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County not included in redistricting first draft
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
Apparently Perquimans
County will have to wait
until July 1 to find out
which House and Sen
ate district will represent
county citizens following
state redistricting efforts.
The county was not in
cluded in districts shown
on recently released maps
that only show minority
Schools
wait for
impact
of cuts
By PETER WILUAMS
The Daily Advance
The effect of recent state
budget cuts on North Caro
lina school systems wfil
vary, but the cumulative ef
fect of two years of spend
ing reductions will have
an impact, a state official
says.
The exact extent of that
impact won’t be known un
til sometime this week. The
Legislature voted June 15 to
override Gov. Bev Perdue’s
veto of the budget, starting
a 10-day countdown for the
N.C. Department of Public
Instruction to get the final
budget numbers to local
school officials.
Alexis Schaus, the acting
director of school business
for DPI, said school dis
tricts should have a good
idea of what lies ahead,
but they will know for sure
until the final numbers ex
pected this week.
The impact of the bud
get on individual school
systems this year will vary,
she said. Some systems
took deep cuts last year
because officials were
' See IMPACT, 8
School
transfers
follow RIF
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
Perquimans County
Schools have made several
changes for the next school
year while adjusting from
the reduction in force in
personnel because of state
budget cuts.
Schopl officials say
changes within schools
and transfers between
schools have been made to
ensure schools are staffed
efficiently and effectively
The reduction in force
included one teacher and
two teacher assistants at
Perquimans County Mid
dle School (PCMS), five
teacher assistants at Per
quimans Central School
(PCS), one teacher assis
tant and two custodian po
sitions at Hertford Gram
mar School (HGS), and
three teacher assistants at
Perquimans County High
See TRANSFERS, 8
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districts, which are subject
to special scrutiny under
federal voting rights legis
lation.
The maps, found on the
General Assembly’s web
site, are first drafts of the
GA’s redistricting commit
tees.
Brent Woodcox, redis
tricting counsel to Senator
Bob Rucho who serves as
chairman of the Senate’s
redistricting committee.
indicated via email that
districts that contain Per
quimans Coimty won’t
be made public until next
month. .
“No Senate district has
yet been proposed by the
Joint House and Senate
Redistricting Committee
leadership encompass
ing Perquimans County,”
Woodcox wrote. “FuUmaps
of the proposed House,
Senate, and Congressional
plans will
be released
on July 1.”
When
asked if
that also
meant that
no House
district
has been
proposed
for Perquimans yet as well,
he replied, “That appears
to me to be accurate.”
Mobley
Representative Annie
Mobley, whose 5th House
District currently includes
Perquimans County, said
she could not address what
the redistricting commit
tee’s intentions are. While
she sits on the House re
districting committee, she
said there have been no full
committee meetings since
the maps were published.
“I have no credence as to
where Perquimans County
wfil be,” she said.
The proposed House
redistricting map shows
a new 2nd House District
that includes Northamp
ton, Hertford, Gates, and
part of Pasquotank coun
ties. Mobley, a resident of
Hertford County, told The
Daily Advance that she
had been told by one of
the committee chairmen
See COUNTY, 9
Out ForXstroll
STAFF PHOTOS
BY CATHY
WILSON
Faye Myers
(left) and
Eva
Landing
(right) tiy
their hand
at a fad
from the
1960s
during the
hula hoop
contest
held during
the Friday
Night
Stroll last
weekend.
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June's Friday Night Stroll included games and comedy in addition to musical entertainment, vendors, book signings and food vendors.The monthly event, held
on the 3rd Friday of each summer month, is sponsored by the Perquimans Chamber of Commerce.
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E.T. Myers (right)
is distressed to
find that several
“parts” of his
bride come off
at night, during
a comedy skit
performed
at the Stroll.
Home-baked
goods
and fresh
vegetables
were offered
on the histor
ic Courthouse
green.
Faye and E.T. Myers perform a comedy skit that began with
the two singing love songs to each other.
Biker remembered for generosity
By PETER WILLIAMS
The Daily Advance
In life. Bob Morton was
a man who would ride for
hours on his motorcycle to at
tend the funeral for a veteran
he never knew.
On Saturday, about 100 mo
torcyclists from as far away
as Charlotte and Wilmington
were there for him in Eliza
beth City for his funeral.
Morton, 70, of Hertford,
died June 14 of unrelated
complications after being in
volved in a motorcycle acci
dent on June 3.
Morton was remembered
for his gravely voice and a
man who was “rich in life,
rich in love and rich in his
faith.”
Morton was president of
the Light Christian Motorcy
clists Association and a mem
ber of Towne South Church
of Christ.
It
THOMAS J. TURNEY/THE DAILY ADVANCE
Patriot Guard Riders arrive at
Westlawn Memorial Cemetery
to attend the funeral of fellow
Patriot Rider Bob Morton, who
died June 14. Morton was 70.
He was also a member of
the Patriot Guard Riders,
a group that routinely wel
comes home U.S. servicemen
returning from overseas.
They also attend funeral
services for anybody that re
quests it, says Kip McDonald,
the president of the North
Carolina chapter. Primarily
they attend funerals for mfii-,
tary servicemen, veterans.
See MORTON, 9
36 sterilized in
eugenics program
From staff reports
Thirty-six people in Perquimans County
were apparently sterilized by the state dur
ing a 22-year period described as the peak
of the Eugenics Program in the state.
According to figures released recently by
the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization
Victims Foundation, Perquimans County
ranks 58th out of the state’s 100 counties in
the number of residents sterilized between
July 1946 and June 1968.
Pasquotank County ranks 54th with 39
victims sterilized. Chowan, with 23 steril
ized, ranks 75th followed by Camden at 83rd
with 17. Currituck County was the third
lowest-ranking county, ranked 98th with
See EUGENICS, 8