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Perauimans Perquimans Court Hears 20 Session On Tuesday . ; Variety. of Cases Be-, fore Recorder In Day Long Session A day-long session was needed , last Tuesday to clear the docket in '1 PerquimanB Recorder's Court of the - 20 cases listed on the court calen ft dar. Costs of court were taxed against Edmund Harding, Lessie Payne and Richard Weldon, each of whom en- - tered pleas of guilty to charges of . speeding. . , Four defendants, Gene Trueblood, : Edward Winslow, Leek Whidbee, . Negro, and David Cordez, each charged with driving without a li cense submitted to the charges and , paid a fine of $25 and costs. 1 Norman Layden was fined $25 and costs after pleading guilty to charges of transporting tax paid .liquor in a dry county.- 'Prayer for judgment was con ' tinued in the case in which Ernest Symons was found guilty on charg es of assault with a deadly weapon. Henry Riddick, Negro, was or nered to pay a fine of $25 after being found guilty of charges of be ing drunk and disorderly. Mary Lee Taylor, Negro, and Norman Revells, Negro, were or dered to pay the court costs after pleading guilty to charges of being drunk. : : Jonah Whidbee, Negro was found j guilty on charges of trespass. He . paid a fine of $25 and costs of '-court.: . A verdict of not guilty was re ' turned in the case in which Harrv Barclift, Negro, Iras charged with v giving an improper signal while ; driving a motor car. K Larry Norman, .Negro, pleaded guilty to-charges of being drunk. a . j , iL. f ; it. vi cuurc uriu lenve uie cumu wi La in 10 hours. -' . - Dennis Revells. Negro was found guilty on charges of being drunk, assault with a deadly weaport and resisting an officer. He was scn tenced to jail for nine months, sen- tence- to be suspended upon pay ment of a- fine of $250 and costs. Robert Lee Thatch, Negro, was found not guilty of charges of as sault. Horace Reid, Negro, was taxea with the costs of court after being found guilty of assaulting his wife. Columbus White, Negro, charged on two counts with being drunk and larceny, entered pleas of guilty to the charges. 1 He was sentenced to the roads for 90 days. , George Harvey,, Negro, paid a fine of $10 and costs after pleading guilty to1 charges of being drunk ' and disorderly. Cotton Farmers In North Carolina Are Missing Boat ' The N. C. Cotton Promotion Committee saw and heard evidence at State College last month that the know-how to produce high cot ' ton yields is available but the av erage North Carolina farmer isn't UBing It. The state's 4-H cotton champion, who produced an acre yield four times the state average, and Dr. E. T. York, head of a State College cotton study committee, offered plenty of 'testimony to how far North Carolina has to go in cotton production. , , Thfr state 4-H cotton champion, 15-year-old Harry Lee Gibson of Gibson, Route 1 in Scotland Coun ' ty was one of 15 young cotton growers attending the annual 4-H Cotton School as guest of the At lantic Cotton ' Council and State College. Gibson, who spoke before the State Cotton Promotion Committee meeting, had a simple formula for producing 1,230 pounds of lint cot ton on an acre. . 1 , V , "I just did what my daddy did," he admitted. Fortunately, his dad dy, P. C. Gibson, Is also a cham pion cotton grower.- Last year he was on of the state's Five-Acre Cotton Contest winners. This year, the elder Gibson matched his son's one-acre record on five acres. York, who spoke at the Cotton . (Continued on Page Five) - Cases In Glee Glub Concert Scheduled April 22 The annual concert of the Per quimans High School Glee Club will be presented in the high school au ditorium Friday night, April 22, be ginning at 8 o'clock, it was an nounced today. The Glee Club, composed of sixty voices, will be under the direction of Mrs. Charles E. Johnson and a fino musical program has, been planned for the concert. The public is cordially invited to attend. v Ministers Oppose Gambling - Shows At Chowan Fair Following is a resolution adopted at the April meeting of the Tri- County Ministerial Association: , Be it rosolvcd that the Tri-Coun-ty Ministerial Association, compos ed of ministers from Chowan, Gates, and Perquimans Counties, North Carolina, go on record as con demning and protesting against the corrupt practice of open and illegal gambling, and tne operation of bur lesque shows at the Chowan Coun ty Fair for the past several years. We deplore the practice of gamb ling because it is forbiddenby the laws of our state, esperkilly G. S. 14-292, which reads: "If any per son play at any game of chance at which any money, property or other thing of value-is bet, whether the same be in stake or not, both those who play and those who bet there of jldty jot.a wiisdemean or." We condemn the practice of gambling a opposed to the com mandment, "Thou shalt not covet . . . anything that is thy neigh bor's" (Exodus 20:17). We con demn burlesque shows as forbidden by the -commandment "Thou shalt not commit adultery" (Exodus 20:14). We flote that in the past4 steps have been taken against these prac tices, but nothing has been done about eliminating them, and there is no rcliabble promise that any thing will be done in the future. "Therefore: 1. We call upon the citizens of Chowan and surrounding counties to exercise their Christian responsi bility by refusing to patronize the Chowan County Fair so long as it features gambling and burlesque shows in deliberate and open de fiance of the laws of God and man. We further call upon them to pro test against these forms of im morality, to the sponsors of the fair, and to those in places of civil authority. 2. We call upon the County Com missioners, the Sheriff, and other law enforcement authorities in Chowan County to faithfully en force the existing laws against gambling. Further, we remind the County Commissioner that the sponsors of the; Chowan County Fair were granted a tax exemption last year upon their promise there would be no gambling at the fair; which promise was woefully disre garded. Therefore;, we request the County Commissioners to refuse the sponsors of the Chowan County Fair a tax exemption for the year 1955. 3. We note with interest the as surance given by the sponsors of the Chowan County Fair in The Chowan Herald for March 18, 1955, that the fair this year will feature "the cleanest type of concession games, and allowing no - crooked gyp-games of any nature ... clean tent sideshows that cater to women and children.'? ; We also note these same sponsors have given this same assurance in previous years. We alBO note that the organization which has contracted to provide the midway attractions has made this same promise to another club in Edenton on several occasions, and has consistently broken this prom-, ise, so that the. local club which previously sponsored the fair fin ally gave it up in disgust There-' fore we call Vlpon the sponsors of the Chowan County Fair to exer cise vigilance to insure there will be no gambling or burlesque shows i (Continued on Page Five) - - liiair v X: - X J w? v3 s 1.4 f I -3. 1 KNUCKLE UNDER TO SPRING Winter's over, for sure, when the marbles are brought out of storage. Small boys in Beverly, Mass., give the lie to the thermometer and their heavy clothes at they start the ceremonial process which is completed only when one o( the lads winds up with all the aggies and taws in the crowd. Selective Service Plans Disposal Of ndividual Files Colonel Thomas H. Upton, State Director of Selective Service, re ports that he has received notice from the Director of Selective Ser vice to proceed with the disposal of the individual files of registrants of the Selective Training and Ser vice Act of 1940, as amended. He pointed out that any World War II registrant needing information from his World War II selective service file should request it now before the loss of such information by destruction of the records. The information must be requested eith er in person or by letter signed by the registrant. Colonel Upton also stated that the Director of Selective Service advises that the great majority of the World War II files have served all discernible administrative pur poses in the operation of the Uni versal Military Training and Ser vice Act, as amended, and that the Joint Committee of Congress on the Disposition of Executive Papers has approved of the disposal of in dividual files of registrants of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The only World War II files to be retained are those of registrants classified at any time in Class IV-C (Alien), which have been requested by the Immigration and NaturalizatiomService. Files obtained under the current draft act will continue to be main tained by each registrant's local board. . THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES Medical approval has been given to an anti-polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk and prepara tions are now underway to give this vaccine to some 30 million school children during the next few weeks as a preventive measure against polio. The vaccine was tested last year and the results of the test were announced Tuesday., Accord ing to reports, Medical authorities beileve at long last the search for an effective preventive against the disease has been discovered. The U. S. Supreme Court open ed hearings last Monday on the question of segregation in public schools aimed at a decision of set ting effective dates as to the Court ruling of last May. A number of Southern States have presented ar guments to the Court on the sub ject, and others are expected to present views during this week. Some of the state oppose integra tion and all request time to work out a solution to the problem on local levels. . The General ' Assembly, I seeking ways and .means to raise additional operating funds for the State dur ing the next two years, is expectr ed to adopt some specific measures by the end' of next week. , Com mittees have beenjsonsidering "tax packages'.' for the past two weeks and reports from Raleigh Wednes day indicated the House and Sen ate groups Jiave come to some con clusions on the type of new taxes to be levied, i , ,. . '..- MASONS TO MEET The Perquimans Masonic Lodge, No. 106i A. F & A. M., will meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. . " ? "... 3 -.-.'.JO' l ... fe"1 -v. A - & Five Candidates In Hertford Five candidates have filed for of fices on the Hertford Town Board, subject to the primary election to be held Monday, April 2!, it was reported Tuesday by W. G. Newby, Town Clerk. Heading the list of officials seeking re-election to the Board is Mayor V. N. Durden, while Com missioners Henry C. Sullivan, W. Ray White and Robert L. Hollowell have filed as candidates for office as town commissioners. A. W. Hcfren, who served as town commissioner a number -of years ago, has also filed as a can didate for the Board. The final deadline for filing for an office on the Hertford Board was Thursday, April 14. Little interest in the Hertford election -has been manifested thus far this year and unless some de velopments materialize such as last minute filing of candidates, which is now not expected, a very light vote is anticipated for the primary. Baptist Churches Plan Elimination Meeting April 17 One of the highlights of the training program of the Baptist Churches in the Chowan Associa tion is the elimination meeting for the five annual projects to be held Sunday afternoon, April 17, at 2:H0 o'clock, in the Corinth Baptist Church near Elizabeth City. In this meeting representatives from the churches of the associa tion will take part in the hymn fes tival, adult Bible reading tourna ment, young people's better speak ing tournament, intermediate sword drill, and the junior memory work drill. Representatives wifl be de termined to go to the Regional Training Union Convention in Windsor on April 22 to represent the Chowan Association. If these participants are successful there they will be qualified to go on to the State Assemblies this summer to participate in the State Elimina tion for Statp honors. The hymn festival will be con ducted by Mrs. F. A. Cuthrell; the Bible readers tournament will be conducted by the Rev. A. C. Mc Call; the better speakers' tourna ment by Mrs. Ernest Saunders; the sword drill by Scott Harrell; the memory work drill by Mrs. Leon G. Leary. Every Training Union member, every church member and every person interested in training for service is urged to attend this inspiring meeting and support the efforts of these tournament partici pants to further develop themselves for active service in the church, TB Directors To Meet Here April 21 Dr. Allan Bonner, president of the Pasquotank-Perquimans-Camden-Chowan TB Association, an nounces a meeting, will be held for the Board of Directors at 8 o'clock, April, 21 at the Municipal Building in Hertford. -. . 1 AH Board members are urged to attend. This is the. first meeting for4955. , . 1 . The executive board will meet at 7:30 prior to the Board of Di rectors. . J4 Election Today is the deadline for indi viduals to file inronip tax reports with the State and Fcdoral Revenue Departments. To those who have not yet. filed tax returns the law provides the report must be in the mails by midnight April 15; other wise a penalty might be charged for late filing. Individuals who earned at least $fi()0 during the year 1954 must file a fedenil tax return, and state returns must be filed if, during 1954, a single person earned as much as $1,000 and a married per son earned as much as $2,000. 447 Salk Vaccine Requests Filed In Perquimans County Parents of 447 first and second grade children in this county have requested use of the new Salk Vac cine for poliomyelitis, Miss Audrey Umphlett, health nurse, reported this week. A total of 511 pupils are regis tered in the first two grades in county schools, and the department is pleased with the high percentage of requests received. Approval of the use of the new vaccine was announced just last Tuesday. However, school and health officials have been planning for several weeks the program of giving the shots and Miss Umph lett stated she believed the vaccine will be made available here within the next few weeks and the pro gram will be completed before the close of the present school term. The vaccine to be supplied Per quimans County will come from the distribution headquarters at Wil liamston but as yet no dates have been set for receiving the vaccine here. Two complete vaccinations, each child is to receive two innoculations of the vaccine instead of the previ ously planned three shots, and be cause the vaccine has been so im proved since tests were made in 1954 it is reported additional sup plies may become available within a very short time. Bloodmobile Here Thursday, May 5th The next visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile to Perquimans County will be on May 5, it was reported by Herbert N. Nixon Chairman of the Blood Program Committee for the local Red Cross Chapter. In announcing the coming visit of the Bloodmobile,' Mr. Nixon stat ed the county quota for this visit has been set at 75 pints of blood and his committee will begin plans immediately to enlist volunteer donors in sufficient numbers to en-, able the county to meet this quota. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Broughton of Wilmington, Del., announce the birth of a second son, Carroll Broughton, Jr., born Easter Sun day, April 10th, at the Wilming ton General Hospital. Mrs. Brough ton, before her marriage, wag Miss Sybil . .Chappell of Perquimans County. ! Today Is The Day Road Report Given By Commissioner For Month March A total of 38.4 miles of road work was completed by the State Highway Commission in the First Highway Division during March, Commissioner Emmctt Winslow re ported today. Camden, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Bertie, Hertford, Northampton, Chowan, Hyde, Mart:n, Tyrrell, and Wash ington counties compose the First. Division headquarters are in Ahos kie; W. N. Spruill is division en gineer. In Chowan, State highway forces finished laying a sand asphalt wearing surface on two 18-fnot wide secondary roads, and their lengths: from intersection of paved county road in Ryland, north to NC 32, 2.3 miles; and from Snow Hill Cross Roads, south to Tyner, 4.7 miles. Bv contract NC 34 and NC 170 were widened 17.8 miles from 10 to 22.5 feet and paved with a bitumi nous surface treatment. The newly-widened primary highway runs from Belcrnss, north via Rhawhnro and Gum Corner to Slign. The other primary improvement on NC 34 runs from Sligo east and south via Currituck and Maple to inter section of US 158 near Barco. ' Also by contract, 0.9 miles of hydraulic fill was completed for the future 22-foot wide pavement on the new location of road for the approaches to the new bridge across croatan hound hetween Manns Harbor and Roanoke Island. Three 18-foot wide secondary roads and one lfi-foot. wide second ary road in Perquimans were im proved with a sand asphalt wear- ing surface by State highway fore-1 os. The three 18-foot wide roads,! and their lengths, which were pav- ed are: frpm a point on a paved I county road, 0.8 mile northeast of Bethel, northeast to the Hertford- Harvevs Neck Road, 3.5 miles;, from US 17, 1.8 miles east of Win-1 fall, northeast to intersection of j paved county road, 1.5 miles south-! west of Chapanoke, 3.(5 miles; and from US 17, 2.9 miles west of Woodville, north via Chapanoke to the Perquimans-Pasquotank Coun ty line, 4.1 miles. The fourth sec ondary road, which is 16 feet wide, was improved with a sand asphalt! base course for 1.5 miles from in-1 tersection of unnaved county road. I 5.3 miles southwest of New Hope, south. The existing structure on US (!4 over Welches Creek between Mar tin and Washington counties was widened under contract. The new ly-widened bridge on the primary j, system now has a 28-foot clear roadway. RedCross Chapter. Meeting Thursday Officers of the Perquimans chap ter of the American Red Cross met at the Court House Thursday night at 8 o'clock for the purpose of re viewing the recent Red Cross Fund drive and presenting Mrs. Jack Burbage with a certificate of mer it for her efforts in directing the campaign. The chapter also discussed plans for conducting a safe swimming project during the coming summer months, similar to the project spon sored by the chapter a few years ago. Lessons in swimming and life saving will be taught during the classes. A sewing project, another activi ty of the chapter, was also dis cussed and plans made to enlarge this program with the selection of a committee chairman and assist ants. District Institute Meets Here April 19 The Temperance Institute of the Elizabeth City District will meet at the Hertford Methodist Church Tuesday, April 19 at 7:30 P. M., it was reported by the Rev. H. M. Jamieson, secretary. The program for the meeting in cludes devotional by the Rev. I. S. Richmond, addresses . by, Aubrey bpeer, General Board of Temper ance of the Methodist Church, Washington, D. C, and A. A. Speaker of Raleigh. ' Announce ments and closing prayer will be given by, the Rev. Mr. Janu'eson. Indians Remain In Undefeated Class With 7 Victories Hertford Board In Routine Meeting Hertford's Board of Commission ers met Monday night in routine meeting and voted to donate $50 toward the construction of the Ground Observer tower now being erected. The Board voted to advertise 1954 delinquent taxes during the month of June and sell liens on the taxes on the second Monday in July. Town Clerk W. G. Newby advis ed the Board the sum of $10,000 had been paid to retire towns bonds maturing May 1. Superior Court To Convene Monday For Mixed Term The April term of Perquimans Superior Court will convene here next Monday morning with Judge Clifton Moore presiding over the one week term of criminal and civil cases. Due to the serious nature of a number of the criminal cases set for trial court officials expect the session to last the entire week, with slight chance of few civil cases be ing tried. ' The jury list for this term of court is comprised of the following: McMullen White, Leslie Gregory, Marvin D. White, J. T. Godfrey, Joshua R. Lawrence, T. L. Winslow, Klton Hurdle, Nathan S. Hurdle. Percy Itogerson, Winslow V. Roun trce, George V. Hollowell, E. Lee Hurdle, J. P. Cart-wright,- D. F. Reed, Sr., Raymond Eure, Harry Barber. W. E. Bagley, Charlie T. Winslow, I.loyd (Pete) Owens, Ralph E. Miller, George C. Euro, Sr., Leonard Pierce, L i n w o o d Twine, Calvin Godfrey, C. Edgar White, Wavland Howell, James A. Carver, Miss Wilma Joliff, S. M. Long, J. P. Ward, Velum Winslow, Mrs. N. C. Ppivey, George D. True blood, Harvey Butt, Mrs. Pinky Hurdle, John K. Chappell, T. W. Wilson, Joseph C. Layden, M. H. Chappell, D. R. Tueblood, G. A. Umphlett, S. E. Ambrose, Mrs. Mo nola Joliff, C. P. Quinrv, Mrs. R. R. White, Wallace Layden, J. C. Bun dy, Sr., Garland Stallings, George S. Caddy, Tom Story, Jr., W. B. Tucker, Julian F. Boyce, Elmer G. Banks, Merrill J. Layden, D. F. Reed, Jr., Emma F. White, J. E. Dail, Hilton M. White, David Cox, Jr., and J. R. Jarvis. Full Time Laboratory Service For Work In Health District The laboratory at the local Health Department was approved in 1950 by the North Carolina State Board of Health for public health laboratory services. In January, 1955, the U. S. Public Health Ser vice began certifying the laborator ies which complied with their stand ards of milk examinations. A con tinuous check is made on milk samples in the health district in addition to the milk from Dare, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Wash ington, Tyrrell, Bertie and Martin counties. By performing several routine tests which give an indica tion of the quality and safety of tho milk an invaluable service is rendered in keeping milk supplies up to par. Over 700 samples were examined in 1954. Bloods taken at the clinics of h e IJisquotank-Perquimans-Cam- den-Chowan Health District, as well as the ones brought in by the local physicians are examined for syphilis. The number of blood specimens to be examined has in creased from 1,500 in 1950 to 3,500 in 1954. This free service is avail able to all the physicians in- this district. Examination of slides for clinic patients for gonorrhea and for patients of private physicians are made regularly. Water from food handling estab lishments, homes, schools, and lodg ing places having private water supplies, are tested periodically- to First Night Game On Local Field Next Tuesday At 8 P. M. The Perquimans Indians, display ing a powerful hitting attack be hind the strong pitching of Ted Chappell and Paul Mathews, chalk ed up their sixth and seventh base ball victories of the season at the expense of Ahoskie and Chowan High Schools during the past week. Undefeated thus far the Indians are making an outstanding record of their defense of the Class A State championship title. Last Thursday afternoon Ted Chappell set the Ahoskie team down with three hits while his teammates collected a 9-2 win. Per quimans had nine hits and commit ted three errors. Alinskie, with three hits, tallied two runs and committed two errors. Chappell struck out eight and gave up no walks. Newsom start ed on the mound for Ahoskie, strik ing out one, walking three and al lowing three mns. He was reliev ed in the fourth inning. D. A. Carver hit a 385-foot home run in the fifth inning. Perquim ans tallied one run in the second, two in the third, three in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the sixth. Ahoskie scored once in the fourth and fifth innings. On Tuesday the Indians met the strong Chowan team on Memorial Field, winning a 10-1 victory. Paul Mathews pitrhed for Perquimans striking out eight, walking two and hitting one batter. He gave up one run. Robert Chappell started on the mound for Chowan, pitching two innings, during which he struck out one, walked two and gavj up six hits and five runs. . He was relieved by Edgar Long, who 4 vck out two-gave up four hits and ve runs. Ted and Arnold Chanpell led the Perquimans hitting attack, each getting a double and a Single. Per quimans scored three runs in tlus second, two in the third, two in the"" fourth and three in the fifth in nings. Chowan scored its lone run in the first inning, getting two of its three hits off Mathews. Perquimans scored 10 runs on 10 hits and committed four errors, while Chowan had one run on three hits and also committed four er rors. The Indians will play the first night homo game of the season here next Tuesday, April 19, with the Williamston Green Wave furn ishing the opposition. On the fol lowing Thursday the Perquimans team will journey to Tarboro for a return game with Tarboro High. determine its safety for human consumption. Chemical analysis oi water is not done in the local lab oratory. Sputum examinations for tuber culosis, slides and cultures for sus pected diphtheria, stools for intes tinal parasites, blood work and urinalyses for clinic patients, in cluding R.H. factor, are done rou tinely. During diabetes week, the labor atory cooperates with the medical profession in locating diabetic pa tients. The Health Department is fortu nate in having a well equipped full time laboratory for its public health work as only a few of the district heafth departments have this ser vice. Sarah B. Allen, a graduate of Womans College of the U. N. C, is the technician and has been with the Health Department since Aug ust, 1949. Central PTA Meets J Next Monday Night 1 The PTA of the Perquimans Cen tral Grammar School will meet in the cafeteria of the school next Monday night at 8 o'clock. Th White Hat community, "with JIT Melvin Eure as chairman, will j sent the program. .-a :-.' The topic for' f'-e mor" "Smooth Sailing Towc 1 T rizons.! .' - 1 4