John Graham Graduating
Class To Receive Diplomas
The class of 1977 at John
Graham High School will
march onto the school's
athletic field on Friday
night at 8 p. m. for
graduating exercises. Diplomas
will be presented
to 161 seniors.
Floyd B. McKissick,
founder of Soul City, will be
the commencement speaker.
McKissick is a graduate
of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and
the law school at the University.
He was admitted
to the North Carolina bar in
1952. In 1963 he resigned as
director of the Congress of
Racial Equality and formed
McKissick Enterprises.
McKissick Enterprises
launched a development
plan to create a new town,
Soul City.
The Rev. Kenneth Howard,
pastor of the Macon
Baptist Church, will give the
invocation. Howard is attending
the Southeastern
Seminary in Wake Forest,
working toward a Master of
Divinity degree. He is
married to the former
Rosemary Connelly of
Miami, Fla., and they are
the parents of three children.
Miss Barbara Pullen,
daughter of Mrs. Blanche
Pullen of Littleton, will give
the valedictorian address
while Ricky O'Neal, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie J.
O'Neal of Afton-Elberon,
will give the salutatorian
speech.
Marshals for the exercises
are Sheryl Aycock, chief;
Lisa Bobbitt, Melissa
Exum, Sandra Groom,
Shirley Hudgins, Mary
Helen Rooker, Michael
Ross, Patricia Richardson,
Gale Murray and Jason
Young.
Football bleachers will be
reserved for parents and
admittance will be by ticket
only. The graduates will be
seated on the football field.
General audience seating
will be provided also.
The commencement exercises
-will be held in the
gymnasium if it rains.
To receive diplomas on
Friday night are:
Scarlett Ann Abbott, Clinton
Alphonso Allgood,
Byrnes Mitchell Alson,
Charles Lester Alston,
Francine Devora Alston,
Janet Denise Alston, Jonas
Milo alston, Larry Darnell,
Alston, Larry Donnell Alston,
Linwood Prince Alston,
Michael Alston and Montellio
Alston.
Also, Nancy Lee Alston,
Samuel Martin Alston, Verlean
Alston, Wayne Alston,
John Clifton Banks, Jr.,
Estelle Marie Barnes,
Michael Clifton Baskett.
Ruby Elizabeth Baskett,
Jeanette Bell, Hoverson B.
Blackwell, Jr., Susan Lee
Bolt and Bertha Jean
Bolton.
Also, Brenda Ann Boyd,
Frederick Martin Brewer,
Michael Anthony Brown,
Elroy Duke Bullock, Gladys
Annette Bullock, Leroy Dale
Bullock, Mary Alice Bullock,
Charles Linwood
Capps, Jr., Iva Michele Carroll,
Sharine Carroll, Richard
Lee Carter, William
David Carter and Mary Lula
Cheek.
Also, Darrell Keith Clayton,
Theaoseus T. Clayton,
Jr., Andrea Bonita Coleman,
Doris Jean Cooper,
Clyde Ervin Crews, Carolyn
Maxine Davis, Dorothy
Davis, Fannie Delorise
Davis, Larry Eugene Davis,
Lester Davis, Jr., and Maria
Lou Davis.
Also, Natalie Rose Davis,
Phillip Davis, Tracy Marie
Davis, Leonard Allen
Dortch, Sheila Fay Eaton,
Janet Rose Edwards, Cleophus
Elam, Jarvis Leslie
Elam, Rocky Darnell
Evans, Tony Devel Fields,
Deborah Jean Fore, Frances
Elizabeth Freeman and
George Washington Freeman,
Jr.
Also, ueuon L.ureuzu
Green, Felix Sharron
Green, Debbie Lynil Grissom,
Oglechia Hardy, Claudette
Hargrove, Leonard
Clapton Hargrove, Betsy
Irene Harris, Craig Harris,
Quetta Harris, John Michael
Harrison and Kathy Wildenia
Harrison.
Also, Donnell Hawkins,
Jerry Hawkins, Juanita
Hawkins, Willa Jean Hawkins,
Karen Lucille Hilliard,
Sandra Virginia Holden,
Alphonso Owens Hopkins,
Walter Howard Hymon, Jr.,
Lorna Marie Jackson, Ricky
Jenkins, Annette Jones and
Bradley Reggie Jones.
Also, Maggie Earnestine
Jones, Mary Louise Jones,
Yvonne Jones, David Earl
Kearney, Stanley Craig
Kearney, Wendelyn Colleen
Kearney, Jerry Thomas
Leonard, Marion Elizabeth
Loyd, Ricky Odell Lynch,
Thomas Henry McCaffity,
Kelvin Douglas Moss and
Kim Meshay Murray.
Also, Paul Davis Myrick,
III, Ricky Dean O'Neal,
Frank Wayne Parrish, Samuel
Miller Perry, Gerard
Person, Michael Edwin
Phillips, Shirley Mary Ann
Plummer, Hardy McKay
Powell, James Cephas
Powell, Barbara Ann Pullen,
Willie Joe Reed and
Joseph Wayne Reid.
Also, Bernard Richardson,
Cheryl Richardson,
Connie Faye Richardson,
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• • •
Anyone observant
enough to guess your
age correctly will annoy
you in other ways, too.
Liberated little girls
still play that famous
card game, but now the
player who winds up Old
Maid is the winner.
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Curtis Richardson, Daniel
McCray Richardson, Herbert
Connell Richardson,
JoAnn Richardson, Nancy
Bell Richardson, Sandra
Delois Richardson, Sandy
Darnelle Richardson, Shiela
Richardson, Shirley Lee
Robinson and William Ross.
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Shearin, Conrad Solomon,
David William Spence.
Thomas Kane Stevenson,
Douglas Stiff, Joel David
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Tally, Jacquel Annette
Taylor, Joyce Verna Taylor,
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Donna Jean Wheeler,
Barbara Jean Wilkins,
Angela Hortense Williams,
Benjamin Alphonso Williams
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Also, Cynthia Grace Williams,
Gary Vincent Williams,
Gregory Allen Williams,
Harvey Lawrence
Williams, Janie Alise Williams,
Mabel Richardson
Williams, Marietta Elaine
Williams, Mary Bettie Williams.
Mary Mahalia Williams,
Ronald Earl Williams
and Fannie Deloris
Wilson.
Also, James A. Wilson,
Phyllis Ann Wilson, Shirley
La-Vetta Wilson, Alfred
Tyron Wilson, Amena Woodard
and Jerome Wortham;
Azaleas Can Be
Rooted Easily
From June Cuts
Azalea cuttings can be
rooted at any time of the
year, but June growth is
particularly good, according
to Henry J. Smith, extension
landscape horticulturist
at North Carolina State
University.
Most of the popular varieties
of azaleas root quickly
from soft wood or semi-hard
wood cuttings, Smith said.
They should be placed in a
mixture of equal parts of
peat and sand.
Make the cuttings about
six inches long, and don't
allow them to wilt. Keep
them moist.
Remove the lower leaves
from the cuttings, Smith
suggests, leaving four or
five leaves at the upper tip
of the cutting. Make a
slanting, smooth cut across
the base end. Then put the
cutting into the rooting
medium so that the leaves
are near the soil line.
A deep wooden box
covered with glass or burlap
makes a good rooting bed. A
shaded cold frame can be
used. Just be sure that air
can circulate around the
cuttings. This is as important
as keeping the cuttings
moist, Smith cautions.
Cuttings should root in
about six weeks. They can
be left in place until spring,
then placed in a good grade
of soil. Organic matter, such
as peat or the top two inches
of decayed leaves from beneath
oak trees, should be
worked into the soil along
with well decayed cow
manure, if it is available.
Keep well watered. Much
with materials such as oak
leaves, pine stFaw, peat or
sawdust.
Billy Hawkins Accepted At
Phillips Exeiu \cademy
Billy Hawkins, a ninth
grade honor student at
Hawkins Junior High School
has been accepted at the
Phillips Exeter Academy in
Exeter, N.H. for the 1977-78
school year, according to
into cion released by
Hawkins Principal, J. T.
Wilkinson.
Requirements for admission
include, among other
things, taking the Secondary
School Admission Test.
These tests are administ«i>
ed at established centers
throughout the United
States and in foreign
countries by the Educational
Testing Service of
Princeton, N. J. Billy's
scores ranged predominately
in the mid-90 percentile,
with some areas as high as
the 98 percentile.
The Phillips Exeter Academy,
a private high school,
was incorporated in 1781 and
emphasizes academic excellence.
It also encourages
its students to develop
lifelong habits in industry
and intellectual curiosity.
Fishermen Favor
Trophy For Bass
Interviews with fishermen
at several Piedmont North
Carolina lakes by Wildlife
Resources Commission fisheries
biologists indicate that
the fishermen favor by a
wide margin the establishment
of special trophy
regulations for largemouth
bass on some Piedmont
lakes.
The fishermen were interviewed
as part of a research
project to determine the
practicality of establishing
trophy bass regulations,
along the lines of trophy
trout regulations in the
Mountain region, for a few
Piedmont lakes. In-depth
studies of largemouth bass
populations and fishermen
catch rates are also being
conducted as part of the
project, which was begun in
1976 and will last four years.
The goal of the project is
to determine whether it is
possible to increase the
catch of 12-to 18-inch largemouth
bass, as well as those
over 18 inches, by placing an
18-inch minimum size limit
on them. The minimum size
limit would require that all
largemouth bass less than 18
inches be released. Since
must bass would be left in
the lake, fishermen should
catch more of them—especially
those from 12- to
18-inches long.
The lakes being studied
are small to medium sized,
city-owned lakes which
receive heavy fishing preisure
and heavy largemouth
bass harvest.
Its 1976-77 school population
included students from 42
states, the District of
Columbia and 26 foreign
countries.
Among its alumni are the
late President Franklin
Rjerce and novelist John
Knowles, whose novel, "A
Separate Peace," is a
fictional account of his
school life at Exeter.
Billy was awarded a
scholarship of $1750.00,
representing a part of his
tuition costs.
He is the son and Mr. and
Mrs. Lucious Hawkins of
Warrenton.
Warren Timber Owners
Will Receive State Help
Warren County timber
owners will receive some
help from the state in a
five-county educational program
to be offered for the
next two years by the State
Division of Forestry.
L. B. Hardage, County
Extension Chairman, told
the commissioners here
Monday morning that the
State would add a special
forester for the five counties
if the commissioners approved.
This service, Hardage
emphasized, would be
paid for by the state for a
two-year period; after that
time, if the commissioners
Cattlemen Must
Register To Vote
North Carolina cattle
producers have been reminded
by Commissioner of
Agriculture James A. Graham
that they must register
at their local ASCS Office
between June 6-17 to be
eligible to vote in the
National Beef Research and
Information Act during
July 5-15.
In issuing the reminder,
Graham suggested that all
producers participate in the
referendum. He said provisions
have been made for any
producer to register or vote
by absentee provided a
request for this privilege is
made to the ASCS Office.
"The production of beef
cattle is increasingly important
to the economy of
North Carolina," Graham
said. "I hope our producers
will register during the
alloted time so that they can
express their wishes when
the vote is taken June 5-15."
wished to keep the program,
the cost would be prorated
among participating counties.
Hardage told the commissioners
that he thought the
program was a good one,
and that he personally felt
that it was worth a trial. The
commissioners agreed to
approve the project on a
trial basis but were insistent
that it could be dropped if
money was short or they felt
the program would not
justify its expense.
The commissioners were
equally cautious with their
resolution approving specialized
foster care homes for
delinquent juveniles. In
adopting the resolution,
submitted by Ms. Ann
Walker, the commissioners
agreed to appropriate $871
for foster home care
provided the money could be
found.
Hardage's presentation of
the forestry program, following
the monthly agricultural
report, given Monday
by Mrs. Bertha Forte,
Extension Economic Agent,
who reported on several facets
of her work. During his
presentation of the forestry
plan, Hardage said he would
not be the county agent
when the program would
come up for renewal as he is
planning to retire. Chairman
W. P. "Peete" Jones
said that he would not be a
commissioner when the
present program expires, as
he plans not to be a
candidate for reelection at
the expiration of his present
term.
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