Your Best Advertising Medium fcrrett ? L.? c??,h Shelby Street Your Best Advertising Medium ta56 South Shelby Street Jx)uisville. Ky. 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 ]

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