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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!
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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- <signers,
who made the appoint- ri
ment,' expressed the view that a|
through expediting cases -that f.
White will more than save his j,
salary to the county. w
The commissioners awarded
the labor contract for painting .
the exterior of the court house 'r
to William A. Thompson, low
bidder on the contract. Paint
for the Job will be purchased *
through state contract.
C. M. Bullock was appointed e
Warren County Fire Marshall.
He will serve without pay. Cj
The board ordered that
v James D. GiUiland be paid
$148.70 for attorney's fee and J1
MMtlSAS for nrtWMirincr Cnniol "
I Security payments ton two.
_ minor children of Haywood
* Balthrop. Julian Farrar, Wei- n
fare Superintendent, appeared: tl
before the board with GilttHighway
Meeting
At Lenisburg Oi
l/\TTTQHin?n __ a ?..viu i _
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hearing on important road mat- rt
& ten in the Fifth Highway DM- vi
lion will ha held hem next u
Wedneeday, Sept. 16, according
to Division Engineer J. |
I The meeting, to which city ^
and county officials and the
general public are invited, will
be held at the Franklin County *
Courthouse, beginning at 10 a. *
I m. The meeting will adjourn &
at IS noon for lunch and re- ?
-n, convene at 2 p. m., Jenkins ?
said.
I ? meetings ' Mag held in the si
K neeed Prtunklln A
Granville, Person, Weke, Vance M
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ilephone I
romised
Mason told the commissionrs
that they had a legitimate
amplaint, apologies for the
}ndition and promised that
farrenton would have ^better;rvice
from now on.
Mason said that he deplored
te fact that such conditions
ad mushroomed at Warrenton, |
lat his company wanted to j
ive good service, and that he
5 production manager,. is de- j
;rmined that Warrenton shall,
ave good service.
Much of the condition came!
bout here, Mason said, beause
telephone subscribers
tiled to report phone trouble.
[f subscribers don't complain,"
e said, "we never know that
ic service is bad."
Mason said that it would be
favor to the telephone eomany
if any subscriber having
ouble with his phone would
romptly dial 0, and report
le trouble.
Mayor Miles, at the concluon
of the meeting, requested
tis newspaper to stress the
in p o r t a n c e of subscribers
romptly reporting phone
ouble.
Mac Bullock, president of
le Warrenton Lions Club, was
resent at the meeting to lodge
complaint on behalf of- his
lub. The president of the
otary Club failed to appear
t the meeting because the
lub's compaint had been forarded
to the company's main
ffice.
ppointed
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CHARLES M. WHITE, III
nd. He said that Gilliland
id taken necessary legal
eps to place the children on
oeial Security rolls and as a
tsult the county was saving
>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*
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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
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Sunday School To c
Reopen At 9:45
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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<
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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
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Warren County about 1805, is
by noted North Carolina auth
en", is printed by the Unive
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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
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among several appearing in a,
or and historian, Manley Wade
rsity of North Carolina Press
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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."
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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
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The Rev. Howard Hartxell I
held services in St John's .|
Episcopal Church, Williams!
boro, on Sunday afternoon. 1
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>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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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