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Vol. 64, No. 9
The only newspaper for and about Perquimans County people
Hertford, North Carolina 27944
Norfolk
woman
injured
in wreck
Car flips three
times in U.S.
17 accident
By GINGER LIVINGSTON
The Daily Advance
A Norfolk, Va. woman
remains hospitalized at
Albemarle Hospital following
a one car accident approxi
mately nine miles north of
Hertford on U.S. Highway 17
Bypass Monday afternoon.
Leslie Griffin, 32, of 1342
East Tanners Creek Drive,
suffered multiple injuries
when her Geo Metro flipped
at least three times across
the highway, before landing
on the passenger side, N.C.
Highway Patrol Trooper K.L.
Morgan said. Griffin, the
vehicle’s only occupant, was
thrown into the back seat of
the car. No other cafs were
damaged in the accident.
Griffin was traveling
north on U.S. 17 on the inner
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Inter-County Volunteer firemen and rescue
squad workers use a jaws of life tool to free
Leslie Griffin from her wrecked Geo Metro.
The Norfolk, Va. woman’s car flipped at least
PHOTO BY GINGER LIVINGSTON, THE DAILY ADVANCE
three times during a one-vehicle accident on
U.S. Highway 17 Bypass north of Hertford
Monday afternoon. Griffin was transported
to Albemarle Hospital for treatment.
lane near the median when
her compact car skidded into
the median, Griffin said.
“As she tried to bring it on
(the road) she got into a
clockwise skid, and as she
got onto the asphalt she start
ed flipping,” Morgan said.
The car crossed both
northern lanes and came to a
stop on the highway shoul-
der.Several drivers stopped
to help Griffin, including
Peggy Bass of Edenton, who
PHOTO BY SUSAN HARRIS
Jimmy Riddick, a barber with 30 years’ experience, has moved
his shop from the Whiteston Community to Harris Shopping
Center in Hertford.
Barber shop opens
By SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
He saw a need and now he’s
opened a business to fulfill
that need.
Jimmy Riddick opened
Jimmy’s Barber Shop at
Harris Shopping Center on
Feb. 19.
“Hertford’s been without a
barber shop for about 18
months now and Hertford
needs a barber,” Riddick said
of his reason for moving his
business from the Whiteston
community to Hertford.
After graduating from
Perquimans High School in
1965, Riddick went to barber
school in Durham. He’s been
wielding his clippers ever
since.
Riddick chose to build his
shop at Harris Shopping
Center for several reasons.
Center owner Jesse Harris was
very cooperative, Riddick said,
allowing him to construct his
building at the edge of the cen
ter parking lot. The location
provides plenty of convenient
parking, and also the construc
tion of a handicapped access
ramp.
Those who need a haircut or
shampoo can visit the two-
chair shop Monday, Tuesday
and Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 5
p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.;
or Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 12
noon. No appointments are
necessary. Just look for the
red, white and blue barber
pole rotating on the front
porch. The phone number is
426-5037.
No school Monday
There will be no school on Monday, March 4. It is an
optional work/annual leave day. Snow make-up dates are set
for April 5,10,11,12 and May 27, pending state approval.
calmed Griffin until firefight
ers and rescue squad person
nel from Inter-County
Volunteer Fire Department
arrived on the scene. The
Perquimans County Sheriff
Department also assisted at
the scene. Hertford Fire
Department’s Response
Team was dispatched, but
was not needed.
“I talked to her a few min
utes and held her purse,”
Bass said. “She was in pain
and I kept telling her not to
move. It would only make
her hurt more.
“I heard her say she was
changing the radio and the
next thing she knew she saw
sky and ground, sky and
ground,” Bass said.
It does not appear Griffin
was speeding, Morgan said.
The trooper is still investi
gating to decide what, if any,
charges may be brought
against her.
M.B. Taylor
Day planned
Albemarle
Conference sets
celebration
From staff reports
The Albemarle Conference
Christian Education
Department will honor Dr.
M.B. Taylor on Monday,
March 4 with a parade and
banquet in Hertford.
Dr. Taylor is a retired home
economics extension agent
who is known for her volun
teer work in the community.
She is especially active in
voter registration and trans
portation, the Nutrition Site,
her church and in the Hertford
BPW.
Upon her retirement, the
town of Hertford issued a
proclamation declaring March
4 as Dr. M.B. Taylor Day. The
town council recently issued a
second proclamation also des
ignating March 4, 1996 as Dr.
M.B. Taylor Day.
A parade will line up at
Perquimans High School at 4
p.m. Entries will leave the
school at 5 p.m. The parade
will travel on Edenton Road
Street, turn right onto Dobbs
Street, turn left onto Church
Street, turn left onto Grubb
Street, turn left onto Edenton
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Dr. M.B. Taylor
Road Street and disband at the
high school.
The banquet will begin at 7
p.m. in the high school cafete
ria. The guest speaker will be
the Right Reverend Clarence
Carr, presiding bishop of the
second Episcopal District,
African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Church, of St. Louis,
Missouri. His wife, Barbara,
will accompany him. She is
Missions director.
Tickets to the banquet are
$10 each.
For more information, call
Doris J. Lewis, Albemarle
Conference Christian
Education Director.
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Porquimans Schools to host regional OM tourney
By SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
'There will be no balls, bases
or baskets Saturday at the
tournament hosted by
Perquimans County Schools.
The participants will be com
peting with brain power.
Perquimans County Schools
will host the annual Coastal
Region Odyssey of the Mind
Competition Saturday at
Perquimans County High
School beginning at 9 a.m.
The Odyssey of the Mind
Program, known as OM, is
designed to enhance the cre
ative development of students.
The OM philosophy is based
on problem solving, team
effort, perseverance and
sportsmanship. Divergent and
original thinking is promoted.
All teams are composed of
seven members. Regional,
state and national competitive
activities are performed as a
team, including the long-
range, spontaneous and style
categories. Competition cre
ates excitement, motivation
and reward. However, the true
rewards of OM are the free
dom to think and to turn those
thoughts into reality, the
building of relationships, coop
eration among human beings
and the satisfaction of a job
well done.
Perquimans fields teams
from Central, Perquimans
Middle and Perquimans High
schools. Teams compete
against other teams in their
age division who choose to
solve the same OM problem.
OM tournament director
Jeanie Umphlett said 50 teams
have registered to compete
Satiurday.
Long-range problems
include:
Amusin’ Cruisin’: The team
will design, construct and
drive a vehicle on a journey
that will take a driver to see
“attractions” that are part of a
team-created theme. In addi
tion to transporting the driver
past, through or as part of the
attractions, the vehicle will
perform required and team-
created tasks.
OMvention: The team’s
problem is to design a new
product or redesign an exist
ing one that will assist a per
son with a physical disability
to perform, or help perform, a
task. The team will apply
methods used by industrial
designers. The team will pre
sent the product and demon
strate its use, incorporating
humor into the performance.
Classics...Great
Impressions: In this problem,
the team will select a drawing
or painting by a French
impressionist and write a
poem relating to it. The team
will also select a poem written
by a famous author, create an
original drawing or painting
that relates to the poem, and
present the poem and work of
art.
Crunch!: This non-linguistic
problem requires teams to
design and build a structure of
balsa wood and glue. The
structure will be tested by bal
ancing and supporting as
much weight as possible while
undergoing a series of billiard
baU impacts.
The Tall Tales of John
Jivery: For this problem, the
team will create and present a
humorous performance about
an original tall tale. The tale
will include a team-made hero
or heroine, a unique explana
tion of how something began
or came to be, and a surprise
for the audience.
The time limit for each per
formance is 8 minutes.
National OM officials set cost
limits on materials used to
solve the problem. Teams
must take documentation to
show expenses.
All work must be done by
the team members. They must
do the actual building, writing,
costume-making and all other
work associated with solving
the problem. Stiff penalties
can be assessed by the judges
if they have cause to believe
that the work was not complet
ed by the students.
Long range problems are
scored on following all rules
set by OM, creativity, perfor
mance and whether the team
actually solved the problem as
stated.
Teams also compete in a
spontaneous category. Five
members of each team are
taken into a room with a panel
of judges. Each team compet
ing in a specific long-range
problem receives the same
spontaneous problem.
Problems may be verbal,
hands-on, or a combination of
both.
An example of a verbal
problem is: When I think blue,
I think of... Team members are
given one minute to think and
two minutes to respond in a
specified order. Common
responses would be the sky,
paint, or a blue car. Creative
responses, which earn the
team more points, would be
Blue Angels or blue sued^
shoes.
A combination hands-on
and verbal problem example
is: Improvise uses or pretend
that this necktie represents
something. When you make
your improvisation, you are to
tell what it is and show your
solution. Team members are
given one minute to think and
two minutes to respond.
Common answers would
include a necktie, a belt or a
bow tie. Creative responses
might be to hold the tie up to
your mouth and say it is a
tongue or to say it is a little
bikini.
For a hands-on problem,
teams might be given a paper
plate, a styrofoam cup, a plas
tic spoon, a piece of yarn, a
napkin and four toothpicks.
The team is instructed to think
about the materials and what
they could become, then create
something from the items
using glue and scissors within
a five-minute period. The more
creative the solution, the more
points the team will receive.
Saturday, teams from as far
away as New Hanover County
will be competing. First and
second place teams in each
division will go on to state
competition in Charlotte,
April 13.
Perquimans will field six
teams. All teams in the county
are coached by parent and
community volunteers.
In addition, many of the
judges, problem captains and
other personnel necessary to
operate a competition will be
volunteers from this county.
Long-range competition is
open to the public. There is no
admission charge.
'Those who’d like to see how
creative youth can be when
challenged can come on out to
the high school Saturday.
Some of what you see may be
OMazing.
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