i accurate, tekse
timely
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mil It ASKS AID
| FOB LIBRARYI
I Warren's Donation Is $150;
\anci' County Gives $2000 I
To Vance Library I
?AV S'LUI' THE TRUCK
H By W'm. T. POLK I
H y jew months ago the Warren I
county Memorial Library decided to I
!rv an experiment. that of taking I
,jlf nooks to the people. It got. free. I
M... 0jd and worn school bus from!
,j,f state School Commission, re-1
CA:. ;oi: it as a bookmobile and sent I
a out on it rounds. I
xiie Library was dubious about it. I
jt Qjd no. know whether it could be I
auvaliy or whether the I
B wouiti borrow enough dooks
B fI0B. j. io make it worth while. So I
H jjls library did not ask the Com-1
0lLvioners tor money for this ex-I
B perimt'iit. It ran it on a shoestring, J
B vritii a few dollars put up personal-1
jy by .he directors, a few dollars I
given by the Reading Club, and a I
B if- dollars winch the resourceful I
B librariau rounded up from various I
B Tito experiment has now fully I
B prr.eii its worth, ft has been far J
B mere successful than the most op-1
limislic expected. I
I lite cost has been low. For the!'
I seven months from November 15th, r
B 193'. to June lo.h, 1938, the total I
B cost, including remodeling and re-1'
B pans, ius been only $130.00. J'
its circulation has been amazing./,
B 1: shows without doubt that the/.
B people want books taken to them. I.
The total circula.ion for tlie seven I,
B months is 8530. about equally di-1
B need between juveniles and adults l;
B This r- about 1300 a month. The/,
9 [ruck ran 00 days in the seven I
B months, circulating about 140 books I;
B Tile cos. to tlie Library of cir- I j
B culaiion per book has been, there-/,
B fore, about a cent and a half. 11
B This low cost to the Library is J,
B explained of course by the fact I,
fl that most ol tlie cost of operating I,
B the book .ruck, that is to say, the/,
B salaries of the driver and the li-j<
if is home I,
branan v.i.u uavcio iwu.
I by the Federal Government through
I WPA fuuas. I
The Library in the near future |
I will ask the County Commissioners, |
I in order to enable it to keep the (
I took truck going, to increase its ap- i
I propriation. The burden of main- ,
I taming it should be rightly borne j
by the County which gets the full ]
I beneiits. For the cos: of gas, oil ,
I and repairs, the County would get ,
I the services of the book truck, j
driver and traveling librarian. j
The Library itself, on its present (
I income, is unable to keep the book <
I truck going and will be forced to t
I discontinue i., unless it receives ad- (
I ditional funds sufficient to cover ,
I is operating cost. I
| A glance at public library statis- j
*' * \XTn vrnh ,
iu:s win siiuw uiat uic ?*?.**?" i
County Memorial Library is doing ]
a remarkable work with what it has
lo go on. Three counties in the |
State with county libraries and with i
populations about the same are |
barren with 23,000, Vance with 27,- i
K# and Stanly with 30,000.
The Warren County Library has ]
"000 volumes and a total income of j
51150.00, of which $450 comes from i
the County.
The Vance County library has
11.500 volumes and a total income
of 55,4000 00, of which $2,000.00
tomes from the County.
The Stanly County library has
8,500 volumes and a total income of
54124.00. Of Which $2,400.00 comes i
lr? '.he County.
This leaves out of consideration 1
Ser counties, such as Davidson, ,
'hich has a population about dou(Continued
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enlists in army
ElniPv T tv i i
? x. jruwers irds uecii
tepted for enlistment in the Regu ar
Array of the United States and
itr- to Port Bragg, N. C., to be enin
the Infantry, Panama
Canal Zone. Young Powers is the
^ year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E.
1 Powers of Macon.
SOX BORN
Mr. aKd Mrs. Thomas G- Overby
?! Wwrttt Plains announce the
a son, Robert Thomas, on
Mrs. Overby was formerly
diss Jeanette Palmer Harris of
U.-DX.
Mr, w. j. Mayfield has returned
10 his home in Camden, S. C., after
" several weeks near War^hton
with his sister, Mrs. Willie'
hinson.
Sails For Conference^ ^
V ft --: ^
NEW YORK, N. Y. ,', . Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins aboard
the S.S. Washington before sailing
for^tho International Labor Sleeting'at
Geneva, Swxtaerltnd. r
Five Cases Heeird
In Recorder's Court
Here On Monday
Five cases, each involving negroes,
were disposed of in Recorder's court
on Monday morning by Solicitor
Pippen and Judge Rodwell.
Junius Alexander, 17-yoar-old boy
who came to Warrenton from Virginia
last Saturday to attend a bail
game here that afternoon was found
guilty on a charge of carrying a
concealed weapon and wi s sentenced
to jail, assigned to the roads, for
a period of 60 days- Judgment was
suspended upon payment of a $50.00
fine and court costs. Th: boy, who
was arrested in Warrento.i after the
gun had been heard to explode, said
that he found the pistol at the bail
park and that it went off in his
pocket. He was not hurt.
A fight at a negro ball game in
Macon last Saturday afternoon resulted
with George Harris being
Drought to court here to face a
charge of assault. Ther; was con;radictory
evidence in the case as to
who threw a rock wh:ch struck
mother negro back of-the head, and
ifter listening to several witnesses,
Judge Rodwell, at the suggestion of
Solicitor Pippen, orderec. a vesdict
if not guilty.
Lucy Bullock, who was arrested
iy Sheriff Pinnell and ceputies after
several jars of corn liquor had
ieen found hid near her home, was
convicted on a charge of possessing
whiskey for the purpose of sale and
was sentenced to jail for four
months. The negro woman, who
aas been convicted on a similarcharge
before, gave notice of appeal
and her bond was set at $200. In
meting out sentence to her, Judge
Rodwell said: "Lucy, when a doctor
:reats a patient and the patient
J '* Mz-.r-vw-.v-iri trv +Vip rinrtinr's
.lueoix t x cc^juiju cv mv
treatment, he either increases the
Jose or changes the medicine, and
since it seems we have no; gotten
;he proper results from the last
medicine the court gave you, I'm
joing to change your dose from a
line to a jail sentence.''
Charlie Hayes was also found
juilty of possessing unstamped
whiskey for the purpose of sale, and
ae, too was given a four months jail
sentence, assigned to the roads.
Willie Alston was found guilty of
manufacturing whiskey and he was
sentenced to the roads for six
months.
Officers Capture
Two Booze Outfits
Two whiskey stills were captured
last week by Sheriff W. J. Pinnell
and deputies.
Raiding in Nutbush township the
latter part of last week the officers
seized a 60-gallon plant, 20D gallons
Df beer, and five gallons of whiskey.
The outfit was running at the time
of the capture, but the manufacturers
were gone when the officers
arrived.
The same day Sheriff Pmnell and
his deputies captured a small still
in Hawtree township. This outfit
was not in operation, nor was any
beer or whiskey found about the
scene.
Sheriff Pinnell also stated that
on Thursday morning of last week
Willie Alston, negro wanted on a
charge of manufacturing whiskey
since December 18 when a still was
captured, was 'taken into custody
and convicted in Recorder's court
this Monday morning. He received
a six months road sentence.
CHILDREN'S DAY SERVICES"
Children's Day services will be
held at Jerusalem Church on Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock, announcement
was made this: week.
ijp hi
VARRENTON, COUNTY OF \
GIBBS IS ELECTED
LIONS PRESIDENT
Rooker, Ward and Gillam Are
Named Vice Presidents;
Bright Secretary
TARWATER TO RETIRE
Frank H. Gibbs was officially
elected president of the Warrenton
Lions Club last Friday night when
members of this organization met
in regular meeting and approved
new officers for the coming year
who had previously been nominat
ea oy a nominating committee. Mr.
Gibbs succeeds John G. Tarwater as
president.
Other officers elected were J. E.
Rooker, first vice president; V. P.
Ward, second vice president; E. E
Gillam, third vice president; R. H.
Bright, secretary; J. C. Moore, tail
twister; C. K. Plancon, Lion Tamer;
P. B. Boyd, treasurer; two new directors,
W. R. Strickland and W. K
1 Lanier; fair board, J. C. Moore and
J. G. Tarwater.
The new men, who will serve for
a year, will take office the first
meeting in July. They were nominated
recently by a nominating
committee composed of Claude
Bowers, Howard Jones Jr. and A.
W. Bracey, and their election was
by a unanimous vote at the meeting
last week/^li.
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vainer ocuu v? anis
Citizens Not To
Put Trash In Street
The practice that some people of
Warrenton have of placing rubbish
on the street in front of their homes
with the expectation of it being removed
by the town truck will have
to cease, Chief of Police Jack Scott
stated this week.
The officer said that the Town
Commissioners authorized that the
truck pick up garbage, but that the
City Fathers had signified that they
were not willing to put the town to
the expense of gathering up rubbish,
such as leaves, which is often
: piled in front of residences.
These leaves, he said, blow into
the street and cause gutters to become
stopped up, resulting with the
streets being flooded with water
whenever there comes a downpour
of rain. Not only that, he added,
| but they detract from the appeari
ance of the town,
j Chief Scott requested that the
{ public give full voluntary coopera;
tion in this matter so that he would
not be forced to take action to see
! that the rubbish is kept off the
streetMrs.
Thompson
| Dies Near Macon
I Funeral services for Mrs- Mary E.
Thompson, who died at her home
j near Macon last Friday morning following
an illness of around five
, months, were conducted from Jerusalem
Church on Saturday afternoon
at 4 o'clock by the Rev. J. O.
Long. Interment tock place in the
! church cemetery.
| Mrs. Thompson, who was 54 years
of age, was the daughter of the
late Fred and Martha Mustian King
ixrnwoi-, rnimtv. She was mar
U1 uaiivn ? .
ried to George H. Thompson in 1910.
The deceased, a mmber of Hebron
Church since childhood, is survived
: by her husband and the following
children: three sons, Fred, Tim and
George; and three daughters, Mrs.
Luther Stegall, and Misses Selma
and Rosa Belle Thompson. She also
leaves two sisters, Mrs. Henry Ellis
of Macon and Mrs. K. N. Cullen of
i Washington, D. c., and four brothers,
Macon and Willie King of
Washington, D. C., Russell King of
Warrenton, and John Nathan King
of Henderson; one grandchild,
Luther Earle Stegall.
s Pallbearers were Clifton Ellis, J.
D. Ellis, Horace Ellis, John Henry
Stegall, Clifton Stegall and Marvin
Stegall.
EPISCOPAL SERVICES
Holy Communion will be celebrated
at Emmanuel Episcopal Church
in Warrenton and at Saint Alban's
in Littleton on Sunday morning. The
services at the Warrenton church
will be at 8 o'clock, and at the Littleton
church at 11 o'clock.
Miss Betty Clemmer and Miss
Bobby Wilson of Gastonia are visiting
Mrs. Prank Newell, Jr.
Messrs. Graham and Pett Boyd
returned Wednesday night from a
fishing trip on the coast of eastern
Carolina.
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VARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, JU1
The last of a group of youths si
signs which read ? "FDR ? Y(
FIGHT IT," on the White House
said -they represented an Anti-Wa
Congress in Washington. The si|
United States Park Police.
Heavy Rains Have G
Or Irreparable Da
Warren Coun
Heavy rains during the past few
weeks have stimulated the growth
of grass and worked a hardship on
farmers who are taking advantage
of all clear days to rid their fields of
this menace by working rrom early
morn until late at night, but it is
not believed by County Agent Bob
Bright that the crops as a whole of
Warren county have been seriously
and irreparably dmaged by the wet
weather.
Mr. Bright said that while it was
true the heavy rains had damaged
cotton to the extent that some farmers
had found it practical to replant,
this was the exception rather
than the rule- He estimated that
around 17,500 acres in Warren county
were sown in cotton and expressed
the opinion that between 2,500
and 3,000 acres had been plowed up
and replanted.
The county agent stated that
around 7,000 bushels of cotton seed
Local 4-H Members
Win Superlatives
"We had a nice and beneficial
outing which the boys and girls
seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed,"
Hugh Evans, assistant county
agent, stated yesterday anent the
encampment of 4-H Club members
of Warren and Beaufort counties at
Camp Leach, near Little Washing+/-.M
from .Tunp 4th tn t.hft 9th.
Although Beaufort county had
three times as many boys and girls
at the camp as did Warren county,
the majority of those chosen for
their outstanding charactersts when
camp superlatives were picked were
local boys and girls, Mr. Evans said.
The superlative list reads as follows:
Best Looking Boy, Money
Rodgers, Beaufort county; Best
Looking Girl, Helen Scott, Warren
county; Best Help in Kitchen, boy,
Pete Hilliard of Warren county;
Best Help in Kitchen, girl (name
unknown) Beaufort county; Laziest,
Virginia Duke, Warren county;
Most Dignified, Stokes of Beaufort
county; Best Swimmer, Helen Scott
of Warren county.
There were 33 4-H club members
from Beaufort county while War
ren county was represented at me
camp by eleven 4-H club members.
The camp was in charge of the
assistant agent and demonstration
agent of Beaufort county and the
assistant agent and adult leaders of
Warren county. Three life guards
and a nurse also assisted.
Crow's Reputation
Bad, Says Jurist
Pittsburg?The popular notion
that the phrase "as the crow flies"
describes the most direct route between
two points is a fallacy, says
t\t a Mnsmannn. who in a
uuugg J.TA. ,
formal opinion banned use of the
expression in his court.
The jurist described the crow as
a "rather unreliable bird" that is
tempted from the straight and narrow
flight "to sample worms, caterpillars
and grasshoppers to the extent
that his sense of direction is
considerably dulled."
Mr. and Mrs. Barker Williams
spent the week end at Atlantic
Beach.
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VE 17, 1938 Snbscripti
At White House
>-<'' '/ -'5
I
lown placing his part of Anti-War
lU'RE PREPARING WAR ? YOU
fence. The members of the group
r Committee, holding their National
gns were immediately removed by
aused No Serious
image To Crops In
ity, Says County Agent
were treated this year and said that
1 practically all those farmers who
1 planted treated seed had good stands
1 of cotton despite the inclement
| weather. He opined there would be
I more seed treated before planting
I time next spring.
I The tobacco crop of Warren coun!
U,,?4- 4-~ i- *
I 1/J lido 11UI/ UCC11 11U10 tu ally CAUCllt
by the rains, Mr. Bright said, adding
that at present the outlook for a
good tobacco crop in Warren county
this fall was bright. "We have
an unusually good crop, I think," he
said.
The severe rainstorm last Sunday
afternoon did slight damage to
crops in certain sections of the county,
but reports of damage have not
been general. Hail is said to have
struck on the farms of several persons
in Sandy Creek township and
damaged tobacco, but this is believed
to have been the only section in
Warren where hail fell to any damaging
extent.
Accidents Take
106,000 Lives
Chicago.?The National Safety
Council announced Monday accidents
claimed 106,000 lives in 1937?
a total more than twice as great as
the number of American lives lost
in the World War.
Injuries from accidents disabled
?,SUO,UOU pciaujio uuiuig lUG JVtti
at least one member of every fourth
family.
The calculable costs of all accidents
ran to $3,600,000,000 which,
the council said, was enough to
build 75 Empire State Buildings.
Motor vehicle accidents during
1937 caused 39,500 deaths, 1,360,000
personal injuries and an economic
loss of $1,700,000,000. The traffic
fatalities represented a 4 per cent
increase over 1936.
Economic costs computed for all
accidents included wage losses, anticipated
further earnings, medical
expenses, overhead costs of insurance
and < property damage in fires
and motor-vehicle accidents.
The number of accidental deaths
per 100,0000 population decreased
4 per cent during 1937. The council
said the decrease was attributable
almost entirely to a drop in the
number of excessive heat fatalities.
In the summer of 1936 a total of
4,678 deaths were placed in the accident
category, while less than
1,000 occurred in the summer of
1937.
Twenty-two states had fewer motor
vehicle deaths in 1937 than 1936,
while 33 states had lower death
rates based on mileage. The council
reported there were 108 motor
vehicle deaths in the nation every
day of the year, and that if accidents
continued during 1938 at the
same rate as 1937, one in every 13
persons will be injured or killed.
There were approximately 19,500
persons killed in work accidents last
year, the council's report said. This
was an increase of 1,000 deaths, or
5 per cent, from the 1936 total.
Safety council experts said the increase
was due primarily to more
employment in 1937, representing
greater total exposure to accident
; hazards.
Miss Lilly Belle Dameron will
: leave Sunday to spend two weeks
:jat Atlantic City, N. J., with her
1 sister, Miss Tempe Dameron.
r&r
on Price, $1,150 a Year
Outlook For Good
Prices For Tobacco
Appears Bright
W. P. Hedrick, tobacco marketing
specialist of the N. C. Department
of Agriculture, views prospects for
"decent flue-cured tobacco prices
this season are brighter in view that
flue-cured exports during the first
four months this year have increased
37 per cent over the same period
in 1937."
Basing his optimism on the report
of the Department of Commerce
which revealed an export increase
of 40 million pounds of fluecured
tobacco compared with a total
of 66* million pounds sent abroad
durini? the first four months in
1937, Hedrick attributed the "export
boom" to: (1) Depleted flue-cured
stocks on European markets; (2) An
increased consumption of tobacco
products in European countries;
(3) The Sino-Japanese war "which
has resulted in a heavier demand
for American tobacco due to the
fact that war conditions have prohibited
the marketing of the Chinese
flue-cured crop.''
Hedrick, who graded and bought
tobacco in China for eight years
prior to returning to North Carolina,
said that "normally," Chinese
tobacco would have already been
marketed and would have permitted
British manufacturers to operate
smoothly, but because of war conditions
and resulting destruction of
transportation systems, China's fluecured
crop cannot be secured for
world trade-" j
The Department's tobacco marketing
authority said that he was
fnrfhor nifor tVin "hHcrVit
1U1W1V1 U^IUUIUUIMU V!U IU1C UiigliV
prospects for an excellent quality
leaf In the Border Belt also points
to better price prospects," adding
that "it is possible that Border Belt
growers will begin curing their tobacco
within the next ten days or
two weeks." ,
Pension Checks
For Veteran And
Widows Arrive
Pension checks for Warren's one
remaining Confederate veteran and
fifteen widows of those who followed
Lee and Jackson in the War Between
the States were received in
the Clerk of Court's offlce on Monday
and are being distributed as the
owners, or their agents, call for
them.
Charlie Riggan is the only veteran
of the Civil War now living in
Warren county. As a result of the
part he played in the strife between
the north and south he receives
two checks a year, each in the
amount of $182.50.
The fifteen widows of veterans of
Warren receive a total of $2,050.00
semi-annually, which brings the aggregate
amount received in the
county this week to $2,232.50.
J. F. Roach Accepts
Brown's Pastorate
Rev. J. F. Roach ha3 accepted the
pas.orate of Brown's Baptist Church
and will preach there on Sunday
afternoon, June 19, at 3 o'clock, announcement
was made this week.
The Rev Mr. Roach, whose home
is in Norlina, is pastor of the Norlina
Baptist Church and also serves
several other churches in that
vicinity.
Bible School To
Open Here Monday
A Daily Vacation Bible School
?in i -r? _ i. Visile* QnnrlaTf
Will UCgUl iXV VUG lucuivuov
School here on Monday, June 20.
The children will register on Saturday
of this week.
COOKS VISITING HERB
Messrs. Ben and Marshall Cook of
Oklahoma and Bignall Cook of
Pennsylvania are spending this week
with relatives and friends here.
Miss Katherine Scoggins, librarian
at Hartsville, S. C., Is visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Scoggin.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Carty of Belhaven
were Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Duke Jones. They were
accompanied home by their daughTViTico
.Tn nort.v who was here
with her sister for several days recuperating
from an operation for
appendicitis.
Mr. H. F. Jones returned Saturday
from Washington.
Mr. J. L. Thomas of Rocky Mount
was a visitor here on Wednesday
afternoon.
Miss Iris Ragan of Marion is a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. A W. Bracey.
' cowi
ST OF THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 2<:
TO BEGIN CHECK .
CROP NEXT WEEK
Field Men Take Special Course
Before Starting In Fieldsi
To Check Compliance
1938 STANDARD HIGHER
wrtfv, Kofitroon 90 anri 30 ntiWly
YY i til U\,VTYWW? ?~ ~ --
Instructed men In the fields, compliance
work is expected to bsgin
in Warren county not later ihan
Wednesday of next week, it was
learned yesterday from Cornty
Agent Bob Bright. The Job is expected
to be finished within six
weelts.
The men who are to be in charge
of this work have just completed a
three-day training course at the
John Graham High School under
the direction of E. P. Barnes, field
representative from the Triple A
Section of State College, with assistmce
from the county agent The
course, which included both classroom
and field work, started on
Monday and ended on Wednesday
with 22 men taking the examination.
Approximately two-thlrls of
those enrolled for the training passed
the course and those who did
not will be called here on Monday
and Tuesday of next week by Mr.
Bright to receive further instruction
before being placed in the fields to
do the compliance work.
The standard set for supervisors
for 1938 is higher than has been
required before, but the special
course of training here ably prepared
the men to do their work efficiently
and courteously, Mr. Bright
stated. "Growers may expect the
highest type of job of checking their
land and the most accurate that
we have had since Triple A started
in 1934,'' the agent said.
Each individual grower is requested
to cooperate with the supervisor
and assist him in checking the
farm. "Pull cooperation on the
part of all our growers in assisting
our supervisors will mean that more
money will be paid to the growers
themselves since through full cooperation
fewer errors will develop
and our cost of compliance will be
kept at a minimum," Mr. Bright
stated.
Two Convicts Are
Nabbed In Vance
Jim Scott, 30, and Van Aekman,
25, convicts of the Warren county
camp who escaped while working in
the rock quarry on Saturday morning,
were captured in Henderson on
Saturday night by Sheriff Hamlet
of Vance county and returned to
the Warren county camp on Sunday
morning. Their escape, It was
stated by a prison official, will result
in the men having to serve
their full sentences rather than
getting off earlier for good behavior.
Terracing Unit Is
Now At Ridgeway
The Warren county terracing
unit is now in the vicinity of Ridgeway,
and any one wishing to have
terracing, roads built, or any other
work done with this machinery is
requested to get in touch lmmed!
lately with Hugh Evans, assistant
county agent, at the office of Bob
Bright.
Those who had terracing work
done last week were Major C. T.
Bowers, Dr. C. H. Peete, Hunter
Pinnell and W. M. Fleming.
Soda Shop Moves
To New Quarters
The Warren Soda Shop, owned
and operated by Jeff Terrell, has
been moved from the Warren Theatre
building to the building next to
the old post office formerly occupied
bv Macey Pridgen as a pool
room.
Mr. Pridgen, who was In the pool
room business here for a number of
years, closed his establishment last
week.
It Is not known who shall occupy
the quarters in the theatre building
formerly used by the Warren
Soda Shop.
RECEIVES DIPLOMA
Dr. Thomas Holt, wl.o received
his diploma In medicine at the Medical
College of Virginia last week, Is
visiting his parents, Dr. and Mrs.
T. J. Holt He will return to Richmond
July 1 where he will Interne
in Memorial Hospital foy the ensuing
year.