Your Best Advertising Your Best .... - - u m m u m mr u u mmm m> Advertising Medium ^L_ a. ft. The SUlutar obtain his tobacco seed from reliable sources. By do ing this, he said, he will be protected against the planting of mixed or inferior seed. "As in past years tobacco will be checked while it is growing in the field. Any tobacco having growth characteristics and chemical properties simi lar to discount variety will be supported at one-half the sup port rate for acceptable varie ties. So it is most important that each farmer be sure of the variety of tobacco he plants." Warrenton Native Wins Promotion By Richmond, Ya. Bank The Southern Bank and Trust Company of Richmond, Va., has announced the pro motion of Peter G. Seaman, Jr., to Assistant Trust Officer at a recent meeting of the bank's board of directors. Seaman, a native of War renton, N. C., is a graduate of Staunton Military Acade my, Stauton, Va., and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. N. C. Re also attended the School of Law and studied as a special stu dent in the School of Busi ness Administration at the University of North Carolina. He served in the United States Air Fore* as a Pint Lieutenant from IM4 to 1007, (8m SEAMAN, page t) Episcopal Services Listed By Reefer Christmas week services (or th<- three Episcopal churches of the area were announced yesterday by the Rev. James M. Stoney, Jr., rector. The services include: EVtnmt Pi aye i?at?Hie Church of the Good Shep herd. Ridgoway, on Sunday afternoon at I o'clock. A Christmas party at Em manuel Church on Sunday at 4 pm. . A midnight communion at Emmanuel Church beginning at a Christmas liber 38, at roe Gardner, organist; Mrs. Leonard?Daniel, pianist; ami J E. Rooker, narrator. "The public is cordially in vited to attend this inspira tional and meaningful Christ mas service of song and praise," Mr. Mann said. A nursery will be provided for families with-small children. Warren Man Given Suspended Sentence For Timber Theft A Warren County man drew a 60-day suspended sentence Friday for illegally cutting timber. Judge Julus E. Banzet pass ed sentence in Warren Coun ty Recorder's Court after hear ing evidence that Eddie Green had cut down trees on land not belonging to the defen dant. Green, charged with larceny, was ordered not to trespass upon the lands of the S. D. King estate for two years and to pay the estate S10 for trees cut as conditions for suspended sentence. He was further.- ordered to pay costs of court. In other cases disposed of during Friday's brief session, the following action was taken: Harold Johnson Faulkner, no operator's license, improp er registration and failure to stop after accident, 60-day road sentence, suspended one year upon condition he pay $50 in to the office of the Clerk of Superior Court and $50 fine for the use of Mrs. Narcissus Medlin to reimburse her for damages done to her nnto by defendant. He was also charged with costs of court. James T. Pegram, bad check, nol prosr because of de (8ec COURT, ?) Volunteer firemen battle flames in sub freezing weather shortly after 2 a. m. Sunday. The frame dwelling, located a half-mile north of the Warrenton town limits, was engulfed in flame when mem bers of the Warrenton Rural Fire De partment were summoned. Owned by Sadie Kersey and occupied by her father, the house was falling in when the fire men arrived and was soon leveled by flames. Origin of the fire was unde termined. (Staff Photo) School Bus, Train Collision Averted A collision between a \u ten County school bus ant. a speeding train was narrowly averted near here Tuesday, the State Highway Patrol was told this week. State troopers said a Negro bus returning approximately 20 North Warren High School pupils to their homes Tuesday afternoon was almost struck by the train in the Warren Plains community. The train's engineer, who was not identified, told patrol officials in Raleigh that he locked his brakes and threw the train into reverse as the school bus edged near the tracks. He said he thought there would be a collision but thai the bus stopped just short of the tracks. A witness. Mrs. Jack Shear in, said the bus stopped ap proximately a yard from the tracks as the westbound train passed. The driver of the bus. Jerry Bell, gave state troopers a similar account. AA To Hold Meeting A meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous will be held in the Warrenton Baptist Church on Monday night, Dec. 23, at R o'clock. An open meeting will be held and the public is invited to attend. An out of-town speaker will be present. Norlina Postmaster Bill Delbridga holds one of the 273 children who greet ed Santa Claus during the postmaster's annual Christmas party held at the Nor lin? postoffice Monday. The Christmas event is well on its way to becoming a tradition with Norlina children. (Staff Photo) Norlina Man Works To Brighten Christmas When Norlina Postmaster Rill Dolbridge began using a North Pole cancellation stamp on children's letters to Santa seven years ago, he had little irfn.i that he was about to be come a full-fledged public ro tations man for St. Nick. . Dclbridge's decision in 1867 to put a touch of authenticity on the youngsters' letters ouickly mushroomed into a chore that kept him working two weeks before Christmas. NHf only did he provide each letter with a North Pole post mark, but ho took tim* to drrft #n individual reply. Dtiri&f the next three CluLilnias soaaona DtlbtMge answered between 400 and 600 letters annually. Before 1081. when, a deluge of Christmas mail forced him to crnccl his project, letteft from children in a host of states wore being received at tho Norlina poet office Let ten written to Santa, in ? pouring in from tb? children of scrvioemen stationed over , tv- _? 3 up hisr job of making Christ mas a happier occasion for hundreds of children. During the 1961 Christmas season he hired a professional Santa Claus to listen to the wishes of scores of children who flocked to the Norlina post office That year Delbridge took colored pictures of each child who visited Santa, and later n?vc the pictures to the chil dren. The cost ran well above $100 and last year Del bridge substituted the colored pictures with toys. He bought 24 doten toys last Christmas, but that was far the youngsters who attended Dcl brjdge's Christmas party in the postoffice. Earlier this week, Delbridge staged another one of his an nual Yuirtide postoffice par tie*. The postoffice lobby contained a Christmas tree by /?gPtof'IF t Norlina Quintet Puts Unbeaten Mark On Line Against Aycock An undefeated Norlina quin tet scored a 47-43 cage tri umph over William R. Davie Tuesday night to run its Hal ifax-Warren Conference re cord to 4-0 Tuesday night, and heir hardwood mates scored :heir first victory of the sea son by downing the Davie lassies, 28-19 In the nightcap played on he Norlina court, John Allen, Johnny Mayfleld and Buck Wiggins provided the noriM jnneh for Boy Price's squad *'hich downed the visitors for Ihe second time this year. Mien ncted 13 for the Wave*, while Mayfield and Wiggins rach collected 11. Center Billy Wolson af n?vi? tnnk scoring honors with 25 points, while teammate Larry Phillips collected 10. In the opening game Kay Floyd, with nine points, and Judy RlligtonC with eight, broke the Wavelet*' four-game tolng skein by overtaking Oavio In the third quarter And staying In front for the remainder of the contest l*st Friday night Norlina defeated i-jjcrow-county rival (See NORLINA, M. ?) ? " I JGHS Team Invited To Play In Holiday Event At Nashville Warrenton's Yellow Jackcts, unbeaten in five starts this season, have been selected as' one of four teams to partici pate in a Holiday Invitational D&ubleheader to be held in the George I. Womble Gym ?".aHum in Nashville Dec. 27 and Dec. 28 Tickets for the event, which will pit Warrenton against Nashville on the first night of the event, went on sale '?ere this week. Warrenton will meet Spring Hope on the | sccond night of the post I Christmas twinbil]. Wakelon ?? the fourth team in the double bill. John Graham Principal Ken reth Brinson said yesterday that both student and adult tickets' were on sale here. Students may purchase tickets through Monday morning for 50c. Brinson said, and adult tickets are being sold for 75c. All tickets sold in Nash ville, both for children and aaultsr, will sell for 75c, with profits from the event being shared by the participating clubs. Brinson said that tick ets purchased here before Monday would assure-the pur chaser of a seat in the event of a sellout. A special section has been reserved for Warrenton fans in the Nashgivve gym, which has, a seating capacity of ap proximately 1,800. Tickets- are on sale locally at Sanitary Barber Shop and Boyd-Boyce Motor Company. On Dec. 27, Spring Hope v. ill meet Wakelon at 7:30 p. m., while Warrenton and Nashville will tap off their contest at 9 p. m. The fol lowing night Warrenton and Spring Hope meet in a 7:30 affair, while Nashville and Wakelon meet in the night cap. Warrenton Cagers Take Fifth Twinbill; At Littleton Tonight Warrenton's basketball loams won their fifth twinbill of the season Tuesday night as both the boys' and girls' squads gained easy wins over Aurelian Springs' cage club*. The Jackettes coasted to a 24-10 triumph and the Yellow Jackets rolled to a 46-35 win. Warrenton held the Aure lian Springs lassies scoreless in the first quarter and allow ed them only one point dur ing?tlie-^lrst?half as vhey built up ? 10-1 halftime ad vantage. Knox Polk led the way for the victors with eight points, whtte?running mate Gayle Fleming netted ?In the?nightcap.?'""H*" Springs made the going rough for the first quarter, but playmaker Wayne Gibson, who had 14 points for the night, ran into early foul trou ble and sat out a portion of the contest before fouling out in the final frame. Blalock, working well Bid Of $158,200 Is Submitted For Treatment Plant Novel About Warren Co. Put On Sale I An award winning book by Manly Wade Wellman. "So! (lement on Shocco: Adven ures in Colonial Carolina." for young readers nine? lo thirteen, was published Satur day by John F. B'.air, Publ isher. of Winston-Salem "Settlement on Shocco" is fiction based on the facts of regional history and has won the literary award sponsored by the Carolina Chapter Ter centary Commission for prose fiction dealing with North j Carolina history prior to the American Revolution The story begins a little! over two hundred ^ears ago in what is now the southern j part of Warren County, North I Carolina, when a frontier fam-1 ily followed an Indian trail! through the wilderness to! Shocco Creek and there made! a home for"themselves. By 1763 this family along j with other settlers found it' necessary to form counties, j courts, county offices, and militia to protect themselves from exorbitant taxes. Lord Granville's unscrupulous rent collectors, dishonest land deal ings. and Indian War. They were proud colonists who real ized that their years of labor spent in building the frontier were endangered by King George's tyranny, and that they must soon assert them selves to be free from his op pression. Manly Wade Wellman was born in the Portuguese West African colony of Angola, the son of a medical missionary. He has published over forty books, many of them dealing with North Carolina, where he has lived since shortly after World War II. Fourteen of his books are novels for young readers dealing with North Carolina's past and present. Wellman lives near Chapel Hill and conducts' a "creative writing workshop at Elon Col ^ege. When he is not writ ing. Tie spends much of his time studying Carolina history and folklore. ItKV. .TAMES T. CLE1.AND Professor To Speak ! At Church The Rev. James T Cleland. ; James I! Duke Professor of! Pl eaching at Duke Divinity | School, will preach during the j 11 a m worship service at ; Wesley Memorial Methodist ? Church on Sunday. Dr. Clcland. a Scotch Pres byterian minister who is also ! dean of the Duke University Chapel, is a graduate of Glas I cow University and Glasgow | Divinity School He taught at Union Theological Seminary J in New York, at th? Glasgow i Divinity School and at Am- ; heist College before coming j to the Duke Divinitv School ir. 1945. Author of several books and series with religious themes. Dr. Cleland last year preached at each of the ser vice academies and conduct ed the Christmas worship ser vice for American servicemen stationed at Thule. Green land. Both the adult and chil dren's choirs will sing during the service, the Rev. Troy Barrett, Wesley Memorial pas tor, said this week. At 3:30 p. m. Sunday members of the /?huri-h school will have their Christmas' party in the fellow ship hall of the church. At 8 p. m. the Community Christ mas Cantata will be presented in the church. Two Firms To Begin Work Here A Fayettcville construction company was tentatively awarded a S15;S.2000 contract Wednesday for construction of a srwauc treatment plant litre Work on the nlant is expnemt to bopin ' later this month C onsoiidatcd Construction Co. of Fayetteville was low bidder for th" plant construc tion. main item in providing an efficient sewage disposal system here Cost of the o\erall project, including pur chase of plant site, is cxpect ec! to be approximately S200. 000. A Warrenton firm. Connell Construction Co. submitted i he low bid of S35.191 20 for erect in a lift station and lay in ; -ewer lines. Bids from five concerns were onened during the 45 iiiinute special session. Al though tentative acceptance of bids was made by commis sione's ponding a review of figures, a town official said [that, the tentative Acceptance would be tantamount to full accentance. Work on the project, par-. (See BIDS, page 8) Draft Board Office Schedules Closing The Warren County Draft Board office here will be clos ed from December 23 to De cember 30, while the clerk, Mrs. Thomas Ellington, is on leave, Selby Benton, chair man. announced Thursday. Benton asks that boys whose birthday falls on the days on which the office will be closed -to report for regis tration on Monday, Dec. 30. Heads Of Girl Scout Drive Extend Thanks . Mrs. Arthur Williams and ?tames Y. Kerr, co-chairmen of the Girl Scout Drive in Warren County, announce its successful conclusion this week and on behalf of the Girl Scouts, express thanks to all those who contributed and those who helped make the drive a successful one. Christmas Edition Slated Monday On Monday, December 23, the Christmas week edition of The Record will be published, carrying Christmas greeting advertisements, and necessary legal notices. No advertisements for this edition can be accepted after Saturday, December 21, at noon. More than two centuries at service to represented by the WunMM ?nniHiPiiifli Tuesday night. Soma^ft officers and en listed Aco not pictured alto received rib bona lor more than Ave yean sendee Pictured following presentation by Capt Sobert L. Duke, Winding officer ft C, ana: frant row, left to Smiley, M years; Roy rw#J