Your Best Advertising Medium t: Hsrren SRmiri) Your Best Advertising Medium /OLUME 68 10<f Per Copy Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1964 NUMBER 41 Seven John Graham High School girls are candidates for the title of Homecoming Queen for activities to be held at the local school tonight. The queen will be chosen during half-time activities of the Warrenton-Franklinton Homecoming At John Graham football "game. Seeking the title are, left to right: Dianne Etherldge, Nancy Ayscue, Debbie Joyner, Janet Harmon, Beverly Miles, Gall Fleming, Sherry Wilson, and Rachel Long. John Graham To Face A Tough Franklinton Team Here Toniaht John Graham High School faces both homecoming and a tough ball game here tonight (Friday) when It faces unde feated Frankllnton, a team that downed Oxford Orphanage last Friday night 21-20. Warrenton, which lost only Its Initial game with Weldon, downed Norlina 21-0 last Friday night. Franklinton Is ranked 9th among Class A teams of the eastern part of the state by Grady Elmore In his "Prep Clipboard" In The News and Observer. Warrenton Is rank ed 11th. First spot Is held by Aberdeen, with Weldon fn sec ond place. On the basis of this rating, John Graham will be the underdog In play here to night. The game will be featured by halftlme activities when a Homecoming Queen will be chosen from a bevy of beauti ful contestants. Homecoming activities will be rounded out with a dance In the gym for students of both schools. End sweeps, optional plays and passes enabled John Gra ham to advance the ball against an Improving Norlina ball team with a good line on Friday night and resulted In the visit ing team's 21-0 victory. Norlina won the toss and elected to receive, and began a drive down field that threaten ed to upset all predictions, but the attack tiogged down when Norllna neared Warrenton's goal line. That was the story of Norllna's efforts for most of the night, an ability to advance jthe ball in the middle of the field, but an inability to go for jward near the goal line. Once John Graham held Norlina for downs on the two-foot line. A play that gave Norllna a j victory over Louisburg earlier in the season, almost worked j again for Norllna and a touch ;down was only halted by fast j pursuit by the Warrenton team, j downing the runner near the | goal line. It was the old sleep er play, and it almost worked, j Warrenton scored its first play in the first quarter when ;Quarterback Charles Edmonds I skirted his left and ran 70 i yards behind good blocking for the TD. John Coleman threw the I key block. Warrenton rushed lover the extra point. The second TD came in the second quarter when Edmonds | tossed a pass to John Coleman i who went the distance. Again j the extra point was rushed over. In the third quarter Halfback jElree Milliard broke lose on an j option play and made a nice i run for Warrenton's final touch jdown. For the third time the extra point was rushed over. The fourth quarterwas a see saw affair, with neither side able to make much gain. ?Bad Language Over Telephone Charged Alleged use of profane lan guage over a telephone result ed in a man being tried In Warren County Recorder's Court on last Friday. Vaden Thrower entered a plea of nolo contendere when charg ed with the offense. Prayer for Judgment was continued for one year upon condition the defen dant pay a $10.00 fine and court costs. Cecil Adams was found guil ty of public drunkenness and was sentenced to the'roads for 30 days. The sentence was sus pended for two years upon con dition the defendant keep peace towards all persond, not violate any criminal laws of the state for two years, and pay a $10. 00 fine and court costs. Llnsey Alston was ordered to pay a $100 fine and court f costs when he was found gull ' ty on a charge of reckless driv ing. Leandrew Williams pled guilty to a charge of an assault with a daadly weapon but appealed his ease when judge Banset sentenced him to the roads tor ?0 days. Appeal bond was set at $100. Homer Floyd Troutman, charged with speeding, pled guilty to a charge of follow ing another vehicle too close ly, and was fined $10.00 and ordered to pay court costs. Franklin Earl Bolton pled guilty to a speeding charge and was ordered to pay a $10 fine and court costs. James Robert Baber was or dered to pay a $15 fine and court costs when he was found guilty on a speeding charge. Marvin Mitchell Hardee, found guilty of speeding 50 m. p. h. in a 35-mile zone, was ordered to pay court costs and a $10.00 fine. William Puller pled guilty to a speeding charge and was fined $10.00 and ordered to pay court costs. Nanle Bell Alston, found guil ty of an assault with a dead ly weapon, was sentenced to serve six months in Central Prison. She noted an appeal to Superior Court and appearance bond was set at $100. Kenneth Laughter Twledale, jr., pled guilty to a charge of speeding. He was ordered to pay a $10 fine and court costs. The game was homecoming for Norllna and halftlme was featured by the crowning of Miss Louise Taylor as Home coming Queen by NorllnaMayor Graham Grlssom. A dance In the Norllna gym followed the game. Norllna will play Littleton at Norllna tonight. Limits Of Speed On Streets Set Principle act of business be j fore the Town Commissioners I In a quiet and routine session on | Monday night was the passage of j an ordinance regulating speed limits on certain state-maln ! talned streets of Warrenton. i The ordinance was passed at | the request of the State Hlgh ' way Commission, i The commissioners included j In the ordinance an Item regu jlatlng the speed limit on WU | cox street, because of the nar | rowness of this street, and be | cause of some complaints of ; speeding on It. The State Highway Commls j slon Is expected to erect suit able signs on the designated I streets setting forth the speed J limits. In other action the coramls ! sloners donations of $50 each I were made to the Boy Scouts and to the Girl Scouts; renewed (See LIMIT, page 2) Show-deo Plans have been complet ed and all is In readiness for the Rural Firemen's Show-deo at Currln's Arena Sunday afternoon, J. B. Mar tin, publicity chairman, said yesterday. A show-deo Is a western type horse show. Twenty one classes are scheduled for the event which will be gin at 2 p. m Martin said $1,000 In cash will be given away in prizes. Thousands Watch Racing On Gaston Lake Sunday Littleton-Thousands of peo ple watched boat racing com petition of Lake Gaston Satur day and Sunday during the an nual Boat Regatta. Racers came from as far away as Australia and Canada, as well as from al 1 parts of the United States. Lake Gaston, where the event was held for the second con secutive year, Is "one of the finest" for racing In this area, the boat enthusiasts re;orted. Approximately 50 trophies were awarded during the event. The top award, the CarlWlden house Trophy, was won by Skeeter Johnson of Cambridge, Md. Johnson was presented the trophy by Regatta Hostess, Mrs. Grace Boone of Roanoke Rapids, and by Ennls Smith of Roanoke Rapids, last year's winner. Johnson's boat, called the ; 'Wa Wa Too," was In the 266 Hydro competition. ! Sunny skies prevailed for the event which was sponsored by I the Roanoke Valley Rescue ;Squad as a fund-raising project. Survey To Continue Through October 24 The x-ray survey, now being conducted In Warren County under the local sponsorship of the Warren County Health and Tuberculosis Association and the Health Department, will continue through October 24, Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 10 a. m. until. 4 p. m. each day, Dr. Robert F. Young, Warren County Health Director, said yesterday. Dr. Young said the office bus j tor the Warren County Chest X-ray Survey was moved in' place near the Health Center ' and Is serving as headquarters tor Miss Helen F, Gregson who Is record analyst for this pro gram Miss Gregson began her career In Tuberculosis Control in IMS In Halifax County when the first chest x-ray survey was held in that county. Only three previous surveys had been held in North Carolina at that Tony Rlnnant and Donald Ted der are serving as x-ray tech nicians on the buses, with Mrs. Stephen Daniel, Mrs. Wiley Coleman, Mrs. Glenn Perkln son, and Mrs. A. T. Ayscue serving as secretaries. The technical personnel and equipment are under the super- 1 vision of A1 Chlswell who Is > another veteran in the war on! tuberculosis. Still a fourth bus has been, brought into the county and has ? been parked alongside the office bus at the Health Center. Dr.; Young said this x-ray bus In being used for taking follow- ? up film s on cltlsens called back for further examination with Miss Margaret Lyons ser ving as x-ray technician. Persons who require ad ditional x-ray examination are being notified by mall accord ing. Dr. Young said. Notices will not be mailed to persons to be normal, he said. Board Of Education Endorses Bond Issue Board Of Education Praises School Following Inspection Both the Board of Education" and Supt. of. Schools J. Roger' Peeler are highly pleased with ! r the construction, the beauty and | the cleanliness of the newly f completed South Warren Ele mentary School. This was revealed on Monday night when the school men made a tour of inspection of the build ing prior to the regular meet ing of the Board of Education. I They expressed their pleasure at the size of the library and class rooms and the functionally ! arrangement of the building. ' They described the building as one of the prettiest In thecoun I ty O. H, Hawkins, principal of 1 the school, who was present to conduct the board members through the school's 13 class rooms, its library and assembly) room and Its modern cafeteria, said that both students and pat-; rons were very much pleased I with the building. School buses bound for thej Norllna school will not be per-' mitted to pick up the children; of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow| Shearln who live just within i the corporate limits of Norllna on Highway 158. This was de termined by the board follow ing their return from Inspect ion of the South Warren school. Action of the board followed a discussion In which Supt. Peeler and Boyd Mayfield reported on a meeting held with the Norllna school board and Principal W. O. Reed when a resolution was passed asking that the Board of Education not permit the picking up of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Shear In. Peeler and Mayfield said the district board expressed the wish to help Mr. and Mrs. Shearln and realized that their's was a hardship case, but said that more than a dozen other children were involved In any action taken by the board.^ Par ents of these children have in?i slsted that If any students are picked up In Norllna that their children be picked up toe. More problems will be raised than will be solved by picking up the 1 Shearln children, the district committee was quoted as saying. Following the discussion thel members of the Board of Edu-i cation, at the request of the; Norllna school committee and Principal W. O. Reed, ordered (See SCHOOL, page 2) j CAROLYN MEDLIN Beauty Queen JIMMY HARRIS FFA Officer Carolyn Medlin, a senior at John Graham High School, has been chosen Sweetheart of the John Graham Chapter of the Future Farmers of America, Ronald Wells, publicity chair man, announced yesterday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Medlin of .Warrenton. Miss Medlin is active in school affairs and is reporter for the John Graham Chapter of the Future Homemakers ol America. After graduation she plans to attend college and ma jor in business. Ticket Sale Booster Club ticket sales for the 1964-65 school year total 200, Bud Gaston, ticket sales chairman, reported on Tuesday night at a meeting of the Boos ters held at John Graham School. Peyton Rogers, club president presided over the meeting. Gaston said yesterday that the sale of 200 tickets this year compares with a Total of 264 tickets sold last year. He said that it is to be hoped that ad ditional sales will be made and pointed out that tickets could be bought at the gates tonight when Warrenton hosts Frankllnton, or from any. Boosters club members. There are four more home Football games and ten basket ball games, as well as a num ber of baseball games next spring, Gaston pointed out. Boosters ticket admit holders to all home athletic contests. Jimmy Harris, president of the John Graham Chapter of Future Farmers of America, has been elected vice-presi dent of the Roanoke FFA Fed eration. The Roanoke Federation con sists of the FFA Chapters from John Graham, Norlina, Little ton, Aurellan Springs, Enfield, William R. Davie, Scotland Neck, Gaston, and Northhamp ton high schools. The officers In this Federa tion will have charge of the various FFA activities conduc ted between these schools dur ing this school year, Ronald Wells reporter for the chapter, said yesterday. Scout Drive The annual Boy Scout drive Is now underway in Warren County. The campaign opened on Tuesday of last week under the chairmanship of Pett. B. Boyd, president of TheCltlzens Bank. H. M. Hardy Is head of the century club part of the drive. Gene Wilson Is special mem bership chairman, and Milton Ayscue Is neighborhood chair man. Boyd said yesterday that the public Is urged to donate as liberally as possible to the Boy Scouts. Checks may be mailed direct ly to Boyd at the Citizens Bank of donated to canvassers. Mrs. J. S. Scott spent sev eral days last week In Greens boro. J. Shtpp McCarroll, secretary-treasurer of the Warrmton Rotary Club, la pictured Wednesday moraine presenting a $100 cheek to Mrs. J. Boyd Davie, president of the War rantor Foundation for Better Education, Inc. The Foundation is a non-profit organization that operates solely for the purpose of mak ?ng financial contributions available 10 tha John Graham, Mart am Boyd, and MaeonJtm lor High achooii for the Improvement of their educational programs. Patrons of theee schools are urged to contribute to the Fowi datlon. interested persona stay contact Ids. J. Boyd Dsns. V V Dr. Massey To Head Campaign The Warren County Board of Education Monday night gave Its formal endorsement to the State Bond Issue of $100,000,-' 000 and the members of the board pledged their support to Dr. S. H. Massey who Is to head the campaign for the bond Issue In Warren County. Massey was appointed to this position by the Board of Coun ty Commissioners following their endorsement of the bond Issue at their meeting on Mon day of last week. In his discussion of the bond issue with the members of the Board of Education Dr. Massey pointed out that Warren Coun ty needs 86 classrooms for Warren County schools. He said under the bond Issue the coun ty would receive $562,377.77. Urgent needs of the schools depend on the success of this bond issue to be voted upon on November 3, he said. In a letter mailed out Tues day to a number of citizens, Dr. Massey said In part: "1. We are assured that there will be no Increase In taxes as a result of the bond Issue. North Carolina Is In a very heal thy fiscal condition due to Its 1 expanding economy. It Is esti mated that there will be a $75,000,000 surplus fund at the end of this blennlum. Both of the candidates for governor have pledged not to raise taxes. We have every reason tobelleve that this Is true. "2. Warren County would re ceive $562,377.97 for Its part of the bond issue. This amount would, to say the least, be dif ficult to raise locally. This bond issue definitely would be to the advantage of our small county. Warren County needs at least $1,500,000 to bring Its facili ties up to modern recommended standards. This would be a ma jor step forward for us. "Your Superintendent and Board of Education will do their best to spend the money as wisely as possible. Being al ways short of funds has at least taught us how to stretch our available dollars. Will you please use your Influence to help us carry Warren County oy a large majority." In a letter to school com mitteemen this week, Supt. (See MASSEY, page 2) W. W. Johnston Dies On Tuesday LITTLETON ? Funeral se vices for William Willis John ton, 64, who died Tuesday, we conducted Thursday at 2; p. m. from the homeonColle Ave. by the Rev. O. V. Elkli his pastor, and the Rev. Ke Wilson of Loulsburg, a form pastor. Burial was in Suna Hill Cemetery. X native of Weldon, the loc plants r was a graduate of N. State College and a memb of the official board of the LI tleton Methodist Church. Hew a former town commissioner former member of theLlttlet Lion's Club and a member the Littleton Development Co> poratton. Surviving are his wife, Ml Martha Exum Ransom Johnato two sons, W nil am R. Johnston Weldon and Matt R. Johnston the hornet one daughter, Ml Lettle Elizabeth Johnston, student at Salem College. for Adoption The Warren County Department has tw? male l five years of oowrtee snould a fsru Dspurtmsot

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