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' STYLISH' CHAP, THE DINOSAUR The lumbering dinosaur passed into oblivion millions
of years ago. But his remains have found their way into the jeweler's art. Gloria Pagano,
secretary at Chicago's Natural History Museum holds 73 pieces of their fossilized bones that
,v have been cut and polished for milady.
1 HWMASANAAtWaA.,
BonilOr IS PlliSCd
For fillClficr Ship
Hpnrfispntat ve Thor C. Tollef-
? son (R-Wash.), ranking minority
member of the House Commit
tee on Merchant Marine and
; Fisheries, made a statement on
the floor of the House of Repre
- Bentatives on Joly 20, in which
he termed Representative Her
bert C; Bonner (D-N.C), Chair
, nan oi 1 the Merchant Marine
Committee, . the father of the
nuclear ship SAVANNAH e
; cently launched.' Mr. Tollefson's
- remarks are asv follows: .
' "Mr,, Speaker, the world's firsf
nuclear-powered;: cargo-passenger
vessel,' the nuclear ship SAVAN
NAH, will, "be" launched, tomor-
. jing Corp.,; yard, in Camden, N. J.
. The sponsot- will be Mrs. Dwight
p.jEisenhowery j" v
- I .'.'Severaf t persons'? wiU' ihve
flayed fimpprtantparts' in bring
ing this 'ship into being. All are
tripled to much credit. None,
however, is entitled to more
fredit than is the distinguished
gentleman from North Carolina!
' the Honorable- Herbert Bonner,
Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Merchant Marine and
- Fisheries. He can rightly be
called the 'father of the nuclear
ship SAVANNAH.
' "It was his
authorized the
the vessel and
acted into law.
proposal which
construction of
which was en
It :was his Idea
thatthe ship should be a cargo
passenger vessel, and not simply
a show boat for demonstration
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P "It ' was his thought that a
" careo-passenger vessel Jcoulld be
used not only to demonstrate the
peacetime use of nuclear power,
. but could also be practically em-
ployed in carrying cargo and
' Continued on Pag $
Matthews Award
High Scout Honor ;
Bobby Matthews, son of Mr.
' and Mrs. F.; T. ' Matthews- of
Hertford, last Saturday was in
ducted into the Vigil Honor,
which is the "highest honor of
the Order of the Arrow in Boy
Scouts. ' '
The honor,, as are all selections,
was based upon unanimous vote
. of the' Vigil Committee, and was
.bestowed for Matthews' activir
ties in Scouting. v.
Matthews is an Eagle Scout
with 56 merit badges and seven
palms; he holds the Silver, and
God and Country awardYnd is
assistant advisor for Troop 155,
Hertford. , -". '
;vivc:l At VI.iteville
rcve Au. 2
The
Rev. J. -Paul Iloloman,
of the V.liiteville Grove
Bliiiit Church at Edvidere,' an
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nounces . that reival meetings
witl begin at the churth. Sunday,
toniing, August 2-at 11 o'clock
and will ' continue e,.h nij..t
'.rf-;h aturJ-y n" t, August
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jLocal Representative Named
ura" Women's Symposium
Mrs. M. T. Griffin of Route 2,Roarfl f)f Edliratinn
jsaenton. nas oeen. . namea no
represent Perquimans County at
the Rural Women's Symposium
to be held at N. C. State Col
lege August 3-6.
According to Miss Ruth Cur
rent, assistant director for N. C.
Agricultural Extension Service,
100 of the most outstanding
Home Demonstration Club wo
men in North Carolina have
been selected to attend.
'Social; and technological
changes that, have been taking
place in communities and coun
ties will be discussed. Follow
ing each speaker, delegates will(
have the opportunity to partici
taNCK Cuelibstrate: V" debater" ana
discuss . '.the' tissues,, facts ' and
challenges presented.
Mr$.,' vFernie . Laughinghouse, f
state treasurer 61'tne Pede',';''i
of Home, Demohfetratiofl.; CllAs,
lwH biSr Med by, Mrs.rWilbur
Worthinehouse," Ay'den; Mrs. J.
V." Whitfield; Wallace; Mrs. Frank
Phillips, Newland : Route 3;
Mrs. F. - A." Needham, Graham
Route 2, and Mrs. Melvin Mills,
Marshville Route 3. :
. Principal' addresses , by off
campus speakers include: "North
Carolina Home Demonstration
Study," Dr. Gladys Gallup, d
rector, Division ' of Extension
Research and - Training, Federal
Extension Service, USDA, Wash- out 1959, Pugh said,-as high in
ington,' D. S.; "Trends in Civic i ventories of livestock and poul
and Community Responsibility, I try offset abundant grain sup-
Mrs. Samuel Levering, Ararat,
Va.; "The Role of Public Rela
tions in Home Economics Ex
tension," Mrs. S.' Mena Woodle,
home economics agent , in Clay
County, and "A Candid Look at
Leadership in ' Rural North Ca
rolina", Jack Waldrep, director,
Lord's Acre Plan, Agricultural
Mission Inc. Asheville.
Strings Funcrd
Held Last Thursday
Funeral services for Asa P.
Stallings, 75, who died Tuesday
of last week at the Lane Nurs
ing Home, Wood ville, were con
ducted last Thursday at 2:30
P: M. at the Sandy Cross Bap
tist: Church by the Rev. Lemar
Wheeler, ..pastor of. iMt; Sinai
Baptist Church, assisted by , the
Rev. ; M. ? M- Holmes, pastor of
the Bagley t Swamp Church- .'"
; Mr! ; . Stallings was a native of
Gates County but had lived in
Perquimans County most of his
life, v He. was a member, of the
Sandy Cross Baptist Church. '
.. During the services the choir
sang "Abide With . Me" and
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"
The pall was of white gladioli, '
Easter lilies and red carnations,
Surviving are three daugh
ters, Mrs. Mable Riddick, Mrs.
Sally L. West of Portsmouth and
Mr. - Alice- Whedbee of South
Norfolk two sons, ' H. H. Stal
ling and W. . A Stallings of
Vest Norfolk; five grandchildren
and two preat grandchildren.
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Hertford, Perquimans County, North
Meets Monday Night
The . Perquimans Board of
Education will meet next Mon
day night, at 7:30 o'clock in the
office of the superintendent of
schools. In addition to making
plans for : the opening of the
new school term, the board is
expected to fill a vacancy on the
faculty at Perquimans High
School. ' -
Farm Production
Costs Expected To
Rise This Year
Feeder Dies are the onlv tkihe
farmers' fless in coming months.
Cost" of'jother farm production
items .are expected -, to remain
steady or- creep upwards during
the rest of 1959.
These predictions were made
by Charles Pugh, State College
farm management specialist, in
his- midyear farm costs outlook
report.
Feed prices arc expected to
remain' about the same through-
plies.1-: v :-'v ' x, '"-'. ' -'
Declines in prices of feeder
pigs are likely, ; while continued
high demand should maintain
the price of feeder cattle through
this fall.'
Although fertilizer purchases
in North Carolina in earily 1959
were up one-third, prices will
likely continue, unchanged.
I Pugh further reported that
continued strength in the non-
farm economy will likely force
some farm cost upwards. ,
For example, a highj rate of
residential construction r wi.ll
boost price of farm building ma
terials. The steel strike could
raise farm machinery prices.,
Farm wage rates, interest, and'
taxes will continue to increase
slightly., Pugh expects the in
crease .to be in the 'neighbor
hood of 5 per cent . -
County FFA Youths
Attending Camp -.
Fifteen members of the Per
quimans v FFA ; v Chapterj. accom
panied by their advisor, i Joe
Tunnell, -aw' enjoying them
selves this week .at the FFA
camp at White- Lake. Those
attending are Billy Pierce, Wil
liam' Chappell, J. C. ) Sntars,
Hollis Cooeland,' Claude Long,
Waldo " Winslow, Joe - Behton,
Sidney Long, Irvin Long, Doug
las Sawyer Charles Banks, Wal
ter Banks, Wade Morgan,; Larry
Stallings and . Carlton White.
All of the boyi Will partici
pate in a well rounded; sports
program, supervised by the camp
official and played strictly un
der !f6fficial rules." Stunts" on
Friday r' ' t v ""1 cnnclu le ''the
t ti.' . s '3 ex-
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THIS WEEK'S
HEADLINES
y
Western foreign .. ministers
proposed a new plan for Berlin
Tuesday, hoping to break the
stalemate the conference . ias
been under since' it started sey
eral weeks ago, which provides
the West and East freeze the
Bcilin situation for five years
and then reopen talks if Germ
any remains divided.
President Eisenhower has
nominated Algernon Butler, j
Clinton, N. C, attorney, -to be I
Federal District Judge for the!
eastern UlSiriCt Ot JNOrtft Uaro-
lina.
Butler will fill a vacancy!
1 by the retirement pf .
created
Judge Don Gilliam of Tarboro.
The nomination is subject to ap
proval by the U. S. Senate.
Vice President Nixon is con
eluding his visit to Russia, hav
ing opened the. U. S. Fair 3n
Moscow, conferred with top So-,
viet officials and visited a num- payment of the court costs, was
ber of cities of the country Re- continued in the case in which
ports -concerning the Nixon visit James Green and Walter Green,
stated the Vice President has Negroes, entered pleas of guilty
endeavored to win the friendship to charges of assault,
of the Russian people by. his j Herman Felton, Negro, enter
personal contacts during the ed pleas of guijty t0 charges of
f ' carrying a concealed weapon
r-!-y y I and assault. He was given a 30-
The U. S. exhibition in Mos- day jail sentence to be sus
cow, offering the Soviet people pended upon payment of a fine
a view of the American mode of $60 and costs of court,
of living, is attracting huge James Bembry, Negro, was
crowds. Directors of the fair found not guilty on a charge of
eresttnigv-y'loaW;' assault with deadly weapon.
"with the interest shown by the j Raymond Skinner entered a
Russian people .- in the exhibits. ' plea of guilty to charges of
r . ; . reckless driving and failing to
Fidel Castro has resumed the observe a stop sign. He .was
premiership of Cuba, following a ordered to pay the costs; of court
hug& demonstration' by his back- , and .Voluntarily surrendered his
ers. in Havana last Sunday. Re- operator's license for four weeks,
ports concerning Cuba' indicates Submissions listed on the
the island nation is developing court' docket included Johnnie
economic troubles due to' Castro's
policies.
Jim Hickey has been named
as head football coach at the
University of North Carolina,
succeeding the late Jim Tatum.
Hickey, given a three year con
tract by the University, had been
an : assistant to Mr. Tatum.
Hickey is a graduate of William
and Mary.
J.fT. Biggers Named
Lions Zone Chairman
Don Glisson of .Nashville, gov
ernor ot Liorii District 311-J, has
announced the appointment of
four : deputy, governors to head
the district's four regions during
the current year which began
July U They are Ray Hollowell
of Camden, Region I; B. G. Ste
wart of Williamston, Region II;
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u. r. opcuL-cr oi iwnnuara, ivcg-i
ion III, and:Thelbert D. Boy-,
kin of Bailey,: Region IV. to Dr. J. S. Dorton, manager of
Serving under each deputy the State's biggest, show,
governor will be two zone chair- offered last year was $55,000,
men. J GUsson appointed John with eJmibitors being awarded
Biggers of Hertford and Hugh I $51,767.58. Payments to winners
Jones of Ahoskie to serve under. m 1958 were $2,117.97 higher
Hollowell, W. J. Taylor of Eden-J than wag paid m 1957 More en.
ton and Jack Wallace of Bathtries were snown by more in.
for. Stewart's Region,' Kenneth dividual exhibitors in 1958 than
Brantley of Davie and ' H.- M.
Bunn of Whitakers for Speniers
Region, and Henry ., Odom ' of
Rocky. ; Mount and .Noxfleet Sugg
of t Pinetops; tor Boykin's Region".
Glisson. also announred. the; ap
pointment, oi ,D, JR. 'ranhamv .of
Spring, .Hope as di?trijst director
of the White-jCaneDrive', Ralph
Whit,e ojf ! .Cpertin "as" chairman
of thfi , membership' Idevelopnttrit
committee ahd ; Ronald Brasoll
vi jkHsnvuie as caoinei secreuiijr,
REVIVAL SCHEDULED TO BE
HELD AT BURGESS CHURCH
' Revival services at Burgess
Baptist Church are scheduled to
begin the week of August 3.
Services will be held beginning
Monday night and ending with
the Sunday morning- worship
service on August 7. ' ' .
- Guest evangelist will be Har
land ' Getts, pastor of.'Shawboro
Baptist Cl.trrc". pedalV.Jhusic
Carolina, Friday, July
I A six months road sentence,
suspended upon payment of a
fine of $150 and costs of court,
was meted out to George White
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hurst, Negro, by the Perquimans
I; I Recorder's Court here Tuesday
alter wmtehurst had entered a
I plea of guilty to charges of
breaking into the White store in
Winfall and stealing some $60
worth of meats. Whitehursl
was ordered to reimburse Elijah
White the sum of $40 for meat
which was not recovered during
the investigation.
Three defendants, Vergie Jor
dan, Tom Jordan and Charlie
Whidbee, Negroes, were given
identical sentences after each
had entered a plea of guilty to
charges of receiving stolen
property, to wit, the meat taken
from the store.
An annonl f fi,i
was noted in the case in which,
Melvin Brieht wa. fnllnrf auJ
on charges of driving drunk and
driving with insufficient brakes
The defendant was ordered to
pay a fine of $150 and costs.
Louis Taylor, found guilty on
a charge of assault was order
ed to pay the costs of court.
Prayer for judgment, upon
Johnson, drunk, $10 and costs;
Jack Weathers, Negro, drunk
and use of profanity, $5 and
costs; Robert Gibbs," Negro,
driving on the left side of the
highway and failing to report
an accident, $5 and costs, Golden
Frink, Negro, issuing worthless
check, costs of court; Oliver
Bonner, Negro, exceeding safe
speed, $10 and costs; Frank
Brown, igniting a firecracker,
costs; Ernest Markham, no op
erator's Ucense nol pros.
State Fair Offers
Total premium money offered
by the 1959 North Carolina State
Fair is expected to be several
a r .u i. j . o. . v
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tnousana dollars higher than in
the oast several vears. accordine
in any previous year. Only sev
en of the state's 100 counties
were not represented by either
competitive or commercial ex
hibits in both 1957 and ,1958.
' ; Financially, as wen as trom
Uie standpoint of exhibits, the
1958 State Fair enjoyed one s of
the. most successful years since
it became a division of the De
partment 'of Agriculture in 1937.
Interest in the 1959 air is
mounting every day with more
early demand for space than last
year. Dr. Dorton expressed the
hope that this year would top
all previous records, and that
each of the 100 counties in the
state would be represented.
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PICNIC SUPPER
The ' Delia Sham burger Mis
sionary Circle of the Hertford
Methodist Church; will hold . a
r: 's supper llonday night, Au
- t 3, rt B 'l o'clock at Jake's
31, 1959.
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WILD TERROR IN CALIFORNIA A doe dashes in blind fear as flames leap from a brush
fire in Hidden Valley, Calif. Firefighters halted this blaze after it blackened nearly 200 acres
-one ot many fires which hit as the dry season set in throughout many sections of thenatioru
County 4-H Club
Members Praise
State Conference
"This has been he best of all
4-H Club Weeks," was a state
ment made at tlie conclusion of
the 1959 4-H Club Week, July
20-25 at State College in Ra
leigh. ,One of the highlights of the
week were the various demon
stration contests. Phyllis Hen
dren and Eva Ann Smith. Per
quimans County 4-H Club
members, were first runner up
in the state vegetable and fruit
use demonstration with their
demonstration "A New Treat
With a Beet" showing a variety
pf waS; to -use -beets. Ann Ben
ton was winner of the girls'
electric demonstration.
Carolyn Faye Rogerson rep
resented Perquimans County in
the state health pageant, which
was ani outstanding event of the
week. ' ;;!:;,
Members of the livestock
judging team wrc Vernon
Winslow, Wayne Howell, Billy
Nixon and Ed Nixon.
For the first time two adult
leaders from each county were
invited to attend State Club
Week. Charles T. Rogerson, Jr.,
represented the Perquimans
County adult leaders. She at
tended the adult leaders' lunch
eon and alumni luncheon among
other activities.
Carroll McDonnell attended a'
special recreation leadership
class led bv E. H. Reenier. ru-l
ral recreationalist, University of j
Illinois. Ann Benton . repre- j
sented the county at a special
class in music leadership led by
Miss Bobbie Prichard, State Mu
sic Staff.
. Carroll McDonnell, Ann Ben
ton, Phyllis Hendren and Caro-,
lyn Faye Rogerson attended the
State 'Council meeting.
. Sylvia Knight was a delegate
for the week. Others who visit
ed 4-H Club Week were Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Hendren, Mrs.
Johnnie Smith, J. H. Smith,
Raeford Copeland, Charles T.
Rogerson, ' Jr., and Mrs. Paige
Underwood. Richard Bryan and
Ila Grey Mcllwean, extension
agents, accompanied the group
to Club Week. ,
Cancer Committee
In Planning Meet
The executive committee of
the Perquimans County ; unit of
the American Cancer Society
met with the .", president, Miss
Hulda Wood, at her home on
Grubb Street ' Wednesday night,
July 22, when Mrs. Bert Tyson
of Greenville, State Field Con
sultant, was present to discuss
plans j,. for ' the coming year,
which were: Cancer: research,
crusade, : budget, health ahd
education programs. ;- .
'At the conclusion of the meet
ing Miss Wood served apple pie
and ice cream to Mrs. Tyson,
Mrs. Alice ' Towe Owens, Mrs.
Dora T. Riddick and Mrs. Marie
S. Elliott."". '!-:'-OV7;.:.'h
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. and Mrs. WJ M.. Woodson
of Twin trails, - Idaho, ' announce
the birth of a son, Franklin Se
bert born Thursday, July 23.
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Hertford Indians
Ready For League
Play Off Series
Commissioners To
Meet On Monday
Commissioners for Perquim
ans County will hold their Aug
ust meeting next Monday, Aug
ust 3, beginning at 10 A. M. in
the Court House in Hertford.
Individuals desiring to confer
with the board, are urged to note
time and place of the meeting.
New Variety Of
North Carolina soybean grow
ers will have a new variety to
choose from next year.
Hill, a new soybean variety for
North Carolina and the South,
has been released by NSDA and
cooperating Mate experiment sta
tions. Foundation seed of the new
variety is now being increased.
The seed supply for next year
Should be good, says Dr. Charles
A. Brim, a USDA scientist at
N. C. State College who worked
on the variety.
According to George Spain,
agronomy specialist at State Col
lege, the Hill has these charac
teristics: Early maturity, high
comparative yields, shatter re
sistance, resistance to major leaf
disease and purple stain, and ex
cellent seed quality.
Hill is similar in appearance I
and related to me popular Lee,!
Spain continued, but matures 15 j
to 18 days earlier. It 'has white!
instead of purple flowers, and'
the hilum (eye) of the seed is1
light brown in color. Seed size;
of Hill is slightly smaller than!
Lee. .,."'. ' '
"Hill will give soybean grow
ers in Northeast and Tidewater
counties a choice of an earlier
maturing variety," Spain says.
"It may also spread the harvest
season for many other growers."
Variety demonstrations of Hill
are now being grown in several
Eastern and Northeastern North
Carolina counties. There are al
so plantings at the . Tidewater
Research Station, Plymouth.
County 1 agricultural agents
have additional information on
the new variety.
Mt Sinai Church
To Hold Revival
Revival services will be con
ducted at Mt. Sinai Baptist
Church beginning Sunday even
ing, August 2, and continuing
through the worship hour Sun
day morning, August 9, at 11
o'clock.
The Rev. Lemar Wheeler, pas
tor, will bring the messages
each evening at 8 o'clock.
. Special music is planned. The
public is cordially invite to at
tend - '''' '
Soybean Will Be
5 Cents Per Copy.
r ill
mams.
Hertford Indians will be play
ing this week to sew up the title
in the Albemarle Lr.igue as the
regular season comes to a close
on Friday. League officials set
up a schedule of games for this
week, weather permitting, which
concludes the regular schedule
with a play-off to start next
week.
Five games were on tap for
the Indians, beginning Monday
night, with the local team
scheduled to, play at Camtuck
Thursday night "and at WealfS-"
ville Friday night. The play
off schedule is yet to be an
nounced. Games with Camtuck, played
last Thursday and Friday nights,
Were divided with the scores be
ing identical lor each game, 4 to
3. The Indians defeated Cam
tuck here Thursday night and
lost at Camtuck Friday.
Pete Hunter was the winning
pitcher in the first game, while
Curtis and Paul did the hurl
ing for Camtuck. Hertford
scored three runs in the fifth
and added the winning run in
the sixth, while Camtuck scored
two runs in Jhe fifth and one
in the sixth.
Camtuck collected 11 safeties
Friday night to score four runs
while the Indians tallied three
runs on six hits, two by Marvin
Hunter.
Rain caused postponement on
Monday night of the game be
tween Edenton and Hertford.
The Indiana moved a step
nearer the: season title by de
feating Pasquotank Tuesday
night by a score of 4-3 in a con
test played in Hertford. Hunter
was the winning pitcher. Hert
ford came from behind to score
the winning run in the bottom
of the seventh inning.
Rites Held Tuesday
For Mrs. Ola Pap
Mrs. Ola Mae Gibbs Payne,
68, died in a Wilson hospital
Sunday afternoon after , an ill
ness of several months.
She was the daughter of the
late Anson Gibbs . and Mollie
Gibbs Marshall Gibbs of Lake
Landing. She was a ... lifelong
resident, of the area.
She was a member of. the
Amity Methodist Church and
a graduate of Louisburg College.
Survivors include her' hus
band, Charlie L. Payne of Lake
Landing; two daughters, Mrs.
Hazel P. .Martin of , Evansville,
Ind., and y Mrs. Grace Payne
Harper of Newport News; two
sons, Charles E. Payne of Hert-
ford and Hugh B. Payne of
Williamston, and two grand
children, i '
" Funeral services were co
ducted Tuesday , - morning t
Amity Methodist Church. Buri
was in the xhuch cemetery. .
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