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2EKLY Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, August 16 1963. IT.Cr . 5 Cents Per Copy WI u7 c::::::3Ssicr-37iCcir.i7-V;!-3Tdur , I . l 1 iif1 '.'ill ' ' 1 L i .1 i ; I district ; Highway Commission- f e uiuiam wood 01 txienum tota a .public meeting here last Wed-' nesiay night, "if a (U. S. 47) by-' pass Js built at Hertford, it will be" built east of town. If that is rot done, the money will be 6pent elsewhere." Wood , ap peared at the request 'of the Perquimans Chamber " of Com merce to explain the selection of an eastern route and to hear from those who: favor bypass to the west. He said the western route and a, route utilizing Edenton Road Street (through ..town) "were carefully investigated. , I , think the eastern route was a wise de cision and is the best possibility for the. town and for th traffic jn and around the town., Dr. T. P. Briray president pf ; the; Chamber, opened the meet- r - ingf with prepared s.tatementv l rffwrihinif thn Chamber's role. as ,'onfe : of trying to get the t feeling of all the people." ; I The proposed route v will nn V within a half mile east of Hert ,y ford.1 . A : western t route "could ft hot have been . brought that y;!ose,"; Wood reported. , The east Afern bypass1 will cost an estimated i$1.75 million $250,000 more .than a western route but it is pie soundest decision," Wood said. 1 ' - - . . 'Hp- estimated that ' a. public1 hfajting at which detailed maps o the (bypass tout will be .pre sented, will be held inlBeptemv be- orj Octol-nr as oon v the Corp pf Engineers has Approved thf proposed new bridge. (. -i tWe' would hope' to let the contract sometime next spring and nave the., work under way by this time next year," be said. l; ut ha indicated , i ma not jbe Wboit reported that the' tt"&- - BureaM of Public Roads, ': which i will pay halt the project cost, prefers the ttfatt I "be - cause it would be. better for 4he traveling public. ' ' LI It will be 1V4 to ? ..miles shorter than the1 -western ttute, Wood said and added, '"it you multiply that by the' 4,855 or ' 2.900 tars a day which will use it,: titles 365 dy. year, times u the expected bridge life of 30 years, you come up with a stag- gering figure." V Of the estimated 100 present in - the Court House, those who -questioned the eastern route loggested that the town1, natural growth was toward- ihet.west, that it will further isolate Win - v fajl, that tourists wiH not - stop "ia Hertford if It. i. bypassed and ' tjfot the proposed bridge woud .) mar the beauty of the Penjuhn '4s River nd interfere with ftOeting. ,f iWood said he , believes, the town ' will growv east and v told the group, "A bypass is ftecessary unless you, want to see,, traffic drained off to other routes. ; ' -"'The Ocean Highway Associa tion recognizes Hertford as one of the worst) bottlenecks if not r the worston its entire route." v The proposed high-level fixed- ,t.t span bridge will have . 35-footM center . clearance and wjii oe nearly a duplicate of the longer Umstead Memorial Bridge across Croatan Soundi in Dare County. " He added, "I do not believe the bridge will hurt the town Coc.r-ue4 ea Pace - Dr., fca Grcnt Of Ralcigli New Director Cf Health Dejpartment According to reports, ,the Dis trict- Health Department will .have a new health c.-ector by October 1." The district It.as been r without ra health director ' since the resignation of J5r. J. A. Johnson several mcTsthsL .ago. The District Health C--rartment includes Chowan, rorquimans, Pasquotank and Ca.. J.n coun- ' The new director ill be Dr. ' I a Grant, who ten ' i ler res- " -tl -i es health c' tf t' ? ' C -':r T"- i (! 1 '! - i ' ' " t a Cj C J u I L . . 1 1 ' t :,.' 1 . : i . ' ' i - i -, 1 !.'r;: CivlrJ Scheduled U;i iliver Friends X i SI Victor Murchison, pastor of the Winston -' Salem Friends Church, will be the guest speak er for the annual revival series at the Up River Friends Church' near Belvidere. Services will begin on Sunday night, August 2&, at 7 :30 and continue night ly through Friday night, August ""L1S,th! V tui.vfi iuuiuiiouu la ' a iwuvc of Alamance County and attend ed Elon College and has done additional work at Emory Uni- verity. He is chairman ft he, laM . wiu con. Evangelism Committee of -the -ducted on the'' Wnd Friday of C- Yearly Meeting and ,each- Smooth, beginiittg.;.t 1 member 6f .the Central Com- pVrock in, fev afternoon, v: All, mittee, Permanent Board, and epptaht ,,ri,.wh ,iah other positions in his denomina-, ton. He, ha. held revivals in many churches and this will be his ;tthirf : visit to 'Up River p r pnns. w 'nTwihl! Ir rhrHiallv tnviU I tne Btes named. a-fact wlucli at the , Scout hut, i Mrs. George :5' , ' y. lntM3: Ean ,County:- -jealtlJgarPee:tro0p , le- conducted ite!4'II Picnic! i " k M i On Till 2li AllDf ' 71 lulfllvUUlbil HUg. 41 The Perquimans - County 4-H Club will hold its annual - picnic Wednesday," Augusti,21,' at theirerqmmans., uiowan, icounr: Perquimans County , recreation tie, and who,; has already bp lot. Planned recreation will be-'gun her work, will be found in in j.t i P M and last until 6 .the office of Miss Ruth Daven- P M l at Which time a picnic Vort, the County Welfare Off i suDDer Will - be served. Moreicer, in the Gregory Building, on recreation will be in . line after the mealr - All 4-H ' members and adult leaders are urged to plan to at tend and Join the fun.. v Garland W. White Michigan Graduate ; Garland White ''Dick1e) Baker, son of Mrs. Sarah H. Baker' and the late G. W.- aker of iDurants Neck, recently ' graduated from the-" University 'of Michigan'. g Baker, a 1952 -graduate, of .Per quimans . County , High School, served four years w,ith; the, U.,S. Navy, before entering the Uni versity of, Michigan, where he completed studies in hotel and restaurant administration. He did trainee work with the Har vey Hotel cnain prior xo aiis graduation-and will be employed xr :F -u! L "t; uy 4C "B1 " -" Louis, Missouri. -,- !. . t Dr. : Frank Mason of Chicago, Illinois, and Baker spent a few days with relatives at Durants Neck -.before leaving for St. I Louis. ' . ' ' thought it should be run. v f , .The ' Wake - .County .Commis iioners did i not . approve the Health Department's budget- and, according to Dr... Grant, , she was, not given an opportunity to dis cuss the .proposed appropriations and problems of the department. ' Dr. Grant Is now spending a vacation in Colorado ' and says she will not vbe able to assume hr new duties before October 1 1-v.r resignation was submitted to the Wake . County Commis t':nr on Jf'y "V but it was not accepted uuU Monday of t 's w- !c. T; e r- 'nation was 1 tt 1 10' a but . finally p-ccr'i. The v -s i There will be a county-wide tour on Tuesday, August 20, sponsored ' by . the agricultural workers of" Perquimans County. This 'tour will leave the Agri cultural Building in Hertford at 1" o'clock7: and 1 should be over about 4:30. 'J -r;'V v,. ' Stops von the tour will include peanuts soybeans, corn, forestry and cover crops. There is a soy bean v variety ' J' 'demonstration which includes 16 varieties of soybeans '" and; a ;peanut variety demonstration , which has around 15 different varieties of peanuts in it'". "It. .would be well for the farmers in Perquimans County to take part in this tour as some 'of these varieties " Will be released, probably in the future, and the more that you know about Jthem, before they ;r are released, ' the betters-able you ;;will be to de cide whether ycii; will be inter ested' in planting these varie ties," states-' R. M. Thompson, County Extension5 chairman. A Look liackward y At Foiod In Tk Fw almkU . ' Vpikiy File el TMterjrw' V AUGUST 1936 W w, Maternity, Infancy Center- To Open Friday: Expectant mothers may ' now receive : free exami nation; The first maternity and infancy center of Perquimans I wu De opened in Hertford on iFriday, August 1 , at the Com- munity House. . Similar , centers will be established on later dates in the Belvidere" and New Hope h e5t,mination .by a conv petet - physician may receive same free of charge at the ma ternity and infancy, centers on phasizejther, ajinquncenientTSji service is , for , both white' . ani Welfare Nurse B , In, Hertford Three: .pays .Week: ! Miss'; Meta Powninfc Child Welfare worker, who is dtviding,jher. time between Saturdays,, Mondays and Tues days. On Wednesdays; Thurs days and Fridays Miss 1 Downing is in Edenton. . -v ,c,.V Negro Says Just 'Talked Him self "Right In Jail": "I just Dennis Mebane. Hertford Negro, told, Deputy, Sheriff Cook.Wins., low whett'he; locked Mebane nip I following : an- order , by Judge Walter , H. Oakey, Jr., in Record ers Court Xwi Tuesday,, that- he be placed in jail for - ten' days for- contempt of court. Mebane was on trial, for, assault with a deadly; (weapon , and -took ; (he j stand in his own defense, deny-1 had been testified to by reputa- ! ble witnesses. Among ; other j things, Mebane denied that he had. his knife open when he ad " ; :: Negro peanut vendor who swore ), onrrnf ,'H. nhit. out the warrant. ,,' He was pho- phesying againstfmej said my mouth was going) be my ruin," said . Mebane. "I told him to keep his mouth off me. He was taiiun; ana i was. taiKin , too. l wasn i aown mere wnere xney said I was,'', rcohtinueef Mebape. "I was on i the - corner, but I reckon Mr. GoodWm done paid Continued on page Klght Perquimans' Boy " At Forestry Gamp 'a ' " ' w " V .r ;.1 Among, the , 90, boys attending me mn annual orm Carolina . . .oroupr vmp k xor , 18nu ooys Hertford, Allen of Monroe, this week -at; Camp Hood hear,T..rik j t- w,. Canton. ,is Percy - Winslow of Belviderej ' '' iy. u-Vi.'u - The camp is conducted by the North . Carolina Forest Service and is sponsored by J Southern pulpwood Conservation Associa tion: - It is financed entirely through the cant- " Uons of the member papr c( nunies of the association in North Carolina which are . Clissrpion Papers, T.ic. Canton: tnt'-rnational Paper "j., T. ! ' 's; 1 I "sad Co-p., ! Jva; 1 r - Corp, T' i.i -ood and " ' -"v"ier Co., !v, C. Div" , . 'h Accepts Position At Raleigh ; Mrs. Charles W, Ward, Jr.; the former Miss Katherine Jessus of Eliza be.h City, a native of Hert ford," has .accepted; a position at the Velvet Cloak , Inn on Hills boro. Street in Raleigh, N. C. ; Mrs. .Ward will be the hostess for the private club of member ship only of the Velvet Cloak Inn. She -will assume her duties September 1. She will leave for Raleigh the middle of August to begin a hostess training period. Mrs. Ward was selected for this position from a large number of applicants. Mrs, Ward was the former "Miss Perquimans" of 1938. She Puppet Show i The ' monthly meeting of the Hertford Girl Scouts, Troop 2, was held July 30 at 3:45 o'clock the meeting.' .The:meeting was. opened with a short report from eacl patrol. nnMrsi.N Barbee announced that new, .Girl ..Scout .handbooks will arrive" for the t roop on Sep tember 10. v.-:..-..;; . ;. Badges were then. awarded as follpwftVu : Nancy. Reed, . house keeping '..badge; - Angela Baker, Second Class Rank badge and Kacf n Haskett, (homemaker badge. The highlight. of the jneeting was a puppet . snow given oy Jan White and Hcllis Williams of Patrol 3. They used three kinds of puppets:. Shadow pup- pets, hand puppets and marin-c-ttes. ' There was a short . play with each. - They mado the pup- pets ; wrote ' their own script, made their stage and painted the scenery., They , are working on . their Puppeteer badge.. The flhowwas enjoyed by The, meeting . was journed. all. .then ad- H Father of Biggers DiaslnClulotte .The father of Perquimans county acnooi oupenmenueai John ,T. Biggers,. John Frank Bificers. died Sunday at his' n: -HAJ C..J.. . home in .Charlotte. 'Funeral ser-jbertC. Bonner, vices were held Monday at 3j Don Roberts of Shawboro and p. M. at the McEwen West Cha- feer parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. W. peby the Rev. Q. N, Honeycutt Chappell, accompanied her to -id the Rev. N. Biggers. Burial was in Sharon Memorial Park, He was a member of .,the East Minister- Presbyterian Church and a -retired farmerv . ; Surviving are- his wife, Mrs. Ellen Pennock "Biggers; ;- five daughters, Mrs. Frank Hawfield, Mrs. Leslie Starnes. Mrs. Wade iHowey. ' all 'of " Monroe; Mrs.tember 1. Dewey . Howey,' Mrs. Charles Winchester,- both of Charlotte; . Ti, f I At W Di.IO. . f UUll 4, JUAf&Ka - V Dwight and Frank, Jr., .of Hipk ory ' Grove, S, C; ( one step daughter, Mrs. Stephen R, Wil lard of Charlotte; two stepsons, Phillip v Schouse and T. C. Schouse of Charlotte; 3 1 . grand children and 15 great grand children. . " t . " ' BASEBALL SCORES Pony. League: Parkville 1. Pony League: New Hope 0. - Little - League: New Hone 3. t Belvidere 2, Parkville -Parkville S, It represented this county at the Governor's Ball in Raleigh in 1939. In ' Elizabeth City Mrs. Ward is a member of the Eliza beth City Music Club, also a member of the Choral Group of the Elizabeth City Music Club. She is .a -member, of the Eastern Star Chapter of Elizabeth City, a past member of the Elizabeth City Junior Woman's Club, a member Of the Musical Tempo Club, Towit and Country Gar den Club, member of the Albe marle Hospital Auxiliary and member of the Elizabeth j Methodist Church. City ASC Committee ASCS farmer cornmitteemen, whd will soon be elected by their neighbors for the coming year, have important program responsibilities, ""according to Preston Nixon, chairman, Agri cultural Stabilization and Con servation County , Committee. . t " "This makes it all! the more important 1 that representative farmers be elected to the job," he declared. , ' ASCS committees have charge of the local field administration of such national farm programs as acreage allotments, marketing quotas, . commodity loans, the feed grain program, the national wool program, the agricultural conservation program and farm ' storage facility loans. Other duties are assigned to the com mittees by the Secretary of Ag riculture as the need arises. The chairman explained that each year, farmers who are tak- ine oart or are elieible to take part in one or more of the farm programs-which the committees administer elect a community committee from among their Continued on Page fcifthl Linda Chappell Bonner's Secretary Miss Linda- Chappell left Wed nesdav of last week for Wash- mgton, D. V wnere sne nas ac- .cepted a nosition as secretary in the office of Coneressman Her i Washington. Revival Services At Mt. Sinai Church Revival services will begin at Mt. Siani Church on Monday, August 26 and last' through Sep- The Kev. Terry jones.wiu De the guest speaker. The pubUc i invitwi in sitpnH i . ----- Parkville Group Plans Weiher Roast Parkville Community Develop ment will sponsor a welner roast Friday afternoon, August 16, at the Winfall Grammar School This will be i a dutch affair which "will begin with a Little League baseball practice at 3 o'cock and end with 1 a weiner roast at 5:30. . All the people in the Park ville Community Development should make an .effort to attend and take part in this activity. ASCS Committee Elections By Mail ASCS Committee elections this year will again be held by mail. A do'tMe post card has been mailed to all farm oper'ators asking them to list the names of all eligible voters on each farm they operate. These names are needed in order that we may send ballots to every eligible voter. A slate of nominees will be selected by each Community Committee. Names may also be submitted by petition signed by six or more eligible voters. Pe titions must be received in the county office ,not later than 'August 21, 1963. Names of per j sons nominated by petition will e included on the slate of they are found eligible and willing to serve. I The County Committee may also add to the list of nominees I it they desire. I Ballots will be mailed on or (before September 3rd and must be received in the county office or postmarked by September 13, "Stl. ....... . .J xo ue eliglUie 10 voie in wieClerk was instructed committee eiecuons, a person must be 21 years of age and I have an interest in a farm asi owner, operator, tenant or share cropper. Wives are also eligible if they meet these require ments. Capital Clipboard ' by Eula Nixon Greenwood SENATE DEATHS , . . The sud den death of U. S. Sen. Estes Kefauver from a heart attack at the age of 60 in Washington a few days ago reminded us here in' North Carolina that in the . past 15 years we have lost three U. S. Senators via the same route: J.; Melville Broughton, shortly after taking - office and - while preparing to go teach a Sunday School 'class' in the national capi tal; 'Clyde R. Hoey, sitting in his large, high-backed chair in the1 Seriate ' Office Building; Wil lis Smith, in a Washingtdn hos pital a ' few days - after being stricketv with what was thought to be acute indigestion; and W. Kerr Scott,' : while in' Alamance County for a few days vacation, and a few" hours before his sixty- second birthday. do it over? . . . is it mere coincidence that North Carolina Governors and U. S. Senators are soon ground out and into dust? : i In many; states a candidate seeking high office must go through ,; at ' least two severe struggles the Primary and the Election before facing final vic tory or "defeat. This has not been so in Tarheelia up to now. One battle--the Democratic Pri mary has sufficed. The fact that North Carolina is so close to Washington about 275 miles has caused members of our delegation in the Con gress to try to attend to details back home while doing a more- than-full-time job in the Con gress. Flying time froifi Raleigh to Washington is 57 minutes.' Would Kerr Scott, J. M. Broughton, Willis Smith, O. Max Gardner, William B. Umstead, Gregg Cherry, J. C. B. Ehring- haus be living today if they had eschewed the rigors of politics? Incidentally, their widows are. A friend of ours who had . a big hand in the election of Willis Smith remarked "-shortly after Continued en Pas evn Support Rate On 1 Corn $1.41 Bushel The support rate on 1963 corn will be $1.41 ' per - bushel in North Carolina. This is an in crease of seven cents above the 1962 rate. The increase above 1962 results ' from an Increase of five cents per bushel in the national average plus a two cent increase in. freight differential The total support represents the North Carolina loan rate of 1.23 plus the 18 cents per bushel through payment in kind through the feed grain program. Com producers will be elig- 'hie for the price support loan on their 1963 production provid ing it meets grade, moisture and storage standards. In 1962 price support was limited to riot more , than the normal production of 'the planted acreage. Perquimans County 1963 Farm Festival Will Do Held Soptember 12-13 Town Board Votes Funds For Annual Farm Festival The Hertford Town Board added its support to the Per quimans County Farm Festival Monday night by matching the Coi;nty Commissioners' appro- priation of $100 to be used for cash prizes for exhibitors to be shown at the annual Farm Fes tival on September 12 and 13. Charles T Skinner, Jr., re ported to the board that a traf fic sign survey by the Hertford j jaycees iouna oniy six non-uniform signs among the town's 115 traffic markers. - RC. (Bobby) Elliott, Town by the Federal Boar, to aD,v t th. Communications Commission for I an assigned frequency en the local government channel for use by the fire and utilities de partment. They must vacate the police frequency band they now use by November. Little League The championship baseball play-offs for the Little League and Pony League will be held Monday .night at the baseball (diamond behind the Perquimans High School. The Little League game, jwhich is made up of boys 9-12 years of age, will start at 6:30 and Bethel will play' the winner of the Hertford-Parkville game in the championship. The Pcny League game, will start immediately after the Little League game and will, be between" 1 Whiteston'- and Belvi dere. "' The Belvidere Pony League team has .not been de feated this year. The public is invited to al- tend and support these boys that have been playing together as a team since June, in their I championship games. 1 r 77- , Anniversary At Melton Grove The Senior Choir of Melton Grove Baptist Church will ob serve its anniversary at Winfall Sunday night, August , 18, at 7:30 o'clock. The Rev. A J. Cherrypastor, announces that the Rev. W. H. Davis, a former pastor, will be the guest speaker. GRAZING DIVERTED ACRES Farmers who diverted acreage under the feed grain program ' are reminded that this land can not be grazed until after No vember 1,; 1963. Also soybeans planted on land diverted under this program must be destroyed by September 13, 1963. Finals Begin Applications Efeing Accepted For Free Training In Edenton Applications for training courses in auto-truck mechanics and stenography are still being accepted at the Edenton Em ployment Security Commission office. . ... , '5 To be eligible .for training,' an individual must be unemployed, underemployed, or a member of a farm family with less than $1,200. annual net family income. It must also be determined that an individual cannot reasonably be expected to get appropriate full-time ' employment without such training, and there is rea sonable expectation, of employ ment in the occupation for which the individual is to be trained: Many individuals enrolled in these training programs will be eligible": for allowances. : The maximum period for which al lowance may be paid is one year. To qualify for a regular training . allowance, an individ aul must be unemployed; have at least, three years experience in gainful employment, and be the head of a family or house- ' hold. .This training . allowance The ! Perquimans , County Farm ' Festival . for : 1963 . has been set for September 12 and 13 and will have such exhibits as farm products, clothing, cooking, can- : ned goods, needlework, crafts, etc. It will be under the spon sorship of the Perquimans Coun ty Chamber of Commerce and the Perquimans County Home Economic Extension agents, with the premiums financed by the town and county boards. ' Exhibits will be displayed in the old Post Office (individual exhibits) and the old hotel (edu cational exhibits) Thursday and Friday, with the judging sched uled for Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at which time the building will be closed. A ski show with trick and fancy skiing will be held at the river end of Front Street Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock followed by a Jaycee sponsored suoDer on j the Court House lawn. Proceeds 1 from the suDDer will en in th Perquimans County Marching Unit. Hertford merchants plan to have Farm Festival specials in their stores as an added attrac tion, along with fall fashions displayed. A "Mr. and Mrs. Farm Festi val" will be chosen on the basis of the most number of first place premiums and will be announced Continued en Page 8 Birthdays j August 13 ' Rotary club, 6:15 Masonic Lodge Wesleyan Service Guild Susannah Wesley Circle DiJJard Mark .Winslow t August 14 Jaycee . Business Mrs. P. M. Po'rter Joe Davis Towe August 15 Lions Club, 6:15 , Firemen's Meeting BPW Meeting Fenton Eure, Jr. August 16 Frances Mansfield Mrs. John Symons Terry Lynn Lane Crafton Matthews III Cleo Walker August 17 Delores Phillips Reba Owens Nancy Towe 1 August 18 LaClaire Rogerson Brian Harris Lois Faye White Richard Graham Sharon Felton Bill Perry August 19 Mrs. Ambrose Long Lillie L. Davis Shelton Ray White Mrs. J. W. Stanton Sharon Kay White Leondra Stallings T. P. Byrum Corinne Underwood Jim White at the present time is $24.00 per week Transportation and subsistance allowances can also be paid in some cases. To be eligible for these allowances an individual's regular place of residence .must be beyond community distance -of training facility to which he is referred for training. , ; The beginning date for these courses is September 9, 1963, for auto-truck mechanics and September 16 for the stenogra pher class.. "Since the processing of ap plications is i time-consuming,' says William A. Hollar, mana ger of the Edenton Employment Security- Commission office, "I would like to urge anyone in. terested in these courses to ap ply as soon as possible." , The closing date for accepting applications, will be announced at a later -dae. '- ",, Applicatic-- rn also be made by contacvl. . representative at the Court Louse in -''-tford. from 9 A, M. to 13.: I. ach jThunday'.
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