Volume 33, No. 47
H oflford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, Nov. 24, 1977
WEEKLY
15 CENTS
Golf Course Opens I
The city of Elisabeth
City's Knobbs Creek par 3
golf course located on E.
Ward Street adjacent to the
Knobbs Creek Recreation
Center, in Elisabeth City
will open at approximately
2p.m. on Dec. 1.
The opening ceremony
will consist of a nine hole
tournament by the city and
county officials as veil as
members of the press Md
various civic leaders.
The course consists of
nine holes ranging from 60
* yards to 115 yards. Most
golfers will be able to play
the course with a nine iron,
pitching wedge and a
putter.
k The opening will be the
begiantag of a new era in
Elisabeth City for golfers
a?d those that wouM like to
learn to play golf in that it
will be . the first public
course available to the
citizens for many years.
Designed for rapid play, the
course does not have any
sand traps, however, water
will be a definite hazard on
many of the holes, especial
ly for the beginning golfer.
For the experienced golfer,
the course whould enable
him or her to improve the
short iron game and
perhaps test their abiltiy to
consistently par the various
holes on the course.
Sours for the course will
vary during the winter
months since unpredictable
weather will determine
when the course can be
open for play and when it
cannot. The course will be
open every weekend that
the weather permits and in
the?pring the course will be
open to the general public
every day of the week.
Jerry Allen, Director at*
Parks and Recreation for
the city said, "We are not
sitisfied with wit ct the
green* end the cfiurse will
not be In top condition until
July o I ltTS sJjce we are
depending upoa winter
grasses for putting surface
at the present tine. With
this in mind the course will
not be in any better shape in
the spring since we wUl still
have depend "upon the same
type of grass, therefore, we
are going to open the course
and let folks enjoy it peo
ple seem to be aufefe to
got out and play, in fait we
have several inquiries
about the course everylpy.
As the course progresses,
we hope golf will do the
same in that it is tur
opinion that many kids and
senior citixens as well will
be challenged by this great
game.' Since an individual
eon come out and plaf
Without having to have a
pfcrtner or team, it should
really add a new aspect to
our overall progr a m . "
Tenative fees for the
course have been set at $2
for nine holes and $4 for all
day play. Golf Clubs will be
available for rent and balls
will be available for sale or
rent.
Civic Calendar
' THURSDAY ftOV. 24
Happy Thanksgiving!
+ + +
Bethel Ruritan Club will meet.
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Perquimans County Jaycees will meet.
MONDAY NOV. 28
Perquimans County Rescue Squad will meet.
+ + +
Inter County Fire Dept. Aul. will meet.
TUESDAY NOV. 29
Hertford Rotary Club will meet at 6:30.
+ + +
Perquimans Masonic Lodge will meet.
UP COMING EVENTS
DECEMBER 2
Annual Christmas Parade.
+ + +
Parksville Ruritan Club will have BBQ Chicken Supper
at Ruritian Building in Winfall.
Library Update
By WAYNE HENRITZE
LIBRARY CLOSED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
The library will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday
on Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25. We will
reopen as usual on Saturday.
NO BOOKMOBILE RUN
There will not be a bookmobile run on the New
Hope/Woodville route this week due to the holiday. The
next run on this route will be on December 9. All books will
automatically be renewed until them.
NO STORY HOUR
There will not be a Friday Story Hour this week due to
the holiday.
NEW BOOKS
NEW CHILDREN'S BOOKS - The library has received
a large shipment of about 25 new preschool and primary
grade books, most of them by major authors or award win
ners of some kind.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY by J.R.R.
Tolkien is a set of 3 novels of adult fantasy set in a mythieal
land called Middle Earth and populated with miniature
people called hobbits about whom a children's novel has
been written.
RED SKY AT NIGHT, LOVER'S DELIGHT by Jane
Hodge is an English novel set in post Napoleonic England
where poverty has. forced a once wealthy family into ser
vice as governesses and maids in the home of a nortorius
rake.
I UP SHE RISES by David Garnett is a historical novel
based on the fact of poor Scottish girl's rise to wealth which
is written by one of the main character's descendents.
OWNED BY AN EAGLEby Gerald Summers is the true
story of a falconer's seven years with one of the few golden
i eagles ever trained to hunt by its master.
' THE WOMEN OF COUNTR Y MUSIC by Joan Dew is an
account of the singers and sweethearts of the Nashville
?ound, including ?ections on Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker,
Dolly Parton, and June Carter.
THE FISHERMAN'S CATALOG is a listing of rods,
reels, boatf, bait, tackle, and books for and about fishing
and fishermen.
PA UL HAR VEY'S THE REST OF THE STOR F consists
of behind the scenes information on the people and events
covered by the popular conservative newscasters daily
radio shows.
TUGBOAT ANNIE by Norm a A Raine is a collection of
short stories taken from the SATURDAY EVENING
POST.
Little Red Stocking
Compaign Sponsored
The annual Little Red
Stocking appeal of The
Children's Home Society of
North Carolina, Inc. is
being launched this week
with a goal of $120,000, ac
cording to Julian B. Friday,
CHS president.
The Children's Home
Society, North Carolina's
only statewide, non
sectarian voluntary adop
tion agency, will begin its
75th year of service to
North Carolina children in
1971. In making his an
nouncement, Friday com
mented, "The Children's
Home Society could not
have sustained its program
? - of services for seventy-five
years without the interest
and support of people
across the state who are
sensitive to the needs of
children. With their con
tributions to the Little Red
Stocking, we will continue
to offer high quality adop
tion planning so that
children may benefit from
?he security of permanent
adoptive homes."
Each year the Society
places more than 200 in
fants and older children in
adoptive homes. Through
its seven offices, located in
Asheville, Chapel Hill,
Charlotte, Fayetteville,
Greensboro, Greenville,
and Wilmington, the
Society serves every part of
North Carolina.
The Society provides
temporary care for infants
for whom adoption may be
needed, homefinding and
adoptive placement for in
fants and older children,
casework services to
couples seeking to adopt
and counseling and related
services to women with
problem pregnancies.
Approximately thirty
percent of the Society's
annual operating budget is
derived from allocations
from the United Ways
across the state. Direct con
tributions to the agency ac
count for more than one
third of the Society's
funding, with the re
mainder coming from other
sources. The major portion
of direct gifts traditionally
are made to CHS's Little
Red Stocking fund during
the Christmas season.
"Our agency was founded
on the philosophy that
every child has a right to a
permanent home and fami
ly," state Friday. He con
tinued, "In addition to vital
allocations from United
Ways across the state, the
fennual Little Red Stocking
appeal is a significant
source of funding for the
services that help to build
families through adoption.
We urge the community's
support in filling The
Children's Home Society's
Little Red Stocking this
year. Hundreds of North
Carolina's most important
resources ? its children ?
are waiting 'to belong'."
Gifts to the Little Red
Stocking are tax deductible
and may be mailed to: The
Children's Home Society of
North Carolina, Inc., P.O.
Box 6587, Greensboro, N.C.
27405.
1 Like IN .C. JPeople
* 1 1
I like the North Car-o-lina kind of people,
Down to earth but reaching for th^moon,
I like watching kids grow up in ? state of grace
On a North Carolina afternoon
Lord, it's just like living in a poem...
I like calling North Carolina home.
Sound familiar?
It should. It's part of a jingle being heard hundreds of
times a day on radio and television stations throughout
North Carolina.
It began appearing recently without fanfare, without ex
planation, and without station comment ? and has promp
ted covntless telephone calls from curious listeners and
viewers, and even letters to newspapers during recent
weeks.
What does it mean? Whp sings it? Who sponsors it? What
is it selling?
Briefly, the announcement is a $318,000 investment by
private enterprise and state government in a unique cam
paign designed to stimulate the spirit ? and the economy
? of North Carolina.
The idea began with Chapel Hill broadcaster Jim
Heavner:
"For years, many of us have had a feeling that things
just weren't as good as they used to be, that opportunities
were not as abundant, that people were not as proud of
themselves and their accomplishments as they might have
been at another time or place in history."
Heavner, president of the North Carolina Association of
Broadcasters, approached the state's Division of Travel
and Tourism with a proposal: if the state would produce a
series of public service spots the NCAB would contribute
1300,000 in free air time in a broad public service campaign
throughout the state.
"We're spending a million dollars a year to promote out
of-state visitation," said state travel director William
Arnold, "and it's bringing in more than a billion dollars
annually. But we felt perhaps we've been neglecting the
at-home market. A lot of North Carolinians vacation in
other states.
"We decided that if the public service campaign was pro
duced by first-rate talent, and contained a solid tourism ap
proach that could help stop the loss of North Carolina
dollars to Virginia, South Carolina, and elsewhere, it would
be worthwhile."
Chuck Blore, who created the "Big Mac Attack" com
mercials for McDonald's Restaurants, was brought from
Los Angeles to work on the project.
"We bent his ear for eight hours and packed him back on
the plane with about two. pounds of North Carolina
literature and materials," Arnold said. "The nine different
versions of the spot he produced three months later show a
decided, if subtle, at-home tourism message."
Arnold said the spots cost $17,900. None of it came from
the state's $1 million travel advertising budget. "We in
sisted our main program to promote out-of-state tourism to
North Carolina would in no way be compromised by the in
state campaign," he saift. All costs came from operational
and promotional funds.
"If they work," Arnold said, "the spots will make North
Carolinians more curious about and aware of their own
mountains and beaches and scenery and recreational
opportunities."
North Carolinians last year spent $425 million in travel
and tourism related -activities in their own state.
Your Social Security News
By LEE WALLIO
Field Representative
This it the time of year
when many people take
atock of their own situation,
evaluating the protection
?r-fgi .
NOTICE
The license bureau will
be closed all day,
December 29, to attend
license meeting in
*t Williamston.
th^y and their families
hare. .
And, today everyone
ought to include Social
Security when the lift is
drawn up.
There are aspects to
Social Security that people
tend to overlook when they
think of the protection they
have under Social Security.
Host people seem to think
that Social Security is Just a
retirement program. that it
only pay* benefits to retired
people.
Nothing could be farther
from the truth.
A very important part of
Social Security protection
la provided to disabled
workers and their families
and to the survivors of
deceased workers.
In fact, about 4, NO men,
women, and children under
age IS in the Ablemarle
area get Social Security
check! every month.
About one-third of all the
Social Security benefit
dollars go to survivor* of
deceased workers and i
disabled workers and their
families.
Because of this, Social
Security should play an
important part in every
family's financial planning
for the future.
Old Mansion
Decorated Again
REIDSVIILE ? Chinqua
Penn Plantation House, a
scenic old mansion located
near here which dates back
to 1925, is being decorated
for Christmas once again
this year.
The 27-room tourist at
traction will be decorated
in the traditional yuletide
trimmings just as it used to
be years ago when the
home was occupied by the
late Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson
Penn.
Chinq-a-Penn Plantation
House goes back to 1923,
when it was first started by
Mr. and Mrs. Penn. It was
completed in time for the
Penns to move in for
Christmas in 1925.
That era has long since
passed, but the traditional
Christmas decor lives on at
Chinqua-Penn, which has
been operated as a tourist
attraction by the University
of North Carolina at
Greensboro since the mid
1960s.
Yuletide visits may be
planned at Chinqua-Penn
again this year, beginning
Thursday, Dec. 1, and con
tinuing during regular
visiting hours through Sun
day, Dec. 18. The house is
open to* the public
Wednesdays through Satur
days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
and Sundays from 1 p.m. to
4:30 p.m. After Dec. 18, the
mansion will be closed for
the winter.
Chinqua-Penn was trim
med for the yuletide season
10 years ago for the first
tine since the plantation
was given to the "University
of North Carolina in 1959.
During those 10 years,
many thousands of visitors
have turned out for the
special Christmas tours.
During last December, a
record number of 7,323 peo
ple visited Chinqua-Penn
during the Christmas
season, reported George W.
Hamer, executive director
of the tourist attraction.
"With quite a number of
people, visiting Chinqua
Penn during December has
become a Christmas tradi
tion," noted Hamer.
"There is a quiet beauty
about the house and
grounds reminiscent of the
1920s which provides an
enriching experience for
visitors throughout the
year.
President Elected
A Rowan County tomato
grower has been elected
president of the N.C.
Agricultural Foundation, a
statewide organization that
raises funds for the School
of Agriculture and Life
Sciences at North Carolina
State University.
Carl E. Patterson of Rt. 1,
China Grove, was elected
president of the foundation
during a meeting of direc
tors here Friday. He suc
ceeds Elmer R. Daniel of
Rt. 1, Spring Hope.
During the past year, the
Agricultural Foundation
raised $563,000 for the
teaching, research and ex
tension program* of the
NCSU school. Since it was
organizaed in 1M4, the
foundation has raised more
than $9.< million for educa
tional programs head
quartered at NCSU and
benefitting farmers in all of
the state's 100 counties.
Elected as vice
presidents were John A.
Senter of Lillington, and
William H. Breeze of Rt. 1,
Hurdle Mills.
Rudolph Pate. NCSU vice
chancellor for foundations
and university relations,
was reelected secretary,
and George L. Worsiey,
vice chancellor for finance
and business, was reelected
treasurer.
Named to four-year
terms on the Board of
Directors were:
Bert West, Rt. 1, Marble;
Charles R. Pope, Vass;
Edward D. Bissette, Rt. 1,
Spring Hope; Mrs. L.G.
Aman, Rt. 2, Jacksonville;
Scottie Whitford, Rt. 1,
Grantsboro; Charles G.
Moore, Rt. 1, Elizabeth
City; Edward L. Nixon, Rt.
1, Hertford; C.W. Boyette.
Rt. 2, Hurdle MiUs; Billy H.
Ruff, Rt. 2, Mill Spring; W.
Thomas Lawrence, Rt. 1,
Seagrove; Mrs. Martha B.
Rushing, Hoffman; Duncan
G. Malloy III, Lumber
Bridge; Ariel McLamb,
Clinton; Charles E. Brooks,
New London; Virgil D.
Mitchell, Rt. 1, Walnut
Cove; Robert L. Lyday,
Bry son City;
Jacob J. Parker, Rt. 1,
Columbia; B. Mack Snell,
Rt. 2, Roper; Charles ?
Church, Valle Crucis;
Gurney Mathis, Rt. 2.
Roaring River; William G.
Harrell, Saratoga; Charles
ft. Wooten, Rt 1, Cast
Bend; Kenneth D. Mc
Curry, Rt. 3. Bwrnsville.
Conference
To Be Held
Regional parent con
ferences on services for
handicapped children will
be held in nine North
Carolina locations Satur
day, December 3. For
parents of handicapped
children, professionals, and
other interested persons in
the Perquimans area, the
conference location will be
Williamston. Registration
starts at 8:30 a.m., with ses
sions scheduled from 9:00
a.m. through 12:30p.m.
The conferences, spon
sored by the Division for
Exceptional Children, State
Department of Public In
struction, have been plan
ned on a regional basis to
make meetings easily ac
cessible for participants, to
pinpoint services available
in each area, and to allow
informal exchange among
parents, educators, and
other service providers.
The December 3 meetings
are a follow-up to similar
statewide Parent Con
ferences which were held
last May.
According to Director of
the Division for Excep
tional Children, Theodore
R. Drain, the purposes of
the meetings are to share
with participants the provi
sions of new state and
federal laws affecting pro
grams for the handicapped
and to assist them in
understanding that many
services available in their
schools and from other
community and state agen
cies. Sessions also will
address the importance of
family involvement in the
success of educational pro
grams for the handicapped,
and special problems of
children with specific
handicaps.
Additional conference in
formation is available from
Jeannette Shaw or from the
Division for Exceptional
Children, State Department
of Public Instruction,
Raleigh, N.C. 27611, phone
(919) 733-3005.
Christmas Rumble
"A Christmas Ramble"
will be sponsored by the
Perquimans County Exten
sion Homenakers on
Wednesday,* December 7,
from 7:00-10:00 p.m.
"The Ramble," which is
open te the public, will
feature three homes on tour
decorated for Christmas
and displays, demonstra
tions, and refreshments at
the Perquimans County Of
fice Ruilding.
The following homes will
be on the house tour: Mr.
and Mrs. Jessie Lee Harris,
Clark Street, Hertford,
N.C., sponsored by Rurgess
and Whiteston Extension
Homemaker Clubs; Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall Knight,
Route 3, Hertford, N.C.,
sponsored by Snow Hill
White Hat Extension
Homemaker Clubs; and
Mr. and Mrs. Gilliam
Underwood, Route 1, Hert
ford, N.C., sponsored by
Rethel and Helen Gaither
Extension Homemaker
Clubs.
Demonstrations at the
County Office Building in
clude: Ribbon Wreaths and
Bows by Mrs. Jim Robert
son, Corn Shuck Flowers by
Mrs. F.B. Tucker, Bargello
? Mrs. Archie White, Felt
Angels ? Mrs. William
Winslow, Bead Ornaments
? Mrs. Marvin Davenport,
Christmas "Goodies" ?
Mrs. Thurman Riddick.
Belvidere Extension
Homemaker Club will
decorate the County Office
Building with Winfall Club
serving refreshments.
The public is encouraged
and invited to participate in
the "Christmas Ramble"
which will give an op
portunity to see many
hand-made ideas for gifts
and decorations, states
Mrs. Paige Underwood,
Home Economics Exten
sion Agent. You start at
either of the four locations
and set your own stops and
schedule, comments Mrs.
Underwood.
Free admission.
Parade Planned
PARADE ENTRIES
NEEDED
The annual Perquimans
County Christmas Parade
will be held Friday,
December 2 at 4 p.m. This
year's parade, as in the
past, is being organized by
the Perquimans County
Jaycees with assistance
from the Chamber of Com
merce. To date 330 invita
tions have been sent out to
groups, clubs, churches and
organizations in an effort to
present to the people of Per
quimans County the largest
and best parade ever. Of
these 330 invitations over 45
percent were sent to clubs
and organizations in Per
quimans County. To date
we only have twenty-five
entries with very few from
Perquimans County. In
order to present a good
parade we need entries, so
therefore, if you received
an invitation and plan to
participate, please return it
as soon as possible.
Any group that has not
received an invitation and
would like to participate in
this year's parade may con
tact Parker Newbern
426-5245 or 426-7873 or
Bobby Harrell, 126-7964 or
7684, parade co-chairmen.
All parade entries need to
be in as soon as possible.
Bloodmobile To Visit
On November 30, Per
quimans County will have a
blood mobile visit at the
First United Methodist
Church on Market St. from
1-6 p.m. The turn out of the
last visit was fair but we
still did not meet our quota.
In comparison to blood reci
pients from this county, the
blood owed to the Red Cross
is estimated to about 900
pints. I would like to stress
to the concerned citiiens of
this county to please donate
your time, and blood to this
cause, if not for others for
yourself and family. I know
some fear the needle when
giving but ask yourself
this: Would you fear the
needle, if you needed a pint
of blood. Our goal for this
visit is 100 pints.
A.L. West,
Jaycee Blood mobile
Chairman.
Reports For Duty
.Marine Sergeant Jacob 1.
Wills, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob W. Wills of J, Box
39 Hertford, has reported
for duty with the Urst
Marine Aircraft Wl*g,
Marine Corps Air Station,
Futonma, Okinawa.
A graduate of Per
oaimans County High
school, he Joined the
Marine Corps in July 1973.
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