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? ? ? - paw j\ wwspsppp )nc .'xirtr** c^douu ? :V"T$ "?Fr ?-O The tandard Printing Qo. *? . Your mr. Advertising''' 1 Medium Erruri Your Best Advertising Medium JOHN HOSEA KERR, JR. John H. Kerr, Jr. Dies At Hospital John Hosea Kerr,, Jr., War renton attorney and political leader In the county and state for a quarter of a century, died on Tuesday night at War ren General Hospital after a brief Illness. He was 68 years old. Graveside services will be conducted at Fairvlew Ceme tery In W?rrentontocU-y (Thurs day^-jiftt 4 o'clock by the Rev. John'R. Link, pastor of the Warrenton Baptist Church, and the Rev. R. E. Brickhouse, a former pastor. The family suggests that those desiring to make me morial gifts to make them to the Warren General Hospital. The son of former Congress man John H. Kerr and Ella Lillian Foot e Kerr of Warren ton, Mr. Kerr was born at Warrenton on May 19, 1900. He attended public schools at Warrenton and was graduated from the old Graham School MRS. W. K. LANIER. JR. Mrs. Lanier Named 'Woman Of The Year' The "Woman of the Year" award was presented to Mrs. Gay Lanier at the Joint dinner meeting of the Warrenton Wo men's Club and the Warrenton Junior Woman's Club last Thursday night, May 23, at the Episcopal Parish House. The award was given to Mrs. Lanier In recognition of her outstand ing club work during the year. Mrs. R. B. Butler welcomed everyone and Introduced the special guests: Mrs. Jane Bak er, new district junior direc tor, Mrs. E. A. Letts, outgo ing president of District Four teen, and Mrs. Nancy Ayscue. Following the dinner, the business session of the Junior Woman's Club was presided over by Mrs. Gay Lanier, pres ident. Mrs. Donna Blaylock, chairman Of ways and means, reported that the club was most successful. Mrs. Sarah Ann Neal, public affairs chairman, reported that the De fensive Driving Course was completed and passed by seven of the club members. Two new, members, Mrs. Linda Cartir and Mrs. Edna Peoples were welcomed into the club. After the conclusion of the business sCMfton, Mrs. E. A. new officers Miss Mar I theme-"Keys to During the tn ?y, Mrs. Latta to each m explained the office. The new were Mrs. treasurer, aad Court House Needs Roof, Says G. Jury A Warren County Grand Jury on Tuesday reported that the roof of the court house Is badly In need of repair and recom mended that it be done at once. The jury also recommended that the Interior of the court house be painted. The Grand Jury In Its report to Judge Henry A. McKlnnon, Jr., presiding over the May term of Suprior Court, also recommended that the exterior of the jail be painted as soon as work on the kitchen Is com pleted. Otherwise affairs at the jail were In good order. The report stated that a com | mittee had visited the jail and found It clean, neat and well kept. The grounds are clean and neat and entire premises In good order, with the excep tion of exterior paint which is peeling. There were 12 in mates. Repairs to the jail recommended at the January session by the grand Jury has been started, and it ts under stood by the grand Jury that the work will be completed In three weeks. The report further stated that a committee visiting the Warren County Department of Correc tion reported 59 inmates, Including 25 on work release. The Department of Correction facilities were clean, neat, orderly and well kept. No recommendations were made. The committee Inspecting the Clerk's office, the Sheriff's of fice, Register of Deeds office, Auditor's office and other county facilities found these of fices In good condition and suf ficiently maintained financially by the county commissioners. A. E. Wilson was foreman of the Grand Jury. at Warrenton. He was a grad uate of the University of North Carolina where he was a member of the Golden Fleece and the Kappa Alpha Frater nity. He studied Law at George Washington University and Wake Forest College and had practiced law in Warrenton since 1930. He was a member of the War renton Baptist Church, the So ciety of the Cincinnati, and the North Carolina Bar Associa tion. On Saturday he was re elected chairman of the War ren County Democratic Execu tive Committee. Mr. Kerr served in the North Carolina House of Representa tives from Edgecombe County In 1929 and served nine terms in the House and one term in the Senate from Warren Coun ty. He was Speaker of the House in the session of 1943. He had been a member of a number of statewide govern mental committees and for a number of years was a trustee of the University of North Car olina. He had been chairman of the board of Trustees of Warren General Hospital since its opening and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company in Norlina and attor ney for the Town of Norlina. Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Hinton Duke of Richmond, Va.; one son, John Kerr, in, of Goldsboro; two grandsons, and one brother, James Y. Kerr of Warrenton. John Kerr Again Named Head Of Dem. Committee John Kerr, jr., was re elected chairman of the War ren County Democratic Execu tive Committee at a meeting of the committee immediately following adjournment of the County Convention on Saturday. Mrs. Walter Bender of Route 2, Norllna, was elected first vice chairman; Frank Banzet, second vice chairman; and Mrs. Manley Martin, secretary. The Warren County Demo cratic Convention convened In the Court House In Warrenton at 12 o'clock noon Saturday, May 25. The convention, which was well attended, was called to order by Frank Banzet, tem porary chairman and vice chairman of the County Demo cratic Executive Committee, who was elected permanent chairman. Mrs. Manley S. Mar tin served as secretary. The purpose of the con vention was to elect delegates and alternates to attend the State Convention which will be held at the Memorial Audi torium In Raleigh at 12 o'clock noon on Thursday, June 6. Delegates elected were Amos Capps, R. E. Fleming, W. R. Drake, J. Edward Rooker, T. T. Clayton, W. E. Turner, Charlie E. Fleming, T. P. Hicks, Mrs. Virginia Bender, John Kerr, Jr., W. M. Fleming and James C. Harris. Alternates elected were W. 8.1 Smiley, William Ellington, R. R. Davis, C. M. white, m. Oscar Williams, Mr a. W. P. Hooker, H. E. Dicker son, Mrs. J, Boyd Davis, Mrs. Mae C. dams, James H. Llmer, Mrs. c. B. Curtis, jr., aMI Court Is Still In Session The criminal term ofWarren County Superior Court, which convened here Monday morn ing with Judge Henry Mc Kinnon, Jr., of Fayetteville presiding, was still in session at press hour Wednesday at noon. Willie Jiggetts, was found guilty of an assault with a dead ly weapon and ordered to serve a 12 months road sentence. A 62-year-old itinerant Bap tist minister who spent the past month in Warren County Jail, was found guilty of forgery when he pled nolo contendere Tuesday. The Rev. C. T, Thompson, Negro, of Ocala, Fla., was sen tenced to 18 months on the roads by Judge McKinnon after being convicted of passing a worth less check for $145 at Red and White Supermarket at Norlina. He faced seven counts of forging checks totaling $1,300 while working in Warren, Hen derson and Alamance counties (See COURT, page 5) TO DELIVER ADDRESS The Rev. Grant Folmsbee, Professor of Psychology at At lantic Christian College, Wil son, will deliver the Com mencement Address to the graduating class at South War ren School on Wednesday, May 29th at 8:00 p. m. GRADUATES Miss Patricia Ann Lorenz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lorenz of Wise, graduated Sun day, May 26 from East Caro lina University, Greenville. She received an A, B. degree In Biology. Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz attended the graduation exer cises. Girl Receives $5000 Educational Grant Miss Yvonne Cheek of War renton has been awarded a $5,000 grant to participate In a Kodaly Fellowship, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, Congressman L. H. Fountain wired The War ren Record Tuesday from his Washington office. Under the program, Rep. Fountain said, ten young mu sicians will live In Hungarian homes studying at firsthand the Kodaly system of music edu cation In Hungarian schools during 1968-69 and return to the United States to plan de velopment of a new approach to music education In our schools. Miss Cheek, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cheek of Route 2, Warrenton, Is cur rently pursuing her master's degree In the School of Music at the University of North Car olina at Greensboro. She will receive a year of In-service training in Momentary and sec ondary schools In Budapest, Hungary, where the Kodaly method was originated. The second year of the fellowship will provide further training la United States, where the Kodaly will be pet to MASSENG1LL Massengill New Manager At CP&L H. V. Massengill, district service manager for Carolina Power & Light Company in San ford, has been promoted to manager of the power com pany's "office in Warrenton. He succeeds the late C. P. Gaston. A native of Pine Level, Mas sengill joined CP&L in 1946 in Goldsboro. He later held positions in Princeton and Ham let. In 1956 he was named CP&L's service representative in Yanceyville, and subse quently was promoted to assist ant to the district manager and district service manager in Sanford. While in Sanford he was a member of the Lions Club, ser ved on the board of directors of the Lee County United Fund and was a district deputy grand lecturer of the 30th Masonic District. He has also been ac tive in Boy Scout work and the Rotary Club. In Yanceyville he was a member of the board of deacons at the First Baptist Church. Massengill and his wife, the former Doris Byrd of Golds boro, have three children. Talent Show And Dress Review Is Held On Monday The Warren County 4-H Tal ent Contest was held Monday, May 27 at 7:30 p. m. at the Norllna High School Gymna torium. Three talent acts plac ed in the blue ribbon group and will be presented In the District contest to be held at Clayton High School, Clayton on June 20, 1968. The blue ribbon winning tal ent numbers were: a solo "I Believe" by William Crews; a dance routine by Mary Dowell Taylor, Paulette Robertson, Linda Holtzman, Bonnie Sue Gordon, Sallie Perklnson, Donna Sue Medlin; and a quar tet singing "Summertime." Thos In this group were Dlanna Hendricks, Richard Coleman, Mary Gwendolyn Coleman and Sandra D. Hendricks. Red ribbon winners were Linda and Richard Holtzman presenting a barber skit; Ar lene Bender playing a piano solo; Faye Hawks and Cheryl Gordon in a dance duet; Mary Gwendolyn Coleman, a piano solo; Laura Bender, a piano solo; Sondra Johnson and Eric John, a skit; Randy Newsome, Bob Walker and Steve Warren playing in a little combo; Randy Newsome playing a guitar solo and Tommie Craft singing "Edelweiss". White ribbon winners were Sondra Johnson doing a skit; Faye Hawks doing a dance solo; Sammy Bender singing "Stew Ball" and Lisa Brauer and Kathy Holtzman singing, "Mame." judges for the event were Mrs. Leonard Daniel, Mrs. Wil liam T. Skinner, in, and Mrs. O. B. Jenkins. Memorial Services Are Held At Areola Memorial services were held at the AroolaMethodlst Church on Sunday afternoon by the pas tor, the Rev. James Co lie. Tri bute* were paid to two members who died since last year, Mrs. Blanche Plttman and Mrs. Lola C. Harris.. by the choir. A large number at visitors attended. For Republicans Only Second Primary To Be Held Saturday MRS. R. B. BUTLER Mrs. Butler Is Named Woman Of The Year' Mrs. R. B. Butler, presi dent of the Warrenton Woman's Club for the past five years, was presented the Woman of the Year Award for the 1968 69 club year at a meeting of the club held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Parish House on Thursday night of last week. The engraved silver tray was presented to Mrs. Butler by Mrs. Leonard Daniel, first re cipient of the award in the War renton Woman's Club. Mrs. Butler, the outgoing president of the Warrenton Wo man's Club, has also served as first vice president and treasurer of the 14th district. She has recently been appointed State Chairman of the Contin uing Education and ESO pro gram under the Education De partment of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. During her administration, the Warrenton Junior Woman's Club was organized here. She has been active in Girl Scout work in Warren County for many years, having served several terms on the Bright Leaf Council in Durham and the Pines of Carolina Council in Raleigh, in addition to be ing a troop leader. Mrs. Butler is currently serving her second term on the State Board of the N. C. So ciety for Crippled Children and Adults, as well as being the state chairman of its program com mittee. As president of the Warrenton Woman's Club, she was automatically presi dent of the local Easter Seal Chapter. Mrs. Butler is listed in the 1962 edition of "North Caro lina Lives," and is a mem ber of the N. C. Literary and Historical Society. She has served for a number of years as treasurer of the Warren General Hospital Auxiliary and she and her husband were sponsers of the Warren Rec reation Club. In the recent gu bernatorial campaign, Mrs. Butler served as secretary of the Bob Scott committee in War ren County. Man Killed, Boy Hurt In Single-Car Wreck One man was killed and a teen-age boy Injured In a sin gle car accident near Inez on Sunday night. Richard Alston, 28, driver of the car, was killed when he was thrown from the car after it had crashed through a pasture fence and overturned and his passenger, Preston Williams, 18, was slightly Injured. The accident occurred on the Llcksklllet-Vlcksboro Road a mile east of Lick skillet around 7 o'clock. . Highway Trooper Wallace Brown, who investigated the accident, said that Alston lost control of the 1966 Chevrolet car on a carte at tie Scott Oardner pasture and that the car ran through the pasture fseee end overturned. He hi am ed high speed for the i at at 75 miles per hour when he lost control of the car. His seat belt had not been fastened. Brown said that had It been, Alston probably would not have been killed. Brown said that when ho ar rived at the scene, Williams had already been taken to Maria Par ham Hospital In Henderson, and he was told that he had been limping. Roy Lee Harmon and R. C. Comer of the Warrenton Rural fire Department went to the scene at the wreck and watted until Patrolman Brown i Alston, unmarried, la ported to have been In Warren o take his County to order to take to the hhottal Warren County and the State of North Carolina will have a second primary Saturday, June 1, but it will be strictly a Republican Primary as Robert Vance Somers and J. H. (Larry) Zimmerman seek the Republi can Nomination for United States Senate. Although several of Warren County's 14 precincts have no registered Republicans on their books, the law requires that all precincts in the county be open ed on Saturday from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m., and that all Regis trars promptly make known the results of the vote to the Chair man of the Board of Elections as soon as the count is complet ed. These returns will be transmitted to the state's wire service from the office of The Warren Record beginning at around 7 o'clock, or possibly earlier. In the May 4 Primary only 53 votes were cast for the Republican candidates for Gov ernor, which is believed to be near the maximum registration of Republicans in the county. No precinct cast as many as a dozen Republican ballots and four of the precincts cast no Republican ballots. With only two names on the ballot, this should enable the ballots to be counted within a matter of min utes. If registrars promptly carry out their instructions, returns should be in within some 30 minutes. This is quite a contrast to the May 4 Primary when it was around 9 o'clock before the first precinct reported, votes still being counted in several precincts on Sunday at 4 p. m. and one small precinct failing to make any returns at all until the official count on the follow ing Tuesday. Schools To End Work Next Week Warren County schools will end their 1967-68 year next week with baccalaureate ser mons in the high schools on Sunday, with John Graham hold ing its graduating exercises on Tuesday night when Dr. Leo Jenkins will be the guest speak er. The Rev. Robert W. Orvis will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday night. (Story on page 8). Commencement exercises will be held at the John R. Hawkins High School on Sunday at 2:30 p. m. with Dr. Charles Ward as the speaker. (Jstory on page 4). Norllna High School will hold its baccalaureate sermon on Sunday night with Dr. Cecil Rob bins delivering the sermon. Graduating exercises will be held on Tuesday night with Dr. Nell Rosser as the speaker. (Story on page 5). Calvin C. Johnson will de liver the commencement ad dress at North Warren High School on Monday night and the Rev. W. R. Wall will de liver the baccalaureate ser mon on Sunday. <&kory on page 4). TO PRESENT PLAY The Harris Kindergarten class will present a graduation Play, A Revue "A Through Z," at the Wasley Memorial Meth odist church on Friday, May 31, at 8 p. m. The play, origi nally scheduled for night, was postponed due tot illness of one of Mat . The public is invited.
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