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VOLUME 63 10c Per Copy Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. ' FRIDAY, APRIL 10. 1964 NUMBER 15
Photo By H*ndcraon Dispatch
MISS SYLVIA DAVIS
Warrenton Girl Is
Henderson Queen
A Warrenton girl, a striking
brunette with warm blue eyes,
will represent Henderson in the
Miss North Carolina Pageant
In Raleigh next July 8-11.
Seventeen - year - old Sylvia
Lynn Davis won the title of
Miss Henderson of 1964 over
six other talented contenders
In the annual Junior Chamber
of Commerce pageant held at
Henderson on last Friday night.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Macon Davis of Warren
ton, Miss Davis Is a senior at
John Graham High School here.
First runner-up honors went
to stately Harrlette KefryHer
lon and the second runner-up
trophy was earned by Jean Fort.
Veronika Haun was named
Miss Congeniality In a secret
poll of the contestants them
selves, conducted earlier yes
terday.
A capacity audience In Hen
derson high school auditorium
saw the seven voung ladles
compete In talent, eveninggowr
and swim suit divisions, with
Judging also based on poise,
personality and the tradition
al question and answer session.
Sylvia Is a senior at John
Graham high school In Warren
ton and has been studying mu
sic with Mrs. George Holden
of Henderson. The daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Davis
of the Loulsburg road, Warren
ton, the new Miss Henderson
says she hopes to continue her
education at Greensboro Col
lege in Greensboro.
She Is 5-6 In height and her
115 pounds in a perfect 36-23-36
figure neatly fills her swim suit
Sylvia expressespreferencefor
charcoal drawing and oil paint
ing, sewing and needlework,
water sports and golf.
In her talent performance
last night, Miss Henderson of
fered a well-executed piano se
lection, "Clown," they sang a
, vocal solo, "She Can't Say No,
from the musical Oklahoma.
Her first question in the qui*
portion of the program was, "If
you war* seated on a plane
) next to RlcSard Chamberlain of
?Dr. Klldare' fame, what would
you do?" Sylvia replied, "I
don't know Just what I would
do?I'd probably scream first."
.yta a more serious vein, her
second question was, "Why
would you consider education
Important to a woman?" in
her answer, Sylvia pointed out
the advent ages of an education
Hi
In providing support for a fam
ily if a woman should be mar
ried and then widowed.
As winner of the pageant,
she receives a$200 scholarship j
given by the Junior Chamber,
a $100 scholarship provided by |
the Henderson Pepsi-Cola Bot
tling Company and Manager A.
H. Parsons, a$100scholarship |
from Henderson Business Col
lege and Charles Mason, a$100
wardrobe and an expense-paid
trip from the Jaycees to the
Miss North Carolina Pageant in
Raleigh, along with her crown
and trophy.
Each contestant in the event
receives a $25 savings bond
from th e Jaycees and a charm
bracelet.
Two Men Held On
Kidnapping Charge
Two young Negro men, charg
ed with kidnapping and robbery,
will be given a hearing in War
ren County's Recorder's Court
Monday, Deputy Sheriff Bonnie
Stevenson said yesterday.
The men?Johnny Frank
Davis, Jr., and Theodore
Carter, both 19?are accused of
taking over the car of Alton
Patrick, 22-year-old white man
of Roanoke Rapids, by holding
a knife at his throat, and with
robbing him of $30.00.
Stevenson said the robbery
occurred Saturday night around
9 o'clock on the Harrlstown road
after Patrick had offered to take
the two men from Warrenton to
Macon. He said that Davis held
a knife at Patrick's throat while
Patrick was robbed. He then
held Patrick with the knife while
Carter drove Patrick's car, but
became dissatisfied with Car
ter's driving, and took the wheel
while Carter held the knife.
A few minutes later, Steven
son said, Davis wrecked the car, |
and both men fled.
Mrs. title's Father
Dies On Tuesday
UMnie Baxter Prltchard, 73,
father of Mrs. J. R. Link of
Warrenton, died on Tuesday
morning.
Funeral service* were held
at Blackwell Memorial Baptist
Church, Elisabeth City, on Wed
afternoon at t o'clock.
Board Calls For
Special Election
Warren County Board of
Commissioners Monday called
for a special election to deter
mine whether a special tax not
exceeding 5? on the $100 valua
tion shall be levied for the
employment of an Industrial en
gineer for Warren County and
to otherwise promote the in
dustrlal and agricultural
development of the county.
The election will be held on
May 30 in connection with the
Democratic Primary. A sepa
Land To Be
Advertised
For Taxes
The Warren County Board
of Commissioners Monday or
dered that real estate of citi
zens who have failed to pay
their 1963 taxes be advertised
in May and sold the first Mon
day In June.
In other business before the
board In a long session Monday,
the commisslonersorderedthat
AIvls Paschall of Smith Creek
Township be granted a $17.50
tax refund for 1963 on account
of typographical error.
A. P. Rodwell, Jr., tax col
lector, reported tax collections
In the amount of $6,346 In March
bringing the total collections for
the year to $316,602.36. Col
lections are just ^>out average
for the year, Rochroll reported.
S. E. Allen, Register of
Deeds, reported 90 marriage
license Issued for the first
quarter of 1964, for which $450
was turned Into the General
Fund.
On motion of Commissioners
Richard Davis, seconded by
Commissioner John Wilson and
duly carried, the Bute Develop
ment Company was requested
to report in writing to the Board
of County Commissioners at Its
next meeting on the activities
and progress being made in
obtaining new industries and ex
tension of existing Industries
within the county with the funds
appropriated for such purposes
by the county.
The board ordered that Wil
liam W. Taylor, Jr., be given
a reduction of $800.00 In tax
value on his property In War
renton known as the "Taylor
Building" on Main Street, due
to the property being out of line
In value with similar property.
The State Highway Commis
sion was requested to widen
West Franklin Street In the
Town of Warrenton known as'
S . R No. 1001. The request
to widen the street was made
after W. A. Miles, Mayor of
Warrenton, had appeared be
fore the board asking that such
action be taken.
Board Members To
Seek Re-election
All five member of the Board
of Education will be candidates
for re-nomlnatlon In the Demo
cratic Primary of May 30.
At least all five?Gene Davis,
Ed Harvey, Dr. Sam H. Massey,
Jr., Boyd Mayfield, and J. T.
Gupton? signed their filing
papers and paid their fees to
Wiley Coleman, chalrmanofthe
Warren County Board of Elec
tions, Monday night.
Coleman said that in addition
to th? members of the Board
rate ballot will be used.
The election, called at the re
quest of the Bute Development
Company, an organization that
has for years been working for
the development of the county,
was sei for May 30 In order
that additional cost of a
referendum on the issue of the
tax levy might be held to a mini
mum. A similar Is "ue submit
ted to voters of Franklin County
a year or more ago, was passed
by the voters of that county.
EVELYN PALMER
Miss Palmer To
Appear With Chorus
On NBC Network
A former Warrenton girl,
Evelyn Palmer, will make her
appearance on National tele
vision on April 11, it was learn
ed here this week.
Evelyn, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Palmer, formerly
of Warrenton and now of St.
Petersburg, Fla., Is a mem
ber of the Clega High School
Choir of St. Petersburg which
will appear on the NBC net
work Saturday as a part of the
Mrs. America Program.
Evelyn Is in the soprano group
of the choir which will also sing
at the New York World Fair
In June.
Cheek Still Held
By Authorities
In Philadelphia
Archie Cheek, charged with
the shotgun slaying of his grand
father, Ernest Cheek, on Nov
ember 22, 1962, failed to re
turn to Warrenton Monday with
Sheriff Jim Hundley to answer
a murder charge.
Sheriff Hundley went to Phil
adelphia, Pa., over the weekend
to bring Cheek, a young Negro
arrested by the FBI and held
In Philadelphia, to Warren
County for trial. Hundley said
that he had been notified by
Philadelphia police that Cheek
had expressed a willingness to
return to the county.
Hundley said that onlyashort
time before he was to bring
Cheek to Warrenton a Phila
delphia "Public Defender" ap
peared with a writ of habeous
corpus and the Judge ruled that
another hearing would have to
be held.
Hundley said he was told by
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of Education, that Frank B.
Banzet had filed for the House
of Representatives, Roy B.
Clark had filed for constable
of Judkins Township; and Jlm
mle C. Hudson had filed for
constable of River Township.
Students art shown inspecting hooka displayed at the
John Oraham High School gym thla week. Tha book dis
play, including basic sal actions of raqulrad books, st*>
ptamantary books and reference books, was also pre
sented at othar high schools of tha county this weak.
(Staff Photo)
Alleged Trespassers
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NORTH WARREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students To Enter New Addition
At North Warren School Monday
A $115,000 addition to the
Northslde Negro elementary
school will begin operations on
Monday morning, J. a. Peeler,
superintendent of Warren Coun
ty schools said Monday.
The addition will contain four
JACK H. CRUM
Crum To Lecture
At Two Churches
The Rev. Jack H. Crum, di
rector of christian social action
of the N. C. Council of Churches
and also a member of the North
Carolina Methodist Conference,
will be the guest speaker at
meetings held at two churches
of the county on Sunday, the Rev.
Milton Mann, pastor of the
Macon Methodist Church, an
nounced yesterday.
Mr. Crum will address the
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Sub - District meeting at the
Jerusalem Methodist Church on
Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
His topic will be "Communism
and Christian Youth," and he
will present slides of his tour
3f Europe and Russia. Mr. Mann
said that this program will be
the highlight of the meeting. The
election of new MYF Sub-Dis
trict officers will also be on
the agenda for the afternoon
session.
The Rev. Mr. Crum will de
liver his address and show
slides at the Macon Methodist
Church at 7:45. The evening
meeting will be primarily for all
Interested Christian adults, Mr.
Mann Mid. The service Is spon
sored by the local Commission
of Christian Social Concerns of
the Macon Methodist Charge
"The public is cordially in
vited to attend either of these
Informative, interesting and
timely meetings," Mr. Mann
sii
classrooms, and auditorium
lunch room. He said the ad
dition will give space for a cen
tral library as well as adding
cafeteria facilities.
As a result of completion of
the building, Peeler said, the
Paschall Chapel two-teacher
school will be closed and some
60 pupils and the two teachers
will be transferred to the North
side school.
Peeler said that seven small
Negro schools still are being
operated in the county, including
Hecks Grove, a larger school.
But with the completion of
Southside elementary school
within a short time there will
be no one-teacher and two
teacher schools left in the coun
ty.
Patrons Back School,
Principal At Hearing
More than a hundred Negro
school patrons gathered in the
court room of the Warren Coun
ty Courthouse on Monday night
to express to the Board of Ed
ucation their confidence in and
support of the John R. Hawkins
High School.
A brief statement was read
by James Jones, Warrenton
merchant, stating the purpose of
the meeting, after which Daniel
Bullock said that was all the
business of the meeting. Asked
by Chairman Eugene Davis if
anyone else wished to be heard,
Bullock said there were none.
Asked if there were any ques
tions, Bullock said there would
be none. Whereupon the meet
ing was adjourned and the mem
bers of the Board of Educatlor
returned to their office down
stairs.
The statement read by Jones
n its entirety was as follows:
"Mr. Davis, Mr. Peeler, Mr.
Drake, and members of the
Board, we are here tonight to
express and show our full con
fidence and support of the school
program and theprlnicpalof the
John R. HawklnsJUgh School."
Prior to the meeting a pet
ition supporting Prof. Byers
and the Hawkins school, signed
by some 300 persons, was sub
mitted to the board.
During a brief session fol
lowing the meeting In the court
room, the board members ap
proved a request of the Little
ton school committee that Mrs.
Helen Gardner Bell, who has
passed the retirement age, be
employed for another school
year.
The board approved the elec
tion of Charles Richard Taylor,
a graduate of East Carolina
College, as successor to Mrs.
Milton Mann, a fifth grade
teacher at John Graham High
School, who has resigned.
The board also approved the
purchase of library books for
Warren schools duringthe sum
mer months.
I
Zoning Hearing To
Be Held On May 4
A special hearing to consider
shangea In zoning boundaries
md other regulation* In a part
af the Gaston .Lake area will
oe held by the Warren County
Board of Commissioners on
Monday , May 4, at 4 o'clock.
The request tor the hearing
was made by Marvin Newsom,
chairman of the Warren County
Planning Board, who appeared
before the commissioners Mon
day afternoon with Jack Harris,
secretary of the board, a
Monroe Gardner. v
Newaom also told the com
missioners that further state
assistance was needed from the
State Department at Con serra
tion and Development In carry
lng out the orderly development
of Gaston Lake. He said this
assistance could be provided
by the commissioners appro
priate $1900 over a two-year
period to meet mat chine funds
of state and federal govern
ment, After some discussion
the commissioner* agreed to
make the donation.
Newsom MM that the
development of the lake la
almost exceeding his expecta
tions with an Increasing num
ber of subdivisions being of
fered to the poMlc. This, he
said, Is going to be reflected
in an increase In valuations of
the county, "it is a
thing," he said.
Students
Are Back
In School
More than a hundred Negros,
charged with trespassing in
racial demonstrations her dur
ing the past ten days are sche
duled to be given a hearing in
Warren County Recorder's
Court today.
Some 20 other demonstrators
were added to the list of more
than 100 previously arrested
Wednesday afternoon when they
blocked the entrance to Boyce
and Hunter Drung Stores by
sitting in front of the doors
of the town's two drug stores
and refusing to move.
The demonstration, the first
In Warrenton's history, began
on Saturday afternoon, March
28 when the two drug stores,
the Puritan Cafe and the War
ren Theatre were the targets
of the sit-downs, and Hotel
Warren was added to the tar
gets on a second demonstra
tion Tuesday afternoon.
In Saturday afternoon's
demonstration- 57 persons
wtre arrested, including Elliot
Elsenberg of New York, an
18-year-old white student at
Amherst College, who was
charged with trespassing and
Inciting to riot. The demon
strators, mostly teen-agers,
were hauled to jail In a police
car, and after four town police
men and two deputy sheriffs
became exhausted after bodily
lifting the demonstrators into
the car, tear gas was used
t o clear the streets in front
of the drug stores.
By Tuesday the police were
ready with a large van and a
number of added deputies, and
cleared the store entrances
without too much difficulty, ar
resting 58 demonstrators In the
process. Aiding in stopping the
demonstration were two Negro
leaders deputized by Sheriff
Hundley and Mayor W. A. Miles.
Six other alleged leaders were
cited to appear In court April
10 when they refused to serve
as deputies.
Tuesday's demonstratlonfol
lowed a boycott of War
ren County Negro schools which
began on Tuesday morning and
lasted for a week, and by a
march and song and prayer
service on the court house steps
Monday and Tuesday after
noons, and by a march on Wed
nesday afternoon. The marches
were peaceful and police and
highway patrolmen assisted In
routing traffic while marchers
were crossing streets.
The boycott which resulted
in more than half of students
remaining away from Negro
schools fc_ several days, ap
parently ended Wednesday when
a large proportion of students
were back in school. Whether
the boycott was called off by
the NAACP or wore Itself out
Is not known. J. R. Peeler,
superintendent of schools, said
Wednesday afternoon that the
boycott was over and that he
was no longer making a count
of attendance. Thursday morn
ing school buses passing
through Warrenton's business
district enroute to John R. Haw
kins High School here were
fully loaded.
Monday night the Board of
Education was In session to hear
a delegation of Negro school
patrons backing the
High School ant Its
J. E. Byers,
the NAACP. At thatttm
man Eugene Davis
board that he had been
ed by Ernest Turner,
of the Warren
to gits
a hear:
This