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VOLUME 67 10c Per Copy Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST 30. 1963 NIIMRKR 93
Summer Vacation To End
Today For Warren Pupils
Elementary and high
schools throughout Warren
County will throw open
their doors for the beginning
of another school year Friday
(today; amid pleas from
school officials for improved
and steady attendance.
Hundreds of pupils have
been urged to make all pos
I sible efforts to attend school
I consistently at the outset?
I especially during the first ten
i days of the 1963-64 school
[year, when attendance will be
recorded to determine the
[county's teacher allotment.
While schools will not be
gin their regular sessions un
til Tuesday, students will re
I port Friday for registration,
I orientation and the collection
j of fees. Supt. J. K. Peeler
said yesterday that students
I had been asked to bring their
fees on opening day.
On Monday schools will not
be in session as teachers and
students take time off for the
observation of Labor Day be
fore reporting for a full day
schedule on Tuesday.
At Norlina special efforts
are under way to urge stu
dents to keep school attend
ance at a maximum during
the first ten days of school.
Principal W. O. Reed, in a
letter sent to school patrons
this week, urged parents to
(See SCHOOLS, page 4)
Schedule Of Fees
Elementary School Fees:
Instructional Supply Fee $1.00
Supplementary Reader Fee
Grades 1 and 2 .50
Grades 3 through 5 .60
Grades 6 through 8 .70
High School Fees:
High School Book Rental Fee 5.00
Instructional Supply Fee 1.00
Typing Fee 5.00
Agriculture Fee 2.5C
Home Economics 2.50
Exceptions:
Littleton?Instructional Supply Fee 2.00
John Graham?Supplementary Reader Fee
Grades 1 an# 2 -- 1.00
Grades 3 through 5 1.20
Grades 6 through 8 1.40
Instructional Supply Fee (Elementary).. 1.50
Instructional Supply Fee (High School) 2.50
John R. Hawkins:
Band Fee 3.00
Trades Fee 2.50
North Warren:
Trades Fee 2.50
Sale Of Snack Items
May Bring Funds Cut
Warren County schools are
threatened with the loss of a
portion of approximately $30,
000 in state funds annually
allocated for the school lunch
program, Supt. J. R. Peeler
said yesterday.
Peeler said that unless the
sale of food and drink items
?including ice cream?is
stopped in schools with stu
dent cafeterias state funds
would be sliced substantially.
A warning to school offic
ials to abandon the practice
of selling snack items to stu
dents during school hours was
issued Wednesday by Mrs.
Anne W. ?Maley, state super
visor of the school lunch pro
gram.
In a letter to school sup
erintendents across the state,
Mrs. Maley said that schools
which shared in school food
funds provided by the state
would have to cease selling
"snack items of food arid
drink on-school premises dur
ing the school day." She said
that schools which did not
stop the sale of such items
would be penalized by a one
cent reduction on each plate
served in school cafeterias.
For V/arren County schools,
this could be a considerable
amount, Peeler -said. A cut
ranging from 33 per cent to
10 per cent would be made in
Warren County's share of
state lunchroom funds if the
practice is not stopped, he
said. Currently state funds
range from threer cents, per
plate at John Graham High
School to ten cents per plate
(See FUNDS, page 4)
Warrenton Leaf Market
Opening Is Postponed
There will be ne tobacco
sold in Warrenton next, week.
The North Carolina Middle
Belt Warehouse Association
agreed Wednesday to ^post
pone its first day of sales un
Phone Books
Are On Way
Delivery of a new telephone
directory for the Warrenton
and Norlina exchange is
scheduled to begin next week,
Howard PitU, local Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
manager, announced yester
day.
Directories will contain new
listing* of all telephone cus
tomers on the exchange who
will be affected by a mass
number change which will be
come effective Sept.. 8. Sub
scribers in this area will have
their telephone dialing sys
tems converted from four to
seven digit*.
In the new directory the
exchange* of Loulsburg,
Franklin ton and Wake Forest
have been included. The new
exchangee will be contained
in one book with Henderson,
Norlina, Warrenton and Ox
ford.
"After Sept 7, subscribers
should throw away their old
directories to eliminate the
poarfhUity of using numbers
that have been changed,"
til Monday, S?pt. 9. The mar
kets on the belt had been
sceduled to open next Tues
day.
The postponement was rec
ommended by the Tobacco
Committee at a meeting in
Raleigh on Tuesday night.
The delay was proposed be
cause of a probable shortage
of buyers and graders for the
previously scheduled opening
day because of the alow move
ment of tobacco on the Bor
der Belt markets.
The Tobacco Advisory Com
mittee also recommended the
postponement of the opening
day on the Old Belt until
Sept. 23. It had been ached
uled to be open Sept. 16.
Action on the new date rec
ommended for the Old Belt is
expected at a meeting in Dan
ville, Va., Saturday.
Walker Stone of Durham,
president of the Middle Belt
Warehouse Association, said
warehousemen had approved
the Sept. B opening date in
a series of telephone calls
Wednesday morning.
Stone predicted that with
the delay the Middle Belt
would have "better averages
and better sale*" than record
ed on the Border Belt and
Eastern Belt on opening days.
"Tobacco with good quality
will sell better than last
U-. danlarad
dc aecureQ, ?
Markets oa the Middle Belt
an Durham, Aberdeen, Gar
tbage, Fuquay Springs, EUer
be, Henderson, Louisburg, Ox
ted, Sanford aad
Search For
Surgeon Is
Over Here
A three-month search for a
full-time surgeon for Warren
General Hospital ended this
week when hospital officials
announced that Dr. Raiford
Douglas Baxley of Siler City
would begin practice here
next week.
F. P. Whitley, hospital ad
ministrator, said the accept
ance of Dr. Baxley to the job
as surgeon here filled the
vacancy created in June by
the resignation of Dr. Wirt
L. Davis.
Dr. Baxley, 46, a surgeon
at Chatham Hospital in Siler
City for the past 13 years,
is expected to move to War
renton in the near future. He
is a graduate of the Univer
sity of North Carolina and
the medical school of the Uni
versity of Chicago. He has
served in Atlanta's Grady
Hospital, Tayloe Hospital in
Washington, and has been on
'he staffs of Lincoln Hospital
and Watts Hospital in Dur
ham. Prior to mpving to
Siler City, he was on the
staff of the state hospital at
Butner. During World War
II he served * in the U. S.
Army Medical Corps.
Since the resignation of Dr.
Davis, the county's 35-bed
hospital has had surgical help
on a part-time basis. Last
month, Dr. Robert T. Schorr
of Henderson began serving
the local hospital three morn
ings weekly, and was available
1ot surgery and consultation.
Association To Meet
The Cullom Baptist Associ
ation will meet in a called
session on September 3 at
8 o'clock at the Warrenton
Baptist Church for the pur
pose of acting on recommen
dation of Missions Committee
to extend a call to Dr. Carl
English of Greensboro to be
come Secretary of Missions.
Shades Of Jack's Beanstalk
While many of Warren County's farmers were
wishing for rain, some were wondering how they would
pick their vegetables if their corn and tomatoes receiv
ed more moisture. Above, corn stalks measuring 15
feet tall tower above Scott Gardner of Warrenton,
right, and Gardner's farm manager, E. H. Maynard, Sr.
Gardner produced 45 acres of corn this tall. The only
trouble was that roasting ears high up on the stalk
had to be fetched with a stepladder. Gardner and
-Maynard were not the only growers of tall plants with
problems; Below, Walter Carter of Afton and daugh
ter, Bonnie, stretch to reach tomatoes climbing high
above their heads. (Staff Photos)
Bond Issue Vote
Slated October 1
Warrenton voters will go
to the polls on the first day
of Octobcr to determine the
fate of a proposed $110,000
bond issue for the building of
a sewage treatment plant
here.
Date of the municipal elec
tion was approved Tuesday
night during a special session
of the Warrenton Town
Board. If approved the bond
issue would help pave the
way for a plant "for the treat
ment and disposal of sewage
including the installation of a
pumping station and force
main, together with the ac
quisition and installation of
the necessary equipment, ma
chinery and apparatus and the
acquisition of the lands or
rights in land required there
for, and a tax therefor."
Polls' will open at 6:30 a.
m. and will close at 6:30 p.
m. Voting will be in the
town's fire station. Mary E.
Grant has been appointed reg
istrar and Zenobia Lancaster
and W. L. Riggan will serve
as judges.
Registration books will be
open on September 14, 21,
and 28 from 9 a. m. until 9
p. m. Registered voters will
not be required to register
anew.
Earlier this vear the fed
eral government approved ex
penditures of $97,999 in fed
eral funds for building the
treatment plant, expected to
cost $200,000. Since that
time land bordering Fishing
Creek one mile south of
Warrenton has been purchas
ed as a site for the proposed
plant.
Town officials have said
that unless the sewage treat
ment plant is in operation
here before Sept. 20, 1964,
the town's present tax rate
of $1.15 will probably be
raised. By passing the issue
now, commissioners said
Tuesday night, residents will
not have to bear the cost of
the project without federal
financial aid.
Should the town not have
the treatment plant in opera
tion by next September to
conform to state stream sani
tation regulations, the state
would erect the plant and bill
the town for the cost.
"Actually what the voters
will have to decide on Octo
ber 1 is whether to accept the
federal funds which are avail
jahle with no strings attached,
; or to pay the entire costs
themselves," Myor W. A.
I Miles said
"We have passed several
bond issues in the past few
i years and our tax rate has
i remained stationary. I don't
I see why this bond issue
j should change things," he
isaid.
Criminal Court Term
Opens Here Tuesday
Boy Jailed
After Girl
Attacked
A 16-year-old Inez boy?
charged with the rape of a j
Negro girl?has been ordered
to stand trial at the Septem
ber criminal term of Warren j
County Superior Court.
Clifton Alston, a Negro j
youth, was bound over for I
trial here next week on last j
Friday when he was given a I
hearing before Judge Julius |
Banzet in Warren County Re-!
| corder's Court. Banzet, after j
finding probable cause, or
dered the boy held in jail
here.
Alston is accused of raping
Mary Louise Alston, a 17
year-old Negro girl, in an
automobile in the Liberia
community on the night of
August 21. .
He was arrested last Thurs
day night after his mother
brought him to the Warren
ton Police Station to surrend
er to officers, who had been
conducting a search for him
following issuance of a war
rant.
Alston's hearing came dur
ing the regular session of
Recorder's Court. Two other
persons tried on Friday will
also appear in Superior Court,
following notice of appeal of
(See BOY, page 4)
Some 31 defendants are
scheduled to go on trial here
next week during the Septem
ber criminal term of Warren
County Superior Court. Judge
Hamilton H. Hobgood of
Louisburg is expected to open
the session at 10 a. m. Tues
day.
Only one capital case has
been placed on the docket for
disposal during this term.
Clifton Alston, 16-year-old
Inez Negro youth, is schedul
ed to face trial Tuesday on a
charge of rape.
Eight of the defendants ex
pected to be called have been
accused by the State of driv
ing while drunk. Another
five are charged with violat
ing the state's liquor laws.
Other cases range from inter
ference with an officer to
neglect of minor children.
Cases scheduled for trial on
Tuesday include Charlie Ed
wards, interference with an
officer and attempted assault;
Ernest Ayscue, larceny; Rob
ert Henry Dunston, drunk
driving and speeding; Sterling
Richardson^ assault with a
deadly Weapon; Ervin Lynch,
assault on a female and non
support; William Burley, man
slaughter; Eugene Farrar,
liquor; Ray Russell Roberts,
drunk driving; Henry Duns
ton, two counts of liquor vio
lations; Lucy Farrar, liquor;
Beverley Hunter, non-support;
James Seward, assault; James
Alfred Fields, drunk driving;
Charlie Lee - Alston, carnal
knowledge; Leonard Davis, as
sault on a female; Everette
Lee Bullock, assault with a
(See COURT, page 4)
No Power
Warren County residents
planning to be on time for
church Sunday had better not
put -too 'much reliance in
their electric clocks. Chances
are, if they do, they'll arriva
just as everybody else is
leaving.
A recommendation that cit
izens not trust their electric
clocks was made yesterday by
C. P. Gaston, local Carolina
Power and Light Co. mana
ger, who said 'that power
would be interrupted early
Sunday morning.
Power is scheduled to be
disrupted for one hour on
Sunday for customers in War
renton, Norlina, Littleton,
Macon, Vaughon, Wise, Mid
dlcburg, Manson, Drewry and
rural areas. Gaston said elec
tric service would be Inter
rupted from 5 a. m. until
6 a. m. Also scheduled to be
without electric power at the
same time will be EEA cus
tomers in the same areas.
Father Jailed On Charge
A Warrenton white man
has been jailed here follow
ing his arrest on a charge of
attempted rape of his 14-year
old daughter.
Harold Lynch, a resident of
North Warrenton, was arrest
ed at the home of his es
tranged wife near here Mon
day by Deputy Sheriff B. G.
Stevenson. He was jailed
here pending a hearing in
Warren County Recorder's
Court Friday.
Mevenson said that Lynch
was arrested after his young
daughter reported that her
father had made advances to
ward her after asking her to
come to his home, where hs
lives alone.
Stevenson said the girl ran
from her father's house after
her cries attracted neighbors,
who came to the house. In"
a warrant issued on Monday,
Lynch is accused of attempt
ed rape on August 21.
Danger Of Bats Is Stressed By Warren County Health Officials
A stern warning, directed pri
marily at Warren County children,
waa issued this week by county
health officials in the wake of an
outbreak of attacks by bats?at
least three of which have been
carriers of rabtfes?on children
throughout the state.
A warning against playing with
crippled bats or bats that appear
ed to be sick was issued by Dr.
R. F. Young, county health di
rector, after a bat was captured
in Warrenton Monday and for
warded to the State Laboratory
of Hygiene in Raleigh.
Dr. Martin Hines, a consultant
with the State Health Department,
has reported that the bat was one
of a species called the-red bat.
This rodent usually winters farth
and in summer is solitary
in trees, shrubs or
the ground.
While no person has reported
bitten or scratched by a
in Warren County, health
officials are taking no chances in
their efforts to ward off a possi
ble case of human rabies. In ad
dition to submitting the bat cap
tured here to the state labora
tory, health officials are busy
trying to acquaint the citizenry
with the danger of rabies, popu
larly thought to be carried almost
exclusively by dog*. Lengthy anti
rabies inoculation*, including 16
injection* of duck embryo vac
ate, are prescribed for each vic
tim of a bat attack. H?i* summer
there have been ten reported
cases of bat* attacking children
In North Carolina.
On July 20 a 1V4-year-old girl
from Rowan County waa bitten on
the palm of her hand while she
waa In the family car parked un
der a tree. An older slater polled
the bat from the child- threw it
to the floorboard, and it waa kill
ed. Hie State Laboratory found
that the hat, a red one, waa infect
ed with rnbiea. The child la re
ceiving anti-rabies treatment.
On July 28 Dr. M. K. Holler.
Howan County health director,
submitted to the State Laboratory
a bat that was captured alive ap
proximately one and a half miles
from where the rabid bat waa
found. No rabies infection could
be determined in laboratory tests.
Several bats flew in a dormitory
window at the Murdock School at
Butner on August 9 Four teen
age children were bitten on the
handa and arms. On* of the beta
waa captured, and laboratory ex
amination revealed it waa Infected
with rabies. All of the children
are receiving anti-rabies treat
ment.
On August 14 a bat was found
in bed with a child In Foraythe
County. There waa a small mark
on the child; and although exam
ination of the bat revealed no
rabies germs, the child la receiv
ing vaccine.
A woman noticed a hat flying
at the base ot a tree In Durham
on August IB, and the called the
county dog warden. He captured
the bat and submitted It to the
State Laboratory. It was found to
contain rabiea germ*.
The first Identification of ra
bies in insectivorous bats in the
United States occurred in 1953,
when a yellow bat attacked and
bit without provocation, a seven
year-old Florida boy In daylight
Since that Incident, rabies ha*
been isolated from several hun
dred bats in 40 states. Isolations
ware made from 186 bats la 1091
and from 187 bat* In 1062. The
isolations ware from 28 different
gperJea of bat*.
Dr. Young said ha was told
that tin Stata Laboratory has
been bealeged with live bate, dead
bats, letter* of
to
laboratory testa have
of bats frees dif
ferent section* of the state to be
rabid, there is the Indication
that there may be widespread ra
bies Infection among bats," ha
said.
"This shouldn't be a situation
of hysteria and shouldn't cauae a
great deal of alarm. It should,
however, cause us to be
If we handle the
fully, the actual danger la
lmal"
In the event a person is i
ed or bitten, be said, the
to the family physician.
If possible, the bat should be
caught If it cannot be eaogkt. It
be UIM.
tat
to the Wa