Your Best Advertising Medium Uarnut Urnm Your Best SS5SSW-< "sasr VOLUME 66 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10c Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1962 NUMBER 38 Mart Resumes Sales With No Price Advance Five Warrenton warehouses resumed tobacco sales Thurs day with "no appreciable dif ference" in prices received by farmers. The resumption of sales ended a three-day holi day ordered to alleviate con gestion in a number of pro cessing plants. More than 400,000 pounds ofj the golden weed was auctioned Thursday, E .R. Wood, secre tary of tie Warrenton Board of Trade, said. "X saw little difference in prices paid be fore and after the market re cess," he said. Thursday's opening sale was held at Centre Warehouse, where 91,218 pounds of tobacco were sold for an average price of $60.35 per hundred pounds. Warehousemen here closed their doors for the first three days this week along with all flue cured tobacco markets on the North Carolina Middle Belt, the Eastern North Caro lina Belt and the South Caro lina-Border North Carolina Belt. The marketing recess was voted unanimously last week by the sales committee of the Bright Belt Warehouse Asso ciation. In announcing the com mittee's decision. Association President Fred S. Royster of Henderson said the committee felt "the 1962 crop of flu-cured tobacco should sell at prices commensurate with 1961. By its action the committee wants to remove any question about! the depressed prices being caused by plant congestion." The Warrenton market, con ducting block sales prior to the closing of the warehouses on Monday, sold "well over two million pounds in one week," Wood said Thursday. "On a single day last week the market here sold consider ably more than 400,000 pounds. This was the most tobacco sold here on any one day since the market was formed," he said. Local Teachers Honored By Lions Teachers of the John Granam, Mariam Boyd, and Nathaniel Macon Schools were honored guests of the Warren ton Lions Club at a banqoct held last Saturday night at the Country Club. This is an an nual event staged by the local club in appreciation of the lo cal educational staff. Principal Tom Brown was presented by J. Howard Daniel, chairman of Lions Education Committee, and Brown intro duced members of the staff. Featured speaker for the oc casion was Ray Pruitt, head of the Louisburg College Chem istry Department. Pruitt is a native of Franklinton and en tertained his audience with a humorous and inspirational talk. Dancing completed the evening of hospitality. Election Results For ASC Are Released Results of the election of ASC community committee men for Warren County were released Monday by W. S. Smiley, chairman of the Coun ty Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. Farmers elected in each community are listed below in order of their position, chair man, vice-chairman, regular member, first alternate, and second alternate, respectively: Fieshing Creek?Roy Pitt man, George W. Davis, Joe H. King, Billy L. King, Owen Davis. Fork?Ernest E. Davis, W. K. Thompson, Furman Overby, James C. Harris, Vance H. Dil lard. Hawtree?Luther Stegall, G. W. King, Luther Carroll, Al bert Perkinson, W. H. Hawks. Judkins?M. D. Nelson, Jr., O. G. Overby, J. M. Overby, Vance Robertson, James H. Robertson. Nutbush?W. B. Ellington, C. P. Ellington, H. B. Bender, R. Y. Spain, C. B. Curtis, Sr. River?Herbert C, Harris, R. L. Salmon, J. Robert King, S. W. Walker, H. Irvin Haithcock. Roanoke?E. R. Clary, Rob ert Godsey, Koy Jones, Ever ette Jones, Aubrey Mosley. Sandy Creek?Sidney Flem ing, C. E. Fleming, Charles Hobgood, Thomas Coley, Jr., Goode C. Fleming. Sixpound?E. P. Daniel, C. W. Duncan, L. H. Clary, E. C. Edmonds, C. P. Pope. Smith Creek?J. Thomas! Burton, H. M. Mustian, W. D. Martin, Jack Hawks, Erich E. Hecht. Warrenton?E. C. Brauer, R. K. Carroll, Jr., L. A. Hawks, E. R. Wood, Leonard Wilker. Shocco?W. L. Fuller, M. T. Abbott, Joe Andrews. A. R. Frazier, Boyd M. Reams. The ASC community com mitee chairman automatically becomes the delegate to the county convention where the county ASC committee will be elected. Smiley said. The coun ty convention was held in the Agricultural Building in War renton on Thursday, Septem ber 20, at 3 p. m. Smiley said the county and community ASC farmer-com mittees are in charge of local administration of such national farm programs as the Agricul tural Conservation Program, the Feed Grain Program, the Conservation Reserve Program, the National Wool Program, acreage allotments and mar keting quotas, commodity loans and storage facility loans. PTA Will Reduce Number Of Meets The Parent-Teachers Asso ciation of the John Graham High School, the Mariam Boyd, Elementary School and the Nathaniel Macon Junior High School will only hold five) Li meetings during the school year, instead of monthly ings held here through the school yean. This was decided at the ftrst meeting of the PTA for the new school year held in the John Graham High School on Tuesday night, at a gathering described by PTA president Troy Barrett' as an excellent start with a large attendance. Other meetings of the local PTA will be held on the third Tuesday nights in November, January, March and May. Members are asked to submit a name for the PTA to be vot ed jipon at the next meeting on November go. ' The Rev. Phillip Lyfces, min ister, North Warrenton Baptist Church, led the devotional*. Minute* and committee report* were presented and passed. The treasurer, Mr*. Robert Shearin. reported that the PTA h.? . n? mn? than $70. exclusive of new member ships, which now number 400. Halt of funds derived from the memberships will be retained for local use and half will be sent to the National PTA, Mr. Barrett said. The Rev. John Link, pro gram chairman, was in charge of the program. Mrs. J. Boyd Davis told A the purpose of PTA from a parent"* point of view and Miss Emily Burt Per son gave the teacher's view point Mr. Link Mpamed up the views of the two. Refreshments were served by the social committee under the direction of Mrs. W. S. Bugg, chairman. An open house fol lowed in the John Graham and Mariana Boyd schools. OI.D LANDMARK to be torn down to make room for new home for Warrenton Rural Fire Department. The Weldon Hall prizehouse at the corner of Front and College Streets, built here prior to 1880, and the last of the old-time prize houses remaining in the town, has been sold to the fire de partment by Weldon Hall, Jr., of Durham. Terms of the sale have been agreed upon and the deed to the' property is expected to be signed within the next few days. Possession will not be obtained until after the end of the present tobacco sales season. The Warrenton Rural Fire Department is presently house in quarters in Tarwater's Warehouse, furnish ed as a public service by E. G. and Gayle Tarwater. The present quarters are no longer adequate for the growing and expanding rural company. CStaff Photo) Girl Scout Fund Drive To Start On October 1 Warren County's 1962 Girl Scout fund drive will be launched October 1, according to an announcement made here Thursday by Chairman James Y. Kerr and Mrs. Frederick Williams, co-chairmen of the drive. ( Funds solicited during the drive, scheduled to be held through October 6, will be used to support the county's share of the operational ex pense budget of the Bright Leaf Council, Kerr said. While aH annual cookie sale held in the spring is used to raise funds for the upkeep of Camp Graham?a Girl Scout camp at Kerr Lake?the funds raised during the county-wide drive will be put with funds raised among the other five counties in the council for council expenses, Kerr said. Kerr said that scouting in Warren County has grown at a tremendous rate during the past year and that now the county has four active Girl Scout troops. Some 75 persons are now actively engaged in Girl Scout work in the county, he said, and troop leaders include Mrs. W. K. Lanier, Jr., Mrs. Wallace White, Mrs. Glenn Perkinson, Mrs. Norman Bullock, Mrs. J. Boyd Davis, Mrs. Boyd Flem ing, Mrs. Tom Holt and Mrs. C. M. Bullock. Among the chief reasons for the rapid growth of the Girl Scout movement in Warren County has been the work of Mrs. R. B. Butler of Warren ton, Mrs. D. H. Ward, neigh borhood chairman, said this week. Mrs. Butler will begin her fifth year as a member of the council's hoard of directors, and has been a troop leader and expressed active interest in the scouting program for a number of years, Mrs. Ward said. Doctors Postpone Oral Polio Program DURHAM ? The Executive Council of the Medical Society at the State of North Carolina on Sunday, September 16, vot ed to postpone an announced state-wide mass immunization program with Sabin Oral Polio Vaccine. This action brings to a tem porary halt previously an nounced plans for Tar Heel physicians to administer nine million does of oral polio vac cine in a series of clinics across the state starting in No Mr. E. H. PinneD, who h been at Duke Hospital, Dt ham, for several days for trw ment, returned to his hoi on Tuesday. Man Draws Long Term On Charges Of Assault A Warren County Negro was sentenced to a total of six and one-half years in prison after he was tried in Recorder's Court here Friday on multiple charges stemming from an al leged assault of his 15-year-old daughter. j Joe Nathan Robinson, about 55, was sentenced to two years each on charges of assault 011 a female, assault with a deadly weapon and assault. A six month sentence on a charge of drunk driving was also handed down by Judge Julius Banzet. Robinson, who pleaded not guilty to all four counts, was arrested here Sept. 13, after his daughter told officers that her father had attempted to rape her, shot at her and slash ed her hand when she tried to get away from him. Officers contended that Robinson was drunk while operating a truck at the time of his arrest. According to the girl's testi mony, Robinson beat her with a tobacco stick in the kitchen of their frame house two miles south of here early on the morning of Sept. 13. After breaking the stick while beating his daughter, the girl's testimony revealed, Rob inson forced the girl and her step-mother to stand on the front porch of the house "with i arms raised." j Both the girl and Robinson's ] wife charged that he fired at them three times and told them he was going to kill them I if they reported an alleged [rape attempt on his daughter earlier In the week. After the firing, his daugh j ter reportedly ran off the | porch and fled from the house, | officers said. The girl said j she ran along Highway 401 in I the direction of Warrenton and | that her father came up be | hind her driving a truck and stopped near a small store, i There, the girl said, her I father advanced on her with a knife and cut her on the hand ! as she attempted to escape. In sentencing the defendant. Judge Banzet said that the sentences would run consecu tively. In another case tried during Friday's session, an appeal to Superior Court was taken by Willie Jiggetts, found guilty of drunk driving and fined $100 and costs. Appeal bond was set at $200. In other cases tried Friday, the following action was taken: Heweath Brown, drunk driv ing, $100 and costs. Clanton Cozanton Davis, al lowing motor vehicle to be operated on highway without financial responsibility, $10 and costs. J:_? Bruce Banard, speeding. costs. Milton Lebenson, speeding, $10 and costs. Charles Augustus Joyner, speeding. $15 and costs. Jimmie Gray Hams, speed 'n Alton Raybough Guntcr, speeding, costs. Walter Lloyd Lovett, speed ing, $10 and costs. Harold Bullock, damage to county property, six months. Bullock took an appeal and bond was set at $250. Richard Lee Gill, reckless driving, prayer for judgment continued for two years upon condition defendant not ope rate vehicle in North Caro lina for six months, $50 and costs. Rufus Hicks, careless and reckless driving, pleaded guilty to speeding over 55 miles per hour in 55 mile an hour zone and guilty of passing on a I hill $10 and costs on first charge, $25 and costs on se cond. DeArthur Davis, no opera tors license and defective mer chandise, $25 and costs. Robert Vaughan, driving on wrong side of road, costs^ Ned Miller Jarrett, speeding. I $10 and costs. 1 Arthur McCray Saunders, speeding, $10 and costs. William Joseph R e a v t s, speeding, costs. Amos Gooch Cheatham,III, speeding $10 and coats. Samuel Wills, speeding, $15 and costs. , Hansel Morgan, Speeding, $15 and costs. Edwin R. Lynch, non sup port, 60,day doad sentence, (See COURT, page M> Not Roy Clark Of Littleton [?^-The-Roy?Clark -who irn found guilty of ?P?^? reckless driving in Recorder > Court on September 7 Is not theRoy Clark of Littleton. The defendant In this c?e, a search of the warrant Thurs day revealed, is . 28-yr^W I Negro from Patterson, ?. '? leider tsid thit bit y the Warrenton Lions Club, said yesterday the fair would jegin on Monday morning and continue through Saturday night, Sept. 29. Bullock, in his fourth year as fair manager, said this year's fair promised to be nne at the best ever staged an the Warrenton Fairgrounds, located on the Warrenton-Nor lina highway. Performing on the midway this season will be the Pal metto Exhibition Shows. Scores of tractor-trailers are scheduled to bring the carnival to town Sunday. Rides, tent shows and var ious booths are expected to ring the midway during the week, Bullock said. An outstanding event ol this year's fair will be the two school days, he said. Wed nesday has been designated as white school day, while Thurs day has been set aside fot the Negro school children oi the county. On both school days students will be admitted free and midway rides will be lowei in price. In an effort to pro mote the educational aspec of the fair, the Warrentoi Lions Club will offer a prizi to the teacher conducting th< largest ; number of pupil through the fair's exhibit hal on each school day. Prizes worth approximate!; $200 in retail value will bi given children during the twi scheol days and a junior cal show will be featured insidi the fairgrounds on both sehoo days. Canned food, produce, cook ed articles, knitting and hos of other articles will be oi display in the exhibit hal next week. Members of thi association said this week 'ha they are confident of one o the largest displays of craft manship and homemaking skills since the fair season began here in 1935. A prem ium list of $2,000 is being offered this season. The food booth in the fair b Jilding will be operated by the American Legion Auxiliary and the food booth on the fair ground will be operated by the Negro Home Demon stration Clubs. Bullock said that both of these food booths have won a reputation through out the years for serving "fine, homecooked foods." On Friday afternoon the an nual 4-H poultry show and sale will be held. The fair will close Saturday night after playing to what Bullock anticipates will be the largest crowd in local fair history. Mrs. Gardner Is On Alumnae Board Mrs. Monroe Gardner has been recently elected as a member of the board of trus tees of the Alumnae Associa tion of the Woman's College of the University of North Caro lina, it was leasned here Thursday. Mrs. Gardner, who was pres ident of the senior class of 1951 at the Woman's College, will serve for a two-year term. To Teach Study Book Mrs. M. M. Person of Louis burg will teach the first fall study book, "The Rim of East Asia," in Wesley Memorial Methodist Church on Monday night, September 24, at 7:80. Members of the local WSC8 and of nearby churches are in vited to attend. Revival Services Revival services will begin at Bobbitt's Chapel Church on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and will continue each night through Friday with services at 7:45 o'clock. The Rev. Lar ry Bryson will be the guest minister. Industrial Firms Eye Littleton; Plans Laid LITTLETON?A drive for funds for the erection of in dustrial buildings has begun in Littleton, President Dennis Rose of the Littleton Develop ment Company, Inc., announc ed Wednesday. Rose said that two indus trial prospects are considering Littleton as a location and both prospects are interested in having the community erect a building for them. Pledges will be taken in multiples of $100 and the pledge will be due on sixty days notice to be given by the company secretary. Pledge forma will be available at New som Insurance Agency and the Bank of Halifax and should be mailed or turned in to either of these places. Rose said that pledges will be to purchase debentures In the Littleton Development Company. He said that in the event neither of the current prospects locate in?Littleton, serious consideration is being given to using the funds pledg ed for the erection of a shell building which could be com pleted to meet the tequhe mentx of any prospective in dustry. H? debentures will be gen eral obligations of the Little 2* Cnmpsni, Inc., and wiu be enifrrt to such interest rate aa may ha feasible under the terms af with a turing company or The minimum goal of the drive la $80,000. Any _, i ; WtomM growth af He added that the Develop ment Company now holds the pledges of a number of per sons which were secured dur ing an earlier fund raising campaign. Persons who gave them are given the opportun ity to reclaim or renew these pledges or to make new pledges. Rose said that this was the first step in the accelerated in dustrial development program which was begun with the em ployment by Littl ton and War ren county of the Industrial development consulting firm of Carroll ?. Singleton and Asso ciates. Cullom WMU To Hold Conference The annual WMU ship Conference of the Baptist Association will beheld Taislaj. Sept. 25, at Gardner's Church at 10 for all WMU officers local churches. Program personalities will C include Mrs. J. Milton Striees. la Dean Freeman, state OA WMU. vice-president; la Dean Freeman, director; Misa Delois WMU Kenneth