THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 62, No. 24
Hertford, Perquimane County, N.C., Thuredey, July 29,1993
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By SUSAN R. HARRIS
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Hertford residents can expect
to see some new feces behind the
wheels of die Hertford Police De
partment’s blue and white cruis
ers.
Hertford Police Chief Aubrey
Sample Jr. announced recendy
that three new officers have been
hired by the department. The of
ficers will replace retiree Robert
Harvey Sr. and Timothy E.
Bunch, who resigned earlier this
month. The department also re
ceived an additional officer in the
town’s 1993-94 fiscal budget.
“We definitely needed the ex
tra position,” Sample said. “I
think it's going to enhance our
capabilities to provide adequate
service.”
Andre Alfred, 30. a native of
the Bronx, New York, assumed
his new duties on July 16. The
U.S. Air Force veteran has over
two years of law enforcement ex
perience with agencies in Green
ville and Ahoskie, as well as the
Albemarle Narcotics Task Force.
He is married with two children.
Frederick Whitaker and
Christine Anne Ward will begin
work on Aug. 2.
Whitaker, 22, is a graduate
of Northampton County High
School. He has nine months ex
perience with the Gates County
Sheriff’s Department.
Ward, 21, received her Basic
Law Enforcement Training certif
icate last winter. From Dare
County. Ward has a background
in security work.
Sample said he was pleased
with the addition of the new offi
cers.
“We chose the best qualified
candidates from our applica
tions.” Sample said. “We felt for
tunate to have a good field of
qualified applicants from which
to choose. I think these three of
ficers will make positive contri
butions to our force.”
Sample said Aug. 2 will be
the first day since Harvey was in
jured in October that the depart
ment has been up to full staff.
Flooded with emotion
Joan Gust (right) of Portage Des Sioux, Missouri, reacts to
the news Sunday that the Mississippi would continue to rise,
forcing her to evacuate her home. Her neighbor, Paul Vos
senkemper (left), dons knee boots to navigate through the
swirling water. Perquimans residents can help the flood vic
tims through a relief program sponsored by Daddy Ruth’s
Hertford Cafe and The Perquimans Weekly. (AP photo)
Local flood relief effort set
Businesses team up to help victims
People in Perquimans
County have always reached
out to neighbors down on their
luck. The neighborhood will
stretch across several states as
locals will have the opportunity
to help victims of the flooded
Midwest through the efforts of
two local businesses.
Daddy Ruth’s Hertford Cafe
and The Perquimans Weekly
are co-sponsoring a relief effort
for flood victims. On Monday,
Aug. 9, Daddy Ruth (Will Fer
guson) will donate all the
money taken in at the restau
rant during lunch to help those
in the flooded areas. Not only is
Ferguson dipping into his pock
ets, the waitresses at Daddy
Ruth's are donating their sala
ries and tips to the cause.
In addition to the monetary
assistance, clothing, non-peri
shable food and household
goods will be accepted for
shipment to the disaster area.
Prior to Aug. 9. donations will
be accepted at The Perquimans
Weekly office Wednesday-Friday
from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Everything collected during
the drive will be sent to the lo
cal offices of national relief or
ganizations for distribution.
Prisoners
hit the road
Inmates work on
state highways
From Staff Reports
They won't look like the chain
gangs of yesteryear, but Inmates
in North Carolina prisons will hit
the road once again.
Correction Secretary Franklin
Freman signed a contract earlier
this month with the Department
of Transportation which puts up
to 2,009 inmates to work each
Monday through Friday on North
Carolina roads.
As many as 1,273 minimum
custody and 736 medium custody
inmates will be sent to DOT for
road work assignments. Inmates
from 63 of the state's 91 prisons,
covering every region in the state,
will be assigned to DOT.
In years past, chain gangs
were easily recognized by their
black and white striped uniforms
and chained legs. Today’s road
gangs can be identified by olive
green or brown uniforms. Mini
mum custody inmates will wear
olive green prison clothes and
work under the supervision of a
DOT employee. Their work duties
include repairing potholes, erect
ing road signs and clearing road
rights-of-way.
Medium custody prisoners
will wear brown uniforms. Work
ing in groups of 8-12. the prison
ers will dig ditches, clean litter
from the roadside or trim rights
of-way under the supervision of
two or three armed correction of
ficers.
State law authorizes the
prison system to assign inmates
to roadwork. This is the 16th
year the prison and transporta
tion departments have reached
the legislatively required
agreement under the existing
law, but the practice of putting
inmates to work on state roads
dates back to 1887. At that
time, the law required judges to
sentence less serious offenders
to hard labor on the county
roads and highways. Enactment
of the law led to the first wide
spread use of chain gangs in the
state.
Recycling: An old idea for a new time
Grandma recycled because
money was tight during the de
pression. Nothing was thrown
away that could be reused. But
as society changed, so did the
era of the disposal. "Use it and
throw it away" was the busy fam
ily’s motto.
Now concern over the envi
ronment has led to the re-emer
gence of the use-it-again
philosophy. This time, however,
federal mandates regulating the
amounts and types of waste al
lowed in landfills across the
country have given greater ur
gency to the recycling drive. Lo
cal government units were forced
to spend huge chunks of money
to comply with new laws ana
help begin the process of clean
ing up the environment.
Perquimans County an-^
swe red the new regulations in
part by building recycling cen
ters, also called convenience
centers, at strategic points
around the county. The first site
to open was in New Hope on
land leased to the county by the
Durants Neck Ruritans. Next,
centers opened on U.S. 17 North
and Center Hill Highway. The
most recent site in operation is
located on U.S. Highway 17
South. Last week, the county let
bids on the final planned site in
Belvidere.
Separating garbage carried
to the centers is not mandatory,
but is encouraged, according to
tri-county landfill director Jerry
Parks. He said the number of
people sorting garbage is grow
ing. ' ,
But Parks said sqme resi
dents are still uncertain about
how to recycle and what types of
trash are accepted at the cen
ters. Following is a break-down
of what types of waste are ac
cepted at each center and fire
landfill, and how to prepare
waste for recycling.
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Newspaper are accepted at
all sites. Magazines, catalogs and
i telephone books should not be
•bundled with newspapers, as
pthey are not accepted. Newspa
pers should be stacked in fiat
bundles or stacked flat in paper
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Bids were let last week for
the county's fifth and final
planned garbage collection
-. center at a total.costof
$26,900.
Tlldon Whitehurst was the
bidder fir the Belvldere
enter, with a price of
"$18.100. Whitehurst was
awarded the contract. Parks
|f and Land Development hue.
: and Barnhill Construction
submitted bids, at
$19,410 and $19,636. respec
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Albemarle Fencing was the
ne bidder for fencing the fa
jjpllty. Pricing by the speclflca
^fl.ons, Albemarle Fencing
turned in a bid of $8,625. The
requested an
additional bid for heavier i:
standing member posts,
creasing the bid to $8,800.
.,/■/ Counts manager N. Paul
Gregory *»r. said the county
will probably opt to plant red
tip bushes around the perlme
ter of the center rather than
install the green plastic fence
stripping us£d at the other
four sites. Gregory said the
plastic tends to act as a sail in ' •
high winds, causing some
property damage.
The county's other four/,
convenience centers are lo
cated on U.S. 17 North (Bray
site), U.S. 17 South (Allen's
Service Station), Center Hill
Highway (beside the former
FCX building) and New Hope /J
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accepted for recycling. Pie plates
and foil contaminated by food
are unacceptable. Cans can be
crushed if storage space is lim
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> Truck and car tires from per
sonal vehicles are accepted at
the tri-county landfill site only.
The tires must be free of greaat
and mud. 1
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dear, brown and green glass
from beverage bottles and food
Jars Is accepted at all sites. Bot
tles and fars should be rinsed
and the lids removed. Glass
should be separated by color at
drop-off sites. It is not necessary
to remove labels. Window glass,
light bulbs, crystal, ceramic and
cookware is not accepted for re
Cardboard
Corrugated cardboard is ac
cepted at the U.S. 17 North. Cen
ter Hill Road and landfill sites.
Boxes should be broken down.
Boxes like cereal boxes and shoe
boxes are not accepted for recy
cling.
Whita goods
All sites accept old residential
appliances such as air condition
ers. washing machines, dryers
and refrigerators. The appliances
should not be crushed. White
goods from commercial opera
tions or appliance dealers are not
accepted.
Waste oil
Waste oil from conventional
combustion engines is accepted
at both . U.S. 17 sites. Hydrolic
oil. solvents, oil solvent mixtures
and gasoline are not accepted.
According to information
from Parks, recycling protects
the environment saves energy
and can help save county tax
dollars by decreasing the amount
of garbage hauled to the landfill.
Parks also noted specific
facts about recycling:
•Less energy is used to melt
recycled glass uran virgin materi
als in the production of new con
tainers.
•Recycling one ton of glass
saves more than three cubic
yards of landfill space.
•Recycling one ton of alumi
num saves 27 cubic yards of
landfill space.
•Recycling one aluminum
can saves enough energy to fill
the can half full with gasoline.
•Each ton of waste paper. nft* ,
cycled saves more than three
cubic yards of landfill space.
•Using recycled paper instead
of virgin pulp uses less than half
the amount of water.
•Recycling one ton of news
print saves 17 trees.
•One part of used motor oil
can contaminate a million parts
of water.
•Americans who change their
oil throw away 120 million gal
lons of recoverable motor oil each
year. If recycled, it would save
the United States 1.3 million
barrels of oil per day.
Recycling Recipes
In an effort to promote recy
cling and reusing products that
would ordinarily end up in the
garbage. The Perquimans Weekly
will begin a Recycling Recipes
column. Readers are encouraged
to share their recycling and reus
ing hints. The?e hints can save
consumers money and help the
environment at the same time.
The first recycling recipe appears
below:
Wrap children’s birthday pre
sents in the comics section of the
newspaper. The comics are
bright, attractive, and provide
one more use for the newsprint
before it finds it way into the
landfill.
Call The Perquimans Weekly
at 426-5728 or write us at P.O.
Box 277. Hertford, N.C. 27944 to
share your hint with
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