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JTOaron Srrori) A PROUD WIFE ?Major General Claude Bowers of the North Carolina National Guard and his wife pose happily after he was presented the Legion of Merit Medal in a ceremony held last Friday in the National Guard Armory in Raleigh. Mrs. Bowers holds the medal. The presen tation was made by Major General John M. Finn of Fort McPherson. General Bowers, who resigned as N. C. Adjutant General, effective Friday, and Mrs. Bowers returned to Warrenton during the weekend after living in Raleigh for ten years while he served as Ad jutant General under three governors. (Photo courtesy of The News and Observer). State Cucumber Marketing Committee Launches Marketing Bargaining Plan The State Cucumber Market ing Committee of the North Car olina Farm Bureau has of ficially launched a Cucumber Grower Marketing - Bargaining Program. It wlli operate as a division of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Marketing Asso ciation, according to William B. Ellington, Chairman of the Warren County Farm Bureau Cucumber Marketing Com mittee and a member of the State Farm Bureau Cucumber Committee. Ellington reported that sev eral weeks ago a group of cucumber growers from sev eral of the major cucumber producing counties met and recommended a price of $10.00 for #l's, $6.00 for #2's, $3.00 for #8's and $1.00 for #4's per hundred for 1970. It was recommended that a State Farm Bureau Cucumber Com mittee be appointed consist ing of one grower from each county Farm Bureau to develop a program. I Since that meetlne. Ellineton said, County Farm Bureaus have appointed Cucumber Mar keting Committees and, based on their nominations, a state committee has been appointed. The committee held its first official meeting on Friday, Jan uary 23. At the meeting, the committee agreed that the mini mum price for cucumbers for 1970 should be $8.00 for #l's, $4.00 for#2's, and$2.00for#3's per hundred using the present grade sizes. It was recommend ed that the state Farm Bureau should work toward organizing a special program for cucum ber growers. At the second meeting of the committee, on January 30, the committee officially started the Cucumber Marketing - Bargaining Program. The com mittee decided that the Market ing Association should seek $8.00 for #l's, $4.50 for #2's and $2.50 tor #3's per hundred in their contacts with compan ies who buy or purchase North Carolina cucumbers. Ed Bissett from Nash County was appoint ed by B. C. Mangum, president of the Farm Bureau Marketing Association, to serve as chair man of the state committee and Frank Boyette of Robe son County was appointed vice chairman. Ellington stated that it was a | feeling of the State Committee that this price would help grow ers Increase their net income. "An Increase in prices as recommended by the Committee is a must if growers are to meet the ever - increasing cost of production and harvesting," said Ellington. Vance Woman Hurt In Warren Wreck A Vance County motorist was Injured In a two-car wreck in Warren County, two miles east of Norllna, at 10:40 o'clock Sunday morning. Mrs. Anne Wright Norwood, 26, of Route 3, Henderson, v -s carried to Warren General Hospital for medical attention after the car she was driving was In collision with a truck driven by Henry Evens Cole man, 76, of Wise. Trooper W. E. Brown, who Investigated the accident, said that Mrs. Wright's car was traveling east on U. S. 158 aod Coleman's truck was traveling south on rural road 1305. He estimated the dam ace to the car at $450 and to the truck at ?1200. Coleman was chared with (ailing to yield right of way at the intersection stop alga. CountY Board To Hold Meeting Today The Warren Cowty Board of Commissioners will meet here today to transact regular business of the county. The board, which has held its regular meetings on the first Mood ay in the month tor many yean, has chanced Us meeting date to the first Thursday la each month. Today's will be the first i the ne White Seeks Position Sup. Court Solicitor Charles M. White, III, War renton attorney and present Prosecutor of the District Court, has anaooncadhis candi dacy for Solicitor of the Su perior Court In the Ninth Ju dicial District, comprising the counties at Franklin, Granville, Person, Vance and Warren, subject to the May 3, 1970 Democratic Primary. Prior to aervlnc the District Court as Prosecutor, White was Solicitor otthe Warran County Recorder's Court for ten years and Assistant Superior court Solicitor..White, 43, was reared In the Drewry Community of i, having attended b Middleburg and the University of la ! white %. ?00 County Is in District 10-a of which Thomas D. Cooper of Burlington Is presently Solid ^.^sxsa with the Girls Basketball Teams To Take Part In Tournament At Rocky Mount Residents insured For $54,836,000 ( Special To The Record ) NEW YORK - Residents of Warren County are beginning the decade of the 70's with more financial safeguards in the form of Insurance than they ever had. They are covered for all kinds of hazards. They have health insurance, burglary Insurance, automobile insurance, fire in surance, life Insurance and various other forms of protec tion. Especially have they been adding to their life insurance. Total holdings of this type of coverage in the local area is now estimated at more than $54,836,000. The facts and figures on the number of policy holders and the amount of insurance In force are contained in the current Life Insurance Fact Book and in other year-end statistics. The breakdown is on a state-by state basis. It shows that the American people have been adding to their Insurance in recent years. Their total holdings now add up to $1.3 trillion and are growing at the rate of more than $100 million a year. In the State of North Caro lina, according to the figures, the amount in force totals $26, 390,000,000. This compares with the 1960 figure of $9, 965.000,000. In most families the amount of insurance carried Is In direct proportion to their Income. The total held by the average fam ily in the state it is found, is equal to 27.2 months Income, after taxes. Applied to Warren County and to the aVer'agB fncomA re ported for the area, life In surance coverage locally Is now estimated at $13,700perfamily. This Is nearly twice as much as the average family had ten years ago. Of the grand total of $54, 854,000 carried by the local population, the bulk is in or dinary life Insurance. Group in surance, generally Issued to employers for the benefit of their employees, is In second place. The reports show that de spite the growing protection provided through social secur ity , most families have been adding to their insurance cov erage as their income rises. Men, especially married men, are the most frequently insured. Some 91 percent of husbands carry life insurance as compared with 71 percent of wives. Warren Road Site Listed As Hazardous RALEIGH ? Concentration on 1-85 and US 1 In Warren County was reoently listed among the most hazardous rural traffic locations by the Traffic Engineering Department of the North Carolina State Highway Commission. The site, with a traffic count of 4,570 vehicles per day, has had 17 accidents since 1965. The engineers, after months of study, Issued ? report list ing IIS Intersections, 84 traf fic concentration points, IB brldcM, 22 section* and 11 railroad crossings, whitt have high accident frequencies. All of the points listed are out side incorporated cities and towns, the report said. Each such high accident lo cation, the engineers said, will be investigated for possible im provement by engineering ac A report on the most hazar dous traffic points la cities sad towns will be Issued at a later date, J. O. Utekford, state traffic engineer, said. -4 Ttm Rev. R. E, w To Provide Water For Factory $45,000 Bond Issue To Be Held At Norlina March 14 Girls basketball teams for the first time will participate in a District 3 Basketball tourn ament, which will be held this year at Rocky Mount March 11 through March 14. Plans for the girls tourna ment were made at Louis burg on Monday night by a special committee appointed by Simon F. Terrell, executive secretary of the North Caro lina High School Athletic As sociation. The committee, composedof representatives from the four athletic conferences involved, Is chaired by Coye Lewis, prin cipal of South Edgecombe High School. Other members named and representing their con ferences are Mrs. Kaye Phil Hps, coach of Youngsville Tobacco Trade Fair Planned In R. Mount Flue-cured tobacco growers wiU have an opportunity In March to see the latest ideas for reducing expenses and Increasing profits. A tobacco growers trade fair has been scheduled for Rocky Mount. To be featured are the latest machinery, chemicals, Ideas and practices for pro ducing, harvesting and mar keting flue-cured tobacco. Dates for the fair are March 11-13. Sponsors aretheAgri cultural Extension Service and the six-county Coastal Plains Development Association. The Rocky Mount fair will follow highly successful tobac ? co trade fairs In GreenvlUe In 1967 and Wilson In 1968. These fairs attracted 60,000 and 75,000people, respectively. Co-managers for the Rocky Mount fair are Spencer Edmundson and Spencer Ed mundson, Jr. They said that every type of business, com pany and agency that has some thing to offer tobacco farmers will be represented, many with brand new ideas. The fair wUl be held in the new Peoples Warehouse near the intersection of U.S. 301 and N. C. 97 in Rocky Mount. High School, representing the Franklin Area Conference; Vir gil Payne, coach of Smith field-Selma High School, rep resenting the Capital Area Conference; and Clint Hege, principal of Norlina High School, representing the Roa noke Conference. Lewis repre sents the Wake-Edgecombe Wilson-Johnston Conference. The committee selected Rocky Mount Senior High as the site of the tournament. Each conference will be represented by two teams. Team A will be the regular season conference ?dinner and Team B will be the tournament winner if different from the regular season winner or if the regular season winner and the tournament winner are the same, then the tournament finalist will be the representa tive. There will be two games each night through the semi finals. On the final night there will be the championship game only. Two officials will be select ed from the Northeastern book ing office and two from the Ral eigh booking office. Champion ship and runner-up trophies will oe awarded on Saturday night, March 14. The first game each night will begin at 7:00 except the finals which will begin at 8:00. C. V. Lundy, Jr., has been named tournament district di rector. The schedule has been drawn so that no two teams from the same conference will play each other unless both advance *-j the finals. Warren Farmers Paid $445,732 In Proaram Warren County farmers earned $445,732 by participat ing Is the 1969 feed grain, wheat, and cotton programs, Thomas E. Watson, County Exe cutive Director for the Warren ASCS office, announced this week. Watson said that last year producers on 1613 cotton farms participated In the cotton pro gram and earned either small farm or price-support pay ments of $181,870 for meeting program requirements. Under the feed grain pro gram, producers received $194,744 by meeting program requirements. This includes both diversion and price support payments on the 989 farms that participated in the 1969 program. A total of 918 wheat farms received diversion or certifi cate paymentsof $69,118. These payments were earned by farm ers participating In the 1969 program and meeting program requirements. "The signup for the 1970 programs began on Feb. 2 and will continue to March 20," Watson said. "The feed grain program requirements are bas ically the game as last year. "In the 1970 cotton program, there Is no diversion program. A small (arm, which is a farm with 10 acres or less or a projected yield of 3600 pounds or less, may earn the small farm payment without planting any cotton. Wheat farmers in 1970 may earn both certificate and diversion payments if they meet program requirements." Watson said there will be no advance payment for the 1970 feed grain, wheat and cotton programs; however, total pay ments earned will be made in early summer. Court Of Hovor An E agle Scout Court of Hon or for Frank Hunter, sonofMr. and Mrs. R. Edward Hunter of Warrenton, will be held at Wes ley Memorial United Methodist Church on Sunday morning, Feb. 8, at the 11 o'clock worship i service. >ung War ran County Farroars-Pkillp Jr., and Eraast Boyd Harrla-wara Mk by J. Howard . "?? ? ?? . I ? MPWWMP* WSfStKSSS^MfWi I i ?- - ? <- ? ? -..'.. -. .'fri-fry :Ji:s\i ?v. *:**$?: , . B,nd,r< Jr-> tan- mxIKrmtt Boyd Harria bold o?rtlflcat? presented by J. "Howard Daniel, right. Farmers Presented Certificates is worthwhile tor I I A special $45,000 bond issue will he held at Norlina on March 14 (o raise funds for water fa cilities needed to bring a new Industry to Norlina. Notice of the special bond election and supplemental registration in the Townof Nor lina was released by the Board of Town Commissioners this week. The question to be submitted to the qualified voters of the town is as follows: Shall an ordinance finally passed on February 2, 1970, authorizing the Town of Nor lina, North Carolina, to con tract a debt, in addition to any and all other debt which said Town may now or hereafter have power or authority to contract, and in evidence thereof to issue Water Bonds in an aggregate principal amount not exceed ing $45,000 for the purpose of providing funds, with any other available funds, for extending and enlarging the waterworks system of said Town, in cluding the construction of additional storage and dis tribution facilities and the acquisition of any necessary land, rights of way and equip ment, and authorizing the levy and collection of a sufficient tax for the payment of the prin cipal of and the interest on said bonds, be approved? U said bonds are Issued a tax will be levied upon all taxable property In the Town of Norlina for the payment of the principal of and the in terest on said bonds. For said election the regular registration books for elections in said Town will be used and such books will be open for the registration of voters not there tofore registered from 9 A. M. until sunset on each day begin ning Saturday, February 14, 1970 and closing Saturday, February 28, 1970. On each Saturday during said period said books will remain open at the voting place. Saturday, March 7, 1970, Is Challenge Day. The voting place will be the Town Office. Mrs. A. J. Bobbitt has been appointed registrar for the election, and Mrs. Lucille Lewis and Clayton D. Taylor have been appointed judges of election. Carolina Telephone Pays Local Taxes Carolina Telephone's Warren County taxes for 1969 amounted to $13,906, one of the largest assessments In the county. Howard Pitts, local man ager said that the tax payment covered ad valorem taxes on the company's property located within the county. A check of the county records Indicated that Caroline Tele phone ranks among tfce top all taxpayer* la Up area, y County aed municipal 1969 taxes paid by the company la Its 40- oovnty operating area totaled over $1,850,000. Caro lina Telephone's entire operat ing tax bill for 1909, lndodlng all state and federal taxes, came to more than ?I?,600,000. Pitta pointed oat that thla did not Include $8,924,000 of 10 percent federal exclae taxes which were billed to telephone uaera by the company.. Theae 'federal
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