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VOLUME 68 10c Per Copy Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1964 NUMBER 37
Town officials and town engineers made an Inspection
tour of Warrenton's newly completed sewage treatment
plant on Tuesday afternoon where Engineers Robert T.
Newcomb and James F. Bonney explained the operation
of the plant. Shown at the plant are, left to right: First
row, Commissioner Dixon Ward, Bill Neal, Water Plant
manager, Engineer Bonney, Commissioner W, L. Wood,
Mayor w. A. Miles; back row, Water Supt. Harold R.
Skillman, and Commissioners A. C. Blalock, Durwcod
Johnson and A. C. Fair. (Staff Photo)
Committeemen Named Four Towns To Get
In Community Vote Powell Bill Funds
Committeemen elected In tht
referendum held In the elever
communities of Warren County
Tuesday will take office on Oct.
1, W. S. Smiley, ASC chair
man, said yesterday.
Farmers elected In each
community Tuesday are llstec
below In "order of their po
sition as chairman, vice-chair
man, regular member, first al
ternate, and second alternate,
as follows:
Fishing Creek?Billy L. King,
George D. Hunter, -Clarence
Harris, Frank Gupton and For
rest L. Robertson.
* Fork?Ernest E. Davis, W. K.
Thompson, Carry Dillard,
George Davis, Sr., and T. F.
Overby.
Hawtree?I.uther Carroll, G.
W. King, Luther Stegall, W. H.
Hawks, Jr., and Albert Per
klnson.
Judklns?J. M. Overby, O. G.
Overby, Vance Robertson, M. D.
Nelson, Jr., and Kenneth Stal
,11ns.
Nutbush?W. B. Ellington, L,
M. Bender, C. P. Ellington,
C. B. Curtis, Sr., and Wilson
Fleming.
River?Herbert C. Harris, S.
W. Walker, J. Robert King,
Slmmie Isles and Irvin Haith
cock.
Sandy Creek?C. E. Fleming,
Goode Fleming, Sidney Flem
ing, Thomas Coley and Charles
Hobgood.
Slxpound?E. P. Daniel, C. W.
Duncan, C. P. Pope, L. H. Clary,
'ind M. E. Thompson.
Smith Creek ? J. Thomas
Burton , M. F. Hayes, H. M.
| Mustlan, Jack Hawks, and A. L.
Lynch.
{ Warrenton?E. C. Brauer, R.
j K. Carroll, Jr., E. R, Wood,
Leonard Wllker, and L. A.
Hawks.
Shocco?M. T. Abbott, W. L.
Fuller, Joe Andrews, A. R. Fra
zler, and W. P. Jones,
The ASC Community Com
mittee Chairman automatical
ly becomes the delegate to the
County Convention where the
County ASC Committee will be
elected . The convention will be
held today (Friday) at2:30p. m.
at the Agricultural Building in
Warrenton.
Smiley pointed out that the
County and Community ASC far
mer-committees are in charge
of local administration of such
national farm programs as the
Agricultural Conservation Pro
gram, the Feed Grain Program,
the Conservation Reserve Pro
gram, the National Wool Pro
gram, Acreage Allotments and
Marketing Quotas, Commodity
Loans, and Storage Facility
Loans.
No Vote
Warren County sweet potato
growers failed to participate
in the Sweet Potato Referendum
held on Tuesday to determine
whether potatoes should be as
sessed for marketing promo
tion.
Although the referendum was
advertised and the polls were
open all day at the Agricul
tural Building, no Warren Coun
ty grower voted.
Speed Limits Talked
At Board Meeting
Speed limits and parking reg
ulations on streets of Warren
ton were up for discussion at
a long meeting of the board of
town commissioners here Mon
day night.
The commissioners voted to
fix the speed limits on the sev
eral State Highway System
streets In the town In accor
dance with recommendations
made by the State Highway
Commission, and also voted to
fix the speed limit on Wilcox
Street from Wilson Extension
to Main Street at 20 miles
per hour. The board request
ed the town attorney to draw
an ordinance giving effect to
all the speed limits.
On motion of W. L. Wood,
chairman of the street com
mittee, the board ordered that
all yellow parking space lines
Jn front of private residences
la the town be repainted white
and tna words, "Private Park
ing Only," be Inserted within
the area so marked.
Ernest Brtuer and Charles
Bow en, representing the War
renton Rural Volunteer Fire
Department, appeared before
the board to request that the
fire company be permitted to
use gasoline from the town's
pump. The board agreed to
this proposal, limiting use to
the $500 set up for the fire
men In the town budget. Should
the rural firemen fall to use as
much as $500 worth of gasoline,
the balance appropriated by the
town will be turned over to the
fire company at the end of the
fiscal year.
An application by Charles
Park, Jr., for a license temper
ate a taxlcab within the town
limits was unanimously denied
by the board.
The commissioners directed
the town clerk to request the
Carolina Telephone and Tele
graph Company to remove an
outside bell on the telephone of
A. O. Kearney's taxlcab stand
on West Market Street due to
Its proximity to the outside bell
at the police station on Main
and Market Streets.
The board approved an appro
priation of $1,000 from the con
tingency fund to the Bute De
velopment Company as part
payment on the cost of run
ning a water line to the Caro
lina Sportswear factory on the
Vnrlfna paoH
The four incorporated towns
of Warren County will receive
a total of $16,389.86 under state
allocation of Powell Bill funds,
with the largest slice going to
Norlina, it was announced this
week by the St ate Highway Com
mission.
The funds are distributed an
nually to qualified cities and
towns for use in non-highway
system street work within their
corporate limits.
Norlina will receive a check
in the amount of $5,442.04 under
the fund allocation. Littleton is
next high with an allocation of
$5,071.26. Warrenton isinthird
place with an allocation of
$4,878.70, and Macon will re
ceive $988.86.
Powell Bill allocations are
based on a formula using the
population and street mileage in
the municipalities and the total
allocation this year represents
j an Increase over 1963 of $24 v
I 323.39.
The six largest allocations
this year are: Charlotte, $751
360.92; Greensboro, $500,
644.80;. Winston-Salem, $447,
937.56; Raleigh, $353,184.35;
Ashevllle, $284,378.81; and
Durham, $278,719.41.
The six smallest allocations
this year are: Falkland in Pitt
County, $328.54; Bear Grass in
Martin County, $486.49; Lasker
in Northampton, $573.77; Mc
Donalds in Robeson County.
$610.73; Harrellsvilla lnHert
ford County, $634.48; and
Brunswick in Brunswick Coun
ty, $725.52.
In the 14 years of Powell
Bill allocations, a total of $90,
200,561.36 has been distributed,
and the group of participating
municipalities has grown from
386 to 420. Individual alloca
tions for participating munici
palities are:
Hardship Case Is
Before School Board
A hardship case whose solu
tion would upset adopted rules
of the Norllna school committee
and the principal of the Norllna
school was adilemmafacingthe
Board of Education at Its regu
lar meeting Monday night.
In keeping with a general
policy of the State that child
ren within corporate limits of
towns and cities would not be
provided with bus transporta
tion, the Norllna school com
mittee recently ruled that this
policy should be made to apply
In Norllna.
This ruling means that the
three children of Mr. and Mrs.
Woodrow Shearln, who live Just
within the town limits of Nor
llna, will not be permitted to
ride the school bus the eighth
tenths of a mile to the Norllna
school. The committee took the
position that If the Shearln
children should be permitted to
ride the bus, other parents
would claim the same privileg
es for their children, caus
ing a transportation problem.
Monday night Mr. and Mrs.
Shearln appeared before the
board to present claims that
thelr's was a hardship case and
the ruling of the school commit
tee should not apply in their
case.
Their problem, Mr. and Mrs.
Shearln revealed, is that Mr.
Shearln has to leave early for
work and that Mrs. Shearln does
not drive and the children there
fore must walk to school. To
do so they must walk along
heavily traveled 158 which car
ries a number of heavy trucks
and fast traveling automobiles.
Not only does this place the
"hlldren in a dangerous situ
ation, but when it is raining
ths children must walk in wet
grass along the highway and
passing vehicles spatter their
clothing with dirty water and
Mr. Shearln said that he has
requested the town to lay a
gravel sidewalk alongside the
road to provide a walkway, but
his efforts have so far met with
no success. He pointed out that
two partly-filled buses pass his
home each morning bound for
school, and he feels that It
(See CASE, page 2)
Dore Named Head
Of Merchants Ass'n.
John Dore was elected presi
dent of the Norllna Merchants
Association at a recent meet
ing of the board of directors
at the Town Hall. He succeeds
Ben Lloyd, who has moved to
Raleigh.
Other officers are Leigh
Traylor, vice president; and
H. W. Walker, secretary.
Directors are Irvln Hayes
Will Hicks, Edward White and
Leon Knight.
Ellis In Hospital
Joe N. Ellis, Warren Coun
ty Clerk of Superior Court, who
was taken to Veterans Hospital
In Durham on Tuesday, follow
ing several days Illness here,
is on the hospital's critical list.
However, he was reported yes
terday to be responding to treat
ment.
PTA TO MEET
The Norllna PTA wUl hold
its first meeting of the school
year In the Mnsic Room on
Monday night, Sept. SI, at ?
o'clock.
UNDERGO SURGERY
Miss Louise Allen underwent
major surgery in Warren Gen
eral Hospital on Friday night.
Mr. Dan Llmer underwent
major surgery in Warren Gen
eral Hospital last week.
Warren County Fair To
Open Monday Morning
Three Day Tobacco Holiday
Is Called For Next Week
By BILL Ht'MPHRIFS.
j Raleigh?Flue-cured tobacco
! auctions will be suspended on all
i markets for the first three sales
days next week in an effort to
relieve congestion in proces
sing plants handling tobacco for
[ the Flue-Cured Stabilization
j Corporation.
After next week, markets in
all belts will operate on a four
day work, discontinuing Friday
Court Ends
Session
Friday P.M.
Warren County Criminal
Term of Superior Court, which
opened here on Tuesday morn
ing of last "eek with Judge
Leo Carr presiding, ended
around 6:30onlast Friday even
ing.
Thurston Brown, Warrenton
Negro mortician, one of five
defendants scheduled to be tried
at the September term for re
fusing to aid an officer, was
found guilty by a Warren Coun
ty Jury, and ordered to pay a
$25.00 fine and court costs.
Brown gave notice of appeal to
the Supreme Court and appear
ance bond was set at $100.00.
The other four defendants on
a similar charge?Melvin Tun
stall, Frances Alston, Ernest
Turner, and the Rev. Alex
Brown? had their cases con
tinued.
Also continued was a case
against F. L. Hicks, charged
with assault.
Other cases tried since noon
of last Thursday when this
newspaper went to press in
cluded?
Bo J. Faulkner, charged with
using profanity within hearing of
public highway and with using
language calculated to bring on
an affray, pled guilty and was
sentenced to the roads for 30
days. The sentence was sus
pended for two years upon pay
ment of a $25.00 fine and court
costs.
John H. Hunt, Jr., charged
with breaking and entering and
larceny, was sentenced to serve
from two to three years In the
State Prison. The sentence was
suspended .and Hunt was placed
on probation.
A case against Forrest Rich
ard Harris, charging him with
driving after his license had
been revoked, was continued.
Llndberg Clanton was In
court, charged with breaking
entering and assault. A Jury
found him guilty of entering a
residence without Intent to
commit a felony. He was sen
tenced to the roads for 18
months.
Thomas Moseley was sen
tenced to the roads for two
years when he was found guil
ty of forgery. The sentence was
suspended and the defendant was
placed on probation.
The State took a nol pros with
leave in the case of Clay Evans, j
He was charged with carnal
knowledge.
Charlie Herbert Tharrlngton,
Jr., was sentenced to the State
Prison for from 3 to 5 years
with a recommendation that he
be permitted to serve sentence
in a youthful offenders camp.
He was found guilty on a charge
of speeding and manslaughter.
Junius Wood was found guilty
of non-support. A six months
road sentence was suspended
tor two years upon condition
that defendant pay Into the office
of the Superintendent of Wel
fare the sum at $10.00 a week
tor the support of his minor
children. The first payment was
(See COURT, page 3)
sales until the congestion pro
blem has been cleared up.
The double-barreled action
was taken here Wednesday night :
at a meeting of the advisory
committee and the sales com- i
mittee on the Bright Belt Ware
house Association. Both groups
acted unanimously..
The sales holiday next Mon- j
day through Wednesday will
mean a two-day delay in the
opening of the North Carolina- !
Virginia Old Belt. It had been
scheduled to begin auction on
Tuesday but will now hold its j
first sales of the season on
Thursday.
The action taken Wednesday;
night was recommended by L. \
T. Weeks, general manager of I
Stabilization, who said the co-1
operative was having difficulty !
handling tobacco received under j
price support in the big East
ern North Carolina Belt.
"Our receipts under loan are
rising substantially In all
belts," Weeks said. "We re
ceived 24 1/2 per cent of the
tobacco offered in all belts on
Monday and more than 30
per cent on Tuesday, in the
Eastern Belt our receipts rose
from 36.9 per cent Monday to
40.7 per cent Tuesday."
EASTERN BELT CITED
Tobacco received by stabili
zation in the Carolinas Border
Belt and the Middle Belt has
caused no special processing
problem thus far, Weeks said.
"Our problem is in the Eastern
Belt," he asserted.
As of Wednesday morning the
co-op had 17 1/2 million pounds
of tobacco on hand which had
not been redried. Weeks said
that by Friday night he expect
ed to have "about 20 million
pounds of tobacco that's not in
the barrel."
"We've put into operation all
the redrying facilities available
to us at this time, but we have
not been able to keep up,"
Weeks said. "We were unable
to move all our tobacco off the
warehouse floors on Tuesday
and Wednesday and we've had to
put guards on it around the
clock."
Gordon L. Crenshaw of Uni
versal Leaf Tobacco Co. said
his firm endorsed Week's rec
ommendation for a three-day
holiday next week and a four
day week thereafter.
"Universal again is in a bad
position with respect to proces
sing," Crenshaw Said. "We
have a backlog on hand and
we're buying as much each day
as our facilities'can handle."
It was at Unlversal's request
that a sales holiday was put
into effect on Tuesday and Wed
nesday after Labor Day.
"Tobacco is being marketed
too fast," Cfenslfaw asserted.
"It's an injustice to the farmer
and the consumer. We badly
need to go on a four-day
week."
John Gregory of Imperial To
bacco Co. told the meeting his
company was "not in bad shape
(See TOBACCO, page 2)
1 The annual Lions sponsored
Warren County Fair will open
on Monday, Sept. 26, with a
premium list of $2500 and Pal
metto Exposition Shows playing
the midway. The F air will close
j on Saturday night.
The Palmetto Shows, which
| are known for their nice fleet
of rides, J. B. Thompson, Fair
| manager, said yesterday, will
; have all the old favorites as
well as the newest in rides.
During the two school days,
when Warren County school
children will be admitted with
out charge, $200 in prizes will
be given. These prizes Include
a boy's or girl's deluxe bicy
cle, a transistor radio, com
plete with earphones and bat
teries, and a Wilson basket
! ball, complete with goal and
net. School day for white child
ren will be held Wednesday anf
for colored children on Thurs
day.
The Junior Calf Show, under
the direction cf L. B. Hardage,
assistant county agent, will be
I held on Wednesday, and a Jun
ior Calf show for colored boys
and girls will be held Thurs
day under the direction of Len
ioard C. Cooper, Negro farm
I agent.
A poultry show and sale will
be held on Friday.
Special attractions areoffer
ed at the Fair on Monday and
Tuesday nights. Monday night
every lady will be passed free
when accompanied by escort and
will be given one free pass good
for any ride on the midway.
On Tuesday night one free pass
good for any ride on the mid
way will be given with each
adult ticket purchased.
Thompson said' yesterday
wit h a good harvest In the
county that it Is expected that
attendance at the fair next week
will reach a record attendance.
Ifea-v';..
A new electric score board will be used
(or the first time tonight when the John
Graham Yellow Jackets meet a team from
William R. Davie. The score board and
underground wire was donated by the Pepsi
Cola Company of Henderson. Holes for post
were dug by W. E. Perry. Bowers and
Burrows donated the posts for the sign and
dug the trench for the electric wiring from
sign to control box, and A. J. House did
the wiring, all without charge. (Staff Photo)
Fans Urged To Buy Booster
Tickets; Home Game Toniaht
The John Graham H'ghSchool]
football team will hare its first
home game here tonight when It
plays William R. Davie, and
Bud Gaston yesterday urged
tans to buy their booster Hckets
before the game.
Gaston, vice president of tie
Boosters Club, and chairman
of ticket sales, said that since
Booster tickets entitle the hold
ers to all home games of all
three sport e, that a consider
able savinc could be made by
purchasing these tickets now.
Booster tickets, Gaston said,
may be purchased at the gate
or from any of the tallowing
Booster Club members: S. T.
Odom, jr., Peyton Rogers, A.
E. Wilson, j. Howard Daniel,
W. A. Miles, W. L. Riggan,
A. P. RodweU, Jr., A. J. El
lington, Leonard S.
W.. E. Perry, Jr.,
Batten, Thomas E. Watson,
Kenneth Brlneon, Frank Daniel,
S. H. Maasey, Mack Milliard
or Mel Tin Shearln.
John Graham, badly
by WeMoa In Its openln
there last Friday eight, win be
satolng to eater the i
la the game with a Dane I
which has racked up two i
wlaa.
Norlina will play at ]