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Standard Frt^. Co. comp. 3iac .Randolph Advertising Medium v ? barren i&narh Advertising Medium VOLUME 70 Subscription Price $3.00 A Year 10* Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1966 NUMBER 34 In spite of a long siege of dry weather in June and July that threatp' ed the tobacco crop there are many fine fields of tobacco in Warren County, some of which were saved by irrigation. Shown above is an Irrigated field of tobacco on the farm of Glenn Weldon located between the S. A. L. crossing and the Junction of the Warren Plains road with No. 1 Highway near Wise. The picture wa> taken on Sunday afternoon. Fleming Wins Top Honor In Junior Dairy Show At Raleigh A Warren County boy?Syd ney P. Fleming, Jr.?was win ner of two top awards In the 1966 Capital Area District Junior Dairy Show held Friday at the J. S. Dorton Arena In Raleigh. The Guernsey Junior Champion was shown by Flem ing, who also won first place In the fitting and showmanship contest. A number of other honors were won by Warren County youths who entered their ani mals in the annual contest. A total of 66 dairy animals were shown by the youth of Wake, Warren, Granville and Johnston counties. The show was sponsored by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and Pine State Creamery. The Judges awarded five purple ribbons, 35 blue rib bons, 21 red ribbons, and five white ribbons to the 66 ani mals. Cash awards were $10.00 for purple, $8.00 for blue, $6.00 for red, and $5.00 for white ribbons. Judges for the show we^e Dr. Carlton Blalock, assistant director of the N. C. Agricultural Ex tension Service, and Victor Lytton, Dairy Husbandry Specialist from N. C. State. Warren County ribbon win ners Included: Blue ribbons?Tommy Ben der, Sam Bender and Charlie Royster. Red ribbons?Arlene Ben der, Sidney Fleming, Jr., and Conrad Bender. White ribbons?Malcolm Williams and James Williams. D. C. Worth of Pine State Creamery was master of ceremonies for a special pro gram following a box lunch for the exhibitors. Participating on the program were Hal John son of The Progressive Farm er, J. D. Kilgore of Pine State Creamery, George Goodwin, president of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, Bruce Riley, chairman of the agri cultural committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and Harry Prevette of Pine State Creamery. Capt. Harris Makes Air Force Golf Team Capt. James Harris of the Myrtle Beach, S. C,, Base was recently picked a member of the five-man golf team to represent the base in the season's coming golf events. Jim Harris led the field of 14 golfers trying for the five spaces on the base golf team open division. He and the four other members of the team were pictured in The Century Sentinel, Air Force Base pub lication. Capt. Harris is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Harris of Warrenton. He is married to the former Patsy Capps of Areola. BUY CATTLE Greer Brothers, Warren ton, recently purchased 14 registered Angus cows and an Aberdeen - Angus bull from Traylor Farms, Norllna. CONTACT PRINCIPAL Ninth grade students at John Graham High School who are Interested in taking French I should contact Principal Fred Bartholomew at the school Monday, Aug. 29, from 8 a. m. to 12 noon. SUPPER Members of the Warrenton Presbyterian Church held a supper Wednesday evening In the social hall of the church. Mrs. Robert Dedomlnlck and son Hob of Virginia Beach, Vs., and Mrs. W. E. Hill and son of Durham are guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. N. Bullock. Warren Designated Emergency Loan Area Warren County has been designated as an emergency area due to the prolonged drought from May through Ju ly and the resulting crop and pasture damages. Authority to approve emer gency loans has been receiv ed by James G. Elam, Far mers Home Administration's county supervisor. Application may be made at the Farmers Home Admini stration county office located In the agriculture building. Mrs. Louise B. King is coun ty clerk. To be eligible for this type of loan assistance the appli cant must, among other things: - Be a citizen of the United States. - Be an established farmer or rancher. - Operate In a designated emergency area. - Possess legal capacity to contract for a loan. - Possess the character, ability, Industry and exper ience necessary to carry out the proposed farming opera tion, and - Be unable to provide the necessary funds from his own resources or to obtain suffi cient operating credit else where to finance his actual needs at reasonable rates and terms. Emergency loans may be made for the following pur poses: - Purchase of feed, seed, fertilizer, insecticides, and farm supplies. - The repair of equipment and other essential farm operating expenses. - Purchase of farm ma chinery when necessary to re place that destroyed, dam aged, or worn beyond eco nomic repair. - Purchase of livestock. - Family subslstanceneeds - Relevellng of land and clearing of debrles made necessary as a direct cause of a natural disaster, and - Restoration of permanent pastures and the purchase of trees, rootstock, and plants for re-establishing commer cial orchards and nursery crops. Number Of Traffic Cases Tried In County Court Of the thirteen cases tried In Warren County Recorder's Court last Friday all were concerned with violation of the motor vehicle laws. Two defendants faced Judge Julius Bsnzet on drunk driv ing charges and one of these was found not guilty. A heavy foot on the accelerator was responsible for the remain der of the cases on the docket. Karl Kay Strickland, charg ed with drunk driving, was found not guilty. Elijah Randolph Hawkins was ordered to pay a$100flne and court costs when he pled guilty to a charge of drunk driving. He appealed his case to superior Court and an pear ance bond was set at $150. Mary McGhee Thornton pled guilty to exceeding a safe speed under existing con ditions, and was ordered to pay costs. William Smith Bugg, charg ed with speeding was found not guilty. Defendants In other speed ing cases and verdicts of the court were as follows: Thomas C, Dale, costs; Leora Harrison Davis, costs; Stafford Columbus Harrison, )10 and costs; Billy McCook, costs; Robert P. Parker, costs; Eugene Taylor, 910and costs; Let Roy Wast, $10 and costs; Richard Junior De ment, $10 and costs; Maria Christopher Miller, oosts. High Prices Paid At Opening Durham?Record prices and heavy sales marked the open ing of flue-cured tobacco auc tions Wednesday on the sprawling Eastern North Car olina Belt. The Federal - State Market News Service said prices were substantially higher than opening day last year. Early sales on several Individual markets averaged from $65 to $68 per hundred pounds. Volume of sales was heavy with only a small proportion of the offerings In tied form. Most baskets on early sales were bringing from $62 to $73 per hundred. The practical top price was $73 to $74 with a few selected baskets of good smoking leaf bringing up to $75. No tobacco was placed under the government loan program during the first hour of sales. The following auction bid averages were reported on a limited number of represen tative grades on the Eastern North Carolina belt. Lugs: fair orange $72, up $3 from last year. Primings: good lemon 70, up 4; fair lemon 70, up 6; low lemon 67 up 9; good or ange 72, up 5; fair or ange 70, up 7; low or ange 67, up 10. Nondescript: best priming side 62, up 17; poorest 54, up 19. Meanwhile a downward trend In average prices con tinued Wednesday on the South Carolina-Border North Caro lina belt. Declines In most In stances were $1 and $2 per hundred pounds. However, a few grades, chiefly nonde script, were down $3 and $4. The 12-day period of price supports for untied tobacco ended Wednesday. Beginning Thursday and for the remain der of the season only tied marketings will be ellglblefor government loan. Grinning growers stepped to the pay windows to reap the benefits of months of labor. The Market News Service reported opening prices were well above the $60.78 paid on the first day of the 1965 sea son. Horace Godfrey of Washing ton, head of the Commodity Credit Corporation which ad ministers federal price sup port programs, said he was especially pleased that less than one-half of one percent of the flue-cured crop sold this season has gone under government loan. "Tobacco Is grown to be sold, not to be stored," he said. "The less tobacco the government has to buy the happier we are." "The dry weather didn't seem to have hurt the crop a bit," said Fred Royster, Di rector of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association. "The opening was perfectly satis factory." Warren Schools Opening Postponed For One Week Ballots For Committee Elections To Be Mailed From Local Office Ballots for electing ASC community committeemen for the 1967 year will be mailed on Aug. 30 to eligible pro ducers, T. E. Watson, ASCS office manager, said yester day. He said that If ballots are not received, producers should visit the local county office. Watson said that producers will receive an envelope con taining a ballot and two en velopes. The farmer should vote for five persons listed on the ballot and Insert the ballot Into the blank envelope. The blank envelope should then be Inserted Into the envelope addressed to the county ASCS office. The producer should sign the certification on the back of the envelope and drop In the mall. Please remember, Watson said, that only one ballot can be placed In the return en velope since every voter must sign the certification, if a husband and wife are eligible Koiw'!' eaCh must return his ballot In separate envelopes All ballots must be returned or postmarked by SeDt o 1966. ' When the ballots are re ceived In the county ASCS Office, the envelope will be checked to be sure the voter is eligible to vote. The blank envelope containing the ballot will then be removed from the l^her ?8nVel?Pe and placed p". the o'her ballots. ftt .h ' theref?re, loses its Identity before it is tab ulated. The County ASCS Committee will publicly open and tabulate all ballotson Sep I4' M thlS tlme' non? of the ballots will bear any identification of the person voting, it ls necessary each person voting sign the certification on the en^lope in which the ballot is returned. If the certification Is not signed the ballot Inside will slfn* Ulated" Any person signing by mark must have nis mark witnessed. The county Committee ls responsible for settling ques tions on election procedure j or eligibility to vote or hold office, Watson said. Each farmer is urged to *udy the slate of no^Js vo'e Md return his ballot by September 9. The coming year ls an Important ne for all farmers and well qualified committeemen are needed for the local adminis tration of all ASCS programs. Hardy Is Speaker Af Jaycee Meeting H. M. Hardy of Warrenton was the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Warren County junior Chamber of Commerce at Warren Plaza Inn on Thursday night of last week. Presented by Clinton Capps, Hardy spoke on the need for younger peoples' participa tion In community activities New members Inducted Into the chamber were L. Owen Robertson, Jr., of Norllna, Mac McGowen of Warrenton ; and Tommy Peoples of Elber on. The Jaycees discussed a community survey. The sur vey will be carried on by the Jaycees in an effort to de termine what the chamber can do to better the community. ON HONOR ROLL Mrs. Harriet cheek Abbott of Greensboro made the honor roll for the spring semester at the University of Greens boro, It was learned here this week. Mrs. Abbott, the former Harriet Cheek, ls the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cheek of Warrenton. Warren Club Members Attend Congress Three Warren County 4-H club members, Rachel Ingle, Charles Holtzman and Donfta Brauer, an adult 4-H club leader, Mrs. C. F. Holtzman and the Home Economics Ex tension Agent, Miss Emily Balllnger, attended the Twen tieth Annual 4-H Electric Congress in Ashevllle August 15-17. The fiorth Carolina 4-H Electric ColilfcressiSLSO-spon sored by the lour electric power companies In the State, Westlnghouse Educational Foundation and North Carolina Agricultural Extension Ser vice. It Is held each year to recognize the boy and girl In each county that have not attended a previous Electric Congress and have done the most outstanding work In their electric project for the cur rent year. For those who have attend ed Congress before, there are 50 recruiting awards given In the State. To win a second trip, a club member must recruit at least five new members In the electric project and see that they complete the project requirements and turn In a re cord book. Donna received her trip as a recruiter. Mrs. Holtzman was a special guest and gave a talk at the Exten sion Service and Power Com pany Personnel Forum on "Leader's Role In the 4-H Electric Project." Expenses tor the Warren County delegates to the Con gress were paid by Carolina Power and Light Company. Some 290 people In the State attended this year's Congress held at Grove Park Inn, Ashe vllle. The program Included talks by outstanding people with the power companies and Westlnghouse Corporation; reports from 4-H winners In the electric project; a trip to Cherokee by the Blue Ridge Parkway; seeing the Pageant "Unto These Hills" and clos ing the program with an Awards Breakfast. At this time, area and state winners were announced. Ray Ritchie of Wake County was declared State winner In the electric project. The Warren County dele gates went by chartered bus with members from several other counties In the Carolina Power and Light Company area. David Fuller, Carolina Power and Light Company representative working from the Henderson office, accom panied the group. Two Men Hospitalized As Result Single Car Wreck Two Negro men were hos pitalized as the result of a single car accident about a mile north of Churchill around 11:45 Sunday morning. Cliff Banks and John Henry Moore, both of Macon, were taken to Warren General Hos pital where It was found that Banks had a broken Jaw and that Moore suffered breakage of both legs. Leroy Steed, 24, of Wash ington, D, C., driver of the car, and an 18-months-old boy riding In the car escap ed Injury. The 1959 Pontlac, regis tered In the name of Dwlght Palmer of Macon, was com pletely demolished, accord STEW SALE The Norllna Rurltan Club will hold a Brunswick stew sale at the Norllna Woman's Clubhouse on Saturday, Aug. 27. Stew, at $1.00 per quart, If containers are furnished, will be ready by noon. Ten cents extra will be charged where containers are not furnished by customers. AUXILIARY TO MEET The September meeting of the American Legion Auxil iary will be held In the little dining room at Colonial Lodge * Warren ton on Thursday, sept. 1, S p.m. lng to Highway Trooper Ver non Vaughan who Inves tigated the accident. Vaughan said his Investiga tion showed that the car en tered a curve near Churchill at a high rate of speed and after proceeding for 745 feet left the road and crashed Into a tree. Steed has been charged with reckless driving. Shalkross To Visit Warrenton Wednesday John S. Shallcross, Repub lican candidate for the United States Senate, will be a visitor at Warrenton on next Wednes day, Aug. 31, F. A. Duncan, a member of his publicity staff, said yesterday. Shallcross will oppose Senator B. Everette Jordan In the general election In Novem ber. OFFICERS ELECTED H. M. Hardy was elected president and Clyde Whltford secretary-treasurer of the Warrenton Country Club at a recenfc. meeting of club mem bers at the club bouse. Mrs. J. K. Rooker la visit ing friends In New Bern for several days. Caused By Lateness Of Tobacco Warren County schools will open on Sept. 8, one week later than originally schedul ed. This was decided at a called meeting of the Board of Edu cation on Wednesday night. Registration day will be held on Sept. 8, when students will be at school for a half day. The first regular day of school will be held on Friday, Sept. 9. The postponement of the opening of school was caused by the lateness of the tobacco crop due to the recent drought. Many farmers had contacted the office of the superinten dent of schools and members of the board of education ask ing that school opening be postponed in order that child ren might help with the to bacco harvest. The Warren County farm Bureau had urged theBoardof Education to delay the open ing of school for at least one week and preferably two weeks. John K. Killan, coun ty Farm Bureau president, said that many school-age children are desperately needed to harvest the unusual ly late tobacco crop this year. J, Roger Peeler, superin tendent of Warren schools, said yesterday that the board of education was unwilling to postpone the opening of schools for more than one week due to problems that would be created next June. Late closing of schools affect teachers who must attend summer schools which open early in June and raises other problems. Peeler said that the board of education would determine at a later meeting when the lost days must be made up. He said that It could mean the shortening of Christmas and Easter holidays. The Warren County school system has for a number of years used Pine State milk In Its school lunches. The supt. of schools office has been noti fied that the price of milk has been Increased from 7 to 71/2 cents a carton. The board of education In structed Supt. Peeler to con tact other producers and to buy the milk at the lowest possible price. Supt. Peeler said that this is necessary if the price of school lunches is to remain at 25 cents in the county. He said rises in commodities and in creased labor costs have made It very hard to retain the quar ter price for lunches but that every effort Is being made to have no Increase. He said that it is possible that later in the year prices of lunches may be Increased to 30? and possibly 35?. A number of other counties, principally urban, have al ready increased prices of lunches to school children. Young Marine Is Charged With Stealing Automobile A young Marine, AWOL from Camp Lejeune, la being held for a hearing In Re corder's Court Friday, on a charge of stealing a motor vehicle In Massachusetts. Ronald Logan, of Ham den, Mass., who gives his age if 17, said that he Uft the Ma rine camp on Thursday morn ing of last week and stole the Volkswagen station wagon in Massachussets Friday. He said that he was returning to the Marine base at the time of his arrest He said that he had been la the Marine corps lor five or sU i Lot an Mid that ha pick ad up a boo aymoonlnf ootvla at the Dalawara Bridga on thatr way to Sooth Carolina. Ho had stoppad Ot a oornttald noar Norlina whara thaooupiawara tha ?? Highway Brown. Brawn piacad hoy wadar arroat whan ha fl found that tha boy had nalthor-;|S a drtrar'a licence nor a :.t registration card. arraatad on a