Flag waving day
Tuesday was Veterans' Day, a
time to honor all American
veterans. A great many
veterans lie in the town
cemetary, some of whom died
in combat, according to
groundskeeper McCarthy Ivan Laverne West, a Navy
Mitchell. The small flag in the veteran who died ia 1*4.
foreground is a memorial to
Welfare rolls
?lafcir ?f the family who is ill or in
capacitated. or rtspoaaibtr tor the care
of acWMoaiertheageofl
According to Ward, moot AFDC
roetoifU are not what some call
"government freeloaders." but have
haoa forced to rely oa assistance because
of lack of opportunity.
"In January 1M, over M percent of
the mothers registered for the WIN
program were exempt (from work
programs) but they volunteered
aayway," said Ward. "This indicates
tkat AFDC recipients want to work if
give* the opportunity but their, biggest
problem to finding a job is lack of
educate* and job skills."
He Mid among the biggest
toeing the unemployed were "lack of
opportunity and lack of job skills," citing
that in 1971, only 341 percent of AfDC
recipients were high school gradnates.
Assistance for dependent children
must also be sought from the offspring's
absent parent Unless the adult family
member can show Just cause, they must
also agree for the child support en
forcement worker to seek child support
payments from the absent parent.
County social service departments
determine eligibility for the AFDC
program based on state and federal
eligibility requirements.
Imprisoned ?
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Beach. V*. was charged with catenae a
Perquimans Couaty Sheriff's Depart
?eat wMtte oa Aag. H aad stealing a
.357 magaam pistol as well as a caa of
aiace. bat plead gailty to breaks aad
entering of aa automobile after larceny
and theft of a firearm charges were
dropped.
A mistrial was declared in an ac
cessory after the fact to breaking, en
tering and larceny charged against
Joseph Michael Bivens.
Bivens was alleged to have transported
goods stolen following the Pitt Hardware
break-in but a jury could not decide
whether the defendent was guilty or
innocent of charges.
Bivens is expected to be tried again ?
during the February Superior Court
term.
Man charged in cocaine bust
The Hertford Police
Department has arrested a
New York resident and
charged him with possession
of a small amount of cocaine
and intention to sell or
distribute the substance.
The first offense is a
misdemeanor, the second, a
felony.
Vernon Ferebee Adams of
Amityville, N.Y. was stopped
just before he reached the
causeway bridge on U.S. 17
buisness, north of Hertford.
A search revealed three
small tin-foil packets of what
is believed to be cocaine,
according to Hertford Police
Chief Marshall Merritt.
Adams was returned to the
police station and strip
searched, but nothing further
was turned up, Merritt said.
He said, however, that $564
was confiscated from Adams,
most of it in $20 bills and
believed to have been
generated by drug sales.
Merritt said that it is
standard procedure to also
seize money in a drug arrest.
Adams was released
Saturday evening from the
Albemarle District Jail under ?
$5,000 bond. He is expected to
be tried on the misdemeanor
charge during the Nov. 19
term of District Court, and is
scheduled to have a first
appearance hearing at that
time.
ERA debate slated in Hertford
A pro mm! cob debate on the
as yet unratified Equal
Right's Amendment will be
held in Hertford on Thursday,
Nov. 20, at T:? p.m. in the
courtroom of the Perqumans
County Courthouse, located on
Church Street.
Speaking in favor of ERA
will be Winnifred Wood,
educator, of Camden, and
Frank Sellers, chemist, of
Chowan.
Representing opposition to
the amendment will be Alice
Wynne Gatsis, chairperson for
North Carolinians Against
ERA, of Rocky Mount, and
Rev. Scott Barber, pastor of
Immanuel Baptist Church, of
Elizabeth City.
A question and answer
session will follow the debate.
The event, sponsored by the
Hertford Business and
Professional Women's Club, is
open to the public.
Insurance overpayments are recovered ^
RALEIGH - The North
Carolina Employment
Security Commission
recovered $MS.U m unem
ployment insurance over
payments during September
according to figures released
by the commissm's anti
fraud unit.
The unit investigated 204
persons who have claimed or
enrrently are claiming
unemployment insurance
benefits. Of that number, 134,
or K parent, were found to
have been overpaid $S5,<31.
rne commission ciassuiea ?v
of those cases, representing
$40,705. a fraud and 67,
representing $15,126, as non
fraud.
During September, 23
persons were tried in state
courts for unemployment
insurance u auu auu au were
convicted.
Of the overpayments
recovered, $34,412 was
recovered through refunds to
the commission and $112,509
was recovered by withholding
new benefits to claimants.
Political paraphernalia is a collector's treasure
? GREENVILLE - Cam
paign lapel buttons, posters
and bumper stickers were
ifccently familiar sights, but
most of us relegated these
items to the trash can after
fipv. 4.
Z& u t for political
.f&raphernalia collector
$onald Collins, owner of 500
fampaign buttons, the
ephemeral tokens of politics
bits of history that should
J)e preserved and enjoyed in
Jtoture years.
r Ab interest in history
parked his enthusiasm for
campaign materials 20 years
4go. An associate professor of
jgbrary science at East
^Carolina University, Collins
jias a PhD in history from the
University of Georgia in ad
dition to his library science
degrees.
Z\ Collins has assembled a
Jt'agg ering array of
dtrochures, posters, pins and
Sddals, matchbook covers,
fanners, old prints and even
"Jare candidates' "giveaways"
an eyeshade, a hat, a paper
~?fan, some tie clasps, a mug,
;enaery boards, coins and even
thimble. His collection in
cludes not only political
^memorabilia, but also tokens
jof various social and reform
gince the late
s.
Some of his things are quite
on the collectibles
he owns several
lithographs and
scheduled
Perquimans County
Squad Is sponsoring
that provide
ncy medical
posters, including two rare
propaganda posters used by
Vichy France during World
War II and a dollar certificate
given long ago to contributors
to the Jeff Davis Memorial.
He did own a woman's
suffrage banner found in a
student's attic, but traded it
for a detailed depiction of the
Battle of the Crater from
"Leslie's" magazine. A
Collins ancestor died in that
Civil War battle.
Other items are common
and easy to come by now, like
the large "Iran: Let Our
People Go" button, but may
someday be eagerly sought as
a curiosity of 1980.
He has a few special
favorites: an Elizabeth Ray
button, a 1904 Teddy Roosevelt
watch fob, a "Governments
Make War" button personally
given to him by feminist
pacifist Jeannette Rankin and
a bronze button used for
Progressive presidential
candidate Robert LaFollette
in 1924.
"I don't really have enough
of these things to be con
sidered a serious collector,"
Collins says. "Serious
collectors will buy buttons to
complete a series; I stopped
buying buttons a long time
ago."
Scarcity, rather than age,
dictates a button's value;
some of the 1978 Jimmy
Carter campaign buttons are
more valuable than a cloth
button from the 1888 Benjamin
Harrison Campaign.
Many "pressings" of dif
ferent Carter buttons, and
relatively few of each, were
made for distribution by in
dependent manufacturers. To
coHect them all would be quite
a task.
Collin's bronze LaFollette
button is less valuable than a
cheaper tin one, because the
tin button is scarcer.
Fake buttons are a major
pitfall for new collectors.
While recent fakes are
required to have
"Reproduction" stamped on
them, counterfeits do turn up
to plague the unwary hob
byist.
Buttons are a method of
"advertising" one's political
beliefs, and they invite
discussion with the wearer,
Collins believes. "Some
collectors dislike bumper
sitckers, but I think of a
bumper sticker as just a
political button worn on a
car," he taid. His earliest
bumper sticker is a fragile
piece dating from an FDR
campaign.
Collins is a liberal
Democrat, but in the true
spirit of collecting, he doe* not
discriminate in his acquisition
of mass-produced propaganda
pieces. Besides numerous
CHARLES H. WARD
would like to thank all of those
persons who elected him to the
Perquimans County Board of Com
missioners. He pledges to work for
the betterment of the county.
Democratic and Republican
items, dozens of lesser-known
political and social groups are
represented in his campaign.
Among them are the Ku
Klux Klan, the Young
Americans for Freedom, the
John Birch Society, the
American Independent Party,
the American Naxi Party,
Zero Population Growth, the
Theocratic Party, the
Socialist Workers Party, the
Young Socialists Workers, and
for fun, the "Pat Paulsen for
President" campaign and the
Sen. Sam Ervin Fan Club.
Presidential candidates of
the past ? some nearly
forgotten ? are recalled
among his button displays;
Land on and Willkie dure
equal space with Cootidge,
Taft and Hoover.
Of prime interest to a
collector is Collins' series of
buttons hurriedly pressed to
1976 before President Carter
picked Mondale for his na
ning mate; "Carter
Jackson;" "Carter-Muskie;"
"Carter-Church;" "Carter
Stevenson;" and "Carter
Glenn." Collins also has pro
Carter buttons in IS
languages.
Another fasctoattog put of
his collection are pamphlets
from the "dirty politics"
campaign of Frank Kenton
a long-ago California
gubernatorial race. "This
wasn't just dirty politics; it
was filthy," said Collins.
on Collins' memorabilia use
clever word play to catch the
eye. Notable among these are
the anti-Nixon items: "Im
peachment with Honor."
"Richard the Lying-Hearted."
"De-Elect the President."
"Maw Has a Staff bdKtfen."
and "Nixon Bags Me."
large laminated plastic mug
with George Washington's
portrait on one sMe and
George Wallace's on the other.
Dr. Collins had the mag
autographed hy Lester
Mattox.
Some elicit nostalgia. "Give
?Em Hell. Hairy!" "I Like
Ike," "BnanUQr America: Get
a Haircut," "Make Love. Nat
War." and "Free Angela
Dahrs."
Some are virions. "Get Us
out of the United Nations,"
"Where is Lee Harvey Oswald
Now That We Rnafly Need
mm?." "Bomb Hanoi." "E IB
a Commie tor Christ." and
Save Oct Land; Join the
Eton."
Among the oddest of CaBtos*
ISM and pretest items
hnycott organisers. An
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example is the "Dixieland
Coloring Book." printed by
Northern liberals to discredit
Southern segregationists.
Button-collecting is an easy
hobby to begin, if one decides
to start with current cam
paigns, says Collins. Political
party workers are glad to give
items away. When Collins
began collecting, during the
1M0 Kennedy-Nixon race, he
attended rallies and visited
campaign headquarters and
just "picked them up."
If investment value is your
motivation, Collins advises
that you concentrate on
national issues and elections.
Obviously, and item like his
"Sanford for President"
bumper sitcker is probably
never going to appeal to
anyone outside North
Carolina.
Occasionally, of course,
local oddities such as a "J. B.
Stoner, White Racist" poster
used in a Georgia Senate race,
may prove interesting later.
For Collins, his favorite
limited-interest poster ?
acquired in Alabama ? has
considerable appeal. It says
"Don Collins for lieutenant
Governor."
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