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Eleven Defendants Are
Cited For Traffic
Violations
Business was brisk in Perquimans
Recorder's Court last Tuesday with 18
cases disposed : of during a session
which lasted well passed the lunch
hour. Eleven of the defendants were
cited to court for violations of the
traffic laws. .
Fines of $10 and costs were levied
against Carl Keeter and James Per
ry, each of whom submitted to charg
es or speeding. Costs, of court were
taxed against Alfonso Morene and
Nathaniel Whidbee, who also submit
ted to charges of speeding.
A verdict of not guilty was return
ed in the case of Tilson Chappell, who
was charged with reckless-driving.
A $U day jail sentence was meted
out to Seaton Davenport who was
found guilty on charges of being
drunk and disorderly.
Walter Mitchell and James White,
Negroes,, each paid a fine of $25 and
costs of court after pleading guilty to
driving without a license.
Joseph Hathaway, Negro', was found
guilty on a charge of reckless driv
ing. He was ordered to pay a fine of
?zo and costs of court.
Jack White, Negro, entered a plea
of guilty to a charge of driving drunk,
after his license had been revoked on
a similar charge. He was given a. 12
months' jail sentence, the sentence to
be suspended upon payment of a fine
of $500 and costs of court.
Costs of court were taxed against
Joseph Blanchard, Negro, who sub
mitted to a charge of failing to ob
serve a stop sign.
Jesse East entered a plea of cruiltv
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to cnarges .or non support. He was
given a 60 day jail sentence, to be
suspended upon payment of the court
costs and the sum of $20 per week for
xne use of his wife.
Robert Thompson iiras sentenced to
one week in jail after pleading guilty
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Sl'b Of Major-Loomis Property To
Elizdalli City Firm How In Progress
Kramer Brothers Buy
ing Mill; Future
; Plans Undisclosed
Reports on the possible sale of the
Major-Loomis Company facilities were
confirmed this week when it was
learned that Kramer Brothers Lum
ber Company of Elizabeth City is now
m the process of purchasing the fa
cilities of Major-Loomis Company, lo
cated at the mill site on Route 37,
between Hertford and Winfall.
A. W. Hefren, General Manager for
Major-Loomis, announced this week
weak his firm had accepted an offer
for the sale of the property made by
omcials for Kramer Brothers. It was
also learned that attorneys for the
two firms are now proceeding with
transactions which will consummate
the transfer of the local property to
the Elizabeth City company.
The question many residents of this
community are asking "whether the
mill is to be reopened," remains un
answered. Officials of Kramer Bro
thers, when asked about plans for the
mill, stated the transactions had not,
as. yet, progressed far enough for
them to "make any announcements con
cerning the future status of the prop
erty. A spokesman' for Kramer Brothers
stated some announcement concerning
plans for the mill might be made fol
lowing actual an4 final transfer of the
facilities which is expected late this
week or the early part of next week.
County Commissioners
To Meet Next Tuesday
Perquimans County Commissioners
will hold their September meeting in
the Court-House Tuesday morning,
September 8, as provided by law. in
stead of Monday, the 7th. The change
in meeting was maae aue to the ob
servance of Labor Day on Sentem
ber 7.
Individuals desiring to appear be
fore the Board at its next meeting are
requested to note this chansre in the
date of the meeting.
In addition to its usual business the
Board is expected to pass upon archi
tect s drawings for the proposed new
neaitn building and to name a suc
cessor to C. C. Banks, who has re
signed as clerk of the Recorder's
Court.
Hertford PTA Plans
Meeting Sept :10th
term Census Shows
Ccrn And Soybeans
deny. v
Joseph Gilliam, Negro, entered a
plea of guilty to a charge of larceny.
Judgment was suspended in the case
upon payment of the court costs. : '
Mack Twine submitted to a charge
of driving on the left side of the cen
ter line of a highway and paid the
costs of court. - v
Eddie Wheeler was fined $10 and
costs after pleading guilty to charges
of being drunk on a highway and il
legal parking. . . .,
Horace White, Negro, was ordered
to pay the costs of court after submit
ting to charges of using profanity in
a public place.
Costs of court were levied against
James Felton, Negro, who Submitted
to a charge of resisting arrest.
The cases of Horace Reid and Roos
evelt Sheard, Negroes, charged with!
rape, was set for preliminary hearing ',
ui me Deptemeoryis term of court.
Perquimans Peanut
Pradurarsfpr
Assessment 147-4
THIS WEEK'S
HEADLINES
The exchange 6f prisoners of war
in Korea is expected to be. completed
tms week-end according to reports
from Panmunjon. The Reds have re
turned most of the American POW's
they reported as captured but the
number does not compare with total
listed as missing by the U. S. Mean
while plans are progressing for a UN
peace conference on Korea, although
predictions are being made that few,
if anyr solutions to Korean problems
will come from this conference. .
West Germany will hold an election
Sunday which is expected to be a cru
cial test for Konrad Adenauer, Chan
cellor, wno has headed the German
Government for the past several years
and who favors Germany working
with the Western powers. Adenauer's
government ' last week souelched a.
threat of a comeback for a Nasi pazO1
ty ana mis weeK is busy making ef
forts, to keep, the Communists from
East Germany, from sabotaging the
election by wrecking polling booths
ana asassinating political leaders.,
A UN tribunal has ruled that 11
American employees , of the UN were
fired illegally in connection with U. S.
loyalty investigations, and ordered the
reinstatement of , four of the .em
ployees and granted damages to the
other seven amounting to $122,600.
The decision is expected to revive the
controversy over alleged subversives
in the U. S.
Perquimans County peanut, produc
ers, joined with other producers in 44
eastern counties last Saturday, voting
overwhelmingly in favor of assessing
tbsmselajsLicfarther peanut research,
marketing anl consumption of their
product. s
Jacob L. . White, president of the
Perquimans Farm Bureau, announced
Perquimans peanut producers cast 147
votes favoring the assessment, and
only four votes opposed the plan.
C. S. Alexander of Scotland Neck.
president of the North Carolina Pea
nut Growers Association, reported
that returns from 28 of 44 Deanut
producing counties showed 7,654 votes
in favor of the assessment and 159
against.
The returns represented 96 per cent
of the State's peanut acreage, Alex
ander said, adding that complete re
turns are expected to be received late
this week.:, ,
The one-cent assessment for each
100 pounds of peanuts marketed will
be used to finance research to find
new markets for the peanuts. The
growers will start paying the assess
ment as soon as they market the 1953
crop. . '
Alexander said the crop will begin
moving to market late in October.
Buyers will collect the assessment and
make payments to the State Depart-,
ment' of "Agriculture, which in turn
will send the money to the Peanut
Growers Association.
The assessment plan will apply
during the next three seasons.
The Parent-Teacher Association of
the Hertford Grammar School will
hold its first meeting of the new
school year on Thursday night, Sep
tember 10, in the auditorium of the
school.
All members of the association are
urged to attend this meeting, and join
in supporting officers and committees
for the year.
Officers and committees of the as
sociation are: W. F. Ainsley, presi
dent; Mrs. Grace Costen, vice presi
dent; Mrs. Louis Howell, secretary,
and Mrs. Vivian Mathews, treasurer.
Ways and Means Committee: Mrs.
Warner Madre, Mrs. Francis Nixon,
Mrs. D. F. Reed, Jr.. Mrs. John Win
slow, Mrs. W. F. Ainsley; Program:
Mrs. R. S. Monds, Mrs. Robert Hollo
well,, Mrs. Henrtf C. Sullivan: Room
Representative: Mrs. Jesse Lee Har
ris; By-Laws: Mrs. T. P. Brinn, Mrs.
F, A. McGoogan; Publicity: Mi;s,f.
a,, nerry: rre-scnool service: Mrs.
Eldon Winslow; Magazine: Mrs. Louis
larkmgton, Mrs. Haywood White and
Mrs. Carroll Williams.
Music: Mrs. R. M. Riddick; Mem
bership: Mrs. Dorcas Knowles; Hos
pitality: Mrs. Bill Cox, Mrs. Clinton
Eley, Mrs. J. T. Lane, Mrs. Elwood
Perry: Safety: Mrs. Clinton Elev.
Mrs. Haywood White. Miss Thelma
Elliott; Lunchroom: Mrs. Walton
Lane, Mrs. Bill Williams, Mrs. Pres
ton Rogerson, Mrs. Clarence Dail, Mrs.
iron Long; Art: Miss Marv Sumner.
Mrs. Cecil White, Miss Mildred Reed;
Study Course: Mrs. Noah Gregory,
inrs. r. f. tfnnn and Mrs. E. A. Good
man.
Top Crops In County
Farm Acreage Shows A
flight Increase
Compared To 1951
Corn and soybeans were the maior
crops narvesteq in Perquimans Coun
ty during 1952 accordine to the 1953
larm census compiled durimr last Jan.
uary and released this week bv the
Vrop Keporting Service in Raleigh.
The census reported revealed there
were 104,932 acres in farm lands re
ported to the farm census takers, and
of these acres 46,093 were planted to
crops, vlhree-hundred and thirty-sev
en acres lay idle while 1,767 were in
improved pasture and 713 acres were
listed as other pasture land. There
were 56,022 acres listed as woods
land or waste.
Major crops harvested during the
year were corn, 21,089 acres, or 46
percent; cotton, 1,771 acres; peanuts,
3,390 acres; wheat, 61 acres; oats, 133
acres; other small grain, 71 acres;
soybeans, 18,686 acres; which repre
sented. 41 per cent of the crops har
vested. One-hundred and eighty-three
acres were planted in lespedeza.
Peanuts represented seven per cent
of all crops harvested while cotton
accounted for four per cent.
Hay crops harvested during the
year accounted for the following:
Soybean-Cowpeas, 99 acres; small
grains, 28 acres; lespedeza, 49 acres;
vegetables harvested with Irish pota
toes, 45 acres; sweet potatoes, 93
acres; other vegetables mostly for
sale, 399 acres.
Livestock listed in the farm census
was as follows: sows and gilts, 1,
434; cows and heifers, kept mainly
for milk, 442; kept mainly for beef,
967; hens and pullets of layinar aere.
32,869. X
The report revealed there was a
slight inpease, as compared to the
1951 report, in the number of acres
listed ( farms. Corn acreage increas
ed &y; jS1- acres wer 195tj;, while
soypean acreage was up only six
acres. There was a decrease in the
acreage planted to peanuts by a total
of 1,041 acres and also a decrease in
acreage planted to cotton. The de
crease " in cotton acreage was 214
acres.
County Commissioners To Receive Bids
On New Health Building September 18th
Legion Auxiliary
To Meet Friday P.M.
The' American Legion Auxiliary
will meet Friday night, September 4,
at eight o'clock at the home of Mrs.
R. Webb, with Mrs. Elizabeth Has-
kett as joint hostess. Mrs. Charles
Skinner, the president! urges a good
attendance for the first meeting of
the new year, and to hear a report
on Girls' State, to be given by Miss
Margaret Ann Banks and Miss Myrtle
Williams. .
New officers for the Auxiliary for
the coming year will be: Helen Skin
ner, president; Lessie White, first
Construction Expected
To Begin Early
Part Of October
Plans for the construction of a new
Health Center in Perquimans County
are moving along rapidly, with work
expected to get underway early in
October.
The Board of County Commission
ers will receive sealed bids for the
construction of the building until 11
o'clock A. M., Friday, September 18,
after which a contract for the con
struction is to be let.
The building will be constructed un-
' I I ,ooic ?I IlUC, 1IISLI j , . , ,
vice president; Grace Morris, second, T, Xe P ffered by the
vice president; Elda Webb, recording .?.te. Me.dlcal Care Commission, and
secretary; Minnie Miller, correspond
ing secretary; Thelma Hollowell,
treasurer; Blanche Berry, historian;
r.thel Perry, chaplain; May B. Chan
pell, assistant chaplain, and Blanche
Kanoy, sergeant-at-arms,
Rotary Pays Trihute
To Phone Operators
will be financed by local, state and
federal funds. The County Commis
sioners have allocated $7,500 as the
county's share of the building which
is expected to cost approximately
$29,000.
When completed the building will
house the Perquimans County Health
Department, and will contain, ample
space for the department to carry out
its program of clinics, consultations
and examinations with greater effi
ciency than now possible in the pres
ent cramped quarters used bv the lo
cal Health Department.
The new building will be located on
an acre of land, the site being at the
corner of Charles and Dobb Streets
which was purchased from L. N. Hol-
MASONS TO MEET
The Perquimans Masonic Lodge, No.
ICS, A. F & A. M., will meet Tuesday
l ight at 8 o'clock.
New Library Hours
Announced By Board -
The Perquimans County Library
will be closed on Saturday, September
5 and Monday, September 7, for Labor-Day.
Beginning September 8, the
library will. observe its .regular winter
schedule; that is, it will be open from
10 o'clock A. M., to 12 noon and 1:30
to 4:30 P. M., every week day except
imirsday. It will be open as usual on
Thursday nights from 7 to 9 o'clock.
The bookmobile will" continue its re-
mar trips on Wednesday and Thurs-
During the summer months, inven
tory has been taken, books have been
rearranged, and a total of 110 new
books have been added during July
ana August. The Home Demonstra
tion, Club women will find available
forty of the books listed on the new
I9t4 reading list, and others will vbe
added from time to time. The report
for the months of July and August
shows a main library; circulation 'of
1.682; the bookmobile 3.278 and the
Belvidere Branch, 111.
REVIVAL STARTS SUNDAY
Revival services will start Sunday
at Cedar Grove Church and continue
through Tuesday night, with the Rev.
Allen Wentz, of South- Camden
Charge as the guest preacher, it was
announced today by the Rev. H. M.
Jamieson, pastor of the church. Ser
vices will be conducted on Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday nights at
the Epworth Church in Winfall. '
Opened Th
is Week
A new business was started in Per.
muiraans County this week with in
announcement by Claude White of the
opening of a retail lumber vard. locat
ed adjacent to the Major-Loomis Com
pany office on Route 37 between Hert-
rord and Winfall.
The business will be operated under
the name of C. D. White & Son, sell
ing dressed lumber and mouldings of
an Kinds. Mr. White and Durwood
Barber, both of whom have had long
experience, in serving lumber cus
tomers, wiUTe actively engaged in
the operation of the business.
Mr. White stated the firm is now
busy stocking a good supply, of lum
ber at the. yards, and invites the pub
lic to visit the yard for its needs. He
stated the! yard will be open all day
Saturdays
Changes Made In ' v
School Faculty
. A, last minute change in the faculty
at Perquimans High School was an
nounced here Monday by J. T. -Big-
gers, superintendent of schools, who
stated the changes were made neces
sary when the State Board of Educa
tion was unable to approve a certifi
cote for Mrs. Dewey Yeates to teach
the eighth grade. The local Board
of Education then secured Mrs. Grace
Ward to pll the vacancy temporarily
ana it. . w, itougham, a former
member of the faculty, was added to
the list of teachers. . I
Mr. Baugham, who taught here two
years ago, is being released from the
armed forces within a few davs and
win report for teaching duties here
about September 15. He will relieve
Harold White 83 teacher of Emrlish
for two months while Mr. WJiite com
pletes work on his master's degree,
then Baugham will, npon Mr. White's
return, assume the duties as eighth
grade teacher relieving Mrs. Ward.
Final Rites Held For
Mrs.DizalietltS.Cox
. Mrs. Elizabeth Skinner Cox, widow
of Robert B. Cox, and daughter of the
late Joshua and Sally Blount Skinner,
died at her home on Church Street,
Tuesday at 12:45 P. M., after an ill
ness of three months. She was a na
tive and lifelong resident of Perquim
ans County. .
Surviving is one brother, Dr. Joshua
J. Skinner, of Hertford, and a number
of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conducted on
Thursday at 10:30 A. M., at the Holy
irimty Episcopal Church bv the rec
tor, the Kev. Charles F. Wulf. Burial
was in the churchyard.
Pallbearers were Firth Winslow. Dr.
I. A. Ward, C. P. Morris. Lawrence
Towe, Cecil Winslow and Oscar New-
bold.
Members of the Hertford Rotary
Club observed a community service
program, at their meeting held on
Tuesday evening at the Hotel Hert
ford, paying tribute to the telephone I lowell at a price of $2,500.
operators of America. The occasion According to an advertisement for
was the 75th anniversary of the first
woman telephone operator, who was
Miss Emma M. Nutt.
L. S. Blades, Jr., president of the
Norfolk-Carolina Telephone and Tele
graph Company of Elizabeth City, as
guest speaker on the program, relat
ed to the Rotarians how telephone op
erators are selected to carry on the
tedious task of serving the public. He
explained "the voice with the smile,"
as phone operators are known, per
form many services for the public
which require alert thinking, extra
hours, and at times suffer injuries or
death in carryincr out community ser-
i Vice during disasters. " -
Despite the modern trend to auto
matic telephone service, Mr. Blades
stated there has been slight reduc
tion in the number of operators used
in the system throughout the nation.
In speaking on this trend toward
automatic telephone service Mr.
Blades said most of the system of his
company is now automatic insofar as
local calls are concerned and the pub
lic can look forward to the time when
even long distance calls will be com
pletely automatic. However, there
will always be the need for telephone
operators to handle a large number of
services which will not be automatic.
Mrs. Maude Thach Dies
bids, published this week bv the Board
of Commissioners, contractors desir
ing to bid on the construction of the
building, may inspect plans, specifi
cations and contract documents in the
office of the Register of Deeds or
may secure plans from the architect,
William Moore Weer, Raleigh.
Slight Increase In
School Enrollment
Reported For County
Opening of the 1953-54 term in Per
quimans County got off to a smooth
start here Wednesday morning when
a total of 2,151 pupils were enrolled
in the five units of the county sys
tem, it was reported by J. T. Big
gers, County Superintendent.
While the enrollment figures were
about what was expected, a slight in
crease was noted in the overall total
number of pupils. Some losses and
gains in various classes were noted
in each of the five schools. The Per
quimans High School had a net gain
of seven students, compared with last
year, While Hertford Grammar School
On WprlriAcrlnxr Fvonino- "aa a a,n of 2? and the Central
. . "'viuiig jUrammar S
School,
Hertford Nesro
gain of five.
School enrollment
Plans Available
For Curing House
How many farm families that grow
sweet potatoes only for home use have
one to eat after Christmas?
Ralph Sasser, Assistant Countv
Agent, says the Extension Agricul
tural Engineering Department has re
cently prepared a plan for a small
sweet potato curing house that is de
signed primarily for storing the home
supply plus enough supply of seed
j stocK lor the next year. In most cases,
tnere win be room for storing some
tor sale. The plans for this house call
for 6 feet x 6 feet and has a ca
pacity of 64 bushels, in baskets. It
is built with concrete or cinder blocks.
It is insulated and heated with a 60-ft.
length of soil heating cable. The
temperature is controlled thermostati
cally. The engineers fisrure that it
will not use over $10.00 worth of cur
rent during the season; The materials
to build this house should not cost
more than $130.00. Mr. Sasser says
plans are now available at the Farm
Agent's office for anyone desiring to
construct one. of these potato houses.
Mrs. JVIaude Ballance Thach age ,69 Ufigures VloSTsBtoS
. . v v',L'omparea to last vpnr whi o PA.n'm
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ans 1 raining school had a net
LEGION TO MEET ,
The William Paul Stallinirs Post of
the American Legion will "meet Fri
day night at 8 P. M., in the Aericul-
rure Building in Hertford. AH mem
bers of the post are urged to at
tend. '.
died
o'clock at her home in Hertford after
a lingering illness. , She was a na
tive of Hyde County but lived in Per
quimans County for the past 46 years
and in Hertford for the past two
years. She was the daughter of the
late Ben H. Ballance and Mrs. Ruth
Gilliam Ballance, wife of the late Ben
jamin White Thach, a member of the
Hertford Home and Garden Club and a
member of the Hertford Methodist
Church.
She is survived by one daughter.
Mrs. Ruth Gilliam Mann of Norfolk,
Va.; four sons, R. Ben Thach of Hert
ford, the Rev. H. G. Thach of Broad
nax, Va., Phillip B. Thach of Hert
ford, and Julian L. Thach of Norfolk,
va.; one sister, Mrs. Ida B. Wynn of
Santa Monica, Calif.: nine Grandchil
dren, one great-grandchild and several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted
Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at
the Twiford Funeral Chapel by the
Rev. A. L. Chaplin. Interment will be
in the Cedarwood Cemetery.
Stores To Observe
Labor Day Holiday
Hertford stores and business hous
es, following the custom of past
years, will be closed Monday, Sep
tember 7 in observance of Labor Day,
it was reported here this week. W.
W. White, Postmaster, stated while
there will be no mail deliveries made
Monday. mail will be received and dis
patched from the local office.
New Marquee For
State Theatre
State Theatre will have a new look
sometime next week, when workmen
complete the job of installing a new
marquee facing Church Street. In
stallation of 'a new marauee. wliMi
will be of different design from the
oia one, was made necessary by the
widening of Church Street The
installation will conform in width with
the new sidewalk to be installed on
the east side of Church Street.
pain
r
oi one.
v As for first grade enrollments Hert
ford Grammar School had 55 pupils.
Central Grammar School 85, Hertford
Negro School 58, and Perquimans
l raining school 87.
, Enrollment figures for the white
schools of the county were released
by Mr. Biggers as follows:
Perquimans High School 282
Eighth Grade , 94
Hertford Grammar School289
Central Grammar School 435
For the Negro schools the figures
were;
Perquimans Training School492
High School . 203
Hertford Negro SchoolI""356
in the opening of the schools for the
new term there were the usual nmh.
lems concerning enrollment, classes
and school bus routes and the school
officials were hopeful these prob
lems will be ironed' out by Friday
when classes will begin operation on
full schedule.
Court Session Is
Changed To Wednesday
" The September 8 term of Perquim
ans Recorder's Court has been moved
up to Wednesday, September 9, ac
cording to an announcement by Judge
Chas. E. Johnson. The court sched
ule was rearranged to provide the
courtroom as the location for a meet
ing of the County Commissioners on
Tuesday, September 8. - Recorder's
Court session will return to the Tues
day schedule on September 15.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Blanchard an
nounce the birth of a daughter, Bet
ty Sue, Friday, August 28, at Albe
marle Hospital, Elizabeth City.
v GUEST PREACHER
. Irving Stubbs of Norfolk, Va., a
student at Princeton Seminary, will be
the guest preacher at the Hertford
Baptist Church next Sunday. Mr.
Stubbs is the nephew of Mrs. J. E.
Jones and Mrs. Lena Gregory.