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Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, January 20, 1972
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The Hertford Rotary Club at their meeting this month
paid tribute to three local men for their volunteer work
T'th the Perquimans County Draft Board 73.
Carroll R. Holmes and Walter G. Edwards, local at
torneys, and W.F, Ainsley of Gregory's in Hertford, were
the three men paid the tribute,
i Certificates of appreciation signed by President
Richard M. Nixon were presented the three and read: The
President of the United States of America awards this
Certificate of Appreciation. In grateful recognition of
valuable service contributed to the Nation and the
Selective Service System in the Administration of The
Military Selective Service Act of 1967. The certificate was
signed by President Nixon and Governor of N.C. Robert
;Scott.
A.H.P.C.
Health
The Albemarle Health
Planning Council will hire a
health planner and as its first
' project will emphasize family
planning in the ten county area,
v Thomas M. Surratt, council
chairman, announced that the
fJorth Carolina Comprehensive
t Health Program has approved a
lijfrant of J24.0W for a heaJth
r planner. In addition 'small
supplemental grants are to be
'PTA Subscriptions
To Weekly
Being Renewed
The annual subscription drive
to the Perquimans Weekly
conducted by the P.T.A.s of the
schools in Perquimans which
was completed in December,
was a big success.
. The Perquimans Weekly has
been in the process since the
closing of the drive, adding to
their mailing lists the new
subscriptions turned in before
changing the expiration dates
on '" the renewals. " The new
subscriptions are still being put
on the mailing lists and the
markups on the expiration
dates has begun. Anyone, who
may have taken a new sub
scription and is not receiving it
is urged to call or drop a card to
(bfjPerquimans Weekly office
in order that you can begin
receiving your subscription.
John Beers Heart
Fund Chairman
John Beers has accepted the
post of Chairman of
Perquimans County's 1972
,; Heart Fund Campaign. Beers
will direct the recruitment of
the volunteer workers who will
take part hi the drive during
February, Heart Month.
Perquimans goal is $3,165.
' Roy Chappell, Jr., will be the
' treasurer; Virginia W. Tran
Public Education
phQirman: Mrs. Jane Cherry
and Mrs. Billy Miller are the
Special events inairmen.
Approval Of Loan To
R.EA. For 238,000.
' Congressman Walter B. Jones announced Tuesday the'
approval by the Rural Electrification administration of a
$38 ooo 00 loan to the Albemarle Electric membeship cor
poration of Hertford , which serves Chowan, Camden,
Currituck, Pasquotank and Perquimans Counties. The loan
wlU finance 19 miles of distribution line to serve 375 new
consumers, as well as 7 miles of new tie line and the con
version of 16 miles of existing line to a higher capacity. .
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To Hire
Planner
made by Blue Cross and Blue
Shield and the Albemarle
Mental Health Center.
The program is funded for 17
months. Surratt siad, "we hope
to hire a health planner by the
end of January". The position
requires a master's degree in
the field of health.
The planner will analyze the
area's health problems, rejyew
the available resources iwme
health field and prepare a
written health program.
The council has adopted as its
initial undertaking the family
planning program. Surratt said,
"recent statistics show the
greatest number of births oc
curing in middle income
families.".
Named to the family planning
task force are Howard Camp
bell, Bill Miller, Mrs. M.B.
Taylor, Pat Harrell, Charles
Franklin, Roy L. Lowe, Floyd
Spellman, Dr. William A.
Peters, L.F. Amburn Jr., Mrs.
Jean Lassiter, Mrs. Marshall
Jordan Jr., Mrs. Willie Harvey,
Abrom Saunders, Mrs. Marion
Walston, and Charlie Shaw.
The health council was
organized in October and is
sponsored by the Albemarle
Regional Planning and
Development Commission.
SMACKING FINE
CAIRO -Kissing at the
movies now is Dunishable by a
three month jail sentence or
$115 fine. ,
Rural Heart Fund Directors are
Mrs. M.B. Taylor and Mrs.
Paige Underwood.
Heart Fund Sunday which
climaxes the campaign will be
held on Sunday, February 27th.
Donations to the Heart Fund
held annually will go to the
Heart Association's program in
research, public education and
community service. As it is n
North Carolina and the natt
Heart Disease is still the
leading cause of death in North
Carolina and the nation.
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Department Of
People's Bank
B.B. Townsend, vice
president and senior trust of
ficer of the Peoples Bank and
Trust Company, has announced
the association of 1A. Gilmore
Crumpler, Jr., with the trust
department of the bank as a
trust representative.
Crumpler is a native of
Fuquay-Varina. North
Carolina, where he attended
local schools through the ninth
grade. In 1963. he graduated
from the Darlington School for
Boys in Rome, Georgia. From
1963 to 1967. he attended Wake
Forst University in Winston
Salem and received a BA
degree in political science and
minor in history. In high school
and as an undergraduate, he
as active in chapel choir and
was on yearbook staff at the
School for Boys.
After completing work for his
degree at the University, he
entered the School of Law at
Wake Forest and was awarded
the J.D. degree in 1970. He is a
member of the Phi Alpha Delta
Law Fraternity.
Crumpler was summer intern
clerk in 1968 for the Clerk of
Court Forsyth County and was
assistant in the firm of Akins
and Redwine in Fuqy,$iy-Varina
during 1971. ;Vl
He is married U4he former
Lucie Geraldine Shervette of
Enfield who is Also a Wake
Forest law School graduate
They are Episcopalians.
erquimans District
Court In Session
The regular session of
Perquimans County District
Court was presided over by
Judge Fentress Horner and the
following cases were heard:
James Everett, charged with
driving under the influence of
intoxicating liquor, received a
90 day sentence suspended upon
payment of a fine of $125.00 and
costs, and ordered to surrender
his driver's license. The
defendant was granted a
restricted license from 8:00
A.M. to 7:00 P.M. driving Towe
Motor Co. equipment only,
Monday through Friday and
00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. on
Saturdays;
Kenneth Milton Walston,
charged with driving under the
influence of intoxicating liquor
and speeding, was given a 6
months sentence suspended
upon payment of a fine of
$200.00 and costs, and ordered to
surrender his driver's license
for a period of 12 months;
John Edward Brown, charged
with driving with license
suspended, received a 90 day
sentence suspended upon
payment of a fine of $200.00 and
costs and ordered not to operate
a motor vehicle until licensed
by the State;
W.D. Hobbs was found guilty
of issuing a worthless check and
given a 30 day sentence
suspended upon condition that
he pay the check in the amount
of $75.75 and costs of court. An
appeal was noted in the case;
Stanley Dlyen Kirk, charged
with driving under the influence
of intoxicating liquor, received
a 90 day sentence suspended
upon payment of $125.00 and
costs and ordered to surrender
his driver's license for a period
of 12 months. An appeal was
noted and Bond was continued
at $200.00:
The cases of Henry Mallory
and Vernon Mallory, both
charged with breaking and
entering and larceny, were
placed on the Superior Court
Docket for trial, and Bond was
increased to $10,000.00 each
The case of Vernon F. Adams.
charged with possession of
drugs (Heroin) was placed on
the Superior Court Docket and
Bond was reduced to $75.000.00,
Historical Society To
Meet January 24th
The Perquimans County
Historical Society will meet
Monday, January 24th at 8
o'clock at the Library.
An illustrated program on
Perquimans County Ar
chitecture will be given, t
' All members are urged to
attend and visitors t are
welcome.
Mrs. Ricks To
Supervise Program
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Mrs. Jacqueline Ricks (left), newly appointed supervisor
for the Program on Aging, talks with Mrs. M.B. Taylor,
who was a delegate to the recent White House Conference
on Aging in Washington. D.C. Mrs. Taylor is Home
Economic Extension Agent
Mrs. Jacqueline B. Ricks of
Edenton has been employed to
supervise a program on aging in
the ten counties of the
Albemarle.
The announcement was made
by William B. Gardner,
chairman of the Albemarle
Regional Planning and
Development Commission.
Gardner said, "I feel; that
there is a great need in the area
for improving the social and
economic conditions ot our
older citizens." Mrs. Ricks will
be responsible for reviewing
and expanding existing services
and programs, as well as in
troducina new ones that will
benefit the senior citizen.
ine suprvisor s ottice is
located at the ARPDC at 102
East Queen St. in Edenton
Mrs. Ricks is a graduate of St.
Teachers Scholarship
Loans Available
The State Department of
Public Instruction is currently
accepting applications from
students in Perquimans County
Funeral Services
Held For Mrs. Dail
Mrs. Barbara Ward Dail, 28,
died Tuesday at 3:05 p.m. in
Chowan Hospital, Edenton,
after an illness of a year.
A native of Cowan County, she
was a daughter of Mrs. Lessie
Bunch Ward and the late
Clayton Ward and the wife of
Jack Hardy Dail.
She was a member of Center
Hill Baptist Church and office
nurse for Dr. Archie Walker of
Edenton.
Besides her husband and
mother, surviving are a
daughter, Kimberly Ann Dail,
and a son. Jack Kenneth Dail,
both of the home; two brothers,
CM. Ward of Georgetown. S.C.
ana Kooeri warn oi iy e ;
two sisters Mrs. William
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Farmer of Edenton and Mrs.
Bobby Stallings of Belvidere.
A funeral service was held
Thursdav at 2 p.m. in Hunter's
Fork Church by Rev. L.T.
Chappell and Rev. George
Cooke. Burial was in Cedar
wood Cemetery.
Mrs. Joyce Perry sand
"Tomorrow May Mean
Goodby" and Tim White sang
"A Closer Walk With ; Thee".
Both were accompanied by
Jake Boyce. pianist.
, The pall was made of white
chrysanthemums, red roses,
white carnations, baby's
breath, and fern. .
Pallbearers were Mac Ward.
Timothy Ward, Phil Winslow,
Gene Dail. Carlton Dail, and
Jody Dail.
Swindell Funeral Home was
in charge.
for Perquimans County.
Mary 's Junior College, Raleigh
and the Univrsity of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
She has served for a number
of years as Chowan County's
news correspondent to The
Virginian Pilot and as local
news reporter for Radio Station
WCDJ.
Mrs. Ricks has been active in
civic and community activities
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and was selected Chowan
ounty Woman of the Year in
967. She is a past president of
the Edenton Woman's club and a
former regent of the Edenton
Tea Party Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution.
Mrs. Ricks, who is confined to
a wheelchair was honored as
North Carolina Polio Mother of
the Year in 1959. She is married
to James P, Ricks Jr. and they
have two teenage daughters,
Betz and Jackie.
School System for the
prospective teachers
scholarship loan, a program
created by the 1957 General
Assembly to encourage
students to become teachers.
Approximately 600 new
scholarships will be available fo
the 1972-73 school year. New
recipients of the prospective
teaches scholarship loan
will receive $600 a year for not
more than four years. This aid is
a scholarship if the recipient
teaches one year in North
Carolina for each year he
receives assistance from the
fund. The aid is a loan if the
receipient does not teach in
North Carolina. Currently
approximately 2400 recipients
are receiving financial aid
through the program.
To be considered for the
scholarship, applicants must be
residents of North Carolina,
demonstrate financial need,
intend to teach where there is
n undersuppiy of teachers, and
demonstrate adequate
academic potential to obtain
teaching certification based on
a bachelor's degree. Priority
will be given to entering fresh
men. Applications must be
received by the Department of
Public Insturction no later than
February 15.1972. The ap
plications will be reviewed and
the awards announced in April.
Students Interested in
teaching in N'orth Carolina
public schools and who are in
need of financial assistance for
college training should write to:
Scholarships. Division of Staff
Development, ' Department of
Public Instruction. Raleigh,
North Carolina. 27602. . 1
Although there is a general
oversupply of teachers in North
Carolina, there remains an
undersuppiy in several teaching
areas.", ,
Greenville E. Banks,
Jr. To Speak At
Hertford Baptist
The Hertford Baptist Church,
co-operating with thousands of
other Baptist Churches in the
Southern Baptist Convention is
observing "Baptist Men's Day "
on Sunday. January 23rd. This
day has been set aside to
recognize the men in the church
and to magnify the efforts of its
laymen.
On this special day the men of
the church will hold a Baptist
Men's Breakfast at the church
at 7:30 A.M.
At the 11:00 A.M. Worship
Service Mr. Greenville Banks.
Jr., Assistant Manager of Belk
Tyler Company in Elizabeth
City, N.C, will deliver the
morning message.
Mr. Banks is a native of
Maple, North Carolina who now
resides with his wife and two
daughters on Pineview Drive in
Elizabeth City. He is a graduate
from Moyock High School and
East Carolina University with a
B.S. begree in Business Ad
ministration and the Young
Executive Institute at the
University of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill. He is also a Deacon
and a Sunday School Teacher of
Corinth Baptist Church.
In the 7:30 P.M. Worship
Service Mr. Gill Underwood
Principal of Chowan School and
a member of the Hertford
Baptist Church, will be
speaking.
We invite our friends to join
with us in these services.
Teen-Agers Invited
To Enter Miss N.C.
TeenAger Pageant
Young ladies of this area are
invited to enter the Miss North
Carolina Teen-ager Pageant to
be held in Charlotte on May26,
27 and 28th of 1972 at the White
House Inn in Charlotte, North
Carolina.
The invitation was issued this
week bv Mrs. Svbil Shaffer.
Executive Director of the Miss
North Crolina Teen-ager
Pageant.
Contestants will be judged on
beauty of face, figure, poise and
personality, scholarship,
community service and
leadership. There will be no
swimsuit competition.
The winner of the Miss North
Carolina Teen-ager Pageant
will receive a scholarship, other
prizes and an all expense paid
trip to compete in the National
Pageant.
Contestants must be between
13 and 17 years of age as of
August 20, 1972.
Any teen-ager interested in
entering the Miss North
Carolina Teen-ager Pageant
may write for further in
formation to Mrs. Sybil Shaffer,
215 Piedmont Avenue, N.E.,
Suite 1404, Atlanta. Gorgia 30312
or call area code 404-659-4610.
N.C. Baptist Record
29,713 Baptisms In
Year End Statistics
According to the year-end
statistics released by the
Department of Statistics and
Survey of the Baptist State
Convention, North Carolina
Baptists recorded the most
baptisms since 1964 29,713; a
net gain in church membership
of 13,993 with a total mem
bership of 1,037,557; and total
receipts from the 3,438 churches
of $90,832,663. .
Other statictics showed that
$16,118,422 was spent by the
churches on new buildings in
1971. Mission gifts reached a
new high of $14,237,872 through
both the Cooperative Program
and Special Offerings. Grand
total of expenditures was
$95,810,305 showing a net gain of
$8,902,335.
Gains were also recorded in
organizational work with
church music showing an
enrollment of 112,047 as com
pared with 108,336 last year.
The Brotherhood, the Baptist
Men's organization, showed
gain for the first time in several
years with 50,222 while the
Woman's Missionary Union
revealed a. decline due mostly to
new organizational set-up. The
Sunday School and Church
Training also showed declines
for the past year.
Man Held In Beating
Of 18-Month Old Child
R W. Miller, 23, of Rt. 2,
Hertford is held in Perquimans
County jail charged with child
abuse. It is reported that the
baby, Douglas Capehart, 18
month old baby boy, is in the
Miss Susan Cox Is
Honored By
Basketball Team
Miss Susan Cox was honored
at a Surprise Birthday Party in
The Gold Room of The Town
and Country Restaurant in
Willia.mston on Sunday night by
members of the Williamston
Girl's Basketball Team,
Manager, and Score Keeper,
Robert Godard.
Refreshments included a
beautifully decorated birthday
cake, sandwiches, cookies,
potato chips, crackers and dip,
and cold drinks.
Guests numbered 36. Those
attending from Hertford were
the honoree's parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Cox, Mr. and Mrs.
Rodney Bunch. Mrs. Phillip
Thach." Miss Betty Lou White,
and Mr. A.R. Winslow from
Winfall
Careers Program
Students On
Dean's List
Twenty-five College of The
Albemarle students enrolled in
various career programs were
named tothe Dean's List for the
Fall Quarter 1971. Included in
the lists was one husband and
wife team : Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie
J. Cooper of Poplar Branch.
Lawrence L. Bruner of Hertford
received all "A s" for his Fall
Quarter efforts.
From Hertford: Claudia S.
Hurdle. Sandria .1. Hurdle,
Margie L. Rogerson, Lawrence
L. Bruner, Herbert J. Copeland.
LeRoy Jones, and from Hobb
sville. Gloria S. Walker.
John T. Church, Henderson,
is the new N.C. Democratic
Party chairman. A State
senator. Church is senior
vice president of Rose
Stores and a director and
former president of the N.C.
Merchants Associatiion
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Adams Held , Possession
Of Heroin Charge
Leon Ferebee Adams, 29, of
Brooklyn, N.Y.. was bound over
to Superior Court following
hearing in Perquimans District
Court. Bond has been set at
$100,000. Judged Wilton Walker
set the bond.
Perquimans Sheriff Julian H.
Broughton, on routine patrol
early this month on Saturday
night, spotted a car that was
being driven recklessly. The
Sheriff stopped the car and
when he searched the driver,
Leon Ferebee Adams, he found
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Dies At Long Island
Everett S. Ruskay, President of Don Juan's Sportswear Co.
and Executive Vice President of the Don Juan Manufac
turing Corp. in Hertford, died at his home at Woodmere,
Long Island on Monday, January 10th, after a long Ulness.
The local Don Juan Manufacturing Co. was closed for the
funeral rites of Mr. Ruskay on Tuesday, January nth. . .
( In next week's issue of The Perquimans Weekly a detailed
story on Mr. Ruskay will appear in this paper.)
Albemarle Hospital suffering
from a broken collar bone,
shoulder bone fractures and
both wrists are broken, reports
show his body was also bruised
and their were burns on the
legs.
Sheriff Julian H. Broughton
jailed Miller and charged him
with child abuse, he is being
held in lieu of bail.
It was reported the beating
occured at a home on Rt. 3,
Hertford. supposedly a
residence of the child's mother,
Valerie Capehart, 23. Mrs.
Capehart was not at the home at
the time the child was injured.
Three Local Students
Attain Recognition
At N.C.S.U.
Students at North Carolina
State University established a
new high in academic ex
cellence during the fall
semester when 2,848 earned
Dean's List honors, Chancellor
John T. Caldwell announced.
The total, highest during the
82-year history of the State's
Land-Grant University, meant
that more than one of every four
undergraduates achieved
honors.
In sharp contrast, only 323
students were suspended during
the same period due to
academic difficulties.
Winning Dean's List honors
were men and women who
mastered demanding studies in
the sciences, technologies, arts
and humanities taught at
NCSU.
Every section of North
Carolina was represented on the
Dean's List, as were other
states from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and other nations.
A blue-ribbon list of 186 men
and women achieved perfect
records of 4.0.
The others earned their
honors by compiling averages
of 3.0 or higher.
Coeds, who now constitute a
fifth of the enrollment at NCSU,
comprise a sizeable segment of
the honors list.
Married students, many of
them parents, also scored high.
The Dean's List record for the
fall semester showed marked
increases both in numbers and
percentage over the list a year
ago when 2,465 students, or 22
pit cent, of the undergraduates
earned honors.
Chancellor Caldwell an
nounced that three students
from Perquimans County at
tained recognition for out
standing scholarship.
Following are the
Perquimans students, their
studies, parents and addresses:
Martha J. Evans, math
education, Mr. and Mrs. J.L.
Evans, Rt. 1; Louis R.
HolloweM, computer science,
Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Hollowell, Rt.
1; and Charles E. White III,
mechanical engineering, Mr.
and Mrs. C.E. White Jr.
75 bundles of heroin. Adams
also had $92 in cash.
This was the fii -t narcotics
arrest in Perquimans County.
Sheriff Broughton was assisted
by the Hertford Police
Department.
Sheriff Broughton also con
fiscated the late model car
which Adams was driving at the
time of arrest. The Plymouth
automobile belongs to Donald
Modlin, of Winfall, who was
with the Adams man at time of
arrest.