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weekly Perspective? Our view Chilling forecast In the interest of giving credit where credit is due, we hereby concede that the big snow of March 2, 1927, probably surpassed our recent blizzard in both severity and staying power. One senior gentleman on a recent visit to our office, said the snow was belly deep to a mule, and that wasn't coun ting drifts. He said that trees came down all over the county making travel almost im possible. On top of that, the snow hit so fast that snow-moving equipment (consisting mostly of Model T Fords) had to be abandoned all over the county and it was a week before the machines could be retrieved and put to work. But despite the present spring-like weather, the rumbling around the county is that the 1927 monstor will be put to another test. Yes folks, informed sources tell us that the almanac is calling for one more snowfall, the eighth and heaviest of the year, to take place this weekend. For those of you who might doubt the wisdom of that book, we are told that it has been on the money so far, predicting seven snows this winter. Will the almanac finish up the season with an un blemished 8-8 record? Let's cross our fingers and hope not. We've had more than our share of the white stuff this year. First district coalition formed A non partisan, non-profit organizaiton consisting of Conservative Democrats, Republicans, and other First Senate District voters "working together for the cause of good government" was established recently. The organization, called the "First District Conservative Coalition," has pledged to work for such causes as: keeping the people of the area informed on current political issues, limiting government, sponsoring needed legislation, supporting conservatives, and eliminating unnecessary taxes and wasteful govern ment spending. L. W. Overman, Jr. is Perquimans County's representative on the coalition's executive com mittee. Other members of the committee are Ron Olds, of Currituck, Scott Barber of Pasquotank, and Ashby Browder of Chowan. The newly elected officers are Chairman, M.H. Quinn; Vice Chairman, Kentwood Turner; Secretary, Peggy Brabble; and Treasurer, Frankie Meads. The FDCC plans to meet on the second Monday night of the first month of each quarter. The time and place will be announced prior to each meeting. A membership drive is currently underway and all interested first district voters are invited to the meetings. ? ? ' W tv * W " ' Taking a look backward MARCH 1942 by VIRGINIA WHITE TRANSEAU REGISTRATION FOR SUGAR CARDS TO BE AROUND MARCH 24: F. T. Johnson, County School Superintendent, announced today that the schools have completed the survey of the county in estimating the number of sugar rationing cards needed here, and he believed the registration for cards will be held sometime around March 24. PRICE CEILING PLACED ON USED TIRES, TUBES BY GOVERNMENT EDICT: As a result of wide-spread com plaint of profiteering, the government on Wednesday announced a price ceiling for all used tires and tubes ef fective as of March 16. The announcement was made by Price Administrator Hen derson. MAUDE ELEANOR KEATON WEDS J. WYLIE PAUL: Miss Maude Eleanor Keaton, daughter of Mrs. R. R. Keaton and the late Mr. Keaton, and J. Wylie Paul, of Richmond, Va. were married in a quiet but impressive ceremony at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. H. B. Matthews, in Norfolk, Va., Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock. BIRTH A N NOUNCEMENT: Mrs. and Mrs. A. M. Mulik announce the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Racheal, born in Wilmington Hospital, on February 28th, 1942. Mrs. Mulik was before her marriage Miss Rachael Alice Mansfield, of Hertford, Route one. WHITE-WILLEY : The Marriage of Miss Eula White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom White, of Winfall, to Sgt. Francis Edward Willey was solemnized Thursday af ternoon, March 5, 1942, at Columbia, S.C. Sgt. Willey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Willey, of Woodville. He is now stationed at Fort Jackson, S.C.. HOME FOR HOLIDAY: Madge Lane, Mildred White, Celia Blanche Dail, Mildred Copeland, Mary Morris, Nancy Darden, Frances Newby and Pat Edwards. Labor head pays visit North Carolina Com missioner of Labor John Brooks visited the Northeast Jo speak at the graduation of some 40 prospective ap prentices from a formal job skills training program at College of the Albemarle on Monday night. ? ? The graduates have com pleted the six month ^classroom stage of the Wanchese Harbor ;Cooperative Marine Crafts 'Training Program, a ?forerunner of the Wanchese Harbor Project in Dare County. ' Next, they will be placed in apprenticeships with area ?tradesmen so that they can breach the status of a fully r skilled laborer, or jour neyman. According to Brooks, the training program was an effort to address the "which came first problem" of whether to provide labor skills or job opportunities in an area in which both are short, by doing both at once. "We wanted to anticipate the skills needed in an ex panding industry and go ahead and develop a skilled labor supply, "he said. The marine related job skills taught at COA are designed to mesh with the expanding seafood industry at Wanchese. An added objective is to introduce area businessmen to the apprenticeship concept, which provides formal training beyond the classroom experience, Brooks said. The program is funded through the Comprehensive Training and Employment Act which carries certain income level and unem ployment restrictions, and is an effort to encourage in dustrial development in the Northeast, Brooks said. A skilled labor pool makes the area more attractive to prospective industry, he said. More apprenticeship programs may well be on the way, whether in marine or other type skills, Brooks said. Whether or not future programs carry CETA restrictions will be up to the employers, he said. The current program is sponsored jointly by COA the N.C. Department of Labor, and the N.C. Employment Security Commission. John Brooks Immunization drive continues ?i Perquimans County is continuing efforts to get all "students immunized before the 1980-81 school year. Students who to fail to comply with the new im munization law will be ex pelled from the 1980-81 term, according to Pat Harrell, Perquimans County schools superintendent. ; Individual student records have been checked and parents whose children's files gnre incomplete are being BOtified. Although not required by law, Harrell said that the THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY COURTHOUSE SQUARE. HERTFORD. N.C. 27*44 r r ??1T1AM MlMir QRuUTKM WMCI schools' checking of files at the health department would save parents from having to do so and would thus be more efficient. This school year, the law only affects kindergarteners, first-graders, and students who have transferred to the Perquimans County school system from out of state; however, next year all students will be required to comply. Kayce Boyce, Perquimans County school nurse, said that a clinic will be set up at the health department within in the next three weeks (or those students whose records are still incomplete. Exact dates will be released later. - '*$: Parents of children who will be starting in kindergarten or first grade this fall have been urged by state health officials to get their children im munized as soon as possible if they want to avoid the sum mer rush. "If there ever was time when parents should get their pre-schoolers immunized early, it is this year. The new i state immunization law requires all upper grade students to have full protec tion , against the childhood diseases before they can at tend school in the 1980-81 year," said Dr. J. Newton MacCormack, head of the Communicable Disease Branch of the Department of Human Resources in Raleigh. To register a begining student, a parent must present to school authorities evidence that the child has received all immunizations required by North Carolina law. Light bills explained (Continued from ptge ooe) multiplying the kwh's times f. 01867. This will yield the fuel adjustment charge. Then add the fuel adjustment to the $5.27 base rate and the actual number at kwh's consumed to get the total bill. The March 1 bill reflects electric energy used during the period between Jan. 15, and Feb. 15. There is also a demand charge which is based on the maximum amount at power 4 . the town of Hertford requires for any 30-minute period during the month. That demand determines the size of generating equipment and other facilities needed by Vepco to serve the city at its peak demand. Vepco has recently sub mitted a request for a rate increase u> the Federal Power Commission, claiming that their operational costs have risen. I * Will the FTC sanction still another rate hike? "Based on past history, I think thejrH get it," said Cox. Concert ? | %'X i, I* ' '? ? 4 The Perquimans County Band wffl hold a concert on Tuesday, March 25, at 7:90 p.m. in the Perquimans County High School Auditorium. ' Letters. . . Recent "My turn" column attacked Editor's, THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, I would like to comment on the article written in the Feb. 28 issue entitled "My turn." I have recently migrated from southern California; a state commonly thought of as the "sin state" and an area suffering from a dirth of Christianity. I was happy to be enroute to the area known as "the Bible belt." I had in mind a land of people who really loved the Lord Jesus Christ and lived for Him. Since arriving here, I have found that the church has become so worldly and the world so churchy, that I cannot discern one from the other in far too many cases. I wonder if perhaps people like the author of this column, Noel Todd-McLaughlin, might be in some way responsible for this. Miss (or Mrs.) Todd McLaughlin must have had a noble idea in mind when she wrote the column, but I only see ridicule for right in it. I get the feeling at first that she is upset because the National Federation for Decency has not taken up a dual role (that might be noble), but her cloiing statements killed those thoughts. Apparently, she is out to promote in decency. I do hope my thoughts are unfounded. If the young lady could walk the streets of Hollywood, California for a few weeks, and see with her own eyes the results of this great sin, she might return to our state and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ in her column. This information has been obtained first-hand, as I have been there and been engulfed in it. I thank God for His ability to release me from it. I sincerely hope that Noel did not mean this article to be received as I received it. If she was, indeed, upset because of the lack of action against violence on the part of the NFD, she might consider that the decency fight was started by one man who did not have the tool of a news column to begin the fight. I am a parent with two young girls at home, and I would not dare leave them alone with a TV set. If organizaitons such as the NFD, or Noel's organization to end TV violence were suc cessful, I could leave my children alone with a TV just as my dad left me with ours and as Noel's dad probably did with hers. My turn NOEL TODD-McLAUGHUN This month's NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC features an article entitled "Coming Home to North Carolina" that documents evidence that just might give some viability to the premise of that silly song; living here is, indeed, "like living in a poem." (And that's pronounced "pome.") The author, Neil Morgan, returns to his native state from California "in search of the familiar...in awe of the new" with an attitude that belies Thomas Wolfe's claim that "you can't come home again." (And the fact that Morgan's glowing account of our state contrasts sharply with Wolfe's scathing review might indicate that he wishes to return again.) The son of a Baptist preacher, Morgan mixes the objectivity of a newcomer with the prejudice of a native in what blends into a fairly accurate, if sometimes romantic, portrait of the Tar Heel state and its people. He aptly condemns parts of western N.C. (around Cherokee) as "full of tourist traps" and praises eastern N.C. for a lack of such promotion. "Such towns are splendid ... After visiting the 1776 Georgian courthouse in Edenton, I wandered the main street without finding a tearoom or coffee shop; even motels are scarce." Morgan defines the people of North Carolina as full of independence and a certain amount of pride. From his accounts of conversations with our state's leaders to As for the present situation, there is not much a little lady can learn except how not to be a young lady by flaunting her body before the world. The teaching for young men is even worse. I dare say that a man or boy cannot watch TV for more than an hour without commiting adultery in his heart and Jesus said that is a sin (Matthew 5:27, 28). In closing, may I say, "Noel appears to have something missing from her life and that something is someone by the name of Jesus." Serving the Savior, Aubrey T. Yancey, Jr. Route 1, Box 2 Belvidere EDITOR'S NOTE: we regret any misunderstanding quotations from the seU defined "just plain folk," it is revealed that it is such in dependence that has, oddly enough, been our common ? trait and unifying factor. And it is the spirit of in dependence that Morgan uses to explain the dispertion of our population. "You are seldom out of sight of a far mhouse... edges of town are blurred ; suburban spaciousness imperceptibly becomes rural. This pleasing scatteration results from an odd pattern of settlement by independent farmers," writes Morgan who goes on to say, "North Carolina remains a small town state where an obsessive loyalty to the idea of being a North Carolinian unites about 5.5 million people." But it is that Tar Heel pride _ that surfaces most frequently V in the article. Sam Ervin, in } conversation with Morgan said: "We don't put on atre like our Virginia friendi, we're not so emotional as the South Carolinians. I'd say, too, we're a bit more rational than the people in Tennesee." Morgan reflects on a time when North Carolinians united O "against the aristocratic prentensions of Virginia and South Carolina, taking refuge in what they called 'their varle of humility between tw6 mountains of conceit.' " But it was "mountain aristocrat," Hugh Morton, who provided the comeback for that claim. Said Morton, jQ "Some folks say we're a bit too proud of not bein' proud." that may have been generated by our column on the NFD. We would, however, like to stress that we were in no way "out to promote indecency," merely satirizing an organization that chooses to ignore TV violence in lieu of counting the number of alcoholic beverages con sumed and foul words uttered onTV. ?; We concede, as the column clearly stated, that there are many television programs aired that should not be and we in no way meant to sanc tion the use of illicit language or suggestive scenes on TV. | Our premise was that if violence had also been under scrutinization by the NFD, a more constructive, and clearly less arbitrary report, could have been made. Let's kill ERA A Editors, THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, In recent weeks in Washington, President Carter has told representatives of various women's groups that there is nothing that he would not do to obtain the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitiution, and that he meant to accomplish this through Democratic National Committee efforts and his campaign workers. He also pledged to carry to the Supreme Court, if necessary, any adverse ruling that would allow states to rescind a previous vote for ratification of the amend ment. President Carter says that ERA is one of his major commitments, but ERA is number one on the priority list of many North Carolinaians and they have proved it ? j inspite of outside money and supporters? not three times, but four. Why not kill it once and for all when it comes up again by checking out all of the can didates BEFORE we cast our] ballots in the next election? Emily J. Moore 609 Avondale Avenue Rocky Mount, N.C. 27801 Gun law change is debated C Continued from page one) In other business, it was announced that Monroe Johnson's Construction Company, whose bid had been accpeted for work on site B of the water front park (the boat ramp), was ineligible because they did not have a license. The council moved to enter into negotiation with the next lowest responsive bidder, T.D. Bare, to investigate their credentials. There is a difference of $1,804.44 between Monroe Johnson's bid and Eure's bid and the possibDty of holding Johnson Ubel^for^the dif Merritt reported that during the month of February, the police department had made a total of 44 arrests and citations which included one larceny, one assault, and two breaking and entering*. He further reported that there was a problem con troling dogs in the town because "people won't allow us to put traps on their property." Corporal Robert Morris announced that he was to attend a drug ad by the federal government in Charlotte from May 11-23. His seminar will be paid for by the Albemarle Law and Order Association. The council met in executive A session after the regular ; meeting far review two ap plications for the vacant position on the police force. * ] first F I A meet set at Hertford Grammar ' The faculty of Perquimans County Central School and parents of students in K4 are planning an organisational P.T.A. meeting on Thursday, March 20. 1M0 at 7:to in the school multi-purpose room. "The purpose of P.TA is to foster a better understanding .and relationship between school and community and it k allows teachers and parents to work more cloaeiy toward common goals for the bet- ! terment of all children," said ! a spokesman of the planning committee. Mr. Arthur Wall will con duct the jfcietbg. AD in- ( attend.
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