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VOLUME 72 Subscription: $3.00 A Year; $4.00 Out Of State, 10* Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1968 NUMBER 46
Moving Tank
McLean Tank Company of Gastonia is shown trucking back a tank leased to the Town of War
renton last September following a warehouse fire here last August when the town's water tank
was destroyed. The erection of a new water tank here was completed several weeks ago.
Snow Storm Causes Civil Term
Of Court To Recess On Tuesday
A Civil Term of Warren
County Superior Court, which
convened her eon Monday morn
ing with Judge Walter Bone
of Nashville presiding, recess
ed Tuesday on account of the
heavy snow storm. j
Judge Bone arrived Tuesday
morning to preside over the
court, but the storm which was
much worse in the western part
of the county, prevented the
court stenographer and a num
ber of jurors from appearing.
At the end of the session on
Monday a jury had been em
paneled to hear the caseofBut
ler Land and Timber Company,
Inc., vs. Mercury Motor Ex
press, Inc., and W. E. Stew
art. Trial of this case was
"fffsumed on Wgahesday morn
ing.
Four divorce cases were dis
posed of at Monday's session.
Rebecca Clyde Mitchell Neal
was granted a divorce from
Vance Nicholas Neal.
Mary Floyd Williams was
granted a divorce from Willie
George Williams and the cus
tody of the two minor children
were given to the mother.
Ethel Williams Davis was
SIDNEY FLEMING
Eagle Scout Badge Is
Presented To Fleming
Sidney P. Fleming, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney P.
Fleming of Route 2, Header
son, was awarded the Eagle
Scout badge In ceremonies held
In the Shocco Methodist Church,
Sunday, Nor. 10.
Members of the Moratoc Dis
trict who participated In the
presentation were District
Chairman Dr. 8. H. Massey, Jr.,
District damping Chairman
W. K. "Bill" Delbridge; and
Scoutmaster Thurman R. Bat
ten. Delbridge opened by recog
nizing the individuals who had
played * part in the candidate
becoming an Eagle Scout and
the philosophies of the Boy 8oout
program, correlating ihetn with
those of the church.
Chairman Mtttsey hadB
Scout Fleming reaffirm i
dedicate himself to the
?Pie" of
an Eagle Scout. The parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Flaming, ware
also recognised by the chairman
tor their Individual efforts on
the part of their son. Scoutmas
ter Batten read aletter from the
National Headquarters ad
dressed to Eagle Scoot Fleming
and gave some of the requisites
to becoming an Eagle Scoot.
On the road to achieving this
signal honor, Sidney has been
the recipient of many awards,
one being the God and Country.
Most recently he was the key
to Troop 016 receiving top hon
ors In a swim meet at Camp
Durant. He is a certified Scout
Lifeguard, a member at
Order of the Arrow, and ser
ves is junior .
of his i
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granted a divorce from John
R. Davis.
Margaret Clements Gibson
Harris was granted a divorce
frorfT"John Douglas Harris.
A number of cases that
had been on the docket for
years were non-suited in an
effort to clear the court
dockets. In a number of cases
plaintiffs and/or defendants
were dead. Among these cases
were: Laura Plummer vs.
Charlie Debnam; Charles L.
Terrell vs. J. H. Duke and Mrs.
J. H. Duke; Annie T. Burwell,
extrx. of M. P. Burwell, vs.
Charles L. -Pu*dy, - t/A
Warrenton Bonded Warehouse;
Miller and Rhoads, Inc., vs.
Mrs. W. H. (Lizzie) Nichol
son; Boyd-Boyce Motor Com
pany, Inc., vs. C. C. Harris;
White's Building Supplies, Inc.,
vs Page Perklnson; J. C. Wat
kins vs. State Highway and Pub
lic Works Commission and J, M.
Gregory; Mrs. Alice Booker
vs. Norwood Newman, Z. M.
Newman, W. E. Hundley, and E.
D. Collins; J. D. Dickerson
vs. M. S. Dryden.
Expansion Of Norlina
Telephone System
Is Now Underway
Improvement and expansion
of the Norlina telephone ex
change Is now underway.
Howard T. Pitts, local man
ager for Carolina Telephone,
said yesterday that a $13,700
program Is In progress to ex
pand the company's central
office equipment here.
Included In the project will be
Installation of equipment to
provide facilities to serve 150
new telephones for subscribers
In this area and permit bet
ter grades of service to pre
sent subscribers.
Pitts said that the growth of
Norlina In recent years has
brought about an Increased de
mand for telephone service.
This demand has taxed the capa
city of present equipment.
Telephones In this area have
increased from 400 to more
than 1,000 in the past ten years.
"The construction program
her* Is In keeping with Caro
lina Telephone's continuing
program to fulfill the tele
phone needs of the communities
It serves," Pitts pointed out.
Pttts Mid, "The new im
provement sad expansion pro
gram at Norlina was engineer
ed to allow for Maptoas growth
In the future."
Children's Seraioa
Willlard N. Doyle, a senior
at Union Theological SemLu
ary In Rlchmood, Va., who has
supplying the Warranto*
for
Knight To
Head Norlina
Ruritan Club
Leon Knight was elected
president of the Norlina rturi
ton Club for the ^ar^!969
at a regular meeting of the
club at the Norlina Woman's
Clubhouse on Tuesday night.
Leonard Bender, president,
presided.
Other officers elected were
James White, vice president;
Tommy Frazier, secretary;
and Hal Paschall, treasurer.
Stephen Daniel was elected to
the board of directors for a
three-year term.
Mrs. Jim Beckwith, Warren
County schools attendance of
ficer, was the guest speak
er. She talked on school at
tendance and the legal impli
cation of undue absences.
Clyde Edwards led in sing
ing one verse of "America."
Graham Grissom gave the in
vocation. President Bender re
ported on the district conven
tion to be held at Raleigh on
Saturday, Nov. 16.
License Bureau Has
Reopened Here
The Warren County License
Bureau, which has been clos
ed tor several months, reopen
ed Tuesday morning, Scott
Gardner, president of Warren
County Chamber of Commerce,
announced yesterday.
The office in the Taylor build
ing will be operated by Mrs.
Roy Pat Robertson from 9 to 1,
Monday through Friday.
The bureau is sponsored by
the Warren County Chamber of
Commerce and the office is
tattled next to the office of
the Industrial Commission
on the first floor of the Tay
lor Building.
Gardner said that the Cham
ber is highly pleased that a
license office will be main
tained here.
Dr. Rufus S. Jones
Local Dentist, Retires
Dr. hufus S. Jones, DDS,
who has maintained a dental
office here since-Jan. 1, 1932,
has retired, effective immed
iately/
Dr. Jones, whose grandpar
ents were the late Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Hunter of Alton,
has been active in the business,
religious and social life of
the town since coming to War
ren ton. He is married to the
former Miss Fannie House
Scoggin of Warren too. They
have two sons, Dr. Lon Jones
of Scotia, N. Y., Dr. Sidney
Jon en of Morrlstown, N. J.,
and Miss Scoggin Jones, a stu
dent at SI. Margaret's School,
Tappshsnnocfe, Va., sad one
'
Jury Says
Defendant
Not Guilty
Only one jury case was tried
in Warren County Recorder's
Court last Friday when Freddie
Lewis Hicks, charged with
drunk driving was found not
guilty.
Gracie Taylor Burton, charg
ed with drunk driving, entered
a plea of nolo contendere. She
was ordered to pay a $100
fine and court costs.
Leonza Hill, who pled guilty
to a charge of drunk driving,
was ordered to pay a $100
find and court costs.
The State took a nol pros in
the case of Thomas Sidney Lea,
Jr., charged with allowing drunk
driving.
Vance Neal was In court
charged with affray, assaulting
an officer and resisting arrest
and pled not guilty to all the
charges. At the conclusion of
the State's evidence the defend
ant moved for a verdict of not
guilty. The motion was allow
ed as to the charge of resist
ing arrest, overruled as to af
fray and assault. The defend
ant tendered a plea of nolo
contendere of charge of affray.
Prayer for judgment was con
tinued upon payment of costs.
The State took a nol pros in
the case of Leonza Hill, charg
ed with possession and trans
porting non-taxpaid whiskey.
Thomas Sidney Lea, Jr.. was
ordered to pay a $50 fine and
court costs when he pled guilty
to a charge of possession of non
taxpaid whiskey.
The State took a nol pros with
leave in the case of J. A. Phil
lips, charged with public drunk
enness.
Ronald David Carter was
sentenced to the roads for 12
months when he was found guil
ty of an assault with a deadly
weapon. He was also ordered
to pay into the office of the
Clerk of Superior Court the sum
of $20 for the use of Frances
Paschall and pay costs.
Frank Hunter Bolton, charged
with reckless driving and trans
porting non-taxpaid liquor with
seal broken, pled guilty. He
was ordered to surrender his
operator's license for 30 days,
not operate a motor vehicle upon
the public highways of the state
for 30 days and pay court costs.
Lany Darnell Perry, who
pled guilty to having no opera
tor's license, was ordered
(See COURT, page 2)
Home Funeral Is
Held Here Sunday
Funeral services for Graham
Daniel Horne, 67, were held at
2 p. m. Sunday at Wesley Me
morial Methodist Church by the
Rev. L. T. Wilson. Burial was
In Plneview Cemetery In Rocky
Mount.
Mr. Horne died Friday at
Warren General Hospital after a
long illness. He was the son of
Mrs. Flora Graham Horne of
Warrenton and the late Mr.
Horne of Rocky Mount, a grad
uate of Cornell University, he
was associated with Creola
Petroleum Corp., In Venezuela
for more than 20 years. He re
tired to Warrenton In 1953 and
was a past president of the
Warrenton Rotary Club.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Margaret Whltaker Horne; two
daughters, Mrs. William W.
Avery, Jr., of Winston-Salem
and Mrs. Worth A. Lutz, Jr.,
of Durham; his mother, Mrs.
Henry Horne of Rocky Mount;
and a sister, Mrs. William
Atkinson of Rocky Mount.
Rogers Funeral Is
Held On today
Funeral services for Mrs.
Peyton Brown Rogers, 83, were
held on Sunday at 3 p. m. at
Blaylock's Funeral Chapel by
the Rev. John Link. Burial was
In Elmwood Cemetery In Hen
derson.
Mrs. Rogers died at Warren
General Hospital on Friday fol
lowing a long Illness. She was
* member at Wesley Memorial
Methodist Church.
Surviving are a daughter,
Vrs. Virginia ttWSTS Parr of
German,
Official Vote Reveals
Wallace Carries Warren
County By One Vote
Mrs. Grace R. Kearney, Court Reporter, who has retired,
effective Dec. 2, is shown at her desk in the Warren County
Court Room on-Wsdnesday^msriinj^
Mrs. Grace Kearney Is
Honored Upon Retirement
The special civil term of
Warren County Superior Court
being held here this week with
Judge Walter Bone presiding
may mark the end of service
for Mrs. Grace Kearney of
Henderson as Superior Court
reporter.
Mrs. Kearney has resign
ed as court reporter, ef
fective Dec. 1, after 46 years
service in this capacity. She
Letters Mailed To
Wrong County Area
The White Cane Committee of
the Warrenton Lions Club an
nounced yesterday that it had
inadvertantly mailed out let
ters in the Littleton area asking
for contributions to the White
Cane Drive.
In was not the committee's in
tention to encroach upon another
club's territory, a spokesman
for the committee said. The
committee asks that anyone
in the Littleton area desiring
to make a response to the let
ters from the Warrenton White
Cane Committee make their
contribution to the Littleton
White Cane Drive.
, The White Cane Committee
also asks that Its regret over
the unintentional error be
publicly expressed.
Routine Session
A routine session of the Board
of Town Commissioners was
held here on Tuesday night.
The meeting was postpon
ed from Monday night in order
that several members of the
board might attend the joint
meeting of Llmer Post of
th e American Legion and the
Legion Auxiliary at Afton-El
beron commemoratingthe Leg
Ion's 50th anniversary.
Two Men Hospitalized A$
Result Of Assault Friday;:1
Two men were hospitalized
and two other men Jailed as
the result of an affray at
Juke Box Inn at Liberia last
Friday night.
St. Mark Green received cuts
?bout his neck, throat and face
with a knife, allegedly welded
by Marshall Johnson. He was
taken to Warren General Hos
pital, where approximately 100
stitches were requlrod to be
taken to close tbe eats.
After Oreen had been taken to
to the
B1
M
has served since 1922 In
which hitherto has been known
as the third judicial district ex
tending east from Vance Coun
ty to Hertford County.
Mrs. Kearney was honored at
a dinner at Warren Plaza Inn
Wednesday during the court
noon recess by members of the
Warren County Bar, court
house officials and other friends
and was presented a silver
tray engraved "Grace R. Kear
ney, Court Reporter, Warren
County, 1926-1968." During
the ceremonies Julius Banzet,
Chief Judge of the 9th District
Court, spoke briefly, praising
Mrs. Kearney for her ability,
character and dedication.
Warren is now In the ninth
judicial district of which Judge
Hamilton H. Hobgood of Louis
burg is resident Superior Court
Judge. The five counties em
braced in the new district
are Warren, Vance, Franklin,
Granville and Person.
Judge Hobgood has appoint
ed Mrs. Gilbert Dickerson of
Oxford as court reporter for
superior court sessions in the
district, beginning the first
Monday in December.
Mrs. Kearney's long and
faithful service was recognized
last Monday during an interim
in the Vance County Civil
Term of Superior Court In
Henderson by the Henderson
Bar and by an editorial in
The Henderson Daily Dispatch,
The resolution in tribute to
Mrs. Kearney's long service
was signed by Arthur A. Bunn
and Jasper B. Hicks, only
members of the Henderson bar
who were practicing attorneys
at the time Mrs. Kearney
began her duties in 1922.
The resolution follows:
May it please your Honor,
on behalf of the Vance County
Bar Association, we ask for a
(See HONORED, page 2)
legedly assaulted by David Lm
Alston and Arthur Alston, one
of the man striking him with a
plank and the other with a pole.
Johnson received a fractured
skull and was taken to 1
pttal In Durham where It Is re
ported his condition Is serious.
David Lee j
pon and
$5001
George Wallace, candidate
for the Presidency on the
American Party ticket, carried
Warren County by one voteover
Democratic Candidate Hubert
Humphrey in the General Elec
tion of Nov. 5, 2294 to 2293,
official returns of the countv
compiled last Thursday re
vealed. Unofficial returns had
given Humphrey a majority of
about 20 votes.
Republican candidate Nixon
received 796 votes in Warren
County.
The vote given George Wal
lace marked ttrefrrsHime in4he
twentieth Century that Warren
County has failed to give the
Democratic Party a majority.
While Wallace carried War
ren county and most of the ad
joining counties in Eastern
North Carolina, Richard Nixon
carried the State and the Na
tion. Wallace carried five deep
southern states, Alabama, Ar
kansas, Georgia, Louisiana,
and Mississippi.
Republican Jim Gardner re
ceived 796 votes in War
ren County.
Warren County joined the rest
of the State in passing both
Constitutional Amend
ments. One of these permit
ted the Legislature to set the
pay of its members but denied
compensation to members of
sessions which enacts it. The
second amendment concerned
continuing the present sys
tem of representation in the
General Assembly.
Except in the vote for Pres
ident, Warren County gave sub
stantial majorities to all Dem
ocratic candidates.
Under the new registration
adopted this- year, Warren
County had a total registration
of 5,663 persons, Paul
Lancaster, chairman of the
Warren County Board of Elec
tions, said yesterday. There
are 5468 registered Democrats
in the county; 162 registered
Republicans; 29 registered In
dependents, and four registered
with thp American Party.
There are 3455 white voters
registered (61%); 2117 Negro
voters (39%); and 91 others.
Lancaster, in announcing the
number of registered voters,
said that he would like to thank
the election officials and assist
ants for the good Job they did
in holding the election, and to
thank the general public for Its
splendid cooperation In the dif
ficult task of a new registra
tion.
Congressman L. H. Fountain,
running without opposition
on the Democratic ticket, re
ceived 4751 votes. There were
four write-In votes, one for
Mordecal Shearln, and three
for Bennie C. McLean.
In the race for State House
of Representatives, James D.
Speed of Franklin County re
ceived 4630 votes, and John
Church of Vance received 4528.
Judge Julius Banzet of War
renton received the highest
number of votes of any candi
date In all the races as he
ran without opposition for Judge
of the Ninth District Court. He
received 4861 votes; Lin wood
Peoples of Vance County re
ceived 4445 votes, and Claude
W. Allan of Granville County
received 4438 votes.
Jim H. Hundley received 4878
votes for Register of Deeds.
In the race for the United
States Senate, Democrat Sam J.
Ervtn, jr., received 4444 votes
while his Republican opponent,
Robert Vance Somera received
to the K. C. Senate Race, Jul
ian R. Allsbrook
votes and Vernon White
ed 4085
rive
without