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ft Your Best Advertising Medium F VOLUME 65 Warren Four Qt A Fedei A Warren County Commis-! , sioner and his brother have been indicted by a Federal Court on charges of violating whiskey laws. Commissioner Clanton Colet. * man (Cooper) Perkinson, 42, and his brother, Thomas Page K Perkinson, 46, prominent business men and farmers of Wise, were indicted on Monday R* by a Federal Grand Jury in Raleigh on charges of conApprove Sidewalk Co. Board Insurance Warren County's public property is now covered by one insurance policy giving extended coverage in the amount of 5388,000, instead of 49 policies with a coverage of $232,500. This change was made by the board of county commissioners in regular meeting here Tuesday when Monroe Gardn e r, Warrenton insurance agent, appeared before the board with figures showing how the change would give the county better coverage at a slightly lower cost. The premiums on the 49 policies totaled approximately $1,000 annually. Under the new policy, giving blanket coverage, the cost is expected to figure some $885. flarHnpr hnc hopn \i/nrlrin ct with the commissioners on a plan to give simplified coverI ^ age for several months and Tuesday accepted his plan which was accepted by the commissioners. Under the new policy all insurance companies who participated in the old policies will share in the blanket coverage policy. However, Gardner as producing agent, will receive 50 per cent of the premium commission, and the remaining 50 per cent will be prorated among other agents according to premiums under the old policies. The commissioners also approved the building of a sidewalk on the west side of the " 6 STRICKEN GIANT ? A tr than 900 bushels of cucumben above, straddling the highway at the junction of U. S. High I Transfei A South Carolina transfer truck driver escaped without serious injury when his traoH*. tor-trailer vehlele struck a oonMT erete highway median and overturned Tuesday afternoon 11 miles north of hero. The truck, loaded with 001 ? buahsls of cucumbers, flipped on to aide at the junction oi fe U. S. Highway 1 and Interstate feA 00, half a mil* south of th? Virginia state line to Warren I The driver, Milton Mosley ot ' ' -V iM J- &U, 1 I sion was requested to accept as the No. 1 project for 1961-62 that road leading from No. 43 easterly to the Halifax County line in Fishing Creek Township, being 0.6 of a mile in length; also that road in Warrenton Township running from No. 158-A to Fairview Cemetery, a distance of 0.3 of a See BOARD, page 12) To Preach At Macon Dr. John Steeley of Southeastern Theological Seminary at Wake Forest will preach at the Macon Baptist Church on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, William Wilson, chairman of the pulpit committee, said yesterday. * actor-trailer loaded with more i sprawls on its side, in photo median following an accident way 1 and Interstate Highway r Truck 1 1 crawled out through the broken windshield of the cab shortly after the aoddent He identified the truck's owner as Reed Barker of Allendale, South Carolina. Mosley said the cucumber cargo originated in Florida and that he had been driving the rife from Allendale en route to Chestertown, Md. He said he had stopped earlier In the afternoon to unload part at the cargo and to take on SiWImmI encumbers. J * Subscription Price $3.00 i Board ft hers. Ind *al Grant spiracy to violate the Internal | Revenue Law in both North Carolina and Virginia. A True Bill was found by the Grand Jury. The Perkinson brothers are prominent in the business, social and religious life of Warren County, North Can Una, and in Virginia, and have a wide family connection in Warren County. Also indicted by the Federal I Changes Coverage court square, after County Attorney Jim Limer told the board.that he had been unable to find any law forbidding such work. Under the plan the county will furnish the materials and the Town of Warrenton will furnish the labor and supervision for the joint effort. S. E. Allen, Register of Deeds, reported 44 marriage l'Cv.ises issued during the first quarter of 1961 for which $220 was turned into the General Fund. A. P. Rodwell, Jr., Tax Collector, reported taxes collected during March in 'he amount of $7,612.11, making a total collected to date of $296,541.11. Thp Stfltp Hiahu/nv Slip ; i Year 10c Per C? /[ember, icted Rv J Jury Grand Jury on the same charge were two Warren County Negroes and a third Negro from Garysburg. They are Robert Henry Dunston of Route 1, Warrenton, Archie Irdle Alston of Route 3, Warrenton, and Robert Lee Squires, 28, of Garysburg. The indictment came as the result of evidence supplied the Federal Court by the Alcohol and Tobacco Division of Internal Revenue Department in co operation with the Sheriff's Department of Warren County, A representative of the ATTD here Tuesday said thai investigation leading to the in dictment of the four Warren men and the Garysburg Negrc had been underway for several months. Few Cases Tried lln County Court Here Friday Only nine cases were dispos ed of in Warren County Recorder's Court here on Fridaj morning. All but two of the cases heard before Judge Jul ius Banzet dealt with infrac tions of the Tarheel motor ve hide laws. Cases disposed of during Fri day's short session included: George William Hancock speeding, costs. Lucious McArthur Fogg speeding, $10 and costs. Tom Stegall, no operator*! license, driving on wrong side of road, produced license or Friday and was fined with one half the costs of court. John C. Banks, assault witl a deadly weapon, 30-day sus pended road sentence, costs. Forest Harris, Jr., assaul i with a deadly weapon no j guilty. U7;li;nm Ulonkn nllAn.in^ ..n fi una 111 ?? jluv, aiiuvYiug un licensed person to operate mo tor vehicle, not guilty. Selma Alston, no operator'! license, $25 and costs. In Hospital Wade Taylor is a patient ir Warren General Hospital. 85 shortly before six o'clock escaped without injury after over on Its side when the wl at the intersection. (PI 7i: 7 lips WI1 four-lane interstate route, oc curred at B:4S o'clock. Moa ley said that he was turnini into the highway Junction front U. S. 1 and said he hat "geared down but my braket slipped" going Into the turn This wheels of the truck struct the concrete median and tht vehicle nipped over on its side squarely in the ceiiter of th< 39*- r*k. icatlons service asent reachet the scene within minutes a the accident and radioed fot nsjilinri State HUhway Pa " v-fV ; Ham ipy WARRENTON, < Tax Sales The Warren County Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday ordered that CounRodwell, Jr., advertise property on which 1960 taxes i have not been paid in May I and sell the property in " June. I The sale will be held at I the court house door in I Warrenton on June 5. Jurors Drawn For May Term Of Civil Court i i Jurors for the May Civil I Term of Warren County Sup- ! , erior Court were drawn by the j [ County Commissioners on Mon- j day as follows: i | J. H. Reid, Mrs. Indie Alsi ton, Carey A. Dillard, B. W. \ Currin, Jr., Mrs. W. E. Mulchi. III, Alex T. Ayscue, Manley Martin, R A. Bolton, J. B. Thompson, J. Howard Daniel, E. K. Fishel, Claude Godsey, C. W. Egerton, Jr., Mrs. C. E. Thompson, Leon J. Crawley, J. M. Moseley, T. P. Rodwell, James Wright Bolton, Jr., C. B. Dickerson, R. E. Limer, Sr. E. L. Pike, H E. Edmonds, I . Robert P. Fleming. Arnold jl . Bender, A. J May, C. W. I , I Goode. J. F Reid .1 A Hll-, . liard, Thomas W. Hawkins, j . Douglas Reid, Robert P. Car- s ter, Vernon N. Whitmore, William K. Lanier, Mrs. H. A. White, Robert B. Davis, J. C. 1 Delbridge, W. F. Davis, W. H. . Wesson, Ralph R. White, W G. Hedgepeth. . Girl Scouts To j Hold Cookie Sale : A two-week cookie sale will 1 be conducted here by three Warrenton Girl Scout Troops, Mrs. W. P. Burwell of War1 renton, Neighborhood Leader, , announced this week. , t Mrs. Burwell said that the < t girls would offer three sepa- I rate types of cookies for sale. I "More than half this money . will be used for our Kerr ' Lake camp, Camp Graham, and i s a portion of the sales proceeds 1 will be used in the local troop I program," Mrs. Burwell said. Thr> salt* will h*?oin i Ibm.0* to euciaB-|1 ? "O"'-""-J i j (Friday) and will be concluded on April 21, she said. I ... . . . V Tuesday afternoon. The driver ] the northbound vehicle flipped leels struck the highway median : loto by Bill Dennis, Henderson) 1 T uesday! -. trolman R. A. Clark investigat led the accident (J Thn nneiimhor. In. . | baskets, did not spUl out onto 1 , the highway, although a small quantity of the driver's person- ] c al belonging* scattered over . I the median. The cargo had to , Lb . Ina Jftil ^ ? S ^ ? ^ D6 uniosuGu, nowever, in otqqf | Damage was chiefly to the left aide of the tractor and ^ I trailer. No hnmedtata esti- , ... 7ft _ m mi'm -gu :OUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. w Board's, Given P mgw -*mr ^KI iwB 1 ^B * 1 Some 20,000 labor survey forms are loaded aboarc Jute Development Company president, (left) and H lion official (right). Helping with the loading ar< >f the questionnaires, and Allen King, employee of minted the questionnaires. Labor Sur Begin On A comprehensive labor sur-1 naires to potential 1 ,'ey?designed to meet the re- Sponsored jointlj luirements of an industry con- North Carolina E sidering location in Warren Security Commissioi County?is scheduled to begin Bute Development ( lere on Monday. I Warren flmmtu < Efforts to determine the promoting industria lumber of persons who would ment, the survey w iccept a job in an industrial centrated in the Wa plant will begin with the dis- tleton-Norlina area xibution of 20,000 question- County. ?~~~~ Distribution of th If __ O..I. naires will also be I 1W0 JrlCll 5C6K adjacent counties . __ Franklin, Halifax, Plarf> Ac Mavrn* lenburg County, I lfltv flo 1'lajUl Benton, president o h?r %* n velopment Compan; Morlina KSCC "The results of will, in all probabl Graham P. Grissom made heavily in any indui the Norlina's mayor's race a ion to locate in two-man affair when he filed Benton said. Scor ;or re-election shortly before heel counties have a the filing deadline on Satrfr- ducted labor surveys lay. tical data compiled Previously N. G. Hudgins, surveys are passed lustice of the peace at Nor- ous industrial firms. ina, had filed, indicating he The survey will I vould be a candidate for the ed on April 24 and wo-year mayor's term. ' Those filing for the town - ?> g?1 joard before Saturday's dead- f^WT I ine were W. S. Hicks, Jr., JL W TT \??i rohn W. Stegall, T .W. SU1- _ ings, E. G. Hecht, R. L. Tray 1 ?-- -? or, P. J. Harton and G .D. Jj/A-UCU Hecht, Traylor and Harton Few p le are , ire presently serving on the before the Yorlina board of commission- county commlssione ;r?'T , , to voice tax compL Norlina citizens will determ- t vaiuationg whet ne just who will fill which miMionera glt ag , lost when toe municipal elec- eqUall2atlon and i?n if ^1? to tb? N?rlina That is the opinli tfayort Office on May 2. Butler of c Mrs. Susie Wyckoff and Mrs. who with A E j Lucille Lewis have been ap- been hoIding hearil pointed judges for thhi elec- viewl Ux flgurt ;ion, and A. B. Laughter has . - men appointed reglatrar. ^ VTXoEht'' J March Poor MontK appeal to the comra For Moonshiners B"u" that i sociated revalued March waa not a profitable parcels of real e*ta nonth for at least a half-dozen ren County under t Warren County bootleggers. tlon ordered by 1 Warren County aheriffa de- commissioners last Mrtmettt, aided by Vance said about SO or t bounty A. B. C. officers on owners had qneatloe leveral occasions, destroyed six uations, and that in Segal whiskey dktUleriei in they had been app< he^county during the month told the reason ft Two of the still* captured property had been a sere in Nutbush township, The percentage of !*? Ski"?*' V * ** * "?r* rn ; ^ c? ?*2JsvtecV ' - ~ c,tvcVW " "* FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 19( \ppro1 or Flar ; '"Ssi m. IP *Ajrf ^K^<te| ,:-v **$HMk ^^"^Hk-Jr I ? jW^BHWh -fJ^Hwtetev V Jl t*. w *< { V, r* I ^ go^K MkJ 1 a truck for distribution by Selby Benton, [all Brooks, Employment Security Commiss Roy Neal, who aided in the distribution the Warrenton printing concern which (Staff Photo) vey Will Monday aborers. questionnaires will be tabulati by the ed by the Employment SecurImployment ity Commission, a and the Not only will the informa-ompany, a tjon be essential in a successirganization fui program of attracting new 1 develop- industry, but it will serve to 'ill be con- answer questions local industry rreniun-ui- might have regarding expanof Warren sjon From the compiled data an e question- mjystj-y WOuld be able to denade in the terlnine the number 0f per, X?nc?' sons available for work; how ? many fall Into each age group; fn ? ny number of males and feirt males; available degrees of edr, said. ucation and other pertinent inthe survey formation. ility, weigh The survey forms will be 3try's decis- available to persons of any this area," race desiring employment, and es of Tar- to high school seniors and colilready con- lege students desiring indusi and statis- trial employment in this area, from these The survey was prompted by on to vari- an unnamed industry's request for information on the labor be conclud- supply in this area, Benton completed said. )bjections Are ted Monday xpected to pany, Butler said. board of A majority of the counties rs Monday of the state have been revalued lints about by professional appraisers in i the com- the past few years, and Butler t board of said that Cooper Appraisers dew. had appraised property la >n of I. D. about half of these counties. Appraisers, TS, ASC Men Attend s for the Asheville Meeting Butler said ?nly about Fiwe Warren County ASC ofyers would ftdals were among thoee atissioners. tending a three-day conference Coopers As dealing with ASC programs some WHO held ln Asheville on April te In Warhe iw?iua- Attending from the Warren county bounty ASC Committee were year. He chairman W. & Smiley. Vice0 property chairman W. E. Mulch!, Jr., ed the vei .ad W. M. Fleming, a member ?ori cases of the county committee. Also wsed when attending were T. E. Watson, the J"- office ^Manager, ^sM^ Chief SlL In ?ddltion to ** nations la ture* Gestured speakers, j?t sbout the^ ym^ Oonnty quintet -j.V^ '_ ' -'' ~-JH-?; Your Best Advertising I Medium >1 NUMBER 14 vc\\ Tsl T V%A OLVJ lning During Meeting T uesday The Warren County Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously agreed to have Warren County participate in a threecounty planned development of the Gaston I,ake area in North Carolina and voted to appropriate $3300 as Warren County's share of the cost of the project. Ty? * 1 _ _ i - - - rttiucipaung in planning ior the orderly development of the lake ared in this state are Warren, Northampton and Halifax counties, the Department of Conservation and Development and the Federal Government. A request to either have Warren County included in the state-wide county zoning law or to draw up a new zoning law for the county, was postponed until the board's meeting on April 10. At this time Rep. John Kerr, Jr., and Senator Frank Banzet are expected to meet with the board to di?-. cuss which method in their opinion will be most suitable for the county. The commissioners also accepted the resignation of General Claude T. Bowers as a member of the Warren. County Planning Board and named (See PLANNING, page U) Lake Property Owners Approve Planning Area A number of Warren County citizens, owning property along the Roanoke River, on Friday night gave practically unanl1 mous endorsement to the county's participation in a fourcounty program for the planned development of the Gaston dam reservoir area in North Carolina. Endorsement of the project came at a mass meeting el landowners and other Interest- :3 ed citizens in the court house when Marvin Newsom, chairman of the Warren County planning board, asked lor nil show of hands among the score or more property owners present All but one of the landowners raised his hand signi- I fying endorsement of the plan. I This landowner abstained from voting when a call for a show I of hands of those opposed to the program was asked. Endorsement of the project came at the end of a two-hour meeting when representatives I of the State Department et Conservation and Development I explained plana for the orderly I development of the entire Geoton Lake area and answered I questions concerning its operaa review of action already Me- I en by Marvin Newsom. who j presided over the meeting. SnM D.J?? -J?1-1? uuuti i?uhi iwui, uimiiiwir 7 tor of community planning A- ^ vision of the State DayaiUmaK, |1 roent, was the principal speak- t er. He opened his missis Dp 3 saying that he knew of as te- l dustry that holds more potest- 2 tial for ^the^ devetep?nent^o<;| ?_ - m In WBtwi ICuviuM Dw' ViPV
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