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VOLUME 66 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10c Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1962 NUMBER 32
Voters To Determine
Fate Of $400,000 School
Bond Issue On Saturday
Warren County voters will
on Saturday determine the fate
of a $400,000 school bond- is
sue.
The polls in the 14 precincts
of the county will open at
6:30 a. m. and close at 6:30
p. m.
Funds to be raised by the
bond issue would be used to
eliminate nine small Negro
^schools in the county used by
members of the Negro race
and to build a consolidated
school in the southern part of
the county. In addition a mod
ern school would be built for
The Haliwa Indians near Areola
with HiVlifax County paying
part of the expenses, and ad
ditional rooms would be ad
ded at Northside school to care
for pupils now attending small
schools in the northern part
of the county.
The Board of Education has
estimated the cost of the con
solidated school in the south
ern part of the county at
$200,000. the Haliwa building
at $150,000 as the county's
part, and from $35,000 to
$50,000 for additions at the
Northside school.
Both the Board of Education
and the Board of Commission
ers have pointed out that no
increase in the tax rate is
anticipated because of the pas
sage of the bond issue They
explain that the present capi
tal reserve fund, which has
been levied for some years,
Hearing To Be
Held On Request
For Zoning Area
A part of Warren County ly
ing adjacent to the Gaston and
''Kerr Lake reservoirs may be
designated as a zoning area, if
not opposed by Warren Coun
ty citizens.
The County Commissioners
agreed Monday to have a bear
ing on the proposal at their
next regular meeting on Sep
tember 4, and ordered that no
tice of the meeting be publish
ed twice in The Warren Re
cord and Thp Littleton Ob
server, Warren County news
papers.
The zoning areas, which may
be seen on a map to be posted
in the county court house,
roughly follows the roads lead
ing around the Gaston Lake
south of Vaughan to the Hal
ifax County line, and a portion
of Kerr Lake in Warren Coun
ty.
If the zoning area is adopt
ed the Warren County Plan
ning Board would have the
power to designate the par
poses for which property tn
the area may be used.
Action of the board in call
ing the hearing; came after
.George Monaghan of the De
partment of Conservation and
Development had told '
raliaioners of the <*
area, the reasons for son
log the property and neean
sary steps for calling a
ing.
He said that if the
area is approved that a zon
ing ordinance would be
(See HEARING, page M)
Pre-school Clincs
To Bo Held
The Warren County Health
Department announced yester
day that Pre-school Clinics
will be held for children who
were not able to attend the
spring clinics.
A clinic for pnpils who wi&
ho attending the white eehoOlS
will be held on Wednesday,
August 15. The one for pnpils
attending _the Negro schools
will be on Wednesday, August
22. These clinics will be con
tacted at the Health Co
from 8:30 A. M. to 3:30 P
All parents whose
lure not had an
Mfore entering
?gad to take their
In their family doctor
to the Health I>
or, the appropriate
? Am, I ? Eh D
would be enough to retire the |
bonds under its rate. All mem
bers of the two boards are ac-j
tively working for the passage i
of the bond issue,
bond issue.
The Negro schools to be
eliminated in the event the
bond issue is passed, are all of
frame construction, and are
the only frame buildings being
used for school purposes in
the county. Pupils are being
taught by from one to three
teachers from the first through
the eighth grades. In one of
thaae schools one teacher!
teaches four grades and in;
other schools two and three:
grades are taught by one
teacher, according to schcool
authorities.
The nine frame buildings
have no central heat, no run
ning water, and are served by
outdoor toilets. Pumps are used!
to raise water from wells, sev
eral of which have been con
demned by the Warren County
Health Department
Repairs and renovation of
the buildings and the correc
tion of the conditions that
causes the contamination of
the wells, would be costly, the
school authorities say.
Negro leaders and school
patrons have been increasing
insistently that better facilities
be provided by Warren County
for its Negro children attend
ing these small schools Last
year patrons of the Snow Hill
school refused to send their
children to that school. The
children were transferred to
already crowded Hawkins
School in Warrenton.
School authorities say there
is no further room in any of
the Negro consolidated schools
to take care of any pupils at
tending the present small
schools.
Request For Negro,
Deputy Not Heeded
a request that Warren
County employ a part-time!
Negro deputy sheriff failed to |
receive the endorsement of the
Board of County Commission
ers on Monday.
T. T. Clayton, Negro attor
ney, who made the request was
told that no money was pro
vided in the budget recently
adopted for the employment
of additional deputies, and that
deputies were appointed by the
sheriff and, approved by the
board. Sheriff Hundley tM?
out of town Monday.
Clayton said that his reason
for making the request, was
due to conditions arising
around the Recreation Center
in Norlina. He said that no in
toxicants were sold on the
premises and that every effort
was made to make the center
a place for wholesome family
gatherings. But, he said, many
persons buy whiskey and beer
elsewhere, drink it in their
cars, and become noisy and
rowdy.
He said that time after time
that Sheriff Hundley or his
deputies had appeared when
called, but when questioned no
one would tell on the one or
ones creating the disturbance.
He expressed the view that
colored people would more
readily give this information
to one of their own race.
A fairty large delegation of
Negro citizens appeared be
fore the board to raise some
questions in regard to the
school bond issue to be voted
upon Saturday. Odell Kearney,
who acted as spokesman, said
that he seriously questioned
whether the amount asked is
enough for the schools. It is
not so much a question of
buildings, but of other facili
ties. he said.
Hie commissioners told the
delegation that they had ap
peared before the wrong board.
They should have made their
views known to the board of
education and not to the com
missioners, who are only char
ged with raising the money
asked by the board of educa
tion. Had the Board of Educa
tion asked for $600,000, the
commissioners would have re
quested a bond issue of this
size, the commissioners said,
added that it might have been
much harder to pass a bond
issue of this size.
At any rate the delegation
not only appeared before the
wrong board, but too late, they
were told. Ballots have al
ready been printed and the
election is to be held Saturday,
they were told.
(See DEPUTY, page 10)
Pack Of Wild. Dogs
Poses Big Problem
A pack of wild dogs roam
ing in the vicinity has county
luthorities stymied as to the
best or any method of their
destruction.
The trouble is the separation
of the sheep from the goats,
thy the
or literally the food dogs from
the bad dogs.
It was revealed at Qte county
commissioner's meeting on
Monday that wild dogs were
killing calves in the neighbor
hood when Dr. W. Burns Jones,
Health Director, appeared be
fore the board In discuss
means of destroying these
logs. He was accompanied by
Wildlife Bangers and a biol
ogist from Raleigh.
The problem would be sim
plified if it eould be handled
under the rabies program, Dr.
lenss said, bat pointed out
that then b no evidence of
my rabies in the county. He
itploinod that if then wen
rabies in the neighborhood
that-he oSuld order a quaran
ine of the section and owners
mold then bo required to shot
V or tie their dogs, and then
driest dogs eenld he
Any cMtaon has the right to
dll a dog if he eeee H attach
ns his tanab. bat not other
vise. it was brought g?t in the
liscuasion. The dog warden
to sheet dogs
V it wi
Dr. Jones suggested that
trapping the dogs might be the
answer, but this also offers a
problem of legality. He said
that fox traps could be used
but in some cases they would
injure the leg of the captive
animals. Should this happen to
someone's prized dogs there
could well be unpleasant re
percussions
Dr. Jones said that live-ani
mal traps, built on the rabbit
gum principal, could be used,
but the cost would be prohib
itive.
The commissioners and Dr.
Jones withhold any1 action un
til County Attorney James tim
er is able to get a ruling from
the Attorney General as to the
legality of using fox traps.
It was brought out at the
meeting that these Wild dogs
had killed several valuable cal
ves in the county, and had be
coum so vicious aa to try te
attack persons who had re
treated to their pick-up trucks.
The wild dogs are believed
to bo living off the garbage
thrown into the town traoh
dump, and are becoming more
daring and vicious as time goes
on, it was stated. They hang
?round the dump by day and
at night they are joined by
taaae dogs from the town and
the rural sfclnity.
Walter Bender, a member of
(Bee DOGS, page If)
Jurors Drawn
For Sept. Term
Superior Court
Jurors for the September
Terc Criminal Term of Super
ior Court were drawn by the
County Commissioners on Mon
day as follows:
Eddie Pinkney, C. M. Bul
lock. St. Jones Richardson,
Miss Anne Burwell, William C.
Holtzman, Johnnie C. Bell, Ed
ward H. Moseley, R. L. Tray
lor, Jr., Walter Walker, Wil
liam Davis, Roy C. Neal, R. H.
Dillard, Lucius O'Neal, Jr?
Walter Monroe Gardner,
George W. Davis, Ned Long
Clark, Vance H. Dillard, Her
man T. Brauer, D. A. Grissom,
Cecil Adams, Dixon H. Ward,
R. E. Limer, Jr., J. W. May
field, Philip J. Bender, Ray
mony Perry Stegall, Palmer
Newsom, Mrs. Lottie K. Wal
ker, W. T. Comer, John D
Felts, Earl R. lamer.
J. Thomas Burton, Curtis
Morris, C. J. Perkinson
Thomas P. Rodwell, R. A. Bol
ton, George D. Dickerson, Wil
liam H. Burt, Mrs. E. L. Perry
G. H. Washington, E. B. Davis,
Richard J. Holtzman, Ernest A.
Turner, James Watson, B. T.
Smiley, Jr., Jack Thompson,
Grandison Christmas, F. E.
Wilson, Mrs. Allison Newsomc,
John L. Perkinson, R. M.
White, Jr., W. F. Alston, E. R.
Wood, S. D. Duke, Mrs. R C.
Mitchell, C. K. Davis, G. L
Alston, F. D. Hardy, E .W.
Shearin, Andrew Jiles Smiley,
John Henry Leonard.
Bridge Name To
Be Changed To
Eaton's Ferry
The new bridge across th?
Roanoke River near the site oi
Eaton's Ferry will be. knowi
as "ft* Baton's Ferry Bridge"
and not as Moores Bridge.
The county commissioners
admitted Monday that they
"goofed" in asking that the
bridge be named Moore's
bridge, and were not too clear
as to why the name was sug
gested.
Following a telephone call
to an official of the Highway
Commission in which the com
missioners said that they had
made a mistake and wanted
the bridge named "Eaton's
Ferry Bridge, they were told
if they would rescind their
action of June 7 and request
the change that the name
would be changed. The com
missioners did both.
The matter was brought to
the attention of the board on
Monday morning when Robert
Salmon and Franklin S tans
bury appeared before the com
missioners to protest the nam
ing of the bridge for Moor*.
Salmon, who acted as spokes
man, said that the people of
his section were proud of War
ren County and its history and
that Eaton's Ferry was an his
torical landmark whose name
should be preserved. He fur
ther said that the name Eaton's
Ferry woud be a proper desig
nation for the bridge as it is
known to so many people. The
name Moore would tell the
traveling public nothing, he
said.
The commissioners agreei
with Salmon and said that the;
had heard a great deal of eon
plaint since the publication a
an article in last Friday'
News and Ob never statin
that the new bridge WMld b
named hoON Bridge.
Football Physical#
To Be Held Aug. 14
Physicals for candidates tm
the John Graham High 8choo
football squad will be given al
2:80 on Tuesday, AMust 14
Coach Preacher P?ar sak
yesterday. Boys wig most at
the Health Center before 2:90
Parker also announced thai
?ccording to a new NCCH8AA
ruling every boy playing foot
Mil this year must have a
nouthpiece.
Dr. Sam Maasey and Dr. Wal
ter White are makh* these fat
the local beys and ethers tret
if charge. ~ '
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Three Jailed Here
In Poisoning Case
Three persons are now being
held in Warren County jail
charged with having a part in
the poisoning of a Warren
County Negro man.
Held under a murder charge
is Petronia G. Perry, 32, who
is alleged to have confessed to
feeding rat poison to her hus
band, Vance Perry, who died
in a Chapel Hill hospital on
July 18.
Held for conspiracy to com
mit murder are John Henry
Harris, 26, who allegedly help
ed plan the murder and who
obtained the poison for the
deed, and Maggie Williams Als
ton of near Louisburg, charged
with furnishing the rat poison.
Both have confessed, according
to Sheriff Jim Hundley, who
with Deputy Sheriff Bonnie
Stevenson have been investi
gating the case since Vance
Perry's death in Memorial Hos
pital In Chapel Hill and an au
topsy which followed.
Mrs. Perry denied all knowl
edge of the crime, Sheriff
Hundley said, until confronted
with the confession of John
Henry Harris, her boy friend.
Afterwards, the officer said,
it was a case of one telling
on the other.
Harris was arrested on Fri
day, July 27. He denied any
knowledge of the crime or any
part of it, but agreed to take
a lie detector test. Given the
test on Wednesday of last
week, he tripped on three ques
tions, and later confessed to
his part in the crime.
The story of the crime as
pieced together by Hundley
and Stevenson and SBI Agent
Lester Horton, who was called
into the case when it led into
Franklin County, is as follows:
On June 29 Vance Perry
was given the first dose of pois
on and on July 1 was taken to
Warren General Hospital from
which he was discharged on
July 12. The following day,
July 13. he was given a second
dose of poison. On July 15 he
was taken to Memorial Hospi
tal in Chapel Hill where he
died on July 18.
Following a post mortem ex
amination at the hospital
where large traces of arsenic
were found, Sheriff Hundley
placed Mrs. Perry under ar
rest on suspicion of having
poisoned her husband.
Sheriff Hundley said that
Mrs. Perry had been running
around with another man and
there was considerable talk
about foul play when her hus
band died.
The boy friend, John Henry
Harris, was subsequently ar
rested.
According to the confessions
of the three persons being
held for the crime, John Henry
County Donates $2,000
For Hire Of Engineer
warren County is to have a
part-time industrial engineer
to seek more industry for the
county.
This was assured on Monday
when the Board of County
Commissoners agreed to appro
priate the sum of $2,000 toward
the salary and expense of the
engineer. This donation will
match a similar donation from
the five incorporated towns of
the county.
Carol Singleton, former May
or of Henderson, who is now
an industrial consultant, will
be given the position. H i s
time is expected to be divided
among five counties, but none
of these are contingent to War
ren.
Plans to hire Singleton if
money could be raised were
made at a recent meeting, of
Mayors and other officials of
the four incorporated towns of
the county held in the Mayor's
office at Warrenton. At this
meeting it was agreed that
Warrenton would raise $1,000,
Norlina $400, Macon $100, and
Littleton $500, for a total of
$2,000, and the county com
missioners would be asked to
donate a matching sum.
In order that Singleton
might have an organization
through which to work, it was
agreed that the Bute Develop
ment Co., a non-profit organi
zation chartered to build the
Carolina Sportswear Factory,
would change its charter to
have representatives on its
board from other towns of the
county.
General Claude Bowers,
chairman of the board of the
Bute Development Company,
headed a fairly large group
of town officials and business
leaders appearing before the
board and acted as principal
| spokesman for the group. He
j told of the need for more in
dustries, reviewed the contri
bution of the Carolina Sports
wear Factory to the county's
economy, and recounted ways
in which a professional man
was needed if Warren County
is to obtain industry. He said
that he feels that the county
is fortunate in being able to
obtain a man with the demon
strated abilities of Singleton.
Bowers also asked that in
the General Election next fall
that the voters may be allowed
to express their wishes as to
whether or not a special tax
shall be levied to hire a full
time or a part-time engineer
for the county. He pointed out
that Franklin County has al
ready adopted this plan.
Also speaking briefly in sup
port of the county making the
requested donation and the
need for professional represen
tation in the quest for indus
tries were Charles H. Lambeth,
Littleton cotton broker, and
John G. Mitchell, president of
the Citizens Bank.
Others in the delegation in
cluded Mayor W. A. Miles, E.
G. Hecht, Pettway B. Boyd,
Dennis Rose, A. C. Fair, Fred
Hurst, Selby Benton, Frank
Reams and Joseph Newsom.
In making the appropriation,
the commissioners adopted the
following minute:
"On motion of Commissioner
Davis, seconded by Commis
sioner Thome, it was ordered
that the County pay $2,000 for
the present fiscal year for
part-time salary for an indus
trial engineer, said money to
come from sources other than
ad valorem taxes; and it was
furthered ordered that the
same employee be designated
by and responsible to the
County Commissioners."
and Mrs. Perry planned the
crime. He took the woman to
Louisburg with him where
Maggie Williams Alston deliv
ered a bottle o? rat poison to
Mrs. Perry. Mrs. Alston bought
the poison at a nearby store.
Harris said that later, Mrs.
Perry told him that she had
given her husband the poison.
When Vance Perry returned
home after a stay in Warren
General Hospital, Harris is
said to have advised Mrs. Per
ry that her husband would
never again be well and that
he would just be a burden and
care for her. He advised more
rat poison.
This time, Harris went to
Mrs. Alston and obtained the
poison and gave to to Mrs.
Perry who placed it in food
prepared for her husband with
fatal results.
Arrested at her home near
Louisburg on Friday, Mrs. Als
ton admitted that she furnish
ed the poison to Harris and
Mrs. Perry. She was brought
to the Warren County jail.
According to officers, Mrs.
Alston also confessed that she
poisoned her own husband,
Kinchen Williams, last Septem
ber, and some four months lat
er married 36-year-old Lin
wood Alston. She is 54.
The reason for the killing,
she said, according to the offi
cers, was that she wanted title
to a house which her husband
had just begun to build, plus
her husband's insurance. She
received neither.
Mrs. Williams, as she was at
that time, obtained the poison,
at an agreed-upon price of
$123, from a man in Wake
County who told her that it
would take seven months to
kill her husband. Instead of
seven months it took three
days, and the house was never
completed. Why she did not
get the insurance, she failed
to say.
Due to the misrepresentation
about the length of time it
would take for the poison to
work, Mrs. Alston said that she
only paid the Wake County
man $1.00 for the poison. "He
will never get any more mon
ey from me," she is quoted as
saying.
Pittard Re-elcted
Member Warren
ABC Board
Norman Pittard of Warren
ton was re-elected a member
of the Warren County ABC
Board for a three-year term
at a joint meeting of the Board
of Health, the Board of Educa
tion and the Board of Com
missioners held in the commis
sioners room on Monday.
No other name was placed in
nomination for the position.
Pittard has served as ABC
Board chairman since his elec
tion to the board three years
ago. It 1* expected that he will
be re-elected chairman by the
ABC Board.
Addleton To Be
Guest Minister
< ?
s Rev. W. L. Addleton.
pastor of the Second Baptist
Church of Henderson, will be
the guest preacher at the War
renton Baptist Church on Sun
day, August 11. The pastor.
Rev. John R. Link, and family
are on vacation. There will be
no worahip service at the Bap
tist Church on the third Sun
day, AnfSH according to
the aimeenebeaeot from the
church bulletin.
?On and Mew Sale
Members of the Areola Aux
iliary Pir* Department will
stew sate la
Areola an Wadnaaday evening.
IS. tram 0 to 8 p.
will soil hr SUM.
Man Charged With
Theft, Appeals Case
Ernest Ays cue, Wsrrenton
white man, charged with steal
ing a tire from an automobile
parked In one of the town's
parking lots, was sentenced to
the roads for six months when
he was given a hearing in
Recorder's Court last Friday.
Ayscue, who had pled not
guilty, appealed the case to
Superior Court. Appearance
bond was set by Judge Julius
Banzet at $200.
Leon Baskerville, charged
with attempted breaking and
entering, was sentenced to the
roads for 12 months.
Charlie Held was found not
guilty. He had been charged
with the possession of whiskey
and wine for the purpose of
William Nelson
charged with noneupport, en
tered a plea of nolo conten
dere. Judgment of the court
was that the defendant serve
a 30 days road jentencg. which
was suspended upon eondttfcn
that the defendant pay to the
Superintendent o f Welfare
each week the sum of $23.00
for the support of two
children, the payments to ha
made each Monday until far
ther order of the court, and
pay court costs.
Roger Suit wa; sentenced to
tajntf to
The
requested that the prison de
partment give the defendant
a psychiatric examination.
In traffic cases Robert Ken
neth Hamurger was fined $15
and taxed with court coat
when he was found guilty of
speeding, and Robert Neal
Shelton, also charged wRn
speeding, was fined $10 and
costs.
(See COURT, page It)
Demonstration On
Loose Leaf Tobacco
To Be Held Here
A demonstration on prepar
ing tobacco for loose-leaf sal
will be held in Thompson's
Warehouse on Friday, August
17, at 2 p. m? Frank Reams,
County Agent, announced this
said that plana for
at a recent meeting of the War
ren ton Tobacco Board of Trade
which is actively co-operating
with the educational demon
stration. Place for the demon
stration site was chosen in a
drawing.
This demomtretten is span
to the pohdic,
rat. Owners,
There was some doubt in
the officers' minds as to
whether or not Mrs. Williams
ever married Alston. They said
her driver's license was still
in the name of Maggie Wil
liams, but that the woman said
that she kept it just as a mat
ter of convenience.
The murder of her husband
was not the first man that Mrs.
Williams had killed, according
to what she told officers. In
1931 she said that she killed
John Davis with an axe while
he was engaged in a fight wl*
her husband. Her husband took
the blame for the crime
served 18 months on the
for it.
According to the woman,
husband and Davis were
gaged in a fight at their
at Liberia. She sold her
band had been shot through
the neck and that Davis was
on top of him when she
bed an as* and
twice.
"The first time I hit him
with the axe, his brains, tap*
ped out." she is quoted as say
ing. "The next time I swung .
the ax# Jris eye-balls pepped
out."
Her husband told bar to
nothing,
the