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" ; A Look Backward Birthdays And
By Virginia White Transeau
Jan. 1935
PERQUIMANS FARMERS sign-up, stated that he will be
CROWD DISTRICTS TO SIGN glad to furnish any information
PEANUT C 0 N T R A C T : to peanut growers in reference
Saturday, is the time limit set to the contracts, There is every
for the signing up of the peanut indication that most of farmers
acreage reduction contracts.
All four points in the county
designated as the proper place
for the farmers of that com
munity to sign contracts have
been busy places since the sign
tip began. W.E. White, who is
assisting L.W. Anderson,
Cfarttjjl Agent, with the peanut
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Commerce Activities
The Perquimans County
Chamber of Commerce
inaugurated the presentation, .'
monthly, of film programs,
most of Vk hich will be of general -interest.
There will be old ones
and new ones, short and long
ones and, some award winners.
A full schedule will be an
nounced later to- take the
programming up to July. But
each showing will be about 90
minutes. They will be held the
third Thursday of each month at
8 p.m. in the courthouse. Ad
mission is free, of course. - :,
The programs should be of
interest to everyone. Sincere
thanks to th Pasquotank
Camden Library for sharing
every kindness, helping the '
Chamber to obtain th films.
And speaking of Chamber
activities, one is going on right
now. It is the membership
drive. Some few who have been
contacted have not yet pledged
for the forthcoming year. But
we ire hoping they'll re-join us ..
afkr being re-contacted. With
most, it is oversight.
In this county, as in every
one, there are always a small
group-three or four, no more-'
who couldn't care less about
w-t happens in and with their
C . nunity. It is, generally
i by their lack of
' Tdgr about, ind interest
jinrChamber of Commerce.
- vfhe Christmas parade and
banquet are behind us now.,
Both were most successful, t
although the bands we usually
get for the former, both of them,
were out ot town the weekend
our parade was held. The
banquet was outstanding,
thanks to guest speaker;
Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles and
the entertainment' group, The ;
Young Believers. Most of us
can't remember When the en
tertainment received a standing
ovation before. Needless to say,
the same happened with
Bowles. " r
An important reminder from ;
ihe Chamber. The 1973 license
!ates are now on sale there. At
;d e you get the plates
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7 P" '::3 CTZic Ilours
' 1 1 ' r ,-ve o. r many customers and friends,
' 'y will have it's offlce open daily
I f; i;m 12 noon until 3 p.m. During the
7, v e will Le contacting our advertisers. '
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of Perquimans will sign the
contracts.
MRS. VIRGIE NEWBERN
KILLED IN AUTO WRECK:.
Mrs. Virgie Newbern, 27, wife of
Graham Newver and a
. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.E.
Walker, was killed in an
automobile accident which
occured at a Norfolk Southern
Railroad crossing in Camden
County, on the highway between
Elizabeth City and Norfolk on
Tuesday night. Mrs. Newbern
leaves in addition to her parents
Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Walker, her
, husband Graham Newbern of
Jarvisburg, four small children,
one an infant, . two sisters,
V Shirley and Effie Walker, and
one brother, Morgan Walker, all
of Hertford. -
R.A, WHITE REPORTED
INJURED IN ACCIDENT;
Whether or not the rumor that
R.A. White has received a badly
wounded hand while working as
foreman in a log woods: near
' Ayden, still remains to be
learned. 1
MRS. JESSUP SHAKEN UP
.:" IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT:
Mrs. T.L. Jessup narrowly
missed serious iniurv and
v escaped with minor bruises
when she was thrown out of the
: Ford Coupe in which she was
riding, with her husband at the
wheel, when the door of the car
was flung open on Tuesday. The
accident occured at the corner of
Market Street and Edenton
" Road while Mrs. Mrs. Jessup
was returning to the
Perquimans High School, where
she teaches, after the noon
' recess.
- MISS GLASSON RESIGNS
AS TEACHER OF SCIENCE:
Much regret is expressed at the
resignation of Miss Mary
Glasson, science teacher at
Perquimans High School. Miss
Glasson's resignation is the
result of the condition of her
father, Dr. J.H. Glasson, of
Duke University, who was in
jured in an automobile accident
which occured several weeks
ago.
WANTS WAR REPORT
House Speaker Carl Albert
' says the new 93rd Congress
should get a full report from
President Nixon's top ad
visers on the b o m b I n g of
North Vietnam before It tries
- to take steps to end the war.
ON LEADED GAS '
The Environmental Pro
tection Agency has proposed
to force gasoline stations to
offer at least one lead-free
brand by mid-1974 and clean
the lead out of other brands
by 1978.
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Civic Meetings
JANUARY 14
Lori Ann White
Leo Dail
Jennifer Roberts
Jackie Hunter
Sarah Nixon
JANUARY 15
Deborah King ,
Samuel Mansfield
Earl Bateman
Judy K, Long
Helen Morgan
Chamber Com. Bd. Dir.
JANUARY 16
Cathy Allen
Linda Rouse
Mary Ruth Smith
Tommy Sawyer
Helen Winslow
Suzanne S. Bunch
Hertford Rotary Club 6:15
Masonic Lodge 8:00
JANUARY 17
Pete Owens
Frances Monds
Rufus Proctor
Durants Neck Ruritan
JANUARY 18
Susan Cox
Gina Stevenson
Brian Baker
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Area Student Works
On COA Work-Study
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Earning part of her education and still attending school
full-time, Miss Linda Baker of Hertford is only one of the
over 200 students employed under the College Work-Study
.Program during the Winter Quarter at the College of The
Albemarle. These students earn over $70,000 during the
academic year to provide finances for college expenses.
While Miss Baker works in the COA Admissions Office,
other Work-Study jobs include secretaries, librarians,
switch board operators, lab assistants and many others.
Local Student Will
Be Interviewed For
Morehead Award
George Bradley Fields, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Fields of
Hertford, is one of twenty-one
high school senior men from 17
counties in this area who will be
interviewed in Williamston on
Monday, January 15, by the
District 1 Morehead Selection
Committee.
Interviews will be held at the
Town and Country Restaurant.
Lorimer Midgett of Elizabeth
City is chairman of the District
1 Committee. Members are
Ralph L. Basnight of Ahoskie;
Louis Stuart Ficklen of
Greenville; Thomas W. Hicks of
Rocky Mount; and Francis P.
Jenkins of Tarboro.
District 1 is composed of
Beaufort, Bertie, Camden,
Chowan. Currituck, Dare,
Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax,
Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Nash,
Northampton, Pasquotank,
Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell and
Washington counties.
Six finalists will be chosen
from District I to appear in
(hapel Hill March 2-5 for in
terviews with the.' Central
Morehead Selection C ommittee.
Each of the state's in
Morehead Awards district
committees will select six
finalists to be interviewed in
Chapel Hill along with 52
nominees from 2fi private
preparatory schools.
The Morehead Foundation's
Perq- Commissioners
Approve Bond Issue
The Board of Perquimans
County Commissioners voted
Tuesday at their monthly
meeting to sell Bonds in the
-amount of $26,000.00. The
money will be used for the
Chowan-Perquimans Sanitary
Landfill Project, located in
Chowan County.
The Board, also, voted to
appropriate $275.00 to the
Program for the Aged, spon
sored by the Albemarle
Regional Planning and
Development Commission.
Directors To Meet
The regular monthly meeting
of the Perquimans County
Chamber Of Commerce Board
of Directors will be held
Monday night at 8 p.m. in the
Municipal Building.
The meeting should be brief
and all board members are
urged to attend.
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Board of Trustees- makes the
final selection of winners. Hugh
G. Chatham of Elkin is chair
man. Members are Alan T.
Dickson of Charlotte; Frank
Borden Hanes of Winston
Salem; Richard T. Chatham Jr,
of Elkin; and Dr. Robert Cluett
of York University in Toronto,
Canada.
Morehead Awards provide
all-expense paid undergraduate
educations at the University of
North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
With the increase in tuition and
other education expenses, the
Morehead Foundation Trustees
have increased the value of the
award to $2,250 per year,
making the four-year award for
N.C. residents $9,000.
The Awards were established
in 1951 by the late John Motley
Morehead, a UNC graduate and
native North Carolinian. He
resided in Rye, N.Y., until his
death in 1965.
Man Charged
With Possession
Of Heroin
A 22-year old man was
arrested last Thursday by FBI
agents and charged with
liossession of heroin and nar
cotic implements.
Arrested at his two-story
frame dwelling at 329 King St.
here was James Everett. The
street value of the dope was
valued at $1,000, according to
officers.
Investigators discovered not
only heroin but a syringe,
cooker and needles.
Assisting, in the arrest were
county and town officials.
Everett is in the Albemarle
District Jail under a $12,000
bond.
Thomas F. Jordan
Dies InPortsmouth,Va.
Thomas Franklin Jordan, 61,
died Monday at 2:00 in the
Portsmouth General Hospital
following a long illness. A
former resident of Hertford, he
lived at 575 Freedom Avenue in
Porstmouth.
His parents were the late
James T. and Mrs. Ollie Byrum
Jordan.
He was a member of the
Academy Park Baptist Church
where he was a deacon and
prior to his retirement, he did
bridge construction work.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. -Delma
Hare 'Jordan; two
daughters, Mrs. Frankie Mae
Jones of Portsmouth and Miss
Margaret A. Jordan of Denver,
C olorado; a son, Thomas A.
Jordan of Portsmouth; a
brother, J. Gurney Jordan of
Chesapeake, Va.; three sisters,
Mrs. Cornelia A. Spivey and
Mrs. Lillie Mae Lane of Route 1 ,
Hertford and Mrs. Ethel J.
Collins of Titusville, Florida;
and four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be
Thursday at 11 a.m. in the
Academy Park Baptist Church
in Portsmouth Va. Burial will
be in Beaver Hill Cemetery.
The body was removed to
Snellings Funeral Home in
Portsmouth pending completion
of funeral arrangements.
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Estimated Income Tax
Deadline For Farmers
Farmers who earned at least
two-thirds of, their 1972 gross
income, from farming should
file their 1972 declaration of
estimated Federal individual
income tax and pay the tax by
Monday, January 15, 1973, using
Form 1040 ES. ,.
, . However, farmers ; do not
have to file a declaration if they
file their 1972 tax return and pay
all the tax due by March l, 1973. -
Publication 505, "Tax
Withholding and Declaration of
Estimated 'Tax," furnishes
information on this subject It is
available free at your , IRS"
district office. -
Fishermen who expect to
receive at least two-thirds of '
their gross income from fishing
follow the same rules as far
mers. . . '.,- ' ' .
Telephone Companies
Elect New Officers
L.S. BLADES DI
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W.H. OAKLEY, JR.
The Norfolk & Carolina
Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany (N.C. Co.) directors, in
their December meeting,
elected L. S. Blades, III,
president: and they and the
directors of The Norfolk &
Carolina Telephone &
Telegraph Co. of Va. (Va. Co.)
elected W. W. Foreman, C. O.
Robinson, Jr., and W. H. Oakey,
Jr., as vice-presidents, all to be
.effective January 1. L. S.
Blades, Jr., will reamin
chairman of the board of both
companies and president of the
Va. Co., and C. C; Blades vice
president, Mamie S. Blades,
secretary and treasurer, and W.
C , Meekins, Jr., assistant
secretary and assistant
treasurer of both companies.
The companies, headquar
tered in Elizabeth City, N.C,
now serve over 30,000
telephones in eight northeastern
North Carolina counties and
over 10,000 telephones in
Chesapeake and Virginia
Beach, Virginia.
The new president of the
North Carolina Co., age 39,
received his AB from Duke
University and LLB degree
from University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill School
of Law, passing the bar in 1958.
After practicing law for four
years with his father, they both
joined the telephone companies
full time in 1962, the younger
Blades as general counsel, later
to become vice-president. He
remains vice-president of the
Va. Co., director of First Union
National Bank (Elizabeth City),
director of North Carolina
Independent Telephone
Association (NCITA), member
of American and North Carolina
bar associations, and is an
elder-elect of Cann Memorial
Presbyterian Church. He is past
chairman of trustees of the
Albemarle Hospital, and is a
Rotarian and past Jaycee. He is
married to the former Nancy
Caldwell of Wadeville, N.C,
and is father of two sons,
Showell, IV, twelve, and Walter
C, nine.
L. S. Blades, Jr., 68. president
and chairman of the board of
both companies since 1940, has
helped guide the companies
from less than 5,000 stations to
their present aggregate of
40,000. Their plant in service
has grown from less than
$500,000 to In excess of
$20,000,000, and five exchanges
BUYING FOOD
Food Is big business
in the U. S. In 1970,
the expenditure for food
was $114 billion." Even
at this Impressive flguret
the food expenditure
represented only 17 per
cent of consumer dispos-'
abxe Income. . .
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L.S. BLADES, JR.
W.W. FOREMAN
have grown to nineteen. He
attended Duke University and
its law school, passed the bar in
1929, and practiced law in
Elizabeth City for 34 years. He
is a director for both telephone
companies, director emeritus of
First Union National Bank
(Elizabeth City), president of
Pasquotank Historical Society,
and elder of Cann Memorial
Presbyterian Church. He has
served as president of Apex
Chemical Company, NCITA,
Elizabeth City mayor, recor
' der's court judge, Rotary
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Young Couple Found
Dead In Automobile
A young Elizabeth City couple
was found dead in a car parked
on a dirt road off the Woodville
New Hope highway Saturday
evening.
Donald Morris
Speak To
Ostomy Group
Donald S. Morris of Hertford,
N.C. and Field Representative
for the Social Security Ad
ministration, with offices
located in Elizabeth City, N.C.
will be the guest speaker for the
January 14 meeting of the'
Northeastern North Carolina
Ostomy Group. Mr. Morris, who
has had 15 years experience
with the Administration, will
speak on Medicare as well as
Social Security for the
ostomate.
The meeting will be held at
2:30 p.m. at the Albemarle
Electric IJembership Cor
poration building (REA) in
Hertford. All ostomates and
friends are cordially invited.
Emergency Loans
Discontinued
The Farmers Home Ad
ministration in North Carolina
has been officially advised to
cease receiving Emergency
loan, applications and to
discontinue processing
Emergency loan applications
on hand.
This action applies to counties
in North Carolina previously
designated by the Secretary of
Agriculture.
' All counties in the Albemarle
Area are affected for sub
sequent loans in these counties
to fanners who received loans
in 1971 as a result' of Hurricane
Ginger.
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CO. ROBINSON, JR.
president, county Democratic
Party chairman, past president
Coastal Historylands, is a
Mason, Shriner, and Elk, and
has served on numerous other
boards and commissions. He is
married to the former Eliza
Laughinghouse and has two
children.
W. W. Foreman, 55, attended
Duke University, graduated
from Poughkeepsie Business
Institute, served in the Coast
Guard in World War II, is now a
tree farmer and dealer in
timber products. He is a
director for both telephone
companies, First Union
National Bank (Elizabeth City),
Southern Loan & Insurance
Company, and Atlantic
Discount Corporation. He is
chairman of the Redevelopment
Commission and past president
of Foreman Dairies Company,
United Fund, Rotary, Golf Club,
and Boys Club, and is a past
Jaycee DSA recipient. He is an
active Methodist. Governor
Scott recently appointed him on
the Edenton Historical Com
mission. He is married to the
former Dorothy Thurman, and
has three children.
C. O. Robinson, Jr., 58, at
tended Clemson University,
graduated from Goldey
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According to Perquimans
County Sheriff Julian
Broughton, James 'Randolph
Spencer, 24, and Mona Sutton,
18, had been dead from carbon
monoxide poisoning since
around 4 a.m. Saturday.
He reported that the car was
first seen at about 6:30 a.m. and
he was called to investigate at 6
p.m. when a local resident
noticed that the car had
remained in the same position
for 12 hours.
When he arrived, Broughton
found the couple dead. The
vehicle's ignition was on and the
gas tank was empty when the
Sheriff arrived. Broughton said
he does not suspect foul play.
The Pasquotank County
Medical Examiner is expected
to release a ruling on the deaths
this week.
Library News
The Perquimans County
Library has recently received
four books in memory of Myrta
White Winslow. These are:
Personal Gardening; American
Silver; Indoor Plants; and Art
Deco, a guide for collectors. The
National Geographic book of
The Vikings has been given in
memory of Watson Winslow.
Another gift to the library is a
Family History of the Wright-Lewis-Moore
and Connected
Families, by John Wright Boyd.
Other new books this week
are: Fire in the Lake, the
Vietnamese and Americans in.
Vietnam, by Frances ' Fitz
gerald; Semi-tough, by
Jenkins; The Revi Lancers, by
Masters; The Camerons, by
Criehton; The Betty. Tree, by
Ryan; Green Darkness, by
Seton; The Summer Queen, by
Graham; The Crystal Mouse,
by Deal; and Storm tide, by
Knox. ' ' ' ,
Two new biographies for
young people, David Sarnoff,
and Langston Hughes, complete
this week's list.