North Carolina Newspapers

9 f " 0 r ...... .... - Building Expected to Be , Heady For Opening of) . Schools September 5 v' An inspection tour of the Negro Union School at Winfall was made '.Wednesday afternoon by State Engi- Tieer niuuun uuu, 4. yy. vrruuii, ar chitect and J. T. Biggers, superinten dent of schools. Final approval was ; made in regards to the general con tract, -with a few minor jobs to be comoleted bv the eontractor. -' Approval of the plumbing and heating projects and : the electrical -work will not be given until an in spection of this work is made at a latter date., -y:r :(-'.. and 100 per cent complete, but the plumbing and electrical contractors auu nave considerate wont xo ao ne fnr the buildin? will be accented by; the Board of Education. . JMr. Biggers ' stated, following the Inspection Wednesday, these contrac tors will have to increase the speed of their work in order for the boild-l Ing to be 'ready for the opening of schools in a little more than, four weeks. The plumbing contractor was present at the inspection: this week and he stated he will complete - his: contract in a week or 10 days time. The new building, one of the most modern in thf entire State, is a spa cious - well-lighted and - ventilated school with 18 class, rooms, a gym auditorium and a combination lunch room : and library. . A fcgianlJHjiied heating unit is located in the boiler room and is 01 sufficient sue to pro vide ample heat for the Jaxfejwi!., A complete water and sanitary sys tem is also included jflthf bcoo . Price controls were eased somewhat Wednesday when President Truman signed the new control law, passed recently by Congress, however, the President termed the new law de ficient and stated he would have ve toed the measure if rents and other essentials ' had not been tied in the Cease-fire talks, in Korea, this week centered around the issue of estab lishing a buffer jEone between UN and Communist jorces, according to re ports from UN Headquarters in Ko rea. The Communists had proposed the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the country but when UN rep resentatives flatly turned down this -proposal, the Reds then balked on the UN proposed buffer gone. Diplomatic' relations between the U. S. and Czechslovakia continued as hot subject tWs we with an an nouncement from Washington that the TJ. S. is breaking" off. contract trade agreements with the Czechs. The ac tion hinges on the imprisonment lofj an American by the Czechs, who. charged- the U. S. newsman was a ,. A United Nations Commission, this week, besan a task of hunting down more thn half a million prisoners iof World War II; mbst of them reported to be in Russia. The Commission will attempt to locate the POW's and re turn them to their rightful homes.. A report" from Raleigh on Wednes day stated Governor Scott may ap point a committee to investigate the alleged fixing of prices on gasoline ih this state. The proposal was made by Attorney General McMullan, who recently stated, after some investi gation, it appeared a major oil com pany fixes the price of , gasoline in North Carolina- areas. ; v.; -sc-- ' VFW. Undefeated - In Softball ;;tes:aif: Interest jn Hertford's soft ball lea gue continues to grow, as the VOFW team continued to hold the top spot in the league ' -standing with eight victories and no losses. The Jaycees dumped the Lions twice last week to tie the Independents for second place in-the standing and the Lions Club are. still looking for that "first", win. Games rrt week are as follows: Monday. -s vs.- Independents; Wedne . . . 7 vq. Im-Tjendantii: Friday, Lu. a vs. Jaycees. Wi Pc.t .1000 .500 .600 .000 VFW .- Jaycees 8 a 4 4 8 4 J4'.' Independents . uons ' r.:;LvGal Sots JJd At $3P Johnny Alton Myers, 19-year-old Hertford youth, is Joeing held in Per quimans County jail, on six counts in connection with the two ' robberies which occurred here over the week end of July 21-22. c - Myers surrendered himself to Sher iff M. G. Owens last Friday morn ing after a telephone conversation with his mother, who advised him to give up to the authorities, who were then searching for the youth. The youth is charged with break ing and entering the HoHoweu Chev rolet warehouse, on two occasions, and the W. M. Divers & Son Jewelry Store. He is also charged with driv ing without a license and the theft of a revolver f rom C, H. Twiddy and tools from the Southern Cotton Oil Company!, Bond was set for Myers at $4,000, but in a preliminary hearing given the youth on Tuesday in Recorder's Court, on a motion of Attorney W. a. Oak:- ey, the bond was reduced to $3,000. However, an additional $1,000 bond is required by Pitty County, in connec tion with the theft of a car in Green ville. . 'A--, . Through his attorney, Myers indi cated a desire to waiver a hearing on the various charges and the case was continued until next week, pending the possibility bond will be raised for the defendant. In a statement made to Sheriff Owens, immediately after Myers sur rendered last Friday morning, Myers related detailed account of his ac tivities ' starting on Saturday night, July 21, when he broke into the Hol lowell Chevrolet warehouse and stole tiie first of two cars from this place. He drove the first car to Weodville, gassed it up and drove -through the country to Edenton, where he wrecked and abandoned this auto. I He return ed to Hertford, walking the railroad track the entire distance and took the-second car from the Hollowefl place jit 4 A. M., Sunday morning; aftst H trip to Virginia Beach in this car h returned to Hertford later in the day and entered the Diver's store, from which he took between 50 and mmryuM'Mtfifyiririrwinrir nrinrirurinnri CnCrcDcr Prises j To' lay the basis for a program of dollar-and-cent "community prices" in the nation's grocery stores, the Office of Price Stabilization will conduct a nation-wide survey of wholesale and retail grocery costs and prices. , "The first survey of wholesalers began in the Raleigh area on July 30, and the retail survey will get un der way on August 2," District Di rector J. G... Clark announced. He added that at first, establishments will be visited every' other week,, and that this may be stepped up to every week if experience indicates , a need for more frequent sampling. . : During the course of the nation wide survey, teams from OPS' 84 dis trict offices will regularly visit retail food stores and wholesale establish ments gathering information on what grocers pay for foods and what they sell them for. A chief purpose of the survey will be to , discover whether there is sufficient staointyui xne prices of a number of standard gro cery items to mane a -commuiwy Community . pricing, the Raleigh OPS exnlained. ! - a system under which, the. .country is divided into market areas, and grocery price ceil ings are -established for each area on the basis of local transponauon na other cost factors. These ceilings which are the same in an area for all stores of the same class are .then printed on fharts for posting in re tail stores where all customers' can see them;- vjf . i; In addition to determining the rela tive "stability of prices of food items subject to change of parity provisions, the survey will have two further ad vantages: -(l It will furnish a broad basis of comparison between the ac tual Veiling prices in relation to ceil ing prices as How established' under CeiHng Price Regulations 14, 15 and IS the grocery - regulations which provide fixed' percentage mark-ups for ; wholesalers and for small, and large' retail grocery stores. J(2) The process of gathering the needed in formation will prepare and train the OPS staff which will be responsible for the operation of the community food pricing program when such a program actually gets under way ''i "'' ' . , V;.::V Commissioners To Meet Next Monday The Perquimans County Board of Commissioners will meet next Mon day, at 10 A. M.t for its regular Au gust meeting. In addition to its ufrual routine ' business the board is also expected to give final approval to the fiwal bulget for the current year. " Results planning to appa' before tiie board for any purpose are asked to note time and date of this meet- 'i:, .'; ':'.'"- '.f .'" 60 watches.- He told Sheriff Owens he entered the jewelry store by break ing out the skylight and left; the Duiiding by the same route he had en tered. ; v,:, ; After looting the jewelry store, he) drove to Norfolk where he pawned a number 01 watches and then began a motor trip which led to Raleigh! wnere fie spent Monday night. He pawned some more watches in Ra leigh then started driving north,! stopping in Washington, D. C, and later drove into Maryland. He Jd a minor wreck in Maryland but was , released by the Maryland State Police when the driver of the other vehicle involved in the wreck stated he hadl no damages. i Stating traffic was heavy "up there" Myers told the sheriff he then returned to Virginia and pawned some more watches in Petersburg. He then returned to North Carolina and spent considerable time in and around Kin ston, ' New Bern, Washington and Greenville. Meanwhile, he said, he had picked up two hitch hikers, who according to .Myers, aided him in pawning some of the watches he still had with him. He admitted stealing a third car in (Greenville, then abandoning the Hollowell car, and drove toward Hert ford. He passed through Hertford Thursday night and stayed awhile in a tourist court near Elizabeth City. About one A. M., Friday he left this point and drove back to Edenton and spent the rest of Thursday night He then drove to Washington, N. C, and realizing the authorities were proba bly hot on his trail, he called his mother and talked with her. He stat- his mother advised him to give him self .upj; immediately he left Wash ington and drove back to Hertford, leaving the third stolen car back of the jail and entered the sheriffs of fice and surrendered. . When he surrendered Myers had in his Possession 27 of the watches taken from the local jfevelry store. Of these 19 were ladies' 'watches and eight were men's watches. - --------------------------------- Five Home Demonstration Club, women, accompanied by Mrs. Nina B, White, Home Agent, left for Farm and Home Week m Raleigh Monday morning. The club women who are,- attending are: Mrs. M. T. Griffin, Mrs. J. D. Yeates, Mrs. E. J. Proc tor, Mrs. Roy Nixon and Mrs. Henry Elliott. The program this year included group singing, rural Church talks, classes on foods, clothing, shelter, savings and security, health and medi cal care, recreation, family life, poul try, grooming parliamentary proced ure, and many others. On Wednesday afternoon they at tended, a tea at the Governor's Man sion. The program adjourned on Thurs day night after an Ice Show and Revue in the William weal Keynoios Coliseum. ' The groun from this coun ty are expected to return home Fri- Check Reveals Boll Weevil Oirv Increase A check of cotton fields over the county this week shows a consider able increase of weevil infestation, it was reported today by I. C. Yagel. This is due to the large number of second generation weevils hatching out. , Untreated fields are showing an average of 77 weevil damage while treated fields' show an average of 13. I Rather high infestations in fieldV; where growers have failed to apply treatment at regular 5 and 7 day intervals, may look like the con trol program has done no good, the Agent reported. Making the applica tions . regularly is a very imortant part of -the program Omitting one week now can spoil the results of a " good dusting ' program. Fields showing from 0 to 10 punctured squares in 100 should be checked twice a week for evidence of rapid build up of weevils.''' Applications in Au gust are important because weevils sometimes, feed on young bolls when squares can no longer be found. It was the growers who dusted regu larly and made late applications in 1950 who made the high yields of! cotton. . ' ; . Mr. Yagel advised better coverage can be obtained by applying dust in the evening when the leaves are not so wet. No boll worms were found this week. .Since this la the same worm which attacks corn, cotton may not -be seriously hit until corn pass es the sjlldng' stage. X ETI... ANNOUNCEMENT . ... Mr and Mrs. John H. Decker an nounce the birth of a daughter, Linda Rae, born Kiturday, July 28, at the Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City. Mrs. Decker; before her marriage. was Miss Blanche Rae Skinner. - 1 FiveFromCounty AttenilSt2ifii,::3t tad l!:rcLastTu3sday Defendant Fined $200 For Driving After Li 2 cense Revocation A varied docket of eight cases was disposed of in Perquimans Recorder's Court, in session here last Tuesday, with Judge Chas. E. Johnson presid- '. Elmer Key, Negro, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of driving with improper lights. He was ordered to pay a fine of $10 and costs and the sum of $40.95 to Carlton Layton for damages to Layton's car,. , Roland Gilliam, Negro, charged with driving after his operator's li cense had been revoked, entered a plea of guilty. He was given a 0 day sentence, to ibe suspended, upon payment of a fine of $200 and costs. fjoke Eason, Negro, charged with driying on the wrong side of the road, failed to appear to answer the charges and the warrant was ordered returned to the arresting officer for service. : Elmer Yohn, charged on two counts of assaulting Thomas Newby, was found guilty on charges of simple as sault and assault With a truck. He was sentenced to jail for SO days, Sentence to be suspended upon pay ment of a fine of $30 and the de fendant placed on good behavior for 1 months. An appeal bond was set aftflOO. Ijfudson T. Bass entered a plea of guilty to a charge of being drunk in a public place. He paid a fine of $15 and costs of court A verdict of not guilty was return ed in the case in which William Phil lips, Negro, was charged with tres pass. " Martha Winslow and Rufus Enoch, both Negroes, entered pleas of guil ty,;to a charge of disturbing the peace. They were taxed with the costs of court. ; A verdict of not guilty was handed down by the court in the case in which Garland Harris, Negro, was charged with assaulting his 'wife. ' 'wo cases were continued" until the neffittrm of eotrt.- '?,;-- ' Report On Library Circulation Given Circulation for books through the Perquimans County Library reached a new hisrh mark durinir the past year, according to an annual report made atii the close of the fiscal year, June 30, it. was announced today by Mrs. Silas M. Whedbee. Librarian. The report shows 1,029 new books were added to the library during the year, making a total 01 8,t4 dooks now on hand. The total circulation for the year was 42,517. The book mobile made 104 trips with a circu lation of 13,767 books and magazines, showing an increasing popularity of the bookmobile. Mrs. Whedbee also reported 34 new books had been received during the month of July, and these included non-fiction, adult fiction and teen age books. Ampng the new titles are, Bulfinch's Mythology. Selected Plays by Bernard Shaw, Windsor, A King's Storv. Wouk. The Cain Mutiny, dress ier, Parole Chief, Street, The High Callimr. Basset. Echoes of the Tide, Coles, New or Never, Gardner, Case of the Fiery Fingers, HamDieaon, jno hodv'a Child and Yerby. A Woman Called Fancy. , Draft Regulation Explained By Clerk For the. information of registrants of the Perquimans County office of Selective Service, Mrs. Charles Cam pen, clerk to the local board, today issued the following statement in con nection with Selective Service regu lations governing the reclassification of registrants: , "Registrants are not eligible for reclassification after hav ing passed their pre-induction exami nations." Mrs. Campen reported, under regu lations, there is no exception to this procedure..,-. Registrants are also advised by the local board that any changes in ad dresses must be reported to the local board office, and failure to comply with this regulation does not relieve a registrant of his responsibility. . County To Advertise . Delinquent Taxes : Sheriff M. G. Owens, today, re minded Perquimans County taxpay ers, who have not made settlement for 1950 taxes, that these taxes will be advertised for sale on Monday, Augusts.- ' . - Sale of the tax liens, will be held at the Court House door on Monday, September 8, , ' kipCasssI Bond Hecticn For Tovn Of llsrtford Schssd Thirty Five Donors Visit Bloodmobile Twenty-seven pints of blood were donated to the Red Cross by Per quimans County residents, last Fri day, according to a report issued Monday by C. Edgar White, chair man of the local blood program. A total of 35 residents appeared to donate blood, but after an examina tion, eight of these volunteers were advised not to donate blood during this visit of the bloodmobile. While the blood collected here Fri day fell short of the county goal, the committee expressed itself as being satisfied with the results, and pointed out that' the extremely hot weather caused some donors to stay away this time, while others were out of town on vacations. Belvidere Youth Crowned State Health King Bobby Smith, of Belvidere, was crowned King of Health at the an nual 4-H Club health pageant, held in Raleigh last week. Sharing the honors with Smith was Janet Ruth Williams of Elm City, who was crowned Queen of Health. The selection of the two young people of champs for the State 4-H Clubs climaxed the program conduct ed at State College. Both of the health winners have made excellent records in improv ing the health of their family and neighbors as well as their own. Young Smith has done consider able speaking and writing in his coun ty on good health. His talk on "How to. Get Rid of Rats" set off a rat con trol campaign in his community three years ago. Today the rat popula tion is considerably reduced from what ft was. He also started a gar bage disposal plan in which some member of the community would make the rounds nd collect the gar bage each morafng. - In connection with his 4-H pro jects Bobby has written the follow ing article on recreation: "Today in Perquimans County we are rapidly seeing the old saying, "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, come true. The saying in , this case is not meant for any in dividual, but for all of Perquimans County. It is true that we have seen more clubs Spring up in our county, we have seen more and bigger op portunities for; our youth in such clubs as 4-H, FFA, Boy and Girl Scouts. For men, we have seen Ruritan Clubs organized in all parts of the county and the Home Demon stration Clubs lead all others for the women. "If, we intend to keep this good work successful, we must make the inside part as interesting as possi ble; anyone who has to go to meet ings and listen to long talks, with which they are not concerned about, will soon stop attending meetings. That is why we should let recreation have a part in every club meeting. "But you may say, we have no recreation equipment, nor anyone who can lead us in recreation, what kind of recreation would be proper for our meetings 7 "They are just a few of the many questions which should and must be answered before Perquimans County will turn the tide for more and bet ter recreation." Navy Plane Crashes At Harvey Point A light Navy airplane crashed at Harvey Point last Friday afternoon, and its pilot escaped without serious injuries. No information concerning the crash was reported, however, a maintenance crew from the Weeks- ville Air Station loaded the plane on a truck and returned it to that sta tion. ; The plane appeared to have been Only slightly damaged and it was be lieved that the pilot ran out of fuel, being forced to land at Harvey Point, nosing the plane 'over after it had landed. Fire Destroys Barn On Belvidere Highway , lightning struck a barn, on the farm of Oliver Winslow near Belvi dere at about 11:30 Sunday morning, resulting in a lire which totally des troyed the barn and its contents. Hertford Fire Department was call ed to the scene but the fire had gain ed such headway the firemen were unable to save the barn,' they did, however, save other buildings from the flames. '). Loss from the fire, was estimated in excess of $1,000. -' For Septembar 11 Action To Determine Construction Of Mu nicipal Building Tuesday, September 11, has been designated as the daite of a special bond election, called by the Board of Commissioners for the Town of Hert ford to determine the issue whether or not the Town will issue bonds in the amount of $50,000 for the purpose of constructing a municipal build ing. - The amount set forth in the bond ordinance, passed by the Board, points out this total is needed to carry out the construction of the building. Tentative plans for the building, while not yet adopted by the Board, have been drawn by Raymond Fuson, architect of New Bern, who was re tained by the Board to supervise the construction in the event the bond proposal meets with the approval of the voters, and funds are made avail able to proceed with the project. The construction of a municipal building for the Town of Hertford has long been discussed and hoped for by many local residents and members of the Town Board, but it has been only recently that the Board has been able to plan such construction without a large increase in tax levies. Now, under present plans -the Board pro poses and believes it possible to con struct the building without an in crease in taxes. Repayment of the bonds, if issued on approval of the voters in the spec ial election, will be made from funds received by the Town from rental at Harvey Point, and through savings effected by the Board in current operations. These sources of income total an amount greater than that needed to meet the bond payments, thus permitting construction of the building under the present tax rate. Plans for the building, as now drawn, calls for office space to house the clerk, town board, police, Per quimans Library, and a community room. County 4-H Clubbers State Conference Line Ruth Proctor, Mary Frances and Shirley Eure, Myrtle (Jordan Williams, Bobby Smith, Clarence Chappell, Jr., Miss Kimsey Perry, Assistant Home Agent, and E. L. Topping, Assistant Farm Agent, at tended 4-H Short Course at State College during the week of July 23 28. Tours to the Governor's Man sion, Capital and over the campus were made during the afternoons. Classes were held each morning on "Good Citizenship is Good Team work," "Why's and How's of Record . Keeping," "Highway Safety" and "Parliamentary Procedure for the 4-H Meeting." Ice skaiting, swim ming, baseball and directed recre ation was enjoyed by all each day. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Gov ernor Kerr Scott and Dr. Elizabeth Kimble, Dean of the School of Nurs ing at the University of N. C. were among the principal speakers of the week.. ', Wednesday night in Riddick Stadi um the health pageant was given in which Bobby Smith was crowned State Health King. Thursday night they enjoyed a box supper on Fresh man Field, had recreation, and saw a dress revue of the county winners. Mary Frances Eure, being Perquim ans County winner, was in the revue from which the state winner was cho sen.' - , The week closed with a very im pressive candlelighting ceremony in Riddick Stadium. The boys and girls were in uniform with the girls form ing the four clover leaves and the boys an H in each leaf. They march ed in double file through the field house extinguishing the candles as they entered. ; . i MasonsGatharln Districting More than 150 members of the Ma- sonic lodges of the First District met in Hertford, for a district meet ing, last Monday at which time Her bert M. Foy, of Mount Airy, Grand Master of North Carolina Masonic Lodges, was the principal speaker and guest Two meetings were conducted dur ing the day, with the first being held in the Court House, beginning at three o'clock. Following this session the Masons adjourned to the Per quimans High School, where supper was servee to , 151 members and guests at 6:45., . , . . The evening session was held irt the auditorium at the high school. "