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Volume 29-No. 27
Herjtford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, ThursdayJuly 5, 1973
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STEEKLY
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CHEAP RIDE Remember when you drove your 1925 Ford to the gas pump and
could fill it up for next to nothing? The price of gas has changed as well as the look
of the gas pumps . This pump in the Bethel Community next to a store brings back
memories. (Sawyer Photo)
County School System
Receives $13,855 Grant
The State Board of
Education has approved
a grant of $13,855 to be
awarded the Perquimans
County school system for
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Michelle Boyce And Her Horse
Taking Her Project
Seriously Was Way
Four years ago, not -realizing
how much work '
and time was involved
with a 4-H horse project,
Michelle Boyce plunged
in with full determination "
to ' learn. During these '
years she has been
county champion for her :
4-H Horse and-. Pony
project 3 years, and ,
winning this year at the
Northeastern District 4-H
Show enables her to
compete at the 4-H State
Horse Show in Raleigh
Saturday July 7, 1973.
Her horsemanship has
been cultivated through
love and work. Training
has been enjoyed because
of Michelle's ability to
understand her horse and
it's potentials to learn.
Each work out between
horse and trainer,
showing learned progress
has been a fulfilled .
rrArard fcr Michelle.
C-.n3 "Sun's Candy
r r". for .lMi years she
,L "3 v;cn over 3D trophies ,.
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an experimental
education project entitled
"Assessment of Need".
The new project is
being funded under a
and collected over 100
ribbons of accomplish
ments. Beginning to branch
out her schooling
Michelle has done , some
Junior judging at shows
and is working this
summer at a farm as ;
Junior r trainer and
teacher.
Desiring to be an all
around champion with ;
her horse, she rides .
Western and English and
Is also working over
fences. ' ' .
Michelle is 14 years old
and a rising freshman at
Perquimans High School '
lives at Rt. 1, Belvidere
with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Ronald L. Boyce.
LEGION MEETS
TONIGHT
The ' regular monthly
meeting of Post . 126 ,
American Legion will meet
tonight at 8 p.m. at the Post
home. New Officers for the -coming
yegr will be sworn
in. All members are. urged to
attend.
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Department of Public
Instruction program
called State Experiments .
in Educational
Development (SEED).
Only nineteen such grants
have been awarded for
the 1974 fiscal year.
According to Mrs. Von
Valletta Director of
Development for the
Department of Public
Instruction, "the first
SEED money was
allocated by the 1971
General Assembly, and
nineteen grants were
awarded to local school
systems for the 1971-73
biennium. The success of
the program prompted
the General Assembly to
fund nineteen additional
projects for 1974."
The nineteen projects
were selected from a
total of fifty-five
proposals submitted by
local school units across
the State. A total of
$236,937 was awarded,
with funding levels
ranging from $6,853 to
$22,640, based on the local
school units request.
"Each SEED project
will ; research a current
educational need or
problem," Mrs. Valletta.
"The data collected as a
result qfthestudy can then
be evaluated 1 and
successful educational
practices frag fcq mreaA
- NOTICE
The Perquimans County
Board of Education will .
operate a kindergarten .
program in both Hertford ,
Grammar School and
Perquimans Central
Grammar School beginning
with the next school year.
All eligible children who
have registered at one of
these schools will be
admitted. ' i
This is a new program for
the Perquimans County
Schools. Every effort will be
made to Insure its success. It
is felt that this additional
program will prove to be an
asset to the educational
system of the county. Any
questions concerning the
program should be directed
to- the school office at either
of the above mentioned
schools.'
WINDSOR Alliance
For Progress, Inc., a
regional six-county
Consortium to seek out
Additional funds to
provide for the
educational needs of the
counties, is expected to
begin work officially in
mid-July. A
Announcement was
made this week of the
naming of a director and
6e receipt of a grant to
Service Integration
ntroduced Here
A plan to integrate the
Albemarle Mental Health
Center and health and
aocial services in
Perquimans, Chowan,
Pasquotank and Camden
counties under one
administrative unit was
introduced here Tuesday
night.
Supporters of the
proposal believe it will be
an avenue to less costly
and more effective
services for the citizens
in a widely dispersed,
low-population density
region.
According to Charles
, Franklin, director of the
Albemarle Mental Health
Center, the integration of
human services in the
four-county area would
be "the first operation of
its kind in North Carolina
and probably in the
Nation."
Wesley Cullipher,
Director of the Albemarle
Regional Planning and
Development Commis
sion told last night's
gathering that duplica
tion and high adminis
trative costs would be
greatly reduced if the
plan is implemented.
"We're talking about
one budget instead of six
and one bookkeeping
'system. It would only be
necessary to have one
audit, one purchasing
agent and one telephone
system," Cullipher said.
In addition, combined
secretarial pools, one
intake system for clients
and one records system
GO? Plan
Out Of Date
North Carolina Republican
Party Chairman, Frank A.
Rouse, announced today the
formation of the "Plan
of.i
Republican Convention.
Rouse stated in making the
announcement that, "While
our present Plan of
Organization has stood the
test of time, it is frankly out
ofdate." He said, "I have
Perquimans Personality
V.N. barren
V.N. Darden is a native
of Nasemond County
Virginia and was born in'
a little community called
Driver. .
His father was a
farmer and Darden 81
years of age is a
merchant. He has been
selling good to people of
Perquimans County since
the near beginning of the
20th century.
He came to the area to
go to school. He got his
first job in 1910. That was
hia first taste of North
Carolina.
, Uater he went into
business as a merchant
provide funds in addition
to the $1 per pupil outlay
which the participating
counties have agreed to
include in their new
budgets.
A joint statement by
Robert B. Spivey of
Windsor, chairman of the
Alliance, and Smith
Bagley, president of the
Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation Inc. of
Winston-Salem, revealed
were cited as advantages
of the integrated
approach to human
services by Cullipher.
. Presently, each of the
four counties is served by
a county Public Health
Department with a single
administration; all four
are served by the
Albemarle Mental Heatlh
Center and by four
separately administered
Social Services
Departments.
A 26-member Human
Resources Board will be
charged with initial
implementation of the
program. Employment of
a coordinator and a full
time Human Resource
Director to manage and
director the entire
system were cited as two
' primary functions of this
board.
Only - - county
commissioners will be
permitted to exercise
voting privileges on the
board which also will be
comprised of Directors of
Health, Mental Health,
Social Services and the
Albemarle Regional
Planning and
Development
Commission and their
respective Chairman of
the Boards.
Support for the project
has been voiced by David
Flaherty, secretary of the
state Department of
Human Resources. A
known advocate of total
human services
integration statewide,
Flaherty has indicated
that "state funds will be
encouraged this committee
to immediately schedule a
-series
of open, public
meetings across the state so
hich will be presented to
Pfhe State Convention will
reflect the wishes of the
rtnafority of North Carolina
'Republicans."
and the : store was called
. Rutenberg Stokes and
s Darden general store.
The store as all stores
in those days sold
groceries; hardware and
furnituie. ; ;. ' ; "
After Some . partners
sold out or retired Darden
is the only partner still in
the busmessi
Dardea has. served on
the town, council. !of
Hertford and in 1938 he
was elected mayor of the
town. The duties were
also those of a city
manager. - ,
Darden predicts that in
years to come there will
that the Foundation will
provide a grant of $25,000
"to enable i this
organization to seek out
discretionary educational
funds from the Federal
Government for use by
the s i x -c o u n t y
consortium comprised of
Hertford, Martin, Bertie,
Chowan, Gates, and
Perquimans Counties."
Dr. Dale Gramley,
executive director of the
available for a model
project," according to
Culliper.
In addition,
representatives of East
Carolina University have
offered any technical
assistance needed for
implementation of the
program, Franklin said.
Because 70 per cent of
the population in the four
county area is located in
Edenton and Elizabeth
City, plans call for the
location of a central
facility to house
integrated services in
Elizabeth city.
A satellite center could
be located in Edenton, if
the Human Resources
Board so chose, Franklin
said.
Representatives from
Chowan County -were not
present at the gathering
due to continuing racial
unrest in Edenton.
Criticism of the proposal
was heard, however,
from Perquimans County
Commissioner Thomas
Nixon who expressed
criticism of the program
in general.
"If we plan on running
this as a business then we
should get rid of three of
the four directors,"
Nixon said. He also stated
that cost of the project
could be three times
more than is projected.
Franklin indicated that
"When all four agencies
are pulled together, there
will be plenty of work for
all four directors." He did
not comment in depth
Commissioners
Action Monday
The Board of
Perquimans County
Commissioners set the
tax rate at $1.80 per
hundred' "dollar assessed
valuation tk 1973-74 at
their meeting on Monday.
The budget for the new
year was adopted by the
Board in the amount of
$1,733,271.
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Carson Spivey was re
appointed for a two year
term to serve as senior
tax supervisor.
D.F. Reed, Jr. was re
' appointed to serve as
county accountant for a
period of two years, also.
Directors "for the Per
quimans County Develop
ment Commission were
Commission were
appointed by the Board
for three year terms.
:They were William D.
Cox, Bradley Jennings,
and Steve Perry.
be , few independent
merchants. He sees the
chains taking over.'
"The young fellow of
today doesn't have the
capital to invest in a big
operations," he said.
Reynolds Foundation,
has worked with 'the
group in securing the
grant as has J.' A.
Pritchett of Windsor, a
member of the
Foundation's Board of
Directors.
Along with the grant
announcement Spivey
revealed that Richard
Baker Jr., assistant
superintendent of Bertie
County Schools for the
past four years and
associated with the
Bertie County School
system for the past 10
years, will be director of
the Alliance.
Baker was a leader in
the study and discussion
over a 19-month period
which led to the
formation of the Alliance.
But both Baker and
Spivey credit the
cooperation of six
superintendents, six
boards of county
commissioners and six
boards of education with
giving the idea their full
cooperation and support.
As a matter of fact,
Spivey says he has never
seen so much cooperation
and so much enthusiasm
for a project. And he
believes an indicator of
the potential success for
the Alliance is the
enthusiasm and
excitement which all
agencies, both
governmental and
private, have shown
when the idea was
explained to them.
Spivey describes the
Alliance as A group of
counties having a lot of
statistical information on
Gases
Heard
Judge George M. Fountain
presided at the Perquimans
County Superior Court and
heard the following cases:
Joseph Proctor vs
Weyerhauser Co. - injuries
sustained in logging January
27, 1969. Proctor was
awarded $20,000.00 by the
court. An appeal was noted
in the case and Bond was set
at $200.00;
Melvin Barrington,
charged with fraud, received
a 6 months sentence in' the
Perquimans County Jail and
assigned to work under the
supervision of the N.C.
Department of Correction;
William Bowser, charged
with assault inflicting
serious injury, was given a
12 months sentence in the
Perquimans County Jail
which was suspended for a
period of 3 years and placed
on probation for that time.
Special conditions included -pay
as restitution to Harold
Thompson the sum of
$1,200.00, and pay as follows :
$200.00 immediately, and
pay $100.00 on the first day of
each month beginning
August 1 at the Office of
Clerk of Court, and costs of
court;
Gerard Richardson
Buchanan was found guilty
of driving under the
influence of intoxicating
liquor and received a 6
months sentence suspended
for 2 years with the following
conditions -1. pay $100.00 and
costs, 2. remain of good
behavior 3. surrender
driver's license,
John Henry Davis,
charged with assault, was
ordered to serve 30 days in
the Perquimans County Jail,
Elizabeth Marie Faulk
Ransom of Pasquotank
County, charged with
distributing 2 dosage units of
LSD, was sentenced to 3
years in the Women's
Division of the State
Department of Correction;
charged with
d i t r 1 b u t 1 n g 10
dlsage units of LSD
and sentenced to 10 years in
the Women's Division of the
State Department of
education which is alike.
The Alliance will seek out
educational funds for the
purpose of trying to
upgrade the educational
level and to - gear
education to the needs of
this area to meet the
growth patterns of the
ares.
Baker, a resident and
mayor of Harrellsville,
came to the Bertie
County School System as
coordinator for the
Industrial Cooperative
Training program at
Bertie Senior High
School. He later served as
personnel and vocational
director for the county
system and for the past
four years has served as
assistant superintendent
in charge of federal
programs, especially
Title I.
He was chosen for a
five-month internship
program with the State
Department of Public
Instruction and he feels
this was a highlight of his
educational career
because it enabled him to
visit innovative and
exemplary programs all
over the country.
Office space for the
Alliance is being
prepared at the C. G.
White School at
Powellsville at a minimal
rental fee to cover
utilities. Baker will have
an administrative
assistant, Mrs. W. H.
(Marge) Wynns of
Powellsville. She has
been office manager for
the Title I programs in
the county's schools since
1966. Prior to that she was
a legal secretary.
JESSE HELMS
Helms Aid
Visiting
County
Senator Helms is being
closely held in Washington
due to thepoblems facing the
country and he is sending his
personal representative , and
staff Assistant, George S.
Dunlop, to Perquimans
County to meet with anyone
who would like to discuss
problems with him.
Dunlop will be at -the
Perquimans County
Courthouse from 10 to: 11:30
a.m. on Tuesday, July. 17. .
J. Emmett Winslow who
supported Senator , Helms
for election to "the United
States Senate, is : making
local arrangements 'for
Dunlop. '
There are many problems
facing the people, among
them crop allocations, fuel
and gasoline allocations, and
shortages, rising inflation,
our foreign policies, -.und
other serious problems.
Anyone will be free to ask
options concerning them.
?oung people and especially
young voters are urged to
attend. . ,
Correction (sentence to
begin at the expiration of
previous sentence) ; ' on other
charges the defendant was,
given a 5 year sentence
when found guilty of
manufacturing marijuana;
prayer for judgment .was
continued tor a years with
the defendant on good
behavior on a charge of
p o s i ft i 1 o n of
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