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Your Best Advertising Medium Louisville 1 ""W Warren fcrort Your Best Advertising Medium VOLUME 72 Subscription: $3.00 A V?ar; $4.00 Out Of State, 10* Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1968 NUMBER 11 The 1968 Easter Seal appeal In North Carolina opened on March 7 with a reception at the North Carolina Museum of Art hosted by Mrs. Dan Moore and the North Carolina Art Society. Guests of honor included State Easter Seal Chairman, Jim Beatty, and 10 year old State Easter Seal twins, Sammy and Kenny Query, of Charlotte. Pictured at the reception from Warrenton are: Mrs. Leonard Daniel, Mrs. W, L. Wood, Mrs. Thomas Ellington and Mrs. R, B. Butler. Easter Seal Campaign Underway The 1968 Easter Seal campaign to raise funds for crippled children and adults will begin this week in Warren County, Mrs. Hugh W. White, Easter Seal Society chairman, announced yesterday. Mrs. White said the campaign which v?:il la' April 14, is to ra i tinUc trp?tm >n? tation se'Vices fc* d children and adults, to h' m to walk, to talk, and all the other things most of us take for granted. The Easter Seal campaign is sponsored by the Warrenton Woman's Club and has for its theme "People have got to help people." The offer of help to one hu man being by another is one of the most ancient traditions, Mrs. White said. It is Just as true today as it was in the Bib lical time of the good Samaritan. Mrs. White said that last year the Society provided re habilitation services to almost a quarter million Americans through its nationwide net work of centers. More than 20 handicapped persons received help from the Warren County Easter Seal Society, such as One Jury Case Tried In Recorder's Court One jury case was tried in Warren County Recorder's Court last Friday when Thomas Lewis Rooker was found guil ty on a charge of drunk driving. Rooker, ordered to pay a $100 fine and court costs, appealed his case to Superior Court and appearance bond was set at $150. James Alston and George Lewis Edwards, each charged with possession and receiving > stolen property, were found not guilty. Teet Carter was found guilty of an assault with a deadly wea pon and sentenced to the roads for 60 days. The sentence was suspended for two years upon condition the defendant pays a find of $50 and court costs. Albert Salmon was sentenced to the roads for two years when he pled guilty to a charge of theft. Klmp Lee was ordered to pay a $25 fine and court costs when he pled guilty to having no operator's licenses. William Mack Davis pled guilty to a charge of having no operator's license. He was ordered to pay a $25 fine and court costs. Ezra Adams was sentenced to the roads for 60 days when he pled guilty to a charge of speeding. The sentence was suspended for two years upon condition the defendant pays a $50 fine and court costs. Defendants in other speeding cases and verdicts of the court were as follows: Henry Allen Pierce, $10 and costs; Bernard P. Smiley, costs; William Edward Evans, $10 and costs; Marvin Lee Gris som, costs; Helen Falkner West, costs; Flavious Vaughan, costs; Thomas David Frazier, Jr., costs; Richard Albert Campbell, costs; Robert Blair Neal, Jr., costs. Welcome Center Planned On 1-85 Near State Line RALEIGH - Contracts total ing $146,316 have been awarded (or the construction of North Carolina's first two welcome centers, which will be located on Interstate Highways 85 and 95 near the Virginia line. According to Bill F. Hensley, director of the State Travel and Promotion Division, construc tion of the centers is expected to begin immediately. They are tentatively scheduled to be In operation by mid-July. Funds for the two centers, which will be located on exist ing highway rest areas, were approved by the 1967 General ^Assembly. Hensley said a re quest for five additional cen ters will be made to the Leglsla ' ture In 1969. Low bids for general contract work were submitted by Cen tral Builders, Inc., of Rocky Mount, and A. D. Haver stock, of Roanoke Rapids. Central Builders submitted a bid of $52,779 for the center on I-SS while A. D. Haverstock's bid for the 1-95 ce??ter was $44,290. ?i&Both centers will be Identical. Of traditional design, each will contain about 2,800 square feet of floor space. Most of the space will be used by the reception area, where travel literature, weather information and scenes from various sections of the State will be displayed. The centers will be open year-around from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., except during the peak travel months of summer when longer hours will be required. Each will be staffed by a man ager, senior receptionist, two junior receptionists and a cus todian. The plumbing contracts for both centers was awarded to Pemberton, Inc., of Rocky Mount, with a bid of $80,525. Oxford Metal Shop, of Oxford, submitted ? low bid o< $4,748for mechanical work at the canter on I-M, whit* J. E. Ballanger, of Wilson Md $4,994 tor me chanical work in the 1-9S can ter. Whitley's Electric, of Wil son, submitted a combined low bid at $15,882 for electrical work * both centers. wheelchairs, crutches, walk ers, medicine, transportation to medical centers, and one child was privileged to spend two weeks at Camp Easter in the Pines for crippled children. But needs of the handicapped and costs of providing expert professional care are rising, and more money than ever be fore will be needed to serve the handicapped during 1968. "The real credit," she said, "belongs to the many millions who contribute each year to en able the Easter Seal Society to help people. For in the world of today, it takes a lot more than one or two 'good Sama tarians'." "The people of Warren Coun ty have always responded to our needs," Mrs. White add ed, "and I feel certain you will make it possible to Increase Easter Seal service to the crip pled during the coming year. Even if you haven't given to Easter Seals in the past, please do this year. Despite the march of progress, the ranks of the handicapped are growing, and more money than ever before is needed to continue helplngthem. "Be a person who helps peo ple. You'll feel good if you Special Meeting To Be Held On Housing A special interest meetingon basic requirements of a well constructed house will be held Thursday, March 21, at 7:30 p. m. In the Warren County Court House at Warrenton, Mrs. Bertha Forte, extension home economics agent, announced yesterday. W. C. Warrick, extension agricultural engineering spec ialist at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, will con duct the meeting. Mrs. Forte said that anyone planning to build or do any re pair work is invited to attend. If at all possible, she said, husbands and wives should at tend this meeting together. Door prizes, consisting of paint and items of hardware, will be given during the meet ing. Fashion Show To Be Held At Norlina Gym The Norlina Junior Woman's Club will sponsor a Spring Fashion Show on March 29 at 7:30 p. m. at the Norlina High School Gym. The program, "Younger Than Springtime," will feature 100 models from stores In Henderson, Warrenton and Norlina. Mrs. Stephen Daniel, in an nouncing the show, said that door prizes will be given and special entertainment will be an added feature this week. Tickets are now on sale and may be purchased from any club member, or one may call 486 4831 and have them delivered. Admission will be adults 91.00 and children 30$. > ??????????? Mfa. Robert Orvta Is visit ing relatives In Charlotte. Drive For R. C. Funds To Be Held A drive for funds to main tain a Red Cross service de partment in Warren County will soon be conducted here and over the county. Plans to start the drive were started at a meeting of interest ed citizens with Mrs. Gray Marshall, a volunteer Red Cross worker from Enfield, at the Episcopal Parish House last Thursday afternoon. A, C. Fair was appointed temporary drive chairman. George Kilgore, A. C. Fair, Nat Hilliard and Joe Andrews were selected as a committee to canvass the business dis trict of Warrenton. It was decided to have the residential sections of the towns and rural areas can vassed under the direction of one of the county's civic clubs, and Mayor W. A. Miles was ask ed to contact aclubor clubs with this in view. Mayor Miles said that the Warren County Jaycees would determine whether or not it would sponsor the campaign at a director's meeting the latter part of this week. The need for funds for a service department and the im portance of this phase of work of the Red Cross Chapter was emphasized, and it was de termined that a minimum of $1, 000 should be raised for this purpose. Civilian contacts with service men and their fami lies are carried on in each coun ty by the Red Cross Service Department through a service officer. Bruce Bell, Macon postmaster, has served as ser vice officer on a voluntary basis for the past two years. The group at the Parish House expressed the view that with the increase of the tempo of the war in Vietnam that it is es sential to raise funds for apart time worker in this field. They expressed their appreciation to Bell for the splendid service he has rendered to Warren County servicemen and their families on a voluntary basis, but held that it Is unreason able to ask that he continue to give his time and money to what should be a countywide effort. Library Bids To Be Open Mch. 28 Bids for the construction of a library building at John R. Haw kins High School will be open ed by the Warren County Board of Education on March 28. The 64 X 64 building will be built with ESEA funds. Supt. J. Roger Peeler said yesterday that he hoped the building may be completed in time for the second semester of 1968-69. Bids for the construction of a building at Mariam Boyd Ele mentary School at Warrenton were rejected on Jan. 16, dueto high figures submitted. Plans for the building are being re drawn by Architect Owen Smith of Raleigh. However, at its meeting Mon day night the Board of Educa tion accepted bids on library furniture and kitchen furniture at Mariam Boyd, and library furniture s>t John Graham. Freedom of Choice forms for the 1968-69 school year will be distributed by the school children Instead of being mail ed as In former years, the board decided. HEW required the mailing of these forms inform er years, but distribution through the schools for next year have been approved by Dr. Carroll, State Superintendent of Schools, and the office of Health, Education and Welfare. Supt. Peeler said the decision would not only lesson the work of the school administration but would save considerable money In postage. ? The Board approved the CSee LIBRARY, page 2) DEADLINE March is la the deadline for obtaining ticket* for the Friends of the College Concert series for the IMS-69 season, lira. John R. Link, in charge of ticket j sales te the county, said yes | terday. She Mka that anyone Interested tn obtaining tickets contact her. Her telephone num ber U 257-3913. Food Stamp Certification To Begin In Warren On April 1 jWE^ZSSSBQSijBm ?. -j - y <? ? f ?"???? - '.^y f/ ? ? 3?S22?K*^TTJ'''^ t DO NOT SPINDLE ^ J& t fe Healtnier Families ,R? OF AG Rl CULT aT^f^?TTS?aK^5 MESSSSaaa ? M k-? & n EXCEPT UNDER CONDITIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETAR* OF AGRICULTURE LANCASTER Lancaster Appointed Elections Chairman Paul Lancaster of Norllna, insurance agent with the War ren County Farm Bureau, was on March 4 appointed chairman of the Warren County Board of Election. He succeeds Wiley G. Coleman of Warrenton who resigned after some 17 years service. His appointment was made by the State Board of Elections. Lancaster took the oath of office on March 5 before Mrs. Lanie Hayes, Clerk of Super ior Court. Other members of the board are Clarence Brltton of Warrenton and M. W. Parham of Route 2, Henderson. Lancaster said yesterday that the filing date for county of fices would expire at 12 Noon on March 22. The date for fil ing for state and district of fices has already expired. All Commissioners To Seek Relection All five members of the Board of County Commissioners have filed for re-election subject to the Democratic Primary of May 4. Chairman Amos L. Capps, and Commissioners Robert P. Thorne, A. J. Ellington, John Wilson and Richard Davis filed their notice of candidacy before Paul Lancaster, chairman of the board of elections on Monday night. Vaughan Named Town's Relief Officer Wiley D. Vaughan, Warren ton Township Constable, was appointed a special or relief officer for the Town of War renton at the regular meeting of the town commissioners Monday night. Vaughan replaces Theodore Roosevelt Vaughan as relief officer. T. R. Vaughan, the town's first Negro police of ficer, was recently appointed as regular officer. Mrs. Bob Scott To Be Honored At Tea Mrs. Bob Scott, wife of a candidate for Governor of North Carolina, will be honored at a tea at the Warren Plaza Inn on Friday afternoon when friends of Candidate Scott will have an opportunity to meet his wife. The tea is being sponsored by * group of warren County women interested in the caodl <f*cy of Lt. Governor Robert Soott. Mrs, A. D. Alston Is visiting hsr daughter, Mrs. C. 8. Soott, ^Sgl'RsteiCh. . "J||||j|g .?,/ i-w^StjtxZK&s i; ?'' ' In Warren County Over 4400 Participate In Commodity Program The U. S. Department of Ag riculture food program aided 4421 needy persons in War ren County during January, the USDA's Consumer and Mar keting Service announced this week. This would represent around one-fourth of the popu lation of the county. The USDA food programs aid ed 173,958 persons in the state during January, the release stated. This was 13, 061 per sons more than the number that took part in the programs dur ing December. USDA's Consumer and Mar keting Service said that 139,344 persons In 64 counties took part in its commodity distribution program and that 34,614 persons in 21 counties took part in its food stamp program. Officials of C&MS's con sumer food programs office at Atlanta attributed January's in creased participation to the en trance of Anson and Warren counties into the commodity distribution program andagen eral decline in agricultural em ployment. In North Carolina, the com modity distribution program i:> administered by the North Car olina Department of Agricul ture, and the food stamp pro gram is administered by the North Carolina Board of Public Welfare, both In cooperation with the Consumer and Market ing Service. Food distributed during Jan uary to needy North Carolina families had an estimated re tail value of $1,114,752. These foods Included dried beans, corn meal, flour, grits, lard, short ening, margarine, butter, cheese, chopped meat, dried milk, peanut butter, dried split peas, raisins, rice and rolled oats. Low-income families taking part in the food stamp program traded $259,130 of their own money during January for $499,812 worth of USDA food stamp coupons. Then, these families received $240,582 worth of free, bonus coupons that they could use to buy more food with local grocery stores. Vernon White Announces For N. Carolina Senate Vernon E. White, prominent Pitt County farmer and busi nessman, on Wednesday an nounced his candidacy for State Senator of the Fourth District subject to the Democratic Pri mary of May 4. The fourth dis trict embraces the counties of Pitt, Edgecombe, Halifax and Warren. The entry In the race of the Pitt County man assures a con test In the fourth district as there are now three candidates for the two positions In the dis trict. Julian Allsbrook of Roa noke Rapids and Vinson Brld gers of Tarboro have previous ly announced their candidacy. White, a resident of Wlnter vllle, ha s been an active lead er In the Agricultural, Civic Educational and Religious af WHITE fairs of Eastern North Car olina for the past 39 years. A native Eastern North Car (See WHITE, page 6) Wine Losing Proposition The Town of Warrenton does not receive enough tax from the sale of wine In Its borders to pay the cost of picking up wine bottles. This was the view expressed by the city fathers In their regular meeting Monday night when the question of litters was up for consideration. Not only was the scattering of beer cans and wine bottles condemned by the board mem bers, but also under discussion was the manner in which a number at the merchants hand led their trash. It was pointed out that the Town during the last fiscal year received only $140 as Its pro portionate part of the state wlae tax, which was not sufficient to pay the coat of collecting the wine bottle* thrown on street*, and in alleys. The police department was instructed to arrest all vio lators at the onMnaace against such practice. The Chief of Police was also instructed to #5Ki,' '1 seek the cooperation of all licensed beer and wine deal ers in the Town as members of the board observed that the continuation of such practice of littering could result In the Town's refusal to Issue wine licenses to dealers. The Chief of Police was In structed to notify all business establishments in the Town that all waste or refuse from such firms has to be placed in gar bage cans or bins constructed In the rear of buildings in order to be picked up by the Town'* Sanitation Department. The commissioners noted that some place* of business are now In violation of the Town Ant 1-Littering ordinance by dumping refuse and garbage to the rear of their places of b?sl ness without providing bins or H. H. Salmon, chief of police, was instructed to strictly mm m 1111*$ May 1 Is Date For Issuance Certification for the Food Stamp Program in Warren County is planned to begin on April 1 with issuance of food stamp programs on May 1, Jul ian W. Farrar, Warren County Welfare Director, announced yesterday. Farrar said that certification would be made from a mobile trailer to be located on the grounds of the Welfare Office near the hospital and that coupons would be issued at the Citizens Bank'.- branch on the Norlina road. A representative of theUSDA plans to meet with and qualify merchants around the middle of April, Farrar said. Announce ment of the actual time of his announcement will be made lat er, he said. The Food Stamp program will be brought to Warren County under arrangements recently made with the United States Department of Agriculture for county citizens to participate In the program. Farrar said that the Food Stamp program is a means by which needy families and those receiving public assistance are able to buy more food In retail stores. Purchases are made with federal food coupons, which permit families to buy most of the foods carried on the grocers' shelves. Each month eligible persons buy food coupon books at the branch bank of the Citizens bank, where they will get more money In food stamps than they pay in cash. These stamps are taken to the person's own grocery store where he may buy the foods he wants with them. Farrar said that the stamps would be used Just like money for the purchase of food. He said that welfare checks would not be less because of the food stamps. The surplus commodity pro gram, In effect In Warren Coun ty since January 1, will be dis continued, and In the future the | county will operate under the Food Stamp program. Farrar said that food cou pons are issued to households determined by public welfare departments to be in need of food assistance. Eligible house holds Include persons receiving public assistance, such as those with dependent children, the aged, the disabled, and the blind. The unemployed, or those with limited income, may also be certified to receive food cou pons. For instance, he said, a family of two persons with monthly income of $140 or less may be eligible. Likewise, a family of five persons with monthly Income of |215 or a family of 10 persons with monthly income of $280 or less may be eligible. Persons receiving a public assistance check are asked to contact their caseworker tor further Information on the pro gram. Needy persons not re ceiving a public assistance check may go to the County Welfare Department any week' day after certification starts to have their eligibility deter mined. Four Board Members File for te-Eltcfiea Poor members of the Warren County Board at Edacatioafltod notice ot their ceadktocy to re-election to the board at their regular meeting Monday night. Old P. Alston, Boyd May field, Robert Ooptoa, and Dr. Sain R, Massay, Jr., fllad be at the Werrw County BOard at Elections, who was present at
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