North Carolina Newspapers

MAMS Wi iA. v r, ,x:. ., . ii 1 1 I r ii 4 ' V Volume XXIV. NumberlO.. ip . "I'M DOWN HERE" One-year-old Peter Redheffer seems to be trying to get someone's attention. But he's pretty well lost in the shuffle 'of feet as passengers leave the liner United States upon arrival in New York.- Indians Take Lead In Conference Race Defeating ,! THIS VMS i:mii:;es 1 444W $ ' President Kiaenhower, Tutsday l.y - eri troops ' frtft - LflEtle'lfocRi j - i' Ark,, ' despite 1 apparent agree ( 4 ment with four. Southern Gov ' ernors over handling of the i Little Rock situation. The President stated Arkansas Gov ernor, Faubus had not given as- - surance he' would use the pow ers of his' office' to carry out Federal Court orders for school f Integration. This action was a late development and came after the federal troops had been re ' placed, around the . Little . Rock ; hitfh school by Arkansas Na- J tional Guardsmen. Efforts, on the part of some members of the Teamsters Union to ' block election of new of ficers of that union failed Tues day when 'Chief Justice arreil denied an order blocking the election scheduled at the union convention in Florida. Union 1 members seeking the court order A Wpiaimed the convention had been claimed the convention had been rigged, with bogus delegates. F a running gun battle lasting 42 hours between two gunmen and police from Michigan and Indiana - ended when Indiana State Police killed one of the gunmen and captured the sec ond one near North Vernon, In diana, on Tuesday. The gun men killed two police officers and wounded four others during the chase of more than 200 miles. 1 s It's World Series . time , again X and the New York Yankees are ' 8-5 favorites to, cop . the , series against Milwaukee. Opening game was played Wednesday to NewYork; the second contest is 1 " I scheduled ; on the - Yankee dia' vJ mond, while -' the i next -three i ' games will be played ; in Mil Derea Church To ' ; 'Hold Homecoiuing ' 5'tThe annual homecoming of le i.Berea Church of Chiist will be observed next Sunday, October 6, Ijeginning at 10 A. M., with Bible School. Morning services, will be held; at 11 A. M., with the Hev. Nn( Puckett. preaching m ' Pirme'r will be served on the rhniVh vrounds after. which an service will be conducted. "Etfervone is invited to attend aU'tht activities of the day, espe- dally the members of the church v ho have moved w. qwer Tarboro The Perquimans Indians grab' bed the leadership in the Albe marie Uonierence football race last Friday night by edging Tar boro High School 14 to 12 in a contest played, at Tarboro. Coach Ike Perry's snwges this week have preparf$r another confer-, ence 'game Friday night tot be Ij AgalnliasiiaiUf rm Ifle- mortal f ieja in neruora. uame time is 8 o'clock. ' ; , - Perquimans scored its victory over Tarboro during the final minutes of play, after Tarboro had gambled on a fourth down play and failed The Indians took possession , in Tarboro territory and moved :downfield until the ball rested on the Tarboro three yard line.. John Matthews then bucked across for the winning touchdown with one minute leftl in the game. , The Indians looked jjood during the first period of the game, tak- ing a 7 to 6 lead, but faltered aur ing the second and third quar ters during which Tarboro out played the locals. Perquimans re turned to form in, the final. quar; terJfo'eltiaoutal victory f ' ' The Indians scored in the first Deriod to take. ia, 7-0., lead with Tommy Matthews on a 10-yard" run and J. Matthews converting i the extra noint. Tarboro made a the extra point. Tarboro made a tally in the first period with Nic- kie.Tew going over the line. Tew again scored ,a .touchdown in the final period to give Tarboro a li-i lead prior to Hertford's final reg ister. ' ' Tarboro completed one pass out of a& many attempts while Per quimans completed none of two tries and had one of them lnier cepted. '.. ' ' ' Hazel Matthews and Thurman Whedbee led the Indian line play. County Allocated $6,897 For Roads The State Highway Commission last week allocated the sum ofi $6,897.40 to Perquimans County for the use of secondary road im provement within the. county dur ing the current fiscal year,, jt was reported by Highway Director W. F. Babcock.' How the funds will be used yrijl be left to the discre tion of the division engineers ana the icqmty,fboard. of .commissipn ers, the repbrt stated.. ... ?. Allocations iq other irounties of Division One was a foUows: Ber tie,5 $16,401; Camden, ' $4,975.20; Chowan, $4,309.80; CurntucK, V, 062.40: Dare, $3,060.20; Gates, $9,- 790.40; Hertford, $10,3(.40; Pas quotank, $5,481. " CIRCLE TO MEET The Delia Shambureer Circle of the First Methodist Church will meet Monday night at 8 o'clock at the home of. Miss Thelma El liott with, , Mrs.. , J( ; ,E. Morris as po-hostess., l ' j 1 r! Hertford, Perquimans County. North Rotary Club Given Brief On Present plans of the Navy Department calls' Jor construc tion to begin at the Harvey Point Seaplane Base on Janu ary 1, members of the Hertford Harvey : - Rotary Club were told at their $33,000 was rece.ved Tuesday by meeting this week by Lt. Frank the Perquimans Board of Educa Lucente, assistant naval con- tion as full settlement between struction officer for the base. he County Schools and the U. S. As guest speaker at the civic Government for damages sus club meeting, Lt. Lucente gave t-sined last February when a a brief outline of the Navy's . Navy plane crashed into the construction plan, stating the Perquimans School garage. Diamond Construction Company I Payment of the claim, the had agreed to Navy stipulations amount of which was reached by announced last week as to the agreement between school of- effective date of starting work at the site and that awarding of the contract is expected within two or three days. , . The construction -company, un der terms of the contract, will have 300 days to complete de molition 6f present structures Jg long the water front at the site and to install a new bulk head, seaplane ramp and park ing apron. It is anticipated 60 to 70 days will be needed by the company in preparing the site for new construction and a large amount of unskilled and I semi-skilled labor will be need ed and recruited locally for the preparatory work. Lt. Lucente pointed out pres ent plans for the base hinges on the development of the Martin Seamaster Plane now being readied for test flying next month. He told the Rotarians the $2, 185,000 contract of Diamond will probably be the only contract awarded prior to June 30, 1958, but other contracts totaling more than six million dollars will be awarded after next July and will call for construction of two barracks to house enlisted men, batqielor ; officers' quarters, ad ministration building mess halt, installation of water and power lines to serve the base. By Recorder Judge At Session , L . - . A light docket consisting of six cases was disposed of during Tuesday's session of Perquimans Recorder's Court presided over by Judge Chas. E. Johnson. Bennie Morris and Paul Wood submitted to charges of failing to observe a stop sign and each paid the costs of court. Robert-Watkins, Negro, was or dered to pay the court costs ater he entered a. plea of guilty to charges of speeding. Matthew Trueblooii was found not guilty on a charge of driving ...:i.U. :M...XnnH linanea HnUTPVPr. However, WUI1 lIHJJIupci 11VCHOC, this defendant was ordered to ap pear in court on October 8 to an swer to a charge of speeding for which he ; had previously, been cited to court. . : Charlie Harris and James Hobbs each paid the costs of court after having submitted to charges of driving on the left side of a Tugh way. - '':, . ' Road sentences were ordered invoked against Jesse East and William Felton, Negro, after these defendants had failed to appear for a hearing on charges of fail ure to Dav old court costs. Levi Revells, Negro, charged with being drunk Jailed to appear in court-to answer the charges and he was ordered held in jail, in lieu of a $50 bond; . '' Matthew i White, Negro, failed tn , anoear sin court to answer charges ,f driving without a li , i t.u in cense. ne was oraerea neiu .u. Knnrf nf 4150.' . i ,i. ,: ' ,' "v , The case of Greg Lane, charged with a stop sign -violation, which was called by; rror during -.test week's court' session, had been set for October 8th. . PERQUIMANS SENIORS ELECT CLASS OFFICERS. Members of the senior class at Perouimana High School have, se lected the following officers for the year; Hazel Matthews, pres ident: Amada Corprew, vice pres ident; Deborah , Nixon, secretary, Landrail Piqrce $reas,urer , or. Tuesday ' Eland , At X ce amouht of ficials and government repre sentatives, was authorized by the' Congress during the recent session. - u. . ASC To Deliver ' ' Peanut Marlieting Cards October S i ins 'Farmers will have an oppor- tunity October 8 to vote for the ASC farmer committeemen they want to administer ASC farm' programs in 1958, Helene W. I Nixon, Perquimans County ASC Office Manager, reminded farm- ers today. Elections will be held in each of the six communities at ttv iwiuww6 t'w""h, jj.. . . , T T .1 . oQiviaere, u. ij. .iiuppt;ii s siuie, Nicanor, "Winks" Winslow's store; Bethel, J. L. Curtis' store; ' Hertford, Agricultural Building;! New Hope, S. T. Perry's store, and Parkville. Fred Winslow s store. I Mice Mivftn furthpr ctatH '' that someone from the county ASC office will be at the polling place in each community1 from 8:00 'A. M. to. 4:30 P,( M., with the exception of .New' Hope, to deliver the 1957 Within Quota Peanut Marketing Cards. In each of these six commu nities every farmer who is par ticipating or who is eligible to participate in any program ad ministered by the County ASC Committee is eligible to vote. This means any owner, operator, tenant or sharecropper on a farm who is eligible to participate in) the Agricultural Conservation Program, either phase of the Soil Bank Program, Price Sup port Program, or who is affected by our acreage allotment and marketing quota programs. If there is any doubt as to whether or not you are eligible to vote, see, your .County ASC Committee or call, at the County ASC office!- Farmers are urged to visit the polls on October 8 and cast their vote for the com mitteemen' thejK want to admin ister these important Agricultural I stabilization and Conservation , Programs in the coming year. Members of the Class of 1953 of Perquimans High School held a reunion on Saturday night in the high school lunchroom. Twenty seven members of a class number ing forty-three were able to at tend. They came from Washing ton, Richmond, Raleigh, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Elizabeth City, and all parts of Perquimans Coun tv. mahv with their r husbands, wives and children.: i A picnic sup per, to which- everyone contribut ed. wks served.. I'-.Tt" s' ' Mollie Lou Yeates, ' class pro phet, re-read the prophecy writ tenrfqur years ag6 f or the com mencement' 'j exercises and it af forded much entertainment ' Fred ftatthews, class president, called the'class roll and told what each member had done in the past four years. The names of class officers and the class honor roll were re-called. 3 A committee, headed by Mrs. Eugene Boyce, was appointed to make plans for another reunion in 1963. MASONS TO MEET The Perquimans Masonic Lodge No. 106, A. F- & A M, will meet Tuesday .lught aA 8 o'clock. ? Point : Ba Claim Paid : ; S mil.. 1 A check in the Perquimans High Carolina, Friday, October 4, 1957. i -5 ' s T- I I fcJ ri 1 1 t w ii i i FLOWERING FRIENDSHIP? East meets West in this pic ture from Peiping, China, where 41 American delegates to the Moscow Youth Festival paid a visit. Elaine Kusnitz, 17, right,' of Los Angeles, Calif., is greeted with flowers by a mem ber of the All-China Federation of Democratic Youth. The visit aroused a controversy as to whether the students were flouting the State Department in their Red China visit. PTA:Gmiin To Sll n ' m r " lsnqpais 1 o raper During Next Month TTprtf nrH fJrammar . . . - 11 A MeetS UCt. 1U The Parent-Teacher Association of Hertford Grammar School will meet on Thursday night, October 10, at 8 o'clock in the auditorium '.of the new school. Mrs. R. S. MnnHs trpsidpnt. of the PTA. stat- x i . j m nn, IArf.nl DTA k.,i. cuaumc vcij uuiuiwn, . i iness will be considered and urges all members of the association to be present. Planned Oct 6-12 Fire Prevention Week will be observed in Hertford October 6 through the 12th with two or ganizations, Hertford Fire De partment and Hertford Jaycees, joining together to sponsor pub lic observance of the annual program to further prevention of fires. John Beers will serve' as the chairman of a joint committee on the project and he stated the Fire Department will, aided by the Jaycees, distribute pamph lets through the county schools which will provide information as to checking fire hazards in the : homes. These pamphlets will be taken ' to the homes of the county by the school' chil dren. The Jaycee committee urges the public' to join in the ob servance of Fire Prevention WeekjS using the group's "clean up month" as the time for re moving fire hazards from homes and buildings. As usual, during Fire Preven tion Week, the Hertford Fire Department will conduct fire drills at each of the schools within the county. Town And County Get Fund Demand j The Town of Hertford and Per-1 quimans County have been noti-l fied by J. C. Bethune, Executive of the State Board of Assessments, the two local governmental units were overpaid in the distribution of intangible taxes for this year, and the state official requested the units to refund the overpay ment to the state treasury. ' According to Mr. Bethune, Per quimans County received $980.74 in ; excess of its true allocation while the excess paid the Town of Hertford was $163.94. J Commissioners To Meet Next Monday The Board of Commissioners for Perquimans County will con duct its October meeting next Monday, beginning at 10 A. M., in the courtroom.' In addition to other matters the board is expect ed to conclude a settlement with ,OllCllU . nt uimk w tinn nf IQRfl taves due the COUntV. 'S.I A "8W 4, n s Plans have been completed be tween the Parent-Teacher Asso ciation of. Perquimans Central Grammar and Hertford Grammar C U J TU o : ,,r Vi , u Weekly for the PTA members and M...uui .ep.era.idi.veh. u. wive i i representaiives, to s "?"". f"""" deen i' ine weeKiy, seeking renewals . W new subscriptions to home county newspaper during the coming month. n.e rin Boi.c.vors will oeg..., These premiums which are in. taking renewals immediately fol-LlllHpH in thp nrn slmnort nr. Tu tw A i : ..-ii i : lowing their October meetings. )gram for the first Ume this year j The plan was worked out to were designed to encourage de 1 provide the PTA groups with an livery of dryer and cleaner corn opportunity to acquire extra under the Price Support Pro funds for use in school activities 'gram. during the coming year. j In th nf farm.store(1 pnrll. Most of the subscriptions for The Perquimans Weekly expire during the months of September through December and a high commission will be paid to the warehouse-stored corn, the pre PTA for signing up these renewal mium wju be added to tne basic subscriptions and reporting themjcounty support rate at the time to The Weekly office. The public the loan is made, Under pre. can participate in this plan by re-vious programs no premiums newing subscriptions to The were paid for cIeaner or dryer Weekly through any member of ,corn However, discounts rang the PTA organizations. Subscrip- ing from one to five cents per tions given w fiA memDers win be added to the present subscrip- tion of the subscriber and will run for one year. Thus, if theifor 1957. subscription 01 an individual ex pires December and that person gives a renewal to a PTA mem ber the subscription will be marked up to December, 195T. Th Weekly, planning this event has not sent out notices of expira tion during the months of August, September and October, but all expired subscriptions will be dis continued unless renewed through the PTA members during the next four weeks. ; , Members of the Parent-Teacher Associations plan to make a house to house canvass of the town and County during the next four weeks giving every subscriber an opportunity to renew his or- her subscription through the PTA. Subscribers are requested to give their support in this drive and aid the PTA in their effort to raise funds to provide extra and needed equipment for the school children. LIBRARY NEWS The Perquimans County Li brary is adding new books to the library almost daily. This fall the publishers have an unusually large number of books that are sure to prove popular with our readers. Among the recently acquired non-fiction are: Toynbee's Study of History (2 vols, condensed), Operation Sea Lion by Fleming, Science Looks At Smoking, A Bi ography of Patrick Henry, The King Ranch (2 vols, by Lea), Lost Cities, The Greek Way and Echo of Greece. An historical novel. The Street of Kings by Dexter will be in de- mand as will new npvels by Mar- t n Honnins nVonlr Vorhv gtucv w, -.aiuif6, Thomas Costain and Helen T. Mil ler. ".:'., . 'C . Eleven new biographies for young readers and fifteen new books for teenagers will be fea tured in this column next week. Drive For Library Funds Underway County Board Of Education Meets Monday Night The Perquimans County Board of Education will hold its regu lar quarterly meeting in the of fice of the superintendent of schools on Monday night, Oc tober 7. In addition to routine business, the board is expected to fill a vacancy on the faculty at Central Grammar School re sulting from the resignation of Miss Margaret White. Miss White tendered her resig nation t; the board last week after serving as a teacher in the county schools for many years. Conditions Given For Premium Rate On Corn Program Coin placed under loan in this State will earn a one-cent per bushel premium for cleanliness or low moisture content under the 1957 Price Support Program, according to H. D. Godfrey, State Administrative Officer for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation State Commit- tefi jn order to qualify or the one - cent per bushel per bushel premium, corn must have a moisture con- racked corn and foreign ma. terial of 2 percent or less. the premiums will be paid to producers when corn of this quahty is deiivered under the ,nan n1.npram Tn the rase of bushel were made for corn with' tary: Mrs. T. B. Brinn. treasur high moisture content. Theseler: Mrs. J. T. Biggers. Mrs. Ir- discounts wil continue in effect Plans Developed To Administer Financial Responsibility Law Attendance Awards Presented Sunday When attendance and promo tion awards were made at First Methodist Church last Sunday, Miss Marta Matthews. 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Crafton Matthews, received an eight-year attendance pin, sym bolizing that she had had eight years of perfect attendance at Sunday School. Marta, who will be twelve in February, is in the sixth grade at Hertford Grammar School. She first be came a Sunday School scholar on Easter Day, just after she had passed her second birthday on February 28, 1948. During that first year in nursery class, she missed Sunday ' School on sev eral occasions, but beginning with the year she entered the three - year - old nursery class, Marta has not been absent from Sunday School at all. Others receiving attendance awards Sunday morning were as follows: Five Years: G. W. Barbee and Latham Godwin; four years: Harry W. Winslow, Betsy Bar bee and Mary' : Barbee; third year: Joe Haskett; second year: Mrs. R. A. Tripp, Gayle Thomp son, Rose Auman, Susan Har relL Dough Haskett, Mark Thompson, Ava Rae Kirby, Nate Brinn, ferry Monds, fat , iripp, iRnland TrirjD: first vear: Clau- . " ' - - dia Brinn, Karen Haskett, Mark Beers, Peggy, White, Debra Henry, Pam Cox, John Elton Hurdle, Kent Inscoe, Jan White, Katie Tripp, Jerry Sullivan,; Coniinutd on Page.Six 5 Cents Per Copy. In iooq Monday marked the opening of a unique fund raising cam paign throughout Perquimans , County when the Library Board started its drive to raise $3,000 to be used for establishing the county library in a new brick building, formerly used as the Hertford Grammar School lunch room. The unique part of this fund drive is that all money contri buted to this cause will be used locally by the library board to establish a bigger and better li brary for the citizens of Per quimans. I Mis. W H. Pitt, rhaiiman nf It the library board, reported this week that an enthusiastic group ,of volunteer solicitors will make a neighborhood canvass during this week and next, giving resi dents of the county an opportu nity to contribute to this home county project. The board is hopeful the $3,000 goal can ba reached bv Saturday. October 12. PnnHc qi'p nofHpH tho li brary board to install a furnace for the building heating system; the building originally was heat ed by the system destroyed in the school fire. Also npeded is major repair job to the roof of the building and some minor work in preparation of moving the library into the building. This fund drive was made ne cessary because the library board has no other source of income to provide the needed work. Funds made available to the library from state money cannot be used for such purposes and local gov ?rnment units, the town and county, "which also support the library," have insufficient funds for the current year to change appropriations which were set last July. The Perquimans Library i3 ranked as an outstanding com munity project; having more than 12.000 books available to the 9,602 individuals of the countv. This averages about one and one-third book for each citi zen, while the state average for libraries is less than one book per county resident. Members of the library board, in addition to Mrs. Pitt, are Mrs. Jesse Lee Harris, secre- vin lurner ana miss memm El liott. A detailed plan for administer ing the Vehicle Financial Re sponsibility Law that becomes effective in North Carolina on January 1, 1958, has been de veloped, Motor Vehicle Commis sioner Edward Scheldt, has an nounced. Commissioner Scheidt. who has the responsibility for administer ing the new law, said that the subcommittee of public officials and insurance industry execu tives who worked with him over recent weeks to perfect the pro cedures under the new act "has done a remarkably good job." He said that the subcommittee has been a cooperative endeavor of representatives of all insur ance companies doing business in North Carolina will be able to show evidence of automobile li ability insurance at the time of registering their motor vehicles after January 1, 1958. The new law provides that on and after January 1, 1958 n' self-propelled motor vehicle shall be registered in North' 'Carolina unless the owner at the time of registration shows proof of fi nancial responsibility and also provides that such proof shall be maintained continuously through out the period of registration. Commissioner .Scheidt stated Such proof of financial respon sibility, he said, will usually be evidenced by insurance and a certificate of insurance, designat ed as Form FS-1, will be made available to policyholders by their insurance companies ; for presentation at the time of regi- ' stration. -L Goal $3