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Standard Printing Co. xx mil a-KU eV.jLUUU THE WEEKLY 10 Cents Pe Copy lumft 28-No. 3 Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, January 20, 1972 JIM AIMS .1 lLfl Rotary Club Pays Tribute To Draft Board Members mmmmmmmmmmmm I I !' mmmmmmmH ,-JiiL i ' r 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. . 4 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 $115 fine. , Rural Heart Fund Directors are Mrs. M.B. Taylor and Mrs. Paige Underwood. Heart Fund Sunday which climaxes the campaign will be held on Sunday, February 27th. Donations to the Heart Fund held annually will go to the Heart Association's program in research, public education and community service. As it is n North Carolina and the natt Heart Disease is still the leading cause of death in North Carolina and the nation. rted To Tnwt Department Of People's Bank B.B. Townsend, vice president and senior trust of ficer of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, has announced the association of 1A. Gilmore Crumpler, Jr., with the trust department of the bank as a trust representative. Crumpler is a native of Fuquay-Varina. North Carolina, where he attended local schools through the ninth grade. In 1963. he graduated from the Darlington School for Boys in Rome, Georgia. From 1963 to 1967. he attended Wake Forst University in Winston Salem and received a BA degree in political science and minor in history. In high school and as an undergraduate, he as active in chapel choir and was on yearbook staff at the School for Boys. After completing work for his degree at the University, he entered the School of Law at Wake Forest and was awarded the J.D. degree in 1970. He is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity. Crumpler was summer intern clerk in 1968 for the Clerk of Court Forsyth County and was assistant in the firm of Akins and Redwine in Fuqy,$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 W . si h life: .' c " . yy ,(,':", ft in ii iiiniiimiiiiwi niiiiiiiiMiiiiiwriirtiilimBi 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 -1 1 it m . J 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 '4 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 :-.-;:.iSSill..llIlll '( JPU : pi ! 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 Ruskay, DonJuanOfficiai ' i. 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.