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5:?-';l'.'i:';.f Emm- . : ; Vyctt-' )67. ,. ' ,. 10 Cents Pei t r 1 i : i'ti j Vol. XXXIV.-No. 14. ' ' ' Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, April 7, 1967. 10 Cents Per Copy :.V . : i id, . . . . .-. -' E2C3S 1 M rt-1 HI L'OC bGnoc'ior 1. 1 $t The following good and lawful persons weretdrawn to ; serve as Jurors at. the : next- Term of ..Superior Court for , Perquimans Couhty,, which convenes on MWday,' April '10, -197. " tors. May Miller Perry Asa E. Stallings, Carlton H. J Jordan, Rev. J. Percy Trueblood, Mack Arnold Bunch, ;- Warren Overton, vSr 'Mrs. Jonas B. Futrell, John "R. Ward, (Alien N. Dancy, Bruce Lowe, R.. M. Balder, Raleigh Hurdle, Jo-( seph I. Bareliff, Roy White hurift, Jr., Mrs. J. t. Twine, Waller Trueblood Thomas Harel, Perry White, Noah Felton, Jr., Jesse V. Roun tree,', Mrs. 3. E. ' White, Johnnie T. Everett, J. Em : ory White; Fentoh T.- Britt, Alfreda M. Winslow, J. D. Coston, Elizabeth C. Ward, ,W. ;Talmadge Lewis, Wil liam Overton, Dorothy N. Tucker, : Harrisoh Hurdle, Mrs. Maggie. BaccHS, Miss Hulda Wood, Mii - Edrta Hollowell, LiUie Thach, Bobby B. Stalling, Ersel Franklin, Mrs. , Minnie Goodwin Deardeary Rid d!6k.j John A. Riddick, Cur tis ' Shambry," James P. Cmtlnued oa afe 4 . Three. candidates have 'filed for Mayo 6f Hert ford and five have filed for Town Commissioners to date,1 according to a report from' Bobby Elliott. Town "CterlC i'jatvv.' - Candidates who' are seek ing tjhe office of Mayor are: (lohn Beefs, Emmett E. ' Landing, ard William Claude Brinn.' C. C. Winslow and W. F. Ainsley are; seeking re election of the offices of Town1 Commissioner,,! and' Charlie J. Umphlett, Jesse Harris, and Henry C -Sullivan are alio candidates for these offices; . , r , . , lv The final, filing date for "candidacy is ApriJ 15, at 12 noon, and the election' will' be held May 2. . " - i 1 5 Six Elitrifc lor GED Test & .Six students , have ,conv 4 bleted thtf first semester of 4he QED .Course at Per-. Suimans County Union 4Jioo , land are eligible to "take their test Aq qualify for the. equivalent of a high school diploma, .Fred .T Riddick, In charge of the. program, announced today. Riddick said the second semester would start, with registration Tuesday at 7:30 P. M.! We propose t offer the fqllowing courses: ' ' Business Education, Type writing, Modern Mathemat ics, English Grammar, GEO High School, Home Eco nomics (sewtos).' These 6urie wiU begin Tuesday, AprU' 4, .at 7:30 if as miyv a 10 students enroll foeadV' course. The program' is Sponsored by the Colle'g&vof The Albe marle.";,., , I To Be Hcncted t.t . ,-rAn biliporwait f ' Miss'' Thelma Elliott will be un veiled ! on Snday, April 9; at 3:00 in the Hertford Grammar School. -A tea will follow the presenta- , tion. " . vThe portrait is being pre sented to tUs sc,,'vil by the Hert rd Gr-nr- : I TA in how ; ' of Miss Elliott's work ts principal of Hert ford : Grammar f hool. the retired in June 1369 Hfr sirvirg the school for 13 y-T3. " ' ' . J..8' "j l.lc Is ' cordially 'invited to 'ettctii'' ' , ' Called Court I Notice! "VAnyone having pictures they Wish to be publish ed must have them in The Perquimans Weekly office at least five days before publication, due to the fact that we nave to send them away to have engravings - made, otherwise It is impossi ble to run them with the story- , : Charles White GOP Delegate An East Carolina College student, Stephen Thomas Yelverton of Fremont is the new vice chairman of the North Carolina Young Republican College Coun cil. . . Yelverton was elected at a convention in Greens boro.,'..'. A - sophomore political science major at ECC, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Yelverton of Fre mont. .' At ECC he has been ac tive in the student legisla ture and other Student ,! Government Association ac- I tivities, and ' is : president of the local Young Re- : publican Club. As vice chairman of the Young Republican College Coun Continned on Page 4 Driver Charged After Accident , Osca, , l4nw,ood.-.:Hoj'ley . Jr., 5 Edenton, was charg ed with driving under the influence of alcohol follow ing a collision on US 17 five miles south of here at 10 P. M., Sunday. Holley, traveling north, attempted to make a left turn in . front ' of Robert Gordon Gregory, 50, Ports m'outh, driving a 1965 Ram bler, station wagon. -, ."Gregory, headed south, applied his ; brakes. The car swerved sideways and skidded into the side of Holley's I960 Chevrolet sta tion wagon. . ! There were no injuries, Highway Patrolman W. -R. Rawl$ estimated damage as $500 to the left front of the Rambler and $200 to the right side of the Chev rolet. - Services Held ForMr.Bagley J Funeral services for Mr. William Edgar Bagley, 80, . who died Wednesday, were held Friday at 2:30 in the Chapel of the Swindell Funeral Home by ; Dr. L. Sigsbee Miller : and the Rev. Gordon Shaw. : "Near The Cross" and "Sweet By and By" were sung by the Bethel Baptist Church Choir. They were accompanied by Miss Caro lyn Long, organist. " . The'casket pall was made of white . chrysanthemums, white" stock; red carnations and baby's: breath.' ' ' Pallbearers were Ward Hunter, Jack Brinn, Joseph Ayscue, B. S. Hoskins, Joe Meads and William Stall- ings. ' Burial was in'the family j cemetery near Hickory I Cross. ,.-'" COMPLETES COURSE Army Specialist George E. White, .20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry White, of 315 Stokes Drive, Hertford, has completed eight weeks of Missile Firing at Munich, Germany. The 20-year-bld soldier is a Missile Control Operator in Hanau, Germ any1 and also a Missile Spe cialist. . He graduated from Perquimans Union High 1 School 'at Winrafl in 1965. "fie: .eri'te'recl the' Army in i . Hertford's PART 4 , , By Ray A. Winslow, Jr. A small map found among the' papers of the Court shows the location of the bridge and road and the toll rates are given, as follows: "man Horse & Chair . . . 26 Horse and man . . . 16 foot man . . . 6 Hogs & Sheep . , . 71 Cattle . . . 4d 4 wheel Carriage . ; . 4 Cart and Horses or oxen . . . 26 a Single Horse ... 1". On 19 May 1798 John Clary conveyed to Francis Newby a half interest in the Toll bridge at Hert ford, including a piece of land 16 x 25 feet at the foot of the bridge "where on the Tole House is to stand at the Careening Point on the upper Side of the Roade." The County anade an agreement with Clary sim ilar to the one for the old ferry owners. Clary died in 1825 leaving the bridge and its profits to his sons John and William. Both their titles together with that of Francis Newby, eventually passed to Wil liam Jones. After his II Saturday night highway accidents claimed the' lives of a teenager boy near Hertford in Perquimans County and another at Ocracoke on the Outer Banks. James Thomas (Tommy) Wilder, Jr., 16, of 600 Pennsylvania, Avenue in Hertford, died in the Al bemarle Hospital Satur day at 9:30 P. M. from in juries received When he was," thrown from .a car.. In.... -which he was a passenger. : The car, driven by Wil liam Stallings Rogerson, 16, of Hertford, entered a curve at a high rate 6f speed, went out of con trol and overturned, High way Patrolman D. G; Mc Intyre reported. The acci dent " occurred on. State Road 1303 about three fourths of a mile east of Jackson's Store (U. S. 17). ' Rogerson and two other passengers, Ken Rose, 15, Continued on Page 4 Ford Salesmen Given Awards More than 350 Ford dealership car and truck salesmen in Ford JMvii- sion's. Richmond 'sales dis- ' trict were honored for outstanding ;pei'formnnce: In' 1966 at a banquet at the Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, Va., on Saturday, April 1. , J. . S, Straub, district sales manager, said a se lect number of Ford deal ership salesmen will be presented a 300-500 club membership award for "excellent retail sales per formance." The Ford 300 500 Club was founded in 1950 to recognize the per iformance of outstanding . Ford salesmen throughout the country. Mr. Straub noted that the average 300-500 Club member sold nearly $500, 000 worth A of automotive merchandise in 1966 ' to qualify for the national honor. , , ; Local Ford retail sales- men qualifying for awards include Earlie Goodwin, Charles H. Davis and Hay wood Divers of Winslow,, Blanchard Motor Company,.. Hertford. ( ATTEND MEETING The Area Cancer Cru sade meeting was held at the Holiday Inn in Eliza-1, beth City on Friday, March 31st. W Mrs. Robert Scott rom; Raleigh,, was the featured speaker. Mrs.; Melvin Eure, Mrs. Albert Euro. Mrs. Rob Turner and Mrs, ., Delwin Eure Of, , the Snow ; Hill-White Hat Homemak-,. ers Extension Club attend ed the meeting and dinner. Tommy Wilder Fatally Injured Ferry And? death in 1836 the bridge came into the hands of Charles W. Skinner who sold it to the County 15 August 1838 for $5786;, From that time the Coun- ty, through the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, maintain ed the bridge for the bene-?' j fit of county residents. The toll house and keeping of the bridge were rented to individuals. During this period a law was passed making it il legal to tie boats to float' bridges. ; '.' :': With the coming of the Civil War, Hertford's float;, ing bridge was often used Historical Society : History Sermon Slated By Mr. Glass V i .'. ' Rev. Conrad Glass will be the guest speaker at the Hertford Methodist Church for several ses sions during April 7, 8 and 9. Mr, Glass is the d rector of youth work if ';. the North Carolina Metros , dist Conference w i t.i ; headquarters in Raleigii He has taught in several youth laboratories in the ' conference. ' t The topics of these sei-r sions " are "Sex and the i Whole Person" : and "The New Morality." The Cho- .wan -c- erquwnaw' iwotiw dist Youth Fellowship ' Subdistrict invites vall young people, ages 15-18, to these interesting discus . sions, ; ,-..:f Mr. Glass will give his first talk Friday, April. 7, from 7:30 to 9 P. M.' This is ;.', to be a "subdistrict meeting of the MYF. On Saturday morning, April 8, the second session will begin at 11:30 A. M. A cookout lunch will be at 12 o'clock. - Mr. Glass will talk again from 4 to 3 P. M. Saturday ; ; night's session will be from 7 to 9:30 o'clock. During Sunday School, April 9, the Senior High MYF members will hear Mr. Glass and also on Sunday afternoon from 1:30 to 2:30. 52,163 Given In Seal Drive A total of $2,188.77 from all sources was announced today by Mrs. : Charles Murray, chairman of 1966 67 Christmas Seal for Per quimans County, has been realized. Mrs. Murray ex pressed thanks to the en tire county and j to ,each who so . generously; gave their support , to the fight against TB by buying and using the, Christmas Seals. Every purchase,' large or , Small, is an important ele tnent in the success of this ' year's .caimpqign,, t Special gratitude is due the yolun-" teers who gave: time and energy to ;; the " Christmas Seal work and to the hews ' paper 'for 'space and Trad io stations 'to publicizing the , campaign; credit also is due the Post Office employes, , s.toi-e"s 'and' huslness firms Continued en Page 4 GOSPEL SING The monthly Gospel Sing 'will be held at First Bap list Church, : Hertford, on Sunday, April 0, at 7:30 ..:p.M.,::;';-'.!,:,wj:-.. i .There will be many . prominent groups . paftki '.pating, including, the .Cos-. vjael Unjop from. Chesapeake, Va. , ";,r. .( V, ' :M-i-..r: i ,, The public, is invited ' - r"W i,ih 7 v. y Float Bridge ; by Confederate troops and supply carriers. As Union forces- gradually .occupied i eastern North-. Carolina, they constantly sent out small expeditions to annoy the Confederate forces and to . prevent the civilian population from rendering aid to the Southern cause. i On 30 January 1863 all '"bridges over the Perqu ran -'ans River were burned by a Union iforce under Lieut. Comm. C. W. Flusser. Needless to say, the citiz ens of the county were much disturbed by this and subsequent activities, including a brief skirmish at Hertford on 10 Decem ber 1863. Desiring to pro tect their lives and prop erty, some of the citizens held a meeting at Cedar Grove Methodist Church on Christmas Eve of that year. They resolved to in form the Governor of North Carolina and Genl. Benj. Butler of their wish for peace and their wil lingness to help stop guer rilla warfare and blockade running in the county. (To Be Continued) District Court Cases Are Tried Cases heard in District Court, with Judge Fentress i Horner presiding, on March ;29 included: ?1 : Lena Belle Range, im . proper brakes. The State took a nol pros. John James Lilly, walk ing on the wrong side of the highway. $3.00 fine. Lewis "George McDonald, driving at such a slow rate 1 of speed as to impede the normal ; flow of traffic. Mho'aW ' suspended upon payment of . a fine of $70 and costs of court. Start Lea Brickhouse, speeding 70 in 60 zone. Continued en Page 4 Union Winner In Track Meet ' The fleet-footed green Panthers of Winfall's Per quimans County Union School returned to the cin der path Friday, March 31 in Elizabeth City and de feated the Elizabeth City High School Yellow Jackets and Knapp High School of Currituck in a triangular track meet held on the campus of the J. C. Saw yer School. The score was Perquimans Union 60, Eliz abeth City High 37, and Knapp High 10. - Defeats P, W. Moore On Monday, April-3, the roaring Hons of Elizabeth 1 City's P. W. Moore High ' School invaded the, lair of the Panthers and were clawed by a 67-53 score. The fleet Panthers, led by James Everett, Chester Jordan, Percy Davis, Billy White Edison Holley, Ar thur Leigh, Melvin Jones and Charles Skinner were too much for Moore's Lions ( on the cinder part, while the Panthers' Ulysses Rid- ' dick, Bruce Lowder, Leon Easori, Leo Elliott, James Bryant, William White and ! Oscar White proved to be too much in the field 'events. 1 CALLED MEETING . , i iv. The Perquimans County Branch of the NAACP will hold a special called meet-. ingN Sunday evening, April 9, 7:00 P. M., at First Bap tist Church, Hertford. SUNDAY NIGHT SERVICE - Last Sunday, .at 730 b'clock, . First . Methodist Church, Hertford, initiated Sunday evening -discussion groups to take the place of their regular Sunday evening ; worship services. The purpose of these dis cussion groups is to dis cuss some of the basic theological questions of Our day and how they relate to Christian conduct. These i discussions are held in the Methodist' parsonage. Local Students Win In Contest Frances White and Sha ron Thompson were among the winners last week in the 1967 Albemarle Con-" servation Poster Contest, sponsored by the Elizabeth City Chamber of Com merce in cooperation with the Albemarle Soil and Water Conservation Dis trict. The first place winners were Jerri Ann Reid of Weeksville school, fourth grade; Wendy Crandall of Chowan, fifth grade; and Frances White of Hertford Grammar School, sixth grade. Second place winners for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades were: Sharon Thompson of Perquimans Central school; Mary Fere bee of Camden school; and Tonna Meads of Weeksville school. Judges for the event were Miss Ruth Hoyle, Super visor of Instruction, Eliza beth City Schools; J. Frank Doggett, Extension Soil Conservationist, N. C. State University; and Jo Continued on Page 4 Cancer Crusade Dinner Held The 1967 area Cancer Crusade kick - off dinner meeting was held at the Holiday Inn in Elizabeth City on Friday night, with Jack Horton, president of t h e Pasquotank County unit of the American So ciety, presiding. Mrs. Robert L. Scott, North Carolina Crusade chairman, was the speaker of the evening. Crusade chairmen from the 12 counties in the area presented their reports. Mrs. D. M. Jackson, Per quimans County Crusade chairman, reported that Perquimans County has exceeded its goal of $1,000 by approximately $300. Those representing .Per quimans County were Mrs. Melvin Eure, Mrs. Delvin Eure, Mrs. Albert Eure, Mrs. Warner Madre, Mrs. Marie Elliott, Mrs. Nath an Sawyer, Mrs. Robert Turner, Mrs. Ben Thach, Mrs. D. M. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morgan, Miss Thelma Elliott and Dr. R. L. Poston. Mrs. Ruth Peterson, dis trict consultant for the American Society from Greenville, attended the meeting. Williams Wins Time Contest Perquimans County High School has announced that Steve Williams has been named the local winners in TIME'S 31st annual Cur rent Affairs Contest. Other high-scoring local students include: Willard Felton and Billy Ward. TIME'S Current Affairs Test, given this year to more than 3 million college and high school students in the U. S. and Canada, con sists of : 100 questions on national and foreign af fairs. Also included are such categories as business, sports, entertainment, sci ence, religion!' literature and the arts. The test, created for the TIME Education Program an exclusive classroom ser vice of TIME magazine has been taken by nearly 10,000,000 students, since its inception 31 years ago.' ,; . : .. Top , scorers received a certificate from James' R. Shepley, publisher of TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine. ATTENDS MEETING '..--. ' ,".,v' , Mrs. R. L. Bame is at tending a meeting of the Conference Board of Edu cation of the Methodist Church at Camp Chestnut Ridge, s Ef land, N. ' ' C, this week. She represents ' the Woman's Society of Chris tian Service at ibis.' meeting. Big Court Session Scheduled To Convene Monday, Cases Noted Perquimans County Su perior Court opens here April 10 with the follow- . ing cases on the criminal docket: Wayland L. White, Jr., speeding in excess of 80 mph in 55 mph zone. Shelton Clifton Zachary, failing to yield right-of-way. Robert Patrick Chappcll, carnal knowledge. Allen Long, Golden Frinks, Kennard Taylor, Tommy Bond, picketing or demonstrating without hav ing f.rst obtained a per mit as required by ordin ance of the Town of Hert ford. Pettigrew Riddick, J. T. Johnson, Matthew Leigh, Calvin Moore, William Woodard, George Smith, Juiles A. Harvey, Clifton Welch, Golden Frinks, D. Riddick, James Foreman, Rufus Johnson, George Sutton, Samuel L. Moore, Ellis Garrett, Jasper Skin ner, Edna Skinner, Erma Felton, Edwin Elliott, Ste phen Vaughn, Rev. F. L. Andrews, Vatson Hayes, Richard Lightfoot, William Bowser, William Oscar Felton, Dennis Felton, Cor nelius Holly, Howard Lang ston Manly, John Raymond Jones, Jamas A. Brick house, participating in a demonstration without first obtaining a permit as re quired by Ordinance of the Town of Hertford. Ellis Sutton, Jr., selling marihuana. Ellis Sutton, Jr., selling marihuana. Willie McCoy Fai-row, rape. C. O. Tysor, giving check against insufficient funds. Jackson Coston, driving under influence of intoxi cants. Freddie Lee, B. E. L. and receiving. John Dillard Henderson, driving under influence of intoxicants; (2) without a valid operator's license. Jerry Brothers Jackson, reckless driving. Joseph Gilliam, driving Continued on Page 'i J E, Proctor StudentTeacher Sixty-three North Ca rolina counties, 13 other states and the District of Columbia are represented by the 295 East Carolina College students who are intern teachers during the . current school term. The 295 education imaj ors are teaching in school systems in 25 North Ca rolina counties. Most of the students are Tar Heels but also represented in the group are Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Mary land, Massachusetts : N-w Jersey, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Caro lina, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Each student is assigned a practice - teaching job through the office of Dr. Thomas A. Chambliss, di rector of student - teaching at East Carolina. : : From , Perquimans, Jo seph E. Proctor, Grangier. High School, Kinston, in dustrial arts. , The ECC students con duct regular classes under the direction of supervis ors. They are graded for their on-the-job perform" ances. GUEST SPEAKER On Sunday morning, April 9, at 11 o'clock, the Rev. Conrad Glass of Dur ham will be the guest min ister ; at First Methodist Church, Hertford. Mr. Glass is Conference Director of Youth Work for the Methiv odist Church. He will also r. conduct a number. ,of ser- vices for the young people . during their Youth week end, April 7, 8, and 0. A On Our Fire Scene The Hertford Fire De partment has answered 25 fire calls during the first three months of 1967. This number is ifive more than during the same period in 1966. This is the largest number of calls answered by the department during the first quarter of any year in the pa.st 15 years. There has been 19 calls, in Perquimans County, four in Hertford and two mu tual aid calls to Elizabeth City during January, Feb ruary and March, 1967. Fires involving residences have been the source of the most fire calls to date. Fires, fire drills and fire prevention will be discuss ed in this column. In 1966 over 12,100 people in the United States lost their lives to fire. Over 6,000 of this number were women and small child ren. Children playing with matches cause over 28,000 iires a year. Smoking con tributes to a large number of residence fires. Smoke in halation (suffocation) is the cause of more deaths than actual burns result ing from fires. The average child, trap ped in a burning building will seek "protection" like getting in a dark closet, trawling under a bed or standing immobilized, be. ,, hind a door or in a cor ner. Many smoke inhala tion victims are found just below windows. Most adults are injured going back in to a burning building after children, pets or objects like a pocketboek or pic ture. Something must be done to help prevent fire dis aster in your home. EDITH Exit Drill In The Home will help. The fol lowing procedures are sug gested iri formulating an EDITH plan in your home. (1) Hold family discus sions as how firek might Continued on .Page .4 , Trip Is Taken By Health Club Tuesday, March" 28, the Health Careers.' Club , of, PCHS traveled "by bus 'and cars to the Diagnostic Lab located near Edenton. The members were given a guided tour of the lab by 'Dr. Honneycutt and the lab nurse.' ' They Twere told the purpose of' the lab and shown the facilities., and equipment. It was iearned that all the services are provided free of " charge and that it was paid for through taxes. Dr. Honeycutt explained the diseases most common to the anials of this area and told how they were tested. Members also learned that if farmers would make use of the lab much money would be saved. The Health Careers Club gain- , . ed much useful knowledge ' from their trip. : , .. - .jr. .)'! ; PERQUIMANS PASSES LAST YEAR'S FUNDS Congratulations are due to 28 Heart . Associations who have exceeded their last year's final Heart fund tally. i These are: v Alexander, Anson, Ashe, . Chatham, . Cherokee, Chowan, Gates, Greene, Iredell Jackson, Mitchell, New Hanover, -Onslow, . Pamlico, Pender, ' '. Perquimans, Randolph, Ro- wan, Rutherford,-' -Stanly," Stokes, : Warren, ' Washing- , ton, - .;V Watauga,,- V Wayne, i'v Wilkes," Yadkin and For- , syth Heart Associations, - j