Y our Best Advertising Medium cThr liarreu Srrr ? . PrV?Ung * ?%?????> ^ J SU-, ?? Your Best Advertising Medium VOLUME 66 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10c Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1962 NUMBER 31 Three Alleged Drunk Drivers Freed By Jury Three defendants in Warren County Recorder's Court last Friday, charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, were found not guilty by a jury. Other defendants, charged with lesser violations, did not fair so well, and a number of Wortham Rites To Be Held Today Mrs. Mary L. Wortham, 92, died at her home in Warren ton on Tuesday at 11:45 a. m. Funeral services will be con ducted Friday afternoon from the Warrenton Colored Baptist Church at 4 o'clock by the Rev. R. W. Davis. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Q. Grady of Wit mingt"n, and Miss Lucy Wor tham o the home; four sons, W. Shaw Wortham and J. Stewart Wortham, both of White Plains, N. Y., Joseph H. Wortham of Savannah, Ga., and Paul Wortham of the home; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Stew Sale Members of Jerusalem Meth Members of Jerusalem Meth odlst Church will sponsor a Brunswick stew sale at the home of Mrs. Van Coleman on Friday. August 10. The stew, which will sell for 85c?per qnart, will be ready at noon. Proceeds will be used for painting the church. Services At Ridgeway Holy Communion services will be held at the Church of the Good' Shepherd, Ridgeway, on Sunday morning at 9:00 o'clock, the Rev. James M. Stoney, Jr., rector, announced yesterday. Guest Minister The Rev. Jimmy Ay cock of Angler will be the guest min ister st Sulphur Springs Bap tist Church on Sunday morn ing at the 11 o'clodc worahip service. He is pastor of Ka? nebec Baptist Church near An gler. He and his family are guests of his parents, Mr. srJ Mrs. T. M. Ayeock, Sr. defendants had to pay fines and costs. Charged with drunk driving and freed by the jury in three cases were John Morton Bur ton, Bobert Perry Carter and Herbert Perry Denton. Eugene Joplyn was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's li cense and was fined $25.00 and taxed with court costs. Clarence Douglas Sellers, found guilty of speeding, was fined $15.00 and costs. Ernest William Faulkner was fined $15.00 and costs when he was found guilty on a speeding charge. Newell Owens Propst was taxed with court costs when he was found guilty of speed ing. Hansel Merrill, Joyner, Jr., was in court charged with im proper registration of a motor vehicle. He was taxed with court costs. Robert E. Matthew was found guilty on a non-support charge and was ? sentenced to the roads for twelve months by Judge Julius Banzet. He ap pealed the case and appear ance bond was set at $250.00. Donnie Julian Richardson was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle with improper lights and with improper reg tration. The judgment of the court was that the defendant ' pay the court costs. Landlord, Tenant Find Cukes Pay The production of cucum bers proved a profitable opera tion this year for W. A. Con nell and Son and their tenant, Daniel Williams. They produced 783.i bushels of cucumbers on 0.63 acres, for which they received $886.77. Twenty-two and three-tenths of the crop rated No. 1; 38.8 per cent No. 2, and 38.9 No. 3. ?According to Frank"Reams, County Agent, the production rate was 809.8 bushels per acre, and the per acre gross should have been $953.80. Fertilizer was aplied at the rate of 753 pounds per acre, using a 5-10-6 formula which was drilled in the rows. The crop was top-dressed with 20 0-20, at the rate of 217 pounds per acre. Reams said that no irriga tion was used, but that the land was in an excellent state of cultivation when the cucum tHW were planted and that Williams did a good Job of picking clese. Bob Butler, local representa tive of Mount Olive Pickle Company, for whom the cu cumbers ware grown under contract, this week his pleasure at the high yield. "When a farmer can gross nearly $1,000 an acre on cu cumbers in a short growing season, with a relatively low cost for seed and fertilizer," he said, "I think it is clearly demonstrated that cucumbers are a good crop." Sales Heavy, Prices Weak In Georgia VALDOSTA, Ga?More leaf 1$pe offerings and fewer primings are on the floors of the Georgia-Florida flue-cured tobacco markets, where vol ume continues heavy in the second week of sales. Quality of tobacco was about the same Tuesday as the day before, the U. S. Department of Agriculture said. Declines of $1 to $2 per hundred pounds wer^ shown for around half the grades. A few primings showed gains while one-fourth of the grades remained firm. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sprulll and sons are on the Southern Tobacco Market. t ' ' *? Mrs. Freda Hall and Miss Rebecca Hill of Wei don vMted Mrs. A. W. Hall last weak. Coley Spring School at Afton as it looked on Tuesday morn ing when the accompanying pictures were made. The frame Negro school building where three teachers serve 102 pupils in seven grades, is one of nine small schools that will be consolidated if a $400,000 school bond issue is approved by the voters on August 18. School authorities say that this building is not the worst in the county. Plans of the Board of Education call for the con struction of a consolidated cost of $200,000, the addition of rooms at Northside at a cost of from $35,000 to $50,000. and the construction of a school for the Haliwas near Bethle hem at a cost of $150,000. The top photo was taken from the front of the building and the lower picture is taken fropi the side. (Staff Photos) New Store To Be Opened Soon In Littleton LITTLETON?A new ready to-wear clothing store will open soon in Littleton, it has been announced by Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Cheves, who are under taking the new venture. The store will feature clothes for ladies, girls, boys, and some men's work clothing. Cheves said he would carry men's suits later. The new store, located in the old post office building, is ad jacent to Cheves Furniture Company and a door has been cut from one building to fhe other. A specific date has not been set for the opening, Cheves said. Workers are busy paint ing and arranging counters and racks for the merchan dise which is arriving every day. He hopes to be open well in advance of school open ing. A large part of the mer chandise is here, and just needs unpacking, he said. Mr. and Mrs. Cheves have operated the furniture store for the past - two years and will* continue to operate that business. Less Unemployed Than In Two Years WASHINGTON ?Unemploy ment fell by 445,000 In July, and the idle rate dropped to its lowest point in more than two years. The job improvement may take, some of the steam out of the drive In some Quarters for an immediate tax cut to im prove the economy. Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg said in announcing the July job figures that the employment situation is only one of a mixed bag of statis tics which the administration is scanning in seeking a tax cut decision. Goldberg called the new job figures encouraging and said it la always welcome news when unemployment declines. la Mr. Morton Ayeock is receiv ing treatment in Warren Gen eral Hospital. Mr. Jimmy Mlggs of South Orange, N. J., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. A. HOllard ai " nimble in Areola. JV Social Security Payments In Warren Nearly Million Woman Charged With Poisoning Her Husband A Warren County Negro wo man is being held in Warren County jail, charged with pois oning her husband. Patrania G. Perry, 32, of Perrytown was arrested Satur day by Warren County officers following the preliminary re port of an autopsy at Chapel Hill on her husband, Vance Perry. Perry died at the Chapel Hill Hospital op July 18. Ac cording to hospital physicians, the postmortem showed large traces of poison. Perry was first admitted to Warren General Hospital on July 1 and stayed for eleven days before returning home and to his work at the Tungs tein Mines near Townsville. He worked at the mines on Friday, July 13 ,and became ill after a late supper, accord ing to Sheriff Jim Hundley. He was taken to the Chapel Bur well Funeral Held In Raleigh On Saturday Funeral sen-ices for William A Burwell, a Warrenton na live, were held Saturday at the Mitchell Funeral Home in Raleigh by the Rev. John W i Kincheloe, Jr., pastor of Hayes Barton Baptist Church. Burial was in Montlawn -Cemetery. Mr. Burwell. 71, of 115 Hud son Street, Raleigh, died at Rex Hospital, Raleigh or Thursday of last week. The son of the late William A. Burwell and Olivia Burton. Mr Burwell was born in War renton and was educated at the old John Graham Academy and at the University of North Carolina. Prior to World War I he operated Burwell's Drug Store here, closing thir business when he was called into ser vice He reopened his drug store in 1919 and sold it to J. B. Boyce in 1920. After wards he became connected with Eli Lily and Company with headquarters in Raleigh, and remained with his firm until his retirement a few years ago. Fllowing his re tirement he on occasions serv ed as substitute druggist for Hunter Drug Company. He was a registered pharmacist and a member of the Wake County Pharmaceutical Asso ciation. He was a member of Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in Warrenton. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Katie Payne Burwell; two brothers. Pettway B. of Walter boro, S. C? and John Harvell of Washington, D. C.; a> half sister- Miss Olivia Burwell of Greensboro; one step-daughter, Mrs. Donald V. Gnau of Ea9t Arora, N. Y.; and one step grandchild. Overby Funeral Held Thursday Funeral services for Marvin Durant Overby, Sr., were con ducted Thursday at 11 a. m. at Blaylock's Funeral Home in Warrenton by the Rev. P?* Parker and the Rev K E Brickhouse. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery in Macon. Mr. Overby, 63, died at his residence at Axtelle around noon on Monday, after an ill ness of four months. He was born and reared in Warren County and was a member ot the Macon Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, the former Mary Alston Wat son; five daughters, Mrs Wil liam x. Bajlard of Siler City, Mrs H. C. MacAmls of Cull man, Ala., Mrs. Russell Col* of King, Mrs Cassell of Cary, andMrs. T. A of Vandalia, HI.; ? D. Overby, Jr., of the home, am warn ?my B.'w ez s sc? of Portsmouth, Va? and Hill Hospital on Sunday where he died on July 18. Sheriff Hundley said that Mrs. Perry had been charged with running around with another man and there was considerable talk about foul play when her husband died He said he made the arrest when a physician reported that an autopsy showed traces oi arsenic in Perry's body. . Mrs. Perry denies all knowl edge of the cause of her hus : | band's death, Sheriff Hundley I'said. According to the sheriff, i Mrs. Perry refused to give con sent to having the report of the autopsy turned over to his department, and pending a court older to make the in tj formation available, she is be lling held in jail awaiting a pre liminary hearing. BOY AT PUMP?Young boy pumps water at Coley Spring School. All the nine remaining small Negro schools in the county are served by this type water facility. (Staff Photo) Land Measuring In County Completed Initial measurement of crops and land uses in Warren Coun ty has been completed and all operators notified of their measured acreage, T. E. Wat son, ASCS office manager, said yesterday. Watson said that it Is esti mated that on the 2,528 farms in the county, 26,000 acres of crops and land uses were measureu during the perform ance season. The job this year, Watson said, was the largest in the history of the county, since in addition to measuring the acre age in cotton, tobacco, peanuts and wheat, over 1100 farms diverted land under the 1962 feed grain and wheat stabili zation program. This necessi tated the measuring of feed' grain and the acreage divert ed on these farms. In addition, he said, there were 73 farms in the county participating in the conserva tion reserve phase of the soil bank program. All soil hank base crops on these farms were measured in addition to the allotment crops grown. Watson said that about 40 er cent of the farms of the county received excess notices after initial measurement was made, which indicated failure to comply with one or more of the following: (1) too much tobacco, (2) too much cotton, (9) excess peanuts, (4) too much corn?feed grain farms, (5) too much wheat, (6) not enough diverted acreage, and (7) too much diverted acreage. Too much diverted acreage re quires no action on the part of the producer unless he de sires to harvest a crop from or grata the diverted acreage. To date practically all farm operators have requested re messurement or disposition of will all be completed within a faw days, Wataan aakk Daring the peak * tkt per formance season, (*.- , office manager said, 24 reporters were employed and eight tem porary employees were used in the county. PAUL LANCASTER, JR. Paul Lancaster Tapped Into State 4-H Honor Club Paul Lancaster, Jr., of Rt. 1, Manson, National 4-H Tractor Project Winner of 1961, was tapped into the State 4-H Hon or Club at the annual initia tion ceremony held during 4H Club Week in Raleigh la week. At the recognition banquet held on Friday night, Lancas tar was awarded a $100 schol arship by the honor club. Two scuh scholarships are awarded each year by the State 4-H Honor Club. Nearly a million dollars were received by Warren County citizens in Social Se curity payments in 1961. Social Security payments about equalled the amount in wages paid during that period by the Carolina Sportswear Company, largest employer of labor in the county, with a payroll of between $900,000 and $1,000,000 annually. At the end of 1961, 1803 persons in Warren County | were receiving a total of $78, 074.00 in Social Security bene | fits each month, according to M. G. Morris, field representa tive. This amounts to $936, 888 per year. A large amount of the Social Security pay ments was paid to survivors of deceased workers. The Social Security law pro vides for the payment of monthly benefits to widows, widowers, parents and chil dren under certain conditions, Morris said. The primary fac tor is that the deceased work er must have a required amount of work under Social Security before his survivors may be entitled to monthly payments. Due to changes in the law in 1960 and 1961 the amount of work needed has been substantially reduced; threefore, survivors who filed before 1960, and were disa-1 lowed, may now be entitled to receive monthly benefits. Morris s?id that persons who are survivors of a deceased workers and are at least 62 years old should check with their Social Security represent ative. Also widows who are less than 62 but have a child of the deceased worker who is under 18 or a disabled. child ow la in their ?re ahuuld? inquire at the Social Security. office. "Although many people in Warren County are receiving benefits each month, there may be others who should be gett ing benefits," Morris said. "Don't delay?check today, you may be one of these persons." Two Communiti* Name Adult 4-H Leaders Inez and Areola Communi ties have just recently named the adult leaders who will lead the community 4-H club in their respective communities. Ann R. Kilian, assistant home agent, said yesterday. Spon soring committees made op of seven to eight people hi each community named theee lead ers. Mrs. James Harris, IBM. Richard Coleman and George Davis, Jr., will serve in Usee, while Mrs. Melvin Shearin and George Hunter were selected for Areola. , These leaders will heed up a new type of 4-H precnah.fct their communities; ular meetings in the ity each month, Mrs. said. ? Watson Funeral Held Here Monday Funeral services for Mamie Pettyjohn Watson, 83, were conducted at the Wedley Memorial Methodist Churtfc on Monday afternoon at 3 with interment in M Cemetery. The pastor, Rev. Troy Barrett, was In charge of the services, assisted by the Rev. Vereen of Raleigh, a pastor of the local church. The widow of the late R. T. Watson, for many years presi dent of the Citizens Bank, Mrs. Watson died at Warren Gen eral Hospital cm "?? Mr*. Watson is three sisters, Mrs. Burwell of Wamnton, Fred Fuqua of Va.; ?, Walker, D. Pettyjohn, aU of ,.Wh ..*? ; '*? ----

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