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VOLUME 74 Subscription: $3.00 A Year; $4.00 Out Of State, 10< Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1970 NUMBER 22
Norlina High School Commencement
Plans Are Announced By Principal
Norllna High School Com
mencement plans are now
completed, Principal Clint L.
Hege announced this week. All
events will be held in the school
gymtorium. Parents and
friends are Invited to attend all
exercises connected with grad
uation.
The baccalaureate sermon
will be delivered or. Sunday,
June 7, at 8 p. m., by George
H. Washington, Baptist minis
ter and principal of NorthWar
ren School.
The awards Program will be
held In the gymtorium on June
10, beginning at 10:45 a. m. All
scholarships, trophies and
honor awards will be given
out at this time.
The graduation exercises
will be held on Wednesday night
June 10, at 8 o'clock, with
Harris T. Remley, an execu
tive of the Seaboard Coastline
Company of Jacksonville, Fla.,
delivering the commencement
address.
Mattie LaVerne Jordan and
Matilda Faye Hunt have been
named Valedictorian and Salu
tatorlan, respectively, for the
graduating class of 1970.
Harriet Sabrowskl will give
the Invocation and Barbara
Hunter will give the benedic
tion.
The Norllna High School Sen
ior Class will present a talent
show tonight (Thursday) at 8
o'clock in the gymtorium. The
purpose of the program is to
raise funds to leave an ap
propriate gift to the school
The price of admission will
be $1.00 for adults and 50$
for students. There will be no
competition between the parti
cipants. The program Is being
supervised and directed by sen
ior class advisors and offi
cers. A feature of the program
' Is anticipated to be an appear
ance of the Tall Blues of Norllna.
In announcing commence
ment plans, Principal Hege
gave biographic sketches of the
two speakers, and the valedic
torian and salutatorlan, as
follow:
Harris T. Remley
Harris T. Remley, the com
mencement speaker, was born
In West Palm Beach, Florida
May 30 Last Day For
One-Year Vaccinations
Saturday, May 30, from 1
p. m. to 2:30 p. m., will be the
last opportunity Warren Coun
ty dog owners will have to ob
tain the one-year, one dollar
vaccination for their dogs,
Claude J. Fleming, Dog Warden,
said yesterday.
He said that after May 30
only 3-year vaccinations will be
given at a cost of $4.00.
Fleming said that after June
1 registered letters will be sent
to all dog owners who have not
had their dogs vaccinated and/
or listed. After 14 days those
who fall to respond will face
legal action.
JORDAN
and now resides in Jacksonville
where he graduated from Robert
E. Lee High School. He served
In the U, S. Navy, Pacific
Theater of Operations, during
World War IL He has been as
sociated with the Railroad's
Freight Traffic Department in
the Industrial Development for
several years.
Remley has been most active
in Duval county affairs through
his work with the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce and various
HUNT
Boards of Directors. He has
been a moving force in the Unit
ed Fund for Jacksonville which
is the world's largest city in
the area.
He spends much time study
ing and doing research work to
compile factual and authentic
information for use in Pro
American Programs ofEduca
tion. The sole purpose of this
effort is to inform and en
courage more Americans to
(See NORLINA, page 4)
Ruritan Club Working
On Land-Fill Disposal
O. W. Strickland, Registered
Sanitarian with the North Car
olina State Board of Health,
was the guest speaker at the
regular meeting of the Wlse
Paschall Rurltan Club last
Thursday night. He was ac
companied to the meeting by
Palmer King, Warren County
Sanitarian.
Strickland discussed the un
slghtllness of garbage and its
health menace and the problem
of handling this Increasing
problem. He showed slides of
garbage piled up around North
Carolina cities and spoke of the
health meanace from rats and
mosquitoes from uncovered
garbage. Old automobile tires
are a source of mosquitoes, he
said. Rain accumulates in these
tires and offer a breeding pi ace
for mosquitoes, he pointed out.
m addition to the pollution of a
community, he said, the health
menace could easily spread into
surrounding communities.
Strickland said he was alrald
that It would be a long time be
fore garbage disposal would be
handled as a county program In
Warren County, and disposal
systems would have to be work
ed out among various com
munities.
He brought plans for a gar
bage disposal system being
worked out In the Wlse
Paschall community, and prais
ed the Rurltans for their recog
nition of the problem locally and
their willingness to do some
thing about It.
Work on the disposal system
has been started at Wise. The
land for the project has been
leased to the club by Carl
Parkinson of Wise, a member
of the Wlse-Paschall Rurltan
Club. It Is located ontheWlse
Olne Road , one mile west of
Wise, and will be one of the
State's first civic owned land
fill projects.
W. C. King, who handles pub
licity for the club, said that the
Wlse-Paschall Rurltan Club
must depend on the public for
support of the project, and that
this support has always been
given.
He said that the Rurltan Club
will sponsor a ham or turkey
supper at the old Wise school
building on Friday night, May
29, from 5:30 to 8:30 o'clock.
He said the supper would be
served buffet style and that
plates would be available for
taking out. Proceeds will be
used for the garbage disposal
project.
King also announced that the
Rurltan Club will start Its 1970
Softball play on Monday and
Thursday nights of each week.
The games will be played under
the lights at the Wise school
ball park. Anyone wishing to
play are asked to contact Jack
Whitby or Bobby Lockemy.
The Wlse-Paschall 4-H dub
was In charge of the meal at
the meeting which was presided
over by Albert Perk In son, pres
HAM OK TURKEY SUPPER
The Wlse-Paschall Rurltan
dab will serve a Han or Tur
key Dinner (Cafeteria Style) on
Friday, May M, from 3:80
p. m. to 8:30 p. a. at the old
Wise School in Wise. AMts
$1.80 and Children mtar It,
H.00. *">
Mrs. W. L. Wood Installed
As Woman's Club President
Mrs. W. L. Wood was Install
ed as president of the Warren
ton Woman's Club (or the next
two years at a dinner meeting
held at the parish house of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church on
last Thursday i\}ght.
Other officers Installed by
Mrs. R. B. Butler, president of
District 14 of the N. C. Feder
ation of Women's Clubs, were:
Mrs. Charles Bunch, first vice
president; Mrs. F. P. Whitley,
second vice president; Mrs.
Leonard Daniel, corresponding
secretary *nd publicity chair
man) Mrs. Manley Martin, re
cording secretary; Mrs. B. O.
White, treasurer; Mrs. T. W.
Hawkins, parliamentarian; and
Miss Elizabeth Rooter, chap
Mrs. WOod gave a report cm
the State Convention held in
April in White galena, which
was stteilal by Mrs. Wood,
Mrs. Hawkins and Mrs. Butler.
Mrs. Batter, Easter Seals
chairman, reported a final fle
ws of $1,450 whk* has pal
n the tead is
Mrs. B?tter also
spoke on the conference on the
"Handicapped" which she at
tended In Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Hawkins asked all mem
bers to promote a clean-up
campaign.
Mrs. Thomas Ellington gave a
report on the "Drug Menace,"
prepared by the Federal Bureau
of Narcotics, and urged all
members to read the article
in Its entirety at the Warren
County Memorial Library.
Mra. White reported pro
ceeds on the bake sale to be
$80.70, and Mra. Horace Twltty
?aid the name of the girl
who will receive the Warren
ton Woman'* Club scholarship
will he withheld until gradu
Miaa Mariam Boyd reported
on the beatification project
of the con Mr Tit Vm oommtttoa.
This being the final meeting
at the club year, the new praal
iXUkWit her projects
plana for the
Hoateaeea fOT the dinner were
Mr
Mra. ftoger Dowtm and Mra.
T. W,
Criminal
Court To
Open Monday
The June criminal term of
Warren County Superior Court
will open on Monday morning
with Judge Hamilton Hobgood
of Louisburg presiding.
Two murder cases are on
the three-day docket, with nu
merous cases of breaking, en
tering and larceny, scheduled to
take up the time of the court.
There are also several cases of
drunk driving and other viola
tions of the motor vehicle laws
and a number of other cases.
The docket is as follows:
Monday?Arthur GunterSum
ner, worthless check; David
Earl Champion, speeding and
drunk driving; Durwood C.
Johnson, (Henderson) drunk
driving; Jimmie G. Hudson,
speeding; William Meadows,
public drunkenness, second
offense in one year; Cleve
land Hawkins, two counts of
assault on female; Frank Har
grove, assaulting an officer;
and entering; Bruce Engene El
lis, drunk driving.
Also, Bruce Eugene Ellis,
speeding; James Lenward
Evans, manslaughter; William
Alfred Miller, speeding; Clyde
Alton Spragins, Jr., arson;
Louran Weber, III, speeding;
Louran Weber, m, no opera
tor's license; B. C. Brown,
receiving stolen goods; James
Baskett, two counts of break
ing, entering and larceny;
James Allen Baskett, three
(See COURT, page 12)
Mrs. John Mitchell
Is Featured In
Newspaper Article
Mary Regan, staff writer for
The News and Observer, came
to Warrenton for the second
In a series of North Carolina
women who "are not only a
part but a product of the place
In which they live," and here
she found Mrs. John Mitchell
and featured her and her hus
band, John, In the "Today's
Woman's" section of The News
and Observer of Sunday, May
24.
"The main thing I do is fight.
I fight for the trees?to keep
the trees on the street," is a
boxed quotation from Mrs. Mit
chell which with three large
photographs illustrates the
article. One of these photos
shows Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell
walking beneath two large trees
with the caption, "People say
of us, 'Warrenton?that's the
town with the trees'."
"Two little dogs and a Ger
man police were playing In the
yard in front of the white
columned porch," Mary Regan
said in beginning her article.
"Mrs. John Mitchell came out
and stood waiting on the top
step. 'Not a one of them Is
ours,' she said, extending her
hand. 'The big one is the gen
tlest of them all.'
"Inside, a portrait of Mrs.
James Knox Polk, wife of the
(See MITCHELL, page 3)
SALMON
Please, No Color Pictures
in* Warren Record nIoomi pictures bat must Insist
that they be la blaok ?W white and of a quality that will
reproduce wall. We are receiving an Increasing i
pictures la color aad we have no faculties tor color i
tkm. Sometimes theea cm be need bat lavarlstty the color
picture gives as aa inferior negative and hurts the ?aear
ance of Mm papar. )- v. ? ? '>, . >*,?? ?-~, ,.????*
We wataome black aod wh?e pictures of food quality,
txit mast a* oar rewlers not to send pictures la color.
Appeal Uncertain
School Act Unconstitutional,
Federal District Court Rules
Eagle Scout Robert Thompson stands with his parents, Mr and Mrs. Bernard Thompson,
during Court of Honor Ceremonies at Wesley Memorial United Church on Sunday morning.
Robert Thompson Is Eagle Scout
RobM&Jftayne Thompson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. Bernard
Thompson of Macon, received
the E agle Scout Award at
a Court of Honor at the 11
o'clock worship service at
Wesley Memorial Methodist
on Sunday morning.
William K. Delbrldge,Execu
tive Board member of the Oc
coneechee Council, Boy Scouts
of America, was chairman at
the Court of Honor. Dr. S. H.
Massey, Jr., district vice
chairman of the Moratoc Dis
trict, </ave the charge to Scout
Thompson. The following scouts
of Troop 617 participated in
the ceremony: Smltty Bugg and
Richard Blankenship, award
bearers; Frank Hunter and
Walter Gardner, Jr., ushers;
William Cox and Billy Watson,
flag bearers.
Scout Thompson became a
Boy Scout on Nov. 20, 1963.
In order to obtain '.he rank of
Eagle he completes the rank
of Tenderfoots-Second Class,
First Class, Star and Life. He
completed the requirements
for 21 merit badges. Robert Is
now serving as Senior Patrol
Leader of Troop 617.
W. Monroe Gardner is Scout
master and Tom Watson Is as
sistant Scoutmaster of Troop
617.
Scouts from Troop 617 at
tended the Court of Honor and
participated in the candlelight
ceremony.
Salmon Resigns From Town Police
Force To Become Street Supt.
Howard H. Salmon, veteran
Warrenton police officer, re
signed as Police Chief and
police officer Monday night to
accept a position of Superinten
dent of Streets. His resigna
tion is effective May 31.
Salmon, who has had nearly
36 years of police experience,
has been a member of the War
renton Police Force tor nearly
15 years, has been Chief of
Police for some four years.
He assumed this office upon the
death of the late R. D. Chewn
lng.
For several years, Salmon
served as part time Street Su
perintendent, and several weeks
ago requested thai he be per
mitted to resign from the police
force and devote his full time to
the duties of street superin
tendent.
At a called meeting of the
Board Monday night, Salmon's
request was granted and he
will begin his new duties as full
time street superintendent next
Monday.
The purpose of the called
meeting was to clear up several
matters pending before the
board. Among these were a
meeting with taxlcab drivers to
discuss the taxlcab problem In
the town and to amend a para
graph In an application to the
EDA for a grant for extension
of water and sewer lines to
factory sites In North Warren
ton.
The changing of a conditional
paragraph, to which EDA at
torneys had objected, was a
matter of giving approval to
Town Attorney Charles John
son to make the change and oc
cupied little time. The same
was not true of the meeting with
the taxicab drivers which con
sumed an hour and a half of
the commissioners time.
At the Invitation of the com
missioners, Thurston Brown,
(see SALMON, page 8)
Whether or not the Town of
Warrenton will appeal a de
cision of the Federal Court
for the Eastern District of North
Carolina declaring a Legisla
tive Act creating Warrenton as
a city school district will not
be known until the town com
missioners meet on June 8,
Mayor W. A. Miles said Wed
nesday morning.
Legislation by the 1969 Gen
eral Assembly which would have
set up thiee largely white
separate schools in heavily
black Halifax and Warren Coun
ties was declared uncoi.^titu
tlonal Tuesday by the U. S.
District Court for Eastern
North Carolina.
The court ruled that the legis
lature's attempt to establish the
separate units "violates the
state's duty to effectuate uni
tary system of public schools
in North Carolina."
The court also held the se
parate units, which would have
been located at Warrenton,
Scotland Neck and Littleton
Lake Gaston, would have pre
vented the county school boards
from complying with court de
segregation orders.
District Court Judges Alger
non L. Butler and John D. Lar
klns filed the opinions In
Raleigh. Laws establishing the
separate units were challenged
in court last summer by the
U. S. Justice Department and
black parents In the two coun
ties.
The court Issued temporary
Injunctions Just before school
started last fall, barring the
separate units from operating.
Tuesday's decision makes the
Injunction permanent.
The Justice Department had
charged thai the laws enacted
by the 1969 General Assembly
to set up the separate school
districts would create "white
Islands" in the two counties.
All three municipal units had
prepared to accept a substantial
number of white transfer stu
dents from the areas remain
ing In the county school
systems.
In Warren County, blacks and
Indians constitute 73 per cent
of the student population. The
separate school unit at War
renton would have been 94 per
cent white with 876puplls Some
685 of these pupils would have
been white students trans
ferring Into the Warrenton
schools from the county.
The Littleton-Lake Gaston
unit would have had a little
more than 600 students, only
(See SCHOOLS, page 12)
Revival To Be Held
At North Warrenton
Revival services will be held
at North Warrenton Baptist
Church beginning on Monday
night, June 1, and continuing
through Sunday night, June 7,
with services each night at 8
o'clock, the Rev. Tom Currle,
pastor, announced yesterday.
The Rev. Henry Johnson, pas
tor of Sulphur Springs Baptist
Church, will be the guest minis
ter. He Is a graduate of Fur
man University and Southeast
ern Theological Seminary.
The Robertson Family, tba
Currle Family, the Youth Choir
of the Norlina Baptist Church
and the choirs from Sulphur
Spring* will furnish special
music each night.
A nursery will be provided.
Vaaghaa Charck Ta
Hava
Tl
will
| | May 11, at U a.*.
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