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'THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY 1L. Volume 35, No. 44 USPS 428-080 , Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, Nov. 8, 1979 20 CENTS Friends J Dawn Downing, 10. (left) clutches the hand of her pal, Rhonda Vaughn, 9, as the two take a leisurely stroll down the railroad tracks. (Photo by NOEL TODD-McLAUGHLIN ) An outbreak of headlice has infested students in Perquimans County's three grammar schools in recent weeks. According to Pat HaireB, Perquimans County Schools Superintendent, some 20 to 25 ^ cases have been reported. "We have checked all the students in the three schools where there was infestation and the parents of those children h#ve been notified - and given the name of a shampoo available at the local pharmacy," said Harrell. Parents, notified by t ? "letter of discovery," have .been urged to check their children daily and to also make a thorough check of bed linens. The recommended shampoo is Kwell, available also in a lotion and cream. School cloak closets are sprayed nightly to keep the lice infestation 6n articles of clothing to a minimum. "We're doing everything we can." said Harrell, "but parents hat* got to do something at home. We can't forbid social contact." . Apparently, lice infestation is not an uncommon oc curence. , "It happens every year, all over the country," said Kay Boyce, Perquimans County School Nurse, "You get a large group of children together in close contact and it spwads." Ms. Boyce recommended that parents check around the back of the head and neck area to look for nits, or eggs, which look like greyish-white pieces of dandruff. "A nit cannot be flaked off like dandruff though. It has to be pulled or combed pff," ssid Ms. Boyce who added that shampoo won't kill all the nits. According to Flora Carter, Nurse Supervisor for Perquimans County, headlice generally infest the neek and ear area. "A louse can live up to one month and can grow up to a quarter of an inch long," said Ms. Carter. Mi.Carter advised parents to wash an infested child's clothes and bed linen in hot water and detergent and to dry the artides for at least twenty minutes in a dryer. In addition to the Kwell shampoo, Ms. Carter recommended A-200 Pyrinate Shampoo. "After the initial shampoo and cleaning, an infested person should be rechecked and re-treated in eight to ten days," said Ms. Carter. Ms. Carter also urged parents to wash children's brushes and combs in a two percent Lysol solution or in ISO ? F. water. According to Ms. Boyce, it's not hard to contract head lice in the close quarters of the classroom, but the problem is easily remedied with careful personal hygiene. "It's not a sin to have lice, bat it's a sin to keep them," she said. County confirms extension posts The Perquimani , County Board of Commissioners made official the hiring of a county extension chairman and a home agent at their regular Monday meeting. BUI Jester, 32, presently a crops agent in TjrreH County, ?i was accepted at acting county M chairman and witt begin work ?^December 1 Jester must serve as acting county chairman (or a probationary period of ooe year before he can be named the fuD-Oedged agricultural extension chairman. Ma. Joanlta Turner Bailey, ? .* , formerly of Perqoimans County and no* employed in the Bertie County extension office, will begin work January 1. She will replace the retired home agent Ma. Minnie Taylor and will also work in 4-H, In another matter, William J. Jeffress, general manager qt Holiday Island, sought permission to explore the coat efficiency of the resort? community's tapping oa to the - county water system. Jeffress said he is checking into several alternatives for Holiday Island system, one of which is a county takeover. Jeffress had sought per miaaioo to double the water hills of Holiday Island residents at a public hearing conducted by the North Carolina Utilities Commission in Raliegh on Oct II. Presently, residents of Holiday Island pay H(? per quarter for water, and Campari pay S10 per yoar. According to Jeffress, these charges are not sufficient to pay the cost of operating the system. Naadtd im would pat the water lystem even further in the hole, he said. The commiuioo recom mended that he look at dif ferent methods of upgrading the system and a decison is expected within ? days as to whether or not to allow the rate increase, Jeffress Mid. He wm instructed by the commissioners to write to Rivers aad Associates in Greenville, N.C. for in formation on the cost aad requirements lor up to the county water lystem. Municipal election, 1979 Cox wins decidedly Incumbent mayor Bill Cox was soufldly re-endorsed, incumbent councilman Billy Winslow was re-elected by a healthy margin and Jesse Lee Harris slipped by incumbent Mattie "Pete" Broughton to take the other vacant council seat in the Hertford Municipal Election on Tuesday. Perquimans County Board of Elections chairman Buddy Tilley read the unofficial results to a courtroom half full of people at 9 p.m., following an hour and a half of vote counting by the board. Some 549 votes were cast in what Tilley described as a "real good" turnout. He estimated the total number of registered voters in the town at some 1000. Cox defeated challenger Herbert Nixon by a 423-112 margin, and will begin his third four year term as mayor. Winslow led the five can didates for two town council seats open with 315 votes. Harris followed, with 239 Harris Winslow Cox votes, then came Broughton with 228, Dennis Hare with 124, and A.L. West, Jr., with 112. There were 43 votes cast in the town of Winfall, and all of the candidates who filed were elected against no com petition. David Trueblood received 40 votes for mayor, Richard Bryant received 37 votes for councilman and Jesse P. "Jake" Chesson received 38 votes for town council. All will serve two year terms. In comments following the returns, Cox promised a continuation of what he labeled "good conservative government" for the town of Hertford. Because of the economic climate, he said he would probably not initiate any new town projects for the time being, but would work to complete those projects already underway. Harris is no newcomer to town government, having served on the town council from 1967 to 1975. Harris said his chief con cern is the size of the town resident's monthly utility bill. He said he would work to get that bill reduced through more efficient town operations. Harris also said he would work to extend the town limits through annexation. Winslow has served on the council for the past eight years and said he would like to see some of the projects he helped initiate, such as King Street redevelopment and the waterfront park, through to the completion. Parking law to be enforced The Hertford Town Council decided to expand en forcement of an ordinance forbidding vehicles to park on the left side of the curb in Hertford's business district at Hertford honored . Hertford will be recognized by Governor Jim Hunt as a recipient of the Governor's Community of Excellence Award November IS during the first annual Governor's Conference on Economic Development in Raleigh. Hertford Mayor Bill Cox has been invited to receive the award during special ceremonies in Raleigh. Hertford was one of 77 North Carolina towns which earned the coveted award this year according to Larry Cohick, Executive Director of the Economic Development Divisions of the North Carolina Department of Commerce. To qualify for this award Hertford had to meet the basic criteria required by new in dustry. These indluded: an organization for putting together and presenting the town's history, adequate labor, industrial sites, financing and access to markets. The awards will be presented during an evening banquet at the Jane. S. McKimmon Center. During an afternooa session, a number of nationally recognized speakers are scheduled to appear. Dinner speaker set Perquimans County Area Committee chairman Mar shall Knight has announced that Donald J. Manley, Regional Director for Eastern North Carolina Ducks Unlimited, will appear at the local chapter's inaugural banquet Tuesday, November 13, at 7:30 at Angler's Cove. "We're fortunate Mr. Manley can attend and most appreciative of his support so far in organising," said Knight. "As the East Carolina Director, he has been in strumental in the rapid ex pansion of DU in the state." The Perquimans chairman also listed items for auction at the Tuesday banquet In ad dition to the DU lira Com memorative Weatherby 12 gaug.e shotgun, the organisations' yearly com memorative print, "Wild Heritage-Widgeons" by DU "Artist-of-the-Year" Harry C. Adamson will be auctioned. The print is currently on display at Woodard's Phar macy in Hertford. Also, a Honda ACT-90 motorcycle, the "Greenwing Special" 20 gauge single barrel shotgun, a Chesapeake Retiever puppy and a local hunting trip are for bid. Auctioneer Joe Tunnell of Hertford will conduct the affair. The banquet is one of several in the area in the next several weeks which will raise money for Ducks Unlimited, an international organization devoted to the acquisition, development, and preser vation of wildlife habitat. Tickets for. the Perquimans banquet are available at Woodard's Pharmacy of Hertford, J It N Supply of Winfall, or from Parker Newbern. a Monday night meeting. Action was taken after hearing a complaint from Margaret A. Garrison who cited that the present parking situation has been causing traffic congestion in the business district. Although previously en forced in areas fringing the business district, the or dinance will now be enforced from Perquimans Street to the corner of Church and Grubb; from Church Street to the corner of Dobbs; and from Edenton Road Street through the intersections of Grubb Street and King Street. Warning tickets will be issued to first offenders, followed by traffic tickets if the infraction is repeated. Hertford Police Chief Marshall Merritt reported a total of 30 arrests made during the month of October, in cluding four breaking and eflterings, and one larcency. Merritt also appealed to the council to either pay city police officers overtime, or to hire another officer. Merritt said he has ac cumulated an excess of 250 hours of overtime himself, and that all of his officers regularly work 48 hours a week. The board directed Cox to work out the matter with Merritt at a later date. Armed robbers get stiff sentences here Three Perquimans County men received stiff sentences on armed robbery charges in Superior Court last week. James Lewis Riddick, 35, of route 2, Walter Daniel White, 26, of Covent Garden Street, Hertford, and Luther Hayes, Jr. 33, of Winfall pleaded guilty to the December 14 armmed robbery of B.M. Miller, 80, of Route 2, Hert ford. Judge Napolean B. Barefoot of Wilmington sentenced the three to not less than 50 years nor more than life. Perquimans County Sheriff Julian Broughton said he was satisfied with the sentencing though it was somewhat stiffer than expected. The three men had already been convicted as ac complices what was termed a murder for hire plot in Virginia in which a woman was shot once in the stomach and once in the lower ab domen, during an armed robbery staged by her husband with the intention of crippling her. Broughton said the judge may have taken that offense into account when he sen tenced the men here. "It was the same gun they used on the lady in Virginia Beach," Broughton said. The three men admitted that they had robbed Miller after knocking on his door on the pretense -of enquiring about renting or buying property. Miller was robbed of more than $1000 in cash and is said to still suffer from assaults incurred during the robbery. The men must first serve active prison terms in Virginia before being returned to North Carolina for in carceration on the armmed robbery convictions. Riddick received a 16 year prison sentence there while White and Hayes received terms of 7 years each. All three must serve 20 years in the North Carolina prison system before they will be eligible for parole. County man is shot to death A Perquimans County man was shot to death and another man injured at the Boof o Club near South Kills Saturday Bifht ? The shooting apparently stemmed (Tom a dispute over Calvin Jordan, a Belvidere man and an infrequent visitor to the eluh. was killed with a single shot from a small calibre pistol shortly before 7 p.m., said Camden County Sheriff Bobby Berry. Anthony Brown, 29, of Route 4, Elizabeth City, was shot in the lover right leg during the incident and was taken to Albemarle Hospital where he w as listed in satisfactory Following an hour and a half chase by the N.C. Highway Patrol and officers of the Pasquotank County Sheriffs Department Leon Walston, 34, of Moyoek, was taken into custody oo Mill Pond Road in Newland. He was charged with first degree murder and more charges were expected to be filed against him in the near future. Kelvin Williams, an eyewitness to the shooting, said that the suspect first shot towards the bar ot the club. wounding Brown, Bin turned his pistol on Jordin and pulled the trigger at poipt blank range. Williams, a distant relative of the victim, said the two men had been "tussling earlier" over a money problem ?*> said that he had broken them up more than once during the courte of the evening. -?
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