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<*,' v" ? VOLUME 73 Subscription: $3.00 A Year; $4.00 Out Of State, 10* Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1970 NUMBER 1 Ice-covered trees tower over Warrenton Baptist Church here last Friday morning following Ice storm of Christmas night. The storm caused considerable damage to trees here and over the county and caused long power Interruption in many rural sections of the county. Some 45 extra crewmen were brought Into the county early Friday morning. All lines were cleared and repaired by Saturday afternoon. .? Ice Storm Causes Heavy Damage To Trees, Lines Warren County, missing a white Christmas, suffered a rather destructive ice storm Christmas night that afforded a tinseled Friday morning. Principal damage was to trees and to power lines In all sections of the county. The weight of ice broke limbs on many shady trees and in some cases whole trees, as well as Joing consider able dam age to forests. While electric power was only off for a few hours at Warrenton early Friday morn ing, It was Saturday afternoon before the last line in the county was repaired by lines men working around the clock Crews from' other towns be gan to pour into Warrenton be fore 3 a. m. Friday mornlni and some 49 workmen join ed local linesmen In makini repairs. Principal damagi was caused by ice-coated llmbi falling on the power lines. No estimate of damage has been made, but it probably ran into the thousands of dollars. Town workmen have been busy since the storm hauling away broken limbs and trees and the greater part of the debris has been removed. Principal inconvenience was caused by loss of heat to those who had central heat operated by electric motors; to those who depended on electric pumps for their water supply, and to a great number of citizens who cook with electricity. PURCHASE HOME Mr. and Mrs. Luther M. Lee have recently purchased the Bell home on Bragg Street and will spend the winter months in Warrenton. Mrs. Lee is the former Miss TrinaReld of War renton. Rep. Fountain To Be At Warrenton Jan. 6 Rep. L. H. Fountain will visit Warren County next week to greet his friends and to dis cuss any congressional prob lems in which they may be in terested. Congressman Fountain will be at the Warren ton Post Office on next Tuesday, Jan. 6, from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. In making the an nouncement, Congressman Fountain expressed the hope that many of his friends in the area would greet him. Birthday Calendars Are Now On Sale The Warren County Commun ity Birthday Calendars are now on sale and may be purchased at the J. & R. Red and white Store, Dick Miles, chairman of the calendar committee, an nounced yesterday. The calendars, sponsored by the Warrenton Lions dub, lists individual birthdays, civic and fraternal club meeting dates and also town and county board meeting dates. Proceeds will be used for work with local blind persons. Miles said the supply is limit ed and will sell for 91.00. Flie-Cured Production Coald Be Larger In '70 Some slight increase In tine cured tobacco production could occar In 1970 despite a re duction in quotas of 8 percent. Ttn announced quota is 1,071 million pounds. B the quota and the allowance for under marfeetlngs of 117 million pounds are fully produced in 1970, the total supply could be op slightly, according to North Carolina State University eco nomists. The strong 1969 prices may be hard to match next marketing said that, even though the Port prloe will he increased 9-3 percent, prices received by farmers may not rlst much ** largely to the fact that the average tor IMS was a ytifeaMWtfi, Poverty Status To Be Studied Franklln-Vance-Warren Op portunity, Inc., the local anti poverty agency, will hold Its second meeting with repre sentatives of the low-income residents of Warren County on Thursday, Jan. 8, at 7:30 p. m. at the Warren County Court house, Frederick P. Hege, exe cutive director, announced yesterday. The meeting is open to the public. Hege said that members of the board of directors will continue to deal with issues raised by poor residents at the December meeting when resi dents voiced their concerns. Chief among the concerns, he said, was the high cost of food and the high price of food stamps. Another food item causing concern was the cost of school lunches which were said to be burdensome upon the low-Income residents. A second major concern was the -4?w-^wages received for employment in Warren County. This problem is mag nified by the seasonal nature of much of the employment available. Other concerns to be con sidered, Hege said, are problems facing the physically handicapped, the high cost of medical care and transporta tion to medical centers, poor housing facilities, a lack of jobs for low-income residents, em ployment discrimination, and other minor problems relating to government agencies. The young people present at the December meetlngexpress ed the feeling that recreational facilities were inadequate throughout the county and that Negro youth were being dis criminated against by the elimi nation of all social activities In the high schools. Heje said that at the Jan uary meeting the Warren Coun . ty directors, in conjunction with the residents, will seek to formulate plai.s for operation of the Franklln-Vance -Warren components in Warren County between July 1, 1970, and June 30, 1971. Indications are, he said, that the anti-poverty agency will have an additional $11,500 to invest in Warren County. Information Exchange' To Be Held At Butner BUTNER?A program known as the "InformationExchange" offers the community an "open house" once each week to dis cuss their interests and con cerns and will provide coun seling and information regard ing normal everyday prob lems of living. The Exchange, sponsored by the Mental Health program of Vance, Warren, and Granville Counties is an outgrowth of research that has been conducted in Vance Coun ty Groups meeting with citizens to detect problems and unmet needs in the community have revealed that many people have mild or moderate level emotional problems that are not of severe enough nature to re quire individual psychiatric help. Yet, they .would like to be able to discuss their prob lems with some understanding person who could give tham Information and help. S Is hoped that the "Information Ex change" will provide this need. The Exchange will be held each Tuesday afternoon at 1:00 at the Family Counseling and Education Center located on the corner of Che start and Pettl grew Streets In the former Episcopal Church Rectory. Each session will be of 1 l/* hours duration and there will be an opportunity lor Individual and grow participation, as well as discussion. Confidentiality, of course, will always be hon ored and records will be be COURT TO CONVENE MONDAY ESSEX-HOLLISTER FACTORY BUILDING Factory At Hollister To Open Soon me Holltster-Essex Gar ment Company building at Hol lister is nearing completion and is expected to be in oper ation during February. A pilot plant located in the Haliwa School in Warren Coun ty began operation on Dec. 8 and is now training 15 women. This number is expected to reach 30 by February when the operation is transferred to the factory at Holllster. The plant will employ about 150 when in full operation. The Holllster - Essex Gar ment Company Is owned and managed by Robert Wallace of Nashville and manufactures children's clothing. Two styles of dresses for young girls are the present production order. The clothing is designed and <;->10 by Sharlyn's Fashions of ^ew York. The Hollister plant receives cut patterns and com pletes the production of the wear. Wallace is managing the plant while his wife assists in the supervising. The pilot plant supervisor Is Mrs. Dean Clay of Enfield. The plant was brought to the Hollister-Essex community in I Halifax County through the ef forts of the Hollister-Essex Development Company, which is planning further development in the community. Jimmy Quails is president of the development company. Other officers are W. R. Rich ardson, vice president; Mrs. Ann Arrington, secretary; and Mrs. J. J. Williams, treasurer. Directors are Amos L. Capps, Thomas Hedgepeth, D. D. Thorne, Arthur Lee Wollett and Murzie Mills. Local Government Cost In License Warren $199 Per Capita Office To NEW YORK?Is the cost of local government higher or lower, for residents of Warren County, than it is for people in other areas? How much is spent locally, per capita, for all municipal and county operations and for all special services? How does the local governmental debt compare with the acerage else where? A news report, just released by the Census Bureau, sheds light on these matters, it is bas ed upon a detailed study of finan cial data gathered from every county in the United States. The study, entitled Census of Governments, is the first made since fiscal 1962. They are conducted every five years. For people living in Warren County, the figures show, the total cost of local govern ment operations came to $199 per capita In the year. In the rest of the nation, the average was $299 per capita and, in the State of North Car olina, $207. It took a total of $59.5 bil lion to operate the various coun ty, township, municipal and dis trict governments In the coun try and provide the public with services in the fields of education, health, welfare, roads, sanitation, parks, hous ing, libraries, police and fire protection and the like. That represented an Increase of $19.7 billion in the period of five years. In some communities, the amount spent for local govern ment operations was adequate ly covered by revenues. In many others, however, more was spent than was taken in. The figures for Warren Coun ty show that the direct expen ditures, $199 per capita, were offset by general revenue re ceipts equivalent to $209 per local resident. Some $61 of this revenue came from local taxes and the remainder from Federal and state payments. In order to finance their ex penditures for capital improve ments and other needs, many communities have been forced to go deeper into debt. Warren County's outstanding debt is listed in the report as $33 per capita. Nationally, the debt of local governments aver aged $410 per capita. Those in North Carolina averaged $167. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Basker vlU of New Bern, Mr. and Mrs. John VanPelt of Sharps, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. William R. Baskervlll and children of Eureka, Va., spent the holidays with Mrs. W. R. Baskervlll and attended the Burwell-Beery wadding. Mrs. Crlchton Thome Davis spent the holidays In Nassau. leras. Dr. W. C. HolXister, Director of the program said, "The Exchange offers a uni que procedure for learning and for giving a service to a large number of people with minimum staff. We do not purport to have all the answers nor to be able to satisfy all the con cerns that are expressed. We do know however, that we can all learn from each other's ex periences." Gold Supply WASHINGTON?The nation's monotary gold supply dropped to $11.17 billion during Novem ber, $10 million below the stock at the end of October, the Trea sury Department said Monday. The dip came after 16 months of almost uninterrupted In creases in the stock which Is set aside to redeem dollars held by foreigners. Open Here A local office for 1969 motor vehicle licenses will be opened In the Taylor Building on Main Street on Jan. 2 under the di rection of Mrs. Roy Pat Robert son. Office hours will be from 9 a . m. to 5 p. m. Monday through Friday, and from 9 a. m. to 1 on Saturday. The new reflectorized red and white plates will go on sale throughout the state on Jan. 2. The plates expire Dec. 31 and their use beyond that date is permissible only if they are duly registered by the Depart ment to the vehicle on which display is made. Owners who have their vehicles properly registered by the Department have until Feb. 16 to obtain new plates. The new application cards necessary for obtaining 1970 license plates were placed in the mall on Dec. 18. Depart ment of Motor Vehicle officials expect this huge mailing, esti mated at more than 3,000,000 cards, to be delivered by Jan. 1. Motorlr.U will be paying more for their 1970 plates than they have been paying In the past. The registration fees were In creased 25 per cent'by the 1969 Legislature. This does not ap ply to North Carolina's ampu tee war veterans and those war veterans having a 100 per cent disability rating by the Veter ans Administration. They will g?jt their tags free. The local license agent, Mrs. Robertson, points out that "to renew a plate you must have a renewal card" and cautions against the misplacing of it when it Is received. She also asks motorists to open the envelope, read the Instructions and complete the application according to Instruction before presenting it for a new plate. This will expedite lssurance and keep lines from forming. Motor vehicle owners who have not received their lic ense application cards by early January should notify the Department of Motor Vehicles in Raleigh. "B will take you from ten days to two weeks to K?t one and you should, there fore, act promptly," Mrs. Ro bertson said. Bids To Bt Asked Among highway bids to be opened by the North Carolina State Highway Commission in Rafeigfc on Ja*. ject In Gr anvil on 1-M. Criminal Cases To Be Tried The January Criminal Term ol Warren County Superior Court will convene on Monday morning with Judge Edward B. Clark oi Eli/alxjthtowri presid ing. Two murder cas.es, three manslaughter cases and 12 cases ol drunk driving are among the large number of cases scheduled to lie tried during the first four days of the week. Few cases hold coun ty-wide interest. The docket follows: Monday ? Leandrew Wil liams, breaking and entering; Jessie Lou Richardson, pos session of non-taxpaid whiskey, possession of whiskey for pur pose or sale, and resisting ar rest; Fred Harvey, assault and robbery; James Howell, hit and run; Robert Otis Baker, second offense of drunk driving and driving without a valid oper ator's license; Cleveland Haw kins, two counts of assault on female; Sandy Fields, assault with a deadly weapon; Allen W. Brown, drunk driving; Dur wood C. Johnson, drunk driv ing; Arthur Gunter Sumner, worthless check; Lawrence Paul Wyatt, drunk driving; Na thaniel Ellis, operating a motor vehicle while license suspend ed. Tuesday ? James Daniel Lynch, driving while license re voked; James Edward Overby, assault on female, and larceny; Harry Lee Hopkins, driving without valid operator's lic ense, and hit and run; Roose velt Alston, Jr., assault with a deadly weapon; Jimmy Murry, assault and assault on female; Eddie Glenn Pearce, drunk driving; Frank Hargrove, drunk driving, resisting arrest, and assaulting an officer; Wil liam Meadows, public drunk enness, second offense in one year; Mitchell Lance King, breaking and entering and improper advances; WiDiam Thomas fit'ck?rson, larceny. Rosetta Ann Duffer, two counts of larceny; David Earl Champion, speeding and drunk driving; William Harden Dan iels, manslaughter; Arthur Rick Alston, murder; David Lee Alston, murder; Willie Ella Burchett, two charges of man slaughter; Bruce Eugene Ellis, drunk driving and speeding; in re J. Edward Allen. Wednesday ? Jerome Augus tus Johnson, speeding; Alston Fleming Eakes, driving while licensed revoked; Joseph Ad kins, breaking and entering coin operated machine; Bill Lee Daniel, breaking and entering coin operated machine; Richard Daniel, breaking and entering coin operated machine; Jerry Dariel, breaking and entering coin operated machine; Henry Boyd Stalllngs, drunk driving, failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident, manslaughter; Na thaniel Bullock, possession of non-taxpaid whiskey, and pos session of whiskey for purpose of sale; Henry Clement Shear in, drunk driving; William Loyd Reid, drank driving. Thursday ? Walter Exum Clark, selling beer on Sunday; Phillip Holtzman, selling beer after hours; John Deland Felts, drink driving. Ir Hospital Patients In Warren General Hospital at 5 p. m. Tuesday war* listed m follows* ; ij| Dorothy Clifteo, Mary Tray tor, Anna Clark, Gid Tharrlng ton, William Capps, i che 11, Albert Bugg, En
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