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VOLUME 70 Subscription Price $3.00 A Year 10<? Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY. JULY 2l?. l%fi NUMBER 30
A runaway beer truck toppled Into a ravine Just east
of N. I. Halthcock's Store on Macon Street around 11:30
o'clock on Wednesday where It remained until It was
pulled out by a large wrecker from Henderson around
4 o'clock that afternoon. The truck, owned by Smoot
Wholesale Co., Inc., of Tarboro and driven by A. B.
Davis of Tarboro, suffered little damage. The truck
was parked In front of Halthcock's Store and when the
driver went Inside the building the truck rolled away
and landed In the ravine. Johnny Halthcock, son of Mr.
and Mrs. N. I. Halthcock, said that he heard a noise and
looked up to see the truck rolling down the highway, make
a sudden turn to the right and topple down the embank
ment.
Board Of Education
Balks At HEW Ruling
Faced with a ruling that Its
faculty Integration proposals
for Warren County falls
to meet guide lines of the
Civil Rights Act, the Qoafd
of Education Monday night
questioned the legal right of
the U. S. Office of Education
to require the Warren County
Board of Education to assign
Negro teachers to predomi
nantly white schools and white
teachers to predominantly Ne
gro schools.
Following a presentation of
a letter to Supt. of Schools
J. Roger Peeler from Harold
Howe, II., U. S. Commission
er of Education, In which Howe
stated that steps taken by the
board were not adequate,
members of the Board of Ed
ucation voted to take no fur
ther action until a study Is
made of the statute to deter
jmlng_the legality of the posi
tion of the Department of
Health, Education and Wel
fare.
Howe's letter to Supt. Peel
er reads as follows:
"This Office has reviewed
the report of planned staff
assignments for 1966-67 sub
mitted for your school system
under Section 181.18(b) of the
1966 school desegregation
guidelines. This report In
dicates that for the 1966-67
school year, your school sys
tem will make some progress
beyond what was accomplished
for the 1965-66 school vear
In the desegregation of pro
fessional staff, it does ap
pear, however, on the basis
of the report you have sub
mitted, that the steps you
propose in staff desegregation
are not adequate in your situ
ation to accomplish the pur
poses of Title VI. The Civil
Rights Act, as well as re
cent decisions of the court
under the 14th Amendment
to the Constitution, require
that segregated teaching staffs
be desegregated.
Secretary Gardner stated in
the past few months in
his letter of April 9 to Mem
bers of Congress andGovern
ors, a copy of which was sent
to you, that the revised guide
lines required that areason
able beginning be made and
that reasonable progress be
achieved beyond what was
achieved last year.
As we have explained in the
Past few months in meetings
with school officials, a
reasonable beginning might
in some cases be achieved
by the assignment of at least
one staff member to each
school In the district on a
desegregated basis. The
guidelines, however, do allow
for flexibility as to how a
district might undertake
faculty desegregation, if an
alternative pattern is thought
to be more practical, it ought
nevertheless, to be feasible
to assign roughly that same
number of teachers to one or
more schools on a desegre
gated basis, but not neces
sarily to all schools in the
district. The enclosed ma
terial on teacher desegre
gation may be helpful to your
school board In planning
additional staff desegregation.
Please Indicate as promptly
as possible the additional
steps you will take to achieve
significant progress In the
desegregation of your sys
tem's teachers when school
opens next fall. You should
also send us any Information
concerning special problems
tn your district which would
be useful In evaluating the
additional steps you propose
for teacher desegregation In
your school system.
This Office will make every
effort to assist your school
system to comply voluntarily
with the requirements of
Title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1064. School districts
have found that teacher deseg
regation can be carried out
most _ successfully where
superintendents and school
board members give students,
teachers, and the entire com
munity resourceful and de
?se BALKS, page 3)
School Board Orders
Land Condemnation
The Warren County Board
of Education on Monday night
ordered that condemnation
procedures be Initiated
against Charles and Alexander
Katzensteln to obtain two
acres of land for expansion of
the school garage at Warren
Plains.
Supt. of Schools J. R, Peel
er said that on June 4 the
Katzensteln brothers had been
offered $800 an acre for the
property with a request that
an answer be filed within 30
days. He said no answer has
been received.
The Board of Education had
been negotiating with the Katz
enstelns for several months
with personal meetings and by
letter.
The board approved the pur
chase of a lot of land behind
the home of Mrs. John Bur
well adjoining the school play
ground and athletic field.
Members voted to pay Mrs.
Burwell $3000 for the 150 x
150 foot plot.
Guest Soloist
Mrs. Robert E. Fleming of
Vlcksboro will be guest soloist
at Wesley Memorial Methodist
Church Sunday, July 31, at
the 11:00 o'clock services.
Dr. Peete Made Full
[Professor At Duke
A Warrenton native. Dr.
William P. J. Peete, has been
named a full professor at
[the Duke University Medical
[Center.
Announcement of Dr.
fPeete's promotion was one of
[five In the department of
surgery announced Saturday
Dr. R. Taylor Cole, pro
st.
Son of the late Dr. Charles
||enry Peete and Mrs. Peete
Warrenton, Dr. Peete re
lived an A. B. degree In
emlstry from the Unlver
r of North Carolina In 1M2.
194V he received his M.D.
ree from Harvard Unlver
slty.
A former teaching fellow
at Harvard, Dr. Peete went
to Duke In 1955 as an assis
tant professor of surgery and
assistant to the dean of the
School of Medicine after ? a
year of study In Europe on
a Moseley Traveling Fellow
ship. He held these positions
until 1963 when he was pro
moted to associate professor.
He Is a civilian consultant
in general surgery toWomack
Army Hospital at Fort Bragg
and to the Veterans Hospital
and Watts Hospital In Dur
ham. He Is also a member
of four state medical society
committees.
Two Men
Sentenced
To Roads
Two defendants In Warren
County Recorder's Court were
given road sentences last Fri
day when they pled guilty to
charges of violating prohibi
tion laws.
James Jones and Clarence
Jones each pled guilty.
charges of possession of uten
sils for the unlawful manu
facture of intoxicating liquor,
to possession of illicit whiskey
for purpose of sale and to
possession of Illicit whiskey.
Each was given an 18-months
road sentence on each count.
Cicero Alston was ordered
to pay a $200 fine and court
costs when he was found guilty
of drunk driving and driving
after his license had been
revoked. The defendant gave
notice of appeal to Superior
Court and appearance bond
was set at $200.
Mitchell Weldon, charged
with theft, was found not guilty.
Henry Morgan, found guilty
of theft, was sentenced to the
roads for four months. The
sentence was suspended for
two years provided the de
fendant not violate any crimi
nal laws of North Carolina
for two years, pay Into Clerk's
office $20 for the use of James
Sprulll and pay a $50 fine and
court costs.
Harvey Massenburg Kldd
pled guilty to a charge of
reckless driving. Prayer for
judgment was continued for
two years upon condition that
the defendant surrender his
driver's license and not
operate a motor vehicle upon
the public highways of North
Carolina for 30 days and pays
a $50 fine and court costs.
Gerald Person White,
charged with drunk driving,
failed to appear In court. His
bond was declared forfeited
and a capias was issued for
his arrest.
Paul Revere George was
ordered to pay a $100 fine and
court costs when he pled guilty
to a charge of drunk driving.
Robert Lee Swann pled
guilty to a charge of speeding.
Prayer for judgment was con
tinued upon payment of costs.
Defendants and court ver
dicts In other speeding cases
were as follows:
William Gray Neal, costs;
Max Rogers Angel, costs;
Mark Perry Carroll, Jr.,
costs; Barney Glvens Coone,
costs; Kenneth Lyell Kem
drlck, costs; Paul Mallery,
$10 and costs.
Attending Camp
Miss Chalmers Ward is i
tending camp for two wee
M the Circle Bar Ranch t
Girls at Clover, Va. und
the direction of Mrs. Georg
P. Martin.
Surgeon Is Coming To
Warren Gen. Hospital
To Begin
Duties On
August 1
A surgeon has been em
ployed for Warren General
Hospital and will begin his
duties as director and chief
of surgical services at the
local hospital on August 1,
John Kerr, Jr., chairman of
the hospital board of trustees,
announced yesterday.
Capt. Charles Bunch, as
sistant to the medical officer
of the 5th Naval District at
Portsmouth, Va., will retire
Aug. 1 from a naval career of
more than 27 years to accept
the position at Warrenton.
He will maintain an office In
I the hospital where he will also
engage In the general prac
tice of medicine.
Capt. Bunch began his Navy
career In 1933 as a reservist.
He transferred to the regular
Navy In 1949 with the rank
of commander.
In the Interim, Capt. Bunch
served In World War II and
the Korean War. He was with
the Pacific Fleet In 1944 and
participated In the assault on
Okinawa.
During the Korean War he
was with an advisory group
assigned to the Korean Navy.
He has previously served
In this area at the Naval
Shipyard and the Naval Hos
pital.
Dr. Bunch Is a native of
Raleigh. He attended the Uni
versity of North Carolina and
won a B. S. with honors In
zoology from North Carolina
State. He received his medi
cal degree from the Medical
. College of South Carolina.
He Is a fellow in the Amerl
(See SURGEON, page 3)
John Garrett Elected
Wachovia V. President
John W. Garrett, III, anative
of Warrenton, has been elected
vice president and cashier of
Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company at Ashevllle. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Garrett, Jr., of Warrenton.
Garrett has been associated
with Wachovia since 1957 and
a member of the official staff
of the bank since 1960. He
was cashier of Wachovia in
Salisbury before moving to
Ashevllle last year with
similar responsibilities. A
graduate of Duke University,
he recently completed spe
cialized studies at the School
of Banking of the South at
Louisiana State University.
He is a director of the Y.
M. C. A., a member of the
official Board of Central
Methodist Church, vice chair
man of the Legislative Affairs
Committee of the Chamber of
Commerce and area chairman
of the Duke Loyalty Fund.
Garrett and his wife, the
former Harriet R. Traynham
of Warrenton, reside at 54
Marlborough Road with their
two children.
JOHN GARRETT, 1R
DR. CII.ARTlIS 111 NCI! Wtll 1*'U V
Schools To Open On August 31
Warren County Schools will
begin Its 1966-67 term on
Wednesday, Aug. 31, with
teacher-pupil orientation
The first full school day will
begin on Thursday, Sept. 1.
This was decided at a
meeting of the Board of Edu
cation on Monday night, when
the closing date of school was
set and holidays approved.
The tentative date for the
closing of school is May
31. Holidays approved are;
Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5;
Thanksgiving, Thursday and
Friday, Nov. 24-25; Christ
mas, Dec. 20-Jan. 2; Easter,
March 22-March 29.
The Board also approved
ihe eraployme.it of a number
of teachers for the 19G6-GT
school year as follows:
John Graham ?Mrs. Mary
Shields of Warrenton, Busi
ness Education and Math: Miss
Barbara Hudson of Erwin,
English: Jimmte Webb and
Jon Burwell, Physical Edu
cation; Miss Jo Ellen McLean,
a transfer from Macon, will
teach remedial English
courses; Arthur Smoot of
Goldsboro, Science and Math.
Littleton?Alton Stevenson
of Wake Forest, Physical Edu
cation and Coach.
Macon?Mrs. Crichton
Thorne Davis of Warrenton,
exceptionally talented stu
dents In Language Arts; Mrs.
Nell White of Warrenton, Lan
guage Arts; Mrs. VenlaElklns
of Littleton, Language Arts.
Haliwa?Jo s ep h Oliver
Richardson oLHollister, Prin
cipal; Peter *tal, Jr., of Red
Springs, 7tu ade; Tecumseh
Brayboy of Pembroke, 8th
Grade.
North Warren?Miss Corale
Jordan of Drewry, English and
French; Mrs. Joyce B. Hlnton
(See SCHOOLS, page 3)
BETTY'E R. CON\El.I.
MARSHAII PFRRY
ANN L. NEWSOM
Three Good Citizens' Are Selected
Three Warren County high
school girls have been
selected as DAR "Good Citi
zens" by the Warren Chapter
of the American Revolution of
Warrenton.
The three rising seniors
selected for the honor are
Miss Bettye Rose Connell of
Warrenton, Marshall Perry of
Norllna and Ann Lanier New
som of Littleton.
Announcement of the selec
tion was made this week by
Mrs. J. M. Stokes of Littleton,
"Good Citizens" chairman of
the Warren Chapter.
Bettye Rose Connell, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hal W.
Connell of Warrenton, is a
rising senior at John Graham
High School. The principal
is John L. Honeycutt.
Marshall Perry is the
daughter of Mrs. Marlon C.
Perry of Wise and is a student
at Norllne High Schoool. Rex
B. Gordon Is principal of the
Norllna school.
Ann Lanier Newsom Is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Newsom, Jr., of
Littleton and is a student at
Littleton High School. E. T.
Satterfleld, Jr., ir principal of
the Littleton school.
Thd three girls were se
lected by students and faculty
members of their respective
schools on the following qual
ities: (1) Dependability, which
includes truthfulness, loyalty
and punctuality; (8) Service,
cooperation, courtesy, con
sideration of others; (3) Lead
ership, personality, self-con
trol, ability to assume respon
sibility; (4) Patriotism, un
selfish interest in family,
school, community and nation.
The winner in each school
is entitled to a certificate of
award and a "Good Citizen"
pin. A $100 savings bond will
be awarded to each of the
two state winners who will
be guests of the State Society
at the State Conference. The
Warren girls will compete tor
State honors.
Mrs. George G. Ritchie of
Richmond, Vs., is National
Committee DAR "Good Citi
zens" chairman, Mrs. A. M.
Cornwall of lincolnton is State
DAR Regent, Mrs. H, P. Wil
liams of Raleigh is Director
of the Sixth District, and Mrs.
George Robinson Smith of
Charlotte is state Chairman
of DAR "Good CitlWJ."
Mrs. w. A. Graham ot V '
renton la Warm Regent ana
Mrs. J. M. 8tohW;'?C '
ton is "Good ;
man**