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0. Box 1736* Loulatrllie 1,K&. 1 ?tjp JUarrrn iRrruri) VOLUME 74 Subscription: $3.00 A Year; $4.00 Out Of State, 10< Per Copy WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. THURSDAY, IUNE 11, 1970 NUMBER 24 No Action On School Ruling Until Consultation With Board The Town of Warrenton will not make an official decision on whether to appeal a Dis trict Federal Court ruling declaring a Legislative Act creating Warrenton as a spec ial school district unconstitu tional before conferring with the City School Board. This was decided at a four and a half hour meeting of the town commissioners on Monday night. Commissioner Aaron Allen made a motion that legal fees expended for the district school at Warrenton be discontinued "tonight;" that tax funds col lected for the school be relum ed in full to the taxpayers; and that any legal expenses in curred in the matter of the city school be paid for by a levy in the 1970-71 budget. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Thomas Gasktll. Each member of the board was polled and the results were Allen and Gaskill voting in favor and Clayton, White, Powell, Fair and Haithcock voting against. Opposing board members said that they were not neces sarily opposing Allen's motion but that they felt that the city school board, which the town appointed, should be shown the courtesy of a hearing. Following the defeat of Allen's motion, Commissioner Gordon Halthcock motioned that the board meet with the city school board before making any decision. The motion was seconded by A. C. Fair. On a polled vote, only Allen opposed the motion. Following the passage of this motion,' Mayor W. A. Miles told the commissioners that he would contact Dr. S. H. Massey, Jr., chairman of the city school board, and set up a meeting of the two boards next Monday night. Stockholders of Colonial Lodge are in arrears in pay ments of the purchase price of the hotel, it was revealed. Town Attorney Charles John son was Instructed to write to the stockholders asking for set tlement of past due payments. The commissioners voted to renew a lease on the Police Station for five years. Hy Dia mond, owner of the station, has agreed to enlarge the station. The board voted to pay $30 a month until such time as the station is enlarged and $50 a month after that time. Grady Haynes was promoted to Police Chief, effective June 1. The resignation of Harold R. Skillman as building Inspector was accepted with regret. His successor is not expected to be appointed until the beginningof the new fiscal year in July. Ed Rooker, Town manager and Town Clerk, was instruct ed to pay the town engineers for work they have done in con nection with the location of Cochrane Furniture Plant here. The commissioners granted C. W. Currin, Jr., the right to have a trailer display lot within the town limits so long as the trailers were only displayed for sale and not used for an office or connected to the town's water and sewage system. They ruled that the or dinance forbidding the use of trailers for home or busi ness purposes does not apply to trailers on display for sale. Criminal Term Of Superior Court Ends Following Two Murder Trials The June Criminal term of Warren County Superior Court, | which convened on Monday morning of last weelc with Judge | Hamilton Hobgood of Louisburg presiding, adjourned around 11:30 on Friday morning. Trial of cases jnded late Thursday afternoon with the end of two murder trials, but Judge Hobgood and court officials re turned on Friday morning to wind up the aifairs of court. Five murder cases were on the docket, but the cases against Rose Bud Whitfield, Mary Chavls Jones and George Wash ington Bullock were continued. In the other murder cases Arthur Ricks Alston and David Lee Alston were each charged with first degree murder, but Solicitor W. H. S. Burgwyn, Jr., stated that he would not ask for a first degree verdict. He said he would try the de fendants on a charge of second degree murder ormanslaugh ter. At the conclusion of the o.'dence each defendant pled guilty to a charge of invol untary manslaughter. The judgment of the court was that each defendant be sen tenced to the N. C. Depart ment of Corrections for not less than three nor more than five years. The sentences were sus pended for five years and the defendants placed on probation for five years provided that each pays into the office of the Clerk of Superior Court the sum of $1,000 to be put Into a trust fund for the use and benefit of Mansfield Cheynne Green,"pay ments to be made in the amount of $25 per month, each month. Seven youthful offenders, Lawrence Jiggetts, Joseph Als ton, Milton Harrison, James Al len Baskett, George Baskett, George Rawlings and John Raw lings, were each charged with breaking, entering and larceny. The court accepted a plea of Mayor Miles Pins Chief of Police shield on Grady J. Haynes, Jr., following his promotion by town board on Monday night. Haynes Promoted To Warrenton Chief Of Police Grady J. Haynes, 35, Warren ton Police Officer for the past three years, was promoted to Chief of Police by the board of town commissioners on Mon day nlgM. He succeeds Howard Sal mon, who recently resigned to accept a position as street su perintendent. Haynes has serv ed as assistant chief lor the past two years. Haynes and his family moved to Warrantee from Macon this : and are making their home the Daniel house, SOS Mate A native of Lexington, Haynes la a gr ' Forest College and the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He attended Police School at the University of Maryland, and has taken FBI courses In firearms, finger printing and Investigation. He served on the police force of Rocky Mount and on the Hampton, Va., police force for five years before coming to Warrant on. He served two years lit the U. 8. Army, 14 months of which was served with the special aarvioes In Europe. The son of the Rev. and Mrs. Grady J. Hums of Macon, Haynes la married to the former Janice Whitehead of Scotland Neck. They have five non felonious breaking and en tering and the misdemeanor of larceny, and ordered each de fendant placed in the custody of the Commissioner of Cor rections for treatment and su pervision for a maximum period of two years, or until condition al release or uncond"'onal discharge by the Board of Pa roles as provided by law. The execuiion of the sentence In each case was suspended for five years upon compliance with the following conditions; that the defendant be placed on probation for a period of five years; during that period ) the defendants will remain either in school or gainfully employed, make his reports as required to the probation of ficer, abide by the regulations of the probation judgment there in as set forth In writing and delivered to the defendant; that he shall not violate any law of the federal government or state during the period of five years, and that he pays the costs of court under the super vision of the probation officer. Gaynell McColn Brown, Jr., was assigned to the N.C. De partment of Correction'for 30 days when he pled guilty to a charge of falling to see that movement could be made In safety under existing condi tions. The sentence was sus pended provided the defendant pays a $25 fine and court costs, surrenders his operator's lic ense for four months and does not operate a motor vehicle on the public highways and streets of the state during said four months. Disposition of other cases were as follows: Donald Lee West, plead guilty to the charge of speeding 65 miles per hour In a 55 mph zone. The defendant was sen tenced to sixty days In common jail. The sentence was sus pended upon the conditions that the defendant pay a fine of $25, court costs and not operate a motor vehicle for six months except from 5:30 a. m. until 7s30 p. m. Henry Boyd Stalllngs, plead guilty to the charge of driving under the Influence of Intoxi cants. The court ordered the defendant to be Imprisoned for a period of 60 days In common jail. The sentence was suspend ed upon the conditions that the defendant pay a fine of $100, court costs, and not operate a motor vehicle imtll duly licens ed by the State of North Caro lina. Louis J. Fekety, plead guil ty to the charge of breaking, entering and larceny. The court placed the defendant In the cus tody of the Commissioner of Correction for a period of six Arthur Richardson, charged with breaking, entering, larceny and felonious larceny, plead goUty. The court placed Um da ta the Diagnostic Cea-i ? COURT, Page 10) Summer Program To Begin June 18 By JAMF.S JORDAN ESEA Director A summer program In var ious subjects to supplement the regular nine month school term will begin in Warren County public Schools on Thursday, June 18, for about 1,400 pupils. The Title I, ESEA Program is designed to offer remedial subjects for educationally de prived children needing strong er basic skills in reading, a rithmetic, and the language arts in elementary schools. High schools will offer courses to improve skills in the basic sub jects such as English, Math, Social Studies or Science for those pupils who failed cours es. School buses will be operat ed over a majority of existing routes to transport pupils for the six-week program which ends July 30. Summer schools will be closed on Friday, July 3, in observance of Independ ence Day. The daily three hour morning program begins for pupils at 8:30. Pupils will be dismissed daily at 11:30. School lunchrooms will serve pupils a nutritious mid-morning snack each day. Programs to be offered are: Beginners: Macon, South Warren, Northside, Marlam Boyd and Vaughan. Beginners would be children enrolling in first grade in September. Reading and Arithmetic: North Warren, Hawkins, Macon, South Warren, Northside, Mar lam Boyd, Vaughan and Lit tleton. Instrumental Music: Hawkins and North Warren. This pro gram is restricted to pupils already enrolled In Instru mental music. High School Courses: John Graham, Norlina and Little ton. Daily library facilities and services will be available at each school for those pupils In (See PROGRAM, page 10) Warrenton Boy Wins School's lop Honor CHR1STCHURCH, VA.-John Boyd David, III, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Davis of War renton, North Carolina, receiv ed the "Bishop's Award", Christchurch School's top honor for a graduate, for 1910. In presenting the award to John Boyd Davis at the final exer cises, June 6, Headmaster Yar brough outlined these consider ations in the faculty voting: "To the member of the gradu ating class who In the opinion of the faculty has made the most valuable contribution to the life of the school. In selecting the recipient, Judgment is based on the student's overall citizen ship, his general example and influence for higher standards, trust-worthiness, scholastic effort and responsibility, with . special emphasis upon Christ ian leadership." This year John Boyd Davis has served with distinction as a student monitor and he was a loyal choir member and parti cipant In the school's athletic program. For his higher edu cation, John Boyd plans to at tend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "The Seahorse" salutes this latest Bishop's Award wlnn?r whose picture will be placed among the group of forty-one distin guished alumni receiving the award In prior years. Loss Of 3887 In Decade Warren County Population Is 15,292 In Preliminary Report Commissioners Fail To Reappoint Industrial Chairman To Board W. Monroe Gardner, chair man of the Warren County In dustrial Commission since its organization in 1964, failed to be re-elected to the com mission Monday by the board of county commissioners when they named four members to the commission. Gardner will be replaced as commission member by H. E. Dickerson, secretary of the Gaston Lake Chamber of Com merce when his term expires on the first Monday in July. A3', members were nominated by Commissioner A. J. Elling ton and approved by Commis sioners John Wilson and Rob ert Thorne. Commissioner Richard R. Davis was absent from the meeting due to illness and Chairman Amos L. Capps asked that he be recorded as abstaining from voting in the case of Monroe Gardner. Other persons named to the board were W. B. Ellington, replacing John R. Edwards, deceased. Ellington's term ex pires the first Monday in July, 1973. C. W. Egerton, Jr., replacing Dennis A. Rose for a term expiring first Monday in July, CRUTCHFIELD Crutchfield Replaces Wilson As Pastor Of Local Methodist Church The Rev. Gilbert Wesley Crutchfield, pastor of the Fu quay Springs United Methodist Church for the past four years, has been named to succeed the Rev. L. T, Wilson as pastor of Warrenton's Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. The Rev. Mr. Crutchfield, who has served eight pastorates throughout eastern North Car olina since his 1943 graduation from Duke Divinity School, was assigned here during the con cluding session of the N. C. United Methodist Conference meeting last week in Green ville. He was one of the 161 minis ters relocated by the conference which covers eastern North Carolina and a portion of the Piedmont. Announcement of the ministerial assignment was made by Bishop William R. Can non of Raleigh. Mr. Crutchfield conducted services at Wesley Memorial Sunday, while the former pas tor, the Rev. Mr. Wilson preached at his new pastor ate In Ayden. A native of Moore County, Mr. Crutchfield graduated from Carthage High School and received his A. B. degree from Asbury College in Whttmore, Ky., before attending Ddm. Upon graduation, ha was naaad minister of the Kitty Hawk Methodist Church. Other com munities In wfeich ha has aar red include Pine Bluff, Tabor City, Elizabeth City, Wilming ton, Payettevllle, and itoaMte (JSee CRUTCHFIELD, pa* IS) n 1973. W. D. Little for unexpired term of Jimmie D. Medltn ex piring first Monday in July, 1971. The matter of traXflc in Soul City was before the commis sioners in the form of a let ter from W. D. McNeil, asso ciate manager, from his New York office. McNeil said that persons now drive through the Soul City site In a reckless manner, and with the expected build up of traffic due to In creased activity at Soul City in the near future, that he feels that the traffic should be regu lated. Persons wishing to get rid of dogs may take them to the home of Claude J. Fleming, Dog War den, instead of dumping them out on the roadside. Fleming, who was before the commis sioners to make his monthly report, said that he feels that It would be easier on him and on the dog owners to dispose of unwanted dogs in this manner. He said that he feels that the necessity for his travel ing 2096 miles durlngthe month of May was due In large part to the dumping of unwanted dogs in the woods. He said he picked up 74 dogs In May and sold $8.00 worth of dogs. H. E. (Dick) Dlckerson, sec retary of the Gaston Chamber of Commerce, appeared before the board to discuss the oper ation of the multi-county cham ber, and suggested that It would be a good Investment for Warren County to donate funds toward the expense of promotional activities of the chamber. The commissioners suggested that part of the funds allocated to the Warren County industrial Commission under a 5? levy, might be used for this purpose. They asked that Dlckerson dis cuss this matter with Frank W. Reams, industrial director. Reams appeared before the commissioners earlier In the day to report that a snag had been hit In a EDA loan appli cation for utilities In the War renton Industrial Park. He said that a number of local persons would go to Huntington, W. Va., over the weekend in an effort to straighten out the matter and expressed the hope that a commissioner might be among this group. Marvin Newsom, Bill Reid and Horace Newsom appeared before the commissioners to present the budget for the Warren Rescue Squad. The commissioners ordered that money allocated to County Road No. 1109, known as the "Read Road", be *?-nm the 1969-70 road program and used for another location, after they had been assured that it was impossible to secure the right-of-way for the "Read Road." Mrs. Louise Champion of Durham appeared before the board to request adjustment of tax value on the J. Roy Devine property In Norliaa, which she described as not rentable and not Insurable. Told that the time for review of tax values had expired for the year, she said she hoped it could be changed for next year. It was ordered that Walter A. Watts and Company, CPA's, be employed to audi t the books of the county offices for the sum of $1500. 11 was ordered that off premises beer licenses be is sued to Swep Carroll, trad ing as Carroll's Grocery and Service Station and to Arthur Pate, trading as Lake Gaston Estates Marina, upon receipt of State permits. The State Highway Commis sion was requested to add to the county road system a new road connecting SR 1113 and SRI 100. A. P. Rodwell, Jr., Tax Col lector, reported 1969 taxes collected during May in the amount of $25,993.08, making a total of 1969 taxes collected to date in the amount of $533, 294.02, 93.2% of the levy. ATTENDS MEETING Amos L. Capps of Areola spent last Tuesday and Wed nesday In Morganton where he attended a meeting of the Gov ernor's Advisory Committee on Forestry, to which he was recently appointed by Gover nor Bob Scott. Rev. Johnson Resigns As Sulphur Springs Pastor The Rev. Henry Johnson, pas tor of Sulphur Springs Baptist Church for the past three years, has re signed, effective Jtme 28, to become pastor of West Springs Baptist Church at Un ion, S. C. The letter of resignation was read to the congregation by George Ay cock, chairman of deacons, and was accepted by the church on Sunday, May 24. A pulpit committee will be selected by the church to seek a replacement for the Rev. Mr. Johnson. In a statement to The War ren Record, Mr. Johnson said this week: "It U vary difficult to leave our many wonderful friends it sulphur ferine* and throughout Warren County, since we have come to love the people hare. We have enjoyed the three years that we have made our home here andwiaB always fed like a pari at UtU area. The people of Afton Elberon and Warrantee have been efacially nice and kind toward us since our arrival her* in 1M7V Wa can never target these Memorable years a* wa move to our new field (* service." ?: A native at In man, g, c., Mr. Johnson ts JOHNSON man University, Greonvilla, S. C., and Southeastern B?*lst Theological Seminary at Wrin Forest. Prior to eeeH|^5* Warrea Cowty, he vas pastor of Moor* Baptist Cfearch, Moore, 8. C? and later served ?s pastor of the Sandy apt Baptist Church * Forest < ; % ?? MMRM to ti? : Warren County's 1970 popu lation is 15,292 according to a preliminary count released Thursday by the U. S. Depart ment of the Census. This represents a decrease in population of 3,887 since the census was taken in I960, and a loss of 8,247 since 1950, when the county's population numbered 23,539. The preliminaryfigureswere released by District Manager Donald R. Payne who super vised the takingofthe 1970Cen sus of Population and Housing in this area. The preliminary figures also showed that Halifax, Nash and Franklin Counties had a decline in population, with Vance County showing a slight increase. Population figures for North ampton County, which joins Warren, were not available to this newspaper. Halifax County's population loss was more than 5,000 the exact figures not being avail able. Franklin's loss was 2,452; and Nash's loss was 3,769. The city of Henderson gained 1,150, which was responsible for a total gain in Vance Coun ty of 536. The Census Bure au will com - mence in the fall of 1970 to publish official population fig ures for all areas in the United States?states, counties, cities, towns and villages. The population projection of 1963 predicted that the popu lation of Warren County would be 15,730 In 1970. Tho pro jection was made for all the counties of the state by Josef H. Perry, Division of Community Planning, and Dr. C. Hor ace Hamilton, North Carolina State University. At the time of making the projection, the authors stated that projected figures for both 1970 and 1980 could be ex pected if the trend then in effect continued. Preliminary figures show that the actual population of 15,292 is 438 less than the projected population of 17,730. The projected popu lation for 1980 is 12,370. Average Tobacco Support Price To Be 66.6c A Pound RALEIGH ? Flue-cured or bright leal tobacco from the 1970 crop will be supported at grade loan rates ranging from 37 cents to 92 cents a pound for untied leaf, the U. S. De partment of Agriculture an nounced this week. The rates reflect a previous ly announced average support price of 66.6 cents a pound, H> 2.8 cents from the 1969 level. By grades the increases range from 1 cent a pound for low-grade smoking leaf and two grades of lugs to 6 cents a pound for a half-dozen grades at nondescript. Rates for tied tobacco of (See TOBACCO, page 10) Armory To Be Open For Signatures The War rent on National Guard Armory will be open on Ttraradsy, Jim It, (or the purpose of obtaining signatures F? rd U Darts, the Adjutant General, uk> that the public this effort which ta SB
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