Your Best Advertising Medium ?hr Harrrtt ^ ^ ^ <*? 'T*IS.? Shelby Street Your Best Advertising Medium risvillp, Ky. VOLlfMNE 65 Sabpcription Erice $3.00 a Year 10c Per Copy WARRENTON. COUNTY OF WARREN. N. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1961 NUMBER 44 New Tobacco Seed Added To Variety To Be Discounted The United States Depart ment ot Agriculture has an nounced a new variety of flue cured tobacco to the list of dis count varieties for 1962. Thurman R. Batten, acting office manager for the Warren j County Agricultural Stabliza tion and Conservation Commit tee. said yesterday that the new discount variety is known as 187-Golden Wilt. Batten said in 1962. as in past years. Coker 139, Coker 140, Dixie Bright 244. and the newly added 187-Golden Wilt will be supported by the Flue- i Cured Cooperative Stabilization | Corporation at one-half the support rate the tobacco would otherwise have. Production of tobacco with I the undesirable characteristics j of these discount varieties has j been shown to be detrimental j to the farmer by the fact that j the corporation still has unsold [ stocks of such tobacco on hand ] from the 1955 and 1956 crops, i "It just makes good sense for farmers to produce a qual ity product which is most want ed by buyeit; in the market place," Batten said. "When this is done, not only do the farmers benefit, but the buy ers, consumers, in fact all of j us benefit from wise produc lion by farmers." As farmers will soon be pre-1 paring their plantbeds and pos-j sibly buying their tobacco seed i for next year's crop. Batten is-j sued an urgent request that farmers make absolutely cer tain that the seed they pro duce and plant in their bed is seed of acceptable variety which would not hurt their own tobacco business when the tobacco is placed on the mar ket. These seed, he said, should only be bought from reliable sources. . Batten said that he expects a very thorough discount va riety program to be carried out next year, and expects ev | cry farmer who plants one of I these discount varieties to re ceive a * blue marketing card which signifies that he is only entitled to receive one-half the support rate he ' would other rwise receive. New Farm Program To Be Before Panels The Warren County Farm r Bureau In its annual meeting at the Warren County Agri cultural Building at Warrenton on November 9 at 7:30 p. m will hold a. panel discussion on proposed new legislation to set Agriculture's house in or der. W. H. Bender, program chairman, said yesterday. Erich Hecht, Farm Bureau president, will serve as mod erator for the discussion. "With the. realization that the wishful benefits of the 1961 feed grain program have not proved to be a fact, but rather an ineffectual and ex pensive blunder; and with the knowledge of past history that flexible supports. without pro duction restrictions will not work; and with the belief that strict acreage control is be coming ever more .unjustly re lated to the family farm and continuing to grow in artific-' tally inflationary value of the acreage allotments,, with a de trimental effect upon the en tire economy, the Farm Bu reau will consider a new ap proach to the problem," Ben der said. This approach will be made under a legislative act to fair ly' regulate productionand! price of all agricultural com modities, and to restore to fanners equality of opportunity under the law, Bender said. He added that this act would become effective through ad ministration by the ' Secretary of Agriculture, under the fol lowing provisions: 1. The production of any agricultural commodity in any amount shall be the right and privilege of any farm owner or operator for such restric tions or regulations as ere hereinafter stated. * A. No farm owner or opera tor may produce an acreage of any one commodity greater than that acreage which he could produce under full price support. 2 Price supports for all com modities shall "he available to any farmer u|?n compliance with certain requirements here inafter stated. ,-,4L> Price supports shall be available upon the retirement of an acre of cropland from all harvested production in return for which a specified amount of price support will become available. ? ft. The amount of price sup port earned per retired acre shall be proportional to the productive ability of the vari ous cropland .areas. C. The amount of price sup port earned per retired acre ?ball be the same regardless of for the support at which, crop is used, except tftht it varied by the ?cretasy of in order io " production. jy the Secretary of Agricul ure consistent with the cost of production and the welfare of :he national economy. The1 support price shall also vary in proportion to quality. 3. sThe Secretary of Agricul-j lure shall through existing, means (Commodity Credit Cor-' poration) purchase all support ed commodities produced by participating farmers when I such commodities decline in price below the support level. He shall also be empowered to purchase commodities produc ed by non-participators when i the price approaches the cost of production level. The Sec retary shall also sell auch pur chased commodities whenever the price advances above the support level; the rate of sale to. be consistent with sound management in relation to sup plies on hand and production expected. Bender said that a practical application of the plan would be as follows: The Secretary would fix the amount of support earned per i acre retired at, for example, $200. A farmer with 100 acres of cropland would decide to! participate. Let's say he wants parity price on $10,000 - worth of sales. To earn this he (See PROGRAM, page 10) Garrett Is Named Cashier At Bank John W. Garrett,*III, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Garrett. Jr., of Warrenton, has been elected chashier of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company at Salisbury. Garrett, who became asso ciated with- Wachovia in 1997, has been officer in charge of operations and personnel in Salisbury since 1960. He ia a graduate of Duke University. In Salisbury, he is active in civic affairs as a director of the Junior Chamber of Com merce and chairman of its community development com mittee, member of the indus trial brochure committee of the Chamber of Commerce and t member of the official board jf the First Methodist church. He ia married to the former Harriet R. Traynham, of War renton, /uid they have two[ thlldren. Decorator To Be ? Here November 14 The Warrenton Garden Club will sponsor Mrs. Ray Caineaa, prominent member of the Ral sigh Garden Club and Demon itrator of Holiday Decorations, n a holiday decorations dem onstration ia the Fellowship Room of the Warrenton Meth xliat. Church, an Tuesday, No ^^?14. at 2 80 p. m. ?? ?Hwlll be Ma | la invited ? HOMECOMING QUEEN?Nancy Wilson, a senior at John jra'hara High School, was selected to reign over the homecom ng football game hero last Friday night between Warrenton and Norlina. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson >f Macon, she was crowned during halftime ceremonies by Warrenton Principal Tom Brown. (Staff Phto) 4-H Fund Committee Holds Kick-Off Meet Friends of 4-H in Warren County have declared their in tention to help raise $1500 of Warren County's quota for the North Carolina 4-H Develop ment Fund during Nbvember, Miss Ann Rackley. assistant home economics agent, and L. B. Hardage, assistant county agricultural agent, said yester day. At a meeting Tuesday night in the Warren County Agri cultural Building, Paul Lancas ter, county chairman, presided over a meeting which had representatives from through out the county attending. Robert N. Wood, Assistant in Development from State Col lege, told the group that "The 4-H Development Fund is a continuing financial program of support for 4-H" club pro grams in those areas which are not supported by' tax funds such as camps, recognition scholarships and world under standing through the Int^r national Farm Youth Ex change." After his explanation, the group discussed ways of rais ing their quota. It was decid ed to break the county into small areas, each area having a small proportionate share of the quota. The following have agreed to be chairman or co-chairman of their community, with other communities and chairmen to be announced later: Drewry?T. P. Hicks and Paul Lancaster; Inez ? Miss Catherine Brown; Marmaduke ?E. C. Robertson; Littleton? Mrs. Fred West (co-chairman): Shaw Springs-Enterprise?Mr. Robert King (co-chairman): fhufchill?Mrs. George Robin son; Norlina?Mrs. Owen Rob ertson (co-chairman); Oakville ?Mr. Gid King (co-chairman); Oine?-Mr. C. P. Rooker; Ridge way?Mrs. Chris Holtzman; Vicksboro?Mrs. Goode Flem ing and Mrs. Willis Fleming. Peeler Is Speaker At Rotary Meeting J. Roger Peeler, Warren C o u n ty Superintendent of Schools, was the guest speaker at the regular dinner meeting of the Warrenton Rotary Club at Hotel Warren on Tuesday evening. Peeler outlined.the steps be ing taken by his office and the Board of Education to have students and teachers devote tfie school day chiefly to studies and teaching. He said extra-curricular activities are being spaced to interfere as little as possible with the pri mary purpose of study and in struction. Peeler also described in gen era] terms the present needs Tor ne>v'school buildings in the county and the plans- being made to provide them. He ipoke of a possible bond issue to permit the school board to go ahead with badly needed construction rather than wait For the accumulation of funds through several years. Ia Hospital Mrs. Frank Twitty is a pa tent ther denominations as well.!1 The service will be over by I >r before 8:00, in time forJ ?hoir practice at the Various ' hurchea." Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Swsiw nd Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Poin lexter spent the waehend in vovingston. Vs., via Mr. and in Gordon Polnderter, Jr. Mrs. J. C. Powell oi Hender on visited friends km ott 1 flHHi State Bond Election To Be Held Next Tuesday Warren County voters will go to the 14 precints of the county on next Tuesday to make their decision known concerning a .state bond issue of some $61.5 million for capi tal improvement of state facili ties. The polls will apen at 6 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. To be decided by the voters ' of the state will be ten issues making up the total. They are: Capital Area Building Bonds ?$2,858,000; State Training Schools Capital Improvement Bonds?$1,110,000; State Edu | cational Institutions Capital Im provement Bonds?$31,008,000; J Community College Capital Im | provement Bonds?$1,483,000; j Archives and History and State (Library Building Bonds?$2, , 560,000; State Port Bonds?$13, 500,000; State Mental Institu tions C a p i t al Improvement Bonds ? $7,196,000; Hospital Capital Improvement Bonds? $500,000; National Resources Conservation and Development Bonds?$961,000; State Agricul tural Capital Improvement Bonds?$289,000. Proponets of the issue say that passage of the bonds should not cause any new taxes, but their failure of pass age could easily mean increase in the State tax rate. They base their decision on the fact that some of the bonds will be self-liquidating; and that the remainder of the issues can be retired over a 20-year period under current taxes; but say failure to provide bond money for essential improve ments would necessitate a higher levy to do this neces sary construction This view is set forth by the Citizens Committee For A Bet er North Carolina?of which Fohn W. Umstead of Chapel fill is chairman?as follows: The state bond issue will re quire no new taxes! To the skeptic this is hard to take but is still a . true statement. The items in the bond issue are spelled out in the law which was passed by the Gen eral Assembly in 1961, at the recommendation of the Advis ory Budget Commission. Tha Commission and the General Assembly seeing the need now for many items suggested the bond issue. This is borrowing money. The General Assembly cannot borrow money for these , capital improvements?only the voters of the state can do that in a special election. The bonds for the port de velopment at Morehead City and Wilmington are 'self liqui dating ' The ports are now making a profit. With these added warehouse sheds, piers, 1 the ports can accomodate more shipping, which they cannot handle now because they do not have the room. In normal operation with the additions they will make - additional profits. Ninety per cent of the 513,000,000 earmarked for the ports will be paid back out of these profits. A considerable amount of the 531,000,000 for all of the state owned colleges is for dormitories to relieve the crowded conditions at these schools and to allow more stu dents to attend. The rent paid by students for these rooigi ! will go back for the buildings. "Now for the amount left," the skeptic asks, "how wfiH that be repaid?" The 1961 General Assembly wrote the method into the law, creating the bond issue. Ono per cent of the total General Fund will automatically go into the debt service fund. The amount collected each yao$ will pay off the entire bonds in twenty years with no change in the tax structure. As State Treasurer Edwin Gill puts it "The State of North Carolina'is in excellent financial condition. The bonda of our state are rated AAA-? the highest -rate obtainable for securities of this kind. "The anticipated debt ser vice requirements of the pro posed bond issue, constituting only approximately 1 per cent of our annual General Fund Appropriation was provided by the General Assembly of IBM. The future requirements, in my opinion, can be easily mot out of funds derived from our present tax structure. "Because of North Carolina's long record of fiscal integrity, I anticipate that we will bo able to market successfully and to good advantage the $81, 665,000 of bonds, if voted on favorably by our people." One thing that the akoptfe does not realize . . . that if the (See ELECTION, page 181 Three Men Are Jailed On Kidnapping Charge Three young Warren County men have been jailed here on j charges of kidnapping follow ing a-hearing held in Norlina | on- Wednesday night. The trio?Leroy Vaughan, 19,1 of Norlina and Fred Powell, | 21, and Sam Cheek, 21, both | of Warrenton?were ordered | held without privilege of bond until the January term of Superior Court by Norlina j Magistrate N. G. Hudgins. However, both Powell and Check were released on bail on Thursday morning. Powell's bail was set at $2000 and Cheek's at $1000. The three men were bound j over to the criminal term of | court when charges of kid napping were levied against! the three men after a part time Wise painter charged that they forced him into an auto mobile and beat him on Mon day night. The Wise resident, A. C. Dowell, 40, was taken to a lo cal hospital after jumping from the automobile as it slow ed down while passing through the Wise community on Mon day night. Warren law enforcement of ficers said Carl A. Lorenz, of Wise, saw Dowell jump from Pin Presented At Meeting of Lions Club Here Friday C. M. Bullock, former presi dent of the Warrenton Lions Club, was presented a past president's pin and praised for his work as head of the local civic club during the past year at a meeting of the club held here on Friday night. Bullock was succeeded as president by W. Duke Jones, who was presented- the presi dent's pin by W. A. Miles. Bullock was presented the pin by J. Howard Daniel. A third plh was 'presented Third Vice President Nat White by Lion Harold Skillman. A report of the Whit# Cane drive currently in progress was given by J. B. Thompson, drive chairman, who reported that the annual- drive was progress ing satisfactorily. Willis F. Gupton Wins Promotion The promotion of Willis F. upton to trust officer of the fachovia Bank and Trust Com any of Wilmington has been nnounced by Robert H. Tate, snior vice-president. Gupton joined the beak in M8 and became assistant trust fficer in 1958. He is the son of Mrs. Bessia upton of Hollister and mmittee of the Girl Scout ouncil of Coastal Carolina, i treasurer of the Wilmington hapter of the N. C. Symphony iciety, a member of the Of cial Board of Trinity lleth list Church, and to a Kt anlan. Mrs. Frank Thompson and family spent the weekend with tor. and Mrs. Malcolm Stowsrt rhey visited Mr. and Mrs.. A. 1. Kenly in Portsmouth. T?, for several days, he automobile and he sum toned an ambulance. Dowell was taken to Warren leneral Hospital here for reatment of injuries he claim d was sustained when he st acked by the three men .along nth a 15-year-old boy who was ot jailed because of his age. Warrenton Township Con table W. D. Vaughan said the ten were arrested and jailed n Wednesday night. A previ ius charge of assault had irought the arrest of Vaughan in Tuesday night, and he had ubsequently been released rom the Warren County jail inder a $50 bond. According to officers, the in :ident occurred' after the three ndicted men returned from Ienderson and entered Hunt's testuarant in Norlina. After emaining there a few minutes, hey went outside where they aw Dowell. Vaughan and )owell reportedly became en [aged in an argument and lowell was shoved to the ' ground The restaurant owner told ' Dowell, who Constable Vaugh I an said had "been drinking,' j to leave the premises. Dowell reportedly left and crossed the ' highway. The three .men latei j charged with kidnapping, along with the 15-year-old boy, left to take a restaurant employee Troy Thompson, to his Nor i lina home. j Afterwards they returned | and Dowell charged they stopp j ed as he stood beside the I highway and forced him intc | their car. Once inside Dowel said the men began assaulting him with their fists. Dowell reported that one o: the men suggested that the; . take him across the Roanoke 1 River in Virginia and kill him ! Dowell said when the vehicle j slowed .is it entered the Wise . community, five miios south o: the Virginia stat* line, he 'jumped front the automobile He said the car continued or its way. Two Men Injured As Car Overturns Two persons were injured when an automobile overturn ed several times on a rural paved road two miles west of the Afton community on Tues day night. William Louis Kearney, 22, was taken by ambulance to Warren General Hospital here after being thrown from the car and suffering head lacera tions. A companion, Dorothea Wiggins. 21-year-old Warren County Negro, was also hos pitalized after the automobile overturned about 9:30 p. m. Excessive speed was listed as the cause of the accident, which demolished the 1951 model automobile, by State Trooper V. R. Vaughan of Warrenton. Vaughan said the couple was en route to Afton at the time of the accident. He said it could not be determined Whether the Wiggins woman was thrown from the vehicle. Kearney was charged with careless and reckless driving by the investigating officer. The wreck occurred on the Af ton-Cokesbury road after the driver lost control of the ve hicle on a curve. Over $150 Raised In UNICEF Drive Here More than $150.00 was col lected in about an hour on Hallowe'en night, October 31. For United Nations Internation al Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) by over 50 junior high young people, according to the three ministers?the Rev. John Link, tho Rev. James Stoney and the Rev. Troy Barrett?who helped the young people with this pro ject. The young people gathered it Wesley Memorial Methodist Church about 7:00 for a devo tional led by Mr. Stoney. Mr. Link divided up the territory; the young people went out in Four groups, came back and counted their money. Then hey enjoyed refreshments fur tished by Mrs. J. E. Cheves, Mrs. Burns Jones and the Em nanuel Episcopal Church, ram Hawkins and Mm. John Cameron of the Methodist Church assisted in serving. Mr. Jarrett had closing games and i friendship circle. The ministers asked that if here happens to be some who sere not contacted and who would like to Siva, that they will put the total amount to gether and'send It next week to help feed children around the world, and to help heal their diseases. "Our thanks to the young people and to the entire community of Warren ton for a Job well done," the ministers said. The next union service will be a Thanksgiving service on Thanksgiving eve. Wednesday, November 22, at 7:30 at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church MYF Take. Part In UNICEF Drive Members of the MYF of Providence Methodist Church, Afton, participated la the UNICEF drive on Tueeday eight. Sponsored by various to-' cal churches. UNICEF pro vides for the sick and needy children of the world. A social hour was enjoyed later at the heme of Mrs. W U Fuller with Mrs. J. H. An Irews jad Mrs. Jim Joint lh Mr. W. W. Mo ris la in War Green To Serve On Bond Committee O. Manson Green, local Fnft eral Director, haa bees pointed to serve aa a of the North Carolina Committee tao work in County toward the the $61,665 State Bond on November 7. On "Election Day" 1961 citizens of North Carolina have a chance to vote confidence in the fnture "Better North Carolina,' In working with friends the Citizens' Committee Warren County, Green is very enthusiastic possibility that the speak with the voice when they.cast their the Bond Issue in am tin, 1 ii A 1 county on wovroww , Working For Frank