Community news
: : : 1 3 a tw 1 8 it : wwww?w>^<-:x->:c-wxs?^x?y.aw?ww?^^
COA begins registration
ELIZABETH CITY-Close to
45,000 Fall Quarter class schedules
have been mailed to homes in College
ct'. fthe Albemarle's seven-county
service area, and the college admis
sions office has begun registering
students this week.
The class schedule includes infor
i$ation about curriculum and contin
idaf- education classes at both the
Elizabeth City campus and the Dare
County Center in Manteo. The eight
page listing also contains dates and
times, and features a mail-in regis
tration form.
Registration for fall classes began
this week on Tueday. The early regis
tration period will continue through
Friday.
John Simons, Jr., COA dean of stu
dent development, explained thai
this week's registration period is pri
manly for new and returning stu
dents. He added, however, that any
one who wishes to enroll for Fal
Quarter classes will be processed.
Classes wil begin on Thursday
Sept. 10. The final day to register 01
to add classes for the quarter will be
on Sept. 16.
Mobile exhibit containing
Magna Carta to visit New Bern
* 4" k
NEW BERN? "Roads to Liberty:
Magna Carta to the Constitution," a
mobile historical exhibit traveling
the United States, will stop in New
Bern next month.
Hie 40-foot-long trailer, containing
some of our nation's, most valued
^ historical documents, will be located
I * on George Street near Try on Palace
on Friday, Aug. 21. The free exhibit is
scheduled to be open to the public
from noon to 9 p.m. George Street be
tween Broad and Pollock streets will
be closed to traffic on the day of the
exhibit.
A brief opening ceremony is sched
uled ot begin at 11:30 a.m. behing the
John Wright Stanly House. Many lo
cal and state dignitaries are ex
A pected to be on hand to welcome the
exhibit to the local colonial capital.
Hourly tickets for free admission to
the exhibit wil be distributed near the
exhibit on Aug. 21, beginning at 11
a.m. Because the trailer can only ac
commodate 150 people an hour, a lim
ited number of hourly tickets for ad
mission will be distributed on a first
come, first-serve basis. The exhibit is
accessible to the handicapped.
Foremost among the exhibit's doc
jjt uments is one of four existing copies
of the Magna Carta, on loan to the
exhibit fromthe Lincoln Cathedral in
Lincoln, England. This important
document, signed in 1215 by King
John of England, literally means
"great charter." The Magna Carta
guaranteed that life, liberty and
property were rights that could not
be taken away without due process of
law. ?
Also included in the exhibit is a
draft copy of the U.S. Constitution, an
original version of the Declaration of
Independence and various first edi
tion books, rare coins, muskets and
other documents of national impor
tance. Various state archival docu
ments?including the North Carolina
Resolves, which was the state's ac
ceptance of the constitution? will
also be featured.
The gardens and grounds of the
Tryon Palace Restoration Complex
wil be open free to the public Aug. 21
from 9.30 to 5 p.m. Entertainment,
including fifers and drummers, will
be featured throughout the day and
evening. The Tryon Palace black
smiths and other craftspeople will be
working on the grounds throughout
the day. Regular admission fees will
be charged for all interior tours of
Tryon Palace, and John Wright
Stanly House and the Dixon-Steven
son House. The free Tryon Palace
orientation film will be shown contin
uously in the Tryon Palace Reception
Center beginning at 9 a.m. until 5
p.m. and intermittently throughout
the evening.
The complex will extend its normal
operating hours on Aug. 21 to offer
special evening tours to the public.
These summer stroll evening tours
will feature the first floors of Tryon
Palace, the Tryon Palace East Wing,
the Dixon-Stevenson House and John
Wright Stanly House. The building
will be open for the evening tours
from 5 to 9 p.m. , and no tickets will be
sold after 8 p.m. A special admission
charge of $6 for adults and $2 for stu
dents will apply to these evening
tours (children under six are always
admitted free). Visitors who partici
pate in the evening tours will have
the unusual opportunity to stroll the
gardens of the complex on a summer
evening. The ca. 1790 Attmore-Oliver
House, home of the New Bern Histor
ical Society and located just a block
away on Pollock Street, also plans to
remain open until 9 p.m. on Aug. 21.
A rarely displayed, original letter
written May 25, 1788, by President
George Washington to Richard
Dobbs Spaight will be on display in
the Tryon Palace Reception Center.
In the letter Washington discusses
North Carolina's reluctance to ratify
the new constitution and acknowl
edges Spaight's gift of some garden
peas. Spaight was a resident of Cra
ven County asnd one of three North
Carolinians who signed the U.S. Con
stitution in September 1787. The let
ter will be contained in a special
Tryon Palace exhibit recognizing
Spaight.
"Roads to Liberty" is sponsored by
the Commission o the Bicentennial of
the U.S. Constitution; the U.S. Con
stititution Council of the Thirteen
Original States Inc.; and American
Express Company. Its North Caro
lina tour is being coordinated by the
North Carolina Commission on the
Bicentennial of the Constitution.
For more information on the Roads
to Liberty exhibit, call the Tryon Pal
ace Restoratin Complex weekdays at
638-1560 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
"Television show is seeking
talent from Hertford area
Discovery, a televised talent
search program, will begin auditions
for this area to select talent for the
televised special broadcast to be
aired on WLFL-TV, channel 22. The
a Discovery talent producers will be in
Raleigh on August 23, 1987 to begin
the task of selecting performing art
ists who will be videotaped for the
show. Twelve finalists will be se
lected for the show within two age di
visions. Six will be selected in the Ju
nior Division (ages 14 and under).
And six will be selected in the Senior
Division (ages 15 and over). The
Grand Talent Winner in each age di
vision will be announced on the show
and they will be awarded $1,000 each.
Talent presentations may include a
wide variety such as singing, danc
ing, acting, magic, lip-syncing, com
edy or any variety of talent that has
entertainment value and exhibits the
participant's ability and skill. Dis
covery Talent Search is a performing
arts development program designed
Xo encourage talent development
through participation and reward of
excellence. Market winners will par
ticipate in the National Finals for a
$5,000 national award.
Everyone has an equal opportunity
to participate in the program regard
less of age and is invited to call for an
audition appointment at 1-800-227
6319 or write Discovery, P.O. Box
124, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70821.
The audition is free and open to the
public; however, prospective talent
Must schedule an audition by tele
phone.
r
''Area service news
COHOON
Airman Horace E. Cohoon, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Horace A. Ca..oon of
Rural Route 4, and brother of Joan C.
Harrell of Rural Route 2, both of
Hertford, N.C., has graduated from
Air Force basic training at Lackland
? Air Force Base, Texas.
* During the six weeks of training
the airman studied the Air Force
mission, organization and customs
an dreceived special training in hu
man relations.
In addition, airmen who complete
basic training earn credits toward an
associate degree through the com
munity college of the Air Force.
He is a 1961 graduate of Perqui
mans High School, Hertford.
*
HORACE E. COHOON
VISION THERAPY FOR CROSSED-EYES
Crossed-eyes (strabismus) It o vision condition in which the two eyes are
not properly aligned with each other. A person with, this condition m?s
different images with each eye and this may result in double vision. If the
brain compensates by "turning off" the message sent by one eye. this can
eliminate the double vision but create another condition known as lazy eye
(amblyopia).
It Is a relatively simple matter to straighten the eyes. However, after the
eyes are properly aligned, additional vision therapy is often prescribed to
help develop or improve other vision skills like focusing ability and eye
coordination. These skills are not automatically developed |ust because the
eyes have been properly aligned.
An optometrist who Is trained In vision therapy will prescribe specific
visual tasks to be done by the patient under controlled conditions. These
tasks are used to coordinate eye muscles, straighten the eyes and help to
Improve or develop other vision skills.
Dr. A.F. DOWNUM
103 W. Ed*n St.
EdMtton, N.C.
Phon?i 482-8444
The players were first row: L. to R. : T. J. Hall, Chris Chappell, Daniel Fowler, A. J. Miller,
Matthew Byrum, second row: L. to R.: T. J. Langley, Brinn Winslow, Michael Stallings, Lance
Winslow, Bryan Winslow, Ashley Williams, (not pictured Lynn Trueblood) Coaches: Richard
Stallings, James DeWitt Winslow.
Local youth baseball league season ends
The Perquimans County Youth
League brought to a close another
season of play on Monday night July
20, 1987.
The youth league consist of five
teams, Belvidere-Whiteston, Bethel,
Hertford, Parksville and New Hope.
The league season started off with its
first season game Monday night June
1, 1987, with a regular season sched
ule of twelve games for each team.
The regular season schedule put each
team playing each other three times.
When the regular season ended up on
July 2nd, it found Belvidere-Whites
ton and the Parksville team tied with
the same 9-3 record over regular sea
son play forcing a one game play off
July 3rd to see who would be regular
season champs. On July 3rd Belvi
dere-Whiteston came out on top of
Parksvile with a 18-13 win giving
them a 10-3 season record and 1st
place season champions.
Then came the championship tour
nament play off, where the regular
season champs Belvidere-Whiteson
took a bye while Bethel, Hertford,
Parksville and New Hope would play
the best two out of three to see who
would play Belvidere-Whiteston for
the championship.
As the tournament play got under
way July 5th and 6th, Hertford elimi
nated Bethel in two straight games
and Parksville eliminated New Hope
in two straight. This put Hertford and
Parksville in a two out of three play
off which began July 8th. Hertford
i
eliminated Parksville in two straight
games.
This set the field play for the three
out of five championship play off with
Hertford taken on Belvidere-Whites
ton. Hertford came in on a roll taken
the first twc games of the three out of
five in 7-3 and 9-6 wins. Down two
games straight Belvidere-Whiteson
see baseball pg. 10
? COPIES OF OLD
PHOTOS
? CLASS REUNIONS
? SPECIAL MOMENTS
Entire Spring
& Summer
Stock
y2
Price
Woodland Dress
Shoppe
INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS
A To vote "YES" the voters should make a
cross ("X") mark in the appropriate square
appearing beside the question.
0 To vote "NO" the voters should make a cross
("X") mark in the appropriate square ap
pearing beside the question
If you tear or deface or wrongly mark this
ballot, return it and get another
QUESTION
SHALL the order authorizing
$200,000 of bonds secured by .1
pledge of the faith and credit of
the Town of Hertford to pay
capital costs of costs of
upgrading and improving the
Town's facilities for the collec
tion, treatment and disposal of
sewage, including the construc
tion and reconstruction of
sewage facilities and the ac
quisition and installation of
machinery and equipment
necessary for such sewage
facilities, and a tax to be levied
for the payment thereof, be
approved?