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PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 29-No. 6
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 8, 1973
10 Cents Per Copy
THE
Perquimans County Bond
Sales Make $75,337.00
Sales of Series E and H
Savings Bonds in Perquimans
County for December were
$9,389.00. January-December
sales totaled $75,337.00. This
represents 100 per cent of
Perquimans County's goal of
$75,285.00, according to R.L.
Stevenson, County Volunteer
Chairman.
Sales of Series E and H Bonds
in North Carolina in 1972
reached $87,121,090, the highest
since 1945, and 121.5 per cent of
the state's 1972 dollar goal of
$71,700,000. E Bond sales for the
year were $85,603,090; sales of
Series H were $1,518,000. The
combined percentage increase
in sales over 1971 was 15.8 per
cent December Savings Bonds
sales amounted to $7,476,174, an
increase of 22.2 per cent over
last December. E Bond sales
came to $7,407,674 a 27-year
record for December. Sales of H
Bonds reached $68,500.
Nationally, 1972 sales of E and
H Bonds exceeded $6.2 billion,
13.9 per cent above a year
Rites Held For
Godfrey Chappell
Godfrey Chappell, 89, died
Saturday in Chowan Hospital,
Edenton.
A native of Perquimans
County, he was a son of Elihu
and Mrs. Missouri Copeland
Chappell and the husband of
Mrs. Mildred Stallings Chap
pell. He was a retired farmer and
logger and a member of' War
wick Baptist Church.
" Besides his widow, surviving
are a son, Curtis M. Chappell of
Hobbsville; two brothers,
Jessie Thomas Chappell of
Belvidere and Caracus Chappell
of Winton; two sisters. Mrs.
Rachel M. Chappell and Mrs. J.
T. Winslow of Belvidere; a half
sister, Mrs. Lucy Ward of
Rayland; two grandchildren;
and a great-grandchild.
A funeral service was
held Monday at 2 p.m. in
Jack W. Harrell Funeral
Chapel by the Rev.
Funeral Services Held
, For George G. Barber
George Grant Barber, 78, of
7648 Gifford St., Apt. 104,
Norfolk, died Friday night at
10:15 in the Leigh Memorial
Hospital following a three week
illness.
, A native of Winf all, he was the
. son of the late George Grant and
Mrs. Esther Billups Barber.
He was a member 'of
Wesleymen's Bible Class of
Epworth United Methodist
Church in Norfolk, was an
Army veteran of World War I
and a retired quarterman of
Naval Supply Depot '
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Clara Carr Barber; a stepson,
David Leory Bracey of
Wilmington; two step
daughters, Mrs. Shirley
Roberts of Wilmington and Mrs.
Joyce Marie Berry of Hen
derson ville, Tenn.; two sisters,
Mrs. Maude Davis of Courtland,
Va. and Mrs. Clara Bullock of
Ayden; and 11 stepgrand
childreri. Funeral services were held
Monday at 11:30 in the
1 Holloman Brown Funeral Home
in Norfolk by the Rev. James F.
Barber.
Graveside services were held
at 2:30 in Cedarwood Cemetery
in Hertford.
Ostomy Group
To Meet Sunday
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Ostomy Group will hold their
regular monthly meeting
Sunday February 11th at 2:30
p.m. at the Albemarle Electric
. Membership Corporation
building In Hertford. All
Osiomates. relatives and
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earlier. E and H sales exceeded
redemptions at cost prive by
$1.9 billion, and the net each
inflow (cash sales over cash
redemptions) was $877 million.
Total holdings of Series E and H
Bonds, plus Freedom Shares
withdrawn from sale on July 1,
1970 reached $58.1 billion,
Edenton Biennial
Pilgrimage Sla ted
The Biennial Pilgrimage of
Colonial Edenton and Coun
tryside will be April 13. 14, and
15.
Several private homes, some
still owned be descendents, are
open to the public only during
the tour. Among these is
Wessington House, which has
recently been placed in the
National Register of Historic
Places. In 1730 this property
was occupied, though not
owned, by Sir Richard Everard,
Governor of North Carolina.
The present house was built
about 1850. Also on the tour is
The Homestead, which has been
occupied chiefly by Josiah
Collins' descendents since 1786;
Pembroke Hall, which as first
named "Plomer's Point" before
1750 when part of the property
belonged to Dr. Samuel Saban
Plomer. It was occupied at the
time of the Revolution by Mrs.
Mary Littledale, a signer of the
Tea Party resolutions; The
Leigh House, presently under
restoration, was built in 1759 by
Gilbert Leigh. Two signers of
the Tea Party resolutions lived
.hereuThe Booth House, built
around 1791 by Willis Williams,'
The gardens of Pembroke Hall
and The Paxton House will also
be on the tour.
There are two private homes
in the countryside that will be of
much interest Mulberry Hill, a
plantation established in 1684 on
the Albemarle Sound and Wood
Hall, built in 1853, this ante
bellum home has double
galleries front and rear.
Other major attractions are
the Cupola House, ca. 1725,
noted for its Jacobean 'ar
chitecture; the James Iredell
Huse, 1759, home of the first
Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court; the
Penelope Barker House," ca.
1782, the home of Mrs. Barker,
who, according to .tradition,
presided at the famed Edenton
Tea Party in 1774; St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, 1736, the
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; The above picture shows a Nutrition Youth Group at the
Perquimans County Office Building preparing Citrus
Fruit Salad with emphasis on Vitamin C. Mrs Earline
White, Program Aide, holds glasses similar to these
monthly to help improve Nutritional standards in the
county. From left to right is Raymond Stevenson, Janet
Zachary, Linda Stevenson, Barbara Zachary, Jan
Zachary and Kathy Zachary.
Students Receive Academic Honors
A total of 2,490 East Carolina
University students earned
places on the University's of
ficial honor lists for the fall
term. .'.,'
Most elite among the ECU
honor students are the 226 who
made all A's. Next, are those
who made the Deans List by
earning 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. .
Students from Perquimans
County on the honor list In
clude: Karen Jo Haskett, with
an average of allA's. Dean's
with E Bond holdings alone
topping $50 billion. This
represents $3.3 billion increase
in holdings over 1971, the
greatest annual growth in 27
years. December Savings
Bonds sales amounted to $450
million, an increase of 2.4 per
cent over last December.
second oldest church in the
state; the Chowan Courthouse,
1767. considered the finest
Georgian Courthouse in the
South; Yeopim Church, ca.
1851. Minutes of the Church
begin in 1775, though the
congregation dates farther
back. The present building was
built after the church burned in
1850; St. Ann's Catholic Church,
founded in the year 1857 by
three young Edenton Ladies,
who were recent converts to
Catholicism.
Both the Chowan Courthouse
and the Cupola House have been
included in the National
Register of Historic Land
marks. The James Iredell
House and Wessington House
have been included in the
National Register of Historic
Places.
It is preservation, rather than
restoration, that makes the
Edenton Pilgrimage one of the
most outstanding of the home
tours. Its town and country
houses are nationally known for
their authenticity and fine state
of preservation with many
. dating prior to the Revolution.
There will be a Reader's'
Theater Production Saurday
Evening, April 14, at 8:15 at
John A. Holmes High School
Auditorum. The Carolina
Reader's Theater Company
from Chapel Hill will present A
Wilde Night, "a humorous and
sardonic view of man's foibles
as seen by Oscar Wilde".
An Arts and Crafts Fair will
be held at the Joseph Hewes
Hotel during the Pilgrimage.
Local arts and crafts will be for
sale..
An added attraction to the
Fair will be Joseph Koch (Jo
Ko), an artist famous for his
outstanding works of the Outer
Banks of North Carolina. He
will have water colors and
prints for sale.
For further information you
may write to P.O. Box 61,
Edenton, North Carolina, 27932.
List include: Rebecca E. Eure
and James Mackey Lewis.
Named on the Honor Roll
were: Jennifer A. Chambers,
Janet A. DaiL Linda Long
Dowd, Thomas Wayne Proctor,
Peggy Faye White and Georgia
: Kayi Winslow Stallings.
On Dean's List
Miss Nannette D. Ambrose,
member of junior class at
Greensboro College from
Hertford, made the Dean's List
for the fall semester. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Ambrose of 221 Market Street.
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Bill Rawls of Greenville, Represen
tative from the N.C. Dept. of Health, is
shown presenting a demonstration to the
Perquimans County Rescue Squad
Monday night at the first of two 3-hour
sessions on Mouth Resuscitation and
Heart Massage.
Summer Leadership School
Begins Its Second Year
For the second year, 100 high
school juniors and seniors from
across the State will be selected
to attend the summer
Leadership School sponsored
jointly by the Department of
Public Instruction and the Z.
Smith Reynolds Foundation.
The school will run from June
17-July 20 and will again be held
on-the--Ma rS- -Hill Colloge
campus in Mars Hill.
"The purpose of the
Leadership School," according
to Director Bryce Cummings,
"is to develop the leadership
abilities of students by iden
tifying, analyzing, and working
out solutions to problems and
concerns facing youth today."
During the five-week session
each student will identify a
problem in his own home
community and develop a
community project which he
will work on during the set ool
year. "Another key part of the
program will be the develop
ment of skills in decisi in
making and management,"
says Cummings. "A variety of
methods will be used during the
Ave weeks including indepedent
study, open discussions, field
trips, outside consultants, role
playing, and self-evaluation
Any rising junior or senior is
eligible to apply to the school.
Applications may be obtained
from local principals or
guidance counselors and must
be submitted to a local school
screening committee by
February 15. Each superin
tendent will then appoint a
committee , to screen the ap
Attend State Meeting
The North Carolina
Association of Soil and Water
Conservation Districts held its
thirtieth annual meeting at the
Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh,
N.C. January 21-i.
Jim Hunt, Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina
gave the keynote address. Mr.
Hunt stated that he was very
aware of the conservation
problems in North Carolina and
the work of the Soil and Water
Conservation Districts as his
father worked for Soil Con
servation Service for years.
Several persons appeared on
the program during the week,
including Dr. Jim Stewart of
North Carolina State Univer
sity, who spoke on "A Land Use
Answer to Pollution and
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lO Meet Monday
The Board of Directors of the
Perquimans County
Restoration Association will
- meet Monday, Feb. 12 at 7:30
p.m. in the REA Building on
U.S. 17 north of Hertford.
This is a very important
. meeting and all board members
are urged to attend. . , .
plications and make recom
mediations to the State
screening committee. The
students will be notified by
March 1, 1973.
According to State School
Superintendent Craig Phillips,
"The undeniable need for
leadership in all segments of
scoiety demands special focus
Dr. Weaver
As Chief
Dr. J.D. Weaver has been
elected chief-of-staff for
Roanoke-Chowan Hospital,
according to an announcement
made Friday by hospital ad
ministrator John Blanton.
A native of Winton, Dr.
Weaver attended the Warters
Normal Institue where he
graduated in 1930. He received
his BS degree from Howard
University in 1934 and Doctor of
Medicine in 1938. His intership
was completed in October 1939
at Freedman's Hospital in
Washington, D.C. In December
of that same year he began
general practice in Hertford
County.
While working toward his MD
at Howard, he was inducted in
Beta Kappa Chi Honorary
Society. He is the recipient of
the Selective Service Medal
from the Congress of the United
States, elected Doctor of the
year for 1962-63 by the Old North
Sedimentation," and Louis Aull
of North Carolina University
spoke on "Greater Use of Soil
Surveys in North Carolina."
Those attending the meeting
from Perquimans County were
the supervisors and their wives,
Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Mathews, Mr.
& Mrs. Carroll Williams, Mr. &
Mrs. Elmer Lassiter, the
District Conservationist and
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin A.
McGoogan.
Local Student
Makes All A's
Susan Harrell Irons, an
English major, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Harrell of
Hertford, is one of 208 students
at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro who
make all A's on courses com
pleted during the first semester
which ended recently.
The dean's list at UNC-G is
composed of students whose
semester grades are in the
upper eight percent of the fresh
man class, the upper 10 percent
of the sophomore class and the
upper 12 percent of the junior
and senior classes.
The 6 hour E04 Course, sponsored by
College of the Albemarle, is a requisite of
the N.C. Dept. of Health in order for
Squad members to be certified am
bulance attendants.
Aubrey Onley is Captain of the local
group.
on this aspect of education. The
schools of the State do not in
tentionally overlook leadership
development, but we do believe
that concentrated attention on
leadership preparation may
provide a higher quality of
leadership not normally
emerging from the public
schools."
Is Named
Of Staff
State Medical Society, received
the Scroll of Honor from Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity and
Achievement Award from
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
Like many medical men, he
turned his hand to writing and is
co-author of "Diagnosis of
Primary Carcinoma of the Gall
Bladder" which was published
in the Medical Annual of the
District of Columbia and
reprinted in an international
medical journal.'
In addition to serving on the
Tri-County Airport Authority,
he is also medical examiner for
Hertford County and active in
civic and church affairs,
He is chairman of the Board
of Trustees of White Lilly
Lodge, Improved Benevolent
and Protective Order of the
Elks of the World; treasurer of
the Hobson R. Reynolds Elks
Shrine in Winton, Assistant
grand medical director of IBP
OEW, president of the Am
, bassador Club, member of the 12
Sportsmen Club and In
ternational Platform
Association and deacon and
chairman of trustees of First
Baptist Church in Winton.
Among the medical societies
he is associated with are the
Medical Society of the State of
North Carolina, American and
National Medical Associations,
American Geratrics Society,
North Carolina and American
Public Health Associations,
National Rehabilitation
Association and Eastern, N.C.
Medical, Dental and Phar
maceutical Society for which he
has served as President and
now Treasurer.
Other officers elected to the
hospital staff were Dr. Charles
Sawyer, assistant chief; and
Dr. Stanleigh Jenkins Jr.
secretary and treasurer.
P.TA. Meeting
Don't miss Thursday night's
PTA meeting, In addition to the
selection of new officers for the
next school ser.son, slides will
be shown of the students at work
and play.
School Principal Bill Tice will
narrate them, and you will have
the opportunity to see the
children work and play at
Hertford Grammar School. The
meeting begins at S p.m.
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Conservation Poster
Contest Underway
In Perquimans Co.
Mrs. Grace Coston is
assisting the Perquimans Soil &
Water Conservation Committee
launch its annual Conservation
Poster Contest again this year,
which the 4th, 5th, and 6th
grades of Perquimans, Chowan,
Pasquotank, Currituck, and
Camden counties hold in their
individual counties during the
month of February and in the
District in March.
"The Earth, Our Home In
Space" is the title of the new
booklet made available by the
sponsors to students eligible to
participate in this contest.
Other valuable resource
materials on the problems of
our environment are being
shared within each grade for
added emphasis. Many of the
grades plan their study on
natural resources such as soil,
water, forest, air, etc. to
coincide with this educational
project.
A vital message on con
serving all our natural
resources was given by Mrs.
Coston as she visited each class
room in the county this week.
She also explained the rules,
poster materials and basis upon
which all posters would be
judged, namely: 50 points for
how the conservation idea is
presented; 25 points for
originiality; 15 points for
SCHOLARSHIP Linda
Gail Harrell of Hertford has
been awarded a Valedic
torian Scholarship at
Campbell College for the
school year of 1972-73. A
sophomore at Campbell, she
serves oh the Baptist
Student Union Newsletter
Staff. A graduate of
Perquimans County High
School, she is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack W.
Harrell of Rt. 2, Hertford.
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COA Offers Private
Pilot Ground School
The Continuing Education
Department of College of The
Albemarle announces that
Private Pilot Ground School
will be offered on Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday
nights beginning February 13,
1973, at 7 p.m. The class will be
held in room 333 in the Main
Building on Riverside on
Tuesday and Thursday nights
and at the Technical Center on
The newly installed officers of Wynn Fork 4-H Club mei
Jan. 29 at the County office auditorium to discuss 4-H plans. .
for the coming year. They are left to right, Susan White,, V
historian; Lynn Hurdle, V. Pres., Donna f hack, Pre; .
Yvonne Keeter, Reporter; Paige Elliott Treasurer; and.
Jo Anne Meads Sec. . v
artistic ability; and 10
points for neatness.
She urged each student to do
his best in representing his
class and school. County win
ners for each grade will receive
cash prizes of $5.00; $2.00; arid
$1.00, according to Mrs. Coston,
and first and second place
county winners will compete in
the Albemarle Poster Contest to
be held in Elizabeth City in
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Rites Held Fori
Claude Delton White, Sr., 72,'a
religious, civic and fraternal
leader, died Saturday at 5:30
A.M. in the Albemarle Hospital.
A native of Dare County, he
was the son of the late John
Anderson and Mrs. Margaret
Snowden White. He owned, and
operated the CD. White
Lumber Company in Winfall.
Mr. White was a member of
the Epworth United Methodist
Church where he had taught
Sunday School for 38 years and
was the church treasurer for 45
years.
He was a director of Hertford
Savings and Loan Association, a
past director of the Perquimans
County Chamber" of Commerce,
a member of Perquimans
Masonic Lodge No. 106, and
eminent commander of Knights
Templar of York Rite Bodies.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Frances Humphlett; a son,
Claude D. White, Jr. of
Yorktown, Virginia; two
daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Faye
Rascoe of Williamsburg, Va.
and Mrs. Emilie W. Barclift of
Hertford; two brothers, Willie
E. White of Murfreesboro and
Paul S. White of Hertford; two
sisters, Mrs. Mary W. Winslow
of Route 1, Belvidere and Mrs.
Addie White of Hertford; and six
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Monday at 2:00 in the Chapel of
the Swindell Funeral Home by
the Rev. W.R. Pinner and the
Rev. Waldo Smith.
"Be Still My Soul" was sung
by the Rev. Norman Harris. He
was accompanied by Mrs.
Chester Winslow, organist.
The casket pall was made of
red carnations and fern.
Pallbearers were CD.,
Spivey, George Jackson, John
Decker, Durward Barber, R.C
Murray, John McDonald.
Burial was in Cedarwood
cemetery with masonic rites
conducted by Perquimans
Lodge No. 106AF&AM.
Wednesday nights in room 152.
The class will cover federal
aviation regulations, pre-flight,
facts, navigation, instruments'
and systems.
Registration will b4 on a first
come, first served basis. The
registration fee is $2.00. Anyone
interested in enrolling in this
class please call the Continuing
Education Department, 335
0821, extension 233.
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