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IYour Best Advertising r Medium jr. VOLUME 65 \v?"hd>!l?iJi$jtb&ti &t?#-?\i - ^ _JE, *~$ ?"* A# v ?sl ^ ^Qy & > . x; < <|Efe&.p^ - Once a majestic sentinel on tl ra - rerry, a snaiterea tree stump machines clear area for a new Gaston reservoir. The bridge v Board Afton The seventh and eighth grades of the Afton-Elberon school will be transferred to Macon ' and participate in the Junior. High School program set up in that school i^t fall. This waa. decided at a spe-, cial meeting bt the board of i ' education here on Monday p a r* % ? v I uigui, niicr oupi. rwier qhu i reported action taken at a' mass meeting of Afton-Elberon school patrons on Thursday p night of last week. The meeting was attended by Supt. Peeler and board member Sam Massey. Peeler said that a majority of those present opposed the transfer of pupils to Macon, but that he told the group that the final decision rested with the board of education. The view was expressed by members of the board that the board should back up the decision of the Afton-Elberon school committee and that the interest of the children of the Afton-Elberon community would be best served by the transfer of the seventh and Park Area Toured ^ By Planning Board Members of the Warren County Planning Board met Tuesday at the park headquarters at Satterwhite's Point on Kerr Lake for their regular ' monthly meeting. Paul Anderson, park superintendent, took the group on a tour of the park area which has five picnic shelters, swimming and ' boating facilities, campsites and many other vacation facilities. Last year over 450,000 people visited trie park area. Those attending the meeting included Marvin Newsom, Wil<8ee BOABP, page It) Virginia Hie To Tarheel < Miss Virginia Blanche Hicks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tasker P. Hicks of Norllna, has been selected by the American - Legion Auxiliary to attend the annual Tarhe>l Girls' State at W.C.U.N.C from June U t/ through June 17. Luring her sophomore year : Mica Hicks was dan secretary and FH.A. reporter. t Aa a Junior ahr haa served aa elaaa treaauror, btaxmtjr r. H. A. vioe-prooldent, 4-H County Council vice-praaidont. BaU Oub reporter, and Junior i f rmm .- VV; +H>; 'V M < subscription Price $3.0 L V." >. %;,v ' ' :1m. ' - * ie Eoanoke River near Eaton's awaits removal as men and bridge which will span the 'ill replace the ferry now In Votes Pupils eighth grades to Macon. Upon l c motion of Ed Harvey, seconded 1 by Boyd Mayfield the motion t to transfer the pupils was pass- c pH without Hiccpntlnu unto I e Supt. Peeler also told the J board members that the cpun-ji ty commissioners had apprdV-Ti Lions' Clu Jones New William Duke Jones, owner of Jones Printing Company, was elected president of fthe Warrenton Lions Club at the regular meeting of the club held at Hotel Warren on Friday night. Jones, a charter member of the local Lions Club, was elected to succeed C. M. Bullock as club president. Other officers elected on Friday night were Monroe Gardner, first vice-president; R. M. Miles, second vice-pres- > iaeni; in at wane, tnird vicepresident; C .V. Whitford, secretary; R- H. Bright, treasurer; A. A. Wood, Lion Tamer; and W. L. Turner, Tailtwister. New directors named were Fred Hurst and J. B. Thompson. New officers and directors will be installed on July 14. The program Friday night consisted of an illustrated talk on Alaska by Br. W. Burns Jones, Warren County Health Director. Dr. Jones is a for- . mer medical missionary to Alaska. 1 On Television . Warren ton fifth and sixth I graders will appear on TV station WUNC-TV (Channel Four) today (Friday! at 11 a. m. f ;ks Will Go J furls' Sfiif-p c . I 1 I 11 I * I 1 I * I c I J h I r 10 B 0 I ' I 6 I 41 I" VIRGINIA InCttsi3" 3 f . tXWt, Wk ? SI* ] 0 a Year 10c Per Btjflk: -':'. JL *J| ^^ypSffy'-' J;'; . %', , * &**$>? operation less than a mile dov coffer dam which holds back r crews prepare foundation of bri ToTr Tn\i JB. .*? sd an appropriation for the 1 liring of an extra teacher for >ach of the three high schools ] if the county. Dr. Tom Holt, i hairman of the Warrentonkfacon school committee, who , trapped by the meeting later , n the evening with commitib Elects ! President ; I t t DUKE JONES 1 Bean Thieves Biven Hearing j Two Warren County Negroes, J rrested on April 30 on ! harges growing out of the ' heft of eight dollars worth of oy beans, were given su- ' pended sentences in Warren Jounty Recorder's Court here J n Friday. Arthur Parks and Curtis learney, both arrested foluwing the theft of two bags of oy beans from the farm of t. T. Abbott, Shocco Township . armer, received 00-day suspend d sentences from presiding udge Julius E. Banzet. 1 Kearney was charged with I making, entering and theft i ?u his cousin, Archie a Cearney. Parks was arrastod n charges of receiving stolen a Ipdds ?nd possession of non- i " peid whiskey, which offle- i rs said was used to trade for a ho soy beans. - Ml J The state took a nol pros to partes involving Archie 3 <?*e MAN, pets U) ! .h&WL 'A. -.4 J,...; 5 IBarr Copy WARRENTON "jv ~ mm j ansfer [aeon teemen A. C. Blalock and A1 Williams, expressed his gratl Si At a . 1 . iicaijuii uvt-r uie acuon 01 me commissioners. This, he said, | will allow the employment of a fifth teacher at Macon and greatly strengthen Junior High program. The board also renewed the student accident insurance policy and approved the closing of Fork Chapel and Liberia elementary Negro schools, with Pork Chapel being consolidated with Vaughan and Liberia with lohn R. Hawkins. The board also approved transfer of Halifax Indian stuients to the Haliwa School in Fishing Creek Township, and approved the assignment of pupils and the election of teachers in all the schools of the county. Girls Softball Game The Baptist Eagles of the Warren ton Baptist Church play;d the Warren Plains Girls last Saturday. The Warrenton girls won by 32 to 10. This was the second game won by the Warrenton girls and no loss. T iA>r i i^ocai ivian i For Nationa A member of the Warrenton, >oard of commissioners has >een nominated as the nation's mtstanding reserve airman. A. C. Fair, local jeweler, was nominated for the national lonor following his selection is the outstanding airman in he 9170th Air Reserve Group, which encompasses eastern forth Carolina. The selection of Fair, who tolds the rank of tech sergeant n the AF Reserve, was mode his week by Lt. Col. Farmer 5. Smith, commander of the \ir Reserve Group. Active in the Air Force since lit career began as a private Two M( At Nutb Two Negro men were capured at a whiskey itUl In Nat. >ueh Township around 7:PO p. n. last Friday by ATD, ABC tnd local police officers. Captured after they had star* MtsaneU ' m M , COUNTY OF WARREN, HP lax Less' An increase of less than $3,000,000 in the overall valua- j tions of Warren County is expected to result from the re- i cently completed revaluation of Warren County. The exact figures can not be obtained until valuations from the State Board of Assessment > are received, A. P Rod',veil, j Jr., lax collector and auditor, I said yesterday. He said that he hoped that they would not be; any less than for the 1960-61 fiscal year. These assessments on public utilities last year amounted to I $2,101,981, Rodwell said, giving the county a valuation for the 1960-61 fiscal vear of $17 396,880. Assuming that the assessments in the 1961-62 fiscal year are the same as for last year, the total valuation for 1961-62 would be $20,186,575 ? an increase of $2,879,695. Actually there was an increase of more than three and a half million dollars in the valuation of W arren County real estate, but part of this I gain was offset by a large decrease in the valuation of personal property, largely automobiles. The gain !n real estate valuations for 1961 over 1960 was $3,665,623; the loss in personal property was $785,928?from $4,706,244 to $3,920,316. The 1961 tax valuation of some twenty million dollars represents only 40% of the valuations placed on real estate by the appraisers. Had the full value been accepted,' it is like-* ly that there would have been no decrease in personal property valuations. Automobiles have been for many years valued according to a scale set by the state, resulting in a proportionate higher figure for automobiles than for real estate. The 40% of value figure on real estate was also applied to automobile resulting in a considerably smaller bill for the automobile owner. The tax rate for the 1960-61 fiscal year was $1.98 on the $100 valuation. Rodwell said that a tax rate of $1.70 on the new valuation would raise prac tlcally the same as the $1.98 for the 1960-61 fiscal year. A rate of $1.75 would raise some j $10,000 more. What the new tax rate will be will not be determined un-| dominated 1 AF Honor in October 1942 as a gunnery and automatic pilot specialist, Fair is also active in Warrenton, civic and business affairs. A member of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, he has servQC vaafruman ?* ??! ?? ?~ ivati aiiu DUIUVl Warden. He la a past president of the Warrenton Merchant's Association and is Deputy Civil Defense Director for Warrenton. A 32 Degree Mason, he has served as director of the Warren County TB Association, the Warrenton Lions Club, the Warren County Fair Association and as president of the John Graham High School PTA. Although a sergeant in the mi Are A >ush Liqi the officers watched the still until Mm moonshiners had! completed the run and leaded I the whiskey on a car. They The ear m eoofbcated by ATU offieen and the captured ran County jail. The officer* deetroyed eight caaea of whiakey^ and^ a aotOkn (teem \? ? N. C. V alii Than til the cominisaior.cis have had an opportunity to study all the budgets from all the county agencies. There is little doubt that there will be some cut in the lax rate, however. Budgets already submitted T n i^/ai i ^ Seeks In A delegation of Negroes that practically filled the court room here on Monday night petitioned the Warren County Board of Education to provide better schols facilities for members of their race, now attending school in the eleven unconsolidated schools of the county, without further delay. The meeting with the board of education was arranged by I Ernest Turner of near Inez and included Negroes from all Norlina Drowns Funeral services for June Kempson, 15-year-old Norlina High School student, who was drowned in Kerr Lake about 4:40 on Sunday afternoon, were conducted at the Norlina Baptist Church on Tuaaday at 3:30 p. m. by the Rev. Billy Fallow, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Malcolm Hutton, a former pastor. Interment was in Warren Dale Cemetery in Norlina. The young boy was drowned while attempting to recover a fishing lure from a log on which it had become entangled. According to reports reaching here, he had reached the log, released the lure, and was swimming back towards the bank when he suddenly sank. The body was recovered about i.w o ciock aunaay nignt Dy persons in the area of Palmer's Point in Mecklenburg County, Va. The youth is said to have been fishing with a group of companions, including his father, from the Norllna community. The young boy was a member of the Norlina Baptist Church, the Royal Ambassadors, the Boy Scouts, and was a member of the Junior Class of the Norlina High School of Air Force Reserve, Fair holds the rank of major in the Civil Air Patrol and is commandant of cadets. Among his outstanding cadets are two who received appointments to the Air Force Academy, another who is a navigator with the Strategic Air Command, and still another who Is in training for West Point. Selected as the Group's outstanding reservist on the basis of his overall worth. Fair has trflirpllaH onnivtvimatolu U ArtA miles In the past ten years in behalf of the Reserve and the CAP. From 1851 through 1859 he attained a perfect attendance record with the Reserve. Arrested nor Still ty were ATU iMw H. B. Hi a as.. R| ? ! - ?? - imrcoj? Koocn f mi. ana rial Herbert ReetoK ^T"^, \ k- r Vf * FRIDAY, y * " 1961 ationi [$3,00 | indicate an increase in de-1 $ | mand from many of the coun-! ! ty agencies. These increases | a will be offset to some extent j r by the fact that the bill for | s revaluation of property has j u been paid. This acounted for ii legro Del noroved M ~ j sections of the county. The i ! Rev. 0. B Burse acted as spokesman for the group and read from a prepared statement. Burse said that the Supreme j Court decision altered the j school set up in the county [ and that his group felt that un! less improved school buildings j were provided for the colored people, the patrons would have to ask for a transfer to other I schools. He said that the one Youth In Lake | which he was a class officer, i He was active in the athletic | program of the high school and was shortstop on the var sity baseba" team. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Arthur ] Kempson of Norlina; three ] brothers, Alvin Arthur Kemp- S son, Jr., of Indian Head, Md., t Luther Lee Kempson of Spring- i field, Mass., T. Klink Kempson of Alexandria, Va.; a halfbrother, Alvin Carol Kempson of Los Angeles, Calif.; a twin c sister, Judy Junette Kempson < of the home; two half-sisters, < Sarah Sue Kempson and Caro- t lyne Kempson of Charleston, i S. C.; and his maternal grand- ' mother, Mrs. Martha Davis of t Brancheville, Va. s Active pallbearers were se- s lected from the Norlina High ' School baseball team and the honorary pallbearers were the 3 members of his school class. ' Young People To I) Go To Littleton 1 The Baptist Youth Fellowship of the Warrenton Baptist j Church will be guests of the < Littleton Intermediate Baptist f Training Union for supper and program on Sunday night. The young people will meet at the Warrenton Baptist Church and be ready to leave from the s church at 9:30 Sunday after- c | noon. j. r. nocicaaay, Hennie 11 | Powell, and the Key. John H. 11 Link serve as leaders. i Warrenton ( Of State Post Carolyn Satterwhite of Warrenton, a senior at John Graham High School, has been named first place winner in the forestry conservation poster contest sponsored by the North Carolina Federation of. Women's Clubs. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs T. C. Satterwhite of Warronton, Carolyn will rscahrs a $50 cash prtse. Cash awards are given by the Champion Paper and Fiber Company. The Warrenton Woman's CNb wffl receive a $34 award m ?poo-l| pJSt* tuSX* second ^ I and $40; Alexander Yaito- I oogh. Smlthfield, third and Oiolji fn proicntid tl I Your Best Advertising Morliiim ?*v\A?UUi NUMBER 20 sUp 0,000 28,000 in last year's budget. There has been some inform1 talk of the hope foe a $1.75 ate. Whether this rate will be ufficient. will not be known ntil final budget figures are i and evaluated. legation Schools ind two-teacher schools were adequate and that his peo>le wanted equal educational >pportunities with that enjoyed by other groups. Burse's reference to the Supreme Court drew forth a iharp reply from Supt. of Schools Roger Peeler, who told he group that he was both shocked and hurt by their atitude. He said that he had lupeu inai ne naa provea nimielf a friend to the Negro matrons and the Negro ichools and that he was doing ill in his power to correct vhat is an admittedly bad sitlation as fast as funds are ivailable. Peeler said that since he began his duties here that a nodern Negro school had been >uilt at Vaughan and another it Norlina, and further improvements are scheduled at North Warren and John R. Hawkins this year. He said ilans are being made for the instruction of consolidated high school in the southern 3 jart of the county as soon as funds can be raised. Hie couny is already accumulating unds for this purpose, he said. The board of education can nove no faster than the board $ if commissioners will provide runds, Supt. Peeler poihted >ut. He said that he hoped hat either Federal or State jovernments would provide unds for schoolhouse eonstrueion of the Negro schools. He aid the number of small Negro chools in the county had been educed from 40 to 11 during he past 4 years, and that this rear Fork Chapel would he consolidated with Vaughan. ie also pointed out that the >ulk of the funds received 'rom the state bond isaue in Varren County had been spent n Negro schools. The Rev. Mr. Burse, in rally, stated that he was acting inly as spokesman for the group and the words he reed (See SCHOOLS, page U) To Present PnpHs Mrs. Walter Loyd wHl preen t her pupils in a piano raital at the Norlina High 8chodl Luditorium on Thursday nltfit, lay 25, at 8:00. The public is nvited to attend. jirl Winner per Contest ^E' - 'i in MnilmMl 8 mlmKV VVIIIW* ? *
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