Deaths And Funerals
MRS. EVAK.8. PERRY
Funeral services for lira.
Eva Kimball Salmon Perry,
73, of Norlina were held at 2
p. m Wednesday from
Blalock Funeral Chapel by
the Rev. R. S. Rogers and
the Rev. Elton Cooke. Burial
was in the Wise Cemetery,
the Wise Cemetery.
Mrs. Perry died in Warren
General Hospital Monday
morning after a short
illness.
She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Rose
Mabry of South Hill, Va.,
and Mrs. Sadie Hester of
Richmond, Va.; a brother,
John Kimball of Norlina;
her stepmother, Mrs. T. D.
Kimball of Warrenton; five
half-brothers, Luther Kimball
of Drewry, Harold
Kimball of Greenville, S. C.,
Boyce Kimball of Charlotte,
George Kimball of Riley and
Tom Kimball of Henderson;
three half-sisters, Mrs.
Janie Rivers of Warrenton,
Mrs. Annie Hartley of
Elizabeth City and Mrs.
Elsie Harwood of Mount
Gilead; four grandchildren,
and si* great-grandchildren.
JAMES A. HAYES
Funeral services for
James Austin Hayes, 72, of
Norlina were held at 3 p. m.
Monday from Zion United
Methodist Church by the
Rev. James Hebel. Burial
was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Hayes died about
noon Saturday. He was a
retired farmer of the Oine
community.
He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Louise Wilson
Hayes; a son, James A.
Hayes, Jr., of Norlina; a
daughter, Mrs. Grace H.
Van Dyke of Kittrell; two
brothers, W. Roy Hayes of
Norlina and Weymouth
Hayes of Virginia Beach,
Va.; three sisters, Mrs.
Ernest McKissick of Philadelphia,
Pa., Mrs. Gladys
Bethel of Williamsburg, Va.,
and Mrs. Thelma Thompson
of Norlina; 10 grandchildren,
and four great-grandchildren.
MELVIN L.PERRY
Funeral services for Melvin
L. Perry, 64, of Oxford
were conducted from South
Henderson Pentecostal Holiness
Church at 2 p. ml
Monday by the Rev. Jack D.
Goodson. Burial was in
Sunset Gardens in Henderson.
Mr. Perry died at his
home in Oxford on Saturday
night. A retired farmer and
a member of the South
Henderson Pentecostal Holiness
Church he was the
brother of Mrs. Dauphin
Paynter of Norlina.
Also surviving are two
daughters, Mrs. Julia
Saunders and Mrs. Phyllis
Watson, both of Oxford; a
son, William R. Perry of
Oxford; five sisters, Mrs.
Minnie Hedgepeth, Mrs.
Myrtle Peoples, Mrs. Marie
Choplin and Mrs. Margaret
Harris, all of Henderson,
and Mrs. Ozelle Raby of
Bailey; two brothers, Benjamin
F. Perry and Marshall
L. Perry, both of
Henderson; and eight
grandchildren.
A CORRECTION
In the account of the
funeral of James Wright
Bolton in the May 26 issue of
The Warren Record Janies
Earl Bolton was erroneously
listed as a pallbearer
instead of Arthur Davis
Bolton. The error is regretted.
Fire Ants
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bristling obstructions.
Inflict Multiple Stings
If an ant hill is disturbed,
an army of defenders
scuttles out to repel the
intruder. Each ant grips a
pinch of skin with its
mandibles, then arches its
back and jabs a dozen times
or more with its stinger.
Victims may receive several
thousand stings within
seconds of being attacked.
The stings raise burning
blisters and sometimes
trigger an allergic reaction
that can send a person to a
hospital in shock. Tales of
fatal attacks and of the ants
killing chicks, piglets and
calves are exaggerated, but
the insect hordes can
damage crops and orchards.
The ants do some good,
however, killing ticks and
flies that bother cattle and
insects that damage sugar
cane.
Scientists believe the
tropical fire ant has reached
the limit of its northern
range and is unlikely to
move further north. Neither
will it go away, particularly
since Mirex, the pesticide
nost often used to kill the
ints, is being phased out as
in environmental hazard.
A Florida entomologist
who has worked on the fire
int problem admits: "We
wouldn't eradicate this thing
with an atomic bomb."
Members of the Cl»> of 1947 assembled for their first
reunion at their Alma Mater, Warren Connty Training
School, on Saturday are:[left to right], front row, Mary
D. Simmons, Arnold Davis, Lillian R. Williams, George
Talley, Laura H. Robinson, Eui^ce C. Sperrlng and Mary
G. Hunt; second row, Ernestine D. Henry, Henry H.
Greene, Helen H. Williams, William Hendricks, Lucille
G. Ewe!, Julia A. Graham and Louise Gayles; third row,
Ruth S. Kearney, Naomi S. Brown, Nettie D. Powell,
Gpnola B. Goode, Georgianua B. Clowling, Louise H.
Shootes, Hargie P. Collins, Cula H. Moore and back row,
John E. Boyd, James Hargrove, James Sommerville,
Raymond Games, Spencer Thorton and Lovelace
Watkins.
Class Of 1947 Conducts Reunion
The Class of 1947 of
Warren County Training
School, now North Warren
Middle School, enjoyed its
first reunion at the school on
Saturday, May 28. Arnold B.
Davis, class vice-president,
presided.
Greetings were extended
by W. L. Rose, principal of
North Warren. The class
and guests enjoyed a
well-planned program of
music rendered by Mesdames
Connie Davis, pian
ist; Dorothy Kearney and
Lucille Greene Ewell, soloists.
Mrs. Mabel H. Davis,
class sponsor, delivered an
address, "Know Thyself."
Reflections with emphasis
on a memorial tribute to the
deceased, recognition of
sponsors and special guests,
projections and presentations
of gifts followed.
The class presented to
North Warren Middle School
a financial gift to purchase
books for the school library.
During the dinner hour,
Mrs. Ann Hunt Jones, Music
Lecturer from Raleigh,
gave a "History of Music
from a Black Perspective."
After listening to the class
prophecy, the members
made brief comments on the
"Then vs. Now" activities.
The reunion was concluded
with a social hour at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry H. Greene in Warrenton.
The Reunion Committee
consisted of Henry H.
Greene, chairperson; Mrs.
Genola Banks Goode, cochairperson;
Mesdames
Mary Green Hunt, Hargie
Perry Collins, and Pinkie
Rodwell Fields, Willie Burnette
and James Sommerville.
Will .There Be Condominiums Over
Those White Cliffs Of Dover?
England's White Cliffs of
Dover, romanticized by
Shakespeare arid bombarded
by the Nazis, have caught
the eye of Telly Savalas,
among other actors.
Savalas was high bidder
on a lithograph of the chalky
cliffs at a recent auction to
raise money to preserve the
adjacent farmland from
encroaching real estate
development.
The Queen Mother of
England had donated the
lithograph to the Los
Angeles fund-raising event,
which attracted several
actors who appeared in the
wartime movie, "White
Cliffs of Dover."
National Park Proposed
Anna Lee, former British
film actress and chairman
of the fund drive, says the
land, mostly owned by
individuals, is the target of
developers with visions of
condominiums, hotels, and
restaurants. The fund-raisers
hope to make the land on
the cliffs' edge a park.
"The national park plan
would leave the area looking
as it did when Julius Caesar
saw it," she told the
National Geographic Society
Donations are going to
Britain's National Trust,
which plans to buy up the 12
miles of remaining coastal
land. About $500,000 is
needed.
It was 55 B.C. when
Caesar's invasion galleys
landed near Dover—then
known as Dubra—and were
repulsed by stone-throwing
Britons. Caesar's forces
landed at nearby Deal
instead.
Only 21 miles across the
Mayor Is Named
New COG Head
Mayor Hugh M. Currin of
Oxford has been named
Chairman of the Kerr-Tar
Regional Council of Governments
for the coming year.
He and other new officers
will be installed at the
annual meeting to be held
June 23 at the Lions Den in
Warrenton.
In other business at the
May meeting, a budget
totaling approximately
$423,808 was adopted.
Five counties and 13
municipalities in Region K
make up the Kerr-Tar
Regional Council of Governments.
Comes With Age
Mutton is meat from
mature sheep usually more
than two years old.
English Channel from
France, the cliffs were the
scene of later attempted
invasions. The Vikings failed
in the 10th and 11th
centuries, but the Normans
succeeded in 1066.
Neither Napoleon nor
Hitler successfully overcame
the cliffs, although
Hitler's Nazis chipped away
at them with bombs and
shells in World War II until
the site became known as
"hell-fire corner." For
much of the war thousands
of Dover residents took
refuge in the cliffs' labyrinthian
caves, protected by
180 feet of chalk.
Life went on in the caves:
Couples were married;
babies were born. The caves
were the only home some
small children had known.
Four years and 2,226
artillery strikes later, in
September 1944, the Germans'
guns were silenced.
The toll of dead and
wounded was about 500, far
less than it might have been
without the caves' shelter.
Hidden Treasures
The cliffs took on new
significance in 1962 when a
slope under an ancient
Norman castle slipped,
revealing three layers of
civilization dating to the
Iron Age. Archeologists
worked alongside the remnants
of war—gun emplacements,
searchlight holders,
and barbed wire.
The site later received
attention from the National
Trust, which in 1975 made a
worldwide appeal for funds
to protect the land from
developers. The United
States, among- other countries,
responded, meeting
part of the goal.
Many Americans were
already familiar with the
cliffs of Dover. They had
heard Bing Crosby sing
about the bluebirds returning
there in his World War II
hit and had read Alice Duer
Miller's novel in verse, "The
White Cliffs." Or they had
read Shakespeare's description
of the cliffs in "Richard
II" as a "fortress built by
Nature for herself/Against
infection and the hand of
Local Students Gain Honors
<
The Public Information
Office at Louisburg College
has released the following
names of students from the
Warrenton area as having
been honored by being
named to the Dean's List for
the spring semester:
Michelle Matuskowitz,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.
S. Matuskowitz of Route 2,
Warrenton; Donna Kay
Overby, daughter of Mrs.
Ethel Overby of Warrenton;
Jayesh K. Patel, son of Dr.
and Mrs. K. B. Patel of
Warrenton; and Perry
Bryan Rogers, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene B. Rogers
of Warrenton.
The Academic Dean at
Hardbarger Business College
has announced that
Kimberly Harris, Rebecca
Wood and Edith Robertson
were named to the Dean's
List for the winter quarter
at the college.
Mrs. Dawne H. Wlmbrow,
daughter of Mr. and Mra. A.
B. Hair A Norlina, has bees
named to the dean's list a)
the North Carolina Stat#
University for the spring
semester. She is majoring in
computer science.
Graduates
Miss Janet Davis of Route
2, Warrenton, graduated
from the North Carolina
School for the Deaf In
Morganton on Sunday, May
29.
The school is a 10-month
day and residential program
that provides academic
and vocational education
to the state's children
whose hearing problems
prevent them from attending
public schools.
Janet was among 56
graduates from the school.
The giant tortoise is a
vegetarian.