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Warren County's tax rate
will be $1.98 on the one hundred
dollars valuation under a
tentative budget approved by
the Board of County Commisy5
sioners here Tuesday morning.
The budget will lie open for
20 days for the inspection of
citizens before its adoption.
The tentative rate of $1.98
represents an increase of 10c
F) over the 1959-60 rate. Part of i
the raise was caused by the,
need to raise funds to pay for!
revaluation of Warren County j
real estate, and was held to j
the $1.98 figure by requiring a;
6c but in school funds.
In >? ?I I
in uuc ui mc ijuicicni sua-1
sions in several months, thel
commissioners passed a resolution
endorsing the consolidation
of the Warrenton andNor-|
lina telephone exchanges, after
Five Warren
To Recreatio
Five Warren County citizens
were appointed as members of
a newly created tri-county planning
board for the Gaston Lake
area by the board of county
commissioners here Tuesday.
William Leach and Marvin
Newsom of Littleton, Freddie
Hicks pf Wise, Howell Steed
of Afton and Claude T. Bowers
of Warrenton were named
as Warren County representatives
on the 15-man board to
be made up qf dtittB*Wttv
L rp n HaHfo*
counties.
Initial plans for the forming
of the planing board were
made at a meeting at Littleton
on last Thursday night
4j+ when representatives of the
three counties were present at
a dinner meeting over which
Dr. C. H. Woodburn of Littleton
presided.
Duties of the planning board
will be to plan for the development
of the areas surrounding
the large lake to be
formed by the Gaston Dam to
be constructed by the Virginia
Electric and Power Company.
Robert Barbour, head of the
N. C. Department of Conservation
and Development's Division
of Community Planning,)
said the people in the area
must combine coordination
with cooperation in order to
make any sort of planning effective.
He said the state agencies
are willing to help with
v advice but the people must
* " make their own decisions about
Two Men Ari
Cited In Norl
Two men were arrested and I
a 17-year-old boy was cited to j
appear in Recorder's Court as I
the result of an early Sunday ;
morning raid on a tourist ]
court near Norlina long to believed
to have been selling ,
beer to minors.
Sheriff Jim Hundley person- <
ally led a raid on the Wigwam i
Tourist Court one-half mile 3
V . south of Norlina on Highway j
h i ai ia:Mj a. m. sunoay. Accompanying
him on the raid
were Deputies Herbert Rook[
or and Bonnie Stevenson and
Warrenton Township Constable
Douglas Vaughan.
Following the raid, Robert >
Edwards, properietor oi the
[ tourist court, and Sherman Nel
son, an employee, were arrestH
* ed and Larry Reid, 17, was
R&..'. . cited to appear in court.
H7 Officers relate as they en
tered the tourist court they
saw Sherman Nelson serve a
K; can of beer to Larry Reid, and
fc. that nearby another boy, about
17. was drinking be*r, Tfc?
H name of this boy was not revealed.
W-. The officers also saM they
found sight beer com which
K v; h?d been opened setting eh e
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Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
Company officials had
appeared to offer to remove
the toll lines between the two
towns with no increase in
rates other than such increase
as would be brought about by
more telephones on the combined
exchange.
A beer license was ordered
issued to Fernie L. Miller
(Miller's Grocery), North Main
Street.
A. P. Rodwell, Jr., Tax Collector,
reported taxes collected
to date in the amount of
S307.268.40. Of this amount $3.669.62
was collected in June.
S. E. Allen, Register of
Deeds, reported 50 marriage licenses
issued for the quarter
ending June 30. 1960 for u/hlrh
$250.00 was turned into the
general fund.
Men Named
n Board
the type of development they
want.
Robert Sipe, an assistant director
of the N. C. Institute of
Government told the group that
federal grants are available to
aid planning boards under certain
conditions.
Planning First
He warned that planning
should begin before the development
of the lake itself starts
and that many times the resalts
are Unsatisfactory when
too much of the planning is
turned over to outsiders.
He pointed out the necessity
of establishing a mnin?r wm.
mission. He said the city of
Roanoke Rapids is the only
municipality in the area with
legislative authority to zone
more areas outside its corporate
limits. (
Thomas E. Broughton, chief
of the Conservation and Development
Community Section,
said the. developed area might
be more suitable for recreational
facilities than for industry.
Hubert Henderson of
the N. C. Recreation Commission
supported those sentiments.
Henderson said he had traveled
the complete lake area
and found it to have tremendous
recreational possibilities.
Walter Dolbeare, a VEPCO
vice president, emphasized the
need for prezoning and said
that "spot" zoning after development
begins might lead to
court action
ested; Boy Is
lina Raid
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beer cans under the counter. |
Several persons were tn the '
tourist court when the office's
arrived, but many of these '
hurriedly departed.
Sheriff Hundlay said that a
search of Edward's car in the
court lot revealed eight pints J
?f legal whiskey, and when a ,
search warrant was obtained ]
ind a search made evidence of ,
a card game was found in an ,
upstairs room.
Hundley sid that Edwards i
was selling beer without a j
icense, after hours and toT
minora. Both Edwards and Nel-|i
on. he said, may be charged
vith contributing to the delinluincy
of a minor.
He said that most of the occupants
of the tourist court 1
lining room when the raid was
nade were teen-agers.
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Dew
ind daughter, Janet, of Washngton,
D. C, Mrs. Bob Shockey
and daughter, Taramie, of
Mass.. and Misses NiU
Cochran and Becky Willey of
Weldon were holiday visitors
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Glover i
md Xlu Jackie Clover.
No. Settle Bovrdan of Braem?U,
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nil. WILLIAM BURNS JONES, JR. '
New Health Officer
Begins Duties Here
Dr. William Burns Jones, Jr., like Warrenton very much and 1
29, began his duties as Health that he is looking forward to l
Officer of Warren County on his work in Warren County. c
July 1. He said that the Heatlh Cen- I
Dr.- Jones is a native of ter office hours would be from J
Beaufort, S. C. He attended 9 to 5 each week day and \
school at the Citadel in Charles- from 9 to 12 (^n Saturday. <
ton, S.' C:, where "he received Dr. Jones is Warren Counhis
B. S. degree ta 1951. Fol- , ,s flrst {ull Hme health of. i
lowing his graduation torn the ficer Por a number of s
Citadel he attended the Medi- the ,ate Dr A D Gregg <
cal College of South Carolina ^ ??.j f
? . J D; Counties on a p.rt-Ume basis. '
in 1955 Dr. Jones interned at sjnce the dcath of Dr G t
St. John s Episcopal Hospital in December m7 Dr L J, i
in Brooklyn, N. Y. Kornegay, chief of staff and ?
Following his internship, Dr. surgeon at Warren General
Jones served as Medical Mis- Hospital, has served as acting 1
sionary in Alaska from Sep- Health Officer on a part time s
tember, 1956, to May, 1959. basis. a
Since he returned from Alaska c
he has been at the School of _ _ _ f
Public Health of the Univer- r rank O&nzet p
sity of North Carolina from J Gets Hole-in-One t
which he received his M. P. H.. v*eis "Oie-in KJne ^
degree in June. Frank Banzet, Warrenton t
Dr. Jones was married to | attorney, recently showed that s
the former Miss Marcia Bell of it is possible for two brothers
Pittsburgh, Pa., in June, 1959. to make a hole-in-one on the l
He and Mrs. Jones are making same golf course and on the? f
their home at the Draper same hole. j
house on South Main Street. Frank Banzet got his hole- a
He is a member of the Epis- m-one on No. 5 last week. His s
copal Church. brother, Julius Banzet, on two f
Dr. Jones said this week i occasions in recent years made F
that both he and Mrs. Jones' a hole-in-one on this hole. I
Highway officials heard con- of the dam, the meeting was <i
flicting views about the proper thrown open to the public r
site for the location of abridge and arguments raged back and f
across the Roanoke River at a forth for about an hour and a tl
meeting attended by about 200 half. n
persons from Warren, Halifax, In the afternoon, the abanonand
Northampton counties at a ment and re-routing of several a
meeting held at Littleton on roads because of the building v
Thiirsdav mnrnlna nf thi? flaotnn Bpcpnmir moi F,
A recording of the testi- discussed. ,."-.fIt
inony was made under tin dl- A group of Warren County a
Wftksn of Sam Beard, public citizens some five years ijo C
relations officer for the State petitioned Governor Hodges to C
Highway Commission, who con- replace the Eaton Perry with t!
ducted the hearing. This re- a bridge at that point to con- P
cording will be transcribed for nect Roanoke Township with tl
later study by -the Highway the remainder of Warren Coun- a
Commission before any deci- ty, and the governor allocated
sion is reached. some $300,000 for that purpose, u
Dennis Rose, Mayor of Little- The building of the bridge u
Aa11<w< fha -J-1 I M '
mi, tBiau ure?uievuiig?ro?ox? -was uci?jcu nn scvciai years, ?
ler and welcomed the delega- depending a decision as to s
ions to Littleton before turn- whether or not VEPCO would h
ng the meeting over to Beard, be able to build a dam at Gas- 1
Present at the meeting was ton. Anticipated flooding of s
lighway Commissioner Fletch- the lake, made the building of e
ir Gregory of Weldon, and a a bridge at Eaton's Ferry C
arge number of highway offi- economically unsound, and
dais, as well as R. N. Hutch*- Highway Engineers sought s
on, vice president of Virginia another rftc. which the engi- c
Electric and Power Company, neers approved, and also had s
tnd a number of other power surveyed a road from Five a
company officials. Forks in Sixpound Township t:
After Hetchason had spoken to this point. F
>riefiy about the history end Three weeks ago Highway n
wogre? of the Geston Dam, Department officials appeared a
md after J. L. Norria, hydro- beta* the Board of Warren a
raphic en^^with the State Cwnty^ ConraiM^nera t
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A plan for the elimination
if telephone toll lines between
Varrenton, Norlina and Macon,
las been approved by governng
bodies of the three towns,
he board of counfy commisioners
and the Carolina TeleUnder
this plan, first subnitted
by telephone officials at
i joint meeting of the boards
if commissioners of Warrenon
and Norlina here on Thurslay
night of last week, no inTease
of rates is called for
xcept those called for by a
arge number of telephones.
No premium is asked for renoval
of the toll lines and the
onsolidated rates would be the
iame as if there had been no
oil line separating the three
xchanees.
Under the proposed rates,
elephone charges would drop
>n the Macon Exchange in
'very category, because Macon
igreed to a premium rate when
ts exchange was consolidated
vith that of Warrentan a few
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Norlina is to have a new
fxxstoffice.
Postmaster General Arthur
2. Summerfield announced yeserday
that a new Post Office
las been authorized for Norina.
This announcement, the
'ostmaster General advised,
coincides with the optioning by
'ost Office Department Regionil
Officials of site meeting De>artmental
requirements as to
rosU area and location.
"This new and modern post
il facility," Postmaster Gener
il Summerfield said, "will be
instructed under the Post Ofice
Department's Commercial
--easing Program, which utilizes
he resources and investment
unds of private enterprise to
btain needed postal buildings."
The new Post Office at Norina
will contain about 2,708
quare feet of floor space, plus
i loading platform. The site,
omprising about 18,920 square
eet, will provide adequate
tarking and truck maneuvering
treas, and is located on the
outh side of Liberty Street beween
Disvision and Elm
itreets.
According to Postmaster Wiliam
K. Delbridge, bidding
orms, specifications and other
>ertinent data will be availble
to prospective bidders in
ipproximately 60 days, at
vhich time the Post Office Detainment
will advertise for
>ids. Thus an equitable confearing
lorsement of this and other
oad projects for the coming
iscal year. The approval for
he site was given by the Comlissioners.
At or about the same time
group of Littleton citizens as
rell as interested parties in
[alifax and Northampton connles
came up with a substitute
ite at.Curl's Hill in Halifax
Jounty just across the Warren
tounty line. They contended
hat it was a more logical
lace for the bridge and asked
tie Highway Commission for
ncau uig.
The Highway Engineers figre
that the Curl's Hill site
rould coat at least $300,000
tore than the Robinson Ferry
Ite and that the bridge would
ave to be 700 feet longer,
hey also said that the Rohin>n
Ferry site would be nearr
equal distance between the
aston and Kerr lake dams.
The great majority of the
pport for the Curl's Hill site
me from Littleton, with some
jpport from Halifax County
ad from Northampton Counr
and the endorsement of the
ocky Mount Chamber of Comlores.
Opposition centered
round Wamnton, NorHna,
ad Macon, with some opposiOU
from Roanoke Township,
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i years ago.
i The largest increase in rates
, would occur at Norlina in
business phones where the
, rates would increase $2.00 a
month on one-party phones
and $1.75 on two-party phones.
party business phones would
be upped 75c and two-party
business phones would be
upped 50c a month.
| Residential phone charges at
Norlina would also be slightly
higher than on the Warrenton
Exchange. On one-party residential
phones the rates at
Norlina would be increased 50c1
i on both one-party and two-|
1 party phones, and the rate on
' 4-party phones would be upped'
i 25c a month.
At Warrenton, the residen,
tial rates on both one-party
i and two-party phones would
joe uppeu ouc a montn, witn noj
increase in multipie-party
I phones. There also will be no
[increase in extension tele|
' phones. j
>stoffice'
icted At
' struction value will be estab|
lished on a competitive basis.
"The site option," the Post.
J master noted, "will be transi
ferred to the successful bidder,
. who will purchase the land,
, and then construct the building
to Post Office Department
r specification and lease it to
. the Department on a long-term
. basis, with lease renewal op,
tions running up to five years."
"More than 4,200 .new Post
. Offices have been built since
. 1953 under the Post Office
t Department's unique Commer.
cial Leasing Program," Mr.
I Summerfield said. "Because
i these postal buildings remain
; under private ownership while
. leased to the Federal Govern
I ment, the leassor pays local
real estate taxes.
I "Furthermore, because the
i buildings are constructed with
private investment funds, cap|
ital outlays by the Post Office
: Department are limited subr
stantially to those for Post Of!
fice furniture and equipment."
Postmaster General Summerfield
indicated the need for
replacement of 12,000 more of
the nation's post offices be;
cause of lack of space and ob1
solescence.
Mr. Summerfield noted that
during the last session of Con;
gress, Congressional approval
was given to the Postal Program
which will provide in
1960 alone, 1400 new post ofJU1
A Avra
Principal argument for the i
Curl Hill site was summed up
by Mayor Rose. sHe said that
the Curl's Hill site might be a
little more expensive, but
worth the difference. The
bridge here, he said, would
serve more people, was near
the widest part of the proposed
lake which would tend. to
its development and the bridge
here would work in better with
the plans of the tri-county development
commission. He said
he felt that the HfgkWiy De- j
partment should build for the
future and for the development
of recreation and for the
tourist trade.
Shield Alexander, chairman
of the Board of Commissioners
of Halifax County, said that
his board had endorsed the
Curl's Hill site and that he endorsed
the remarks of Mr.
Rose.
Marvin Ntwaom, Littleton
business man. alao added Ids
endorsement to that of Rosa,
la dditk* he pointed eat that 1
the bridge site w*s only 8.5
mile. North of Uttleta, and
pointing to the eastern corner
of Koanoke Township on the <
map, ho sold that the distance
from Roanoke Township to
Warrantee by way of Curt1! HB1
was only about eight Silas
further than byjtobtnson fhr
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1DAY, JULY 8, 1960
Abol
Tod Williamson of Rocky
Mount, district manager, who
appeared before the two boards
here Thursday night with D. F.
Holloway of Henderson, local
manager, told the board members
that Norlina would have
cause it would obtain the largest
gain in phones through
the consolidation.
Williamson said that at present
about two-thirds of the
phones were on the Warrenton
Exchange, and one-third
of the phones on the Norlina,
which accounted for the present
difference in rates and
greater increase at Norlina
would be responsible for a
greater increase at Norlina
when the exchanges are combined.
If the new rates are adopted,
he said, the same rates
would apply on all the exchanges.
Neither Norlina or Warrenton
would lose their identity
under the consolidation plan,
as exchanges would be mainT
n
lone
Norlina
POSTMASTER GENERAL
SUMMERF1ELD
offices. Ultimately a total of
12,000 badly-needed post offices
to replace obsolete facilities
will be built under this
lease program, in every part of
uie nation.
Mr. Summerfield emphasized
the goal of the Post Office
Department to provide its patrons
with the most modern
and efficient mail service in
the world. "The construction of
a new Post Office for Norlina
is an example of this postal
progress," he pointed out.
"The Norlina Post Office,"
he observed, "will be a major
link in our newly-revitalized
and modern postal service, aimed
at an ultimate goal of nextday
delivery of mail anywhere
in the nation." (
Norlina Tax Rate
Set At $1.50 In
Tentative Budget
Norlina's tax rate for the
1961-62 fiscal year will show:
no change.
The town commissioners on!
Tuesday night adopted a tentative
budget calling for a tax
rata of $1.50, the same rate
that bas been in effect for several
years.
The commissioners also approved
the ahollhtng of telephone
toll charges between
iiuiuiw ?uu narrenion exchanges
under a plan submitted
by the Carolina Telephone
ind Telegraph Company.
Considerable tin* of the
commissioners was consumed
In a discussion of the stray
log problem at Norlina. While
>11 agreed that It ie lmpasutive
that eometUng be dene
to ahnte what has beeoae a
nuisance, no definite plans
ere worked out at the meet
ng.
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tained in each town tnd phones H |
would be listed by towns, Wlk |
liamson said. |
Williamson said that due to
fortitiou? circumstances t h H |
telephone company... was abul^^H |
to make this offer to phoneB j
users wno would be arfeefedTJsT^B |
the consolidation and that he
feels that elimination of the |
tolls between the three towns H
would be a good thing for the j
telephone company and for the H
subscribers. "We feel," he
said, "that anything that is H |
good for a community is goodH |
1 for the Carolina Telephone and
j Telegraph Company." |
I He said that company offii
cials had observed the work H |
j in Warren of the Industrial H |
I Development Commission, and j
I thai he belived telephone con- H |
solidation would aid in the
continued development of the H
county. |
Williamson said that he be- |
lieved that endorsement of
the unification of the telephone
systems by the boards H
of commissioners of the three |
towns affected, by the board H |
of county commissioners, and I
j by the Carolina Telenhone and
t Telegraph-Corapany worid-b^B |
sufficient to win the approval j
of the Utilities Commission for H I
the consolidation. He said, how- H |
ever, before approval would. H
be given by the commission:^!
that it would call a public |
hearing where any objecting H I
groups might be heard. |
The board of commissioners.! |
of Warrenton, who were in~l j
their regular meeting place,'!
unanimously passed a resolu- IH
tion endorsing the plan submit^
ted by the telephone company. . ! |
Commissioners of Nurtiaaiisi^H
also approved the plan, but die* |
ferred action until their regu- I I
lar meeting at Norlina on I
Tuesday night, due to vynli^
ble legal technicality.
Representing Norlina at Oia B j
meeting here last Thursday! j
night were Mayor Grahaal j |
Grissom, and Commissioners R. I |
L. Traylor, E. G. Hecht and
J. Harton.
The board of county eoflfr?^| |
missioners gave their appnwdj j
at their regular meeting on! |
Tuesday afternoon after Wit^H
liamson and HollowajT had ap-*
peared to explain the plan. |
Macon's approval is e xported I
as soon as the board of cops*!
missioners of that town meet,r*j^H
following the return IbiyQfS
Drake to Macon from New!
Williamson said that it would ! |
take from a year to eigbteett~3^H
months to affect the change-!
over after approval bytheUtfll- .fl |
ties Commission. : >
Miles Announces |H
Cash Winners JgJ
Winners in the drawing for fl
five $10.00 cish prizes on the
court house square Saturday I
at 5:30 p. m. were announced
-this?week?I II M UlbliSi B
chairman of the Warrenton
Merchants Pre-fourth of ,
Celebration of Vftnea.
They were Frank Newell, 1
Jr., A. W. Stephenson, Franfc M
Carroll and Bonnie Bobbins, 9
all of Warrenton, and Fred ..fl
Paynter of South HH1, Vufl
Only Stephenson was present
at the drawing. H
The Celebration of Values M
wes sponsored by tiie Warren- jfl
ton Merchants AascdatftoUiH
Miles said that a large crowd 1
was present for the drawing
and described the entire
day event as very wcceufttl. I
To Let Contract
For Parsonage
The contract for the taMB
tof of a parsonage for tWH
_._t? if,it.n itw itfiM
newly creaiN einoom a
tion la expected to bo M H
week. Raby L. Trsylor fN|
ICtr. Ch.rU. IM
l'lTto '"""'the Wb?
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