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.WEEKLY
Volume 23-No. 42
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 19, 1972
10 Cents Per Copy
County Superior
Court Convenes
Perquimans County Superior
Court will convene October 30
with Judge Albert W. Cowper,
presiding and Thomas S. Watts,
prosecuting.
Criminal Court docket for the
October 30, 1972 session as
. follows: "I-?"-- :::.;S--....:
State vs. William H. King, Jr.,
compliance; William Hill
Black, Jr., speeding 71 in 60
zone; Melvin Earl Barrington,
failure to stop for stop sign,
siren; Melvin Earl Barrington,
recKiess driving; William P.
Holley, bastardy; Gerald
Richardson Buchanan, driving
under influence; John Henry
Carter, driving under influence
(2nd); Leamont Tucker Ed
wards, speeding 83 in 60 zone.
Willie Dudson Colson, Jr.,
driving under influence and
Services Held
For W.C. Lassiter
William Causey Lassiter, 85,
aretiredfarmerofRoutel, died
Saturday morning at 12:10 in
the Chowan Hospital following a
day's illness.
A native of Gates County, he
was the son of the late John Q
and Mrs. Louise Pierce
Lassiter. He was a member of
the Bethlehem Church of Christ
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Elizabeth Daniels Lassiter; a
son, Raymond A. Lassiter of
Route 1 ; a daughter, Mrs. Rosa
Kuczo of Arlington, Va.; a
brother, Martin Lassiter of
Suffolk, Va.; a sister, Mrs. Jett
Blanchard of Suffolk, Va.; three
grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
4 Funeral services were held
Monday at 2:00 in the chapel of
the Swindell Funeral Home by
the Rev. Melvin Styons with
burial in Cedarwood Cemetery.
. "Have .Thine Own Way',' was
' sung by the choir of Bethlehem
Church of Christ accompanied
by Mrs. Preston Morgan,
organist : ...
The casket pall was made of
red carnations, white
chrysanthemums and fern.
Pallbearers were Earl
Riddick, William Stallings,
Josiah Proctor, Joseph Proctor,
. Louis Proctor, Roy Boyce.
Chief Arfhivist Claims Only
House Of Its Kind In The State
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Buchanan checks (he home's brickwork
pattern. Looking on are William Dodge of
Dodge and Beckwith. a Raleigh ar
, The Perquimans County
. Restoration Association was
told Saturday by the nation's
leading expert on 17th century
homes that the Newbold-White
House here is a valuable piece of!
property and should . be
'preserved.
Paul Buchanan, director of
Architectural Research for
Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.
looked over the structure and
(aid, "it's too early to give
scific details," concerning its
iortance, "but ar-
acturally It is very word-
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;,ere have been some
a charts," he s J, "' t
Ralph
G,
in-
under
fluence; LawlasMeche, driving
under influence; Preston
Copeland, murder. .
: James Garfield Bunch, public
drunkenness; James Garfield
Bunch, driving under influence;
James Garfield Bunch, escape;
James Garfield Bunch, damage
public property; Ken Maynard
Jones, improper parking, ob
structing highway.
Basil Edward Hardin, Jr.,
escape (2nd); Basil E. Harden,
escape (3rd); and John
Williams, escape.
American Legion
Auxiliary Division
Meet Held
The American Legion
Auxiliary First Division of the
North Carolina Department
meeting was held in Greenville
at the Legion Home, October 12,
State officers 'present in
cluded Mrs. Frank Ray of
Hillsborough, Department
President ; and Miss Nolle Wood
of Salisbury, Department Vice
President;
Past officers present in
eluded: Mrs. John A. Ward, Sr.
of Williamston, Past Depart
ment President ; Mrs, Dallas
Waters of Plymouth, Past
Department President; Mrs.
W.E. Mills, of Edenton, Past
Division President; Mrs. Etta
Gill of Greenville, Past Division
President. " , ,;,
Present from Hertford were:
Mrs. L.D. Myers, President of
Unit 126; Mrs. Nathan Sawyer,.
First District President; and
Mrs. Julian Powell, Past First
District president. Mrs. Sawyer
led I he Pledge to The Flag. - v
Mrs. W.A. WatsoV of , Hen
derson, First Division
President, presided at the
morning business session,
which began at 10 a.m.
Registration and a Coffee hour
was held prior to the opening
meeting. The Devotional was
given by Miss Mary G. Win-
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reckless driving;
Bryant, driving
chitectural firm, and Honeycutt.
(Perquimans County Chamber of Com
inrrcf Photo)
a lot of the original brickwork is
intact and most of the bricks on
the outside have not been
tampered with, compared to
most old homes."
; The he-, for . which ! the
Restoration Association is
attempting to raise money so
that it can be restored and
exhibited, "is probably (he
oldest structure in the state, one
of North Carolina's most
s" "--rent I-:! y-3." said A.L.
I 't,t" f t -chivist of the
C. (f A'. :v;s ai K ctory,
Cv. rt.. :it of Art Culture
e-i I" 'cry. Vi sz'i the hoi'e
cr'j have been built in the
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Hertford's Jim Hunter Takes 2nd
Game In Series For Oakland A's
Jim (Catfish) Hunter, who
silenced Cincinnati's thun
dering bats in the second game
of the World "Series, is a
tobacco-chewing farm boy from
a place in North Carolina called
"Bear Swamp." He still carries
15 shotgun pellets in his right
foot
"I always wanted 'to be a
game warden," the 26-year-old
right-hander from Hertford,
N.C. said in the milling Oakland
dressing room after the
Athletics 2-1 victory. "I guess
when I'm through with basebal,
I'll go back to the farm."
Hunter was six yeas old, the
baby of 10 children, when he ran
away from home. Hours later,
his distressed parents found
him. He had already caught two
catfish and had a third on the
line.
"From then on, my name was
'Catfish,' "he drawled, shoving
a wad of chewing sum to the
other side of his mouth.
"I like tobacco best and chew
it" Hunter said, "but in a game
sometimes I swallow it and get
sick, so I chew chewing gum
instead."
Hunter was 17, a star high
school athlete, when he went
hunting with a 21-year-old
brother.
"We were walking along side
by side and suddenly the gun
went off," he said. "I looked
down and blood was coming out ,
of tne notes in my boots. I said to
my brother; 'Look what you've
done." , :.''..;:''v
Catfish lost his little toe and
the use of the others on his right
foot but Charles O. Finely,
owner of the Athletics then at
Kansas ; City, ; signed him
nevertheless to a $75,000 bonus
contract
"At the time," Hunter ex
plained, "I never,, thought I'd
play baseball or anythirig'else
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Catfish pitched five no-hit
games in high school and
fashioned a perfect game one
of 11 in major-league history
in beating Minnesota, 4-0, on
May 8, 1968.
He was signed to a Daytona
Beach contract in the Florida
League but never went to the
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Honeycutt. who has been
working closely with the
association told a Friday night
meeting of 'he : Board of
Directors that the Newbold
White House, "is a little jewel
crying to be restored and
exhibited. ,
"It's the only one of its kind in
the state." he said.
It has: definitely been
established as the earliest
known brick dwelling of the hall
and parlor type showing,
"medieval building practics
and arch: ztural forms, better
than any chcr structure in the
state." said Ray Winslow,
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riitfisli Hunter Throws Out
mound. In 1965, he joined the
A's at Kansas City without ever
experiencing a minor-league
game.
When Catfish's contract
renewal came up last spring
after a 21-11 season, he asked
for $50,000. Finley offered him
"You ought to pay me for my
.350 batting average,' Catfish
argued.
"I guess you're right," the
controversial A's owner said.
"You get the $50,000."
"That's the reason I got such
a kick out of that hit in the first
inning. I wanted to show Mr.
Finley he didn't waste his
$5,000," Hunter said.
FHA Staff Af tends State Meeting
Employees of the Farmers
Home Administration met
October 10 and 11 at the John
Yancey Motor Hotel at Atlantic
Beach. North Carolina, for a
two-day workshop on methods
for ' implementing a greatly
expanding Farmers Home
Birthdays And
Civic Meetings .
OCTOBER 22
Mr, & Mrs; E. W. Chappell
Anniversary
' , OCTOBER 23
Veterans Day
William Leicester
Margaret Ann Williams
Cornelia Sptvey
Belv.-Ch. Hill Firemen
Perq Co. Rescue Squad
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Eva Ann Taylor
Hertford Rotary Club 6:15
Masonic Lodge 8:00
Belv. Homemakers Club
. OCTOBER 25
Carol Lane ,
Todd Tilley
' OCTOBER 26
Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Lay den
Anniversary
Margaret Mansfield
Gerald Blanchard
Michael Hurdle ,
Becky Winslow
Kathreen Nelson '
Thelma W. Skinner '
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Whedbee
Anniversary
Bethel Rliritan
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Dorris B. White
Sergeant Pepper Perry
Janet Daft '
Perry Chappell
Gertha White
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Robert Sutton
Timothy White
Brad Fields -Paige
Walker
Gloria Copeland
Dean Lane
Denis Menke . after barehanded stop in sixth inning.
Hunter held the hard-hitting
Reds to four hits and no runs
through the first eight innings
before yielding two singles in
the ninth.
"I was a little tired but I felt I
could hold them." he said.
"When Williams (Dick
Williams, Oakland managers
ciftie out titalce rte out, I told
him I wanted to stay in. He said,
'You did a hell of a job but I'm
going to make a change.' "
Rollie Fingers came in to get
out Julian Javier and end the
game. '-Jk
Had Fingers faltered,
Williams also had Vida Blue
warming up. Changing his
pitching plans almost hourly,
Administration program.
Attending the meeting from
the Hertford-Elizabeth City
FHA Offices were Melvin E.
Howell, County Supervisor, O.
Waldo Winslow, Assistant
County Supervisor, Mrs. Inez H.
Sawyer. County Office Clerk,
Mrs. Ida H. Newbern, Assistant
County Office Clerk and Jacob
A.- Stafford, Construction In
spector. State Director James T.
Johnson addressed the meeting
and praised the employees for
making the North Carolina FHA
program one of the largest
programs in the nation. He
stated that Farmers, rural
residents and communities in
North Carolina.
Johnson said that Farmers
Home Administration in North
Carolina had the best overall
Newbold-White House
Drive At Half-Way Point
R. L. Stevenson, Finance
Committee Chairman for 'he
Perquimans County
Restoration Association,
reports that the Newbold-White
House Project drive is now at
.'he half-way point and total
pledges, as of October 13, were
$8,141.00. which is slightly less
'han half of the 'olal goal of
$17,500. The campaign ends on
November 15 and Stevenson
urges all Perquimans County
residents to get their pledges in
as soon as possible. He stated
'hat it would be physically
impossible, for the Restoration
Association Finance Committee
Members, tocall on each family
but that an urgent appeal is
being made to all citizens and
friends of Perquimans County
to participate in the restoration
of North Carolina's oldest
house.
Many have expressed a desire
ill
Williams said he had decided
he'd feel more comfortable with
Blue in the bullpen throughout
the Series. After Blue saved
Saturday's 3-2 victory, Williams
said the. young left-hander
would be saved for a starting
assignment in game No. 4.
5 4'Vida's ready, willing and
able to relieve," Williams said.
"We don't think he'll start
now."
Blue confirmed his
willingness to stay in the
bullpen, but with no show of
enthusiasm.
"He thought I would be more
effective coming out of the
bullpen and I agreed," Blue
said.
program in the nation. He cited
several "firsts" for the State
FHA, such as having the first
solid waste disposal project in
the nation, being first in total
number of solid waste projects
and having the largest dollar
volume for rural housing loans
of any state in the nation.
Johnson compared the
agency's program over the last
three years and said that in
1969, FHA loaned 65 million
dollars In North Carolina. In
1970, it Increased to 81 million
dollars. In 1971, it went to 123
million dollars and In 1972, to a
record 150 million dollars for
North Carolina. This year's
programs are projected to
exceed 180 million dollars or
triple that of three years ago.
These services have provided
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'o make Memorial Gifts to the
Newbold-White House Project.
Several have been received and
'he most recent have been
$25:00 Memorial Gifts in
memory of Edna Fields Win
slow. Mattie Toms White, John
Broughton, Jr., James Leigh
and Hillary G. Winslow.
Stevenson stated that a
'Memorial Book is '0 be kept a'
'he Newbold-White House,
containing a tecord of the
names of all those for whom
Memorial Gifts are received, as
well as the names of all donors.
Stevenson stated that pledges
for $100 each from ninety-four
families would put our county
"over 'he top" in this cam
paign. Pledges can be made directly
'o Mr. Stevenson at Peoples
Bank. Hertford or to any
member of the Restoration
Association.
80 Jurors
For Oct. Term
Of Superior Court
The following eighty persons
ere drawn to serve as Jurors,
at
the Superior Term of Court,
for Perquimans County, which
convenes on October 30, 1972.
WillianV Seth Umphlett,
Grover M. Hollowell, A. Leo
Ambrose. Johnnie Floyd
Matthews. Thomas S. Russell.
Eldon Winslow. Charlie
Raymond Cartwright. Nettie
Umphlett. Lindsey C. Baccus.
S.A. Dail. Mathcw Blanchard,
Arnold E. Winslow. Haywood
Boyce. Elmer E. Chappell.
Elsie Haslam, Herbert McCoy
Farrow. Lewis Davis Burke.
Henry W. Bright. Clarence S.
Chappell. Talmadge Stallings.
Felton Harrell, George G.
Winslow, Herbert Williams,
Thomas H. White. Floyd
Hall, Quinton
Charles E. White,
Banks, Ruth W.
White, Sr.,
Emory, Robert
Marvin Caddv, Calude
Rountree. Annie Hofler Hurdle,
Minnie Perry White. Donald
Gene Perry, John Vivin Mat
thews. Shelton G. Chappell, R.
H. Ownley, Jr., George H.
Blanchard. ,Ruby A. White,
Alice Hawkins, Elsie Bunch
Gregory. Carl N. Owens, Glenn
R. Matthews, Jack W. Harrell,
Alton M. Ivey, Joseph H. Crow,
Jr.
Dutchie Spear, Joe A.
Harrell, Moses Linwood
Raymond Lassiier
Dies Ai Home
Raymond Aydlette Lassiter,
51, of Route 1, Hertford, died
Tuesday morning at ft: 30 in his
home. He had been ill for three
months.
A native of Gates County, he
was the son of Mrs. Elizabeth
Daniels Lassiter and the late
William Causey Lassiter.
He was a member of the
Bethlehem Church of Christ and
was an electrical contractor.
Besides his mother, he is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruby
Yates Lassiter; two sons,
Raymond A. Lassiter, Jr. of
Hertford and Allen Lassiter of
Route 1 , Hertford; a sister, Mrs..
Rosa Kuczo of Arlington, Va.
and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday at 2:00 in the Chapel
of the Swindell Funeral Home
by the Rev. Melvin Styons.
Burial will be in Cedarwood
Cemetery.
Veterans Week
Mayor Cox has issued a
proclamation calling attention
to Veterans Week. October 23
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Citizens are encouraged to
recognize veterans of all wars,
the living, the dead, and those
who are prisoners of war and
missing in action in Southeast
Asia.
Local Exhibit On
Display At State Fair
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"Above is a picture of a Community Program Exhibit oa f
display at the State Fair in Raleigh. N.C. The exhibitor
representative of the work being carried on in Belvidere.
Community of Perquimans County. Belvldere waa one of
the eight area winning communities in the state com-'.
petition in 1171. The exhibit can be seen from :4M a.m. U
lo.no midnight October 13-21 at Department "A" of ,the
Arena." states W.C. Strowd, Agricultural Extension;, -gent.
of Perquimans County.
Drawn
Blanchard, Walton Lane, Osie
Lee Cooper, Samuel Dixon,
Elizabeth Langdon Dail,
Virginia Poole Hofler, William
Beaman, Sallie Marie Jennings,
James W. Rountree, Raymond
A. Winslow, Jr., Clark Maynard
White, Linford Stallings,
William Freeland Elliott,
Kenneth Bateman, MolUe." F".
Bunch.
Susie Hunter Collins, . J.W.
Hampton, Eddie Harrell,
Thelma W. Elliott, Carl W.
Lewis. R E. Vickers, Walter W.
White, Jr.. Fannie M. Harrell,
John P. Danchise. Charles E
Johnson. Calvin Steward, Mary
Murray Billups and M. Henry
Elliott'.
The following are to serve on
the Grand Jury this time:
Wilbert M. Tillett, Jr., Peggy
S. Muldrow, Charlie Matthews,
Bertha James, William Xeroy
Lamb, Edward Lee Nixon,
Josiah Elliott, James Sawyer
and Charles E. Cam pen
Judge Horner
Presides At
District Court
Judge Fentress Horner
presided at the Wednesday
session of Perquimans District
Court and heard the following
cases:
Carlton Small, Dutchie Spear,
Jr., and Clarence Jennings,
charged with unlawful hunting,
received sentences of 30 days
each, which were suspended
upon payment of fines of $25.00
and costs. The defendants were
also ordered to surrender their
guns to the Sheriff for 6 morltfws
and not do any hunting for' the
remainder of the hunting
season;
John Henry Davis, charged
with assault, was given, a
sentence of 6 months on the
roads;
B. M. Miller, Jr. was given a
30 day sentence which was
suspended on condition that he
pay a fine of $50.00 and costs for
issuing a worthless check;
Vincent James Morolla, John
Anthony Sadowski, Bobby
Lawson, Patrick Terence
Murray (alias William E.
Christian), and Mike Mandell
were found not guilty of charges
of breaking and entering.
To Organize
Girl Scouts
Mothers who are interested in
organizing a Girl Scout Troop in
Hertford arc-urged to attend a
special meeting to be held at the
Holy Trinity Church on Thurs
day, October 19 at 7:30 p.m, : ;
Mrs. Carolyn Cutler, cor
dinator. stated that girls in the
2nd. thru the 9th grades would
be eligible to become Girl
Scouts.
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