Parking Restrictions Are
Imposed During Board Meet
School bus drivers who
have faced difficulty in
turning out of the John
Graham parking lot onto
Wilcox Street got relief from
the Warrenton Board of
Commissioners Monday
night in the form of a
restricted parking zone.
After hearing a plea from
Tommy Peoples, bus driver
who had made similar
appeals to local councilmen
for the past three years, the
board ordered that three
parking spaces opposite the
driveway leading to the
parking lot adjacent to the
John Graham Gymnasium
be free of parked cars for an
hour during the afternoons.
Peoples said that IS or 16
buses leaving the lot daily
had to turn sharply, strike
the curb and often back up
before entering the narrow
street lined with cars on the
north side.
Board members said they
felt that by banning parking
in the spaces from 2:30 until
3:30 p. m. that the situation
could be improved.
The board, after hearing a
request for patient parking
at the Professional Building
on East Market Street from
W. P. Fleming, who manages
the property, ordered
that the en*<re length of the
"GOOD JOB, MAJOR" — Brigadier General William
K. Holoman [right], deputy adjutant general of the North
Carolina Army National Guard, gives a pat on the
shoulder to Major Kearney A. Peoples, Jr., of Warrenton
as he presents him with The Army Commendation Medal
on Sunday. Major Peoples acted as assistant project
officer for the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's
National Eutrophication Survey, a study to determine
amounts of algae producing agents in North Carolina
streams. Major People! was commander of the 878th
Engineer Co., headquartered in Warrenton, from 1968
through 1972. He is currently the Plans, Operations and
Military Support Officer of the North Carolina Army
National Guard. [National Guard Photograph]
block be used for 10-minute
parking only. The new
parking regulation 4ould
apply only to the south side
of the street, since parking
is now prohibited on the
north side.
Board members expressed
opinions that their action
would ease parking problems
for persons visiting the
Town Hall, Branch Banking
and Trust and the Professional
Building.
In other business Monday
night, the board learned that
an agreement has been
signed with trustees* of the
old Baptist Church on South
Main Street to demolish the
remains of the church and
level the lot.
Commissioners appointed
Manager Davis as the
town's tax collector, and
adopted a budget ordinance
spelling out a schedule of
fees to be charged for
business privilege licenses.
Board members agreed to
continue a long-established
policy of allowing no voting
by absentee ballots for this
year's General Election.
Davis told the board that a
town resolution would be
required to request the use
of absentee ballots. He
reported that the filing
deadline for this year's
municipal election, which
will determine who will
serve a two-year term as
council member and mayor,
is October 10. Voters will go
to the polls on November 8.
Ring Removal
Wet or hot dishes or
glasses leave white rings on
tables. To remove them,
make a thin paste of salad
oil and salt in equal
proportions. Bub it on the
spot with your fingers, let it
stand an hour or two, then
rub off. The rings should
vanish.
The annual Shrlner's Fish Fry Is scheduled to be held in Warrenton on August 17, at
the Warrenton Lion's Den. In the photo above, A1 Fleming, [right] publicity chairman
of the 1977 fish fry, sells two tickets to Elmer Harris [center] of Areola, and Mrs. Janet
Harris, [left] who bad just purchased a ticket looks on. Manley Martin, co-ordlnator of
the fry, predicts that this yearto fish fry In Warren County will be the largest ever as
ticket sales are brisk. As the fish date draws near, members of the local civic group are
soliciting ticket sales that will go toward supporting Crippled Children's Hospitals
across the nation that are supported by the Shrlner's. Shrlner's Hospitals for Crippled
Children are designed to provide treatment for crippled and burned children, irrespective
to race or creed, with no cost to parents or guardians. Also shown in the photo is
Shriner Jimmy Sammons [second from left] president of the Warren County Shrine
Club.
Weed Harvest Beats Raid
Marihuana growers apparently
worked on the
Sabbath here last weekend
when they harvested part of
a field of the illicit weed
discovered a day earlier and
raided a day later.
Warren County Sheriff
Clarence Davis said a Vance
County - ABC officer who
discovered the field Saturday
after receiving an
informer's tip accidently
broke a small thread which
marihuana growers had
installed at the field's
entrance as an alerting
device.
At any rate, when the
officer, H. D. Greenway,
returned to the field near
Drewry on Monday morning
with Warren Deputy Sheriff
Danny Bartholomew, he
found that approximately
100 of the plants had been
harvested during the weekend.
Greenway said that when
he discovered the 36-by-146foot
field that it contained
about 300 stalks of marihuana,
ranging from one to
10 feet tall.
When the officers arrived
at the field Monday, the
smaller plants were all that
remained.
Greenway estimated the
street value of the weed at
more than $20,000. Sheriff
Davis said he felt the value
of the marihuana was
inflated, and said his depart
ment would not attempt to
assess its value.
The find was located
about a mile from another
patch of marihuana discovered
June 14 in a power
line right-of-way.
Two Elude Officers As
Illicit Still Is Raided
Two men escaped when
ABC Agents and officers
from the Vance and Warren
County Sheriff Departments
raided a still in Warren
County on Wednesday afternoon
of last week.
The still, located deep in
the woods off a dirt road,
one-half mile inside Warren
County, was located Wednesday
of last week by
Vance ABC Agents H. D.
Greenway and H. M. White.
Greenway said he thought
the still had been there for at
least a year and was the
first still he had found in
Vance or Warren County
this year.
Chief Deputy Dorsey
Capps of the Warren County
Sheriff s Department and
Luther King of the state
Alcohol Law Enforcement
(ALE) agency were at the
still on Wednesday afternoon
of last week when they
saw two unidentified men
coming down the path.
Capps and King pursued
the men for more than 400
yards across a dirt road, but
the two men escaped. But a
1965 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442
convertible driven by the
two men was confiscated.
Ten charges of dynamite
were used in demolishing
the still. The 80% strength
dynamite charges destroyed
the illegal still in seconds,
blowing apart a 55-gallon oil
drum boiler, two 180-gallon
doubters, four 180 gallon
barrels of mash and an
assortment of tubs and jugs.
Greenway said that stills
found locally are usually
about twice the size of the
one destroyed Wednesday.
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Bids For Equipmenl
Officials of Warren General
Hospital hope to spend
$124,000 to acquire new
X-ray equipment in the
hospital.
Herman S. Andersen, hospital
administrator, filed
notice earlier this month
that the equipment purchase
is planned in November
for the 37-bed county
hospital.
The project proposal has
been submitted to the North
Carolina Department of
Human Resources, State
Health Planning and Development
Agency tor review
by planning agencies
under provisions of the
Social Security Amendments
of 1972.
The planning agencies, in
examining the proposal, will
seek to determine whether
the project is needed, if it
can be adequately staffed
and operated, whether it is
economically feasible within
prevailing rate structures,
and if it proposes
specific cost-containment
features.
Copies of the proposal
have been referred to the
Facility Services Division of
the North Carolina Department
of Human Resources
and to the Capital Health
Systems Agency in Durham
for review as required by
federal law.
In its role as coordinator
of project review under
Section 1122 of the Social
Local Agency Head Leaving
Post Effective Sept. 1
Bradford F. Johnson,
executive director of Franklin-Vance-Warren
Opportunity
Inc., has announced
his resignation from that
position to enter law school.
Johnson's resignation is
effective Sept. 1, when he
will be entering the School of
Law at N. C. Central
University in Durham.
"This decision is not a
hasty one," Johnson said in
his letter of resignation, "in
' that I spent a great deal of
time thinking of either continuing
as director of this
organization, because I
have been sincerely committed
to leading this
organization in a positive
direction in serving the
poor, unemployed, and
disadvantaged people in our
community; or accepting
the opportunity to fulfill a
childhood dream of one day
becoming an attorney-atlaw;
consequently, I chose
the latter."
He added that he vrould
like to practice law in this
community upon completion
of his legal education.
Johnson, a native of Richmond,
has been with Franklin-Vance-Warren
since
Feb. 28.
Among the accomplishments
he listed were
proposing a Section 6 HAP
housing program, renegotiating
a low-income housing
development corporation
contract for the housing
component, initiating reorganization
of the conduct
and administration component,
coordinating the composition
of the annual
refunding package for fiscal
year 1977-78, and initiating
numerous future programs.
Johnson is married and
has one daughter.
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Security Act, the Nc
Carolina Department
Human Resources, thro
its State Health Plan
and Development Agei
will receive the advice of I
state and regional agenc
about the conformity of
project to their standard
and criteria.
The Department will thto
decide on the recommend*
tion to be made to the U. 8
Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare concerning
the project.
Motorists Receive
Warning On Speed
Motorists in Warren CodBty
exceeding the 55-miteper-hour
speed limit will
probably run a greater risk
of arrest than ever before
beginning Monday, a
spokesman for the State
Highway patrol said this
week.
Beginning August 15, rigid,
enforcement of the posted
speed limit will begin aa
patrol authorities attempt to
curb speeding on the state's
highways, Trooper V. R.
Vaughan of Warrenton said.
Vaughan said that troopers
have been directed to
stop all motor vehicles
travelling in excess of 95
mph. The speed limit was
lowered to 55 mph on aU
highways several years ago
as a twin safety and fuel
conservation measure.