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[y Medium VOLUME 64 - - ' Committt Teacher & Macon Si The Macon School Commit . tee"oh Wednesday night asked' 4t- - tir n " -* I mat mc rrarreu cuumy ouara | of Education either pay the j salary of an extra teacher at j he Macon elementary school' next year or to close the school and transfer the pupils to Warrenton. A third suggestion made by the school committee was that ?> district lines be changed in order that more pupils might ' be brought into the Macon school in order to maintain a I four-teacher school. W. R. Drake, chairman of and spokesman for the Macon school committee, said that the patrons of the school are! unwilling to operate a three-] teacher school for eight grades.! Norlina Gir A Second i Miss Margaret Caroline Felts has been awarded a National Health Scholarship in Physical Therapy by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Announcement of the award i was made this week by C. P. Gaston, chairman of the Warren County Chapter of the National Foundation. The scholarship is a 4-year award of $600.00 each year. Gaston said that Miss Felts would study at East Carolina College and two years at the University of North Carolina. This scholarship is in addi ^ tion to a four-year scholarship to East Carolina College recently awarded to Miss Felts by the North Carolina Veterans Commission. Miss Felts will enter East Carolina College ' V> this fall. that Miss Felts had won the National Foundation Scholarship, Gaston said: "These young people?men and women dedicated to helping others?will one day help relieve the acute shortage of trained personnel in the health field?a shortage that becomes more serious every day. The National Foundation, through March of Dimes contributions,! :? l a ? 1 -Li. a ? ?!?- I 13 {jruuu IU UC UUIV IU give I them a helping hand." This is the second year the health scholarships have been (See SCHOLARSHIP, page 12) Store Robbers _ Are Sought By Warren Officers The Warren County's Sher iffs Department is seeding the identity of persons who robbed * two business places in separate parts of the county this j o week and last week. Pinnell's Store at Afton was robbed on Thursday night of last week. Entry was made through the front door, whi.' was forced. Only items discovered to be missing. Sheriff Jim Hundley said yesterday, were three cartons of cigarettes. Loss was relatively light at Drewry on Tuesday night when Watkins Store was robbed. Hundley said the only items L J* L. _? .1 J <1 discovered missing was a small I sack containing about $9.00 from under a counter. Entry at Watkins Store was K made through a back window after a bar had been sawed through and a window pane I Peoples Named I f Special Officer W. Lewis Peoples ofElberon r has been named special police officer for Warrenton, replacI f ing Willis Neal, resigned, t: Peoples, presently Constable ( of Sbocco Township, was named special officer^ the Board I called meeting on Monday night. He is expected to be- 1 M ( Subscription Price $3.0 ie Asks 1 Be Adde chool Be This would be unfair to the children, brake said. Drake told members of the board of education that the handwriting was on the wall so far as the Macon school is concerned in the face of decreasing population in the Macon school district. It is no light thing to take a school out of a community, Drake said, hilt in iiiKtiro to tho phil. dren the school cannot be operated with only three teachers. Pointing out that at present there is no room for the some 100 pupils in the Macon school at Warrenton, Drake, who is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the John Graham High School District, asked that the school board make 1 Awarded Scholarship CAROL FELTS Dr. Massey Speaker At Rotary Meeting Dr. Sam H. Massey, Jr., was the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Warrenton Rotary Club at Hotel Warren on Tuesday night G. P. Gaston presided over the meeting. Dr. Massey talked on progress made in dentistry in the past fifteen years. Dr. Walter White and Dr. W. Burns Jones were guests of the club. Visit Crockett* I ?Mrs. Edward Culey of Lumberton and Mrs. A. D. Harris have returned after spending several days with the Charles C. Crockett family in Elizazethton, Tenn., and visiting relatives in Mountain City, Tenn., and Damascus, Va. Norlina Ms A Norlina man has been honored for his work on Polaris missile data at the U. S. Naval Weapons Laboratory at Dahlgren, Va., it was learned here this week. _ Carlton W. Duke, Jr., was one of six scientists in the Computation and Analysis Laboratory who received recignition in the form of a Merit Award for graup achievement. Captain T. H. Morton presented citations to David H. Brown, Jr., Robert E. Harshbarger, Jean A. Calvert, Cadtcn W. Duke, Jr.. and LTJG Harold J. Alder. Duke la a graduate of Norlina High School and N. C. State College where he atudied under a four-year scholarship. Fie 1* the son of Mrs. Carlton Duke of Norlina and the late Mr. Duke. The report of the citation 4 the group waa carried in "The Dalgren Laboratory Log" as follows: She 0 a Year 10c Par rhat d Or Closed . some provision before the beginning of school next year 1 to either provide an additional teacher for Macon or to make room at Warrenton for Macon school pupils. The Board of Education, after pointing out that the Board of County Commissioners hold the purse strings, said they would do all in their power to heed the request >f the Macon school board. Drake was accompanied to the meeting by D. A. Grissom and Mrs. Clarence Adcock, They were unanimous in their statement that they spoke for the entire Macon school dis trict After a brief discussion, the board members expressed themselves as being in favor of working toward the requirements of 18 units for graduation as recommended by the State Board of Education. They appointed a committee composed of Supt. Roger Peeler and principals of the county high schools to work out plans for the raising of requirements for graduations. The committee was also asked to study a grading system for the schools. Announcements of the resignation of Glenn Pope as superintendent of school maintenance brought forth expressions of regret from the board members and instruction to the clerk to the board that a letter of commendation be given Pope for his fine work with the Warren County schools. Pope will return to Freemont [where he will enter work as a I contractor. Supt. Peeler told the board members that instead of accepting Pope's resignation, he had granted him a two-months loovn rtf ahonnoft oa *!?*** if v* mravuvc, uv mat. u things did not "Work out as Pope hoped at Freemont, he eould return to Warren County. Gene Young has been appointed as temporary superintendent of maintenance. The board approved the making of the Liberia Negro School a one-teacher school and transferring one of the teachers to the John R. Hawkins school. The board members also approved the employment of Norman McArthur as John Graham Ag. teacher, Louise Sumerville as teacher at Axtel Special and McCarroll Alston as principal of the Afton school. The 5% supplement for vocational teacher was approved by the board as was the releasing of the North Warren teacherage to G. H. Washington. and the sale of the Five Forks School at public auction. The matter of Janitors cnlarioQ woo /Uo cretion of the superintendent of schools. The bosrd approved the purchase of part of needed bleachers for the new John Graham (See MACON, page 12 in Cited Fc necessary for producing the Polaris pre-setting data. The short time basis on which the program was originally scheduled would have required superior performance, however, the program was accelerated, imposing even greater demands upon the group. "In addition to the demands of the compressed time schedule. the work required devel opment of new concepts and new methods. Daring the entire program, the production of error-free results was enacted. Despite complexity of the wort, there was no tfane for mistakes or errors of analysis of judgment, nor could any errors or delays be tolerated. "A number of other laboratories worked in areas closely related to those with which this group was concerned. It i* noteworthy that Nasal Weapons Laboratory personnel generally led the way, producing Harr Copy WARRENTON, < Board Refusi Warren John Graham Open At 8:3( The John Graham High School will open its doors for ! the beginning of the 1960-61 school season or, next Wednesday morning, August 31, at 8:30 o'clock, J. F. Hockaday, principal, announced this week. Hockaday said that high school students will report directly to their home rooms. The names of students assigned to each room will be posted on the door to the room. The registration day will be spent In schedule corrections, explanation of fees, insurance, eic. students will meet each of their classes and draw their books. Elementary students in grades 4-8 will go directly to the auditorium at 8:30 for home room assignments. Students in grade 1-3 will go directly to the Mariam Boyd School. The room assignments will be posted on the doors. Hockaday said that any families that have moved into the school district during the j summer should check by the [school before school begins. This way, he said, new students could register and be assigned to home rooms and could begin school without any conflict. Hockaday also said he hoped that the students would bring their school fees on the first day of school. He listed these fees as follows: Elementary School fees? Supplementary fees, grades 1 MissTwitty W i m~T?t* ? : [National ULM Miss Panthea Anne Twitty of Warrenton was the winner of a $25.00- award for an essay on General John B. Gordon at the General Convention of the Children of the Confederacy recently concluded in Houston, Texas, it was learned here this week. Her essay was the winner of the State award in June and was entered into the general contest. As Division Historian for the past year, Miss Twitty wrote the N. C. Division History, and compiled the State Scrapbook. Both the schapbook and the division history won first place award for North Carolina. Miss Twitty served as North Carolina Division Page at the convention in Houston, was an pointed to the Courtesy Committee, Tellers Committee, and participated In the program. She was also elected, member of Nominating Committee for 1061. Harry Nolan of Shelby, Di>r Work Oi has reflected great credit upon the scientific staff of this ae-' tivity. Captain Morton expressed his appreciation by closing his remarks with the Navy's traditional 'Weil Done*." "The Laboratory Log" also carried an article about Duke noting that he is the first fulltime scholar for advanced study program and that he will enter State as a graduate student this falL The publicstion tilted: "When Carlton W. Duke, Jr., Mathematician of the Computation and Analysis Laboratory, registers aa a graduate at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, this fall, he will be the first Naval Weapons Laboratory em plojree to undertake academic work under the station's FullTime Advance Itudy Program. Studying In the field of Mathematics, Mr. Duke will be in residence on campus until 11 Auguet 1941. "Mr. Duke's program of study is made pemftle thtmadt m M COUNTY OF WARREN, N. 58 Delay I School i School To ) Wednesday and 2, $1.00; grades 3 through | live, $1.20; grades 6, 7 and 8, | $1.40; Activity fee, $150; In!surance( optional) $1.50; Band, | (See GRAHAM, page 12) ! Pre-School Clinic [To Be Held Here I There will be a I're-School Examination Clinic for children entering the first grade this year on Monday and Tuesday, August 29 and 30, Dr. W. I Burns Jones, Jr., Health Director for the Warren County i Health Department, announced yesterday. Parents are urged to bring all children who have not been examined before, and who are going to school for the first time, to the Health Center at any time during these two days. Dr. Jones also announced other clinics to be held at the Health Center as follows: Prenatal Clinics (for ex-1 pectant mothers) ? first and third Fridays in each month, j Well Baby Clinics ? Second ! and fourth Friday in each month. Planned Parenthood Clinic? Fouth Tuesday in each month. Chest Clinics ? Fourth Mon[day in each month, by appoint[ ment. | Dr. Jones said that all these clinics will be held in the mornings, with the exception of the Pre-School Examination clinic which will be an all-day clinic. fins Award At Z Convention vision President, gave the North Carolina report, and was the winner of the trophy and cash award for N. C. for best report (membership over 500) in competition with Vinginia, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas. Other awards won by North Carolina were for largest amount contributed to scholarships, and for the largest number of perfect application papers. Mr. Nolan, winner of Angler B. Duke Scholarship this year, was elected to the office of Second-President-General 19601961. Other representatives from North Carolina attending the Houston Convention were Mrs. C. L. Blackburn, TXvision Director; Miss .Betty Anne Harkey, N. C. Historianelect: Mrs. RalDh Harkev of Charlotte; Miss Ann Hewlett of Wilmington, former N. C. President and President-General; and Mrs. Lee Nolan of Shelby. a Polaris M will permit carefully selected candidates to engage in approved full-time, postgraduate academic work for varying periods of time, up to one year. This new program permits study in residence at a given college or university and provides financial assistance, including the payment of candidate's normal professional salary and the payment of official-assessed college or university charges for tuition, books, laboratory leas, and related items. Properlyqualified employees who have concluded ait least twelve months of Federal service are AIIOIKIA T -VMgMpaV ?v? I M?nm ??<VU. U1 return for the opportunity and financial assistance given him, the candidate agrees to condude a minimum of three periods of professional employment with the Department of Defense for each period of academic assistance rendered him. "In -applying for approval. Iff- T>uke was itanirfld to ralv I* |? IT* 4*2 Mi I lTb? Bt*n<toltl P f ^ *2256 South She ~C. V 5 To 0] Warren County Schools wi begin the 1960-61 session o next Wednesday morning. At the year. The Board of Education i session here Wednesday nigl refused to postpone the opei ing of schools due to the sta | e<l need for children to aid i j the harvesting of tobacco. 1 The first day of school wi be used for room and lessor assignments and the reguls school schedule will begin o next Thursday, September 1 A new principal will hea the Littleton school this yea and there are a number c faculty changes in sever: schools, but the schools as | whole will operate under til Smiley Stres: Voting For C The election of communit | committeemen is very impor j ant to every farmer in Wai ren County, Walter S. Smile; chairman of the Warren Cour ty ASC Committee, said thi RONALD SHEARIN Ronald Shearin Elected State MYI Vice-President Ronald Shearin, son of Mi and Mrs. Roy Shearin of Wai renton, was elected vice-pres dent of the North Carolin Conference Methodist Yioutl Fellowship by the 470 youth i attendance at the annual cor ference session of the MYI neia ai uuKe university las week. j Ronald is president of th Raleigh District MYF, pres dent of the Warren Count Sub-district and president c Wesley Memorial MYF. He is a rising senior at Job resented the school at Boy State this year. Ronald will serve as vic< president of the Conferenc MYF for the year 1960-61. Thi group compsises over 27,00 youth over Eastern Nort! Carolina. [issile Data tives which were to be serve by it While at North Carolin State, he will do postgraduat work in such fields as nor linear differential equations a related to obital mechanic! and will be studying a numbe of other subjects which relat directly to the work of th Computation and Analysis Lai oratory dealing with missile and SateDites. On his return, I is expected that Mr. Duke w? be able to contribute materia Jy to those programs dealin with the prediction of aerodj namic forces and moments a hypersonic velocities, the anal] sis of the effects of rocke motor jets on aerodynami forces and moments, and th' application of guidance system concepts. One of the importan bases on which MT. Duke, wh holds the Bachelor of Scienc Decree in Engineering Maths matics, was chosen was NWL1 need of professional work aloni these lines. Mr. Duke has sue PPHfB " 1 '""" J" .'III S . rioting Company X \by Street RIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1960 pen Wed ll|same faculty personnel as of] njlast year. j j Norlina School. ' the Norlina school as princiniripl r.rjHv W ?*.?*>-1 ? ii "v.,. ti . t uiioiau, HI J1 tic j it Ayscue and Anne W. Read,] l-l members of the faculty at Wise t-last year, will join the faculty njof the Norlina school as stu-| j dents of that school are brought! 11 to Norlina. Mrs. Jimmie Overis by will replace Mrs. Esther! ir Delbridge, resigned, as Home n Ec. teacher at the Norlina I school. di Other faculty members are ir I Bessie R. Hicks. Mildred C. if Peeler, Lucy E. Perkinson, Ann j iljW Baxter. Robert P. Price, C. a L. Hege. Alma K. Mavfield.! e Richard C. Johnson. Mae P.J ses Need For ommitteemen y week in calling attention to t-, the ASC farm committee elec-j r-jtions to be held on Septem-) r.' ber 8. when elections will be j i- j held in each of the farm corns'munities of the state. ? i | Pointing out that the com' I mitteemen help carry on and administer the ASC program, j Smiley said that good commit! teemen can be a great help to j farmers "That is why each Derson who i? olicrihlo tmto I I- - ? ?" " 1 should go to the polls and ex\ : ercise his rights," he said. Farmers will have an op| portunity on September 8 to j '< vote for the ASC farmer com| mitteemen they want to administer ASC farm programs 3 in 1961, Walter S. Smiley, ASC 3 Committee chairman, Said yesk terday. Elections will be held j. for each of the farm communI ties in the state. I The election of community I committeemen is very importI ant to every farmer in this county, Smiley said. The committeemen help carry on and| administer the program of| ASC. Good committeemen can 7 be of great help to farmers. That is why each person who l is eligible to vote should go to the polls and exercise his \ right, Smiley added. Any farmer is eligible to i- vote who as owner, tenant, a operator, or sharecropper is h participating or is eligible to n participate in any of the proi grams administered by the F County ASC Committee. it Smiley stresses the need for'( farmers to participate. "Don't J e let the deadline pass without i- casting your ballot," he said, y "Vote for the farmer who will if do the best job of administering these farm programs. To n guide our nation's agriculture, w we need the best committees ir.cn we can get. Don't leave it up to some one else to de^ cide for you. If you like the e committeemen now serving, give them a vote of confidence. 0 If you don't, help elect some^ one else. That's democracy. Help keep your rights by using them. "The three farmers you elect in your community will [ be the key men in all the programs of the Agricultural rj Stabilization and Conservation a I of the U. S. Department of e' Agriculture. The delegate you j. | elect to attend the County s1 Convention will have the responsibility of helping elect a r County Committee to adminise ter these ASC programs in a yuur county.~ it- "I am sure that everyone s will agree that 1061 will be a t pretty important year as far 1 as agriculture is concerned. There will be a lot of import* I ant decisions made. That's (See ELECTION, page 11) t ? Auxiliary To Meet e The American Legion Aux> iliary will meet on Thursday I evening, September 1, with t Mesdames R. M. Hardy, Ray> mond Rarick, W. R. Hight and 1 E.^T^Odom, Jr., as hnatlwM. I Est&tHjb I Your Best Advertising Medium : NUMBER S5 ' H nesday I Dryden, Mildred B. Hicks, Rom i H. Palmer, Annie N. Breedlove, Emma 1, Dunn and M?rv R B Littleton School L. C. Robinson will serve as the new principal of the Littleton school this year and B his wife, Sarah Robinson, will also join the faculty as teacher Sally Ann Williams, Betty A. Thome, and Iris L. Ross will be the other new teachers B at Littleton. winer wmieion taculty members are Etbel L. Harrison, Kathryn Clark, Elizabeth Daniel. Evelyn M. Wilson. Helen B. Alston, Helen G. Bell, E. Thomas Satterfield and A. W. Parker. Elementary Schools The Wise School has been consolidated with Norlina this year and there are no teacher changes at either Macon or AJtton-Elberon. Katherine D. Mustian will again serve as principal of the Aftcn-Elberon School and Louise M. Twitty, Anna B. Clark and Margaret Hicks will serve as teachers. Grady J. Haynes will again serve as principal of the Macon School. Teachers will be Annie Haynes, Mamie L. King and Margery R. Drake. Haliwa School Eyrtle Ransom will replace J Dorothy M. Chavers as a teacher in the Haliwa Indian School at Areola. This is the only faculty change for this school announced by the Warren County Board of Education. Hardy J. Deese will serve as principal and other teachers are Jaha V. Senderson, Loretta Oxendine, Maitland Hunt, Pearl H. Kramer, Debra Jacobs, Lela J. B i iarK, ana Betsy Rose OMR dine. John R. Hawkins Four new teachers will be faculty members at John B. Hawkins. They are" Leron Ma- * rie Barry, Wonda P. Pool, Ann ' * E. Rogers, and Herbert F. '' Stover. Other teachers in the school ; are J. R Byers, principal; LI Holt, V C. Henderson, JT. K. , Davis. A. D. Byers, W. C. Marfree, G. M. Tysor, V. ,M. Simons, A. M. Alston, W. H. Kelley, B. j M. Newsome, J. A. Anderson, N F. Graham, I. C. Scales. V B. Brown, W. R. Price, H ? E. Mayfield, L. E. McGrier. A. : C. Fleming, L. G. Hawkins, d. H Hudson, S. N. Merrttt, M. V. Owens, W. H. Garner, J. A. Joyner, H. K. Clifton, L D. Newsome, L. P. Vestal, J. J. Jordan, Edna M. Pinknejr, Ophelia W. Swinson, Clarice B Green, and W. E. Exum. North Warren Two new teachers are aoonjf the 34 faculty members at tit* North Warren School Oils year. They are Jude Cylester Wright and?Mary?Gist Yarhnrongh?J uuili isluuj lueuiuisia IN.,; ts G. H. Washington, principal; ' Shirley V. Wilkerson, Cath^^H erine J. Smith, Jessie L. Cutaberson, Lucille G. Broady, Arcelious M. Ward, Susie A. Knight, Vflraa J. Gatling, Ster- ] ling M. Cheston, Bertha W. Rachel Manly Taylok, Ophelia W. Davis. Leroy Hendcraou 3 John D. Pridgen, Elizabeth k|9 Ward John B. Long, Stewart ; C Cureton, Winfield C. Coalman, Joseph D. Drum wrlght, ? Gladys A. Lunsford, lfeifc I. a Washington, Biddie Davit, jfl rhelma L. Burris, Ma K, #1 lock, Kathleen N. Gtifcif, | Marie H. Thomas, Catherine |,J Kearney, Bettye J. Desjk M Christine C. Davis, Carrie D. Wyche Coachman, and IMmEH ley P. Davis. Ji, No lenity changes kON seen announced for the NjlH ride School this year. IW|^H members aire: L. B. Henderson, H. T. Mason, H. H. 9. Johnson. P. Ck TynM^^H rownes, A. M. Watson, UkLfljfl Williams, P. M. PtanfflH Li. Walker, 1. A. 9. I. PaschalL Vaaghan ' i lerve as principal flfj I t p.' no faculty