Your Best 0% Hamtt Utf *i?tw?,Si Your Best Advertising 111 rtts 4tltl n t* 4k iWsssV" suf. Advertising Medium J? \\m? M ?% ^ v ? \ ^ Medium THE END OF THE FERRY . . . . . . . . . . Highway workers dismantle Ferry Approaches Bridge Carries Traffic Eaton's Ferry Is Abandoned A Warren County ferry that may have been in- operation for more than 200 years was this week abandoned by the North Carolina Highway Com-! mission. Warren County highway forces on Monday and Tuesday dismantled the approaches to Eaton's Ferry and tore down the long cable that guided boats across the Roanoke River for generations. Traffic is being carried across the Roanoke a short distance above the ferry site on a new bridge. Although the highway leading to the bridge has not yet been com-] pleted, traffic has been using the bridge for several days as workers put the finishing touches on the hardsurface road leading from Judkins Township to Roanoke Town ship by way of the new bridge. When Eaton's Ferry?named for the Eaton family of Roa noke Township?was first es tablished is not known, but William Eaton, I, founder of the family in Warren County, had settled in Roanoke Town ship prior to 1746, when he was elected a Justice of Edge-' combe County, of which War ren was then a part. He had previously been granted 1700 acres of land lying along both sides of the Roanoke River, and it is presumed that he used the present ferry site. Before the advent of the gas oline engine, many ferries were propelled by the force of streams, pushing against boats, held by cables, with assistance in the propulsion being given by men with poles pushing along the bottom of the streams. This was the way the Eaton Ferry was operated for many years. Eaton's Ferry, on the high way from Littleton and Vaugh an to Lawrenceville, Va., was for many years a loll ferry operated by private enterprise, but was taken over by the State Highway Commission some 25 or more years ago and maintained by the high way until its abandonment this week. A landmark for years, the Eaton Ferry approaches and the long dirt road leading to them will within a few weeks be covered by the waters of Gaston Lake and will be only a memory to thousands of cit izens who have used this mode of crossing the Roanoke. Only (See FERRY, page 10 lE'v " ? < Workers with the Highway Department this week removed the pillar which held one end of the cable ctrvtchlng mnn the Roanoke Hirer for generation*. (Staff Photos) ' Speeders Find Way To County Court All but three of the 13 cases in Recorder's Court last Fri day dealt with violations of the motor vehicle laws. Erwin Lynch was found guilty of an assault on a fe male and sentenced to the roads for 12 months. He gave notice of appeal to Superiour Court. Appearance bond was set at $500. Henry Powell was found guilty jon a larceny charge. Due to the defendant's age, prayer for judgment was con tinued for two years upon con dition that the defendant re main of good behavior for two years and 'pay the court costs. In the third case not involv ing violations of the motor ve hicle laws, the state took a nol pros with leave. In this case Roy Lee Bobbitt was charged with non-support. In other cases the state took a nol pros with leave in the case of James Thomas Currin charged with operating a motor vehicle with an expired oper ator's license. Thomas Edward Minute was fined $10 and cous when he New School Not To Be Located At Hawkins Site The consolidated Negro ele mentary school to be built with funds to be obtained from a recently passed bond issue will not be located at the John R. Hawkins School. J. Rodger Peeler, Superin tendent of Schools, told the Board of Education, Meeting here Monday night, that the Survey Team with the Divis ion of Schoolhouse Planning, refused to endorse the Haw kins site at their meeting here. The campus is already too crowded, the team ruled. Peeler said that while here the team visited several other sites, but made no recommen dations. They are expected to return the middle of next week for further investigation. Among the sites proposed at the September meeting of the Board of Education was that of the John R. Hawkins School, principally because of a saving to coats. At that meeting the question was raised if enough additional land could be ob tlaned tor the proposed school. Concensus of the Board Mon day night waa that the new building Should he erected in the southern part of the coun ty not far from the present Coley Springs school, bat no definite site has yet been rac om mended. J Sopt. Peeler told the Board members that he had engaged pacity for the building of addi tional rooms at was found guilty of speeding. Doris Garrison Davis, found guilty of speeding 70 miles in a 55 mile zone, was fined $15 and taxed with court cosas. Modecai Shearin was found guilty with driving without glasses and with driving on the wrong side of the road. He was ordered to pay court costs. James Carlos Harris, i n court on a speeding charge, was found guilty of exceeding safe, but not stated speed, and was taxed with court costs. Arthur Evans was fined $25 and taxed with court costs. He was found guilty of reckless driving. Thomas Raymond Dezurick was found guilty on a speeding :harge and fined $10.00 and taxed with court costs. The state took a nol pros tfith leave in t^ie case of Ran dolph Bullock, charged with speeding. Earley Richardson was or dered to pay court costs when he was found guilty on a speed ing charge. Town Hires Engineers For Sewage Plant Survey The Town of Warrenton ha> signed a contract with an en gineering firm to make a sur vey of and recommendation! for a sewage disposal plani here. Employed by the town or Wednesday afternoon was the engineering firm of Boney and Newcome of Raleigh. The con tract was signed by Mayor W Miles, Jr., and Town Clerk I. Ed Rooker. Employment of the Raleigh [irm was authorized by unani mous vote of the Board ol Town Commissioners at theii regular meeting on Monday night. Following the appear ance of Boney and a discu' sion by the commissioners, the Mayor and Town Clerk wer; instructed to sign a contraci with Boney and Newcombe. The Raleigh firm was se lected after two other engi neering representatives had ap peared before the board ai previous meetings. Mayor Miles said Thursdaj afternoon that the reason foi the early employment of th( engineer was due to an effor' Wilson Named Night Policeman Charles Wilson, former po lice officer at Norlina and un successful candidate for sherif in the May Democratic Pri mary, began his new duties a night officer of the Town o Norlina on Thursday night o last week. Wilson succeeds Dorse: Capps, night officer at Norlini for the past three years. Capps resigned as night ol ficer on September 20, effe< tive October 1, to go into pri vate business. He has Leei operating a service station unc store in Norlina while alsi serving as night officer. Capps said Tuesday nigh that he would operate a usc< car lot in Norlina and con tinue the operation of th< store, He gave as his reasoi for resigning from the polic< force that night work in con nection with the operation o the store was too much foi him to handle and that hii duties on the police force kep bim away from his home a night. that the town would make to participate in an accelerated! program of the Federal Gov ! ernment for distressed areas: under which the government! would participate 50 per cent in the cost of the program in-j stead of one-third. He said that to participate! in this program, Warrentonj would have to make its appli-j cation before July, 1963. Be-, fore this may be done, a sur-1 vey must be made to Jeter mine the type of disposal unit and an estimated cost of the project. Mayor Miles said that liar old R. Skillman, superintend ent of the Water Company, had been in on all the discussions with the Water Committee who made tha recommendation for ths employment of an engi neer now. In other matters during the i hour and a half session, the commissioners authorized the expenditure of $100 from non tax sources for an advt. in the Warren County edition of the State Magazine, and authorized the Town Clerk to write a let ter to Albert Coates, retired director of the North Carolina Institute of Government, thank ing him for his service to the State and founder and director of the Institute. NEW ROANOKE RIVER DAM?Here is an ground. Gates of the Dam (inset) will be aerial view of Virginia Electric and Power closed this week and the reservoir will begin Company's new Gaston Dam on the Roanoke filling. The new lake to be formed will be 34 River near Littleton. A portion of the 20,300- miles long with more than 350 miles of acre reservior area is shown in the back- shoreline. Warehouses To Close For Five-Day Holiday A week-long sales holiday >eginning Monday, October 15 las been set for all flue-cured obacco markets. The sales committee of the Jright Belt Warehouse Associa ion announced the holiday ast Friday at the request of Li. T. Weeks, general manager >f the Flue-Cured Stabiliza ion Corp., which receives all .obacco placed under the gov ernment's pitce support sche lule. '''M. Markets will close as usual Friday after sales, but will not reopen until October 22. Weeks reported that the co >p has been swamped with leaf, ind lacks personnel and facil ties to keep up with the flow >f tobacco from the warehouse floors. For the first four days of ast week, Weeks said, stabili sation took aion thou XI pet ?ent of aQ flue-cured tobacco For the season through last, Friday ? total of 119 million pounds or 100.7 pert*at tales had gone sent <*! govern khool. The employment of an irchitect lor this school had >een delegated to Peeler at i previous meeting of the Board. There has been some discus don with State' Supt. of Schools Carroll on the part of Warren and Halite school m |t, nrU| li ii ,i il ,???, III tuonucs couconiui ion of the Hallwa juilding plans but no (Bee SCHOOL, nent price supports. Last year the corporation ook in only 70 million pounds 'or the whole selling season. Season High Hit Monday Volume of sales was report ed heavy on most markets on Monday throughout the Old Belt. Average prices were mostly steady to a little higher than last Friday's quotations. Increases were only $1 in most Instances with a few grades up $2 and $3. f NEW EATON'S FERRY BRIDGE ? Gaston Dam Gates To Be Closed Over Weekend Sluce gates in the Gaston Dam will be closed this week end and a 34-mile long reser voir covering parts of three counties in North Carolina and two in Virginia will begin to fill. Announcement that the gates would be closed this weekend was made Tuesday by the Rich mond, Va., office of the Vir ginia Electric and Power Com pany. The 20300-acre lake is being created as a part of Vepco's new $46,500,000 hydroelectric station now nearing completion on the Roanoke River some eight miles upstream from Roa noke Rapids. Project engineers say that beginning at 8 a. m. Sunday releases of water from the John H. Kerr dam near Clarks ville, Va., will be substantially above average for a period of two to three days, during which the level of the reser voir will rise rapidly. After the first several days the level of the water will increase grad ually and from one to two months will be required for the reservoir to fill to its es timated capacity of 448,000 acre feet. Unlike other hydroelectric developments In the Roimoko River basin where seasonal variations in reservoir level, L-xcluding flood control storage, may be as much as S3 feet, the Gaston reservoir level will vary less than one foot at the dam under normal operating conditions. This will make it an ideal recreational facility for fishing and boating and (Sea DAM, page 10)

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