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Comp. Your Best Advertising Medium Comp. HBarrptt IRfwrfo Your Best Advertising Medium VOLUME 69 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1965 NUMBER 47 li il Airport Is Sought For Warren Countv Plans are underway for the establishment of a commercial airport at Warrenton, Bill Mlnette, Industrial director for the Warren County Industrial Commission, announced yes terday. He said prospects forobtaln ft.g the airport for Warren County are excellent. Colonel Robert N. Flourney of the Commerce and Industry Division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development was at Warrenton Tuesday consulting with Mlnette and members of the Industrial Commission. Following Fiourney's visit here, Mlnette wrote him a let ter requesting that he Initiate action to place Warrenton on the National Airport Plan and setting forth the reasons why Warren County should be In cluded In the plan. His letter stated: "In line with our conversa tion while In Warrenton today, please Initiate necessary act Ion with the FFA to place Warrenton on the National Air port Plan. "Warrenton and Warren County's need for a suitable executive type airport Is based upon the following: "a. There Is not a suitable airport li. Wr.rren County to land aircraft within a radius of 25 miles from the propos ed airport site. "b. Several existing Indus trial plants have all Indicated from time to time the need for an executive type alrpori. "c. Several unidentified pro spects have stated that an air port was a prime requirement. Currently, an electronics pro spect is considering locating in Warren County and they have specific airport requirements. "d. Due to the size and avall-j able hospital facilities in War ren County, a definite need to evacuate critically 111 patients via air to major hospitals or to receive emergency medical supplies. "e. Lake Gaston and Kerr Lake, approximately eight miles from the proposed air port site, could readily be reached If the facility were aitallable^ ~ '"'f. Warren County and Lake Gaston abounds with excellent fish and game and other re creational facilities. A suitable airport, would enhance the op portunity for tourists and in dustrialists to reach this area. "g. Adjacent to the airport site, an Air Park (Industrial) Is now being engineered. The Air Park, consisting of approx imately 100 acres is served by rail; while the Park Is outside the Warrenton City Limits, all utilities to Include ample water and sewerage are provided by Warrenton. ?*h. The proposed Airport and the Air Park are located In the approximate geographical cen ter of Warren County and de signed to serve our entire area. "tr Recent labor survey re ports 2,329 Individuals In War ren County seeking full-time employment. An Airport adja cent to our Industrial area would I certainly Interest Industry to I locate there and provide many I needed Jobs. "J. A definite need exists In this area for air taxi and light cargo service to and from the Raleigh-Durham, Rocky Mount and Richmond-Norfolk, Vir ginia airports. "Your cooperation Is cer tainly appreciated." Mlnette said that the propos ed airport would be designed to have 3500-foot asphalt covered runways and would be lighted. He said that If approved Fed eral funds would be available ! for Its construction with possi bly some assistance from the state. Representatives of the Fed eral Aviation Agency, Mlnette said, are expected to be In the county within a few days to evaluate the proposed sit*. 1 Farmers To Decide fate Of Four Issues Warren County farmers will cast their ballots to determine the (ate of four Issues In a referendum to be held In 11 polling places In the county on next Tuesday, Nov. 22. Polls will open at 8 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. To be decided by the farm ers are marketing quotas for cotton and peanuts, transfer of upland cotton permits, and an assessment of 15? a bale for the promotion of cotton. Walter S. Smiley, ASCS chairman for Warren County, said yesterday that every effort , has been made to inform farm ers fully about the allotment quota program, so that the out come of the referendum may re present the considered opinion of all the voters. At Issue In this year's vote also in the "domestic allot ment" program provided by legislation under which growers may qualify for price-support and diversion payments-ln ad dition to loans-by reducing their cotton acreage at least 12 percent below the farm's allot ment, putting the diverted acres Into conserving use, and meet ing other provisions. The lease or sale of cotton allotments is also provided by the new program, and growers will also vote Nov. 23 on whether to permit such transfers outside the particular county but within the State, Smiley said. The lease or sale of allotments will not be affected by the out come of Hie marketing qutya vote. Farmers eligible to cast bal lots In the marketing quota re ferendum are all those who en gaged In the production of up land cotton In 1965. Approval by at least two-thirds of the growers voting Is necessary If the quotas and the broad new program are to go Into effect for the 1966 upland cotton crop. Issues to be decided In the Nov. 23 referendum are (1) quotas ornoquotas, (2)theprice support available, and (3) whether the broad new program Is to go Into effect for 1966 crop upland cotton. If the vote Is favorable, quot as will apply to the 1966 upland cotton crop, with penalties on jany excess cotton produced; ^prlce-stgjport and ^diversion payments In addition to loans will be available to growers who reduce their acreage at least 12.5 percent below the farm al lotment, put the diverted acres Into a conserving use, and meet other program provisions. (See VOTE, page 10) Two Persons Fatally Injured In Accidents Two persons were fatally In jured In separate automobile accidents on Friday night, one a short distance outside the Warrenton town limits on the Baltimore Road, the second near Man son. Jennie Clenton Williams, 52 year-old Negro pedestrian, was struck and fatally Injured by a Chevrolet driven by Wil-. burt Baker, 16-year-old Negro J on the Baltimore Road near the| home of Mrs. Gus Powell at) around 7 o'clock. She died) around 8 o'clock at Jubilee Hos pital in Henderson. A coroner's Jury exonerated Baker of blame at an inquest on Monday morning. The accident was Investigated by Highway Trooper S. T, ster. The second fatality occured on the Man son road between Highway No. 1 and Interstate No. 85, around llilS on Friday night. According to Trooper Web ster, Investigating officer, Clif ford Holtzman Plummer, driv er of a '57 Chevrolet side swiped ? '60 Chevrolet, driven, by Alvls Reavls Fields, caus ing Plummer to lose control of his car. Plummer'* car left the left side of the road, went Into a, ditch and ran down the ditch for 300 feet before overturning. . plummer suffered an Injured and was treated at Jubilee itigatea r. Web-j ??Vital In Henderson. Riding with Plummer was Hattja Har ris Russell, who died in Memor ial Hospital in Clupel Hill from bead injuries. Jennie Lue Seward, a second passeng was treated for minor lacera tlons and released. Plummer was given a hear ing before Magistrate N. G. Hudsrlns In Norllna Wednesday morning and bound over to the January term of Superior Court under bond of $1,000. Webster said that the Plum mer car was completely de molished, and that the Fields car suffered damages to Its front door, estimated at $50. The coroner's Inquest which exonerated Baker In the death of Jennie Clinton Williams was held at Green's Funeral Home, on Monday morning. Members of the Jury were A. J. Wortham, Elmer Thompson, Clarence Lynch, Buddy Vaughan, Joe Johnson, and John Harris. Webster said that the Plum mer car was completely de molished, and that the Fields car suffered damages to its front door estimated at $50. He said that the Investigation was being continued. Warrenton Residents Hurt In Car Wreck Mr. and Mrs. John Harris of Warrenton were injured on Sat urday night In an accident ?i route'to visit Mr. Harris' fam ily in Powhatan, Va. Their oar overturned going around a curve and both were thrown out and knocked unconscious, their car was a complete wreck. Mr. Harris has minor injur ies and Mrs. Harris abot* the face, arm and la Both were hospitalised. Harris U the form* of Warrenton. Wake Area Cited For Development LOUISBURG - The Plney Grove - Wllbon community oi WC;e County was named first place winner In the farm divi sion during the ninth annual meeting here Wednesday night of the Capital Area Develop ment Association. The community was cited for Us efforts during the year in Improving recreational pro grams for Its young, In Increas ing Income on farms and in home Improvement. Chairman Albert Horton received a $20C (Bee CITED, page 2) CUB SCOUTS TO MEET Pack No. 671 Club Scouts will hold their November meet ing at 7:30 o'clock on Tues day night, Nov. tS, at the Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. BREAD SALE The Norllna Freshman class will sponsor a Bread Me Sat nday, Nov. 10, members of the class will go from boos* to he?e in Norllna and War Early Next Week The Warren Record will be printed next Tuesday Instead of Thursday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The early printing Is necessary In order that Thanksgiving advertising may be effective. Advertisers and contribu tors of news are asked to bear the earlier printing date In mind and send their copy In as early as possible. Market Ends 1965 Season The Warrenton Tobacco Mar ket ended Its 1965 season on Tuesday afternoon, with sales around five million pounds short of those last year. A like drop In poundage sold was Indicated In other nearby Middle Belt markets which also closed this week. Sales on the Warrenton mar ket this year totaled 8,040,262 pounds wmcn sold Tor $4,884,685.13, for an average price of $60.75 per hundred. Man Is Committed To Butner Hospital A young Warrenton white man has been committed to Butner Hospital (or psychiatric treat ment. Mark Burwell was taken to Butner Wednesday following his arrest here by Sheriff Clarence Davis on Saturday on charges of vandalism. Burwell was charged with en tering Falrview cemetery Fri day night, overturning and smashing tombstones and grave covers. Damage has been esti mated at around $2,000. Man's Death Due To Natural Causes Warren County Coroner N. I. Halthcock ruled Monday after noon that an Elberon man's death was due to natural causes. Phil Hyman, 69, a tenant on the farm of Warren Officer Louis Peoples at Elberon, died suddenly around 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. Evidence was that Hyman, who had been suffering from respiratory Illness, was sitting on the edge of the porch of his home talking with his wife and daughter when he fell over dead. Halthcock, who was called to the scene, ruled that no Inquest was necessary. Methodists Celebrate 25th Anniversary The Woman's Society of Christian Service of World Methodism is celebiatljig this year Its 25th anniversary. A service to celebrate this event will be held In Wesley Memorial Methodist Church] Monday night, Nov. 22, at 8 o'clock. Mrs. W. M. Bryan, Raleigh District president, will bring tl.c message of the evening in the Fireside Room of the church. It Is hoped every woman in the church will feel It Is her duty and privilege to attend this meeting and bring a friend with her, a member of the society said In making the announce ment of the service. She added, "You cannot afford to miss such a service as this that comes to as once In a lifetime." i... . . ? Service To Be Held Af Lutheran Church til* annual Thanksgiving services will be bald at St. Pail's Lather an Church on Thursday morning, November 18, at 10:00 o'clock by (he Rev. M. E. Franks. The pt*> Uc la cordially Invited to at tend. Services are held every Sunday morning at 11(00 a. m. ad Sunday School at 10:00 l m.. Surplus Commodities To Be Distributed In Warren :.i I DRAWING OF ROOKER'S LAND ANCHOR Norlina Man Receives Patent For Land Anchor; Evaluated A Norllna man last week re ceived a patent on a device that could have considerable value to the United States Army, to boaters, and many forms ol truckers. Randolph M. Rooker received a patent on a land anchor from the United States Patent Office on Nov. 9. He applied for the patent on March 11, 1963, after several years of study on a suitable anchor for stalled ve hicles. He said the need for such a device firs occurred to him while he was operating trucks over the Alaskan Highway, when It was riecessaryTcraiJ~a hole for a post to furnish an chorage for pulling military trucks out of the Ice. He said To Build Poli ice Station Preliminary work was ex pected to be started on the construction of a new police station at the corner of Main and Market streets, site of a police station for many years. Hy Diamond, owner of the property, signed an agreement wit1- the Board of Town Com mlsf jners Monday to construct the building. He said Wednesday that the present building would be torn down and a larger brick ven eer building would replace it. He also said that steps to the basement of his store would have to be rebuilt before con struction could be started on the building, but that he hoped to tear down the present build ing Monday. Diamond said, weather per mitting, it is expected that the new building would be com pleted around the first of the year. Community Service To Be Held Nov. 24 Emmanuel Episcopal Chard) will be host at a community Thanksgiving service to beheld on not. 14 at 7iS0 p. m? the Rrv. James 11. Stoney, rector, The Rev. John R. Link, pas tor'of the Warrantee Baptist Charch, will be the speaker, with other ministers of the community taking part la tha The public is tarttad to at -\ the Idea reoccurred to him after h? had left the government em ployment and returned to Nor llna where he designed and built a model of a land anchor. The patent specification said that "the invention relates par ticularly to & land anchor which can be placed In a definite lo cation and to which one end of a cable may be attached with the other end of the cable se cured to an object such as a vehicle and by shortening the cable by a winch or windlass or other means the vehicle may be moved toward such land anchor. ..." Upon receiving the patent, ac companied by Bill Mlnette, di rector of Industrial develop ment for Warren County, Rook sr met with representatives 3f Commerce and Industry at Raleigh for their marketing and production recommendations. Thereafter, a conference was held at North Carolina State University, School of Industrial Engineering and Research, to gether with representatives of C. ii D., to determine their further recommendations. Upon conclusion of these confer ences, It was Indicated that the School of Industrial En gineering and Research would test and evaluate the anchor and recommend together with the C. & D. a production and mar keting program. Mlnette said yesterday that upon conclusion of all tests and evaluations, plans call for production In a Warrer Coun ty manufacturing facility. Drake Casts Vote Against Amendment Warren County Representa tive Wilton R. Drake cast Ms vote Tuesday against amending the Speaker Ban Law at a special session of the Legislature call ed to amend the law. Drake asked permission to explain his vote precedln g the House roll call on the vote. He said that he would have to op pose the amendment aa citizens of Warren County were over whelmingly In favor of retaining the spoakfir Ran T.aw without any change. The House amended the law on Tuesday and the Senate adopted the amendment propos ed by a special study commis sion and backed by Governor Moore on Wednesday morn ing. Legislature Adopts Speaker Ban Change RALEIGH - Legislation knocking out those sections of the speaker-ban law which pro hibit Communists from speak ing on campuses of state-sup ported universities and colleges was enacted Into law Wednes day. The final vote In the Senate came at 11:11 am. m. following mother unsuccessful rttsmptby opponents of the change* to tack onto the measure amendment which woult} require monthly report* Halting speakers from school admin istrators. The final vote was 46-11. the amendments as set oat In a report by the the House, and several tactical maneuvers to weaken the amendments were beaten down. When time for a final vote came In the House none of the opponents objected and the is sue was settled. State Sen. Robert Morgan of Harnett County objected In the Senate, however, In alast-mln ute attempt to rally support for the amendment to require a monthly report. It had failed to pass Tuesday, 87-21 Whatever support Morgan hoped to gain by postponing ac tion on the bill failed to ma terialize, however. It lost by the same margin Wednesday, and the delay cost the state an estimated $11,000 In legislative expenses. Morgan was aided In his fight to keep the law unchanged by State Sens. Tom White of Le noir County and Julian Alls brook of Halifax County. During Tuesday's session they attempted to have the amendments pot to the voters In a public referendum. This mo tion failed to carry. The same arguments arose In the Senate during debate were heard In the House, bat opponents didn't have the to block passage of the new legislation. The new law places In the hands of trustees the power to decide who should or not speak oa college and does not lactate prior re straint. The old law prohibited Com the Fifth loyalty hearings Item la the law Decided At Adjourned Session Warren County will again participate In the North Caro lina Commodity Distribution Program, commencing on Jan uary 2 and continuing Into April. Last year the program un der which free food was dis tributed to needy families of the county was started In February and continued until April 15. A decision to again partici pate In the program was made Tuesday night In an adjourned meeting of the board of county commissioners. All commodities will be ftlr nlshed by the county for dls trlbutlon by the State and Fed eral governments. In addition the state and federal agencies will subside the cost of a warehouse to store the com modities, from where they will be distributed, and to pay tne salary of a manager. The county has been unable to have the distribution made under the Stamp PI an. Commis sioners said Tuesday night that it Is Imperative that some as sistance be given to needy fam ilies of the county during the winter months. Those who will receive the commodities must first be cer tified by the Warren County De partment of Welfare. The com missioners agreed to employ extra help for the Welfare De partment and named Tommy Miles as a case worker, and Mrs. John Ellis and Mrs. Inez Davis Moore as clerks to as sist with the verification which will be under the supervision of Welfare Director Julian Far rar. Registration for certification will be started on Monday morn ing, Nov. 22, in the Grand Jury Room In the court house. The commissioners decided that no person receiving welfare assistance would be eligible to share in the distribution of the free commodities. The maximum aid which a re cipient may receive Is $85 a month in the case of a single person to $240 for a family of 15 or more. The In-between rates are: two In family, $110; 3 In family, $125; 4 in family, $140; 5 in family, $155; 6 In family, $170; 7 In family, $185; 8 in family, $195; 9 In family, $205; 10 In family, $215. Atfcve ten in family $5 Is added for each additional member with a maximum of $240. Board Chairman Amos L, Capps said that the selection of a warehouse, the naming of a manager and other details would be worked out at a later Bleating uf the commlaaienera. Committee Plans To Collect Christmas Toys A committee of the Warren County Junior Chamber of Com merce met Monday night to complete plana for the col lection, repair and dletrlbatlOB of toys to needy children at; Chrlatmaa. Roy Pat Robertson, a mem ber of the committee, said yes terday that arrangements (or the placing of receptacles to receive the toys at all PfcUUtol 66 stations la Warren County have been completed, and that it is also planned to have toys taken to Warren Cwty scfcosls to be collected.