.THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 39/ No. 35 USPS 428-080 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, September 1, 1983 m rcw
Indian Summer Festival brings talent to area
I The program, "Tribute to Native
Americans", will kick-off the
Heritage Day activities of this year's
Indian Summer Festival, September
IS and 16. Heritage Day, Friday, will
be highlighted with native, North
Carolina Indian speakers, state
speakers, and numerous exhibits, on
Friday, September IS, at the
Newbold White House in Hertford.
Featured during the morning
program, 10:45 a.m. to 12 noon, will
be Adolph Dial, professor of History
at Pembroke State University, and
author of THE ONLY LAND I
School
opens
Perquimans County
Schools opened their doors
Monday to approximately
1650 students.
Maurice Mabine (left),
name tag in hand, begins
his first day of school in
Pam Lothian's Kin
dergarten class at Hert
ford Grammar School.
Lena Mansfield's First
Grade class (below) at
Hertford Grammar School
is raring to go. Connie
Everett, teachers' aide,
stands ready to help Mrs.
Mansfield.
Photos by
Pat Mansfield
Perquimans farmers vote
?no to peanut referendum
By W.R. JESTER m
County Extension Chairman
Perquimans County was the only
oounty in North Carolina to vote
against the additional $1 per ton
peanut assessment. In the county, 55
ballots were cast, 20 were for the
assessment, 35 were against, and one
) was spoiled.
? Overall in the state, 2303 ballots
were cast tor the assessment and.ltl
?ere cast against it.
! From talking to farmers who said
0>ey voted against the assessment, I
got the impression that they
questioned if the additional money
would be used for promotion of their
peanuts and whether or not it would
Otally be that effective, "'jt
} - Aflatoxin is a real danger in our
drought strickened corn this year.
Aflatoxin is produced when the
fungus Aspergillus flavus infects the
Corn and grows.
are produced most
? grain mositure is near
and the temperature is
so and 100 degrees,
are anatoxins dangerous?
- of reducing
t
per billion). Slightly higher amounts
can actually kill animals.
Younger animals are more
susceptible than older animals.
Animals fed moderate levels of
aflatoxin contaiminated grain are
more susceptible to disease.
Since corn can also be infected by
the aflatoxin fungus during har
vesting, in hauling and storing, it is
important that growers take certain
precautions during these operations
to reduce fungus growth and
aflatoxin contamination.
Corn should be harvested at 22 to 30
percent moisture if high
temperature equipment is available.
Harvest below 20 percent moisture
for layer drying. If bins have only
drying fans, corn should be har
vested below 16 percent.
Combines should be adjusted to
avoid cracked corn and fines. With
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D.A. Office removed
from Singletary case
A motion wai made and granted by
the Honorable Judge, Henry B.
Barnett, In Chowan County Superior
Court to remove District Attorney
H.P. Williams and his staff from a
case involving Hertford attorney,
James D. Singletary on charges of
coospriacy to bum.
Williams' removal was granted
beeauM of the Lawyers Code of
Professional Ethics, prohibiting
attorneys from trying a case that
they must also testify on.
Williams' will be called on to -
testify for the defense.
The Singletary case will now be
prosecuted by the Special
Prosecution Unit of the Attorney
Generals Office.
The Singletary caae was then
granted a continuance until the next
session of Superior Court in Chowan
County, scheduled for November 14.
KNOW: A HISTORY OF THE
LUMBEE INDIANS, as well as
Sarah Hodgkins, Secretary of the
Department of Cultural Resources
and Betty Mangum, with the
Department of Public Instruction,
who will talk on "Indian
Awareness".
Dial is a Lumbee Indian and a
native of Pembroke. He completed
his advanced studies at Boston
University, and has published many
works. He has been active in the
support of the outdoor drama "Strike
at the Wind."
Hodgkins lists the three main
divisions of her department as Ar
chives and History, the State
Library, and the Arts Council. It also
includes the North Carolina Museum
of Art and the North Carolina
Symphony.
Mangum, a Lumbee Indian, was
educated at Pembroke State and
North Carolina Central Universities,
and has attended North Carolina
State University. She is a member of
numerous professional
organizations.
The Perquimans County High
School Band under the direction of
David Ziemba, will preform and
Indian and state leaders, as well as
Indian Princesses will be on hand,
followed by a flag presentation by 'he
Hertford Fife and Drums.
Charles Skinner, coordinator of
exhibits, reports a large variety of
exhibits related to Indian Culture will
be displayed. An Indian heritage
exhibit, by Juanita Bailey, Home
Economics Extension Agent, will be
there, featuring foods and other
items. Joyce Hobbs of Perquimans
County, will demonstrate basket
making, while slab pottery made by
Doris Douglas, and wood carving and
Seminole patchwork will be exhibited
by Paige Underwood, Home
Economics Extension Agent.
Betty Dupree, from the Cherokee
Reservation, will be a special guest,
representing the Qualla Arts and
Crafts Mutual, Inc. She will show and
sell crafts and jewerly made by
members of the Co-Op at Cherokee.
A Brunswick stew lunch will be
served at 12:30 with tickets available
on the site or in advance from
members of the Perquimans County
Extension Homemakers Association.
An Indian Dance Team from the
Coherrin Tribe in Clinton will per
form at 12:45. The fifteen young
people will perform a variety of
Indian dances.
Several local collections of Indian
artifacts will be on display. Dr.
David Plelps, Archaeologist of East
Carolina University, will be on hand
to identify artifacts. A leading
authority on coastal indian culture,
Plelps will present a program at 1:00.
"Native American Foods" will be
presented by Hilda Livingston, from
the Marine Resources Center in
Manteo at 1:45. This will be followed
by a presentation by Rose Cahoon, a
Lumbee Indian from Camden, who
will discuss paintings symbolizing
Indian history, herbs of native
Americans, and her own family
history.
Indian
Summer
Festival
At 3:15, Phil Evans, Historian from
the National Park Service at Fort
Raleigh, will speak about relation
ships of early settlers and Yeopim
Indians who were a native tribe in
this area.
On Saturday, art exhibitors of all
types will be on hand during the Arts
and Crafts show and sale at Missing
Mill Park in Hertford, to sell and
display their wares.
Among those participating will be
Norma Lane with her translucent
and semi-opaque watercolors. Lane
also does block printing and will have
her nineteen designs of pen and ink
note cards for sale. She will be
designing a new print during the
festival.
Raymond Sedler of Moyock, will be
selling photographs of landscapes,
seascapes, and portraits, in color and
black and white. He will be making
appointments to take childrens and
family portraits. His booth will also
include dressed styrafoam owls.
Land and seascapes in pencil will
be the featured item in Kelly Bond's
booth. Bond will also be available to
make pencil sketches from your
photographs.
Deanna Stevenson of Hertford will
display her naturalistic paintings in
large, as well as miniature sizes,
some as small as one inch. Her
paintings will feature comic and
serious scenes of waterfowl and
wildlife. She will also have some
ceramics on display.
Booths for the Arts and Crafts show
and sale are still available. They
may be purchased at $10 for a 10' x
10' booth or at $15 for a 10' x 20' booth.
Participants are responsible for their
own tables for displaying their
wares. For more information, call
426-5657.
Tickets for the quilt show on
Friday, September 16 and Saturday,
September 17, at the Albemarle
Commission Building on Church
Street Extended, are still avalilable
at $1 each. Not only does the ticket
entitle the bearer to admittance to
the show, but also gives them a
chance on the drawing for a dresden
plate pattern quilt in earth colors.
Drawing for the quilt will be held on
Saturday.
Also for sale, are the tickets for
Friday night's Fish Fry at Missing
Mill Park. The cost is $3 per plate.
Registration will be open until race
time for those wishing to participate
in the 5K race being sponsored by the
Recreation Department on Saturday.
Go toy and register with Howard
Williams before the 10 a.m. starting
time at Hertford Grammar School.
For more information on this
year's festival, call 426-5657.
DIAL
HODGKINS
Hertford receives final
report on energy accounting
By JANE WILLIAMS
The Town of Hertford has recently
received the final report on an
Energy Accountant and
Management System plan. The
report, which was prepared by Blair
L. Pollack of Integrated Energy
Systems of Chapel Hill, was funded
by the Energy Extension Service
which if administered by the Energy
Division, North Carolina Department
of Commerce.
In Fiscal Year 1981-82 Hertford
spent a total of $77,103 on energy.
Utilities (including water,
wastewater and lighting) were the
single largest portion of this at
$39,477 or 51 percent. Vehicles
followed at $29,765 and buildings
accounted for 9.9 percent of the total
energy use at $7,658. Energy, ex
cluding $16,471 for street lights, was
13 percent of the Towns total budget
of $470,000.
The purpose of the report ?n to
analise energy use in each of these
three sectors and to propose a
detailed energy accounting
procedure to track energy use,
compare tt with past consumption
and investigate discrepancies or
unusually large variations.
As energy costs rise, the ac
counting process will be more useful
for budgeting pvrpoees. The report
proposes the use of forms and
organisational charts to simplify and
expedite energy accounting for each
sector.
Building energy accounting will be
primarily the responsibility of the
building operators. That is, the
Recreation Department and Senior
Center are the responsibility of the
Recreation Director, the Fire
Department is the responsibility of
the Fire Chief and the Municipal
Building is the responsibility of the
Town Manager.
Vehicle energy accounting is the
responsibility of every driver and
department head as well as the Town
Manger.
Utility energy accounting
responsibilities rest with the water
and wastewater plant operators, the
Town Manager and head of the street
department.
The report suggests a monthly,
quarterly and annual report format
which summarizes and analixes
energy consumption activity. The
reporting procedure is meant to
streamline the accounting process to
ensure that the Town Manager
receives the necessary information
without having to review every
meter reading himself each month.
The annual report that the Town
Manager prepares for the Town
Council will aid them in preparing
budget estimates for the following
year.
Hertford Mayor-Manager, Bill
Cox, expressed hopes that this
system will show that the Town is
doing a good job of conserving
energy and will provide guildelines to
make possible improvements.
Holiday
closings
Labor Day will be observed
Monday September 5. All Town,
County, State and Federal offices
will be closed.
The Postal Services have an
nounced that the Hertford Post
Office will be closed and no mail
routes will run. Post Office
boxholders will receive mail as
usual. ,
There will be no trash pickup
on Monday in Hertford. Normal
schedules will resume on
Tuesday.
Other closings include The
Perqui.t a: ~ 'inty Chamber of
Commerce, banks and THE
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