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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 59, No.19
USPS 428-080
Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C. Thursday, May 10,1990
30 CENTS
Briefs
Local Ford dealer honored
. Winslow-Blanchard Mtr. Co. Inc.
of Hertford has been selected as
one of the nation’s outstanding
Ford dealerships and will receive
Ford Motor Company’s Distin
guished Achievement Award For
Quality. This award is presented
“in recognition of progressive man
agement...sound merchandising
practices...high quality stan
dards...and continuing interest in
rendering superior service to Ford
owners.
Winslow-Blanchard Mtr. Co. Inc.
has been a Ford dealership in Hert
ford since 1936. The dealership is
located on U.S. Hwy. 17 Business.
Job Service places 83
In March, the Edenton Job Serv
ice office placed 83 individuals in
jobs. Since July 1,1989 the Edenton
office has placed a total of 710 indi
viduals in jobs. The Edenton Job
Service office has a year to date to
tal of 996 placement transactions.
Placement transactions include ap
plicants placed in more than one
job during the year. Area employ
ers have listed 1109 job openings
hnd Employment Security Com
mission staff has filled 996 of the
openings.
Summer school announced
Perquimans County Summer
School for students presently en
rolled in Grades 1-12 will begin on
JIuly 2 and will end on July 30. July 4
will be a holiday. Classes will begin
at 8 a.m. and end at noon. Break
fast and lunch will be served to all
students.
! For students in grades 1-8, the
summer program has been divided
-into two parts. The first, Remedial
Summer School, will be a literature
based program offering across the
curriculum learning activities. The
second, Enrichment Summer
School, will include choices of com
piler skills, arts and crafts, sports
and drama. Brochures explaining
specific details were sent home
with students on May 7 and must be
returned to schools by May 11. Fur
ther information can be obtained
by calling 426-5741 or 426-5778.
Hardee’s donates to 4-H
Hardee’s of Hertford has joined
the Campaign for 4-H. Since Sun
day, Hardee’s has donated 25 cents
to the Perquimans County 4-H pro
gram every time someone pur
chased a large order of French
fries.
The campaign will last until Sat
urday, so hurry on down to Hard
ee’s to enjoy hot, tasty fries, and
help the 4-H raise $10,000.
NCNB receives state award
NCNB was awarded the North
Carolina Child Advocacy Insti
tute’s Outstanding Service to Chil
dren Award for its progressive
work-family benefits.
; “We are honoring NCNB for lead
ership in the corporate community
in making personnel policies more
responsive to employees and fami
lies,” said John Niblock, the insti
tute’s president. NCNB has
received recognition-regionally
and nationaUy-for being a paceset
ter in implementing nontraditional
- work-family programs such as
child-care resource and referral
services, dependent-care re
imbursement accounts, extended
parental leaves and flexible work
schedules for employees with de
pendent family members.
’• Working Mother magazine re
cently listed NCNB as one of Amer
ica’s 60 best companies for working
mothers.
Thinking of placing a
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sure how to do it1 Just
call our friendly Ad
Visor, Elenora. She will
be glad to help you.
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Higgins takes commissioner’s race by 14 votes
i The incumbent was unseated by
14 votes in the 1st District Demo
cratic primary for Perquimans
County Commissioner.
Leo Higgins edged by Durwood
Reed, Jr. 744-730. Dian Riddick re
ceived 228 votes.
Higgins carried four of the seven
precincts, collecting 44 percent of
the votescast.
Bethel, Higgins’ home precinct,
gave him his widest margin, 170-69.
East Hertford supported Higgins
by a 211-155 vote. The balloting was
close in Belvidere, where Higgins
got 53 votes to Reed’s 52. Higgins
took Parksville by five votes, 149
144. Six absentees voted for Hig
gins, three for Reed.
Reed collected hi widest margin
in West Hertford 146-58, and also
collected the most votes in New
Hope (136-78) andNicanor (25-19.)
Riddick’s best precincts were
New Hope and East Hertford,
where she got 56 and 45 votes re
spectively. She received 11 votes in
Nicanor, 29 in Belvidere, 18 in West
Hertford, 34 in Bethel and 35 in
ParksviUe, a total of 13 percent of
the 1702 votes cast.
Higgins, who lost to Reed in 1986,
said after receiving the final tally,
“It feels good to win. I’ve enjoyed
the campaign tremendously. ’ ’
He said he had met a lot of “ex
tremely nice” people during the
primary process. He stated that he
appreciated the support and trust
the voters had shown by voting for
him.
No Republican candidates filed
for the 1st District seat.
Photo by Susan Harris
Janice Cole (right) speaks with husband J.C. (left) and Fred Yates at
a fish fry given in her honor Monday by Joe Lothian at Missing Mill
Park.
Cole wins judicial race
Takes 43 percent of district vote
A Perquimans resident took the
Democratic primary for District
Court judge in the 1st District.
Janice McKenzie Cole, and attor
ney practicing in Perquimans, re
ceived 43 percent of the vote across
the district, garnering 6,742 of th
15,507 votes cast for th four candi
dates. Cole carried five of the seven
counties in the district.
Sixty-four percent, of 1104, of the
1729 Perquimans ballots marked in
the primary back Cole. Chowan
County also stook solidly behind
Cole, casting 51 percent of the vote
(1247-2458) for her. Cole got 498, 50
percent, of the 990 votes tallied in
Gates County.
The surprise came in Pasquotank
County, where Cole defeated Eliza
beth City attorney John Halstead
1896-1054. Halstead, however,
edged out Cole 626-557 in Camden.
Cole was also the frontrunner in
Currituck County, collecting 708,37
percent, of the 1925 votes cast.
Dare County stood behind native
son Jerry Tillett, casting 1526 of
2617 votes for him. Cole was sec
ond-place vote-getter with 732.
Cole thanked those gathered at
her election headquarters at the Al
bemarle Commission building for
their support. She said her cam
paign was based on her qualifica
tions for the position, and she feels
that she won because of her qualifi
cations.
“This has been a people’s cam
paign right from day one,” said
Cole’s husband, attorney J.C. Cole.
“Now let’s got to work and get re
ady for November.”
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Photo by Susan Harris
(Left to right) James Logan, Richard Copeland, Russell Chappell and Eric Tilley fry fish at the dinner honoring Janice Cole at Missing Mill
Park Monday. . *
Local candidates celebrate together
Winners from Perquimans
County celebrated together at
Janice Cole’s election headquar
ters Tuesday night.
Cole, Leo Higgins, Walter
Leigh, Joe Lothian and Gail
Godwin exchanged congratula
tory messages qfter local vote
totals were received.
Approximately 100 people
from Perquimans, Chowan, Pas
quotank and Camden counties
waited together for election re
turns from across the 1st judi
cial district. A round of cheers
andapplause went up when the
final numbers were received
and Cole campaign workers de
termined that she had earned
over 40 percent of the vote cast
across the district.
County Democratic Chairman
Julian “Little Man” Broughton,
commissioner Thomas Nixon,
County Manager Paul Gregory,
Register of Deeds Jeanne White,
Hertford Mayor Bill Cox, Hert
ford Town Councilman Billy
Winslow and Winfall Town Coun
cilwoman Shirley Yates were
onhand to support Cole.
Health examinations scheduled for athletes
Health examinations for County
school athletes have been sched
uled for this month, according to
coach Carolyn Rogers.
Girls wishing to participate in
scholastic athletics during the 1990
91 school term should go to the of
fice of Dr. Robert E. Lane on Mar
ket Street on May 24 at 4p.m.
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Male athletes have been sched
uled to receive physicals on May 31
at4p.m.
Dr. Lane offers the physicals free
of charge as a service to local ath
letes. These are the only dates
available for the courtesy examina
tions. Students not able to be pre
sent on the scheduled dates should
call several weeks in advance to
. schedule private examinations at
the students’ expense.
Sports offered at Perquimans
High School and Perquimans Mid
die School include football, volley
ball, basketball, baseball, softball,
track and cheerleading. Team ath
letics are available for male and fe
male students during each season.
Primary voter
turnout good
Over 1900 residents exercised
their right to vote Tuesday in the
primary election for 1st District
Judge, N.C. House of Representa
tives, Court of Appeals Seat B.,
U.S. House, U.S. Senate and Per
quimans County Commissioner, as
well as the non-partisan Perqui
mans Board of Education race.
East Hertford had the highest vo
tertumout with 441. Parksville had
358 voters, Bethel 329, New Hope
313, West Hertford 235, Belvidere
159 and Nicanor65. Ten absentee
ballots were received!
Several candidates did not ap
pear on Tuesday’s ballot because
they ran unopposed. Sheriff Joe Lo
thian and Clerk of Court Gail God
win, Democrats seeking re
election, had no opposition, nor did
Democratic county commissioner
candidate Mack Nixon or Republi
can county commissioner candi
date H.R. “Bobby” Jones.
Voters will matte their final
choices in the November 4 general
election.
Leigh wins
First black
elected to
school board
Perquimans voters
seated their first black
Board of Education mem
ber Tuesday.
Walter Leigh defeated
Tildon Whitehurst, Jr. 975
878 in the non-partisan
election. Leigh will fill the
vacancy created when pre
sent school board member
Mack Nixcn’s term ex
pires in January. Nixon
chose not to seek re-elec
tion to the school board,
but to run for county com
missioner.
Leigh was the top vote
fetter in Belvidere (93-59),
last Hertford (259-177),
New Hope (174-137) and
Parksville (199-150) pre
cincts.
Whitehurst carried Nica
nor (36-27), West Hertford
(145-83) and Bethel (166
138), and also got eight ab
sentee votes to Leigh’s
two.
“It’s a good feeling (to
win),” Leigh said after the
election.
“The road might have
seemed long, the curves
might have been sometime
hard to turn, but thank God
and the people for the vic
tory,” he said.
“I won as Walter
Leigh,” Leigh continued.
“I will continue to be Wal
ter Leigh.”
He said he plans to begin
attending the school board
meetings immediately so
that he will be familiar
with issues and the way the
board operates when his
term convenes in January.
Clifford Winslow, who
ran unopposed, received
1144 votes.
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Walter Leigh Tuesday
night became the first
black elected to the local
school board.
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Thompson,
James get
local support
Local Democrats chose to con
tinue to support incumbents R.M.
“Pete" Thompson and Vernon
James in their bids to gain re-elec
tion to the N.C. House of Represen
tatives.
Thompson tallied 1125 votes, car
rying all seven of Perquimans’ pre
cincts. James collected 915 votes,
and was second place in all pre
cincts except East Hertford, where
Charles Foster won. Foster took 677
votes in the county.
For Court of Appeals Seat B, Eu
gene Phillips blasted Ellen Scouten
829-484 in the Democratic race.
John Ingram was the frontrunner
in the Democratic primary for the
U.S. Senate seat now held by Re
publican Jesse Helms. He got 543
votes. Harvey Gantt took 525 votes,
Mike Easley 216, R.P. Thomas 186,
Lloyd Garner 88 and Bob Hannon
53.
In the Republican primary, Jesse
Helms was the U.S. Senate choice.
He got 88 votes to L.C. Nixon’s 12
and George Wimbish’s eight.
Howard Moye got the most votes
inth 1st U.S. House District, taking
56 votes to Marvin Jones’54.