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Your Best Advertising Medium ? (Etjp HJarrrn Errori) Your Best Advertising Medium . iL VOLUME 69 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN. N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1965 NUMBER 31 ST. STEPHEN'S BAPTIST CHI RCH . . target of rifle fire Negro Church Target Of Rifle Fire Fridav Kine slugs found In a rural Warren County Negro church have been turned over to law enforcement officers here to be used In the Investigation of an unexplained Friday night shoot ing. At least seven of the slugs, believed fired from a high velocity rifle, tore Into St. Stephen's Baptist Church about 11 p. m. Friday. The white frame church, located about two miles south of Inez, was un occupied at the time. Sheriff Clarence Davis said yesterday his department has been unable to learn the Iden tities of the persons respon sible. Officers theorized that Newspaper Is Target Of Klan Criticism A speaker at the Ku Klux Klan rally at Elberon Saturday Night charged that the Warrenton newspaper Is "a nigger news paper" run by a white man "who is but a nigger at heart." The attack on the Warrenton newspaper and Its editor came amid attacks on President John son, The News and Observer and an attack on the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company, one of whose officers Is allegedly a Negro. Governor Moore, usual ly a target of the Klan ral lies, seemed to have escaped criticism. A crowd estimated at more than 1,000 gathered in a field near the old T. H. Aycock home place on Rt. 401 for a meeting that lasted for more than two hours. The meeting was opened and closed with prayer and was followed by the burn ing of a tall cross. During the meeting, where Negroes were ?"low-rated" and Klansmen ex alted, a collection was taken to help defray expenses of operating the lOan, also a woman speaker asked the Vomen to help support the Klan through Joining the Klan aux iliary, and through contributing saving stamps toward the pur chase of an airplane. The rally at Elberon Satur day night followed a march at Warrenton Saturday afternoon to which an estimated 50 robed Klansmen participated. Plans for a wtUc-ln were abandoned when the Warrenton Merchants Association asked that no robed Klansmen enter Warrenton stores. The march, well advertised, drew an unusually large crowd of both white and colored, and passed off without incident. Editorial Brings Klan Harrassment The editor of The Warren Record came In for a bit df harrassment over the weekend as the result of editorial com ment carried In this newspaper last week in which Klan activ ity was deplored. The harrassment took the form of two anonymous tele phone calls, one on Thursday night when the editor was charged with making up lies, and a second at 12:50 a. m. Saturday when the editor was awakened to be told to "Get up as the Klan is coming to town.". On Monday morning the editor received a call from Grady B. Mars of Areola, paid Klan worker, who came by, he said, for a discussion. He "allowed as how the newspaper never (See KLAN, page 2) Residence Numbers To Be Assigned Soon The assignment of numbers to re?ldence? of Warren ton and Its suburbs is about completed and the selling and Installation of mall boxes and numbers will shortly get under way, Lion ?w. A. Miles, told members erf the Warren ton Lions Club last Friday night at a meeting held at Drewry. The placing of mail boxes residence numbers is a of the efforts to hare free 11 delivery at Warrenton, and Lions assumed this part of program as a club project. Warrenton Lions were to a fish fry supper by of the Drewry Rural Fire Department. Following the supper the club held lta regular meeting with Lion President W. L. Turner presiding. Quests (or the meet ing were Dr. L. H. Harrison, guest of Lion Monroe Gardner; J. Edward Allen, guest of Lion W. A. Miles; and Bob Mllla, guest of Lion John Andrews. It was announced that the an ual calendar Birthday Drive would begin on August 18. Pres ident Turner also gave high lights of objectives of the dob for the coming year, which win Include a Christmas party to December, annual Ladles' Night Supper in February tod Far mere' Night in March. the shots~weY6 fired from a vehicle on the highway about a hundred yards away. The bullets ripped into the west entrance to the church, about 12 feet above the floor. Damage to the church was neg ligible. Plaster was broken in several places, but no damage was done to the church furn ishings. The church has an active membership of approximately 300. Sunday school services are held there weekly, with regular Sunday worship ser vices conducted once a month by the Rev. S. W. Williams of Henderson, who was said TO~travr been -holding?services there for a quarter of a cen tury. The church Is sometimes used by the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People as a meeting place, but since the comple tion of a club house In the predominantly Negro commun ity, the church Is rarely used for civic meetings, a commun ity leader said. Mrs. Ernest Turner, wife of the Warren NAACP leader who himself Is an officer of the church, said residents near the church reported hearing nine shots fired last Friday night. Benton Sells Service Station To Wemyss Fred Benton, operator of Benton's Service Station at Nor lina since Februray 1927, will retire from active business Sunday. He has sold his service sta tion, corners of Highways 1 and 401 at Norllna, to Macon Wemyss, who has been employ ed for some time with the Warrenton ABC store. A native of South Carolina, Benton came to Warren Coun ty in 1824, after having been engaged In this lumber busi ness for several years. '1 had been working with large mills," he said Wednesday night, "and when the large mills played out I decided to enter another business." This other business was at service station at Littleton, | which he operated until he pur chased his present station at Norllna, which he enlarged and remodelled several years ago. The successful operation of a service station calls for long hours and hard work, and Ben ton devoted both to the build ing of a successful business. Operating a service station was Benton's vocation, but Golf was his avocation. Usually, In recent years, If he could not be found In his service station, he could be found on the War renton Golf Course, more often than not playing with Julius Ban set, 81 Nuns, Lloyd Cook and other close buddies. He said that he began to play golf short ly after he came to Norllna on a small course in the late J. H. Hundley's oow pasture, whore a few Warrenton persona played before the Warrenton course was built. Benton says that golf la hla only hobby, practically hla only diversion and that the game has meant a lot tat him. Between hla service station and golf, Beaton has found time for other activities seeking to better his town. For a num ber of years he served as a of the board of town present a vice president and director of the Peoples Bank of Norllna. He Is married to the former Miss Juanlta Davis of Raleigh. They have one child, Ricky, employed by the Atomic Energy Commission at Alkens, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Benton have two children, who are Benton's pride and joy. Benton said that he would probably be around his former service station for some lit tle time while his successor Is getting started. "That is," he said, "If I find that I can be of any help to him without getting In his way." He said that Weymss is a fine and deserving young man and that he wishes for him much success. No Services No services will be held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church here on Sunday morning due to the absence of the rector, the Rev. James M. Stoney, Jr. The rector's absence Is caused by the recent death of his father, Bishop James M. Stoney of New Mexico. In a letter to the vestry, Mr. Stoney said that he de sired to express his deep ap preciation for the letters, pray ers and telegrams from the people of Warrenton. MRS. NOBLE DIE8 Mrs. Edna Noble died In East Orange, N. 3., on Thursday, July 22, It was learned here yesterday. She was the mother of Mrs. Robert Fleming, and is a frequent visitor her*. RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL Mr. 3. T. Mitch in er return ed Tuesday from Duke Hos pital in Durham where he had for almost a Mrs. a. D. Alston is vl sh ine relatives in ] WmmaMzM Prices Are Higher On Ga. Market Valdosta, Ga. - First sales of the 1965 crop of flue-cured tobacco on the Georgia-Florida Belt Wednesday averaged about $5 a hundred pounds higher than last year, the Federal - state Market News Service reported. Prices on some grades were considerably higher, with low primings up $8 to $13 a hun dred over last year's prices, and nondescript was up $16. Companies were paying a top price of $72 to $73 in most cases, with a few bids as high as $75. Qualtty of marketing was also an Improvement over that of opening day last year. Principal sales consisted of low and fair grades of both lugs and primings, as well as nondescript. The percentage of non descript was about half that of opening day last season, and there was considerable more orange tobacco and less green. Growers generally appeared to be bringing their best qual lty of leaf to market first. J. C. Willis, a Lowndes Coun t> grower, sold 11 baskets of tobacco at 71 cents a pound. He smiled and said, "I don't know how long I'll be brag ging, but I'm doing It now." Bobby P afford, a sales su pervisor- at the Nashville mar "ket; said, "I'm ovui whelmed at our price today. I wish we had a little more but you can't complain at this." The Nashville market sold 172,766 pounds at an average price of $66.18 per hundred pounds. This was described as the largest opening day and probably the highest price at the Nashville market, about 30 miles northeast of Valdosta. Converse McKey, a Quitman warehouseman, said, "Tobacco Is selling as high as a cat's back." Sales during the first hour at Quitman topped the $65 per hundred pound figure. General averages on several selective markets were esti mated from $61 to $64 per hun dred pounds. On opening day last year, 8,422,675 gross pounds aver aged $51.54. Wednesday's volume of sales was fairly light to medium, and most warehouses had less tobacco offered for sale than on opening day a year ago. Delivery to the Stabilization Corp. was estimated at about 1 percent of turnover, compared with 3.9 percent on the first day last year. Auction bid averages per 100 pounds on a limited number of representative U. S. grades, with changes from opening day a year ago: Leaf, fair lemon 70, up 8; low lemon 67, up 6; cutters, low lemon 72, up 4; low or anee 72, up 4; lugs, good lem on 72, up 4, fair lemon 70, up 4, fair orange 66, up 5; primings, good lemon 69, up 5; fair lemon 66, up 5, low lem on 62, up 8; fair orange 66, up 5; low orange 61, up 8; nondescript, best (griming size) 51 up 16, poorest 38, up 16. Warren FFA Members Attend State School Future Farmers of Warren County were well represented last week at the State-wide leadership school tor FFA members at Bamardsvllle. Presidents Bruce Perklnson of Norllna and Ronald Wells of Warren ton represented the CSee FFA, page 2) OBSERVES BIRTHDAY Dr. W. W. Taylor, retired Warrenton dentist and attorney and former Judge of Warren County's Recorder's Court, ob served his 88th birthday In a rest bome In Raleigh Wednes day. He was visited by his iiauchter, Miss Leonora Taylor. AUXILIARY TO MEET The American Legion Aux iliary, Unit MB, will moot on Thursday, August S, at 8 p,m. at tbo bono at Mrs. Soott Gard ner. TIM assisting boat esses will bo Mesdames S. M. Gard ner, Bill Neal mi Quo Doske, Jr. The program wlU ooo corn the "Gold Star Mothers". Tobacco Marketing Cards To Be Issued By ASCS Office Moonshiners Given Suspended Sentences Two white men--Charles ani Curtis Privette--captured at a whiskey still in Hawtree Town ship on July 13, were given five-year suspended sentences in Warren County Recorder's Court last Friday. Terms of the suspension were that each defendant pay a $500 fine, not violate any prohibition laws of the state for five years and pay court costs. Charles Earl Prlvette pled guilty to charges of manufac turing illicit whiskey, for which he was given a two-year road sentence; guilty of possession of materials for manufacturing! whiskey, for which he received a two-year road sentence; guilty of possession of illicit whiskey for purpose of sale, for which he was sentenced to serve two years on the roads. Each sen tence was to start at the ex piration of the preceding sen tence. Curtis Lee Prlvette pled guilty to identical charges and received identical sentences Charles Vance?Tally?waJ found guilty of an assault on a female. Prayer for Judgment was continued for two years on condition that the defendant pay court costs and six dollars for use of Dr. F. P. Hunter to pay medical expenses of Betty Tally. Luther Boone was sentenced to the roads for 12 months when he was found guilty of non support. He noted an appeal to Superior Court and appeal bond was set at $100. Edward Lee Hicks pled guilty to operating a motor vehicle without a valid operator's license. He was ordered to pay a $25 fine and court costs. Junior Hargrove pled guilty to a charge of drunk driving and was ordered to pay a $100 fine and court costs. Samuel Raymond Clark, who pled guilty to a charge of care less and reckless driving, was ordered to pay a $25 fine and court costs. Alvis Nathan Hudgins, Jr., was found guilty of possession of whiskey for purpose of sale. Prayer for judgment was con tinued for five years if defendant does not violate any prohibition laws of the state for five years and pays a $25 fine and court costs. Whiskey which was ille gally transported was ordered confiscated. Thomas Robinson, charged with failing and refusing to cooperate with Welfare Depart ment in filing medical discharge requirement, and with falling to support wife and children, was found not guilty. Defendants In speeding cases and verdicts of the court were as follows: Silas Fletcher, costs; Cecil Calvin Balrd, costs; Jlmmie Poythress, costs; David Henry Bundy, costs; John Henry Wal lace, costs; Larry Wayne Clark, $15 and costs; Paul Ray Weathers, $10 and costs; Lyons Gray, $15 and costs. Dr. Harrison To Open Office Monday Dr. Lloyd H. Harrison, Jr., who moved to Warrenton on ' July 12, plans to open an of fice here Monday In the Hunt ley Building on Graham Street, formerly occupied by Drs. Al len and Cllne. His office tel ephone number will be 257 4754. Dr. Harrison, who had plann ed to begin the practice of medicine here on August 1, has found himself quite busy in re cent days with emergency cases at Warren General Hospital. Mrs. Skinner Second In Mrs. N.C. Contest Mrs. William T. Skinner, m, Littleton homemaker, was first runner-up In the Mrs. North Carolina contest held In Burlington on Saturday fol lowing three days of grueling competition. Also competing from Warren County was Mrs. L. O. Rob ertson, Jr., of Norllna, who was sponsored by the Norllna Junior Woman's Club. Mrs. Skinner's appearance at Burlington was sponsored by Leggett's of Warrenton and Roanoke Rapids. The winner was Mrs. Jo Ann Hair, 28-year-old wife of Fay ettevllle attorney Lacy Hair. She will represent North Caro lina In the Mrs. America con test at San Diego, Calif., In late August. Mrs. Hair won out over nine other contestants by scor ing firsts in baking and sew ing and a third place In the written driver's test. The new Mrs. North Caro lina, a brunette mother of three who likes to go barefoot and hkve an early morning cup of coffee, felt that It was "far time a little recognition came the way of just housewives." She said her coffee habit prob ably helped her through the three days of cooking, sewing, ironing and driving. She sale! she even brought a coffee pot with her so she wouldn't feel grouchy in the mornings. Tobacco marketing cards are not being prepared In the War ren County Stabilization and Conservation Service office and will be issued to farm oper ators prior to the opening of the local markets, Thomas E. Watson, office manager, said yesterday. W at son said the marketing cards to be used under the new acreage - poundage pro gram are similar to those used in prior years. The farm's poundage quota will be shown on the inside front cover of the cards this year and a cu mulative total of marketings will be carried so that far mers will know at all times just how much of the poundage quota has been sold and how much remains. Under the acreage - pound age program, farmers will be required to take their market ing cards to the warehouse when the tobacco is delivered and leave it there until they pick up their checks. Watson said that It has been concluded that if the warehousemen are to be held liable for any ineligible tobacco consigned to Stabiliza tion under government price support program and for the payment of penalty, they must be provided with some means of protecting themselves. Two, or more marketing cards ^'"*1 trp Issued fur yfarm upon request of the farm operator, Watson said. If more than one card Is issued for the same farm, the farmer must Indicate how much of the farm's poundage quota he wishes as signed to each card. The quotas assigned to the cards will be changed upon request. Watson said that a marketing | card issued for afarmfor which I the farm or tobacco acreage Is rented for cash shall be limit ed to the farm marketing quota unless the operator, and the tenant, If other than the opera tor, and the farm owner file a written statement with the county office agreeing to the issuance of a marketing card to permit marketings up to but not above the 110 per cent of the farm marketing quota. The acreage - poundage law provides that if marketings from a farm are less than th?~ farm's poundage quota, the dif ference will be added to the farm's quota for the next year. Likewise, any marketings In ex cess of the farm's quota will be deducted from the farm's acreage allotment and poundage quota for next year. If any tobacco is marketed on the marketing card issued for a farm other than the farm on which the tobaicco was actually grown, the law provides for a reduction in the acreage allot ment and poundage quota for both farms for the following year. The law provides also for a reduction In the acreage pound age quotas for a farm if any producer on the farm makes ? false report with respect to the production or marketings otthe tobacco grown on the farm, or falls to account for the dispo sition of any tobacco. Watson urged all farmers to be especially careful with their (See CARDS, page 2) Tha chirrad ramalna of a atorac* houaa and corn orlb on tha farm ot Parcy 3om marvllla naar Embro aat on flra during a ??vara alaotrlc and rain atorm on ?t? __!? Karat Volantaar fit alarm, brt tha aU ooaaunad by llH mm
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