THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C. Thursdoy, Febuory 1, 1990
Volume 59, No.5
USPS 428-080
30 CENTS
Lady Pirates take two
Page 6
FARM
Beyond the Weeds
Page 9
FEATURE
Ideas are the future
Page 4
Briefs
Perquimans Library to
sponsor Quiz Bowl
The 1990 Regional Quiz Bowl has
been set for Thursday, Feb. 1, at
the Swain Auditorium in Eden ton.
Quiz Bowl is sponsored by Petti
grew Regional Library System and
its affiliate, Perquimans County Li
brary.
The Quiz Bowl program was
started and sponsored by public li
braries in an effort to recognize and
encourage high school students’
ability to perform in an academic
arena. Similar to “Jeopardy” and
“Trivial Pursuit,” this first level of
competition will test the knowledge
and quick recall of students from
Perquimans County, Creswell,
Plymouth and John A. Holmes
High Schools. The matches will be
gin at 9:30 a.m. and each team will
play at least twice in the double
elimination play-off to the regional
championship.
Perquimans High School has cho
sen its team members - Jenneffer
Boncek, Ernie Hobbs, Leonard
Mansfield, Matt Matthews, Corey
Newby, Brian Rayburn, Stuart
Rayburn, and Barry See bo - who,
along with team coaches, Victor
Eure and Roger Whitley, are busily
preparing for the contest. The win
ning team from the regional match
will go on to compete against eight
other local winners in the district
level of competition. The District
Quiz Bowl will be held in Washing
ton on March 17, hosted by Beau
fort-Hyde-Martin Regional
Library. The winning team from
the district match wifi advance to
the state competition.
Supporters of all four teams are
invited to attend any or all of the
day’s competion, and to join the fun
of rooting for their favorite teams.
Fin* more information about Quiz
Bowl, contact Perquimans County
Library at 110 W. Academy Street
in Hertford, or telephone 426-5319.
Job Service places 42
In December the Edenton Job
Service office placed 42 individuals
in jobs. During the past six months
the Edenton office has placed a to
tal of 505 individuals in jobs. Area
employers have listed 771 openings
with the Edenton office and ESC
staff has filled 656 of these open
ings.
Placement services are provided
free of charge to employers and to
applicants seeking work. Employ
ers who secure personnel through
Job Service are allowed to receive,
upon request, a “non-charge” to
ward employment insurance rating
for employees terminated during a
100 day probationary period due to
bona fide inability to perform the
required work. Employers cur
rently seeking personnel are en
couraged to contact the Edenton
Job Service office at 709 North
Broad Street (482-2195). Applicants
seeking work are encouraged to
come in to apply for work. Office
• hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon
day through Friday.
NCNB declares quarterly
j cash dividends
Charlotte—The Board of Direc
tors of NCNB Corp. declared a
quarterly cash dividend of 35 cents
par share on its common stock, an
increase of five cents per share
over the 30 cents paid in the last two
quarters of 1989. The 1990 indicated
annual dividend of $1.40 per share
represents a 27-percent increase
over the $1.10 per share paid in
1989.
* Tbe last increase was in the third
quarter of 1989.
The increased dividend is paya
ble March 23 to shareholders of re
cord March 2.
In addition, the NCNB board de
clared a regular quarterly pre
ferred stock dividend of $1.00 per
share, payable April 1 to sharehold
ers of record on March 2.
NCNB Corp. is a Charlotte-based
bank holding company with $66.2
billion in assets. NCNB has more
than 850 banking offices in seven
states.
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Jaycees presented Distinguished Service Awards
The Perquimans County Jaycees
recognized several outstanding cit
izens in Perquimans County last
Thursday night at the annual Dis
tinguished Service Awards Ban
quet at Angler’s Cove Restaurant.
Diane Rogerson Copeland re
ceived the Distinquished Service
Award, the highest honor the Jay
cees give in the community. Mrs.
Copeland was noted for her out
standing community and individual
development work accomplished
during ner tenure as a Jaycette and
Jaycee. She has held numerous of
fices in the local organization in
cluding secretary, individual
development vice president and
treasurer. She has also served on
several state committees.
For her efforts, Mrs. Copeland
has been named to the N.C. Jay
cees All-Star team of the Quarter
twice, and has alar, been recognized
as an outstanding individual devel
opment achiever on the state level.
Locally, simp has been named Jay
cee of the Month and Jaycee of the
Year and has been awarded two
presidential awards of honor.
She resides in Winfall with her
husband, Richard, a past Distin
guished Service Award winner and
Jaycee.
Greg and Jeanie Biggs and their
children, Jennifer, Jason, Ann and
Sara were named Jaycee Family of
theYear. The entire family has
been involved in Jaycee projects
such as the Senior Citizens Christ
mas Party, Christmas caroling,
picnics, church visitations and tne
recent haunted house, which was
chaired by the Biggs.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Biggs have
held numerous offices in the Jaycee
organization. He served twice as
president of the Jaycees, while she
served as president of the Jayce
tees, later Jaycee Women. Through
their hard work much has been ac
complished to help the community.
The children also participate in
school and community activities.
Chief dispatcher and deputy
sheriff Homeria Jeanette was
named Outstanding Law Enforce
ment Officer. Hired by the county
in 1981 *o serve as chief dispatcher,
Ms. Jeanette quickly distinguished
herself as a dedicated employee.
Said Sheriff Joe Lothian in his en
dorsement of his deputy, “Homeria
is a person who gives freely of her
self to her co-workers as well as to
the community. I’m proud to be her
co-worker and to nominate her for
the recognition she so richly de
serves.”
Outstanding Youth honors went
to Stuart Rayburn. Rayburn is
known by the entire faculty at Per
quimans High where he is a senior
as an outstanding student. He is
ranke^ first in his class of 115. In
addition to his studies, Rayburn
plays football and baseball; is a
member of the Beta Club, Spanish
Club and FFA; has won many
awards and honorsand is active in
his church.
He plans to attend Duke Univer
sity in the fall where he will study
civil engineering.
Larry Chappell was named Out
standing Rescuer. Chappell has
served on the Perquimans County
Rescue Squad for 18 years. In that
time, he nas been known to drop
what he was doing, even in his busi
est hours, to answer a call for help.
His dedication and contribution to
the squad has been outstanding.
Chappell is a 13-year member of
the Hertford Fire Department and
a Chamber of Commerce member.
He received the Governor’s Volun
teer Award in 1984 and was selected
as an Outstanding Young Man of
America in 1986.
Saving the life of a child at a fire
scene was one of the reasons the
Hertford Fire Department nomi
nated Bob Reed as Outstanding
Fire Fighter. An 11-year veteran of
the department, Reed responded to
a mutual aid call by the Winfall
Fire Department in August. After
putting on his air pack, Reed pre
pared to enter the burning mobile
home. He noticed a group of people
motioning to him, and went to see if
he could be of assistance. When he
reached them, he found a small
child lying, not breathing. With the
quick thinking that comes from
hours of training, Reed pulled the
air maskoff of himself ana placed it
over the face of the child. After
forcing air into the child’s lungs,
the child began to breathe on its
own. Once the Rescue Squad ar
rived on the scene, Reed went
about his fire fighting duties.
Reed has twice been recognized
by his department as Fireman of
the Year, and this made his second
year as recipient of the Jaycee
award.
Outstanding Educator went to
Jane Parr. Mrs. Parr is a music
teacher at Central and Hertford
grammar schools, where she has
taught since August 1988. Before
joining the Perquimans Schools
system, Mrs. Parr taught for three
years at Albemarle Academy.
During her student career at Sa
lem College, Mrs. Parr was
awarded the Houtz Rotary, Eliza
beth City Music Club, Pasquotank
Arts Council, Veterans Administra
tion and Theodore Presser Founda
tion scholarships. In addition, she
was named to who’s Who in Ameri
can Colleges and Universities, re
s_
Shirley Perry files for a seat in the N.C. House of Representa
tives Friday morning as Dare County Republican Party Chair
man Bob Wills, Currituck County Chairman Ray Etheridge and
Board of Elections Supervisor Elizabeth Winslow look on.
Pictured are the recipients of the awards presented during the Jaycees' annual Distinguished Service
Awards banquet held last Thursday night at Angler’s Cove. They are (left to right) Ann Stallings, Jennifer
Stallings, Greg Biggs, Jeanie Biggs, Stuart Rayburn, Jason Biggs, Homeria Jeanette, Shirley Yates,
Diane Copeland, Jane Parr, Larry Chappell and Bob Reed.
ceived the June L. Samson Music
Education Award, graduated
Magna Cum Laude and was a
member of Arete.
Perquimans native Shirley Yates
was named Outstanding Senior Cit
izen. Mrs. Yates graduated vale
dictorian from Perquimans County
Training School before entering St.
Agnes School of Nursing in Ra
leigh. She did post graduate work
at both Duke University and the
University of Maryland.
Mrs. Yates is a retired Navy
Nurses Corp captain, and a dis
abled Viet Nam veteran.
Very active in the community,
Mrs. Yates is a member of the Win
fall Town Council, first vice chair
man of the Democratic Party,
second vice president of the local
AARP, a member of Melton Grove
Baptist Church where she holds of
fices, an associate matron in Order
of the Eastern Star ADAH Chapter
No. 35, a member of the Golden Cir
cle J.W. Hood Assembly No. 155
and a volunteer for mealson
wheels.
Others nominated for awards in
cluded Joan Hoggard, Outstanding
Educator; Martha Bass and Chad
Bundy, Outstanding Youth; Chris,
Denise, Christopher and Kelly
Peckham, Outstanding Jaycee
Family; Diane Stallings, Distin
guished Service Award; Todd
Tilley and Susan Chappell, Out
Diane Copeland was presented with the Distinguished ServiceAward
Thursday night.
standing Rescuer; and Dennis Wil
liams, Outstanding Firefighter.
State vice president Mossy White
was the keynote speaker, and en
couraged the community members
present to help the organization to
make Perquimans County the best
place it can be.
Perry will seek N.C. House seat again
Shirley E. Perry filed Friday as a candidate for the
Republican nomination for the NC House of Represen
tatives from the 1st House District.
“Northeastern North Carolina needs more effective
leadership in the General Asssembly in order to get
our fair snare from the Legislature,” Mrs. Perry said.
“As a Legislature, I will put the interests of our Albe
marle region ahead of political party consideration.
“For too many years, the western House leadership
under Liston Ramsey was responsible for running the
legislature process in a way that regularly short
dunged eastern North Carolina. Now that we have an
eastern Speaker of the House, we have an opportunity
to change that, but we need legislatures who will work
with our eastern Speaker, not fight him at every turn, ’ ’
she said.
“I will support an eastern candidate for House
Speaker, even if it is necessary to cross party lines to
do so, because I believe this is essential for our inter
ests,” Mrs. Perry pledged.
“I am a fiscal conservative and I will work for effi
ciency and economy in government to keep the tax
burden on our citizens as low as possible,’’ she said.
“Our taxpayers cannot afford the ftax and spend’ poli
cies of our more liberal politicians.”
Mrs. Perry has represented the 21-county 1st district
on the Social Services Commission since 1988. She
served three years on the Board of the North Carolina
Rural Rehabilitation Corporation. She is a current
board member and past president of the Perquimans
Chamber of Commerce, a member of the board of the
Perquimans Committee of 100, and a member of the
Perquimans Economic Improvement Council.
Mrs. Perry presently serves a member of the Cen
tral Committee and Executive Committee of the NC
Republican Party and as 1st Congressional District
vice chairman. She attended the 1988 Republican Na
tional Convention in New Orleans as an alternate dele
gate from North Carolina.
Also filing in Perquimans County was Mack Nixon,
who is seeking the seat on the county commissioners in
the 3rd district peesently held by William Wray Chap
pell. Nixon has served on the board of education for
two terms. Chappell announced that he would not file
for re-election in early January.
Chowan Hospital holds groundbreaking for new psychiatric unit
By JOE SOUTHERN
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A groundbreaking ceremony was
held last Monday for a new million
dollar psychiatric unit at Chowan
Hospital.
Several regional officials gath
ered for the brief ceremony which
was held at the site location in the
hospital parking lot. The 20-bed
short-term facility will be the only
one of its kind in northeastern
North Carolina when it is com
pleted late- this year.
“We're delighted with the pro
gram...we’re anxious to get it up,"
hospital board member Arch Ed
wards said.
The 8,045-square-foot facility will
provide service to the northeastern
part of the state in cooperation with
the Albemarle Mental Health Cen
ter and Mental Health Manage
ment. It will be staffed by two
psychiatrists, a program director,
P
social worker, part-time psycholo
gist and activity therapist, six to
seven registered nurses, a secre
tary and seven mental health tech
nicians.
The facility has been in the plan
ning stages for two years, and has
undergone several delays and
changes in financing.
“To be able to get something like
it means you have to work togetb
ers,” George Jones of Albemarle
Mental Health said.
Wayne Goodwin, chairman of the
Chowan County Board of Commis
sioners, commented on the need fbr
such a facility in the area. “Hope
fully in 10 months it will be a real
ity,” he said.
Edwards also said that having a
local facility will relieve a great
deal of burden from area patients
who must travel long distances for
the nearest available services the
clinic will soon offer.
Photo by Joe Southern
Ground was broken last Monday for the new psychiatric center scheduled to open this year at Chowan
Hospital. T