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Warren. tonMem. Library X U7 S . Ma in St. Warrenton, N.C. 27589 (Stye Harren Hecnrfc Volume 89 25' Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wenesday, March 19, 1986 Number 12 Performing Sunday under the direction of Howard Lee Stultz is the Eagle Chorus at Warren County High School. The chorus presented a pro gram of traditional and contemporary religious music. (Community Schools Photo by Mary Hunter) Distribution Of Food Scheduled Next Week The spring USDA surplus food distribution is set for March 26 at the Warrenton National Guard Armory, according to Julian Far rar, local Social Services director. The distribution will include six food items: rice, flour, cheese, milk, corn meal and honey, Far rar said. All active food stamp households have received a computer-printed authorization card that will serve as applica tion and certification; and this card must be presented at the Ar mory by food stamp households VICK Vick Named Winner Of Morhead Award Eric P. Vick of Raleigh, grand son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Alston of Rt. 2, Warrenton, is one of three Wake County students who have been awarded Morehead Scholarships to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The awards, which provide an all-expense-paid undergraduate education at UNC, this year went to 60 high school students, 38 of them in North Carolina. The Morehead Scholarship, which is worth more than $30,000 to North Carolina residents and more than $40,000 to out-of-state students, is based on merit. Qualities considered in the selec tion process are leadership and service, character, academic standing and motivation. Vick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Vide of $212 Duraleigh Road, Raleigh. Mrs. Vick is the former Geneva Alston, a 1962 graduate of John R. Hawkins High School. who plan to participate in the commodity program, Farrar said. Low-income families who wish to participate in the distribution with income at or below the following gross income levels will qualify: family of one, $569 in come; family of two, $764 in come; family of three, $959; family of four, $1,154; and fami ly of five, $1,349. Distribution is expected to begin about 7:30 a.m. and will end around 4 p.m., the director noted. Anyone picking up for an in valid or housebound individual must bring a signed statement from the individual showing in come and approval for the food to be received by the representa tive. Food Stamp households need ing someone to pick up food for them will need to write the name of the person to pick up the food on the back of the card and sign the back right side of the card before giving the card to the per son who is to receive the food, Farrar instructed. Warren County Wants Another Winner Of First Warren County will attempt to bring home the first-place winner again this year in a regional spelling bee scheduled for Friday in Louisburg, according to Ms. Rosalind Gilliam, elementary supervisor for Warren County Schools Robert (Bo) Williams, first place winner in the local contest, and second-place winner Amie Rideout will compete with spell ing bee champions from the 18 school systems in the Central Education Region, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Media Center of the Franklin County Schools Cen tral Office. This is the Third An nual Regional Spelling Bee. In last year's competition, Warren County's Angela Bal lance took home the champion's honors. Miss Rideout also competed in last year's contest. She is a seventh-grader at John Graham Middle School and Williams is in the fourth grade at Vaughan Elementary School. The spelling bee winner from Region Three will receive a trophy and compete in the state contest which is sponsored by the "Winston-Salem Journal." The state winner will compete for na tional honor in the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee in Wash ington, D.C. When Thieves Strike Firms A total of $390 was stolen from Bowers & Burrows Oil Company and AAA Gas Company, which share the same building north of Warrenton, over the weekend, ac cording to the Warren County Sheriff's Department. The break-in and burglary were discovered around noon Sunday by an employee. Reports indicate that $190 was taken from AAA Gas Company's safe and $200 from a Bowers & Burrows safe, both located in the latter's office. AAA Gas Company's office was also ransacked. The Sheriff's Department has two suspects in the case, accor iing to a department spokesman. Deputy J. A. McCowan in vestigated, assisted by Sgt. Lawrence Harrison. Two other burglaries were also 'eported to the department last Thursday. Harold G. Vaughan of Route 1, Viacon reported that his -esidence was entered and seven ;uns and two chain saws stolen tometime between 7:30 and 10:30 i.m. Value of the items was not isted Also on the 13th, Milton G. Davis of Route 1, Warrenton ?eported the theft of four men's luits and a grandfather's clock ralued at $450 from his mobile tome. Davis also reported that a clock ind stereo were tampered with, >ut were not taken. There are no suspects in either ase. Deputy McCowan investigated. Funding Applications (Vre Now Being Sought Grant applications for funding for programs which aim at delin quency prevention are now available, according to Roosevelt Alston, chairman of the Warren County Task Force on Delinquen cy Prevention. Applications are available at Alston's office at Warren County High School. Twenty copies of the applica tion for funding must be returned to Alston by March 28. Public or private programs providing direct services to juveniles ages 10-17 for residen tial programs and 7-17 for all other programs are eligible to apply for funding, if the targeted youth population is involved with juvenile court for status offense or delinquency petitions or behaves in a manner that places them at risk of such court Involvement. Mail Referendum Is Held Warren Tobacco Growers Give Guarantees Approval By MARY C. HARRIS Staff Writer With legislation regarding the future of the federal tobacco pro gram still pending, local flue cured tobacco growers voted an overwhelming approval of the continuation of price guarantees and production controls in the re cent referendum conducted by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. A spokesperson in the local ASCS office reported on Tuesday that the turnout for the vote this year was higher than in the past, although only 48 percent of the local eligible voters marked and returned their ballots. Of the 676 ballots cast, 656 were affirmative votes. The number of eligible voters totaled 1,399, the spokes person said. This year's referendum was the first conducted by mail. For price supports and acreage controls to be continued, at least 66 percent of the producers voting must approve the measure na tionwide. Approximately 97 per cent of the local voters indicated their approval. The referendum carried un usual concern this year because farmers were voting prior to a disposition of the tobacco legisla tion by the U.S. Congress. The referendum was postponed in December and again in January prior to the recent vote. The referendum must take place before March 15. The two houses of Congress ap pear to be seesawing a budget bill which has attached a revamping of the federal tobacco program. The bill would reduce support prices to an average of $1.44 per pound and cut the no-net cost assessment to a few cents a pound. Action already taken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, set the assessment at 32 cents and the price support level at $1.72 per pound. Agricultural economists have argued that the higher support price will discourage sales to tobacco companies and will add further to the surplus tobacco in the stocks of the Flue-cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabiliza tion Corporation. The grower-owned Stabiliza tion co-op buys the tobacco which fails to draw on the warehouse floor a bid at least as high as the support price for its grade. The leaf is processed and stored for resale later when companies want the tobacco and the price is higher. During recent years, more and more tobacco has gone into storage through Stabilization because tobacco companies have been offering lower and fewer bids. On the grounds that taxpayers should not have to subsidize the tobacco program, farmers are assessed a per-pound fee to pay the government's administrative costs in operating the program. The no-net cost assessment pro posed by the Department of Agriculture is the highest since the assessment was implemented a few years ago. Support for the measure now before Congress has been voiced by State Commissioner of Agriculture James A. Graham and by John H. Cyrus, tobacco af fairs specialist for the N.C. Department of Agriculture. Cyrus warned that tobacco foes in Congress may gain the upper hand and therefore prevent the return of the tobacco program if it is voted down this time. Approval 01 me legislation was also given by Edmund Ay cock, chairman of an ad hoc committee representing 10 North Carolina groups of growers, warehouse men, farm credit officers and bankers. Because this state pro duces two-thirds of the nation's flue-cured tobacco, Aycock noted that North Carolina farmers stand to lose more than growers in other states. MOSELEY Two WCHS Students Named To Attend Legion Event Thedric J. Moseley and Mark D. Lawhorne, students at Warren County High School, have been selected as delegates for the 1985 session of The American Legion, Department of North Carolina's Annual Tar Heel Boys' State. During the six-day intensive workshop in state government and politics, the delegates will participate in a variety of ac tivities designed to improve their awareness and understanding of the organization and operations of government and politics in North Carolina and major areas of state public policies which are being debated currently in North Carolina. Boys' State is designed to im prove citizenship for future and current generations of Tar Heels. Candidates for Boys' State are selected on the basis of leader ship, character, scholarship and service. They must be rising seniors. This year's session will be held on the campus of Wake Forest University during the week of June 8-14. Moseley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Moseley and Lawhorne is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Lawhorne. Banquet Well Attended Approximately 150 persons at tended a mother-daughter ban quet in celebration of Girl Scout Week last Thursday evening at Vaughan Elementary School. Guest speaker for the obser vance was Mrs. Rachel Ricks, assistant superintendent for in struction of Warren County Schools. She was introduced by Mrs. Harriet Cooper, Girl Scout field director for Warren County. The opening flag ceremony was led by Troop 1006, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and the Girl Scout Promise, "Girl Scouts Together." Troop 666, hostesses for the evening, led the devotion before dinner. A presentation of "We Are the World" was given by Junior Troop 115 of North Warren School and a skit and songs on dental health were presented by Brownie Troop 503 of South War ren School. Firm Is Closing A propane gas company which operated for many years in the old Boyd-Boyce Motor Co. build ing on West Market Street closed last week. Pargas of Warrenton closed its headquarters here as the result of a merger with Suburban Propane, which affected opera tions of both firms nationally. The manager of Pargas here, Gerald Clifton, who moved with his family to Warrenton in 1973, has been transferred to Subur ban Propane in Oxford-. His wife, who had been in the Pargas of fice here, is now working at Pargas in Roanoke Rapids. The couple, with their two children, plan to maintain their home on Graham Street and commute daily. Clifton said Warren County Pargas customers will be served from the Oxford facility and that deliveryman Robert Shearia would continue to provide Easter Egg Hunt Set The Cherry Hill Historical Foundation will hold its Second Annual Easter Egg Hunt on the lawn at Cherry Hill on Monday, March 31. Activities will begin at 11 a.m. and children of all ages are In vited to bring their Easter baskets and join in the hunt. Four hunts will take place simultaneously and participation will be determined by age categories (0-2 years, 3-6 years, 7-6 years, and nine and over.) A prize will be awarded in each category. The hunt is free and open to the general public, but each child at tending should be accompanied by an adult. Cherry Hill, an 19th-century plantation home, is located on N.C. 36 at Inez. LAWHORNE
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