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Your Best Advertising Medium Iflarrptt iRrrori Your Best Advertising Medium Under Tentative Budget Warren County Tax Rate Increased By Eight Cents W. L. Turner, newly Installed president of the Warrenton Lions Club, Is shown re celvlng the gavel from District Deputy Gov ernor John Mackle of Oxford. Turner installed As Head Of Warrenton Lions Club W. L. Turner was Installed as the 30th president of the Warrenton Lions Club at a meeting held at the Warren Plaza Inn on Friday night. He succeeds A. A. Wood, whose term has expired. Installing the new president and other officers and direc tors was District Deputy Gover nor of 31G, Lion John Mackle of Oxford. Those Installed other than President Turner were: C. F. Burrows, first vice presi dent; F. P. Whitley, second vice president; J. Allen Tuck er, third vice president; Clyde V. Whitford, secretary; R. H. Bright, treasurer; Scott Gard ner, Lion Tamer; and Jack Harris, Tall Twister. Two-year directors Installed were Sam Warlick and Charles M. White, III. Retiring President A. A. Wood, presided with Lion Monroe Gardner leading the singing and Lion Sam Warlick saying the grace. Lion Eddie Clayton was Lion X and Lion Melvln Shearln won the sliver dollar. Guests of the club were Charles Ray Rodwell, guest of Lion Dor man Blaylock, and Bill Jones, guest of his father, Lion Duke Jones. (See TURNER, page 2) Ayscue Reappointed Chairman Of Lions Blind Committee Milton Ayscue, Warrenton merchant, has been reappointed chairman of the Blind Com mittee of the Warrenton Lions Club by President W. L. Turn er. Announcement of the re appointment of Ayscue was made at a regular meeting of the club last Friday night. The work of the Blind Com mittee during the past year under the chalrmanshlp-of Ays cue has won the attention of "The White Cane," Lions Mag azine, which In a recent Issue commented: "Warrenton Club: Purchas ed 2 pairs of glasses, $38; new clothing for 15, $52.59; food for 1, $5.14. Recreation for 30, $34.04; Christmas gifts to 31, $109.72; remitted $680 on White Cane Drive; secured 4 eye wills. Expended $180.00 on booth for Home Industries Division. Fund-raising project netted $1,748.49." License Bureau For Warrenton Is Planned Warrenton Is expected to have an automobile license bureau next year. Plans for the bureau were made at a meeting of the di rectors of the Warren County Chamber of Commerce held In the director's room of the Citi zen's Bank Tuesday night. Ber nard Thompson, chamber president, presided. According to plans approved by the director*, the office will be maintained for eight hours each day In the office of the Industrial Commission during January and February and for four hours each day for the remainder of the year. The office will be maintained as a public service, since fees paid by the North Carolina Motor Vehicles Department for this work Is hardly expected to pay the entire cost, Thompson said. Thompson reported that the drive for memberships was progressing nicely, but urged members to redouble their ef forts. He said that it Is neces sary that the chamber have a representative membership co vering all sections of the coun ty If It is to perform Its maximum work. Motor Vehicles Law Violators In Court Ten of the eleven cases In Warren County Recorder's Court last Friday were concerned with violations of the motor vehicle laws. The other case was con cerned with an assault with a deadly weapon. Russell Davis was sentenced to the roads for a two years term when he was found (ullty of an assault with a deadly weapon. The defendant noted an appeal and appearance bond was set at 1800. Davis at aprevlous term of court had been found guilty of an assault and (Ivan a suspended sentence. This sen tence was ordered put into af fect when he was found guilty of assaulting John Nick Robin son with a deadly weapon on June 19. Sidney Earl Smith pled guilty to a charge of careless and reckless driving and was order ea to pay a $25 fine and court costs. Henry Henderson was charg ed with having no valid opera tor's license, with driving with improper brakes and with drunk driving. He pled guilty to drunk driving and to driving with im proper brakes, and not guilty] on the other count. The court accepted the pleas and the de fendant was ordered to pay a $100 fine and court oosts. Kenneth Williams pled guil ty to ? charge of careless and reckless driving and was or dered to pay a (SB fine i oosts. Emmanuel Amos Kearney pled guilty to charges of hav ing no operator's license and with driving with improper lights. Ha was fined $25 and or dered to pay court oosts. CBee COURT, page 2) Warren County's tax rate will I be Increased by eight cents over I the 1964-65 rate according to j a tentative budget (or 1964- 65 adopted by the county commis sioners on Thursday night of last week. The new rate Is 97?. The budget will lie open for 20 days for public Inspection] Df budget Items before being! formally adopted by the com missioners. Responsible for the Increase ; Is a sizeable Increase for the | general fund and Increase In a! number of departments of the j county. These Include Increases { for the Extension agents, for the j Health Department, the Welfare Department, hospital admini stration and Industrial develop ment. The general fund budgets call for an increase of $12,? 287, the largest single increase in the budget. The increase for the farm and home agents Is slightly more than $1,000; $1,785.00 repre sents the Increase of the Health Department. Expenditures for Welfare, <where the Increase for an increase of $7,667.28. The budget for hospital main tenance Is up $3,214. These var ious items represent an in crease of $27,390. The 1965-66 budget budget is based on 90 per cent col lections of a total valuation of $21,700,000, compared with $21,300,000 for 1964-65, an In crease of $400,000. Griffin Resigns As Asst. School Supt. J. Comer Griffin, assistant superintendent of Warren Coun ty Schools for the past two years, has resigned to accept a similar position In Martin County. He and Mrs. Griffin and young son left this week for Wllllams ton, their former home. Supt. J, Rodger Peeler said yesterday that a successor to Griffin would be announced next week. Griffin said this week that he had enjoyed his stay In Warren County where the people had been friendly and cooperative and In many ways he hated to leave the county. But he said the Martin County position of fered him a chance to return to his home and work in a larger school system. Roy Young Receives $1000 Scholarship Roy E. Young, 21, afNorllna, has been awarded a $1,000 sen ior year college scholarship by International Minerals & Chemical Corporation. Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Young of Rural Route 1( will use the scholarship to continue studies in agricultural engineering at North Carolina State University. His father Is maintenance supervisor of Warren County Schools. At North Carolina StateT Young has a 8.66 grade aver age of a possible 4.00. He Is active In honorary and agri cultural fraternities and is a past president of the uni versity's chapter of American 8oclety of Agricultural En gineers. IMC awards 16 such scholar ships annually to seniors ma joring in agricultural or min eral sciences si 16 oolieges in the United States and Canada. Faculty oommlttees at the ool leges and must express a de sire to enter graduate school tor a Ph.D. degree. At completion of the students' senior year, they will be eligible to oompete among themselvee for two $9,000 IMC fellowships, one in each eatefory. Mrs. T. F. Stallings la vlslt fag relatives and friends la Florida for sometime. Boy Hurt In Freak Accident Carl Shearln, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Shearln of Warrenton, remains In a critical condition at Park View Hospital as the result of Injuries received in a freak accident last Friday at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Mamie Gupton at Wood. The boy received severe head ?wounds, a broken right arm and right shoulder, a broken right leg and multiple cuts and bruises, according to reports reaching here. The accident occurred while a group of men were working on an automobile engine at the Gupton home. One man was told to start the car to see how the engine would run. The car was evidently In gear and the driver froze at the wheel and was un able to stop It as It tore through small trees and over rocks. The Injured boy was found In its path about 90 feet from the starting point, It Is reported. It is not known where he was when the car started. L. B. Henderson Is Elected Principal L. B. Henderson, principal of Northslde Elementary School (or the past seven years, has been elected principal of John R. Hawkins High Schoolat War renton. He succeeds J. E. Byers, who resigned to accept a position In Wake County. Northslde Elementary School is a 20-teacher school. Announcement of Hender son's election as principal of the local school was made joint ly Thursday morning by W. E. Perry, Jr., chairman of the Warrenton school committee, and J, Rodger Peeler, Super intendent of Schools. A native of Vance County, Henderson has been engaged In teaching in Warren County since 1934. He received his AB de gree from Shaw University and his M.S. degree from A. IT. College. Henderson's wife Is a teach er In the Warren County school system and she Is now serving as assistant director for the Head Start program in Warren County. They have one son, a graduate of Hawkins High School, who Is a senior In the Dental School of Howard University in Washington, D. C. Business Houses lo Be Closed Monday Warrenton stores, the Bank and other business houses will be closed on Monday, July 5, in observance of the July 4 holiday, which falls on Sunday. Announcement that the stores would be closed Monday was made yesterday by A. C. Fair, president of the Warrenton Merchants Association. Also to be closed Monday will be all postofflces with no rural services, extension offices, Federal offices and offices In the court house. The commis sioners will meet briefly Mon day morning In order to com ply with the law concerning time and place of meeting, but are expected to adjourn the meeting until Tuesday for the trans action of business. GUEST SOLOIST Taaksr Polk, Warrenton pianist, will be guest soloist with the Trl rngle Symphony Or chestra on Sunday, July 4, at 4:00 p. m. si the Museum of Arts lo Raleigh. He will also play with the Symphony In Chapel Hill on Tuesday, July 6, at StOO p. ra. si Hill Music Hall. The public is cordially In vited. IN HOSPITAL M. M. (Junie) Drake is a pa tient at Veterans Ho*>ltal la Dwrbam, following a heart ?ttaak here Wednesday morn ing. Lack Of Funds Warren County's Dog Control Program Terminated By Board Warren County'* DogControl program has been terminated and will not operate (or the (Il eal year 1965-66. Meeting In an adjourned set slon on Thu: sday night of last week to consider tax matters, the board members decided to , terminate the program due to lack of funds. The program was terminated on motion of Commissioner Richard R, Davis, seconded by Commissioner Robert Thome and unanimously carried. Action of the board was taken after Hal W. Connell had ap peared before the board and dis cussed the dog program In War* ren County. Connell did not op pose the program as such, but said that he thought It should have teeth in It. Ha proposed that the law should b* changed to allow a citizen to shoot un tagged dogs running loose where they offered a threat to hi* property. The commlMlonar* pointed out that they had no power to make any changes In the dog law. A commissioner said yester day that Mr. ConneU's appear ance before the board had no bearing on the board's decision to terminate the program. It was simply a matter of harlnf no?money available for thU purpose, he said. The board also moved that the Clerk advlae T. B. Creech that effective July 1 the doc pound used by Warren County would no longeT be in uae, and that the county give notice of ter mination of lease. The termination of the doc control program will have no bearing on the Rabies program of the county, the commlaalon ers said. The commissioners alao voted to approve tentative ootM* ty and school budgets. Bernard Thompson, Warren County chairman of the Economics Opportunity program, Is shown raising a Head Start banner on the court house lawn Tuesday morning as a part of the observation of National Head Start Day. Assisting in the banner-raising ceremony were Mayor W. A. Miles, Mrs. L. B. Henderson, assistant Head Start director for Warren County and Mrs. Rachel Fisher, director, standing behind Mrs. Henderson. The Head Start program began In Warren County Monday morning. Mail Hours Are Changed; Earlier Mailing Required Effective July 1, the mall transportation service pattern for Warrenton 27589 will be re aligned to conform with the ZIP CODE Sectional Center Service Plan, Postmaster Leonard Dan iel said yesterday. This plan la designed to give overnight de livery of all First Class mall within the State of North Caro lina. The realignment will mean a change In time for dispatch ing mall. Daniel said the fol lowing schedule of malls from Warrenton will have to be ob served because of the change In the time schedules of the Transportation Service through this area. The closing dispatch times are: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday?7:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m., 1:30 p. m., 5:30 p. m. Wednesday and Saturday? 7:30 a. m., 12 noon, 5:30 p. m. Sunday?3:45 p. m. Holidays?12 noon, 5:30 p. m. Daniel asks that patrons please note the Important change of dispatch on Sundays from the present schedule of 6 p. m. to 3:45 p. m., and the evening schedule from 6 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. He said malls must be In the office by these hours 'o make the dispatches. Malls deposited after 5:30 p. m. on week days or 3:45 p. m. on Sundays will not be post marked and dispatched until the next day. Daniel said that this change will give the Warrenton area a* much better service with all lections of the country and ?specially with the State of North Carolina. He said if there ire any problems arising con senting patron's mall service TUESDAY CLINIC Due to the July 4 holiday, the immunisation clinics usually held at Powell's Store near Inez and at Williams' store In the Heck Grove Community every first Monday will be held on Tuesday. Hours of the clinic are from 11 a. m. to II noon. Dr. JoMpb Allen of Chapel Hill was a vtatttr la Warren ion Wsttaesday. to please contact him at th? poatofflce. "WOODROW" ? little but *xploslv*?whowtllbcafMftur* of the Show-deo to be held her* Sunday afternoon and nlfM. So far no one haa been able to atay on th* back of the llttl* animal for the five seconds required to qualify. Mule Is Challenge At Show-deo Sunday No one has yet been able to ride "Woodrow," the bucking mule for the five seconds re quired to qualify, Allen King, publicity chairman for the big Show-deo scheduled to be held here on Sunday afternoon and night, said yesterday. The little mule is dynamite and several local riders hare learned what many have learned at other shows. He doesn't like to be ridden. "Woodrow" la one of the many attractions to be ottered at the Show-deo, which willbe fln at a p. m. Sunday and continue Into the night, King said. More than 1,000 persons arc expected to watch the ahow la which more than 100 boreee are expected to be entered. Thl* should be by far Warrenton's largest horse ahow, King < Both food and refreshments win be Mrred at the show gr< 00 the Baltimore road. AI ber at perwaa who follow the circuit are eayeeted to < near the arena Bljgjg j ?The Show-deo, ? [the War ran ton Safl have an opportunity to M? I beautiful horaea from Wrtfcgrt Carolina and tatttmm VlrfUtti put through their pacea by afc01? lad rtdera, many ?T Nm? [familial* to thoae who follow the ea and among the water* iwnto win be b?mk raoaa, latonal ealf ropiag aM a Ml extremely popular al pravtow ?howa. And, of aowaa, tM?H ?Woodrov." -i, I I Pointa won toy tkifl Win be official, Win b*n.M hr I thrill-packed areata. TM Pa ta located mMi tt Warren ton, back of Mm Maw 41 B. W. CwrliJMgM ?by| [the loatoth* ? ?cwrlit ? I
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