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Perquimans
Fish market minister
William David Moore splits time between scaling fish and spreading the good news at his tiny shop on the corner of
Market and Edenton Road Streets.
Bike built for three
'?David Hurdle, Claudia Lane, bicycle in Sunday's Bike-A- event was sponsored by the
ind Denise Hare (1-r) com- Thon for Cystic Fibrosis. The Perquimans County Jaycees.
lined energies on a tandem
Insurance
anan awarded
?j A Certificate of
Achievement has been
awarded to William T. Nixon,
Special Representative in
Elizabeth City for the Jef
ferson Standard Life In
durance Company, for having
Completed the Company's
Career School in Life In
surance, held at the Home
Dfflce in Greensboro, NC,
31 ay 26-30.
I Mr. Nixoa was among 42
?efferson Standard
Representatives from 1]
States, the District of
Colombia and Puerto Rico
invited to attend the
because of their fine
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Hertford, NC.
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There is nourishment (or the
body and the soul both at B.T's
Fish Market, on the corner of
Market Street and Edenton
Road Street in Hertford.
That's because when
proprietor William David
Moore isn't inside cleaning
fish for a customer, he's out by
his tiny shop preaching the
good news.
It's hard to miss Reverend
Moore. He's so big that one
chair will hardly hold him.
Most afternoons he sits out
front with a circle of listeners,
the closest he's got to a
congregation.
A 68 year old former cement
finisher, Moore doesn't have
his own church, but that
doesn't stop him from
spreading the gospel to
anybody who'll listen.
"Yes-sir, you come back
around here at 4:36 and I'll
have a crowd," said Moore.
In a tiny room buzzing with
flies, Moore stoops over a
croaker and scrapes away, the
knife making a rasping sound
on the scales.
The reverend waves a fly
swatter in a hand the size of a
?mall catcher's mitt. He talks
about the fish business, his
health (which isn't very
good), and, of course, his
faith.
The fish shop has been in
operation for about three
years, minus a recent closing
because of its owner's poor
health.
Moore had been stricken
with walking pnuemonia, high
blood pressure and a heart
condition, and admits that he
really shouldn't be working
now.
"I don't know where I went
but I lost knowledge of this
world," he said. A heart shock
got him back on his feet, and
now his bill for drugs keeps
him struggling in the fish
shop.
"Ain't no money made in
here," he said. "Working
makes me feel a little better.
What Moore charges for fish
depends on what he has to pay
for them. He said that if he
pays 75 cents a pound, he
might charge 96 cents a pound
for them after cleaning.
He gets them from Wan
chese, Murray Nixon's in
Rocky Hock, and in Swan
Quarter. "Sometimes I don't
clean 25 pounds a day.
Sometimes I clean 50. 1 have,
since I've been here cleaned
160 pounds," said Moore.
But Moore would really
rather sit outside with his
Mends than clean fish. "I feel
better setting out there talking
than I do in here," be said.
What does he say that keeps
folks coming back to listen
almost every afternoon? "I
tell 'em how to live," Moore
said. "I tell them to leave this
marijuana alone. You can see
the results of it around you.
'You know they're smokiAg
and drinking or something
because they act different
than they would... Our job as
adults is to recommend them
to leave that stuff off," Moore
said.
Still, Moore's message has
more of a positive ring.
"Preaching is good news and
glad tidings," he said.
And according to customer
Emily Jordan, he can really
deliver it. "He can really
preach and sing, both," she
said.
Moore also makes short
work of scaling and gutting a
fish, and despite his poor
health, he'll keep right on
doing it. His drug bill of some
$80 per month requires it.
"There's no other way to get
my medicine," he said.
But bad health has done
little to shake the big man's
faith. In fact, it's had the
opposite effect. "I believe in
Christ more than ever," hfe
said.
"You can't get the wrong
Story on your mind and think
your going to win with it," said
Moore. "You can't win with it.
'I'd go to Germany (to
preach the good news) if I had
the money," he said.
Lanes observe 50th
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lane of
611 South Church Street,
Hertford, were honored with a
50th wedding anniversary
reception, Sunday, May 18, at
3 p.m. in the Perquimans
County Office Building.
Guests were registered by
Michelle Lane, granddaughter
of the couple. The receiving
line consisted of the honorees
and their three children, Mr.
and Mrs. William Moore, Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Ray White,
and Mr. and Mrs. Phillip
Lane, who hosted the event.
They have 10 grandchildren.
The couple pledged their
wedding vows on May 10, 1930
in Suffolk, Virginia. On
display were pictures taken
prior to the reception and
gifts.
Mrs. Lane was attired in a
pink dress and wore an orchid
corsage. Mr. Lane was
presented with a gold car
nation boutonniere.
Refreshments included a
three-tiered anniversary cake
baked by their daughter, and
was served by Miss Phyllis
Moore and Miss Glenda
Moore, granddaughters of the
couple.
Presiding at the punch bowl
were Miss Nancy White, Mrs.
Susan Lassiter and Becky
White, granddaughters of the
couple.
Out-of-town guests were
from Elizabeth City, Hamp
ton, Va., Norfolk, Va.,
Virginia Beach, Va., Edenton,
Seven Springs, Raleigh and
Wake Forest.
Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Lane
$3,973 here
Art grants awarded
The N. C. Arts Council has
just awarded $1.3 million in
grants supporting arts ac
tivities in 92 counties. The
announcement comes jointly
from Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr.
and Sara W. Hodgkins,
secretary of the N. C.
Department of Cultural
Resources. Awards were
recommended at the spring
meeting of the Arts Council's
board of directors.
A total of (3,937 was
awarded to organizations in
Perquimans County, with $937
of that amount pending but
expected to be awarded soon
through Grassroots funds.
The grants category ac
counting for the largest
amount of money is the
Grassroots Arts Program, in
which funds for locally
determined arts activities are
awarded in each county on a
per capita basis. The total
award for Grassroots is
$560,449. Every county will
receive Grassroots funds this
year, although awards for
some counties are still pen
ding.
The Arts Council also
awarded substantial funds
$428,600 in its Statewide Arts
Resources Program, which
supports major arts
organizations whose impact
significantly transcends
county lines. Council mem
bers voted to add eight small
presses and literary
magazines to the dance,
music, crafts and visual arts
organizations already par
ticipating as statewide arts
resources.
In this area, a statewide art's
resources grant of $700 was
awarded to Atlantic Christian
College in Wilson for thp
magazine "Crucible."
Awards in other grant
categories include:
? $130,503 in local govern
ment challenge gants, which
match the next fiscal year's
increases in local government
funding of community arts
organizations;
? $96,350 for a rts-in -education
programs in local schoo}
systems, especially to support
local participation in the stats
Arts Council's Artists-in?
Schools Program.
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