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T-Ftfle Oo. And Tlie And- Ess( "WELCOME CHOWAN STUDENTS" a sign placed in the window of the Var sity Shop reads as students picket outside. Animosity between the students and the restaurant owner came to a head Wednesday night when 500 gathered near the Murfreesboro establishment in a mass protest. MUL6 FOR SALE—10 years old. Gentle. Will sell cheap. See or call Grady C. Britton, RFD 2, Ahoskie, N. C. Phone 332-3463. Hanc 11-25 Mrs. Britton says she could have sold “Oodles of Mules—had so many calls.” Mules or Mustangs, want ads can sell them! THE IM "BAN THE BOMB AND THE VARSITY SHOP"—Students picket in front of the Varsity Shop, a Murfreesboro restaruant, where a fellow student re portedly had stolen a chicken, resulting in his arrest, conviction, ond eventual expulsion from school. (Trick photography resulted in this unusual picture showing pickets and Highway Patrol riot car in foreground.) / 7l POLICE OFFICERS FROM SURROUNDING AREAS arrived in Murfreesboro after a radio call for assistance was issued by the local police chief. Shoulder patches on their uniforms indentified the two pictured obove as members of the Rich Square Police Department. TIMES-NEWS ★ ★ ★ ★ THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES A Combination of EstabUshed 1892 it •k -k -k k -k ir THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926 Volume LXXV. No. 48 Rich Square and Jackson, N. C., Thursday, December 1, 1966 Lawmen Student Quash Protest By RANDOLPH THOMAS MURFREESBORO - Law en forcement officers quickly dis persed a mob of SOOChowanCol lege student demonstrators Wed nesday night when the students gathered on Main Street in Mur freesboro to protest the dis missal from school of a fellow Conway Band To Participate In 'Festival’ student for stealing a frozen chicken. Murfreesboro police officers, joined by helmeted state highway patrolmen and law enforcement officers from Hertford, Bertie and Northampton Counties, broke up the mob, which had gathered shortly after 6 p.m. near the Varsity Shop, a small restaurant where the Uieft reportedly had taken place. By 7 p.m. all of the students were back on campus, with the exception of three, who were al lowed by police to picket the shop. These carried signs reading “Ban the Bomb and the Varsity Shop” and “Chicken Man.” William O. Vaughan, proprie tor of the restaurant, told a Times-News reporter he had caught the student, Ronald E. Davis, 19, of Durham, in the act of stealing a frozen chicken val ued at IS cents, Davis was tried in Hertford Dean Clayton Morrlsette, had harbored bad feelings against the owner of the restaurant for some time, seized upon the Incident as a cause to rally and soon the mob formed. College faculty members, in cluding Dean Morrisette, tried in vain Wednesday to halt the dem onstration - they failed. County Recorder’s Court and, Morrisette said one problem although he entered a plea of was the fact that they could es- guilty to shoplifting, was con- tabllsh no leaders. “No one per- vlcted of trespassing. Later, he son seemed to be more guilty was expelled from the small Bap- than any other,” he toldofficers. tist college. “Usually, you can get with the Students who. according to (gee UAWMEN Page 12^ Dy. Stpnifly Pireelgr MAIN STREET IN RICK SQUARE sparkles witli new color as fhe troditional Chrisfmas decorations are once more placed high above passers-by to remind them "it's that time of year again." The lights, bells and stars will remain until the end of the holiday season. CONW AY — As Ciongressm^- button CO light the magic Christ mas tree Friday evening In Rocky Mount’s Tarrytown Mall, he set ott an electronic process which, for the second holiday season is creating the most beautiful light ing effects ever seen in Eastern Carolina. The magic Christmas tree lighting ceremony marked the be ginning of Tarrytovm’s Christ mas music festival, which will ^ ,1.1. ^ t'r-nt- feature performances in the Mall „ by choirs, foil concert bands and ™ thf/bno-h. ties elected Ray McClees 0 Ray McClees Named Chairman Of R-C Mental Health Clinic JACKSON - A meeting of mem bers from the county mental New Court Clerk Will Assume Duties Monday Woodland Man Sentenced On Multiple Charges special music groups through out the Christmas season. The tree is the only one of its kind in North Carolina - a huge 30 foot natural evergreen spray- of Ahoskie as chairman of the ad visory committee oftheRoanoke- Chowan Mental Health Board at meeting at the courthouse on ou looi iiaiuliii cYCisiccii ed while and decorated with many : Richard Banks Jr., Jackson, —o - operator's license. $25 and license, $100 and costs; Joseph and bands from surrounding com- — 1-1....—virv.4kr. U.-.11onH Vo .414.... lMAliio14nn. P.-.T\8ir.^8r JACKSON - A 23 - year - old Woodland man received six con secutive prison terms after being costs; Riley Bridgers, Conway, found guilty of charges ranging locking wife out, nonsupport, not from temporary larceny of an guilty; William Earl Long, Rich auto to resisting arrest Tuesday Square, speeding, $10 and costs, in Northampton County Record- William Lee Balmer, Jackson, hundreds of brilliantly lifted spheres which change color in time to music. More than 600,- 000 people viewed the magic Christmas tree last year dur ing the 30-day period it was up in the Mall. The Tarrytown Christmas mu sic festival concert schedule in- ing under influence, no operator’s eludes performances by choirs Dr. John H. Stanley of Wood land was appointeddlrectorofthe Dr. Stanley will seek to em- statf and will work part-time for ploy a nurse with psychiatric the group. training so that work with re- County mental health board turned mental patients in the members will attend the county area can begin In February. If commissioners meeting on the budget will allow, a secre- Monday, December 5, to get au- tary will be added to work with thorization to spend the $8,000 the nurse in locating and follow- that has been budgeted by the Ing - up on out-patient treat- three counties for the current ment. fiscal year. Raymond White, Holland, Va., munlties, including Conway, speeding, costs. Millard Moody of RoanokeRap- ids was sentenced to six months in Jail for engaging in an affray er’s Court. allowing an unauthorized opera- with firearms. Sentence wassus- William Carlton Risper was tor to drive, costs; Stella Mae pended on payment ofaf^lneof$25 sentenced to 30 days in jail on a Gatling, Washington, D. C., no and court costs and on the further charge of falling to stop for a operator’s license,$25andcosts; condition that he remain of good stop sign, six months for driving Thaddious Motley, Jackson, driv- (See SENTENCE, Page 10) under influence,60 days for care- R. Jennings White less and reckless driving, months for temporary larceny of a motor vehicle, 30 days for no operator’s license, and six months for resisting arrest. Other cases tried are as fol lows: Stewart Peebles, Jackson, speeding, costs; Lawrence D. Newton, East Marie, Mo., $10 and costs; Ray William Nova and Mrs. Ida Ruth Jones, worthless check, nol pros; John Thomas Fire CAP JACKSON - At 12 noon on Monday, December 5, R. Jen nings c/erlf^S McEachern, Chesapeake, speed- begin his duties as Clerk ^ Woodrow Webb, Gas- Northampton County Superior 5peg^ing,$15andcosts;Wel- Court. ,„4,rViniT ford Mason Moore, Richmond, l„™foffl« since oSoS S! Va., speeding, nol guilty; Clar- Boosts Acceptance Boyhood Pals Reunited In Philippines Social Security Payments Here Up ROCKY MOUNT - Social se- According to the 1960 census curlty benefits paid Northamp- figures, the Northampton County ton County farmers jumped from population was 26,641, $1.5 million in 1964 to $1.75 mil- Chart shows the record for the lion in 1965, according to a re- 10-year period. ence E. Wallace, Laurel Hill, speeding, $10 and costs. Michael McCaffery, Richmond, speeding, $10 and costs; Ronald W. Hedgepath, Halifax, no opera tor’s license, $25 and costs; Al va Burgess, Conway, failure to reduce speed when special hazard exists, costs; Thomas Hill, Skipper, Va., driving under in- miliarizlng himself with the du ties of the post, is anxiously looking forward to getting start ed. A native of Conway andformer plant manager of the Armour Chemical Company ^erUlizer- plant in Conway, White will suc ceed Miss Reba Long, who is re- . tiring after 24 years of service fluence and driving while license in the clerk’s office, ei^t years suspended, $100 and costs; Ron- of which she has been clerk. ^Id N. Johnson, LakeWorth, Fla., White is a graduate of Conway speeding, costs. High School and N.C. State Uni- Dewey L. PWIWPS. Murfrees- versity. He formerly taught in boro, speeding, $15 and costs; ^epubiicschoolsysteminSouth- WilUe Lloyd, Margarettsville amoton Va speedj,ng, costs; Eugene Russell ampton, Midklff, Mount Airy, speeding, costs; Paul Garner, Garysburg, speeding, $15 and costs; Milton J. Martin, Gaston, speeding, $10 Clear, lovely with a cool bite and costs. Weotfllf WuCl RICH SQUARE - Two boyhood friends, now captains - one sta tioned in the Philippines in the Judge Advocates Office, the other an Air Force pilot on assignment In Viet Nam - met quite by ac cident last week in the Philip pines. Capt. Ed Bryant Hall arrived in the Philippines on several RICH SQUARE - A fire in the and went on with their canvass, days rest leave from his Viet Occoneechee Neck section of Approximately one hour later, Nam assi^ment, and went to the Northampton County, which left they heard that the house had Officers Club at Clark s Air a family of 10 homeless, and the caught fire and all of the prop- Force Base for the eveningmeal. response of 10 CADA workers erty of the occupants had burned. Capt. Donald Strickland, who assigned in the county may in- The children, luckily, were safe, has been stationed at Clark s for directly have stimulated accept- Although the trainees were not almost two years whom Capt. ance of the community action supposed to render service, they Hall believed to be on Okinawa, program by residentsofthearea. took exception and immediately and his wife, were also supper Patricia Powell, a family sur- began collecting clothing and guests at the club, vey worker, and Billie Vaughan, cooking utensils to contribute to The two Rich Square nien a Lrse, both assigned to North- the victims of the fire. Later, oth- promptly spied each other and a ampton’s Multi-Service Center, er residents pitched In and pro- reunion followed throughout the a division of Choanoke Area De- vlded temporary shelter and oth- supper hour and into the night, velopment Association, think the er immediate necessities. Both captains are duetoreturn response to the program since Although the incident occurred to the states early in 1967 for re- the fire bears this theory out. several weeks ago, it is not for- assignment According to the local work- gotten. r> If plrh ers. 10 CADA trainees working Residents of theareahavebeen Pearle B. Hall of Rich Square in groups, were covering the Oc- coming in to the Multi-Service and the late Cornelius G. Hall, coneechee Neck section conduct- Center office in Increasing num- His wife, the former Polly Em- ing door-to-door surveys when bers and are beginning to show ory, and two chUdren are pres- one group came upon a houseoc- interest in many of the programs ently residing at Seym^our John- cSplId by eight small children, offered there. son Air ForceBaseinGoldsboro. The workers, after finding the As Mrs. Powell put it, “The Captain Strickland is the son parents were not at home, no- fire and the reaction of the work- of Mr. ^d Mrs. V. D. Strickl^d ticed that the children had built ers demonstrated to the people of Rich Square. His wife, the a fire to keep warm. Since the that we wanted to help and that the former Evelyn Miller, and two parents were not at home, they program was not our program, but sons are in the Philippines with made a mental note to return theirs.” him. port from the social security of- Year fice at Rocky Mount. 1955 In the 10 year period begin- 1957 ning in 1955, the jump was from 1958 $195,312 to $1,778,268, with 450 1959 farmers benefiting in 1955 and 1960 2,956 in 1965. 1961 Total paid Northampton Coun- 1962 ty farmers for social security 1963 benefits over the 10 year period 1964 was $10,414,432. No. Claim Benefits 1965 450 1105 1386 1632 1844 2124 2450 2626 2795 2956 Dr. Dan Rader, assistant state mental health director, attended the meeting and told the direc tors that the state would hire a full-time psychiatrist in Janu ary, 1967, for the northeastern counties and that he would be available to work with the men tal health board. Attending the meetingwereDr. Raleigh Parker, health director for Northampton County, Dr. J. A, Fleetwood Jr.of Conway,Mrs. Janice Brown, welfare director for Northampton County, com missioner J. H. Liverman of Woodland, Ray McClees of Ahos kie, and C. J. Sawyer, commis sioner from Gates County. Guests at the meeting were Mrs. W. W. Grant of Gaston and Charles Myers of Rich Square, president of the Northampton l',778',268 County Chamber of Commerce. 195,312 512,916 730,980 873,900 1,006,296 1,171,800 1,353,504 1,453,488 1,537,968 nn WORKERS BEGAN PAVING the drive at the new Rich Squore Post Office Wednes- day. Scheduled to begin earlier this week. the work was hampered by rains. Postal officials hope the paving will be com pleted by the end of this week.
Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald (Ahoskie, N.C.)
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