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THE PEk W VolnmfvXXVf NnmhPr K Hertford, Perquimans County, Morth Carolina, Friday, February 6, 1959. 5 Cents Per Copy Highway X)f ficial ''ra-iS:?;?R5j:K:TC';'lI W ( : g'"'t"yf"7wf,y-' nrm " ml- v r'f' 1111 T iT.i.i l, n'nW.,. i r v h V j ; -vV '.." ; - ,". - "- : I - LONG ODDS Quintuplets in the world of sheep are expectable about once In 20,000 lamb ' Ings. Mother sheep, left, beat the percentages and came up with five healthy youngsters' on " the James Risk farm near Roachdale,- Ind. Four of the Risk children display the prize v family. The children, from left: James, Mike, Sonny and John. rerquimans Teams Score Wins ''''-' '' '';::-,,' ; ,;' - V .' . . Over Ahoskie High The Perquimans Indians gain! ed revenge over the Ahoskie high basketball team here Tues day night, sinking the conference leaders by a score of 61 to 47. Ahoskie1 hold two previous vic tories over the Indians. Burton, Tucker and Colson hit in double figures to lead ' a scorching offensive attack which Ahoskie could not cope with. Tucker canned 19 points, Colson 18 and Burton got 16. The Indians took a command ing lcad 'ut the start of the game jgnd were never geaded by- Jlie 'vjsitprs. Perquimans had a 13 5 lead at the first quarter rest, then was ahead 26 to 19 at half- time. Perquimans avoided a us . ual; second hatfnef-dowri " and oulscoring Ahoskie 12 to 11 dur ing the third period and 23 to 17 in the final quarter, Overton with 12 points led the Ahoskie offensive while. Odom hit for nine points. In the preliminary contest the Perquimans Squaws edged out . Ahoskii girls 41 to 40 to win tncir 'seventh' conlerencc game 01 Lie season, the victory prat ticatiy clinched , the confer v...v .wv. , w.c . viHu?" gin Letitia McGoogan, with 32 house to bouse canvass for tlo points, was high scorer for the I nations will be conducted on Squaws, followed by Phthisic, ' this date. who scored five, Brown two and Spear two. -' Monk scored 21 points for the Ahoskie girls. The Ahoskie girls had a 13-9 lead at the' end Of the 1 nvt I nerioH and "held n three nnint . kHi .at half ' time., - when 'th.'im,jA, i-oi, i,rni' iKn -Ht-nncf. I - score was 22 to 19. Pcrquim Ms hit 15 points to nine for Ahoskie in thel, third qharter,' while Ahoskie was the leader in the final period, , getting 12 points to Perquimans seven. - Last Friday night the Indians , lost a 48-37 decision rto Scot land Neck after- playing the host team even during the first half. Scotland Neck hit for 15 points in the third period and added 12 more in the fourth to forge ahead of the Indians, who scored only 16 points during thfc half. Two more conference games remain - in the Perquimans schedule prior to the conference tourney, . which.', will start the week, df , February 16. Next Tuesday the Indians and Squaws will play Edenton here and on Friday night of next week the teams will dose the season at Plymouth. , Monogram Club : '.'.;. Banquet Tonight j'', " ' ': ''."' '''"','!''" f The ' Perquimans : Monogram Club will hold its annual ban quet Friday night of this week at the school cafeteria. : Jack Boone, head coach at East Caro lina College will be the guest eakcr for the event and the nogram Club will have a number of special guests at the banquet. . The dinner will start at 6:30 o'clock. - ' rT1TH ANNOUNCEMENT IW. arid 'MrlV Jesse Bass lof HobL. .:'.e announce' the birth" of n daugl.' r, Cindy Martene1,1 bdrrt: nuary 13. tt'Louise' Obici Hos i in- Ti-" . -mi n Gage Plans Completed For Heart Fund Drive This Month February will be Heart Fund Month in Perquimans County, according to Mrs. Charles Mur ray, who will direct the an nual Heart Fund campaign for j.he county committee. I Arrangements for the drive liave-becrj ; completed, and the organization' in addition to-Mrs. Murray will be R. 'h'. . Stevenson, t;e,-tur.4Mrs, J.'lZ; Harris, publicity chairman, with" the following i township " chairmen: Edgar White, Hertford; . Mrs. Elwood Nowell, Belvidere; Mrs. E.- A. Turner, New Hope; Mrs. J. L. Curtis, Bethel and Mrs. Paul Smith, Parkville. Perquimans County has bCBn assigned a quota of $025 for the 1959 drive and Mrs. Murray stated the various township cnairmcn will solicit ; funds I throughout the month. ;- Febru I eiy ery 22 - has been designated as and' a sneci-il ' I Heart Sunday "Heart diseases arc the num I ber one killer in the U. S. UIC roiinty chairman pointed out and while much progress has been mnrla (nuror'if i.horlrina thuCO lenhsna " ihin romninc a .4ri..i can be contiuered. She ap pealed to the residents of the county to give financial support: to this annual fund drive lo help bring , about a solution to I the problems. Red Cross Seeks Did For Family An appeal is being, sent out today . by , Marion S. S windel 1, Perquimans-, , Red Cross chair man, . for a white family com pletely burned out by fire early this week. ' , The home of Mrs. Lina Ruta baga, who lived ' between New Hope and Woodville was com pletely burned, causing them to lose 'all household furnishings and clothing. " : Mrs. Rutabaga wears size 16 clothe. She has - two sons, age 12 and 14, but their1 sizes were not available. ' ' "" .i Anyone having pnything ' they would" like''1 to donate" to the family cart 'contact her1' at the home of her father,1 Jack Wil son, Route 3, or call Mr Swin dell in Hertford, 5111. Meet Monday Night The February, meeting of the Board ot Commissioners for the Town pf Hertford will be held in the Municipal Building next Monday night In addition to the usual fiscal, matters expected to be handled the board is expected ;(':--tak,vrlfiininay.' ?steps ;4or "holding" ,f Jhe- elHtibn- of ' tdwn tffficialW 'scheduled or' May.' "The jt'Imarywill be held 'in April."" s,t THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES A U. S. military convoy headed for West Berlin was delayed by Soviet army mem bers at a check point in East uermany last luesday. Oc- developed at the request of the spite protests by the U. S., the Navy for servicing the NAS at Soviets refused to permit the Harvey Point but he pointed out truck convoy to continue its these plans are not finalized journey into Berlin. American'and the Navy will have to show authorities said the action had . need before contracts arc award been started by the Russians to'cd for all phases of the pro create an incident timed with 'p0sed system. Europe aimed by developing ' unified 5 n B 2 ,, Germany .-..Ren. Addison HowlHt r.f Now H'U viail III oenuicll V JJUIlUh IOI - - " :uuw;8 iui iiiia UcllLIU UUl 11 UOCb Hanover County was namcdilink Iho rnmmiinltira nlnnn Ihn Speaker of the House in the 1959 North Carolina General Assembly at a caucus held in Raleigh Tuesday night. The Legislature formally opened on Wednesday, and the rest of this week is -expected- to- be devoted to organization of the Assembly, naming of ; committees which will study the vast amount of legislation which will be intro duced at this- session. Thomas S. Gates, Jr., Secre tary of the; Navy, has. ; resigned as of June. 1, and 'President Eisenhower named Undersecre tary William Frankc to succeed Gates. No change in the Navy plans for operation arc antici- fal,ct' nue 1'1C i'han8e over .of the ..officials. A number of Virginia schools, closed since last fall due to segregation proDiems, were re opened . tnia week on integrated basis following court decisions which knocked out Virginia's massive resistance laws. The were located in the schools cities of NorWn and Arlington. Meanwhile, schools in Little Ftock, Ark., remained closed when a federal judge refused Permission for them, to reopen on a segregated Jaasis. - Search . efforts to locate 95 people aboard the Danish mo tor vessel which struck an icc- hprf last Fridnv bnvn nrovrd f.itilp thus far. No trace of thc,loss bv fiie can e Siven vessel or survivors was appar ent lo the four plans and two ships which conducted the search. Patrolman .Tripp v Speaks To Rotary v. Cpl. R. A. Tripp, State High way Patrolman, was guest speak er. at a meeting of the Hertford Rotary Club held Tuesday even ing at trie Hotel' Hertford. Mr. Tripp appealed to the club mom bers'to, join in the fight now be ing waged to reduce highway ac cidents and deaths! Ttte pbfnted out the death toU injNprthjaro bna for the montli pf 'January Was more than double the figure for-' the same month' last jnearu. Speeding, reckless driving and alcohol contribute "to the high ac cident toll and the patrolman said Increased activity on the part of the State Highway Patrol is be ing made to bring about a reduc tion in accidents. . . At the,, conclusion of his talk Mr. Triop showed a film, entitled "alcohol is dynamite," which doc umented trouble teen-agers can bring 'ilp'on' themselves1 when they lhctulDe1 irt uSihg lcohdI' arid then Attempting' to operate tnbt'9t Mcle .iii-iinn-t:i'oa i.'mlk 'tiiu. , in . Hans' for highway construe- t; i, .. . . tion in this immediate area have not been finalized tut a by-pass at Hertford is a definite possi bility within the next three years. This was the report made Tuesday by W. F. Bab-1 cock, St:ile Director of Migh- iwnys, who Willi other highway o lirials mcl with mrinbers of the County and Town boards. The highway officials came to Hertford on invitation of the committee which desired to se cure some official information regarding possible locations of the proposed by-pass. Rumors to the contrary, Mr. Babcock toid the group, the only action taken to date regarding a by pass was approval of the pro ject by the Highway Commis sion as a part of a plan to im prove Highway 17 as a connect ing route for the 'cities and towns of Eastern North Caro lina. The director advised the group of plans now under study and survey for road projects - V"':'UM oui "'"wiy ' 8 7"' '; bt not ,cessanly from a tourist stand- IPlnt- Slnce it does not com- pcte with the main north-south ,.... .uu ...!--u... j tj 1 ... tt- ., In . scaeoast, To date, Mr. Babcock said, only ideas can be talked of con cerning a location of the Hert ford by-pass, since it- will re quire much work on the part of survey teams to locate the, best possible route and determine the estimated final costs of . the, rector . said, has been made for project. construction of a new highway , .In this connection he said fori leading from U. S. 17, near (he ''present there might be fourlLght Nixon's Fork to the Navy possible solutions to the traffic j base. Final action on this pro bottleneck which exists in! ject will rest upon development TT.,, f 1 rt F : . r ., ' . i . . ... nviuuiu. ...xnu iirsi oi inese might be a bridge across the Perquimans River from Nixon's Point to Crow Point, at a cost of about $2,000,000. The second to by-pass the town at some point west of the railroad Pe r - Capita Fire Loss Estimated $1.30ForPastYear A pcr-capita;fire;ls of $1.30 was reported for Hertford and Perquimans County tor the year 1050 by Fire CHicFK 'C. Elliott:' Credit for this extremely low the Hertford Volunteer Fire Depart ment which has an excellent rat ing as a volunteer, company. The annual fire loss report, re leased this week by the fire chief revealed the firmcn answered a total of 33 calls during the year; 14 'of these were in town, 18 in the county and one call was out side the county. Firemen travel ed a total pf 232 miles reaching all fires. .15 miles for the fires Within Hertford, 192 to fires in the county and , 25 miles to the fire pu.tside the cbunty. Estimated ... loss . and , . damages were ireportcd as follows: Coun ty, iire losses, $9,550; .town, fire )6sses, $2,850; out ,pf .cpunfy loss. $1,500..,. The, total loss,, from fires within the county,, amounted ..tp. $12,400.-: .. - Two lives were lost due to fires the fire chief reported. Van Johnson Zachary lost his life in a fire which destroyed the house in which he lived, and Maggie Winslow died from burns receiv ed when her clothes. caught fire while she was attempting to add fuel to a wood heater. ' In releasing his annual-report, Fire! Chief Elliott' -expressed! the department's- appreciation for' the c6peration it 1 had ' received frtfm the: public vdUrtftj the ast'Tear? nacks, estimated cost some ,, nnn , ... . , ; $700,000 a third solution might I , .. . , . . 7. be a location just cast of the lailroad tracks but costs would not be estimated due to prop erty damage and costs; a fourth solution would require revision or streets lo handle the oroli lem, luil. I.his latin- jdm ap peared impossible. For projccls of tliis naliirv. Mr. Babcoik said, a time table is set up and for the present this project is scheduled to b gin in I960. Studies-of the area and possible locations will be made during the coming sum mer and developments will be made public to permit interested citizens to meet and discuss proposed locations prior to plans being finalized. The director stated there' were no foundation to rumors that the Highway Commission has made definite plans for this project. He slated, however,;' the by-pass when built will be a control access road. Following the discussion on the by-pass situation the group then advised the officials of numerous complaints bein? made concerning the delay in the construction of . the new bridge across Raccoon Creek on the Harvey Point road. The offi cials stated weather conditions definitely has slowed this pro- " jwt but it was their belief the projcct wiit bt, . p,,, wilh. m the allocated time limit since the contractor faces a $300 per dav ncnaltv for f-iiinm 1,, I Penally tor failure to pel- form the contract within the time limit. A project for improvement, to the Skinner's Bridge road, the officials reported, has been de layed due to some right-of-way troubles and at present they could. .no.brfajw'hcA .this, project will be started. No final commitment, the di- w me oa.se ana iraitic need fori I the area. Accompanying Mr. Babcock to j to the meeting were W. N. .Spruill, First Division Resident I Engineer and Bill Ingram of the State Highway office. New Insurance Rates Effective in Perquimans Perquimans County is included in the scaeoast area affected by an insurance ruling handed down last Friday by Charles F. Gold, Insurance Commissioner, which permits new higher rates and big ger exemptions on windstorm coverage within the area. Local insurance agencies, as yet, are not aware of the com plete effect the ruling will have ori - insurance coverage in this county but they1 expect further information within a short time 1 Counties affected by ' the new ruling include ' those designated as., seacoast iorritory and- art Btfaufprt; 'Brunswick, Camden. Carteret, Chowan; dfaven,' Cur rituck, Dare, Hyde, Jones, New Hdnover, Onslow, Pamlico, Pas quotank, Pender, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington. - Commissioner Gold approved the North Carolina Fire Insur ance Rating Bureau's proposal that the extended coverage rate in specified beach areas be up ped from 20 cents per $100 on frame buildings to 40 cents. , The beach areas in the filing were identified . as land south-.and fcst : of 'ihett Intend' ,Waterway. from the- South Carolina, line- tol Conisnuadon Pag Eix ..I,..' At 1 1 1 VAST The "feel" of the vast size of Uncle Sam's newest, largest aircraft carrier is given by this view of the hangar deck during commissioning ceremonies for the USS Independence at the naval shipyard in Brooklyn, N.Y. The 60,000-ton supercariier, 23 stories high, is the world's largest fighting ship. Funeral Services Conducted Sunday For H.W. Lynch Horace . William Lynch. 7: ,' prominent funeral director, died Saturday at 12:45' A. M. at the Albemarle Hospital after a long i illness. He was horn in Ncwland, and lived for a number of years in Portsmouth, Va. He had op erated the Lynch Funeral Home in Hertford since HMO. He was a member of the Hertford Bap- list Church Surviving are his wire, M: Pleasant Evans Vvneh; one son. Robert Horace Lynch of Eliza beth City: three grandchildren, Robert Horace Lynch. Jr., Han nah Evans Lynch and Pleasant Ann Lynch, all of Elizabeth City. Funeral .icrvices were con ducted at the Hertford Baptist ! Church Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock by the Rev. James O. Mattox, pastor of the church. Pallbearers -were Ray White, Elijah White, Julian A, White, Julian Powell, A. II. Edwards, Co'on -Jai-ksnn, Julian Brough-. ton, Jack Symons, Thomas . Dai! and Pete . Riddiek. Burial was in an Elizabeth City cemetery. Charges Filed In Shooting Scrape A shonling scrape which oc curred last Saturday ni.L'ht. at ibout 1 1 :'10, a Ilillup dance hall vc.-ii- Whil.esl.on,. resulted in Bud Hiliups, Belvidere Township N-- 10, being arrested on char"es ol I issault with a deadly weapon, I indicting bodily injury. Billups Was arrested Sundav j morning by Sheriff J. K. While and released later on a bond of ; $2,000. . j James Eason, Negro, was al-1 lo'iedly shfit bv BilHips and taken to. Chowan Hospital for 'treat ment. Sheriff White reported Billups i;ave this account of the incident: Billups left his dance hall for about an hour Saturday night, leaving his 15-year-old son in charge. James Eason and his brother, Edward, Billups told the Sheriff, came to the place and ' took some soft drinks and mer chandise, later drawing knives on , the boy, and a daughter of Bil- luus On his return to the dance i hall Rilluns was told of the in-i cident and latcd demanded the ; Easons to return the merchan Hio ' Ttillunc totd fhn sheriff tho Easons then drew knives on him md threatened him, whereupon ne weiii inio nis uousc aim ot a, loaded gun and came back to the scene firing at the Easons as they ran from the place. : , A hearing for Billups has been set for Recorder's Court on Feb ruary 17. a. . ... T Local Officers To Legislature State Senator J. Emmctt Win slow and Representative C. R. Holmes left Tuesday for Ralcieh to begin their .duties during the the 1959 General Assembly. The local officers participated in the caucus Tuesday night which se lected the " house speaker and Senate President Pro Tern. Prior to leaving for the legis lature both officials stated they had no particular legislation they plan to introduce at this session hut. ithat they-? win .be receptive .ta. isuch, imattenj, rec.ommended, by the gjiverping,) boards ,-ofw,lthee town and county government. " Commissioners To Study Salary Plan For Local Offices Red Cross Quota i. . Perquimans Counly. which ha.-: a 10 year record (if oversubscrib ing its annual Kcd Cross fund quota has been asked to raise $1, Ii21 for the HIS!) fund drive which will be 'conducted dining the month of March. This amount represents a $163 increase over the quota of last year. The announcement of the fund quota was released bv Dr. A. L. Whilchurst, Regional Fund chair man. Perquimans High Honor Roll Lists Fifty-one Pupils Fifty-one students of Pcrquim-'. inns High School were lisled on.l'ich will permit the county In .the school's honor roll for 'the l reimbursement lo don own 'third Kradins period, which Clos- "I' a lee of $1 .(HI paid by Ihe jeel Friday of last week, i was owners for having do;.;s varcin announeefl bv E. C. Woo lard . ated. This oulkiv run; v into principal of the school. I The list or si i dent i i schol asl '(- honors were: winnint! ! Etghlh " Grade: Judy .BaUer. ; . Belsy Barhee, Piclrnd Auman,! I Blake Weslon, Vick Ko.-n-h, C'1-j lie I'.ona, Mike llolloman, Susan. l'rounhton and Vcrna Perry, Ninth Grade: Pai"e Chappell, Frank Ailsley, Sidney Lon::. Al ! ton Daniels, Wade Morgan, I Franklin McGoogan. Pete Con's. Brenda Smith, Paula Sloltz. Emi ' ly Hurdle, Jimmy White. Tenth Grade: Hubert Burden, Ann Benton, Kathryn Bonner, Linda Bass, Faye Wood, Frances Winslow, Diahnc Hollowell. Eleventh Grade: Pauline Baic- 'cus, Uecky tint ton. l.inda I, on im , liott, Linda Simpler, Betsy Stal ! lings, Carl Skinner. Preston .Winslow, Carolyn White, Lena Umphlett, Clay Stokes, Kathcrine .Sawyer, Mary Leo Glenn. Twelfth Grade; Bonnie Dail, Letitia McGoogan. Beverly 'Rose, Ethel Sutton, Donald Baker, Beverly Tucker, Ray Winslow, John Mathews, Kathleen Blanch-, alc'' Edith Spruill, Jo Davis Towe, Pat Harrell, il-H Adult Leaders Elect New .Officers ':. i ' me i-n aiiuii i.cauers uiei o il January 13. A turkey supper was served by Mrs. Clyde Lane, Mrs. Warner Madrc, and Mrs. Carroll Williams. i Pi-fcllnnf fMrillrlo Willinint; cnn. ducted the meeting which was opened with a devotional given by Pete Cook, a Senior. 4-H Club; member. Officers elected for 1959 arc as follows: President, Mrs. John: N. Winslow; vice president, Clydej Lane; secretary, Mrs. Richard, Bryant, and treasurer, Roy Chap oell. The 4-H Development Fund was discussed and a committee anointed as follows: Roy. Chan ncll, : Warner Madrc and Clyde Lpne. ' -' ." Demonstrations to be used in the local 4-H Clubs were given by .Agents Richard Brvant and Il Grw Mcllwean. Thcv 'were: "The. Uninvited Guest". "How to Make.. Introirt-t-'ons. , Correctly" and "How T.i f. ' f; Several changes in the fiscal operation of the counly govern- meiu. inciurung adoption ol sal-' aries for all counly offievils, ,ere discussed at a meeting of II. e Board of County Commis- loiK'i s h;:ld las'. Monday. County Attorney S. M, Wl-e-l-b(, and Cleiir n thi- Board Julian A. Powell we re in- iiucti.Ti lo make an appoint ment with ofl'isei-s of t!ie Insli lute ui' (lovernment at C'hap'l Iti'l for niemlie-s of the lecal ! o iid for the purpose of deter mining procedure in adopting the proposals. Con'en ing wit l ti-.c Commissioners regarding i!i''.'- matters was Rcpresenla tivc C, J!. Ilolines,. who adv:.; u j the Board lie will introduce lc-:i: -hit ion in the General As-.'U-nihly slioil'id the (ounly bun. t '(-.are clian;:es in the law at ti,..- current session of the Legisla-. . lure. The (oililni::r;iniiers al.';.'T -.-Went on record, advising Mr. . Holmes. br a chance in the (lot; la-.v ! rev-nil hundred dollars ea"h !yc-u- end comes from the county j general fund, sine- ;i dog t i:c:i , collf-led goes into the general lii io 1 1 111 r f . Mr. Itn'mc; .., a-lviK'-d Ihe ! Board he wi" e p i ii i- inlo H e j law pei ieif : towns lo zone I ai eas oulsio ;. 'Wii limits and , reporl lo the i ard or, Ihe r rn- position of n 'aw which Wi.l permit the Town or Hertford to I one areas from one lo two miles in the counly. .Vfiyor V. N. Darden and W. F. Ainslev. chairman .of tho 1 (:ivi r,nin(.ji an,M.arcd before the hoard and advised a ni"et in; with Stale Highway officials was scheduled for Tuesday al teinoon and invited the county board, to attend this confer ence. At a request of W. (5. N"wby. the board voted to purchase 100 historical booklets on Hertford and Perquimans County, recent ly published alter being com piled by Mr. Newhy. The bo.-itd voted to send one of these booklets to each State Hislorica. Society and to each Secretary of Stale in all states of the nati Fire Chief 11, C. Elliott peared before the boarrl made a report on fire lo; . during the last car. l-'.hi also proposed the Counly Com 1 mtssioners niirchase additional equipment for providing a wai ter tanker for the Fire De partment. No action was taken on this matter pending the j limning . ill Llie IIV;AI UUU A rotiiipwr urnn nrncnntnrl Ti coude r3rinn ,whi(.h sccks nn amendment to the present anti carnival law which will provide nermission for shows, free from .gambling. and immoral shows, to be presented within the county. Mr. Brinn pointed out a num ber of persons desiring the change in the law hope only for the opportunity of sponsoring f hows featuring rides for chil dren and adults and only games of skill. This request was tak--n under advisement - by thf board. ; The board also authorized In stallation of a new door iti'tlja furnace , room ' at the Cct House, to Yrnvi 1" be" r f-
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