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Your Best Advertising Medium ?hr lUarmt Hrrnrii Your Best Advertising Medium VOLUME 70 Subscription Price $3.00 a Year 10^ Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 18. 1966 NUMBER 11 Rep. Fountain Helps Warrenton To Receive Second Chance For City Mail Delivery Warrenton will receive a second chance to obtain city mall delivery. Mayor W. A. Miles hasbeen notified by Congressman L. H. Fountain that Post Office De partment Officials at Wash ington have agreed to reopen the Warrenton file and see If arrangements cannot be made to provide city delivery ser vice. Rep. Fountain talked with request of Mayor Miles after the Post Office Department announced last week that War renton would not be able to secure this service due to lack of population. Action of the Department came after Warrenton had been led to believe that it would obtain this service and after the Warrenton Lions Club and citizens of the town had In vested approximately $1,000 in house numbers and boxes. The plan to have Warren ton receive city delivery of mail was initiated by the Post Office Department after it had made a survey of Warrenton's population. Events leading to the efforts to have city delivery at War renton and the part the Post Office Department played In these events were set forth in Mayor Miles' letter to Con gressman Fountain. The text of the letter is as follows: "Several years ago the civic clubs of the Town of Warren ton made an effort to secure city mail delivery. At that time we were advised by the Post Office Department that our population was not suf ficient to warrant the same. "During the month of June of last year the Warrenton Postmaster appeared before the Board of Town Commis sioners and stated that the Post Office Department had completed a recent population check and determined that Warrenton would be eligible for city mall delivery by tak ing In thickly populated areas on the edge of the corporaled limits of the town. He stated at the time that the required population was approximately 2,750 and that a population check in the area covered dis closed apopulatlon of approxi mately 3,200. "The Southern Regional Of fice Postal Inspector stated to our Postmaster, Mr. Leon ard S. Daniel, that If the Town of Warrenton would set ur "* postal numbering system fo?' the town and have all the resi dences and business estab lishments numbered he would recommer.a tUct Warrenton be provided city mall delivery service with one walking and one mounted carrier. "Pursuant to the statement referred to In the above para graph, the town had the North Carolina League of Muni cipalities set up a numbering system and map. Town em ployees, members of the War renton Lions Club and the local Postmaster effected the system at a cost of approxi mately $500.00. A master number sheet was prepared at the time. The Warrenton Lions Club as a club project sold house numbering numerals and mall boxes to the town residents. The project was practically completed In October, 1965. "The local Postmaster stated that he felt that city delivery would commence in ~ November~of last yyai or cer talnly by January 1, 1966. Part of the equipment for city de livery was delivered to the Warrenton Post Office In October. "In view of the foregoing facts It Is quite obvious that all of us In Warrenton are keenly disappointed In the re cent announcement by the Post Office Department that city delivery will not be extended. The citizens of Warrenton had become quite excited about city delivery which they had looked forward to for ten years. Warrenton has quite a large number of elderly people to whom this delivery would mean much. "The citizens of Warren ton have worked hard and at much expense preparing for this service after having it promised by the postal au thorities. The citizens of the town and the local Lions Club have presently approximately $1,000.00 Invested in house numbers and mall boxes. Please know that we shall be most grateful for your help." Mayor Miles at the com missioners meeting Monday night briefly discussed with the commissioners the ex change of letters with Rep. Fountain and his statement that the file would be reopened during an hour and a half routine meeting of the board. Three Warren Men File Notice Of Their Candidacy Three other Warren County citizens have paid their filing fees and become candidates for public office, according to Wiley G. Coleman, chairman of the Warren County Board of Elections. Wilton R. Drake, who an nounced several weeks ago that he would be a candidate for the State House of Repre sentatives, has paid his filing fee and become an official can didate. In addition, Bobby Blaylock, associated with his father In the operation of Blaylock's Funeral Home In Warrenton, has filed for the position of Coroner, a position now held by N. I. Halthcock, who had previously filed for this posi tion and Jimmy Hudson has filed for the position of Con stable in River Township. Defendant Sent To Roads For Two Years One defendant was sentenc ed to the roadsby Judge Julius Banzet In Warren County Re corder's Court last Friday. Carlton D. Griggs pled guil ty to charges of abandonment and non-support and was sen tenced to the roads for two years. Horace Silver was found guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon. Prayer for Judgment was continued for two years upon condition that the defendant remain of good behavior and pay court oosti. Al Lewis Cooper waa found guilty of trespassing. Prayer for judgment was oontinued tor two years upon condition that the def wdmt not go upon the premises of Horace Sliver for two years and pay court costs. Charles Williams, charged with Illegal parking, was found not guilty. Grey Neal entered a plea of nolo contendere on a charge of assault on a female. Pray er for Judgment was contin ued for two years and the de fendant was ordered to pay court costs. Charles Samuel Davis failed to appear In court to answer to a speeding charge. A capias was Issued to Granville Coun ty. Defendants and verdicts In other speeding cases ware: Willie Lee Rogers, coats; William Pred Proctor, costs; Ronald Nelson Chandler, $10 and ooatas Thomas MacBeth Oliver, ooata. Hospital Survey To Be| Made Here Dr. Lloyd Harrison, presi dent of Warren County Medi cal Society, announced yes terday that negotiations have been made with Dr. Eugene Rosenfleld Associates, hos pital consultants of New York city , to conduct a hospital survey of Warren County. He said that It Is expected that as a result of this ex haustive study, the medical situation of the county will be examined In detail and pre cise objectives laid down as to future plans for operation of all medical facilities here In the county. The on-the-spot study is expected to begin around March 29 and should be avail able for general dissemination to the public by the middle of April. The cost of the survey will be borne by the Medical Society of Warren County as a public service. Paintings To Be Shown At Library The \Varrenton Woman's Club will show an "Exhibit of Old Masters" on loan from the National Gallery of Art In Washington, D. C., In an effort to bring something of beauty and culture to Warren County, Mrs. Leonard Daniel, publicity chairman, announced yesterday. This group of paintings will be shown In the Warren Coun ty Library, starting on Mon day, March 21, and will be on exhibition for approximately a month with Mrs. H. W, White In charge of arrangements. There is no admission charge for this showing. The following paintings will be shown: Holbein?"Edward VI as Prince of Wales." Rem brant?"The Mill." Vermeer "A Woman Weighing Gold." Glorgione?"Adoration of the Shepherds." De Hooch?"A Dutch Courtyard." Gentile schi?"The Lute Players." Cavaletto ? "Venice." Fra gonard ? "The Old Bridge." Constable ? "Wivenhoe Park." Mrs. Daniel said that the Warrenton Woman's Club hopes that the citizens of War ren County will visit this ex hibit of Old Masters and will frm from it. Strickland Talks On Blind Work At Meeting Of Lions Joe Strickland of Garner, a representative of the N. C. State CommissionoftheBlind, was the speaker at the regular meeting of the Warrenton Lions Club at Warren Plaza Inn last Friday night. Introduced by Monroe Gard ner, Strickland talked on the rehabilitation of the blind and what the commission Is doing to assist those who are visual ly handicapped. President W. L. Turner re minded the members that March Is Eye Month, and urg ed them to have as many eyes willed as possible. Turner presided over the meeting with Monroe Gardner leading the singing and Jack Harris saying grace. Ham Bryson was Lion X and Eddie Clayton won the dollar. PraMnt for the meeting In addition to the speaker were Lions from Butner, Hender son, North Wllkesboro, West Ashevllie and Durham. Union To Meet The Seventh Annual Session of Woman's Missionary Union, of the Cullom Baptist Associa tion will be held on March 33, at the New Sandy Creak church In the Aycock Com munity. The meeting will be gin promptly at IOiSO a. ip., (Bee UNION, page 4) Warren's Drop In Farm Cash Income Less Than $300,000 Some Crops Show Gain; Tobacco Off The drop In Warren County's cash Income last year was less than $300,000 In spite of re bad boll weevil attack, Frank Reams, extension chairman, said Monday. The drop in nearby counties, where tobacco and cotton play a larger part In the farm econ omy, runs Into the millions. The total cash farm Income of the county, Reams said, In 1965 was $11,694,285, com pared with $11,975,904 1964. Warren farmers suffered a heavy loss in both cotton and tobacco In 1965 compared with the previous year, but this loss was reduced by Increases in other crops and forestry products. In 1965 Warren farmers received a total cash Income of $5,055,868 from tobacco, compared with $6,124,622 In 1964?a loss of $1,068,754. Cash income from cotton in 1965 was $622,380, compared with $1,318,763 In 1964- a drop of $696,383. The total drop in cash farm Income from Warren County's two major crops was $1,765,137 , according to Reams. Increased numbers and higher prices were responsi ble for an Increase in live stock prices, with the princi pal gains reflected In higher Incomes from both beef cattle and hogs. Cash Income in the county from livestock in 1965 was $2,368,290 - a gain of $840,390 over production In 1964. Farmers also received more cash income from fores try products than they did in 1964. The Increase here was from $1,465,000 to $1,725,000 ? a gain of $260,000. The farmers cash Income in Warren County was boosted In 1965 by gains In two relative new crops In the county?soy beans and cucumbers. These two crops accounted for cash Income of $651,991. Cash Income from cucum bers in 1965 was $423,529, compared with $250,000 In 1964?a gain of $173,529; and the Income from soybeans in 1965 was $228,462, compared with $120,000 In 1964-agaln of $108,462. The total gain from the two crops was $281,991. Also boosting Warren County's cash farm Income in 19G5 was an Increase in gov ernment payments. These totaled $327,406 in 1965, com pared with $292,600 In 1964 -gain of $34,806. The figures released by Reams Monday show a chang ing agricultural picture In the county. Before the Great De pression, cotton and tobacco were the major sources of cash in Warren County, with cotton producing the greater part of the county's cash farm income. Other crops, except for sale of some timber tracts were very minor. Today, unlike most Eastern North Carollnaeounttes, War ren receives less than half of Its lncomp from the sale of tobacco. In 1965 cash Income from tobacco was $5,055,868, compared with an overall cash farm Income of $11,694,285. When cotton Is added the cash Income from the two crops In . 1965 was $5,678,248 ? less than half of the total cash farm Income of the county. Tobacco and cotton are still the major cash crops In War ran County. But the new sources of farm Income, pulp wood, livestock, cucumbers and soybeans, now bring In more cash inoome than the two old crops at tobacco and oot CLASS OF 1916 ? The above picture of the class of 1916 at the old John Graham Academy reached the Warren Record through the courtesy of Robert M. Davis of Greens boro, a former resident of Warrenton. They are, left to right: Front row ? Keppel Faulkner, Edward Davis, Henry Home, John Mitchell, Blount Bryan, Willie Wagner, Willie Sherrill; second row ? Luther Crometie, Sidney Allen, Byrd Jones, Alice Hooker, Mary Polk, Burwell Patter son, Bryan Griswolf; third row ? Red Covington, Robert Fleming, Leon Adams, Eric Norfleet, Douglas Elliott, Edgar Harris. The mascot, held by Henry Horne, is bobby Jones, now Mrs. Lloyd Cook of Warrenton. Engineering Firm Hired Warren County Is Elgible To Receive Aid Under Economic Development Act Singleton Withdraws As House Candidate Mayor Carroll V. Singleton of Henderson announced Sat urday his withdrawal from the race for the State House of Representatives in the district composed of Vance, Warren and Franklin counties. Singleton announced several weeks ago that he would be a candidate for one of the two House seats assigned to the three-county district. Demands of his private business was given as the reason for the decision not to enter the race. But Singleton said that "at sometime within the next few years I expect to again be a candidate for the General Assembly, or some other State office." W. R. Drake of Warren and James D. Speed of Franklin, encumbent members of the House, have announced their candidacy in the May 28 pri mary. Rep. A. A. Zolllcoffer, Jr., of Vance, who has been a member of the House for the past five terms, or ten years, announced several months ago that he would not be a candidate this year. With Singleton's withdrawal, there is no candidate in the field from Vance County. Singleton said his firm, Carroll V. Singleton and As sociates, has entered into an agreement to develop an in dustrial park in Raleigh and In negotiation on one in Char lotte. He added that In view of these developments, "It appears that I would not have the time to serve in the Leg islature In the manner In which the people of the three coun ties would have the right to expect." Training Program To Start At Norlina Warren Industries, Inc., of Norllna will begin operations Monday, March 21, with the employment of the first ten Individuals to begin a train ing program, Bill Mlnette, In dustrial director, announced yesterday. The training pro gram will be under the guid ance of the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges, Vocational - Tech nician Division. Mlnette said that as soon as th? first ten individuals are ready to go into the production section of the plant additional personnel will be employed to brine the total 19 to approximately ISO per sons as quickly as possible. J. B. Thompson, general contractor tor the plant reno vation, has completed moder nisation of the interior, which includes painting, tlon of office space, new rest rooms and lunchroom facili ties. E. F. Hecht & Sons have the contract to Install all elec trical wiring. Yet to be ac complished is the landscaping and Installation of new cano pies covering each outside door. Mlnette said that Individuals interested In employment at this facility should contact the plant manager, Mrs. Margaret Weber. Dr. Hunter Returns Dr. P. P. Hunter and Mrs. Hunter returned home Sunday after being In CharloMsvllle, Vau, (or three months. He was a patient In the Medical Coll eg* of Virginia. Mrs. Hun ter was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Hunter, Jr., and little son, Pat. The Waricu iiua. n of Commissioners announced yesterday Warren County is eligible to receive assistance under the public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. In order to assist the Planning Board and Industrial Commission implement re quests to the Federal Govern ment for various projects, they have engaged the Engin eering and Consulting firm of Russell, Axon & Associates of Stafford, Virginia. The Board of Commission ers in its announcement stat ed the purpose of the new law is to help communities, areas and regions in the United States which are suffering from excessive unemployment or underemployment by pro viding financial and technical assistance needed for the creation of new jobs. To carry out this program, $170 million dollars has been allocated annually by the Fed eral Government to be used for waterworks and lines, san itation facilities, access roads for industrial areas for potential Industrial areas, P-J'-l.c vo cational schools, airports and flood control p: jj. cts. Constantine, of Russell, Axon & Associates stated they will immediately begin a com prehensive g study of Warren County, the first step in obtaining assistance under the various programs avall abel to this area. Signs To Direct Traffic To 1-85 The office of the Warren County Industrial Commis sion has been advised that the North Carolina High way sign department will Im mediately erect new signs along U. S. 158 directing west bound traffic to 1-85, BUI Minette, director, said yes terday. Mlnette said that as soon as certain details are worked out there Is a possibility ad ditional signs will be placed on 1-85 directing travellers off 1-85 to the Norllna-War renton Lake Gaston area. Chamber Banquet To Be Held On Thursday Plans for the first Annual Warren County Chamber of Commerce Banquet to be held next Thursday night are pro gressing fine with more than 200 expected, according to Chamber President W. Bern ard Thompson. President Thompson also said that the following offi cers will serve during 1966 67: T. Scott Gardner, vice president, Robert E. Fleming, secretary-treasurer and W. Bernard Thompson, Presi dent. T. Scott Gardner, G. W. King, Leon Knight and J. Mil ton Overby were re-elected to the Board of Directors to ?erre lor a period of three years. Other Chamber di rectors are Joe Andrews, Hal W. conn ell, ciantoa c. Par W. F. Hooker, Russell William Braner, Robert E. Fleming, Elmer W. Harris, Mason Hawfleld, Wil liam T. Skinner, m and W. Bernard Thompson. Special Chamber guests to hear Major General Lawiie speak on the Viet Nam situa tion will be Congressman Fountain, representative? of the Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce, Al Dickens, of Area Development, Carolina Power and Light Company, Raleigh, Al Calla way and Bruce Strickland of the Commerce and industry Division, N. C. Department of Conservation and Develop* meat as well as the Warren County jaycees and their
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