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Weekly Perspective Looking back By VIRGINIA WHITE TRANSEAU Oct IMS ARMY ACCEPTS FIVE SELEC TEES: NINETEEN NEGROES LEAVE NEXT: An unofficial report early thie week stated that the Army had accepted fire of the (roup of leterteei who received their final physical examination* at Fort Bragg laat Thursday The men accepted were Kramer Williams, Alphonso Williams, John Hall. Kenneth Jordan, and Alfred Riddick, a transfer from Portsmouth, Va. Nineteen Negro selectees will leave Hertford on October 22 to fill the second call for men this month, Mrs. Ruth Sumner, clerk of the local board, said Tuesday. These men are: Ellis Riddick, James Brickhouse, Robert Jones, William Riddick, Charlie Johnson, Elisha Dillard, Willie White. Augustus Hudson, William Brickhouse, William Reed, William Carter, Stephen Felton, Maurice Holly, Wilder Gregory, Joseph Gordon, Odell Hurdle, Alphonso Lightfoot, Charles Window and Esekial Robert** The last aeveo named are *11 father* DR. W.A. HOGG All D RETURNS TO COUNTY PRACTICE: Dr. W.A. Boggard, who left Perquimans about a year ago to accept the port as physician at Caledonia Prison Farm, has returned to this county to resume the practice of medicine, according to an announcement this week. Dr. Hoggard will reside and maintain his office at his home on Route three, near Woodrtlle BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT: Master Sergeant and Mrs. R.M. Rkidick III, announce the birth of a daughter, born Wednesday, October 20, IMS, at the medical center in Elisabeth City. Mrs. Riddick is the former Joyce Stokes. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tillett, at Elisabeth City, announce the birth at a daughter, born Saturday in Elizabeth City. Mrs. Tillett is the former Miss Clara Sumner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Sumner. Minister attacks philanthropist During a revival in Elizabeth City in October, 1924. the famed evangelist Mordecai F. Ham began a series of attacks on Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company. Ham declared Rosenwald was the leader of a subversive plot to destroy the nation and Christian civilization. Throughout the month-long revival, Ham was at odds with crusading liberal journalist William 0. Saun ders, whose "Independent" was the only eastern North Carolina newspaper to achieve national fame. The outspoken and fearless Saunders came to Rosenwald's defense, calling "the prophet" Ham a liar. In refuting Ham's charges, Saun ders pointed out, among other things, that "Rosenwald has given away practically all of his own money, over and above expenses. There is hardly a county in any Southern State that has not been a beneficiary of his extensive benevolence." Saunders knew that his own native county of Perquimans had benefited from Rosenwald's philanthropy. The Julius Rosenwald Fund had been established in 1917 for "the well being of mankind." Much of the Fund went for the construction of black schools. By 1929, two black schools in Perquimans had received substantial contributions from the Rosenwald Fund. The two together cost $15,500 of which $1,500 came from black con tributions, $12,000 from public funds, and $2,000 from the Rosenwald Fund. One of the two was the black high school in Hertford. About 1905, the old private Hertford Academy, erected about 1870, was moved from its ori^nal site; part of the building was converted into a residence on East Academy St., while the remainder was moved to King Street for use as a black school. A 1924 report on the Rosenwald Fund described the replacement of this building. "The old school bouse was one that had been abandoned by the white people years ago. It was a two-room, two-story building, with an inside stairway with doors opening on the inside. "Plans were being made to add two rooms to each end of this building, and work was ready to begin, when H.C. Stokes, a white citizen, became convinced that such action could not be justified. "Funds were scarce, it is true. The plan that was recommended as being suitable contained eight large classrooms and an auditorium forty five feet by seventy-five feet, cloak rooms, an office, and a library. Ray Wiiishtir "Not to be defeated in his purpose, Mr. Stokes employed day carpenters and supervised the buying of materials and the construction of the building, giving only a few hours on Saturday afternoons to his own business. The building is now com plete. The white people of the com munity are almost as proud of it as the colored people,..." This Rosenwald school stood on the ground now occupied by the King Street building of Perquimans County High School. It served the black community for many years after W.O. Saunders took Mordecai Ham to task. Ham, whose later converts included Billy Graham, never quite escaped the shadow cast over him by Saunders in defending the Chicago business executive whose public spirit reached even to little Perquimans. Letter St. Jude's Bike-a-thon a success Editor. THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY: The St. Jade Children'! Research Hospital Wheels for Life Bake-a-thon is over for this year and we want to sincerely thank the citizens of Perquimans County for their generous support of our campaign. We are extremely proud of the riders, the hard working volunteers wfaone efforts made this a success, the generous citizens who donated prises for the event and who (dartpii Thanks to them, we raised tl.OSt. Because the diseases that St Jade Children's Research Hospital is battling can strike any child anywhere, this money will be helping to save children's lives all over the world. Onr sincere thanks to THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY for ywr excellent publicity at the event. Sincerely, Bonnie D.White St JnttBike-a-tfcon Chairman Hnrtted, N.C. America , the land of opportunity < Sdftor, THE PERQUIMANS WISELY: K ' * All at us (bould ba proud that wa arc AMrkint la tha land of opportuity ta< pmp?rity . Wt bw tha ??> a i fiVmnm it am earth which f ^LSl.-r Don t let them arrest the wrestling bear In all the annals of Man's history of victimizing his fellow animals, I don't you could find a more illustrative case than the one that appeared in the VIRGINIA PILOT last week. Under the front-page headline "Bear's Va. wrestling privileges revoked on grounds it is not mentally competent," you can read the story of how an honest little guy ? namely a trained wrestling bear named Victor ? is heartlessly denied the right to conduct his life's work due to the insidious dealings of an impersonal bureaucarcy ? namely the Virginia Athletic Commission. For those of you who are not aware of this atrocity, let me fill you in. Douglas Beavers, executive secretary of the VAC. issued a cease-and-desist order to George Allen, the trainer of Victor, the wrestling bear. The order effectively disallows Victor from plying his trade in the state of Virginia. The order came after the wrestling bruin supposedly hurt a fellow during a match ? the first injury in more than 10,000 matches, according to Allen. The victim of Victor's wrestling prowess, one Danny Hutchins, fractured an ankle and damaged his knee. Hutchins claims the bear "was out of control," according to the PILOT, while Allen said in effect that Hutchins was a clutz. "He hurt himself," the paper quoted Allen as saying. The VAC said in its order that Victor was not only physically in competent to wrestle, but also mentally incompetent. And not only that, but the VAC also indicted Victor for having too much facial hair. Now I don't usually fly off the handle over every little thing I read in the paper, but this really burns me up. Here we have this honest, God fearing bear who has trained and worked hard 10 become a great wrestler, and now a bunch of paper shufflers who have never met this bear and probably don't know anything about bear wrestling have cut the poor bruin off. There are some unanswered questions about this whole business also. The paper reports that there are two bears, both named Victor, and the other one apparently bit off an op ponent's finger during a match last year. I think the police or maybe even the FBI should apprehend this other Victor and give him the third degree on his involvement in this affair. Tom ( hlrmley Maybe rough him up a bit if he won't talk. Another thing: how can they prove that Victor is mentally incompetent to fight? He sound* pretty competent to me, and I know something about mental incompentency. And what about his facial hair? Does that mean Victor has to shave? Just his face, or his whole body? Don't you think a bald bear would be cramping his style a bit? I certainly hope the authorities get to the bottom of this whole mess and vindicate this unfortunate creature. In the meantime, I'm starting a Victor Defense Fund to help this victimised bear. Send your con tributions to The Victor Defense Fund, in care of The Perquimans Weekly, P.O. Box 277, Hertford. NC 27944. What this bear needs is a good lawyer. Former President Jimmy Carter says he will sue the WASHINGTON POST for printing an article in their gossip column stating that there was a rumour afoot that Carter had bugged the Blair House, where Ronald and Nancy Reagan were staying before the inauguration. The POST wrote in a later editorial that they didn't believe the rumour was true, but the fact there was a rumour was newsworthy. Well, for what it's worth, here's what I think. I'm seldom happy to see anybody sue a paper for libel, and usually we newspaper people try to defend each other, but I draw the line a gossip columns. If the rumour was true, it was front page news. If it wasn't, it shouldn't have been printed. Apparently nobody at the POST checked to see one way or another. I hope you sue, Jimmy. I hope you sue the shirt right off their backs. The story was clearly libelous, not to mention unprofessional. It makes the business look bad, it makes ae look bad. I don't like to look bad. I'm not a bad guy. f ^ a syndicated column: rSlClA^ South voices of tradition 1 in a changing region I ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. ? ' Sometimes very obscure people rate ?s heroes and heroines, not because of some dramatic act of bravery, but by doing whatever confronts them, and what they conceive to he their duties, with grace and steadfastness. Anna ? not her real name ? was such a person. For several years around lflt, Anna served as the village nurse in the textile mill community here. A typical day for Anna began soon after breakfast, when she made her rounds in the mill village, walking because she did not have a car. She visited hones where mothers had receotly given birth, to bathe the babies and assist the mothers in whatever was needfuL She also stepped at hp?as where people were too sick to oooe to the dink, or where Amu must have given hundred of injections of it. But scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria, measles and pneumonia were always serious threats. The village nurse and both doctors worked tirelessly through the terrible flu epidemic of 1111 And in those days, although brown hmg disease moot likely existed among the mill workers, H was probably diagnosed as something else. Tubercular patients were sent to a sanatarium for treatment aad a change of climate. When bo epidemics existed, Anna had ? few hows off in the afternoon, but took Mm* to see that the ? three-room clinic was in order. Sometimes a day's work meant aaatstic^ om of the doctors with a : ; blue cotton uniform with immaculate white collar and cuffs. Clink hours began at T, six nights a week, so s!m could not linger long, but i har Irish wit and ready laughter enlivened the occasion for all. Few people knew that Amu was next to the oldest in a large Catholic family in Virginia Lack of money seemed to be a chronic problem; a married sister had a number of young children and her hudband had a hard time making ends meet. Anna could be counted on to pay for a Confirmation dress for Theresa, to help defray the coot of Tommy s tonsellectomy, qt the expensive medicine that her father ootid not do without. With so many demands, she had little for herself When not hi uniform, she wore a first or last name, boy textile workers at that time had ltttle and could not ?how their appreciation in a material way. At length, she married aad stopped nursing, and many people most have forgotten her, for during her late yean they seldom saw her. aad when ahe (Bed. tew attended her funarai By that Ubm, then was a large, modem hospital aad somehow the whole medical picture aeemed to hare changed. . > ... THE PER PERQUIMANI WEEKLY 8 Tom Ostrosky Editor Jane Williams Advertising Manager Pot Mansfiold Ainnrt/MAr iwfrCUfu - t&n
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