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^OLUMNE '65 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10c Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 19GI NUMBER 47
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Tobacco Crop Control
Vote Set For Dec. 12
WASHINGTON ? Secretary
of Agriculture Orville L. Free
man announced Monday a
grower referendum Dec. 12 on
a proposal to continue federal
marketing quotas on the next
three flue-cured tobacco crops.
Quotas require approval by
at least two-thirds of the grow
ers voting.
Freeman also announced the
1962 crop planting allotment
for flue-cured tobacco will be
716,147 acres compared with
715,817 this year.
This allotment will be ap
portioned among farms largely
on the basis of past plantings.
As in the past, a small acreage
will be reserved for new farms.
For most farms, the 1962 allot
ment will be the srame as this
year.
Flue-cured tobacco is grown
in North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida
anu Alabama.
If quotas are approved, each
farm's quota would be the
amount produced on its allot
ted acres.
The 1962 crop?also if quo
tas are apilroved ? would be
suported at the 1959 support
rate of 55.5 cents a pound ad
justed upward or downward in
direct proportion to any change
in the cost of things farmers
buy.
Tobacco produced in excess
of a farm allotment would be
subject to a marketing penalty
of 75 per cent of the average
marketing price for this year's
crop.
Should quotas be rejected no
price supports would be of
fered.
New Boiler Installed
At Littleton School
LITTLETON ? Installation
of a new boiler will be com
pleted this week at Littleton
High School and students will
resume classes in the building
Monday, L. C. Robinson, prin
cipal, said Tuesday morning.
A new Spencer steel boiler
is being installed. The capacity
is about one and a half times
greater than that of the old
cast iron boiler and it should
provide ample heat for all parts
of the building, Robinson stat
ed. The hew stoker which was
installed last year is more than
adequate to feed the new boll
_$r, h* reported.
~3tS attempt was made" on
Monday of last week to repair
the old cast iron boiler by re
placing the cracked front por
tion. At 3 a. m. Tuesday morn
ing the workers discovered a
larger crack in the back sec
tion. - '
On Tuesday arrangements
? were made to hold classfes in
the churches, the community
building, the home economics
building, the agricultural build
ing and the school gymnasium.
A decision was made last
Thursday to replace the boiler
with the new steel type. The
new boiler was ordered from
Williamsport, Pa., and county
workers removed the old boil
er while the new one was be
ing transported here. It arriv
ed Saturday morning and in
stallation work was begun.
Robinson said he was almost
certain the installation job
would be completed Wednesday
and that the students would be
back in the school building
Monday. The studemts and
teachers win observe Thanks
giving holidays Thursday and
Friday, he said.
Robinson expressed apprecia
tion to the Littleton Baptist
and Methodist Churches and
to the Lions Club for the use
of their facilities in making it
possible to continue classes for
the past several days. He said
that everyone involved had
been helpful in assisting with
the adjustment.
Patrol Bears Down
On Drunk Drivers
The State Highway Patrol
will bear down on drunken
drivers during the Thanksgiv
ing holidays.
Major C. Williams, director
of the Enforcement Division of
the -Highway Patrol, said this
week th?t intensified efforts
would be made in every coun
ty in the state by highway
troopers to reduce operation of
* motor vehicles by drunken
drivers during this period.
Williams said that drunken
ness and intoxication continue
to be major problems in the
^^affic -safety field. Drunken
ness of drivers and pedestrains
is disproportionately higher
during winter holiday seasons.
"Incomplete but reliable facts
indicate," he said, "that our
enforcement results against
drunken driving are not ade
quate. If all North Carolina
traffic law enforcement agen
cies had scientific tests and
Post morten examinations to
determine the degree of intoxi
cation of drivers and accident
involved pedes trains (dead or
alive), the magnitude at the
could be measured
jjlMnntely.*'
According to "Traffic Safe
ps#a SB, Major Williams
continued, . . it may be said
with fair confidence that 60
per cent of the drivers in the
United States killed in car
crashes had been drinking and
that 50 per cent of the dead
drivers had blood alcohol levels
in the impairment range?over
0.05 per cent This means that
* the alcohol factor may well
he the largest single factor In
- (be traffic fatalities picture
, . 7" "Eleven states have poet
;mortem examiners who are
to make examina
in ail violent deaths."
Williams said that "im
ly Worth Carolina has
scientific tests or poet
examinations for all
would be
if conclusive facts were avail
able, and perhaps even enlight
ened to support traffic safety."
Preacher Does
Fancy Dance
?Maybe Twist
ALBERMARLE ? The wed
ding party was stunned by the
preacher's antics.
The wedding rehearsal had
started as usual. Dr. J. White
Iddings, pastor of First Luth
eran Church here, had just
proclaimed solemnly that the
dignity of the occasion must bo
upheld,.and he emphasized the
seriousness of the occasion.
The organist began the re
cessional. . ? , '.
Then the parson launched
into a strange sort of dance.
It began as something like the
shimmy of the 1920s and
wound up as a sort of cross be
tween the Charleston "and the
lOOl's twist.
Bride and groom and others
in the party stared,, bug-eyed,
as the pastor bolted for a door
as the music faded.
The bride's father comment
ed after the Saturday night
rehearsal: "I was following the
! ceremony in the church man
ual, and I couldn't find a thing
about a strange dance. I didn't
know what was,happening."
But Parson Iddings knew.
A yellow Jacket had crawled
up the preacher's trouser leg
and stung him, not once, but
thrice, above theknee.
Elected To Vestry
L. B. Beddoe, Arthur WQ
llams and J. E. Cheves were
elected members of the vestry
of Emmanuel Episcopal Church
-at a congregational supper held
St the Parish Hoose on Mon
day night. They succeed John
O. Mitchell, Shipp McOarroU
and William Boyce under a
Farm Landlords
SS Regulations
Are Revised
RALEIGH ? The Social Se
curity Administration has re
vised its regulations on farm
landlords so that many who
could not qualify in the past
are now eligible.
John Ingle, Manager of the
Raleigh Office, pointed out that i
under the old rule "farm, land-1
lords received social security
credit for their income from
the farm only if they personally
were 'materially participating'
in the production, or maqage
ment of the production, of the
crops. Now, however, a farm
landlord who has an agent
'materially participating' can re
ceive social -security credit for
his farm income. The agent
may be a friend, relative,
neighbor, or other person or
firm representing the farm
landlord."
In effect, Ingle said, "This j
means that some farm owners I
who were previously found in
eligible for social security may j
now qualify.''
For example, Mrs. Jones, a
farm owner, lives in town. Un
der an arrangement with her
tenant, Mrs. Jones' brother su
pervises the work of the ten
ant. As Mrs. Jones' agent, he
makes all the important deci
sions affecting the production
of the crop. Previously, Mrs,
Jones could jiot receive social
security credit for her income
from the farm since, she left
the farm operation entirely up
to her brother. Now, though,
since her brother, as her agent,
"materially participates" for
her, she could receive social
security credit for her farm
income.
Ingle advised farm owners
whose previous claim for social
security benefits were denied
because they were not per
sonally participating in the
farming operation, and had
someone, as their agent, super
vising the farm operation, to
get in touch with the social
security office. They may now
be eligible for benefits.
Dates For Peace
Corps Tests Set
Postmaster Leonard Daniel
announced Tuesday that the
entrance tests for the Peace
Corps will be given on Tues
day and Wednesday, November
28 and 29.
The place of the non-com
petitive examinations will be
the main postoffide in Raleigh
and the time is 8:30 a. m.
promptly.
Daniel said that Peace Corps
posters giving this information
are being displayed in the
local postoffice on the bulletin
board.
Church To Have
Bazaar, Dinner
The Annual Bazaar and Tur
key Dinner will be held at the
Macon Methodist Church on
Friday, December "1, beginning
at 5:30 p. m.
A chicken salad and a child's
plate will also be featured.
Attractive items and canned
goods will be on gale and dur
ing the evening two cakes will
be auctioned off to the highest
bidder.
The dinner and bazaar are
sponsored by the Woman's So
ciety of Christian Service of
the Macon Methodist Church.
Draft Board Office
To Be Closed
The Warrenton Selective
Service office will be closed
on Thursday and Friday and
will re-open on Monday, No
vember 27, Selby Benton, chair
man, announced Tuesday.
Those whose 18th birthdays
fall on these days are asked
to report at the draft board
office on Monday.
Miss Mary Brodie Jones, a
student at the University of
North Carolina, arrived Wed-1
nesday to spend the holidays'
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. I
The Areola Community Committee is shown making plans for the 1961 judging. Members of
the committee are, left to right: Elmer Harris, Mrs. Robert Gupton. Miss Ann Rackley, assist
ant home agent, George W. Davis, Amos Capps and Roy Harmon. (Extension Photo)
Cooley In Agreement
Godfrey Raps Stories
On Feed Grain Policy
RALEIGH ? A top federal
Department of Agriculture of
ficial hit out here Monday at
"most of the metropolitan pre*3
land national magazines" for
I not carrying "the true facts
| about the farm programs of
President Kennedy's adrninl
'stration.
Horace Godfrey, director of
the Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service for
the L'SDA, charged that "it
seems almost impossible to set
the -record straight through
most of the metropilitan press
and national magazines."
Godfrey was especially criti
cal of reports in big city pap
ers and magazines that have
branded the new "feed grains
program as a financial bust.
Says Farm Income Up
Godfrey said the true fapts
I of the program, under which
corn and grain sorghum grow
ers can get federal payments
for reducing plants, are:
"1. It has increased farm in
come?up 10 per cent.
"2 It has assured consum
ers of stable prices for meat
and dairy products.
"3 It will cost $500 million
less than the program last
year.
"4. It will reduce the govern
ment holding-of feed grain."
Godfrey, former ASC head in
Warrenton Boy
Named To Who's
Who In Colleges
A Warrenton boy has been
chosen as a college representa
tive in a national publication
featuring outstanding students.
Tasker Polk of Warrenton is
one of 3 students at East Caro
lina College, Greenville, an
nounced as representatives of
the college in the 1961-62 edi
tion of the national publica
tion "Who's Who Among Stu
dents in American Universi
ties and Colleges." This work
includes biographical sketches
of outstanding students in edu
cational institutions throughout
the nation.
Those representing East Caro
lina are upper classmen tyho
have excellent records in schol
arship, leadership, and partici
pation in extra-curricular activ
ities and who give indications
of future usefulness to Bociety.
They were nominated for the
honor by a committee of stu
dents, faculty members and ad
ministrative officers at the col
lege.
Dance At Wise
X Thanksgiving dance will
be held at the Wise School,
house tonight (Friday, Novem
ber 24) from 7:30 until 11:30,
under the sponsorship of the;
Wise-Paschall Home Demon
stration Club. Admission 25c;
girls will be admitted free.
No Lions Meeting
The regular meeting, of the
Warrenton Lions Club, sche
duled to be held here Friday
night, has Lean cancelled be
came of the Windsor-John
Graham football gama at Rocky
Mount, lion Pmld-1 Dak.
Jones said
, North Carolina, charged that
I stories in big papers and other
j news media 'lead the general
public to believe that all farm
| programs are a failure."
t He said Tar Heel Congress
j man Harold Cooley issued a
press ? release in answer to
| criticism of the program last
j week and Cooley's statement
"was not carried in a single
metropolitan newspaper."
"But let there be just one
p otion made by ? critic of
one of our farm programs, and
it will make headlines," God
frey said.
Godfrey used a blackboard
full of figures to show that
there could be as much as
$974 million saving to the tax
payers from the feed grains
program this year.
"This is the story we can't
seem to get across," he said.
"The feed grain program has
been- effective.
"That's the record they want
to juggle around and make look
like a failure. If they can do
that with the feed grain pro
gram. they can do it to the to
bacco program," he warned.
'Godfrey also came out in
favor of the Kennedy admini
stration's proposal to liberal
ize the present reciprocal trade
agreements through legislation
in thh next session of Congress.
Miss Oeson Tells
Club Women Of
Work Of Library
Miss Elaine von Oeson, Head
of the Extension Division,
North Carolina State Library,
spoke interestingly to the War
renton Woman's Club on No
vember 16 in the little dining
room of the Hotel Warren.
She discussed the State Li
brary and its meaning to War
ren County. Miss von Oeson's
visit was a part of Warren
County's celebration of Nation
al Children's Book Week.
The speaker outlined the pro
gram of the State Library,
which allots State tax money
as well as Federal funds for
salaries, books and book pro
cessing. Under the present
plan, the State library will
purchase, upon request from
local librarians, and at a great
savings, books which are pro
cessed in Raleigh, and are
made ready for use in the local
libraries.
In 1841, Warren County
spent 2c per capita more than
the State average for libraries.
In 1801, the county spent 4c
per capita more than the aver
age; and in 1880, He less than
the average.
The meeting was presided
over by Mrs. T. R. Hawkins,
the president
Services At RMgeway
Holy Communion win be oh
served at the Church of tlx
Good Shepherd, Rklgeway, m
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday
November 23, at $00 o'clocl
in the morning. The Rev
James M. Stoney will be ii
Of ?.
I Godfrey made the remarks
; at a hearing on tobacco allot
ments for next year held here
by the USDA.
j VIEWS BACKED BY
CONGRESSMAN COOLEY
Godfrey's views are support
ed by Congressman Harold D.
: Colley of North Carolina, chair
! man of the House Committee
| on Agriculture. In a prepared
i' statement Cooley defends the
|! program and says that it will
11 bring a billiofi dollar boost is
farm income. His statement
follows:
The bitter assaults by Mr
Charles B. Shuman, President
of the American Farm Bureau
| Federation, upon current farm
i supply and prict stabilization
I programs of our Government,
| are careless of fact and irre
j sponsible. They are anti-farm
,er. M~. Shuman is' undermin
| ing efforts of farmers through
, out the Nation, Including Farm
Bureau members, to achieve
I an equitable position with
| workers in other areas of our
ifree enterprise economy.
I It is time to set the record
j straight. I hope the news me
' | dia of the country will examine
the facts and inform the peo
ple, independently from any
statement either Mr. Shumar
or I may make.
Mr. Shuman states: "The
feed grain program is a gigant
ic billion-dollar bust! It is the
most costly failure in the Ions
history of attempts to fix
prices and control productloi
of farm crops by legislation.'
But what are the facts?
The first year of the opera
tion of this feed grains pro
grams, after eight years of de
clining farm prices and deep
ening farm depression, will (1)
bring a $1,000,000,00 boost in
the Nation's farm income, (2)
halt the staggering build-up of
farm surpluses experienced un
(See RAPS, page 8)
Latin America To
Be Study Subject
Methodist Church
Latin America will be th
subject of a discussion in th
Fireside Room of Wesley Mi
morial Church on next Monda;
November 27, from 3:00 1
5:00 p. m.
"The Christian Mission i
Latin America* will be led b
Mrs. Troy J. Barrett "Land (
' Eldorado," by Sante Urbert
' Barbieri, will be the textbool
Here Latin America is pletu
ed, not as a land where "stree!
are paved with gold," but rati
er as a land of "golden o]
port unity."
Latin America la one of th
main battle grounds In the col
war between Russia and th
United Mates, the Rev. Tro
J. Barrett said In announcin
the study. "There- are man
reason why it is so importer
that we know about the 9
cenutriea * Latin America,
I he said. ' a year the chord
wide ?' in the Methodh
Church ?. s a look at the lan
and the people of these copt
tries and seeks a "
standing of
Areola Is Second Prize Winner
.jClub Wins $150 For
iiCommunity Betterment
The Areola Community Club
of 'Warren County won second
place at the Capital Area De
velopment Association meeting
in the Student Union Building
at State College in Raleigh on
Thursday night of last week.
George D. Hunter, president
of the Areola Club, received
the $150 award on behalf of
the club. Some 16 members of
the Areola Club attended the
meeting along with 16. other
Warren County community
club members.
The Bethany Community Club
of Johnson County was first
prize winner and received $200.
A Warren native was chosen
president of the Capital Area
Development Association. He is
James C. Gardner, executive
vice-president of the Chizcns
Bank and Trust Company of
Henderson. Gardner is a na
tive of the Oakville community
of Warren County, and lived
at Warrenton for several years
while he was an official of the
old Bank of Warren.
Gardner, who served for the
past year as vice-president of
the association, succeeds John
Hunter of Raleigh.
The Capital Area is compos
ed of seven counties. Franklin
Granville, Johnson, Harnett
Vance, Wake and Warren.
J. M. Wasson, vice-president
and general manager of South
em Bell Telephone Company
was the guest speaker for the
evening.
The Areola Club was in com
petition for the area prize as
the result of being the Warrer
Ceuaty winner. A factor In th<
victory was the building an<
the furnishing of the commun
itv club house and landscaping
Othe- factors included street
lights, club programs, rural
fire department, the Methodist
Parsonage, and the preparatior
of a booth at the county fair.
These projects were given ir
detail in a recent report by
the Areola Community Com
tee as follows:
Building A Community
Clubhouse
Interest was waning at the
first of the year in the Areola
Community. Our community
group had been unable to ob
tain the lot on which we want
ed to build our community
building and we were begin
ning to get discouraged. Then
at the January meeting, a sparl
in the form of a donation ol
a lot set our group afire.
The morning after this meet
ing, work was begun by tear
ing do;vn an old building or
the property. By our Februar;
meeting the lot had been clear
ed and the foundation anc
frame of the new Arcdla Com
munity Building gave visiblt
signs that the people in Arcoli
were now filled with commun
ity spirit and zeal. Before this
spark, only about 15 families
had even shown any interest
in the community organization.
Now there were at least 30
families participating.
As work speedily progressed
on the building, outlying fami
lies began giving their efforts
toward helping the community
project and interest soared.
One farmer living five miles
away from the community be
came interested and gave many
hours of his time without
charge. The carpenter in
charge of the building (also
from an outlying part of the
commui..ty) became so interest
ed in the efforts of the com
j munity that he and another
carpenter built and donated
! part of the kitchen cabinets.
[ Timber from an old building
! given to the group by Conti
nental Can Company formed
the frame work. Then when
! other material was needed, Ar
I cola Lumber Company donated
I S600.00 worth of new lumber,
i The bricks for the underpin
I ning were given by another in
terested person.
As work on the building
| progressed, more and fore fam
ilies helped, giving their time
and money, and gaining from
these donations a feeling of
"community togetherness."
The women of the commun
ity put their efforts into fund
raising. Five bake sales were
held, raising a total of $125.00.
As soon as the building was
ready for occupancy, which
was early in the spring, they
began serving meals to various
groups such as the American
Legion, Sunday School classes,
and various class re-unions. At
least $250.00 was raised this
way. A pig was given and a
community barbecue was held,
netting the giVup $119.00.
Our group tried to use the
pay-as-you-go plan and have
succeeded remarkably well In
fulfilling the goal of "paying
at least 3/4 of the cost of the
building by November 1, 1961."
Today we owe only $2,500.00
on our building which is valu
ed at between eight and ten
See ARCOLA, page 8)
Dance To Be Held
At Littleton
A Thanksgiving Dance will
be held at Littleton on Thanks
giving night, November 23,
from 8:00 until 11:30 p. m.
The dance, sponsored by the
Auto Safety Club of Warren
County, will be held in tho
Littleton Community Building,
with music furnished by the
"Fabulous Continentals."
Admission will be $1.25 a
couple; 75c for stags.
Motorist In Hurry
Find Way To Court
Local motorist in two big
a hurry found themselves in
court last week.
Fourteen of fifteen cases
tried in Warren County Re
corder's Court last Friday by
Judge Julius Banzet dealt with
violations of motor vehicle
laws, mostly with speeding, and
a sixteenth case, dealing with
such violations, was remanded
to Magistrate's court.
In the one case not con
cerned with motor vehicle laws
violations, Rexie Yancey was
charged with non-support A.
4 months rood sentence was
suspended for two years upon
condition defendant pay into
the office of Pub^c Welfare
$7.80 each week, commencing
November 24, for support of
his wife and child, and pay
court coats.
John Cbertum Alston waa <
in court, , charged with failure
to change title to motor ve- <
hide within SO days. This
case was remanded to magi
strate's court
James Carl Alston, waa given!'
a 00-dayi road sentence when i
he waa found guilty of reck-1
leas driving. He appealed to, 1
Superior Court and
bond waa aat at
F Others
lations of the motor vehicle
laws were:
William Edward Henderson,
exceeding safe speed, but apt
state speed limit, court costs.
Richard Allen Dodson, speed
ing, costs of court.
N. B. Mustian, speeding, costs
of court.
T h,o m a s Howard Iverson
reckless driving, $29.00 and
costs.
Jesse R. Jenkins, speeding,
court costs.
William Dennis Harris, speed
ing, court costs.
John Williard Ayscue, reck
less driving?guilty of driving
M) miles per hour in 10 mile
tone, $10.00 and coat*. , . ^
Robert Lee Coleman, aRow
ng unlicensed person to
crete motor vehicle, $15.00
Jean William., no
>rator*a license, $39.00
Wllbert Hargrove,
or's license and
vrong aide of roed.
Paul Henry Perry,
or's