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VOLUME 83
Soil Banli
Time Is E
The deadline by which farmers
Interested in offering cropland
under the Conservation
Reserve Program must ask the
ASC county committee to set
a basic annual rate per acre
for the land offered has been
A- extended from September 10
through September 30
Announcement of the extension
was made yesterday by
* Walter S. Sn^^. ASC committe
chairman, who said that
this extension of time was
made necessary because of
changes in the program which
would make additional farmers
eligible for participation.
Smiley said that where the
farmer visits the county office
prior to the September 30
deadline and has a basic rate
established he will be given
an 'opportunity to apply for a
contract at any figure below
Winners In 1
ASC Election
The names of ASC Community
Committeemen elected
on Thursday Of last week were
listed this week by T. E. Watson,
local ASC office manager.
In making the announcement,
Watson pointed out that
the chairman of each community
committee is also a
delegate to the county convention
to be held in the Warren
County agricultural building
on Friday, September 25, at
2 p. m.
ucicgdics IU uie uuuiity
convention will nominate
and elect the county committee
which will serve for another
year. County and community
committeemen elected will
take office on October 1.
The list of community committee
released by Watson follows:
Pishing Creek Community?
Roy Pittman, chairman; Frank
B. Davis, vice chairman; C. E.
Harris, regular member; Billy
L. King, first alternate; Price
Robertson, second alternate.
Fork ? W. K. Thompson,
4 chairman; Carey A. Dillard,
vice chairman; Ernest E. Davis,
regular member; James C.
t Harris, first alternate; M. W.
Alston, second alternate.
Hawtree ? Luther Stegall,
chairman; Luther Carroll, vice
chairman; G. W. King, regular
member; Macon G. Moseley,
first alternate; Glenn H. Weidon,
second alternate.
Judkins?James W. Clark,
chairman; M. D. Nelson, Jr.,
vice chairman; Vance Robertson,
regular member; Dennis
Harris, first alternate; J. W.
Harris, second alternate.
Nutbush ? H. B. Bender,
Rotary Club To A;
Calendars To Rait
The Warrenton Rotary Club
will again this year sponsor the
sale of Community Birthday
? Calendars in order to raise
funds for the support of the
John Graham High School
Band.
y Announcement that the calendars
would again be sold
this year was made yesterday
fy Bud Gaston, chairman of
he calendar sales committee.
In making the announcement,
Gaston expressed his thanks
to those who sold and bought
calendars last year and asked
that the public again give the
club its cooperation.
Shipp McCarroll and Clyde
Rodwell will handle the sale of
advertising. Bruce Bell and
Selby Benton will canvass the
rural areas and outlying towna.
Hank Hardy will canvass the
civic clubs and other organt'
rations.
The sales committee has divided
the town into districts
to be canvassed by other Botartans
as follows.:
Roy Dixon: Dixon Si-East
Haselwood Dr., starting wtth
41-W. I. Turner. North Main St.
from Hedgeiteth Res. to Wilson
St.
Bod Gaston: West Haselwood
Dr. and Rodwell Development,
IndudjngjHmmy .Roberta.
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Subscription Price S3.
r?iv II
l ruing
xtended
the basic rate. If the offer
can he accepted, the farmer
will be notified of the date by
which he must return the
J signed conservation reserve
! contract to the ASC county-of* r
1 fice.
I Farmers who participate in
! this Soil Bank Program re- 1
. ceive cost-sharing help in
! establishing approved conser-l
jvation practices on the reservel
I land and annual rental pay
I racnts for the life of the contract.
j Smiley said that farmers
i who are interested in the
j I960 Conservation Reserve Program
and who would like to
I have further information about
participating in the program
[are urged to get in touch with
the local ASC county office as
,soon as possible, but certainly
before the September 30 deadline.
Community
IC AI*A T A/I 1
10 /1IC JUIOICU
.chaaman; William B Elling- '
jton, vice chairman; R. Y.
'Spain, regular member; Wilson
| Fleming, first alternate; Ellis
! Fleming, second alternate.
1 River?Herbert Harris, chairjman;
J. Robert King, vice
I chairman; R. L. Salmon, regul
lar member; L. R. Bobbitt, 1
.first alternate; H. Irvin Haith-'
cock, second alternate. , 1
Roanoke?Roy Jones, chair-1
man; Aubrey Moseley,. vice'
chairman; L. W. Kidd, regular j
member; L. Marion Jones, first'
alternate; L. B. Thomas, sec-'
ona alternate.
Sandy Creek?Linwood Ayscue,
chairman; W. H. Abbott,
!Jr., vice chairman; Charles A.
Hobgood, regular member; C.
E. Fleming, first alternate;
Sidney Fleming, second alternate.
Sixpound ? E. P. Daniel,
chairman; W. T. Robinson,
vice chairman; E. Jeff Daniel,
regular member; E. R.
Overby, first alternate; M. E.
Thompson, second alternate.
Smith Creek?Albert Bender,
chairman; J. A. Hayes,
vice chairman; W. E. Mulchi,
III, regular member; H. W.
j Seaman, first alternate; Leonard
J. Kilian, second alternate
'J Warrenton ?"W. S. Bugg, |
chairman; A. K. Mustian, vice;
chairman; E. C. Brauer, regular
member; Bill Connell, first
alternate; Leonard Wilker, sec-1
ond alternate.
Shocco?W. L. Fuller, chair-1
man; M. T. Abbott, vice chairman;
E. H. Pinnell, * regular j
member; Boyd M. Reams, first'
I alternate; Lawrence Overby, i
second alternate.
gain Sell Birthday |
;e Funds For Band
Charles Johnson: Ridge way
St. and Spring St.
Troy Barrett: North Main
St. from Fairview St. to Warren
St.
Jim Beckwith: Fairview St
from Bragg St. to end of east
Fairview St., Hall St. to Macon
St. including Dan Timer and
Hall Connell.
Bill Perry: Brehon St.
Tom Holt: Fairview St. from
Brehon to Front St.
Hugh Holt: Graham St. '
Graham Horne: Front St.,
Davis Ailey-Macon St. between
Front and Maint St, Main St.
from Franklin to Plummer St.
also Edith Burwell, Bob Butler
and Tom Hawkins.
T. Taylor: Plummer St. from
Main St. to Hall St from J. i
E. Rooker Res. to Plummer St.
Raymond Rarick Marshall
St., Eaton St. to Battle St.
and Halifax St.
Rufus Jones: Battle St, King i
St. and Eaton St from Bat- <
tie St to W Sorrows Res.
Pett Boyd: SouQt Main St.
starting at Plummer St. and
ending with W. E. Harmon I
VDC To Meet 1
The Mooting of the United i
Daughters of the Confederacy I
will he held on Friday after- !
noon (today) at 3:S0 in the |
homo of Mis. s. o. Nunn with i
% 1
00 a Year IOc P?
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Rotary district Governor Fei
the Warrenton Rotary Club It
dar which went on sale throu
men discuss the club project i
was introduced by the Rev. T
County History
To Be Placed On
Sale Next Week
Manley Wade Wellman. author
of a new history. "The
County of Warren." will be at
the Warren County Memorial
Library on Saturday. September
26. from 3 to 5 p. m., to
autograph copies of the history
for any who desire.
Announcement of Wellman's
appearance here was made yes
leraay oy vv. l.. Long. president
of the Warren County
Historical Society, sponsor of
the history.
Long said that copies of the
history are expected to arrive
at the Warren County Memorial
Library and at the PolkA-Dot
Gift Shop here on Tuesday
of next week where they
will be placed on sale at $6.00
per copy.
Long said that copies for
subscribers to the history
would be sent to his office
here from which they would
be distributed.
Speaking at a meeting of the
John Graham PTA on Tuesday
night. Long said that he
believed this is 'the finest
county history in North Carolina.
He ur^fd PTA members to
aid in placing the history
in school libraries and said
since the book would no doubt
be used as a refrence source,
he hoped that several copies
would be placed in the library,
as well as in homes of the
county.
Long said that the Historical
Society would give ParentTeachers
Associations a commission
Qf $1.00 on each volume
sold.
He said that 1500 copies of
the history have been printed
by the U. N. C. Press. Of
these 500 have been subscribed
by members of the Historical
society and other interested
persons, leaving 1.000
copies to be sold.
Woman's Club To
Meet On Sept. 24
The September meeting of
the Warrenton Woman's Club
has been postponed from September
17 to Thursday. September
24, Mrs. Mildred Crinkley
Johnson, publicity chairman,
announced yesterday.
Except for a change in date,
hfrs. Johnson said, the plans
for the meeting are exactly as
announced in this paper last
week. Dinner will be served at
Hotel Warren at 7 p. m., followed
by a Beauty and Fashion
Show aH 7:45.
Tickets for the Artifts Series
will go on sale on September
Z3 and may be obtained from
any member of the Woman's
Club.
C. Of C- Meets
The September meeting of
the Warren County Chapter of
the C. of C. was held in the
library last Friday with six
children attending. v CullH
t>eoks were made for Veterans
Hospital in Durham and a report
on "Division and General
Conventions" was given by
tone Twitty and Edmund
tern
ir Copy WARRENTON,
> I
rd Davis of Zobulon. speaker at
mks on as Rotarian Troy Barrel
ghout the county on Tuesday r
s Roy Dixon, right, club prcsid
roy Barrett, a former resident >
District Go
Visits Rota:
Alarm over the large num-j
her of young people who yearly
leave their community and
state was expressed by a district
governor of the Rotary
organization hero on Tuesday
| night.
| rera uavis, a ^,eDUion lawyer
who serves as governor of
| the Rotary Clubs In the disj
trict that embraces the Warirenton
club, told local club
: members that something should
I be done to prevent the exodus
, of youth from the communijties
that raised them.
Davis said that the youth
of today leave their home
[towns for one of two reasons?
(either they are dissatisfied
I with existing conditions or
| they think they have a better
i financial opportunity elsewhere.
Davis said that not only
could civic-minded persons do
j something to encourage youths
| to remain in the area in which
they were reared, but said that j
j these same people could go a;
| long way towards curbing ju- j
venile delinquincy.
"We can teach a youngster
| how to shoot a rifle, or search
Negro Man I
Rides In Patl
A 35-year-old Warren Coun-1
j ty Negro was seriously injur-.
ed early Sunday afternoon |
:when he drove his bicycle into]
.the pafh of an oncoming auto-j
1 mobile.
j Alexander Jordan was thrown i
from his bicycle against the j
automobile, his head busting]
through the windshield, after |
j his bicycle wffc struck by the:
I car in Ridgeway.
The driver of the automo- j
bile, Lt. Col. Joseph E. Webb, j
jjr., 51, of the Walter Reed!
Medical Hospital in Washing-'
ton, D. C., said that Jordan
Community Leadei
Festival Are Nam<
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j Community leaders for the
I Harvest Festival to be held at
the Warrenton Armory on Oc(tober
14 under the sponsorship
j of the Warren General Hos;pital
Auxiliary, have been announced
by Mrs. Tom Holt and
| Mrs. W. D. Rodgers, chairmen.
The community leaders will
solicit people in their com*
munity for contributions of
items to be sold in booths,
open for business at 3 p. m.,
in the following categories:
food, plant, handmade articles,
used clothing and white elephant
merchandise. Mrs. Holt
and Mrs. Rodgers urged, that
everyone contribute something.
A barbecue and Brunswick
stew supper will be served beginning
at 8 o'clock on the day
of the Harvest Festival.
Community leaders appointed
by the Harvest Festival chairmen
are:
Otkville?Miss Emily MiUm,
Mrs Clifton EIlli.
en ffil
COUNTY OF WARREN, 1
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pp>?"y I
the Tuesday night meeting of I
t. left, displays birthday caleutight.
Looking on as the two '
cnt. Davis, a Zebulon lawyer
uf Zebulon. (Staff Photo)
vernor
ry Club j
for a title, or do a host of i
other things." Davis said, "but
the only way that we can teach
him to become a good citizen1
is by own actions."
Davis, in making his first official
visit to Warrenton as a j
district governor, was intro-!
duced by the Rev. Troy Barrett.
a former Methodist minister
in Zebulon.
The speaker was accomplished
to Warrenton ^nd to the
supper meeting by~ Zebulon
Mayor Ed Hales. Garland Richardson,
and Early Moser.
Following the address by
Davis. Bud Gaston, chairman
of the Community Calendar
sales committee reported that
the calendars for the coming
year had arrived. These were
placed on sale by all members
of the club following the meeting.
The calendar sale is a
yearly project of the Warrenton
Rotary Club. ,
Guests present at the meeting
included Frank B. Banzet
and Claude Bowers, guests
of Rotarian Shipp McCarroll.
Howard Jones, a guest of Rotarian
Selby Benton.
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iui i na 11c
It Of Auto
drove into his path as he was
traveling south on US Highway
One.
"He pulled out of a side
road and up until the last
moment 1 thought he was going
to stop." Webb told State
Highway Patrolman R. A.
Clark of Norlina.
Jordan received severe facial
Iterations and injuries of the
foot. He was taken to Warren
General Hospital here. No
charges have been preferred
by Patrolman Clark pending
the completion of his investigation.
j
rs For Harvest
sd By Chairmen
Paschall?Mr.s. Gerston King.
Elberon?Mrs. T. M. Aycock,
Mrs. Clifton Stegall.
Warrenton?Mesdames John
Kerr, F. P. Whitley, Barker
Williams. Lemuel Kornegay,;
W. D. Rodgers, Bob Butler,
Roger Limer and J. Boyd
Davis.
Afton-Axtelle?Mrs. Howell i
Steed and Mrs. Jim Limer.
Inez ? Mrs. George Davis. '
Areola?Mrs. Melvin Shearin. |
Wise?Mrs. Malvern Hayes i
and Mrs. Evans Coleman.
Macon?Mrs. Wilton Ix>yd
Mrc PKarlio XT.?(.
Warren Plains?Mrs. Arthur
Rod well.
Norlina-Oine ? Mrs. H 1
White, Mrs. James "White and
Mrs. William J. Hicks.
Ridgeway?Mrs. George Bender
and Mrs. Palmer King.
Mr. Lawrence Shearin was in
Warren General Hospital for
Mveral <toy? tor trwrtownt
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S~C. FRIDAY, SEPT
Board Rescinds Acti
School (
Given H
The Warren County Board
of Education on Monday night d
reversed an earlier ruling that \
children throughout the county' c
school system wouldnot bet
able to attend the Warren a
County Fair this yar during t
school hours. t
The board took the necess-,
ary action to rescind the poli-jli
cy. formulated at the August j a
meeting of the board, when 1;
it voted unanimously to grant I
the 0500 school children in the t
county a half-day leave of e
absence j j
Rnarrl Is D
With Unm<
Warrenton's. governing body r
is disssatisfied with the un- j
mowed condition of a number i
of vacant lots here. I
The Board of Town Commissioners
at its Monday night I
meeting ordered that owners t
of vacant lots again be noti- 1
fied that the law requires that >
all vacant lots be mowed 1
twice a year, and that if they j i
did not have their lots mow- j t
ed, the town would, and add t
the cost to their tax bill, as'
provided by town ordinance. L
The commissioners also de-;]
cided that a number of citi- <
zens who have not paid their 1
assessment for curbing and! <
gutter must settle with the i ]
town. These bills range from'l
one to four years old. After h
notice, if they are not paid 1
they will be added to tax!<
bills, the commissioners or-j
jdered.
The town ordered that a reWhite
Cant
Be Launch*
j Members of the Warrenton
j Lions Club are prepared to i
launch their annual White] I
Cane Drive throughout the .
county on Sunday in an ef- !
I fort to raise funds to help pre- !
vent blindness.
I Joining more than 14,000
other North Carolina Lions, the 1
local club will canvass the]
county for a two-week period'
extending through October 4, j
struma; uvui iiieiiiuerMiips in i;
the N. C. Association for the
Blind and white cane bangles.
Although the state goal for
the year is fifty thousand dollars
Warrenton will have no
quota to reach. The Warrenton
club has in the past been
selected as the outstanding
chapter in the state for its t
| White Cane work.
Miss Agnes LinquUtf^M^p
in Warren, Vance and ing
White Cane Drive^rl^f
Miss Linquist, who ^
in her everyday life, ~k Viftytfr
and by Lions Clubs in this disti
A resident of Henderson, 'she
I ty Welfare Department twice ?
f
Lard Printing Companv
iuth Shelby Street ?
EMBER 18, 1959
on
Children
[oliday I
The action enabling the chil-|
..... -w unwiu nit- iuu uji uuin
Vhite and Negro School Days
ante after (he board was peitioned
to make the move by!
delegation from the Warren-1
on Lions Club, sponsors of j
he annual event
Acting as spokesman for the
ocal Lions Club, which oper-1
tes the county-wide fair year-i
y through a fair corporation,
.ion W. K Lanier stressed
he importance of allowing the!
hildren to attend the fair durng
the school hours.
dissatisfied
1 I
jwea lois
note control switch for the'
lumps at Hudgins Creek be
nstalled. Money for this was
ilaced in the budget.
A request from Gaynelle
Urown that he be permitted!
o build an outside stairway at j
lis store on Franklin Street, i
vith its fnnt rostintr in on ol. I
ey, was deferred until further
nvestigation of ownership of
he alley and other legal quesions
could be m-de.
Dick Burton. Jr., of Rocky j
VIount, representing Colonial
Life & Accident Insurance
Company, appeared before the j
joard to discuss group accilent
Insurance of town employees.
Burton explained
that the premiums would be
paid by employees and the
town would make no financial
contribution. However, the town
would be asked to withhold
premium payments from em(See
BOARD, page 10)
e Drive To
id Sunday
This year the White Cane
drive will be headed on a local
Kocio k?; I inn C A Wnnlinlr
Jr. Warlick will be assisted by
Licms W. L. Turner, R. M.
Davis, M. S. Martin and A. H.
Bryson.
In making an appeal, for citizens
of the county to support
the White Cane Drive, Chairman
Warlick pointed out that
there are over 11,000 blind
persons in North Carolina, and
nearly one-half of all blindness
is preventable.
He said that the 25-year-old
Association renders many services
including the providing
of glasses and other visual
aids, radios for shut-in blind
persons, eye care, medical services.
dental care, hearing aids,
(See CHIVE, page 10)
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7or Fair
I.anier told the board members
that the fair was educa- tional
as well as entertaining-^
and that if the children wgre ,
not allowed to attend during ;
the school hours, many of them *
would not be able to attend.
He pointed out that counties '
surrounding Warren make it a
practice to allow children a
school day during the county
fair. He also that the state
school system excused any
child from school who attend 3
the N C State Fair.
Lanier was backed in his
efforts to have the-board rescind
its action by a 15-man
delegation lrom the local club.
Negro Farm Agent L. C. Cooper
also Dointed out some of
the educational advantages of j
the fair exhibits and dairy
show to members of the fiveman
board
In other action taken by the
board at its regular monthly
meeting, approval was given a
motion that the old Norlina
colored school be reopened.
The motion was made after
Sept. Roger Peeler told the
board members that the new
Northside elementary school j
has more students than it
can accomodate. Peeler suggested
tnat the old school be reopened
and the State Board
of Education asked to allot j
one teacher for the school. ^
The board also approved a
bonus for vocational teachers I
that was granted by the last I
I session of the General Assem- I
1 blv. The members voted to Dav I
one-third of the funs?$146.26 I
?for this purpose.
In other action the board ?
elected William Ellington as
a member of the Norlina District
School Committee to replace
Allen Kimball who recently
resigned.
Also approved by the board
was the resignation of Theo
Williams from the Warren
County school system and the
hiring of five new teachers at
ithe ??7orth Warren High School.
I Those teachers approved
were Kathleen Norris Gardner,
Shirley Vernell Wilkerson,
| Sterling M. Cheston, Winfield
C. Coachman, and Thelma
Louise Murris.
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Watermelons:
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Four Negro youths were arrested
near here Saturday
morning after one of their
number admitted that the foursome
destroyed approximately
75 watermelons near Afton on
Friday night.
The four boys, who ranged
in age from 14 to 18 years,
were arrested by Warren Deputy
Sheriffs B. G. Stevenson .
and Herbert Rooker.
Three of the boys. William
Lee Alston, 18. Howard Wortham,
16, and Thomas Christ
mas, 16, were tried yesterday >
before Judge Julius Banvet in
Warren County Recorder's
Court What action the court
took in the matter was not
available before this paper
went to press.
A 14-year-old boy, whbse
name was not released for
publication, was turned over to
juvenile authorities.
Deputy Stevenson said that
the boys went into a water- .melon
patch owned by Maeon ,<
Reavis o fnear Afton and H
stomped the melons with their v
Officer Stevenson said that j.
the patch had been vandalised j
for the past three years, but j
U" uupai lUHlll?n?u - no evi* g
dence as to the culprits identi I
ty in past yean. " '* J
The officer surmised that 1
the three boys went into the I
patch abound 10 p. m. I
Friday and destroyed the 1
melons for no apparent reason
while the juungMt boy 1
apparently stood watch.
In flispital
Dr. W. D. Jtodgors is ftjfH
tient in Warns Omni flH
Pltal for treatment.
' " In BaqpHal |1|^H
Mr. Wash Psrty te a pat
hi Duke Hospital, Durham^