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YourBest 73T| '|>ft lH Your Best Advertising Medium 2*%4TI U4 JJ Advertising MediUm Complete News Coverage Of Warren County Volume 80 151- Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Thursday, July 7, 1977 Number 27 LARGE SALUTE—Marshall Evans of Manson completed his building-sized painting of the American flag just in time for the Fourth of July holiday. Except for the border, the flag is complete, and covers the entire east wall of thi D. Evans grocery in the heart of Manson. Evans believes he used about five gallons of paint in the year-long flag painting project. The 50 stars were added last, each requiring hours of work with a tiny brush. [Staff Photo] Gr°nt H°Pes Are Still Alive Hopes for a million dollar water grant for Warren County is still alive but its breathing has diminished, County Manager Charles Hayes told the Warreiv County Board of Commis sioners here Monday morn ing. Commissioners and County and Town Managers went to Washington last Wednesday to talk with EDA officials about possibil ity of reviving the grant application and they return ed to Warren County much encouraged and with a promise of a decision later in the week. Friday, Hayes said, he received word from Wash ington that the decision had been delayed for further study. Hayes said he had been informed that while it is not hard to correct a computer error, it is very difficult to correct an error in judgment. EDA officials said they were still working on it. Hayes said that if the commissioners had 100 percent hope last Wednes day, he would say that the hope has now dropped to about 30 percent. The sewer line from Soul City to Warrenton is progressing nicely and it now appears that the contractors will complete the work ahead of schedule, Hayes said. Hayes also told the commissioners that the annual conference of North Carolina County Commis sioners would be held iir Charlotte on August 18-22, and asked the commission ers to make their decision during the day in order that he might make plans for their attendance. He expressed the hope that all the commissioners would attend. Frank Twitty, Dog War den, made his monthly report to the commission ers. He said he picked up 207 dogs during June as he answered 109 complaints, killed 107 dogs and gave Plan Dinner Members of the Drewry Volunteer Fire Department will sponsor a barbecued chicken dinner on Saturday, July 9, from 4 p. m. until 8 p. m. at the Fire Department and Community Building. Plates, including chicken, cole slaw, potatoes and drink will sell for $2.50 each. away 10. Twitty also said he" vaccinated 135 dogs during the month in a program that appears to be working well, and that he travelled 2480.1 miles , — A.P. Rodwell, Jr., tax collector, announced that taxes collected in June totalled $9,745.35, making a total for the year $937,962.19, which is 95.4 percent of the levy. Julian Farrar, Social Insurance Benefits Voted For Workers Meeting in the town hall Tuesday night following the July 4th holiday, the Norlina Board of Town Commis sioners authorized Mayor Bill Perry to sign a contract with the N. C. League of Municipalities providing group insurance coverage for Norlina full-time em ployees. During the less than an hour session, it was reported that most of Norlina streets had been resurfaced under a contract with the state. The location of a street light was briefly discussed but no action was taken. The commissioners voted to ask Kenneth Severance to serve on the Norlina Election Board. He will replace Mrs. Emily Bobbitt, who recently retired. The commissioners autho rized Roy Futrell, Water and Street Superintendent, to attend a Waterworks School at State College in Raleigh on July 27-29 at town expense. Purpose of Futrell attending the school is that he may obtain his certification as a water works operator. At the request of Chief Romeo Williams, the board employed Dennis Paschall as an auxiliary policeman. A district meeting of the State Department of Trans portation is scheduled to be held at the Vance County Courthouse in Henderson on July 25. It was agreed that Commissioner Jimmy Over by would attend this meeting as a representative of the town. All the commissioners were present at the meeting. House Building Firm Receives 75 Orders SOUL CITY-Soul City's first industry, a house building firm, has received orders for 75 moderately priced steel-framed dwell ings and has bids out to build 100 more units for the elderly. Announcement of the sales was made this week by Arthur H.Padula, president of American National Hous ing Company, Inc., of Soul City. Arthur H. Padula, Sr., a consultant for the firm, said that the houses are being constructed at Soul City and 50 of the houses will be assembled at Henderson and 18 at Soul City; five throughout Vance County, and two throughout Warren County. Padula said the company was still waiting for some word on the bid to build 100 units for the elderly. Since starting operation early this year with its line of three houses, either two-or-three-rooms, the firm's work force has expanded from 30 to 65 and it is producing one housing unit a week. The houses manufactured by the company sell well below the national average of $42,702 and are designed to have an economic life of 55 years, says A. H. Padula, a retired rear admiral who was in the home construc tion business in New Jersey. The houses use a steel frame system and include materials which require low maintenance, and doors and windows are closed with perm-a-glass, increasing in sulation, greatly reducing the amount of energy required for heating and cooling by the heat pumps with which they are install ed. Services Director, was given permission to use surplus administrative funds from the county to pay travel expenses of CETA workers for the next five months. These funds accumulated in part from the budgeted salary of one worker who was on leave without pay. A suggestion that the group insurance policy of this absent worker be paid was tabled until the August meeting. A group of citizens living on or near SR 1214 beyond Norlina appeared before the board to request that this road, known as the Mulchi Road, be paved. It appeared from a search of the road records that this road, once high on the priority list, had badly slipped because two property owners refused to sign a right-of-way. On this 0.7 unpaved road, furnishing egress to 19 families, mail carrier and school buses as well as a business enter prise, was unpaved. Chief spokesmen for the group were Louis Gooch and Mrs. Freddie Mulchi. They said they had offered to buy the right-of-ways from the two concerned parties to no avail. The group was told that it was almost impos sible to get their road paved without having the right-of way signed. They left saying that they would keep trying. Mrs. Joan Hight, in charge of the Aging pro gram in Warren County, (Continued on page 6) Holiday Wrecks Kill 1, Badly Hurt 2 In Warren Vehicle Bowls Over 15 Trees Two Warren County men remain in critical condition as a result of separate holiday wrecks in Warren County. Gene Cdinback of War renton is a patient in Duke Medical Center and Matthew Alston, Jr., 51, of Rt. 3, Warrenton is in the intensive care unit of Durham's VA Hospital. Edinback, a resident of North Main Street, was in a car which went out of control and overturned on the Oine Road less than two miles from Norlina on Sunday night. Edinback., an employee of B & B Grocery here, was in a car with Clyde King when the wreck occurred. Investigating Trooper V.R. Vaughan said Tuesday he had been unable to learn which man Niad been driving. King was hospita lized in Warren General. Both men were thrown from the automobile, Vaughan reported. Trooper A1 Bennett said Alston was driving a pickup truck which collided with a car driven by John Martin Bowman, 41, of Rt. 3, Warrenton. The officer said Bowman pulled off the highway onto the shoulder in an attempt to avoid a collision. * Both vehicles were des cribed as total losses, with damages estimated at $3,800. Bowman was treated and released at Warren General Hospital. Bennett said that Alston, charged with driving on the left of the center line, could not move from the waist down and was transferred to the Durham hospital after being given emergency treatment at Henderson's Maria Parham Hospital. Both men were alone at the time of the accident, which occurred on Road 1640 one and a half miles east of Inez. A driver who fled the scene cut a path of destruction through a wood ed area near Areola Sunday night, bowling over 15 pine trees-one measuring a foot in diameter-before ram ming into an oak tree 150 feet off the highway. Trooper A. M. Bennett reported that he followed a path of downed trees to discover a demolished 1962 Chevrolet beneath three fallen pines. The site of the crash was four and one-half miles north of Areola off Rural Paved Road 1521. Bennett said the car was wedged between two pines, and that the driver appar (Continued on page 12) Recently Bought Land May Not Be Plant Site The use of land in Warren County recently purchased by Henderson officials ap pears unsettled as a result of the Environmental Protec tion Agency's (EPA) deci sion to locate a sewer treat ment facility on Nutbush Creek in Henderson. Recently the City of Henderson purchased land bordering Warren and Vance County near Vicks boro from A. C. Coghill and wife. The land purchased was 50 acres. No immediate plans for the land have been made following EPA's deci sion, city manager Melvin Holmes said yesterday. The Environmental Pro tection Agency announced last week that construction of a single plant at the Nutbush Creek location was determined to be environ mentally sound and the least expensive alternative. An alternative plant on Sandy Creek in Warren County had been considered. The proposed facility is expected to cost $8.3 million with an additional $435,000 per year for operation and maintenance. This project includes construction of new wastewater treatment faci lities and renovation of existing facilities to meet the needs of the Henderson area for 20 years. At present a wastewater treatment facility is located on Nutbush Creek. Ervin Cleaton of the Oiiie Community is shown with a 19 pound, two ounce cabbage he plucked from his garden last week. Recent rainfall has produced rapid growth in area gardens, and in Warren County appears headed for a bumper harvest of major crops'. | Staff Photo J Harris Leaving Hospital Board Elmer Harris, manager of Areola, Lumber Compan/;, this Week submitted his resignation as member of the Warren County Memor ial Hospital Board of Trustees to the Board of County Commissioners. The board, upon motion of Commissioner Jack Harris, voted to accept Mr. Harris' resignation with regret and to instruct the County Manager to write a letter to Mr. Harris thanking him for his long years of service as board member and former chairman. Meeting in executive ses sion, the board tabled the replacement of Mr. Harris' successor until a later meeting. Commissioner William Skinner who also resigned as member of the Social Services Board was replac ed during the executive session by Commissioner Jack Harris. Mr. Harris, commenting on his resignation, said that he had served on the Hospital Board for more than 12 years and appreciat ed the fine cooperation he had always received from hospital officials and board members. His resignation,\Mr. Har ris said, did not mean any diminishing interest in War ren General Hospital and that he would continue to work for the advancement of the hospital. Warren General is now in .good financial condition 6ut it needs to carry on a program of expansion and develop ment, he said. ' Warren County could well be on the threshold of great develop ment and our people and our officials should "strike while the iron is hot." During the Agricultural Extension report, G. W. Koonce discussed the growth and development of 4-H work in Warren County, a report which drew forth the praise of Extension Chairman L. B. Hfardage, who also said that the new Extension Agent, who also works with 4-H, is develop ing well and making a good •gent. Chairman Hardage also called the commissioners attention to a' tobacco weed control demonstration at the farm of Hal White, Jr., J»elo\y Wise and tot^cco fertilizer demonstration by Richard Williams on the farm of William Brauer Both demonstrations are tc be conducted by S. N Hawks, tobacco specialist with N. C. State University this morning (Thursday) The White demonstration will be conducted at 9:30 a m. and the Williams demon stration will be given at 11:15. Hardage also called at tention to the approaching feature of "Tobacco or Wheels," to be conducted by Tobacco Specialist Furnie Todd on July 19. Hardage said that this would be the second time that "Toabccc On Wheels" had been in the county and he hoped that everyone interested in to bacco would make a point t< be present. He said that hi would give further informa tion in the next issue of The Warren Record. Cycle Rider Loses Life A Ridgeway man died en route to Warren General Hospital on Friday night from injuries received in a motor cycle accident on Halifax Street around 8:30 o'clock. Thomas Earl Jones, 26, was fatally injured when he failed to make a curve near the Van Dawson Alston home on Halifax Street. Freddie Robinson, Police Chief, who investigated the accident, said that the motorcycle failed to make the curve due to its spe»J and that it skidded 5<* feet before striking a telephone pole. He said that the rider suffered a broken neck. Jones was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Jones of Ridgeway Funeral services for Thomas Earl Jones will be conducted today (Thurs day) at 2 d. m at the Ridgeway Baptist Church by the Rev. Frank Bullock. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to -^services to lie in state. Survivors include his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Jones of the home; three sisters, Mrs. Clementine Austin of Nor lina, ftirs. Lucille Davis of vWirreflton Md Mrs. DWterts Somervilife of Norttu; two brothers, Phillip Jones, III, of Ridgeway and Edward Jones of Richmond, Va. Hospital Patients Patients in Warren Gen eral Hospital Tuesday after noon at 5 p.m. were listed as follows: Lina Brauer, Roy Harris, James Salmon, Emerson Fitzgerald, Emma Yancey, Lona Whitby, Claude King, Gary Jones, Frank Robinson, Maybelle Hunt, Katie Perry, Ophelia Hargrove, Rosetta Richard son, Thelma Thompson, Eliza Boyd. Fatricia Coley, Lena Yelity, Lois Journi gan, Charlie Jones, Wallace > Richardson, Mansfield : Coley, Frank Serls, James Falcon, Helen Peoples, Frankie Ball, and Samuel Groves. Warren Leader Is Named Outstanding 4-H Worker S. M. Cheston, an adult volunteer 4-H club leader of the North Youth Improve ment 4-H club, has been recognized as the Outstand ing 4-H Club man leader for the year within the 16-coun ty North Central Agricultur al Extension Service Dis trict. Cheston received the certificate of recognition before a group of more than 800 attending the North Central District 4-H Activity Day held at Smithfield Selma High School last Thursday. The award received by Cheston is sponsored by the North Carolina 4-H Honor Club and signed by the state 4-H director and honor club president. In presenting the award to Cheston, Bob Shipley, pro gram participant, cited the award recipient as one with the 4-H touch. He has been very active in local, county, district and state 4-H programs and activities. The spirit of cooperation exemplified, accomplish ments reported and his six children who have and continue to excell in their 4-H participation is a testi mony to the excellence of his mony to the excellence of this leader,. Shipley continu ed The county 4-H staff applauds the selection of Cheston and gives whole-* hearted support to his recognition.
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