Classes In Art
Are Slated For
Rest Of Summer
Summer art classes have
begun at the Warrenton Arts
Commission studio on Front
Street in Warrenton. Enrollment
will be open throughout
the summer.
The schedule includes
children, ages 5-12, Tuesdays
and Wednesday, 2-4 p.
m.; teens, Thursdays, 10-12
noon; adults, Fridays, 10-12
noon. These xlasses will b»
held through July and will
be taught by Susan Simmons.
New to Main Street in
Warrenton is the window
works gallery located at the
Cash Company. This summer
gallery is sponsored by
the Warrenton Arts Commission
in an effort to give
public exposure to the arts.
Currently artwork done by
children artists is on
display.
Future planned exhibits
will include oil paintings by
Jackie Young of Kerr Lake
and Irene Hinton of Wise.
Other residents interested in
exhibiting art or crafts are
asked to contact the
Warrenton Arts Commission
by calling Brenda
Clarke, chairman, or Susan
Simmons, artist-in-residence,
or Ron Walker, •
m usician-in-residence.
Students Try Hand
At Pulp Business
Modern logging operational
methods were taught to a
group of John Graham High
School students recently as
part of their studies in
Harold Stegall's agriculture
class. The logging operations
included using both
hand and power saws, a
loader and a John Deere
440-C Skidder.
The purpose of the course
was to acquaint students
with modern logging operations
and also to teach them
proper ways to use equipment
needed to harvest
pulpwood.
Pulpwood harvesting runs
parallel with the tobacco
crop in Warren County,
according to Stegall.
The students were taken
to a job site in Warren
Plains where a logging
company had previously cut
so that adequate supervision
was possible. Trees were cut
down and then limbed and
cut into desired lengths,
mostly firewood lengths.
Before the large equipment
arrived, students had
taken a tour of a local
sawmill to familiarize themselves
with the logging
business.
Warren Cucumber Markets
Have Opened For Harvest
warren County cucumber
growers have begun to
harvest the crops and local
buying stations began operations
in the county last
week.
R. B. Butler of Mt. Olive
Williams Given
Founder's Award
Larry D. Williams of Rt. 2,
Warrenton received the
"Founder's Award" from
the N. C. Heart Association
during a recent banquet
held in Chapel Hill. Williams
was commended for his
service to the association
during a local drive that
totalled S3,BOO for special
events. He was chairman of
the special committee.
The award read: "To
Larry D. Williams, for
distinguished service and
leadership and outstanding
achievement."
Williams is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leslie Williams
and is a 1974 graduate of
John Graham High School.
He is employed by WHNC
and WXNC radio stations in
Henderson as assistant
manager.
Pickle Co., saia me company's
four buying stations
opened for business June 13.
The Warrenton buying station,
located for approximately
20 years in Farmer's
Warehouse, has moved to
High Dollar Warehouse on
North Main Street. Butler
said the move was beneficial
because High Dollar was
"more convenient" with
everything being handled
under one roof.
Cucumbers are coming in
light supply this week,
Butler noted, but added that
a little rain will help. He
anticipates a better crop
throughtout the county this
year than last year's crop.
Mt. Olive also has buying
stations in Drewry, Inez and
Areola.
Buck Fleming of Perfect
Packed Products announced
that his company's six
buying stations officially
opened on June 20. The
stations are at Vicksboro,
Largo, Areola, Wise, Ridgeway
and Buchanan's Store
near Palmer Spring, Va.
Fleming said Warren
County's cucumber farmers
had a chance of a perfect
crop this year provided a
little rain falls soon.
Prize-Winning Dog Trained
By Warren County Resident
Elree Hiiliard of Rt. 1,
Warrenton, was featured in
a recent News and Observer
article as trainer of the N.
C. Amateur All-Age field
trial bird dog. Hiiliard
trains field trial and hunting
dogs at his kennel, Hilltop
Kennels.
The article by Charlotte
Litwack is copied below.
Knight's Birdo Joe, 34year-old
pointer owned by
Hugh Wilder of Knightdale
and Odell Adams of Garner
earned honors as this year's
top N. C. Amateur All-Age
field trial bird dog.
Joe won the Pinehurst
Amateur All-Age and took
second place at Central
Carolina. The number of
dogs and placement in a
stake determine the number
of points given to winners.
Joe was entered in only two
of NCFTA's eight qualifying
stakes, but these two wins
gave him a total of 312 points
and the title.
Joe also placed twice in
Shooting Dog stakes in
Duplin County Gun Dog
events. During his three
years of competition, the
white and orange pointer
has had nine wins in
Amateur and Open stakes.
The champion is a product
of Adams' well-planned
breeding program. Adams
realized the dog was a
prospect when be was a year
old. Wilder likes a big-running
field trial dog, so they
decided to see if Wilder
could keep up with Joe from
horseback.
"As it turned out,"
chuckled Wilder, "he was
almost too much dog for
that, too. We lost him over
half the times we turned him
loose during his Derby and
first year All-Age seasons.
But he showed such an
unusual ability to find quail,
we didn't want to give up on
him."
Training Joe was a
challenge for Wilder and
professional Elree Hilliard.
"Elree really deserves most
of the credit for making a
finished bird dog out of
him," observed Wilder.
"But I think I had a lot to do
with him eventually starting
to handle."
"I took him in the house
and made a pet out of him.
That was probably the most
important thing. And I
hauled him around in the
pickup cab a lot. Of course,
between the two of us, we
worked the heck out of him,
too."
Wilder thinks it was Joe's
early promise as a bird
finder that led to his new
honor. Quail have been hard
to find this season, even at
Hoffman. The 38 competi
tors at Central Carolina
successfully pointed only
two coveys in the days of
the stake. Joe pointed one
covey in the first brace. At
the Pinehurst trial, Joe had
three of the four coveys that
were found.
"His Central Carolina
effort was his best ever,"
said Wilder, who has
handled him in all the
Amateur wins. "He ran a
real good race and handled
well, and his one find was
excellent, considering the
conditions. I really thought
he had won it, but two good
judges thought otherwise. I
respect their opinions more
than my own, under the
circumstances,
"At Pinehurst, his race,
for the first time ever, was
not really up to true All-Age
standards. But he pointed
those quail-birds when most
everyone else was drawing
blanks. And that is at least
the first name of this
game."
Hilliard is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. B. Hilliard of
Macon.
Slice First
Slice baked loaves of
bread before freezing. When
fresh bread is needed, the
frozen slices will pull apart
easily and thaw in a short
time.