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VOLUME 71 Subscription Price $3.00 A Year 10? Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1967
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NUMBER 10
The old T, E. Powell home where Dr. T.
E. Powell, Jr., was reared. This home Is
located just beyond the branch and short
distance from the Warrenton-Macon highway.
Commissioners Agree
To Build Jail Kitchen
Warren County is expected
to build a new kitchen for
its jail within the next fiscal
year at a cost of from $7,000
to $10,000, the board of coun
ty commissioners told a rep
resentative of the state here
Monday afternoon.
Leslie D. Smith, inspector
of correctional institutions for
the state, told the commis
sioners that with the com
pletion and equipping of the
kitchen and some other minor
and inexpensive alterations,
that the jail would be in good
condition. He said that the jail
is alright; it is not among the
best jails in th6 state, but
neither is it among the worst.
The Grand Jury for sev
eral terms of court has re
commended repairs at the jail,
with particular emphasis upon
the need for a new kitchen.
Smith, who was accompan
ied to the meeting by Sheriff
Clarence Davis, brought with
him a rough sketch of the pro
posed kitchen. It calls for a
fire wall between the kitchen
and the jail proper, and for
the cutting down of a window
into a door space, providing
an entrance into a laundry
room, now being used as
a storage room.
He said that the county was
fortunate in having a good
stainless steel sink, the major
item of equipment. He es
timated that this type sink
would cost t!ifc county around
$400 at present prices.
" Smith told the commis
sioners that Kingsdown Mat
tress Company had develop
sioners that Kingsdown Ma
tress Company developed a
new type mattress that is fire
proof, waterproof and stain
proof, at a relatively low
price. He suggested that pre
sent mattresses be replaced
by this new type mattress
by degrees.
Sheriff Davis, a former
building contractor, told the
commissioners that he felt
certain that the new kitchen
can be built for the $7,500 to
$10,000 price. The most single
expensive item, he said would
be the roof, which would be
of the built up type.
The meeting of the com
missioners Monday was an
unusual quick one with few
citizens appearing and little
business other than routine
before the board.
The agreement to build a
kitchen at the jail and the ac
ceptance of the resignation of
Miss Dorothy Goodwyn as as
sistant home agent, neither of
which consumed much time,
were the highlights of the
meeting.
Mrs. H. P. Reid appeared
before the board to request
that a road leading through the
H. P. Reid development off
East Church Street be paved
by the State Highway Depart
ment. Later in the day Monroe
Gardner appeared with a simi
lar request for paving in the
Country Meadows Develop
ment. Both are outside the
town limits. Both Mrs. Reid
and Mr. Gardner were asked
to discuss the projects at a
meeting with representatives
of the State Highway Depart
ment at a meeting to be held
here shortly.
A. P. Rodwell, Jr., tax col
lector, reported taxes collect
ed in February in the amount
of $33,726.42, making a total
collection of 1966taxestodate
of $371,663.67, which repre
sented 83.32 per cent of the
levy.
Alert Officer Nabs
5 Boys At Norlina
The alertness of a Norlina
night police officer was re
sponsible for the arresting
and jailing of five young Mass
achusetts boys early last
Saturday morning on a
charge of breaking and enter
ing.
The arrest of Harold Wil
son, Jr., 16, Dennis Leroy, 16,
Donald Leonard, Jr., 15years,
9 months, Russell B. Blnson,
jr., 16, and Walter Pittaleye,
16 all of Mlddleburg, Mass.,
In Schuster Pure Oil Service
Station In Norlina around 3:30
a. m. Saturday, came after
from 30 to 40 minutes of
surveillance by Carson Prld
gen, Norlina Night Officer.
Prldgen said thai he ob
served the boys on Highway
NO. 1 North of Norlina around
3 o'clock last Saturday morn
ing, and his suspicions wars
aroused by seeing the boys on
ths highway at that hour at
the morning. He determined
to keep the grow under ob
servation.
Driving In a round-about
way Nek Into Norlina be hid
in the parking lot of Clayton
Taylor Garage, and watched
the boys as they entered the
town and first went Into a
telephone booth at Hunt's Ser
vice Station. He noticed, he
said, that as a car would ap
proach the boys would hide
behind a booth.
Prldgen said the boys came
up the highway and tried the
doors of several busi
ness establishments en route.
He said that they tried
the doors of Severance's Pill
ing Station and the ABC Store.
They came to the lot where
Prldgen was hiding behind a
truck and as he crawled un
der the truck to escape dis
covery, they examined several
cars on the lot, but did not
try to take one. They then
went across the road where
an old ear was parked with
the key In the Ignition.
This discovery excited the
boys and they all piled into
tha car. "But 1 was not wor
ried," he said. "I knew the
engine was shot and that they
would never get It started."
True enough they
OSee ALERT, page 4)
March 17
Is Deadline
For Signup
March 17 is the final date
to sign up in the 1967 cotton,
feed grain, and wheat program
T. E. Watson, ASCS office
manager, reminded Warren
County farmers yesterday.
Watson saidthat allfarmers
should study these programs
very carefully and if they wish
to sign up to be sure to do
so before the deadline. He said
that in most instances the pro
grams offer many advantages
to the farmers who sign up.
Under the 1967 cotton pro
gram, Watson said, farmers
must sign up to plant their
allotment or divert between
12.5 and 35 cents of their ef
fective 1967 cotton allotment.
By participating in the pro
gram, a farmer is eligible
for diversion payments, price
support payments, and price
support. Farmers who do not
sign up are not eligible for
any program benefits. Watson
said most cotton farmers
in Warren County would bene
fit a great deal by diverting
a portion of their allotment
under the program.
The feed grain program of
fers price support payments,
price support on feed grains
produced on the farm, and di
version payments on farms
with bases of less than 25
acres.
The wheat program also of
fers price support on the wheat
produced plus marketing cer
tificates. No diversion pay
ments will be made under the
1967 wheat program.
Watson said that each of
these programs offers some
advantages to farmers. He
added that individual farm
ers should get full informa
tion and make a decision prior
to March 17.
Norlina Wins
Norlina High School bas
ketball teams, victors in the
first round of district play
offs at Rocky Mount last Fri
day night, were scheduled to
play Cleveland last night
(Thursday).
The Norlina boys eliminat
ed Meadow in last Friday
night's game jy the 59 to 55.
Draffin was high scorer for
Norlina with 24 points. Hicks
and Hege netted 13 points each.
Others scoring were Macon 2,
Hawkins 2, and Parham 5.
Down by five points at
the end of the first quarter,
Norlina cut this lead to three
points at the end of the half,
and went ahead to stay In the
third quarter.
In play at Rocky Mount the
same night Mlddleburg was
eliminated by YoungsvUle 60
to 30.
BAKE SALE
A bake aale, sponsored by
the Junior woman's Club of
Warrenton, will be hold at the
AAA Gas and Appliance Com
pany store on Main Street
on Saturday, March 11, from
10 a. m. to 12 noon* Cup cakes,
pies, cakes and cookie* wffl
be on sa|e.
By Carolina Biological Supply Co.
Research Farm, Laboratory To
Be Established Near Warrenton
Company
Is Started
At Elon
Dr. Thomas Edward Powell,
Jr., president of Carolina
Biological Supply Company,
was the subject of a feature
article by Chester S. Davis
In the Winston-Salem Journal
on Sunday, Nov. 27, 1966.
From this article the Infor
mation published below Is
taken.
Dr. Powell was born at
Warrenton, N. C., In 1899. He
earned his BA at Elon Col
lege, his MA (Geology) at the
University of North Carolina
and his PhD (Biology) at
Duke University. From 1920
until 1932 he taught geology
and biology at Elon College.
In 1927 Dr. Powell built
a 14x16 foot woodshed beside
a mud pond behind his home In
Elon and launched the Carolina
Biological Supply Company.
Davis said that prior to that
time there were no supply
houses for furnishing speci
mens to schools, colleges and
laboratories, and professors
largely did their own collec
tions of frogs, earthworms,
etc.
At that time his assets
consisted of that shed and
pond and a rather thorough
knowledge of what was wanted,
where It was to be found and
who wanted it. At the outset
his stock was limited but of
splendid quality ? frogs,
grasshoppers, Carolina
earthworms, a particularly
fine strain of the emocbapro
teus and a few such other
items.
Until 1932 Dr. Powell, who
by then had moved to a 140
acre site just outside Elon,
operated on a part time basis.
He procured specimens and
peddled them In his spare time
and taught for a living. In 1932
he went into his shed, which
he called a laboratory, and be
gan to work on a full time
basis.
It was 1940 before Dr.
Powell got over the hump to
be able to use black ink In
his account book. As late as
1945 his staff consisted of nine
persons. Today there are 180.
From his sprawling com
(See COMPANY, page 4)
Beginners Welding
Course To Be Held
At Norlina School
An adult Beginning Electric
Welding Course will start at
the Vocational Agricultural
Department of the Norlina
High School on Tuesday night,
March 14, at 7 o'clock, Clint
Hege, vocational teacher, an
nounced yesterday. The
course will be open to all War
ren County citizens.
Hege said that plans for the
class are to mest on Tuesday
and Thursday nights through
March 30, for six meetings
or a total of 18 hours.
Philip Bender, Jr., a grad
uate of the Nashville Techni
cal College, will teach the
course. Hege said that most
of the time will be spent In
actual welding. A charge of
$9.00 will be made tor the
course.
Hege said that the course
would be limited to 19 mem
ber* on a fir st-to-signup
beala. He said thrttbOM will
ing to take the course to let
htm know or to attend the
first meeting of the
March 14. He
attending to wet
long sleeves and heavy
One of the largest biologi
cal supply companies in the
world will establish a re
search farm in Warren Coun
ty a short distance from War
renton.
Carolina Biological Supply
Company, with home offices in
Burlington will develop a
combined research labora
tory and farm on the old Bur
well Powell Farm on the old
Macon - Warrenton Road,
Thomas E. Powell, Jr., pres
ident of the company, said this
week.
Preparatory work for es
tablishing the research lab
oratory and farm has been
underway for several months.
In casting about for a lo
cation for such an Installa
tion, Powell said, many places
were considered and a number
were explored. None of those,
he said, had as many natural
facilities as does the ances
tral Powell homeplace and
farm near Warrenton.
Powell, the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Powell
of Warrenton, was reared on
the farm which will be a part
of the site selected for the
enterprise.
Powell said that Carolina
HEW Official Asks That
Haliwa School Be Closed
The Hallwa Indian school
near Areola may be closed at
the end of the present school
year In order that the county
may comply with guidelines of
the Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare.
The closing of the school
was recommended to the
Board of Education In called
session Monday night by w.
Kenneth Haddock, senior civil
rights adviser, EEOP, De
partment of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare, of Washing
ton, D. C.
Haddock told the board
members that the school falls
to meet needed standards in
both equipment and teaching
personnel, and that it should
be closed in the interest of
children attending the school
in that section of the county.
He said that if the school
is closed and other steps to
ward integration taken by the
board as outlined by the board
In a recent letter to him that
he feels that the Warren Coun
ty school system will be In
compliance with school guide
lines. He said that if the school
Is operated that he falls to see
how the county can be In
compliance.
A suggestion that the school
be closed by two grades at
the time failed to meet with
Asst. Agent
To Leave
County
Miss Dorothy Goodwyn, as
sistant home economics agent
In Warren County for the past
18 months, has resigned, ef
fective March 31.
She has accept d a position
as home demonstration exten
sion agent in Johnston Coun
ty
Miss Goodwyn presented
her resignation to the board
of county commissioners on
Monday afternoon, and was
accepted. Chairman Amos
Capps expressed regret that
Miss Goodwyn is to leave the
county, but said that he was
glad to see that she has won
a promotion.
Miss Goodwyn told the com
missioners that she had enjoy
ed her stay and work in War
ren County and will leave with
regret.
In her work here Miss Good
wyn has been an assistant to
Mrs. Bertha Forte, home eco
nomics agent. Miss Emily
Balllnger, home economics
extension agent, has been
without an assistant for sev
eral months.
County Extension Chairman
Frank Reams, who accom
panied Miss Goodwyn to the
commissioners meeting,
th* commissioners that he did
not know wben a replacement
?Wld be found for Miss Good
wyn or an Malata* Am- Miss
is ? tremendous abort?e in
IWMOM trained for this type
work.
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the approval of the HEW of
ficial, who said that such steps
would, it appeared to him,
only worsen a bad condition.
Haddock said that If pupils
from this school entered other
schools of the Warren Dis
trict that the schools they en
tered would automatically be
under the Elementary and Sec
ondary School Act, and would
be entitled to additional fed
eral grants.
Haddock said that he was
well aware of the emotional
climate of the school and knew
that the closing of the school
would be a great disappoint
ment to those who have work
ed for many years to estab
lish and maintain the Indian
school, but he felt that its
operation was not In the best
Interest of the children and
the Warren County school
system. He said that he would
take full responsibility for
the closing of the school and
asked that any complaints
lodged by Chief W. R. Rich
ardson on behalf of the patrons
be directed to him.
Haddock also expressed ap
preciation of the difficulties
facing the board of education
due to the number of non
whites In the county. Such a
proportion of Negroes to
whites, he said, always make
adjustments more difficult. He
said that he feels that the War
ren County Board of Education
and the school administration
had done a conscientious job
In seeking to comply with HEW
guidelines.
Puzzling the board of edu
cation is what to do with the
students now at the Hallwa
school should It be closed
down. Under the freedom of
choice plan adopted by the
board they could not be as
signed to any particular school
where there might be room,
the members of the board
said. There Is a shortage of
room in the schools to which
the students would most like
ly be asked to be assigned.
The demand for mobile units
now exceed the supply, a mem
ber pointed out. "We just
don't have room to take care
of these students," Supt. J.
Roger Peeler told Haddock.
The board took no action on
the closing of the Hallwa
School, following Haddock's
appearance and request for the
closing o? the school.
Direct Telephone
Dialing Coming To
Warrenton Section
HENDERSON - Telephone
subscribers in Henderson and
six nearby exchanges are
scheduled to have an exciting
new service at their finger
tips when Direct Distance
Dialing is Inaugurated on May
26, 1967.
With this new service, tele
phone subscribers will be able
to dial most of their own
station-to-station calls to
points in 48 states and Canada.
Exchanges scheduled to re
ceive this revolutionary new
long distance dialing are Hen
derson, Oxford, Centerville,
Frankllnton, Loulsburg, Nor
lina, and Warrenton.
The announcement was
made this week by Howard
T. Pitts, local manager for
Carolina Telephone, who said
that the company will spend
more than $250,000 In provid
ing Direct DlstanceDlalingfor
this area.
Carolina Telephone In
troduced the first D. D. D.
service In North Carolina at
Washington in 1957 and has.
subsequently provided Direct
Distance Dialing in 80 addi
tional exchanges.
"The establishment of a
standardized nationwide tele
phone numbering system and
development of Intricate new
equipment has made D, D. D.
possible and marks an Impor
tant milestone In communica
tions progress," the manager
(See DIALING, page 4)
Man Charged With
Murder Of Brother
A Warren County man is be
ing held In Warren County
jail charged with the mur
der at his brother with a
butcher knife.
"Hiurman Russell, 36-year
old Negro man, allegedly
stuck a butcher knife through
the breaat bone of his brother,
Theodore Russell, 34, at the
home of their father. Warren
Russell, near Drewry ground
10:30 last Friday night. The
knife, after penetrating the
breast boaa, cut an artery aaar
the heart. Sheriff Clarence
Davis, said yesterday.
rr sated by
of the Sheriffs De
ll tSO Friday
Dans sakl that
him that his brother fell on
the knife and that the cause
of the quarrel stemmed from
an effort on the part of his
father and brother to drive him
away from home because he
did not have a Job.
Sheriff Davis quoted neigh
bors as saylnc that the Rus
seUs had been ficbtlnc for
several hours before the fatal
wounding of Theodore Russell.
S1CW SALE
11m Warranto* Karal Fin
Department wffl
dav, March 11, * the Fire
House. Slew will be ready at
11:30 and will sell It .7K
a tray or $1.00 par
Biological Supply Company
expected that several years,
perhaps as many as five,
will be required to de
velop the site and to achieve
volume production of the
teaching materials which
eventually will comefromthe
Warren acres. He said the
company is starting out on a
modest scale and will let
future developments come at
a rate and In a direction call
ed for by the program itself
as it matures.
Carolina Biological Supply
Company has come into pos
session of several of the nine
individual tracts of the John
Burwell Powell plantation.
These are now consolidated to
form the site on which the
company proposes to establish
the research laboratory and
farm. Powell said that in de
ference to Warren County,
the faculty is being called
Warren Laboratories, and it
will be listed in local direc
tories under this name even
though the entire project will
be an Integral part of Caro
lina Biological Supply com
pany.
Essentially, the company's
main purpose will be to de
velop the research farm por
tion first. Bulldozers are now
at work cleaning up and en
larging fields for the purpose
at growing genetic corn in the
same category.
Powell said that for several
years Carolina Biological
Supply Company has assumed
the obligation of furnishing
educational institutions
throughout America with the
genetic requirements utilized
In their teaching laboratories.
The supply company has
reached the point where their
sources for such material are
insufficient. The firm intends,
he said, to concentrate the
growth and development at
these genetic strains in one
location. They are planning the
farm for this specific purpose.
In his explanation of the
work of the research farm and
laboratory, released to the
press Tuesday, Powell said:
"In order to develop to the
fullest extent the needed 26
strains of corn, as well as
additional strains of tobacco,
English peas, and soy beans,
It has been necessary to pro
vide certain facilities. These
Include Irrigation ponds and
Isolated _ fields placed rela
tively close to these reser
voirs. This arrangement per
mits the several plant forms
to be grown In Isolation and
to be conveniently hand-polli
nated In fields that are close
enough to the water storage
to provide the necessary ir
rigation. In essence our appli
catlon and our farmli?opefa
tlons will be similar to those
of any well operated farm In
the local vicinity. There will
be certain differences. We
will not depend on cotton and
tobacco as staple products In
our operation. We win grow
a greater variety of plant
crop* than the average farm,
bi* essentially we will operate
a test or ex^jrlmental farm
under close scientific
RESEARCH, page 4)
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