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xx THE FEKIUJLMANS WJkEllJL Volume 29-No. 28 Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 12, 1973 10 Cents Per Copy Man Arrested On Drug Charge id-- ..... .0 ::. '! Standard Printing Co. Louisiille, Ky. 40200 - ( Vt IMIIVfiEROUS SIGNAL This railroad crossing signal in the town of Winfall may be lovely with the rambling vine but it is dangerous for strangers driving through the area. NewBusiness For County HERTFORD - A county official announced Thursday that the Kay Dee Lee Manufacturing Co., which makes two ' piece womens wear is expected to begin operation here Sept. 3. Tom Brown, the .county's, Industrial Development director said the company will employ more than 100 ! people initially. The plant will be located on Grubb Street in a building formerly occupied by the Don Juan Manufacturing Co. and owned by Jesse Harris. Kay Dee Lee is associated with a retailing firm in New York City which distributes its products. It is owned by Hugh Young of Wendell where it also has a plant. MRS. JANICE Perquimans Mrs. Janice By KATHY MARREN Staff Writer She usually starts out "Rainy Mondays" in boots and slacks and will end up walking through mud puddles and Jumping ditches. She is Mrs. Janice Winslow, the Attendance Officer for Perquimans County. She is the only officer for the four Perquimans Schools, which include approximately 2200 students. When a parent is negligent in sending a child to school, it is her job to talk with the parent and student to explain the importance of an education. According to her, this usually works. If conferences such as these and all other means fail, ) ,M, M1 1 f f 'l ' li 'fli n' ii i lb" If the labor market in the area proves satisfactory "we hope to continue to grow in Hertford", Young told Brown. Flyers and advertisements will be distributed for workers. It will open an office in a few. weeks to accept applications. "They are looking for supervisors, cutters, over edge and straight needle sewers and other laborers at the cut and sew laborers plant," Brown said. . The Industrial Development Commis sion "is working closely with Kay Dee Lee in its efforts to become oper ative. We're delighted they decided to locate in Hertford and provide more jobs for the area," Brown noted. WINSLOW Personality Winslow then as a last resort the case goes to court. In her seven year career, about six cases annually go to court. "But most of the time, Mrs. Winslow said, the parents are very co operative. This makes my job more rewarding and less depressing." ; When a child's poor attendance is due to a . long illness, lack , of medical attention,1 or Other personal problems, it is part of her work to : refer these families to the Social Service or Welfare : Department ; for the . necessary help. . Mrs. Winslow said, - ''The major cause for a student's lack in school . attendance is usually due (Continued on Pag, 2j The indictment of a Hertford : man was announced Friday that alleged he was part of a heroin sales operation that stretched from Southeast Asia to North Carolina. Bail was set at $250,000 after Howard L. Manley, alias Bo, 51, of Rt. 1, Box 193, Hertford, was charged with possession and selling of heroin, according to the Perquimans County Sheriff's Department. State Bureau of Investigation Director Charles Dunn who worked with other state and federal authorities in the crackdown which brought a dozen arrests, said the results "for the first time significantly cripples the distribution of heroin in North Carolina." Manley was arrested at his address at 3 p.m. Appointed To Board W.A. Weeks Jr. of Rt. 4, Elizabeth City has been appointed to the advisory board for fire service training in North Carolina. Ben E. Fountain Jr., state president of community colleges of the North Carolina State Board of Education, appointed Weeks ... to be one of four members on the advisory board in North Carolina. Weeks will represent the northeast section of the state. Other board members will be representing the southeast, central and western sections of North Carolina. .... The advisory board will meet to establish training programs throughout the state on the community college level. Weeks is president of the Albemarle Firemen's Association and 'is a lieutenant in Jhe Weeksville Volunteer Fire Department. Winslow Appointed Chairman Cecil E. Winslow, Wins-low-Blanchard Motor Company, Hertford, has been reappointed area chairman of Perquimans County for , the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association, ac cording to NCADA President : Frank R. Anderson, Jr. of Raleigh. Winslow will act as liaison officer between new car and truck dealers in this area and NCADA and the National Automobile Dealers Association. He will be responsible for promoting the programs and activities of NCADA and NADA. He : will conduct a county-wide ' membership campaign for both organizations this fall. Colonial Sales Up ' Colonial Stores , Incor porated, 442-store Atlanta based supermarket chain, i today reported that both 1 sales and earnings, in the second quarter of 1973 showed improvement over' the corresponding period of last year. r Sales of $181,670,167 for the 12 weeks ended June 16 were i up 11 percent to a new record high, and earnings' of I (Continued on Page 2) Thursday by a combined force from the Perquimans Sheriff Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and State Bureau of Investigation. Manley is a native of Hertford and has lived there all his life, according to the sheriff's office. State investigators listed him as the owner of a motel. Manley is charged in an indictment with involvement in several transactions in October and November of last year involving amounts of between $1,500 and $3,600. U.S. Attorney Thomas McNamara announced the indictment and arrest of 11 others On charges of sale of heroin, breaking up connections that allegedly extended from North Carolina to New York and California. I - d OPENS PRACTICE -Dr. i William M. Crutchfield has opened an Office at 1202 Carolina Ave. fot the practice of medicine. The doctor is an ear, nose, and throat specialist. A native of Chatham County, Dr. Crutchfield received a bachelor of science degree at the University of North Carolina in 1962. He later studied medicine at Chapel Hill and interned at Memorial Hospital. He was a flight surgeon in the Air Force from 1967-69 and served in Vietnam. Crutchfield returned to Chapel Hill in 1969 to . specialize in the medical a n d s u r g i c a 1 requirements of ear, nose and throat care. He is married to the former Mary Boiling of Hillcrest Heights Md. and they have one son, Craig who is 12-years old. MOVIES The next presentation of free films, courtesy the Perquimans County Chamber of Commerce, will be Thursday July 19 in the Municipal Building. Show time is 8 p.m. And it's -an all - North Carolina presentation. One feature is "Music Makers of the Blue Ridge," and the title is self -explanatory. Also "Chickamauga," a story of this state's part in the Civil War. It's free - and rated G. MEETING The Perquimans County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors will hold its monthly meeting Monday at 8 p.m. in the Municipal Building. With more and more going on In the county, and the Chamber involved, one way or another, with most of it, . all board, members are urged to attend. BECOME PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Maurice L. Bunch III, of Newport News became the proud parents of their first child,a daughter, Diana Brinn Bunch. Mrs. Bunch is the former Claudia xBnhn 'of 'Hertford. . 4 Wmm . . . BUSY HOLIDAY It was a busy July 4th for officers of the North Carolina Highway Patrol. Here Trooper C.R. Wilson Gets Post C.R. Wilson, 58, has been appointed Director of Budget and Planning for the Norfolk t, Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Company and The Norfolk & Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. of Va., and R.M. Byrum, 41, has been appointed Chief Accountant to replace Wilson. The appointments, made at the June meetings of the companies' boards of directors, were effective July 1. Wilson received his B.S. degree in Business Administration frpm the University of Missouri in 1938, and during World War II was a U.S. Navy pilot. He started work for the telephone companies in December, 1955, as Plant Accountant, and in 1963 was promoted to Chief Accountant. He is a Mason, KYCH York Rite Mason, and Shriner. He is married to the former Norma Needham of this city and has two married daughters. Byrujn. received his B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina in- ;1957. His accounting ex perience includes three years "on the audit staff of Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery, San Fran cisco, California, four years as controller for Continental Heller Construction Com p a n y , Sacramento, California, and eight years, most as Assistant Chief Accountant, with the telephone companies. He is a mason and a York Rite Mason, He is married to the former Carol Trueblood of Sacramepto! California, and has three sons and one daughter. County Savings Sales of Series E and H Savings Bonds in Perquimans County during May were $4,509.00. January May sales totaled $22,781.00. . This represents 32.1 percent of the County's goal of $71,000.00 according to R.L. Stevenson, County Volunteer Chairman. May sales of U.S. Suvings, Bonds in North Carolina totaled $7,480,0404.1! percent above last May, and the highest on record for any May snce-; 1945. Sales of Series E Bonds were $7,356,540-4.1 percent over last May. H Bond sales were $123,500. January-May sales totaled $39,161,227, 7.5. percent above the same i 4 . BIRDBATH BEAUTY Out and about in Perquimans County, residents have many lovely additions in their front yards. One of the most unique items was this birdbath in the Winfall community. $6 Million Paid To Fraud Victims More than $6 million was restored to potential victims of mail frauds during a recent nine-month period, Bonds Totals period last year. This represents 45.0 percent of the state's 1973 dollar goal of $87,100,000. Nationally, during May there were new purchases of E and H Bonds amounting to $655 million, 14.3 percent above 1972 sales of $573 million. Total cash sales of E ' and H Bonds for the first five months of 1973 amounted to $2,968 million, 9.3' percent above a year earlier. For the 32rid consecutive month, sales exceeded redemptions, at cost price. Holdings of E and H Bonds topped $59 billion for the first time in May, reaching $59.13 billion- an increase of $357 million in the month. 0 Y.Z. Newberry who has Perquimans County beat stops to investigate a motorist activity on U S. 17 North. (Sawyer Photo) Postmaster Stokes reported today. Henry Stokes said he had been advised by Chief Postal Inspector and Assistant Postmaster General William J. Cotter that Postal Inspection Service en forcement activities resulted in $6,222,660 in restitutions to those victimized by mail frauds. The report covered the first three quarters of the current 1973 fiscal year, . through March. "The report shows that it is worthwhile for those who have good reason to conclude they have been the victim of a scheme to defraud in which the mails were used to report the facts to the post office," the local postmaster com mented. The restitutions resulted from 3,630 promotions that were discontinued largely on Inspection Service : action. Restitutions ordered by the courts totaled $2,853,528; 'voluntary" restitutions 1 totaled $2,009,7ui, .i,', additional . 1,359 426 resun-d from olhi , I'd i r) , l.iclude i in the U ('no 0r more n,ail frau.i in vestigations completed each year by Postal Inspectors, "Postmaster Stokes said, "are those based on com plaints from postal customers wlio allege failure lo receive merchandise or promised refunds from mail order firms Not all such failures or br.iken promises indicate a scheme to defraud, but may, in fact, be merely the result of poor business practices," he said. "However, when a postal customer cannot obtain satisfaction throigh his own efforts," Mr. Stokes added," he should not just write his transaction off as a loss. Return of his money is possible in some cases." 4X
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