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Q?*?MBgTO*m^:W^3aK?%g8?^^ " ^?^V" ?' ."?? ' >v" ' \ ?'' ' " ;??**!*??. ?? ? . ? ?*?? JpV/ V v ? ?": :?;? - ~ Standard Prtg. Co. oomp. 2S56 South Shelby St. Louisville, Ky. Your Best Advertising Medium ?l|p Uarrrn IRrroriJ Your Best Advertising Medium Norlina Delegation Endorses Consolidated School Building A group of Norlina citizens Monday night endorsed efforts being made to have a consoli dated school built for the three white high schools of Warren County. Appearing before the board of education at Its regular meet ing was a delegation of citizens from the Norlina High School PTA who pointed out the needs for a consolidated high school and pledged their full support to the project which Is backed by the board of education. "We do not consider this a ^lostUe^ delegation," said smil ing Sam Massey,~wHo~WasTjre siding over the session In the absence of the chairman, E. R. Davis. The delegation was composed of Leonard Bender, Stephen Daniel, Clayton Taylor, Hal Paschall, and Walter Bender. Bender explained the purpose of the delegation In appearing before the board and said that he felt the people of his sec tion realized the Importance of a consolidated school and would give full support to efforts to have It constructed. Walter Bender said there Is a definite need for more vo cational training for students who are unable to go to col lege. This Instruction can be given In a consolidated school, he said. ?Taylor pledged the-support of the group In a few remarks In which he pointed out the needs for such a school. Stephen Daniel said that "Warren County has dragged ts feet too long. Let's go ahead md get the consolidated school." The board of education has jointed out that funds from :he State bond Issue are not sufficient to meet the press ing needs for school construc ilon In Warren County and has suggested, the need for a coun :y bond Issue to supplement state funds. Later In the meet ing, It was decided to have a State Survey Team make a new evaluation of school needs for he county In February. During a brief discussion that fallowed the appearance of the lelegatlon, Supt. Roger Peeler, said that the board had also received a letter from theNor lna Rurltan Club endorsing the mlldlng of a consolidated high school. Following the appearance of he Norllna delegation. Mrs. Ssther Ransom, president of he North Carolina PTA Con fress, discussed with the board he possibility of starting an idult education program In the :ounty. She said that she was lot advocating this program 'or the colored people alone, Jut for all the people of the :ounty who needed this special xalnlng. Mrs. Ransom said that the irogram which she advocates Is nore than just teaching adults :o read and write. That Is one phase of the program, she said, put In addition opportunities would be offered adults to fur :her their education beyond this stage and to be taught special skills. She said It Is recogniz ed that there Is a definite need lor such training In the county. The cost to the county would be the cost of providing a place In which to conduct the class es, with the Federal Govern ment paying for Instruction ;osts, Mrs. Ransom said. A dass can be started with as ew as ten members and as nany classes as are needed :an be held, she said, at what iver hour that best suits those aklng courses. The board agreed with Mrs. Hansom In that adult education dasses would serve a good pur >ose In the county, but said If t entered Into this phase of (See BOARD, page 4) Sanford Appropriates $25,000 For Street Governor Terry Sanford has allotted $25,000 from the Gov ernor's fund to widen and place curbing and gutter on a War renton Street. The Board of Town Commis sioners were told Monday night by Mayor W. A. Miles that the funds for widening West Frank lin Street has been appropriat ed by the Governor. Incluaed In the project will be curbing and gutter, and the replacing of a sidewalk by the Highway Department. The only expense to the town for a major project will be the cost of moving utilities and the obtaining of right-of-ways. The cost of moving water and sewer lines and power poles has been estimated to be ap proximately $1,200 ? Mayor Miles said yesterday that he did not anticipate any trouble In obtaining right-of-ways at persons living along this street had wanted It widened for sev eral years. At the meeting Monday night, the commissioners passed a resolution agreeing to pay the cost of moving utilities and obtaining the right-of-ways. Mayor Miles said that he and other town officials had been working for several years In an effort to have this street widened. He pointed out that It is part of the Warrenton Henderson highway, travel ed over by the majority of vehicles of the local Prison Camp, and by a majority of buses traveling to and from Hawkins High School, the larg est school In the county. He said that surveys of the street are being made and that It Is expected that work will start on the project next spring. In other action Monday night, the commissioners ordered that the matter of selling the old fire truck be referred to the Fire Committee; ordered that a list of parts for the parking meters be purchased from Rockwell Manufacturing Comp any; and ordered that a roster of the Warrenton Volunteer Fire Department be certified to the North Carolina Firemen's Pen sion Fund. In addition, the commis sioners hard committee re ported and disposed of a num ber of routine matters. Memorial Scholarship Fund For Gordon Haithcock, Jr. Planned The Malvln Gordon Halthcock, Jr., Memorial Fund was form ally established at a meeting of Interesting persons at the John Graham High School on Monday night. Halthcock, a star at John Gra ham for four years and a mem ber of the University of North Carolina football squad, lost his life In an automobile ac cident on October 31, 1964. B. G. White was named the administrator of the fond and will supervise the collection of ill contributions. Kenneth Brlnson, John Gra lam principal, said yesterday :hat It is hoped that sufficient Funds will be collected to es :abllsh an annual scholarship For an outstanding member of the graduating class at the John Sraham High School. All con tributions would be Invested and the annual interest drawn from this investment would be award ed to the recipient of the scholarship. White expressed the hope that sufficient funds Township Constables Take Oath Of Office Three Warren County Town ship Constables took ths oath of office before Chairman Amos L. Capps at an adjourned meet ing of the Board of County Com missioners held here at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning. Sworn in by Capps were Wil liam A. Pulley as Constable of Nut bush Township; LerOy P. Cheek, colored, as Constable of Shoeco Township; and Clarence B. Lynch as Con at able of Sis pound Township. The meeting of the board waa adjourned from last Monday until Saturday In order to allow Ume for the constables to ob tain bond. The bonds twere re* calved and approved and the constables were than sworn In. Also received and approved by the commissioners wars bonds at Arthur Pettis Rodwsll, Jr., Auditor, Mid Arthur Pettta RodweU, jr., Tax Collector; Will Jones Bobbltt, Deputy Tax Collector, and A. E. WUaon, De puty Tax Collector. The commissioners are scheduled to meet again Satur day, December 19, for further bond approval. Draft Board Will Be Closed Here The Warren County Draft Board here will be closed from December 21 to December M, while the clerk, lire. Thomas Ellington, la on leave, J. D. Roberts, chairmen, announced Thursday. Roberts asks that boys whose birthday falls on the days on which the office will be don ad to report for registration on M. could be raised In order that the annual scholarship cash award would be sizeable. On December 29, a basket ball game will be played at the John Graham High School gym nasium to create Interest In the Memorial Fund, Brlnson said. The game will feature the Nor llna All-Stars playing the 1962 basketball team of John Graham High School, of which Halth cock was a member. The 1962 team was one of the most suc cessful In this year in recent years, being the State Champion Runner-Up Team In Class A Basketball that year. White said that no tickets will be sold for this game. Tickets may be obtained by making a contribution to the Memorial Fund. These tickets will be available at John Gra ham High School, Sanitary Bar bershop, Hunter Drug Com pany, Boyce Drug Co., Bowers and Burrows OU Company, Warrenton Insurance Agency, Clinton Neal, Jr., Odora Motor Service, Leigh's Department Store In Norltna, and the Nor Una Barbershop. Several mem bers of the 1962 graduating class will also have tickets. Brlnson said the primary purposes of the game are to honor the memory of Gordon Halthcock, Jr., who was a fine young citizen of our commun ity, and to make opportunities available to all who wish to contribute to the Memorial All Interested persons or grams, Brlnson said, who wish to make contributions are ask ed to please contact B. G. white or any of the individuals or HENRY T. PL'LLEY Pulley To Work With S.S. Agency Henry T. Pulley, a native of Johnson County, has started work with the Soil Con servation Service In Warren County. Pulley replaces Malvln Felts who retired recently. Pulley has an Associate de gree from the Agricultural Institute at NorthCarollnaState College. He recently completed a session at the Soil Conser vation Service Training Cen ter at Athens, Georgia, In Ad vanced Engineering. He has been employed In Davie Coun ty as Soil Conservation Aid for the past nineteen months. Among other things Pulley will assist Warren County farmers In applying Conserva tion practices on their farms In accordance with their plans with the Warren Soil and Water Conservation District. Mr. and Mrs. Pulley are mak ing their home on Wilcox Street Extension. They have no child ren. Annual Christmas [decorations To Be Judged Tuesday The annual Lions Christmas Decoration Contest will be held agaliT in Warrenton this year. Sam A. Warllck, Jr., contest chairman, said yesterday that the house decoration contest will be held with first and sec ond prizes for botn exterior and Interior decorations as seeR1 from the outside, with judg ing from 8 p. m. to 10 p. m. Tuesday. All persons wishing to enter this contest, Warllck said, are asked to have their lights turn ed on at this date and time. Judging will be by three judges and the winners will be an nounced, he said. Christmas Program Presented Sunday A Christmas program, "Songs of Christmas: given In Songs and Tableaux," will be presented Sunday, December 20, at 5 p. m. at the Warren ton Baptist Church. The Rev. John R. Link, pas tor of the church, said yester day that the program was given last year and Is being repeat ed this year by popular de mand. It features the Junior Choir, and special selections by high school students. Mr. Link said It Is hoped that many of the people of the community can be present. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM A special service of worship I will be held-at the Warrenton Baptist Church on Christmas Day at 10:80 a m. The ser vice will be composed of read ings, songs, and prayers. FINAL 1964 RUN The final run of the War ren county Memorial Llbrarj bookmobile for 1964 will b< made on December It, Mrs. S O. Ho skins, librarian said yea terday. The bus will resume iti regular schedule on January 4 RECEIVES TREATMENT Mr. Buck King was a patten in Warren General Hospital fo treatment several days laa Warren Farmers Cast Large Vote For Quotas Early Next Week The Warren Record will be printed on Tuesday of next week instead of Thursday, as is usually the case. The earlier printing is due to the necessity of hav ing the paper in the mail prior to the Christmas rush in order for advertising to be eff eclive, to carry last min-_ ute Christmas plans oi churches and other organi zations, and to give our em ployees a longer holiday. Advertisers and those submitting news are asked to bear in mind the earlier printing date. Early submis sion of copy will be great ly appreciated. Groome Rotary Speaker Warrenton Rotarlans were told Tuesday night why a radio tower to be used by a telephone company was recently erected at Alton and learned something of the part It plays In tele phone use from W. B. (Bill) Groome of Charlotte. Groome, In charge of main tenance and operation of Broad Band Carrier and Relay Equip ment for the American Tele phone and Telegraph Company In Charlotte, was the guest speaker at the dinner meeting of the club held at Warrenton Colonial Lodge. He was pre sented by C. P. Gaston, who was- In charge of the program More demands for service Is the reason for the new radio routes and others goln g in throughout the nation as well as undersea cables to other countries, Groome said The. route, of which the tower Is a part, will traverse seven states with terminals at Faulkner,] Md/, and Jackson, Miss., and *at Atlanta, Birmingham and Goshen Springs, Miss. The Warrenton station will be lo cated six miles south on a coun ty road 1125 near highway 401. Some sixty stations will be re quired to relay the microwave signals between Faulkner and Jackson. The intermediate stations are required, Groome said, because microwaves travel in astraight line, they do not follow the cur vature of the earth as conven tional radio waves, so high to wers every mile or so are used to boost the microwaves over the earth's curvature. The first station North is near La crosse, Va., and the first sta tion South Is close to Bunn, N. C. Light stations will be In North Carolina. Following his Introductory explanation of the reasons for the towers In transmitting microwaves, Groome used slides to Illustrate the techni cal features of the new sys tem. President Al Williams pre-| sided over the meeting. MRS. OWEN ROBERTSON Mrs. Robertson Named Club'Citizen Of Year' Mrs. Owen Robertson, Jr., of Norlina has been selected "Woman of the Year" by the Norltna Junior Woman's Club. Her selection was announced Thursday night of last week during a banquet held at the Warren Plaza Inn. Selection of the club award winner was de termined b.' secret ballot. A sliver tray and corsage were presented to Mrs. Robert son. Making the presentation was Mrs. Stephen A. Daniel of "Woman of the Year" by the Norlina club a year ago. Husbands of the dub mem bers were guests for the Thurs lay night event. Mrs. Robertson, the former AJice Marie Rooker of Norlina, tas been a member of the dub 'or five years and is president Df the club thls year. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, who live in Norlina have three children, Louise 6, Larry 4, and Ronnie 2.? Man Held For Superior Court Under Two Bonds A Warren County man Is be in g held under two bonds of $1500 each for his appearance In Superior Court following his trial In Recorder's Court last Friday. Amos Ellis, charged with an assault by pointing a gun, and with obstructing an officer, was sentenced to the road for two years on each count with the sentences to be served conse cutively. Ellis noted an appeal and Judge Banzet ordered the defendant held on $1500 bond on each count. Cases against Len Sims, III, charged with damage to person al property, and Jessie Edwards McCammon, charged with speeding, were nol prossed with leave. William Phillip Veazey pled guilty to a charge of operating a motor vehicle without an oper ator's license and was order ed to pay a >25.00 fine and court costs. Sandy Fields, charged with non-support, was ordered to pay >30.00 a week into the of' flee of the Clerk of Court for the support of his two minor Children. John Henry Robinson was sentenced to the roads for 60 days when he was found guil ty of non-support. The sentence was suspended for two years upon condition that the defen dant pay into the office of the Superintendent of Welfare |>0.00 per week for the port of minor children, payments to be commenced a* January S and oontlnued month ly until further order of the court, and pay court coats. Johnnie BlnckweU was saw tenced to the roads for 60 days when he pled guilty to a charge of reckless driving. The sen tence was suspended for one year upon condition that the de fendant not operate a motor ve hicle on the public highways of North Carolina, except while en route to and from his work be tween the hours of 6:30 a. m. and 6:30 p. m. and while driv (See COURT, page 4) All Four Issues Are Approved In the heaviest vote ever :ast In Warren County In a :rojy referendum, growers Tuesday voted overwhelmingly ,n favor of quotas on cotton ind tobacco and for tobacco Associates and Peanut Asses sments. Mor e than 95 per cent of the armers voting cast their bal ots in favor of cotton quotas snd more than 94 per cent cast :helr votes for tobacco quotas. T. E. Watson, ASCS office manager, said Wednesday that :he vote for tobacco quotas was 2335 for and 134 against; the cotton vote was 2295 for quotas and 103 against. The vote for Tobacco Associates was 2215 [or and 197 against; and all 15 voters casting ballots in the Peanut Assessment referen dum voted for the assessment. Returns from the five flue cured tobacco producing states showed huge majority casts for quotas. Virtually all farm leaders of the state, as well as many political figures, had urged a favorable vote on the quota is In other voting Tuesday, North Carolina farmers ap proved cotton quotas for 1965 and they also endorsed contin uation of assessment and pro motion programs for peanuts and for flue-cured tobacco. Under the promotion pro grams, growers assess them selves two cents per 100 pounds of peanuts sold and up "to $1 an acre for flue-cured tobacco to support the activities of the North Carolina Peanut Grow ers Association, and Tobacco Associates, inc. Participating in Tuesday ref erendum were flue-cured to bacco growers in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Many Are Here To See Santa Claus Some 2000 persons were on hand last Friday night at 7 o'clock when Santa Claus came to town to officially open the Christmas season. Saint Nicholas came into town high up on the seat of Warrenton'a new fire truck, with a second truck offering an escort. The crowd was welcomed by Mayor w. A. Miles, and after ward it was entertained by g choir singing Christmas carols on the courthouse steps while Santa greeted the children. Prior to the arrival of Santa (See SANTA, nam, it Negro Teenagers Given Suspended Sentences ?nee Jones, larceny; Curtis - Kearney, recelvtnc stolen pro perty, knowing same to bestol AH , T T A- - ? . . ? ? H J Hf-i AA? J A | .1 A JA A i A ".A en; Haywood watson, aamtfeto ^ personal property; Rotxirt Dall es, receiving stolen property and Roy Kearney, larceny. Mm Wiis Honor A Warranion man?Bdgai Wood, Jr.-Is one of 17 members initiated A group of Negro teenagers arrested by Warrenton and county police In a crackdown ' on shoplifting here were given a hearing In Warren County's Recorder's Court Monday. Clarence Jones and Alfred Alston, each charged with des troying personal property, were found not guilty, and the State took a nol pros in the case of Roy Kearney, charged with lar ceny, and nol pros with leave In the case of John Hargrove, charged with receiving stolen property. The other defendants were given SOdays suspended senten ces and placed as probation ror one year. They werei jjbhn Hargrove, recelvU^ property; AlOoyd Alston, receiving stolon property; Charles Cheek, receiving stolen property; Willie calving stolen i
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