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Volume 28-No. 24
Hartford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Thursday, June 15, 1972 ;
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School Board Allots
Teachers For 1972-73
At the meeting of the
Perquimans County School
Board Monday night the Board
alloted available teachers from
the State allotment in the
following manner: Perquimans
High School - 24; Hertford
Grammar 20; Perquimans
Union 16; and Perquimans
Chiang Speaker At
Baptist Church
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On June twenty-first at seven
thirty, Stephen T. S. Chiang, a
Chowan College student from
Taiwan, will speak at the
Hertford Baptist Church at the
regular Family Night Service.
Chiang was torn in Canton, in
mainland China, from which
p'-.ce he fled twenty four years
ago in order to avoid Com
munism, leaving behind his
wife and baby daughter of
whom he has had no word. In
Taiwan he met Miss Anabelle
Coleman, Southern Baptist
Missionary from Durham,
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became" first a Christian and
presently a student at Chowan
where he is enrolled in the Pre-
Surnalism school. Meanwhile
iss Coleman has passed away,
but Mr. Chiang consumed with
a desire to study in Christian
America, saved his money and
waited ten years for bis
passport which brought him to
the Murfreesboro Campus in
February, 1972.
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Minimum Wage
Advances To $1 .60
An Hour On July 1
State Labor Commissioner
Frank Crane today pointed out
that a minimum wage of not
less than Si .60 an hour must be
paid to employees in establish
ments covered by the
North Carolina Minimum Wage
Law starting' July 1, 1972.
"The law covers establish
ments employing four or more
employees during any pay
period and grossing less than
$250,000 annually. " said
Commissioner Crane. .
"Establishments which gross
more than the quarter-million
figure are covered by the
Federal Wage and Hour Law,"
The $1.60 hourly minimum
was written into the law by the
19,71 General Assembly, to
become effective on July 1 , 1972,
The previous minimum of $1.45
an hour has been in effect since
July 1, 1971. Prior to that date,
the Tar Heel minimum was
$1.25 an hour. '
Graduated From Old
Dominion University
r Phillip Russell Sawyer, Jr.
recently graduated CUM
LAUDE from Old Dominion
University with a B.S. Degree In
BusinessAdministration.Hewas
also elected to Omicron Delta
Epsilon, Honorary Economics
Society. Russell graduated
from Perquimans County High
School, and his parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Phillip Russell "Pete"
Sawyer, Sr. who reside on
Railroad Avenue In Hertford,
N.C, He 1 married to the for-
' mer Anna Markham; of
Weeksville and they have one
son, Phillip Russell Sawyer, III.
Cenlral 14. . This does not
include vocational, special, or
local teachers. j.
The Board approved mem
bership in the North Carolina
School Boards Association.
A contract for a new sewage
disposal system for
Perquimans Union School was
awarded to Sutton and Meads at
the price of $11,100.00,
The following plan for paid
holidays for 1972-73 for full time
lanitors was approved by the
Board: three days during week
of July 4, one day Labor Day,
one day Thanksgiving, one day
Christmas, one day New
Year's, and one day Easter,
Openings Available
In Coast Guard
The U.S. Coast Guard
Recruiting Office in Norfolk
announced that the Service has a
requirement for experienced
petty officers. Former Navy or
Coast Guard petty officer with
less than 10 years military
service may in most cases be
enlisted or reenlisted in their
former rates if they, are
otherwise qualified. There is a
particular need or personnel in
the following special! tes;
Quartermaster, Radarman,
Fire Control Technician,
Electronics Technician,
Engineman. Electrician's
Mate, Storekeeper, Machinist's
Mate, Damage Controlman,
Marine Science Technician,
Electronics Technician Com
munications, Commissaryman,
and Hospital Corpsman.
The Coast Guard has also
exhausted its waiting lists of
applicants without prior
military service. Therefore
openings are available for
immediate enlistment of
qualified individuals, without
prior service, between the ages
of 17 and 26.
Prior service in any of the
other components of the Armed
Forces will count for pay and
retirement purposes in the
Coast Guard. Individuals in
terested in entering the Coast
Guard should contact their
Coast Guard recruiter located
in Room 308 Federal Building,
Crane said that as of July 1,
1972, North Carolina becomes
one of 20 American states and
territories having a statutory
minimum wage of $1.60 an hour
or higher. A total of 43 states
and territories have some kind
of wage minimum, either by
statute or action of wage
boards. (.
The North Carolina Minimum
Wage Law has been in effect for
twelve and one-half years since
the originial act became ef
fective on January 1. 1960. As
enacted by the 1959 General
Assembly, the original law set a
minimum wage of 75 cents an
hour. Subsequent legislatures
gradually increased the
statutory wage floor, first to 85
cents an hour, next to $1.00, and
then to $1.25. $1.45, and $1.60.
Crane said that for the time
being, at least, the new Tar Heel
minimum will be the same as
the $1.60 and hour required by
the Federal Wage and Hour
Law. Moves to raise the Federal
minimum to a higher figure
currently are under way in
Congress, he added.
On Duty In The
Mediterranean '
Navy Petty Officer Second
Class E. Warren White,
husband of the former Miss
Deborah Stokely of Route 3.
Hertford. N.C. is In the
Mediterranean aboard the USS
Columbus, a guided missile
cruiser homeoorted at Norfolk,
Va.. and scheduled to be
operating with the U.S. Sixth
Fleet for the next six months.
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In County Rescue Squad
Elliott Layden, Captain of the
Perquimans County Rescue
Squad, stated today that the
squad is taking applications for
new members, as volunteers
are needed for both day and
night duty. .: .
Layden reported that in the
last three months the following
calls were made: in March 26
calls were made, there were 21
calls April and 24 in May.
During this 3 months period the
2 ambulances were driven a
total of 4,112 miles
The public is invited to visit
the squad Headquarters on any
Sunday Layden stated.
Funeral Services
Held For
DuckrySpivey
Duckry Spivey, age 81, died
Monday Morning at 4:30 in the
Albemarle Hospital after an
illness of three months. A native
of Columbus County. N.C, he
was the son of the late Caleb and
Elizabeth Spivey; a member of
the Fairmount Park Baptist
Church of Norfolk and a retired
carpenter.
He is survived by two
daughters; Mrs. Marie Elliott
and Mrs. Mabel Keel both of
Hertford: 2 sons, John Grady
Spivey of Portsmouth, Ark., and
Richard Spivey of Pensecola,
Fla.; 1 sister, Mrs. Issac Long
of Tabor City, N.C; 14 grand
children, 20 great grand
children and 2 great-great
grand children.
Funeral Services were held
Tuesday Afternoon at 4:30 in the
Chapel of the Swindell Funeral
Home by the Rev. Norman
Harris, pastor of the Hertford
Baptist Church.
Soft Music was played during
the service by Mrs. Preston
Morgan, organist
The casket was covered, by a
pall of white mums, red car
nations and fern.
Pallbearers were Clarence
Long. Elbert Long. Robert
Lone. Norman Young. Rill
Smith and Phil Smith.
. Burial followed tn Cedarwood
Cemetery.
Super Dollar Stores,
Inc. Files Initial
Public Offering
Ieon M. Melvin, President,
announced that Super Dollar
Stores. Inc. has filed with the
Securities and Exchange
Commission a registration
statement covering a proposed
public offering of 230.000 shares
of Common Stock.
Of the shares to be offered,
60.000 will be told by the
Company and 120.000 by certain
selling shareholders. In ad
dition, a warrant holder is
selling warrants to purchase
50.000 shares to the Un
derwriters who will exercise the
warrants at the exercise price
and offer the 50,000 shares to the
public. Terms of the warrants
require these shares to be in
cluded in this offering. After
this offering, there will , be
outstanding 632.750 shares. ;
Net proceeds from the sale of
the Company's 60,000 shares
and from the exercise of the
warrants will be used to finance
the Company's expansion
program including costs of
inventories, fixtures and
equipment and to meet an
ticipated Increased working
capital requirements. The
Company will not receive any of
the proceeds from the sale of
the shares being offered by the
selling shareholders.
Super Dollar Stores. Inc.,
which was formed in 1966,
operates 65 retail discount
stores in North Carolina (46),
South Carolina (6), and Virginia
( 13) . which carry a broad line of
merchandise including apparel,
housewares, linen, health and
beauty aids, and. in a limited
number of stores, fabrics and
notions for the home-sewing
market. The stores operate on a
self-service, cash and carry
basis and are generally located
in trade areas of less than 20,000
DODulation
Wheat. First Securities, Inc.
of Richmond, Virginia, has been
designated as manager of the
underwriting group that will
offer the shares to the public.
Dave Fuller Honored At
University Of Florida
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Dave Fuller, a former teacher at Perquimans County
High School, was recently honored after completing his
25th vear as the baseball coach at the University of
Florida.
Puller is shown here with his wife, the former Miss
Piitricia "Chick" Stevens, of Hertford.
Post 362 Has
Very Successful
Membership Drive
The American Legion,
Department of North Carolina
Headquarters in Raleigh in
dteates that Hertford Post No.
963 has conducted a highly
successful membership drive.
David Brooklns, Commander
of the Post, has received a letter
from Department Adjutant J.
Carroll Wilson reporting that
Post No. 362 has exceeded its
Legion Membership Incentive
Goal for 1072. The Legion Ad
j u t a n t expressed
congratulations and thanks to
the Post leaders nad mem
bership workers for their effort.
A statement of high praise for
the local Post was issued by
diaries B. Hodson, of Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, Depart
ment Commander of the
American Legion.
Commander Hodson said,
"The membership of every
Legionnaire makes it possible
for the American Legion to
maintain service for the sick
and disabled in hospitals.
Memberships make possible all
the Legion "programs, such as
care for needy children,
Baseball, Boys' State, Boy
Scout Troops, Oratorical
Contests, Community Service,
Law and Order, and all the
others. I am proud to
congratulate Post No. 362 upon
this notable achievement."
Post Commander Brooklns
explained that "Reach Out It's
Action Time" the theme of this
year's drive was to remind all
America that The American
Legion believes in a program of
better communication with the
community and its Veteran
citizens especially the returning
Viet-Time Veterans.
; "We are accepting dues
payments now from Legion
naires and eligible veterans
whose membership is essential
if the local organization is to
continue its service programs."
Commander Brookins stated.
Also, he reported that the Post
Is planning to expand its local
programs and activities
depending on the final results of
the 1973 membership drive.
deceives Itegree
Timothy G. Baker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Willard Baker, was
one of the recent graduates
from ECU. He received a BS
degree in Biology and was listed
on the honor roll for the Spring
quarter.
Nixon And Proctor Td
Serve On Committee
Chief Francis B. Nixon of the
Hertford Fire Department and
Chief K.J. Proctor of the Bethel
Community Fire Department
were appointed recently by
Dennis Swain, President of the
Albemarle Firemen's
Association. , to serve on I he
personnel committee to in
terview applicants for the Fire
Service Coordinators job with
the Albemarle Firemen's
Association.
The Fire Service Coordinator
will work with the fire depart
ments in the 10 county
Albemarle region to promote
the fire service activities, assist
in obtaining training aids, and
act as a liaison man with other
agencies rendering emergency
service. in North Carolina.
CONNALLY TRAVELS
President Nixon is send
ing outgoing Treasury Sec
retary John B. Connally on
a month-long tour where he
will visit 15 nations to dis
cuss international economic
matters and other subjects
which may come up.
Dr. G.R. Tucker
Announces Schedule
Medical Convention
Physicians, wives, exhibitors,
and guests from eastern North
Carolina and Tide-Water.
Virginia will meet again at
Nags Head. North Carolina
June 15 : 18'h for the 77th
Annual Convention of the
Seaboard Medical Association.
President G. Reginald
Tucker. M.D. of Henderson.
N.C, announces a full schedule
of activities beginning Thurs
day night and continuing
through Sunday morning.
The Carolinian, at Nags Head
will be Convention headquar
ters. Among the top flight
scientific speakers par
ticipating on the two-day
program are:
Bruce V. MacFadyen. Jr..
M.D.. Philadelphia. Pa.
Donald F. Klein. M.D..
Medical Director. Hillside
Hospital. Glen Oaks. N.Y.
R.B. Brame. M.D.. Duke
University Medical Center,
Durham, N.C.
Richard A. Mladick. M.D.,
Norfolk. Virginia.
Floyd Denny. M.D.. Chief of
Pediatrics, UNC School of
Medicine. Chapel Hill, N.C.
Robert T. Manning, M.D.,
Dean, Eastern Virginia Medical
School, Norfolk, Va.
Ira Hard.y, M.D., East
John W. Raymond
Commissioned
Second Lieutenant
John W. Raymond. Jr. was
among" the graduates at
graduation exercises held June
4 at The College of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia;
he received the Bachelor of
Science Degree in Biology. Also
he was commissioned a Second
Lieutenant in the I'.S. Army
during R.O.T.C, commissioning
exercises held June 3 at Phi
Bea Kappa Memorial Hall.
He received the Distinguished
Military Graduate Award which
was presented to those who
showed exceptional leadership
ability, high moral character,
noteworthy academic
achievement and special ap
titude for military service.
After 9 weeks training at
Basic Officer's School Fort
Bliss. F.I Paso. Texas, he will
serve a our of duty in Ger
many. He will be accompanied
by his wife, the former Irene
Elliott of Hertford and their
daughter. Rhoda.
Social Security
Cards Needed
For Summer Jobs
The Social Security Office
warns io remind all young
people who will be seeking
summer jobs that they will need
a social security card.
The best time to get the card
is now. If you wait until the last
minute you may miss out on a
job just because you don't have
the number.
If you are going to be looking
for a job this summer and have
never had a social security card
or have lost your card,
telephone your social security
office,
EC Begins
Summer Program
-The Economic Improvement
Council. Inc., is appealing to all
Civic Groups, Churches, private
and Public agencies and all
Interested Persons in the
Albemarle Area, to give support
(o its pilot Summer Feeding
Program. This program
features cold boxed lunches in
cooperation with organized
youth activities.
Contributions of playground
equipment, general toys,
volunteer services, etc. could
greatly assist this effort.
The program began Monday,
June 12. 1972 in each of the ten
counties.
For further details contact
Mr. Willie Vaughn, Manpower
Counselor, Perquimans
County Economic Resource
Center, Hertford, North
Carolina. Phone 462-7868.
Carolina University, Green
ville. N.C.
The "key-note" banquet
speaker and entertainer for
Saturday night will be Edward
L. Flemming. Ed.D. of Saint
Leo's College, Florida. Dr.
Flemming is widely known
throughout eastern North
Carolina as he has been a
favorite public speaker for
many groups, including
medical, education, social
workers, and P.T.A. groups for
several years.
Current officers of the
Seaboard Medical Association
are: President: G. Reginald
Tucker. Jr., M.D., Henderson.
N.C: First Vice-President and
President-Elect. G. Fletcher
Rieman. M.D., Norfolk, Va.;
Second Vice-President,
Augustus A. McLean, Jr., M.D.,
Murfreesboro, N.C: Third
Vice-President. Julian W. Selig.
Jr., M.D.. Norfolk. Va.; Fourth
Vice-President, Charles' J.
Sawyer, M.D.. Ahoskie, N.C.
and Secretary-Treasurer, M.A.
Pittman, Jr.. M.D., Wilson,
N.C.
Special tournaments for golf
and tennis are included in the
recreational activities during
the week-end stay at Nags
Head.
Tax Rate
Scheduled
The Board authorized the
Perquimans Chamber of
Commerce to have 7.500
Brochures printed.
The following Budgets were
authorized by the Board to be
amended:
Board of Elections in the
amount of $800.00; Tax
Supervisor in the amount of
$500.00: and the Register of
Deeds in the amount of $500.00;
with funds to come from excess
Sales Tax funds.
The Board of Perquimans
ifountv Commissioners met last
Monday and tentatively set the
1972-73 Tax Rate at $1.80 per
(luindred dollars assessed
valuation. This is an increase of
B.10 over last vear's rate of
fH .70. The tentative Budget for
1972-73 was adopted.
Birthdays And
Civic Meetings
JUNE 18
FATHERS DAY
Bill Cherry
Sheron Swindell
Travis Walker
Tracie Walker
JUNE 19
Jarvis Dail
Theresa Cartwright
Chamber Com. Bd. Dir.
JUNE 20
Larry Swindell
Lizzie Boyce
Diana Paige Mansfield
Chris Byrum
Mr. and Mrs. David Boyce
Anniversary
Wallace Nelson
Hertford Rotary Club 6:15
Masonic Lodge 8:00
JUNE 21
Joyce Riddick
Irene D. Rouse
Tyrone Jones
Durants Neck Ruritan
JUNE 22 1
Billy Elliott
Tammy Jo White
Bethel Ruritan
JUNE 23
None
JUNE 24
Mr. George Byrum An
niversary Lynn Pendleton
Gary Hunter
Lynn Hurdle
Club Sponsors
Rummage Sale
A "Rummage Sale" spon
sored by the Home Economics
Committee of the Perquimans
County Extension
Homemakers' Clubs will be the
order of the day on Wednesday,
June 21, according to the
Chairman. Mrs. Eva Hurdle.
Items will be displayed and on
sale by 10:00 a.m., at the County
Office Building in Hertford.
The public will have the op
portunity to select such items as
handbags, window curtains,
toys, sweaters, bathing suits
and other items of clothing.
Names Omitted
The following firemen's
names were inadvertently left
ou of the news article on the
Hertford Fire Department
training in the May 29 issue of
the weekly.
Henry C Stokes, Jr. com
pleted air pak training. Bill
Fowler. C.T. Howell.
Assistant Chief Chas.
Harrell assisted with
'raining program on
and
M.
the
Self
Contained Breathing apparatus
and smoke ejection equipment.
Board Of Directors
To Meet Monday
The Perquimans County
Chamber of Commerce Board
of Directors will meet Monday,
June 19, at the Municipal
Building. The meeting will
begin at 8 p.m.
All members are urged to
attend.
Tentatively
For $1.80
In other matters of business
the Board adopted a Resolution
supporting the Newbold-White
Restoration Project.
Sealed bids. for fuel oil and LP
gas to be used by . County
agencies during 1972-73 are now
acceptable. The Board reserves
the right to reject any and all
bids. Bids are to be submitted
on or before 10 a.m. Monday,
July 3. 1972. -
The Board voted to join the
National County Com
missioners Association. .
Williams Attending
Conservation Workshop
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and Mrs. Bill Williams of Route
1. Hertford is representing
Perquimans County at the 1972
Resource Conservation
Workshop on the campus of
N.C Stale University in Raleigh
this week. June 12-16, according
to Floyd Mathews. Chairman of
the Perquimans Soil and Water
Conservation Committee, local
sponsors.
Eddie will be a senior at
Perquimans High School in
September. He has been very
active in FFA during his high
school years, and was a
member of this year's Land
Judging Team that placed
second in the District.
The workshop, an annual
affair sponsored by the N.C.
Chapter of the Soil Conservation
Society of America, the N.C.
Association of Soil and Water
Conservation Districts and the
Slate Soil and Water Con
servation Committee, is
designed to acquaint students
with conservation and natural
resources development as well
as rareer opportunities in
conservation fields.
According to Mr. Mathews,
'he boys will receive in
structioas in many phases of
conservation and natural
resource development; go on
field trips, and have time for fun
and recreation.
Gospel Concert
Scheduled
At WoodvUh
The Klaudt Indian family,
Arlckara gospel singers from
the "Dakota Badlands" will
appear in person on Sunday,
June 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the
Woodville Pentlcostal Holiness
Church in a gospel concert.
The Indian singing group is
composed of one family. Dad
and Mom and four sons, Ver
non, Melvin, Raymond and
Kennith along with pianist
Ralph Sabel. Their singing is
backed by a wide variety of
instruments including : piano,
trombone, alto and baritone
saxaphone and bass violin.
The unique faature of the
concert is the appearance of the
Indian family on stage in
colorful, authentic Indian
costumes made by the mem
bers of the family. . This is a
sight that children will; : not
forget. ;;;:";'
The Klaudt Indian family has
traveled for 40 years throughput
America, record 100,000 miles a
year. They have ifecGr'ded
albums that receiv: national
acclaim, make frequent " ap
pearances on natiohal
television, and have appeared
in motion pictures. : t 't
The public is cordially in
vited. :
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