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j; iiiiUjil AMS WEEKLY - XL Number 1. Hertford, Perquimans Countyorth Carolina Friday, January 1, 1954. 11 X 5 Cents Per Copy i Vc!;:d3s In Effect, lulrements for Reporting , idents will be completely om the present system be- nuary 1, When North Caro- Safety Responsibility Law ffecti Motor Vehicles Coni- dward Scheldt announces s involved in accidents will required to make two re ad of one, as in the past, nethod "of ;. reporting, the re imports are to be filed, raount -.of property damage 111 also, be substantially dif- ;i ( ta correct any confusion or rr andingCommissioner f ,jued the following step-by- i .'nation ftf Tinw flip now iw. 1 ilistem wrk ot and after .,uary l; j-, . , , "The first. thing to understand is ft i' that a reportable accident under the , bility (Law is one in which a person i Ix&al been killed or even slightly in- jured or the total apparent property . damage is" $100 or more.' There are a number of important things that call for brief explanation right here. 't - ?The first is that the amount of property damage involved is increased from $25, as at present, to $100. The second is that the word 'total' means U property damage i combined, not just the damage to one car or other property of one person.' If one car, for instance, sustains $35 damage and -another $30, in the eyes of the law the total damage is $115 and the acci- - -dent most certainly reportable. ' "Motorists should also be careful ,., not to under-estimate the amount of property- damage. Motor vehicle re- ; pairs are costly these days, and that should be taken into consideration. In addition, damaged clothing, damage to fences or buildings, broken eyeglasses and many other things' must be In cluded In the calculations. "The next thing to remember is -that the driver of every car involved ' in a reportable accident must file two report, regardless, of fault Even if ' ,. one driver assumes all blame and of- , iters to take . care of- the - damage t ,jttoiSh "is insurance; or if a pedes- ""t.1an wlna is slijrhtly injured refuses i ;medXeaf Examination and says forget - he whoieVtRingrgoifighf 'ahead and ,J flltf both reports. The law says this Smust be done and, furthermore, peo ple sometimes change their mind af ter thinking things over. "Now a word about the two accident Teports, and here we find several vi tal changes in the law. At present, motorists are required to report only once and it need not be written. Be ginning January 1 they must make two reports, each to a different place, and one of them must be written and on an official form. The time for fil- - ing is also changed. "Under the new law, the first re r port must be made immediately and - by the quickest means of communi cation. Thus, this one does not have to be written. If the accident occur red in a municipality, the report must dc maae to the local police. If it oc curred outside of a municipality, it must be made to the State Highway jratroi, the sheriff, or any other quail fied rural , police of . the county in wnicn occurred. L ; . "The second report must be filed within 24 hours with the State De partment of Motor Vehicles. This one must be written and the new official irm must be used. A supply of these farms- has teen deposited with all StateM Highway Patrol stations, the , department of Motor Vehicles, all pc-; lice departments and all sheriffs of fices., -Any motorist can obtain one of these forms at any time without cost . It would be helpful to get one ' rw, study it and keep it on hand In ose or ui luck. - . ' . t . "'"This report calls for answers to ;rnE" questions. . They must be an- ted accurately and adequately. The iru.rmanon sought is for thenrotac- t A of the person making th report - mucn as me rest or the peor I 3, Take the questions about insiir- t -3, for instance,.' If they arent an- t na pie Department will assume t a car or driver was uninsured and v J - proceed against Urn under the J --y provisions lot the-, new law. 1 if he .had insurance, he was jt from the remaining provisions e new law after having filed his ' -;at certainly motorists who nderstand the new system will ' JTiculty if tiiey learn about it 3 first time ih the midst of an t Those who do understand it t, yrQl find it both simple and e. That Is the reason this "t is being Issued." i Holidays :iieBIcnday ana jCounty Schools will re gular classroom schedules i 'ay morning, ' following a a Christmas holiday,, it was t- ''y by J. T. Eijr-erS, Couh,-!-r.t of Schools. j Polio Foundation Schedules Program ToTest Vaccine Lav On Joay 1 Recorder's Court . . In Recess Tuesday Perquimans County Recorder's Court was in recess ton Tuesday of this week due to the absence from the city of Judge Chas. E. Johnson, who with Mrs. Johnson attended the foot ball game held in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. All cases listed on the docket of the court were continued un til next week. , Mann-White Vows Spoken At Winfall Miss Marvina White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin White of Win fall, and William Thomas Mann, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. "T. S. Mann of Elizabeth City were married on Sat urday, December 19, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, at the Winfall Metho dist Church, j The Rev. H. M. Jamie- son, pastor of the church, officiated, using the double ring ceremony. The church was decorated with white gladioli and palms and was lighted' . by cathedral candles. The candles Were lighted by Miss Emily White,, of Winfall, who wore a pink dress of iet over taffeta and a should er corsage of white carnations. The "wedding music was played by Mrs. Kuth Barber. Wayne White, brother.of the bride, sang "The Sweet est Story Ever Told," Because" and The Lord's Prayer. ' . The bride," who entered on the arm of her father, by whom she was given in marriage, wore a gown of bridal white satjn with an off -shoulder lace yoke, lowi fitted waistline, with self- covered buttons down the back of the bodice and long tailored sleeves with lace cuffs ending in bridal points over the hands. A full gathered skirt with a bustle back extended into a chapel length train. Her finger-tip length veil of illusion was attached to a beaded coronet vShe carried a prayer book topped with a white orchid, x Miss Celia- White was her sister's maidiof honor. : She wore a dress of pinknet over taffeta and Carried a cascade bouquet1 of "white "carnations and red- roses. Bridesmaids were Miss . Susie Spivey of Windsor and Miss ; Ruth Dawson of Portsmouth, v a. - miss Spivey wore a strapless, ballerina length gown of gray net! over taffeta ; and carried a cascade. bouqUet of red carnations; Miss Daw- son wore an identical gown of Christ-i mas tuue and carried a cascade of red roses. s : :: The best man was Ray Mann, bro ther of the bridegroom. The ushers were -Bill White of Norfolk and Ron-ald-McKee of Elizabeth City. . The mother of the bride wore a suit of charcoal gray with cobra skin ac cessories and a corsage of white car nations '. ::-y;r. ,r r. v. The mother of the bridegroom wore a -suit of blended purple and black wiu narmomzmg accessories and a corsage of white ' carnations. -: TTie bride is a graduate of Per quimans High School and a Junior at uast .Carolina College. ; - -Th6 bridegroom is' a graduate of Elizabetii City High School and at tended East Carolina College. He is now employed at Mann's Nash Saks and Service Company in Elizabeth City. , After a wedding trip to Florida the couple will make their borne at 209 East Burgess Street in Elizabeth City. Series Of Meetings Planned To Discuss Farming Program The application of recent Agricul tural Research results here' would mean a vast improvement in the in comes of individual farmers and would bring contribution to the econo my of the whole county, according to Ralph , Sasser, Assistant County Agent'- . - Mr. Sasser said this is the think ing back of a four day series of dis cussions designed to acquaint Per quimans County farmers with the practical application of recent re search results affecting major enter prises that are, or could be, conduct ed in Perquimans County. The classes will be held in the Ag ricultural Building, Tuesday, January 12, through Friday, January 15. Spe- Construction Work On Highway Repair Shop To Get Underway Here Next Week '."asonsTolnstxll eeting On Tuesday Officers recently elected to head the Perquimans Lodge, No. 106, A. F., & A.?M., for the year 1954, will.be in stalled at services to be conducted, in the lodge . rooms on Tuesday night January 6, it was announced today. - tThe officers to be Installed Will be W, J. Kanoy, Master; C. F. Murray, Senior Warden: Elijah White.. Junior Warden; J. S.- Bass, Treasurer, and C. Winslow, Secretary. i Appointive officers of ths lodge, to be named by the new Master, will 1 s6 be installed at these services. 1 i All members of the lodge are urged to attend the installation services, and visiting Masons are welcome. , J i j. V TRAGIC DEATH - Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kanoy, -Sr.; of Biscoe, who were spending the Christ mas holidays with their son and daughter-in-law-- here, " were ' called home $arly Saturday morning by- t'e tragic death ,of a brother-Of Mr. J a- noy, br. JHarvin Jumoy, 65, was one of two persons who met death, in a burning ttmsevat Troy,' Christmas dght . , - Construction work on the new High-! Indian Pan-ora Tn way Commission repair shops for the t? t p First Division, to be located just north ; KeSUUie Flay Jail. 5 of Hertford on U. S. 17, is expected to get underway next week, according to a report made today by J. Emmett i The girls' and boys' basketball nificant result. teams of Perquimans High bchooi will A nationwide study to determine the effectiveness of a polio vaccine in preventing paralytic polio will get un derway in one or more southern states during the week of February 8, 1954. This was announced today by Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. In a gradually expanding program, more than two hundred counties throughout the United States will be involved before the mass vaccination project ends by June 1, 1954. Dur ing that period, 500,000 to 1,000,000 school children of the second grade will have taken part in one of the lar gest studies of its kind ever under taken. Participation will be on a vol untary basis with the consent of the child's parents or legal guardians. Fi nal results of the evaluation study are not expected until some time in 1955. In general, school children of the second grade will be vaccinated dur ing a non-epidemic period and then observed during a subsequent polio epidemic to evaluate the protective ef fects of the vaccine. The basic factor for determining the protective effects of the vaccine will be a comparison of the incidence of paralytic polio in the vaccinated group with that of chil dren in the first and third school grades. In announcing the vaccine study, Mr. O'Connor emphasized that the uniqueness of the project was not merely its size. "For the past six teen years," he said, "millions of Americans have actively supported scientists in the laboratory helping them create this new potential weap on against polio. And now they will continue that cooperation and help prove whether we have really reach ed our goal the conquest of polio." In the counties selected for the study, local physicians will adminis ter the vaccine under the supervision of the county health officer. Mem bers of the National Foundation's 3, 100 chapters will participate as volun teers in providing the many non-pro fessional services required in the mass vaccinations. Other community and civic grfcupjf 411 -pky a leading role in easing the task of vaccinating a half million or more children in hundreds of communities throughout the nation. The two hundred or more counties to be included in the vaccine validity study are being selected mainly on the basis of a previous polio history that will provide a statistically sig- Winslow, Highway Chairman for thisresume their schedule of games on Division, Approval of the site, and allocation of funds for the project, was made last summer by the State Highway Commission, and the site was pur chased from Perquimans County. Due to unavoidable delays, con struction of the building has been postponed until now, but Commission er Winslow believes the project will be started and completed within a short time. Plans for the building call for a structure 208 feet' long and 60 feet wide, with concrete floors and brick- veneer walls. It will be laid out for il i ST c ST C a 45 by 50-foot office and stock cultural Extension Service will bring m iS'w hv w the latest recommendations on soy beans, corn, peanuts, pasture, weed control, beef, sheep, swine, dairying, tractor maintenance, water and sew age systems and sweet , potatoes. These classes will include marketing and storage of farm products. Ralph 4 Sasser, Assistant, Farm Agent, states that farmers may at tend any of the classes, but he "urged them to attend all of them. Maybe you aren't interested, in a particular enterprise that will be discussed, but it may be that this enterprise can fit in very profitably with your farming program, Mr. Sasser said. The public is urged to attend all of the classes and find out. Clip the fol lowing "schedule for later reference. Tuesday, January 12, 10:00 A. M., Subjects, Soybeans, Grain, Peanuts, P a s t u r e: Specialists Bell, Perry, Dobson, Curtis; .2:09 P. M., Subjects, Corn, Weed-Control, Specialists, Col lins, Westmoreland, Curtis; Thursday, January 14. ,10:00 A. M., Subjects, Beef, Sheen, Swine, Dairying, Spe cialists, Butler, Buchanan, Rich, George; 2:00 P. M., Tractor Mainten ance, Water, and Sewage System, El lis, Ferguson; Friday, January 15, 2:00 P". M., Subject Sweet Potatoes, Including Marketing ' and ' Storage, Specialists, Covington,' Abshier. j? BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT i ' . ' Born to Mr. and Mrs: Henry Stokes, Jr., on Saturday, December 26, at the Chowan Hospital, Edenton, a son, Hen ry Clay Stokes III. , ',, , ATTENDING SUGAR BOWL Mr. and JT.s Henry Clay Stokes and Mr. and Irs. Charles E. Johnson left llonday -morning for New Orleans where -1' ey will attend the Sugar Bowl f- '.bn'I you-.e. 1 ' , . room, a 45 foot by 45-foot machine shop, and a 45 foot by 15-feet lava tory, toilet and machinery and heat ing space. The rest of the building will be used as a repair shop. Highway bridge department crews or local contractors will erect the walls and main section of the build ing. Bids for steel roof and roof trusses have been placed, and a Ra leigh firm will install the roof and in sulate it. Total cost of the building is expected to be in excess of $100, 000. : --.y Mr. And Mrs, W, H. Pitt Observe Open House Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Pitt entertained at open house Sunday af ternoon at their home on Dobb Street honoring their son, William Howard, Jr., and his fiancee,' Miss Anna In gram Redding, of Asheboro. . Christmas: greens- decorated the house throughout which was lighted by the glow of; numerous candles. In the receiving line, in addition to the host and hostess and the two hon orees, were the parents of the bride-to-be, Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Redding and their son,. William How ard, Jr., of Asheboro. ' ' Mr. and Mrs. T, B. Sumner and Mr. and Mrs. Charles T Skinner receiv ed in the living room and directed the guns to the dining room, where Mr. Tuesday night, January '6, when the teams will play Griggs High School on the local court. These contests will mark the open ing round in the Albemarle Rural Conference, and Coach Ike Perry ex pects plenty of competition from the Currituck teams. On January 8 the teams from Per quimans will play at Manteo and on January 12 the Indians and Squaws will meet the teams from Moyock at the local gyin. - - Busy Year Recorded In Conservation Work In County County Tax Listers Start Job This Week; Taxpayers Must List Tax listers for Perquimans County will start tnis week the task of list ing county property for 1954 taxation, ftwas announced today by Julian C. Powell, County Tax Supervisor. County tax listers for the various townships are Julian Long, '-.Bethel f Percy Rogerson, Hertford; 'Mrs. Er nest Long, Parkville; Mrs. T. CY Per ry, Belvidere, and J. A. Sutton, New . . The tax listers will carrv. out the duties of their office under, bstruc-jdramage on 1,850 acres of cropland, Forty-one conservation plans were prepared with Perquimans County farmers during the year ending De cember 31, 1953. This makes a total of 571 conservation plans prepared since the Soil Conservation Office was opened here in February, 1944. The idea of soil conservation has come to .'mean proper land use, protecting the land from all forms of sou deple. tion, conserving moisture for crop use, proper drainage, building up soil fertility, and increasing yields and farm income all at the same time. As a first step in preparing a Basic Con servation Plan a map is prepared for each farm to show the different types of soils, and the owner is given infor mation on the best method of treatment- . During 1953, Perquimans County farmers cooperating with the Albe marle Soil Conservation District seed ed 170 acres of new permanent pas ture, seeded approximately 1,000 acres of - cover crops, and improved the tions issued them by the -Board of County Commissioners in a, .-special meeting held here on December 14. ' The tax lister's job will run through the month of January and all property owners must list their property prior to January 31, otherwise there is a penalty of one dollar for the late list ing. Schedules for. tax listen 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 juiy. i and, Mrs. Walter G. Edwards, and . i" addition to, taking the property Mrs. J. H.-Towe end Robert L. Hollo- well received. 1 -" ' ' At a beautifully,, appointed table, covered with red Christmas cloth and decorated.with ft centerpiece of Christ mas greens, flanked by candles in sil ver candelabra, Mrs. T. S. White', Sr., and Mrs. Robert L Hollowell poured !"- the workers will also- take a farm census. Farmers are urged to pre pare lists in advance and tf assist list takers in the taking of the census. SUFFERS KROKEN ARM - - Mrs. T. L. Jessup had the misfor tune to suffer a broken arm in ft. fall coffee. - About 200 guests called, v t J, at her home on Christmas Day. - farmers -cooperating with the Dis trict set out 3,600 multiflora rose plants and 11,000 bicolor plants. These plants were furnished by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commis sion through the Albemarle Soil Con servation District. ' .Two hundred soil samples were ta ken covering approximately 1,000 acres of crop and pasture land during 1953. These samples were sent to the Soil Testing Division, N.' C. Depart ment of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. The samples, were analyzed and rec ommendations . made as to the lime and fertilizer requirements for spe cific crops. . ,i - - . 1 ; - v-" - r BINGO PARTY A bingo party will be given at the home of Mrs. Archie T. Lane Thurs day night January 7, by the-Jadies of the Business and Professional Wo men's Club. k Prizes will be given and refresh ments served. - Tickets, will be j sold by the'elub members. " ' ( t.
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