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Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Ifriday, July 24, 1959T
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A, varied docket consisting of
14 ' cases was disposed of . dur:
' ing Tuesday's session ' of Per
quimans Recorder's .Court, pro-
eided over 'by ' Judge Chas. E.
Johnson. '
' Two defendants, Louis Rasco,
' Negro, charged with driving on
; the left side of a highway, and
f Earl Eggleston, Negro, charged
. with speeding, failed to appear
in court to answer the charges.
They were ordered held ". for
v bonds of $50 each. ..
. Cleveland Riddick, Negro, was
found not guilty on ft charge of
Luther Tripp submitted to a
charge of speeding and' paid a
fine of $25. : A fine of $29 was
taxed against Harold Paul, who
entered a plea of guilty to a
charge of speeding,
y Appeals to the Superior Court
were also noted in the cases in
. wnicn '. Sammy , uwnley was
found guilty of driving drunk
and using profanity, and Gilbert
Eure, ; found guilty on charges
of resisting an officer, being
. drunk on a highway and, trans
porting tax-paid - liquor. Own
ley was ordered to pay a fine
of $115 and costs while Eure
was ordered to pay a fbie of
$100 and costs.
A verdict of guilty was return
ed in the case in which F. T.
v Matthews' was charged with
speeding and a fine of $22 was
v taxed against the defendant
y Eldridge Edwards end Francis
i Bond, 1 Negro, paid the costs of
court ; after", each had submitted
to charges of driving on the left
siae oi a nignway.
- Elmer Smith, Negro, submitted
v to a charge of reckless driving
Hand paid a fine of $25 and costs
of iwirt- j ' Y 1 '
- v TFfced RA.eUs, .ifeirtf,' pleaded
5 guilty i-to a; 'charge it being
'J idrunk-. ;JH was given. JO-dey
iail .entenc. susnendea unan
, payment
in
paid a- fine tof 1 $23 .and., costsj af-
,ter pleading guilty to a charge
pi, assault with a deadly weapon.
t tay Lassiter, Negro, submit
ted to a charge of following too
Closely behind a vehicle and
iaid the court costs. - -', ,
Cladie Winslow, .Negro, was
taxed with the costs f court on
s charge of permitting an un
licensed operator to drive his
cir;i : Kermit ' Winslow, Negro,
was' fined $25 and costs on a
charge of driving without a li
cense. Both defendants submit
ted to .the charges
r 10th District Jaycees Meet In ;
Edenton; State President Al
' Harrison Is Principal Speaker
Tpe' first meeting of the 10th
Dlsiqt of the N. . Q, '. Junior
Chamber of Commerce was held
in Jdenton on July 16 In the
American Legion home. ( The
meeting was in charge rf Ruas
Twiford of Ela!beth City, 10th
District Vice President The in
vocation was gven by Ae Rev.
Heath Light, also of fcjjzabeth
"Citjf after which O jtaembers
enjoyed a chicken dinner. '
1 Ajfter dinner Russ Twiard rec
ognized special guests At the
meeting, after which he' called
on West Byrum, president of the
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ftost 01UD. mr. oyru-Ti weirara.
ed the visiting clubs f l visitors
to Edenton and 'asked ( -n tiack
at tiny time they mc' t be in
'I' h area'. , , ' ' 1 ' , " t
Vice President Tw:" j then
introduced Y.Ten T: 'y, who
is now a K-Ju. ul Du . r. Tr
Twi'iy errrf --1 f:s r rrecia-.
i to t'.a li I' i f r s""-
. ; 1 i'n I 1 3U ' rs 1- 't
l-.jtrict Vl el '. aL,o
this year ? I '.' 1 - rector.
He tlien i --' i t '' J roup
Al Karri, -n (f T - ' who
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Town Schedules
Street Project,
Mayor V, N Darden reported
early this week arrangements
have been completed : between
the town and officials of the
Highway Department for high
way crews to come to Hertford
shortly to pave Carolina Avenue
and to resurface the north end
of Front Street. The work is
to be done under the Powell Bill
plan. .
f.'jsica! Program
Fln.-i.2d At Dcptist
Church N'axt Sun.
An unusual and interesting
program has been planned for
the evening worship service at
the Hertford Baptist Church
(this Sunday. The church's thrte
choirs will unite in a festival
service of hymns and sacred
music. The entire program will
be centered around music ap
preciation in worship.
. Some of the messages in music
wiQ be old favorites and some
will be entirely new Each of
the choirs will sing several se
lections that have been received
with appreciation 'by audiences
hi the past. Each choir will also
introduce a new hymn to the
congregation. The story of the
hymn will be introduced and
then the hymn will be sung. All
of Jhe choirs . will unite ja sing-
In of two or-three selections.
""The program will be undertthe
direction of Mrs. J. E, White;
the church' t (drginiisi!, f "ttnd. 'ihe
Rev. f Matiqx; pastor,,
B Church To
Cibifdi
uct Revival
Revival services will be con'
ducted at the Berea Church of
Christ beginning Monday, July
27, and continuing through Aug
ust 2. ' -The Rev. Horace Nor
man Miller of Lowland will be
the guest preacher. Prior to en
tering the ministry Mr. Miller
was a member . of the . Berea
Church. The Rev. and Mrs.
Neal Puckett will be in charge
of the song service and 4he pub
lic" is Invited to attend the ser
vices. ' ? L
new projects f or .the, entire state
for the coming, year: ; CI) Junior
Champ, youth fitness, (2) Boys'
Home, so a boy may live in a
Christian home and ' have a
chance for better living, (3)
Community Service see , what
your community 'needs and then
work for this project, (4) Mem
bership, our goal for the year is
,000 new members for the s-tate,
let'a try to meet this, President
Harrison stated.
After President Harrison's ad
dress. Beans Weatherly of Eliza
beth City, was called on to re
port on tlje National Convention
which was very interesting. 'Lo
cal presidents made a .reporfon
what their clubs had done and
are planning to do in the future.
Thtf meeting adjourned with ; the
Jaycee Creed led by Ira Cutrell
of Windsor. ' -7 ' ' '
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The State Highway Commis
sion, ; meeting in Raleigh last
week, allocated , funds for the
nsaintenance and construction
work in the s -jondary road sys
t n f Jr t e ..te's 130 counties
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, HEW USE FOR EGGSHELLS Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Ackerman of Muscoda, Wis, are shown
with some of the 400 shadow .boxes they've made by cutting! windows in eggshells and dec-
' orating them. Shells .range from a robin's egg to a goose egg. In the foreground is their,
tribute to Alaska,a star and igloo. " j -
Compromise Is Adopted For
Controversy Between Sport
And Commercial Fishermen
. The three-year-old ' controver
sy between commercial fisher
men and sports fishermen with
respect to the use of the Cho
wan River and . Western Albe
marle Sound by members of the
two groups . appeared to have
been settled at Morehead City
last week . when a compromise
proposal which gave both groups
certain rights was adopted by
the . Board of Conservation and
Development. - . f ;
The compromise measure f or
the.' useoff these 'valuable-fishing
grounds came after . numer
ous . public hearings held during
no dgreenent jtesre6ched,- and
4 serie ilf j lipnf erBnies. irt the
last- sever1! i.eeksj; between af
fected parties' , and, irepresenta
tive9 of the state government
The agreement was finally ham--mered
out at an unofficial meet
ing of the Commercial Fisheries
Committee at Morenead City. It
was later presented to the full
committee in official session, was
unanimously adopted and was
presented to the full Board of.
Conservation on Tuesday" and The U. S launched the first
again was-unanimously adopted atom-powered merchant ship of
and made .the prevailing regula- the world on Tuesday when the
tion . concerning fishing in the ship Savannah went down the
Chowan River and West Albe-' ways at Camden, N. J. Mrs.
marie Sound. Dwight Eisenhower, the Presi-
Eric W. Rodgers of Scotland dent's wife, christened the ves
Neck, a member of the Commer-1 sel, the first of the model of
cial Fisheries Advisory " Board,' what .- is believed will be the
was named several weeks' ago future cargo ships of the seas,
by the chairman of the Com- "
mercial Fisheries Committee of President. Eisenhower Tuesday
the Board of Conservation and ,namPd , Frederick Mueller of
Development to undertake nego- Grand Rapids, Mich., to be Sec
tiations between the two oppos- retary of Commerce, to succeed
ing groups, when several confer- few's Straus5' the latter fail
ences and a number of public- in " receive Senate approval
hearings had failed to, accomplish' f the Posi . Muellr has bf n
the desired purpose' and had actl"8 secretary ' several
only resulted in some bitterness wee s" ' ' '
and a great deal of confusion, I The Iraqi government report
Althe same time H. C. Kennett ' ed earlier this week a commun
is Durham, a member of the C. ist-led uprising in the Kirkuk
and D. Board, , conducted nego-1 oil fields of that country had
tiations with the N.. C. Wildlife been quelled and the govern-
Federation. ' Rodgers confjerred
with commercial fishermen and
sports nsnermen on ,tne unowan
River and with officials of the
sociation. and attended two or
three meetings at Raleigh at
which the various points in the
argument were considered. Each
step as taken., was ( referred to
the Commercial Fisheries Advis
ory ' Board of 1 which' .Rodgers is
a member and thence to the
Commercial Fisheries 'Committee
of the Department of Conserva
tion and Development and both
groups . kept .closely, in , touch
with the negotiations under way.
The chief argument was
whether or not gill nets should
be. .used to take rock fish in the
Chowan River and in Western
AKbemarle Sound. The sports
fishermen had contended from
the start that the , gill net?
should te .completely taken out i Funeral services were conduct
of Ciiowpn ' River and out of' ed from the Connarista Baptist
V ' i " in-' - T nd. while,' Church, of which she" wnl a
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THIS WEEK'S
HEADLINES
As anticipated, no progress is
reported from the foreign min
isters meeting in Geneva, de
spite a Western offer to -reduce
demands concerning Berlin pro
vided the Soviets also eased its
terms for agreement. The Rus
sian minister declined the Wefct
erB proposal ,jind reports state
the conference will likely end in
a stalemate. , ; i , .
jG0vernment officials, eorrffniie
effoHs Ho . bring ' together' .the
union and steel industry to end
the steel strike, which unless
settled soon, is expected to af
fect the nation's economic con
dition, r Secretary of Labor
James Mitchell stated Tuesday
the government will insist that
the union and industry continue
to bargain : until "agreement is
reached ad
the strike settled.
pment of Premier Kassem still
(retained firm control of the
nation. - ,
L!olb Of LeccJ
Mrs.VLou Parker Howard 87,
native' of Connarista community
of Bertie County, died in Roanoke-Chowan
Hospital in Ahoskie
early , Monday morning. . ' l. ; '
. Surviving are three sons, T.
G. Howard of ; Hertford, A.; C.
Howard, Greenville and W. D.
Howard, Aulander; one daugh
ter, Mrs. Oscar Minton, Au
lander; one brother, S. N Park
ert Kelford; one sister, Mrs. Pi
C. Burkett, Lewiston; also 11
erandchildren and . 20 ' ereat
grandchildren.
member, Tuoay at 3 P. J'
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Twine Rites Held
Tuesday Afternoon
Funeral services for Mrs.
Delia Moody Stallings Twine, age
78, who died Saturday afternoon
at 3 o'clock at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Nathan Hurdle
on Route 2 following a lingering
illness, were conducted Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock in the
chapel of the Swindell Funeral
Home by, the Rev. A. N. Gore,
pastor of the Oak Grove Metho
dist Church, assisted by the Rev.
J. O. Mattox, pastor of the Hert-
ford Baptist, Church.,
red
dunng i the i service. Wtwi- J-
Elhe White.
The casket was covered with
a pall of white mums, pink car
nations and fern.
Pallbearers were W. C. Rob
ert S., Jack, Roscoe and Emmett
Stallings.
Burial followed in the Cedar
Grove Church Cemetery
Mrs. Twine, a native of Cho
wan County, had lived with her
daughter on Route 2 for the
past month. She was the wife
of the late Oscar K. Twine and
daughter of the . late Timothy
and Cartha Hurdle Stallings
and a member of the Oak Grove
Methodist Church.
: Besides 'Mrs. Hurdle, she is
survived bv two other daugh
ters, Mrs. Mattie Ward of Route
2 and Mrs. Delia Mae ong of
Hertford; two sons. Elwood
Twine and Milford Twine, both
of Elizabeth City; 18 grand
children and 12 great grand
children. BPW Club Meeting
Held Thursday N
Mrs. Alice "MacC. Kanoy was
hostess of the Perquimans Busi
ness and Professional Women's
Club Thursday night, July 16,
entertaining members - at her
home on Church Street, where
I garden flowers decorated the
living room.
The president. Mrs. Mary Dale
S. Lane, presided and opened
the meeting with the Club. Col
lect. Mrs. Marie S. Elliott, re
cording secretary, read the min
utes During the business ses
sion, Miss ' Hulda Wood was
named chairman of the Interna
tional Relations Committee and
Mrs. Nezzie Haste was named to
serve on the National Security
Committee. Members voted to
contribute money to the Farm
ers' Day, . which will be held
August 26, at the Perquimans
County. High School." ""Reports
of the State Convention held In
Greensboro were given by "Mrs.
Dora T. Riddick, Mrs". Sallie
T cTl Lane and Mrs.- Alice Towe
Lions Governor
Wis Officers
11
At 'rating Friday i
- New officers for the Hertford
ions Club- were installed at
he meeting of the club held
Friday night of last week at
Brown's Restaurant.
Don Glisson of Nashville, gov
ernor of Lions District 311-J,
acted as installation officer dur
ing his official visit to the lo
cal club.
Installed as president was
R. A Willis. Other officers are
George Belmont, first vice presi
dent; T. P. Byrum, second vice
president; R. R. White, third
vice president; J. T. Biggers, secretary-treasurer;
Joe Tunnell,
tail twister, and Harry Winslow,
Lion tamer.
During the business session it
was announced the club will
meet on the first and third Fri
day of each month at Brown's
Restaurant.
Erie Haste, Sr., was enrolled
as a member of the Hertford
Club, transferring his member
ship from the Edenton Lions
Club.
District Governor Glisson pre
sented twenty-year perfect at
tendance pins to two members
of the Hertford Club, R. R
White and Norman N. Trueblood,
who is State Secretary for Lions
International.
Soil Conservation
Dept Completes
Number Projects
During the fiscal year July 1,
1958, to June 30, 1959, the fol
lowing conservation work was
accomplished in Perquimans
County: v
. Conservation" plans" were pre
pared With 44 farmers on a to
tal of 3,802 acres of land.
Perquimans County i farmers
cooneratinc With '-the Albemarle
Soil t Gdrlservtiori 'District con
structed 28 rrtiles 'bf open witch
drainage.; Practically all these
farmers constructing ditches ap
plied for and received assistance
through the Agricultural Con
servation Program administered
by the County ASC office.
Eight group drainage projects
were completed. These eight
group jobs totaled 5 7 miles in
length and involved the moving
of 31,292 cubic yards of dirt.
Twenty-four farms and a total
of 879 acres of cropland were
bebefited by these eight drain
age projects. .
Pine trees were planted ion 41
acres of land.
Burnt Mill Creek Watershed
was approved on June 25, 1959.
Hertford Indians
Defeat Edenton
Hertford : defeated Edenton 10
to 5 in 'an Albemarle League
game here Tuesday night.
Pete Hunter and Ray Hunter
divided the pitching for Hert
ford and "were touched for eight
hits, including a triple by Gene
Taylor. Hertford got only six
hits off Zackie Harreli but they
were bunched ;With bases on
balls. ;';'--'"'T:.' u
. Tommy Matthews smashed a
home run with two men on base,
D. A. Carver turned in two
triples and Arnold Winslow had
two singles to pace the Hertford
attack.
Record Soybean
Acreage, Indicated
According to reports from pro
ducers as of July 1, the 1959
soybean acreage grown alone for
all purposes in North Carolina
will be a record at 540,000 acres.
This represents a 3 percent in
crease above the previous rec
ord of 524,000 acres grown alone
in 1958 and will exceed the 10
year average of 420,000 by 29
percent, ; .The equivalent solid
acres, which Includes beans
planted alone and ' with . other
crops, is estimated at 675,000
acres 4 percent above the equi
valent solid acres grown last
year. s f r tt s f "s year
Preliminary Work
On ! Revaluation
1
Proj
Bids Sought On
Post Office Building
The Post Office Department!
on Monday issued invitations for I pace, according to Allen Car
bids for construction of a new roll, who has charge of the con-.
building to house the Hertford
Post Office, and announced bids
on the construction will be ac
cepted up to and including Au
gust 21, 1959.
The building will contain 3,290
square feet of floor space; have
360 square feet of platform and
8,354 square feet of driveway,
parking and maneuvering area.
Individuals desiring further in
formation concerning construc
tion and specifications may se
eure same . by writing Marvin
W. Clem, Real Estate Officer,
Post Office Department, Char
lotte 2, N. C.
Former School
Head Succumbs
Edgar EBundy, former super -
intendent of Perquimans County
Schools, died Sunday morning in
the Albemarle Hospital following
an illness of several weeks. He
was 70 years of age and had re
cently retired from a position
with the Nationwide Insurance
Co., of Greenville, S. C.
He served as superintendent
of county schools for nine years
and also served in the same ca
pacity in Elizabeth City for
eight years.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Mattie Reid Bundy; three
daughters, Mrs. Robert Daniels
of Elizabeth City, Mrs. Frank
Scott of Greenville and Mrs.
Robert Hallman of Endicott,
n. y.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday morning in Elizabeth
City1 ;by' ,tHe! Rev.; irgil Queen.
Burial was in an Elizabeth City
cemetery. -
Arrests
Co nnec t
Winf all
Sheriff J. K.. White has drawn
warrants charging four persons
being involved in a robbery of
meats from the Elijah White
store in "Winf all last Friday
nignt. ine snerm reponea
early this week he had secured
a confession from George White
hurst, Winfall Negro, that he
had broken into the store and
taken the meats, including four
hams and a large quantity of as
sorted cuts of beef.
Whitehurst was placed in the
county jail charged with break
ing and entering and larceny.
Sheriff White also stated he
had warrants drawn against
Tom Jordan and Vergie Jordan,
Negroes of Chowan County, and
Charlie Whidbee, Negro of the
Chapanoke community, charging
the trio with receiving stolen
goods. ,
Hearings for the four defend
ants will be conducted in the
Perquimans Recorder's Court
next Tuesday morning.
Sheriff White stated entry ,to
the White store was gained
through a transome above 1 the
front door. The robbery occur
red Friday night and was dis
covered by Elijah White when
he went to the place of business
to open it Saturday morning.
The Sheriffs Department re
covered two of the stolen' hams.'
one of which was cooked and
partially consumed.
NAMED TO SORORITY
Lois Violet Winslow, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis I
Winslow of Belvidere, and a
senior at East Carolina College,
is one of eight young women to
be named - to Delta Chi Delta
Sorority. While a student here,'
Miss Winslow to4 fcn itriH In
1, i ii.li.
unaerwav
Preliminary work on the .re
valuation of real property with
in Perquimans County is pre-
gressing at a very satisfactory '
tract for the Carroll-Phelps '
Company of Winston-Salem, in
completing the work for Per-
quimans County. , : C;
Mr. Carroll told this reporter "
Tuesday field crews are now at
work in the Town of Hertford
and the townships of Belvidere,
and Parkville securing pre-ap- 1
praisal information- which will
'be used in connection with the
revaluation. He pointed Out
these crews, consisting of Carson
Spivey, Nathan Matthews, Edgar
Fields, Jr., and Jim Betts place
no values on property but mere
ly secure information needed for
that part of the work Which
will come later.
The project got under way
the early part of this month and
is to be completed by Decem
ber 15.
ho rAvn iiattrm nr real nrnn
rty is bejng conducted by the
Board of County Commissioners
as required by a law which was
enacted by the last session of
the Legislature. This law pro
vides now that every county in
North Carolina must conduct
such a program every eight
years. Since Perquimans Coun
ty had not conducted a revalua
tion since 1927, the Legislature
provided it had to complete the
task by the end of 1960.
Under the contract with ' the
.Carroll - Phelps Company the
work is to be completed ta
time for the;, county to ' use the
hew valuation figures for tan
purposes on 1960 taxes.
Property "owners will be no.
tified as to values placed on
their property on completion- of
the work and hearings concern
ing theSev values will be con
du'dted .at'dates to be announced
later. "!."!;
Made In
i on With
Robbery
Support Price On
Peanuts Revealed
The support rate for 1959-crop
Virginia type peanuts in this
State will be $205.30 per ton,
according to Zeno O. Ratdliff,
Jr., chairman of the ASC State
Committee. This, he said, is an
"interim" support level. This
means that when support rates
are finally determined, if the
final rates are higher than fhose
announced, any farmers who
may have placed peanuts under
loan at the "interim" level will
receive additional payments to
reflect the higher level.
The support price for individ
ual loans will be calculated by
the same method as was used in
this State last year. The value
of loose-shelled kernels, however,
will be calculated at 6 cents per
pound as compared with the t
cent rate last year. ; ;
To qualify for "Virginia type"
price support, Virginia peanuts
must contain not less than 30
percent fancy size. .;
Loans . and purchase agree
ments on 1959-crpp peanuts will
M( available ' to individual pro
ducers , and grower associations
from the time of harvest through .
January 31, 1960. " This newly
announced support rate, accord
ing to Ratcliff,- is at the rate of
75 percent of parity. Support In '
1958 reflected 80.8 percent of
parity.
Moved To Camden
State Highway Patrolman R.
I. ' Weathersbee stationed in
Perquimans County for the j
yeiir1,' ' has " been transfer-