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Your Begt Advertising Medium ISarrrn Srrnrii Your Best Advertising Medium VOLUME 69 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1965 NUMBER 11 Troop 725-Mrs. W. B. Thompson and Mrs. top row-Sharon Mustlan, Sarah Burton, Susan J. G. Powell, leaders-left to right: Bottom Thompson, Pamela Powell, Elizabeth Overy. row-Linda Loyd, Eleanor Davis, Leslee Rich- (Sharon White, Wanda Vaughan, Lou Ann ards, Sharon Jones and Lynette Comer; Coleman and Susan Ayscue are not pictured.) Hinder Firemen Curiosity may be natural, but It often hinders the work of rural firemen dependent upon telephone lines. Macon Reavls, Chief of the Afton - Elberon Rural Vol unteer Fire Department , said yesterday that when the fire department number Is called a number of citizens call the department to find our the location of the fire. This, he said, prevents the department from calling other firemen. Reavls said that this prac tice caused undue delay In two fires at Vlcksboro last week, in one of which a man lost his life. He asks that non-firemen wait a few min utes after the call before using their telephone lines. No Easfer Holiday Warren School District Lines May Be Abolished Rooker Rites Held Tuesday uravesiae rites tor Mrs. j. !. Rooker, Sr., 88, who died it her home on Monday at 8 l m., were conducted at Falr flew Cemetery Tuesday at 11 L m. by her pastor, the Rev. Fohn R. Link. Mrs. Rooker, daughter of the ate William Daniel Weldon and Mice Virginia Wiggtns Weldon vas born at Warren Plains, >n January 2, 1877. On Novem )er 12, 1896 she was mar ried to the late J. E. Rooker, 5r., and made her home In iVarrenton comtlnuously since :hat time. She was a member of the Warrenton Baptist Church and Warren Chapter United Daugh ters of the Confederacy. During World War I -6he was Vice Chalrman of the local Red Cross Chapter end Chairman of pro duction for the chapter. Because of her outstanding service she was recognized by the National Red Cross and was the recipient of Its distinguished service medal. Mrs. Rooker Is survived by a daughter, Miss Elizabeth Rooker and a son, J. E. Rook er, Jr., both of Warrenton, two granddaughters, Miss Edwina Rooker of the Virginia Beach school system and Mrs. Robert L. Elklns Charleston, West Vir ginity and two great-great grandsons, Robert Carter Elklns, and John Edward Rook er Elkins of Charleston. Commissioners Ask For Fishing Pier At Kerr Lake Dam The Board of Town Commis sioners at a meeting here Wed nesday night ordered the Mayor and Town Clerk to sign a peti tion addressed to Congress man L. H. Fountain request ing the use of his influence with the Corps of Engineers to have the Gantry Dock over the tall race at John H. Kerr Dam opened for public use. A similar request had al ready been signed by the boart of commissioners of Norllna, the Warrenton Lions Club, thi warrenton Rotary Club, th? American Legion and other or ganizations, the board was in formed. The request that the pet It lor be signed was submitted bj Mayor Miles upon request a W. L. Turner of Warrenton ant Charlie Williams of Olne, twe among a great number of fisher men interested In having thi pier opened. Election Ordered The Norllna Board of Towi Commissioners at Its regular March meeting passed a reso lution calling for atownelectlor on Tuesday, May 4. ON T.V. PROGRAM The Adult Choir of the War renton Baptist Church will sln| on the program, "Church ot Our Fathers," Channel B, a 1 p. m. amity. MISSION SERVICE A Mission Service will b? teM at the church of Ood In Warrenton an March IB, Mr. flash, mta will be the I ? ? mm Troop No. 641-Mrs. "Rebe" Vaughan and son, Marilyn Jones, Joy Lynn Daniel; top Mrs. Dick Ward, leaders-from left to right: row-Alice Plnnell, Chalmers Ward. (Marilyn bottom row-Annette Vaughan, Jennifer Wil- White, Valerie Fleming not pictured.) (more pictures on page 4) Girl Scouts To Hold Rally In Littleton; Meeting Held Here Girl Scouts of the Pines of Carolina Council will stage a rally in Littleton on Saturday as part of the celebration of National Girl Scout Week of 1965. In preparation for this rally members of four scout troops met at Wesley Memorial Church on Monday afternoon to' prac tice songs for the event under the direction of the Rev. Mil ton Mann of Macon with Mrs. Leonard Daniel of Warrenton as pianist. Following theserv Ing of refreshments by Scout leaders, the troops posed for their pictures. Almost three ijuarters of a million Girl Scouts are cele brating Girl Scout Week, March 7-13. Mrs. F. P. Whitley To Head Seal Sales Drive Mrs. F. P. Whitley will serve as chairman of the 196S Easter Seal Campaign which begins in Warren County this week under the sponsorship of the Warrenton Woman's Club. The campaign will extend through Easter Sunday, April 19. Warren County citizens will receive letters containing seals with envelopes addressed by typing classes at John Grahatft and John Hawkins High School. Nine-year-old Rhonda jean of Sylvia has been chosen by Charles T. Enman, president of the North Carolina Society of Crippled Children and State Faster Mai ?sfrppBd for the IMS campaign. B This child has a birth defect f and is a patient at the Ashe s' la Orthopedic Hospital. Mrs. Whitley said the pur lEjip* of the Easter Seal Society Ui 4o provide rehaWliative i iiMcee to the cr and eWldratt. ??Ca Additional facilities arebelng built in anticipation of the 196S camping season which opens in June. The Warren County Chap- i ter has contributed $1500 within the past year to help construct this camp. Mrs. Whitley said that last summer the Warren ton Woman's Club sent a War ren County child to this camp and will send another in June, paying all necessary expenses. Mrs. R. B. Butler, president of the Warrenton Woman's Club, is chairman of the Warren County Chapter of the State So ciety and an alternate trustee of the National Society. Other Easter Seal services include speech therapy, occu pational and physical therapy clinics, purchase of wheel chairs, braces and other or thopedic appliances for both Mults and children. Mrs. Whitley said the Easter Society is the oldest and * ' Mrs. Gregory To Speak At PTA Meeting At Macon The John Graham - Mariam Boyd and Macon PTA will meet at the Macon School at 8 p. m. on Tuesday, March 16, when Science Fair exhibits at the Macon school will be on display. Miss Virginia Gregory, assist ant director of the North Caro lina Recreation Commission, will be the guest speaker. Mrs. Monroe Gardner, pro gram chairman, said that it is hoped that a summer recre ation program can be started here and that Miss Gregory's talk should be of Interest to all interested In recreation and particularly to those interested in a summer program. She said she hoped that a large crowd would be present to hear Miss Gregory. Miss Gregory comes to War' renton with long years of ex perience with the Commission in the promoton expansion and organization of community recreation programs. She works with civic clubs, church es, PRAs, Scouts, schools, col (See PTA, page 4) Science Play To Be Given At JG School A play, entitled, "Science In Review," written and produced by students of the Sophomore Class, will be presented in the J. G. auditorium Friday night, March 12, at ? o'clock. Immediately following the play the Science Fair will be on display in the school cafe teria. included in the fair will be group projects of grades 9 to 12 and individual project* of htgn school student*. The public is invited to at tend. SEND CHECKS Persons Interested in joining the "Friends of the are asked to mail their in the amount of ??-00 to Mrs. to the t DAN K. MOORE Governor Moore To Speak At Warrenton Governor Dan K. Moore will visit Warrenton on Mayl2when he will make the principal ad dress at an Industrial Day meet ing, BUI Mlnette, Industrial Commission Director, and W. R. Drake, Warren County Rep resentative In the General As sembly, Jointly announced this week. Williams Rites Are Held Here Funeral services for Mrs. Sue Pretlow Williams, who died at her home In South Warren ton on March 4, were held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Friday morning at 11 o'clock with the rector, the Rev. J. M. Stoney, Jr., officiating. Burial was In the cemetery ol the Church of the Good Shep hard at Rldgeway. Mrs. Williams was the widow of Buxton Barker Williams, who died In 1930. The daughter of the late Solomon William Williams and Kate Augusta White Williams Mrs. Williams was born in Inez In Fork Township on December 5, 1886, In the home In which Mr. and Mrs. Tom Harris later lived. Her father was engaged in farming and after his death In 1896 Mrs. Williams and her children moved to Warrenton in 1900. Mrs. Williams was a life long member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church where she was active In church circles, the altar guild, and other phases of the church. Survivors include one son, Barker B. Williams, Jr.; three sisters, Mrs. Arthur Petar and Miss Kate White Williams ol Warrenton and Mrs. John Tur man of Richmond, Va.; and two grandsons, Thomas B. and James Richard Williams ol Warrenton. Chicken Supper The Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Macon Methodist Church will sponsor a chicken barbecue supper, along with dessert, on Saturday night at the church, beginning it 5:JO. Plates will be served it the church and may also be taken home if desirsd. i * Labor Survey The Warren County Area Labor Survey will be com pleted this week, BUI Mlnette, Industry Commis sion Director, said yester Big-.. v' I He asks that all persons ? who would be interested in [ obtaining work In the area should a factory be locat ed in Warren county, to fill out the labor survey forms distributed throughout ti ?nd drop them in the In many bust Warren Schools Work For Accreditation The Northside and South War ren Schools have become the first in the county to complete the first steps toward initial State accreditation in the new standards for accredidation of elementary schools, it was learned this week from the office of the Superintendent of Schools. The recognition was given as the result of a preliminary evaluation held on February 23 and 24 by L. J. Lockamy. Ele mentary Supervisor with the State Department of Public In struction. A report of this sur vey was made to the Board of Education Monday night by Comer Griffin, assistant super intendent of schools. The preliminary evaluation followed a self-study program which began several years ago In the Northside School. The program was introduced in the South Warren School at the be ginning of the current school year. The study is designed to meet Satate accreditation by clarification of the school pur poses, recognition of problems, recognition of strengths and weaknesses and with coopera tive efforts by all school per sonnel in strengthening the en tire school program. Observation and evaluation of standards include five major areas: administration, cur riculum, Instruction and organ ization, personnel, equipment, Instructional materials and school supplies; and school plant and physical environment. Lockamy's report on the Northside School gave com mendable observations in the following: 1. a modern well maintained, well equipped, clean and attractive physical plant; 2. the school well organ (See SCHOOLS, page 4) Board Discusses New Quarters For Police Warrenton police officers will have larger and better quarters on the corner of Main and West Market Streets with in the next few months If there Is no hitch In plans of the Board of Town Commissioners. The board at Its Wednesday night meeting authorized the Mayor and Town Clerk to sign a five-year lease for a build ing to be built on the site of the present quarters by Hy Diamond, Warrenton merchant, who leases the present build ing to the town. The commissioners agreed to one change In a proposed lease suggested by Diamond and In turn asked for one concession In Diamond's proposal. The board had asked for aflve-year lease at $30 a month with privi lege of renewal at the same figure for the second five years. The commissioners said that Diamond had asked that the rent figure be negotiated at the end of the five-year period. The board agreed to this. The proposed building would be 18 Inches wider than the present structure and this 18 Inches would come off the side walk. The board asked that when the building Is no longer used for town purposes that this property revert to the town. Dismond disagreed. Wednes day night the commissioners amended Its proposal to a re quest that the property would revert to the town whenever the building Is removed. In expecta tion that Diamond would agree to the changes the commission ers authorized the signing of a lease. Much of the time of the more than two and a half hour ses sion was spent In discussion and passage of an ordinance concerned with the dumping of certain types of waste Into the town's sewer system. The or dinance, largely technical, Is Intended to protect the system from certain types of industrial plants should they be located here, and Was of a precautlon al nature. (See POLICE, page 4) Bill Neal Is Officer Of Waterworkers Ass'n. Bill Neal, assistant superin tendent of the Warrerton Water Company, was elected vice president of the Southeastern Section of the Waterworks Operators Association, at a din ner meeting at Colonial Lodge Motel here on last Friday night. Earl Mldgett was re-elected president and Ronald William son, secretary-treasurer. They are with the Tarboro Water Department. Prior to the dinner meeting the groip met at the Warren ton Water Plant at 5 p. m. for a discussion of water plants and their operation. Principal speaker at the din ner meeting was Hugh Home, with the Howertoa and Gowen Chemical Company of Roanoke Rapids, who talked on liquid alum, a product used In moet water plants in this section. A question aM answer period followed. The members voted to hold their neat meeting <* iMay 7. District school lines in War ren County may be abolished unless there Is a change In the tiling of the State Board of Education. This was the opinion voiced by the Board of Education at a regular meeting on Monday night after the members had been told of a ruling by the ate that teachers must be al lotted on a district basis and that overlapping districts would not be permitted. The districts for white and colored vary in some cases in the county, as is the case with the Norllna school .'strict and 'he North Warren fchtr'iCtH and the Warrenton sch<?i district and the John R Hawkins district. Supt. J. Roger Peeler said that he had been in touch with the superintendent of Halifax County and he had said Halifax is confronted with the same problem. Peeler said that In case the State insisted upon its ruling it may be necessary to abolish all school districts in the county and have one county-wide dis trict. The board members, ex pressing doubts that the pro gram would work satisfactorily In eastern North Carolina, sug gested that the State Board be contacted for a change In Its policy as It applied to War ren County. If present districts are abolished, Peeler, said, It would mean the probability of no school committees except In an advisory capacity. The board held that this would not be In the best Interest of education. Any action towards the abol ition of district lines will await j further investigation. I Warren County schools will I run on Easter Monday. The | board held that if schools were to close In time for teachers to enroll in summer classes at teachers colleges, it would be necessary for schools to operate on Easter Monday. This was brought about by a late opening of the schools and lost time due to recent snow. The me mbers expressed themselves as being much dis satisfied with the turn of events recognizing that It could work a hardship on teachers. They said they were determined In the future to open the schools on time, regardless of any pleas made by farmers. Last fall school opening was delayed several days at the request of many farmers who said the labor of school children was needed to harvest the late to bacco crop. The board approved the em ployment of Gld Champion aa mechanic at the school garage to replace Brown Hawkins, de ceased. The use of athletic fields by an outside baseball club during the summer months was before the board for discussion. The board held that this was a mat ter to be determined by local school committees. Consideration of a resolu tion tohavedlstrlct school com mitteemen serve under a rota tion plan was deferred until the matter of districts cotdd be determined. The board discussed the pos sibility of including In the high school curriculum a unit on the study of venereal diseases neat school year. The members Re* elded that the program have merit when taught in < rate classes tor boys and girls as Is the case followed by schools where the | is already In affect. GRIFFIN SPEAKER J. Comer Griffin, assistant ipertatmdsnt of Warren Coon t^cJoeje^ejU ?hs (seat
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