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VOLUMNE 65 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10c Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1961 NUMBER 31
Officers Seek Man
Who Broke Window
A smashed store window at
Norlina led to a two-hour
chase with bloodhounds early
Tuesday morning but so far
no arrests have been made.
Norlina and Warren County
officers are still seeking to
learn the identity of the per
son who smashed a show win
dow at Leigh's Store at Nor
lina shortly after 3 o'clock on
Tuesday morning.
The would-be thief was fright
ened off by Chief of Police
Buck White before he could
either gain entrance into the
store of fish any merchandise
through the broken window.
Store owner Leigh Traylor said
on Tuesday afternoon that no
merchandise Is missing.
Chief White said that a
change in his direction of pa
trol may have fooled the win
dow breaker and to have led
to the interruption of ? rob
bery. He said that as he was
en route to the store to check
th? door when Ernest Read, an
employee of the Seaboard Rail
road, called to him that he had
heard glass break.
White immediately called the
Warren County Prison Camp
for dogs and within 15 minutes,
White said, he and Norman
Gene Pinnell with bloodhounds
were following a trail north
ward along the railroad tracks.
White said that the trail
followed the rails for nearly a I
half mile to a church where,
the pursued man left the i
tracks and cut around behind1
the church. The trail, after
some wandering, cut back
across the railroad tracks and
led to the home of J. K.
Davis near the Northside Ne
gro elementary school and the
dofs were unable to find any
trail leading from the Davis
home although they circled the
home several times.
White said that when he and
Pinnell reached the home
around 5 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing Mrs. Davis came from the
home and said that no person
had entered the home and
that she had seen no one.
Davis was working a night
shift at a Henderson cottonmill
at the time that the window
was smashed.
White said that he did not
search the home as he had no
search warrant and that he was
inclined to belive the woman.
The store window at Leigh's
was repaired on Tuesday after
noon and there is nothing to
show that a break-in was at
tempted, but both Norlina of
ficers and officers of the
Sheriffs Department are still
seeking for some lead that
will lead to the arrest of the
person who smashed the win
dow.
May Get Factory
Labor Survey To Be
Held At Littleton
LITTLETON?A labor sur
vey will be conducted here
August 9 from 8:30 a. m. to
6:30 p. m. in the Browning
Drug Store building to determ
ine whether an adequate sup
ply of labor is available for a
firm manufacturing women's
sleepwear.
The firm has expressed in
terest in locating a plant here.
The industry has been in oper
ation for 43 years.
Littleton Development Cor
poration has been working
with the Division of Commerce
and Industry of the State De
partment of Conservation and
Development in Raleigh for
some time.
If the labor survey indicates
sufficient labor to satisfy the
industrial prospect, the Little
ton Development Corporation
will head a community effort
to help finance the building.
Women will be considered
for sewing machine operation
and office work. Some 200
applications are sought.
Sweet Potato Growers
To Vote On Promotion
All Warren County farmers
who grow sweet potatoes for [
commercial sale will be elig-|
ible to vote in a sweet potato
referendum on September 23
according to Frank W. Reams,
county agricultural agent. n
The referendum, the first
ever held by sweet potato
growers, has been requested
by the N. C. Sweet Potato, Inc.,
and authorized by the State
Board of Agriculture.
At stake will be a grower
assessment to be used in pro
moting N. C. sweet potatoes.
The proposed assessment will
be two cents per bushel for
fresh market sweet potatoes
and two cents per 100 pounds
for cannery stock.
Two-thirds of the growers
voting in the referendum must
be in favor of the assessment
in order for it to carry.
Reams said the polling place
in Warren County would be
the agricultural building in
Warrenton.
Plans call for holding the
referendum in Halifax, Vance,
Granville, Wake, Lee, Harnett,
Franklin, Scotland, Hoke, and
all counties east of these.
Counties in the west are
not scheduled to participate
but can do so if growers in
that area request participation.
In asking for the referen
dum, the N. C. Sweet rota to
Association Is foil owing a step
taken by many other commod
ity groups in the state, Reams
said.
E. E. Goodwin of Dunn,
president of the association,
said the "promotion money la
needed desperately to get peo
ple to eat npre N. C. im
potatoes."
"Consumption of sweet po
tatoes has been goinf down In
recent years," Goodwin said.
"Our acreage has been drop
toe. We believe," he add
"that this Money will help
Goodwin is a leading Johns
ton County sweet potato grow
er and a shipper. The board of
directors of the newly formed
association which he is bead
ing is composed of four pro
ducers. four shippers, and one
processor.
Goodwin said that there is a
good posaibility that shippers
will match the money the
growers contribute.
If the referendum carries,
the assessment will be deduct
ed when a farmer sells bis
sweet potatoes. At regular in
tervals, buyers will send their
collections to the Commissioner
of Agriculture. The money will
be returned, without any de
ductions, to be used as the or
ganization thinks best.
If approved the assessment
will begin October 1. An esti
mated $20,000 to $23,000 will
be collected the first year. In
three years growers will have
the opportunity to vote on the
program again.
Any grower who does not
wish to support the program
can apply for a refund.
Tobacco Plan
Brings Objection
WASHINGTON?The House
Agricultural Committee baa ap
proved a two year experiment
al program for renting
eo acreage allotments, but not
without some objections
The Agriculture Department
opposed the program in two
reap net#
Department witnesses, in
testifying before the tobacco
subcommittee Monday, said they
wanted long-term leeaing on
sale of allotments, and wanted
the program extended to other
commodities with acreage con
trols. '
The committee approved
year within
Justin Frank Mpelumbe and Roram Jilanoeka Mgombela pose for their picture on Tuesday
morning. The young men from Tanganyika, East Africa, are in Warren County for two weeks
as a part of their study of agriculture in the United States. (Staff Photo)
Heat Not Oppressive,
Visitors From Africa Say
In spite of an intense heat
wave over Warren County dur
ing the past several days, two
young men visiting in the coun
ty said on Tuesday morning
that they did not find the heat
oppressive.
They were Justin Frank
Mpelumbe and Roram Jilaoneka
Mgombela of Tanganyika, East
Africa.
The young men, field officers
in Agriculture to the Ministry
of Agriculture and Cooperative
Development of Tanganyika,
East Africa, are visiting in
Warren County for a two-week
period. The African partici
pants are being sponsored by
the International Cooperation
Administration of the U. S. A.
and Tanganyika governments.
Mpelumbe and Mgombela ar
rived in the United States on
February 2&. 1961, and spent
four months in Texas at Prairie
View A. and M. College. Th^y
arrived in Greensboro on July
8 and spent one week of train
, ing at A. and T. College, one
Motor Law Violators
Land In County Court
More than a dozen defend
ants faced Judge Julius Banzcl
in Recorder's Court on lasl
Friday on charges of violating
motor vehicle laws. Charges
ranged from speeding tc
drunken driving.
In addition, Judge Banzot
heard cases in which defend
ants were charged with as
sault, drunken and disorderly
conduct, stealing, resisting ar
rest, assault on female, non
support, assault with deadly
weapon and disorderly conduct
carrying a concealed weapon
and giving bad checks.
Disposition of the various
cases were as follows:
Joseph Carlton Poythree
speeding, costs.
Frank Fulghum Ayscue
speeding, $10.00 and costs.
Charlie Walden, assault, two
years on roads.
Joe Ed Lynch, drunk and
disorderly conduct, 30 days or
roads.
George Burton, Jr., reckless
driving, 90 days suspended sen
tence on condition not operate
vehicle in North- Carolina for
90 days except while working,
paying a $100 fine, pay the
court costs, and pay the Clerk
of Superior Court $17.00 foi
damages to K. E. Short's car.
Ill another case, Burton was
charged with stealing. Prayer
for Judgment was continued
for two years on condition ol
good behavior, no violations of
the state's criminal laws, and
pay a $30.00 fine and courl
costs .
Morris Taylor, Jr., was charg
ed with reckless driving and
operating a motor vehicle witli
Improper brakes. He was
found not guilty on the improp
?r brakes charge.. On the reck
less driving charge, prayer foi
Judgment was continued fot
90 days on condition that de
fendant pay a $50 00 fine and
court costs, surrender his driv
er's license for 90 days and
i not operate a motor vehiclc
tor 90 dajrr
James William Champ was
sentenced to the roads for six
months when he was found
gnilty of reckless driving. The
sentence was suspended on
condition that defendant not
operate a motor vehicle for
six months, and pay a 935.00
fino end court costs.
Join Andrew Boyd, speed
or Judgment con
tinned for two- years provided
defendant not operate motor
vehicle for 12 months, except
for his employer during busi
ness, pay a $50.00 fine and
court costs.
Boyd was also found guilty
on a .luckless driving charge.
His intence was suspended
Cor two years upon the same
conditions as those imposed
in the speeding judgment.
Boyd was also charged with
failure to stop for a siren and
red light and drunk driving.
Both of these charges were nol
prossed.
Clint Whitaker, reckless driv
ing, prayer for judgment su
spended for 12 months provid
ed defendant surrender driv
ing license for 30 days, not
operate a motor vehicle on N.
C. highways for 30 days, and
pay a $25.00 fine and court
costs.
Charles Bullock was in court
on two charges. Found guilty
of resisting arrest and assault,
he was given a 90-days road
sentence which was suspended
for five yeafs provided defend
ant not violate any criminal
laws and pay $50.00 and costs.
Bullock was also charged
with assault on a female. Pray
er for judgment was continued
for two years provided defend
ant not violate any N. C. crimi
nal laws for two years and pay
court cost.
William McKinley Davis was
in court charged with non-sup
port. Prayer for judgment was
continued for two years pro
vided defendant provided ade
quate support for wife and six
children, remain of good be
havior and gainfully employed,
and pay costs.
Wiley Mitchell was fined
$50.00 and taxed with court
costs when he was found guilty
of an assault with a deadly
weapon and disorderly conduct.
Found guilty of following
another car too closely, Isaac
Shearin was taxed with court
costs.
Romie Edward Clark was in
court charged with failure to
see that a movement into a
highway could he made in
safety. He was found not guilty.
Robert Mallette, Jr., charged
with carrying a concealed wea
pon, was fined 928.00 and coats
and the weapon waa ordered
(See COURT y?ge 16)
week at North Carolina State
College in Raleigh, and one
week at J. W. Mitchell 4-H
Camp at Swansboro.
During their two-weeks stay
in Warren County the partici
pants are living with Mr. and
Mrs. A. T. Carroll and family,
Route 2, Macon, in the Embro
Community, and with Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Knight and family
of the Coley Spring Commun
ity on the Louisburg highway.
L. C. Cooper, Negro agricul
tural agent, under whom the
young men are studying while
staying in Warren County, said
the boys will observe the total
Extension program involving
4-H, Home Demonstration and
Agricultural Extension and
Marketing They are interested
in theoretical and research ma
terial as it is applied to the
farmers and put into practice.
Cooper said they will attend
Rural Community Development,
Home Demonstration and 4-H
Club meetings antf visit a num
ber of families throughout the
county to learn more about
how the Extension program is
being projected to raise the
economic standard of the fam
ily through Extension methods.
Mpelumbe and Mgombela at
tended private and mission
schools and governmental in
stitutes, Cooper said. They
speak English fluently and
"Swahili," the common lan
guage for all East Africa. Eng
lish is taught in school. They
also speak a tribal mother
tongue and as many as seven
languages of the country.
Cooper said that Mgombela
is of the Christian Lutheran
faith and Mpelumbe is of the
Anglican Episcopal faith.
Peeler To Attend
Supts' Meeting
Supt Roger Peeler will leave
August 8 to participate in the
School Superintendents' Con
ference at Mars Hill College.
The three-day session brings
together the 173 superintend
ents of the county and city ad
ministrative units throughout
the State.
Superintendents generally re
gard the conference as a short
study-course for the Improve
ment of personal competence
and know-how, Peeler said
yesterday.
The conference will be un
der the. direction of the State
Department of Public Instruc
tion and Dr. Charles F. Car
roll, State Superintendent.
Public school administration,
new school laws and policy ac
tions of the State Board of
Education will be discussed
and explaimd.
Participant* go through three
days of intensive brtafing and
?tody, constituting a profession
al seminar. The purpose of the
meeting is to Improve school
administration.
N* Services
There will be no services at
Emmanuel ^rfscopal Church
this Sunday.
Local Warehouseman
Dies Of Heart Attack
Funeral services were held
at Middleburg Baptist Church
at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
for Daniel Gaston Currin, Sr.,
63. who died of a heart ailment
at his home at Middleburg early
Monday morning. Burial was in
the Middleburg Cemetery ?
Officiating were the Rev.
I.owell Lane and the Kev.
Charles Fulbright.
Mr. Currin was a member of
the Warrenton Tobacco Board
of Trade and a warehousemen
here for some twenty-five years.
He came to Warrenton around
1936 as a partner with the late
M. P. Carroll, Sr., in the op-!
eration of Center Warehouse. I
Later he built a large ware- j
house in the western part of,
Warrenton, and after a fe\v years
enlarged this warehouse with
a 'second adjoining building.
I Since that time these ware-j
I houses have been operated as.
j Currin No.l and Currin No. 2 '
A large tobacco farmer in
his own right. Mr Currin
brought much tobacco to War
renton and was Instrumental
in the healthy growth of the
Warrenton market during a
score of years.
A native of Granville Coun
ty, Mr Currin had resided in
Middleburg for the past twen
ty-five years. He was a mem
ber of the MiddleburfT Baptist
Church, and had large farming
interests in Vance and Warren
Counties.
Surviving are lus wife. Mrs.
Aval Bowden Currin of the
home; two daughters, Mrs.
Charles G. Watkins of Raleigh
and Mrs. David E. Tillotson
of Middleburg; three sons,
Daniel Gaston Currin, Jr., of
Henderson. Carroll W. Currin
of Middleburg, and George
Spencer Currin of Asheville;
five grandchildren; four sis
ters, Mrs. Ernest O. Eakes and
Mrs. Perry Lee Satterwhite of
Route 1, Oxford, Mrs. Carl L.
Puckett of Oxford, and Mrs.
Fred C. Boyd of Stovall; and
four brothers, Thomas T. of
Oxford, Floyd C. of Peters
burg. Va., Willie L. of Ports
mouth, Va., and Earl Currin
of Angier.
Coin Collectors
To Hold Meeting
At Courthouse
A meeting of Warren County
coin collectors will be he1? in
the Warren County court house
tonight (Friday) at 8 o'clock.
Nichomus Clark, who called
the meeting with Clerk of
Court Joe Ellis, said that the
purpose of the meeting was to
organize a coin club and that
officers would be elected and
(by-laws adopted. There are at
least 20 active coin collectors
in the county, Clark said, and
perhaps many others. All in
terested are invited to attend
the meeting.
Clark, who has been interest
ed in coin collection for many
years, some 30 days ago added
a lot of coin materials at his
pressing club on Main Street.
In addition to a large number
of rare coins on display, Clark
buys and sells coins, has coin
catalogs showing the retail
value of coins, as well as coin
folders.
There are many persons in
Warren County who have coins
worth considerable money,
Clark said. Most of these per
sons, he added, are ignorant of
their value. Persons interested
in finding the value of any
coin or other money are invit
ed to consult Clark without
obligation, and if they are in
terested in the hobby to come
to the meeting tonight.
Clark said that coin collect
ing is not only an interesting
hobby, but is one hobby which
cost no money. Rare coins are
always salable and constantly
increase in value, he said.
At Camp
Billy Mitchiner and Bill Per
ry, Jr., are at Camp Don Lee
this week. David Gardner, Jim
my Barrett and Cam- Comer
are at Chestnut Ridge.
Eastern Belt Leaf
Mart Opens Aug. 22
Auction sales of flue-cured
lobaccp will begin on Tuesday
August 22, on the markets oi
the huge Eastern North Caro
Una belt.
The opening date was se1
Tuesday by the sales committee
of the Eastern North Carolim
Warehouse Association at i
meeting with the association'!
board of directors at Wilson
N. C.
The date for the Middle Bell
opening has not been set bul
usually the Middle Belt, oi
which Warrenton is a part
opens two weeks later than the
Eastern Belt
Walker P. Burwell, local
warehouseman, said yesterdaj
that the date for the opening
of the Middle Belt would not
be set until enough tobaccr
has been sold on the South
Carolina market to establish i
trend sufficient to know wher
buyers would be available foi
the Middle Belt market. H<
said he feels that the Warren
ton market will open aroun<
September 1, and that his gues:
?but only a guess?would b<
Tuesday after Labor Day whlcl
falls on Monday, September 4
Burwell said that many East
em warehousemen were mak
ing an effort to have the East
ern Belt opening moved up t<
August 17. If they are success
ful, he said, it is possible tha
the Middle Belt would opei
the latter part of August. Bu
his guess, he added, would b(
September 5. -
The Eastern Belt opening o:
August 22 compares with ar
August 23 opening last yeai
and an August 18 opening tw<
years ago.
Julian Fenner of Rockj
Mount, president of the east
ern association, said, "We gave
it a lot of study, and looking
at crop conditions in all areas
of our belt we thought this
would be the most realistic
opening date we could arrive
at."
There are a total of 17 mar
kets in the eastern belt.
Markets are at Ahoskie, Clin
ton, Dunn, Farmville, Golds
boro, Greenville, Kinston, Rob
ersonville, Rocky Mount, Smith
field, Tarboro, Wallace, Wash
ington, Wendell. Williamston,
Wilson and Windsor.
PRICES CONTINUE HIGH
VALDOSTA, Ga.?Georgia
Florida flue-cured tobacco
prices surged to the highest
general average of any day In
its history at the start of the
first full week of sales, the U.
S. Department of Agriculture
reported today.
A massive turnover of 12,
708.042 pounds Monday aver
aged $61.62 a hundred pounds
for total returns of $7,831,206.
The average was up 39 cents
from the previous high of
$61.23 reached on Aug 5,
1958.
Both volume and cash re
1 turns were new records for the
booming season which opened
last Thursday. The former rose
212,724 pounds and the latter
$271,126 over the high marks
of the opening day.
The USDA had forecast Mon
day's record breaking prices by
reporting late in the day that
primings had moved up $1 to
$3 over Friday's levels, nonde
script $3 to $4, lugs were firm
to slightly higher and other
grades steady.
Sheriff Not Best At
Baby Bottle Sipping
When it comes to downing
the contents of a baby's milk
bottle, Hospital Administrator
F. P. Whitley has the edge
over Sheriff Jim Hundley.
This was demonstrated on
last Friday night when a con
test between Whitley and Hun
ley was staged by Lions Tail
Twister W. L. Turner as part
of the program of the Lions
meeting held at the Afton
Elberon Club House where
club members and guests serv
ed barbecued chicken by mem
bers of the Afton-Klberon Rur
itan Club. The chickens were
prepared by Richard R. Davis
and Thomas Plnnell and serv
ed by ladies of the community
to the Lions Club members
inn the Ruritan Club House
and sold to many others in the
cafeteria of the Afton-Elberon
school.
In the milk drinking contest,
in which the club members
were divided with Hundley as
champioa of one group and
Whitley as the other, Sheriff
Hundley alibied that Whitley
as the younger had the most
recent practice. Aa losers,
each member of Hundley's
group was fined 10c by Tail
Twister Turner. The funds
went into the hUnd fund of
the Lions Club.
The meeting was featured
by an illustrated talk on Eu
rope by Bill White, large farm
er and world traveler of Drew
ry. Presented by lfonroe
Gardner, White showed color
ed slides taken during Ma re
cent tour of ? number of Eu
ropean countries, and com
mented on the peoples and
customs of the countries vis
ited.
President Duke Jones presid
ed over the meeting. Club
singing was led by Moneroe
Gardner with Mrs. Nellie
Gardner at the piano.
1961 Soybean County
Support Rate Set
Prices for 1961-crop soybeans
will be supported at $2.26 per
bushel for grade No. 2 soy
beans in all North Carolina
counties, A. P. Hassell, Jr., Ad
ministrative Officer for the
Agricultural Stabili2ation and
Conservation State Committee
announced today. This com
pares with a rate of $1.80 per
bushel for the 1960 soybean
crop.
To be eligible for price sup
port 'under the 1061 operation,
Hassell pointed out, the soy
beans must have been produc
ed in 1861, and the producer
of the crop In 1961 must have
maintained his 193940 average
acreage of conserving and idle
land on the farm.
No change haa been made in
dule for soybeans under the
lOfil support program. Except
for moisture content, which
cannot be more than 14 per
cent, minimum
for support ell
to requirements for
No. 4 soybeans.
A* la the past, price support
will be carried out through
farm and warehouse
loans and purchase
which will be available
harvest through January 81.
1962. The maturity date for
loans will be May 31. 1982.
Further information about
the 1961-crop soybean pric?>
support program may be ob
tained from the County A8CS
Office.
S
Extra Protection
Insurance Fee Set
RALEIGH ? North
motorists will be
a car for policy
granting
involving