Your Best Wk Advertising ^ Medium I ' VOLUME 63 I Better Te Service P WarrentOn may expect better telephone services in the ei future. | ci M That is the promise made by Cl A. N. Mason, general plant!v manager for the Carolina Tele- s' phone and Telegraph Company, I to the board of town commis- tl ^sloners on Thursdav aftomnnn ! h I of last week. j tl Mason appeared before the 8 commissioners at a called ses-1a; ^ sion with four other officials of the telephone company to h hear complaints of poor telephone service at Warrenton. | al | These officials were J. K. j ci Avent, vice president; Conradjfi Logan, general commercial manager; Linwood Langley, j h commercial supervisor; and L.jtl E. Tutten, plant manager. The telephone officials heard!a Mayor W. A. Miles cite a num-jP ber of complaints about poor j" service; heard Commissioner A.! C. Blalock cite cases where entire blocks of the system had been. out ot order oh several sj occasions; heard Commissioner " Walker Burwell charge that '1 the service had been poor P since former manager Street 11 Richardson was removed from the town, cite failures in the ti central office due to lack of at- p >-tention, and tell of cases where a he had been hurt by poor c] telephone service. r Blalock summed up the com- al plaints by saying that the serv-id * ice has been "frankly disgrace- w ful." . j o! I White A] Assistant Charles M. White, III, solicitor of Warren County Recorder's Court, was on Monday .limed assistant solicitor of the Superior Court with jurisdiction in Warren County. His salary was set at $40.00 . per month for the remainder of the fiscal year. I White's duties will be to assist Solicitor W. H. S. Burgwyn, Jr., in the preparation and prosecution of cases in criminal terms of Superior Court. Since many of the cases reach Superior Court on a appeal from Recorder's Court, White is familiar with these cases when they reach Superior Court, and in addition, being a resident attorney, can do much to prepare cases before j. the county. ^ The board of county commis- out $80.00 a month in welire payments. Farrar said is department had no funds ith which to pay Gilliland. Gilliland, who had- supportig vouchers, said that he had tent considerable time work10 All t h o nooP thai V. ^ V. o A . Ivanced $120.70 for necessary rpenses, and that he had addi an attorney's fee for $50.00, hich he felt was very modest, [e said that he? would accept ?e cost and whatever fee the oard decided to give him, ad added that if, the board sit he was due nothing, he ould accept the verdict. After XMlllland had left the xm> and a short discussion, >e commissioners ordered that (See WHITE, page 12) To Be Held i Sept. 16th. tad requests or to talk over tad problems .with Fifth Dision Highway personnel are rged to attend. Revival To Be Held Lt nhnrrli Of fl/wl Revival services will begin : the Church of God. North Iain Street in Warren too, on unday night at 7:30 and will , mtinue each night thereafter >r two weehs. The Rev. Henry J. Smith 1 Gotdahoro will he the guest >eaker. He attended Lee Col* ge in Cleveland, .Tern., and tlantic Christian College in riboa. The public is invited to at* m: ; .. *. V ri <% IHj? 1 .00 M Year 10c Per history of Warren County written Wellman. "The County of Warr and will be released September ! Warren Coi Book Print* CHAPEI. HILL ? Warren V County is a storehouse rich in li early American history and I w tradition; in the past it was a si contributor to North Carolina Ii and to the young United States, p This tradition has not been ai lost in the present. H , All of this history of War- V ren County?its settlers, its 15 geopraghy, its contributions? is included in a new book, 81 "The County of Warren" by;? Manly Wade Wellman, noted " author and historian and published by the University of g North Carolina Prea**^ ci it will be released Septem- [ C ber 26. tl Wellman's account traces1 p Right Man In J Wrong Place I By BIGNALL JONES Hundreds of Warren County sj citizens know A. P. Rodwell of Warren Plains and know that , he worked fdr many years at e the Warren Plains depot. I j" know it, have known it for years, and have talked with 11 him in his office at Warren ?. Plains. ^ Perhaps I have, but I can not recollect ever talking to him at Norlina. Neither have I hi ever associated him with Nor- si lina in any way. That is until v< last week I wrote an article M for this newspaper telling of G his retirement as Seaboard to agent. I -wrote "Arthur P. Rod- in well, veteran agent of the Sea- sc board Railway at Norlina, retired on Monday, his 70th birth- m day ... Rodwell has been ec connected with the Seaboard di for 54 years, 53 of which had ti been spent at Norlina." c( Why I should have written ~ Norlina mystifies me, and your 1 guess at the reason is as good J as mine. 41 My sincere apologies are of-11 fered to Mr. Rodwell for put- 1 ting him in the wrong town. Happily the headline, which I also wrote, put him in the h proper place. ei ir Sunday School To c Reopen At 9:45 ' si The Sunday School of Elm- h manuel Episcopal Church, which c has been closed for the past r( two months, will reopen on Sunday morning at 9:43 a. m., the Rev. Howard Hartzell, rec- ^ tor, announced yesterday. Mr. Hartzell also said that Morning Prayer _ and sermon urrailH Kn kalrl at iKn Mtttwali Til at 11 a. m. and that the Cele- or bration of the Holy Com- ga munion would be held at the m Church of the Good Shepherd in at Ridgeway on Sunday after- oj noon at 3 o'clock. v< H f. T. A. To Meet an A meeting of the John m Graham High School and ai Mariam Boyd P. T. A. will be'.gp held in the high school audi- ce torium on Tuesday night, Sep-jai tember IS, at 8:00. All patrons ci are urged to attend. la ' vV.-; ' .-v-lTij iarr i Copy WARRENTON Warren County about 1805, is by noted North Carolina auth en", is printed by the Unive 26 tnty Subjec ed By UN barren County from Its ear-i est beginning, when the land' as densely forested and the Jle property of the Tuscaroro idians. He quotes from the reorts of Edward gland, who in [l early journey from Fort !enry, now site of Petersburg, a., probably touched on what ; now Warren County. Those reports told of a rich I nd fertile soil and of (he ame and timber to be found i the tall virgin forest. In his book, the people, the reat and the small, relive alonial times in early North arolina, telling the story of le era when Warren set the ace for the entire state in Small College *romise, Spe Prespective college students, lould realize that many of le state's smaller colleges of-1 :r an array of good courses id offer the enrollee a chance i obtain an excellent educaon, a representative of one f the state's largest underlies said here last Thursday igni. Dr. Robert Thompson of Durjm, chairman of the scholarlip committee at Duke Unisrsity, told members of the 'arrenton Junior Chamber of i ommerce that students tend i overlook the smaller .schools i preference to the larger hools. "In many instances, this is a istake," Dr. Thompson pointi. Smaller colleges need stusnts who would benefit from ieir services, while larger Jlleges sometime are formed ludge Hobgood nez Community Judge Hamilton Hobgood of ouisburg was the guest speak at the regular monthly meetig of the Inez Community lub on Monday night at the lez Club House. James Harris, president, preded over the meeting. Judge obgood was presented by harles M. White, III, Warinton attorney. Judge Hobgood pointed out tecific fields of opportunity < i increase the income of the tizens of the Inez community. After making a few prelimiiry remarks about his work i the bench, Judge Hobgood id that the people of Inez ight lose their shirts in buildg a factory for outsiders to >erate, but they might de lop their own businesses, e suggested truck farming, reet potato and cucumber arkets, freezer locker stor;e and a cannery that would ecialize in items which Inez >uld grow and market as well i anyone. He suggested that ins or frozen packages be : beled with an attractive pte- i - . ...i. en IR , COUNTY OF WARREN, * I ! I I t 1 ? (Egu&ift < ft 1 |L^ - ' . I ( I 1 I i K i I ( j?Vi ' t ; : . * ...? f'c 'S-v^bis- -M&' J. 7r2S?- : .r''';.:^'' '*y&. '.'ft ' ' ?*> *' ' among several appearing in a, or and historian, Manley Wade rsity of North Carolina Press :t Ut New | C Press culture, gallantry and political [i leadership: Warren County, in name 180 years old, is today homo {or about 25,000 persons living on its 443 square miles. Tobacco is its chief money crop with cotton and cucumbers the next most profitable in that order, i "The County of Warren" is Wellman's twenty-fifth book. Notable among his previous ones have been his biography of Wade Hampton, "Giant in Grey." and "They Took Their Stand", "Rebel's Boast", "Dead and Gone", and "The Life and Times of Sir Archie". Wellman, , who lives in Chanel Hill, is currently working on a new novel, "The Liers in Wait." is Hold 11 aker Says to turn students away from their doors. Many students, unable to attend the larger colleges, have received degrees from the smaller schools, and find that this degree serves adequately as a stepping-stone to a good job. Dr. Thompson, who also told of the procedures which a youngster should go through in trying to obtain a scholar- ! ship, was introduced by VicePresident Van Jones. Jaycee Charles Katzenstein presided over the supper meeting held ; ] at the Hotel Warren. Guests at the meeting inincluded S. A. Warlick, a guest 1 of Monroe Gardner, and Howell Steed and J. F. Hockaday, J guests of Howard Jones. J R. Peeler and the Rev. John R. Link were special guests of ; the club. i Speaker At Meeting ture of a pretty farm girl and i called "Inez Warren" black- j eye peas or sweet potato pie mix. Other suggestions made by i Judge Hobgood included the development of a feed-seedgrain mill, a nursery, marketing of scuppernong grapes, a pheasant game shooting preserve, ? small lake for summer cottages for elderly couples, small boat bifilding, dog breeding and training, fishing did summer camps. He' said that all these were home grown j businesses, starting small and j expanding, but there were two ; (See HOBGOOD, page IS) j P. T. A. Ta Meet < The Afton-Elberon P. T. A. < n.(ii hAbi fiw . wiii hvra us iiitb iiiccuub the school term on Monday night, September 14, at 8:00. 1 Ml patron* of the achool are < urged to attend. 1 .. ( ' * ?-*_?- i nvnw ootvicci The Rev. Howard Hartxell I held services in St John's .| Episcopal Church, Williams! boro, on Sunday afternoon. 1 ' . - ' vam prorfc The Stat >4. C. FRIDAY, 2256 801 September Expected 1 The September criminal | Tl ;erm of Warren County Supe- d; rior Court will, in all probability j ol adjourn this morning (Friday), [ se :ourt officials indicated short-1 ly after noon yesterday as this jn paper went to press : Cj Although both cases docket-;TI ed for trial today were con- p: tinued earlier in the week, j :ourt observers expressed the I ec belief that the final case p: would not be called until this ec norning The term convened on Tues-, ca day with Judge Hamilton Hob- ec good of I.ouisburg presiding, gi Boy, 7, Cat( Dies In Ris A 7-year-old Palmer Springs,! th Va., boy drowned Sunday, hi when he caught his foot in a j root at the edge of flooding w pond and the water rose be-' y< fore he could free himself. |W The Mecklenburg County st youth was Cauley Bunch re Newell, son of Mr. and Mrs. ot W. A. Newell of Palmer | Springs, j hi He and his brother James, |c 9, were, playing beside the pondjV which is fed from the spillway j of Kerr dam on Kerr I,ake. ;at A five-inch rainfall had start- C ed the water rising rapidly in bi Injuries To Girl Car Rams Into An eight-year-old Negro girl,, gi en route to school, received minor injuries on Friday morn- st ing of last week when a mo- V torist rammed her car into the V side of a school bus near Wise. jj Cynthia Goode received an ei injury of the mouth after a e< ear driven by 17-year-old Eliza pi Anita Moss cut into the front of the bus as she attempted to pass. Both vehicles ran off the highway one-half mile ^ south of the North Warren tl High ^School where the Moss b( w-w. w Uuring Labor Day W Check Points Estal Reports Only One E The establishment of check- pi points and saturations in vari- ji ous places throughout m Warren County apparently paid off in a big way for C! members of the State High- a way Patrol during the I-abor e, Day weekend. SI Only one wreck was report- tti ed, with two minor injuries, to D local patrolmen R. A. Clark in of Norlina and Vernon R. CI Vaughan of Warrenton. The patrolmen set up check- H points on many of the county's ai busy highways and checked ap- hi proximately 500 automobiles tr during the course of the holi- s\ day weekend. at In the only wreck reported tli to the patrolmen, two soldiers, stationed at Fort Bragg and en- re route to their homes in Penn- tn sylvania, received superficial injuries when their automobile was involved in a collision th north of "Wise on US Highway w One. A The accident occurred at ap- la Gym WiU Be Finish Foreman Tells Roto The foreman of the con- at itruction crew currently build- u lag the gymnasium at the p. John Graham High School . here said Tuesday night that le hopea to "turn the key* to he completed structure to the m K>unty board of education by January 1." W Lester Long, a native of 1 ftoxboro, who heads the con- Is strucuon crew hro?|U Mr* by Contractor O. W. Kane to dl erect the new atmcture, total n nembera of the Warren ton Ro- a tary Club that wort la new a KEfs-ar " "*a Rains hampered the eon- gi - - sw-jfrwro: " ".?/ 'r*" ? P'**" ^ Ktard Printing Company X ith Shelby Street .a#?/at I If Ilfu^ Term Of ro Adj ouri lie criminal term . began a I jui iv later than usual because ou the Labor Day holiday ob- W rved by the court. an Few cases held any spectator iterest, and most of the 24 ises disposed, of by noon ^ iiursday were tried before a sei irtially-filled courtroom ?' Five cases had been continu- slx 1 when this paper went to an ess and only two cases reach1 the jury no In one of the three jury ises, Robert B Alston, charg- ?Ui I with assault was fount! not i bo lilty after the twelve-man on wa :hes Foot, ' bo ing Pond lis ie pond just before he caught I thi s foot. | Wi The older brother said he | shi as unable to release the pr >unger boy and ran for help. | wl 'hen help arrived, the younger was freed and artificial i ? spiration was attempted withit success. The boy is also survived by s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. arl Newell of Palmer Springs, a. Funeral services were held j 3 p. m. Tuesday at Union | hapel Methodist Church, with j .trial in the church cemetery. Minor As School Bus irl is a student The bus, en route to the ime school, was driven by I emart Maria, 18, of near | 'i se. j 1'atrolman R. A. Clark of orlina, who investigated the #1 irly morning accident, charg- \J 1 the Moss girl with imroper passing. The bus was loaded at the ^ me of the accident but only Vi te Goode child, who was f trown against the bus dash>ard, received injury. eekend of tlished; Patrol ? lighway Mishap w roximately 10:45 Friday night ist north of the Wise com-'. unity limits. Patrolman Clark said that a D, ir driven by Nairn Hakimbaba, va Peruvian exchange student je] iroute to Raleigh , N. C. wj :ate College, smashed into jn le car driven by the solidere. amage to both vehicles was i the neighborhood of $500, jj, lark renorted * J, The patrolman said that bii akimbaba told him that an itomobile's headlights blinded Q m, forcing him to lose con- _ ol of his car ,and that he <3 verve 1 into the path of the ltomobile containing le soldiers. wi Hakimbaba was charged with nt ckless driving by the patrol- H< an Pt W Mrs. J. A. Fuiterrez and 86 ree children of Chapel Hill Pr ere guests of Mr. and Mrs. . C. Powell for several days st week. JS T1 ied Bv Jan. IsL i g J ltl irians On Toes, g ruction during much of the S te lummer. Long told the otarians, but U now proceedf according to plan. ^ Long was introduced to m embers of the dub, gathered Hotel Warren for their w sekly supper meeting, by st rank Reams, program chair- of an. op Following Long's talk. Frost Tt mt Roy Dixon, stressed that da "ary member of the dub ake an effort to attend the all eettng set for Tuesday night th, ban r-rd Dads of Zebulon, an strict governor, will be the to Your iBest Advertising Medium . NUMBER 37 ^ ' ~ ?????- . Court n Today y heard testimony brouRht t by Alston's attorney, W Taylor, Jr , of Warrenton, d by Solicitor W H. S Buryn, Jr., of Woodland A jury heard the ease of AIrt Alston, charged with pos>sion, and returned a verdict guilty. Alston was given a :-months suspended sentence ;'Jj d fined S250 and costs. In the other jury case, El- fl ra Jofles, Negro of near j| ? Vicksboro community, acsed of assaulting Green Abtt and his teenage daughter tneir tarm earlier this year, , s fount! guilty by the jury, restimony brought out by , : state revealed that the nes woman threatened Abtt once with a shortgun and er threatened his daughter th a stick. Both charges were nsolidated for trial Elnora Jones contended, rough her attorney, Charles illiamson of Henderson, that e was only attempting to otect her twelve children 10 were playing in the yard (See COURT, page 12) >R. CHARLES T. WIMB1SH 1 Optometrist To I onduct Practice I fith Dr. Wiggins j Dr. Charles T. Wimbish, a aduate of the University of irth Carolina and a graduate the Southern College of >tometry, has begun theprae- ; ;e of optometry in Warren- J n. Dr. Wimbish, a native of jaksville, will be associated practice with Dr. Josejm F. iggins of Henderson. His nf:e is in the professional lilding on E. Market Street. Currently living in Weldon, r. Wintbish has attended rious seminars on contact 'M uses and worked with them lile a student of optometry Memphis, Tenn. He is married to the former Parto CiowoncAn a# jrlina. They have one child, -months-old Charles T. Wim eauty, Fashion how To Be Held A Beauty and Fashion Show fl 11 be the highlight of a dintr meeting to be held at B Jtel Warren on September 17, a B esented by the Warrenton * SI oman's Club. Dinner win be iM rved at 7:00, followed by the ogram at 7:48. Fashions will be from Mar- jfl >erite's Style Shop, hair ' ides by linker's Beauty Shop, h* le Beauty Box, Warrenton t auty Shop and Fair's Beau- fainter Drug Co. and Boyce 1 ug Co. hearin Buys eafood Market Former sheriff Roy V. Shearyesterday began the ope \ arrenton. Be has purchased the Wap> 1 i Seafood Market on Market j reet from J. Morris Griaaom j Henderson, who has> h*f* " J erating the market hercakeh | r-trsday, Friday and Set|tfhJ9 y for several months. Sheaiin said that he to operate the market Mrl I last three days in the vwBtV j I that he would oontinnf: 9 carry a line of fine id. JB . .. ...... ....j.