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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
VeHime 3t. No. 3 USPS 42S-0M Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, January 20, 1983 20 CENTS
Phase II of the county water
project is now underway.
With plenty of water on top of
the ground, well drillers are
hoping for adequate quan
tities underground.
" Staff audit reports
presented to Board
? By VAL SHORT
Faced with audits and program
reviews in the coming weeks, staff
?wben of the Perquimans County
St hoots county office presented
reports to the Board of Education
School coodwators Susan Winslow
tod Moms Koraegay presented
uparti oa curriculunis now in the
process of being developed Winslow
a reported the communications
W curriculum should he completed by
February U and will included
avtttag skills for grades K through 12.
Koraegay said the math and
scieace curriculum will hopefully he
Hftolfd m March and wiU em
phasiae coatiauity. Process skills and
HfHttte. umpiliiim and elee
trunic leaning ?1 he areas included
? m the curriculum
Fak is cimlag up is April aad
tkipault *He said IS eutered last year
Stek said the Va caffeaal Fair is
Una MNar. saM the fair is
part of aa eftort la paMfctee the
She said the program was in good
shape and anticipates a good report.
Umphlett reported that the
program included more emotionally
handicapped students now than it did
five years ago. A total of 400 students
is served by the program, including
19 severely handicapped
"1 am pleased with what we are
able to oiler those youngsters.''
commented Superintendent Pat
HarrelL
La Claire Rogerson. director of the
Child Nutrition program indicated
several areas which may be possible
problems. She said none of the lun
chrooms are built to handle the
number they are serving. She also
commented that the free and reduced
hutch applications are carefully
scrutinixed.
Athletic Booster Club president
Richard Bryant presented a plan for
renovating the- baseball field. Bryant
said the club wonld spend ap
proximately S4.M0 to replace the
backstop, install two dugouts and
place fence around parts at the field.
Ike Board unanimously adopted
the Booster CMb plan and expressed
appreciation far their assistance.
Ciinrtl superintendent Pat HarreU
announced to the Board that the
co? ty wonld have to revert 2 percent
of state allocated funds back to the
Harrefl said this wonld involve
abont mm and so far. "he hasn't
coaaenp with R yet."
Harrefl tstd the Board that the
String Quartet from the North
CaraMna Symphony will be it Hert
ford Grammar School January M at
1:31 pjl; at Perquimans Union
Jamnnry B at M a.m. and at
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Perquimans Central at 1 and 1:45
p.m. Parents are invited to the
concerts.
The Board members voted to
renew Pat Harrell's contract for four
more years.
Pete Howell presented a report on
asbestos in the schools and said
samples had been taken and had
been sent to Research Triangle Park
for analysis.
Howell said with anything built
before 1947, there would be a
possibility of asbestos in the building.
He said asbestos had to be removed
with special suits that would have to
be destroyed.
County commissioners
hear hunting issues
By VAL SHORT
Voices of opposition and support
could be heard at the public hearing
on banning deer hunting with dogs
and trucks held Monday night at the
Perquimans County Courthouse.
Held during the regular meeting of
the Perquimans County Com
missioners, the hearing drew a
crowd of around 50 who expressed
their concerns over the proposed
ban.
The commissioners are con
sidering recommending a ban to the
current session of the General
Assembly after a group of residents
from the Bethel and Harvey Point
areas submitted a petition calling for
a ban of deer hunting with dogs and
trucks from Highway 17 to the
Perquimans River.
Those attending the hearing in
cluded residents of the Bethel and
Harvey Point areas as well as deer
hunters from the area. Some
residents expressed the need for
stronger law enforcement in the
area, saying "if law enforcement
was doing its job, we wouldn't be
here tonight."
According to the residents, the
problem stems from people hunting
without permission, who leave deep
tracks in the fields and broken fences
behind, without respect for the
landowners.
Some of the hunters indicated the
dangers involved in still hunting
without dogs. One hunter stated "if
you don't hear the dogs you don't
know where anybody is."
Another landowner commented
that the hunting method was not safe
? hunting with high powered rifles
along the roadsides. He said, "I'm
surprised we haven't paid the price
by now."
Hunters in the group called for a
compromise, possibly banning
hunting from the roadsides and
enforcing hunting with the lan
downers permission only.
One landowner announced that he
didn't care i' people hunted on his
Well drilling begins
for Phase II of
county water system
Engineer Ron Sessoms of Rivers
and Associates and representatives
of Craven Well Drilling reported
possible problems with Phase II of
the county water project at the
Monday night meeting of the
Perquimans County Commissioners.
Sessoms said test wells at the
Winfall sites were pumping ap
proximately 100 to 185 gallons of
water per minute and they needed a
maxknum of 250 gallons per minute
with a minimum of 150 gallons per
minute.
The commissioners directed the
well drillers to try alternate sites for
wells , remaining on land owned by
the county.
Sessoms reported he could not
detect any hydrogen sulfide in any of
the water that was pumped and the
iron levels were low.
Sessoms explained that the test
wells were not an accurate indication
of whether there was adequate water
at the location, but they are required
by both FHA and health services.
"There appears to be a usable well
thi-e,"said Sessoms, but he said it
was all a gamble and there were no
guarantees.
"We need plenty of water,"
commissioners chairman Hoe Fowell
commented and they agreed to allow
the well drillers to try alternate well
sites.
ABC referendum
set in Winfall
Voters of Winfall will go to the polls
March 8 to decide for or against
having an ABC store in the city.
The referendum was scheduled
after several requests were received
by the Winfall Town Council to open
an ABC store.
Polls will be open form 6:30 a.m. to
7:30 p.m. and February 4 is the last
day to register to vote in the
referendum.
But according to town attorney
Walter Edwards the voters will not
just be deciding on whether they
want an ABC store in the town.
If the referendum passes the Town
Council will be able to appoint an
ABC board. The board will be able to
issue permits to sell fortified wines ?
wines with over 17 percent alcohol,
but less than 24 percent.
Other permits which the ABC
board can issue will include on and
off premises beer sales and brown
bagging for hotels and restaurants.
An ABC store will provide ad
ditional revenues for Winfall and will
enable the town to control the ABC
permits. If the county should decide
to "go wet," according to Edwards, it
would have no control over the ABC
board in Winfall, if the referendum
passes.
The purpose of the referendum,
according to Winfall mayor Lloyd
Ray Morgan, is "for the people to
decide." " It's up to the town
people," he said.
land, he just did not want them
"tearing it up." Another hunter and
landowner said, "We've got plenty of
laws. We just need to enforce the
ones we've got."
During the hearing Board chair
man Joe Nowell commented this
"may be a matter of organizing and
controlling the people who do hunt."
He also said that the Board wanted "
work out what is agreeable to the
majority."
County attorney John Matthews
told the group that the County
Commissioners could only
"recommend or not recommend'' the
ban and that it was up to the General
Assembly to enact it into law .
Following the hearing the Board
decided to table the issue and make a
decision at the next regular meeting.
Also at the Board meeting two
representatives of the Skills. Inc
sheltered workshop appeared
requesting funds for the program
Jimmy Weeks, president, and Bill
Phillips, executive director,
requested $1,043 from Perquimans
County for their program Weeks
reported that seven participants
were currently enrolled in the
program and three participants from
Perquimans County were scheduled
to begin soon.
Weeks said the group was building
fish boxes to sell and they had con
tracts "to build all we can make." He
said they were making ap
proximately 80 fish boxes per day.
Weeks said they had received
funds from Pasquotank and Camden
counties and were also requesting
funds from Currituck and Chow an.
The Board decided not to take any
action on the request until they could
check with finance officer Durwood
Reed.
John Hurdle of the county Forest
Service presented his annual report
to the County Commissioners. In the
area of fire control Hurdle reported
the county had a light year, con
sidering the weather. He said 15 fires
had been reported with a total of 29
acres being destoyed
Hurdle said 39 forest management
plans had been developed or renewed
and a total of 343 acres had been put
back into trees, including one acre of
Christmas trees.
He said a small woodlot committee
had been organized for the
Albemarle area including lan
downers and representatives from
area agencies.
The Southern Pine Beetle is on the
increase, according to Hurdle and
approximately 50 male gypsy moths
have been found in traps in the
county, but otherwise, insect and
disease destruction has been low .
Hurdle reported issuing 45 burning
permits last year.citing wet weather
as the reason for the low number.
County animal control officer Ray
White and Forest Myers of the
Holiday Island Property Owners
Association talked to Board mem
bers about a possible leash law at
Holiday Island. Myers said stray
dogs had become a problem at
Holiday Island and White agreed to
help as much as he could.
The County Commissioners took no
action on a leash law.
This view of the Perquimans S-b ridge seems serene and peaceful but doesn't show the current frigid temperatures
we are experiencing.
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