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VOLUME 66 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10c Per Copy WABRENTON, COUNTY OP WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1962 NUMBER 37
Leaf Market Here
Will Suspend Sales
Lawmen prepare to drop dynamite charges into illicit dis
tillation equipment destroyed in northern Warren County on
Monday. The large still, under observation by officers for
some two weeks before it was destroyed, was not in opera
lion at the time of Monday's raid. However, Federal agents
arrested three Virginia men in connection with the raid.
Agents said a truck allegedly used in the still's operation,
and later seized at the home of gne of the men, had the
name of one of the agents carved on the truck. Officers
said an agent reportedly crept to the truck and carved his
name while the still was under surveillance.
(Staff Photo)
Huge Distillery Is Blasted
Bv Officers: Men Indicted
A mammoth illicit whiskey
distillery?located almost with
in sight of a busy four-lane
highway in northern Warren
County?was smashed Monday
by law enforcement officers
from three counties and Fed
eral agents.
No operators were found at
the site, but by late Monday
officers recvcaled that three
Virginia men had been arrest
ed in connection with the dis
tillery's operation.
Names of the trio were not
available but it was believed
two of the men were Negroes
while the third was a white
man. Officers said their ar
rest followed the discovery of
a truck seen at the distillery
north or here prior to Mon
day's raid.
The 600-gallon outfit was
termed by Warren Sheriff J
H. Hundley as "the largest
still Discovered in the county
in more than four years."
The sheriff said the still was
equipped to manufacture 16C
gallons of whiskey a day. Elev
en wooden boxes adjacent te
the still had a capacity of 4,
000 gallons, he said.
The still was discovered
more than two weeks ago, and
officers began keeping a clour
watch on the site in an at
tempt to raid the outfit while
in operation.
"Apparently one of the oper
atqrs saw one of the officers
Local Doctors To
Aid In Polio Plans
Doctors in Warren County
have voted to cooperate in the
coming statewide program foi
immunization of the public
against polio, it was learned
Thursday. Local programs will
be carried out at the planned
times for immunization of the
entire populace as far as pos
sible.
This statewide effort to
wipe out polio will begin in
Narth Carolina in?late Ooto
ber or early November, accord
ing to plans announced by Or.
John R. Kernodle, president of
the Medical Society of North
Carolina. It is expected to be
the first statewide simultan
ous Immunization program for
all age groups to be conducted
in the United State* with the
new Sabin oral polio vaccine.
have been limit*! to
cities and counties, or to spec
ial age group*.
Dr. Kernodle said the pro
gram has the ansnhmmia ap
proval of the ejiecuOre nod)
- the State Medical Society
the State Board of Health,
bjectlve of ^th^progrsm^ is^to
of Her*
fcili
(luring this time," Sheriff
Hundley said. The still was
seized early Monday morning
after officers had crept c?.>se
to the outfit about 2:30 m.
and remained for several hdirs
observing the site.
Operators of the still, locat
ed in Nutbush Township a
half-mile from the Ridgeway
Bridge on Interstate 85, had
erected a lean:to near the still
in a small clearing.
While approximately 1,200
gallons of mash were destroy
ed following the raid, officers
found only one gallon of whis
key at the site.
The still was geared to a
280-gallon boiler fired by gas
oline. Sheriff Hundley said
owners of "the still nflU havt
spent as much as $2,(MX
equipping the still.
Although not in operation at
the time, Warren Deputy B
G. Stevenson said the still ap
parently had been operated
sewral times after being con
structed several months ago.
Confiscated or destroyed al
the site were 18 cases ol
empty jars, one case of yeast,
two whiskey barrels, a 14#-gal
lon doubler, a branch worm
and other equipment.
Shortly before nfcon Monday
officers set off wbout a thnen
charge of dynamite to cripple
the still, then finished the
work of destroying the outfit
with axes.
On hand when the still was;
destroyed were members of the
Warren and Halifax sheriff's,
departments, Vance County |
ABC officers and Federal:
ATTD agents.
Says Father Beat And Cut Her
Girl, 15, Brings Charges
Against Father Thursday
A 15-year-old girl charged
her father with assault and
attempted rape Thursday and
told Warren County sheriff's
deputies that her father shot
at her several times and slash
ed her with a knife before she
was able to escape to the home
of a relative.
Officers arrested Joe Na
than Robertson, about 55, here
shortly alter noon Thursday
on charges brought by his
daughter. Deputy B. G. Steven
son said Robertson, a Negro,
probably would be charged
with drunk driving.
to the girl. Rob
allegedly beat her with
? tobacco stick in the kitchen
of their frame house two miles
south of here early Thursday.
After allegedly breaking the
(tick while beating his daugh
ter, officers quoted the girl as
saying, Robertson allegedly for
ced the girl and her step
mother to stand on the front
of the house "with their arms
raised."
Both the girl and Robert
son's wife charged that he fir
ed at them three times with
the .22 calibre weapon. They
said he allegedly told them
he was going to kill them if
they reported an alleged rape
attempt on his daughter.
After Robertson had alleged
ly firod three times, his
daughter ran off the porch
and fled from the house, off!
Speeders Fined In
Brief Court Session
Speeding on the public high
ways was the causae of ten
motorist* being cited to appear
in Warren County Recorder's
Court ban last Friday.
In a brief session that saw
Judge Julius E. Banzet dispose
of 13 ease*?involving viola
tions of the state's motor ve
hicle laws?fines levied rang
ed from $10 to $100.
A fine of $100 and coats was
ordered to be paid by
Richard Allen Carter after the
defendant tendered a plea of
guilty to ? charge of drunk
In other cam dlspooed of
during the weekly session of
court, the following action waa
Randolph Silver,
Louis Edward Henderaon,
speeding, $10 and eoats.
Richard Altai Carter, ipeed
ing, costs.
Herman Hooker, speeding.
$10 and coats.
Vernon Wade Mixon, speed
ing, coats.
James Edward Burgesa, ex
pired operator's license, coats.
inf. 910 aa<
Donald El wood Urocfc,; ft
speeding, 910 and <
Jimmle Kirk
speeding, eoata.
Isaac Jerman, speeding and
reckleas drWing, $? and
Curley Junior Tuck,
cers said tney were tow.
The girl reportedly said she
ran along Highway 401 in the
direction of Warrenton and
that her father allegedly cane
up behind her driving a pick'
up and stopped the track near
Neat's Store.
There the girl contends her
father advanced on her with a
knife and when she attempted
to escape, he allegedly slash
at her with the knife, cutting
her hand.
She told officers she crawled
under a fence and ran across a
pasture to the home of a rela
tive. Deputy Stevenson said
Thursday afternoon that the
girl was staying with kinsmen
because of alleged "fear of re
turning home.''
Robertson, who will be givan
a hearing here Friday, was ac
cused by both his daoghter
and his wife of firing at them
with the rifle on several occa
The incident Thursday re
portedly stemmed from a de
cision of the girl and her itep
to report a rape at
by Robertson which a)
on
girl was quoted
as saying she
Monday and Robert
a tenant farmer on tha
Dowtln farm, allegedly grabbed
to rape
Officer* said they went to
Three-Day
Holiday Is
Scheduled
No tobacco will be sold in
Warrenton during the first
three days next week.
Warehousemen here will
close their doors on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday as all
flue-cured tobacco markets on
the North Carolina Middle
Belt, the Eastern North Caro
lina Belt and the South Caro
lina-Border North Carolina
Belt suspend leaf sales.
Warrenton tobacconists are
hopeful that the resumption of
sales on Thursday will bring
an increase in prices. The
three-day holiday was ordered
because of congestion existing
in certain processing plants.
The marketing recess was
voted unanimously Tuesday
night in Raleigh by the sales
committee of the Bright Belt
Warehouse Association.
Association President Fred
S. Royster of Henderson said
the committee "feels that the
1962 crop of flue-cured tobac
co shoald sell at prices oom
mensurate with 1961." By this
action they want to remove
any question about the de
pressed prices being caused by
plant congestion.
Royster said the committee
planned no other action before
tb? marketing holiday. "Alter
the holiday ends we will take
another look at the price sit
uation and take new action if
this is deemed necessary," he
said.
The closing of warehouses in
the three belts will mark the
first time since 1956 that such
a situation has caused an in
terruption in sales.
E. R. Wood, secretary of the
Warrenton Tobacco Board of
Trade, said late Wednesday
that all five houses selling on
the Warrenton market "have
been conducting block sales
since last Friday." He said
prices were running apprecia
bly lower than at the same
period in 1961.
Royster said tobacco repre
sentatives in all three belts
felt that congested conditions
on tobacco markets might be
the basic reason for lower
price levels than last year. He
said the sales committee of the
association acted accordingly.
"I had call* from county
Farm Bureau organizations and
the state organization asking
that something be done about
the price situation," Royster
said. "We are going to see
if the sales holiday holds the
Wood said that five sales
would be held as usual begin
ning Thursday as the market
resumes operations here.
Draft Office
To Be Closed
The Warren County Draft
Board office here which was
closed Thursday will agate be
closed Friday white the clerk,
Mrs. Thomas Ellington, is on
leave, Selby Beaten, chairman,
announced.
rc-ltfll t"? ?
18th birthday falls on either of
these day* to report for regit
batten on Monday, Sept 17.
Norlina Ruritans
Hold Meeting
Only routine business mat
Once a common sight among tobacconists
lcre, but now unique, is the wagon of tobacco
hauled to market by mule. Marcellus Davis,
Warren County Negro of near Warrenton, re
vived the scene of yesteryear this week when
1e rolled into Warrenton atop a mule-drawn
wagon filled with the golden leaf. Davis and
other Warren County farmers will take a
pause in the sale of tobacco here Monday
through Wednesday with the shutdown of to
bacco warehouses in three flue-cured tobacco
belts. (Staff Photo)
At Board of Education Meeting
Possibility Of Locating
New School Here Aired
There is a possibility that a
proposed consolidated elemen
tary school for Negroes may
be located at John K. Hawkins
school here if ? suitable loca
tion can be found.
The change in location from
a proposed site in the southern
nart of the county?as propos
ed in the bond issue campaign
?was discussed by the Board
at Education here on Monday
night in a meeting largely con
cerned with the location of a
site for the proposed school.
Meeting with the board were
Boyd Reams of Afton and Er
nest Turner and the Rev. J.
H. Wilson, who had been re
quested by the board to aid
in finding a site that would be
suitable for the new Negro el
ementary school.
Turner, who with Wils
bad been named as represen
tatives of the colored school
jatron*, said that at a recent
meeting of representatives ol
the colored race the matter ol
locating the school at Hawkins
was discussed. He said thai
six of those present favored
the school location in the ru
ral part of the county and five
favored placing it at Hawkins.
Turner said that he served as
chairman of the group and did
?ot vote, but if he had the
vote would have been six to
six. Turner said that he felt
that there would be no serious
objection to changing the lo
cation to Warrenton.
Reason lor the suggested
change is a request for addi
tional facilities for the propos
ed school. Negro leaders hav?
expressed the hope that the
building would contain a lunch
room and an auditorium, with
some talk of ? gymnasium.
These additions would increase
the cost of the building mater
ially. It was pointed out that
if the school were built at
Hawkins that the present lunch
room, auditorium and gymna
sium would serve the new
school, allowing all the fundi
to go into needed classrooms.
Wilson, who Turner said did
not favor the location <it Haw
kins, made no reference to
that location. He said that be
knew his people would not
favor the location of the build
ing at any point further west
than the Bill Davis barns on
the Afton-Park Town road, a
short distance from the pres
ent site of the Coley Springs
school. To place it further
west would get it too far away
from the vicinity of schools to
be consolidated, he said.
Wilson said that be had
found an available site for the
proposed school on the road
leading from the Warrenton
Louisburg highway to the War
renton-Henderson highway. He
said that 20 acres of the Syl
vester Feilds farm, Joining Os
borne Limer, is available. How
ever, he did not press for this
site.
Other sites suggested by the
group included Tom Brown, or
Tom Burton, near Coley
Springs; William Bender, part
of the H. P. Williams tract;
William Davis at Stoney Lawn;
and Camella Devi* at Park
town.
The board members agree 1
to have Supt Peeler and a
committee from the board In
spect each of al
locations, before
lewiuimeuditloni 16 the W<
Carolina School Planning
Board, which will have the
final word as to the location
of the building.
However, the view ;
pressed that the
location for the
be aaar Coley Springs,
Space News Heard
By Local Rotarians
Some 50 Warren County res
idents got a closer look at one
phase of the space program
here Tuesday night when they
viewed a scale-model satellite
which may one day make
worldwide communication pos
sible.
A small replica of Tel-Star,
a communication satellite now
circling U?> earth. Was shown
at ? meeting of the Warren
ton Rotary Club and a prog
ram depicting the satellite's
function was presented t? both
Rotarians and a number of
Heading the program was
Bill Jones of Rocky Mon*rd?r.
trict commercial |
Carolina Telephone
graph Co. and a
bar of the
Cluub. Also
program with
Clark, aaaisti
manager for the district.
Area Manager Hwrard Pitta *C
m
three ?
ttm
of
in the operation of the space
transmitter.
During the meal which pre
ceded the program, a small
light bulb famished light
which was transformed into
energy by solar batteries which
powered a small motor used
to turn a pinwheel.
thus, before the program
got underway, those attending
the meeting were becoming
familiar with the operation of
the satellite. When the prog
ram began, facts aad figures
relating to the operation of
Tel-Star were presented by the
speakers.
A question and answer ses
sioft followed the presentation
of data, and scores at parsons,
including science and math
teachers from throughout the
?Maty, participated in the dis
Bruce