THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
vol mm M. No 39 USPS 42S-480 Hertford. Perquimans County, N.C.. Thursday, September 30. IW2 ? CENT
Committee of 100
banquet a success
A banquet held last Tuesday to
form an organization to encourage
industrial development in
Perquimans County was termed a
success by the county's Industrial
Development Commission, the
organizers of the event.
About (0 persons appeared at the
Committee of 100 banquet, held that
evening at Anglers' Cove
Restaurant, to hear speakers from
Elizabeth City and New Bern extoll
the virtues of organizing a citizens'
committee to attract new industry to
the area.
Citizens were asked to contribute
$100 to become a member of the
committee, an independant
organization which will work in
cooperation with the county's In
dustrial Development Commission to
bring in new business.
Hertford Mayor and City Manager
Bill Cox, a member of the Industrial
Development Commission, said that
the initial response to the banquet
"was very good," and that one of the
first orders of business when the new
committee meets within the next
couple weeks will be to recruit new
members.
The commission's goal is to have
100 paying members in the com
mittee.
"I think we need this (the com
mittee) very badly, and I'm asking
for your support," was Cox's com
ment to the group during the
banquet. *?
Elizabeth City industrial developer
Mike Sumner, along with New Bern
industrial developer Tom Thompson,
outlined the need for such a com
mittee to the group.
Sumner noted that in Elizabeth
City "we've had a few foul balls, a
few singles, but soon we will get a
home run." He added that there is
"an era of excitement and en
thusiasm" since there Committee of
100 began. He also noted that not only
is Elizabeth City looking for new
industry, but also expects to see
expansion of existing industry, a
major element in new growth.
Thompson, is describing the
poverty of this area, said that if this
county's average family income net
the state average, "every family
could afford to buy a new car every
two years," and if it met the national
average, "every family could afford
to own a quarter of a million dollar
home. That's how far behind you
are."
A committee for industrial
development, Thompson said, would
provide local involvement and
political power in attracting growth,
as well a money to purchase possible
industrial sites, a major con
sideration for businesses con
templating moving to Perquimans.
The Great Pumpkin ?
The time has arrived to buy yourself a nice pumpkin, and Jim and Stephanie Mills' pup, is checking out the
wares outside the Orchard Shop on U.S. 17.
Court hears sexual offense cases
Approximately $25,000 worth
of marijuana was siezed
Monday sight in the four-mile
desert vicinity of Parksvffle
In Perquimans County.
Assisting Perquimans County
Sheriff Julian
Broughton.seated.were J.C.
Spear, left, Frank Kutchin,
cento* right, both of the
Elisabeth City Police
Department, and county
magistrate Jack Symon
s.right. No arrests or charges
have been filed.
Farmers unable to cash in on hog market
By TOM OSTROSKY
With ' the price of most farm
commodities taking a dive and many
termers going down with it, there is
hrigM spat in a group that has made
tee* nitli good maoey in the last
sax months and expects the good
toftane to continue for at least the
aextyear.
While moat farmers have been
sandwiched between the high cost of
expenses and low market prices, hog
tout have gone in just the op
posite direction: tower expenses in
The drop to the price of corn for
toed coaMnl cone at a better time
Weather
for hog farmers, timed as it is with
the rise in hogs prices.
While corn has dropped in the
neighborhood of 50 cents a bushel
from last year, the price of feeder
pigs has risen from a low of 90 cents a
pound about two-and-a-half years
ago to about $1.50 a pound now. Top
hogs have also increased
dramatically to about 00 cents a
Hogs farmers, and farmers in
general, are not the type to brag
about bow much money they're
making, bat it's easy to see that the
profit margin has increased enor
mously since a few years ago, when
mmg farmers, according to coonty
extension agent BUI Jester, "almost
lost their shirts," in the hog market.
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extension UtcswCk agent Jot
Copeland added. "It wwld be hard
not to make money In hogs right
But even though there is money to
be aaio in raising hogs, moot local
farmero or not taking advantage of
it This la not always because they're
increase in the coming months, "but
it'll be nothing like the boom of a few
years ago," he said.
Part of the reason is the besistaney
of farmers who were burned in the
past, but most the problem is. as
usual, money. Fanners here are
carrying so large a debt load from
the last few mediocre crop years that
they haven't the credit to start a hog
umiliwi
Other fanners would like to feed
their cheap com to expensive feeder
pigs, and have the equipment to start
a feeder pig mention, hut cant wait
three ar four months tor the pigs to
R.L Stevenson, vice ptnlfct of
Peoples Bank In Bertferd, said his
bank doesal offer laag term lonas far
hog Lqujpmmt, and Vetvtn HoweU.
supervisor of the Far* Bom Ad
ministration la this area. vMch Is
ottering tang term hw, has so far
had no takers
The bust cycle of h*s hi
recant yean has shied bankers away
Extension chairman Jester noted
that their were at least 10 empty
hog houses in the county, the result of
farmers who jumped into the hog
market as few years back, but could
afford to keep the operation going
when the market fell through.
IV hank dries offer short term
loans for purchasing feeder pigs, but
there haven't been too many to take
up the offer. "Frankly," said
Sterama. "farmers are in such a
bind that they don't have the credit."
One tanner who has been able to
take advantage of the hog market is
Presto* Stevenson, who bought 500
feeder pigs and expects to feed them
a little more than half his corn crop.
Stevenson has raised hogs for most of
the last IS years, but dropped out
abut two years ago when the prices
were lam.
Scrounging up the credit to buy the
pigs "took quite a bit ?f negotiating."
hat Shimon can expect to make a
good deal mere money when he seBs
tap hags this winter than he co?H
have gotten sett* (he other hall ?l
his corn crop
"Yen have te keep trying." he sntt.
And II Stevenson can get his foot
tack te the door, he conM have a
Two men charged with first degree
rape, aiding and abetting first degree
rape and kidnapping will be tried in
Superior Court December 6.
Superior Court Judge John B.
Lewis Jr. continued the cases
Monday of William Graham Cohen.
?, of Holiday Island and Terry* Lynn
Miles. 28, of Suffolk, Virginia.
Probable cause was found in both
cases. According to Perquimans
County Deputy Victor Lamb, who
investigated the eases, last August a
23 year old female resident of
Holiday Island reported to a Holiday
Island security guard that she had
been raped. The guard called the
Sheriffs Department. Deputies
proceeded to the scene and took the
two subjects into custody .
The victim was transported to
Chowan Hospital by the Perquimans
Rescue Squad for medical
examination.
At the time of their arrest Cohen
and Miles were charged with second
degree rape. The cases have since
gone to the grand jury, according to
Lamb, and the charges were changed
to first degree rape, aiding and
abetting first degree rape and kid
napping.
Lamb said that to his knowledge
neither subject had a prior criminal
record, but they are still waiting to
receive the fingerprint reports from
Raleigh
Cohen is now in custody at
Albemarle District Jail and Miles is
free on bond
The case of Wallace Hinton was
also continued and will be tried
December 6 in Superior Court
Hinton has been charged with incest.
The Perquimans County Department
of Social Services is investigating the
case and their records are con
fidential
Other c urt arraignments w ere :
Wilbert Lee Jones, assault with a
deadly weapon
Carlton Walters, driving under the
influence
Roscoe James Jr., driving without
a license; 12 months suspended for
two years; $500 fine and
cost supervised probation.
Isaac Riddick. driving under the
influence and driving wttlt tkmse
revoked; two years wntis N C tVpt
of Corrections. aanfmM two y* ars
with supervised probMiw: $*? fine
and cost ;
Arrie Lee Wilson. assaaSt cm a
female; pled not guilty
Robert Cecil Harorli siaoptiftuts.
pled not guilty
Russell shepire assautt on
female, pled guilty; received *>d?y
suspended sentence and treatment at
Albemarle Mental Health Center. $S*>
fine and cost
Irene Jordan Welch assaullt with a
deadly weapon, received *> day
suspended sentence and treatment at
Albemarle Mental Health Center. $5*>
fine and cost;
Cleveland Stevens**!, Sorcery - pled
guilty and sentenced to I years *tth
the N.C. Dept of Connections; im
mediate work release recommended.
Ervin Isaac Bryant tweakirta and
entering, larceny and receiving and
possession of stolen goods.
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