THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Volume 58, No. 13 USPS 428 080 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C. Thursday, April 6, 1989 30 CENTS Your nose is ugly in the business of others page 4 School PCHS art contest first place entry page 7 Farm 1 '* * ? Forest Tent Caterpillars camping here again page 8 Local Briefs Theatre trip The Perquimans County Recre ation Dept.-Perquimans County Senior Center is sponsoring a trip to the Tidewater Dinner Theatre on Sunday, April 23 to see the play "Damn Yankees". DAMN YANKEES is a funny and heart-warming fantasy which pits the Devil against the Washington Senators and a middle-aged base ball fanantic who trades his soul for the chance to lead the Senators out of the cellar into a pennant race with their arch-rivals, the N.Y. Yankees. When Joe Boyd leaves his loving wife to become Joe Hardy, the baseball sensation of the year, his victories soon pale as he realizes that what he left behind was as im portant as what he has achieved. With a little help from Lola, the Devil's vixen, Joe outwits the Devil and returns to the world he left be hind-but not before clinching the final game of the pennant race. With a rousing score and clever book, DAMN YANKEES is a home run hit. The bus will leave the depart ment at 2:45 p.m. We should return home around 10:30 p.m. The cost of the trip is $10 per person. Call the Center at 426-5404 to reserve your seat. This trip is made possible with funds through the North Caro lina Arts Council (Grassroots). Porkfest slated The 9th annual Northeastern North Carolina Porkfest will be held May 6 on the Jaycee Fairgrounds in Elizabeth City. Pork, a southern culinary favor ite, will be available in many forms including barbecue, spare ribs, chitterlings, sausage sticks and pork stew. Complementing this mouth-watering feast will be French fried sweet potatoes, cole slaw, barbecue potatoes, corn on the cob, hush puppies and bever ages. These foods will be available from 4:00 until 7:30 p.m. The ticket covers all you can eat as long as the food lasts. There will be no take-out plates. Live entertainment and activ ities will begin at 12: CO noon. Kick ing off the afternoon will be the mu sic of Savannah. Also available will be booths and games for all ages plus an antique car show and pet ting zoo. Hot dogs, sausage sticks and drinks will be on sale during the af ternoon. The famous Rhondels will per form at 4:00. For more information or to get tickets, write Northeastern North Carolina Porkfest, PO Box 1631, Elizabeth City, NC 27909, or call 338-0883. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7.50 for children 12 and under prior to April 20. After that date, the tickets go to $20 and $10, re spectively. Get your tickets now and 'pig out' on May 6. Police report The Hertford Police Department with the assistance of the Perqui mans County Sheriff's Department nabbed another suspected drug trafficker last Wednesday. The ar rest was one more in the string of indictments handed down and ar rests made during the recent 'Spring Cleaning' raid across the state. Delma Marcell Lee, AKA John, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to feloniously possess a controlled substance with intent to sell and deliber, two counts of sell ing a controlled substance sched ule II, two counts of delivering a controlled substance schedule II, and felonious possession with the intent to sell and deliver. - Lee was being held at Albemarle District Jail under a $10,000 se cured bond awaiting his April 10 Court date at press time. ? Nelson Isaac Jones, wanted here for felonious drug charges as well as breaking and entering counts, escaped from the Atlanta correc tional facility where he was being held He was shortly recaptured Jones, AKA Trick, waived extradi tion and the legal process involved in bringing him back to Hertford has begun. Officer Tim Spence re ported that he expects to nave him nrought beck to Hertford shortly. Thomas Story, III of Route 2, Hertford was arrested on April 1 and charged with driving while in toxicated, no liability insurance and displaying fictitious license plates. He is out on a $200 secured bond awaiting his court date on April >0. Town will apply for grant to build boardwalk Hertford Mayor and Town Man ager Bill Cox and R.C. and D. rep resentative Floyd "Dinah" Mat thews met with the county commissioners Monday to present plans and seek support for a board walk over the Perquimans River. Cox told the board that pre-appli cation for a 75 percent grant would be submitted this week. The plans call for a 1600 foot railed wooden walkway to tie into the existing walkway over the "S" bridge in Hertford. The structure would weave through the trees along the causeway, ending on the river banks adjacent to Larry's Drive-In in Winfall. Two 100 foot piers are envi sioned, one capped by a gazebo, the other to end in a "T" shape. The cost estimate for the project is $106,000. Approximately $25,000 would have to come from local sources, Cox said. He told commis sioners that the funds could be pro portionately divided between Hert ford, Winfall and the county. He anticipates organizational finan cial support, also. Cox will meet with local civic organizations in the coming weeks to seek their assis tance and support. Cox told the board that he walked through the site with a CAMA rep resentative recently, and the rep resentative saw no problems with the boardwalk being constructed as planned. "So far, I haven't run into any body against it," Cox told the board. The commissioners supported the pier fully. This map shows the proposed boardwalk which will wind through the trees along the causeway between Hertford and Winfall. A grant I pre-application package will be submitted this week for approval. If that is accepted, a full application will be made in May. i i ? County commissioners pass gun control ordinance in Snug Harbor After having been approached by Snug Harbor residents earlier this year about shooting sprees in their community, the county commis sioners Monday passed an ordi nance that should put a halt to the activities. The president of the Snug Harbor board of governors, Herman Doo ley, spoke with the commissioners prior to the passage of the ordi nance. He told the commissioners that the residents met in February and appointed a committee to draft a recommendation concerning gun control to submit to the county. The recommendation was "that existing laws be modified to pro hibit hunting of any kind within Snug Harbor and to prohibit fire arms target practice within or into Snug Harbor." In addition to outlawing firearms of any kind in the subdivision, the ordinance states, "No person shall shoot or project any stone, rock, shot or other hard substance be yond the limits of his own property by means of sling shot, bean shooter, air rifle, pop gun, bow or other similar contrivance within the subdivision. . A delegation of residents accom panied Dooley. One resident asked, "Do we have the support of the sheriff when we call him when this is going on?" The commissioners responded positively, but told the group that they would have to be willing to press charges against of fenders and testify in court. "You folks are going to have to help him," Thomas Nixon told them. The residents earlier reported to the commissioners incidents in volving shooting through mobile homes and cars. Although Snug Harbor is a wild life refuge, that has not stopped the indiscriminate gunfire in the area. The residents and county commis sioners both expressed hope that the ordinance will put a stop to the dangerous activities. Legislative update County Manager Paul Gregory updated the board on legislative actions which could effect Perqui mans. He said that the land trans fer tax bill has been put on the floor of the house. It has been submitted on behalf of Perquimans, Pasquo tank and Washington counties. Should the bill be approved by the legislature, it will require a major ity vote of the people to enact in the individual counties. Gregory told the board that the bills outlining proposed electoral changes for county commissioners and board of education members have been introduced. After these bills are passed, Michael Crowell, the Raleigh attorney who assisted in penning the proposed changes, tola Gregory that the proposal will be submitted to the U.S. Justice Department. Chairman Lester Simpson ex pressed concern over the state gov ernment putting more expendi tures back in county budgets. In addition, the state is using tax pro jects to raise its revenues that counties need to recoup lost state funds. This is especially critical when the capital outlay needs of the local school system are ad dressed. The commissioners voted to send a letter of support to Robeson County on their resolution to en dorse a one cent sales tax increase. Under the resolution, one-half cent will come back to the counties based on a formula of per capital population and point of collection; the other one-half cent will go to the state for teacher's salary in creases. Other action In other action the commission ers: ?awarded the audit service con tract to Sonya Hibbard of Eliza beth City. ?was apprised of the installation of a new motor in the county lawn motor. ?changed their meeting time to 7:30 during Daylight Savings Time. ?accepted the resignations of Ella Jenkins and Charlie Hughes. ?supported the establishment of a detoxification center in Elizabeth City under the auspices of Albe marle Mental Health. ?supported the N.C.D.O.T.'s Adopt-a-Highway program. The commissioners will meet with the board of education on April 10 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the Basic Education Program. After-school care program is doing well The after-school care program begun in February by the Perqui mans County Schools is off and running. Director? coordinator Elise Whitehurst is delighted with the initial response, ana hopes to see the program grow. Housed at Central School, the program provides supervised play and homework times, special ac tivities and snacks from 3:00 until 6:00 p.m. On teacher work days and holidays, the program is oper ational from 6:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. The children are bussed from Hertford Grammar School and Perquimans Middle School to the site each day. The children enjoy stories, art, movies, outside play and comput ers under the watchful eye of Mrs. Whitehurst and her assistant, Jen nifer Kraft. During the Easter break, partici pants visited the Newbola-White House and dined at Hardees. On another day, they went to the Mu seum of the Albemarle and enjoyed a picnic at Missing Mill Park. There was also a coloring contest. Mrs. Whitehurst provides bal loons and hats on the children's birthdays. Although no teaching is done, the children nave time set aside each day to complete homework assign ments. Mrs. Whitehurst says that Miss Kraft goes over the work af ter it is finished. This means that after the parents pick up their chil dren, they can spend time to gether, rather than having the child go td his room to do his home work. A survey will be sent to parents soon to determine if parents are in terested in summer care. If the program is expanded to include this, the site will probably be changed to an air-conditioned Children participating in the after-school care program have just finished their snack, and are ready to go outside and play. Homework time will follow play time. building. It is also hoped that the program will be able to provide breakfast and lunch for partici pants. At present, after-school snacks are provided, and children must bring bag lunches for all-day care. The biggest problem encoun tered