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Volume 28-No. 22
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Thursday, June 1, 1972
10 Cents Per Copy
WEEKLY
Holmes Speaker For
GraduationExercise
HERTFORD Perquimans
- County High School will
' graduate 120 seniors during a
baccalaureate-commencement
exercise to be held June 2.
Rev. Harold Murrill and
Carroll Holmes will be speakers
for the graduation exercise. The
exercise, scheduled to start at 8
p.m!, win be held in the school
gymnasium.
Bobby Hollowell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Hollowell, is
the valedictorian for the
graduating class. The
. salutatorian is Mackey Lewis,
. j son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lewis.
Both will be presented trophies
following their instruction to
candidates for graduation and
commencement exercise
guests.
. Qualifying for the Grand
Honor Roll are: Don Burke,
' Gail Chappell, Terry Copeland,
Jan Dillon, Linda Evans, Jack
Harrell, Bobby Hollowell,
Lynne Landing, Mackey Lewis,
Ellen Long, Sally B. Perry,
Wayne Proctor, Betty C.
Russell and Lu Ann Stallings.
Principal William E. Byrvim
wfl preside over the bac
calaureate - commencement
exercise. Diplomas will be
presented by Clifford Winslow,
chairman of the Perquimans
County Board of Education. ,
Seniors to be graduated June
2 by Perquimans County High
School include:
Geraldine Archie, Brenda
Banks, Linda Banks, Kervin
Billups, Sherwood Blanchard,
Ricky Boyce, Jane Brickous,
Debera Brookins, Claude
Brooks, Don Burke, and Eugene
Burke.
Earl Chappell, Gail Chappell,
Ethel Coston, Mollie Coston,
Terry Copeland, Virginia
. Copeland, Cynthia Dail, Jerry
Dail, Joy Dale, Betty Davis,
Medicare Paid
10 Of Health
Bill During Year
Government healthjnsurance
for people 65 and over
Medicare paid about 10 per
cent of the Nation's $75 - billion
: health bill last year,
h, The two parts of the Medicare
program paid almost $7V4
billion in benefits in fiscal 1971.
Hospital insurance paid $5.4
billion on behalf of 44 million
people. Medical insurance paid
12 billion on behalf of 9Vfc milion
. people.. -
About 20 million people
almost everyone 65 or over are
protected by Medicare.
The hospital insurance part of
Medicare helps pay far hospital
bills and certain post hospital
care for people 65 and over and
is funded by social security
contributions. The medical
i insurance is voluntary. It is
funded by individual premiums
paid by those people who enroll,
and the premiums are matched
by the Federal Government. :,
Medicare is administered by
the Social Security Ad
ministration of the U.S.:
Department of Health,
. Education, and Welfare. ..
Memorial To Be'
Dedicated To The
Late Mrs, Kirby
- .On Sunday,! June fourth, the
summer schedule of Services
will begin at the Church of the
Holy Trinity, Hertford 8:00
ajn., Holy Communion, 10:00
a.m.; Family Service with
sermon and Holy Communion
on the first, Sunday of each
month. ' .." .v -
; y ,. At the Family Service on June
.fourth the Kneelers, which were
redone from funds contributed
by friends, will be dedicated to
the glory of God and in memory
of the late Pattie Hurdle Kirby,
f.' Legion Meets
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'- The American Legion Post
. t VX will hold the'regular monuY
' ly meeting Thursday at 8 p.m.'
in the Post Home. ' ' , .
; Commander : Stallings
' requests . air members r be
jt, present for important business,
,1 Inal p'ans for the fish fry, on
. June 10 will be made; v -
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Preston Davis, Kinley Dempsey
and Jann DUlon.
John Elliott, Cindy Elmore,
Coley Etheridge, Linda Evans,
Tara Everett, Fred Feather
stone, Clifton Felton, Diana
Felton, Edward Felton, Theoris
Ferebee, Martin Fleetwood and
Barbara Garrett.
Celestine Garrett, Wayne
Godfrey, Darlene Goodman,
David Griffin, Aaron Harrell,
Charlie Harrell, Jack Harrell,
Micheal Harrell, Marilyn
Harris, Van Harris, Bobby
Hollowell, Ronald Hunter,
Sheila Hunter, Wyatt Hunter,
Carolyn Hurdle. Sherrod
Hurdle, and Wayne Hurdle.
Howard Irving, Larry James,
Eward Jennings, Diane
Johnikins, Laura Johnikins,
Joseph Jordan, Ruby Jordan,
Cathy Keel, Wanda Lamb,
Lynne Landing, Rodney
Lassiter, Douglas Layden,
Mackey Lewis and Ellen Long.
Paulette Mallory, Donald
Manley, Charles Matthews,
Gwayland McClenny, Joseph
Moore, Samuel Moore, Rosetta
Nixon, Betty Jo Nowell, Luther
Overton, Norma Overton,
Ronnie Owens, Allen Perry,
Charles Perry, Marcheta
Perry, Margo Perry, Sally
Bundy Perry and Wayne
Proctor.
Bob Reed, Edgar Roberson,
Eva Rogerson, Irene Rouse,
Linda Rouse, . Betty Carol
Russell, Carlton Simpson,
Vickie Simpson. Lillian Skin
ner Patricia Skinner, Dutchie
Spear, Janet Spivey, Billy
Stallings, Eula Mae Stallings
and Lu Ann Stallings.
Debbie Terry, Janet Thomas,
Finnard Tillett, Sandra
Trueblood, Vickie Walker,
Linda Walton, Jonetta Ward,
Barbara Warren, Karen
Watson, Myra Watson, Kerry
Welch,' John Whidbee, Alvin
White, DarreU White, Dianne
White,1- Millie White, Ronald
Wilder, Jacob Wills, Bruce
Winslow, Stanley Winslow,
Larry Zachary.
Receives Degree
from Eton College
A record number of Elon
College seniors received their
Bachelors degrees on Sunday,
May 21, during the 82nd Spring
Commencement Exercises of
this church-related college in
addition to six who were
awarded the Associate in Arts
degree for the first time in the
history of the College.
Bea Skipsey of Hertford
received the Bachelor of Arts
degree in the field of
Elementary Education.
The 283 members of the Class
of 1972 heard Congressman
Richardson Preyer of the Sixth
District of North Carolina
deliver the Commencement
Address. Rev. J. Lawrence
Yenches, pastor of the Church
by the Sea in Bal Harbour, Fla.,
delivered the Baccalaureate
Sermon earlier in the morning.
Honorary degrees were
awarded to Don . S. Holt,
chairman of the board , and
president Cannon Mills;
Congressman Richardson
Preyer of the Sixth District of
North Carolina ; and Rev.
Melvin Dollar, minister of
church extension In the Florida
Conference of the United
Church of Christ.
Elon College is a four-year,
coeducational liberal arts
college affiliated with the
United Church of Christ The 83-year-old
college has an
enrollment of 1856 and is located
just west of Burlington.
Receives Degree
Robert S. Chappell, ill was
awarded an associate degree
during the graduation exercise
for the Uth class of the
Agricultural Institute of North
Carolina State University, He
received an Associate Degree in
oeid crops technology.
The institute is a two-year
program that prepares students
to manage farm enterprises and
hold other positions in
businesses related to
agriculture.
Chappell is the grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Goodwin
of Route 1, Hertford.
Jackson And
Swindell To
Represent Perq.
Miss Carolyn Fulghum was
installed as the 1972-7S
president of the Eastern
Tuberculosis and respiratory
disease association at the
association's fourth annual
meeting held May 18 at the town
and country restaurant - in
Williamston, North Carolina.
Miss Fulghum, of Greenville,
succeeds Mr. .aV'K- (Bob)
Montague as president.
Board members representing
Perquimans County are: Mrs.
D.M. Jackson, and Mrs. Marion
Swindell of Hertford.
Other officers for the coming
year are: Mr. Rowland Pruette,
Murfreesboro. President-Elect:
Mr. Edward V. Davenport,
Shiloh, Vice-President; Mr.
John Whalen, Bath, Vice
President; Mr. J. J. Ed
mondson, Maury, Vice
President; Mr. Jimmie L.
Morris. Vanceboro. Vice-
President; Mr. Kenneth Stokes,
Severn, Vice-President; Mr.
William Smart, Havelock,
Secretary; Mr. J.T. Snowden.
Jr:, Greenville, Treasurer; Mr.
Curtis Hendrix, Greenville,
Assistant Treasurer; Dr. Karl
VanHorn, Washington, Im
mediate Past President.
Bond Sales
Total $23,781
In County
Sales of U.S. Series E and
Series H Savings Bonds in
Perquimans County for April
were $23,781.00. This represents
52.3 percent of Perquimans
County's goal of $75,285.00,
according to R. L. Stevenson,
Perquimans County Volunteer
Chairman.
April ssales of U.S. Savings
Bonds in "NortJi.Caroliha- were"
over $7 million for the fourth
consecutive month, setting a
record for any April since 1945.
April E Bond sales were up 9.3
percent, while H Bonds were up
over 65 percent. Cumulative
sales for January-April
amounted to $29,236,396, an
increase of 16.6 percent over
sales for the same period last
year. ..ANOTHER 27-YEAR
RECORD.
Nationally, total April sales
were over one-half billion
dollars, 8.4 percent above 1971.
Total cash sales of E & H Bonds
for January-April amounted to
$2,142 million, 16.6 percent
above a year earlier. April E
and H sales exceeded redemp
tions at cost price for the 19th
month in a row, by $162 million.
The cash value of Series E and
H Bonds and Freedom Shares
outstanding on April 30 attained
a new. peak of $55.9 billion.
Birthdays And
Civic Meetings
JUNE i
V.C. Winslow
Eunice Dail
Pam McDonald
Marge Ambrose,;.,,
Gladys Spellman
JUNES
Kent Copeland
WinfaU Town Council
Perq. C. Commissioners
W.S.C.S. First Meth. Ch.
JUNE 6
Art Lane
Parker Newbern .
Thomas Harrell
Linnette Hawkins
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Briggs
Anniversary
Hertford Rotary Club 6:15
Masonic Lodge 8:00
Parksville Ruritan Club
Bethel Fire Dept.
JUNE 7
Pete Hunter
Larry Lane
Emmett Elmore
Myrtle Elliott
JUNE 8 t
Mr: & Mrs. AUen Winslow '
"Anniversary'
Seymore ChappeU r
Myrtle W. Dail
Jean B. Harrison
Jones Perry -
Mable S. Keel . ,
JUNE 9 v
Bobby Heath '
JUNE 10 -. ' ' v
Robert S. Elliott
Small Town Plus Small
College; Big Opportunity
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It's high-school graduation
time, and all over rural
America the bus companies are
doubling and tripling their
schedules. The kids are leaving
town for good An
agricultural agent in North
Carolina, watching boys and
girls climbing onto interstate
buses, counts ninety youngsters
on the . Friday following
graduation all going to the
big city.
The young people are leaving
small-town America. During
the 'sixties, 40 per cent of towns
with one thousand or fewer
people declined in population.
The young black an while,
skilled and unskilled left for
the cities destinations that
offer few jobs to the untrained
and are far less hospitable than
the . small towns they came
from.
Getting Organized
A few years ago The
Rockefeller Foundation, which
had been seriously committed
to the problems of the nation's
cities, began to look at rural
problems, too. If life were more
rewarding at home. Foundation
people reasoned, there would be
little reason to move away.
They decided to make ex
perimental grants in the area of
rural community development.
The Foundation asked itself the
question: how can a community
Hubert P. Dale
Dies At Age Of 51
Word was received here of the
death of Hubert P. Dale, 51, in
Morehead City on May 21.
A native of Ayden, he lived at
1924 St. Mary's Street in
Raleigh.
Dale was the husband of the
former Margaret Broughton,
formerly of Hertford.
Besides his widow, he is
survived by: one daughter,
Mrs. Gordon Ragsdale, of
Charlotte; three sons, Frank
Dale, Atlanta, Barry Dale and
Clark Dale, Raleigh; one
brother, Wingate Dale of
Ayden; and two grand-children.
Funeral services were held
May 23 in Raleigh.
Horse Show
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Perquimans County Horse and Pony Club will hold their
horse show Sunday, June 4, 1972 1:30 at their ring on
Preston Nixon's farm. Events will include children and
adult English and Western Pleasure, halter, speed and
roadster pony. Joe Meads shown above finishing a speed
class ' will be among ' many participants.
organize itself? A small town
can't take advantage of state
and federal help unless it has
someone working at the local
level. A few thousand dollars of
local money can sometimes
produce very substantial
amounts in state or federal
funds, but somebody in the
community has to get the thing
started Who?
Says one Foundation officer:
"We became interested in the
small community college.
There are hundreds of them in
every part of the country. We
asked ourselves: What can a
community college, with its
resources of talent and local
expertise, reasonably be ex
pected to do over and above
education?
"That's how we got to the
College of the Albemarle in
Elizabeth City, North
Carolina."
Beautiful, Impoverished
and Invisible
Elizabeth City lies in the
northeast corner of the state,
near North Carolina's Outer
Banks, a beautiful stretch of the
Atlantic Coast. It is only an hour
out of Norfolk, Virginia, but to
get to it a visitor must turn off
the major highways, one by
one: the main road into
Elizabeth City is a two-lane
highway, route 17 built before
World War II.
44th Annual FFA
Convention June 7-9
The 44th Annual Convention
of the North Carolina Future
Farmers of America
Association will be held June 7-9
on the campus of North
Carolina State University in
Raleigh. 1200 FFA members
from the state's 321 chapters
are expected to attend the
convention. All sessions will be
held in William Neal Reynolds
Coliseum.
Key speakers during the
convention will be Dudley
Flood, Director, Division of
Human Relations, State
Scheduled
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This particular fact about
Elizabeth City illustrates one of
the important problems of the
historic Albemarle region and
so many rural areas throughout
the country: they have been
bypassed. The Albemarle is
often beautiful, with- wide
rivers, good farmland, and
some of the most magnificent
beaches in America. But as with
so many bypassed places, it is
desperately poor. The average
per capita income here is $1,500
a year.
The College of the Albemarle
The College of the Albemarle
is a small, local, two-year
college like hundreds of others
all over America. It charges
minimal tuition, has about 950
students, and maintains an
open-door admissions policy;
that is, it accepts in its regular
college classes any student who
is legally out of high school.
Established in 1960 (in a former
hospital) it has made its
greatest progress in the four
years since Dr. Bruce Petteway
took over as president in 1968.
Dr. Petteway, a former
engineer, businessman, and
teacher, is a determined and
articulate champion of
education for everyone. And his
devotion to education is mat
ched by his intense and active
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Department of Public In
struction; John Pitzer,
Associate Editor, National
Future Farmers Magazine; and
Wayne Humphries, a former
national FFA officer, who is
now a partner in a public
relations firm in College
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Vacation Bible
School At
Berea Church
Vacation Bible School will
begin at Berea Church of Christ
on June 5th. at 7 p.m. and will
end June 9th.
Teachers and workers for the
school are as follows: Nursery:
Diane Banks, teacher, with
Sadie Eure and Evelyn Sawyer
as workers; Beginners: Sally
Baker, teacher, with Hannah
Pierce as worker; Primaries:
Karen Stiltner, teacher, with
Nannie Umphlett as worker;
Juniors: Wilma Ann Dail,
teacher, with Oneida Cart
wright and Kathy Gossage as
workers; Junior Hi: Seth
Umphlett, teacher, with Keith
Stiltner, Annie White and
Brenda Sawyer as workers. .
Don Baker is Director and
Pauline Webb and Kathy
Thornton will be in charge of the
music. .
' There will be an ice cream
party Saturday afternoon at 4
p m. witn recreation.
. Closing exercises will be held!
Sunday night at 8 p.m.
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Mected Chairman
At its annual convention held
last Saturday, the Perquimans
County Democratic Party
elected Howard Williams, Jr. as
its new county chairman.
Williams will succeed Robert
Sutton at the post.
Approximately fifty loyal
Democrats gathered at the
Perquimans County Courthouse
at 2 P.M. on Saturday to elect a
county executive committee
and delegates to district and
state Democratic conventions.
Elected to serve on the County
Executive Committee along
with Chairman Williams are:
1st Vice-chairman Rosa B.
Gibbs, 2nd Vice-chairman Paul
Gregory, 3rd Vice-chairman
Curtiss Lighttoot, Secretary
Jean Harrison and Treasurer
Alberta Eason. Archie Lane, Sr.
was elected to serve as the
county's delegate to the State
Executive Committee.
Delegates to the District
Democratic Convention in
Greenville on June 10th and to
the State Convention in Raleigh
on June 20th were elected as
follows: Douglas Perry, Archie
Lane, Sr.; Rev. John Henry
London; Tom Brown; Willy
Ainsley, and Sheriff Julian
Broughton. Alternates to these
delegates are George
Hollowell; Willy Vaughn;
Jarvis Ward; Walter Hum
phlett, Jr.; and Joe Nowell.
The last order of business for
the convention was the election
of the members of the various
District Executive Committees.
Elected to serve on the State
Senatorial District Committee
Graduates
From Wake
Forest University
Thomas J. Long, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. Julian Long of
Route l, t Hertford, was
graduated from Wake "Forest
University May 29. He was
among about 600 who received
degrees.
Long majored in physical
education and received the B.S.
degree. He is a member of Phi
Epsilon. Kappa, honorary
physical education fraternity,
and Alpha Phi Omega, service
fraternity.
Students Receive
Degrees From ECU
East Carolina University will
confer degrees on ap
proximately 2,042 candidates
for bachelor's and masters
degrees in colorful and
traditional academic
ceremonies at 5 p.m. Sunday in
Ficklen Stadium.
The principal speaker for the
73rd annual ECU Com
mencement exercises will be
Rep. Edith Green, D-Oregon.
Candidates from Perquimans
scheduled to receive degrees
are as follows: Sallie Ann
Benton, MAE; Jan Bennett
White Blalock, BS; Kay
Stallings Dail, BS; Shirley Jean
Gregory, BS; and William Dhue
Tice, MAE.
Legion To Hold
Annual Fish Fry
American Legion Post 126 will
hold its .Annual Flag Day fish
fry on Saturday, June 10th at
the Post Home.
; Tickets are on sale by
business firms as well as
members. All tickets are $1.25.
Perq. Counfy School
Calendar 1972-73
August 28 .Teachers Begin Work
August 30 Student Orientation Day
August 31 ........ Begin 180 Day Term i.
September 4 Labor Day Holiday
November 23, 24 . . , ; .Thanksgiving Holidays
December 19 , , .(Christmas Holidays Begin At Close of
School Day ' ,
January 3 ... .School Begins After Christmas Vacation
January 22 . . , . (Teacher Work Day (Date Flexible)
April 20, 23 .Easter Holidays (WiUbe used for make up
days if needed)
May 31............ ...............School Ends, t
June 1, 4, 5........ Extended Work Days For Teachers
X7illinmc Tr
lumu jl
were W.E. Beamon and Joan
Thompson. Serving on the
House District Committee are
Dilbon Young and Walter
Humphlett, Jr. Joe Spruill and
Woody Bundy, Jr. were elected
to serve on the Judical District
Committee and Sheriff Julian
Broughton and Alonzo Turner
will serve on the Congressional
Executive Committee.
Following the elections, the
convention discussed voter
registration proceedures in
Perquimans County and heard
remarks by 1st District High
way Commissioner Joe Nowell
concerning getting out the vote
for the second primary coming
on Saturday, June 3rd.
Convention Chairman Tom
Brown closed the convention
with remarks urging
Democratic Party unity in the
coming November general
election.
Receive Degrees
From ACC
Some 3B0 seniors received
degrees in the arts and sciences
at Atlantic Christian College's
70th Commencement held on
Friday. May 26, at 2 p.m. It was
the largest graduating class in
the history of the institution
Commencement speaker was
Sam Ragan of Southern Pines,
secretary of the State Depart
ment of Art. Culture and
History, and editor and
publisher of The Pilot of
Southern Pines. Presiding over
commencement exercises was
Dr. Arthur I). W'engcr,
president of the college
Presenting the graduation class
was Dr. Lewis H. Swindell Jr..
dean of the college.
Those awarded degrees from
Perquimans County were:
Pauline Belle Colson. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Colson,
Jr., Route 3, Hertford and
Jeanie Carson Umphlett, wife i)f
Paul f). Umphlett of Hertford
Rites Held Tuesday
For Edgar Overton
Edgar Overton, 86, a retired
farmer and merchant of Route
1, Hertford, died Monday
morning at 6:30 in his home.
A native of Tyrrell County, he
was the son of the late Jim and
Mrs. Martha Overton.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ever Lilley Overton; four sons,
George Overton of Virginia
Beach, James Overton of Route
3, Hertford, Clyde Overton and
Crafton Overton of Route 1,
Hertford; four daughters, Mrs.
Velma Nieneyer of Renton,
Wash., Mrs. Maude Lewis of
Chesapeake, Va., Mrs.
Elizabeth Criss of Virginia
Beach, and Mrs. Emma Ward
of Orlando, Florida; a brother,
Willard Overton of Belvidere;
and 14 grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 3:00 in the Chapel of
the Swindell Funeral Home by
the Rev. Noah Toler.
Burial was in Cedarwood
Cemetery.
"I Know Who Holds
Tomorrow" was sung by
members of the Burgess Baptist
Church Choir. They were ac
companied by Miss Tern
Copeland, organist.
The casket pall was made of
white chrysanthemums, red
roses, baby's breath and fern
Pallbearers were Jesse. W
Overton, Don Overton, Graham
Overton, William'B. Miller, Jr.,
Preston Jackson and Luther
Overton.