THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 60, No. 36
Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, September 5, 1991
30 Cents
Sports: .
Pirates romp over
Camden, 38-0 in gridiron
season opener: page e
Garden:
: Watering, fertilizing
I: are on gardener’s list
of fall chores: Page 7
Briefs
Applications accepted
College of the Ablemarle's
Bridges Program will be accept
ing applications for the next
class on August 26 through Oc
tober 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in
room 218 of the C Building at
the Elizabeth City campus. The
11- week GED preparation, job
seeking and job-keeping skills
course will begin October 7 and
continue through December 18,
1991.
The Bridges Program is
funded under the Job Training
Partnership Act and is free for
qualifying partiepants. For more
Information, contact College of
the Albemarle at 335-0821, ext.
242.
Band calendars on sale
The Perquimans County
Band Boosters are currently
selling band calendars. The cal
endars sell for $4 each, and
each listing is 50 cents. For
more information please contact
Vance Hoover at 426-8411 or
Ellen O'Neal before Sept. 13.
Open Houm planned
I Perquimans Central Gram
mar School PTA will host an
open house on Thursday. Sept.
3 at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Randall He
nlon will be the guest speaker.
Nutrition monua
The Nutrition Site menus for
September 9-13 are as follows:
Monday-Swedlsh meatballs,
rice, green peas, whole wheat
bread, margarine, chocolate
' pudding and milk.
Tuesday-Fried chicken, dried
lima beans, marinated tomatoes
with peppers and onions, dinner
roll, margarine, sugar cookie
and milk.
Wednesday-BBQ pork, coles
law, stewed potatoes, combread,
' margarine, hot spiced apples
and milk.
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Thursday-Tuna salad, potato
salad, okra and tomatoes. 4
crackers, margarine, fresh can
taloupe or melon balls and milk.
fv- Friday-Spaghettl. tossed
. salad, green beans. French mar
garine. chocolate chip cookie
and milk.
Clinic schedule
The Perquimans County
|. Health Department Clinic sched
7 ule for September 6-11 Is as fol
lows: Sept. 6 - general p.m..
W1C all day; Sept 10 - prenatal
l* a.m.; and Sept. 11 - Child
health all day. W1C. " 7
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Runaway car plows through bank building
Law enforcement officials got
a surprise Sunday morning
when they were dispatched to
an accident at Harris Shopping
Center. A car had crashed
through the back wall of the
North Carolina National Bank
building.
According to Hertford Police
Patrolman Tim Bunch, he was
dispatched to an accident
around 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
Upon his arrival with Perqui
mans County Sheriffs Deputy
Eric Tilley. Bunch found a 1974
Pontiac Grand Prix with its front
end inside the bank’s lobby.
The car’s owner, William Ed
ward Armstrong. 38. of Hertford,
told Bunch that he had been
working under the dash of the
car at the carwash at the rear of
the parking lot when it started
up. Jumped into gear and began
moving forward^ Bunch said
Armstrong told him he chased
the car, but was unable to stop
it. Armstrong told Bunch he es
timated the car was travelling
about 25 miles per hour.
Damage to the bank building
was estimated at $25,000. Bank
officials were called to the scene
Sunday and began clean-up op
erations. The accident did not
hamper operations, said NCNB
branch manager Diane Stallings
Tuesday morning, as the bank
re-opened after the Monday holi
day as planned.
The car was a total loss.
Law enforcement officials arrived at Harris Shopping Center
Sunday just before noon to find this 1974 Pontiac Gran Prix
sitting partially in the lobby of NCNB. Broken bricks and fur
niture were strewn across the interior of the building. Initial
estimates on damage to the building approach $25,000.
Armstrong was charged with
permitting a motor vehicle to
stand unattended without first
stopping the engine and effecti
vely setting the break in accord
ance with North Carolina
general statues.
North Carolina Highway Pa
trolman Craig Garriss was also
at the scene.
Courthouse annex renovations are complete
- The Perquimans County
courthouse annex has re
ceived its final inspection and
will soon be occupied, accord
ing to County Manager Paul
Gregory.
Gregory said Friday that
the offices of the building in
spector will be moved from
the extension building to the
annex as soon as the tele
phone system is installed.
The annex will house the
sheriffs department, dispatch
office, building inspector’s of
fice. commissioner's room,
law library and second court
room by year end. A small of
fice will be occupied by Cleric
of Court personnel during
court sessions only. There
will initially be empty offices
in the building which will
provide for expansion and/or
separation of departments
presently housed together.
The new courtroom, lo
cated on the second floor of
the annex, will seat 96, and
is assessible by staircases in
the front and back of the
building and by elevator. Gre
goiy said chief judge Grafton
Beamon was Instrumental In
the design of the courtroom
which features the jury box In
front, rather than on the side
as in the present court facility.
The Register of Deeds office
will expand Into the present
commissioners' room. Tne for
mer law library will be desig
nated as the mapping office of
the tax department once the
county mapping process be
gins. The ofd dispatch office
will be used for court pur
poses. What is now the sher
iffs department will become a
storage and filing area. The
county manager’s offices will
be the only offices occupied on
a regular basis in the upstairs
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File photo by Susan Harris
County manager Paul Gregory and the county commissioners reviewed this scale draw
ing of the courthouse annex after renovation many times during the rebuilding process.
Gregory said last week that some departments should move into the building immedi
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of the main courthouse.
Features of the annex in
clude zoned heating and air
conditioning for energy effi
ciency, a smoke and fire detec
tion system, a back-up
generator in case of power fail
ure, an elevator telephone con
nected directly to the dispatch
office and a security system.
"It is a nice-looking build
ing with efficient. I think, office
space utilization." Gregory told
the commissioners in August.
“The architect did a good Job
and we held down the cost to
close to what the contract
was.” ,« *
Gregoiy told the commis
sioners that the renovations
were within $10,227 of the
original bid price. Including the
purchase price. Gregory re
ported that the cost of the ren
ovations was approximately
$42.83 per square foot.
“I haven't heard anybody
kick on It that’s been and
looked,” commissioner Thomas
Nixon commented.
“I think it’s a big boost for
downtown Hertford, commis
sioners chairman Lester Simp
son said.
Present furnishings will be
used where possible for the
new building. Furniture for the
courtroom will cost approxi
mately $19,500. to be paid
from court facilities funds. The
chairs presently used by the
commissioners during their
meetings will be recovered, and
a new horse shoe-shaped table
has been ordered for the com
missioner’s room.
Gregory estimates that
departments will be moved
Nov. 1.
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DMV seeks
assistance
from public
RALEIGH—The N.C Division
of Motor Vehicles recently
turned to the public for help in
apprehending a fugitive wanted
on 24 charges of using worth
less certified checks to buy vehi
cles from owners who advertised
in newspapers.
DMV identified the fugitive
as James David Darnell, a 35
year-old white man weighing
about 240 pounds. Darnell, 6’5”,
has brown hair and brown eyes.
Officials said Darnell has an un
determined number of coun
terfeit identification cards and
driver’s licenses with fictitious
names. He has been known to
change the color of his hair and
shave his beard about eveiy two
weeks. He may be traveling with
a blonde female who uses the
name of Deborah Blau Coryell.
According to officers, Darnell
contacts individuals who adver
tise their vehicles for sale in the
newspaper and makes personal
contact only with those who
have the vehicle titles in their
possession. Darnell arranges to
purchase the vehicles with
worthless certified checks
printed in various business
names.
After gaining possession ot
several vehicles, Darnell con
tacts various automobile dealers,
representing himself as a used
car dealer, and arranges a sale.
He immediately cashes the
checks received from the deal
ers. Officials said both owners
and dealers end up victimized.
Anyone knowing the wherea
bouts of Darnell is asked to con
tact the nearest law enforcement
agency, the nearest Division of
Motor Vehicles enforcement of
fice. or to call Crime Stoppers,
which offers a reward up to
$1,000.
owners
to receive first solid waste user fee bills
' Perquimans County resi
dents will soon be receiving their
annual ad valorem tax bills
which will reflect the $25 per
residence solid waste \ user fee
for the first time.
The fee was authorized by
the Perquimans County Board of
Commissioners on June 17 to
cover the cost of Perquimans
County's share of the operatio
nal costs of the Tri-county Land
fill. The owner of each residence
In the county will be billed.
Dwelling owners who rent their
property to others -can elect to
pass along the cost to tneir ten
ants. ,
Lots used exclusively for
camping will be assessed
$12.50. .
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The ordinance passed in
June states that the funds col
lected from the user fees will be
used for landfill operations, not
few die collection of solid waste.
Expenditures for collection will
continue to paid from the gen
eral fund. • >?.*
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C; wder the terms of the
ordinance, county businesses
are required to provide for their
solid waste disposal needs
through private enteiprise. Mu
nicipalities using the landfill are
billed by the county for waste
taken to the landfill..
$ , ’ . •
Tipping fees were also ad
dressed in the June ordinance.
Anyone hauling residential or
commercial solid , waste to the
landfill which weighs 500
pounds or more is charged $25
per ton to dump. A fee of $10
per ton for demolition materials
Is charged. Demolition materials.
include wood, cement without
rebar, brick, mortar and block.
The county was authorized
to Impose the solid waste user
fee by the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly. House Bill 86 al
lows counties to impose solid
waste fees and authorizes coun
ties to bill the fees with property
taxes. Further, House Bill 86
states that counties can collect
delinquent user fees in the same
manner as delinquent property
taxes. The fees, like property
taxes, become a lien on the
property if they are not paid.
" Owners of residential prop
erty have until Jan. 5, 1992 to
pay the fees. A 2 percent pen
alty will be assessed during the
remainder of January. Those
who do not pay until February
will pay a 2.75 percent late fee.
and In March the late penalty
will rise to 3.5 percent. Th±
county will add .75 percent per
month to the 3.5 percent pen
alty thereafter.
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