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Your Best Advertising Medium < VOLUME 64 Rrnrol F a?ut UK A At VA Sale In Fv Plans are now being completed for the Warrenton Rural Fire Department's Auction Sale to be held here on Saturday, February 27 W. A. Connell, III, publicity chairman for the department, said yesterday that the sale would be held at Thompson's Warehouse and that Col. R. B. Butler had agreed to donate his services as auctioneer. Connell said that the fire department would be glad to sell any articles except livestock on a 10 per cent commiccinn Kocie that Warren County citizens ^ search their attics and out* ' buildings for articles that may be turned into ready cash. The commission on such articles will help the fire department, he said, and in addition would supply ready cash for the sellers and an opportunity for buyers to get good used articles at a price within their reach. Dixon Ward, Warrenton Rural Fire Department Chief, said this week that the operation of the Warrenton Rural Fire Department with its auxiliary companies, required an expenditure of some $7,000 annually. Of this amount the county donates $1,000 a year and there are some contributions from citizens in appreciation of the company's services, but the bulk of this money has to be raised through efforts of the members of the department. This has been done in part by a series of dances held at the Armory each week and through the sale of popcorn and in other ways. The auction sale is the latest attempt to raise funds for operational i- costs of the department. t Connell said that the department would be glad to receive donations of any articles for sale at the February 27 auction sale. Ask^d why he did not stress | V this feature in his publicity in ff view of the department's needs, Connell said, "The department is anxious to get off the backs Names And 1926 Class A Plans are being discussed for a reunion of members of John i Graham High School of the class which graduated in 1926, !. Pettis Terrell of Henderson, who was a member of the class, (said here this week. Terrell said that plans are [ to have as many members of 1}. this class present at a reunion at Warrenton as soon as arrangements can be completed. He said the reunion would not only include 1926 graduates but as many former students L as possible who were members k at any*time during high and p A- grammer schools. Names and addresses of a number of these former students are known, Terrell said, but names and addresses of even more are unknown. He asks that any member of the class who would be interested in having a reunion, here, or anyone who konws the names and addresses of members of this class, contact Douglas Mustian at Hotel Warren. Warren Ci $2346.83 1 Warren County citizens donated $2,346.83 for fighting tuberculosis during the recent Christmas Seal Sale, Mrs. Clyde Wbitford, executive secretary, P| Warren County TB and Health Association, announced this f week. Mrs. Whitford said that ''M the Seal Sale does not officially close until March 1 and it ft is not too late for persons to D respond to their Seal Sale wT letters. RVr-Yeur T? Association," Mrs. Whitford said, "wishes to thank every individual contributor. also volunteer work ers. The Warren Record for publicity, the Warren Theatre for showing film stripe, our mMjL,. --? ] ( Subscription Price $3.0 nen To Hoi ind Raising of the public." However. Connell said that 'if any persons have articles] : they wish to donoate that the firemen would be glad to pick1 j them up. Persons with such articles to be donated are ask-! ed to call Edward Hunter at1 : the town municipal building. Connell said that persons i wishing to have articles sold on commission may bring them to Thompson's Warehouse on I Friday. February 26. from 9 until 3 o'clock, or that they i may bring them to the wareI house prior to the sale Saturday. February 27. which bogins at 10 o'clock. , Children Should Be Immunized, Says Health Dept. ! All children entering the first grade of school are requirJ od by law to be immunized against whooping cough, diphi theria and smallpox. Dr. L. j W. Kornegay, Medical Consultant with the Warren County j Health Department, this week ' reminds parents of pre school children. "We urge the parents of I children who will enter school her son, Mr. Pettus Terrell, i and family in Henderson dur' ing the weekend. Addresses Of ire Sought Terrell said that he and j James Connell of Henderson had recently worked out a | partial list, of the class mem! bers, and he listed them as ! follows: B. T. Terrell, J. P. Connell, Willie H. Johnson, Carrie Wilson. Thermutis Lloyd, Louise i Welch, Eva Pett Williams, Viroi nio CKoll Pott ! Marks, Jesse Robinson, Oscar j Overby, John Conn, Van Als; ton, Thomas Robinson, Virginia (Evans, Thelma Frazier, Helen Rodgers, Zenobia Lancaster. Carolyn Mustian, William Musi tian, Richard Davis, Alta Mus tian. Landon Davis, Nellie I Keith. Eloise Mullen, J. L. Pini nell, Addie Pinnell, Elmer Stali lings Greer, Margie Green | Henderson, Emily Newell, Ann Olivia Drake, Ovid Dillard, Gladys Dillard, Margaret Benson, Wilmott Aycock, John Arthur King, Frank Friedenberg, Graham Reams and Bob! bie Jones Cook. tizens Give n TB Fight schools for the sale of bangles, and many others who made the Seal Sale such a success." Mrs. Whitford said that of tne money derived from the sale of Seals 79% will remain In Warren County for use in the fight against tuberculosis. She said a total of 3,030 free chest x-rays were made during the year, and five new cases of tuberculosis discovered. Quarterly chest clinics were also conducted in the case finding program and as a follow-up on the 60 arrested cases of TB in Warren County. These funds, Mrs. Whitford said, will also be used for Research at McCain Sanatorium and Duke University. Sbr : 0 a Year 10c Per d Auction Effort Local Teachers To Take National Examination Warren County teachers will have an opportunity to find out how they compare with teachers in other parts of the county, Roger Peeler. Warren County Superintendent of ! Schools, announced yesterday. Local teachers currently up I next fall to see that they obtain the necessary immunizations before the Pre-School j Clinics which will be held this ; spring.'' Dr. Kornegay said. In addition the Warren County Health Department recommends a tuberculin skin ' test. If the child has not had a booster or triple antigen within a year. Dr. Kornegay said it I Ls advisable that a booster be i given and a smallpox revaccination if more than a year has elapsed since the primary i smallpox vaccination. Dr. Kornegay said these immunizations may be obtained from the family physician or j from the Health Department. Visits Son \f.-o w D grading or changing their cer tification will take the Nation al Teachers Examination or April 9. Peeler explained. Thr tests yield scores on profession al knolwledge, various aspect? of general education, and sub ject-matter preparation. A resolution passed by the 1959 General Assembly re ' quires certain Warren Count> teachers to take the tests al State evnense Peeler cairt TT? explained that the examina ' tions are required for twe groups of school employees (1) persons applying for s higher class of certificate dur . Lng the period beginning June ! 20. 1959, and ending February 19. 1961. and (2) persons ap , plying for certification in a j new field or capacity during the same period. All college seniors or college graduate* who apply for the first time for a North Carolina teaching certificate during this 20-month period are also required tc I take examinations. In addition. all professional public . school employees certified prior | to June 20. 1959, may volun tarily take the examination al State expense. Warren County teachers I planning to take the examina j tions can most conveniently dc so at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, and North Carolina College at Durham Peeler said. However, there j are 20 testing centers in the ' state, and the tests can be taken at any center Applica tions to take the tests and bul j letins describing them can be obtained from the superintend ; ent's office or from one of the testing centers. Application foi the April 9 examinations should be made as soon as possible, he advised. They wil not be accepted after March 18. Persons unable to take the examinations on April 9 wil | have a chance to take differ ents forms of the tests or (See TEACHERS, page 10) Lanier Hdwe To Hold Open House j Lanier Hardware Com pan 3 will hold open house on Febr noru OR tnrl on ;n oKt-n-i-onn, of its first aniiversary. j W K. Lanier, Sr., store man ager, said yesterday that foui ; door prizes would be offered ir ; addition to a grand door prize j of a Johnson deluxe floor polisher. He said the public invited to drop in for coffee I and register for the door I each day. j I^anier said that his company I would hold its first anniversary ' sale in connection with the event. Settling Debts AHOSKIE ? A successful Newport News, Va., business man has returned to Ahoskie to make good debts he left behind when his business here failed during the depression. S. E. Dilday, a Newport ! News realtor, paid off old debts accumulated in a feed and fuel business here, with money he had made recently from selling a house. Surprised creditors who had written off the account years ago began receiving checks from Dilday. explaining the payments. He returned here S to look up heirs of persons who had died before he could repay the old debts. In Hospital Mr. Barker Williams Is in Duke Hospital, Durham. Mrs. Williams and son, Richard, and Mrs. Mack Sloan were with him over the weekend. 03 artCopy WARRENTON. Cohen Presented A\ Lions Club H< Ladies Night The Waprenton Lions Club annual Ladies' Night was held . !lt th?? Warrantnn Pniintfo ClnK on Friday night at 7 o'clock i with around one hundred guests including Lions and their wives' present. A turkey dinner was served with all the trimmings. Guests I were welcomed by President , Clyde Whitford and Howard ,i Daniel served as toastmaster. ^Monroe Gardner acting as tail twister added to the fun of the festive occasion.. Lion Bob Bright presented the year award to Lion Harry "j Cohen, praising him for his V work in Lionism and for the Bert L. Bennett Sanford's Camp " Bert L. Bennett. Jr.. Winston-' Salem businessman and politi-; j to direct Terry Sanford's campaign for governor. . j Many people in Warren met J Bennett in January when he ..accompanied Sanford on a tour .' of the state. r, Sanford announced Bennett's - appointment as campaign man11 ager at a press conference in I Raleigh where he opened cam! I paign headquarters at the Caro:; lina Hotel. Bennett. an independ oil dealer, has been chairman of 1 i the Democratic Executive Com' mittee in Forsyth County since "j 1956. He recently stepped down :'from that post to campaign for *| Sanford. In announcing the appoint ment Sanford said he is "highly honored that Bert Bennett >iis going to dc ine man aireci iing our campaign. I have known i him for twenty years and have ' come to respect him as an able I Schools, Closed ' By Snow And Sleet, Reopen On Tuesday , Warren County schools, closed on Monday due to the week, end sleet and snow storm, re1 opened on Tuesday morning. . Supt. of Schools Roger Peel. er said yesterday that all buses I made their run, with only a ! I few late due to the conditions ,'of the roads . - Feed Mill To Have 1 Calf Show Monday The Warren Feed Mills. Inc . ; of Norllna will stage a calf show at the mill on Monday, February 22, Jim Beckwith, , manager, announced yesterday. _i The show will begin at 10 a. ;j m. and Beckwith said that sev, eral local dairymen would enter ' calves born last fall and now | 4 to 5 month old. \ The show is beLng sponsored j by the local Ralston-Purina j dealers., Jim Beckwith and Al"jfred Ellington. Prizes of $50. 'j$15 and $10 will be awarded. Beckwith said It is expect,1 ed that the calves to be shown | will be in the 300 to 400 pounds category and demon' | strate the practicability of ' raising herd replacement stock. He said all dairymen are urged to attend. |To Preach At ! Warren Plains . The Rev. Carlos B. Watson,' pastor of the Selma Baptist! Church, Woodruff, S. C., will; | preach at the Warren Plains: Baptist Church on Sundav I morning at 11 o'clock. II Mr. Watson is not a newI comer to this area, having visit-; - ed here last summer while I ; holding revival services at the ! I Macon Baptist Church. Five K's On TV j The Five K's. Mike Robinison, Alvin Weaver. Jackie .Young, Linda Miller land Tommy Hight. will perform over television, Chan| nel 0, Greenville, on Marie {Wallace's Danceroma Saturday i afternoon, February 20, from ! 1 to 2 o'clock. The group will also be guest stars on the Raleigh T. V. station next Saturday, February 27, on "Teen Age Frolie." en i&. The Stan 2256 Sou COUNTY OF WARREN. vard olds Annual At Club jjreat contribution he has made i ti\ hie onmmnnilv ' i Following the banquet, danc- i Lig was enjoyed by the Lions n and their guests from 9 until 11 1:.' o'clock Music was furnished s :>> Charles Barnett and hisjl band from Emporia. \'a. : The banquet and dance were ?> ranged by a committee on t arrangement of which Scott,: Gardner was chairman and j 1 members were Duke Jones. E. K. \V< od. Walter Smi'ev, C. M.: ? Bullock. A A. Wood, and W.' I A. Miles. Decorations were ini charge of the wives of the-' Lions and a Valentine motif! was carried out. , Jr., Named aign Manager and effective leader Ln the |. Democratic Party." Bennett said he had watched |: Iiii ma [iiuicsBiuii unu in puunu : life and had been impressed! J with his 'blinking regarding the I 'needs tor a better North Caro-' Una." "I first new Terry when he! was working his way through i college and I came to knowj then that he has the determi-l nation and the ability neces-i sarv to achieve those things in i; which he believes," Bennett de-i clared 1 ' "'Through his election the j' people will be brought closer j to their state government be-! cause he is a man who believes'' in keeping the Governor's of- i I fice close to the people." he 11 i added. Bennett graduated from the : 'University of North Carolina,, j where he was president of the "Student Body, in 1943. He serv-j' [ ed in Europe with the Navy in, ( World Warr II. He is married I to the former Joy Flangan of . I j Greenville, N. C. They havei five children. I Bennett's father was long an j active leader in the Demo-, I cratic party in Forsyth County ' and North Carolina. His moth- 1 ] er. Mrs. Corinna Johnston Ben- 1 nett. live in Winston-Salem. |1 Bennett has been active in a number of organizations in his city and county. He is a j member of the Winston-Salem j' Hospital Commission, a trustee i1 of Winston-Salem Teachers Col-;1 lege, a member of the board : of the YMCA. the City Nation- : al Bank and Winston-Salem Building and Ix>an. He is a 1 member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem. 1 Mrs. Williams Dies At Hospital Mrs, Myra Harrison Williams |* I died in Warren General Hos-'j i pital at 5:10 p. m. Wednesday | where she had been for a I; week. She had been in feeble i neaun ior a numDer ot years. i She had made her home here since 1916 ajid had been | a resident of Hotel Warren fori the past four years. Funeral services were con-ii ducted Thursday at 4 p. m. at! I Blaylock's Funeral home by the' Rev. E. L. Baxter, rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church of , which she was a member. Enterment will be in the family cemetery at Harrisonburg, Va., Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. | Mrs. Williams leaves no immediate survivors. Mrs. Bennett, 76, r\?_ _ ? i tui isies in i-iiueion " LITTLETON?Funeral serv- 1 ices for Mrs. Dora Pike Ben-' nett. 76, were held from the|c home near Gruver Memorial: Church Thursday afternoon at 1 2 o'clock. Burial was in Sun- 8 set Hill Cemetery. 1 Mrs. Bennett died at her b home Wednesday morning after y a long illness. f Survivors include her hus- r band, W. N. Bennett; one sis- 8 ter. Miss Florence Pike of. Littleton; two brothers, Raymond 1 and Make Pike, and a halfbrother, Ray Pike, all of Little- I ton. v .. li Mrs. S. G. Benton of Cor- <1 nelia, Ga., is visiting Mr and ti Mrs. Selby Benton and family. rrnrii dard Printing Co X th Shelby Street _ __ FPC Lav Building 9 WASHINGTON ? The Virginia Electric & Power Com-] pany should be granted pernission to build a 200,000-kilo- j vatt power dam on the Roa-i loke River 34 miles down-j ;tream from the John H. Kerr] Dam. Federal Power Commis?ion attorneys feel. T h e attorneys announced heir decision here Monday, i suggesting construction begin jy May 1. 1961. and be comFiremen To F Extinguishers Warren County citizens may] nave their fire extinguishers recharged next week by Warrenton firemen at only the! nodest cost oi the char jinc! material. Walker Burwell, Fire Chief,; said yesterday that the town fireman would recharge all fire extinguishers using the! standard type of "soda acid," or "carbontetrachloride" brought! in during the week of February 22 through February 26. Burwell said that the firemen I are unable to repair the bomb-! type extinguishers and asks! that they not be brought in. Persons wishing to have their fire extinguishers recharged afe asked to bring them, properly; labeled with the owner's nameand address to Edward Hunter, town clerk, at the municipal building. They are asked to bring them in early in the week. Burwell said that this is aj public service on the part of Warrenton firemen in an ef-' fort to reduce fire losses in the entire countv. Income From Ti Shows $20 Milli RALEIGH ? A year-end I warehouse sales report, re-1 leased Monday by the Depart- j ment of Agriculcure, shows lotal cash income to growers of flue-cured tobacco declined 6; per cent last season. The report said that although | a higher average price per hundred pounds was paid, a de-j crease sold on the flue-cured | markets amounted to a loss of. *>20.000 dollars from the income figure of the previous season, j A total of 683.004.915 pounds of flue-cured tobacco was sold, last season or an average price; of $58.29 per hundred. The pre-; vious season recorded an average price of $58.16 for a total j of 719,148,970 pounds. The difference in poundage, amounted to 36 million pounds.! 724,068 pounds last season, or J about one million pounds morel than the year before. The aver-! age price of barley dropped to $56.62 per hundred pounds from the record high of $64.42 Iobacco Price-Suj Going Before Presi WASHINGTON ? The Senite Monday passed the nontontroversial tobacco price-supaort bill, aimed at holding lown the price of tobacco and tutting domestic producers in tetter position on 'the foreign narket. There was not a dissenting rote to the measure as Sen. B. Cverett Jordan (D-N.C.), a coponsor, guided it through the ipper chamber. The bill passed the House ?f Representatives last week. Next stop for the bill is rcsiucni Eiiscnnowers aess, nd he is expected to sign it. 'he President vetoed n similar : ut not identical, measure last 1 ear. but Republican Leader i Everett WT. Dirksen said the lew bill was acceptable to the dministration. 1 The measure would keep \ 060 price supports at ttti* same ] evel as in 1959. But lit follow- ] ng years, the support price 1 irould fluctuate in direct reation to the cost of living in* lex, based on an avenge of 1 he three preceding years. Sen. John Sherman Cooper 1 I [DAY FEBRUARY 19, 19 iryers Ap Gaston I plcted by May 1, 1964. Meanwhile, VEPCO or any other interested group has until March 1 to file replies to! the counsel recommendations. The attorneys said the Fed-1 eral Power Commission need not issue a new license, but ! can amend VEPCO's existing! license for its Roanoke Rapids j Development to include the1 Gaston project. Amending the existing li-. Recharge Fire A ^/\a4 ni vusi Players Injuries Are Not Believed To Be Serious Janic Williams, Aurelian! Springs basketball player, whoj became alarmingly ill following a game at Norlina Wednesday night between Warrenton and Aurelian Springs, is not believed to be seriously ill. Miss Williams fell in rebounding and sprained her ankle, but while leaving the game did not leave the gym floor until after the game was over. She evidently suffered a head blow in the fall. She was taken to Warren General Hospital wh? re efforts to find a H(V>tnr at Ihn axrm proved futile. It was learned at the hospital yesterday that she seemed to have suffered a mild concussion. After examination by Dr. F. P. Hunter she was given sedation and released that night to return to her home on Route 2, Halifax. abacco Crop ion Decline per hundred set in 1958 Burley growers received'about , $500,000 less from sales in state warehouses during the! 1959 season. Producers' sales on the Border Belt totaled 132 0*2 333 pounds for an average price of, $62.37 in 1959, compared with! 125,468,940 pounds sold in 1958 for an average of $60.34. In the Eastern Belt, sales of 328,378,308 were down from the 370,772,702 pounds sold in 1958 and the average price was $58.69 compared to $57.71 the previous season. Middle Belt producers' sale totaled 122,899,800 pounds at an average price of $57.17 last year. In 1958, the sales totaled 124,296,176 pounds for an average price of $57.86. Old Belt sales totaled 99,644,471 pounds for an average price of $52.93 last year,, compared to 98,611,152 pounds; in 1958 for an average of; $57.42. iport Biii Passed; ident Eisenhower (R-Ky), the Republican cosponsor of the measure, was snowbound in his home state.; On the Democratic side. Sens. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.), Sam J Ervin (D-N.C), and Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.), the Democratic leader, mixed statements of support for the bill with praise of Jordan's effort. in its behalf Goes To Ethiopia Chief Officer Romev Liles. Jr., and his family left last Tuesday for overseas duty where he will be stationed in Ethiopia for two years. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Romty Ules, Sr., of Warren ton. In Heerial ' Mrs V. F Ward is a patient in Duke Hospital, Durham, for surgery. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Ward visited bar there this week. Mrs. Lewis Batehelor of Rocky Mount spent several lam last week with Mrs. M. K- Hayes at Wise. i Your Best Advertising Medium 60 NUMBER 8 prove Dam cense, staff counsel said, would ! be in line with the commissI ion's policy of considering the l comprehensive development of ja river, not just individual projects. The Gaston development and the already-constructed Roanoke Rapids development eight miles downstream will be operated uiww> <ji v?uc tumprcneiisive power project, the FPC attorneys said. VEPCO first applied for construction of a dam at Gaston in 1951. Public hearing on the application and its amendments which were filed in 1955 and 1959 ended December 15. VEPCO and other parties in the FPC case have until March 1 to file replies to the staff counsel recommendations. However, none of the interveners is opposed to construction of the dam. staff counsel noted, and "the record does show that the state of North I Carolina is very much in favi or of this development." The Gaston project would have an installed electrical cai pacity of 200,000 kilowatts. Its I dam would back waters up to the John H. Kerr Dam 34 miles I upstream. The Kerr Dam is operated by I the Army Engineers for power ; and flood control. Staff Counsel Nello D. S. Ani drews and Joseph E. Hayden i suggested a series of technical conditions for amending VEPCO's Roanoke Rapids license to build the Gaston dam. Many of the conditions would regulate water flow on the river and fix rules for clearing the land to be inundated. Appeal Made Fop Census Takers Samuel E. Rouse, district supervisor of the 1960 Census of Population and Housing, which starts April 1, yesterday issued an appeal to residents of the area to become candidates for jobs as census takers. Applications for jobs as census takers may be obtained from U. S. Department of Commerce Rnrean nf tho Canm.s Host Office Building, Wilson, North Carolina. Notification concerning tests and inter- ' J views will be sent later. Applicants for jobs as census takers must be over 18 years of age. be citizens of the United States, and have a high school education or its equivalent. Candidates will be required to pass a selection test demonstrating their ability to understand written instructions and read maps. Persons who are presently or recently associated with law enforcement ^ or tax assessing or collection agencies are not eligible. Census takers will be paid on a piece price basis. A diligent census fok^r should earn j about ! *?- day, the dis- j ("V .^>"1 -1U. n. 5>iu.uu :g ti-nl be paid 10 :^3 census takers who successfully complete the course of instruction required before they start j their rounds, and accept a census assignment. Tucker To Address il Presbyterian Men The Men's club of the Warrenton Presbyterian Church will hold its regular meeting at the church on .Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock. C. A. Tucker will be the guest speaker and will glye a naiury ui Emmanuel Episcopal - . 39 Church. All interested persons 'j are invited to attend die meeting Celebrates 97 th Birthday ;| Mrs. Mary S. Powell cele- ,1 brated her 07th birthday ad the ' home of her daughter, Mtt. 1 Anne Powell Crewe of HeoddfH son on rebroary 11. jfisgyn friends and relatives from mfigB ford and Renderatm called aMEiil dropped by to with her aM^fli py birthday Visiting |S9 Powell on this occasion was Mrs. Joseph Cook POW**&|H Portsmouth, Vs. ',g?H "1 * ^ *,* J. T. Harris it * patfmfciH Warren General Hospital.