THE PEMP1MAMS WEEKLY
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olume XXVII-No. 40
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, October 14, 1971
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ilbemarleFFA Woodland
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(iThe tenth Annual Albemarle
FtA: Woodland Clinic was held
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laursaay, uciooer in ai uamp
pie in Perquimans County with
'be high schools in the area
rticipating. .
I The event is sponsored an
nually by the Albemarle Soil and
Vater Conservation District
Vjth the cooperation of the
Vocational Agricultural
,achers, the N.C. Forest Ser
ilce; Union Camp Corporation
Snd Jones Lumber Company.
"he North Carolina Forest
Service sets up the contest and
'jupervises the event, whereas
he cash prizes are donated by
(Man Camp Corporation and
Tones Lumber Company.
.'There are four items covered
n the . contest: saw timber
timet ion; pulp wood
:timation; timber marking;
and tree Identification.
J iThe purpose is to stimulate
'nterest in forestry as an in
tegral part of a course in
vocational agriculture and as a
profession. To develop
reasonable abilities necessary
in' managing forests, and to
develop reasonable skills
needed in the application of the
principle of managing,
me'asuring, and marketing
West products.
I: The Chowan High School FFA
leim, coached by E.S. White,
won first place honors and a
MM eheck. J.L. Tunnell, Vo-
Ab teacher at Perauimans Hieh
jsctiooi. is pictured with his ffa
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eceived a check of $15.00.
tthers in picture are (1 or r):
Jlato Stutzman (Union Camp
bfR representative); Gregg
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I Harris Wins
bolf Championship
-rk Harris put Ms golfing skills together recently in
Doming the 1971 Club Champion at the Chowan Golf and
iry Club. For accomplishing this feat, Clark received
pictured trophy at the awards banquet held September
Clark defeated Cecil Fry
fiai match to capture
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Biggs; John Morse; Wade
Winslow; Wayne Dowdy; and
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Lumber Company, represen
tative). The second picture shows a
typical exercise during the
contest, at Camp Cale. Camp
Cale is owned by the Chowan
Baptist Association and is
located on the Perquimans
River, where many youth ac
tivities take place. -
Money Allocated
For Secondary
Road Construction
Perquimans County has been
allocated more than $4,100.00 for
one secondary road construction
projects, it was announced
today.
Approval of the projects was
voted at the regular October
meeting held in Hound Ears,
North Carolina.
The project is leveling and
surface courses of plant mixed
sand asphalt. From SR 1208 to
Pasquotank County. (Supp.
W.O. 6.122065-Project 2.07563 to
totally finance project. Funds to
be transferred from A-W
Primary) Total number of miles
4.20 at an estimated cost of
$4,100.00.
PTA Meets Tonight
The Hertford Grammar
School P.T.A. will meet Thur
sday night, October 14th at 8
p.m.
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Seminar On
Preaching Set
For Nov. 1
A Seminar on Preaching has
been set for six Mondays
beginning November 1st at City
Road United Methodist Church
In Elizabeth City.
The Seminar is jointly
sponsored by the Committee on
Continuing Education of the
North Carolina Conference,
United Methodist Church, and
the College of the Albemarle. All
ministers in northeastern North
Carolina who are interested in
the Seminar have been invited to
participate.
Dr. John W. Carlton,
Professor of Preaching at
Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Wake
Forest will lead the Seminar.
Carlton is also adjunct professor
at the Duke Divinity School in
Durham.
The three hour sessions each
Monday will include lectures,
conversations and workshop
preaching sessions where each
participant will have the op
portunity to preach before a
small group of ministers.
Pastors who will be leading the
small group workshops are
Francis Bradshaw and Kern
Ormond, Elizabeth City; Worth
Cotton, Ahoskie; Henry Lewis,
Manteo; R.M. Drew, Windsor
and Chester Andrews, Hertford.
Interested persons may
contact Dr. S. Bruce Petteway,
President of the College of the
Albemarle or the Rev. G. Robert
McKenzie, Elizabeth City
District Superintendent of the
United Methodist Church.
Henry J. Phillips
Dies At Age Of 90
Henry Jeter Phillips. 90, of
Durants Neck, N.C. died
Thursday at 6:10 p.m. in the
Albemarle Hospital. A native of
Pleasant View, Virginia, he was
a son of the late Henry C. and
Mrs. Mary Faris Phillips and
the husband of Eva Newby
Phillips.
He was a graduate of Fork
Union Military Academy, began
law practice in Alexandria, Va.
prior to going with the Civil
Service Commission from which
he retired in 1955. He also taught
school at the Old Newbold
School. He was a member of
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.
Surviving are five nieces and
three nephews.
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 2:00 in the Holy
Trinity Episcopal Church by the
Rev. Edwin Williams. Burial
was in the Family Cemetery
near New Hope.
Mrs. H.A. Whitley serviced as
organist.
The casket pall, was made of
white chrysanthemums, red
carnations and fern.
Pallbearers were, Raymond
Schofield, Silas Whedbee, Er
nest Sutton, Robert Sutton,
Robert Robbins, and Leslie
Perry
Claud Byrd Killed
While Attempting
To Cross US 17
Claud E. Byrd, 78 of Route 3
was killed at 7: 15 Saturday night
one mile north of here at the
intersection of U.S. 17 and Rural
Paved Road 1300 when he at
tempted to cross U.S. 17 between
an automobile traveling north
driven by Joe Calvin Williams,
Sr., Route 1 Edenton, and on
coming traffic heading south.
Trooper Y.Z. .Newberry said
Williams brought his automobile
to a stop on the right shoulder,
Immediately following the
accident. There were no
charges.
Byrd, a native of Chowan
County had lived in Hertford for
the past 30 years. He was a
retired mechanic, a veteran of
World War 1, and a member of
the VFW;
He was a son of the
late John Henry and Mrs.
Virginia Louise Bowe Byrd.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Ora Lee Copeland Byrd,
two daughters, Mrs. M.D. Ivey
of Route 3 and Mrs. Virginia
Byrd Wilson of- Elizabeth City ;
one sister, Mrs. Isa Byrd West of
Norfolk, eight
grand-children
and one oreat erand-child.
A funeral service was held
Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in Twiford
Memorial Chapel by Dr. L..
Sigsbee Miller. Burial was in
Truebtaodx Cemetery new New
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Pictured above is George Curtis Eure,
Jr., employee of the U.S. Coast Guard
Aircraft Repair and Supply Center in
Elizabeth City, who was recently
presented a certificate and tie tac for
twenty years of Federal service by
Captain D.C. Davis, Commanding Of
ficer. Pictured with Eure and extending
Perq Library Memorial
Fund Receives Donations
At its regular quarterly
meeting October 6, the
Perquimans County Library
Board received a gift from the
family of Carson G. Holleman as
the beginning of a Perquimans
Library Memorial Fund to be
invested and used to meet the
needs of the library as they
arise. In addition to this initial
sum another cash donation has
oeen received from Mr. and
of
Mrs, ir. L.ne in memory
Mrs. Mary. Wood Hunter.
The library board feels that
this fund now started will
possibly be increased by con
tributions from others in
terested in the library's growth
and service to the community,
and will provide tangible help
when additions and major
improvements are needed.
New memorial books that
have been given to the library in
recent weeks are: The Ex
panding World of Man; and Our
Twentieth Century World, by the
Editors of Newsweek; Maine
Beautiful, by Nutting; Vol. 16 of
The International Encyclopedia
of Art; and Van Nostrand's
Scientific Encyclopedia are all 5
in memory of Lindsay C. Win
slow. The Twilight of Princes
and The Age of Optimism both
by tve Editors of Newsweek are
in emory of William Lenard
Vann; and Mary Martin's Book
of Needlepoint is in memory of
Mrs. Mary Wood Hunter.
Other new books in the library
are: Wheels, by Hailey; Back
country Camping by Riviere;
Tregaron's Daughter, by Brent;
The Condor Passes, The Book-of-the
Month selection; Classics
Mrs. Harrell Receives
Leadership Award
Mrs. T.T. Harrell, Hertford,
Rt. 1, is one of 12 Tar Heel
women to receive a leadership
award for her work in
cooperation with the North
Carolina Agricultural Extension
Service.
The awards, made each year
to the two highest scoring
leaders from each of six
district, are sponsored by
A&P.
Based on their efforts in
Extension Homemakers,
Community Development and 4
H programs, the women are
scored on their organizational
work, project work and par
ticipation in the clubs' activities.
In addition, each woman
writes a narrative describing
the values she has received from
her leader work.
Each leadership award
winner received a silver tray.
Awaros were presenieu ai uw
fall council meeting of the State
Organization of Extension
Homemakers Associations held
at Bioe Ridge Assembly, Black
Mountain, uci. is.
Jr. Presented Award
of Transportation, by Tryckare;
Tributes and Forms for Public
Occasions; Gauguin in South
America; The Devil's
Lieutenant, by Fagyas; Sum
mer of the Red Wolfe, by Morris
West; and The Infiltrator, by
York.
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Hertford Municipality
To Receive $10,735
Checks totaling over $12.5
million are being sent to 428
North Carolina cities and towns
this week under provisions of the
Powell Bill, which allocates
gasoline tax funds to
municipalities each year.
This year's payment is a
record, exceeding last year's
allocation, the highest up to
then, of $11.9 million.
This payment is for the fiscal
year 1970-71, and will double
next year since an act of the
legislature raised the Powell
Bill source from one-half cent
per gallon of the gas tax to a full
cent.
Payments are currently made
on a basis of 50 per cent, based
on a municipality's population,
and 50 per cent on its street
mileage that is not a part of the
State Highway system, but next
year it will be weighted 75 per
cent on population and 25 per
cent on mileage.
This year's largest check, as
usual, went to Charlotte, the
state's largest city, which is
getting $1,155,408.
Other large checks went to
Greensboro, $769, 379; Winston
Salem, $679,687; Raleigh,
$603,082 ; Durham , $461 ,41 4 ;
Asheville, $369,802; High Point,
$339,179; and Fayetteville,
$285,426.
Smallest check went to
Falkland in Pitt County, which
has only one-half mile of non
state streets and 130 residents. It
was for $403,65.
Hertford received the amount
of $10,735.02.
N.C. Farm Bureau
Annual Convention
The North Carolina Farm
Bureau Federation will hold its
36th annual convention on
November 21-24. 1971, at the
Durham Hotel and Motel in
Durham.
In addition to the drafting of
official ; state Farm Bureau
policies by voting delegates,
convention activity will include
several speakers, awards, and
election of officers and direc
tors..''; B.C. Mangum, president of the
state's largest general farm
organization, id a record
number of Farm Bureau
members are expected to attend
the Durham meeting.
congratulations is CDR H.L. Murphy,
Chief, Comptroller Division. Eure, who
began working for the Coast Guard in 1951
as a Clerk Typist, is now Chief of the
Traffic Sub-Section responsible for all
incoming and outgoing shipments to the
Base. Eure, a Perquimans County native,
lives at Route 3, Box 48, Hertford.
Chamber Mails
Ballots To Members
The Perquimans County
Chamber of Commerce has
mailed ballots to all of its
members for the election of
chamber directors. Nine men
have been nominated for
directors with five to be elected
by the chamber membership for
a period of two years. One from
each township. The nine are:
Hertford Township: Marion
Swindell, Howard Williams, Jr.
New Hope Township: Johnie
Gregory, Jr., and Albert Eure
Parks ville township: George
Baker, and Joel F. Hollowell, Jr.
Bethel Township: Mrs.
Charles E. White.Jr. (Doris)
and Lester Simpson
Belvidere Township: W.S.
"Wink" Winslow
Enclosed in the ballot is a self
addressed envelop so members
may return ballots which will be
placed in a ballot box to be
opened by the ballot committee
October 18 at 5:00 p.m. Ballots
must be returned to the
chamber office by noon October
18, 1971.
Anyone interested in par
ticipating or witnessing, is
cordially invited. The
nominating committee is
composed of the Board of
Directors.
Please be sure to return these
ballots by the date mentioned
above as the nominating
committee worked several
weeks selecting nominees.
Pirates Defeat
Chargers 38-12
The Perquimans Pirates
defeated the Weldon Chargers
38-12 in an Albemarle Con
ference game, Perq. quar
terback Finnard Tillett flashed
three TD passes in the 1st half
and an additional one in the
second half.
James Modlin grasped the
first TD with dazzling speed for
a 50 yard TD. Halfback Glen
Lightfoot sizzled up the middle
for the 2 extra points.
Later in the 1st half Tillett
glides another 35 yard pass to
Luther Overton for a TD.
In second period Tillett for
warded John Long a pass for a
35 yard TD. Rouse gained the
two extra points.
In the third period Joseph
McClenny received the kickoff
and rambled 80 yards for a TD.
Leroy Lightfoot ran the two
extra points with dazzling speed.
Then Tillett tossed another
scoring strike to wide receiver
Luther Overton for six more
points. Left halfback Joseph
McClenny ran for the two point
conversion.
Through out the entire game
Finnard Tillett gains a total of
217 yards in passing.
Carrying the ball about five
times Joseph (Bean) McClenny
runs for a total of 152 yards
through out the entire game.
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Church Sunday
Dr. Hargus Taylor, Chaplain
of Chowan College, will fill the
pulpit for the Morning Worship
Service at the Hertford Baptist
Church, in the absence of the
Pastor.
Dr. Taylor is a native of
Kentucky. He graduated from
Middlesboro High School:
received his A. A. Degree from
Cumberland College in Ken
tucky; A B. Degree from Carson
Newman College in Tennessee;
B.D. Degree and his Th. D.
Degree from the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Louisville. Kentucky. He has:
served as Pastor of churches in
North Carolina and Kentucky and
now serves as Chaplain at
Chowan College. He is a
member of; the American
Academy of Religion, the
Society of Biblical Literature
and Exegesis, the National
Association of College and
University Chaplains, the
American Society of Church
History, and the Southern
Baptist Historical Society.
The public is invited to this
Worship Service at 11:00 A.M.
on Sunday, October 17th.
Burning Permits
Required
Perquimans County Ranger
Lewis Stallings of the N.C.
Forest Service reminds all
landowners that burning per
mits will again be required this
year beginning October 1.
Permits are required for land
owners outside the city limits
burning between the hours of
12:00 Midnight and4P.M. within
500 feet of wooded areas. Land
owners are urged to be careful
with debris and trash fires as
these types of fires were the
major causes of woods fires in
Perquimans County last year.
Burning permits are issued at no
cost to landowners and can be
obtained by contacting any of
the agents listed below:
Agent'sName PhoneNumber
W.S. Winslow 426-5277
C.E.Layden 426-5394
A. J.Smith 426-7709
Dick Drive In 426-5460
B. E.Smith 335-4023
Alphonza Chappell no phone
Corprew Grocery 426-7294
J.H.Corprew 426-5682
Jordan SS 482-9816
Car Wash Ribbon Gutting
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Perquimans County welcomes its first car wash and an
official welcome is given by Hertford Mayor Bill Cox as
he cuts the ribbon at Coleman Webb's place of business
at the Harris Shopping Center. With Mayor Cox and Webb
are Jean Harrison and Frank Roberts, secretary and
manager, respectiviely, of the Chamber of Commerce.
Also in the picture is a dirty car ready to be cleaned
inexpensively and swiftly.
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Anne Simpson At N.C. Wesleyan College
A Hertford student, Anne
Harris Simpson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lester H. Simpson of
Rt. 1, Box 168C, is enrolled at
N.C. Wesleyan College in Rocky
Mount for the 1971 fall term.
Proposed educational changes
at N.C. Wesleyan, as the college
enters its twelfth year, have
attracted statewide recognition. "
A curriculum revision en
compassing an entirely neW
academic program is under
faculty consideration. It calls
for adoption1 of a three-track
curriculum which provides for
academic flexibility, and a
student's maximum initiative
and independence in planning
his education at this fully ac
credited coeducational
Methodist liberal arts college.
Miss Simpson is a sophomore
Dr. Roger H. Crook
Guest Speaker At.
Association Meeting
The one-hundred and sixty
sixth annual session of the
Chowan Baptist Association will
be held Tuesday, October 19 and
Wednesday, October 20. The
first session will be held at
Center Hill Baptist Church and
begins at 4:00 P.M. Bethel
Baptist Church will hest the
Wednesday meeting which
begins at 10:00 A.M.
Dr. Roger H. Crook, professor
and chairman, Department of
Religion, Meredith College will
bring the address at the Tuesday
afternoon session. Dr. Crook is a
well-known author as well as
preacher and teacher. He has
written several books and is a
frequent writer of Sunday
School materials for the Sunday
School Board, Southern Baptist
Convention and often con
tributes Sunday School lessons
for the N.C. Baptist newspaper,
'The Biblical Recorder."
Others featured ' on the
program are: Ralph Harrell,
missionary to Kenya; Howard J.
Ford, Director, Division of
Missions, N.C. Baptist State
Convention; Reverend Glenn
Greenway, pastor, Berea
Baptist Church; Roland Pruitt,
Chowan College; Reverend
William Carter, pastor, War
wick Baptist Church; and Dr.
R.W. Kicklignter, pastor. Black
wXi Memorial 2 ..p'i , Church
Special music will be rendered
by the Chowan College Choral
Group, the Rocky Hock Youth
Choir and Reverend and Mrs.
Robert Gray. .
Reverend George H. Cooke,
pastor of Ballard's Bridge
Baptist Church, is moderator of
the Chowan association.
and member of the college's
largest choral group, the
Wesleyan Singers.'
Restoration
Directors To Meet
The Perquimans County
Restoration Association Pall
Board of Directors meeting that
was scheduled for September
30th, the Ginger rained and
stormed out, has been
rescheduled for Thursday,
October 21, at 8:00 p.m. at the
Albemarle Electric Mem
bership Corporation Building on
U.S. 17 North of Hertford.
All officers and board of
directors are urged to please be
present!