IMANS WEEKLY
Volume 31, No. I
USPS 431-010
Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, FEB. 25, 1*2
20 CENTS
Town returns
unds
The Hertford Town Council voted
Friday to return a portion of the
$119,000 refund they received from the
Virginia Electric Power Co. to town
^tectric customers in the form of
Credits on their bill.
The town will return about $40,000 of
the total refund to Hertford customers
who were receiving electricity during
the period between December 1M0
and August 1981 and are still receiving
power from the town's utility service.
The remainder of the money will be
invested and used as an emergency
yeterve fund.
The VEPCO refund is a result of a
Federal Energy Commission reset
tlement of a November 1978 VEPCO
rate increase. The FEC ruling cut the
increase, and VECPO refunded to its
customer-municipalities the dif
ference between its increase and the
FEC figure.
^ Hertford didn't pass the original
November 1978 increase on to the
town's customers until December,
J 980, when the council voted to raise
the town's rate by 15 percent.
Hertford received $119,000 from
VEPCO last fall as a refund for the
period between November 1978 and
Adgust 1981. The money refunded for
the period after December 1900
amounts to $29,000.
The council unanimously decided to
refund the customers by giving them
a 10 percent credit on each electric
bill for the months of March. April,
May and June. The total returned to
customers will amount to about
$40,000.
The remaining $79,000 will be used
as an emergency fund, and will collect
interest until the council votes to
spend it.
That decision followed several
closed working sessions of the council
over the last few months.
The council also voted to allow the
Hertford Fire Department to spend
$3,000 to purchase a 1978 Dodge two
seat cab pick-up truck, to be used to
transport firefighters and equipment
to the scene of fires.
Fire Chief Charlie Skinner
estimated that in the 57 calls the
department received last year, the
truck would have been useful in 30 of
those calls.
Bedtime Bingo?
Mrs. Leora White and Mrs.
Rom Gibbs check oat their
cards daring the Pajama
Bingo Party held last Friday
night at the Perquimans County Senior Center.
An eventful life
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Scottish minister discusses his work and religion
By SUSAN HARRIS
The evangelist speaks softly in
Mc Scottish accent of his career
-.and travels. Dr. John Sutherland
* Logan seems' to genuinely- enjoy
people and puts strangers at ease
with his warm smile and hearty
M. laugh.,
Dr. Logan is holding revival
services and Bible study classes at
Bagley Swamp Wesleyan Church
this week. He is a widely-traveled
and much sought-after evangelist
who haits from Scotland.
He began his career at an early
age; "I started preaching when I
was 13 and a half," Dr. Logan
revealed. He pastored his first
church at age 18 while attending
the University of Glasgow. -
"I take the positive approach,"
said Dr. Logan of his sp?ftfng
style. He said )>e tries to get people
to And evidence of God's love in
their lives.
He also related that. "The
Christian life is in a continued
growth." Dr. Logan believes that it
is this growth, this deepening of the
spiritual life or maturity in Christ,
that keeps the church alive.
Dr. Logan said that the church
must be "revived at the
grassroots," which is why he
spends nine months out of each
year traveling to local
congregations and colleges and
udi veraitiM.- hold week -tag ^
revivals and Bible study.
"When I first came to America, I
was scheduled in advance for 10
years," Dr. Logan said. He visited
every state in the United States on
that premiere visit in 1949.
Although the pace was hectic,
and Dr. Logan became more
selective in accepting invitations
afterwards, he did like this
country. "I fell in love with
America." he said, and made it his
permanent home in 1952.
Of television and the ever-rising
number of evangelists who use the
medium, Dr. Logan said, "Until
we get back to the grassroots level
and the local churches, we're not
going to accomplish anything."
Although Dr. Logan is not
against television crusades, he
believes they have damaged the
reputations of evangelists because
of the tactics some use to coerce
people to send money.
Dr. Logan hopes to see television
use its "tremendous potential" to
educate and reach those people
who are not involved with a local
church.
Dr. Logan was a minister in
London during World War II. He
remembers that the Germans
bombed London every night except
one over an eight-month period.
"They'd come over about six in
the evening," he said, and the
blaekout would not be lifted until
early the next morning.
Ministers were assigned the
duties of district wardens, which
meant they were in charge of
rescue squads and the like. Dr.
Logan was assigned a section of
southeast London
He recalls one particular night
when a German plane went down
with tta bomb load intact. It was
hi* duty to organise the proper
authorities and oversee the swift
evacuation of the plane before it
exploded.
On another occasion. Dr. Logan
could account for four sticker
bombs, but try js. he might, could
not locate the fifth. At last he found
it, but was unable to convince a
military associate that it was a
bomb.
The military man kept insisting
that what Dr. Logan had found was
a shell from one of their own
planes. The two of them stood
there arguing furiously. "Neither
one of us would give in."
As it turned out, the "shell" was
indeed a bomb, and when it ex
ploded, it left a crater large enough
to put three double decker buses in.
Dr. Logan said it was "amazing"
how well the Londoners stood up to
the war. He said the "Scottish are
like Texans," and believe they can
hold up to anything, but they
always viewed the English as
being "soft."
Aside from his evangelistic
travels in the United States and
pastoring in London, he has been
the president of Bexley College
outside of London, president of
Vennard College in University
Park. Iowa, and a minister in
mission stations around the world.
At present, Dr. Logan is plan
ning a trip to South Africa under
the auspices of the Wesleyan
cnurcn.
Dr. Logan has made his home in
Florida during the past eight
years, and is deciding now whether
to stay in Florida or move to New
Jersey. His three grandchildren,
who visit from England every
summer, vote for Florida.
When asked if he has any plans
to slow down or retire, Dr. Logan
replied, "I'm keeping on going."
He said too many people stop
working and don't live too long
afterward.
He wants to work until the last
breath leaves his body. Dr. Logan
said many men of God have died in
the pulpit, and if he could choose
his destiny, would like to depart
this earth serving the Lord.
Logan
Extension office awards top corn producers
M - i
w Six Perquimans ( ounty resMenU
ii)C?tv?4. awards at the Perquimana
Oaantx Extension Service's Cora
Production Banquet for having the
yields in the county con
Dnald Rii ,S; tilings of Whfc' ston
received the first place award for
bushels of com on aa
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Chappell of Wlnfall was third, with
lRMbtubela.
Three coturty 4-H Ch* members
?too received high-yield award* for
their 4-H project*. Nicky Nixon was
flnt with 147.34 bushel on to acre of
land. He is the aoo of Mr and Mrs Ed
Nixot of Hertford.
Jeff WUliaau was wcood with
i 46.10 buthefc and his brother Mat
thew was third with 145.43 bushels
They are sons of Mr. and Mrs Billy
Williams of Beach Spring*
The award* were presented by
Charles Ward of Hertford, past
I - of the Rurttans and
r*
Alone with county extension
chairman Bill Jester, who spoke on
the subject of insect control on com
there were also H.R "Bob" Purkey,
Anderson, North Carolina Extension
Corn Specialist, who discussed the
importance of details ? like proper
seed spacing ? in corn production;
and Dr. George Naderman, North
Carolina Extension Soil Specialist,
who explained results from no-till
experiments conducted ia New Hope.
The awards were sponsored by the
county Ruritans and the banquet Was
sponsored by various chemical
Hertford man arrested
in Va. auto deaths
A Hertford man was arrested this
week and charged with two counts of
involuntary manslaughter in the
deaths of a Portsmouth, Va. couple
last August.
Thomas Edgar Harrell Jr., 20, of
Hertford was charged in the deaths of
Ricky Wayne Myers, 33, and Betty
Suggs, 19, who were killed in a
collision last August 9.
Virginia Commonwealth's Atty.
Robert E. Kowalsky Jr. filed the
charges following several months'
consideration, and the charges in
cluded counts of reckless driving and
driving under the influence.
Harrell was arrested by Hertford
Police last Wednesday afternoon at
Cannon Cleaners in Hertford.
Harrell waived extradition and
voluntarily allowed Virginia police to
transport him to Chesapeake, where
he will be tried. He was released on
bond pending a preliminary hearing
in General District Court on March 22.
According to Virginia police. Suggs
and Myers were southbound on
George Washington Highway, ridiag
Myers' motorcycle, when they were
struck while turning into a driveway.
Harrell and four passengers were
also southbound, returning from a
Portsmouth rock concert. Police
believe Harrell went around a stopped
van and struck the motorcycle.
Hertford Police also arrested a
Hertford man and charged him with-v
extortion, a felony, last Wednesday.
Police arrested Delma Marcel
Leigh, 20, of 208 King Street, following
a call that he was trespassing on the
Hertford United Methodist Church.
County hosts tournament
The Perquimans County
Parks and Recreation
Department will host the
Eastern Athletic Conference
Boys' Midget All-Star Tour
nament this Friday and
Saturday at Perquimans
Union School. Perquimans
County will compete with
eight teams from all over the
Albemarle area. Proceeds
from the tournament (ad
mission $1 adults, 50 cents for
12-and-under) will go to the
Perquimans Union Athletic
Fund. The tournament
schedule is listed below.