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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 59, No.40
USPS 428-080
Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C. Thursday, October 4,1990
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Sports: Pirates
blitzed by
Currituck Knights: p««*6
Outdoors: Roses
make spectacular
fall landscapes: pag« 10
Briefs
Jaycees to sponsor
child abuse program
The Perquimans County Jaycees
will sponsor a Child Abuse Aware
ness Program on Tuesday, Oct. 9.
Donna Davis of Albemarle Hope
line and county sheriff Joe Lothian
will lead the program set for 7:30
p.m. at the Lion’s Club building.
Child abuse is becoming more
prevelant in society and the Jay
cees encourage the public to be
come involved in the effort to stop
its rampant spread.
Athletic Boosters
host Parents' Night
The Perquimans County Athletic
Boosters will host Parents’ Night
Friday, Oct. 5 during the Perqui
mans-Gates football game. The
Boosters will entertain parents of
PCHS football players and cheer
leaders at halftime with a coffee
and doughnut social. Parents of
football players and cheerleaders
will be admitted to the game free.
COA offers GED
classes weekly
. College of Hie Albemarle is offer
ing GED classes at the Perquimans
High School Vocational Building.
The free classes meet on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, and Thursdays from
6-9 p.m. Call COA at 335-0821, ext.
250 for more information.
Central School
sets Fall Festival
; Perquimans Central School will
hold its annual Fall Fun Festival on
Saturday, Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. until
3 p.m. Games, food, toys and crafts
will be available on the school’s
front lawn during the gala. The
public is invited to support this tra
ditional event to raise funds for the
school’sPTA.
00-00 0055 The Economic Im
provement Council, Inc. Full Year
Head Start program has announced
the sponsorship of the Child Care
Food Program. Meals are avail
able at no separate charge to chil
dren enrolledin the program.
Head Start contracts with county
schools to provide nutritious meals
to enrollees. For more information
on the Head Start program or meal
availability, contact EIC at 482
4495.
Nutrition site
menus announced
The Nutrition Site menu for the
week of Oct.8-12 is as follows:
Monday-Chicken breast patties
with gravy, green peas, sweet po
tato patties, cornbread, margarine,
. lemon pudding and milk.
. Tuesday-BBQ beef, coleslaw with
grated carrots, stewed potatoes,
whole wheat bread, margarine,
pineapple chunks, and milk.
Wednesday-Baked pork chop,
steamed cabbage, corn, whole
wheat bread, margarine, orange
slices, and milk.
Thursday-Beef vegetable soup,
% pimento cheese sandwich, car
rot-raisin salad, 4 crackers, marga
rine, 3 sugar cookies and milk.
Friday-Baked turkey with dress
ing, mashed potatoes, seasoned
green beans, whole wheat bread,
margarine, strawberries and milk.
Voluntoors needed
, If you have an hour a week you
can spare, then please consider be
• coming a volunteer at the new 20
bed Mental Health Unit at Chowan
Hospital.
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Photo by Nancy-Royden Clark
Firefighters (I to r) Edward Leicester, Todd Tilley, Sid Eley and Robert Boyce work to free William Deans
from the wreckage of his tractor-trailer. Deans was driving on U.S. Highway 17 Monday when a tractor
trailer operated by Jimmy Dale Britt crossed the center line and crashed into Deans’ vehicle. Deans was
listed in critical condition at Pitt Memorial Hospital.
Wreck victim taken to Pitt
By NANCY ROYDEN—CLARK
Daily Advance staff writer
A wreck involving two tractor
trailers on U.S. Highway 17 near
the Perquimans-Chowan county
line sent one man to the hospital
with multiple injuries Monday af
ternoon.
The accident occurred at about
3:30 p.m. between Hillcrest Gar
dens and Perry Produce. Several
school buses were delayed by the
accident.
William Deans, 56 a driver for
S.K. Wilson Trucking of Washing
ton, N.C., was transported to Cho
wan Hospital by the Perquimans
County EMS. He was treated for
multiple injuries.
Upon arrival at Chowan Hospital,
Deans was immediately trans
ported to Pitt Memorial Hospital in
Greenville, said Chowan Hospital
spokesman Pete Rogers. He was
listed in critical condition Tuesday
morning, said Pitt spokesman Sal
lie Whelan.
Damage to the vehicle Deans was
operating is estimated at $18,000.
The other driver, Jimmy Dale
Britt, 37, of Kinston, escaped the in
cident unharmed. The truck was
owned by Michael Krug of Pennsyf
vania. Trie truck’s damage is esti
mated to be $15,000. State Highway
Patrolman Reginald Newbern
stated in his report that Britt’s ve
hicle crossed the center line. It then
collided with Deans’ vehicle, crush
ing Deans’ cab area.
Britt was charged with driving
left of center.
Firefighters from the Hertford
Volunteer Fire Department and
Bethel Fire Department responded
to the call and worked to release
Deans from the crushed cab of the
truck.
Police officers from Chowan and
Perquimans counties worked for
several hours to re-route traffic
around the scene of the accident
while wrecker crews cleaned the
wreckage. Clean-up was expected
to continue Tuesday morning.
Fee set for
tire disposal
County officials had hoped to be
able to provide tire disposal at no
cost to residents, but economics
have made that impossible, offi
cials announced recently.
Legislation passed by the State of
North Carolina in the 1989 session
now prohibits the placement of
scrap automobile and equipment
tires in landfills statewide. Due to
this prohibition the Perquimans,
Chowan, Gates County Regional
landfill currently collects scrap
tires from local residents and busi
nesses and transports them to va
rious disposal and or recycling
facilities.
The new disposal program began
in March 1989 as a service provided
by the counties at no charge. The
landfill served as the collection
point for the tires, which were then
transported to Virginia for sale. It
was the hope pf the county officials
from each of the three counties that
this service could be provided on a
continual basis.
As the cost of scrap tire began to
soar, a detailed study was per
formed. The study concluded that
the disposal cost were many times
greater than orginally anticipated.
In order to continue the proper and
required methods of disposal, the
costs must be shared by the users
of the service.
As of Oct. 1, 1990, the Perqui
mans. Chowan. Gates Regional
Landfill policy allowed charges for
tire disposers, both commercial
and individual. The costs of dispo
sal are: automobile tires-50 cents
each, truck tires-$2 each, equip
ment tires-$50 each.Equipment
tires include all off-road tires and
all floatation- type truck tires. The
determination of any questionable
tires will be made by the landfill
operator.
Contest heats up
Hie Perquimans Weekly football
contest competition gets tougher
each week as more and more en
tries are received. J.W. Dillon took
the $15 first prize on the games
listed in the Sept. 20 edition. Lynn
Curies claimed the second-place
$10.
Last week Brian Baker missed
only one game, taking first (dace.
Lynn Curies once again tome sec
ond, pulling out of a S-way tie doing
into the tie-breaker.
Transportation costs
worry school board
By SUSAN HARRIS
Editor
Bus routes and rising costs have
school board members and admin
istrators scrambling to find an
swers to the county’s
transportation problems.
Perquimans Schools superinten
dent Mary Jo Martin told school
board members Monday night that
transportation director Tom Monti
has been working on restructuring
the bus routes. Monti, Martin said,
has devised about seven plans to re
route buses in an effort to find the
best system for county students.
Now, Martin
said, school prin
cipals will sit
down together
and try to work
out more suitable
routes. Some
routes may also
be ridden to deter
minp r ha naps
She added that Martin
principals have been told bussing is
a priority project.
“I think this going to be a year
long process,” Martin told board
members.
“It’s my opinion right now that
the bussing system has failed. It’s
failed miserably,” said board
member Mack Nixon. Nixon added
that the county should go back to
multiple school pick-up because of
sparse population in some rural
areas and the 33 percent cost in
crease from last year’s transporta
tion expenses.
Martin told the board that the
cheapest alternative would be to
have all four grade levels riding on
the same buses, but that the option
was probably not the wisest. The
measure would cut daily mileage in
half.
Another problem with that op
tion, said Jake Bovce, assistant su
perintendent, is tnat all 35 buses
would have to stop at each school,
which would be time-consuming.
Boyce said that while the measure
Photo by Gary Cosby Jr
Unveiling
National Society of the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century President Mrs. Walter Spaeth (left) and
Margaret Jordan-Ellis, president of the society’s North Carolina chapter, unveil a granite monument
honoring the society’s efforts to preserve the Newbold-White house. The Dames met at the site
Saturday during the annual Heritage Days celebration.
EIC announces weatherization grants
Economic Improvement Council,
Inc. will receive a $103,800 grant
from the North Carolina Energy
Division to weatherize home of low
income elderly and handicapped
citizens in Camden, Chowan, Curri
tuck, Dare, Hyde, Gates, Pasquo
tank, Perquimans, Washington and
Tyrell Counties state Economic
and Community Development Sec
retary James Broyhill announced
recently.
The funds, part of the federal
Weatherization Assistance Pro
gram administered by the Energy
Division of the North Carolina De
partment of Economic and Com
munity Development, will be used
to purchase and install items such
as weather strippihg, chalking,
duct and hot water heater insula
tion, floor insulation, attic insula
tion and storm windows on the
homes of residents whose income
does not exceed ISO percent of the
poverty level ($19,050 for a family
of four). Homes eligible for the pro
gram are evaluated to determine
die most cost-effective measures to
be installed. On average, the grant
is expected to fund $1,400 in energy
conserving improvements to each
home weatherized. This avaerage
cost per home weatherized includes
the cost of materials and labor.
“Hie purpose of the Weatherized
Program.” said Doug Culbreth, Di
rector of the Energy Division, “is
to increase the energy efficiency of
the home, thereby lowering the
monthly heating and cooling costs,
while providing a more comfort
able and healthful living enviorn
ment for the occupants.” Mr.
Culbreth added that savings of 12
20 percent are possible and that
savings continued year after year
due to the permanent nature of the
materials installed on the home.
“Benefits from this program will
accrue to the public for years to
come, ” Culbreth said. (
Economic Improvement Council,
Inc. is one of 45 community action
and public, nonprofit agencies
across the State of North Carolina
which implements the Weatheriza
tion Program at the local level. The
grant announced by Secretary
Broyhill is expected to fund assis
tance to 70 homes over the next
twelvemonths.
To find out how to apply for these
grants, contact Lois Smith at 426
7868.
would decrease bus mileage, it
would not mean later pick-up times
because each bus making four
stops to unload.
Martin added that the schools
may have to make some difficult,
and unpopular, decisions if gas
prices continue to rise. Such mea
sures as increasing walking zones
around schools; neighborhood
rather than house-to-house pick-up
and discontinuing pick-up on side
roads when the bus must go long
distances in order to find a suitable
place to turn around.
Adding to the transportation di
lemma is the shortage of bus driv
ers. At present, there is only one
substitute driver, and faculty and
staff members with bus licenses
have been called upon to drive
routes in the absence of the regular
driver.
"We cannot find the drivers,”
said Martin. She added that if
shorter routes can be worked out
for the buses, the bus driver situa
tion could worsen, as shorter routes
mean less pay for drivers, and
some may opt not to continue driv
ing.
She told board members that as
employees are hired, they are be
ing encouraged to get their bus li
censes.
Because of increased costs and
the uncertainty of state funds, the
State Department of Public In
struction has requested school sys
tems to submit emergency plans to
cut transportation costs to be im
plemented if gas prices continue to
soar. The local plan includes going
to one bussing system to serve all
four grade levels, seving only state
roads, establishing a wider walking
zone and a four-day work week.
These plans would only take effect
if absolutely necessary.
Martin said that a new plan will
be available for the board’s review
at its next meeting on Oct. 15.
Five bus drivers attended the
board meeting to hear proposals on
the county’s transportation prob
lem. The group declined comment
to the board.
Roof work
to begin
at schools
By SUSAN HARRIS
Editor
Work should begin on the roof at
Perquimans Middle School next
week, maintenance superintendent
Richard O’Neal told board of edu
cation members Monday night.
The board reviewed bids on roof
ing the middle school and Hertford
Grammar School Monday, ranging
from just over $183,000 to $225,000.
The contract was awarded to East
ern Urethane for the middle school
project only. Board members hope
to be able to find funds to reroof
Hertford Grammar in the late
spring or early summer.
O’Neal reported that Eastern
Urethane, the low bidder, was also
the only company to carry a 20
year, rather than 10-year, war
ranty. He said that he had con
tacted other school systems and
found that all who had contracted
with the company had been pleased
with the work.
O’Neal said that work should be
gin on the roof at Central Grammar
School immediately.
The work at the middle school
was also discussed by the county
commissioners Monday morning.
The school board requested that
$115,000 be transferred from their
reserves to fund the project.
Board chairman Clifford
Winslow gave an update on the
search for a new superintendent to
replace Dr. Mary Jo Martin, whose
resignation is effective Oct. 31.
Winslow said that state superin
tendent Gene Causby met with the
board in executive session recently
to discuss the search. Causby’s
staff subsequently created an ad
vertisement for the position. The
advertisement went out Tuesday
announcing that the board will ac
cept inquiries and applications un
til Nov. 1. The board plans to screen
and interview applicants in Novem
ber, and hopes to make hire a new
superintendent by December 1 to
bejpn work on or after January 1.
Martin announced that Freda
Nelson, a third grade teacher, was
appointed to the BEP Commission,
a legislative study committee, by
Gov. Martin.