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V-hi'r CLY Vclame XXV. Number 23. - Jlano .Readied For Gro u-n db r e aki ng - ;ayy' plans for a Aground- w.j Ti ' li ' ., ! c breaking ceremony, which wilHj ' WlltS HottSe KaCC i be (conducted at Harvev Point I . . j ;NAS . at 11 o'clock ; Thursday ' morning, .June 12, are rapidly being completed, it was report ed Tuesday by " LtCdr. Donald Dalton, Navy resident officer in ' Charge of the local station. -: "A number of Navy officials, Congressman Herbert C. Bon- ner and. representatives of the Glenn. L. Martin Company will be present for the occasion, and , will take part on the program. ' Mr. Dalton . announced the public, especially persons from' Perquimans, Chowan and Pas- quotank counties, are invited to attend the ceremonies which , Will mark the beginning of con struction work at Harvey Point A number of contracts are al ready under construction at the testation, , and three additional . contracts were awarded last week. Two other projects will p9 offered for bids later this ' month. , i Awarded contracts last -week ,-were J. T. Hardison, who sub mitted a bid of $443,561 for construction of . a boathouse and operations building; A. J. Jen nings ana aon was. awarded a contract amounting to $1,498,381 for! installation of fueling facili- ' ties and the Malan Construction Company : received a contract in I the amount of $1,890,000 for' construction of roads and utili-t ties. , Work at the station is expect ed to proceed at an Increased : tempo following the ground breaking ceremonies, although Cdr. . Dalton reported some changes ihay be ordered iV the construction in order to fit-the requirements of the ; SeaMaster v, nlarm hMnff' ranrttrttrtat hv ihp Martin Coinany 'tfvobnghepiemier "authority he Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, June 6, 1958. " 1 1 "" 11 "".a i, i ij j l I ,i if ' ! & -, :. i.. - I i- :i j I m i tssi&, ssii ; ,. 5 Cents Pefr Cop: Varied Docket In Recordsr's Court llsreiastTuesday . Carroll R. Holmes was success ful in seeking re-election to rep resent Perquimans County in the 1959 session of the Ganeral Assembly. He received a total of 658 votes in the primary elec tion, 9 1 mora than his opponent. James S. McNider, Jr. ! THIS VMS HEADLINES ' Charles de Gaulle, directing the French . government under new, .powers granted this week by', the National Assembly,, be gan 'efforts to rebuild France into a ' first rate power. The Parliament took a vacation, a sui-!ed by de . Gaulle, after Mr.. Dalton. also rerjorted.ithe '. ; Navy, Tecentiy, , located , the Harr k vey family . burial plot;and is now., preparing to preserve , this. .site. t A stone fence is.o be built. 1. around the plot and it.rwil be .'. maintained as a part,, of he l.il , i , swuon. .. ,, , , ,, , 1 WHEELS OF FORTUNESpeeding past the lofty Gothic Cathedral of Milan-bicycle racers ! are oif and pedaling at the start of the 41st Tour of Italy race. There-were 120 cyclists .from eight countries entered. The course winds its way around the Alps and Apennines for more than 2,000 miles, ending in Milan. June 8 ' : r. I: Spoken In Edenton Saturday Night requested vfor operating fh4 80V:I ernment. ' The hew ; premier, j ports state, will firsts --ttet4: toi negotiate peace, ia 1' Algeria, then will, i tackle the t domestic problems within France, i s ' ''funeral services ' for Mrs. rtushia Whedbee - Watkfns of Henderson, who died in the Wilson' Hospital Sunday, were held . Monday afternoon in the , Holy TrinHy . Episcopal Church : I ;iir Hertford, by the Rev. Herbert -1 : Tucker, rector of Holy - Inno ' .cents Episcopal Church in Hen- ..: '.; person, of which she - was a member and' by ,the Rev. John $tay of Wilson, i ; r ; ' r: S Music was furnished by the i rturch choir. - ., ' . 1 11 1 nn. ..: at km a .": a jvimriea wneaoee oi . neruora served as crucifer. - . .'.' pallbearers were Irving Wjjt- V - ks, Aleck ' Watkins, Silas Wliedbee, Robert Applewhite, Harry- BatemaX Charles Whed- i r beeJojJGreenville.'Will Whedbee an' Buxton White.. y-rBUrial followed in Holy Trin ity Church Cemetery. Mrs. Watkins. who was born and reared In Hertford, was the . daughter pf the late James Mofi- . , . roe- and Fannie Skthner Whed , ; , . bee' and wife of the late Samuel . Watkins, having resided in Apex until his death In 1929. She was active, in civic and church affairs, - f-ng .a' membef of Hpfy-InnQ. t episcopal ChurcH jinHen i; derson: . Z' -f, X' ' . Sbe is survived by on da'ugh-fer-,;Mr?hrv C.j Pafcter of Wilson; one sister, Mrs.' Sidney McMullan of Edenton and sev eral nieces and nephews;-' Economic . reports issued ; from Washington - indicate the ibubiness situation of the nation is level ing out, with no new drops ; in industry but ,the reports state unemployment is continuing . to inch upward and will follow this trend, until July, Steel and mo tors industries . report - improve' ment in business but the car makers are expected to shut down for change to new models which will . ; affect the employ ment picture. . Preliminary talks between the East and West on the subject of suspension of nuclear tests - ap peared to be a possibility this week when 'the U. S. agreed to. Russian requests to nchide' sci entists; trotyl satellite natiqns . to th'e conference. . ' Oh " Tuesday j Russia .appealed to the , & t S. to reiax. jH-aoe1. restrictions, pqinting Miss Nezzie Chrystal Haste, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Erie Haste, Sr.; of Edenton, and Clifford Pritchard Towe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Henry Tbwe of Hertford, were married Satur day evening at 8 o'clock in the Edenton Baptist Church. The Rev. R. N. Carroll officiat ed in a setting of palms, chrysan themums, pom poms and lighted tapers in seven branched cande labras. ! Wedding music was ren dered by Miss Agnes Chappell, organist, and Mrs. Frank Holmes sang "O Perfect Love" and wed ding prayer "Seal Me O God." Given in marriage by her fath er, the bride wore a formal wed dui!g, "gown "of white eau-de,-soir $ndcbntiily lace, fashioned with d ' lace topped- bodice PERQUIMANS ELECTIONS RETURNS nanas an out the Soviet desired to buy large quantities of MJ. S. ma chinery. , r:'ves Deprrce . : .-a VakeFcrcst 1 Cons Faye . Allen Jackson sted from Wake Forest ISe on June 2 with magna i laude honors. ' While at '"'jh'S the college she was a cr of the choir and Little i ; s' ? r""eived the f jIIow . 1 no r ube' ip in Phi ) t 1 a Pi Al-fra- Foo4 poisoning was, reported responsible for illness to some 229 . pupils of an . elementary school near Marion on Tuesday. The students' became ill about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, follow ing ths lunch. Many i were treated at the hospital with oth ers given medical treatment at home. The school, principal re ported all food . served during the school lunch appeared to be good. - - ,,,;. ' ( Service Of ficer Gives Yearly Report . A report filed with the Conn ty Commissioners this week by C, C. Banks, Perquimans County Veterans Service Officer, 'show ed the office handled a total of 1,246 ; calls ' during , the past year. ' . ' y - . According to i thb v report ' the office received 163 letters, mail ed out 191 letters, 86 field trips, held 294 interviews, had the fol lowing inquiries: on education, 22; on the job training, 16; com pensation and pension, 84; in surance, 18; farmer training, -29; bm-:-i l--- "'i, 11; 1 l advice,: lOtlAMelBfcA ;efct -eSoiR w n hM Bouffant skirt was accented in the back whh a, lace-bustle and . panels' of lace, to the hem of, ther chapel length, train. Her, veil of illus ion was' arranged from a lace on taffeta cloche embroidered with seeded pearls. She carried a co lonial ' bouquet of white orchids and stephanotis. - Mrs. Erie Haste, Jr., sister-in law of the bride, was matron' of honor. She wore a ballet length gown of Romance Blue silk or ganza, styled with fitted bodice, and'-.the botif'ant skirt , was ac cented with a bustle in the back. Her matching julict cap of seem pearls .with now; veils dpt,ted wjthf pearls., . Sbq carried a -.cascade. bouquet of yellow roses. , . The bridesmaids were Miss Suzanne Tow sister of the bride groom, Mrs.' Hallett Daniels of Kinston,- NV ;C., Mrs, Richard Ho- mine of Hayelock and Miss -Anne Fuller,. Hewellyn, .;.of .New, -York. They wore identical, dresses, and bouquets like, those wpra by ,4he (Continued on Page Three) . e , & I I f I i 1 I i J J 6 X . m n m z z h STATE SENATE Winslow .: 540 122 97 195 111 67 1132 Copeland 185 48 40 60 43 49 425 Godwin 151 38 24 69 44 13 339 REPRESENTATIVE Holmes ...... 325 7S 45 125 . 47 38 658 McNider... .265 54 56 81 72 39 567 FOB COMMISSIONER Madre ...285 62 42 106 65 37 597 Bundy 195 73 50 87 48 21 474 Nowell 250 43 33 103 59 12 500 Asbell 189 32 48 41 27 30 367 Chappell 113 45 23 46 23 16 266 Winslow :304 63 52 92 47 30 588 Lane 287 58 43 98 67 28 581 Spivey ,381 73 34 88 95 13 684 Benton ....,; .J163 47 57 ;102 , 24 45 438 Baicer . ..- 292 68 "34 "86 ""Tl 48 609 Nixon' ,a 245 49 57 113 29 10 503 BOARD OF EDUCATION - i ;Bonnerl .....a.:. 486 88 58 142 102 57 933 Brinn ...;....,464 82 75 140 87 58 906 Cook.. 359 77 73 149 92 39 789 Chuppell 445 83 78 163 9J 52 918 Harrcfll . . - .435 75 72 131 78 49 840 Matthews , .459 85 76 155 88 55 918 SCHOOL PROPOSAL. For .... 409 74 57 100 43 26 709 Against 197 57 47 95 74 45 515 A ' varied docket of 14 cases was disposed of during Tues day's session of Perquimans Re corder's Court, presided over by Judge Chas. E. Johnson. On a , plea of guilty, Joshua Zachary, Negro, charged with being drunk and possessing non tax paid liquor, the court gave the defendant a 30-day jail sen tence to be suspended upon pay ment of a line of $10 and costs of court. William achreiner, Steven Metzer and Phiiander Wiggins each entered a plea of guilty to charges of speeding and each paid a fine of $10 and costs. Costs of court were taxed against Sam Marcus, Donald Creasy, Julio Antinori and Gas ton Lawrence after each had submitted to charges of speed-1 mg. A nol prof with leave was taken by , the State in the case iff1 which George Whitehead, Ne gro, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Hillary Floyd paid the costs County $376,216 TOh Tax Budget 0i ed Rate $2 Adopt District Winner 1 w if v Y J. Emmett Winslow will re turn to the State Senate as a result of his victory in the First of court after pleading guilty to,District primaries lar,t Saturday.' a charge of driving a car on theHe received top vote over his1 left side of a highway. Mary Roberts and ordered to pay costs after she pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk. ' Anne Spruce was fined $8 and ordered to pay the costs after she submitted to charees of failing to observe a stop sign nd driving on the left side of a highway. Leslie Phillips, Negro, paid the costs of court after plead ing guilty to a charge of fail ing to dim his car lights to ap proaching traffic. Hillis Bogue, Negro, paid fine of $25 and costs of court after he submitted to a charge Of forcible trespass. lean Edwards Wins opponsnts, William Copeland was fined $2,fnd Filsl(n Godwin. Command- the court K leHQS ln Perquimans, Cho wan ami Pasquotank counties give Winslow the top vote while William Copeland was second high man. Teenager Award Procter Funeral ConctcdTussday Clifton . Haywood Proctor, 53, died suddenly at his home in Winfall Saturday night :at 11 o'clock. HB was 'i jiffelomg, resi dent of Perquimans ".County; the son of the late , Clinton DeWitt and Rachael Proctor. " H was a member1" of the ' ' Wmf all ' Met!'- dlst Church:'. ! v v" r He ! is ,suTvived,'b "his'fwife; Mrs: 'EvelvH KtrbV Prbctoi'i iorte' daugliter, ' ' Mrs.' , AnftM ,;Mo&; ' of Milwaukee,' Wls.r tWrothers, Ralph Procfor'.bf Ne'wr'riop4!aid Rufus Proctor of WinfaI;"one sister.lMrs. W.t." White of Nor folk, Va. ' Funeral services ' were :' con ducted at : the Lynch Funeral Home.1 Tuesday;, afternoon;. 2:30 ,0'clock by the Rev. B.. B. Cruise and the Rev. M. W. ,Du lin. . Pallbearers were Durwood Barker, Claude White, William Miller, ZV;ih ' Wliiie, , Tom Wh 'r v . Uiri.hlett, Vap- Election Results Reveal Changes In SLGountv Boards Unofficial returns from the Demobi-atic ' Primary conducted in the county last Saturday re between two new candidates. In the contest for Bethel Town ship, Warner Madre defeated veal" several' changes will be . Woodly Bundy by a vote of made in the make-up of the Board of County Commissioners and the Board of Education fol lowing the general election next November. ljignt contests were listed on 597 to 474. Elwood Nowell was the high man in a three-way race for Commissioner from Gelvidere. Nowell received 500 votes, Emerson Asbell 367 and J William C. Clppell 266. Harry the ballot and some 1,275 votes i winslw received a total of sev were cast at the six polling pre cincts. The outcome of all races except that for State Sen ate was in doubt until the final tally was "made from the Hert ford Township box. Local ob servers remarked the 1958 re sults, 'overall, were the closest in years. In the contest for the two :8Mts'.'&rMV:.:.?-e'SepMtit ' J. Emmett Winslow was high ican- aidate'.' with a total ;'of 1,132 'vbtes-; '388 more than his .two vyyuiKMllA . UUIIIUIIICU, luuuiliuciu Wmiam" "Cobeland -was second wttA" '425"; "votes Whiif "A?" Pilston Votes:'; r:'"?1 ' : .Only 94 vo'tes separated i tne two,., candidalies,l..Ctirroll R. Holmes and James ; S. McNider, Jr., for the office of Represen tative. Holmes ' was the winner at ' with 658 votes, while McNider! received 567 votes.' Thomas en votes more than Archie T. Lane in the race for Commis sioner for Hertford Township. Winslow bad 588 votes to Lane's 581. R. L. '"Spivey defeated Jack Benton in the race for New Hope Township, receiving 684 votes to Benton's 438.' George W. Baker j received a total of 609 votes for i Commissioner ; from Parkville, ! while his ODDonent Nixon, received 503. S,ix candidates . were, seeking the five memberships opened on the Board of Education and only 124 votes separated the high vote, count from the lowest. The successful candidates were Dr. A. B. Bonner, 933 votes; ri. T. Matthews, 918 votes: ' C. i C Chappell, Sr., 918 votes; Mrs Jack Brinn, 906 votes and C. M Harrell, 840 votes, Mrs. A. R Cook, was ' the losing candidate with 789 votes. J. W. UNDERWOOD iwo members of the Board of Mr. and Mrs. Gilliam' Under County Commissioners, R. i L.j wood of Winfall were called to Spivey and Warner Madre, werelciayton Sunday because of the successful in seeking re-election death of Mr. Underwood's fath while two members, A. T. Lane er, J. W. Underwood, who died - 1 V.:,;p1-nflCriChappeJL(1wam in. ... Clayton hospital Funeral "' 3 " jseatj in g were 6nductd Mdnday ' 'Was"''sar" -11 1 ! Jean . Edwards, ; daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Edwards, was selected by the Hertford Junior Chamber of Commerce as the outstanding teenager in Per quimans for 1958. Charles Skin ner, Jr., past president of the Jaycees, presented the honoree with the Teenager Award Wed nesday night of last week. Miss Edwards has won a num ber of high honors over recent years in all phases of 4-H Club work, beauty and health con tests and in extra-curricular ac tivities. They included her represent ing North Carolina as one of four projects winners during the national 4-H Club convention at Washington, D. C; another trip she won, this time, to Chicago for a similar achievement; North Carolina 4-H Health Queen represented Perquimans County at the Apple Festival at Hender son ville; president of Future Homemakers of America; mem ber of Beta Club and Glee Club at school; worked with the Kil- cocanen annual staff; senior class superlative, and her ac tivities in work at Hertford Baptist Church. Better School Plan ApprovedByVoters Perquimans Couniy voters, in an election last Saturday, went on record favoring a supplemen tary school tax to provide b better school program for the county. The total vote on this proposal was 709 votes favorinr the proposal to -515 votes against. . ' The program will provide the Beard of Education with author- ty to request supplementary funds from tax sources and thr Board of Commissioners with authority to raise the funds t orovide school needs not sup plied by the State. On Monday the Board of Edu cation presented the Board of Commissioners with the reques' for supplementary funds for the year 1958-1959 in the amount of $8,000 to provide fbr a public school music teacher for Hert ford and Central Grammar Schools and Perquimans High Schdol and librarians at the tf. grammar schools, a part-time teacher for Hertford Grammar School and vocational shop equipment at Perquimans Union School. , ''.-. Stream Clearance Work Is Scheduled John Morris Signed As Edsnton Coach John Morris, son of Mrs. J. E. Morris, a graduate of Duke Uni versity with the class of 1958, has accepted a position as 'teach er and assistant athletic coach at Edenton High School, it "was announced this ' week by- John A.. Holmes, Edenton superinten dent':.. '''. v ' :'"; Morris was a star athtlete while attending Perquimans High School, playing all sports and won letters at Duke Uni versity as a member of the Duke baseball team. He also served as assistant coach with the freshman football team. He received an AB degree from Duke, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma, fraternity. He will begin his duties at h Edenton' early this month,' Jl directing ' thfc ' vtbwnV summers recreation pTdgram. ; 1 Tentative schedules for spend ing some $102,000 for stream clearance projects in Perquimans County, as approved by the Civil Defense Administration, have been set up by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, it was report ed by Col. H. C. Rowland, Jr., District Engineer. Under present plans bids for the work will be received during June and July and actual work ee will begin by September to be completed by Aprils 1959. Col. Rowland stated by per mitting work to proceed during fall, .winter' pnd spring months the contractors will avoid unfav orable 'working conditions which tend .to influence efficiency of the work. . ' . ,.', . Projects included in the propos ed work include Bright's Mill Pond, Sutton's .Swamp, Bear Swamp, Yeopim Creek and the Perquimans River. ., ' After a long session here last , uutiuj, WHICH . ' U1II M soard of County Commissioners V considered proposed budget mat- ! ters lor the 1958-59 fiscal year, " a tentative budget calling for , expenditures of $376,216 was iopted and the tax rate set at 2.00 nor $inO nniiurh, .n1.. . 1 -r-" f'vtfcj vaiua tion. The Board tabled several bud get proposals for the coming .-Lai-, .incuding a lull scale prop erty revaluation in order to maintain the tax rate of $2.00, the same figure as the current ytar. A five cent levy, how ever, is included for the purpose of raising funds to help pay for revaluation during the next two years. The proposed budget is some $23,946 higher than the past year but increased revenue from sources other than ad valorem ; taxes enabled the Board to re- ; tain the $2.00 rate, although it"' was pointed out it is liknlv nn additional 15 cents will be in duded for revaluation in the 1060 tax levy, Prior to consideration of the i'Udgel, the Board was given a financial report which revsaled the various governmental agen- , cies were confining fiscal opera tions this year within the bud get adopted last June. Total in- come during the first 11 months of operations amounted to $347, 273, while expenditures ' totalled $337,260. The remaining month of the fiscal year will find in come about evenly matched' with expenditures. The tentative budget adopted by the Board on Monday calls for expenses of $73,379 for the ' General Fund; this is balanced by a la:: levy of $53,600, plus income of $19,779 from sources other than ad valorem taxes:-ex- " ' penses lor me roor r una win oe $2,452, while a tax levy of S1.600 and $852 coming from non-tax sources; $48,100 will be required to pay county bonds md interest during the year and $46,400 of this amount wil' come from tax levy and $1,700 from other sources. - .Expenditures within the Welfare " Department will amount to $158,854 and this budget will be balanced by the county providing $18,400 from " taxes and the remainder from federal and state sources in the. amount of $140,454. The school budget as present--cd by the Board of Education , and approved by the Commis sioners, calls for expenditures of $85,431 with $40,831 coming from county funds and $44,600 ceming from sources other than ' taxes. The school supplement-; ary fund calls for expenditures r,f $8,000, all of which comes ' from county funds. ' Other matters handled during the meeting included awarding of a contract for furnishing the county with fuel oil require-' ments during the year to Wins- low Oil Company. This firm , submitted a low bid of 2Vi per cent discount on tank wagon prices. The Board also voted to accept -a report by the County Service ' Officer, and reappointed C. C. Banks to this post for another year. . :) ''-." ;.' A resotion was adopted cer-., tifying the results of the school fund election as presented by the County Attorney, S. M. Whed-1 VACAT'ON BIBLE SCHOOL AT MT. SINAI CHURCH Vacation Bible School will be gin at Mt Sinai Baptist Church Monday afternoon at 2:30. Pre paration Day will be held today (Friday) ' at 3 o'clock. ' Mrs. Ernest Morgan; . superintendent, invites all children in the com munity to attend this school, t Town To Enforce Dog Ordinance : Darden reported officials having Mayor V. N. Tuesday town been receiving . numerous icom-' plaints concerning -dogs, rooming' at large throughout the town limits, creating a disturbance' and destroying property. ' The Mayor stated a town or-' dinance, which requires dog owners to keep their animu's penned ' up at night, will ba stiictly, enforced beginning im mediately. He stated failure on the of - the owners - to comply -the ordinance may"' result S animals beiniv k'lled ' r. police,: '. "