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ss ?lip iflarrrn Iter Medium VI <V 4(11 ^rm\ \ ~ - c^"ai"'a ^ ?356 S?l,lh l.ovisV*^' Your Rest Advertising: Medium Board Not To Change Assignment The Warren County Board of Education has refused to reverse its decision to assign 16 Warren students formerly attending Middleburg High School to Norlina High School. Refusal to change the two week-old policy Monday night followed a visit by an eight man delegation from Vance County protesting the student shift. Composed mainly of Vance school board members, the delegation asked that the Warren board reconsider its decision to assign the six high school and ten elementary students to Norlina. Through its spokesman. J. C. Stabler, Vance superin tendent of schools, the delega tion warned that both chil dren and parents affected by the transfer would be "terri bly unhappy and dissatisfied." The Warren board, in the wake of a unanimous request from the Norlina school board that the change in assignment be made, on June 24 voted that all pupils in the Norlina district be assigned to the Norlina school; however, coun ty board members agreed that requests for re-assignment of high school students would be studied on an individual basis. "There's a moral issue in volved in this," Stabler told board members here Monday night as he emphasized a con tention that the shift would prove harmful to students. He called on Ed White of Drew r.v, a member of the visiting delegation, to give board members a brief history of the now-abandoned Drewry school and the events leading to the assignment of Warren County students to the Vance County school. Other delega tion members called for a re versal of the recent decision. Stabler finally suggested that no action be taken by the Warren board that would affect the Middleburg stu dents this year, and that War ren and Vance board mem bers meet with the State Board of Education to iron out the problem. Warren board members ex pressed the opinion that wait ing a year would not solve the problem, and that parents of students affected by the change in assignment had known of the proposed change for a year. At their June 23 meeting, board members were of the opinion that any pupils now in high school at Middleburg should be allowed, if the stu dent wished, to graduate from the Middleburg school with their class, but all others should attend the Norlina school. First Cotton Bloom Reported This Week Cotton blooms are begin ning to appear in Warren County fields this week, a week or more later than usual. Blooms have been reported from the farms of Gid Thorn ton, who lives near Oakville, and from the farm of Fred erick Williams of Inez. Thornton recefved a free bag of flour from White's Gin on Tuesday for submitting the first bloom of the year, an annual contest. Williams' bloom was reported to County Agent Frank Reams early this week. No blooms have so far been brought to the office of The Warren Record. Cotton Is Damaged By Boll Weevils Boll weevils are damaging cotton squares in Warren County, Frank Reams, county agent, Mid yesterday. Reams said that treatment should be started now if it Is not already in progress. Due to the late start, he said, treatments should continue every five clays until the weevils arc tinder control. IMAGINATION REPLACES TOYS FOR TWO OINE LASSIES WHO FIND FI N IN TREE Negro Seeks Admission To Warren White School An 11-year-old Negro boy has become the first of his race to seek admission to a Warren County white school. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Louis Davis of Norlina, Rt. 2, have requested that the Warren County Board of Education assign their son, Leonard Davis. Jr., to the Afton-El beron elementary school. The child previously had been assigned to the Cool Spring School near Axtelle, one of several frame school buildings to be abandoned Six Persons Injured As Car Overturns On Highway Near Macon Six persons were injured Thursday in Warren County's lone July 4th highway acci dent when their ear over turned a short distance west of the town limits of Macon. Sustaining minor injuries and taken to Henderson's Jubliee Hospital were Mrs. Marie Hicks, 18, of near Macon, and wife of the driver John Henry Hicks, 21; the couples daughter, five-month old Angela Hicks; Larry Turner, 2; Maggie Sutton, 70; Mary Turner, 21; and Caro lyn Turner, 10. Trooper V. R. Vaughan, who investigated the 7:30 p. m. accident, said none of the injured appeared to have been seriously hurt. The driver of the car told Vaughan he was en route to Warrenton on US 158 when he was forced off the road by an eastbound car attempt ing to pass. He said his car overturned after he left the highway. Hicks, who said he was driving 60 miles an hour, was charged with speeding. All involved in the accident j were Negroes. Cost Of Insurance To Students Is Increased ' upon completion of a new Ne pro elementary school n southern Warren County. The Board of Education ha> I taken no action on the appli cation Davis is a part-time barber in Henderson His wife lists her occupation as a house wife Warren County football players will not have to carry the burden of increased in-1 surance premiums during the | coming school year by them-i selves. Instead, the Warren, Board of Education voted [Monday night, they will con ] jtinue to get some help from schoolmates. Board members were unani mous in ruling that a rate in crease in school insurance be spreadly evenly over the en | tire student body in each school in which pupils engage : in high school interscholastic football. j Announcement Monday' t night that insurance prem iums in white schools in the county would jump from $1.50 per student to $2.00 caught board members by surprise, but members agreed that stu dent spectators should pay the same rate as student players. This has been the policy adopted during the past few years. Dr. S. H. Massey of War renton said it did not seem fair to make a boy pay $15 or more each year to play football, when fellow students derive much enjoyment from watching the contests. Other members were of the same opinion, and voted to dis tribute the cost. L. E. Taylor, insurance agent for the Walker Agency, Inc., of Charlotte, told mem bers that no rate increase in which school insurance would be forthcoming if football players were offered separate policies at considerably higher costs than the standard pol icy. He said the increase was the first for Warren County "in about four years,' and that the hike- was caused by an increased number of claims during tlie past school year. Insurance premiums in the county's Negro schools, where football is either not played or where students take out separate policies, will rise from SI 25 to $1.50, the agent ' announced. In other action taken by the board, the transfer of eight Negro elementary stu dents to John R. Hawkins High School here was approv ed, but the board took no ac tion on a request from Hali fax County that seven Haliwa students be. assigned to the Haliwa School near Areola. Members instructed Superin tendent of Schools J. R. Peeler to inform the Halifax superintendent that the stu dents will be taken provided space can be provided. Contract for the drilling of (See INSURANCE, page 4) Breaks Hip Mrs. Thomas R. Frazier of Warrenton, an employee of the Warren County ASCS office, underwent surgery Thursday in Duke Hospital. Mrs. Frazier, who serves as ASCS treasurer, broke her hip Tuesday in a fall at the local office. Warrenton Lions Stage Annual Cookout For County's Negro Blind Here ri \wm' . ? ** ?>???** ?? Voters In Two Towns To Decide Bond Issue Fates Second Norlina Vote Set A $47,000 supplementary bond issue has been ordered by the Norlina Town Com missioners to be held at the Mayor's Office on Tuesday. August 20. The purpose of the bonds are to supplement a S44.000 grant recently approved by the Federal Housing and Home Financing Agency un der the Accelerated Public Works Program in order to [include in the sewer and sew 'age treatment svtem those sec tions of town not included in the original survey. Mayor Graham Grissoir. ' said yesterday that the cost of the entire sewer project is S398.000, which includes ap proved Federal grants of S188.000 and a balance of S210.000 from the sale of I bonds. These bonds are to be re I tided annually for a period |of 38 years by a tax increase iof 40c. making a total tax Irate of SI 75 In addition, j Mayor Grissom said there j would be a sewer service j charge of 75'4, making a 'minimum monthly service charge for water and sewer j of S5.25, plus 61c for each (additional 1000 gallons of | water. ! The registration books will ! be open in the Mayor's Office Jon each of the following Sat urdays: July 27, August 3. and August 10. Saturday, August 17, has been designat ed as Challenge Day Make Good Showing In Annual Contests ; Warrenton firemen placed in all four contests staged Thursday in Wilson during the final day of the three-da> annual session of the North j Carolina Colored Firemen's Convention. Negro firemen from War renton took second place ir the 100-yard reel race, 50-yard grab race and truck race. Lo cal firefighters finished third in the foot race. A traditional part of the yearly gatherings, the races are a highlight of the meet ing. Fire Chief W. P. Bur well, who attended Wednes day's session, said local fire men had drawn praise for their performance during the ! sessions. Two Warrenton firemen I were elected to state offices during the annual election, j Cleveland Anderson was nam I ed association secretary, and | McCarroll Alston was elected as an association dean. Als ton was also named to head jthe group's training program ; for the next year. Seventeen Warrenton fire | men attended the meeting. ;Five remained here on call in lease of fire. Chief Burwell I said. j - ? Warrenton's Main Street, and several other town traffic arteries, got a face lifting this week as a thick coating of | asphalt was laid down by state employees. Hundreds of local residents became bona fide Tar Heels as they attempt ed to cross streets here before the work was completed, but many townspeople later boasted that the new black top j represents the greatest improvement since the First World War?when a plow pulled by a team of 22 mules broke ground ft r ? paved Main Street. (Staff Photo) Site Near Hospital Picked For Building The Board of County Com missioners on Monday approv ed the hospital grounds as the site for an administrative building for the Warren Coun ty school system. Work on the building is expected to be started within a few weeks, as soon as plans can be completed by an archi tect and bids for construction advertised and opened. An architect for the proposed building has already been em ployed. The commissioners, meeting to adopt the 1963-64 budget, approved the hospital site af ter some discussion as to whether or not the administra tive building should be locat ed on the hospital grounds or on the Hendricks lot just back of the court house. Both sites had been under consid eration for several days, with no preference stated to the commissioners by the Board of Education. The administrative building' is expected to cost approxi mately $35,000, with funds for its construction already pro vided for in the school bud-; get. Supt. J. Roger Peeler j said yesterday that it is ex-, pected that the building would be completed within j about six months. In addition to approving the school administration building site and adopting the 1P63 64 budget, the commis sioners also approved the granting of a beer license to Thomas W. Tucker of Ridge way on receipt of a state per mit. Register of Deeds S. E. Allen reported 71 marriage licenses issued for the quar-j ter ending June 30, for which I $355.00 was turned into the General Fund. The commissioners ordered that an appropriation be made for school purposes in antici pation of the incoming 1963-64 taxes in the amounts of $20,000 for current ex penses and S10.000 for capi tal outlay. The meeting was adjourned until Tuesday night, July 16. when the commissioners will meet to revise the jury list. Burwell Named As Hew Teacher Here Jon Lawrence Burwell. 23 year-old New Bern native, has been hired as a history teach er at John Graham High School for the 1963-64 school year. Burwell, a 1963 graduate of Guilford College, will teach history and one or two science courses at John Graham. Hir ing of Burwell was announc ed this week by W R Drake, chairman of the John Graham executive commitiee. Burwell is a 1958 graduate of New Bern High School and received an AB degree in his tory from Guilford College this year. He is married and is a Presbyterian. An out standing college and high school athlete, he will help with the athletic program here. He was one of three teach ers whose hiring was approv ed Monday night by the War ren County Board of Educa tion. Other teachers approv ed were Lizzie M. Barber at John R. Hawkins High School and Doris Helen Mitchell of North Warren High School. The appointment of S. M. Bullard of Pembroke as new principal of the Haliwa School was also approved. Bullard will succeed Hardy Deese. One resignation, that of ] Helen K. Clifton of Hawkins High School was submitted to' (See BURWELL, page 4) $110,000 Election Set Here Plans lo yubmit a SI 10 001 bund issue to the voters ol* Wiirivnton |i<r the const i lit ? noil of u sewage treatment plant were appioved by the board ol' Town Commissioners Monday night. Ai t ion of the board fol lowed the announcement last week that the Department ol Health Kducation and Welfare had approved Warrenton's application for $90,000 to bo ii.-vd for the project. First step in the chain of events leading to the calling of the bond i<sne was taken Monday night when the com missioners ordered that a notice of intent to ask for the bond issue be pul'H.V.'i:! in The Warren Heeon' This and several other technicali ties are expected to delay the actual calling of tfcl issue for several weeks nut tiie el'ction is expected lo be hold xvilhin the next six to eight weeks. In other business before jtho commissioners, all town employees were re-employed. The board ordered that S100 be donated towards the expense of the John Graham schools recreational program. A C. Blalock was appointed a director of the Warrenton Railroad Company, and Thom as Gaskill and Dixon Ward were appointed to vote the town's stock in the railroad company at the annual meet ins of the stockholders. They were uninstructed. J Howard Daniel, G. W. Poindexter and H. W. Holt wore named trustees of the Firemen's Relief Fund. Walker P. Burwell was ap pointed Civil Defense Direct or for the town. I Election of the Town Plan ning Board members was posiponed until after consul tation with present members and its chairman, G. W. Poin dexter. Appointments are ex pected to be made at the AllPllst r\f ?Ko Norlina Couple To Take Part In Tour Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hayes of Norlina will be among an tique car owners from coast to coast participating in a 500-mile tour sponsored by the Horseless Carriage Club of America. Cars of old vintage from California to Florida will be gin rolling into Rocky Mount Monday for the first leg of the journey, which will carry drivers and passengers to Washington before the tour is completed. Dubbed the East ern National Tour, the event will officially begin Tuesday when cars steam out of Rocky Mount. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, vet : eran participants in such tours, will be travelling in a 1911 Empire. Large Garden Pests Sighted In County ! Insects are generally the leading causes of concern for Warren County garden grow ers about this time of year. But not for F. F. Limer, J farmer of Rt 2. Warrenton. Limer revealed Saturday that his garden pests were of m much larger variety. The culprits: deer which have wandered into Umcr's garden during the pi weeks, nibbling at tender of corn and playing with Other vegetables.
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