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VOLUME 73 Subscription: $3.00 A Year; $4.00 Out Of State, 10c Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. " THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1969 NUMBER 14
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Sunrise Service
Four members of the Junior Woman's Club are shown arranging flowers for the Easter Sun
rise Service here on Sunday morning. They are, left to right: Mrs. Sam Webster, Mrs. W. K.
Lanier, Jr.r Mrs. Jack Harris, and Mrs. Coley Perkmson. Mrs. Webster said that -all the
members of the club are working hard in preparing for the service but could not be present
when the picture was made.
At John Graham
Contract Is Awarded
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For Carpentry Shop
Contracts for the construc
tion of a carpenter's shop at
John Graham High School were
awarded by the Board of Educa
tion at a called meetingon Wed
nesday night of last week.
The 92.4 by.57.4 foot build
ing,-'t?r-cost $76,502.75,- will
be located south of the gym on
land recently acquired from E.
T. Odom and Mrs. Walter
White.
Supt. J. Roger Peeler said
Warden Says Dog Law
Will Be Enforced
Persons who refuse to obey
the dog laws In Warren County
will be prosecuted, C. J.
Fleming, dog warden, an
nounced this week.
Every person owning or keep
ing a dog which was not been
listed, or who comes Into pos
session of him any months in
the year, is responsible for list
ing such dog, he said.
Fleming also said that any
person owning or keeping a dog
fou r months old or older must
have the dog vaccinated each
year If the animal has not re
ceived a three-year vaccina
tion. The place of vaccination
Is the Warren County Animal
Clinic.
Fleming said that the mini
mum fine for violating the dog
laws is $10 plus court costs of
$20, and may be as high as
$70 . - He said there would be
no exceptions.
Warrenton Native Is
Granted Scholarship
GREENVILLE- A biology In
structor at East Carolina uni
versity has been awarded a
grant of $2,400 per year from
the National Institute of Health
(NIH) for predoctoral training
at Louisiana State University.
Thomas M. Holt of Warren
ton will study at the LSU School
of Medicine in New Orleans,
in a program leading to the PhD
in anatomy. He will receive
a stipend of $2,400 plus de
pendency allowance. The grant
will be renewable annually.
Holt is a graduate of ECU
and holds B6 and MA degrees
in biology. He was a teaching
fellow while in graduate school
and has served as an Instruc
tor this year. He was a re
cipient of the Sigma XI award
for undergraduate research and
in IBM received second place
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search
this week that work on the build-,
ing is expected to be start
ed "right away" and it is hoped
that the building will be ready
for use by the opening of school
next fall.
The geperal contract for
the building was "awarded to
George Kane of Henderson for
$53,534. The plumbing contract,
at $5,128, was awarded to Stand
Corn Production Meeting
To Be Held Here April 9
By G. W. KOONCE
Agricultural Agent
A county-wide corn product
Ion dinner meeting will be
held Wednesday, April 9, at the
Warren County Fair Building,
beginning at 7:00 p. m., ac
cording to L. B. Hardage, Coun
ty Extension Chairman.
Discussion at the meeting will
include total corn production
practices but weed and grass
control in corn is expected to
receive major emphasis says
G. W. Koonce, Agricultural Ex
tension Agent.
Two hundred corn pro
ducers are expected to attend
the meeting planned by a com
mittee of -corn producers, Agri
business and the Agricultural
Extension Service.
In urgtngT? many producers^
as possible to attend, the spon
Thomas Holt cf Warrenton, Holt
U married to tha former |imhi
Cants of Jacksonville, to
Greenville, tha Holt* make
thatr botna at tor, South Jarvis
Street.
ard Electric of Rocky Mount.
The heating contract was
awarded to Henry Baker Heat
ing Company of Wilson for $3,
650. The $8,986 electrical con
tract was awarded to Whitley
Elect ri?j?er vice of Wilson. The
$5,204.75 architect fees brings
the total to $76,502.75. Ed
wards,'Dove and Knight of Rocky
Mount are the architects.
sors says, this is a coopera
tive approach to disseminate to
growers information concern
ing the economic value corn
holds for contributing to the
total agriculture income of the
county.
It is true that Warren Coun
ty corn growers have great po
tentials for increasing corn
production along with its grow
ing livestock production enter
prises. In 1968, growers in
Warren produced 8,000 acres
of corn for grain at a yield
of 55 bushels per acre. Seven
hundred acres of corn was
grown for silage with a yield
of 14 tons per acre.
Periods of drought during the
previous growing season con
tributed greatly to low yields,
however, the persistence of a
-lag In the overall adoption of
recommended?cultural prac
tices by a majority of present
corn producers still exist. Eli
minating this problem could
greatly add to the financial
gains of farmers in the county.
The corn cbtnmittee hopes
that all Invited growers will
make a special effort to attend
this meeting. We know that it
will be well worth your time.
Revival At Vaughan
Revival services will be held
at the Vaughan Baptist Church,
beginning on Sunday morning,
April 8, at 11 o'clock. Services
will be held on Sunday night at
7:30 o'clock and will be held
each night during the week at
7:30, ending with the Sunday
morning 11 o'clock service on
April li.
' The Rev. Leroy Stewart,
former pastor of Gardner's,
New Sandy. Creek and Vaughan
Baptist Churches of the Cullom
Association, will be the guest
evangelist. He will come for
the Sunday night service and re
main through the morning ser
vice on April 13.
Mr. Stewart is now pastor of
the Emmanuel Baptist Church
at Potsdam, N. Y? and tree
sorer of the Baptist Fellowship
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County-wide Easter
Sunrise Service To
Be Conducted Here
A county-wide Easter Sunrise
Service will be held at 5:41
a. m. at the Warren Recreation
Club, approximately a mile east
of Warrenton on N. C. 58,
on Easter Sunday morning,
under the sponsorship of the
Warrenton Junior Woman's
Club.
In case of inclement weather,
the service will be heldatWes
I ley Memorial Methodist Church
on Main Street in Warrenton.
I The service will be conduct
ed by the Rev. W. C. Baugh
man, Jr., pastor of the Nor
lina Baptist Church; the Rev.
James Colie, pastor of the Beth- ]
lehem and Shady Grove Meth
odist Churches, and the Rev. L.
T. Wilson, pastor of Wesley Me
morial Methodlst-Ciiurch. Mr.
Wilson will deliver the Easter
message.
In addition to group singing,
special Easter music will be
provided by a quartet compos
ed of Misses Janet Gardner,
Jennifer Taylor, Lisa Cole
man and Myra Johnson.
Mrs. Sam Webster, publicity
chairman for the Warrenton
Junior Woman's Club, said yes
terday that the Juniors appre
ciate the cooperation of all
who are helping the club
prepare for the service; to
those who are participating in
the service, to the Warrenton
Furniture Exchange for furn
ishing the piano, and to the
ones who are helping the club
with the bulletins.
Everyone, she said, regard
less of denomination, is invit
ed to come and worship together
in nature's setting on Easter
Sunday morning.
Schools To Be Closed
On f aster Monday
Warren County schools will
not be closed on Good Fri
day, April 4, but will observe
Easter Monday, April 7, as a
holiday. Jim Hundley, Register
of Deeds and custodian of the
court house, announced this
week that all offices In the
court house will be closed on
Easter Monday.
Since Easter Monday, a re
ligious holiday, is not a nation
al holiday, postofflces will
remain open as will other fed
eral offices in the county.
While the ASCS offices will re
main open, offices oTTDtterr
sion workers will be closed.
Stores and other business
houses of the town are expect
ed to be closed Monday.
DR. BUNCH TO RETURN
Dr. Charles Bunch, surgeon
and chief of staff at Warren
General Hospital, who under
went surgery at Duke Hospital
last week, is doing Just fine and
is expected to return home this
weekend, Mrs. Bunch said in a
telephone message from Duke
Hospital Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Bunch said that at
would like to express her
Warren County To Have
Kindergarten Program
$10,000.00
Still Hit
By Officers
An illegal still valued at
$10,000 and capable of produc
ing more than 700 gallons of
whiskey per day was dest roy
ed during an early morning raid
Monday near Wise.
Warren Sheriff Clarence
Davis and Deputy DorseyCapps
found the more than 10,000
pound mash capacity still in an
abandoned brick home in Haw
tree Township near Wise.
The still was not in operation
at the time of the raid. Sheriff
Davis said, after examining the
house and contents, that the still
had not been used in more than
three weeks. He described the
still, one of the largest ever
uncovered in Warren County, as
a "quick traveling" operation.
"I mean," said the sheriff,
"it.was put here on a tempor
ary basis knowing they would be
found and would have to move
rapidly from the county."
They don't stay in business at
any one place very long, the
sheriff said. He added that his
investigation into who was
operating the still is continu
ing.
Capps counted more than 200
55-gallon barrels used to store
rye mash. About 10 Inches of
spent mash covered the base
ment floor. ? Pipes had been
run from the basement to an
open field where the spent mash
was being pumped, he said.
Smoke billowed from a crack
in the floor adjacent to two
500-gallon plywood-built cool
ers. "The fire was extinguished
before destruction of the still
began.
The house was stripped of all
furnishings, Including the
kitchen sink, to make every
inch of floor space available
for mass production.
Petition To Close
Baseball Field Is
Denied By Board
A petition from a group of
citizens living near the John
Graham School athletic field
asking that the field not be used
for Little League baseball or
other baseball play season this
summer was denied by the
Board of Education at a called
meeting on Wednesday night
of last week.'
In denying the request, the
board said it recognized the
legitimacy of the complaint,
but that in view of the worth
of the program and the fact that
children had no other place to
not be wise to close the field.
However, the board ordered
that the field not be used by
any one on Sunday and that the
use of loudspeakers be forbid
den during the summer months.
The petition signed and pre
sented to the board by Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Harris was also
signed by C. E. Rodwell, Mrs.
C. E. Rodwell, W. M. Gardner,
S. O. Nunn, Winnie Nuntf, W.
C. Bobbltt, Lillian S. Bobbltt,
Georgia Tarwater and Hllah T.
Falkener. It reads as follows:
The undersigned citizens, re
sidents and tax payers in the
Town of Warrentoa respectfully
show to your honorable Board
" that the athletic activities, par
ticularly summer baseball
games and practice by groups
and organizations other than the
school players, are miking IIv
tng conditions along Wilcox
Avenue In the Town of Warren
ton intolerable.
"Such athletic activities an
are carried on by the school
for school purposes is not be
ing mentioned in this petition,
tor the reason that the i
i]to
the school
Bill Reid, left, and M. C. Clary are shown during rehearsals
for Womanless Wedding to be held at Macon Junior High
School on Friday night.
Womanless Wedding To
Be Held At Macon Friday
The Macon Junior Woman's J
Club and the Macon Rural
Fire Department will present
a Womanless Wedding at the
Macon Junior High School
on Friday night, April 4, at
8 o'clock
Admission will be $1.00 for
adults, and 50? for children.
Homemade candy and cupcakes
will be sold.
A drawing for a 20-inch
Zenith color TV will be held
at the conclusion of the wedding.
Mrs. Louise Halthcock will
be mistress of ceremonies and
Patricia Rivers will be the
pianist. The cast of charac
ter will be:
Preacher, Roy Pat Robert
son; bride, Cooper Leonard;
groom, Len Halthcock; best
man, Grady J. Haynes, Jr.,
bride's mother, William
Thompson; bride's father, Tolly
Harris; jilted sweetheart,
Franklin Rivers; bride's grand
mother, Dennis Harris; baby
sitter, Malvln Halthcock, Jr.,
nurse, "Doc" Thompson;
groom's mother, Bill Hall;
groom's father, James Wil
son; groom's grandfather,
Harry King.
Sisters of the groom, Randall
Williams and Macon Robert
son; maid of honor, Pete Hilli
ard; bridesmaids, Benny Hilli
ard, Bill Young, M. C. Clary,
Wesley Harris, Bill Reld, and
Charles Powell; flower girls,
James Moseley, Frankle Haith
cock; ring bearer, Frankle
Rivers; singers, M. C. Clary
and Bill Reid; ushers, Elree
Hilliard and William Perkinson.
Celebrities?Jackie Gleason,
Edgerton Rideout; Honey, Ron
nie Riggan; Jackie Kennedy
Onassts, Bernard Williams;
Mr. Onassls, Wilson Copley.
TO SPONSOR DANCE
The Littleton Quarterback
Club will sponsor a teenage
dance Saturday night, April 5,
from 8 until 11:30 o'clock at the
Littleton High School gym.
The dance is afund raislngpro
Ject.
"The Fabulous Tall Blues"
from Norlina -will provide the
music and entertainment.
Plans For
Classes
Studied
I A kindergarten program for
all schools of Warren County
for the 1909-70 school year
was approved by the Hoard of
I Education at a called meeting
on Wednesday night of last
week.
J. Roger Peeler, superinten
dent of . schools, said yester
day that a survey is being
made to determine number of
students eligible to attend kin
dergarten and to make arrange
ments for classrooms. He said
"The" board is now looking" for"
j kindergarten teachers. They
must have the same profes
sional standards as other teach
ers.
Peeler said that the board ex
pects to get money from the
state and ESEA to operate the
kindergarten program.
He said that only from 400
to 500 children are expected
to be eligible for kindergarten
work and that a large decrease
in overall school enrollment is
expected next year.
Warren Citizens Join
In Mourning For
Gen. Eisenhower
Warren County citizens have
joined with citizens all over the
nation and wo rid in napur ning the
death last Friday of former
President Dwight David Eisen
hower. Flags have been flying
at half-mast on the streets
here and on public buildings,
and citizens have been watching
a nation pay tribute to the figure
of world-wide fame over their
television sets.
The 34th President and Com
mander of the Allied Armies in
World War II, died at -Walter
Reed Hospital in Washington
following a heart attack sever
al weeks ago. ? ~
Burial services for General
Eisenhower were held Wednes
day at his former home in
Abeline, Kansas, following
services at the National Ca
thedral in Washington Monday
after his body had lain in state
In the rotunda of the capital
over the weekend.
NAME OMITTED
The name of Michelle Ays
cue was inadvertently omitted
from' the honor roll list at
Afton-Elberon submitted to us
for publication last week.
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and T.' V. Center in Worlina.
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