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Members of the Harris Kindergarten graduation class are
pictured during exercises held at the Sunday School room of
Wesley Memorial Church on May 31. Shown with their teacher,
Mrs. A. D. Harris, the graduates are, left to right: Janice
Ormsby, Leslie Harris, Jay Johnson, David Smith, DebraNeal,
Sabrina Haithcock, Kim Barham, and Linda Bunch.
Warren Families Urged To
Apply For Food Stamp Aid
Needy families In Warren
County should apply as soon as
possible for assistance under
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture's Food Stamp Pro
gram, so they can be certified
in time to receive help when the
program gets underway on July
1, USDA's Consumer and Mar
keting Service said yesterday.
The Consumer and Market
ing Service and the Warren
County Department of Public
Welfare pointed out that there is
no deadline for families to apply
for food stamp assistance, how
ever. Needy persons may apply
at any time, Including after the
opening date. However, those
who apply now will have an
opportunity to be interviewed
and possibly certified in time to
start getting food stamp cou
pons when the program first
opens.
Julian Farrar, Director of the
Warren County Welfare Depart
ment, said needy persons in
Warren County may apply for
food stamp assistance Mondays
through Fridays from 8:30 a. m.
to 4:00 p. m at the Warren
County Courthouse.
In Warren County where
USDA's Commodity Distribu
tion Program will be replac
ed by the food stamp program,
all persons who now get free
commodities should apply for
food stamp aid, Farrar noted.
Farrar said that all other
persons who have low Incomes
and are not able to buy enough
food to give their families what
they need should also apply for
assistance. Among those often
eligible are retired persons liv
ing on small pensions and any
one receiving welfare help such
as aid to dependent children,
aid to the blind, aid to the dis
abled, and old age assistance.
Farrar urged all needy per
sons in the county to go to the
welfare office as soon as pos
sible and ask about the food
stamp program. All persons
must be interviewed to find out
if they are eligible, and must
be given identification cards,
before they may swap their
grocery money for USDA food
coupons and use the coupons
to buy food.
Those taking part in the pro
gram swap what they normal
ly could be expected to spend
on food for food coupons, then
receive extra, free coupons.
The extra coupons help food
stamp families buy more food
without spending extra money?
resulting in a boost in sales
at local grocery stores and
better diets for the low-income
families.
The food stamp program
is administered in each state
by the state welfare agency
and the Consumer and Market
ing Service.
More than ninety counties in
eight southeastern states are
among the over 400 areas
designated for the food stamp
program during this fiscal year.
Man Killed When Struck
By Truck Near Manson
HENDERSON-A 60year-old
pedestrian was killed almost
Instantly when struck byatruck
on the rain-sllckened U. S.
Highway 1 lr Warren County,
some 50 yards north of the
Vance-Warren county line, at
6:30 o'clock Sunday.
Trooper V. R. Vaughan, of
the State Highway Patrol, said
the victim of the highway tra
gedy was Harry Lee Dur
ham, of Route 2, Norllna, who
apparently was crossing the
highway to his home at the time.
The accident occurred between
Henderson and Norllna, six and
a half miles south of Norllna.
Driver of the 1963 model truck
Involved was listed as Albert
Lee Lynch, 54, also of Route
2, Norllna.
The Impact shoved Durham
off of the highway to the right
and the truck likewise veered
off the road to the right afte^
striking the victim.
Trooper Vaughan said his In
vestigation Indicated that Dur
ham ran from behind an un
identified southbound vehicle
directly Into the path of the
truck traveling north on U; S.
1. Rain was falling at the time
In the area. The Investigation
was continuing but no charges
were tiled against the driver
immediately. Damages to the
truck were estimated at $75
to the front.
Crusade Chairman Thanks
Assistants And Public
Mrs. Irene Dlckerson, chair
man of the Warren County
Cancer crusade which began
In the county on May 1, said
yesterday that the campaign Is
practically completed and that
she would like to thank her co
workers and the public tor the
support that made the crusade
a success.
Norllna led the county In the
size of its donation, Mrs. Dlck
erson said, with $2*54, with
Warren ton second with $177.
However, she added, Warren
ton's return Is not quite com
plete. Some $600 was realis
ed as a remit of the crusade.
Mrs. Dlckerson listed can
vassers In the various com
munities of Warren county as
follows:
Warrenton?junior Woman's
Club.
Norllna - Mrs. Clint Hsge,
chairman; Mrs. T. W. Stalllngs,
Mrs. A. H. Fdller, Mrs. Owen
Robertson, Jr.,J
lor, Mrs. Irving Hayes, Mrs.
Cecil Baughman, Mr. Clyde Ed
wards.
Rldgeway ? Mrs. Eva Holts -
man, chairman; Miss Linda
Holt z in an, Miss Rebscca Col
lins, Mrs. Rosa Russell.
Wise - Mrs. Joe Rlggan,
chairman, Dorothy Simmons,
Cindy Simmons, Nancy Sim
mons.
Alton- Elberon? Miss Sandra
Munn.
Warren Plains?Miss Gwen
Allen.
Vaughan?Mrs. Vera Sadler.
Churchill ? Miss Lorstta
Lynch.
Oakvllle - Mrs. Phyllis
Vaughan.
Airport Road- Mrs. Grace
Rudd, Miss Susanne Rudd, Miss
Anne Young. . .
Harrlstown Road ? Mrs.
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vance nooertson.
Bobro-Mrs* joe Orler.
Macon-Mrs.
GARDNER
Jim Gardner Pays
Visit To Warrenton
Jim Gardner, Republican
nominee for the office of Gov
ernor of North Carolina, was
In Warrenton for a short while
on Tuesday afternoon In the In
terest of his candidacy.
Gardner made no speech dur
ing his 4:30 stop at the War
renton Courthouse, but shook
hands and talked with a num
ber of persons. A small crowd
was present.
Gardner had attended a
luncheon at Roanoke Rapids at
1 p. m. and spent a short time
at Littleton at 3:30 p. m. en
route to Warrenton. From War
renton he went to Loulsburgtor
a barbecue supper and rally.
In Hospital
Patients In Warren General
Hospital were listed Wednesday
morning as follows;
Kate Halthcock, Florene
Hardy, Dorothy Dennis, Louis
Hutton, J. L. Overby, Milton
BthelLoyd, Hunter Pln
Funeral Rites For
Mrs. Poindexter Are
Held On Monday
r unerai services for Mrs.
Gordon W. Polndexter, 63, were
conducted at 10 a. m. Monday at
Emmanuel Episcopal Church by
the rector, the Rev. Robert
Orvls and the Rev. Charles
Penlck, rector of the Church
of the Good Shepherd In Rocky
Mount. Interment was In Fair
view Cemetery.
Mrs. Polndexter died at Kor
negay Sanatorium In Rocky
Mount Saturday after a short
Illness.
Mrs. Polndexter, the former
Martha Reynolds Price, was the
daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Edward C. Price and was
born In Warrenton on May 31,
1905, and married Mr. Poln
dexter In February 1938. She is
a graduate of John Graham
High School and shortly after
her graduation accepted a posi
tion In the office of Carolina
Power and Light Company
where she was employed at the
time of her death and where
she worked for 42 years. She
was a member of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church and St.
Mary's Guild.
Surviving are her husband;
two sisters, Mrs. Mary Eleanor
Grant and Mrs. Eugene Gay,
Jr., of Warrenton; one broth
er, John Cary Price of Mem
phis, Tenn.; and two stepsons,
Dr. James Edward Polndexter
of Harrisonburg, Va., and Gor
don Wallace Polndexter, Jr., of
Waynesboro, Va.
Pallbearers were GidMacon,
Jack Harris, James Y. Kerr,
Wallace Allen, Pett. Boyd, Hugh
Holt, A. A. Williams, and W.
W. Taylor, Jr., of Raleigh.
Funeral Rites For
Miss Anne Burwell
To Be Held Today
Miss Anne Taylor Burwell,
70, died at her residence on
Fairvlew Street In Warrenton
about 11:30 p. m. Sunday, June
9.
Miss Burwell was a member
of the Wesley Memorial Metho
dist Church of which she was
also serving on the Board of
Stewards. She was also a mem
ber of the Colonial Dames.
Funeral services will be con
ducted from the Wesley Memor
ial Methodist Church Thursday,
June 13 at 11:00 a. m. by the
pastor, the Rev. L. T. Wilson,
interment will follow In Fair
view Cemetery.
Miss Burwell Is survived by
three sisters: Mrs. J. O. Ellis
and Mrs. J. Shlpp McCarroll
both of Warrenton and Mrs,
Alice Miller of Clearwater,
Fla.; one brother M. P. Bur
well, jr., of Warrenton. A num
ber of nelces and nephews also
survive.
The family requests that la
lieu of flowers donations be
made to the Bidowment Fund of
the Wesley Memorial Church.
Road Meet
To Be Held
Here Today
Amos L. Capps, chairman of
the Warren County Board of
Commissioners, yesterday re
quested that the public again be
reminded of the public meeting
of the Highway Commission this
morning (Thursday).
Highway officials will hold the
meeting in the court room of the
Warren County courthouse from
10 a. m. until 12 noon.
Capps said that J. B. Brame,
Division Highway Commis
sioner; Merle Adkins, division
engineer, and Wayne Adkins,
district engineer, would be pre
sent to discuss the priority sys
tem of surfacing roads, and
other highway problems of the
county. He said that persons
desiring to discuss their road
problems are urged to attend the
meeting.
School Libraries To
Be Open To Public
Wednesday night will be li
brary night in five Warren
County schools, Mrs. Kate N.
Harvey, library supervisor of
Warren County schools, an
nounced yesterday.
The schools are Hawkins,
North Warren, Northside, South
Warren and Vaughan.
Parents, friends and students
are invited to visit the librar
ies between 6:30 and 9 p. m.
each Wednesday during the
summer where they may read,
listen to recordings and see
.films, Mrs. Harvey said. Cer
tificates will be awarded to
participants reading the re
quired number of books.
Mrs. Harvey said the Haliwa
Library will be open on Tues
day nights rather than on Wed
nesdays.
OES Grant Made For
Food, Medical Service
Franchise Granted To
Natural Gas Company
The Public Service Company
of North Carolina was on Mon
day night given a 30-year fran
chise for operating ' a natural
gas utility system, within the
Town of Warrenton.
The franchise was granted by
the Board of Town Commis
sioners at their regular, meet
ing on Monday night when a
motion to grant the franchise j
passed its second and final
reading. The motion was made
by Commissioner Durwood
Johnson, seconded by Commis
sioner Gordon Haithcock, and
was unanimously passed.
The first passage of amotion
to grant the franchise was made
at the regular meeting of the
town board at its May meeting,
after W. Hughes Boland and
Kent Burns, representatives of
Kerr Funds To Be
Used At Hospital
Funds donated to the John
Kerr, Jr., Memorial Fund at
Warren General Hospital will
be used for the renovation of a
room and the purchase of an
electric bed, Sherrill Harris,
hospital manager, said yester
day.
Prior to Mr, Kerr's funeral
the family had requested that
memorial gifts be made to War
ren General Hospital in lieu of
flowers.
the gas company, appeared be
fore the board to explain plans
for bringing gas service to the
town and to ask for the fran
chise.
Kent said at that time that
it appears that gas service
(See GRANT, page 2)
Ten Warren 4-H'ers
Are District Winners
The summary of 1968 Dis
trict winners in 4-H club re
cords for the East Central Dis
trict recently released by the
State 4-H Club Office shows that
Warren County has ten district
winners, L. B. Hardage, county
extension chairman, announced
yesterday.
The winners and the areas
in which they were named win
ner are as follows:
Claiborne Holtzman, Boys
Achievement; Hal Paschall, 4-H
Alumni; Mrs. William T. Skin
ner, III, 4-H Alumni; Arlene
Bender, Girl's Citizenship and
Recreation; Linda Holtzman,
Dog Care and Training; Phillip
Fleming, Field Crops and Poul
try; Sidney Fleming, Blue Rib
bon group in Health; Mary Cole
man, Girl's Leadership.
In an earlier announcement
from the State 4-H Club Office,
Mrs. William T. Skinner had
been named a State 4-H Alumni
winner.
To Apply
In Warren,
Franklin
Franklin-Vance-Warren Op
portunity, Inc., has been noti
fied that a grant in the amount
of $42,738 has been made for
an Emergency Food and Medi
cal Service program for Frank
lin and Warren County, Claude
Dunston, deputy director, an
nounced yesterday.
The grant will be made
through the Office of Economic
Opportunity office in Washing
ton, D, C.
Dunston said that the grant is
for a six months program to
provide emergency food and
medical services to low in
come residents of rranklin and
Warren County who are suf
fering from malnutrition and
are at present not receiving
assistance from other sources.
He said that as soon as funds
are received the program will
be immediately put into opera
tion under the administration
of Franklin-Vance-Warren Op
portunity, Inc., through its
neighborhood center component
in the two counties.
The program will provide for
emergency food purchases of
food stamps for persons with
no Income; school lunches for
school children where provision
for lunches are not available;
emergency food for short time
(temporary) assistance; and
medical examination and treat
ment for health problems caus
ed by hunger and malnutrition.
Dunston said that the opera
tion of this program is de
vised so that maximum funds
will be spent for the benefit
of the recipients in the program.
He said that this program will
assist and supplement all exist
ing programs concerned with
solving the problems of poverty
with no reduction in their ef
forts due to this program.
Winners In the dress revue pictured shore are, Ml to right: Linda Kimball,
junior apron division; Laura Bender, winner in Junior dress division; and Arlene Bender,
senior dress revue winner.
Arlene Bender Is Dress Revue Winner
Arlene Bender of the Afton
Elberon-Vlcksboro 4-H Club
?u declared county winner In
the 4-H Dress Revue hold Fri
day, June 7, In the Warren
County A*rl cultural Bulldlnf.
will represent Warren
In the district contest
20 tf Clayton
Gwendolyn Davis,
of cool torings Sen
Club, nasi
the
placed first in the dress divi
sion and Linda Kimball placed
first In the apron division.
Other contest Mit a with their
placings were: ' ?
Senior Division: red ribbon
i Novella Branch, Kay
ners?Suzanne Bunder, Pa
Fleming, Linda HU1 and 1
Mitchell; white ribboni
Jan Ellington, Dorothy Hill,
Dafiyn PaachaU aid Sara Jo
Payntar.
for the contest
County Homh I
Grocers Reminded
Of Special Meeting
Here On June 18
Sam W. Pope, officer In
charge of the Consumer Food
Program field office in Rocky
Mount, reminds all Warren
County grocers of the special
grocer meeting at the Warren
ton Courthouse on Tuesday,
June 18, at 2:30 p. m.
The meeting has been sche
duled by the USDA's Consumer
and Marketing Service to ex
plain how food retailors may
take part in the new Food Stamp
program scheduled to begin in
Warren County on July 1.
Pointing out that grocers can
not accept food coupons until
they have been authorized to
do so, Pope said that it is Im
portant for all food retailers In
Warren County to attend the
grocer's meeting. R could mean
more money In their cash regis
ters, he added.
Stepkeas To Hood
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