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weekly Perspective Looking back By VIRGINIA WHITE THANSEAU January IMS FORTY-SEVEN YOUTHS REGISTERED BY LOCAL BOARD IN SIXTH REGISTRATION: Forty-seven teen-aged youths registered for Selective Service with the Perquimans Draft Board during the sixth registration which closed Dec. SI. MISS PAULINE WHITE WEDS GUY H. WEBB: In a ceremony attended only by members of the immediate families and a few close friends. Miss Frances Pauline White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.P. White of Hertford, and Guy Hughes Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.T. Webb also of Hertford, were united in marriage at 6 o'clock, on Thursday evening, Dec. 24, 1942, at the home of the bride's parents. The Rev. Preston E. Cayton, of Edenton, officiated. ENTERTAINED AT DINNER: Miss Grace ChappeU was hostess at a turkey dinner on Sunday honoring her father. E L ChappeU. who celebrated hit bir thday anniversary. Those enjoying the happy occasion were: Mr. and Mrs. C.S. ChappeU. Mr. and Mrs. JJL Rountree. Mr. and Mrs. W.T. ChappeU, aid son. Milton. Mr. a*d Mrs. Howard ChappeU and family. CHRISTMAS PARTY: The Y.W.A. Society of Bethel Church enjoyed a Christmas party on Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Blanche Goodwin. Games were played and gifts were exchanged. Fruit was served to the following: Misses Evelyn Long. Delia Evans. Cornie Lee Ward. Madge Long, Jayne Griffin, Hoselyn Wbedbee, Hazel Dail, Eunie Long. Blanche Goodwin, Edgar Long, Thomas Fleetwood, Lloyd Evans, Julian Long, Morris Griffin. Jr., Maynard Fleetwood. Jr., Mrs. W.P. Long. Mrs. E.L Goodwin and Mrs. Leroy Goodwin. Much known of Indian actions but little of feelings The Indians of Perquimans made full use of their resources, A killed deer furnished meat, skins for clothing and mats, sinew for fastenings, and bone for simple tools. A bear made a feast, a warm robe, and a tooth necklace. Rnx Winslair Thomas Hariot of Sir Walter Raleigh's colony described eastern North Carolina Indians as "a people clothed with loose mantles made of deer skins, and aprons of the same round about their middles, all else naked,..." Beads, paints, and tattoos provided personal decoration, while the cut of the hair might vary according to age and tribal importance. The Indians were skilled at making their tools and utensils. Bows, arrows, clubs, knives, scrapers, diggers, pots, baskets, canoes ? all were made by hand using materials furnished by nature. Of their physical activities we know much; of their mental activities, little. Their beliefs are imperfectly reported to us. According to Hariot they held "that there are many gods, which they call mantoac, but of different sorts and degrees, one only chief and great God, which has been from all eternity.. s. They think that all the gods are of human shape, and therefore they represent them by images in the forms of men.. .Then they place in houses ap propriate or temples..." For some religious ceremonies and harvest festivals they gathered for dances around a circle of posts bearing carved faces. Could two sites in Perquimans, one near W infill and the other near Bethel, which early records call "dancing place" be Indian ceremonial grounds? According to Hariot the Indians believed "a woman was made first, which by the working of one of the gods, conceived and brought forth children. And in such a way they had their beginning." Indian religion included a powerful priesthood, which cared for the temples wherein dead chiefs were buried. The priests frequently made important decisions for a tribe. The tribe, really only a collection of villages, was ruled by a' chief or weroance. The first weroance known to us was Okisco, whose nation of Weapemoc included what is now Perquimans County. In 1586, Okisco was reported ready to acknowledge allegiance to Queen Elixabeth the "great Weroanxa" of England. When other Indians plotted to destroy the English at Roanoke Island. Okisko refused to join the conspiracy. Okisko thus established good relations between the natives of our area and the Europeans who would eventually sup plant them. (Parts next week.) Letters A lesson in waste treatment Editors, THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY: In the past few months there have been articles written in the newspaper about the waste water treatment plant and I would like to take this opportunity to explain a little about how the plant operates. The sewage is treated with hot air and chlorinated before being turned into the river. The water from the plant it cleaner and more germ free than the water that is in the river. Tests are performed everyday on the water en tering the plant, while it is in the plant at different stages, and again just before it goes into the river. Tests oa river water, both up aad down stream and temperatures are taken and THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Mik? McLaughlin No?l T odd-McLaughlin Co-Editors Pat Mansfield Circulation Manager NEWS AMD ADVERTISING DEADLINE 5 P.M. MOMMY compared with the water going from the plant to the river. These test results are entered oo a report form and sent to the Environmental Protection Agency and the N.C. State Department of Health at the end of each month. Some of the more important tests that are performed are: Fecal Coliform, Suspended Residue, Total Residue, Ammonia Nitrogen, Dissolved Oxygen, Biochemical Oxygen Demand, Chemical Oxygen Demand. Next month I will have the defimtraons of these tests in the paper. I would like to extend an invitation to anyone, or groups of interested citizens, especially school children to come to the plant for a conducted tour. Yon can make arrangements for a tour by calling <* UK. The tour would be very in>wet(iag Seniors say thanks Editors. THK PERQUIMANS WEEKLY. Like it or not, we're obsessed * Aside from birth and death, I'm fairly certain that the great common denominator of mankind is the weather. Think about it. When You're stuck in a situation where you have to make conversation but you don't have anything to talk about, you turn to the weather. And that's when the weather is pretty much standard. "Nice" is, I think, the appropriate terminology for standard weather. Any deviation from standard is cause for a barrage of adjectives. Sure is windy, not to mention cold, and cloudy. Such changes also bring an abundance of offerings from those who trade in similes. Examples: It's cold as a polar bear with his coat in the cleaners; It's as coM as a well digger's ...oh well, you get the picture. When deviation from standard reaches a point that it could be labeled "ex treme" it grabs headlines, even though we get these extreme deviations at least every month. This time of year a newspaper might run a picture of a face disguised by a ski mask that's puffing out a cloud of smoke. Mike McLaughlin The bank robber-like face would ac company an article interviewing every possible person who might have some reason to discourse on the weather. On television, a newscaster might scramble for the record book to tell us when the coldest day was and at what time we came closest to it. Then he cuts to a film of a woman tightly wrapped in a coat with her arms crossed and walking briskly down a city sidewalk. If an actual film of a cold person doesn't prove that it really is cold what does it take? But, of course, everybody already knows it was cold. What they want to know is, "How cold was it?" The question is poised in unison on the lips of thousands of viewers. What dif ference does it make? Well, if you don't know how cold it was, how are you going to convince John Doe that it was colder than that winter back in 1942, when the first hard freeze came so fast that the turtles got caught sunning and had to spend the winter on top of the Perquimans River. You could show him the plumbing bill from where you replaced your frozen pipes. But having the actual lows and highs makes you're story even more impressive. And those who have advance predic tions of what the weather is going to be are that much ahead of the game. That's where the weatherman comes into play. He's that modern convenience that lets you talk about the weather before it even happens. To my way of thinking, thereafter man has provided a quantum leap for humanity in filling conversational voids, The fellow who is really up on weather reports can complain about the past, comment on the present and speculate on the future without even changing the subject. If that doesn't take the slack out of a conversation it can't be done. Q I like the weatherman who neatly snaps his wrist as he thrusts his pointer into his jacket pocket after a particulate informative forecast. That kind of flamboyance inspires confidence, even if one secretly suspects that the guy is wrong. , Weather you like it or not, I'll venture a J guess on the whole business of weatherspeak. I don't have any facts and Ql figures to back this up, but here goes. Talking about the weather became so prominent because it was thought to be a subject that could be broached without controversy. After all, when you eliminate religon and politics there isn't much left. # ^ a syndicated column: j F^CIA^ 3QttlK jn? a? ch a nging regi o n J WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - There are these strange birds that come and perch on the tree outside newspaper journalist Agnes Cooke's window, feathered in formants who speak with a kind of genteel pointedness about the situation in Iran, or the latest election results, or some local snafta that has them ruffled. The Williamsburg variety of these winged creatures is generally gulls, Mrs. Cooke observes, and they gather each morning around 7 o'clock in the vacant tot behind her apartment to comment upon the day's events. , Then there an the Westmoreland County pigeons who fly down "and tot me what's happening" around her of Kinsais in that area at Vfargtola known as the Northern Neck. teen, she nates wryly, an asgfe I ? rock (with a note Attached) on vehicle for some lively debates in the county. For someone who "never wrote anything in my life until I came to Virginia," Agnes Cooke's journalistic career has included an amadng variety at stints as managing editor, reporter, photographer and occasionally janitor for weekly newspapers on the Northern Neck. She also assisted in founding Virginia Press Women, and served as president from 1*3 to 1*1. Because she lives "in a barn of a house," Mrs. Cooke now shuttles back and forth between her home ia Kinsate and her apartment in Williamsburg, casting a critical eye ea local happenings in the process. She knows her region and its people well, and has always beUeved eyebrows among oldtimers in the county when she would editorialize abut the necessity for the county seat of Montross to "pick up a bit" It was a daring stance for a "come here," a transplanted Southerner from California. Mrs. Cooke alio had the opportunity to chronicle the Integration at the West moreland schools. "People always knew I was a little amased at segregation, " she says. "But I enjoyed battling for the schools. And actually it was wonderful bow Westmoreland mad* the tran aitioo." At THE WESTMORELAND NEWS, loo, she developed the characters of her fniurnn "Commentary" ? personalities Uke "Conflict* dlntenst' sad 'Tree iomd'Info;; who wonM confer with Mrs. Cooke on what was gatag on in county ifmr?ra? nt "It ?u very dashing," she says. "Editors took a very dim view of this resolution for equal pay and equal work. But I was always interested in getting things on the road." Through her more than 90 years with VPW, Mrs. Cooke has seen the format of traditional women's pages broadened into "lifestyles" sections, and has rejoiced over more equitable assign ments among male and female repor ters. She has also encountered some "swfuBy good" women journalists.
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