r Your Best Advertising Medium Uarmt Emirft A _ Your Best Advertising Medium VOLUME 71 Subscription Price $3.00 A Year 10* Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1967 NllMRFR 4A County Faces Lack Of Ambulance Service Warren County will be with out ambulance service after Jan. 1, unless provisions can be maae by the county to subsidise fescue Squads or provide the service, rwrn. ;? 'lock, Warren to" said here Mon cav ,iv n !*.?;. He jc all funeral homes of t ie county would do away with ambulance service on Jan. 1. Blaylock, who operates Blaylock's Funeral Home at Warrenton, appeared before the county commissioners on Monday morning before the board was called in session and when no quorum was pre sent. He told Chairman Amos Capps and Commissioner Richard Davis that losses on operation of ambulances in emergency cases was re sponsible for funeral direc tors going out of ambulance business in Warren and many other counties of the state. He estimated his own loss at around $3,000 ayear, and add ed that all other funeral homes in the county suffered losses from answering emergency calls. As a recent example, Blay lock said that he sent an am bulance to Areola recently fol lowing a wreck. When his am bulance arrived at the scene the driver found that the in jured driver of the car had already been taken to thehos In 1966, the S. S, HOPE undertook a 10-month medical teaching - treatment mission to Nicaragua. Thousands of Nicaraguans, like this family, came to the Hospital Ship Hope for vitally needed health care. Jr.Club Women To Sponsor Project The Warrenton Junior Wo man's Club will sponsor a project for the Hospital Ship Hope at jlOPE Headquarters on North Main Street here on Nov. 9-10-11, Mrs. Sam Webster, publicity chairman, said yesterday. Hope Headquarters will be located in the Tarwater Build ing, where the Warrenton Sup ply Store was located for many years prior to moving into the Scoggin Building. Special emphasis will be placed on education on Thurs day, Nov. 9, Mrs. Webster said. Members of the club will distribute HOPE leaflets and the film, "Hope In Peru," will be shown throughout the day from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. She said, "Hope In Peru" is an inspiring story of the ser vices performed by dedicated men and women of the medi cal profession to thousands of underprivileged Peruvians. Friday, Nov. 10, a Food Fair will be held at Hope Head quarters with proceeds to be used to buy desperately need ed children's crutches for the Good Ship Hope. The following food stuff will be available at the food fair: pies ? pecan, chess, chocolate, lemon, brown sugar, coco an ut, lemon chess, sweet potato, and pumpkin; homemade rolls; cakes?pound, coffee, choco late and nectar; cookies brownies, cbeesestraws, gin gerbread squares; candy; take-out plate lunches with a choice of meats?fried chick en, chicken salad, or ham?, potato salad or slaw, pickle, breed, dessert. Saturday, Nov. 11, the Food Fair will continue with a limited choiceodfoods. During the three days, HOPE doctors' and aursaa' uniforms will be on display and for sale. The uniforms wOl fit the "Barbie" type dolls and will make won derful Christmas presents, Mrs. Webster said. Mrs. Webster said that the local club expresses its ap preciation to the following for helping make this project pos sible: Mr. John G. Tarwater, Mr. R. B. Butler, Warren Gen eral Hospital, Blaylock Fun eral Home, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, Colonial Stores, Inc., A & P Stores, Inc., Quality Grocery, Alston Grocery Company of Littleton and Sick Room Supply Store of Henderson. HOPE Means Health Oppor tunity for People Everywhere, Mrs. Webster said. The pur pose of Project HOPE, she added, is to teach and train doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, tech nicians, and other paramed ical staffs In developing na tions. During the course of a ten-months stay In any one particular country, Project HOPE could not possibly at tempt to cure all the sick. However, by teaching and training local counterparts, Project HOPE will make a far greater long term contri bution to the health of these developing nations, for these trainees will continue to prac tice what they have learned long after S, S. Hope has gone on to another country. Thus by leaving behind knowledge, Project HOPE gives some pee PROJECT, page 4) Gordon Haithcock Named Member Of Town Board Gordon Halthcock, Warren ton painting contractor, has been appointed a member of the Board of Town Commis sioners to fill out the unex pired term of A. C. Blalock, who resigned following his ap pointment as Warrenton post master. Halthcock's appointment was made at a special meet ing of the town board Monday night, called for the purpose of calling a bond election to pro vide funds for the building of a water tank here. Influencing Halthcock's ap pointment, the commissioners stated, was a desire to give the town more representation In its southern part. At addition to approving the bond election an Halthcock as commissioner, the board transacted a tew other Items of business. The commissioners autho rized the payment of $1,030 for a radar timer. The funds were taken from the conting ency fund. The board authorized the Issuance of additional taxlcab permits to N, I, Halthcock and AlpheusO. (Dell) Kearney. Both men now operate taxi cabs In the town, and the permits are to allow them to add an additional taxlcab. The application of O. M. Brown to operate a social club, "A1 Hambre," on Bast Franklin ttreet was before the commlsslooera following his application for a state lic ense. The board offered no ob jection. pital. This is not unusual, he said. Blaylock estimated that it would cost the cour.ty at least $25,000 a year to provide am bulance service through any subsidation program, and without such subsidation, he said, ambulance service could not be provided. Blaylock said that it might be possible for the Warren General Hospital to offer am bulance service for its pat ients. He said that he had an extra ambulance that could be put in excellent shape for an estimated $200. He said that he would be glad todonatethls ambulance to the hospital. Chairman Capps said that the county did not have $25,000 for ambulance service in the budget and knew of no way to raise the money until the next fiscal year, and said that to supply such a sum would cause a rise of 12 cents in the tax rate. Blaylock said that In spite of his losses on emergency ser vice, he would have continued his service except for federal | regulations. He said that re quirements of the Bureau of Health, Education and Wel fare, and a rise in per hour rates under the minimum wage law, and its requirement for overtime pay, and its rule for charging overtime made it im possible to continue ambu lance service. After Blaylock had left and the commissioners were call ed into meeting, they took no action on providing ambulance service during a full day of business. Chairman Capps told the commissioners that they would have to have a call ed meeting to finish up busi ness not transacted duringthe day. Two Men Sentenced To Roads Two men, held In jail on a charge of breaking, entering and larceny, were tried in Warren County Recorder's Court last Friday and given road sentences. Jimmy Rodger Williams and James Hendricks were each charged with breaking into the Warrenton Supply Co., hereon Oct. 31. Williams was also charged with stealing a car valued at $300 from B. & D. Motor premises on Oct. 12, and with breaking into the store of Mrs. a. C. Powell on Nov. 2. Both men were from Roa noke Rapids. James Hendricks, who pled guilty, was sentenced to the roads for 60 days, with a recommendation that he be given an option of serving the sentence under the work re lease plan. Jimmy Rodger Williams pled guilty to two counts of breaking, entering and lar ceny, and was sentenced to the roads for two years on each count. The court recom mended that he be granted an option of serving the sentence under the work release plan. Williams also pled guilty to larceny of an automobile and was sentenced to the roads for two years with a recommen dation that he be given an op tion of serving the sentence under the work release plan. Charles Edward Ra gland was found guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to the roads for 90 days, with a recommendation by the court that he be given psychiatric treatment. The defendant appealed to Superior Court and appearance bond was set at $50.00. Morris James Vaughanpled guilty to possession of uten sils tor manufacturing Intoxl catlhg liquors and was sen tenced Jp the roads for two years, flu sentence was sus pended tor five years provid ed he does not have in his possession any quantity