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Louisville 1. Ky. 402-1 Your Best Advertising Medium ?h? Harrrn IRmirii Your Best Advertising Medium VOLUME 71 Subscription Price $3.00 A Year 10?f Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1967 NUMBER 19 Bunch Is Named Fellow Dr. Charles Bunch attended a meeting of the North Ameri can Federation Congress of he International College of HZ60".8,84 the Amerlcana Hotel, Bal Harbour, Florida, which met April 30-May 4 Dr. Bunch was admitted to the College with the rank of Fellow, the highest category, nL. Convocatlon, Monday nl^ht. The degree F I c S was conferred. This was the 32nd Annual Convocation of the Interna "2 College of Surgeons, ch was founded In 1935 as a World Federation of Gen eral Surgeons and Surgical Specialists and dedication to better surgery throughout the world. There are chapters In 19fi? t'f1 countrles the wU?be!nToCnil M6etlng Civil Term Of Court Is Concluded The May Civil Term of War ren County Superior Court which convened on Monday morning of last week with Judge William Bickett of Ra leigh presiding, adjourned last Thursday afternoon, with cases reported to noon of that day In this newspaper. At that time the case of Milton W ilk ins vs. June Lynn and H. Roy Strickland, doing business as H. Roy Strick land, was being tried. At the Cjose of the defendant's evi dence a consent Judgment was entered, with the defendants paying the costs. Other cases were continued for the term as follows: State of North Carolina, Ex Rel W. h. S. Burgwyn, jr#, Solicitor, Third Solicitors District, vs. Harry Blake Johnson; Etta Louise Harris Loyd vs. Walter Eden Loyd; Mrs. Jessie E. Harris and Mrs. Etta H. Loyd vs. Walter 5- ?LoydJ Bessie Lyles vs. William Louis Seward and John a. Williams; Myrtle Allen Lyles vs. Willie (Wil liam) Louis Seward and John A. Williams. Daniel Funeral Held On Thursday Funeral services lor John Andrew Daniel, 80, were con ducted at 3 p. m. Thursday at Providence Methodist Church by the Rev. Walter E. Six and the Rev. James H. Grant. Interment was In Fair view Cemetery In Warrenton. Mr. Daniel died at Duke Hospital Tuesday. He was a lifelong resident of Warren County and was a member of providence Methodist Church where he served as superin tendent of the Sunday School for many years. He Is survived by three sons, J. Howard Daniel, Leon ard S. Daniel and Frank H. Daniel, all of Warrenton; two daughters, Mrs. Manley S. Martin of Warrenton and Mrs. Walter B. Newman ofNorllna; eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. SERVICES AT ALL SAINT'S Holy Communion will be celebrated at All Salnfs Epis copal Church at Warrenton by the Rev. E. W. Baxter on Sun day, May 14, at 8:30 a.m. Evening prayer services will be conducted at 5 p.m. Sunday by the Rev. Robert M. Bird of Weldon. The public i is Invited. [mother's day sermon ??The Motherhood of God" | will be the sermon topic at i Sunday morning service at i Warrenton Baptist Church, i Rev. John R. Link, pastor, ced yesterday. Mrs. J. T. Martyn of Alex Va., spent several ys this week with her father, J. P. Scoggln. A Home Economics n Class at John Graham High School under the direction of their home economics teacher Emily B. Person, are refinishing furniture as a part of their "Housing and House Furnishing" unit. Various pieces of furniture are being worked on?the trunk and one table are over a hundred years old. The table is the one being re finished by Evelyn Dillard and was made by her great grandfather. In contrast, Terry Mustian and Dianne Pennell are refinishing a traditional table. Members of the class pictured above are, left to right: First row?Terry Mustian, Dianne Pennell, June Stegall, Phyllis Loyd, Fannie Buckner, Angie Wilson, Gloria Tun stall; second row?Betty Tucker, Kari Head, Janice Ayscue, Evelyn Dillard, Carolyn Shearin, Brenda Shearin, Sandra Munn, Lucy Boyd. Door Delivery Of Moil May Be Extended Here The Postofflce Department has authorized door delivery of mail delivery in some areas served by the Warrenton Post office now receiving curb delivery, effective immedi ately, Mrs. Emily R. Thomp son, acting postmaster, announced this week. Patrons with city delivery service who live in qualified territory may receive door delivery if they desire, Mrs. Thompson said. The follow ing conditions apply: 1. One of the major re quirements for conversion is at least a 50"^ development of the block. 2. There must be a visible house number and a satisfac tory walkway from the street to the house. The curb box must be removed before door service can be given. 3. Patrons must place a receptacle at their door or provide a door slot no less than 30 inches from the floor. Mrs.. Thompson said that patrons will not be required to ask for the change in ser vice. The fact that they re move the curbline box and provide a door receptacle will be evidence enough they want the service. Conversion is voluntary. If customers wish to con tinue the curbline delivery, Mrs. Thompson said, they may do so by leaving their box as it is. Two Defendants Have Racing Charges Reduced Two young men, charged with racing and speeding, had their charges reduced to speeding 60 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone in Warren County Recorder's Court last Friday. Each was ordered to pay a $15 fine and court costs. Charged with racing and speeding were Vernon Karl Brown, 20, and Anton Cliff Martin, 24. Jesse Dunston, Jr., pled guilty to a charge of non support and was sentenced to the roads for 60 days. The jail sentence was suspended for two years provided the defendant pays into the office of the Director of Welfare each Monday, commencing May 15, 1967, and continuing until fur ther order of the court, the sum of $25 per week for the support of his wife, Lula Dunston, and three children. Leon Baskervllle was sen tenced to the roads for six months when he pled guilty to a charge of breaking, enter ing, and larceny. It was recommended that the prison er be placed on work release. The State took a nol pros with leave in the case of Don ald Lewis Borte, charged with speeding. Thomas Harris was sen tenced to the roads for 60 days when he pled guilty to charges of resisting, delaying and obstructing public officer in discharge of his duty as officer. The Jail sentence was suspended for five years pro vided the defendant not violate any criminal laws of the State for five years, remain of good behavior and pay a fine of $25 and costs. The State took a nol pros with leave in the case of Charles Dee Andrews, charg ed with speeding. Arthur Ralph Bobbitt was ordered to pay court costs when he was found guilty of (See COURT, page 4) Drake Elected Mayor Of Macon In Tuesday's Vote Wilton R. Drake was elected Mayor of Macon in the muni cipal election Tuesday. He succeeds Bernard Thompson, who was not a candidate for re-election. In the race for the five member board of town com missioners four members of the board were re-elected. They are M. C. Clary, Wll loughby Harris, C. E. Thomp son, and W, J. Wilson. The new member of the board, who will fill the seat vacated by Henry Fuller, Is Reuben Shearln. Fuller was not a candidate for re-election. Unsuccessful candidates were Pete Hllllard and Malvln HaJthcock, Jr. Drake, who was unopposed, was elected to serve a ninth term as mayor after missing one term while a member of the State Legislature. Macon officials are elected for two-year terms and serve without pay. Farmers Ha. To Vote On Transfers Upland cotton farmers in Warren County will have an opportunity to decide whether they can transfer cotton allot ments, by sale or lease, outside the county within the State. A referendum will be held in the county from May 15 to May 19 to decide this issue, with voting being done by mail. T. E. Watson, ASC office man ager, said yesterday that growers may mail in their marked ballot, or bring it to the ASCS office here during that time. He said ballots must either be in the ASCS office by the close of business or be postmarked by midnight May 19 to be counted. Watson said that similar referendums were held in 1965 and 1966. Todate, grow ers in 412 counties throughout the cotton belt have approved such transfers. The vote this year is being held only in counties where such transfers have not previously been ap proved. The referendum will decide only the question of whether upland cotton allotments may be transferred by sale or lease to another farm outside the county during the next two years. In no case can trans fers be madeoutsidetheState. The vote will not affect the transfer of upland cotton allot (See FARMERS, page 4) Local Youths Named District Officers Two Warrenton youths were elected 1967 officers of the Raleigh District Methodist Youth Fellowship (MYF) at a spring rally In Raleigh Sunday afternoon. Debbie Roberts was elected secretary and David Gardner was elected treasurer at the meeting held on the campus of Meredith College. Both are members of the MYF of Wes ley Memorial Methodist Church. IN HOSPITAL Mr. W. L. Fuller of Afton Is a patient in Warren General Hospital where he Is reported to be Improving. LEAVES FOR ARMY Walter Stanley Wilson, Jr., son of Mrs. Walter Stanley Wilson and the late Mr. Wil son, left for the Army on May 2, his late father's birth day. VOICE RECITAL Mrs. H. M. Hardy present ed her voice students in a recital at the Parish House or. Saturday afternoon. Re freshments were served. SCOTT Lt. Gov. Scott To Speak Here At Lions Meet The Honorable Robert Scott, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, will be the guest speaker at the regular dinner meeting of the Warrenton Lions Club at Colonial Lodge here tonight (Friday). He will be presented by Lion W, R. Drake, a former member of the State House of Representatives. PTA To Hold Final Meeting On May 16 The final meeting of the Graham-Boyd-Macon PTA will be held in the John Graham High School auditorium on Tuesday night, May 16, at 8 p.m., Mrs. Juanlta Wood, president, announced yester day. Mrs. Wood said that a slate of officers for the coming year will be presented and voted upon and that a local talent group will give a musical program. She asked that members make a special ef fort to be present at the meet ing. HAM AND TURKEY SUPPER A country ham and turkey supper will be held at the Drewry Community Club and Fire Department Building to night (Friday), beginning at 5;30 p.m. Adults will be charged $1.50 and children 75?. Proceeds -will be used for paying for the new well. BAKE SALE The Warrenton Woman's Club will hold a bake sale on Saturday, May 13, at 10 a. iru at the AAA Gas and Ap pliance Company on Main Street for the benefit of the scholarship fund. BAKE SALE The Norlina Ruritan Club will have a Bake Sale on Sat urday May 13th at Knight's Ap pliance Store. The sale will begin at 0:30 a. m. There will be cakes, pies, oookles, etc. Clean Up Campaign To be Conducted In May A Proclamation WHEREAS, litter of all forms carelessly strewn upon the streets and open areas of (community) is an eyesore that blights and corrodes the community, and WHEREAS, litter lowers property values and alienates the development of new business and the inducement of new residents, and WHEREAS, litter clean-up costs taxpaying citizens heavily annually, and WHEREAS, the accumulation of litter is especially heavy during the Summer and Holiday weekends NOW THEREFORE, I, W. A. Miles, Mayor of Warren ton, do hereby proclaim the Month of May, 1967 as Extra Effort Days for the prevention of unsightly litter, and call upon all citizens to exert an extra effort to keep War renton free from litter during this period, and throughout the years to come. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the seal of Warrenton this 8 day of May, 1967. Town Board Seeks To End Bad Dump Use Unlawful dumping of gar bage and other debris along the road leading to the town's dump and at unauthorized places near the dump has be come of growing concern to the town commissioners. Stating that unauthorized persons have been dumping garbage In areas not-intended for deposit of garbage, the Board of Town Commission ers at its regular meeting Monday night ordered that a gate be installed at the en trance of the woods through which the road to the trash dump leads. Town employees will have keys to this gate, but other persons will be bar red from using the dump with out special permission. Mayor Miles said yesterday that the dump has to be regu lated under fire and health regulations, and its use must be protected by the town. Garbage held a leading place on the agenda at Monday night's meeting. The Chief of Police was instructed to strictly enforce the Town Ordinance against littering, particularly with respect to wine bottles and beer cans. The Chief of Police was also directed to contact all busi ness firms and request that all garbage and refuse placed in alleys in the rear of their places of business be placed in containers or bins. In other action, the com missioners ordered that the parking meter at the corner of Main and East Market Street in front of Leggett's be re moved, and the area marked as a "No Parking" zone in the interest of traffic safety. It was ordered Uiat the town's 1962 Ford police car be advertised for sale and sealed bids on the same be opened at the regular meeting of the board on Monday, June 12. An application of Cassie Richardson for a permit to drive a taxicab was referred to the taxicab committee with instructions that the permit be issued if the committee's in vestigation discloses that the subject applicant be possessed of the necessary qualifi cations. Howard Oakley, secretary of the Warrenton's Merchants Association, appeared before the board to request that per mission be granted merchants to display merchandise on the streets a distance of three feet from their buildings for two days, Friday and Saturday, during the month of August when the merchants will hold their sidewalk sale. The per mission was granted. A donation of $200 to War ren County Memorial Library already set up in the budget, was ordered made. The board authorized the installation of 16 foot arm mount 2500 cp street light on East Franklin Street near Carroll's Beauty Shop. Gordon Named President Of Warren School Group Rex Gordon, principal of Norllna High School, was In stalled as president of the Warren County Unit of the North Carolina Education As sociation at Its annual meeting recently held In Littleton, Other officers Installed by Coy Lewis, assistant super intendent of schools and In stallation officer, were Mrs. Carolyn K. Ricks, home eco nomics teacher at Littleton, vice president; andMrs.Patsy Pearce, French teacher at John Graham High School, secretary-treasurer. The meeting 'was featured by a "Chalk Talk" by Bennett Straughn and his wife of Ra leigh. Introduced by the re tlring president, Mrs. Gerladine Spragglns, the speaker related the Influence that a good teacher may have on a student with the use of chalk. He was accompanied by his wife on the accordlan. The Invocation was given by E. T. Satterfleld, Jr., princi pal at Littleton High School. J. R. Peeler, superintendent of Warren County Schools, Intro duced the special guests, who were school board members and their wires aMfcounty commlssloners and their wire*. Miss Kathy OSes GORDON, page 4} REX GORDON Club Heads Meet To Make Plans A Clean Up, Fix Up, and Paint Up Drive will be con ducted in Warrenton during the month of May with var ious civic clubs cooperating. Plans for the drive were made at a kick-off meeting held at the town hall (??) on Thursday night of last week with Mayor W. A. Miles pre siding. Present at the meeting were Mrs. C. F. Burrows, president of the Little Garden Club; Mrs. R. B. Butler, president of the Warrenton Woman's Club; Mrs. Bobby Barlow, representing the Warrenton Junior Woman's Club, C. F. Burrows, president of the Lions Club; James Y. Kerr, representing the Rotary Club; and Mrs. C. E. Rodwell of the Warrenton Planning Board. Needs were discussed and each club accepted a project for which they would be re sponsible. The Little Garden Club has for several years looked after the shrubbery at the Mariam Boyd School and this year added the grounds of the War ren General Hospital to its list. It was decided that these two areas would remain as permanent projects of the club. The Warrenton Woman's Club agreed to paint one dozen oil drums to be used as ad ditional trash containers and placed in town parking lots and at other places where litter is in evidence. The Lions Club agreed to take the area between the Warrenton Railroad track and North Main Street just beyond the depot as their clean-up project. Several years ago the late C. A. Tucker and of ficials of the Warrenton Rail road company planted shrub bery here but it has since been allowed to grow up. The Warrenton junior Wo man's Club accepted the west entrance to Warrenton on Highway 158 from Norllna as its project, and agreedto con tact property owners in regard to a beautiflcatlon project In this area. The Rotary Club was re quested to add their club em blem to a sign board erect ed for this purpose on the Loulsburg and Norlina entran ces to the town. The Lions Club and the Woman's Club emblems are already up and Mrs. Burrows is investigat ing the possibility of one for the Garden Club. Mrs. C. E. Rodwell of the Warrenton Planning Board told of the work her group has done on the Tarwater Warehouse lot on Main Street and announced plans for plant ing and screening work to be done on the Wilcox Street parking lot. The board also accepted the grounds of the Warrenton Rural Fire House as its project and will proceed with planting of trees and shrubbery here as soon as possible. Mrs. Rodwell also requested that the town pro vide protection for two young trees on Main Street. The Warrenton Merchants Association was not repre sented. It had offered pre viously to contact mer chants in the business part of town requesting them to not only clean-up, fix-up Mfd paint-up the fronts of their stores, but their back alleys as well and to boOd trash bins, if they did not have any. Mayor Miles , plane tor more of the town on morning by the town crew and pledged his full co operation in all projeoU. He also urged all Individual pro perty owners In Warrenton to a* tote, 2 QBee CLEAN UP,
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