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Your Best Advertising Medium ?hr Harrrtt SrrH eus<Mt* , Your Best Shelby Street . Advertising Medium ?J| Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10c Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1962 NUMBER } Four Hurt In Headon Collision Four persons were injured in a headon collision on N. C. Highway 58 four miles east of here early Saturday night. The drivers of the two auto mobiles?which smashed togeth er at 7:15 p. m. on a straight stretch of paved highway ? were given emergency treat ment at Warren General Hos pital and released. A Negro hitch-hiker, a pas senger in one of the automo biles, was reported in satis factory condition here. Hospital authorities said Dozier Rice, 52-year-old Negro passenger in one of the wrecked vehicles, suffered lacerations of the face and head. Mrs. Kathcri.," Bledsoe, 26, of Raleigh, was released from the hospital on Tuesday after receiving treatment for facial lacerations and a foot injury. She was a passenger in the car driven by her husband, Willie Jackson Bledsoe, 28, who re ceived a mouth injury in the crash. Trooper V. R. Vaughan of Warrenton said Bledsoe was driving en route to Warrenton at the time of the crash. Ac cording to eyewitnesses, his automobile pulled onto the shoulder of the highway when a vehicle driven by Lonnie Tippett, 33, of Rt 2, Enfield, passed a string of cars on a' hill. | Tippett was unable to avoid a collision and struck the Bledsoe automobile on the shoulder of the road. Both automobiles were damaged con siderably and damage to the two was estimated in the neighborhood of $150C. Tippett, who told oh":ce he was on his way home ; i the time ot the accident, "uff ered minor cuts and Druises. i He was charged with passing on a hill. Criminal Term Of Court To Convene Here On Tuesday 'Fanners May Have Crop Land Premeasured Any farmer in Warren Coun ty may have the acreage on which he will plant his allotted crops and other land uses acre ages laid off, according to W. S. Smiley, chairman of the local ASC committee. This service which is offered to producers of all allotment crops has been termed "pre measurement" Of this prac tice Smiley says: "Every year there are some farmers -who, through Inade quate measurement on their own part or because Incorrect Information on the acreage in _ permanent fields, plant either <^tnore or leas than they are ac ... tually permitted by their allot ?' raent. In the case of overplant Ing, this causes the farm or unnecessary expense In the jpjNray of unused fertilizer, un ? used plants or seed, or treat of land that can't be used. In the case of underplanting, this could cause the fanner to low some of his 'planting his tory*, and of course it would cause him to lose some of this Income. "This premeasuroment serv ice may be requested through the local ASCS County Office, beginning January 2, 1062. ASCS has trained reporters who 'will do this premeasuro ment work. The farmer will bo required to pay only the ac cost of the visff to hla determination of on bis farm. The do the actual cost is made by the at the time he makes at. plus $1.10 scco, 80c per page t) Robbed stole 44 ' whiskey from "" store in the ' Yjar*s Day. rhy forcing the store, and by on his are still 9! The January criminal term of Warren County Superior I Court will convene on Monday' i morning with Judge Herman R. Clark of Fayetteville presiding. The term of court is sche duled to run for two days, and during that time a variety of cases involving assaults, kid napping, carnal knowledge, co habitation, drunk driving, and a number of less serious ( charges, are scheduled to be, held. Cases docketed for trial in clude: | Monday ? Charlie R. Evans ( vs. Hester R. Evans, divorce; John Young, Jr., assault and battery and assault causing bodily harm; Johnny W. Wyche, rape and carnal knowledge; Samuel Stone, assault; Beverly Hunter, assault; Robert A.-Ethe ridge, non-support; Donald Lee West, contempt; James Lee Paschall, drunk driving; Char lie Edwards, interference with officer; Jerry Wayne Brame, assault; Theresa Davis, cohabit; Jim Wade, assault, and cohabit; Sam Cheek, Jr., kidnap; Fred Powell, kidnap; Leroy Vaughan, kidnap. Tuesday ? Joe Bob Walker, drunk driving; Roy Carey, fail ure to support illegitimate child;; Ivey Steve Clark, speed ing; Howard Lewis Powell, failure to remain at scene of accident; Zollie Wilson, assault and assault with deadly wea pon; James Carl Alston, reck less driving; Zollie Wilson, Jr., assault with deadly weapon. Jurors summoned for next week are: Clarence Davis, F. L. Hicks, Robert C. Gupton, A. T. Car roll, Milton King, George Lee Edwards, Henry L. James, W. Duke Jones, Howard T. Rudd, Joe Riggan, F. D. Draffin, N. E. Mitchell, James Wilson, Je thro Turner, Frank H. Daniel, Mrs. C. C. Alston, Mrs. Louise H. Rose, Mrs. Louise Perkin son? Billy L. King, L. M. Haithcock, Jr., Cyrus Boyd, Sr., Leon Cheek, Dallas Bolton, J. Robert Johnson. C. L. .Hcge, Ava W. Perkin son, Norman Gene Pinnell, Clyde Adams, R. J. Alexander, Eddie Lee Alston, O. C. Wil sbn, Grover G. Shearin, Wil liam R. Boyce, Irvin Manning, Mrs. Alice H. Nicholson, James Hawkins, William T. Skinner, III, Nick Williams, William H. Fleming, Jack L. Hawks, E. R. Fitts, N. T. Felts, Norman Richardson, Julius Henry White, Luther Carroll, James L. Knight, E- C; Robertson, W. K. Delbridge. Time For Farmers To Ask ACP Aid The initial signup period for the 1962 Agricultural Conserva tion Program in Warren Coun ty began January 2, and will run through January 18 ,W. S. Smiley, ASC chairman, an nounced yesterday. Requests for conservation as sistance received during this period will be given priority over those received afterwards. "If you have conservation problems on your farm, the 1962 Agricultural Conservation Program as developed for War ren County can aid yon in solving them." Smiley said. Below is a list of the 1963 ACP practices approved for Warren County. Farmers are asked to look over the list, and if they think their con servation problem eomes under one or more approved prastieaa and they desire Government to help solve it, visit the ASCS of flee for more information. Fourteen practices were list ?4 by Smiley. They am; Permanent Pasture or Hay; Permanent Pasture?Rotation; Liming . Legumes; Contour Strip-cropping; Establishing Stand of Trees on Farmland; Farm Ponds; Forest Improve ment; Sod Waterway; Terrac ing; Open Ditch Drainage; Winter Cover Crop; Summer Annual Legumes; Fescue Rota tion; Field Strip Cropping. Visiters in the home of Mr*. H. F. Munn on Sunday ware Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Trayior. Jr., and children, Sharon Page, and Ronnie, of Colonial Heights, Mr. and Mrs. Priaee Moody of South mil, Va., Mr. ' ' tea" Catholic Church To Be Built On Norlina Highway Construction of a Catholic church midway between War renton and Norlina is expected to begin early this spring. Plans for the new church are nearing completion, but bids for its construction have not yet been let, according to an announcement made yesterday by Father Kenneth I. Parker, priest of St. Paul's Catholic Church of Henderson. The new church will be built a short distance east of U. S. Highway 401 linking War renton and Norlina". The build ing will be situated on a tract of lard purchased several years ago from Dr. Donald Mules. For many years the land was used for farming purposes by Sam T. Allgood. Of concrete block construc tion, the church will be of con temporary design and will cost "in the neighborhood of $10, 000," Father Parker said. The church will have a seat ing capacity of from 40 to 50 persons. Behind the sancutaryj will be a vestry room with overnight quarters for the priest-in-charge. John Valentine, Raleigh ar chitect, is putting final touches on the plans which will be sub mitted to Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh for final approval before the construc tion contract is let. Currently some 20 Catholic parishioners attend services conducted by Father Parker in the Hotel Warren. Special ser vices at St. Paul's In Hender son are usually attended by Catholics of this area, he said. Man Jailed On Larceny Charge George Washington William, well known Negro man of Warrenton, la being held In Warren County Jail for a hear ing In Recorder's Court on a larceny count. Williams la charged With stealing used lumber from Charles Williams on WeK Franklin Street and selling It to the Rev. Alex Brown eat East Franklin Street f The lumber la believed to have been taken within thefaat two or three week*, but as only missed within the pa Health Officer To Split Job With Franklin Co. A change in the set up of the Warren County Health De partment whereby the services of the Health Officer will be shared by two counties was ap proved by the Warren County Board of Commissioners here Monday. Under the plan?approved by the Boards of Health of Warren and Franklin Counties?Dr. W. Burns Jones will direct the Health Departments of both counties, effective immediately. He will give two and one-half days each week to each de partment, and will continue to reside in Warrenton. Dr. Jones came to Warrenton as Health Director in June 1960. He was employed on a full-time basis to share in the expense ol his salary. Before the death of Dr. A. D. Gregg, former health director. Warren and Vance Counties were serv ed on a part-time basis by a single health director. Follow ing the death of Dr. Gregg Vance County employed a full time health director, but later shared him with Granville County. Dr. JOnes told the commis sioners Monday afternoon that he feels that the Warren Coun ty Health Department is now well organized and that it can be successfully operated on a part-time basis. The change in the Health Department set-up will mean a savings of more than $4,000 annually for Warren County. As joint director of the health departments of the tow coun ties, Dr. Jones will receive a salary of $11,400 a year, com pared with the $9,100 he has been receiving as Warren Coun ty health officer. In addition Dr. Jones had been receiving a travel allowance of $70 a month. Now Dr. Jones will re ceive $5520 from Warren County?one-half of his salary ?instead of $9,100, and travel allowance will be cut to $35 a month. Dr. Jones also announced that Miss Betty T. King, clerk to the Board of Health since 1949, had resigned, effective immediately. He said that Mrs. Graham Boyd had been em ployed on a temporary basis to replace Miss King and asked the board to change the classi fication of a new clerk to min us two, which would allow the starting salary of Mrs. Boyd to be set at $2,520. The com missioners granted the request. Jurors Drawn For Civil Term Superior Court Jurors for the civil term of Warren County Superior Court, which will convene on January 29, were drawn on Monday by the Board of County Commis sioners as follows: R. S. Rodwell, W. L. Hight, Mrs. John I. Butler, Jr.. Jeffer son Daniel, Hubert L. Bobbitt, Lula Belle Fuller, Grover C. Tucker, H. D. King, Mrs. W. S. Bugg, R. H. Perkinson, J. R. Smiley, J. J. Shearin, Willie R. Felts. W. A. Connell, III, Mrs. W. T. Comer, Sidney G. Burton, Julian Acree, Merritt Davis, L. J. Kimball, H. P. Harton. David Bell, Mm. Ver non Mabry, Henry L. Gumma. C. B. Miller, James A. Hayes, Jr., Mrs. V. Taylor Mustian, Miss Emily Ballinger, W. K. Thompson, O. L. Hayes, Wil liam J. Leach, Alex T. Ayscue, Clinton Neal, Mrs. J. T. Powell, Margaret C. Pulley, . H. An drews, Calvin G. Young, V. Taylor Mustian, M. C. Hicks, B. M. Jones, Jesse S. Wilson, J. W. Perry, Marion H. Perry, George Willis Shearin, X. P. Ratliff, Jr. Officer# Recover Stolen Meat And Arrest Two Men Two Warren County Hen an being held uhder $500 bonds for their appearance in Re corder's Court to answer to charges of breaking and enter ing and larceny of meet. Ed (Mush) Dowtin of Itsee and Herbert Brown of Lick skillet were arrested late Sun day by Sheriff Jim Hundley and Deputy Bonnie Steveneon and charged with stealing three salted hogs and a can of lard from James Linaay Fork Township on night Armed with search the officers went to the of Dowtin and Alston they found the stolen \ Bowers Appointed Meredith Trustee RALEIGH?Meredith College trustees, who took office on January 1, have been am ed by President Carlyte bell as Major General T. Bowers and E. U . Jr., both of Raleigh; lln. ry D. Wood of L T. B. Knight of Leon W. ' |?B. Roddngham^and Of these see win expire Ji tear are ear for the On* Commissioners Defer Action On Subdivision Action on the approval of subdivision regulations for War ren County as requested by the Warren County Planning Board was postponed by the Board of County Commission ers on Monday until their Feb ruary meeting. This is the second postpone ment of action on the part of the commissioners, who put off action for a month at their De cember meeting. "oard, however, did or for $1650 be sent Z. Department of conv< and Development and a r amount be plac ed iti 1962-63 budget to make Warren County's share of planning and mapping the Gas ton Reservoir for the' three j (jo unties of Warren, Halifax (and Northampton Counties. In addition the Board adopt ed the following order: "On motion of Commissioner Davis,] which was seconded by Cotn missioner Thorne and duly car ried, it was ordered that the Chairman of the Board of Com missioners for Warren County and the Clerk of the Board be authorized to execute and en-1 ter into the contract of Jan uary 2, 1962, between the N. C. Department of Conservation and Development and the Coun ty of Warren for the planning of Warren County." Decision of the board to da lay approval of the adoption of the subdivision regulations was made at the afternoon ses sion after Planning Board Chairman Marvin Newsom of Littleton and Planning Board member Monroe Gardner of Warrenton had appeared be fore the board to ask for adoption. Newsom told the commissioners that he could see no reason why the regula tions should not be adopted now and said that he felt that some of the issues raised in opposition to the adoption were hardly germaine. Commission er Robert Thorne, a member of the Planning Board, also spoke in favor of the adoption, but other members said that they wanted more time for study Newsom said that he feels that a month's delay is not go ing to do any great amount of harm, but he would like to see Warren County take the lead i in a progressive measure in stead of dragging its feet. The commissioners at their Monday meeting approved the sharing of the services of the j Warren County Health Direc | tor with Franklin County, and accepted the resignation of Pal mer S. Newsome as constable of River Township. Newsome has accepted a position with the Littleton police department. A. P. Rodwell, Jr., Tax Col lector, reported taxes collected to date from the 1961 levy in the amount of $249,231.13. Of this amopnt $26,036.10 wai col lected in December. S. E. Allen, Register of I Deeds, reported 64 marriage licenses issued for the fourth | quarter of 1961 for which $320 j was turned into the general ' fund. I Town Studies Construction Of Sewage Treatment Plant The Town of Warrenton must construct a sewage treatment plan within the next three to five years, and already the Town Cimmissioners are begin ning to make plans for its con struction. Meeting in ? a called session on Wednesday, the commission ers heard A. C. Turnage of Greenville, district engineer with the State Department of Water Resources, discuss plans of the department to clear up streams of North Carolina, and tell of the steps that Warren ton must take in this plan. Turnage said that there is no question but that the town will be required to build a sec ondary sewage treatment .Plant here. He could not be definite as to the time limit, but said that he did not believe that it would fye as long as five years. The time given will be deter mined by the efforts being made by municipalities, he Train Hits Car; Driver Not Hurt Jim Beckwith of Warrenton, manager of the Warren Feed Mills of Norlina, suffered only a bad fright around 9:30 a. m. Monday when his small Dau phine car was struck by a Florida-bound SAL passenger train. Beckwith's car skidded on the early morning snow and ice as he tried to stop and the train hit the right-hand fender which was torn loose from the car. The ear was twisted sideways by the impact. Speed of the train at the time of the Impact was esti mated at #0 " m Mrs . H. F. Hep* Mrs. Charles Capps la said. However, he said, it would t be well to proceed with the construction as rapidly as pos ' sible in order to stand a better 'chance of obtaining a federal ' grant covering 30 per cent of | the cost and to reduce as quick j ly as possible what could be a health menace. Turnage said that while the Federal Government had agreed to pay 30 per cent of the cost of building sewage treatment plants, enough money has not been appropriated to cover all the demands. Everything being equal, he said, the grants would be given to the towns which were' making the best efforts to build such plants. Some evidence of this effort would be the employment of an engineer, the selection of a site, the approval of plans for the plant and plans for its financing. Warrenton presently dumps its raw sewage into Fishing Creek which is a tributary of the Tar River. Turnage said that the Water Resources De partment is now in the process of classifying the waters of the Tar River basin. When the classification is completed a copy would be sent to War renton. Some time next sum mer a plan would be submitted for the Town of Warrenton which would be given six months to begin Its plans for the construction of a sewage treatment plant. The matter of building such a plant here has already been up for discussion by the com missioners and one of the plans to help defray the expense of the project is the imposition of a sewer tax upon all the water users. During the discussion with Turnage, H. W. Holt, chairman of the Water Com mittee, said that it is likely that such a tax would be im posed with the adoption of the, 1962-63 budget. Court Has Busy Session With Erring Motorists Eighteen cum of motor ve hicle laws violations were dis dosped of in Recorder's Court here on last Friday. Two cases not Involving vio lation of the state motor ve hicle laws were brought he fore presiding Judge Julius E. Banzet, with eat defendant be W given a ana year sentence and the other making an ap peal to Superisr Court Hi man ^ of ptl liseaa. charge. WU found not guilty of ^ Jbuloa ^ PQF eHBH! but not stated, speed, coats of court. Joseph Griffith Cutland, speeding, costs. Ogden Carter Wllkerson, speeding, driving on wrong side of road, costs. Russell Theodore Pinemaa, speeding, costs. Ervin Holt Stalling*, ing, costs. Eliza Anita Moss, costs. Archie King, reckless driv ing, and costs. Robert Lee TsyVor, no i tor's license, speed, not guilty. Clifton A