Your Best Advertising Medium ?h? Harrrn Umirfc Your Best Advertising Medium ? VOLUME 70 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10? Per Copy WARRENTON. COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 11. 1966 NUMBER 10 The above picture of the John Graham High School Band, reprinted through the courtesy of Bill Connell, Is believed to have been taken around 1938. Members of the band are, left to right: Front row?Robert Macon Davis, Bill Bugg, Charles Peete, Horace Hedgepeth, Bill Connell, Carlton Modlin, Frank Daniel, Fitzhugh Read, Lewis Palmer; sec ond row?Polk Powell, Victor Bell, Van Parker, John Long, Stephen Bowden, Sam Arrington Dixon Ward, third row? Belford Wagner, J, B. Powell, Duncan Long, Eugene Odom, Jr., and W. R. Herrin, director. Patrolmen Bear Down Fifty Drivers Found Guilty Of Speeding In Recorder's Court Warren County Highway Pa trolmen have been bearing down on speeders and as a result, sentences were pas sed on 50 speeders In Re corder's court last Friday. These were In addition to defendants In court to answer charges of exceeding safe sneed, driving too fast for iuicc, driving too fast for ex isting conditions, reckless driving, drunk driving, and other violations of the motor vehicle laws. In addition to hearing cases involving vlnlattnns of the mo- _ tor vehicle laws, judge Julius Banzet tried a number of other cases, including violations of the prohibition laws, and one bad check case. Norvel Hendrick pled guil ty to three charges of vio lating the prohibition laws. He was sentenced to Jail for two years for manufactur ing whiskey; two years for possession of non - taxpaid whiskey for purpose of sale, and two years for possession. All the sentences were sus pended for five years. In the first case, the conditions were that the defendant not violate any laws of NorthCarolinafor five years, remain of good behavior, gainfully employed, pay a fine of $150 and the court costs. In the other two cases the conditions were the same, except that payment of the fine was omltled. Victor Bullock, charged with destroying personal property and larceny, was found not guilty. Herman Brown was charg ed with the possession ofnon taxpald whiskey. Prayer for Judgment was continued for five years upon condition the defendant not have in his pos session for five years any non taxpald whiskey, not violate any prohibition laws of the state for five years, pay a $50 fine and court costs. Brown was aiso charged with possession of non - tax paid liquor for purpose of sale. He was found not guilty Isaac Mark was charged with the possession of non - taxpald whiskey, with manu facturing non - taxpaid whis key, and with possessltJtr-oC non - taxpaid whiskey for pur pose of "sale. He was found not guilty on the charges of manufacturing and possession for purpose of sale, but was found guilty of possession. In this case prayer for judg ement was continued for five years uporTcgntiition that the defendant not have in his pos session any non - taxpald whiskey for five years, not violate any prohibition laws of the stateforflveyears and pay fine of $50 and court costs. James Clanton, charged with possession of non - tax paid whiskey, was ordered to pay court costs. Willie Thomas Davis, charged with reckless driv ing, no operator's license, larceny of an automobile and failure to stop for a siren, was found guilty of tempor ary larceny of an automo - bile and sentenced to the roads for two years. Marvin D. Overby, Jr., was found guilty of giving a bad check. Prayer for Judgment was continued upon condition that the defendant pay to Pitt Tractor and Equipment Co. the sum of $661.87 to make good the check and pay the court costs. A case against Arthur Bur man Woodard, In which he was charged with exceeding a safe speed and with failure to re port an accident, was nol prossed with leave. Richard Eugene York was ordered to pay a $100 fine and court costs when he pled guilty to a charge of drunk driving. Jaycees Plan To Hold Beauty Pageant Here Warren County Jayeees have begun work on a Miss Warren County Beauty Pag eant to be held on Friday, June 10, Roy Pat Robertson, publicity chairman, said yes terday. The pageant will be held at the John Graham High School auditorium at 8. p.m. Bobby B1 ay lock Is chair - man and the Rev. Jimmy Grant of Littleton Is vice chairman ot the pageant. Robertson said that the Jay cees ask that anyone in terested in entering the pag eant as e contestant to con tact the Rev. BobOates, chair man of the entry commiit ;6 at Warren Plains. A scholarship will >e awarded the winner of the pageant who will represent Warren County in the Miss North Carolina Pageant to be held In Greensboro this year. Tickets tor the pageant will be sold at the door and by Jaycee members before the pageant. Robertson said that the Jay cms urge the county to sup port the pageant and otter any suggestions or help that might be beneficial. Horace Lee Edwards was charged with driving a motor vehicle after his license had been revoked. Prayer for Judgment was continued for two years upon condition that the defendant not violate any motor vehicle laws of the state _for two years and pay court costs. John Rogers Parrish pled guilty to reckless driving and was ordered to pay a $25 fine and court costs. Oscar Long Meek pled guil ty to driving too fast for ex isting conditions and was or dei ml to pay court costs, in a second case he pled guilty to reckless driving and was fined $25 and taxed with court costs. Erin Lee Green pled guil ty to a charge of reckless driving. Prayer for judgment was continued until Sept. 2, 1966, upon condition the de fendant not operate a motor vehicle upon public highways of North Carolina for six months and pay a $25 fine and court costs. Robert Henry Fuller was fined $10 and taxed with court costs when he pled guilty to exceeding a safe but unstated speed. Dave Eason Boone, found guilty of speeding and Illegal passing, was ordered to pay a $10 fine and court costs. Joe Green, charged with failure to stop at the scene of an accident and with fail ure to report an accident, was found not guilty. James Evans North pled guilty to a charge of driving 50 miles per hour In a 35 MPH zone, and was fined $10 and ordered to pay court costs. Earl Wayne Rudd pled gull 1 ty to exceeding a safe speed. He was ordered to pay court | costs. Defendants and verdicts In other speeding cases were as follows: Ronald Monroe Gates, costs; Billy Eugene Sander ford, costs; Charles Edward Hewett, costs; Martin Earl Vaughan, costs; Thomas James Curtis, $10 and costs; William Dave Ciomwell, costs; Isabelle Lunsfa Jam leson, $15 and costs; Vester John Helms, $10 and costs; Jerome Wilder, costs; Jo - seph Lloyd Roghelia, costs; Marcus Bishop Waller, costs; Boyd Patterson Thorne, costs; Gerald DeWaln Finch, costs. Also, James Ray Herrell, $15 and costs; William Har ris Hall, $10 and costs; Wil liam Fleming Green, $10 and costs; Henry David King, costs; Alexander Isaiah Dun lap, $10 and costs; George William Purdy, $10 and costs; Ruth Jones Henderson, costs; Thomas Henderson Ayscue, $10 and costs; Joseph Dun dee SPEEDING, page 4) Easter Seal Drive To Start The fund campaign for Crip pled Children and Adults will begin in Warren County on March 15 with the distribu tion of Easter Seals and will end on Easter Sunday, Mrs. Leonard Daniel, publicity chairman for the Warren chapter, announced yesterday. Construction will begin this month on a new cabin - bath house unit at Camp Easter in the Pines, North Carolina's Easter Sea Camp for handi capped children and adults. Mrs. Daniel said that the Warren County Chapter will again send a child to this camp. The Warrenton Woman's Club, Warren County handicapped child each summer since the camp opened. Announcement that the cabin - bathhouse unit would be constructed was made this week by L. H. Mount of Dur ham, president of the North Carolina Society for Crip pled Children and Adults, which owns and operates the camp. Scheduled for completion for the beginning of the 1966 camping season in June, the unit will consist of two cabins and a bathhouse, and if funds are available, an additional two cabins will be added to the unit this year. The new group of buildings will be the second of such units, the first having been constructed In 1963. A beautiful new lodge, housing, dining and rec reational facilities, and Infir mary, was built last year. In making the announcement Mount said, "The generous support of our camp build ing program by people all ov er North Carolina has made it possible for the Society to provide wonderful camp ing activities for handicap - ped children and adults, and the new unit will enable us to accomodate many more Easter Seal Campers." The summer program at Camper Easter In the Pines Is one of a number of ser vices in the state which are supported by contributions to the annual Easter Seal cam paign In March. Commissioners To Sit As Board Of Rev iew March 21 The Warren County Board of County Commissioners will sit as a Board of Equaliza tion and Review on Monday, March 21, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Chairman Amos L. Capps said yesterday that the board would be In session all day to hear complaints of U?>/? ? payers concerning uatlons Daniel Resigns P. M. Job Leonard Daniel, postmaster at Warrenton for the past 26 years, has retired, effective March 4. Mrs. Sarah Read Is serving as acting postmaster. Daniel said yesterday that he resigned In order to enter a field of larger opportunity. He said that at present he is not at liberty to reveal this new field, but that he hoped that It would allow him and his family to remain in Warren ton. In a statement released to The Warren Record Monday Daniel said: "After 26 years of service ir. the Post Office, 1 have de cided to take advantage of the retirment that I haveaccunu lated and enter another field of opportunity that will be to the advantage of my family. "I wish to take this oppor tunity to publicly thank the patrons of the Warrenton post office for the courtesy and co operation that they have shown to me during the years that I have served as their post master. "I have enjoyed serving the patrons of this office and our relations have always been ex cellent but I feel that the time has come when advancement in another field will be to the benefit of me and myfainily." Mrs. Read, who is acting as postmaster, is the daughter of Mrs. Nannie Moore, for many years postmistress at War renton, and has many yearsof service with the local office. Quality Of Beef Shows Improvement By \. v. ALLEN Today's beef steaks are more tender, havelessoutslde fat and are more uniform in size and quality than they were a decade ago. Some of this improvement can be credited to better mer chandising by our processors and retailers. Some of it is the result of better feeding and management practices on the part of the feed - lot opera tors. However, at least part of the credit Is due to cow herd operators who have con centrated their efforts on breeding animals that will consistently produce these de sirable traits in their steaks and roasts. Spearheading this effort in our state is an organization called NCBCIP. "NorthCaro lina Beef Cattle Improvement Program." This project was launched by North Carolina State University at Raleigh with the active support of the N. C. Cattlemen's Association in 1960 and has proven to be one of the most popular and fastest growing programs ever offered to our beef pro ducers. From a start of 85 herds with 3,388 cows that first year, the participation has grown to 300 farms with 8,500 cows this past year and shows no sign of slowlngdown. The key points of the pro gram are aimed toward the production of desirable consumer products and pro fitable production for the cat tlemen. Tenderness and a thin rind of outside fat are both asso ciated with young, fast grow ing animals. These same factors also contribute to the profit of feed-lot operators and cow herd owners. The BCIP promotes the production of young, fast growing animals through a system of record keeping, selection of breeding animals and culling of the herd* to get rapid dally gains In weight and maintain the con formation preferrsd by cattle men. Our program la based on research conducted by animal scientists at N. C. State and other research stations during tha early 1980'a. Knowing that rata of growth is one of (See BEEP, Paga 4) Personnel Hired, Materials Being Bought Under Govt. Aid Program For Schools Better Prospects For Cucumbers Indicated A 25 per cent risp in cucumber production an I bet ter prices for producers could result in a $180,000 increase for local growers this year Increased prices alone can be expected to increase the value of Warren County's 1966 cucumber crop by approxi mately $100,000, and better production practices could further increase the crop's value. This was the forecast given some 150 cucumber growers who attended a county-wide cucumber meeting held Thursday night in the War ren County Courthouse. It was the first meeting of this kind open to farmers from through out the county. During a grower discussion which followed the 90-minute gathering, growers were told that Warren County could ex pect cucumber production to rise from the 1965 level of about 1,600 acres to more than 2,000 acres this year. Earlier growers had been advised that cucumbers could become a profitable crop rather than a marginal one. At present Warren farmers average about $150 per acre. Higher prices predicted for growers will raise this to $200 per acre. However , Extension Agent L. C. Cooper, who was in Charge of the program, told growers that the crop could be worth between $400 and $500 locally. "You can make this much more than a side line enterprise," he said. Varieties of cucumbers and diseases which affect the crop were discussed by a panel which consisted of Cooper, R. B. Butler, Buck Fleming, Grover Shearin and Edward Conn. The panel discussion followed an illustrated lecture given by Cooper. Nash Ex tension Agent Frank Wright also appeared on the program, and discussed ways in which grower, extension agent and broker can work to improve the contract. Commissioners Talk i ? Over Retirement Plan Discussion of. a retirement fund for Warren County era time of the board of com missioners on Monday but no action was taken on a pro posal to have Warren Coun ty participate in the program. This was delayed until a representative from the state office handling the fund could appear In Warrenton to give the board further information about the program. Present for the discussion were Jul ian Farrar, welfare superin tendent, and Dr. Robert F. Young, health director, both of whom endorsed the pro gram. It was resolved by the board that "the Board of Commis sioners of Warren County re quests that the North Caro lina Wildlife Resources Com mission forr>.ulateand enforce special regulations necessary to Implement the Uniform Waterway Marker System on John H. Kerr Reservoir, and that a copy of these res olutions be sent to Beverly G. Snow, colonel, Corps of Engineers, District Engineer, P. O. Box 1890, Wilmlng - ton, N. C. " The resolution was adopted upon motion of Commissioner Robert Thorne and second of Commissioner R. R. Davis. The State Highway Commis sion was requested to black top Rural Road No. 1521 from Ellis Shearin's Place to the Halifax County line -- a dis tance of 0.4 of a mile. A. P. Rodwell, Jr., tax col lector, reported 1965 taxes collected during the month of February in the amount of $22,448.93, making a total of 1965 taxes collected to date of $359,160.47. The percent age of 1965 taxes collected to date is 68.28%. In addition the commis sioner heard a number of re ports from the various agen cies of the county, and trans acted a number of routine matters during the session that lasted until around 5 o'clock. Furie To Preach At Two Churches Here Sunday Dr. William Furle, a dis tinguished Jewish Rabbi of Salisbury, will preach at the Warrenton Baptist Church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock on "The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Diggings of Impor tance to the Bible", the Rev. John Link announced yester day. Dr. Furle will also show a film and speak at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in a joint service of local churches Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Link said that this is an Inter-Faith meeting that will be of great concern to Protestants, Catholics and Jews, and the public is cor dially invited to attend. Dr. Fori* is a graduate of Boston Hebrew Teachers' College and Boston Univer sity He la the adthorof Ml. WILLIAM ran ?M? Md Mvard Hooks. Mr. Link said that h* U an i known in this wrtT* * I Numbers of persons have been employed to assist in Warren County schools par ticipating in the Elementary and Secondary School Act, and a great deal of material has been purchased under a half million dollar federal grant, Supt. of Schools J. Roger Peel er, told members of theboard of education at their meeting Monday night. He said that he is well pleased with the operation of the program. Peeler said that tne coun ty has employed about 15 teacher's aids and has em ployed library assistants for the six participating schools. These employees are mainly housewives without special skills, with a high school ed ucation and in some cases some college experience. The library aids will as sist in checking out books and in keeping the shelves in order. The teacher's aids will mimeograph material for teachers, file, type, supervise playgrounds and In some in stances may supervise groups in the classrooms while the teacher is other wise engaged. Also employed have been one maintenance man, an ad ditional secretary for the sup erintendent's office to handle the records under the program, two teachers to re duce the classroom load, a music teacher, and a reading teacher to work wltn individ ual students who neod help in reading, a guidance coun selor and guidance aids. Peeler said a nurse and lunchroom coordinator are yet to be employed. Arouna a quarter of a mil lion dollars has been allo cate