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Your Best Advertising '' Medium ? Harrpn Error* 1 " 2256 South Shelby Street i Louisville. K> . 1 Your Best Advertising Medium VOLUME 67 10c Per Copy Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 29. 1963 mitmhfb ii Four Cases Are Tried By Recorder Only four cases were tried In Warren County Recorder's Court last Friday and all were concerned with viola tions of motor vehicle laws. Robert Lee Pitchford, charged witth reckless driv ing, was fined $29.00 and tax ed with court costs. Ralph A. Ellington, charg ed with speeding, was order ed to pay court costs. Emery Lewis Keeter was in court charged with speed ing and failure to observe a stop sign. Judge Banzet or dered him to pay court costs. George Washington Hair was ordered to pay court costs when he was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license and with disobeying a stop signal. Cub Scouts Win In Pinewood Derby Three Warrenton Cub Scouts won top honors Mon day night in a miniature aua tomobile contest held in the John Graham gymnasium. Jimmy Whitley's racer was in the selected as the fastest! racer In the Pinewood Derby held by members of Pack 671, Cub Master V. R. Vaughan announced. Other winners in the speed category were Mike Stegall, second place, and Sears Bugg, third. Winning first place in the "most beautiful" area of com petition was David Harmon. Mike Ayscue won second place, and third spot was shared. by Jay William* and Karl Shearin. Gary Andrews captured the eye of the judges with the most unique car, while Kenny Clay and Paul Stoney captur ed second and third place, respectively. Bennic Powell assisted in the running of the derby, Vaughan said. Pack 671 will hold its next meeting on April 29th. Y. C. Members To Meet At Warrenton Members of the 1963 N. C. j Conference Methodist Youth j Caravan to Europe will arrive; in Warrenton Friday for aj three-dav orientation period. The eight students, four boy* and four girls, their coun selors, the Rev. and Mrs. Troy J. Barrett, and several former counselors, will meet at Wesley Memorial Meth dist Church. Counselors of the 1062 Car avan, the Rev. and Mrs. Rob ert L. Bame of Wilmington, will be in charge of the ses sions and will help the group make plans for their trip. Members of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the church will serve meals. The students will stay in the homes of members of the church. Postponed Meeting To Be Held April 2 The Macon Community 4-H lliational meeting which to bo held Tuesday, 26, was postponed an esday, April 2, at 7:90 m. In the Macon Methodist Educational JtiiMtt Rita Castleberry, home agent, said ?he said, "should parents, boys, girls friends an opportunity attend. - Wo lot* forward you Wrong Mm Noriina, Janitor at the no he P s 53m Twenty-one third grade boys at Maria m Boyd Elementary School had perfect attendance for twenty-one successive days, with one exception, who lost a half day due to sick ness. As a reward they are having their picture put in | the paper. They are, left to right: front row. Jay Wil I liams, Gary Andrews, Bobby Barrett, Kenny Taylor, Walter STAFF PHOTO Hurs,i, David Vaughan, Burwell Powell, Tim Carroll, Robert ] Loyd, Sears Bugg, Gene Edenbach, Billy Watson; back row?Robert Williams, Jerry Thompson, Robin St. Sing, John E. Blalock, Allen Cheek, Andy Case, Paul Stone; . I Frank Hunter, Harry Williams. Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Ass'n Chapter Is Organized William J. Wilson, tobacco grower of Macon, was elected president of the Warren County Chapter, Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Association, Inc., at an organizational meeting held here on Wed nesday of last week. Some 50 farmers attended. James L. Rivers of Rt. 1, Wrrrenton, was named vice- j president, and W. G. Cole man of Warrenton was elect ed secretary and treasurer. Directors named are Ray mond A. Harris, Jr., Macon, and Jack L. Hawks, Rt. 1, Norlina. Membership in the organl aatien ? divided into two categories, Active and Asso ciate. Active membership is limited to farmers who de rive a major portion of their income from the production of tobacco. Associate mem bership is open to any indi vidual, firm, or corporation interested in tobacco farming and who derives either direct ly or indirectly any portion of their income from tobacco. Membership dues are $5.00 per year of which $1.00 re mains in the county chapter. The Flue-Cured Tobacco i Growers Association, Inc., is | founded and organized for] the purpose of giving the to bacco grower a voice in the tobacco industry, and: )a) To promote the welfare Warrenton Firemen To Attend School Warrenton . firemen will | learn up-to-date techniques of! fire-fighting during a nightly training program slated to be gin here Monday. Fire Chief Walker Burwell said all members of the War renton Fire Department would be enrolled in the course, scheduled to end when each fireman completes 45 hours of training. To be conducted by Ther man Moseley of Camp Le juene, the course is financed through ? federal and state appropriation. Burwell said. He said that by holding the class in Warrenton firemen would neither lose time from their jobs or incur travelling expenses. Burwell said state funds for the school were made avail able with the efforts of for mer Sen. Frank Banzet and Rep. John M. Kerr, and had received the endorsement ci the N. C. State Firemen's As sociation. Sessions are scheduled to be held April 1-3, and will last three hours eacb night. Additional sessions will be held every other week there after until all firemen have completed the course, he said. oail* BnwreH of the tobacco farmer and the general business of tobacco production. (b) To promote efficient production, curing, grading, packing, handling, storing, processing and marketing of tobacco and to secure and distribute to its members, in formation and trends rela tive to the operation and management of the tobacco business. (c) To promote research work for the purpose of dis covering and developing bet ter methods of production, handling, storing, processing, marketing and disease con '.Tol. (d) To promote the use of tobacco through public rela tions, lobby advertising, ser vice work, merchandising, tours and any other means. (e) To establish a working relationship between tobacco farmers and all other seg ments of the tobacco indus try in order to promote the welfare of the total tobacco industry. (f) In order to properly prosecute the objects and pur poses above set forth, the Corporation shall have full power and authority to re ceive does, donations and borrow money; to pledge any of its property as security in any manner permitted by law and to purchase, lease and otherwise acquire, hold, mort gage, convey and otherwise dispose of all kinds of prop erty both real and personal, both in this state and in all other states, territories and dependencies of the United States and generally to per form all acts which may be deemed necessary or exped ient for the proper and suc cessful prosecution of the ob ject and purposes for which the Corporation is created. Mrs. Fleming Competes For Mother Of Year Mrs. F. F. Fleming of Man ton, Warren County"! Home Demonstration Club nominee (or Mother of the Year, will be in Raleigh April 3 and 4 attending event* scheduled for the 48 nominees for State Mother of the Year. The nominees and their will meet Wednesday in Raleigh at the of Mrs. J. W. Burnt, ar of the Year from there the will tour some home* In the Stateboose and the Art Museum. This will be followed with a at Meredith College ? On April 4, there wlB be a fo* hour * MM ' Norlina Student Wins In District Science Fair A Norlina High School stu dent was among ten senior high school students selected at Chapel Hill Saturday to represent a 16-county area of Central North Carolina at a statewide Science Fair in Raleigh April 5 and 6. Phil Perkinson of Norlina was one of the four top win ners in the biological j Other winners were in the physical sciences. All senior division winners j shared similar honors, the | chance to compete in the j state fair with a total of 70 exhibitors. Students and their teachers j attended the district fair; horn Person, Granville, Vance, Warren, Halifax, Northampton, Franklin, Nash,| Wake, Johnston, Lee, Moore,! Chatham, Durham and Orange counties. Ball Games To Be Played Thursday Three Warren County high school teams will open the 1963 baseball season on next Thursday, April 4, as War ren-Halifax Conference play opens. Warrenton will host Little ton at the local fairground, I while Norlina will visit En field. Norlina will host Aurelian Springs on next Monday af ternoon when John Graham will have an open date. Lit tleton will host Weldon. Returns Home Mrs. W. K. Hedgepetii re turned to her home on Mon day after being a patient in Warren General Hospital for sometime recuperating from injuries sustained in an auto mobile accident. The 1063 selection (or North Carolina Mother o< the Year award will be announc ed at a luncheon honoring the nomlnea* at the Sir Walter Hotel. The two-day activi ties will dose with a tee at the Governor's Mansion. Mrs. Harry Williams, Jr. Mrs. M. H. Hayes, Mrs. Stur tsss Collins and Mias EmJ Ballinger will attend portions ot the two-day event as Mrs. Dept. To Stage Womanless Wedding A "Wi For Town Of Korlina Grant And Loan Given Approval Macon Church To Have Youth Week The Macon Baptist Church j has set aside the week of, April 1 as Youth Week. Dur- j ing the week the young peo- j pie of the church will take over all offices of the church, j A prayer meeting will be; held on Wednesday night, j April 3, with a guest speaker j using as his topic, "Youth." Sunday School lessons will be taught by the youth on Sun day morning and on Sunday night they will have charge of the program, "What God Does for Us in Our Homes. School, Lives and Vocations." Norlina should be in a po sition to call for bids on the construction of sewer lines and a sewage disposal system within the next 30 days, Raby L. Traylor, a town commis sioner, said yesterday. Traylor's statement follow ed the announcement from Washington Wednesday that the Community Facilities Ad ministration had approved grants under the accelerated works program to help fi nance construction of the Nor lina project. The grant for Norlina was in the amount of $94,200, and is in addition to a prev ious grant of $50,000. In ad dition the community is to receive a $163,000 loan from ! C'FA to construct the project. Present hold-up is the ob j taining of easements for | right-of-ways, Traylor said. Options on many of these have already been obtained, he said, and other easements | are expected to be obtained i shortly now that funds are | available. | Traylor said that the delay in obtaining the second grant ? had disturbed the commission j ers who did not know what was the cause of the delay. | "We are extremely happy to I receive the good news ?hat | assures Norlina of a modern ! sewer system and disposal plant," he said. Local Firm Announces Gift Of Scholarships Announcement was made this week by C. E. Rodwell, President of Warren Cotton & Fertilizer Company of Warrentor., that the company will give two scholarships to taling $1,000 annually, one of $500 to a graduate of John Graham High School and one of $500 to a graduate of John R. Hawkins High School. The scholarships will be awarded on a basis of scholas tic excellence, character, dili gence and need. The scholar ships may be awarded to the same designees for the period of four years or to different designees annually, in the dis cretion of a scholarship com mittee. The personnel of the committee hat not been an nounced. The first awards will be made at Commencement 1063. Warrenton Lions Hold Farmers Night At Club Warrenton Lions Club mem bers were hosts to some 60 Warren County farmers on Friday night when they held their annual "Farmers' Night" program at the Warrenton Country Club. Dr. George Hyatt, Jr., as sistant director of the N. C. Agricultural Extension Ser vice, Raleigh, was the prin cipal speaker. Presented by County Agent Frank W Reams, Dr. Hyatt spoke on the advantages offered young men on the farm, especially in the Piedmont and Eastern regions. Dr. Hyatt said he feels the farm picture today is a great deal brighter than It was ten years ago when he visited the club. He also said that the large number of farmers still without washers, dryers, radios, televisions, automo biles and telephones, offered a splendid market for mer chants in rural areas. Lion President Monroe XJardner presided and wel corned the guests, and Lion Edward Rooker said grace. Norlina To Hold Election May 7 Norlina voters will go to the polls May 7 to elect a mayor and three commis sioners. No candidate, including in cumbent mayor Graham P. I Grissom, has filed as yet, but candidates will have until 5 p. m. April 6 to toss their! hats into the ring. Registration books will open at 9 a. m. April 19 in the Norlina Mayor's Office, the regular polling place. Books will remain open from 9 a. m. until 8 p. m. daily except Sunday for (even day*. They will be closed on April 26. On April 20 the books will be kept open until 9 p. m. HOWARD JONES Jones Winner Of $100 Fellowship In National Contest DURHAM ? A Durham Morning Herald staff writer has been named one of ten reporters winning cash awards in a nationwide spot news writing contest sponsored by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Howard F. Jones of War ren ton, a senior at the Uni versity of North Carolina School of Journalism, re ceived a $100 fellowship from the foundation for a story which appeared in the Durham Morning Herald last month. Judging the contest war* Roger Tatariah of UPI, Hub bard Keavy of Associated Press, Lawrence D. Martin, former associate editor of the Denver Post, and William B. Ruggles, formerly of the Dallas News. Ralph A. Hearst, foundation trustee, announced Sunday that the UNC School of Journalism would also reeaiv* a $100 grant for Joaas' win ning entry.
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