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* i ne new moriina Methodist
Church parsonage, completed
recently, will be formally dedicated
Sunday afternoon at
four oiclock. The Rev. C. E.
Vale, pastor, will be in charge
of the services.
An open house will be held,
under the sponsorship of the :
Woman's Scciety of Cfirttian ;
Service, from three until five
o'clock. All friends and members
of the Norlina Church are
cordially invited to attend.
The new parsonage was begun
three months ago and was :
completed recently. Cost of i
Special Atten
Norlina Bapti
A special attendance drive
at the Norlina Baptist Church
will end this Sunday with an
effort to have 200 members in
attendance for the fourth consecutive
Sunday.
The attendance campaign is
*,v centered around revival seri
, . vices being held this week at
J the Norlina church.
"A record of- historical pro"tv
portion is being set each Sultday
and we are hopeful of beHumphreys
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' Union Service
The Rev. Levi H. Humphreys,
who was ordained as
pastor of the Warrenton, Littleton
and Gruver Memorial
Presbyterian Churches on July
19, will preach at an evening
union service at the Warrenton
Baptist Church on Sunday at
7:30 P. m.
The Rev. John Link, Baptist
minister, will be in charge
of the service. The Rev. Troy
J. Barrett, pastor of the War- ,
renton Methodist Church, and
the Rev. E. L. Baxter, rector
of the Episcopal Church, will j
also participate in the service.
The public is invited to attend. |
Mr. Humphreys is a native
? of Sutton, VT. V*. He is a ,
graduate of King College, ;
Bristol, Tenn., and Union Theo- 1
logical Seminary, Richmond, 1
. Va? where he received his j
B.D. degree.
Mrs. Humphreys, a native of
Sanford, received her education
at Sullins College, Bristol,
Tenn., and at Richmond Professional
Institute whore she
received the B.S. degree.
The Humphreys have a
daughter, Cindy, two years old.
They are now occupying the
Presbyterian manse at Littleton.
Warren Host At
Welfare Meeting
A district meeting of Superintendents
of Public Welfare
from ten Piedmont counties
wasneram warrentonon
Tuesday at Hotel Warreil.
Julian Farrar. Warren Super- r
Intendent of Public Welfare,
was boat 1
_ Areas of the Public Welfare
5 Program discussed Included (
Public Assistance, cbild web c
fe fare, and personnel. Mrs. .
Idonna Russell, Field Repro- (
tentative from Raleigh, was 1
moderator. ^ ' 1
Brotber-ln-Law Mas r
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g: runerai servicei wore con o
K'feied Thursday for William o
I taftt Ferguson, 90, who died o
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[Bt church parsonage w1
Isonaop To
the seven-room house, along
with lot and furnishings, was
$18,000 and construction was
supervised by Pete Rose, Norlina
contractor.
The parsonage is a "bronze
medallion" home, which means
the new house embodies a
full body of appliances, includ-j
ing range, refrigerator,, water,
heater, freezer, automatic wash- j
er, television and air conditioner.
Various church members.
have either made furnishings
for the new parsonage or helped
with the purchase of furnidance
Drive
st Church Or
ing successful on this Sunday!
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-- campaign CUUO, II1K
Rev. Malcolm Hutton, pastor of
the Norlina Baptist Church,
said this week.
As a result of the revival
emphasis and the attendance
drive 17 new members have
joined the church.
This campaign and revival
have marked a hew day In (he
life of our church. We have
proven what we can do for
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5 On Sunday
Violating Motor
Laws Lands Many
In County Court
Motor vehicle violations j
dominated a 14-case docket
tried on Friday in Warren,
County Recorder's Court by
Judge Julius E. Banzet.
All but two of the cases
were concerned with the violation
of some phase of the
state's motor vehicle legislation.
The majority of the
cases heard involved either
speeding or reckless driving.
Lonnic?Buinette,?charged
with disorderly conduct and
assault with a deadly weapon,
was ordered to pay the costs
?f court by the Warrenton
jurist. Zack Miller, involved
In the same case, was found
sot guilty of assault
Motor vehicle violation cases
included:
Isaac Adams, no operator's
icense and improper equip-]
nent, 935 and costs.
Johnnie Myers Thomas,
tpeeding, costs.
Vlntield C. Coachnan,
speeding, $10 and costs.
Omega Bullock, reckless drivng,
928 and coats.
Clinton H. Neal, Jr., speedng,
910 and costs.
Howard Thomas Phelps,
peeding, 910 and costs.
James Allen" Harris, speedtig,
925 and costs.
Owen Nathaniel Ayscue,
eckless driving, 928 and costs.
Herman Dorsey Bradberry,
idlM drtvine SKA
Clyde Hunter Wagner, recktea
driving, not guilty.
David Lee Alston, reckless
riving, expired operator's Uense,
$23 and coats.
)pen House To
!e Held At Stele
Warren County will be repnented
at the big Open House
sing sponsored by the School
t Agriculture at State College <
n Saturday, November I, ae- i
wdlng to Clint Hege and
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iivn WILL Bt DEDICATED (
Be Dedica1
ture. The house is completely
furnished.
Located on North Street, the
parsonage will replace the parsonage
now in use, which has
been sold to the Zion-Jerusalem
charge.
Plans for the new parsonage
were worked out in June following
the formation of the
Norlina station. Prior to June
Norlina, Zion and Jerusalem
churches were in the same
charge.
Three months aga a building
committee, headed by R. L.
Traylor, was formed and work
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the Lord. We are determined
to keep up our interest and
concern, for the real results
are yet to be seen," Mr. Hut
ton said.
Dr. Bowman To
Speak At Local
Methodist Church
Dr. Clarence Bowman, Professor
of Religion, High Point
College, will speak at the 11
o'clock worship service at Wesley
Memorial Church Sunday.
His topic will be "Venturing
In Faith and Service."
Dr. Bowman will meet with
the Warren Subdistrict?men,
women, youth?at 2:30 in the
afternoon to continue the topic,
"Venturing In Faith and
Service." Ministers
and Charges include: the Rev.
Bill Beeker, Warren Charge;
the Rev. John Wood, Bethlehem-Shady
Grove; the Rev.
John Andrews, Jerusalem-Zion;
the Rev. C. E. Vale. Norlina;
the Rev. H. L. Harris, Macon;
the Rev. Troy J. Barrett, Warrenton.
There will be a planning
session for the Subdistrict
Leaders ? Ministers, Church
School Superintendents and
Teachers?at 2:00 o'clock and
refreshments?for the?entire
group at 3:30, served by the
Woman's Society of Christian
Service of Wesley Memorial
Church.
All Methodists in this area
are urged and invited to attend,
the Rev. Troy J. Barrett
said yesterday in making the
announcement.
Birthday Calendar
Sale Ends Saturday
The sale of community birthday
calendars, an annual project
of the Warrenton Rotary
Club, is expected to be completed
here this week.
Rotarian J, Bruce Bell said
VGSterdflv that v msmliAM
local civic chib had tried to
eontact a number of county
residents in connection with
the drive but had been unable
to see these persons. Anyone
wishing to purchase a calendar,
proceeds of which will be
donated to the John Graham:
High School, are asked to con-,
tact any member of the Wsrrenton
Rotary Club.
Bell said that in addition,]
ales of these calendars will!
continue at two Warrentonj
business locations ? Benton
Furniture Company and Boyd-!
Bosrca Motor ^Oypany?during j
Out-of-state residents wish*!
to so by contacting the War-1
ronton Rotary Club, BoQ said.
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. was begun on the parsonage.
Serving on the committee with
|Traylor were G. D. Knight, J. j
| H. Hundley, C. R. Edwards, I
I Walter Newman, and the RevJ
C. E. Vale.
Traylor said yesterday that 1
members of the church have j1
expressed pleasure over the!'
new structure. He said that j!
the parsonage was built dur- j
| in? the 50th anniversary of
j the Norlina Methodist Church,
which has grown from an init- 1
ial membership of 32 to a 1
j membership that approaches 1
i the 400 mark.
DRIVE FOR
HOTEL FUNDS I
UNDERWAY
A drive to raise approxl- 1
mately $1500 in funds for im- I
provements at Hotel Warren
will be launched here at once !
by a number of Warrenton 1
civic clubs.
The move to raise funds for|
painting the lobby and the
fijst floor hall of the hotel
auJ to renovate lobby furniture
gained momentum here
Wednesday night with a meeting
of civic club representatives
at the hotel.
| ine drive to raise funds for
| the town-owned hotel was
I spearheaded by the Warrenton ,
: Lions Club following a plea
from the hotel committee that
the improvements be made.
D. F. Blaylock, chairman of
the Lion's finance committee,
said yesterday that the Lions
j Club was not sponsoring the
I drive, but that the drive would
I be carried on jointly by a
number of local civic groups.
Blaylock said that since the
hotel committee assumed the!
[operation of the hotel, the tax'
payers of Warrenton have
j been spared "about $3500 a
year at a conservative estimate."
He said that the committee
has proven successful
with the hotel's operation, and
'that profits realized have been,
I plowed back into the hotel,
where approximately 15 rooms
have been completely renovated.
Blaylock said that it was
planned to raise the funds and
have the painting and renovations
completed by Thanksgiving.
He said that an open
house was being planned for
early December for the citizens
of the town and county
and that the hotel committee
is anxious to have the improvements
finished at that time.
The hotel committee, a volunteer
committee, ,h,as worked
(See DRIVE, page 12)
Four Churches To 1
Have Union Service <
Members of the four denominations
of Warren churches 1
were asked to make an all-out o
effort to attend worship ser- c
vices at the Warrenton Pree- c
byterian Church on "World
Community Day," at 8 p. m l
Friday, November 4. ti
Making the appeal this week v
for- a large interdenomination-. i
1 turnout wis Uin Amma D. |i
Graham, general chairman, who 1
urged all possible to attend in, I
order to unite in tlris effort o
with United Church Women of
the National Council eft
Churches. Prayers will be of- f
fered and gifts will be sent to a
the needy in many countries 1
of the world, she said. >
"Only by- Christian action for c
freeto Jj^^ce^pwWIeJn ^
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On Fr<
A group of Warren business-]
Tien on Monday lost the first]
ound in their court battle to
lave the North Carolina Utilises
Commission overruled on'
m order closing the Warren
Plains freight depot.
The setback came when
Judge Leo Carr, presiding over
iho'^October term of Civil
Cofrt, ruled in favor of the
Utilities Commission's decision
to gbqnt Iba-^Seaboard Airline
Railway Company permission
to close its freight depot at
Warren Pbins and combine
the Warren Plains office with
the Norlina freight office.
The defendants in the case,
C. E. Rodwell, Claude T. Bowers,
W. A. Miles, et als., gave
notice of appeal to the North
Carolina Supreme Court
through their attorney, John H.
Kerr of Warrenton.
Under the decision reached
Monday afternoon by Judge
Carr, the SAL may not close
the depot until after the filing
deadline has expired or until
the Supreme Court rules on
the matter If the appeal is
carried through.
The SAL, in its petition to
the Utilities Commission, claimed
that service to the Warrenton
Railroad Company would
not be adversely affected by
the closing of the Wsr-en
Plains depot, but a number of
local businessmen took exception
to this claim and opposed
the closing of the depot.
While the Utilities Commission
granted the SAL the right
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HALLOWEEN
CARNIVAL TO
BE HELD HERE
Ghosts, goblins, living skeltons
and a host of evil spirits
too terrifying to mention, will
change their place of residence
from abandoned cemeteries
and haunted houses to
the John Graham High School
gymnasium here effective Monday
night, October 31.
While the temporary change
in address may cause concern
to a few die-hard believers in
the supernatural, hundreds of
>nung Warren Cr.unty children
? r e eagerly awaiting the
change.
Reason for the change is
not bad living conditions In
cemeteries and haunted houses
but the annual Hallowe'en
Carnival he staged Monday
night by the John Graham and
Mariam Boyd Parent-Teachers
Association in the local gym.
This will mark the first, time
hat the carnival has been
itaged in the gym, and dauntess
parents ? unafraid
if witches and annaiHHnno?
will have an opportunity to
dew the structure completed
>arly this year.
Bingo, pistol shooting, ring
oss, fishing, and other games
lave been planned for those
ittending by the PTA finance
committee, which is staging
heir only fund raising camSee
HALLOWE'EN, page 12)
Town Truck To
Pick Up Limbs
3n Fridays Only
I Town trucks will pick op
imbs and other heavy debris
n Fridays only. W L. Wood,
hairman of the town street
ommittee, said, yesterday.
Wood asks that citizens rerain
from putting limbs and
eavy debris out on otter days
rben they will not be picked
p as they make the streets
nsightly. This is partieularr
true, he said, when such doris
remains near the street
ver the weekend.
Tha regular garbage eollecon
schedule will remain in
arte, Wood said, but tte
pen-body truck for baallng
eavier and more bulky obacts
win only be used on Friays.
Wood said that the eoonamlon
of the dtiaens would be
ppredatcd and would Joad toj
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The BUndard Prlntln* Co
P.256 South Shelby Street
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lound I
eight E
that part of the peutiolPwhich 11
would permit the removal of j1
the depot before a six-month \
trial period. j
The Warrenton Railroad con-!
nects with the SAL at Warren'!
Plains and the bulk of the i
freight from the station which
has been originating on the;
I Warrenton Railroad Company
ilines. Local businessmen j
thought that the closing would!
adversely affect the operation!
of the local railroad and local
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PART OF HUGE WHISKEY S'
[Sheriff H
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The Warren County Sheriff's I
Department has been credited
with the discovery of a huge
whiskey still in neighboring]
Northampton County. The still,
along with 4,150 gallons of
mash and 96 gallons of whiskey,
,was destroyed by federal
agents Saturday morning.
Robert M. Furr and Paul D.
Campbell, ATTU agents of the
U. S. Treasury Department,!
credited Warren Sheriff J. H.!
Hundley with the groundwork
which led to the capture of
the still and three operators
Friday night.
"Sheriff Hundley, receiving
j reports that whiskey was flowSunrise
Service
Is Planned For
100th Anniversary
fians for a centennial com- i
[ memorating the day when the
Warren Guards and the Warren
Rifles left to enter the
Confederate Army are being
carried out by a committee
composed of Warrenton's Emmanuel
Episcopal Church. .
The projected date of the
centennial will be April 22,
1961, Charles A. Tucker, chairman
of the centennial committee
of the local church, said
yesterday.
On the morning of April 22, j
1861, a special sunrise service ,
ww?nein?ra nre Episcopal
Church here and prayers were
offered for the safety of the
two companies which marched
off to war following the service.
Tucker said that plans are ;
now to have a sunrise service
next April and to possibly re- i
enact the service which took .
place nearly 100 years ago. (
Tucker, in addition to cow- ?
dlnatlng the plans for the cen- f
tennial, is currently compiling *
a history of Emmanuel Church j
from it's beginning early hi }
the 10th century, to the pre*- ,
eat date. ,
Plana for the centennial were t
first discussed at a meeting of
vestrymen and otter interest- t
ed church members st the Per- a
tsh House here on Monday J
night, the Rev. E. L. Baiter, <
rector ot Emmanuel Church,
8Aid y?itcnjiy.
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*IDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1<
aost In
)epot (
business and appealed the case
to the Superior Court.
An unusually large "docket
was appreciably shortened
when 20 cases involving tax
suits were dismissed by Judge
Carr.
Cases in which judicial action
action was taken included
Edith Powell Harris vs. Wilde
G. Harris, divorce granted;
lerome Boyd vs. Jane Amos
Boyd, divorce granted; and
Nataniel Green vs. W Faulk
H 4$ *
riLL DESTROYED ON SATU1
undley Is
ye Still D
ing through Warren County on
its way to market, drove more
than 1,000 miles in the search
for the still, which was moved
several times before its capture,"
Agent Furr said Saturday.
Furr praised the Warren
sheriff and his staff for their
diligence in searching for and
locating the still.
Friday night five federal
agents and two Northampton
County lawmen raided the site
and arrested the three operators,
identified by Agent Campbell
as Robert Lee Squire, 28,
Warner Squire, 43, and Norwood
Turner, 30, all Negroes
of near Gaston. A three-quarter-ton
Dodge pickup truck
was confiscated.
The still, located a short dis
tance from the Warren-Northampton
boundary, was near
Henrico. The liquor plant was
composed of three large stave
type doubters which were fed
Four Are
With Lei
Two Warren County men,
along with two companions
From Vance County, have been
Indicted here after they confessed
their part in stealing
several hundred pounds of tobacco
from a Drewry farmJailed
for their part in the
theft were John Chavis, 39,
*f near Drewry, and Alex
Ftlark, 36, and Lee Pettaway,
IS, both of Vance County,
barren County law enforce
lent officer* have issued a
rarrant for Alex Daniel, Waren
County man, who is want
d on several charges. All
our men are Negroes,
-the tobacco, stolen en Octoer
18 from a farm owned by
lorman Bullock and operated!
I. Charlie Bullock, was later
old in a Henderson warehouse
rhere the 330 pounds brought
lie thieve* $133.
The men taking part in the.
heft were jailed last Thursday
nd Friday by Warren Sheriff
, H. Hundley and Deputy B.
^tevenam^ B^mra^to
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Fight
Closing
.Ala ton,?defendant?ordered?to
j pay costs and plaintiff was rul:
ed entitled to recover $60.
In a case resulting from the
' N. C. State Highway Commisision's
procurement of land be|
longing to M. P. Harton, the
I commission was ordered to pay
S20.000.
, On the motion docket Moses
| Russell Bryant, J. B. Stansj
bury and the Warr.nton RailI
road Company were each given
30 days to file answers.
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[DAY MORNING BY AGENTS
Credited
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iscovery
heat from a 500-gallon upright
foiler fired with coke.
On the site to go into anotb- er
supply of mash were 985
pounds of sugar and 600 .-.9
pounds of wheat mill feed, i'dk
used in place of corn meal as
a base for the whiskey.
Some 21 fermenting boxes
with a capacity of 365 gallons rta
each were being used by the
operators at the time of the ^
I raid.
| Campbell and Furr used 23
sticks of dynamite to destroy
| the outfit, which was estimated
to have cost the owner $3900.
I HALLOWE'EN PARTY TO BK I
I HELD AT AFTON-ELBERON 1
The Afton-Elbeiun ITA wflt 9
sponsor its annual Hallowe'en
Carnival tonight (Friday) at
7:30 at the school A special 9
| program of entertainment is , 1
planned, .after which drinks 9
and food will be on sale at j
the lunchroom. -9
Charged 1
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At Ilieu
prior to their arrest
The tobacco was sold under *
the name of Alex Daniel, $
marketing card was stolen by 1
John Chavis shortly after ttifafl
theft. Chavis handled the a?> 1
tual sale of the tobacco after
the three other men hMM
it to his house for safe-keeping- |
Officers Get Still
In Sandy Creek
A 700-gallon submarine If Mm
whiskey still, under obeoripfl
tlon since October IS by ennih
ty law enforcement
was destroyed on MoadM^^H
members nf the w.hm sj
iffi Department
Township, s lulf Mp
Franklin County fenrM&fl