Extra CETA Slots
Filled, Hayes Says
Warrenton's municipal
work force has nearly
doubled with the addition of
24 employment slots filled
this week by town hall as it
capitalized upon |131,876 in
CETA funding.
Town Manager Bill Davis
said Tuesday that 20 CETA
positions allotted to the town
had been filled by the end of
October. In addition, the
town has been able to
incorporate for its use four
more CETA positions allotted
to the county.
With the new employees,
all classified as general
labor, Warrenton's working
crew now includes 58
employees.
Town officials were notified
of the employment fund
opportunity in mid-October
when they also learned that
the positions had to be
created within two-weeks
time. Otherwise, town officials
were told, the funding
would be forfeited.
State offices channel the
federal fund appropriations
to eligible municipalities,
based on employment rates.
Warrenton's share of the
monies falls under the
programs for Public Service
Employment, Title VI, and
Work Experience, Title 1.
Positions created through
the programs are funded for
a one-year period.
Davis said the additional
manpower will be used
primarily in construction or
related work. A crew was
already at work this week at
the Warrenton Arts Commission
putting up new
sheet rock.
Further uses of the labor
are planned when restoration
begins at the Jacob Holt
house and when the town
extends its brick sidewalks
from the Methodist Church
to Academy Street, across
from the high school,
providing commissioners
approve the project.
A decision on whether to
extend the sidewalks is
expected at the next regular
town board meeting, Davis
said. Sufficient funds for
such a project remain from
the Economic Development
Administration (EDA)
grant which the town
received earlier this year.
The additional CETA
manpower also makes project
labor more readily
available, the town manager
added.
Warrenton Barber
0
Wounded At Macon
A Warrenton barber was
admitted to Maria Parham
Hospital Friday morning for
a gunshot wound in the leg.
The Warren County Sheriff's
Department reported
Don Johnson was shot by L.
M Haithcock, Sr., operator
of Haithcock Bros, in
Macon, after allegedly
threatening to kill Haithcock.
The department said
Johnson stopped traffic
along Highway 158, even
climbing on the hood of one
auto, before walking on top
of cars in the parking area
at the supermarket.
Officers said Johnson
later entered the store and
threatened to kill Haithcock.
The department said Haithcock
struck Johnson with a
stick in an attempt to get
him to leave the premises.
He later began shooting at
the floor to scare him and
one of the bullets struck
Johnson in the leg.
Johnson has been charged
with communicating
threats, larceny of a
checkbook, blocking traffic
and using profane language.
Johnson has also issued
warrants for Haithcock for
assault inflicting serious
injury and assault with a
deadly weapon inflicting
serious injury.
Arts And Crafts Show
Reminder Given Residents
The public is reminded
that fine arts and crafts will
be featured at the Autumn
Arts "77 festival planned this
weekend on the VanceGranville
Community College
campus.
Approximately 60 booths
will be set up by exhibitors
to display and sell handmade
items. Entertainment
and music will be provided,
with dancers from the KenLake
School of Dance and
from Durham scheduled to
clog on Sunday.
Mrs. John Brigham, 1977
chairman, said the festival
marks the first time the
public has been issued an
open invitation to view the
new campus. Those attending
can expect to find a fun,
culturally stimulating experience,
she said.
The festival will begin
Saturday and will continue
through Sunday.
If you're not pocketing
the highest esrnings,
you're picking your
own pocket.
You're losing money if you're not getting paid the high interest rates
on passbook savings at Warrenton Savings and Loan.
The fact is that as a Savings and Loan Association we specialize
in savings accounts and home financing. We're different from
other lending institutions. We don't ^
have in and out checking accounts.
We don't make short term loans. And
since our loans are long term home
mortgages (one of the safest investments
known) we can afford to pay more to our savers. We pay 6% on
passbook savings — the highest allowed by law. Compare our rates
with those of your present savings. If we win, you win ... if you
open an account with us.
WARRENTON
SAVINGS and
LOAN ASSOCIATION
111 N. MAM ST. • PHONE 257-3129 • WARRENTON. N. C.
Small farming is going out, big farms and industry need to come in. L. B. Hardage.
agricultural extension chairman, at left, made this prediction at Monday's industrial
planning conference chaired by county manager Charles Hayes, right.
Citizens Take Opportunity To
Give Advice To State Rep.
A number of Warren
County citizens took advantage
of the opportunity not
only to air complaints over
county shortcomings and
praise for its virtues, but
also to suggest ways in
which the state could aid its
development at a meeting
held in the courthouse
Monday night under the
direction of Joe Grimsley,
Secretary of Administration,
who appeared in behalf
of Governor Jim Hunt.
The purpose of the
meeting was to inform the
governor of ways in which
citizens could help their
government through their
suggestions and through
familiarizing the state government
with county problems
and suggested solutions.
Grimsley was accompanied
by an assistant, Mary
Chamblers, who discussed
Warren County commissioners'
chairman Pete
Jones emphasizes the concept
that industry is one
answer to the county's
unemployment problems.
work and potentials of
Region K and handed out
sheets containing data on
population growth, employments,
wages and other
factors dealing with state
and regional growth.
Charles Hayes, county
manager, presided over the
meeting, which was divided
into three sections; agriculture,
manufacturing and
services. L. B. Hardage,
County Extension Chairman,
was in charge of
agriculture, and Manager
Charles Hayes, L. B.
Hardage, Warrenton Mayor
W. A. Miles, and W. P.
(Peete) Jones, chairman of
the board of county commissioners,
served as a
committee on agriculture
and services.
Following brief remarks
by Secretary Grimsley, L.
B. Hardage told of contribution
made to the economy by
farmers, stressing the value
of the tobacco crop to the
county, and lamenting the
decreasing number of good
tobacco farmers. In Warren
County, like the rest of the
state, he said the trend is to
larger farms, with the little
farmer leaving the farm.
When Hardage asked for
suggestions. Floyd McKissick,
Jr., suggested more
diversification, and later for
cooperatives to provide
machinery and markets for
small farmers. William
Bender suggested that the
Extension Department and
agricultural scientists may
have been spending too
much time on the large
farmer to the neglect of the
small farmer. Another
farmer, unidentified, said
the farmer's trouble is not
enough return for his crops.
Jack Stewart, industrial
director for Soul City, said
that the small farmer
needed more research.
Chairman Peete Jones, a
large tobacco and soybean
farmer, said the remedy for
the small farmer and the
development of the county
are the same- Industry.
Charles Hayes said the
greatest handicap to attracting
industries to Warren
County is an unwillingness
of many companies to
settle in a county where
minorities are more than 50
percent of the population.
Hayes said that his prejudice
is due to a belief that
minorities would be easier
to organize by the unions,
rather than for other
reasons.
Hayes said that where
companies from other sections
had settled in Warren
County they had found this
fear not justified and were
happy with the county, its
people and its workers, and
had assisted in efforts to
bring other industry to the
county.
General Claude Bowers,
former chairman of the
board of county commissioners,
said that the state
had missed a fine opportunity
to help the county and the
area when it failed to
provide for the building of a
scenic highway around Lake
Gaston. He said that more
highway funds are also
needed for the proper
development of the county.
Mrs. Pattie Jones said that
the best way to assure more
funds for the county is to
vote for the highway bond
issue on Nov. 8.
Admiral Padula stressed
the need for more state
assistance in providing
funds for housing, and
Monroe Gardner stressed
the need for paying more
attention to political activities
in county and state.
Secretary Grimsley expressed
his appreciation for
both the size of the crowd
and the interest shown by
many of those present. The
meeting lasted about two
ahd one-half hours.
Church Services
Are Outlined
The Rev. Robert Forehand,
pastor of the Warrenton
Pentecostal Holiness
Church has issued the
following schedule:
Sunday, Nov. 6, 10 a. m.,
Sunday School; 11 a. m.,
worship service; 7 p. m.,
evening worship.
Nov. 7-12, 7:30 p. m.
nightly E.T.T.A. course to
be taught in the Fellowship
Hall (see advertisement in
this paper).
Need Attention
About 63 million Americans
per year are hurt
seriously enough to need
medical attention or restrict
activities for at least one
day.
Housing Is Progress Key,
Governor's Man Is Told
"It is impossible to have
any kind of industry and
economic growth in the
Warren County area without
solving the deplorable housing
conditions," Admiral
Arthur H. Padula told State
Secretary of Administration
Joe Grimsley here on
Monday night as he called
attention to the state's
failure to implement its own
housing program.
Grimsley was in Warrenton
representing Governor
Jim Hunt at a public
meeting at which citizens
suggested ways in which the
state might aid in the
development of Warren
County.
Padula, Consultant for
American National Housing
Co., Inc., told Grimsley he
could not understand why
the North Carolina State
Housing Finance Agency,
who during the last year and
one-half financed $16.2 million
of housing covering 650
houses throughout the state,
but not $1.00 or one house in
Warren County.
Admiral Padula pointed
out that shelter is the second
most important element of
life, second only to food and
followed by clothing. One
needs only to drive around
Warren County, he said, to
observe the deplorable
existing housing conditions
which are confirmed by and
included in the recent
survey by HUD dated June
1976, which among other
things stated:
1. Of all the rental units in
the county lacking some or
all plumbing facilities, 83
percent of them are occupied
by black families.
2. Of the 1,575 substandard
units 59 percent or 930 are
delapidated and basically
unsuitable for human habitation.
3. 2,041 or 42.2 percent of
Warrep County's housing
has no bathtubs or showers
while the comparable
figures for North Carolina is
13 percent.
Admiral Padula said that
since the purpose of the
meeting was to call to the
Governor's attention specific
recommendations that
would improve the life
quality and social conditions
at a minimum cost to the
state, he recommended the
following:
1. That the governor take
the appropriate action to
authorize the North Carolina
Housing and Finance
Agency to borrow $100
million at long term and low
interest rates by pledging
the full faith and credit of
the State of North Carolina
and guaranteed by the U. S.
Government against losses
through HUD-FHA or
Farmers Home Administration.
2. By adding an average of
v« of 1 percent to the
borrower sufficient money
would be generated to cover
all the operating expenses of
the agency so that this
program would be carried
out at no expense to the
taxpayer but would in effect
be paid by the borrower.
3. These long term loans
at low interest rates would
make possible houses at
prices North Carolinians
can afford throughout the
state. In addition, the
program would provide jobs
to workers; ratables to the
communities and reduce Um
health and social disease
directing results from improper
housing.
Replying to Padula,
Grimsley said he could see
no reason why this program
was lacking; he said he
understands that it is
operating in 26 states of the
union and that he would call
this matter directly to the
attention of the Governor.
He concurred with Admiral
Padula's statement that
over 80 percent of the people
of North Carolina has been
priced out of the market and
that the problem was not
whether we need housing
but how do we produce
housing at prices people can
afford to pay. He said that
this solution would receive
serious consideration in
Raleigh.
Deaths And Funerals
MRS. OLA BOYETTE
Mrs. Ola Ellen Cooley
Boyette, 88, of 1931 Hawkins
Circle, Raleigh, died Friday,
Oct. 28.
Funeral services were
held at 11 a. m., Saturday,
Oct. 29, at Brown-Wynne
Funeral Home, Saint
Mary's Street. Burial was in
Montlawn Memorial Park.
She is surviving by two
sons, Bob F. Boyette of
Raleigh and Curtis Boyette
of Garner; two daughters,
Mrs. Ruby Mae Korbel of
Hope Mills and Mrs. Rachel
Parker of Rocky Mount; 12
grandchidren and 14 greatgrandchildren.
LULA F. PERNELL
Mrs. Lula Faulkner Pernell,
89, of Rt. 6, Louisburg,
died Saturday. Funeral
services were held Monday
at 2:30 p. m. at Mountain
Grove Baptist Church with
burial in the Pernell family
cemetery.
Surviving are daughters,
Mrs. Henry Pernell, Mrs. V.
L. Hale of Rt. 6, Louisburg,
Mrs. Tempie Daniels of
Boykins, Va.; sons, Louis J.
of Rt. 2, Warrenton, and
Julius G. Pernell of Tacoma,
Wash.; 18 grandchildren;
30 great-grandchildren;
four great-great
grandchildren.
MAMIE S. MYRICK
LITTLETON-Mrs. Mamie
Shaw Myrick, 73, of
Route 3, Littleton, died
Tuesday. She is survived by
her widower, Thomas W.
Myrick; two daughters,
Mrs. Garland May, Jr., of
Littleton and Miss Betsy
Ann My rick of Raleigh; a
brother, Jessie A. Shaw of
Littleton; three grandchildren,
and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Myrick will be held this
afternoon (Thursday) at 2
o'clock at Calvary United
Methodist Church.
O. G. WILSON
Otho Grady Wilson, 83,
died Monday at Wayne
Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro
following a brief
illness.
He was the son of the late
Henry and Lucy Dement
Wilson and lived on Et. 1,
Warrenton. He was a retired
textile employee at Peck
Manufacturing Company.
Funeral services were
held Wednesday at 4 p. m.
from Blaylock Funeral
Home Chapel by the Rev.
Charles Millard. Burial was
in Fairview Cemetery.
Surviving are a son;
Grady C. Wilson of Rt. 1,
Warrenton; two daughters,
Mrs. Johnny Carter of
Mobile, Ala., and Mrs. L. W.
Wells of Rt. 1, Warrenton;
seven grandchildren; five
great-grandchildren.
JAMES G.PITTMAN
LITTLETON - James
Grover Pittman, 62, of Rt. 3,
Littleton, died Friday. Funeral
services were held at
2:30 p. m. Sunday at Branch
Funeral Home Chapel in
Roanoke Rapids. Burial was
in Sunset Hills Cemetery.