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Pictured is an artist's
rendering of a water color
painting of the Perquimans
County High School upon
completion of work planned
for the structure. The work
was done by David Hall
Associates, Inc.
Architectural Arts of
Raleigh, N.C.
? Board of Education selects plans for school comvlex
The Perquimans County Board of
Education made a decision to
renovate the 1924 Circa two-story
building being occupied by
Perquimans County High School,
leaving the auditorium intact, and
removing the wings on either side of
the building to allow for new
construction on Monday night.
The high school project will
provide more classroom space for
art, band, science laboratories and
special education, along with a new
cafeteria and kitchen area.
The auditorium, which is used for
many public events, will remain, but
will receive a face-lift during the
construction period.
^ The Board of Education met with
the Perquimans County
Closing date
set for insuring
v spring crops
Farmers are reminded that the
closing date for application for
Federal Crop Insurance on spring
crops is March 31. This applies to
farmers who have no insurance at all
and also the farmers who and also
the fanners who want to add other
crops to their insurance already in
force stated J. J. Basemore,
I . District Director today.
Crop insurance pays money for
more risks more often to
policyholders than any other
insurance. It covers a wide variety of
haiards of nature including drought,
excessive moisture, hail, plant
disease, insects, frost, freese, fire,
wind and all other unavoidable
causes.
A tamers expenses are protected
when he has crop insurance.
Payments from crop insurance
saved many farmers from total
financial disaster In IMS due to the
severe drought said Batemore.
' Different levels el coverage are
available and thete levels may be
changed from year to year to suit the
Individuals seeds.
Premiums are net due until a
normal harvest season is completed.
This la aa added convenience to
farmer* because of the nature of
Commissioners on Monday night to
make a final decision on placing a $2
million bond referendum qn the
ballot for the May 8 Primary.
The Commssioners expressed a
concern that the county might have a
problem with financially supporting
the Board of Education for the school
project.
The Board of Education presented
the Commissioners with an
alternative to the higher interest
state bonds, and suggested that the
county apply for a FHA loan,
(Perquimans County is eligible) at
an interest rate of seven and one
quarter (7.25) percent.
The Board told the Commissioners
that Marvin Howell of the District
FHA Office in Willia.mston had made
a commitment at 7.25 percent
interest rate for Perquimans County
based on medium family income.
Howell told the Board that if the
bonds are not bought at the lower
interest rate FHA will automatically
purchase the bonds.
The Board of Education suggested
to the Commissioners that now is a
good time to apply for an FHA loan,
and recommended that they be
allowed to proceed with the
application as soon as possible.
The Commissioners unanimously
agreed that obtaining funds through
FHA was the best route for the
county at this time, and passed a
motion to proceed with the
application for a FHA loan.
Voter
registration
deadline set
April 9, 1984 has been set
as the last day to register
to vote in the May 8, 1984
Primary Election.
Individuals who are not
registered to vote in
Perquimans County, or
those who need to change
their address, party
affiliation, etc. are
encouraged to do so before
the April 9 deadline to be
eligible to vote in the
Primary election.
Anyone who is 18 years
old or over, is a citizen of
the United States, and has
lived in the State of North
Carolina, and has resided
in their precinct for at
least 30 days prior to the
May 8 Primary election is
eligible to register and
vote.
Voter registration forms
can be filled out at the
Perquimans County Board
of Elections Office,
located at 104 Dobb Street,
Hertford on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday
between 8:30 a.m. and
12:30p.m.
Registration forms can
also be completed by
appointment with the
Precinct Registrars in
each township.
The Precinct Registrars
are Mac White, Belvidere;
Evie Dail, Nicanor; Delsie
Ward, Bethel; Carol
Baker, East Hertford;
Earline White, West
Hertford, Carole Roberts,
New Hope; and Evelyn
Ann Smith, Parkville.
County Anniversary Committee makes plans for 400th
Perquimans County will join other
North Carolina counties to begin
commemoration of the Four
Hundreth Anniversary of the
Roanoke Voyages on Roanoke Island
on July 13. 1984.
But, Ottober 12, 13 and 14 will be
celebrated in Perquimans County.
When Arthur Barlowe and Philip
Amadas came to Roanoke Island
four hundred years earlier, Arthur
Barlowe wrote: "And after thankes
given to God for our safe arrival
thither, we manned our boates, and
went to viewe the land next
adjoining,rand to take possession of
the samjf ia the right of the Queenes
most excellent Majestic."
This tribute and trust in a Divine
Being established the precedent for
recognition of the Grace of God, and
was followed in the settlement of the
United States as an English-speaking
natkm, under English law.
After the disappearance of the lost
colony of Roanoke Island, it was
three quarters of a century before the
English came again to North
Carolina, and history tells that as
early as 1(61 George Durant came to
Perquimans County and bought land
from the King of Yeopim Indians.
His deed mentions a "George
Catehmaid, already settled,"
?bowing that other settlers had
preceded him.
Perquimans County's Four
Hundredth Anniversary Committee
is joining the Eastern Quarterly
Meeting of the Society of Friends and
the Perquimans County Restoration
Association to commemorate the
Proprietary Period of North
Carolina, and the beginnings of
Quakerism as the first organised
religion in the state.
Tlie first religious service on
record after Roanoke Island was held
In the spring of 1IR, under the
leadership of WilUasa Edmundsoo, a
Later that year. George Fox. the
Another journal entry shows that
Fox preached at Joseph Scott's house
in November 1672. Other Society of
Friends services followed, meeting
houses were erected and such
ministries were the beginning of
organized religion in North Carolina.
. Joseph Scott's house is now known
as the Newbold-White House and has
been restored by the Perquimans
County Restoration Association as
the oldest house in North Carolina.
A three-day commemoration of the
Quaker and Proprietary Period will
center around the Newbold-White
site on October 12, 13 and 14.
Friday, October 12, will be
Perquimans Heritage Day. In 1696
and 1697 Thomas Nichols, a tenant of
Joseph Scott's granddaughters,
hosted the General Assembly, the
Governor's Council, and the Higher
Courts there.
An invitation has been extended to
the Chief Justice of the North
Carolina Supreme Court, Joseph
Branch, and the Associate Justices to
take part in the ceremonies on
October 12.
Later in the day, there will be a ?
dinner at Missing Mill Park, followed
by a presentation of the outdoor
drama, "The Sword of Peace,"
which plays each summer at Snow
Camp, North Carolina, and tells of
the Quaker resistance to war.
On Saturday a Society of Friends
Historical Pilgrimage will be made
to sites prominent in the educational
and religious life ' of early
Perquimans.
Clifford Winaiow, a native of
Perquimans and clerk of Friends
United Meeting with headquarters in
Richmond, Indiana, is arranging the
They have been planned by
Raymond A. Winslow Jr., Archivist.
Perquimans Restoration
Association. This pilgrimage is being
spo? ored by the Eastern Quarterly
Meeting, made up of Somerton
lolland, Virginia.
M. HOI, Pastor; Corinth
for. Virginia; and
Virginia, Cafer Marley, Pastor.
Piney Woods, Belvidere, which
began as a Preparative Meeting
under Wells, Kenneth Spivey,
Pastor) and Up River, begun later,
under Piney Woods as a Preparative
Meeting (Rendel Cosand, Pastor),
are Perquimans members of the
Eastern Quarterly Meeting, and will
plan the religious programs.
Mrs. Kenneth Spivey will prepare
an exhibit on Quaker life at Piney
Woods Meeting House. The Woman's
Missionary Society of the Church will
offer a sandwich and beverage lunch
for those on tour.
Sunday, October 14, will be a very
important day. D. Elton Trueblood, a
nationally known Society of Friends
minister, author and lecturer, will
conduct a religious service at the
Newbold-White House where George
Fox had preached 312 years before.
He will be assisted by Billy M.
Britt, Superintendent, of the North
Carolina Society of Friends Yearly
Meeting.
The musical part of the program
will be arranged by Mrs. McKay
Riddick and Mrs. Paul Young of
Piney Woods Meeting and Rick
Pronto of Up River Meeting.
An old-fashioned "dinner on the
grounds" will be served, with every
family bringing a basket for
themselves and guests.
An invitation has been extended
through the national magazine,
"Quaker Life," for everyone to make
this national pilgrimage to the place
where the Society of Friends and
organized religion began in North
Carolina in 1672.
A housing committee made up of
members from all county churches
and coordinated by Mrs. Henry C.
Sullivan, Hertford Methodist Church,
will seek to find "bed and breakfast"
accommodations for all visitors.
Further information is available
from Kenneth Spivey, Rt. 1, Box 51,
Belvidere, N. C. 27919.
America's Four Hundredth will
cover the years from July 13, 1984
through August 18, 1987, the four
hundredth birthday of Virginia Dare.
Each year of the celebration in
Perquimans County, one church will
be asked to take the leadership role
in the order in which they became
active in Perquimans.
According to historian, Raymond
A. Winslow Jr., this would be
Quakers, Episcopalians, Baptists
and Methodists. It is hoped that these
occasions may be made memorable,
with all faiths celebrating and
renewing their dedication to God and
Country.
Pictured a re members of
the . Perquimans County
AnniTersarjr Committee with
the Idmaadsen-Fex
Memorial, (near the S-Bridge
in Hertford.) Left to right
they are; Eeodel Cound,
Pastor #f the Up-Rhrer
Friends Meeting, Jeanne C.
While and Kenneth Spirey,
Pastor of the Piney Woods
Frlaads Meeting.