THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 37, No. 40 USPS 428-080 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, OCTOBER I, 1981 20 CENTS
Maybe next year, Aces
Perquimans Pirates
quarterback Donnie Parker
winds up to throw against
Edenton latt Friday night
In Hertford. A Parker-to
James Riddick pass at the
end of the first half shot
down the Aces, 7-2, to give
the Pirates their second
straight victory over
Edenton. More on page
nine. (Photo by Jim Reid of
the DAILY ADVANCE)
Hertford town council approves revision to land use plan
The Hertford Town Council, in its
regular monthly meeting last Mon
day, re-approved the town land use
plan after accepting some minor
changes proposed by the Coastal
Resources Commission.
| The CRC authorizes land use plans
for all coastal municipalities in the
state in order to establish proper
development of coastal resources.
The town originally approved its
plan in late June. The plan, conducted
by planning consultant Howard T.
Capps of Elizabeth City, explains the
present development of the town and
offers the town's recommendations
for future land use.
In summary, the plan indicates that
Hertford has great potential for
growth, though in fact the town has
grown little in this century.
The report shows that there is ex
cess capacity in the town schools,
roads and water treatment facilities.
There is also land available with soil
suitable for building along Grubb
Street Extended and in the western
part of the town.
And with the opening of the
Newbold-White house, the town also
has some historic heritage in which to
attract tourism.
In fact, one major policy guideline
of the plan is to encourage tourism, to
improve historical properties in the
town, and to use its zoning authority to
preserve the town's heritage.
It also proposed the town encourage
the county to zone the area just out
side the town limits, particularly the
area between the town and the
Newbold- White house.
The only limiting factor to town
growth right now is the limited
capacity of the town's sewage system,
which is now running at about
capacity.
Among the recommmendations of
the plan are to protect the com
mercial and recreational resources of
the Perquimans River, to encourage
new industry to locate in Hertford,
and to promote tourism in the town by
taking advantage state and federal
money when ever possible to renovate
historical houses, and to work with the
Chamber of Commerce, the county
and the town Historical Society to
encourage preservation of historical
sites.
In other action, the board :
?Asked Police Chief Marshall
Merritt to make an investigation and
report concerning an allegation by
Sandra Hurdle that police officers had
shot three of her cats.
Hurdle cats were found behind
Hertford Cafe, and she said she heard
from another source that policemen
had shot the cats. So far. Merritt said
he has no evidence that any town
officers shot the cats.
?Tabled a request by the Albemarle
Electric Membership Corporation to
purchase the town's generating rights
in WinfaU.
() County school board adopts largest-ever budget for 1981-82
The Perquimans County Board of
. Education approved a $4,272,741
' budget for the 1981-82 school year at
-.'the regular bi-monthly meeting last
- Monday.
- The budget increased eight percent
. over last year's mark of $3,951,719.
; School Superintendant Pat Harrell
; .noted that the budget has doubled in
;the past few years.
1 Of the revenues to be spent, $793,150
will be county tax money, with
$2,353,453 coming from the state and
$?63,337 coming from the federal
government. Another $282,901 was left
over from the previous year.
The largest expense is for in
structional programs, i.e. teaching,
with $2,453,445 spent, over half of the
total budget. That's about $130,000
over last year's expense.
Another $57,500 will be spent on
support services (guidence coun
seling, health services, etc.), $421 less
than last year.
Another $100,045 will be spent on
instructional staff support
(educational media, among other
things), about $37,000 more than last
year.
General administrative costs (to
run the board and superintendants
office) are $183,009, about $25,000
more than last year. The principal
office fund is $205,093, approximately
the same as last year.
Thf business support services fund
(for bus transportation, plant
operation and food services, among
other things) is $103,198, about $9,000
greater than last year.
Total operating expenditures are
$4,097,641, with the remaining $175,100
to be used for capital outlay projects
(building additions and repairs).
The board also approved a revision
in the attendance policy to discontinue
using certified letters to inform
parents of the continued absence of
their children. The attendance policy
of the county now reads as follows
?Students who are absent more than
20 days, (10 days in half year or
semester courses) from a class or
grade except for illness or other ap
proved reasons will not receive credit
for the class or grade.
^Students who have written excuses
from a doctor for illness or disability
may bew allowed to exceed the 20-day
maximum unexcused absence
provision and still earn credit.
?Students or parents with special or
unique attendance situations may
appeal a principal's decision decision
to a school based attendance review
committee.
?Appropriate record keeping
procedures will be established for
each school.
?Conferences will be scheduled with
students who have missed 10 days
(five for semester courses) from a
class. Records of all conferences will
be maintained.
?Parents will be notified by mail
when a student has been absent IS
days.
In other action, the board:
?Asked Harrell to obtain quotes for
a professional legal liability in
surance for board members, prin
cipals and the superintendant. This
insurance will cover them in case they
are sued for mismanagement.
Harrell will also get quotes for an
employee general liability coverage
for all school employees. This in
surance will coyer them against
property damage, and personal and
bodily injury.
?In capital outlay projects, voted to
allow East Coast Roofing and Metals,
Inc. to replace the school bus garage
roof for 16,307. They tabled action on
repairing the roof at Perquimans
Union School, and approved a motion
to purchase materials for a Board of
Education storage building, to be built
by the high school carpentry clasi.
The next meeting of the board will
be October 19 at 7 p.m. at Perquimans
Union School.
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Hertford police make arrests
The Hertford Police Department
have made aeveral arrests (or violent
Crimea during the past two weeks.
Police arrested John Lee Bishop. 37,
of Rfd. 1 Hertford last Sunday,
charging him with assualt with a
deadly weapon and communicating
threats.
Bishop is accused of attempting to
ran over Daniel Cooper of 208 King
Street with his car last Saturday as a
result of ? long-standing dispute
between the two men.
Bishop is also accuaed of
threatening Cooper with a bush book
the following day before police had
arrested him.
Bishop is in Albemarle District Jail
< pending trial October 21 .
Police Chief Marshall Merritt
arrested Stanley William Johnson, If.
September M for larceny. Johnson is
accused of attempting to steal money
from the girl's locker room at
Perquimans County High School,
where he was a student.
Johnson was released with
yesterday set as his trial date. '
The police arrested John Edward
Brown, 35, of 210 Covent Gardens
Street Monday of last week and
charged him with hit and run,
reckless driving, and driving with a
revoked license.
Brown is accused of hitting a
parked school bus at Wynfork Court
the day before, causing about $200
damage. He waa taken to Albemarle
District Jail, and was scheduled to
appear in court yesterday.
Jack Lloyd, M, waa arrested Sun
day of last week for assault aad
battery outside his home on 323
Market Str^t following an argument
with Carrie Floyd. Lloyd allegedly
punched Floyd in the mouth. He waa
released with his trial date aet aa
yesterday.
This week
The Festival of Skills opens
tomorrow in Hertford
featuring some of the
county's beet local craft
smen. See page three.
Weather
Fair and cool weather
through Saturday, with
little chance of rain. Highs
in the mid-Ms to lower TVs.
Lows in the mid-Ms
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