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t r T7 A - 7X1 WEEKLY II J , ., 1 -n Volume 23-No. 31 Hetfgerquimani County, ftorth Carolina, Thurtday, August 3. 1972 10 Cents Par Copy; Perquimans Has First Drowning Of Season ' Mrs. MattieMellyhoggard, 71,, i Of Rocky Mount was drowned at noon last Weanespay when the fishing boat in which she was a i passenger reportedly struck an ' ' object in (he Yeopim Creek High School Students Honor Aackey Lewis Mackey Lewis, a graduate of Perquimans County - High School was recently notified that he is to be featured in the i Sixth Annual Edition of WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, 1971-72, the largest student award publication in the nation, i Students from over 18,000 ; public, private, and parochial 4 high schools throughout the r country are recognized for their ' leadership in . academics, pf athletics, activities or com ? tnuirity service in the book! Less ' than l.S per cent of the junior and senior class students j nation-wide are awarded his , recognition. J Lewis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lewis, Sr. of Route J, Hertford. He was active in the ' Beta Club, the GALLEON staff, and has also received the Koonce Award for 1972, and was ,,oie Class of '72's Salutatorian. In addition, to having . his biography published in the - book, Mackey Lewis will also ' compete for one of ten $1,000.00 scholarship awards funded.. by ..: the publishers and will be In- -vited to participate in the firm's , ;annual "Survey of High Achievers" . later in the academic year. ... Lewis will attend East Carolina University this fall and , intends to major- in Mathematics. GRILL WEINERS -1 - . Weiners are great for . outdoor grills. Slash a , welner almost ," through :' lengthwise, then fill with 1- a t'.t of cheese, and grill, vr- wrap cheese-fllled r with a bacon strip a; J grill it. Crusade Crowns fCnrj "& Queen causing her to fall into the water. . . 'Mrs. Hoggard and her husband, Clarence Elliott Hoggard, were near Phillips Landing when the - accident happened. It was reported the boat powered by an out-board motor struck an object in the water causing the woman to be thrown into the water. Hoggard jumped in the water to aid his wife. Two Winfall boys, Willie Moore, Jr. and William Johnson saw the activity from the shore line and went to the couple's aid. The woman was dead after reaching shore. The body was taken to Johnson Funeral Home in Rocky Mount. Sgt. R.A. Corprew On Duty At Langley AFB U.S. Air Force Sergeant . Robert A Corprew, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Corprew, Rt. 1, Hertford, N.C, has arrived for duty at Langley .AFB, Va. Sergeant Corprew, an air craft accessories repairman, .is assigned to a unit of the Aerospace Defense Command which protects the U.S. against hostile aircraft and missiles. He previously served' at Da Nangv AB, Vietnam. The sergeant, a 1966 graduate of Perquimans County High School, received an A. A. degree in agriculture, in 1969 from North Carolina State Univer sity. ... Rites Held For Mack Meads,. Sri; . Mack Matthew Meads, Sr., 88, of route 1, Elizabeth City, died Wednesday atr 11:50 a.m. enroute to Albemarle Hospital after an illness of three years. He was a native and lifelong resident of Pasquotank County, a retired farmer, a member of Eureka Evangelical Methodist Church, and son of the late George and Mrs. Sarah Keaton Meads. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gracie Baines Meads; four daughters, Mrs. Irma Fields of Burlington, Mrs. Tennie Reid of Wichita, Kins., Mrs. Sarah Pierce of Elizabeth City and Miss Emma Meads of the home; eight sons, Elton, Richard, Earl, Mack M., Jr., Paul, Jimmy and Fred Meads,, all of route 1, Elizabeth City,' and Joseph Meads of Hertford; 24 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Funeral services were con ducted Friday at 3 p.m. in Eureka Evangelical. Methodist Church by the Rev. D.B. Cruise, pastor of Evangelical Methodist Church, and the Rev, John Owens, pastor of St. Paul Freewill BapMChurcb. Bursal was in New ' Hollywood Cemetery. U.S. Savings Bond Sales Set Record Sales of U.S. Series E and Series H Savings Bonds in Perquimans County for June were $5,380.00. January-June sales totaled $47,252.00. This represents 62.8 percent of Perquimans County's goal of $75,285.00, according to R.L. Stevenson County Volunteer Chairman. Sales of Series E and H Savings Bonds for the first six months of j, 1972 in North Carolina came to $42,912,204 the best since 1945, and 14.7 percent above the same period last year. This represents 59,8 percent of the state's 1972 dollar goal of $71,700,000. June sales of E and H Bonds came to a record $6,488,084. Sales of Series E Bonds alone , amounted to $6,375,584, topping all June sales since 1945. Nationally, total sales of E & H Bonds for the first six months amounted to $3.2 billion, 16.6 percent above a year earlier. June sales were $532 million, 10 per cent above June 1971. Ex changes of Series E for new H Bonds amounted to $28 million, 26 percent above that of last June. The cash value of Series E and H Bonds outstanding in creased : by $264 million, amounting to a record $55.9 billion. With the inclusion of Freedom Shares withdrawn from sale on July 1, 1970 holdings now total $56.5 billion, an all-time peak. ' Admitted Women can never be as successful as men. They have no wives to advise them. -Grit Football Practice To Begin August I I ' All students interested in playing football at Perquimans County High School are requested to report to the high school auditorium at 2 P.M. on Monday, August 7. A physical examination will be required at the player's expense; the cost of the examination is five dollars. Each player must have football insurance; the cost of this in surance is ten dollars. Both of these fees are to be paid on August 7. No participation in practice will be allowed until these matters are settled. " Only students who meet the eligibility standards established by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association and the North Carolina State Board of Education will be allowed to play. - The eligibility requirements are (1) No student may be approved for any athletic contest if his 20th birthday comes on or before April 1, 1973, i. e., if his date of birth was on or before April 1, 1973, (2) A student, upon first entering grade 9, is eligible for competition on high school athletic teams only during the succeeding ehCcHvutive semesters of 90 days each, (3) A student must have passed his grade in the previous academic Family Vacationing At Whitehat iaLi Area boys attending North Carolina Forestry Camp at Swansboro include (left to right) : Carrol Eddie Baker and Thomas Gregory Biggs. They are shown here with Charles Edwards, of Winton, a counsellor at the camp. Baker And7 Biggs Attend Forestry Cam d Carroll Eddie Baker and Thomas Gregory Biggs, both of Hertford, are representing Perquimans County at North Carolina's 26th annual Forestry Camp at Camp Mitchell. - The camp, held July 23-29, is conducted by the North Carolina Forest Service and is sponsored by Southern Forest Institute. Financing for the project is contributed by local pulp and paper companies including: International Paper Company, Wilmington: Champion International Corp., Canton; Westvaco Corp., Manteo; and Weyerhaeuser Comoanv. Plymouth. year and he must pass three subjects, one of which must be an academic subject, each six weeks grading period to remain eligible. A student who is ineligible when the season starts cannot become eligible for any sport, no matter what his academic record, until the end of the semester in January 1973, (4) A player must have been in attendance for at least 60 percent of the previous semester at an approved high school or in the case of a first year high school student, in an approved elementary school. (5) No student may be approved for a high school contest if he has taken part in four separate seasonal contests of the sport in which he desires approval, (6) The student's parents must be legal residents of this county. If a student's parejrtadonot iive in this county, in order , .to be eligible, he must have been in attendance at his present school one full year and have been present 75 per cent of those two semesters. No guardianship will be acknowledged where a student has a living parent. A physical conditioning week will begin on August 9th and conclude on August 16th. Dply two bouf; once a day session is permissible. ! , f m- More than 65 boys are learn ing wise use and appreciation of the forest, America's major renewable resource: Professional forest and game managers provide instruction in ecology, forest renewal and management, tree iden tification, timber harvesting and processing, forest wildfire control and game management. The boys also had frequent opportunities for swimming, softball, volleyball, boating and other recreational activities. At the conclusion of the camp, outstanding campers received prizes for excellence in forestry work, camping and athletic events. . Boating Violators To Be Grounded ikyou're a bcaterl a small burned-out " light bub . could make you an unwilling' land lubber this summer. . The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission reminds boaters that failure to display proper navigation lights at night is one of the boating safety violations checked by the U.S. Coast Guard, and as of August 7, 1972, the Coast Guard can force you to take your boat to the nearest dock if a safety violation. ' is found. The procedure comes under the new Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971 which says if on-the-scene corrections cannot be made of boating safety violations, the Coast Guard can order you to return to the nearest mooring, pier or an chorage until the violation is corrected. Among the unsafe -conditions which can cause a boat to be ordered ashore are: lack of sufficient lifesaving devices, lack of adequate fire-fighting devices, overloading, fuel leak from either the fuel system or engine, an accumulation of fuel In the bilges or anywhere except in the fuel tank. Inadequate ventilation of fumes, backfire flame control violationsand failure to display the prescribed navigation lights : between sunset and sunrise. t :v ' "1; 1. Perauimpns Could Receive $133,602 From Revenue If the; revenue sharing bill i passed recently br tKet House of Representatives Is adopted by the Senate, and signed by the' President, m-eliminary figures show mat Perquimans County governments will receive a total of $133602, according to Congress m -a n Nick Galifianakis. . Calif ianakis, a member of the House Appropriations Com mittee, voted for revenue sharing when it was approved 274-124 by the House on June 22. Formally titled the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, the measure calls for North Carolina's state govern ment to receive about $36.3 million annually and Tarheel county and municipal govern ments collectively about $76.8 million. A total of ap proximately $113.1 million in federal revenues would flow into North Carolina. "This bill is not perfect, but it is an improvement over the present state and local tax situations," Galifianakis said. "It will equalize . some tax inequities and will breathe new life into many of our hard pressed local governments. . The Looking Backward that you are about to read is taken from a June 1. 1928 issue of the Hertford Herald, Floyd J. Triplett was owner and publisher. It was published every Friday at Hertford, and an annual subscription cost only $1.50. On the front front page was a story on Women in Politics Give Old Timer Hard Jolt: Women in politics gave a demonstration in Hertford last Saturday that opened the eyes of the vete an politicians of the county and incidentally showed again the volatility of popular opinion. When Chairman Silas Whedbee called the gathering to order, he faced a larger crowd than has attended a precinct meeting in Hertford in a generation or more most women. The, tender sex occupied the right hand side in the auditorium, and there was an atmosphere of Birthdays And Civic Meetings AUGUST Jean Humphlett Carroll R.'Holmes Princess Harvey Larry Bruner AUGUST 7 Donna Phillips Winston Lane, Sr. Dessie Rountree Winfall Town Council Perq. Co; Commissioners AUGUST 8 "Buck" Smith . Lynn Elliott Janet Elaine Ball Tommy Haste Wayne Graham Leroy Lamb Hertford Rotary Club 6:15 Masonic Lodge 8:00 Perq. Horse k Pony Club Whiteston H.D. Club AUGUST Archie Blanchard Nancy Newborn Mr. and Mrs. Pete Hunter Anniversary , AUGUST 10 Ywanka Reid Joe Ward Proctor Eleanor Wilder Noah P. Gregory, Sr. AUGUST 11 Elaine Twine Roger White AUGUST 12 . Dick Brewer Patricia Lane Connie Baker Gdarge A. White, Jr. - Conr'A"-n Mr. C-.-a T. S'..inner "The New East" Magazine Scheduled For Release The EaXCarolina University Regional Develppment Institute in cooperation with Albemarle Local Students Receive Academic Honors At ECU A total of 2,486 East Carolina University students last spring made high enough grades to earn places on the University's official honor lists. Most elite among the honor students are the 347 who made all A's. Next are those who made the Dean's List by ear ning a solid B-plus average with no grade below C. The Honor Roll includes those students who made a B average with no grade below C. Perquimans students who made the Dean's List are as follows: Rebecca E. Eure, Karen Jo Haskett and William A. Magri, Jr. Those making the Honor Roll were: Douglas Floyd Benton, Timothy Glenn Baker, Kay Stallings Dail, Linda Long Dowd, Shirley J. Gregory and Janice L. Winslow. frigid propriety that caused the few men, attracted mostly by curiosity, to take the left hand side: It was purely a woman's Affair, and it would have taken more courage than appeared on the masculine side of the aisle to raise the question, Presinct Chairman Whedbee named B. C. Berry as temporary chair man and Edgar Morris a temporary secretary. These were made the permanent officers of the meeting. There was an unmistakable ainti air about the gathering. The women did not want Governor Smith for the Democratic nominee for President, and they did not want him elected if he should be nominated and they said so. On all sides the anti side had a hie maioritv. and a resolution committing Hertford township to the fortunes oi Cordell Hull was passed without discussion or opposition. Not one of the antis hesitated in voting and not one showed the least tendency to compromise. Intense feeling was displayed by many of the women par ticipants in the meeting and some of the unopposed can didates for county officers were warned of reprisals in case they are found favoring the election of Smith, before or after the .national convention. It was "practical politics" of the most (Continued on Page 6) f roud Owners Of New Fire Truck 1 Tie V.'t:;J ri-e Dejparfcaent recchrel tl;!r iz-y.C engine last Ved-J.esday. Pictured above Is tie f'ry:? ( Winfa'J, Eah V.lhiJe, taming the keys to tLe in r " truck over to Wayne Winslow. chief cf , Cy K.i Area Development Association, Coastal Plain Development Association, and ' Neuse Development Association1, released the first issues of he New East" magazine today! 1 "The New East," a Ihirty-lw page, four color magazine,: tt dedicated to the progress, of Eastern North Carolina and places Eastern North Carolina in competition witV larger metropolitan areas which for years have had their' own community magazines. j, The concept of the magazine was developed by the . East Carolina University - Regional Development Institute to promote orderly growth and potential development of, dustry, agriculture, commi and tourism. Threl organizations, the Albemarle Area Development Asiation, L.F. Amburn, Jr., President; Coastal Plain Development Association, Arthur T. Ed monason, rresiaent; ana rei nAiiAlAnmnni A it! m t Jfci George F. Cribb, Jr., iYesideni, agreed to sponsor and fund, magazine. Fifteen thousand cooies of . magazine will be distributed motels, chambers of commi and local development coi missions in order that visitoi and business prospects might learn more about the - East.: Distribution will be :a complished through-. : & cooperation - of Count; Agricultural Extensio Chairmen and East Carolina University Regional Development Institute. , Serving as the Editorii I Board for "The New East" are Chairman; Thomas W. Willii , East Carolina Universit f Regional Development Ii stitute; Members: Ef fie Ray Bateman, . Belhaven, N.C V; Gerald Butler, Halifax, N.C4; George Johnson, Goldsboro!, N.C; Dr. Hugh B, Johnsb Jr., Wilson, N.C.; : LoyW Phillips, Elizabeth City, N. assisted by Doug Mewl Editor j ana R.T. Brin Assistant to the Editorial Board. Mack B. Pearsall, Rocky Mount, is treasurer, and advisors .are Cheston Mof tershead, .Jri, Rocky Mount; and Henry Applewhite, Manted Tom Willis, Director of thjb East Carolina ' University Regional Development Inr stitute, stated mat while this was a prototype, several publishers have already shown interest in continuing the publication on a quarterly basis, and several advertisers are 1 requesting rights tp republishing "The New Easf. The lost Coonv i . " ';.! A number of Senior Citizens of i the Albemarle have made plans to attend the performance of The Lost Colony in their honor on the night of August 4th arranged by the Program on Aging in cooperation ' witi drama officials. Aging Coorv dinator Mrs. Mildred Hill of Manteo is" in charee-r-oi i arrangements for the night. ' ' . 11 ' " 4 t Vc'.jntcer Fire Department.