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Schools To
Open Here
On Sept. 2
Warren County
Teachers Begin
Work Aug. 28
Warren County schools will
open on Tuesday, Sept. 2, it
was decided by the Board of
Education in session here
Monday night
Teachers will begin work (
on Wednesday, August 28. but
will have Monday, I.abor Day, I
as a holiday Other events j
on the school calendar adopt-!
ed by the board are:
Oct. 11, East Piedmont Dis-j
trict Teachers Tea meeting
for Negro teachers: Oct. 2*5.
East Central District Tea
meeting for white teachers:
Nov. 28 and 29, Thanksgiving
holidays: Dec 21-Jan 1, inclu
sive. Christmas holidays;
Starch 30, Easter holiday;
May 27. school closes; May 28
and 29. teachers' extra days.
In other action at the Mon
day night session, the board
approved the election of the
following teac' yrs: Betty Wil
liams. Ncrlina; Carolyn Teach
cy. John Graham; Louise Hay-'
wood. Vaughan; Martha Ann S
Overby, Norlina; Marie An-i
tionette Warren, North War-:
ren: Doris G. Parker, North j
Warren.
The board also approved a!
resolution to pay school em-j
ployees on the 25th of each |
month and approved janitors j
salaries. I
The term of employment of,
J. E. Byers, principal of John
R. Hawkins High School, and
G H Washington, North War- j
ren High School was approv j
ed. Byers' term of employ-1
nient is 11 months and Wash- j
ington's is lOVi months. Both
are based on the number of |
teachers in their schools.
It was announced that two j
automobiles have been pur-j
chased, for the use of J.
Comer Griffin, assistant sup
erintendent of schools, an-!'
for Calvin White, school sup-1
ervisor.
The board voted to add two !
classrooms at John R Haw-!
kins High School for the use |
of an increased number ofi
pupils'. The rooms are ex
pected to be completed in i
time for the 1964-65 session.
Jimmy Roberts, center, chief of the
Warrcnton Rural Fire Department, is
presented a certificate by County Com
missioner Alfred Ellington Monday night
following completion of a 30-hour train
ing course by local rural firemen. At
right is Ernest T. Little, assistant chief
of the Roanoke Rapids Fire Department,
who served as instructor for the train
ins course. Ellington made the presenta
tion on behalf of the Warren County
Board of Commissioners. Firemen who
completed the course, sponsored by the
N. C. Division of Vocational and Indus
trial Education, are pictured on page
eight. (Staff Photo)
Sick Bats Could Have
Rabies, Warns Doctor
Children are warned not to
pick up or try to play with
a sick bat They may be
carrying rabies.
Dr. Robert Young, county!
health director, told the conn- j
ty commissioners Monday that
bats infected with rabies have!
been found in Rowan County
and the affected animals are
new found in 40 states.
Recounting that in one in
cident a bat flew through an
open window of an automo
bile and . bit a child. Dr.
Young asked representatives
Board Orders Gaston
Lake Property Zoned
An area of Gaston Lake
from the Halifax County line
to Hubquarter Creek on the
south of the lake is now
zoned.
The Board of County Com
sioners ordered the area zon
ed at their Monday meeting
after Jack Harris, a member
of the Warren County De
velopment Commission, ap
peared before the board with
a request that the area be
zoned. He brought with him
a petition from several prop
erty owners in the area ap
proving the project. Harris
appeared before the board in
behalf of Marvin Newsom.
chairman of the commission,.
who was absent from the
county Monday.
Harris said that the com-1
mission would not request at
this time the zoning of the
area in Warren County lying
011 the north side of the lake.
Commissioner Robert
Thorne made the motion that
the proposed area be zoned.
The motion was seconded by
| Commissioner A. J. Ellington
and unanimously passed.
In other matters before the
board, the commissioners or
t dered that a beer license not
j be granted to W. G. Svkes of
I Roanoke Township.
A delegation appeared be
fore the board requesting the
improvement of road No. 1521
from Long's Crossroads to
Odell ir< Fishing Creek Town
ship. The delegation report
ed that there are fourteen
families living on this route,
which is a mail route and
traveled by three school buses.
Richard R. Davis was ap
pointed as a member of the
Library Board as a represent
ative of the Board of Com
missioners.
The commissioners ordered
[that a beer license be issued
to Norman I. Haithcock.
All the commissioners were
present for the meeting with
the exception of Commission
er Richard Davis, who was ab
sent from the county.
of The Warren Record and
of the Littleton Observer,
present at the meeting, to
warn about the danger of bats
and to tell children not to
try to pick one up.
The unfortunate thing about
bats is that while they can
transmit rabies the disease
does not prove fatal to them,
Dr. Young said.
Dr. Young said that while
rabies has greatly decreased
among dogs due to the vac
cination program, that the
disease is increasing among
foxes, coons, skunks and other
wild animals.
Appearing before the board
with Dr. Young was Major
K. A. Kilby, a graduate of
Williams College and the Uni
versity of Buffalo, who is
spending a on ;-year residency
in public health in Warren
and Halifax Counties.
On the brighter side, Dr.
Young commented on the
success of oral vaccines in
reducing polio. Cases have
been reduced from 1342 para
litic cases in 1959 to 109
cases in 1962, he said. The
oral vaccine, he said, is ef
fective against all three types
of polio.
Phone Improvement
Project Under Way
In Area Of Warren
A telephone improvement
project?designed to provide
service for 22 applicants in
the Grove Hill, Areola, Beth
lehem and Inez areas of War
ren County?is expected to be
completed during September.
H. T. Pitts, area manager
for Carolina Telephone, said
construction plans call for
placing more than 11 miles
of large-size feeder cable and
four miles of smaller distri
bution cable and wire in the
southeastern portion of the
county.
The project, expected to
cost approximately $46,500,
will provide facilities for fu
ture expansion of telephone
service in the area.
Howell Steed Named
To School Post
Howell Henry. Steed, for
mer Warrenton merchant, has
been named truant officer of
the Vance County public
school system.
Steed, 54, will begin his
duties Sept. 1 at a salary of
$350 per month, with a $100
additional automobile allow
ance. He will serve white
and Negro schools of Hender
son and Vance County as at
tendance officer.
A nine-month per year job,
the post was created this
year. Steed was selected
from among 20 applicants
seeking the job.
He is a native of Vance
County and a 1928 graduate
of Middleburg High School.
He is the former owner of a
dress and shoe store In War
renton.
Victims Of Killer Dogs
Find Funds Unavailable
Lack of funds in the dog
department Monday barred
the collection of damages by
two Warren County farmers.
James T. Harris appeared
before the commissioners at
their morning session asking
damages for sheep killed by
dogs. He said 36 sheep and
lambs had been killed by dogs
and asked for damages in the
Norlina Youth Named
Scholarship Winner
Roy Edward Young, son of
Mr and Mrs. Eugene Young,
Norlina, Kt. 1, has been
awarded a Sears-Roebuck
Scholarship at North Carolina
for study during the coming
academic year.
Young is a rising sopho
more in the university's
School of Agriculture. He is
studying agricultural engi
neering.
Sears-Roebuck, through its
foundation, provides scholar
ships to help outstanding
young people develop their
potential for agricultural
leadership.
Dr. E. W. Glazener, director
of instruction for the School
of Agriculture, says Young
was selected for the honor be
cause of his scholarship,
leadership and agricultural
background.
Services At RMgeway
Services of Holy Commun
ion will be observed at the
Church of the Good Shepherd,
Ridgeway, on Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock, the Rev.
James M. Stoney, rector, an
nounced this week.
amount of $630. He was told
that the dog funds had been
exhausted and that there were
no funds to meet his claim.
Under the law property
owners are permitted to re
cover damages caused by dogs
from the dog fund, after in
vestigation by an appointed
commission.
Also failing to collect was
j N. G. Moseley who sought
| damages in the amount of
$150 for a cow and two
calves killed by dogs. Mose
ley did not appear before the
board but sent in his claim.
Mr. and Mr*. Roy Hayes of Norlina are pictured in
front of their 1911 Empire automobile during a recent
eastern national tour of the Horseless Carriage Club
of America. The Norlina couple received a trophy
after being selected as the best dressed couple in the
costume competition. Presentation of the trophy was
made at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, following a
parade of the restored cars past the ^ White House.
Some 43 cars, dating from 1901 to 1915, were entered
in the tour.
Request Of
Negro Boy
Is Denied
Application lo
Afton - Elberon
School Barred
The request of Leonard
Lewis Davis, Jr., for reassign
ment from Coley Springs
school to the all-white Afton
Elberon school was denied by
the Board of Education at a
meeting here Monday night.
Denial of the request was
based on the contention that
the Negro boy's admittance
would not be for the best in
terest of the child and would
disrupt the orderly operation
of the Afton-Elberon school.
Davis is the first Warren
County Negro to seek admis
sion to a Warren County
white school.
Jurors Drawn
For Service
Jurors for the September
term of Superior Court were
drawn by the county commis
sioners on Monday as follows:
W. L. Fuller, Milton Car
roll, Sue D. Skinner, R. T.
Hardy, Herman Newsom, F.
E. Wilson, Fred M. Hurst, C
M. Bullock, Walter J. Hund
ley, Roger C. Moore, F. L.
Hicks, Leonard L. Paynter,
George A. Shearin, A. L. Ed
wards, James W. Clark, Rob
ert P. Carter, R. Melvin
Shearin, Price Robertson, D.
S. Wimbrow, James B. Har
ris, Mrs. M. P. Carroll, E. R.
Clary, Mrs. L. W. Overby.
Mrs. Irene S. Short, E. H.
Maynard, Sr.
John W. Felts, Frank J.
Foster, John Ball, Mrs. Eu
gene Spraggins, Clyde V.
Whitford, Roy G. Daniel, Wil
lie L. Currin, Ernest Turner,
Philip J. Bender, Wilbert E.
Stainback, Clarence E. Har
ris, H. M. Fuller, Mrs. Lillian
M. Robinson, E. R. Wood,
W. R. Woodall, H. M. Wil
liams, Sr., W. Cook Dowtin,
Neal Capps, T. P. Pinnell,
Calvin Paynter, Thomas J.
Harrington, D. L. Newsom,
Miss Emily Ballinger, James
C. Matthews, Linwood Ayscue.
Warren Youths Will
Do Battle For North
Two Warren County youths
will do battle for the North
Friday night when North and
South football teams square
off at Greenville for the first
annual Boys Home Bowl all
star football game.
Billy Rogers, 6-3, 205-pound
center, of Warrenton and
Charles Moore, a 5-11, 200
pound Littleton guard, will be
members of Roxboro Coach
Morris' North squad. Both
are slated to see considerable
duty in the Jaycee-scensored
event.
Slated for East Carolina's
stadium, the game will be
held for the benefit of the
Boys Home at Lake Wacca
maw, a home for neglected,
underprivilged and often
homeless boys.
Members of the North and
South squads will have a
week of workouts under
their belts when the game
gets under way.
Returns Home
Mr. W. R. Strickland re
turned to his home on Friday
after being a patient in War
ren General Hospital for a
week. Mr. mm) Mr*. Fred
Kesler oi. Henderson and
other relatives from Goldi
boro and* Rocky Mount visit
ed him while there.
la Hcapital
Mrs. S. D. Edwards, mother
of Mrs. W. K. Lanier, is re
cuperating in Warren General
Hospital from a fractured
shoulder sustained in a fall
Board Suggests
Compromise Plan
Ninety pounds of rockfish were pulled from Roanoke
Rapids lake by two Warren Plains fishermen last week.
Making the catches were Willie Joe Robertson, left,
and John Capps. The two fishermen used spinning
rods to land the 12 rockfish. Largest fish in the day's
catch weighed 11 '.i pounds. (Staff Photo)
Drop In Warren Farm
Population Reported
Nearly 200 persons left ]
Warren County farms during
1962, a farm census report
released here this week has
revealed.
Figures compiled by the
Crop Reporting Service of the
N. C. and U. S. Departments
of Agriculture showed that
Warren's 1963 farm popula
tion stood at 11,306, compar
ed with a figure of 11,497
for tfie previous year.
The report, a preliminary
study of figures compiled by
farm census supervisors and
township listers and presented
to Warren County commis
sioners, showed that the 1962
harvested cropland acreage
was about 2,400 acres below
1961. Smaller acrages in
1962 were reported for corn,
peanuts, wheat, oats, barley,
sorghum grains, hay, potatoes,
sweet potatoes and vegetables
for sale.
Only partially offsetting [
these decreases were increases!
in acreages of cotton, tobacco!
and soybeans.
Dairy cows decreased in;
number from 2,195 in 1962
to 1,930 this year, while the
number of chickens shrank
from 35,188 last year to 30,
895 in 1963. January, 1963,
inventories of brood sows and
beef cows were slightly larger
than a year earlier.
The report revealed that in
1962 only 17 per cent, or
37,534 of the county's 220,
737 acres of county farmland
was utilized for harvested
crops. Of this cropland, 21
per cent was used for the pro
duction of cotton, and an
identical percentage was util I
ized for corn production. To
bacco acreage accounted for
16 per cent of the 'otal culti
vated acreage.
Jail Sentences Given In
Recorder's Court Friday
Jail sentences ranging from
four days to one year were
imposed on defendants in
Warren County Recorder's
Court Friday by Judge Julius
Banzet.
One defendant Robert Lee
Alston, charged with trans
portation of illegal w'nisicey
for sale, gave notice of ap
peal to Superior Court after
receiving a one-year sentence.
His appearance bond was get
at $100.
Also taking an appeal was
Anthony Davis, Jr., charged
with speeding. Davis drew a
60-day sentence, suspended
for two years upon condition
he surrender his operator's
license for 90 days, operate
no motor vehicle for 90 <4ays
and pay ? fine of $100 and
costs. K'? appearance bond
was set at $100.
A four-day jail sentence was
imposed on Howard Carter,
Jr., found guilty on an as
sault charge. Carter was also
ordered to pay court costs.
In other cases set on Fri
day's crowded docket, the
following action was taken:
Eugene St. John Saffell,
drunk driving, $100 and costs.
Emma Robinson Lyons,
transportation of illegal whis
key for purpose of sale, not
guilty. ,
Mary Towns, aiding and
abetting in the transportation
of illegal whiskey for the pur
pose of sale, not guilty.
J. C. Denton, bad check,
30-day sentence. Denton was
found not guilty on a charge
of skipping a hotel bill.
James R. Williams, speed
ing, costs.
Talmadge Kyzer, Sr., speed
ing, costs.
Lambert Parks, speeding,
costs.
Erby Neyron Nichols,
speeding, costs.
James Russell, speeding,
disobeying stop sign, $10 and
costs.
Walter E. Carter, speeding,
|10 and cost*.
J. Edward Davis, speeding,
|10 and costs.
Kenneth Ell wood SpraiU,
operating at a greater speed
thsn prudent under present
conditions; failure to operate
motor vehicle on right aide
(fee COVET, page ?)
Middleburg
Gets Pupils
Hew Students To
Begin At Norlina
A compromise settlement of
the differences between cer
tain school patrons in the
Prewry section of Warren
County and the Norlina school
hoard over the attendance of
Warren County students in
the Middleburg school in
Vance County was indicated
at a meeting of the Norlina
hoard with the Boird of Edu
cation here Monday night.
The Norlina school board
had previously requested that
the Board of Education assign
all pupils in the Norlina
school district to the Norlina
High School. The Board of
Education had approved this
request, with the exception
that all high school students
from Warren County now at
tending the Middleburg school
be permitted to continue
their education at the Middle
burg school upon individual
requests to the Board of Edu
cation for assignment.
This decision of the Board
of Education aroused the pro
test of Vance school officials
and the parents of children
in the Drewry community
now attending the Middleburg
school. Subsequently, efforts
have been made to reach a
compromise agreement.
The Board of Education
suggested that a compromise
might be worked out whereby
all pupils from the Drewry
area now attending the Mid
dleburg School might be per
mitted to complete their ele
mentary and high school edu
cation in that school, provided
the school was not changed
in a proposed consolidation
program in Vance County.
In that event, all Warren
County students in the Mid
dleburg school would be as
signed to the Norlina school.
The Board of Education
woold make this concession
only if the Drewry patrons
would agree to send all new
students in the Norlina school
district to Norlina beginning
with the 1964-65 school year,
and the Vance County schools
administration would agree
not to send school buses into
the Drewry section of Warren
County to pick up pupils.
Members of the Norlina
school board said they would
not rescind their action in
requesting all pupils in the
Norlina school district to be
assigned to the Norlina
school, but if the Board of
Education overruled them in
the interest of community
harmony, that they would
willingly accept the board's
decision.
If the Vance County author
ities and the Drewry patrons
agree on this compromise
proposal, with a written agree
ment, the Board of Education
voted to accept the compro
mise arrangement.
Nurse Treated Here
After Fall At Lake
A Suffolk, Va., nurse re
received emergency treatment
here late Saturday after she
broke her leg In a fan from
water skis near Kimball's
Point on Kerr Lake.
Mrs. M. E. Hall was trans
ferred to a Suffolk hospital
after receiving treatment her*.
Paul Anderson, superintend
ent of the Kerr Reservoir
Development Commission, said
Mrs. HaU realised she broke
her leg in the tall and tread
ed water until help arrived,
She requested an air mat
tress on which she could Ua
and keep her leg straight
til she could be
Anderson said Mrs. RaB
camping at
prior to the