THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 57, No.2? USPS 428-OtO Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, July 9, 1987 30 <
LOCAL
Modlin selected as
writing fellow
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FLATLRL
Lions Club selects
new officers for 1987-88
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COMMUNITY
Hurricane evacuation
study outlined
see page 13
i 4th of July
celebrated
County residents came out
on Saturday to Missing Mill
Park to celebrate America's
Independence Day, July 4th.
The day-long event spon
sored by the Perquimans
."County Jaycees featured
g^games and entertainment for
all ages.
Highlights of the day in
cluded games for the kids
such as the balloon toss, drop
ping a clothespin in a iar
(right photo) and the softball
toss, music was provided
throughout the day bv sucfc~*
groups as tbe Snug Harbor
Coinob, the Warden Family
Singers, Clark Bateman, and
gic. The ever popular
dunking booth was also on
hand for Saturday's festivi
ties, and young and old alike
were entertained by the daz
ijing display of fireworks.
Three arrested in connection
with break-in at club June 30th
Two Perquimans County men and
a juvenile have been arrested in con
nection with a break-in which oc
curred in Bethel.
On the night of June 30th or in the
early morning of July 1st, the Acro
polus Club at the Bethel Fishing Cen
ter was broken into.
.According to the Perquimans
County Sheriff's Department an un
determined amount of money was
taken. In addition to the money a
large quanity of beer and some snack
items were also taken during the rob
bery.
An investigation which was con
ducted by Sgt. J. R. Logan resulted in
the Peruqimans County Sheriff's De
partment obtaining a search war
rant. The search which was con
ducted by the sheriff's department
recovered a large quantity of the
items which were stolen.
The investigation also resulted in
the arrest of three suspects : Fritz Ju
lius Kunkel, Jr. of Snug Harbor, Bill
Clark, Route 1, Hertford, and a juve
nile.
|?New FmHA loan program makes
I more families eligible for loans
More families may be able to pay
for building new homes or repairing
old ones thanks to some recent
changes in Farmers Home Admins
tration housing loan program
The FmHA's rural housing loan
program in Chowan and Perquimans
Counties recently was changed to en
able more families to qualify for
loans to construct, purchase or re
pair mpdest homes.
Money is also available to pur
chase lots, landscape and provide
waste and sewage systems when con
struction of a hone is involved. And
the size of the home to be financed is
also tied to the number ofpeople in
the family.
The present interest rate on a rural
housing loan is 9.0 percent, with re
payments up to 38 years under cer
tain conditions. '"Payments are
based on the gross family income at
an interest rate within the family's
ability to repay a loan," said
Winslow.
The new income limits are based
on federal Housing and Urban Devel
opment limits for an adjusted in
come, which is the gross family in
come minus $480 for each child under
18 years old.
The qualifications in Perquimans
County are: one family member at
$10,850 of adjusted income, two at
$12,400, three at $13,900, four at
$15,500, and five at $16,400.
The qualifications in Chowan
County are: one family member at
$11,200, of adjusted income, two at
$12,906, three at $14,500, four at
$16,100, and five at $17,000.
Families must have good credit
history, steady employment history
to obtain a loan.
The Hertford office is located in
Perquimans County office building
on Church Street extended, Hertford.
Hearings scheduled on community
services block grant revisions
The Ecomomic Improvement
Council. Inc. will hold a public hear
ing in each of the ten Albemarle
counties on proposed revisions to the
1868 Community Services Block
Grant Anti-Poverty Plan
The hearings are set for:
Camden : Camden Conference
/"loom, Camden, NC, July 22, 1887 at
ifrOOa.m. Chowan: Municipal Build
ing. Eden ton. NC, July 20, 1967 at 2:00
p.m. Currittejt: Currituck Library,
Batco, NC, July 22, 1887 at 2:00 p.m.
Dare: COA Dare County center,
Manteo, NC, July 14, 1987 at 10:00
a.m. Gates: Courthouse in the Com
missioners Room, Gatesville, NC,
July 24, 1967 at 2:00 p.m. Hyde:
Courthouse Building, Swan Quarter,
NC, July 14, 1967, at 2:00 p.m. Pasqu
otank: Agricultural Extension Build
ing, Elizabeth City, NC, July 20, 1987
at 10:00 a.m.
Perquimans: ARPDC-Perquimans
County Office Building, Hertford, NC
July 24, 1987 at 10:00 a.m. Tyrrell:
Agricultural Extension Building, Co
lumbia, NC, July 23, 1967 at 2:00 p.m.
Washington: Agricultural Extension
Building, Plymouth, NC, July 23, 1967
at 10:00 a.m.
The CSBG Anti-Poverty Plan and
supportive documents may be re
viewed by the public at the EIC Ad
ministrative Office, Edenton, NC be
tween 8:30-5:00 p.m. of each business
day until the end of the hearings.
Maggie M. Griffin is the CSBG Pro
gram Director.
I Kevitaltzation committee to meet
On Thursday, July 9th the Hertford
Revitalization Committee will hold a
meeting at the Perquimans County
Courthouae.
9 The meeting will begin at 7:90
p., and all Hertford merchants and
<vjmmercial property owners as well
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as interested citizens are invited to
attend.
Hertford has been chosen as one of
seven towns throughout the state to
receive special assistant* in plan
ning it's revitatization project, and
the town has been assigned two com
r
munity planners from Washington.
N.C. office of the Division of Commu
nity Assistance tp assist in this pro
ject who will be on hand Thursday.
The opportunity offered by the
state is one that Hertford can not af
ford to miss
Mobile home ordinance
proposed for county
The Perquimans County Commis
sioners met Monday with Dick
George, and members of the Perqui
mans County Planning Board and re
viewed the proposed Mobile Home
Park Ordinance for Perquimans
County.
The proposed ordinance which was
prepared by the Perquimans County
Planning Board with the assistance
of the Albemarle Commission is de
signed to establish regulations for
mobile home parks within Perqui
mans County, and provides for the
administration, enforcement, and
amendment thereof, in accordance
with the provisions of the North Caro
lina General Statutes 153A-121. The
proposed ordinance would also re
peal all ordinances which are in con
flict with it.
The proposed ordinance would gov
ern every new or additions to any
existing mobile home park within the
county, except land within the juris
diction of any municipality unless the
municipality requests by resolution
that the county enforce the ordinance
within it's jurisdiction.
The proposed ordinance covers
many areas including registration of
mobile homes, what constitutes a
mobile home park, approval of and
construction of a mobile home park,
specifications for mobile home
parks, as well as other additional in
formation.
Dick George of the Albemarle
Commission stated Monday that the
proposed ordinance is very similar to
the county's ordinance which gov
erns sub-divisions, but carries some
differences from the sub-division or
dinance as outlined by the state legis
lature.
The Perquimans County Board of
Commissioners will hold a public
hearing to review and discuss the
proposed mobile home ordinance at
?:30 p.m. on Monday, July 20th at the
Perquimans County Court House.
Copies of the proposed ordinance are
available for inspection at the Per
quimans County Manager's office.
The board also met on Monday
with Doug Hoell, and Keith Haskett
to discuss emergency management
coordination within Perquimans
County. Mr Hoell, Area Supervisor
with the Area Emergency Manage
ment Office in Washington came be
fore the board Monday to discuss the
installation of a weather information
machine for the county. The new ma
chine is designed to provide up to
date weather information for the
county, which will aid in making de
cisions concerning evacuations, and
other issues in case of a severe storm
or other weather conditions. Hoell
stated that the machine will provide
hard copy weather information in
cluding marine weather watches,
hurricane warnings and watches and
much more
The board also met on Monday
with Mark Williams of the North Car
olina Forestry Service. Mr. Williams
gave the yearly report on Forestry
Services in Perquimans County.
According to Williams forest fires
were down this year in Perquimans
County, with less than 50 acres lost in
fires during the ye.ir. Williams also
reported that the North Carolina For
estry Service has been actively work
ing in the areas of forest manage
ment.
Mrs. Jean Weidner of the Domicil
iary Home Community Advisory
Committee also came before the
board on Monday to give the commit
tee's annual report. According to
Mrs. Weidner all of the rest homes
within the county were visited during
the year, and the committee found
the overall quality of care in the
county's nursing homes to be high.
Mrs. Weidner also reported to the
board that the committee will be
working throughout the coming year
to improve care in the nursing
homes, especially in the area of ac
tivities which are provided for resi
dents.
The board also discussed Monday
the forming of a committee to serve
the county as the Nursing Home Ad
visory Committee which will report
on the care and quality of Hertford's
new nursing facility the Brian Cen
ter.
There being no further business the
meeting was adjourned.
Pictured above Sheriff Joe Lothian and Senior patrolman Tim Spence are seen holding the
marijuana plants which were confiscated last week in the county.
Marijuana plants confiscated
from plots in Perquimans county
The Perquimans County Sheriff's
Department and the Hertford Police
Department have been begun a
county-wide marijuana eradication
program.
Last Thursday, July 2nd, Sheriff
Joe Lothian and Senior Patrolman
Tim Spence of the Hertford Police
Department confiscated several
marijuana plants from two plots lo
cated in Perquimans County, and
according to Lothian the seizure of
those plants is just the beginning.
The plants seized are only a fraction
of those being grown in the county.
Sheriff Lothian stated in an inter
view on Thursday that the sheriff's
department, and the Hertford Police
Department, with the help of the
State Bureau of Investigation will be
monitoring those plots as well as a
number of other marijuana plots for
activity as part of the marijuana
eradicatioa program for Perquimans
County.
"The plants which were confis
cated today are just samples of those
located in the county," 9aid Lothian.
Lothian added that local law enforce
ment officials as well as the SBI will
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also be using various procedures to
locate more plots which are located
throughout Perquimans County.
Lothian stated that local officials
expect to seize several hundred more
marijuana plants, and that they will
keep plots under carefully servali
ance until the end of the marijuana
growing season in September.
Lothian hopes that in addition to
seizing more plants the eradication
program being waged will also result
in some arrests, and will hopefully
reduce the drug problem within the
county.