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VOLUME 67 10c Per Copy Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARKEN. N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1963 NUMBER 41.
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Leaf Growers
Underplanted
Allotments
Warren County tobacco
growers underplanted their
county allotment by 135.9
acres in 1963, T E. Watson,
local ASCS office manager,
said yesterday.
Watson said that Warren's
effective tobacco allotment for
1963 is 6,032.75 acres and ?
tabulation of the harvested
acres shows that 5,896.82
acres were harvested on 1958
farms. The tabulation reveal
ed that 69 allotment farms
with 23.27 acres did not plant
any tobacco.
"In 1963 the lease and
transfer of tobacco allot
ments was permissible for the
second year and 233 growers
leased their allotment to oth
er farms," Watson said.
"Some 336 acres were trans
ferred to other farms under
this provision, but the acre
age was adjusted to 295 acres
due to normal yield differ
ence, an adjustment of 41.0
acres."
Watson said that the lease
and transfer program has
been extended for 1964 and
1965 tobacco allotments.
Harry Gordon Limer
Dies Monday; Rites
Held On Wednesday
Harry Gordon Limer, prom
inent Warren County farmer,
died suddenly at Elberon at
10:30 a. m. Monday. He was
71 years old and had been in
declining health for several
years.
Mr. Limer was a member
of Sulphur Springs Baptist
Church and served as trustee
for a number of years. He
was a former member of the
Elberon Council of the
J.O.U'A.M.
Funeral services were con
ducted at Sulphur Springs
Baptist Church Wednesday at
2:30 p. m. by the pastor, the
Rev. J. M. Long. Interment
was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Limer is survived by
his wife, the former - Sallie
Lou Fuller; one son, Gordon
Limer of Warrentssi; two
daughters, Mrs. Walter Carter
and Mrs. Elwood Burgess,
both of Warrenton; five broth
ers, Osborrife, Robert and Dan
Limer of Warrenton, Eddie!
Limer of Roanoke Rapids,
and Britton Limer of Bur-|
lington Flats, N. Y.; six sis-!
ters, Mrs. Malvern Felts of
Afton, Mrs. George Peek of
Asheville, Mrs. Ruth Williams
of Butner, Mrs. Charles Wil
liams of Greensboro, Mrs.
David Parker of McCall, S. C.,
and Mrs. Julia Ward of Colo
rado Springs, Colorado; six
grandchildren and one great
grandchild.
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Former Resident
Buried Wednesday
Funeral services for Miss
Mary Hinton Watson , were
conducted at Emmanuel Fpl?.
copal Church here Wednes
day at 11 a. m. by the rector,
the Rev. J. M. Stoney. Inter
ment was in Fairview Ceme
tery.
Hiss Watson, although a na
tive of Warren County had
resided for a number of years
in Baltimore, Md., where she
died Sunday,
She is survived by an only
brother. Col. William R. Wat
son of Raleigh.
Magazine Drive Is
Begun By J6 Pupils
The John Graham High
School is now conducting its
annual magazine drive. Princi
pal Kenneth Brinson announc
ed yesterday. The drive will
The students are contacting
people in Warren County in
order that they may have the
opportunity to take new sub
Walls of a new Negro elementary replace a number of small, frame struc
school two miles south of Afton are ris- tures serving hundreds of pupils through
ing rapidly. The structure is scheduled out the southern portion of Warren
to be ready for occupancy by the open- County.
ing of the 1964-65 school year. It will (Staff Photo)
Zoning Status Change
Sought At Gaston Lake
The" first- request?for?a
change in zoning status of
property on the newly devel
oped Gaston Lake was made
to the Board of County Com
missioners at their regular
meeting on Monday.
Jack Harris, a member of
the Warren County Planning
Board, presented a map to
the commissioners showing
property on the lake owned
by Dr. C. H. Woodburn of
Littleton, who has asked that
this property be changed
from a residential listing to a
listing for lakeside business
and a tept or trailer camp.
Harris explained that all prop
erty in the zoning area had
been classified as residential
areas, with changes to be
made by the commissioners
upon recommendation of the
planning board.
Harris said that while the |
planning board had approved j
the change in the zoning j
status for this property,, as a
matter of routine a public
hearing would have to be held
before the change would be
come effective. The commis
sioners are expected to set
this hearing for the first
Monday in November.
The commissioners ordered
that the tax books for War
ren County for the year 1963
be turned over to A. P. Rod-1
well. Tax Collector, for col
lection. ..._ .
Approval was given to Co
lonial Life & Accident Insur
ance Company to enter into
a Group Accident Plan with
county employees.
Clerk of Court Joe N. Ellis
Man Draws Road Term
For Concealed Weapon
Will Drumgo, who pled
guilty to a charge of carrying
a concealed weapon, was sen
tenced to 30 days on the
roads by Judge Julius Ban
zet in Warren County Re
corder's Court last Friday.
The other eight cases in Re
corders were concerned with
violations of motor vehicle
laws. They were:
Robert Djnston, 45 m.p.h.
in a 35 m.p.h. zone, court
costs; Douglas Perry Wil
liams, reckless driving, $50
and costs; Walter Donald
Bright, no operator's license,
$25 and costs; Freddie. Gray
Hicks, allowing unlicensed
person to operate motor ve
hicle, costs; Claude Henry
Jordan, speeding, costs; John
Henry Hunt, Jr., drunk driv
ing, not guilty; Claude Ed
wards, drunk driving, $100
and costs; Isaac Jerman, driv
ing after license revoked, $25
and costs.
Two Warren Youths
Charged Following
Station Break-In
Two white youths have
been , arrested here by War
ren County sheriffs deputies
In connection with a weekend
break-in at Higbt's Service
Station on the western edge
of Warrenton.
Deputies arrested Charlie
Moseley, 18, of near Warren
ton on Saturday and placed
him in the Warren County
jail under a $800 bond. Also
taken into custody was a
18-year-old boy whose name
was not released by the ar
resting officers. The younger
boy was placed in his par
ent's custody by a juvenile
court officer.
The break-in was discover
ed Saturday morning after a
window on the east side of
the building was found open.
Missing was approximately
$30, officers said. Also taken
during the theft were confec
tionery items, a pistol, and
several checks. The pistol,
money and checks were re
|covered
I fleers.
School Patrons Hay
Visit Cafeterias
Patrons nt
Boyd Elementary School are
invited to visit the cafeterias
of the three schools during
I the week of October 14-17,
| which is National School
lunch Week.
The purpose of the visits
will be' to familiarize patrons
with the school lunch pro
grams. Patrons who wish to
may participate at a meal at
any of the three schools at
a cost of 35c. Meals will be
served to visitors at the Mar
iam Boyd and Macon schools
on Oct. 14 at HiiB 12.80; at
John Graham Elementary
School on Oct. 15 at 12:00
11:45; and at John Graham
High School, Oct. 16 at 12:36
Parents who plan to eat at
the schools on th^sa days are
requested to notify the
school principals by Oct 14.
In
Mr. P. B. Newell is a pa
tient in Veterans Hospital for
Mrs. Frank Newell,
have visited him
Sister Of Warrenfon
Woman Dies Tiesday
Mr*. Helm Sleet McDon
ald. a sister of Mr*. Clifton
Bobbitt of Warren ton, died at
Carthafe Tuesday. Funeral
services were held there
In addition to Mrs. Bobbitt,
Mrs. McDonald is survived by
daughters, five
her, and ona gr
BSBS
plans to take a further step
toward mechanizing his office.
He told the commissioners
that he wanted to buy a book
keeping machine for his of
fice at a cost of around $800,
and said that he thought the^
purchase could be financed
with funds on hand. During
the discussion Auditor A. Pr
Rodwell, Jr., said that he had
installed ' a similar machine,
in his office some eight or
ten years ago and that it had
proved very satisfactory. He
said that before he bought
the machine it required one
person eight hours a day to
post the books with pen and
ink. With the machine, he
said, the books are posted
daily in 30 minutes The com
missioners raised no objection
to Ellis' proposed purchase.
The commissioners received
a letter from the Board of
Commissioners of Wilson
County endorsing the submis
sion of a proposed $100,000,
000 school bond issue by the \
state to the voters, but the
commissioners took no action
on the letter further than j
listening to its reading by
Clerk S. E. Allen.
The chairman and secretary
of the board were authorized
to accept and execute an op
tion from E. A. Hendrick and
Mary F. Poe covering the
Hendricks Property on Front
Street.
A. P. Rodwell, Jr., Tax Col
lector, reported taxes collect
ed in the amount of $50,
160.34 during the month of
September.
S. E. Allen, Register of
Deeds, reported sixty-six mar
riage licenses issued for the
quarter ending Sept. 20, for
which $330 was turned into
the General Fund.
Local FHA Chapter
Members At Rally
?Members of?the?John
Graham Chapter of the Fu
ture Homemakers of America
were among the approximate
ly 1000 girls from 90 schools
attending the District Four
FHA rally at Clayton High
School on Saturday.
"Good Homes Make Good
Americana" was the theme
used by the Future Home
makers. A pagent was pre
sented by Johnston County
girls using this theme. Vocal
selections were presented by
| Emily Hideout of the War
renton Chapter.
Interesting end- informative
talks, "Let's Take A Trip,"
were given by Mrs. Wilson
Champion of Italy, Mrs. J. E.
Ford of England and Mr.
Denis Antoine of Paris,
France. .
Attending from John Grab
am were Ann King, Segrld
Ellis, Deborah Wilson, Angela
Wilson, Llndb Norwood, J*
Warren Co
Bricklayers
To Compete
Eight young bricklayer ap
prentices from the Warrenton
area will match their skills
against some 30 others from
all sections of North Carolina
in the tenth annual statewide
Apprentice Bricklaying Con
test, to be held Friday, Octo
ber 18, at the State Fair in
Raleigh.
The local apprentices are
all training to be bricklayers
under the state-sponsored Ap
prenticeship Training Pro
gram. They are: Walter Jun
ior Lyons, Kt. 3, Warrenton,
employed by William Burwell,
masonry contractor, Rt. 1,
Louisburg; Joseph Alston of
Rt. 2, Warrenton, employed
by Joseph L. Richardson,
Warrenton masonry contrac
tor; Telia Young, Rt. 3, War
renton, also employed by
Richardson; Stephen Thomas
Alston, Jr., Rt. 1, Warrenton,
another of Richardson's ap
prentices; William Tunstall,
Rt. 1, Warrenton, employed
| by Julius W. Davis, Warren
ton bricklayer; Archie L. Als
ton. Rt. 3, Warrenton, em
ployed by George W. Kane,
Inc., of Henderson; Vernon
Hawkins, Rt. 1, -Warrenton,
also employed by the -Kane
firm; and Claudie Kenneth
Mayfield, Rt. 1, Norlina, em
ployed by Julius W. Davis,
Warrenton bricklayer. The
eight apprentices have been
.training under the siate.pro
gram for periods ranging from
seven months to one year.
Saving bond prizes totaling
$350 . are at stake in the
Bricklaying Contest. First
"place winner will be awarded
a $200 bond, second place
runner-up a $100 bond, and
third place contestant a $50
bond. The champion and the
employer under whom he is
receiving his apprenticeship
training also will be awarded ;
engraved trophies.
The contest will be judged
by a panel of masonry ex
perts from the construction
industry. Contestants will be
judged on the basis of accu
racy, neatness, plumb, level,
bond, productivity, uniform
coursing, and manipulation of
tools.
Afton-Elberon Club
Holds Ladies' Night
The Afton-Elberon Ruritan
Club held its annual Ladies'
Night dinner meeting at the
Warren Plaza Inn on Tuesday
I night, October 8. at 7 o'clock
A three-course dinner was
I served to memK.s, wives and
I guests.
I Stephen A. Daniel, presi
I dent, "presided. Malvin Felts,
| song leader, led the group in
singing, "America," followed
by the invocation given by the
Rev. O. F. Taylor, pastor of
Providence Methodist Church.
The Rev. Milton Mann, pas
tor of the Macon, Warren
Plains and Hebron Methodist
Churches, gave a very inter
esting and informative talk on
"School Dropouts and How
They Affect' the Schools of
Today."
Door prizes were donated
for the occasion by Colonial
Stores, Warrenton Furniture
Exchange, Pittard Motor Ser
vice, Western Auto Associate
Store. Miles Hardware Co.
and Odom's Flower Shop.
Open -Mouse Draws
Some 1,000 Guests
Approximately 1,000 per
sons inspected the new lodg
ing and dining facilities at
the Warren Plaaa Inn Sunday
during a three-hour open
Mr. and Mrs. L M. Clark,
owner* of the 18-unlt motel
and restaurant, showed guest*
through both motel and ree
taurant, decorated with cut
flower*, gifts of friend* and
huainra* people from thi?
??>?
Punch wa* served guests by
Mr*. Edgar Neal, Mrs. W. L.
Fuller, and Mr*. A. R. Fras
Hancock*!)?1 Oirfort^ri^'jTck
fftainhark of Durham, and
Mlaaes Rachel Hedieoth of
Raleigh and Breada Clark of
Land Smoothing
Event Scheduled
Standing Tali
Warrenton's armory receives a fresh coat of paint
in preparation for the annual federal inspection of
facilities, records and personnel. A team of officers
from Fort McPherson, Ga., will inspect records and
facilities Tuesday. . That night the 60 enlisted men and
four officers of the local National Guard company will
be inspected.?The armory redecoration was partially
underwritten by an appropriation by the Warren Coun
ty commissioners. (Staff Photo)
Whitley-To Leave
Warrenton Hospital
F. P. Whitley, administra
tor at Warren General Hos
pital for the past 13 years,
will resign his post effective
Dec. 15. Whitley expects to
receive an appointment as a
rural mail carrier for Rt. 3,
Warrenton.
A native of Wilson, Whit
ley resigned his post of office
manager at Rocky Mount's j
Funeral Services
Are Held Here For
Mrs. Pattie White
Funeral services for Mrs.1
Pattie Burwell White were
conducted at Wesley Memor
ial Church here on Tuesday
at 11 a. m. by the Rev. Troy
Barrett, pastor, and Dr. Cecil
Robbing, president of Louis
burg College, and the Rev. L.
C. Vereen of Raleigh, former
pastors. Interment was in
Fairview Cemetery.
Mrs. White, the widow of
Edmund White, died at her
home here Sunday morning
after a long illness. The
daughter of the late William
Henry and Lucy Cole Bur
well, she was born at Cottage
Home, Vance County. She was
educated at the private school
of John Graham at Warrenton
and at Blackstone Institute at
Blackstone, Va.
She was a member of the|
board of stewards of Wesley
Memorial Methodist Church in
Warrenton, a member of the
Granville-Warren Committee
of the Colonial Dames of
America? a member of the
Warren County Historical So
ciety and of the Warrenton
Garden Club. lira. White was
descended from Gov. Alexan
der Spottawood, Col. Lewis
Burwell, the ROv. John Blair,
president of William and
Mary College, and other dis
tinguished Virginia and North
Carolina families.
Mrs. White is survived by
four sisters, llrs. George G.
Allen of New York, and
mi?? WiWi. nut Tjicv nur
well and Mrs. William R. Bas
kervill ol Warrenton.
6ardmr Promoted
W. Monroe Gardner ol
WaiTehtftn, a member of Com
pany C, 3rd Batallion, 139th
Infantry, hw been promoted
to the rank of first rrgttnt
(E-?) in the North Carolina
National Guard.
owner of an
here, hot I
of the Tar
IB
Park View Hospital to accept
his job with the hospital here.
He reported for work here
Sept. 1, 1950.
Whitley's resignation is the
second to be submitted by
hospital personnel this year.
A vacancy was created in
June by the resignation of
Dr. Wirt L. Davis as hospital
surgeon.
Dr. Davis' resignation
prompted a three-month
search for a full-time surgeon
to serve the hospital. Late
in August Dr. Raiford Doug
las Baxley of Siler City ac
cepted the surgeon's job.
However, Dr. Baxley has
not arrived in Warrenton to
begin practice. Whitley said
Thursday that lack of an
anethetist here had delayed
Baxley's appearance here.
"Anethetists are in much
demand throughout eastern
North Carolina and we have
been unable to find a person
for the job," Whitley said this
week.
While the hospital has no
full-time surgeon, the 35-bed
hospital has had surgical help
on a part-time basis. Dr.
Robert T. Schorr of Hender
son has been serving the lo
cal hospital three mornings
weeklv and has been avail
able for surgery and consul
tation.
Mrs. B. R. Palmer
Dies On Wednesday |
Mrs. Sayde BaskrrviH Pal
mer, wife of the late Benja
min Russell Palmer of War
renton, died Wednesday about
5:30 p. m. in Duke Hospital
after an illness of several
weeks. She was a member
of Emmanuel Episcopal
Church and a former member
of the Warrenton Garden
Club.
Funeral services will be
conducted from her home at
11 a. m. Friday by the Rev.
James M. Stoney, Episcopal
minister. Burial will be in
Fairview Cemetery.
She is survived by a sister,
Mis. Alyce Ilydei el Ashe
ville.
Attorney Elected
CWnaw 01 ?mnl
Will Use
New Type
Machine
A Land Smoothing Demon
stration, sponsored by the
Warren Soil Conservation Dis
trict Supervisors, will be held
on Tuesday, Oct. 15, on J. W.
Shearin's farm, one-half mile
west of Vaughan, Nat B.
White, Soil Conservationist,
announced yesterday.
Farmers are invited to visit
the demonstration any time
Tuesday. White said that
Soil Conservation technicians
will be there all day to ex
plain the operation. Em
ployees of the Extension Ser
vice and Agricultural Stabili
sation Service will also assist
with the0 demonstration. ?
White said a type of ma
chine, new in Warren Coun
ty, will be employed to shape
waterways, fill in low spots,
topsoil eroded land, and
smooth the field for tractor
farming.
Land smoothing has grown
in popularity in Warren
County in recent years. White
said most farmers who have
land smoothing done on one
field want this job done on
all their tobacco fields. "This
work," he said, "is very ap
j plicable in . this area and
! there are few investments
that pay a tobacco farmer as
jwell." White explained the
operation:
! A typical Warren County
. tobacco field will have about
five acres in it. Old bench
terraces will circle the field
with a large quantity of top
soil in them. There will be
about one acre of badly erod
ed land in the field; littli
red galls too small to leave
out of .tobacco but producing
about $200 ner acre less than
,the rest of the field. A large
:bank of tonsoil will circle the
j entire field preventing the
j rows from emoting in woods
or pasture, and causing a gul
ly along the field border. A
poorlv drained hollow will cut
the field in two. There will
be many short rows in this
Itvpical field due to variable
1 distance between terraces,
I eroded areas, - and obstruc
: tions.
In a land smoothing opera
tion brush, trees, and stumps
will be pushed back from the
field border, and the bank of
tnnsoil will be moved back
into the field filling in low
nlaces and topsoiling eroded
land. The old bench terraces
will be moved to where the
tnnsoil does the most good. A
nsn will shape'the waterways,
riving them plenty of depth
to drain all excess water from
the field. Toosoil from
waterways will be used to 1
soil more eroded
fill in low places. The
lys will be seedad to K
fescue as soon as the;;;
smoothing job ia
Parallel terraces and
Farming will be installed
as the waterways
by the
the tractors can ran
side of the field
topsoiling
conserving soil and