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VOLUME 65
January
OfCivil
Ends T)
The Negro father of a small . I
child killed on the tracks of.I
the Warrenlon Railroad Com^
pany here in March 1959, was
awarded $1500 during the January
civil term of Warren
County Superior Court which
ended here yesterday morning.
Isaish Bostic, father of Dif.
anne Bostic. two-year-old child
who was killed on the tracks
of the railroad when the company's
locomotive severed her
bodv. was awarded the sum
during settlement made during
the court term.
The civil term, presided over
by Judge C. W. Hall of Durham,
ended early Thursday
morning after some 76 cases
had been brought before the
court.
Approximately 60 old cases
?some dating back to 1946?
were called and a number of
these were dismissed as nonsuits
by the veteran Durham
jurist.
A total of 53 cases were dismissed
as non-suits while eight
cases were continued for the
term.
Only two divorces were
granted granted during the
term?Oretha Young Jones, vs.,
- Milo Montellus Jones, Jr. and
Wiley G. Coleman vs. Stephanie
Moore Coleman.
The sum of $3,265 was
awarded Birdie L. Plummer
who sought action against O.
Manson Green and Jeanette S.
Green.
Other monetary awards made
St. plaintiffs during the term in'
eluded Walter T. Powell, et
? ux, American Bankers Insurance
Company, $500; W. B.
Crinkley vs. Marvin Wright,
$50; R. M White & Sons vs.
Willie Johnson, $562135; E. H.
vL Parker vs. James Hargrove,
' $321.58; and J. C. C ooper vs.
A. L. Fleming & Norlina Ice
Corp., $360.37 and $3.22.17.
Settlements were also made
ui ilie cases ui cuuuua /vvviiing
and Tent Manufacturing
Company vs. Ganel Brown,
trading as Brown's Grocery Se
Market; Robert Lewis Seward
vs. Gordon D. Martinson; H.
M. Williams and Isabclle D.
Williams vs. Howard Hawkins
and Virginia Mae Hawkins; and
Amos Williams vs. L. L. Brown,
administrator of the estate of
Eddie Williams.
Cases continued included
Susanna Spruill Brown n.
Gatwood To
^School Of Ct
A' school- of church music
will be held in the First aBptist
Church of Henderson Rebr14
uary 13-19, the Rev. Larry
Bryson of Norlina, Cullom Association
Secretary of Missions,
announced this week.
The school of church music
wui DC sponsored or ids nullum
Baptist Association and
the North Carolina Baptist
, State Convention.
Joseph 0. Stroud, State Music
Secretary, will be the director
of the school and Charles S.
Gatwood, minister of music
of the First Baptist Church of
fe _ reer, S. C? will be the choral
director of the week.
Mr. Gatwood, a native of Indiana,
la a member of Araert|
can Guild of Organist, and
ft former head of the Music Dol
pertment of North Greenville
ft Juafor College and director of
the North Grooevfflo Junior
College Choir. Re received a
B. M. in Music Eduestloe snd
I Theory from Indiana
ifc dlrecle^',^n
i y areas sS music In worship,
I , hymn ^playing, song ^ lesdtaB,
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Subscription Price
r term
v^ourt
lursday
Deadline
February 15 is the last
day the Warren County
ASC office can accept request
for premeasurement
of allotted crop, T. E. Watson,
office manager, said
yesterday. Any farmer who
desires to have this work
done must make a deposit
by this date.
Watson said the farmer is
required to pay only the
actual cost of the visit to
his farm and the determina
viuii vi aucage vi. uu xuiui.
The cost is $3.00 plus $1.00
per acre, or a minimum
cost of $8.00 per farm.
Ulysses Brown; Lewis Cooper
vs. Luevennie Taylor Cooper
W. W Morris, Jr. vs. McPher
son Beverages, Inc.; Warrei
General Hospital vs. Walte:
Clementine Henderson; Nanc;
Peetc Blankenship vs. Freneai
Merritt Blankenship; Charle
H. Mitchell vs. Albert Bullock
R. M. White &. Sons vs. AI
ford Carroll; Mclvin Jones vs
Roscoe T. Perkinson; Hoi
Stallings vs. Wiley G. Mitchell
and a case .involving Willian
Stevenson, which come fron
Children's Court.
Non-suits were taken in thi
cases of Weston R. Northing
ton vs. J. H. Northington
Robert D. Chewning vs. Wil
liara M. Goode.
~3EtlieI Lee Grty vs. Jamci
David Gray; J. F. Bobbitt, Ad
ministrator H. L. Bobbitt va
O'Neal Flying Service, Inc.
Cora Lee tanes, Admx. of Wil
lie Thomas Jones vs. Gradi
Faulkner and Gilbert Faulkner
Lottie Bullock vs. S. J. Satter
white; Ida Collins Carroll vs
R. D. Carroll; B. B. Williams
T/A Williams Motor Sales, vs
W. S. Bryant.
Kemp Garnes vs. Fannie J
Peace; Mabel Clark Lashmit
by her next friend, I. M
Clark vs. Spencer Lashmit; Viola
Stansbury Avery vs. Alber
E. Spivey, Jr.; W. M. Dicker
son vs. G. K. Browning anc
Seaboard Airline R. R. Co.
Johnnie Hilliard, et als vs. Lil
lie Daniels, et vir.
BoyaTsoyce Motor Compan;
vs. Henry C. Bullock; Susan B
(See COURT, page 10)
Lead Baptist
lurch Music
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duioca 8. OATWOOD
noon, February 18, at 3:(X
chotrs made 9 of those per
tlcipeting In the choral work
of sacred music.
The only cents for those at
tending the school will be
IB cant book fee for Juniori
tad a maximum book and
music fee of $1110 for tboat
U and abore.
- For further informs tiau con
tact Bar. Larry Bryaon, Col
iro^Aiiaociatioari^ Secretary^*
Link, Association Mc Dine
tor, ta Warrenton, or FfctHl
Young. lOai^ of ^Masic ol
She \
13.00 a Year 10c Per
Coroner Rules
Man Found N
Due To Accid
Nathan Gayles, Negro in his f]
late fifties, was found dead 1 f<
' near his former home iri the h
Norlina section on Wednesday; h
morning around 10:30. It was j si
believed that he had been dead' ii
for several hours. I n
Coroner N. I. Haithcock rul ji'
ed that death was accidental I
and caused by burns. He said: ^
no inquest was necessary.
Haithcock said that he judg-1 ^
ed that the man had died f,
some time Tuesday near his ^
former home about two miles
back of the Virgil Hicks home
on the Norlina road. He said .
signs indicated that after he
had set himself on fire he.
rolled about 30 feet i" the w
snow trying to extinguish the b
VEPCO Will I
Cost Of Bridg
; ROANOKE RAPIDS ? Vir;
ginia Electric Power Company u
- has agreed to pay $1 million l,
i of the $1.6 million cost of the 0
r new Eaton's Ferry Bridge in
/ Warren County, the State p
j Highway Commission was told ^
s Tuesday. p
; The commission decided to ^
- sign an agreement with
. VEPCO for construction of the
t new bridge. The State will i'
; pay $600,000, the commission t
l decided. t
i The work includes building E
approaches to the new struc- h
e ture, which is being built be- h
. cause of VEPCO's new dam on e
; the Roanoke River. n
tv* 11 l i r .
JLMsaDied vetc
To Send In R<
r Failure to make income re- v
ports by January 31 may have b
caused many Warren County
veterans to lost their monthly t!
checks, Mrs. Lois M. Connell, 0
Warren County Service Officer, C
said yesterday. p
She asks that all such vet- 3
erans make their reports im- p
mediately in order that the a
monthly payments may be re- n
sumed. 1;
Mrs. Connell said that a letter
mailed out several days t
ago by J. D. DeRamtrtr, man- v
ager,, Veterans Administration e
Regional Office, stated
r most 10,000 monthly pension q
. payments to disabled veterans, e
and dependents of deceased c
f
: Gen. Bowers Is ;
Adjutant General ]
b
k RALEIGH ? Major General a
I Claude T. Bowers. 61. career c
National Guard officer, was n
sworn in Wednesday as the a
new state adjutant general. sj
Bowers, of Warrenton succeeds
former newspaperman, t<
diplomat Capus Waynick of n
High Point in the $12,000-a- \
year post as Oommander of the sj
state's military forces. ti
Bowers took the oath from i e
Associate Supreme Court Jus- n
tice R. Hunt Parker in cere- n
monies in the Hall of the
House and pledged his best
efforts in behalf of the Na- f
tional Guard and the people, j
UlUllllllil 1 lUglCUU PI
To Be Discussed 1
Plans for another summer J|
recreational program here will J *1
be rtlsnseasrt at a meeting to c
I be held in the Fireside Room! J
of Wesley Memorial Church on I vl
- Monday night, February 6, at IS
> S o'clock. Mrs. Dixon Ward w
Said yesterday.
Mrs. Ward said that letters i J
i have been mailed to represent-1 Tl
atiyss of all civic clubs of the E|
town, urging them to attend Bl
the meeting. She said that all I el
other interested persons are n|
' urged to attend. - M
Jimmie Che res was In Duke Ml
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fflarr
Copy WARRENTOi
. n il n? !
> i/caui wi
ear Nor Una
ental Burns
lames. He said a pipe was
jund between the place where
is body was found and where
e set himself on fire. He asumed
that the man's clothig
became ignited from the
latch with which he was lightig
his pipe.
At the time of his death, |
layles was living with relaives,
Haithcock said. The
ouse near where his body was
ound was practically uninabitable.
Funeral services will be held
unday at White's Grove Chrisian
Phnrrh nnar Oinp
Gayles is survived by his'
rife, who lives in Hackensack,
lew Jersey.
Pay Major
e At Eaton
The bridge has been schediled
for Eaton's Ferry after a
ong hassle between residents
f Littleton and Warrenton
Warrenton residents favored
tobinson's Ferry. closer to
Varrenton while Littleton
ought for a location closer to
hat town.
Following a public hearing,
t was determined by the SHC
o locate the bride near where
he State has operated Eaton's
^erry for many years. The
ridge will stretch across the
iack waters of the Vepco hydrolectric
project now underway
iear Thelma.
;rans Urged
eports Now
eterans were in danger of
eing stopped.
DeRamus had reference to
he fact that approximately 39,00
person payments in North
larolina require income reports
to be made by January
1. Failure to submit the reort,
which is in the form of
tabulating card, means automatic
suspension of the monthy
payments, he said.
DeRamus pointed out that
hese income questionnaires
rere mailed to pension recipints
together with their Depmhw
rhoolrc Vn innnma
uestionnaire is sent - to vetrans
or widows who are reeiving
service-connected beneits.
Over 27,500 questionnaires
ave now been processed by
he VA Regional Office. In adition,
some 2,000 of the reorts
have had to be remailed
d veterans or widows because
11 items were not properly
ompleted. The questionnaires
lust be completed accurately
s well as promptly, DeRamus
lid.
"Regulations require payment
) be stopped if the income
eport is not returned to the
'A within 30 days,"" DeRamus
lid, "which makes it imperaIve
that the forms be returnd
immediately. My office has
o alternative but to apply the
egulations. Veterans, and de-j
(See VETERANS, page It)
il ? til r\ i
narvin ivi. uavis
)ies At Crewe, Va.
CREWE, V?. ?Marvin M.
Til, 81, died Monday at the
ome of a" daughter, lira.
Mia Brown. Be waa a stewed'
of Williams Methodist
hurch. i
The son of the late Col.
Hlltam and Elizabeth Jones
arts, he sAs a native of
arren County, N. C.
Surviving are five other
iuchtera, Mrs. Elizabeth
homes of Blacketone, IDs.
loiae' stokley Of Daytena
each, Fla., Mrs. Banie Sheei
of Baltimore and Mrs. Aife
Barber and Mrs. Charlotte
cCarty, both of Washington:
id two sons, Frank Davis at
lackotone and Marvin Davis
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M, COUNTY OF WAK&EN^
mm ."S
: i
DR. JOHN
EDWARD STEELY,
Associate Professor of Historical
Theology at the Southeastern
Baptist Seminary at
Wake Forest, who will speak
Church on Sunday morning at
11 o'clock.
Local Farmers
Asked To Protect
Cotton Quotas
Do you desire to maintain
your cotton history allotment?
This, according to W. S.
Smiley. Chairman for the Agri
cultural Stabilization and Con
scrvation County Committee, is
an important question which
every farmer should ask him
self within the next few weeks
Farm cotton allotments will
be reduced where the farmer
fails to plant at least 75 per
cent of his allotment or where
he fails to release his allot
ment to the ASC County Com
mittee. Smiley Said. For farm
ers who plan to plant their al
lotment, no action is needed
However, where the farmer
knows that he will not plant
75% of his allotment, he can
help himself and at the same
the county by releasing this
allotment for reapportionment.
If the cotton allotment is released
to the county commit
tee. this preserves not oniy the
individual farmer's planting
history, but the planting history
of the county and the
state. This prevents loss of allotment
to individual counties
and to the State of North Carolina.
Smiley urged farmers who
know now their allotment will
not be planted, to visit their
local ASC Office and preserve
their history by releasing their
allotment for use by other
farmers within the county.
Deadline date for acceptance
of this released acreage by the
county committee in Warren
County is April 5, however, the
week of February 20-24 has
I been set aside for the county
Abu utiices to accept release
of acreage. If a farmer cannot
release during this week, he
should visit his ASC Office
immediately.
Daniel, Andrews
Attend Convention
Stephen A. Daniel and Joe
H. Andrews of the Afton-Elberon
Ruritan Club were among
the one thousand delegates at
tending the 1961 Ruritan Na
tional Convention at the Shera
ton-Park Hotel in Washington
D. C., this week. They lef
Sunday and returned to their
homes on Wednesday.
While there they were given
a tour of Washington, attended
a reception given in honor of
all delegates from the Second
District in North Carolina by
Congressman L. H. Fountain.
Governor Terry Sanford was
speaker at one of the many
banquets held.
Highway Crewn
Receive Praise
Warren County Highway
maintenance crews did an excellent
Job of clearing the
roadt during the recent sleet
storm, according to State Highway
Patrolman Wallace E.
Brown.
Brown said early this week
that the work done in Warren
County by the highway maintenance
crews under the direoUon
?f Major Pop. Powell ?
in ser?!
other, sections. .a... .
.miri"
$1,900 Sa
With Arr<
A $1900 safe robbery at a,
Warrenton oil plant early last
month hoc Koon caI?o<4 I
with the arrest of a 21-year-old i
Norlina man and his 18-year-1
old brother-in-law.
The pair, identified by War-1
ren Sheriff J. H. Hundley as j
Fletcher W. Paschall, of Nor-1
lina, and Lloyd Smith, jf Granville
County, admitted to police
j their part in the robbery of |
the Bullock Oil Company here |
on January 2.
Sheriff's officers have also
Warrenton
Observe 25
The Warrenton Lions Club
will observe its twenty-fifth
anniversary on Friday night,
February 18, in connection
' with its annual Ladies' Night.
of the conioined events was!
made at the regular meeting
of the club at Hotel Warren |
on last Friday night.
The Warrenton Lions Club
. was actually chartered here on;
. January 27, 1936, with forty-'
. one charter members and |
, Claude T. Bowers serving as
. the club's first president, but
the club decided to combine
the birthday observance with
the Ladies' Night affair on
February 18.
Ttie event will be held at I
the Warrenton Country Club
when a banquet will be held
followed by a dance. Expected
to be present is Lion Jack
Stickley of Charlotte, past International
President. He will
introduce the speaker, Lion
Aubrey Green, 3rd vice-presEscaped
Con
Over To Supi
t\ n-year-om convict wno
was rescued from the nearfreezing
waters of the Roanoke
River last week, was on Friday
bound over to the next
criminal term of Warren County
Superior Court.
Raye Thomas Ingram, who
escaped from a road gang near
the Oakville community on last
Monday, was pulled from the
river as he attempted to make
good his escape from bloodhounds
and prison guards.
A companion in the escape,
Charles Ancrum of Greensboro,
was believed drowned as the
two tried to swim the icy riv-1
er. Both men were assigned to
the Warren County Prison
Camp here.
Ingram, who required medical
treatment for exposure
following his escape, was given
tkA v, :n TIT A- I
ren County Recorder's Court
here by Judge Julius E. Ban-'
Red Cross Gr
To Start Here
Twelve hours of training
will be given women of this
area who wish to aid patients
at the Warren General Hospital
here.
In making the announcement
of training. Mrs. A. D. Harris,
evecutive secretary of the Warren
County chapter of the
American Red Crocs, said that
women of this area were urged
to participate in classes to begin
February 31.
Under the program, a Red
Cross instructor win instruct
those interested in becoming
"Gray Ladies" ? persons wtso
aid patients by reading, shopping,
arranging flowers and
other sirailiar services. The
program does not include
nursing, Mrs. Harris said. .
r The Gray Ladies, who will
ale&t>adgit nursing homes in
the count* will meet for the
training durtn* <fhe week at<
Tehgpary 30-38. Those ,desiring
to know more of the program
are Jbksd to contact!*
Fp&Sl 'or ;
?
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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 3,
fe Robbei
est Of Tw
charged the two men with a
break-in at a Manson service
station and a similar break-in
at the John Graham High
School here.
Sheriff Hundlev. whose do
partment has been investigating
the oil firm robbery- for
a month, said the men admitted
taking more than a thousand
dollars in cash, and burning
$900 in checks taken during
the robbery.
Neither Paschall nor Smith
finished the sixth grade of
Lions To
th Birthday
ident of Lions International.
The planning committee told
the club members Friday night
that approximately 200 are expected
for the event, including
visiting guests, and the Lions'
ladies.
Lion Howard Daniel, proj
gram chairman, presented Lion
| Monroe Gardner, who spoke on
| attending the mid-winter conj
vention and what Lionism has
! meant to him since becoming
a Lion. He illustrated on a
blackboard the state district
organization from the district
governors down to the local
clubs.
Lion Harold Skillman gave
the invocation. Lioness Nellie
Bugg played the piano for the
singing of Lions' songs,
j The members voted to make
the anniversary-Ladies' night
meeting the only meeting of
the club to be held in February.
President C. M. Bullock pre'
sided over the meeting.
vict Bound
erior Court
zet.
In other cases handled on
Friday, Silas Charles Williams,
given a suspended sentence of
30 days during the January 20
session of Recorder's Court,
was found guilty of violating
the conditions of the suspension
and his sentence was ordered
jnto effect by Judge
Banzet.
Other cases disposed of included:
Edward R. Lynch, drunk
driving, $100 and costs.
Mark Edward Davis, speeding,
$10 and costs.
Douglas Hudgins, larcency,
four-month sentence.
Robert Lee Grant, no operator's
license, 30-day suspended
sentence. $25 and costs.
Louis Ramey, wort hi ess
check, prayer for judgement
continued for two years, costs
of court.
ay Lady Class
i February 21
One Person Killed
Seven Injured On
Warren Highways
One person was killed and
?. ?v.v uijuicu uu naucu
County highways during the
month of January, Highway
Patrol Sgt, T. E. Cook of Troop
"C*\ District Four, announced
yesterday.
Sgt Cook, stationed at Henderson,
said that property damage
in Warren County was estimated
at *3jm during last
The veteran member1 of the
N. C. Highway Patrol also released
figures tor the other
three counties comprising District
Four.
(See HIGHWAY, page 10)
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1961 NUMBER 5
y Solved
ro Men
M.-nuot. rascnau worked in a
Warrenton supermarket for sevoral
weeks prior 10 the robbery.
Smith, a resident of
Granville County, is a native
of Kentucky.
Sheriff Hundley said that
after ripping open several
drawers of the safe and taking
the money, the pair went to
Oxford in Granville County
and purchased an automobile.
The two then left on a tnp
to visit relatives in Kentucky
and Ohio before running out
of money and returning to
North Carolina Paschall reportedly
told the Warren
sheriff that he was considering
applying for a job on the
Warrenton Police Force at the
time of his arrest.
The men told officers that
they walked to Warrenton
from Norlina on the night of
the oil plant robbery "intent
on breaking into some
place." They said they -entered
John Graham High School
here, smashed a pane of a
glass in a door and stole a
pair of scissors which they
used in the safe robbery.
After leaving the school
the men walked to the oil
firm, located a mile from the
school on the Warrenton-Norlina
highway, climbed over a
fence and smashed open the
plant door with a hammer.
The safe which contained
the money was smashed open
during a similar robbery
three years ago. and Paschall
and Smith had only to rip
into drawers to find the money.
After looting the safe, they
made their way to Paschalrs
Norlina home where they
counted the money and burned
the checks.
The pair also told Sheriff
Hundley that they entered a
service station at Manson,
owned by Maurice Fleming, on
December 29. They said they
walked from Norlina to Manson
on that occasion. They ''ijjj
netted $10 in change and a
shotgun, along with shells and
cigarettes, in that break-in.
Sheriff Hundley said the men
pawned the shotgun in Durham
following the robbery.
Both men were charged with
three counts of breaking, entering
and larcency.
Assisting Sheriff Hundley's
department in the investigation
of the safe robbery were SBI
Agent Linwood Harton of
Hbnderson, and the Granville
County Sheriff's Department.
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Service Academies
Two Littleton boys have been |
appointed by Congressman L
H. Fountain to take competifive
examinations for the Unit*
ed States Service Academies.
Congressman Fountain said
this week that Braxton Earl
Barrett, Jr., had been appointed
to take the examination for
the U. S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis, and Horace Palmer
had been appointed to take the .
examination for West Point 1
Moore is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roger C. Moore of littleton
and Barrett is the son :
o: Mr. and Mrs. Braxton Kail
Barrett of Littleton.
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Taxes Extended
The time for listinf 1M1 :1
taxable*, which expired m 48
January 31, hat been extended
through February 15.
A. P. Rod well, Jr., tax tup*
ervisor, takl yetterday that the I
commissioners had wtltadtd 33
the Usting time tkiM**: Mfr 1|
mmtm tmd la Oh end MMjfia
and <*her Hating ptaaa wqrWj
in the'igSSryLary. |