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Tobacco Market Opens Thursday, Aug. 30
Warren County Schools
To Open On August 31
' Warren County Schools will
open for the 1962-63 season
with registration on next Fri
day, August 31, and regular
classes on Monday, September
3, J. R. Peeler, Superintendent
of Schools, announced this
week.
Peeler said that school en
rollment this year is expected
to be just about the same as
that Of last year?about 6300
or 6400.
All the schools are expected
to open at 8:45, except Little
ton which will open at 8:30
Students are requested to be
at the schools next Friday
morning at this hour for regis
train, and the assignment of
lessons for a full day the fol
lowing Monday. School is ex
pected to let out before 12
o'clock on Friday so no lunch
will be served on that day.
All schools have completed
their faculties except Little
ton, where two vacancies exist,
Peeler said. Here an English
teacher and a Science teacher
are needed.
Peeler said that an exten
sive repair and renovation pro
gram had been carried out on
buildings and grounds during
the summer. He said every
school in the county had re
ceived a thorough going over
and school officials are pleas
ed with the results. He said
the new agriculture shop at
Hawkins has been completed
and will be placed in opera
tion the first day of school.
Instructional supplies and
new textbooks have been de
livered to the schools. Peeler
said. The major changes in
textbooks, he said, will be a
new set of basil readers in
the primary grades.
'""Students are asked ~to bring
fees the first day of school.
These arc as follows for all
schools except John Graham:
High school rental fee, $6.00;
supplementary reader fee, 50c
to 70c; instructional supply fee,
$1.00; typing fee, $5.00; agri
culture fee, $2.50; and home
economics fee, $2.50. Peeler
said that workbooks, Weekly
Readers, and supplies for arts
and craifts will be extra.
Parents are invited to visit
the schools on the first day.
Peeler said that he would like
for them to talk with the
teachers and to see the work
that has been done on the
buildings.
Peeler also said that parents
with any school problems are
asked to contact the princi
pal before the school opens.
Two teachers meetings will
be held on Wednesday, August
29. Peeler said a county-wide
meeting for white teachers
would be held on that day at
9 a. m. at the John Graham
High School, and a meeting for
Negro teachers would be held
(See SCHOOLS, page 6)
Norlina Cafeteria
To Be Open On
Monday, Sept. 3
The cafeteria of the Norlina
High School will be open
Monday when regular classes
for the 1962-63 session will be
held, Principal W. O. 'Reed,
announced yesterday. The
price of lunches will be 25c.
Reed said that all students
are urged to report for regis
tration on Friday, August 31.
The school buses will operate
and he said that everyone
should be dismissed by 11:30
or 12 o'clock.
The following fees will be
charged: high school book ren
tal fee, $6.00; type fee, $5.00;
agriculture fee. 52 50; home
economics fee, $2.50; and an
instructional supply fee of
$1QQ. The supple.m.etary
reader fee will be 50c for the
first and second grades. 60c
for the third, fourth and fifth
grades, and 70c for the sixth,
seventh and eighth grades.
Students may secure the
school insurance at a cost of
$1.50 for each student, Reed
said. -
Mrs. Gardiner
Dies At Hospital
Thursday A. M.
Kate White Gardner, wife of
Jesse Gardner, died Thursday
morning in Warren General
Hospital after an extended ill
ness.
Services will be held at
Gardner's Baptist Church on
Saturday morning at 11:00 a.
m. with the Rev. Raleigh Car
roll, Pastor, officiating, assist
ed by a former Pastor, the Rev.
J. M. Long of Elberon
Burial will follow in. the church
cemetery.
Mrs. Gardner was the daugh
ter of the late Winfield Scott
and Sallie Egerton Gardner.
She attended Louisburg Col
lege, after which she resided
in Warren County all of her
life. For many years she took
an active part in the church
and club work of her com
munity.
Survivors include her hus
band, Jesse Gardner of the
home, one daughter, Mrs. R.
B. Butler of W'arrenton, four
| sisters, Mrs. Lula G. Harris,
Greensboro, Mrs. T. V. Allen,
Warrenton, Mrs. W. Ray
Bowers, Littleton, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Childers of Rich
mond, Va. two brothers, Simon
and Herbert Gardner of Ma
con and a number of nieces
and nephews.
Court To Open
On September 4
I
|. . -T,-.e criminal ~ters?V=-?f War
j ren County Superior Court will
I open on Tuesday, September 4.
instead of on Monday, Septem
ber 3.
Clerk of Court Joe N. Ellis
said yesterday that the one-day
delay in opening court is due
| to the Labor Day holiday the
first Monday in September.
Bail Denied Three In
Husband Poisoning Case
Three defendants held in
Warren County jail' in connec
tion with the poison death of
Vance Perry were denied bond
and held for their appearance
in Superior Court when Judge
Julius Banzet found probable
cause in the hearing in Re
corder's Cour last Friday.
Petronia G. Perry is charged
with the murder of her hus
band and with conspiracy to
commit murder. Her boy
friend, John Henry Harris, is
charged with conspiracy to
commit murder; and Maggie
Williams of Franklin County,
from whom the poison is al
leged to have been obtained,
is also charged with conspiracy
to murder.
, In other cases tried in Re
corder's Court, Johnnie Black
well was sentenced to the
roads for 60 days when he
was found guilty of reckless
driving.
Leroy Vaughan, found guilty
of larceny and disorderly con
duct and given a 30-day jail
sentence, appealed to Superior
Court. Appearance bond was
set at $25.00.
John Wiggins, charged with
possesion of non-taxpaid meal
beer, was found not guilty.
Jpjin Mertis Terry was fined
$50.00 and taxed with court
costs when he was found
guilty on a speeding charge.
Edward Manson appeared In
court charged with operating
a motor vehicle without a
driver's license, drunk driving,
leaving scene of accident, aw)
Operating a motor vehicle with
Improper brakes. He was sen
tenced to the roads for two
years. Manson was also sen
- to an additional two
on the roads whoa he
was found guilty of the tem
porary larceny of an automo
bile.
Arthur Lee Goins and Wil
liam Goings appeared in court
to answer to charges of assult
with a deadly weapon. Judge
Banzet ruled that the case
had been friviously brought
and ordered that the prose
cuting witness, Elnora Alston,
be taxed with court costs in
the action.
Ernest Williams, found guilty
of speeding and driving on
wrong side of highway, was
fined $10.00 and taxed with
court costs.
Hazel Mosely Lockomy was
fined $13.00 and court costs
when she was found guilty
on a speeding charge.
Lawrence Calboon Marlowe,
Jr., charged with speeding,
was fined $10.00 and costs.
Willie George Williams was
in court charged with operat
ing a motor vehicle without
a driver's license, reckless
driving, and with using a
fictitious license. He was sen
tenced to the roads for six
months for reckless driving;
30 days for no operator's li
cense; and 30 days for fic
titious license.
Roy A. Williams, charged
with larceny, was found not
guilty.
Claude Jordan, Jr., charged
with larceny and disorderly
conduct, was found not guilty.
Earl Paschal], charged with
(See POISONING, page 6)
Farmers At Work With Tobacco Crop
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C. U. Haitbcock (left) of Rt. 1, Macon, Inspects hla tobacco
for application Of MH-30; Howard Hobfood (center) of Rt
S, Ms eon, applies liquid nitrofen; and (right) Bill Davis
reaches high to top hla tall mod. Pictures an by County
Agricultural Agent Prank
WARRENTON'S NEW POLICE CAR?the town's first?arrived this week. Mayor W. A.
Miles is shown on Wednesday morning turning the keys of the new vehicle over to Chief of
Police R. D. Chewning. (Staff Photo)
Vance Man Killed In
Fight; Salmon Is Jailed
A Wise man?Otha Salmon,
Jr., 40?is being held in War
ren County jail on a murder
charge following the fatal beat
ing of former Vance County
Sheriff J. Edward Hamlett, 69,
of Henderson at Salmon's
home.
Hamlett died in a Hender
son hospital early Sunday j
morning where he had been!
talfen by ambulance around
11:30 Saturday night.
Sjlmon was arrested en Sun j
day morning by Deputy Sher-?
iff Bonnie Stevenson at Wnr-j
ren General Hospital where j
Salmon had been taken for
treatment of two deep cuts on;
his neck, alleged to have been
inflicted by Hamlett in the
fight.
According to State Highway
Trooper Wallace Brown, Sal
mon said he did not strike
Hamlett until after Hamlett
had cut him in the neck and
that then he only used his
open hand.
But Brown, who had gone to
the scene with Warren Depu
ties Bonnie Stevenson and
Lloyd Newsome around 11:30
Saturday night, said that Ham
lett had a hole in his temple
and that his face was terribly
bruised, and that his shirt and
undershirt had been practically
torn off. Salmon, a powerful
man, weighs around 223
pounds, according to the offi
cers, who said that Hamlett
weighed around 145 or 150
pounds.
Dr. W. M. Wester, Jr., Vance
County Coroner, said Hamlett
died of injuries about the i
chest and head. Information 1
he obtained was communicat
ed to Sheriff Jim H. Hundley ]
>f Warren County. t
Hundley said that Salmon, ?
brother-in-law of Hamlett, is
being held in jail charged with
"feloniously killing and slay
ing" the former Vance officer,
and that no bond had been
fixed as yet. He said a hear
ing would probably be given
Salmon in Warren County's
Recorder's Court on Friday
morning.
Hundley said his information
was that there were two fights,
one at or near a filling station
operated by Otha Salmon, and
the second at or near Salmon's
home, both at Wise.
It was in the second alterca
tion that Hamlett received the
fatal injuries, according to in
formation. Dr. Wester said the
chest was badly crushed and
there were injuries about the
head and face.
One report was that Ham
lett and wife~had gone to Wise
on the occasion of their wed
ding anniversary, and that an
argument followed, resulting in
the fights and injuries to both
men.
Hamlett was sheriff of
Vance County for eight years
in the 1930's. Later he was
for many years connected with
the City of Henderson in the
capacity of street supervisor.
At the time of his death he
was on part time duty with
the city in an advisory capac
ity at a salary of $100 per
month. He had previously
been forced to relinquish full
time responsibility because of
ill heath.
Hamlett, who was 69 years
old, was born in Franklin
County October 5, 1892, son of
the late Virginius G. and
Laura Thompson Hamlett.
Most of his life had been
spent in Vance County. He
was a member of the First
Methodist Church here.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Carrie Salmon Hamlett;
two daughters by a previous
marriage, Mrs. Lewis Dicker
son and Mrs. Jessie Hunt, both
of Henderson, and six grand
children; a half-brother, Wil
liam E. Hamlett of Chapel
Hill; a sister, Mrs. Onnie Harp
of Warren ton-;- and four half
sisters, Mrs. W. H. Journigan,
Mrs. George Inscoe, Mrs.
Woodrow Johnson, all of Hen
derson, and Mrs. H. A. Davis
of Fayetteville.
Funeral services were con
ducted at the First Methodist
Church in Henderson at 4:00
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon
by the pastor, the Rev. W. B.
Petteway, with burial in Elm
wood Cemetery at Henderson.
Mrs. Weldon To
Teach Music In
Warrenton Schools
Mrs. Glenn Weldon will be
the public school music teach
er this year in the Mariam
Boyd and John Graham schools.
Her salary will be paid by the
Warrenton Lions Club.
This was decided at the reg
ular monthly directors meeting
of the Warrenton Lions Club
at the Country Club on Wed
nesday night of last week.
Teachers of the local schools
will be guests at the Junior
Ladies' Night of the Club to
be held on Saturday night,
September 15, the directors
agreed. This will be the reg
ular first September meeting
if the Lions Club.
In other matters connected
with the local schools, the di
rectors agreed to present a
(See MUSIC, page 6)
The Warrentou Tobacco Market?with eight ware
houses in operation?will open on Thursday, August
30, instead of August 27, as previously announced.
Fred S. Royster of Henderson, managing director of
the Bridge Leaf Warehouse Association, announced
Tuesday night the three day postponement was made
because of the inadequacy of buying and grading per
sonnel." A factor in the delay, he said, is the fact that
Farmers Must
Present Cards At
Time Of Sale
Farmers must present their;
tobacco marketing cards when!
tobacco is weighed in at the!
warehouse.
Thomas E. Watson, ASCS
office manager, said that while
this requirement was eliminat
ed during the marketing sea
son last year, it would be re
quired this year. Reason for!
!|f . elimination last year was
that tobacco grown in the
Flue-cured Belt identified as
discount variety had been mar
keted.
Tobacco Marketing Cards
were mailed to operators in
varren County on August 17
Said that some of
wih ? tobacco grown in
North Carolina has been iden
tified as discount variety to
bacco. Because of this, he
said the 1962 tobacco loan
regulations require that for
each producer sale of tobacco
made at auction the serial
numbers for the marketing
card identifying each pile shall
be recorded on the warehouse
floor sheet at the time of
we.gh.ng.m If the marketing
a limited support-with
r'e^, fh,Ue)> or an mccess
(red) marl.-ci.ng card stamped
Discount Varieties" non-eerti
fied (stripped) ticket shall be
Placed on each basket before it
js sold.
lobacco Marketing Cards
should be taken care of and
instructions on the back of the
S, road by every farmer,"
Z *?n ,Sa!d "These instruc
the m'n<i!U. the Pr?Per use Of
the marketing card as well as
hate ^ hibat the card wiu
have to be presented at the
warehouse when the tobacco is
ud 'tb u" ?nd 8)50 t0 P'ck
up the check."
One Of Best Crops,
Says Agent Reams
,Pne of the best all-round
tobacco crops in the history of
Warren County will be pro
count S ye,ar' Frank Roams,
county agricultural agent, said
this week. He said that water
had been an imporUnt factor
in the production of the crop.
r58'11 U aPPOars that
warren fanners will sell n
five and one-half million dol
lar crop this year.
Thomas Burton of the Oine
community is using the only
tobacco bulk curer in Warren
County Reams said that al
though Burton has made sev
eral cures he will withhold
Judgment on the results until
the end of the season. How
ever, Reams said, from reports
all over the state, this method
or variation of the same is
he future method of curing
tobacco.
the loose-leaf experiment
has caused confusion and
delay in the normal mar
keting pattern.
This year loose-leaf sales
will be permitted on the Mid
dle Belt markets for the first
five-days, after which period
only tied tobacco will be sold.
During the five days in which
loose-leaf sales will be per
mitted, the government will
not support tied tobacco, Ed
gar Wood, Sales Supervisor for
the Warrenton Market, Said.
After that period tied tobacco
will be supported, he added.
Wood said that the Warren
ton Market would open at 9
o'clock on next Thursday morn
ing with Thompson's Ware?
house having the first sale.
Farmers will have second sale;
Boyd's third; Currin's fourth;
and Center, fifth.
A change in the market
this year is that the market
will only have five sales daily
instead of the six sales daily
of the past several years.
Operation of two warehouses
by a single firm, no longer
permits two sales a day, he
said.
When farmers bring their
tobacco to Warrenton next
week they will find two new
warehouses in operation. Cen
ter has built a second ware
house on the Norlina road
next to the Warren General
Hospital, and Clarence E.
(Buck) Thompson, has. built
a second warehouse adjoining
his other warehouse on Frank
lin Street.
Center Warehouse will be
operated by M. P. Carroll.
Edward Moody and Edward.
Radford. Thompson's two ware
houses will be operated by
C. E. Thompson, and R. S.
Young. Currin's two ware
houses will be operated by
Mrs. D. G. Currin, D. G. Cur
rin, Jr., C. W. Currin and D.
E. Tillotson. Fanners Ware
house will be operated by E.
G. Tarwater and Miss Gayle
Tarwater; and Boyd's will be
operated by Walker P. Burwell.
Bill Martin will auctioneer
for Boyd's and Thompson's
Warehouses, and Luke Lea
will auctioneer for Currin,
Center and Farmers.
Wood said that all major
companies would be represent
ed on the market this year.
Among these represents tivea
back from last year, will be
Tom Traynham, American;
Ben Franklin, Liggett-Myers;
Bill Currin, Reynolds; SI
Nunn, Imperial; Phillip Meel
er. Monk Henderson. Wood,
said that Export Tobacco
Company and Henderson To
bacco Company, would be
represented but that he did
(See TOBACCO, page 6) |
Shop Burns At
Scott's Antiques
)uring Storm
Fire destroyed the storage
and finishing shop of Scott's
Antiques on the Norlina road
on Friday night Loss Is esti
mated at $10,000, partially cov
ered by insurance.
The fire, started by light
11 o'clock. Due to a severe
electrical storm and phones
>eing temporarily out of order,
he report of the fire to fire
sompanies at Warren ton and
Norlina was delayed.
The Warrenton Rural Fire
department and the
P f ? Department
>romptly upon
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