Thrills Are In Store For
Persons Attending Fair Here
The thrills of young and
old alike will be felt here
next week as the annual
Warren County fair opens
Whitley Attends
Defense Workshop
Jim Whitlfey, coordinator
of the Warren County Civil
Preparedness Agency, is in
Raleigh this week to
participate in a basic semi"
nar conducted by state Civil
Preparedness (CP) personnel.
The seminar, attended by
local CP coordinators and
staff members who have
been on the job less than a
year, involves training in
preparedness for man-made
and natural disasters It
also includes instruction in
maintaining an office which
becomes involved with
many other agencies on the
local, state, and national
levels
According to State Civil
Preparedness coordinator
David Britt, the basic
seminar is an intensive
course that covers many
areas. He said, "These men
and women have already
learned much by diving
headfirst into specialized
jobs requiring intelligence,
common sense, and an
ability to respond immediately
and effectively whenever
an emergency situation
threatens the residents of
their counties. We try to
make our seminar here in
Raleigh motivational as
well as educational."
The seminar, held at the
State Emergency Operating
Center, ends today
Ducks Unlimited
Tickets Ready
Tickets for the October 12
Ducks Unlimited Banquet
which will be held at the
Henderson Country Club are
now available. Persons
wishing to purchase tickets
may contact Chub Huff at
492-5710 or 438-5422 in
Henderson, Doug House at
693-6214 in Oxford and
496-4806 in Louisburg, A. B.
Swindell at 693-2521 or
693-6538 in Oxford.
Tickets for the event are
(30 which includes the cost
of a steak supper with all the
trimmings and DU membership.
Included in the DU
membership is an annual
subscription to the Ducks
Unlimited magazine and
periodical duckological reports.
Tickets also available
from any DU committee
member.
for a week-long run. The fair
will be in town from Sept. 26
through Oct. 1 with many
excitements promised.
Royal Amusements will
fill the midway. Fair
officials say thai the
midway will have approximately
nine major rides,
which, they added, are very
modern. About six kiddie
rides are planned.
Jack Royal, a North
Carolina native and owner
of the amusements, has
promised a spectacular
ride, one never before seen
at the Warren County Fair.
The midway will also be
lined with the usual concessions:
about 40 stands are
expected by the amusement
company and other local
groups will have some.
The gates will open
nightly at 6 p. m and at noon
on Wednesday, which has
been designated School Day.
Tuesday night has been
designated Senior Citizens
and Industrial Night. All
senior citizens 65 and over
will be admitted free with a
pass and a prize will be
given the oldest man and
woman present.
On Wednesday, the traditional
School Day, all school
children will be admitted
free with rides reduced to
special rates. About $300 in
prizes will be given lucky
students during a drawing
at 6 p. m.
The 4-H Poultry Show and
Sale is planned for Friday
beginning at 4 p. m.
Inside the exhibit hall will
be displays with county
industrial and civic emphasis
as well as many varieties
of home-grown fruits and
vegetables and other premiums.
Cash prizes will be
awarded for the best in each
category.
A special matinee is
planned for Saturday with
gates opening at 2 p. m.
The Warrenton Lions Club
sponsors the annual fair.
Free parking is offered
adjacent to the fairgrounds.
The club will also serve food
in the Lions Food Booth in
the Exhibit Hall.
Mart Hits New High
Prices 011 the Warrenton Tobacco Market climbed
again Tuesday, reaching an all-time high of $138.12. This
is an increase over last week's record breaker by $.71.
Warehouses sold 295,536 pounds for $408,197.
Total sales to date are 3,404,738 pounds bringing
$3,867,357 for an average of $113.59.
Sales are scheduled for today (Thursday) and Monday
and Wednesday (Sept. 26 and 28).
School Consolidation
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renton attorney employed to
handle site negotiations.
Ballance said he had conferred
with attorneys for
Mrs. Janet Connell and T. T.
Hawks, owners of two tracts
which the board is seeking.
Ballance said he saw no
difficulty in getting a deed
for both parcels before the
end of the week.
Ballance told the board
that he had obtained a
90-day option for both tracts
for a consideration of five
per cent of the purchase. All
the land sought by the board
carries a $1,500 per acre
price tag.
The attorney said that
Mrs Connell had indicated
she wished to have a 60-foot
right-of-way along the western
border of her tract
adjoining the Highway 158
Bypass, as well as a
right-of-way across the
adjoining Hawks property.
Board members agreed
that since a second tract
owned by Mrs. Connell
would be landlocked without
nit avv.vooiiiviii agivviiiv.ui,
that her request should be
honored,
The back tract to which
the access road would lead
may someday be incorporated
into the new campus,
educators said Tuesday
night. The back tract, on
which board members hope
to obtain a long-term option,
is considered a good place to
locate athletic facilities,
including a football stadium.
While board members and
Peeler indicated delight
with the recent grant
announcement, Peeler said
he was "not going to
celebrate" until the board
had grant money in hand.
He was referring to the
experience of Warren County
in beging approved for
similar public work funds
for construction of a water
line linking Soul City and
Warrenton. Notice of Warren's
receipt of the grant
had been published in the
Federal Register before
embarrassed federal officials
admitted that a human
error had been made,
causing cancellation of
funds.
The line was Warren
County's top priority funding
request, with the school
grant receiving secondary
consideration by county
commissioners. Since then
county commissioners have
amended a grant application
on file with another
federal agency in the hope
that funds for the line may
yet be forthcoming.
Peeler said that he had
been assured by the State
Department of Public Instruction
of complete assistance
in undertaking construction
He quoted Dr. Lacy Presnell,
head of the Division of
School Planning as saying
this week that "we'll give
you all the help we can in
starting in 90 days."
Peeler said he did not
suggest that any corners be
cut in preparing plans and
specifications, and lamented
the fact that he would not
have a year or longer for
planning.
He said the fact that initial
planning work has already
been undertaken by Rocky
Mount architect Dan Knight
would give the board a head
start in reaching construction
deadlines.
The state requires a minimum
site size of 40 acres for
a school of the size planned
here. Peeler said. The two
tracts to be purchased total
42.28 acres.
Floyd B. McKissick, chairman of the 1977 Cancer Crusade in Warren County,
congratulates Mrs. Wilhemenia J. Smithwick for having raised the most money during
the crusade. McKissick also presented her with a silver pin for her achievement.
(Staff Photo)
Cancer Volunteer Praised
At Meeting In Soul City
By KEN FERRUCCIO
Volunteer cancer fighters
who helped Warren County
reach a record goal were
honored Monday night at a
recognition program at Soul
City.
Presenting the awards in
SoulTech I were Floyd B.
McKissick, Mrs. Bertha B.
Forte, president, and Dan
Kesler, high school consultant
for Vance County
Schools, coordinator of staff
development, and president
of the Vance County Unit of
The American Cancer Society.
Leaders for the cancer
crusade said that the total
amount of money raised in
Warren County by the
Cancer Society was $4,000.80,
$250.80 over the
expected goal.
McKissick, speaker for
the night, said that although
Carryover Leaf
Can* Be Delivered
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Flue-cured growers
throughout the flue-cured
tobacco area can deliver
their carryover tobacco on
hand at the end of the
marketing season to Flue
Cured Tobacco Cooperative
Stabilization Corporation
for processing and storage
until the 1978 marketing season.
The USDA Tobacco Loan
Program was amended in
1973 to provide loans on
flue-cured tobacco carried
over by growers from one
marketing year to another
to avoid marketing in excess
of the applicable farm
quota This will help
alleviate many of the
problems encountered with
carryover tobacco stored on
the farm such as insect
damage and deterioration in
quality.
The program will operate
basically in the same
manner as in previous
years. Growers will deliver
carryover tobaco to the
CO-OP at designated Receiving
Points in the area at
which time the tobacco will
be weighed and graded into
a Standard USDA Grade by
an Inspector of the Grading
Service. Sheets will also be
exchanged at this time. A
record will be prepared
showing full identification of
the grower, weight of each
sheet, the USDA grade, and
total weight of delivery.
A copy of this record will
be given to the grower and a
copy forwarded to the State
ASCS Office. The tobacco
will then be processed and
stored in the same manner
as regular tobacco, with thr
exception that all carryover
tobacco will be kept separate
and marked as "Carryover"
tobacco. Since carryover
tobacco is not eligible
for sale or loan until the next
marketing season which
begins on July 1 each year,
no payment or settlement
can be made to growers
until after July 1, 1978.
At that time the tobacco
will be offered for sale. Any
tobacco that does not bring
an acceptable price will be
placed in the regular loan
inventory at 1978 loan rates
$4,000 is not a lot of money, it
is a significant amount when
"you think of how poor
Warren County is."
McKissick said that although
we have not been
able to prevent cancer and
to cure some kinds of it, we
have been able to isolate it
and treat it. He mentioned
the rapid growth of medical
knowledge and expressed
his hope that a solution to
the problem of cancer would
be found in the near future.
Stressing the need for
prayer, McKissick said that
without prayer, man cannot
sustain himself. He attributed
the success of the Cancer
Society to its working in
God's interest through an
application of Christian
principles.
McKissick said 40 percent
of the money raised to fight
cancer goes to help people of
Warren County, both white
and black, with their costs
for transportation and medicine.
Present to receive the
awards were Floyd B.
McKissick, Lewis Myers,
Mrs. Wilhemenia J. Smith
wick, who received a special
award for the highest
amount of money raised
during the crusade; Miss
Estelle Somerville, Mrs.
Mary D. Williams, Mrs.
Willie May Williams, Mrs.
William Brauer, Mrs. Annie
Mae Alston, Clyde Edwards,
Mrs. Bertha B. Forte, for
many years a crusade chairman,
and who, for the past
three years, has served as
president.
Others not present to
receive their awards were
Mrs. Hazel Williams, Mrs.
Irene Fitz, Mrs. H. S.
Andersen, Mrs. Vivian
Paynter, who received a
special award for the second
highest amount of money
raised during the crusade;
Mrs. Annette Silver, Mrs.
Omega Davis, Miss Ella C.
Dunson, Mrs. Mattie Boyd,
Mrs. Bessie W. Fitts, Mrs.
Irene C. Moss, Mrs. Wilhelmenia
Kearney, Mrs. Mattie
Hawkins, Mrs. Sophese
Hawkins, Mrs. Elizabeth
Wilson, Mrs. Mabel Branch,
John Harris, Mrs. Harold
Skillman, and Miss Betsy
Clark.
Recreation Plans
To Be Discussed
Proposals to provide recreational
opportunities and
reduce flood damage will be
discussed at the September
22 Region K Council of
Governments dinner meeting
in Louisburg at 7 p. m.
Dr. Hai Tang and Dr.
William Bell will present the
North Carolina Water Resources
Framework Study
after dinner at Murphy
House about 8:00.
The Framework Study
proposes over twenty projects
for Person, Franklin,
Granville, Vance and Warren
counties, considering
economic and environmental
factors. The mixed
objective alternatives present
the best balance of
choices.
The study divides the
state into 11 defined river
basins as study areas, three
of which touch in the five
county area. Those include
the Tar-Pamlico, NeuseWhite
Oak, and Roanoke
River basins.
The Falls of the Neuse
Multipurpose Reservoir is
among proposed projects,
and touches in Durham,
Granville and Wake counties.
Other economic proposals
include reservoir site
preservation for Knap of
Reeds Creek and Gray Rock
in Granville County, and
Upper Flat River in Person
County. There is also
potential interbasin transfer
from the Roanoke to the Tar
river basins.
Proposals include several
floodway systems, to reduce
flood damage by limiting or
prohibiting construction in
the flood plains, those flat
low-lying areas adjacent to
rivers. They are the
proposed Tar River Floodway,
extending from Granville
through Nash county,
the Louisburg, Oxford and
Henderson Urban Floodway
Systems.
Preserved corridor systems
would be areas left
open for recreational or
educational areas, or to
serve as floodways. Proposals
include the Louisburg,
Roxboro, Oxford, and
Henderson Reserved Corridor
System.
The study proposes regional
water and sewer
systems for Warrenton-Norlina-Soul
City and Henderson
as a money and water
saving device.
Environmental considerations
propose designated
public fishing streams in
three of the counties,
including for Fishing Creek
and Hawtree Creek in
Warren, Flat River in
Person and Tabbs Creek in
Vance. The proposed Tax
River Water Trail would
extend from mid-Granville
to mid-Franklin county. The
proposed Kerr Reservoir
Water Trail would extend
from upper Granville county
into Virginia and into
mid-Vance county.
Council members will be
asked to comment on
proposals in the study,
including policy proposals
which may affect water law.
Public participation is invited.
Vehicles Meet,
Hook Mirrors
No one was injured when
the side-mirrors of a South
Warren school bus and a
pulpwood truck crashed and
shattered while the vehicles
were crossing a narrow
bridge in Inez at 3:50 p. m.
on Monday.
Driving a bus of 10
children north on Rural
Paved Road 1620, Stacey
Fields, Rt. 3, Warrenton,
crossed the bridge at the
same time Sylvester Cheek
of Rt. 2, Warrenton, crossed
it in his southbound truck.
Only the mirrors were
broken in the mishap. No
charges were made.
Fish Fry Planned
The Haliwa Tribal Center
is sponsoring a Fish Fry
Saturday evening, Sept. 24,
at the Haliwa Tribal Center
in Halifax County, beginning
at 5 p. m. A $2 donation
is required. ,
Members of Mrs. Ann Fleming's second grade class
visited various businesses in Warrenton last Thursday
morning. Among firms visited was Branch Ranking &
Trust, where this picture was taken. From left to right
are Rann Paynter, Katan Trivedi, David Shearin,
Heather Hurst, Lamar King, Kim O'Neal, Luci Weldon,
Laura scon, Ann tiowara nanzei, ivainerine Hams,
Jennifer Greene, Mike Daily, Kathy Coleman, Chris
Stallings, Tamara Bolton, Patrick Quails, Karen Harris,
Mrs. Ann Fleming, teacher. Mrs. Elsie Weldon, bank
official, is at left rear. (Staff Photo)
Record Staffer Leaving, Replacement Hired
Don Stith, photographer
for The Warren Record for
the past four years, has
resigned to further his
studies in fire technology.
He served as secretary of
the Warrenton Volunteer
Fire Department for two
terms.
A native of Washington,
D. C., he came to Warren
County in August of 1972
where he was employed by
the late Daniel A. McLaurin
as an insurance clerk.
He is married to the
former Joyce Williams.
They have two children.
He is a charter member of
the Soul City Jaycees, and is
a member of Moses Davis
Post 260, American Legion.
He is a past secretary of the
John Graham High Booster's
Club.
Upon completion of a
two-year course in Fire
Technology at Rowan Technical
Institute in Salisbury,
he plans to join a municipal
fire department and give
courses on fire fighting.
Stith, a Viet Nam veteran,
is being replaced by Ken
Ferruccio, a native of
Hopkinton, Mass.
Ferruccio received his
B.A. in English from Suffolk
Lawmen To Meet Here
Warren and Halifax County
officers will host the
Virginia-North Carolina
Criminal Intelligence meeting
at the Lions Den on
October 4. The meeting is
negotiated from Dr. Paig
Hudson's office in Chapel
Hill.
Sheriff Clarence Davis
said about 200 officers from
an area from Chapel Hill to
Suffolk, Va., will attend the
meeting.
Sheriff Davis said the
meeting was designed so
officers could discuss problems
in the local area and
other criminal matters. At
one such meeting, comments
among the officers
helped the Halifax Sheriff's
Department solve a murder.
uiiivtriauy, Dusiun, iviass.,
and his M.A. from Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio.
He taught English at Miami
and also at Columbus
Technical Institute, Columbus,
Ohio.
He served in the U.S.A.F.
•ssjmm
ana was base photographer
at Shemya Air Force Base.
in Alaska.
He has purchased Cy *
Hoskins farm in Afton. His:
wife, Debbie, is a remedial;
reading teacher at Norlina:
High School.