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Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, January 27, 1972
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WEEKLY
Crenda Harrcll Reads Thru
Soil & Water Conservation Book
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The Potential for Outdoor Recreation is the title of a book
recently published and produced by the Perquimans
County Soil and Water Conservation Committee and the
Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. The book is loaded with facts and figures
concerning the recreational potential of the county, some
of which has, thus far, been virtually untapped. Some
copies are available at the office of the Chamber of
Commerce. Pretty Brenda Harrell of Hertford reads
through one of them.
Miss Elliott Speaks
Women In Govt.
IV iThe Hertf
Hertford BPW Club met
Thursday night, Jan 21st. with
Miss Thelma Elliott.
, The business session was
presided over by Mrs. Addie
White, persident. After old and
new business was dispensed
with, she announced that the
February meeting would be
held at the REA building at
DAVID MATTHEWS, SR.
David Wesley Matthews, Sr.,
of 1100 Hughes Ave., South
Norfolk, died Sunday at 8:50
p.m. in Norfolk General
Hospital. '.,
He was ; a native of
Perquimans County and had
lived in Aydlett for many years.
He was a retired farmer.
He was the son of the late
John and Martha Matthews,
and husband of the late Lottie
Hampton Matthews, and a
member of the Sharon United
Methodist Church at Poplar
Brtfach.
: He is survived by two sons,
David W. Matthews, Jr, and
John Melvln Matthers, of
Chesapeake, Va.; one daughter,
llHt. Iris Brooks, of Albany,
Ga.; three half sisters, Mrs.
Elizabeth Bundy, Mrs. Ola
Normond, and Mrs. Audrey
Banks, all of Currituck County,
four grandchildren, and two
great grandchildren. '
Funeral services were con
ducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in
Sharon United Methodist
Church at Poplar Branch by
Rev. E.E. Whitley, pastor.
Burial followed in the family
cemetery at Poplar Branch.
The body was carried from
Twlford's Colonial Chapel,
Chesapeake, to the church and
laid in state one hour prior to
funeral services.
- James White
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With Train
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, James White, Jr., 18, of Rt. 1,
Hertford, was taken to the
Albemarle Hospital lasst
Wednesday, where he was listed
: ? satisfactory condition from
Injuries received when he
collided with an oncoming train
at 6:30 a.m. in WinfaU.
fate Highway Patrolman . H.
HJ....S Investigated the accident.
Jp&ma9 JoWhlteV Buick,
v-ox said to be a total ioss. The
te.ji, owned" by Norfolk
Touihern Railroad, sustained
Cl,c:3 dameses.
which time Rev:' Edwin T.
Williams would show slides of
.the Newbold-White house now in
the process of becoming a
historic site in Perquimans
County.
Miss Elliott, chairman of
public relations, gave an in
teresting program on "Women
in Government". She read
excerpts from interviews that
had been held with six women in
high government positions. This
informative program proved
that qualified women are doing
an efficient job in positions
which, heretofore, have been
held only by men. She stated
that in 1971 the number of
women holding federal
positions in this country
doubled.
After adjournment, Miss
Elliott served a delicious sweet
course and a social hour was
enjoyed.
. Social Security
Administration
Most household workers are
covered by social security, even
those who work part-time. All
household employes, both men
and women, earn social
security protection if an em
ployer pays them cash wages of
$50 or more in a calendar
quarter.
Housewives and homeowners
who operate private households
often need full-time or part-time
help. Workers are employed as
maids, cooks, butlers, cleaning
women, gardners, and han
dymen. Also, babyp'tters come
to the home to care for
childrren.
' Employees who work in
private homes often find when
they apply for social security
benefits they cannot qualify
since social security records do
not show enough work. This is
caused many times by em
ployers who were not aware
that wages for their household
workers were to be reported, or
that they just failed to do so.
There are 13 weeks in each
calendar quarter 'and cash
wages of only $3.85 a week
would amount to over $50.
Social security contributions
must be paid on these wages.
Failure to report cash wages
of $50 or more paid to household
workers in a calendar quarter
by an employer will result in the
loss of valuable social security
protection. . :
Travers Trueblood
Killed In Florida
Travers A! Trueblood, 71, of
6215 Vassar Avenue, Bradenton,
Florida, and a former resident
of Hertford, was killed Monday
afternoon when the bicycle he
was riding was struck by an
automobile.
A native of Chowan County,
he was the son of the late James
W. and Mrs. Emily Parrish
Trueblood and the husband ot
Mrs. Martha Monds Trueblood.
Before his retirement from
civil service, he worked as a
statistical clerk for 35 years in
Washington, D.C.
He was a member of the
Bayshore Gardens Reformed
Church in Bradenton, was a
past president of the Bayshore
Square Club, a member of the
Order of Eastern Star in
Tampa, Fla., a member of the
Columbus Masonic Lodge No. 3
and the Royal Arch Masons, Mt.
Pleasant Chapter in
Washington, D.C.
" Besides his wife, he is sur
vived by three brothers, Elwood
B. Trueblood of Bradenton,
Fla., Cyril Trueblood of Norfolk
and James W. Trueblood of
Washington, D.C; and three
sisters, Mrs. Mabel Alexander
of Remington, Va., Mrs. Edna
Parsons and Mrs. Mildred
Palatini of Virginia Beach, Va.
Funeral services will he held
Thursday at 3:00 in the Chapel
of the Swindell Funeral Home
with burial in Cedarwood
Cemetery.
The family will be at the home
of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Robert
L. Sutton on Route 3, Hertford.
Linda Harrell
On Dean's List
Linda Gail Harrell won
academic honors at Campbell
College in the. fall term that
ended December 19.
She was among the 73
students who qualified for the
President's list in Campbell's
fall term student body of 2401.
The President's List, A.R.
Burkot, academic dean, ex
plained in releasing the rosters,
names students who presented
overall grade-standing of at
least 2.25 on a 3.0 scale, in
cluding their scores for the term
just ended, and who have
completed at least two
semesters at the college. The
Dean's List recognizes students
who in the semester just ended
have an academic average of B
or better and who have no grade
lower than a C.
Forty Seven To One
Ask any farmer . . . is
agriculture changing? It's
nearly impossible to farm today
with the same practices,
acreage and equipment that
were used in the '30's.
When we were a nation of 107
million people, we needed 350
million acres of land to grow our
food and fiber. Our population
has now nearly doubled and we
are harvesting less than 300
million acres. If agriculture
hadn't changed, we would now
need to harvest 500 to 550
million acres even if we
stopped exporting.
What has happened in the
past few years in agriculture
overshadows the progress of
many previous generations. In
Christ's time, it was thought
that one full-time farmer could
produce enough food for himself
and less than one other person.
By 1850, the . average
American farmer was
producing enough food and fiber
for. himself and four other
persons. He nearly doubled his
production in just 50 years and
was able to feed seven persons.
From 1900 to 1940, farmers
made tremendous progress and
the output of food and fiber by
one farmer rose to enough for 11
other people.
In the next 20 years (1940
1960), each farmer more than
doubled his production and was
able to supply food for 26 people.
Today, each farmer is able to
produce enough food and fiber
to supply 47 persons. This is
about four-and-one-half times
the amount he was supplying in
1940.
7 Farmers have made as much
change in their ability to
produce the needed food and
fiber in the past 11 years as was
made , between the time of
Christ and 1960.
Snow Geese
The Perquimans River has been full of these birds in the
above photo that have also been visiting in the fields near
the river. Are they snow geese or swan-they have been
called both and nobody seems really to know.
Skinner Lectures At
Wilson Tech. Institute
Charles Skinner Jr. gave a
lecture at the Wilson County
Technical Institute in Wilson,
N.C. last week on "Co-opration
with other Agencies to rural
labor crew leaders attending a
M.D.T.A. training school. The
Voter Registration
Being Promoted
RALEIGH, N.C.-Members
of the North Carolina Consumer
Finance Association are
promoting a "Voter
Registration" program all over
the state, Murle L. Vaughan,
president of the Association,
announced today.
In the announcement Mr.
Vaughan also said "Over 500
offices representing some 3,000
employees will participate in a
get out the vote campaign. Each
employee eligible to vote is
being urged to register in. the
party "of. his or her choice.
Window flyers are being
provided to each of the member
offices urging all who see it, to
register so they won't lose out
on one of their basic Freedoms,
the chance to vote."
The North Carolina Consumer
Finance Association believes in
the democratic process and
feels it owes something to the
one half million North
Carolinians it. serves, and is
distributing these 9 x 12 flyers
as a Public Service. Anyone
interested in the program or
flyers should contact the
nearest Consumer Finance
office, that is a member of the
Association, or the Association
Office in Raleigh.
Hertford Native Apartment Manager
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Mr. Charles Willie Winslow, a
native of Hertford, North
Carolina, moved to Hempstead
11 years ago where he how
makes his home,
v In Hempstead, New York,
there was a growing need for
comfortable residence for
people of low income brackets,
like all other cities the growth is
a continuous one. The three
individuals who names are:
Rev. C. C. Boone, former pastor
of Provident Baptist Church in
Edenton, N. C, now pastor of
Union Baptist Church in
Hempstead; 1 Mr. William H..
Burke, a native of Hertford, N.
C, now residing in Uniondale,
N. Y.; and Mr. Charles Winslow
initiated the idea, after a great
deal of publicity, about the
conditions at Wilklow Apart
ments. .'
These three men found out
that funds were available
through the F.H.A. They saw
bow the church could accept the
opportunity to ""Improve the'
Or Swan???
M.D.T.A. training is for labor
foremen, crew leaders, and
recruiters ', dealing with farm
labor and rural manpower in
eastern Norm Carolina.
Skinner's lecture gave in
formation to the class on ser
vices available thru other local
and state agencies to regular
and seasonal farm workers,
workers employed in woods and
rural industrial occupations.
Slide pictures were shown to the
class of local employment in
farming, grape production, tree
planting, herring fishing,
logging, pulpwood oc
cupaUons,as well as pictures of
activities liffish canneries,
frozen fish processors, and
piling mill jobs.
Skinner is employed by the
North Carolina Employment
Service and is manager of the
Rural Manpower Service Office
inJIertford. . .
Sales Tax For
December $6,650.56
Local 1 per cent Sales and Use
Tax collection in Perquimans
County for the month of
December amounted to
$6,650.56 it was announced by
G.A. Jones, Jr., Commissioner
of the State of North Carolina
Department of Revenue.
The amount collected for
December showed a slight
decline from that collected in
November. The amount
collected this November was
$6,714.60.
housing conditions of people.
On October 21, 1970 the cor
poration received a mortage
commitment of $5,241,600 from
The Security National Bank.
The mortgage was guaranteed
by The Federal Housing Ad
ministration. Mr. Winslow is not only
manager of the Park Lake
Apartments, but has served as
Chairman of the Deacon Board
at Union Baptist for 6 years,
President of the Majestic Choir
for 7 years, a member of the
Republican Committee of
Hempstead and has worked
very close with the Honorable
Mayor Dalton R. Miller of
Hempstead on various . ac
tivities concerning the
Republican Party.
Mrs. Harriett Winslow, his
wife, is employed by the
Brentwood .School System in
New York. ' : "
Mr. Window's philosophy has
been "when you help someone
up a hp; you find yourself.,
closer to the top, .
Byrums Attend
Furniture Showing
The Southeast's leading
furniture stores, department
stores, interior design studios
and speciality shops will be
represented in High Point this
week as home furnishings
buyers attend the High Point
Furniture Market, January 17
20, 1972.
Among the furniture dealers
who have registered at the
Southern Furniture Exposition
Building are: Mr. and Mrs. T.P.
Byrum of Byrum Furn. Co.
Store owners and their buyers
will be selecting from a broad
variety of merchandise to suit
the demands and needs of their
customers at home.
The country's leading interior
designers have created com
plete room settings in the
manufacturers' showrooms
displaying furniture to its best
advantage,
Retailers use these
decorating ideas for room
displays in their stores, thus
giving customers the latest
techniques of interior design.
The 30-acre Southern Fur
niture Exposition Building in
High Point houses the
showrooms of over 300
manufacturers of home furnishings.
Women To Meet In
Durham Saturday
Women from all parts of
North Carolina will meet in
Durham on Saturday, January
29, to form a Political Caucus
whose goal is to influence the
outcome of up-coming elec
tions and to assure themselves
a voice in decisions affecting
the quality of their lives in their
home state.
Meeting in Page Auditorum
on the Duke University Cam
pus, the women will discuss
issues and hear Democratic and
Republican candidates for
office state their views on the
status of women in government
and politics.
Official convenors include the
vice-chairmen and national
committeewomen from the
Democratic and Republican
Parties and such groups as the
American Association of
University Women, the N.C.
Federation of Women's Clubs,
and the AFL-CIO Women's
Ativities Department.
The statewide caucus is an
outgrowth of wide-spread
concern among N.C. women
that opportunities for service
and for professional ad
vancement must be guaranteed
by active participation in the
political process. The meeting
crosses party and racial lines
and is open to women of all ages
and all occupational
preferences. Temporary
chairman is Mrs. Martha
McKay of Chapel Hill.
Obey Regulations
If Hauling
Motor vehicles hauling rock,
gravel, stone, or other similar
substance must secure their
load to prevent any of the load
from dropping, sifting, leaking,
or otherwise escaping onto the
highway.
Assistant Motor Vehicle
Commissioner J.M. Penny
announced today that the High
way Patrol and enforcement
officers of the License and Theft
Division of the Department are
enforcing a law which became
effective January 1, 1972.
According to Penny, the law
provides that "trucks, trailers,
or other vehicles when loaded
with rock, gravel, stone, or
other similar substance which
could blow, leak, sift, or drop
shall not be driven or moved on
any highway unless the height
of the load against all four walls
does not extend above a
horizontal line six inches below
their tops when loaded at the
loading point, or if so loaded,
unless the load shall be securely
covered by tarpaulin or some
other suitable covering..."
Vehicles that do not properly
secure their load in many in
stances contribute to accidents
and cause damage to other
vehicles . such as broken or
pitted windshields.
Our enforcement personnel
will definitely increase their
surveillance in an effort to
cause, complieance with this
law.
Sybil Bateman Cover Girl
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Sybil Jean Bateman of Woodville is the cover girl for the
new brochure published and distributed by the
Perquimans County Chamber of Commerce. Distribution
is statewide and many of the brochures, hundreds of them,
are grabbed up by visitors to North Carolina's many
welcome centers. The Chamber is constanUy besieged
with requests for the brochures which shows Perquimans
at its best.
NCAE Proposed
Legislative Program
A proposed legislative
program which envisions the
expenditure of some $236
million additional state funds
has been sent to members of the
North Carolina Association of
Educators for their reaction
and suggestions. The reactions
and suggestions of the more
than 48,000 NCAE members will
be submitted to the NCAF State
Legislative Commission in
early March. The Commission
will then announce the final
program to be submitted to the
1973 General Assembly. '
The proposed program,
prepared by the Legislative
Commission, was released by
J. W. Mask, chairman of that
commission; Mrs. Ruth Jones,
NCAE president; and Dr. A.C.
Dawson, NCAE executive
secretary.
The proposed program lists
salary increases and extended
term as a joint top priority item.
The establishment of priorities,
if supported at the grass roots,
will be a first for the
association.
Mask said the program
requests 10 months of em
ployment for teachers and 12
months of employment for all
other professional personnel. In
addition, an average salary
increase of five per cent the
first year of the next biennium
and an additional 10 per cent the
second year of the biennium is
requested. The program en
visions a beginning salary for
teachers of $7,490 in 1973-74 and
a top salary (with a graduate
degree) of $11,810. For the
second year of the biennium, a
beginning salary of $8,140 and a
top salary of $13,340 is proposed.
Mark said the salary proposal
for teachers utilizes the average
increase but also proposes
incentive and longevity in
crements to be added within
and at the top of the schedule.
"The proposed schedule is an
attempt to recognize teaching
as a career and to provide some
incentive for good teachers to
remain in the classroom," the
Hamlet principal said. He said
the Legislative Commission
studied the chart of teachers at
various experiecnce levels and
determined that there is a great
exodus from the classroom at
about the fourth year of
teaching and again at the ninth
year.
"The problem now is not so
much to attract the beginning
teacher, but to hold the best in
the profession," Mask said.
He said the proposed schedule
would provide double in
crements the first year of the
biennium to teachers with a
bachelor's degree and nine or
more years of experience and to
teachers with a master's degree
and six or more years of
teaching. One new longevity
increment would be added at
the top of both the bachelor's
and master's schedule.
During the second year, the
proposal would add double
increments for teachers with a
bachelor's degree and four or
more years of experience and to
graduate degree teachers with
one year of experience. An
additional longevity increment
would be added at the top of the
schedule.
Mask said the program
specifies that teachers would be
employed for 10 months with 13
additional work days to be paid
at the same daily rate as the
187-day term. He said teachers
disperately need the extended
term in order to be able to
devote their entire time to
teaching children during the
regular 180-day instructional
period.
The proposed NCAE program
also asks for the establishment
of the position of assistant
principal and for an ap
propriation of $1,250,000 fof
salary supplements for these
personnel.
An appropriation of $25
million is requested to reduce
class size, and the NCAE will
propose a statutory limitation
on maximum class size, Mask
said. He said the exact
maximum which will be sought
will be decided after thorough
study of the situation.
The NCAE program also
suggests an appropriation of $10
million for kindergarten ex
pansion, proposes state par
ticipation in capital outlay
expenditures, and requests that
professional personnel be paid
no less than their certificate
rating for professional summer
employment.
Attention
Peanut Farmers
The Annual Peanut
Production meeting will be held
on Monday, January 31st, at
7:30 P.M. in the County Office
Building, it is announced by
William (Villy) J. Griffin, Jr.,
Assistant Agricultural Agent.
Astor Perry, Extension
Agronomy Specialist, will be
guest speaker for the meeting.
The theme of this year's
meeting will be reducing cost
increasing net returns.
Mr. Perry will discuss in
oetail, new varieties, new
fungicides, growth regulators,
calcium requirements, and the
use of herbicides.
You are urged to be present
and hear the latest information
on peanut production.