THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume S8, No.8 USPS 428-080 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, February 25, 1988 30 CENT
LOCAL
Heart Sunday scheduled
see pg. 3
FEATURE
1
Middle School highlights
see^pg. 9 1
COMMUNITY
Hertford honor roll
see pg. 3
Picture
show
scheduled
A historic picture show "As We
Were" will be held on Friday, April
22 and Saturday, April 23. The Per
quimans County Chamber of Com
merce is sponsoring the show at the
chamber office. The picture show is
being organized because several new
residents to Hertford and Perqui
mans County have expressed an in
terest in viewing pictures from the
past of Hertford, Winfall, and Perqui
mans County.
Mary Harrell, Executive Director
of the Chamber of Commerce said ef
forts by local historians to obtain and
display pictures for viewing should
be of interest both to our young citi
zens as well at> new residents to this
area.
The "As We Were" committee,
Charles Skinner, Dorothy W. Barbee,
Emmett Landing, Robert Riddick,
and James Divers are seeking pic
tures of the wooden river bridges,
county rural school buildings, the
World War II Air Corps Ground Ob
servation Tower, World War II
scenes of Harvey Point, and any
other miscellaneous scenes from the
past.
If anyone has any photos that they
would like to offer for the show, they
can contact Charles Skinner Jr. at
426-7690 or they may contact the Per
1 quimans County Chamber of Com
merce at 426-5657.
If people have photos they would
like to share, display boards will be
provided to hang framed pictures on
during the show. Snap shots must be
mounted on some type of tag board or
other background that can be pinned
to the display racks. Pictures will
need to be labled as to what, where,
etc., and the who they belong to.
Democratic
precinct
meetings
scheduled
Perquimans County Democratics
have scheduled precinct meetings for
Thursday, March 3, 1988. Perqui
1 mans County Democratic Chairman
John London announced today. Pre
cinct meetings will be held at regular
precinct polling places and will begin
at 8 p.m.
"We want to encourage all regis
tered Democrats to attend these
meetings," Chairman London said.
"Super Tuesday is right around the
corner and we need to have a strong
showing at the polls."
Chairman London noted that pre
> cinct meetings are the most basic in
gredient for Democratic success.
Delegates to the county conventions
are elected at the March 3 meetings
and political and public policy resolu
tions are voted on.
"The most that people get in
volved, the better the party can rep
resent the views of all Democrats,"
Chairman London said.
Make-up precinct meetings will be
> held on March 10. For further infor
mation, call Chairman John London.
(426-5093)
Write: P.O. Box 11, Hertford, NC
27944
Parks ville-Community Building,
Winfall
Belvidere-Community Building
Bethel-Community Building
West Hertford-Hertford Gram
mar School
East Hertford-County Court
house
* Nicanor-Community Building
New Hope-Rotary Club
Bass
tournament
planned
The Perquimans County Jaycees
will host their annual Perquimans
' River Bass Tournament on Saturday,
April 9, according to chairman Sara
Winslow. Registration and weigh-in
will be held at the Hertford Municipal
Boat Ramp prior to the 7 a.m. launch
time.
A total of $1,000 in cash prizes will
be awarded as follows: first - $500,
aeocnd - 9200, third - $150, fourth -
$100, fifth - $50, and lunker - $50.
Prizes are guaranteed.
' The entry fee is $25 per person.
> Each boat will have one two-person
team.
?' Anyone interested in entering the
tournament should contact Sara
Winslow, 102 Phelps Street, Hertford,
N. C., or any Perquimans Cowty
Jaycee for an entry form.
Also scheduled for April 0 is a com
munity yard sale at the Perquimans
County Recreation Center at 8 a.m.
Spaces are available for $10. To re
serve your space, contact Chairman
f) Jeff (Shrimp) Perry at **-3640, or
any Jaycee. Concession* will be
available at the site.
On Thursday, February 18th,
Peoples Bank and Trust Com
pany honored Mr. Robert L.
Stevenson who is retiring af
ter over 40 years of service.
On Thursday the staff of the
bank, members of the com
munity, and others gathered
on the second floor of the
bank for a reception in Ste
venson's honor. Above Steve
son is presented a plaque by
Mr. Marshall Teterton on be
half of Peoples Bank, and be
low Mr. Bill Cox presents Ste
venson a silver tray from the
town of Hertford in honor of
his service to the community.
Stevenson was also honored
by the Perquimans County
Chamber of Commerce, and
the Perquimans Historical
Association for his many con
tributions throughout the
years. Mr. Stevenson and his
wife will be moving to Nash
ville, Illinois where they will
make their retirement home.
Stevenson served as the city
executive for Peoples Bank in
Hertford for many years. He
was recently replaced as city
executive by Ben Berry.
School construction project started
Work has begun on the new Board
of Education Administrative Office
Building project, and it looks as
though the project may be completed
for the 1989-90 school year.
Members of the Board of Educa
tion and Superintendent Harrell met
with the general contractor, Rick
Gardner, in a pre-construction con
ference last Thursday, and according
to Harrell the project should be com
pleted within six months.
The construction crews were
scheduled to move in and begin work
this past Monday, and according to
Harrell everything is moving along
nicely regarding the project.
The Perquimans County School
Board met on Monday, February
15th and conducted the following
business:
Board members learned that the
Nortlr Carolina Association of School
Administrators is working hard for
support from the legislature regard
ing implementation of the new asbes
tos removal requirements. The
NCSA is asking that the legislature
provide each region of the state with
an engineer who would work with
school systems regarding implemen
tation of the new asbestos require
ments. They are also seeking assis
tance from the legislature regarding
funds for the project. Harrell also re
ported to board members last week
that three bills are being introduced
into federal legislation, which ask for
an extension of time for implementa
tion of the new asbestos program.
Richard O'Neal, Maintenance Su
pervisor for the schools, also re
ported to the board on Monday that
the new heating system at the high
school is working well, and following
a meeting with Simmons, the general
contractor for the project, last week
they hope to close the project out in
the near future.
Harrell also reported, following the
board meeting on Monday, the 15th,
that a representative from Cooley
Roofing came and spent the day on
Tuesday, February 16th. The rep
resentative looked over the high
school administrative building roof.
Following his visit, Harrell stated
that the representative had been in
Lillian Ann Holloman searches through a record book for
valuable information in the Register of Deeds office. The
Register of Deeds Office is a vital source of information for
county residents.
contact with him stating that his re
port was in the mail. According to
Harrell the report will outline a work
plan devised by Cooley to repair the
roof. Harrell stated that upon rec
eipt, the plan will be submitted to the
board for their approval, but stated
that he was pleased that Cooley fi
nally admitted there is a problem
with the roof.
Bob Etheridge visits
county on Thursday
Area educators and other con
cerned citizens listened on Thursday
as Bob Etheridge, democratic candi
date for North Carolina Superinten
dent of Schools spoke of the impor
tance of education to North Carolina
during an informal campaign stop at
Jimmy's Barbecue.
Etheridge, who has served since
1979 in the North Carolina General
Assembly, a former county commis
sioner, and a resident of Lillington
stated, on Thursday, that he feels ed
ucation is the key to economic survi
val in North Carolina. Etheridge
stated that in the majority of counties
in North Carolina, education is the
largest employer, the largest pay
roll, and the state's education budget
is the largest single budget in the
state of North Carolina, and there
fore, education is the key to economic
success.
Etheridge is committed to contin
ued implementation of the Basic Ed
ucation Program, he is interested in
providing state funding to assist local
schools in the rennovation of old fa
cilities, and new schools, he is inter
ested in providing effective class
room instruction, and he wants to
work towards investing in public edu
cation wisely and efficiently with
complete accountability to the citi
zens of North Carolina.
Etheridge added on Thursday that
he committed to providing every
child in North Carolina the same op
portunity for educational exceUer.ee.
Representative Pete Thompson
was also on hand Thursday, and
stated that the Northeastern dele
gation of the state house of represen
tatives has announced that they are
endorsing Etheridge for the office of
state superintendent.
Following Mr. Etheridge's, and
Mr. Thompson's comments, Mr.
Etheridge answered several ques
tions from those present relating to
educational issues.
Evans receives
national award
Lewis B. Evans, Agency Manager
for Southern Farm Bureau Life In
surance Company of Perquimans
County has been awarded the Na
tional Quality Award by the National
Association of Life Underwriters.
Evans is a resident of Rt. 2, Hert
ford and an insurance agent with
Perquimans County Farm Bureau.
The NQA is awarded annually to
those life insurance agents who
maintain a high quality of business
as reflected high persistency stan
dards.
Evans is now enrolled in the Amer
ican College to obtain a Charted Life
Underwriters degree, (CLU). He has
acheived many outstanding awards
from North Carolina Farm Bureau
Mutual Insurance Company and
Southern Farm Bureau Life Insur
ance Company during the 1980-87.
Among them include the Presidents
Club Award.
Evans, a native of Chowan County
is a 1964 graduate of Chowan High
School. He has been with N. C. Farm
Bureau Mutual Insurance and South
ern Farm Bureau Life Insurance
Company since September 1, 1980. In
May of 1982 he was promoted to
Agency Manager of the Perquimans
County Farm Bureau Office.
Evans stated "It has been reward
ing to serve the personal insurance
needs of the Farm Bureau Members
in this county."
Evans serves actively on the Per
quimans County Chamber of Com
merce Board of Directors. He is a
member of the Hertford Rotary Club,
and Parksville Run tan Club. He is
also an Associate member of the Per
quimans County Jaycees. Evans is a
member of the Hertford Baptist
Church. He is married to Reva Perry
Evans
Evans and they have two sons, David
and Chris.
David is a junior at Campbell Uni
versity in Buies CreeR, N. C., major
ing in Government and Business.
Chris is a junior attending Perqui
mans County High School.
The NQA award serves as a means
of giving national recognition to life
insurance agents who do a quality
sales job to the great benefit of the
public and the industry.
The National Association of Life
Underwriters was formed in 1890 and
presently has some 1,000 state and lo
cal affiliates with 150,000 members.
The Association promotes profes
sional development, ethical stan
dards, community service programs,
public education and recognition to
and for its members.
Weather forecasters are calling for fair partly cloudy
warmer weather this weekend. Temperatures will feature
lows in the 30s and highs in the 40s.
The Register off Deeds Office;
A source of vital information
Perquimans County is rich in his
tory, and the register of deed's office
is a valuable source of information
regarding the county's history.
Jeanne C. White, Perquimans
County Register of Deeds, Deborah
Reed, Assistant Register of Deeds,
and Lillian Anne Holloman, Assistant
Register of Deeds, are charged with
the duty of keeping the most vital re
cords in the county.
The register of deeds office em
ploys one of the most complex and
technical record keeping systems in
the county and the state, and they are
responsible for keeping records such
as deeds, deeds of trust, corpora
tions, assumed names, birth records,
marriage records, death records,
service discharge records, maps and
plats, financing statements, and
more. The office of the Register of
Deeds also prepared the county jury
list for use in the court system.
Does their job sound easy? Well it's
not. In addition filing all of the above
documents, they must be kept up to
date, and secured copies of each doc
ument must be forwarded to the De
partment of Archives and History in
Raleigh for their records. Copies of
all land transfers in the county must
be forwarded to the tax office, and
copies of all the marriage records
must be sent to the office of vital sta
tistics in Raleigh.
The Register of Deed's office is
also responsible for cancellations for
deeds of trust, completing legitima
tions, issuing marriage licenses, no
tary commissions, keeping the bank
ruptcy records, and answering all the
request for geneology records.
In addition to their other duties,
White, Holloman, and Reed also
make all the office's permanent re
cords. All counties in North Carolina
do not do this, and until just recently,
the documents were microfilmed and
sent to a company so that permanent
records could be made. The ladies in
the office also are responsible for in
dexing and cross indexing all of the
county's records, and all of the re
cords are listed by names.
The Register of Deed office works
a great deal with the public. They as
sist people in finding valuable infor
mation locating records, and they
search deeds for the public which is
not really one of their duties, but a
service they offer.
Ms. White, the Register of Deeds
for the county, has served in that ca
pacity for the past 12 years, and she
is elected by the people of Perqui
mans County. Her assistants. Reed
and Holloman, have both been work
ing in the office for 11 years, and nine
and a half years respectively.
Reflecting back over the years that
they have been working la the office,
all three ladies say that things have
really changed.
Recordings of deeds have more
than doubled, laws and requirements
have changed, and paperwork has in
creased tremendously, but they feel
they all work together well and that
makes their Job more pleasant. "We
all work together, and we all have
are hands in all of what's going on,"
said Reed.
In looking to the future White,
Reed, and Holloman state that they
hope this year they will be able to
budget for a computer system, which
they feel wold be a tremendous help
in indexing records, and keeping up
with records such as births, deaths,
marriages, and more. They are also
hoping that eventually the county
will have a complete mapping sys
tem like several of the surronding
counties. This year the North Caro
lina Land Records Department is be
ginning the process with aerial photo
graphs of the county, but the project
is expensive, and will take approxi
mately five years before it is com
pleted. When completed, the system1
would provide the Register of Deeds
Office with maps of every piece of
property in the county.
In addition to their duties at the lo
cal office, White and Holloman also
teach notary public training for Col
lege of the Albemarle.
Ms. White and the other ladies
would like to encourage the residents
of Perquimans County to visit the
Register of Deeds Office if there is
information they can provide. They
are located on the first floor of the
Perquimans County Courthouse or
you can call the office of the Register
of Deeds at 4K-5660. They will be
happy to assist you.