LOCAL NEWS
Community Calendar
Quitters to Meet
Perquimans Quitters will meet June 25th, at the County Office
Building at 2 p.m. Effie Harris of Elizabeth City will demonstrate the
use of the Olfa Cutter. Club members may bring fabric scraps for a
strip piecing project. Plans also will be made for finishing the quilted
wall hanging being made for Perquimans County Committee for the
celebration on the Roanoke Voyages. There will be no regular
meetings in July or August.
Pig Pickin Slated
Hie Perquimans County Jaycees and Jaycettes are again hosting
an afternoon of family fun and games with an evening of spectular
fireworks at Missing Mill Park. A pig picking supper will be held Fri
day, June 29th from 3-7 p.m. at the Perquimans County High School to
help sponsor this event. Donations $3.50 a plate.
Can you imagine 4th of July without fireworks over the Perquimans
River?
Come out and support this event, June 29th.
Contact Greg Biggs after 6 p.m. for tickets - 426-5864.
Youth Sewing Classes Set
?.Youth Sewing Class will be offered by the Perquimans County Ex
tension Service during the month of July. The introductory session
?ill begin on Tuesday, July 10th at 10:00 a.m. Youth will learn to
&lect sewing tools and fabrics; make their own clothes and learn
fesic sewing techniques.
I Please call the Home Extension Office, 426-7697, if you are in
terested in participating in youth sewing workshop. It's a great way
4) spend a few hours of a summer vacation!
Service news
Airman Murray E. Baccus II,
Ion of Murray E. Baccus of
plural Route 3, Elizabeth, N.C.,
BACCUS
and Dorcas R. Adams of 2828
Seventh St. N.E., Birmingham,
Ala., has been assigned to
Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas,
after completing Air Force basic
training.
During the six weeks at
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas,
the airman studied the Air Force
mission, organization and
customs and received special
training in human relations.
In addition, airmen who
complete basic training earn
credits toward an associate
degree in applied science
through the Community College
of the Air Force.
The airman will now receive
specialized instructions in the
civil engineering field.
Is
Roanoke Voyages Stamp to be issued
The U.S. Postal Service has
announced that the first Issue in
the new Explorers' Series, a 20
cent commemorative stamp
honoring the 400th anniversary of
the Roanoke Voyages, will be
issued on July 13 in Manteo,
North Carolina. Specific details
about the first day of issue
ceremony will be announced in
the near future.
On March 25, 1584, Queen
Elizabeth I granted Walter
Raleigh permission to establish
an English colony in the New
World. Raleigh formed an
expedition and placed Philip
Amadaa and Arthur Barlow in
command. On July IS, 1584, they
landed on what is now the coast
of North Carolina and took
possession of the new land in the
name of the Queen. Pleased with
the reports of the expedition.
Queen Elisabeth knighted
Raleigh.
One of America's foremost
maritime artists, Charles
Lundgren of New Milford,
Connecticut, designed the
Roanoke Voyages stamp under
the direction of Jack Williams,
Summer feeding Continued from Page 1
Building, Hyde Park,
Hertford: 12:00-12:30; Ellis
Temple, White Street,
Winfall:12:00-12:30; Holiday
Island Park, Route 1,
Hertford: 11: 30-12: 00; Leigh's
Temple, Durants Neck: 12: 30
1:00; Missing Mill Park, Grubb
Street, Hertford: 12: 00-12: 30;
Poole's Grove, Woodville (Begin
July 1?)-12: 15-12:45; Porter's
Chapel, Chapanoke-12:00-12:30;
Southern Shores Park, Hertford
12:00-12:30; and Wynne Fork
Courts, Hertford-12: 30-1 : 30.
Jaycees to sponsor
Bloodmobile
The Summer Blood
Drive will be here June
28th from 3-7 p.m. at the
Hertford United Methodist
Church. The area
chairperson is Kay
Winslow and Emma
Byrum co-chairperson.
The demand for blood is
greater during the
summer, so please support
the Blood Drive June 28th
sponsored by the Jaycee
and Jaycettes.
NEW ORLEANS WORLD EXPO '84
Memoet SEPTEMBER 22-29, 1984
U.S. Postal Service Program
Manager for Philatelic Design.
Bradbury Thompson, a design
coordinator (or the Citizens'
Stamp Advisory Committee, was
the stamps tyopgrapher.
Since no originsl plans or
specifications exist for any of the
vessels of the Roanoke Voyages,
Mr. Lundgren based his design
on a description of a
representative vessel, the
Elizabeth, in an account of the
1585 voyage. Above the design, in
lour lines of black type are the
words "Roanoke Voyages, North
Carolina. ISM." In the lower left
corner of the design in a single
line of black type in "USA 20
cents."
The modeler of the stamp was
Richard C. Sennett of the
American Bank Note Company, . 4
which printed the vertically
oriented stamps on the gravure ?
press in yellow, red, blue, brown
and black. ?*
Obituary
MARGARET G. O'CONNELL
Edenton-Margaret Garner
O'Connell, 61. Route 2, Edenton
died Friday in her home.
A Native of York County, Va.,
she was employed with the
Charlotte Liberty Mutual
Insurance Co. and the owner
Margo's Dinner in Belvidere. She
was a member of the Church of
Christ in Edenton.
Surviving are four daughters,
Mrs. Darla Edith Powell,
Clearwater, Fla., Mrs. Nancy
Lee Kernodle, Charleston, S.C.,
Mrs. Suzanne Scott Joyner,
Hampton, Va., and Mrs. I
Kathleen Byrum of Edenton; one
son. Douglas Scott, Chesapeake,
Va.; 15 grandchildren, and three
great grandchildren.
The funeral was held Sunday at
2:30 p.m. at the Williford-Byrum
Funeral Chapel by Rev. Thomas
Biggs. Burial was Monday at
10:00 a.m. at the Parklawn
Cemetary in Hampton, Va., <
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