Your Best Advertising Medium i Ulhp Harmt tRrrur* * ^ouisttHe, K> Your Best v i Advertising printing Compaq * icibv stre?t Medium VOLUME 68 10c Per Copy Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1964 NUMBER 32 Jury Rules On Cause Of Death A Warren County coroner's Jury has ruled that a man whose body was found on a highway near here came to his death as the result of being struck by an automobile driven by Mollle Williams Alston. The body of Robert David Carter, Negro of Rt. 2, Little ton, was found on Highway 43 a short distance this side of the Warrenton Golf Course around 4 o'clock Saturday morning. Evidence was that the man had 1 been struck by an automobile. An Investigation of the acci dent was made by Highway Pa trolman R. H. Clark, who blam ed the death on a hit-and-run driver. Parts of an automobile from around the transmission of a car were found near the body which was lying In a pool of blood. Saturday morning around 10 o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Als ton, who live on the outskirts of Warrenton, reported to Sheriff Jim Hundley that Mrs. Eddie Alston had run over the body of a man lying in the road at"^ about 3 o'clock Sat urday morning. Alston said that he and his wife was badly i frightened by the occurrance and for that reason his wife [ failed to report the accident to the Highway Patrol. Coroner N. I. Haithcock, call ed to the scene by Patrolman Clark, ruled that an Inquest should be held to determine whether foul play was Involv ed. At the Inquest held at Green's Funeral Home on Saturday afternoon, members of the Jury Inspected the body and the mor tician testified that he found | no slab wounds on the body. The Issue before the coronor's Jury was whether Carter has been previously murdered and placed on the highway, whether he had been walking down the highway when struck by some car whose driver was unknown, or whether he was lying on the highway alive when struck by the car driven by Mollle Wil liams Alston. An examination of the car driven by Mrs. Alston re vealed that blood and hair were found on the underside of the (See RULES, page 8) Open Air Retreat To Be Held Sunday At Memorial Forest i The second annual Sunday School Open Air Retreat will be held at the Memorial Recreation Forest on Sunday, August 16, beginning at 10:30 a. m. The event, sponsored by Jerusalem, Edward Grove, Hecks Grove and Jordan Chapel Churches, was announced this week by S. A. Davis, presi dent of the MRF's Council. Davis said that every family In the Hecks Grove school com munity is urgently Invited to en joy this open air retreat, and that every family is urgent ly Invited to bring their family dinner and spread It on the ta bles In the Forest, forget their troubles and enjoy this fellowship together. The American Friends Ser vice Student Group has been Invited to share In the teach ing of the 12 or more classes that will be organized In small sections from the beginners through the adults and seated and taught under the shade of the trees. ^from the Forest studio, Davis said, the Jerusalem choir will lead the opening music. The Edward Grove choir will lead when classes reassemble. The Jordan Chapel choir will lead following the lesson series and the Hecht Grove choir will lead the cloalng. Davis said the open air audi ence will Join over the loud speaker In the singing. regular services Regular services win beheU at the Warranto Presbytertar Church Sunday morning at 11 o*el?ck by the pastor, the Rev James Grant. FAMILIAR SCENE as Warren farmers harvest their tobac co crop. Charles Fleming and crew are shown preparing leaf for barn on the Tommle Harrington farm near Vicks boro last Friday. Present Indications are for one of War ren's best tobacco crops. Border market sales indicate better prices are In store. Farmers Optimistic Over Tobacco Outlook With prices up around $4.00 a hundred pounds on the bor der tobacco markets on opening day last Thursday and with the best crop indicated in years, Warren County tobacco farmers are optimistic about prospects for a good year. A crop, which looked poor only a few weeks ago, has been brought out by fine rains and agricultural agents say that Warren County has the best to bacco crop in years. Many farmers are expected to har vest around 2500 pounds per acre. Some tobacco has been damaged by winds and hail in scattered storms in the north ern part of the county, but hail damage to date has been less than is usually the case. Cotton crops look particular ly good at this time, and for the first time in many years the boll weevil has offered no serious threat to the crop. Based on reports from pro ducers as of August 1, North Carolina's flue-cured tobacco production is forecast at 862 million pounds?or 5.5 per cent from the July estimate, accord ing to the North Carolina Crop [Reporting Service. Such a pro ductlon would fall short of the 920.7 million pounds produced last year by 6.4 per cent, but it would exceed the 1958-62 five year average of 804.9 million by 7.1 per cent. If the esti mated production materializes, flue-cured yield would pass the one -ton mark for the fist time in history and woul d amount to a record 2,077 pounds, or 78 pounds more than the previous record produced last year. Following the droughty con ditions which prevailed over the state for a considerable period, rains since the firsl of July brought about a marked im provement in flue-cured to bacco, especially in the Middle and Old Belts, Type 11, and in the Eastern Belt, Type 12. Type 11 production in the Middle and Old Belts is es timated at 319,800 pounds from 164,000 acres for a yield of 1,950 pounds as compared with a 1963 production of 325,780, 000 pounds from 182,000 acres and a yield of 1,790 pounds. The United States flue-cured crop is estimated at 1,277, 241.00 pounds for a decrease of 6.9 per cent from the 1, 371,462 pounds produced last year. Board Budgets Fund To Pay For Truck The Board of Town Commis sioners Monday night approved the amount of $7,683.64 as a supplementary budget for the Fire Department In order that the balance due on the recent ly purchased John Bean Fire Fighter could be paid in full during the current fiscal year. The funds were appropriated from surplus funds on hand June 30. The board also approved pay ment of a bill In the amount of $384.17 to pay the expenses of Fire Chief Walker Burwell and two firemen Incurred In attending the John Bean Fire Fighters School at Lansing, Mich., and In the delivery of the new fire truck to Warren ton. B. C. Powell appeared be fore the board in behalf of himself and Wlllard Faucette of Sinclair Service Station to ask the commissioners to abate certain nuisances occurring on a lot back of the Community Center. The board took no act ion but Mayor W. a. Miles promised Powell that he would have police officers make an Investigation of conditions at which he complains. Bruce Rose agipeared before the commissioners relative to parking meter problem a, but no action was taken. Other matters before the board in a rather long session were of a routine nature. Football Practice To Start Saturday Football practice will begin at the John Graham High School at 7:30 a. m. Saturday, Coach Jimmy Webb announced yester day. Webb said that around 25 boys have already signified their in tentions of coming out for the team and that about 20 of these Were members of the squad last year. The John Graham Coach said that he la looking forward to a good season and expressed the hope that many boys would be on hand for the first session Saturday morning. HORSE SHOW A horse show win be held at Robbins Ball Park in Clarke vine, Vs., on Saturday after noon, August 15,fromlil0p. m. Daylight Savings Time, and 7 p. m. DST. Delicious cold drinks and brunswlck stew win be ser ved. The show which wUl be com prised of U classes is spon sored by the Mecklanburg Life Saving and Rescue Woman Is Shot Cornelia Powell Williams,} ioung Negro woman, is in a ser ous condition at Roanoke Hapids Hospital as the result if being shot in the back with i 22 calibre rifle at the home if her sister, Mrs. Sol Smith, Tr., at Vaughan around 9:30 Saturday morning. Charged with the shooting is drs. Williams estranged hus )and, Joseph Williams, who is artment, Slmms was stabbed n the face and stomach, and fO stitches were required to :lose the wounds. Davis, who Is being held In Varren County Jail, alleges that Slmms attacked htm with a stick, after he had cursed him. A warrant charging Slrnins with a assault with a deadly weapon has been sworn out by Davis' wife, according to the officers. Miss Emily Burt Person re turned to Warrenton this week to resume her duties as vo cational home economics teacher at John Graham High School. 4-H Club Members Leave For Camp More than 30 Warren County 1-H'ers left Monday, August, 10 or a week's encampment at the lew Betsy-Jeff-Penn 4-H Center near Reidsville. A few if the week's activities will ln :lude handicraft, canoeing, Mating, swimming, dancing and slectrlc activities. The4-H'ers will have athletic competition, alent show, vesper programs. a banquet and meet new friends from Forsyth and Jones coun ties. One adult leader, Mrs. Clifton Stegall Is attending camp with the group along with the two assistant agents to serve as cabin sounselor s and group leaders. The group Is made up of the following: Arlene Bender, Conrad Ben der, Laura Bender, Tommy Bender, Donna Brauer, Carla Calllhan, Bonnie Carter, Annie Mary Craft, Clifton Randy Cur tis, Valerie Fleming, Ernest Boyd Harris, Phil A. Harris, Teresa Hicks, Burnlce White Hllllard, Carol Hobgood, Ruby Kimball. Lou Ellen King, Mary Long, Nancy Pete Mitchell, Hal Pas chall, Jr., Bob Rtdeout, Mike Rock, Harriet Sabrowskl, Shir ley Sabrowskl, Shirley Anne Seaman, James Clifton St eg all, Carolyn West, JudyGayle West, Ronnie West, Vivian Williams, Pamela Hardage, Mrs. Clifton Stegall, Miss Rita Castleberry and L. B. Hardage. Warren Will Seek To Participate In North Carolina Fund In 1965 Children Assigned At Board Meeting A misunderstanding over the admission of two Negro child ren?Ramona Denlse Harvey ; and Ronald Andre Harvey?to John R. Hawkins school was corrected at a meeting of the Warren County Board of Edu cation Monday right, and the two children were ordered admit ted. In assigning 18 Negro child ren to white schools at the July meeting of the board, several applications from among the 57 pupils requesting assignment were denied on tne grounastnat the parents of the children were not legal residents of Warren County. This led to the Impression that two children of Mrs. Sarah S. Harvey, who now resides In! Richmond, Va, were denied ad mission to all Warren County: schools. Monday night Melvlne Tun- 1 stall and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Ethel Tunstall, grandmo ther of the children, appeared before the board to ask that the children be allowed to at tend the John R. Hawkins High School. Tunstall, who acted as spokes man was told that the board In denying admission to white schools of children whose par ents are not legal residences of the county, did not attend this to apply to admission to other schools, and that the children could attend John R. Hawkins. Dr. S. H. Massey told Tuns tall that since space Is at a premium In the white schools and all the applications could not be approved, the board felt that first consideration should be given to those children who are legal residents of the coun ty Tunstall said that he under stood that, and he felt that the admission of the eighteen stu dents was fair and he believed entirely satisfactory to mem bers o f his race who under stand the problem. Massey as sured him that the board act ed In good faith. The meeting triggered a dis cussion of a policy of the ad mission of any children to War ren County schools whose par ents are not legal residents of the county. The membersques tloned the Justice of taxing Warren County citizens to edu (See ASSIGNED, page 8) Baxter Succumbs To Heart Attack Funeral services for William Alexander Baxter, 53, were conducted at the Norlina Meth odist Church at 4:30 p. m. Sun day by the Rev. Bruce Tate. Burial was In Falrvlew Ceme tery at Warrenton. Mr. Baxter died of a heart attack at his home at Norlina on Saturday night. He was the son of the late William Alex ander and Delia Fltts Baxter of Rldgeway and a graduate of Nor lina High School. At the time of his death Mr. Baxter was owner and opera tor of the Baxter Tire and Re capping Company on the Norlina road. For many years he was a member of the North Caro lina State Highway Patrol, re tiring In 1961. He was a member of the Durham Masonic Lodge No. 352, AF&AM, the Scottish Rite Bodies, and the Sudan Temple Shrine. He Is survived by his wife, the former Maxlne Drake of Warrenton, and by one sister, Mrs. J. M. Lewis of South Hill, Va. Warren County Is expected to seek participation In the North Carolina Fund next year, It was revealed at a meeting of the board of education Mon day night. The fund provides teachers and some funds for special courses for those handicapped by environment and for other causes, and Is an experiment In the effort to break the pov erty cycle. Assistant County Superinten dent Comer Griffith and Ken neth Brlnson, principal of the John Graham High School, have been making a study of the pro gram for several weeks and Monday night sketched Its pro visions and objectives for the benefit of the board members. After a brief discussion the board members decided to have further study made and to apply lor one of the several plans 01 fered next year. The meeting of the board last ed for more than three hours, with much of the action of a routine nature. During the time the members approved a survey of school building needs for the State Department of Public Instruc tion to be used In connection with the State School Construc tion Bond Issue of Nov. 3. Thirteen of fourteen students from Warren County assigned to the Mlddleburg High School were reassigned to the Vance County school at the request o f the board of education of that county. The application of the fourteenth pupil, Paula Ann Fleming, a beginning pupil, was declined. This action was In keeping with a resolution of the board adopted on August 5,1963, stating "That new pupils (be ginners and Transfers) entering school in 1964-65 will be as signed to the Norlina school. The 1963 resolution also stat ed that "The Vance County Board of Education will not send buses Into Warren County to pick up pupils." This resolu tion was the basis of a re fusal by the board of a request from Charles Mitchell that his children be permitted to ride the bus from his home In War ren County to Mlddleburg. The Halifax County Board of Education has released the as signment of Deena Lew Arrlng ton to the Warren County Board of Education. Monday night the Warren board approved the as signment of the-child, daugh-^ ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Arrington, Jr., tothefirst grade at Marlam Boyd school. The request that Kathy Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold (See FUND, page 8) Boosters Club Gives Tickets To Players The Warrenton Boosters Club sill give free tickets to the [forth -South Boys Home Game .0 be played at Greenville to llght (Friday) to all boys who ire going out for the John Graham High School football ieam this fall. A1 Blalock, flashy halfback af last year's John Graham team, win play for the North team. Al was outstanding in all ?ports and school activities luring his four years at John Graham High. Announcement that the Boos ters would provide tickets to the game tonight was made yesterday by Peyton B. Rogers. He said the John Graham acti vity bus will be used to carry the boys aad will leavefrom the gym at 4)SO p. m. The I who are planning to game are ashed to be on I Same Is to be la Cast can