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4*- v ? 0y.. ?'??? ?? . ? ; '?*? ? ?* :&? - ? '?? ??? *?' .'ilfe?", : ' *? ? '? - J IRmiriJ VOLUME 73 Subscription: $3.00 A Year; $4.00 Out Of State, 10^ Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. ?? THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1969 NUMBER 4 Within Two Weeks Plans For Construction Of Soul City To Be Announced Members of the jury in Warren County District Court last'Friday were, left to right: front row?John Stegall, Frank Banzet, Mrs. Heath Beckwith, Miss Cynthia Haithcock; second row N. G. Hudgins, Carlton Pridgen, Theodore Vaughan, Jules Banzet; back row? Lloyd Newsom, Bonnie Stevenson, Robert Epps, and Willie Cook. Unusual Jury Lawyers And Law Officers Serve On Jury A jury that rendered a ver dict In an uncontested divorce case In Warren County District Court last Friday in its com position must have established, a record for North Carolina and perhaps the entire nation. Serving on the jury were two lawyers, Frank B. and Jules Banzet; two deputy sheriffs, Lloyd Newsom and Bonnie Stevenson; two police officers, Carlton Pridgen of Norlinaand Theodore Vaughan of Warren ton; one magistrate, N. G. Hudgins of Norlina; two white women, Mrs. Heath Beckwith and Miss Cynthia Haithcock; and two Negro men. Robert Epps and Willie Cook. The jury was summoned from persons in the court room by Sheriff Clarence Davis when it was found that a jury was need ed to hear the evidence in the uncontested divorce case of Rosa Jones Hawkins vs. Grif fin R. Hawkins. The jury de cided the evidence in favor of the plaintiff, who was granted a divorce. Judge Claude Allen, presiding over the term, was so impress ed by the composition of the Jury that he requested that a picture be made of the jury. Other cases tried in last Fri day's session Included; Robert C. King failed to ap pear in court to answer to a charge of public drunkenness. Capias issued. Milton Samuel Jones was found guilty of drunk driving and carrying a concealed weapon. The defendant was ordered to pay a $100 fine and court costs and to surrender his license on the drunk driving charge, and to pay a $10 fine on the carry ing concealed weapon charge. Defendant appealed and appear ance bond was set at $200. George Franklin Newman was ordered to pay a $100 ~Ttne~and court costs and to sur render his driver's license when he was found guilty of drunk driving. He appealed to Superior Court and appearance bond was set at $200. James IT. Terry" JHM guilty to a charge of drunk driving. He was sentenced to jail for ten days. The sentence was sus pended for 12 months provided the defendant does not operate a motor vehicle upon the public highways of the state for a period of 12 months and pays a $100 fine and court costs. James Edward Boyd, charg ed with reckless driving and failing to report an accident, was ordered to pay a $40 fine Warren Farmers Awarded Scholarships By Banks Two Warren County farmers have been awarded scholar ships of $100 each to attend the Short Course In Modern Farming sponsored by the North Carolina Bankers Association and North Carolina State Uni versity. The Citizens Bank of War renton and the Peoples Bank I, and Trust Company of Norlina awarded the scholarships to Earl Lime'r of Route 2, War renton and to Weldon Foote Rooker of Route 1, Norlina. The course began on Monday, Jan. 20 and will continue through Thursday, Jan. 3U. Announcement of the scholar ship awards was made this week by L. B. Hardage, Extension Chairman for Warren County. Llmer is a general farmer. His program consists of to bacco, small grain, swine, hay crops, corn , beef cattle, etc. His scholarship was awarded by the Citizens Bank of Warrenton. Hooker's main farm income is from Grade "A" dairying. However, some tobacco and beef cattle are also produced on the farm plus enough hay and silage to furnish the roughage for a herd of about 75 milk cows, heifers, calves, etc. His schol arship was awarded by the Peo ples Bank and Trust Company of Norllna Hardage said that the Agri cultural Extension Service would like to thank Howard Dan iel, vice president of the Citi zens Bank and Warren County Key Banker, for his leadership in this project. He said thai the Extension Service would also like to express its appre ciation to Jimmy Medlln, cash ier of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company of Norlina, for his and the banks's support and interest in the project! Carpentry Course To Be Offered At J. Graham A course In carpentry will be added at John Graham High School daring the lM9*70tarm, it was announced this week by f. R, Peeler, stg?erlntendent of schools. Peeler said the Board of Education has approved an ESKA project (federal funds) a shop to house a car ' tat the John Gra ham - ? ? being prepared by the arcWtec ? Dove the architectural firm. *' ."nWiljilMlMfl.lM I k 65 ft. building will be local ad directly behind the agricultural bulld lng and will Include a class room, instructor's office, stor age and tool moms, and regular shop-work area. The cost of the building Is estimated at Willi tti'TMB'ii Vili &? > -suu-si'rrssa; a much needed increase in m and court costs. Eddie Johnson failed to ap pear in court to answer to a charge of issuing a worthless check. Judgment nisi, scia fa and capias. The State took a nol pros with leave in the case of Robert Durham, charged with non-sup port. Jessie James Cheek, charged with allowing a minor to drive a car without operator's license, was ordered to pay court costs. Cheek was also charged with permitting drunk driving and was sentenced to the roads for four months. Sentence was sus pended for four months provided defendant pays a $100 fine and court costs. Lyman Hamilton Priday entered a plea of qo^p conten dere to passing violatlofi and driving with obstructed wind shield. Prayer for judgment was continued upon payment of costs. Jimmy Garland Brame was found guilty of driving 71 miles per hour in a GO mph zone. Pray er for judgment was continued upon payment of costs. Waverly Edward Russell, charged with having no opera tor's license, was found not guilty. Beady Mace was found guilty of passing on hill, drunk driv ing, and with having no opera tor's license in three separate cases. Prayer for judgment in each case was continued until Jan. 24. Walter Richard Johnson pled guilty to a charge of speeding 60 miles per hour in a 50 mph zone. Prayer for judgment was continued upon payment of costs. James H. Terry, charged with having no operator's license, was found not guilty. Wallace Rayford Grissom wis sentenced to the roads for 12 months when he pled guilty to a charge of non-support. The sentence was suspended for two years and the defendant was placed on probation for two years provided he pays into the office of the Director of Public Welfare of Warren County the sum of $20 per week for the benefit of his wife and child, the first payment to be due on (See COURT, page 6) Two Students Badly Injured In Wreck Two John Graham High School students were seriously hurt at 6:45 p. m. Friday in a single car wreck on the rural road 1600 (the Baltimore Road), 4.4 miles south of Warrenton. Wayne Short, 17, John Gra ham High School football play er, received a broken hip when he lost control of the 1967 Dotsun he was driving. Wil liam Henry (Billy) Twitty, who was riding with Short, received head injuries. Both boys are at Duke Hospital in Durham. Short was taken to Duke on Friday night and Twitty was transferred from Warren Gen eral Hospital to Duke early Saturday morning. Short is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James short of Route 2, Warrenton. Twitty is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Twitty, also of Route 2, Warrenton. Sam Webster, Highway Pa trolman who investigated the wreck, said that the car over turned several times when Short, who was driving at a high rate of speed, lost control of the car on a curve. Basketball Tourney To Be Held Here In Late February The Roanoke Conference bas ketball tournament will be held at the John Graham High School Gym on Feb. 17-22, Fred Bar tholomew, principal of John Graham, announced yesterday. Bartholomew said that the tour-iument was supposed to be held at Gaston this year and at Warrenton next year, but, inability of Gaston to obtain the Northampton County gym re sulted in a swap of years. A meeting of the John Gra ham Boosters dim will be held at tfca school tonight (Thursday) at 7j30. Plan* for the tourna ment and a iew other Import ant matters will he discussed s* the meeting, Meek HUliard, Club president, said In announc ing the me-jtlng. He asks that Soul City To Be Negro Oriented Mrs. Eva Clayton Tells Grouo Soul City will be a city orient ed to Negroes but open to peo ple of all races and creeds, Mrs. Eva Clayton said here Tuesday night. She was speaking at a joint meeting of the Warren Coun ty Planning Board and Board of County Commissioners at a preliminary meeting held to the Warren County Court House, attended by members of the Press and a small number of other interested citizens Mrs. Clayton, who was ac companied to the meeting by Dr. Don Pollock of the Law School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that a representative from Mc Kissick Enterprises, Inc., New York,' scheduled to appear at | the meeting, became ill and could not be present, and that her husband, T. T. Clayton* was in Boston on business connected with McKissick En terprises. Soul City must be produc tive or it would not be worth building, Mrs. Clayton said. The proposed city, she said, would be an opportunity city and would offer no attraction to Hippies and hoodlums, and race of the county. It would attract many well trained Negroes who would assist in its building and jobs for many young people who otherwise might become a problem to the big cities. The tax base provided by the The Civil Term of Warren County Superior.Court will con vene on Monday morning with Judge James Pou Bailey of Ral eigh presiding. Cases are docketed through next Thurs day. The calendar shows the fol lowing cases set for trial: Monday?Lillian M. Robinson vs. Ernest Fleetwood White; John Reb Smiley vs. Theodore Roosevelt Davis; Bessie Rich ardson vs. John A. Richard son; Robert Joe Spence vs. Ellen T. Shearin and William B. Frazier; Barbara B. Rhine hardt vs. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Tuesday ? Thurman Rooker Civil Term Of Court To Convene On Monday vs. Weldon Clinton Capps; Wil liam E. Fields, ladmr. of the* Estate of Ernest Edward Dan iels, vs. John Burchette; Mrs. Jessie E. Harris and Mrs. Etta H. Loyd vs. Walter E. Loyd. Wednesday?State Highway Commission vs. Fred W. May field and wife, Muriel L May field; Lela S. Stilley vs. Hines H. Stilley; Delane Perkinson, administrator of the estate of Jackie Wayne Perkinson, vs. Clifton Stegall and Charles M. White, III, administrator of James E. Hight, deceased. Thursday?Mary Louise R. Thome vs. Charles W. Robinson and wife, Alma W. Robinson (See CIVIL COURT, page 5) I proposed city would provide funds for the building of every section^ of the county and would contribute not only to the economy of Warren County, but to adjoining counties and to the Statetof North Carolina, Mrs Clayton said. What helps one section of the county helps every section, she added. She said that one must be pragmatic and realize that it will take a great deal of money -to?build?Sotri?City,?but that a great deal of idealism was going into the building of Soul City, and with it a determina tion to build a city that would be a credit and inspiration to the Negro race and an econo mic asset to the county. Dr. Pollock, introduced by Mrs. Clayton, said that Soul City would not be an all-black _ city and that the government would not permit it to be. All jobs would be open to everyone and while the city was con ceived by blacks that its con struction must by the nature of things be built by both whites and blacks and that funds must be provided by bottiwhites and blacks. Pollock said, in answer to a question, that a supermarket might be built in the proposed city with Black capital and that it would be natural to suppose that the choice of a business would be offered to Negroes, but that the supermarket would be a business proposition and it might well be that a number of businesses would be leased to whites. He also said that many "persons connected with the city might live outside the city and probably a number of them in Warrenton as it (See CLAYTON. Daee 3i Plans for the construction of "Soul City" in Warren County will be announced in about two weeks, Floyd MeKissick, head of McKissick's Enterprise, said at a press conference in Chapel | Hill on Saturday morning. MeKissick, Negro Lawyer from Durham, who plans a Negro - built, Negro - run new town in western Warren County, said "we intend to be a major ity and we intend to control the new town." He said that MeKissick En terprises, Inc., of New York,. will be In position by Feb. 18 to exercise an option with pri vate funds for the 1810.8-acre tract. Sale price is $390,000. The option was taken in late December by T. T. Clayton, Warrenton attorney, for $4, 000 . The land is owned ? by Perry Lumber Company of Hen derson. "We will build Soul City," MeKissick said. "There is no exact time yet, but we shall move as rapidly as possible." He said that plans to begin con struction of the city, which is planned for a population of about 18,000 people will be an nounced in about two weeks. The new town would be built 1 1/2 miles south of Manson in western Warren County. Sees Open City "Soul City will be a success ful demonstration of democracy and our Constitution at work. It will be a show place of democracy within a sea of democracy," MeKissick said. He added that the new town will be an open city, regard less of race, color or creed. Tapping the shoulders of Ms associates, MeKissick said that "Justice and law will prevail in our town. We are looking only for respect In Soul City which will give an economic boost to the areas about North Carolina and Virginia." When questioned about the use of federal funds, MeKissick said, "We intend to use every source of federal funds avail able." PHOTOS BY BILL JONES Scene Of Wreck In Which One Han Was Killed And Two Men Seriously Hurt On Sunday Afternoon One Killed, nc adiu vital lit; evpeas com plete cooperation from the resi dents, county commissioners and ill others" in authority in Warren County in the planning and construction of the city. The new town will reportedly grow by stages of 5,000 persons each, with full development expect ed in 10 years. "Warren County," said the former head of the Congress of ? Racial Equality and the first Negro to be admitted to the University of North Carolina Law School,, "was selected because-tH^-a great migration area." ? ?* / Expects "Young He said that age will be no restriction but that the im mediate attraction will be for the younger people. "They will come from many places, and . from all over ttie country. And, there will be as many white as there are Mack." McKissick said that iMt doesn't intend to make too much profit selling houses. "The social goal looms higher than personal gains," McKissick ?aid. He added, "Wedfr tgi tend to make it a profit-mak ing project, however." He thanked Dr. John Parker of the university of North Carolina School at Regional Planning for his "great assist ance." Parker said he was "excited and interested in the (See SOUt, crnt, peg. ?) iT"""
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