FewApaper an* mrar ? *r? r^fr-YW ? '? . The *tandard Printing Qo. Ino. P. 0. Bo* 1756, LottlavlU? 1?*T* 4.2.1 Errors VOLUME 72 Subscription: $3.00 A Year; $4.00 Out Of State, 10* Per Copy WARRENT0N, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. THURSDAY. IUNE 20. 1968 NUMBER 25 ? v. - -? - - ?? - ? -- " = - The Warren County Cucumber Committee are pictured, left to right: Milton King, station manager, Mount Olive Pickle Connany; Richard Davis, contest chairman; I.. B. Hardage, county extension chairman: Scott Gardner, president, Warren County Chamber of Commerce; R. V. (Buck) Fleming, Jr., field director, Perfect Pack Pickle Company: and L, C. Cooper, agricultural extension agent. Hot) Butler, field director, Mount Olive Pickle Company, was not present when the picture was m ade. Cucumber Yields Contest To Be Held A county-wide cucumber yield contest will be sponsor ed by the Warren County Cham ber of Commerce this year with the sanction of county mer chants. L. C. Cooper, Agricul tural Extension Agent, announc ed yesterday. The major purpose of the contest, the first to be held in Warren County, is to en courage the development of new production techniques and to promote record keeping, Coop er said. Growers will compete for station prizes and county priz es. To enter, growers can get an entry sheet from any sta tion manager or at the county extension officers. Growers are required to keep accurate re cords of cucumber yields, and measure size of field harvest ed. Cooper said that cucumber production came to Warren County in 1944, according to Bob Butler, field director, Mount Olive Pickle Company. He said his company started with one station with less than 50 acres of cucumber. Farmers received in 1944 two cents for No. l's; one cent for No. 2'd and l/2 cent for No. 3's. This year the farm ers will receive 7 cents for No. l's, 3 1/2 cents for No. 2's, and 1 1/2 cents for No. 3's. Butler said Mount Olive con tracts over 1,000 acres in War ren County, employing over 104 workers at 10 cucumber buying stations during the harvest sea son, with a payroll exceeding $425,000 for trucking, labor and green cucumbers. Brookneal Pickle Company started buying cucumbers in the Warrenton area In the late forties and now has eight sta tions servingthe Warren Coun ty area. Brookneal contracts an estimated 800 acres with a payroll in excess of $375,000 for labor, cucumbers and trans portation, according to R. V. Fleming, field director for Per fect Pack Pickle Company. Cooper said that the cucum ber committee reports that the 19G8 crop looks very good and growers are expected to exceed last year's record of gross in come. Board Goes On Record As Opposing Gun Laws The Board of Warren Ccran tv Commissioners went on re cord as opposing all gun regis tration and control bills at a WORKMEN SHOWN ERECTING WATER TANK WEDNESDAY Water Tank Being Erected A 150,000-gallon water tank > for the Town of Warrenton U being erected on a site at the Warrenton Fair Grounds by R, G. Coleman Manufacturing Company of Nerwnan, Oa. Footing for the tank completed several weeks ago by H. W. Cornell, a sub-contrac tor, who also has the eon tract for making water connec tions, bat It before the first arrived. A work was done on Friday but It was Monday before work was started In earnest. While the completion date is August 12, those In charge of erecting the tank say they win oomplete the Job within four weeks, J. Ed. Booker, town manager said yesterday. ?* After the tank Is erected, con nections will have to be made fence around ^he s say that the entl ' ' ' . . : Job will be completed by August 12, the completion date set In the contract. The contract price for the tank, Including foundation, water connections and a fence around the property la $82,063. However, Hooker said, thla U not the complete coat of the pro ject, The total coat la expect ed to be around $70,000, he said. The teak wW repine, a78,000 gallon tank <**royed in a fire hereon Aug. 16, 1807. : : special meeting'held here on Tuesday morning. On motion of Commissioner A. J. Ellington, seconded by Commissioner Richard Davis, the following recommendation was adopted. "Resolved that the Board of Commissioners of Warren County does hereby pet it ion the Congress of the United States of America to vote against any and all gun registration and gun control bills presented to it in order that the constitution al right to keep and bear arms may be preserved." Kate White Williams Dies At Hospital Miss Kate White Williams, 75, died in Warren General Hospital on Tuesday after a long illness. Miss Williams, the daughter of the late Sol Williams and Kate White Williams, was born in Fork Township, but moved to Warrenton with her family when she was a young girl. For many years she was em ployed as a bookkeeper by Bur roughs Grocery Company. She was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Funeral services will be con ducted today (Thursday) at 11 a. m at Emmanuel Episcopal Church by the Rector, the Rev. Robert Orvis. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Petar of Warren ton and Mrs. J. w. Turman of Richmond, Va. Dog Owners' Neglect Hay Bring Arrest Warren County residents who have not listed and had their dogs vaccinated are now subject to prosecution, C. J. Fleming, Dog Warden, said yesterday. Dog owners had until June 1 to list and vaccinate their dogs and after 14 days notice by the dog warden became subject to prosecution. Fleming said that he has al ready issued eight warrants to those he has notified and will issue warrants tor the arrest of others who have not complied with the law as soon as the 14 day notification period has Mrs. w. P. Raitord, Jr., at Charlotte Is spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mra. Mildred Wagner is visiting friends and relatives in Texas. Residential Building Ups Values In Warren County Hearing On Roads Is Held Here Real estate developments were responsible for the ma jority of requests for road im provements at a public meeting with highway commission offi cials at the court house here last Thursday morning. Meeting with the county com missioners to discuss road problems with Interested citi zens were J. B. Brame, High way Commissioner for the fifth division, and Merle Adkins, di vision engineer, both of Dur ham, Wayne Adkins, district engineer, of Henderson, and J. H. Beddinfield, county super visor. Amos L. Capps, chairman of the board of county commissioners, presided over the meeting. Presented by Chairman Capps, Commissioner Brame briefly outlined the highway commission organization and duties. The highway com missioners, who receive $7.00 a day for their services, Brame said, have final authority and are responsible for the overall organizational procedure. Us ually the division and district engineers have much of the re sponsibility for determining what roads should be added to the system, stabilized, or paved, under a priority system. Divisiog Engineer Merle Ad kins, presen5ed8 (?a in River $1,900,410 $2,014,938 $ 59,028 Sixpound 1,196,670 1,248,422 01,702 Hawtree 1,000,837 1,620,048 69,211 Smith Creek 2,618,787 2,707,007 138,220 Nutbush 1,274,321 1,363,272 89,901 Sandy Creek 1,309,686 1,322,400 12,714 Shocco 726,932 700,182 23,250 Fishing Creek 1,033,282 1,081,507 48,225 Judkins 1,386,938 1,421,388 34,400 Warrenton 6,937,962 7,049,963 112,001 Fork ? 708,745 769,059 10,314 Roanoke 545,608 273,320 Wildwood Point 643,402 371,119 $21,295,178 $22,314,913 $1,019,735 Corporation 2,518,879 2,518,879* ?Estimate $23,814,057 $24,833,792 $1,019,735 Commissioners Choose Community Action Agency Franklin-Vance-Warren Op portunity, Inc., was designated as the Community Action Agen cy for Warren County at a spec ial hearing held by the Board of County Commissioners In the courtroom on Tuesday morning. J. H. Limer, county attorney presided over the public meeting, at the request of vice chairman Richard R. Davis, who was serving in the absence of Chairman Amos L. Capps. Limer announced that notice of the hearing had been given in both The Warren Record and the Littleton Observer and the purpose of the meeting was to have an expression from the public. No one spoke against the proposal. George Boyd, director of the FVWO, said that several of the commissioners were familiar with the organization and ask ed for an expression from the members. They said that they felt that the organization would be the proper agency for the county. The motion to make the FVWO the action agency for the coun ty was made by Commissioner A. J. Ellington, seconded by Commissioner Robert Thorne and passed With no opposition. Commissioners present at the meeting were Vice Chair man. Richard R. Davis, and Commissioners A. J. Ellington, and Robert Thorne. REV. L. T. WILSON Ted Wilson Is Chosen As lion Of The Year' Lion L. T. (Ted) Wilson was chosen as the Lion of the Year at the regular meeting of the War renton Lions Club last Friday night. Lion Wilson, pastor of Wesley Memorial Methodist Church for the past four years, has been a member at the local club during all that period. He has been the leader of the Little League baseball project to which he devoted consider able time to get it properly organised and running smooth ly, and has been active la all phases of Lions work. Mr. Wilson took an active pert in the United Methodist General Oonferenoe. at Dallas, Texas, when he was one of the two ministers reoordh* the proceedings at the two weeks meeting which ended on May S. His father, the Rev. W. < of Raleigh, t! Mr. and Mrs. gem ference Journal at this meet ing. Lion Wilson was rece-Jy re turned to Warrentrj tor fifth-year term as pastor of Wesley Memorial Church by the North Carolina Methodist Con ference. Lion Duke Miles made a re port of the recent State Con vention at Ashevllle and recog nised all the Lions that attend ed tor brief reports. President F. P.WhlUeypre sided over the meeting held at the Rural Fire Department Hall where Chef Henry My rick i a delicious pH Million Dollar Increase Taxable values >>ow an in crease of mire that one mil lion dollars in War'en County last year, according to figures on file in the office of A. P. Rod well, Jr., tax supervisor. Since taxable values are bas ed on 40 percent of the as sessed values, the actual in crease duringtheone-year per iod was more than two and one half-million. Taxable valuations in 1967 were $23,814,057, and in 1967 these values had increased to $24,833,792, if the same cor poration values are used in 1968 as were used in 1967. Rodwell explained that corporation values are assessed by the state and have not yet been reported, which might change the final total to a de gree. However, he said, the corporation values usually show a slight increase each year. For this reason these estimated values are included in the final total by this newspaper. Practically all the increase in valuations are credited to an increase in residential build ing, with the development of property around Gaston Lake responsible for the greater part of the increase. Property valuations in Roa noke Township, which In 1967 showed an increase over 1966, again showed a big in crease in 1968. The $371,119 increased for the year was slightly less than 70 percent. The development of Wildwood Point was responsible for much of the increase in Roanoke Township. In 1967 all of Roa noke Township was included In the $545,608 valuation. In 1968 Wildwood was listed separate ly for $643,402, and the rest of the township was list ed at $273,325, for a total of $916,727. The greatest increase in the county, $371,119 was in Roa noke Township, and the least increase, $10,314, was in Fork Township. The impact of Gaston Lake on valuations in Roanoke Town I ship is shown by the rise in I values since the lake was built. Five years ago the valuation in Roanoke was $187,944: it was the smallest in population of all the 12 townships, with pro spects of advancement perhaps the least promising. Today its valuation is $916,727. still third from the bottom, but with in dications that it may soon be one of the counties most pros perous townshinc Han And Wife Are Elected To Offices A Warren County man and his wife were elected to office at the 61st annual convention of the North Carolina Association , of Launderers and Dry Clean ers held at the Statler Hil ton Inn in Raleigh June 12-13. Mrs. Graham Grissom of Norllna was elected president of the Launderers and Dry Clean ers Auxiliary. She had ser ved as vice president In 1967. Graham P. Grissom, Mayor of Nor line, was elected vice president of the association's central division. He has ser ved on the board of direc tors for a number of years. ? Mrs. Grissom own