotary service activities. Mr. Spruill is manager of H. B. & C. W. Spruill Farms in Windsor, North Carolina and is a member of the Windsor Rotary Club. He is one of the 207 Rotary District Governors who are supervising the activities of some 7,100 Rotary Clubs which have a membership of 342,000 business and professional executive in 83 countries and geographical regions throughout the world. Wherever Rotary Clubs are located their activities are similar to those of the Rotary Club of Hertford because they are based on the same general objectives developing better under- of guilty and each paid a fine of $10 standing and fellowship among busi and costs. ness an professional men, promoting James Kierean and Thomas Jordan, community-betterment undertakings, charged with passing cars, without j raising the standards of business and proper clearance, entered pleas of guil-1 yiwessions, anu xosternig ty and paid the costs of court. Emma Winslow, Negro, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, entered a plea of guilty. She was sentenced to jail for a period of four months. Directive Concerning College Students Issued By Draft Board New regulations covering draftage college students were issued Monday by the Perquimans County draft board in an effort to clarify standings of students in , regard to induction . A number of college students have simply used statements from college officials certifying that they are en rolled in the school, but draft oinciais emphasize that such statements are not sufficient. Students are urged to see that full information is available to their draft board concerning their status. New Directive for students follows The Selective Service System has changed its regulations affecting clas sifications for college students. . The new "directive authorizes a draft board to reclassify a registrant from 1-iA to 2-A if he meets all three of the following conditions: Has completed at least one academic year of a full-time course of instruc tion in a college, university or similar institution of learning. If his scholastic standing placed him in the upper half of the class during his last academic year. If the local board is satisfied that the registrant, prior to August 1, In tended U enroll in school for the aca demic year ending in the Spring of ' A full time graduate student may be considered to have met conditions by the college that in his last tinder- graduate year he stood In the upper half tf his class.- Heretofore, If col lege students met certain requirements when about to be drafted, they could request postponement of Induction un til the close of the academic year. The ruling does not affect students covered by ether regulations. $ ; JAYCKES TO MLT V-. , The Hertford Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold its firsjh dinner United .Nations Plajr New Credit Curbs Effective Monday Financing of many items, from au tomobiles to home repairs, will become tighter, next Monday, under terms of a bill passed by Congress and signed by President Truman last Saturday. Under: the law, which becames ef fective September 18, Automobile in stalments are effective of $5,000 or less and other installment credits of 2J50O or less. Down payments of at least one-third will be required for cars and pay ment can not extend beyond 21 months. Many appliances will require down payment of at least 15 per cent and' maximum, maturities ... of 18 months. " r''"-"-'" Furniture, rugs and home repairs will require down payments of at least 10 percent and payment within 18 to 80 months. . V: ' The: measure is aimed to control credit expansion and inflation under present world conditions. HDQadersfAtfa..: Plojrth ; Meeting . Three represratadvlSs of Perquini ans County Home Demonstration Clubs, Sirs. Norman Elliott, ' county clothing leader Mi;ss Lena Winslow, county citizenship leader, and Mrs. Nina B. White, Home Agent, attended a training meeting in Plymouth on Tuesday. The purpose of the meeting was to assist leaders in making plans for the observance of National United Nations Day. 7 j- v i,v v Miss : Julian Mclver, Extension specialist trained the group In making- a TT.!t. XT-1.1 ti" . . 0 meeting next Wednesday, September 20 at 7 o'clock, t. Members are -unred to notify Durwood Reed, Jr., ir Jarvis Henry if they are unable to attend. i Perquimans County Home Demon stration., Clubs,-will. observe - National United Nations Day on October 24, it was announced. the ad vancement of good will, understanding and peace among all the peoples of the world. Each year this world-wide service organization continues to grow in numbers and in strength. During the last fiscal year 293 new Rotary Clubs were organized in 36 countries in North, South and Central America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Islands of the Pacific. Cancer Detection Clinic Open Again After being closed for two months for the summer season, the Cancer Detection Clinic, sponsored by the Junior Woman's Club of Elizabeth City in cooperation with health au thorities, reopened on Friday of last week to get back on regular schedule Registration for the clinic, which is open to anyone in this part of the state, will be held from 1:30 to 2 o'clock each Friday afternoon. The service is free. Women 35 years old of older and men 40 are urged to have the examination, and anyone else of any age who has symptoms of cancer. The clinic is held at the Health Center on the corner of Harney and Cedar streets, in Elizabeth City. Quartet Being Held For Investigation Four Negroes, all residents of Mi ami; Fla., were placed in jail here Tuesday by Sheriff M. G. Owens and are being held for investigation, ac cording to, Sheriff Owens. The quartet was placed under ar rest following complaints made by residents of Bethel Township. Sheriff Owens stated he located the group in a woods near Pmey Park on Route 17, and found a glass cutter and rub ber, hose on one of the Negroes. , The, .complaints made to Sheriff Owens were that the. group were disturbing the neighborhood., -fc'st ' J; : -,; - Hertford Marine Called To Service . j Keith Haskett, reserve in the U. S Marine Corps, has received orders to report for active duty at Camp Le Juene on September 27. , Haskett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Haskett, is the first Marine Reserve from Perquimans to be', called to ac tive duty, ,, , , drew C. White, Joseph Lightfoot, Charlie Whedbee, James Harrell, Mamie Sutton, Wheeler Jones, Lath am Felton, Luther James, Davis Tol on, Will White, Jacob Willis, Eu genia Hurdle, Daniel Harrell, R. R. Sutton, W. R. Brooks; Joseph Gordon, Edgar Harvey and Lycurus White. The complaint alleges that the school facilities for Negro students in the county are far inferior to those maintained for white children and that such a practice is in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution and to the consti-' stitution and laws of North Carolina. Section 12 of the complaint alleges that the defendants "are maintaining an accredited high . school and ele mentary facilities for white children but that no such facilities are main tained for Negro children." Specific inequalities listed include allegations that the white schools are of modern brick construction, with central heating plant while the Negro students have only dilapidated frame buildings which should be condemned and which are heated by stoves which provide a fire hazard. White schools have adequate lunch room, gymnasium and auditorium facilities while the Negro schools have none, the com plaint alleges. It further points out that the white schools have enclosed athletic fields, grandstands, lights for night games and shower and locker rooms while none of these exist for the Negro schools. Regarding the curriculum, the com ( Continued on Page Ten) BPW Club Holds Business Session The Perquimans Business and Pro fessional Women's Club held a busi ness meeting last Friday night at the home of Miss Hulda Wood, president of the club. Miss Wood was in charge of the program. Mrs. R. M. Kiddick, secre tary read the minutes and reports were made by various committee chairmen. Mrs. Roxanna Jackson gave a re port on the club's sick loan closet, and stated that many people have al ready made use of this service offer by the BPW. She also reported of the help made possible for this pro ject by donations and contributions from various organizations, church circles and individuals, all of which is greatly appreciated by members of the BPW. Plans were discussed for observance of National BPW Week, starting Oc tober 15, and it was decided that the local group will plan a program, de tails of which will be riven at a later date. 'v ' H The next meeting of the club will be held at the home of Mrs. Addie N. Jones on October IS. Following the meeting last Fridav. (Miss Wood served refreshments to those present BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith of near Hertford announce the birth of twin ons. 'born Saturday, September 0th. Mrs. Smith, before her marriage, was Miss Ethel Frances Elliott. 1 BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT , Mr. and Mrs. Jimmv Brvant of Greensboro announce the birth of .a son born .'Thursday, 'September 7th. Mrs. Bryant is the former Miss A imp Tucker. 5 -vV , v 1