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V(jE,UMNE~65 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10c Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST 18. 1961 UMBER S3
STARK NAKED
Deranged Man
Enters Home
A stark naked and mentally
deranged South Carolina Negro
jnan entered the home of Mr.
and Mrs. R. D. Carroll a few
miles north of Warrenton early
Wednesday morning where he
committed acts of vandalism
and frightened the family.
Entry into the home was
mads through an unlocked
door around 6 o'clock by a
man who gave his name as
Harvester Hall and said he
_ was from Aiken County, South
' Carolina, according to Deputy
Sheriff Herbert Rooker, one oi
the officers called to the
scene, who said it is easy to
see that the man is mentally
unbalanced.
The Carroll family was up
at the time the man entered
the home.
Hall was arrested by High
way Patrolman Bobby Clark on
the Warren Plains-Wise road
around 7 o'clock Wednesday
morning. He was brought to
the Warren County jail where
he will be given a mental ex
amination.
According to Rooker, when
the man entered the home,
Mrs. Carroll fled to another
part of the house and locked
two doors behind her. He saic
Hall approached these doors
but was unable to open them.
He roamed over the house and
broke up some furniture.
Carroll grabbed a shotgun,
but found he had no shells.
Without a firearm, Carroll
either forced the intruder from
his home or he wandered out
of doors.
Rooker said that when Car
roll trived to drive Hall from
the yard, the man threw rocks
at him and repeatedly drove
him back indoors.
Attracted by the r.oise, Clem
mon Parham, a Negro neigh
bor, grabbed a shotgun and
ran to the scene. Upon his ap
proach Hall walked away and
Parham did not fire upon him.
Officers were summoned and
when Patrolman Bobby Clark
came upon Hall he was walk
ing down the road being fol
lowed by Parham, with gun
ready, but some distance from
his quarry.
Clark made the arrest with
no difficulty and brought him
to the county seat where he is
being held in jail.
Rooker said that Hall ap
pears to be 35 or 40 years of
age.
High Speed Blamed
For Man's Death
High speed is blamed for the
death of a man and injuries
to eight pas^ngers in an auto
mobile accident slightly north
of Wise on Highway No. 1 ear
ly on Sunday afternoon.
Sim Davis, 42-year-old Ne
gro, was instantly killed when
he lost control of his car at
2:30 p. m.
Riding with him at the time
were two adults and eight chil
dren. On the front seat were
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lee
Griggs and the eight children
were in the back seat.
Highway Patrolman Bobby
Clark, who investigated the
wreck, said that Davis was
traveling at a high rate of
speed when a rear tire on his
car blew out. The car swered
sideways on the highway and
then ran into a field where it
overturned several times.
Davis was dead when he was
reached. His body was out
side the car and his head neai
the body of the car. Clark said
that Mrs. Griggs and sever
children received minor in
juries.
The 1956 Ford which was
traveling north at the time ol
the wreck was completely de
molished.
Clark said that six witnesses
testified that two minutes be
fore he lost control of his car,
Davis was driving at a speed
of 100 miles per hour.
Tobacco Market To
Open Here Aug. 31
The Warrenton Tobacco Mar
ket will open for the 1961 sea
son on Thursday, August 31.
The date for the opening of
the Middle Belt, of which War
renton is a part, was set at a
meeting of the Middle Belt
Warehouse Association at a
meeting in Durham on Thurs
day of last week.
Other Middle Belt markets
are Aberdeen, Carthage, Dur
ham, Ellerbee, Fuquay-Varina,
Henderson, Louisburg, Oxford
and Sanford.
Walker Stone of Durham, as
sociation president, said the
date was set on recommenda
tion of the association's sale
committee.
According to Stone, the com
mittee considered tobacco con
ditions carefully and was in
unanimous agreement that the
maturity of the crop in the
belt area is considerably ahead
of last year's crop.
Stone reported the early ma
turity date has prompted a
number of growers to take
their crops to southern belt
markets.
He ?aid 50 per cent of the
crop in southern part of
the belt has already been
harvested. The harvest in the
northern section is on sche
dule.
"The committee was in unan
imous agreement that the mar
kets should open not later than
Aug. 24," he said, "bat, mint
ing to be assured of adequate
buyer representation, the date
of Thursday, Aug. 31, was
unanimously adopted."
Stone and Fred Royster of
Henderson, managing director
of the Bright Belt Warehouse
Association, agreed after the
martini the yield of tobacco
?is year should be at
least 10 per cent below that of
last year. Royster said this
was the general opinion of
warehousemen.
If first day sales on the
Middle Belt are in line with
those on the Border Belt, the
average price per hundred
pounds this year should open
several dollars higher than last
year.
In 1960 sales on the the
Middle Belt began Sept. 6 with
an opening day average of
$59.76 per hundred pounds,
the average was four cents
above 1959.
Tobacco Farmers
Required To Have
Marketing Cards
Farmers must present their
marketing cards when tobacco
is weighed in at the warehouse,
r. E. Watson, secretary of the
county ASC committee, said
yesterday.
This requirement was eli
minated during the marketing
season last year because no
tobacco grown in the Flue-Cur
ed Belt was Identified as dis
count variety.
Watson said that some of
the 1961 tobacco grown In
North Carolina has been ident
ified as discount variety to
bacco. Due to this, the 1991
loan regulations require that
For each producer sale of to
bacco made at auction the
serial numbers for the market
ing card identifying each plla
shall be recorded On the ware
house floor sheet at the time
?f weighing in.
If the marketing card to ?
"limited - aupport-withln-quota"
(blue), or an exeats (red)
(See CABM. page ?)
Inquest To Be Held In
Death Of Warren Plains i
Woman This Afternoon
An inquest into the death of
( Warren County woman will
be hold this afternoon (Fri
;day) at the court house at 4
o'clock. Coroner N. I. Haith
cock said yesterday.
Haithcock said that the in
quest w.is being held due to
I persistent rumors that foul
play was connected with the
death of Mrs. Onnie Pender
| grass Moseley, 49. who was
j found doad at her home near
! Warren Plains by her hus
[ band Charlie Moseley at 5:30
Sunday afternoon.
Hiithcock said that the jury
for the hearing this afternoon
would consist of W. A. Miles,
Julian Farrar, C. P. Gaston,
Robert St. Sing, Ed Hendricks
and Silas Curtis. This jury in
spected the body of Mrs. Mose
ley at Blaylock Funeral Home
here early on Tuesday after
noon a short time before the
funeral.
Sheriff Jim Hundley said
yesterday that he was called
to the home of Mrs. Moseley
on Sunday afternoon after her
body was discovered lying on
I the floor of one of the front
! rooms of the home by her hus
iband. He said no one was at
j the home at the time of Mrs.
j Moseley's death except her
invalid mother who was In the
| back part of the house and
who said she knew nothing
| about the death of her daugli
j ter.
i Sheriff Hundley said that he
had called Coroner Haithcock
and that they found the wo
man had bled at the nose and
mouth prior to her death. He
said they also saw bloodstains
in a back room and in the
room in which Mrs. Moseley
died. ^
The Coroner summoned W
Burns Jones, County Health
Officerto the scene. Dr. Jones
said that he found no evidence
of foul play but asked that the
body be taken to Warren Gen
I eral Hospital for a post-mortem
I examination by himself and
Dr. L. W. Kornegay, surgeon
at Warren General Hospital.
Sheriff Hundley said that
| the physicians reported that
they found nothing in their
examination suggesting foul
play.~hul seat a blood -sample
to the State Laboratory for
examination. The report from
this blood sample has not yet
been received here.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Moseley were held on Tues
day at 2 p. m. at the Alert
Holiness Church with inter
ment in the New Bethel
Church cemetery near Epsom.
Mrs. Moseley was a member
of the Community Chapel Holi
Merchants To
Hear Plan For
Credit Bureau
Members of the Warrenton
Merchants Association and oth
ers interested in the formation
of a Credit Information Bu
reau will meet early next week
to hear a plan which has the
endorsement of the Associa
tion's Board of Directors.
Glenn Walker, president of
the Henderson Credit Bureau,
will speak to the merchants at
the Warrenton Country Club
on next Tuesday night at 8
o'clock. Such a plan would
link merchants of Warrenton,
Henderson and Oxford into
one large information bureau.
Announcement of the meet
ing was made yesterday by W.
R. Drake, president of the
Warrenton Merchants Associa
tion.
Revival Begins At
Macon On Sunday
Revival services will begin
?t the Macon Baptist Church
on Sunday evening, August 20,
at 8 o'clock and continue each
evening through August 25,
the Rev. W. Dan Parker, pas
tor. announced yesterday.
The Revv Billy Fallow, pas
tor of the Norlina Bapstlat
Church, will be the guest
preacher.
Dr. Burna Jone* will condoct
morning prayer at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church ken an Sun
lay morning at 1} o'clock.
ness Church in Nash County,
but had resided in the War
ren K!ains community for the
past tour years.
Survivors include her hus
band, Charles Edward Moseley,
Sr.; one son, Charles Edward
Moseley, Jr., of Rocky Mount;
one daughter, Mrs. Eugene
Ayscue of Castalia; four broth
ers, a twin, the Rev. Monnie
Pendergrass of Nashville, Solon
P., Genie P. and C. J. Pender
grass, all of Henderson; two
sisters. Mrs. Washington Evans
of Rt. 2, Norlina, and Mrs.
Carrie Dickerson of Creed
moor; and five grandchildren.
A-E Delegation Opposes
Transfer Of Students
No change is anticipated in i
the assignment of 7th and 8th j
grade- pupils at Afton-^lberon |
to a junior high school at
Macon as a result of a hearing j
held in the court room here on
Monday night when a large I
number of patrons of the Af-1
ton-Elberon school protested (
the move.
Following the hearing, mem-',
bers of the board of education j
took no formal action, but ex-j
pressed themselves in favor of
going ahead with the assign- J
ment which they said had been 1
made in good faith upon the
unanimous request of the Af
ton-Elberon school committee.
With plans complete for the
operation of the school at
Macon, teachers hired and
signed, they said it is not
feasible to change the assign
ment at this late date.
This 'decision leaves unhappy
a large number of patrons of
the A fton-Elberon school who
are making a last ditch fight
to retain these pupils at their
school and to prevent them be
ing transported to a junior
high school at Macon.
More than a hundred of the
patrons of the Afton-Elberon
school attended a meeting witli
the Board of Education in the
court house on Monday night
when a petition signed by 206
persons was presented to the
Board of Education by George
and Charles Blackburn, Hen
derson attorneys employed by
the patrons, and a score of pa
trons told the board why they
objected to the assignment.
Several weeks ago the War
renton school district of which
Macon is a part decided to set
up a junior high school at
Macon after it had been found
there was not enough room in
the John Graham High School
for the program. The Afton
Elberon school, which is not in
the Warrenton district, was in
vited to participate in the pro
gram. Although from the first
there was a difference of
opinion among the Afton-Elb
eron school patrons, the bid of
the Warrenton Board was unan
mously accepted by the Afton
Elberon school board, which
asked that the Board of Educa
tion assign the 7th and 8th
grade to Macon.
Following the request, the
Board of Education assigned
the 7th and 8th grades to the
Macon Junior High School.
Subsequently teachers have
been hired and assigned to the
Macon School and all plans
have been completed for the
operation of the school with
Afton-Elberon pupils included
among the enrollment. The
school is scheduled to begin
operation within less than two
weeks.
In spite of this many of the
patrons have not given up the
fight and many of these made
their views known on Monday
night. Among the signers of
the petition to keep the 7th
and Rth grade at Afton-Elb
eron were two of the members
of the Afton-Elberon School
Board who had previously ask
ed the Board of Education to
assign the Afton-Elberon pupils
to Macon.
The petition presented by
the Henderson attorneys reads
as follows:
"We, the undersigned, being
residents of School District No
2 of Warren County, in which
is located the Afton-Elberon
School, do respectfully peti
tion the Warren County Board
of Education that no change in
the location of the 7th and 8th
grades now in operation at said
school be made under the pres
ent program as putlined by
Doctor Holt, formerly chair
man of the Warrenton City
School Board, for the school
year 1961-62."
During a hearing, which be
gan at 8:15 and ended a few ,
minutes after 10, a number of
the school patrons told the
Board of Education why in
their opinion the assignment
to the Macon Junior High
School was not in the best in
terest of the Afton-Elberon
school and school community.
Testifying and answering
questions of the two attorneys
were John L. Vaughan, T. J.
Coley, Mrs. Virginia Ayeoclc,
Clifton Stegall, Mrs. Elwood
Burgess, and Edgar Llmer.
Others waiting to be called did
not testify due to the lateness
of the hour, but several others
spoke briefly from the floor
upon a general invitation by
the attorneys.
The gist of the testimony of
fered by those testifying was
that Afton-Elberon has a good
and ample school building,
with a cafeteria with an A
grade rating, that the school
is fully supported by the school
patrons and that the school
plays a vital part in the life
of the community. These
points were stressed by the at
torneys in their questioning of
those testifying.
Those testifying further said
that the Afton-Elberon school
had been doing a good job and
was continuing to do a good
job. Pupils from Afton-Elberon
have in many instances been
outstanding students at John
Graham High School, that
(See DELEGATION, page 8)
Telephone Systems To
Be Connected Tuesday
Telephone toll charges be
tween the Norlina exchange
and the Warrenton-Macon ex
change will end here on Tues
day morning when extended tel
ephone service linking Warren
ton wnd Norlina will be inaugu
I rated
i The switch over to a unified
I system is expected to take
I place at 8 a. m., according to
D. F. Holliday of Henderson,
local manager of the Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany.
When the unification takes
place Warrenton and Macon
subscribers may call Norlina
numbers by first dialing the
prefix number 15. Norlina sub
scribers wishing to call War
renton and Macon first dial
7 and then dial the regular
listed number.
New telephone directors are
being placeid in the mails to
day (Friday).
Holliday said that the new
directors contain information
concerning the pre-fixes, as
well as many new and chang
ed listings. He said that the
new book is easily distinguish
ed by its cover showing a
beige telephone against a green
background, and includes a yel
low page section of advertisers
arranged alphabetically by serv
ices. The book contains sepa
rate listings for the Norlina
exchange and the Warrenton
Macon exchange.
The new listings in the book
will contain the names of ap
proximately 50 persons in the
Afton-Elberon-Axtelle section,
all of whom will get telephone
service for the first time.
Holliday asks that the old
directories be discarded on
Tuesday, but cautioned against
the use of the new book be
fore Tuesday because of the
many changes.
Permission to unify the tele
phone systems of Warrenton,
Norlina and Macon was grant
ed by the State Utilities Com
mission at a hearing in Raleigh
on July 5.
The decision of the Utilities
Commission ended efforts of
some twenty years by several
Norlina and Warrenton citizens
to have the toll service be
tween the two towns abolished.
State Allotted
Teacher Assigned
To John Graham
John Graham High School
will receive a state paid teach
er while the county-paid extra
teacher will be assigned to
either Littleton or Norlina
This changp in - teacher as
signment was made by the
Board of Education during a
session of more than three
hours, some two hours of
which was consumed in hear
ing a delegation from Afton
Elberon.
The charge was made be
cause of its effect on the sal
ary of the principal of the
John Graham High School.
Principals' salaries are based
on the number of state paid
teachers under a principal's
jurisdiction. Locally paid teach
ers do not count as a basis
for principals' pay. When it
was revealed that the extra
teacher if paid for by the state
would place the John Graham
principal in a higher bracket
and that one more teacher
? wouW not affect the pay of the
(principal at either Littleton or
Norlina, the board voted to
place one of the state allotted
teachers in the John Graham
High School.
At their July meeting when
it was revealed that the state
had allotted only two extra
white teachers for Warren
County and that an extra teach
er was needed in each of the
three high schools, the board
voted to hire an extra teacher
to be paid from county funds.
At this time, the county-paid
teacher was assigned to the
John Graham High School for
financial reasons. The change
was made Monday night when
the board decided that such as
signment would not be fair to
the John Graham principaL
Stephen Daniel appeared be
fore the board with Highway
Patrolman Bobby Clark, who
is also a member of the Nor
lina school board, relative to a
school bus stop. The decision
of the board was that the Nor
lina school bus would go to
the Haga development on the
Norlina-Warrenton road where
it would turn around and take
on and discharge its passenger
or passengers on its return to
Norlina. This was done in or
der to avoid having the school
bus stop on a dangerous curve.
Recommended by Clark, this
seemingly satisfied Daniel, who
said that which school his
should attend had never been
an issue, but only the safety
of his child.
In other action the board ap
Janitor*' salaries, the
allotment of fund* for clerical
(See SCHOOLS, page ?)
A CORRECTION
"Walter J. (Jack) H'rris, who
was appointed to the Warren
County Planning Board by the
county commissioners at their
meeting here on August 7, is
aa employee of the CiUaetw
Insurance and Con*
pany. and not of the Warn*
loo Insurance Agency, as atat
?4 in this paper laat week We
regret the error
Warren Allotted
Funds For Roads
Warren County received
$176,430 of an $18,000,000 sec
ondary road allotment to all of
North Carolina's 100 counties
last week.
The allocation was made by
the State Highway Commission
following a decision to allocate
funds in proportion to each
county's miles of unpaved
secondary roads.
Commission officials stressed
the fact that additional funds
will become available for sec
ondary road road work later
during the 1961-62 fiscal year.
Governor Sanford announced
at last week's news conference
that an unused surplus of $7,
000,000 will be applied to sec
ondary road improvements
throughout the state. Distribu
tion of the $7,000,00 will be
made at a later date.
Allotments from the $18,000,
000 fund to surrounding coun
ties were: Vance, $78,310;
Franklin, $168,370; Nash, $171,
250; Halifax. $170,510; North
ampton, $96,870.
Wildlife Is Discussed
At Lions Club Meeting
Members of the Warrenton
Lions Club heard a discussion
by two representatives of the
State Wildlife ' Commission at
their regular meeting at Hotel
Warren on last Friday night.
President Duke Jones presid
ed over the meeting. Harold
Skillman gave the invocation.
Monroe Gardner led the club
singing and Mrs. Gardner pre
sided at the piano.
The program was in chargc
of Nat White, who presented
Charlie Woodbum, game biollg
ist with the Wildlife Commis
sion, and Wayne Ra borne, boat
ing and fishing biologist with
the commission.
Woodbum discussed fishing
and the stocking of ponds. Ra
borne talked on safety factor*
In boating and their enforce
ment.
Lion Monroe Gardner an
nounced the budget for the
State White Can* Drive this
yew would be $100,000, and
that the proceed* would be
used for sight conservation,
eye bank*, and glacoma clinics.
Guests at the meeting were
Bill Church, Boy Scout field
executive of the OccontidMi
Council, Clinton Neal^8rJNck
Antonio, Texas, and M. M.
Bartok, representative of Hoxle
Bros. Circus which is to appear
here on September 2.
Boosters To Meet
At Country Club
The John Graham High
School Boosters Club will hold
a barbecue at the Warrenton
Country Club on next Wednes
day, August 23, at 7 p. m..
Gene Wilson, president, an
nounced yesterday.
A dutch supper consisting of
barbecued pork and chicken
and Brunswick stew will be
served at $1.50 a plate.
The purpose of the meeting,
Wilson said, is to complete
plans for the annual member
ship drive.
The new John GrahtUtT'prin
cipal, the new coach, and .the
new assistant coach are expect
ed to be present for the sap
per meeting.
Dr. Hinton Wesson, Jr., a
member of the faculty of the
Univeraity of South Carolina,
Columbia, and children, 0?
SKaST-nT?
H. Wsaaon, here this
Town Board Sticks
To Taxicab Decision
The Board of Town Commis
sioners at its regular meeting
on Monday night denied an ap
plication for a taxi license for
Ed Harris and Walter Thorn
ton.
Grounds for the denial was a
decision made by the board at
its May 8 meeting that there
are presently sufficient taxi
cabs in operation at Warren
ton to serve the public neces
sity and convenience of the
public.
R. D. Chewning, chief of
police, was appointed deputy
tax collector for the town.
The board authorized the
Mayor to sign an encroach
ment contract with the North
Carolina State Highway Com
mission covering the installa
tion of a water pipe tinder the
highway to be extended to a
trucking plant near Bullock
Oil Co., to be operated by C.
M. Bullock and others.
G. W. Poindexter and Jack
Harris of the Citizens Insur
ance and Bonding Company ap
peared by invitation before
the board to review Insurance
policies of the town.
Other action in the three
hour session was of a routine
nature.
Short Recorder's Court
Session Held Friday
Two assault cases and two
cases of violations of the motor]
vehicle laws were tried by
Judge Julius Banzet in Re
cord's Court in a short session
on' last Friday.
A third case charging viola
tion of the motor vehicle laws,
that of John Junior Thrower,
charged with operating a motor
vehicle without a driver's li
cense, was no! proased.
James llcCray Richardson
was in court on charge* of
operating a motor vehicle
without a driver's license and
with operating a car with im
proper lights. He was found
guilty. Prayer for Judgment
was continued for two years
provided the defendant procure
valid driver's license and not
violate any motor vehicle laws
for two years and pay the
guilty of an assault with a
mH
September 8. Then the
ant is to be imprisoned in the
Central Prison in Raleigh (or
six months. The six months
sentence was suspended tor
two years provided the defend
ant keeps the peace towards
all persons, especially Richard
Jones, and stay off the prem
ise! of Richard Jones for two
yean, and provided that ,w*
pay the court costs.
Charles Edward Jo
found guilty of an
? deadly weapon. Prayer
judgment Hi
September 8. A six
road set
provided
the