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Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, February 24, 1972
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Education Board To Permit
Distribution Of Bibles Here
. The Perquimans County
Board of Education meeting at
their February meeting voted to
permit the Children's Bible
Society to distribute Bibles to
alT students in the third and
fourth grades subject to the
approval of the Principal of the
school involved, and with the
understanding that no sellins or
soliciting would be involved.
The Board also adopted a
policy concerning the public use
of 4 school facilities. Any
organization receiving per
mission to use any school
building will be required to pay
the school Janitor at the rate of
time and one half beginning one
hour before the activity or
preparation for the activity
begins and ending one hour
ttter the activity ends, it tne
cafeteria is used and food is
served, in addition to the
janitor, one person rrom uw
eafeteria staff must be em
ployed to be present and must
be paid time and half rate while
on. the Job. If the cafeteria is
I used it must be left in the same
condition it Is found. The Janitor
: and cafeteria worker is
: required to work with the group
during the use of the facility and
for the duration of the time pay
GED Testing
Schedule Changed
.The General Educational
TWalnnmant Tut, HUTtl will
jbglven at College of The
111-. 1 , A
uoemane eacn ween ai me
following times:
Monday, 6 p.m. 10 p.m.
Tuesday, 12:30 p.m. 4:30
p.m. - 1
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m. 4:30
p.m, ...
Thursday, 6 p.m. 10 p.m.
Friday, 12 noon 4 p.m.
Any person who is not a high
school graduate may apply to
take the tests at the office of the
superintendent of public schools
in his county or at the GED
Testing Center at College of The
Albemarle. A person is eligible
to take the tests if he is 18 years
old, if he has been out of a
regular high school program for
at least six months, and is he is
a resident of North Carolina.
Vpon successful completion of
these tests, the applicant will
Yecelve; a High School
Equivalency Certificate from
the North Carolina Board of
Education. .
: There is a testing fee of three
dollars: The GED Testing
Center is located in the Lear
ning Laboratory, Room 135, at
the College of the Albemarle.
Tor additional Information
interested parties may call 335
0621, extension 266.
Seamanship
9
urse At CO A
, :A course In "Seamanship",
coordinated by the Adult
Education Division of College of
The Albemarle, will be offered
each . Monday night frpm
February 28 through April 24
from ? to 10 p.m. in Room 225
from; February 28 through
March 6 and in Room 229
after March 6. Coordinator for
the class will be Mr. Harry
Thomas who will be assisted by
the Coast Guard Auxiliary. For
further information please call
335-2981 or the Adult Education
Office at COA - 3354621, Ext.
251 or 252, .,
The course is designed to help
citizens involved in boating. The
content of the course will In
elude i boat-handling and
maneuvering, aids to
'navigation, use of charts and
'compass, rules of the road, and
! legal boating requirements and
regulations. A $2.00 book on
Sssic Seamanship is optional.
A registration fee of $2.00 will
be. charged Registration will be
at the first class meeting on a
flrst-come, first-served basis.
r rbie Club Dance
I 'tie Elizabeth City .Shrine
2ub win sponsor a dance at the
' ;b' on Saturday, February
,Ji from 1:00 til 12:00. .
- .The U.S. Band will provide
."-a music. Shriners, ladles and
-?3ts welcome I
is received. ;
Mrs. Joan S. Thompson was
granted a request to leave her
teaching responsibilities at
Central Grammar School
before the regular time on
Thursday and Friday af
ternoons in order to teach as a
Two New Hats
In Political Ring
Following the filing deadline
for candidates seeking county
offices in the May primary here
Tuesday, W.L. (Buddy) Tilley,
chairman of the Perquimans
County Election Board released
the following list of candidates
for the upcoming primary
election.
Julian Powell, incumbent
Register of Deeds has no op
position.
Keith Haskett, filed for
County Coroner.
Lester Simpson, incumbent
commissioner from District 1,
no opposition.
District 2 comprising Park
vllle and Belvidere Townships,
Thomas Nixon and Ellis Win
slow, incumbent commissioners
filed for re-election. Mrs. Becky
D. White filed for one of District
2's seats thus making it a three-
way race.
Miss Thelma Elliott, in
cumbent member of the
Perquimans Board of
Education, filed for re-election,
as did George Baker. Emmett
Long, incumbent board
member from Bethel is seeking
re-election and is opposed by a
new candidate Joe Spruill.
In the First District House
Race Sen. J.J. (Monk)
Harrington of Lewiston Is
seeking re-election. For this
political race Phil Godwin of
Gates, and State Sen. Ashley
Futrell of Washington plus a
surprise by Incumbent W.T.
Father Of Mrs.
Brinn Dies In Va.
Jacob Louis Liberty, 78,
father of Mrs. W. Claude Brinn,
died Sunday at James River
Nursing Home in Newport News
after a long illness.
He was a native of Hillsdale,
Michigan and had been
resident of the Peninsula for the
past 65 years. He was a member
of the First United Church of
Christ. Due to failing health he
retired in 1944 as assistant
foreman of the Steam
Engineers in the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co
Besides Mrs. Brinn, he is
survived by three other
daughters, Mrs. R.V. Wasdell of
Charlotte, Mrs. Virginia L
McDarmon of Newport News,
and Mrs. E.J. Clopton, Jr. of
Levittown, Pa; two sons, J.L.
Liberty, Jr. of Newport News
and Charles A. Liberty of
Arlington, Va.; a half-sister,
Mrs. Lou Harner of Joliet, IU.
and 11 grandchildren.
Funeral services were con
ducted Tuesday at 2:00 at the
Warwick Chapel of the
Peninsular Funeral Home by
the Rev. Carl A. Wallace. Burial
was in the Greenlawn
Cemetery.
Bill Creecy On
State Honor Roll
William Osborn Creecy, Jr.,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. William
O. Creecy, Sr., Route 1, Hert
ford, North Carolina, made A
Honor Roll at A and T State
University, Greensboro, North
Carolina for the first grading
period. William.is a freshman at
the university and has shown
outstanding ability for college
work. He received a work
scholarship at the university
because of his outstanding work
as a football player at
Perquimans County . High
School where' he graduated in
June of 1971. William Is still
active and doing very well as a
football player..
Mr. and Mrs. William ueecy
were very happen to receive the
message today about their son.
volunteer in the out of school
Neighborhood Youth Corps
program for the duration of her
work as an instructor in this
program.
The employment of Jeanie
Carson Umphlett was approved.
(Bill) Culpepper of Elizabeth
City who had filed earlier and
withdrawn because of ill health,
again offered himself as a
candidate for reelection.
Incumbent Rep. Walter
B. Jones of Farmville is op
posed by Mack Howard of
Greenville, who announced as a
Republican candidate.
Rites Held For
W.O. Wilder
William Oscar Wilder, 67, of
Star Route, Winfall, died
suddenly Thursday morning at
7:10 in his home. A native of
Perquimans County, he was the
son of the late Henry Clayton
and Mrs. Isadora Smith Wilder.
He was a member of Cedar
Grove United Methodist Church
and was a retired farmer.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mary Iona Winslow Wilder; two
daughters. Mrs. Hattie
Elizabeth Pierce of Star Route,
Winfall and Mr! Doris Lee
Spivey of Hobbsvllle; a son,
Oscar Ray Wilder of Belvidere;
seven brothers, Henry Wilder
and Robert Wilder of Norfolk,
Earl Wilder of South Mills,
James Wilder of Hertford,
Ralph Wilder of Edenton,
Charlie Wilder of Winfall and
Edward Wilder of Bennett;
seven grandchildren and three
great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Saturday at 2:30 in the Chapel of
the Swindell Funeral Home by
the Rev. W.R. Pinner, and the
Rev. W.F. Paige.
"I Won't Have To Cross
Jordan Alone" was sung by
Edward Jordan. Organist for
the service was Mrs. Walter
Nowell.
The caskett pall was made of
red carnations, lilies, white
chrysanthemums, stock, baby's
breath and fern.
Pallbearers were Joe Nowell,
Nelson Lane, Aubrey Smith,
Harold Winslow, Charles
Winslow and Benton Winslow.
Burial was in the Family
Cemetery,
Staci Crain Dies
Word has been received here
of the death February 17 of
Staci Lynn Crain, 16 day old
daughter of George Crain, Jr.
and Mrs. Phyllis Williams Crain
in a Coos Bay, Oregon Hospital.
Besides her parents, she is
survived by her maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Williams of Belvidere:
Her paternal grandparents. Mr.
and Mrs. George Crain, Sr. of
Elizabeth City, and her
maternal great grandparents,
Mrs. Mary Williams and Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse (Jet) Winslow of
Route 1, Belvidere.
The body is being sent to
Hertford for funeral services
and burial.
Birthdays & Civic Meetings
e lull M VUerA
Birthdays and civic meetings
from the Community Birthday
Calendar sponsored by the
Perquimans County Marching
Unit. '
The Perquimans Weekly with
this Issue will again have a
birthday and civic meeting
calendar each week.
February 24
Bethel Ruritan Meet
Birthdays
Nan Winslow
Irvln Barclift
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IRS Announces Drive
On Fraudulent Returns
Greensboro The Internal
Revenue Service today started
an energetic program to
monitor tax preparing
businesses in the Southeast, and
some prosecutions are expected
from the filing of fraudulent tax
returns.
IRS Agents will conduct tests
to determine how tax preparers
complete personal tax returns,
J.E. Wall. District Director of
Internal Revenue Service for
the state of North Carolina,
reported during a press con
ference today.
"This does not mean that
every tax preparer we visit is
suspected of preparing false
returns." Mr. Wall said. "We
will learn more about the
methods they are using, and the
program will help us detect and
identify violators."
He stressed that the vast
majority of the tax prac
titioners operate legitimate and
ethical businesses, and this
program is concerned
primarily with those preparers
who knowingly cheat their
customers and the Federal
government.
The IRS is particularly
concerned with opportunists
who use false or misleading
advertising to attract
customers. Such preparers
often alter the number of
dependents or deductions to
illegally decrease the tax
liability. They sometimes alter
the addresses on tax returns, so
the refunds go to themselves
Instead of the taxpayers.
Mr. Wall said that some civil
and criminal prosecutions have
already been made against a
few .preparers in the Southeast,
and "We believe there are a
number of others who have
started such businesses."
The IRS official said, "We
urge every taxpayer to
carefully select his tax advisor,
and avoid anyone who is
thought to be a charlatan. And,
remember that you are legally
responsible for your own return,
even though someone else may
prepare the return for you.
Make sure that only accurate
880 Local People
On Food Program
ATLANTA, Ga. There were
880 low-income Perquimans
County people on the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's
December program in
December as compared to 872
the previous month, USDA's
Food and Nutrition Service
reports.
At the state level, it was
noted, North Carolina had a
small increase of 7,749 on the
food assistance programs in
December. It was up to 298,316
from November's total of
290,569.
Most of the increase 6,447
it was shown, was in the food
stamp program now operating
in 52 North Carolina Counties.
Here 181,524 people were issued
more than $4.4 million in food
coupons. Of this amount, close
to S3 million was in free or
bonus stamps.
In the food distribution
program, operating in the
remaining counties in the state,
116.792 needy people were given
more than 3.8 million pounds of
USDA-donated food.
At the national level, FNS
Administrator Edward J. Hek
man pointed out that 14.8
million people were on food
assistance programs in
December. Of this number, 11.2
million were on the food stamp
program while 3.6 million
received donated fond
February 25
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Chappell
wedding anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Long
wedding anniversary.
Vickie R. Godfrey, birthday.
February 2
Birthdays
Kevin Fields
Sidney Eley
Mrs. Warner Madre
Carl Skinner
Sara L. Winslow
February 27
Birthday
information appears on the
return, and never sign a blank
return."
The program is being started
simultaneously in the seven
state Southeastern region of
IRS. comprised of the states of
Alabama. Florida. Georgia.
Mississippi. North Carolina.
South Carolina and Tennessee.
Mrs. Kanoy Hostess
To Hertford
BPW Club
Mrs. Walter J. Kancy was
hostess to the Hertford BPW
club when it met Thursday
Night. Feb. 17th. at the REA
building. Due to unavoidable
circumstances, slides of the
Newbold-White house were not
shown.
Mrs. Addie White, president,
presided over a business session
at which time plans were for
mulated to entertain the district
officers of the club at a covered
dish supper in the Fellowship
Hall of the United Methodist
Church on March 16th. Miss
Hulda Wood announced that
Miss Elaine Pritchard,
guidance counselor at
Perquimans High School, had
been selected as the club's
Career Woman for this year.
Mrs. Roxanna Jackson an
nounced that a capping
ceremony for the Candy
Stripers would be held at the
Perquimans County High
School cafeteria on Thursday
Night, April 13th. She urged
club members to attend.
Mrs. Kancy, assisted by Mrs.
Blanche Kancy, served
delicious refreshments of home
baked pound cake and soft
drinks.
Rites Held For
RM Butler
Funeral services for Yeoman
3rd. Class Ronny Michael
Butler, 23, who was killed in an
automobile accident in Mem
phis, Tenn. Feb. 13, were held
Friday at 2:00 in the Chapel of
the Swindell Funeral Home by
the Rev. Robert Peele, pastor of
Corinth Baptist Church.
The Navy Hymn, "Eternal
Father, Strong to Save" was
played during the service by
Mrs. Charles Johnson, organist.
The casket was draped with
the American Flag.
The casket pall was made of
bronze chrysanthemums,
yellow pom poms and fern.
Burial was in Cedarwood
Cemetery with full military
honors. Acting pallbearers were
Navy Honor Guards, D.
Aldrough, D. Ross, R.W.
Sullivan. R.D. Edwards, S.M.
Roads and J.B. Wallace.
Monogram Members
Solicit Cinder Blocks
Saturday, members of the
PCHS Monogram Club will
cover the county requesting
donations for the purchase of
cinder blocks. This is another
project involved in getting
enough funds to build a badly
needed field house.
The price of a cinder block is
about thirty-five cents.
Donations in larger amounts
will, of course, be accepted.
Each donor will get a receipt
from the club member (please
request this). Your help will be
appreciated.
Lula M. Ward
February 28
Birthdays
Denlse McDonald
Ann Winslow
Elizabeth Newberry
Belvidere-Chappel
Foreman
Perq. Co. Rescue Squad
February 29
Hertford Rotary Club
Masonic Lodge 8:00
March l
Millard Robertson
John Ward
Hill
Winslow Elected President
N.C. School Board Assn.
Clifford Winslow, chairman of
the Perquimans County Board
of Education, was elected
president of the N.C. School
Board Association for a two
year term at the District
meeting held in Manteo last
week.
Winslow. was vice president.
The out going president was
Louis Midgett chairman of Dare
County Board of Education.
C.C. Walters, superintendent
of Perquimans County Schools,
was elected secretary, he
succeeds Seth B. Henderson,
Dare County School Superin
tendent. District l of the N.C. School
1972 Ford Pinto Now On Display
The first of Ford Division's
1972' j products, including the
new Pinto station wagon, have
arrived at Winflow-Blanchard
Motor Co., Inc. of Hertford.
This mini wagon also is
available with the luxurious
Squire option which includes
woodgrain bodysides, deluxe
interior trim and deluxe wheel
covers. Other midyear offerings
include:
New Pinto features op
tional sunroof, Sports Accent
Group, vinyl roof for the three
door Runabout, and electrically
heated backlite.
Sprint Decor Option
packages - Pintos, Mavericks
and Mustangs with red, white
and blue paint and trim
packages.
New Maverick feature -Luxury
Decor Option with
exterior appearance package
and plush interior.
New Mustang option - a
vinyl roof available with the
SportsRoof model.
Ford car packages - special
value option packages for the
Galaxie 500.
Two trailer towing
packages Class III packages
for Torino and Thunderbird.
"Our 1972'j offerings,
primarily in the small vehicle
area, emphasize this top action
spot in today's market," said
John Naughton, Ford vice
president and Ford Division
general manager.
"With our new Pinto wagon,
and added improvements and
special packages in all of our
smaller cars, I feel we're now
offering a substantial and
varied product lineup to take
advantage of this booming
market."
Both the Pinto station wagon
and the more luxurious Pinto
with the Squire option are
almost 10 inches longer than the
Pinto two-door and three-door
Runabout models.
With a cargo volume of 60.5
cubic feet and a flat load floor,
the new little wagon is an ideal
utility vehicle as well as a
comfortable passenger car.
A Sprint Decor Option is of-
Hostess To
Rook Club
Miss Marv Sumner was
hostess to her Rook Club
Wednesday afternoon at her
home on Church Street. Those
playing were Mrs. Walter Dale,
Mrs. G. R. Tucker. Mrs. J. E.
Morris, Mrs. J. H. Towe, Mrs.
Julian White, Mrs. D. F. Reed,
Mrs. A. T. Lane, and Miss Ruby
White.
Mrs. Lane won the high score
prize. A sweet course was
served.
Mrs. Z.A. Harris
Sally Knight
March 2
American Legion Aux.
Am. Legion Post 126
Lions Club
Tanya Howell
March 3
Helen Sumner
Peggy Winslow
March 4
Darryl Owens
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Harvey,
wedding anniversary.
Board Association comprises
Bertie County. Edenton
Chowan. Dare. Hertford.
Camden. Currituck, Gates,
Perquimans and Elizabeth City
Pasquotank. The meeting for District 1 will
thus be hosted in Perquimans
for the next two years.
The theme for the meeting
was "Public Education Keep It
Working." The afternoon
session was a panel discussion
on the new Teacher Tenue Law
which goes into effect July 1
1972.
A representative from the
Attorney General's Office was
on the panel and also one from
fered on Pinto Runabouts,
Maverick two-door sedans, and
Mustang hardtops and Sports
Roofs. Besides the red, white
and blue paint and trim themes,
the Sprint packages include
special "U.S.A.1' emblems on
the rear quarter panels.
Pinto improvements and
additions for 1972'- include new
arm rests, thicker seats and an
adjustable passenger seat.
Maverick's big addition for
1972" a is a Luxury Decor Option
including an exterior ap
pearance package and interior
refinements such as reclining
bucket seats, cut-pile carpeting
and a carpeted package shelf.
A vinyl roof option soon will
be available on the Ford
Mustang SportsRoof, giving this
low, sporty car a touch of
Mustang Grande elegance.
The Ford Galaxie 500 special
value packages offer at reduced
price a number of optional
features for either the two-door
hardtop or the four-door sedan.
One package consists of color
glow paint, accent stripes,
power disc brakes, deluxe
wheel covers, bodyside
molding, a woodgrain in
strument panel and a vinyl roof.
Another package includes those
items plus air conditioning,
tinted glass, deluxe seat belts,
automatic seat back release,
intermittent windshield wipers
and bumper guards.
Torino and Thunderbird will
receive full Class III trailer
towing packages for the first
time. The packages include
special trailer towing equip
ment and enable either car to
tow from 3,500 to 6,000 pounds.
Hertford Police
Dept. Report
The following monthly reoort
for January was given bv Chief
Ben L. Gibbs at the regular
meeting of the Town Council.
ARRESTS MADE: Drunk on
street 1 ; Speeders 3; Assaults 2;
Operating Intoxicated 1:
Careless and Reckless Driving
l; Miscellaneous Traffic
Arrests 2; Miscellaneous
Arrests 1. ACTIVITIES: Calls
Answered and Investigated 93:
Occidents Investigated 2;
Automobiles Recovered l :
Funerals Worked 7; Courtesies
Extended 98; Doors Found
Unlocked 2; Fire Calls An
swered 3: Radio Calls 205:
Citations Issued for Improper
Parking 2; Lights Reported Out
Civilisation Film
The fifth in the Civilisation
Series, a film on the cultural life
of western man, sponsored by
College of the Albemarle will be
shown at Museum of The
Albemarle on Tuesday,
February 22 at 7:30 p.m. The
public is invited to attend the 50
minute showing each Tuesday
night through March.
SURVEY FOR SALMON
ABERDEEN, Scotland (AP)
Danish and British fishery
Authorities will launch a large-
Iscale operation to mark salmon
off Greenland to determine how
badly they have been decimated
by intensified deep sea fishing.
Experts fear that wtae-scaie
drift-net fishing in Greenland
waters may have seriously
depleted salmon schools'
NCAE. At the banquet session
the address was made by
Robert Strother, Assistant to
the Superintendent of North
Carolina Public Instruction.
Murder Charge
Is Dropped In
Chowan Slaying
EDENTON Funeral ser
vices for Willie Lee Harris, who
died Monday at Chowan
Hospital of gunshot wounds, will
be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at
St. Luke Disciples Church by
Rev. Leander Vaughan. Burial
will be in Vine Oak Cemetery.
Harris, 32, was shot by a 16-year-old
boy whom he
threatened to kill. He was taken
by the Edenton-Chowan Rescue
Squad ambulance to Chowan
Hospital where he died about
4:40 p.m.
Judge Wilton S. Walker Jr.
dismissed a first-degree
murder charge against the
youth in a preliminary hearing
held Tuesday afternoon in
Chowan District Court.
Edenton Police Capt. Harvey
Willis testified that Harris, who
lived in an apartment above
that of the boy's mother, in the
200 block of E. Freemason
Street, and the woman were
arguing when one of her
children went for the aid of a
brother.
Harris threatened to kill the
boy, and he (Harris) was shot
from the hallway with a .22
caliber rifle, testimony showed.
Surviving Harris are his
mother, Mrs. Estelle Harris,
father, Theodore Harris; one
daughter, Marjorie Harris; six
brothers, Frank, Earl, Goe,
James Thurman and Richard
Harris, all of Edenton; two
sisters, Mrs. Rosa Bunch and
Mrs. Elnora Simpson of
Edenton.
Rowson Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Don Juan Plant
Doubles In Size
Don Juan Manufacturing Co.
is doubling in size this spring,
when the company's new plant
opens near Hertford.
Employment at Don Juan, a
sportswear manufacturer, will
be more than doubled "from the
200 we have now to about 450,"
according to manager Charles
Shneer. And, Shneer pointed
out, expansion won t stop mere.
"We'll go way beyond 450 in the
future," he said.
The new facility, though
doubling the company's
production, will be three times
the size of Don Juan's present
location on Grubb Street in
Hertford.
Nat. Fish Hatchery
Manager Recipient
Of Award
Lawrence J. Wirtanen,
Manager of the Edenton
National Fish Hatchery, is the
recipient of a cash award and
certificate from the Bureau of
Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Incentive Awards Committee.
This -award resulted from
Wirtanen's development of a
transistorized alarm system for
detecting water supply failures
during off-duty hours.
Wirtanen is a native of
Crystal Falls, Michigan. He
graduated from Michigan State
University with a B.S. degree in
Fisheries and Wildlife Biology.
He has been with the Bureau
since 1966 and was appointed
Manager of the Edenton
National Fish Hatchery in
August 1970. ,
He received a previous In
centive Award from the Bureau
of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
in 1967.
The Wirtanens reside at the
Hatchery with their four
children.