North Carolina Newspapers

-No. 52. Td, Pcrqirju:3 County, -Ncrto Carolina, I'Yiday December 28, 1951. o uents rer "Uopy I 0 I v.V I. . i ..J J til ' ' self -employed ; businessmen t aware of Hair compulsory a jn the old-age and survivors ce system provided, by the re ' anges in the social security .'jctive January I. 195L The VFW Ppst To nold : New Year's ftance : 'A gala New Year's Eve dance will be held ait Harvey Point, on the night Social Security Administrator December 81, and will be sponsored 'oe.. reports that about half of ! v ii rui-iand n onW Vast f the 'v - t w i3ta!n f I Wars, H was an 1 Jity they were Incurring . .. . . . . .i 1951. - nouncea soaay oy 4. n. jiuon, r liability for 1951 becomes i 1 payable in the first quarter :: and each year thereafter. An 1 number of the self-employed i 1 to realize their eelf-employment '.on ' for themselves and their ; Small ' - businessman now e same protection against loss (2 . ,ne due io retirement or -death 1 v e earners have had since 1940. IL2 l If-employed person's status un dor social security, is as follows: ; 1. Generally speaking, coverage of the self-employed person fe compul sory under,, the old-age and survivors Insurance section of the Social Se- "urKv Act 2. The self-employed person must "have a social security account num ber to identify the earnings to be -posted in his insurance account ' If on have newer had a social security card, fill out an application for one, on hand at any post office, and send : i to. the Norfolk social security off ice. Tou should have only one social se curity number In your lifetime. - 8. Self-employed earnings must be properly reported each year to secure 'creJ.t towards this insurance. They are reported by the individual on a peciul section, of Ms individual in come tax form." 1951 earnings wlH be reported on the income tax form due by March 15, 1952. A . self-em- -y1staj1 haMw jmyfrf wAa4 Mwtftaliff on the quarterly social security Form U.41 used for reporting employees' wages. - Re makes one yearly report and pays his tax fat full at that time. The ft is 2 of taxable self-employment e-rnings. Only the first $3,600 of e isviie. T .,1 tax A be between $9 and fSl, anding on. W amount of net ear" seU-employment, Pay- 'j;6o a t budget for the amount .... hr . 1 L.J IJJL official. MebenloNVPir Post have been working on arrangements ofr the dance for the past two weeks and have secured Bugs Bunny . and his orchestra, to furnish the music for the occasion. The VFW. Post annually sponsors holiday dance here and the one coming up is expected to be one of the hiKhlights of the holiday season. Tickets for the dance may be pur chased front members of the VFW Post or at the door. ' Training for Civil Defense is" the major project of North Carolina Fed- eration of Home Demonstration Clubs for the year 1952, Hiss Ruth Current, State Home Demonstration Agent, dis closed yesterday through E. Z. Jones, Director of. North Carolina Council of TCivIl De-se. y';30:!C Ilo.n. Iemonstration Club member ship i.i . 's State is 67,000 rural wo men, v o. king, through 2,00 clubs -rt'S.i 2,220 . local volunteer leaders. CI.' 9 r located in each of the 100 co. "Their support of the Civil T.r rcram.is 8gsifical)lt,,' Jones i, "the service they can ren 1 in case of enemy disaster, a pleased thafthey have de- ' ve priority to constructive r such service in their work y year." . v. . -te Home Demonstration j i mouncement came following ' j of Home A Jent District Su 3 with Miss Current, Sfiss 1 Ltanfcon, Assistant State Home ' rnd Mrs.' Sarah Boyd Weaver, r-of Women's Affair for Carolina Council' of Civir De , at whfch the program was set 0: -dor i -ciV tr 1 for ... . t, le a r ' r -w Masons To Instil I'j'iV MngJciUEiyl Officers - recently elected to , head the Perquimans Lodge, No. 106, A. F. & A. M., for the year 1952, will be installed at services to be held in the lodge rooms on Tuesday night, January 1, it was reported today The officers to be installed are K. Ralph White, Master; Jim Bass, senior warden: ack Kanoy. junior warden; Dr. . A. B. Bonner,' treasurer, and J. T. Biggers. secretary. Appointive officers of the lodge, to be selected by the incoming master, will also .be installed at these ser vices. ' Sr,!:::Birc"x:nt Daily attendance in Perquimans County schools is giving some con cern to officials of the Perquimans County school system, according to a report thia,.week by E. C Woodard, principal at Perquimans High School. As was reported last Fall, the local high school lost one teacher' for the current year, duetto the falling off of attendance at' the school.- The enrollment at the school last Sep tember Indicated, that. this teacher might be regained providing the at tendance figures continued to remain near the enrollment total of around 250- students. .fcv'i .Attendance at the high school con tinued high during all of September but dropped to 240 in November and on down to around 231 for the month of December. Pointing out that in order to regain the lost teacher the daily enrollment figure for the high school must av erage 240 for each . month of the school year. The officials are asking for the cooperation pf- students and 'Parents in the matter.'I;-..-"W,-i-.;' iy ' It is believed that, everybody inter ested in the schools wants to see at least . one additional teacher added here next year but in order for this to. come true parents must assist the teachers in seeing that their children attend school regularly", and students are urged to miss' school only when it is absolutely necessary for them to be absent. OUR WISH FOR YOU IS A YEAR FULL OFHAPPINESS THE -PUBLISHERS f.Trs. John Diggers tltJicdChamznOf Polio FundOrrve Mrs. John-T. Biggers has been ap pointed to serve as chairman of the Perquimans County March of Dimes campaign, which will get underway here about Januarp 14, it was an nounced today by James Everett New- by. chairman of the County Polio Committee. County -School Building Program To Be Comp!et6d llere Early Part Of 1952 Assistant Agent To Start Duties Jan. 1 Claude Reiter, a graduate of the State College Extension Service,, will begin his duties as assistant agent in Perquimans County on January 1, it was reported today by I. C. Yagel, County Agent. : ' v . (Mr. Rnker. 2fi. cornea tn boa nosition Mrs. Bisrtrers accepted the chaiiHahere hisrhly , recommended by State manship of the fund drive and has aWI College Extension officials, and ap proved by the Board of County Com missioners an dthe County Agent. He studied animal husbandry while at State College. He is married and expects to : move his family here as Carolina District supervisors '..is Nell Kennett, Mrs. Ve T ford. Miss Annamerle . . "'her G.. Willis, Mrs. ' ' ler and Miss Lorna supervisors, with . Ireensboro at A. and . "!rs. DarKfH-tbwe, - ii iwsand Mrs." Ruby u..ka in this State are fn- -.-;re cf Ce tig responsf ' 1 ivs ia C.e organization for " r ' hor. :.:-t,' Kiss Cur ' . n ar.sious to give 1 T program our "73 AO .- C -r-fy s;.!.ools wi:i re- ' ' Vi r- t Oir- r I 7 cV i f n ' n T. 1 - 1 tl. -.- Roiscopal Sunday School Plans Pageant . A special service will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church on Sunday afternoon (December 30th)- at 4:30 P. M. This service will portray the -Christmas Story in reading, carol sing ing, ' and . pageant form. Pupils ' of the Holy Trinity Sunday (School wiH portray the character roles.- Those taking part are: Beth Skinner, as Gabriel; Mabel Martin Whedbee, as Mary; and Jimmy Dozier, Barbara Flinchum, Shirley Flinchum, Marilye FHnchum, Betty Griffin, Xura Leete, Sally Skinner, and Lydia Wulf. The part of the Shepherds will be taken by Jimmy Bonner, Henry Griffin, Ned Nixon, Jr., aai; Forrest, "Wulf. The Einjfs will be Allan Bonner, Jr., J. l!c Leete, and Charles Whedbee. The Christmas carols and hymns will be tar-y by Ce church choir. 'Asnieting In tie direction of the pageant are .s CanJiy School superintendent! J. A. Is ' ri the teache- of the Sun- T 1 '..I-!. C. E. Camp-n; lira. V C ' ' "Vi. T7. r ' -, Crif- : N. J f 3l H ii ready mapped plans for , conducting the annual fund raising campaign. She announced she will call upon a large number of residents of the county to assist in the Workof rais ing the county a, quota for this worthy J soon as possible. : - I ne onve wui oe conaucceo; von a plan similar to ones in past years, with house to house 'solicitation. Solicitors for Hertford will be named shortly af ter the first of January, and nf em bers of the, various home demonstra tion clubs of the county will be re quested to solicit in their neighbor hoods. - ' - " s The March of Dimes will be con ducted through the schools of the county through the office of the su perintendent, r W. C. Shroud, and Mrs. M. B. Taylor will direct the solicitation for funds among the colored residents of the town and county. The 1952 quota for the county has not, as yet, been named, but it is expected to be slightly higher than the quota last year, due to increased epidemics throughout the nation the last two' years. FcimED-ntlt'ov 'A ceiling price regulation (OFR 100) covering retail sales of new and used farm equipment and repair parts has been issued by the Office of Price Stabilization. ' The new regulation is not expected to materially affect the general level of retail prices prevailing before its Issuance, District Director Alton G. Murchison said, since it is based gen erally on the historical pricing prac tices prevailing on the industry. .' ' CFR 100, which became effective December 10, is designed to meet the peculiar and specific pricing problems of retail sellers of " farm equipment, according to OPS. -. Inr.general, ceiling prices Are estab lished on the basis of manufacturers' current published list prices, f. o. b. factory, plus a handling and service charge of 5 per cent of the Est price, and a charge ;fpr Unbound transporta tion, Murchison explained. . ' "The facilities of the Raleigh of-! fice and our field service program are at the disposal of the public for as sistance and detailed information con cerning this, or any other OiPS regu lation, -and we urge the public to con tact us whenever we can be of ser vice," Tlurchlaon said. Ilcrtfcrd Stores To Gcc2 NeT7 Year's Day . Hertford stores and business houses will be Closed all day Thursday, January-1, it was announced here today.! The closing on, .New Year's day, fol lows t!ie custom usuallf observed by the local stores. ' f: - .. The -local Poet Office, will" also '.'be' closed dnrinsf the day, however, Post- . " us r 1 et ma3 It it'.; ' IttC? 1 t Gives Vcluahle Data On County 'A report released this week by the Federal-State Crop Reporting Service on crop production and other data per taining to" Perquimans County reveals some interesting facts concerning farming. ,'The report given for crops is based on 1950 production. There was at that date 104,633 acres of land in farms in the county. Of this total crops were harvested from 45,081 acres, 1,190 acres were idle,' 1,979 acres were used for pasture and 56,383 acres were woodland, waste land or used for homesites. ' , A total of 19,296 acres of land was used to grow the following crops, for; which the acreage is shown: cot ton, 2,45; peanuts, 4,807: wheat, 118; oats, 749, soybeans,' 16,089; lespedeza grown for seed, 370. s : ! , Hay from the following crops were harvested in the county from the acres indicated with the crop: soybean, 293; small grains, 9; lespedeza, 104; alfal fa, 26; others, 46.,, -r '' ' ' Vegetables and fruits grown, by the acreage were listed a follows: Irish potatoes, .11; : sweet potatoes, 173; others, 26; peaches, 518. As to livestock on this land the number of ' each type was listed as being hogs and pigs, 2,118; cows, 1,001; sheep ewes, 562; poultry, 35,087. : ..,-'- The number ; of combines, pickers and other threshing machines used on the land was listed at 238. ' The number of people living on this land, of all ages, was listed at 4,653. CL7ity.7ufreno:l Nine persons were voluntarily drop ped from the rolls of the Perquimans County Welfare Department during the, past year, due to the State's new, (Continued on Page Four) s'.:;-:.- Three Perquimans Boys On All-Conference List Three Perquimans High School foot ball players were listed on the Albe marle Conference All-Opponents Team for 1961. "They are: ' Tommy Sumner, end; Clinton Winslow, tackle, and A. L. Lane, back. . AH three of these boys am seniors. Honorable mention was given three other Perquimans players. They km Haurke Har rallk Preston Morgan and Howard W0- U-uns. Five Projects Costing Over $400,000 Gives Modern System The largest school building program ever undertaken in Perquimans Coun ty, and one costing in excess of $400,- 000, but providing Perquimans with one. of the best and most modern sys tems in the State, will be concluded sometime early next year, it was re. ported by J. T. Biggers, county super intendent. . Started about two years ago, the building program included five pro jects, the last two of which are now m tne process oi oemg compieteu. Two majdt projects, construction of a physical education and vocational building at Perquimans High School, and a union school for Negroes were the first of the building contracts let by the Board of Education. The gym nasium was completed first; then the union school for Negroes. The next County Tax listers StertionlxtVGGX- Taxpayers Must List Perquimans County tax listers will start next week the task of' listing county property for 1952 taxes, it was announced today by J. W. Ward, Tax Supervisor. , ... .' ' County, tax listers for the various townships this year are Percy Roger- w son,' Hertford; Carroll V. Ward, Bel videre; Raymond Stanton, Parkyille; Carson Spivey, New Hope, and Julian Long, Bethel. V -: The tax lister's job will ran through: the month of January and all property -? owners must list their property prior to January 31, otherwise there is a penalty of 6ne dollar for the late list ing. . ' ' 'Schedules for tax listers will be published next week, and property owners are urged to list early in order to avoid the usual last minute rush. ' There are few changes in the list ing regulations and the tax rate for the property listed next month will be set by the Board at its meeting in July. In addition to taking the property list, the workers will also take a farm census. This census was not taken last year, but was ordered taken this year by the County Board to provide State and . local extension services with pertinent information concern ing Perquimans County farm produc tion and livestock. Farmers are urg ed to prepare lists in advance and to assist list takers in the taking of the census. PerquimansFarmer Finishes Second In Corn Contest A record-breaking corn yield has -been produced in North Carolina. A 15-year-old Haywood County boy, Billy Best, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Best, of Route lr Clyde, is the new State Champion. He produced a certified yield ef 163.19 bushels on one .'acre; - i For the third straight year the corn crown has gone to Haywood County. Dwight Williams of Waynesville was the champion grower in bth 1949. and 1950. Highest official yield previously re- project started was the addition ofiported in the gtate was 8ii?htly over five classrooms, a lunch room and library and heating plant for the Hert ford Negro School. The last two pro jects, now in progress of construction, are lunchrooms at Central Grammar and Hertford Grammar Schools. Funds for these projects were made available by the State of North Caro lina, which provided $265,000; the resi dents of the county voted a bond issue of $175,000 and surplus county funds amounting to $40,000 were used in pay ing costs of construction. The sale of surplus school buildings, which is yet to be completed by the Board of Education has been a means of provid ing additional funds for the purchase of equipment for the various schools. Final inspections by State engineers have been made on all but the two lunchrooms, and this inspection is ex pected to be made about the middle of January. ;': ':';'''': Mr. Biggers stated a full and com ple'e financial report on the total cost of the building program will be made available within the next two or three weeks.' V-1 - - ' '' '''-- t Santa's Visit Here Draws Large Crowd The third annual arrival of Santa Claus in Hertford was termed a huge success by the committee of the Wm. Paul Stallings Post of the American Legion, which - in ' cooperation with merchants and. businessmen of the county sponsored the event last Sat urday afternoon. A crowd estimated between 500 and 1,000 children and parents gathered at the Court House for Santa's arrival. ' On his arrival here, Old Santa all dressed up in his holiday togs, had favors for the children, and he was assisted in the distribution of these by members of the Legion and the town's police and fire departments. " The committee expressed its appre ciation to all who took part in the program,- which included .the Hertford Lioness Club and members of the PTA, for assistance In making the event so successful.. ' RECORDER'S COURT IN RECESS ON TUESDAY Perquimans County's Recorder's Court will be in recess next Tuesday, which will be New Year's day, It was announced today by Judge Chas. E, Johnson, who stated a special term wiu be conducted in order to clear the docket before the next regular term scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, 1952. No date was given for the special term, expected to be held on day next week. " . 'r,Vi 'Si; ,-4:'f, Jx. - ij 148 bushels, grown in 1948 by F. L. Albritton of Lenoir County; As champion grower for both the mountain region and the entire state, Billy Will receive U. S. defense bonds with a maturity value of $200. He previously had been named State 4-H Club corn champion and had been awarded a free trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. The Coastal Plain champion, Ben Chambers of Route 3, Hertford, whose yield was 160.22 bushels on one acre, and the Piedmont champion, Willis Cloer of Route 6, Statesville, who pro duced 64.97 bushels per acre, will each receive a $100 bond.' Announcement of the awards was made here today by Dr. E. R. Collins, State College extensio . agronomist and chairman of the Staffe Corn Con test Committee. For his record-breaking prod'uetiori, Billy planted the U. S. 282. hybrid and fertilized with six loads of manure broadcast before planting. 400 pounds of 4-10-6 at planting, and 200 pounds of ammonium nitrate, as a side-dressing when the corn was knee-high. He took soil samples in advanee to get fertilizer recommendations. The Haywood boy has had corn as a 4-H project for two years. In 1950 he produced 115 bushels of Dixie 17 on one acre. W. A. Corpening, Hay wood farm- agent, says he followed State College Extension Service rec ommendations to the let'.er" on his 1951 crop. Tndian Cacrers To Resume Play Jan. '4 Coach Ellie Fearing'S boys and girls' basketball teams of Perquimans High School will resume their regular schedule of games next Friday night, January 5, after a vacation during the Christmas holidays. The first game for the Indians and Squaws, following the vacation, will be against tile boys and girls of GatesviUe. The game will be played in Perquimans High's new gym, with the preliminary game set for 7:80 o'clock. . Rotary Club Meets Next Wednesday Night ' The Hertford Rotary CTubrill hold its regular weekly meeting on Wed nesday night, January 2, instead of, Tuesday, it was announced today by Jack. Kanoy, president of the tlub. The ' meeting was) moved bflek ens, night due to the New Year's BsHdsy.