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?THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY ? ' r-r - Volume 35, Natl USPS42MI0 Hertford, Perquiman?County#l(P?Tl^|f?diyriifrfr ' ' iscen Board votes to apply for insurance needs Staff Report Perquimans Com missioners Monday voted to apply for a study of flood insurance needs of county residents in order to comply with regulations involving construction loans for new homes and buildings. _ June L. Beane, flood Rsurance coordinator for the N.C. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, explained the requirements necessary to comply with federal loans and other secured loans ?under the flood insurance program. Following his explanation of the study, which will be done at no cost to the county, com missioners voted to submit the application. James P. Harrell, school superintendent, requested commissioners to approve rental of the J.C. Blan chard Building on Church Street to be used for vocational classes in construction and car pentry. Harrell announced that he has received ad ditional financing for vocational programs and he feels there is a definite need for these classes. The request was approved. Bryan Twiddy of Savin & Hill, Inc., General Electric Mobil Radios, requested tower space on the county facility. Approvement was granted for one year. The applicant will return to the July 16 meeting for formal signing of the lease. In other business: ? Paul Gregory, Social Services administrator, announced Perquimans County's share of the proposed four-county transportation system would be $800. ? Reappointed to the Industrial Development Commission for three-year terms were William B. Cox, Bradley Jennings, and A. Stephen Perry. ? John Beard was reappointed Perquimans Veterans Service Officer for a one-yer term. ? Keith Haskett was reappointed tax supervisor for two years. ? Richard Bryant was appointed to the Perquimans County Planning Board. ? Dr. Page Hudson, chief medical examiner for North Carolina, notified commissioners that Dr. Joe L. Robertson has been appointed medical examiner for five counties for a three-year term. Counties included were Currituck, Pasquotank, ' Perquimans, Gates and Camden. ? Board members considered applications for home extension agent, an office left vacant by the retirement of Mrs. M.B. Taylor. W ork continues on streets The state highway department has helped smooth the way for travelers in the town of Hertford. New asphalt paving was put down on Church St. last Wednesday from Dobbs St. out to U.S. 17 Bypass. Also paved was two blocks on Edenton Rd. St., from Grubb to Dobbs. Last summer, new paving was put down from the causeway bridge trough the business district and on out U.S. 17 Business to the city limits. In the very near future, according to Mayor Bill Cox, the curbing, gutters and storm sewers on Edenton Road St. will be extended from the Ex tension Office to Balahack Rd. Cox said that the town hs requested additional work be included in next year's DOT budget during a meeting be had with Mark Basnight, area highway commissioner, and Wayne Adkins, division engineer for DOT. . The work requested is extension of curbs and gutters on Church St. out to the ABC store on the Bypass. PAVING GOES DOWN ? This was the scene on Church St. Wednesday, June 27 as state highway crews paved the street surface from U.S. 17 Bypass to Dobbs St. (Staff Photo by JACK GROVE ) Migrant program is underway By PAIGE EURE The Perquimans County Summer Migrant Pro gram got under way this past week with an average of 40 students participating every day. Mr. Morris Kornegay is the Director of the Pro gram with Miss Gay Howell serving as the Summer Program Coordinator. Mrs. Charlene Overton is working with Miss Howell as Recording Clerk. Other teachers for the summer program are Mrs. Parthenia Hill, Math, and working with her is Mrs. Mammie Mallory, Seasonal Farmer's work aide; Mrs. Carolyn Lavezzo, Music; Mrs. Emma Lawrence, Reading, with Mrs. Edna Howell aide; and Miss Beverly Carter and Miss Brenda Moore serving as CETA aides; John Lavezzo, Art; and Carolyn Rogers, Physical Education. Children who are participating in the program are students who were in grades 1-6 during the regular fljfhool year. Bus drivers also serve as aides during the day. They are Calvin Boone, Art; Lynn Hurdle, Physical Education; Tommy Overton, Music; and Leroy Smith, Math. During the five week program, the children will take part in many field trips. The purpose of these field trips is to broaden their educationial ex periences and to provide opportunities to learn about occupations, in addition to those related to farming, fishing and forestry. The first field trip was June 28 when the children and teachers toured Elizabeth City State University and learned that they could receive higher education without leaving home. After their tour of ECSU, they toured the Coca , if 40 ft. long, has tad she's from San by BUI and Fat a beam of 13 ft, and a draft ;v.j. OPEN HOUSE ? The first open house of the Sum mer Migrant Program was held Friday, June 30. Art was featured, with the children making objects with clay. Any and all parents and citizens are welcome to these open houses, which will be held once a week during the program. Cola Bottling Company, where the students saw menial type of labor. Other field trips will include a trip to Fiber Form on July 3 to see the boat building industry; July 11, to Taylor Theatre to see a film and what is involved in the entertainment industry; July 19, they will visit the Towne Bake Shop; and their highlight will be on July 27 when the students will visit the Naval Yard in Hampton, Va., and get to eat in the Mess Hall. (see Migrant, page 6) AERIAL SPLENDOR ? Fireworks displays highlighted Fourth of July celebrations at Holiday Island and in Hertford. Day-long activities in Hert ford were sponsored by the Perquimans County Jaycees. (Staff Photo by JACK GROVE) Crime watch captains hear some bad statistics Hertford continued its development of a Crime Watch Program last Thursday night with a meeting of the block captains under the leadership of Patrolman Robert Morris. A program was establish ed as follows: The purpose of the program will be to benefit the entire community, with goals and ob jectives being to give a potential criminal the feel ing that everyone in the community is watching him. Citizens will be able to engrave valuables with their North Carolina license number. They are also urged to improve locks and security systems. Morris' statistics for Hertford showed 15 larcenies, 6 robberies, 2 attempted burglaries, 5 damages to personal property, 1 shop lifting, 19 assaults and 1 auto theft. He pointed out that these statistics and the 73 arrests made in the last 6 months are above average for a town the size of Hertford. Stickers are available to citizens who join Crime Watch, Morris continued. Citizens who join Crime Watch will receive four EIC payments are extended The Internal Revenue Service today said that because of the short time available to put the new advance earned income credit (EIC) payment procedure into effect by July 1, employers who make a good faith effort to implement this provi sion, but are unable to do so by that date, will be considered in compliance. Under the Revenue Act of 1978, employers must make advance payment of the EIC with wages paid after June 30, 1979, to 'qualify low income employees who request it from them by filing Form W-5, Earned In come Credit Advance Payment Certificate. IRS still expects all employers who can to begin making payments on July 1, 1979, or as soon thereafter as they are able. In any event, employers make advance EIC payments no later than Januray 1,1980. Employers who are delayed in making ad vance EIC payments should not make them retroactively, but should make current payments when they first arc able to do so. Details on advance EIC payments are contained in July 1979 supplement to Circular E, Em ployer's Tax Guide, which was mailed to employers and is also available at IRS offices. Life afloat is their dream come true By JACK GROVE Ever want to leave your job, home and land-bound worries, get on a boat and travel wherever your fancy takes you? That's exactly what Bill and Pat Cleghorn did, only very carefully. They planned their new life for several years before actually embarking on it After purchasing their boat, the Splendid, which was built in Hong Kong, they began living aboard it on weekends and vacationed on it to adjust to the boat They did this for the first year they owned the Splend^^U^a moved ab^rd permanently.^ ^ ^ ^aegh^fSrted in the engineering field for 90 to the president of Aubry Engineering Co. San Francisco at the time they bought the boat. liie Cleghorns lived aboard the Spendid for three years when, as Cleghorn put it, "I didn't retire, I quit." It was at this point that the Cleghorns became "sea-going gypsies." Their first long journey took them from San Francisco, through the Panama Canal, down the coast of Central America and across the Gulf of Mexico to Florida. Two crewmen made this voyage with them . Highlights oij their journey, according to Pat Cleghorn, included the resort of Las Hadas In Man tanillo Bay, Mexico and Port Parker, a three by five mile bay in Costa Rica near the Nicaragua border. (see Life afloat, page 4) stickers for their homes to warn would-be criminals of their involvement in the program, besides gaining the availability of the engravers. Block captains were printed in last week's Per quimans Weekly. Extra papers are made available to those who need the list. More block captains are needed, it was reported, and volunteers are urged to call the Police Department or a Crime Watch member. The Weekly will reprint the updated list in the next few weeks. Helms declares HEW approval Senator Jesse Helms announced Monday the ap proval by Office of Education, HEW, the application of Perquimans County Board of Education for federal assistance for current expenditures under Title I of Public Law 874, as ammended, which pro vides financial assistance for schools in federally af fected areas. $11,106.29 has been certified for immediate pay ment out of tentative entitlement for fiscal year 1979. IRS can help with varied problems The 1979 Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, is now available at IRS offices, the Internal Revenue Service has an nounced. On February 13, 1979, the IRS announced that because of a printing delay it was suspending the requirement that employers issue 1979 W-2s to terminated employees within 30 days after payment of final wages. The IRS said that although W-2s are now available, it will not en force the 30-day require ment in 1979 because employers may be unable to obtain substitute forms from private printers un til later in the year. In addition, to relieve employers of having to reissue Forms W-2 to ter minated employees who have lost them before it is time to file their returns, the IRS is con sidering permanently eliminating the 30-day re quirement. CABIN ? Bill and Pat Cleghorn entertain a young visitor in the main cabin of their sailboat, the SPLENDID. Visiting the Cleghorns was Tracy Barton who lives at Holiday Island. (Staff Photo by Jack Grow)
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