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Board Gives Nod To Home, Inspector
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e#ch different insulation job
fcispected by Forrester upon
eompletion
* Exempted from the installatioii
and inspection requirements
are persons
Drorking on their own Romes
or persons working under
the supervisión of a regJstered
architect or profesional
engineer.
The state regulations and
fubsequent county orditance
will be effective Jan
1, 1978 and will remain in
effect for one year. The
legislation was passed on a
trial basis and is intended to
protect consumers from
tubstandard work. It also
reflects upon the $200 rebate
offered to insulation users
through a federal energy
program.
Whether additional expenses
will be borne by the
county remains to be seen.
Fees collected from licenses
and inspeetion permits are
expected to cover the cost of
Forrester's work and possibly
the cost of printing
necessary forms, such as
applications for licenses.
licenses, permits and certificates
of compliance.
Jones Re-Elected ("hairman
. The board, in other
business:
- Re-eleeted commissioner
Pete Iones to the office of
chairarían of the board. Bill
Skinner. vice-chairman,
was also re-elected to his
post
Voted to change to a
percentage tax listing
method for more accuracy.
Under the new system,
property owners could list
personal property on a
perpentage basis of the total
valué oí their home. The
system will not be incorporated
for at least another
year, however, enabling tax
supervisor, Janice Haynes
to assess its effects upon the
county's tax base. The
board also voted to keep
current dog taxes of $1 for
males and $2 for females
and to elimínate a regular
tax-listing office for Roanoke
Township.
-Awarded $500 to the
Office of Indian Affairs in
Hollister for purchasing
masonite siding to improve
the oíd school building, now
used as a Sénior Citizens
Community Center.
Tabled a request from
Wildwood Point Fire Department
district to form a
land-based fire company,
pending approval of the
same request by the county
fire commission. Recommendations
from rural fire
Growers Get Tobacco Preview
Warren County tobacco
farmers received a preview
oí the 1978 tobacco season
during a tobacco education
meeting Monday night spon■ored
by the agricultural
extensión office.
Dr. Billy Collins, NCSII
Extensión Specialist, led
discussion with a slide show
depicting recent results of
tobacco tests and tobacco
figures for 1977.
Drawing a good crowd
that filled much of the
courtroom, the tobacco
education meeting illustrated
to many farmers the
need to continué producing
quality crops that can
compete on a cost basis with
other varieties in the
international tobacco market.
Recent talks of banning
the tobáceo support program
have made some
growers anxious. Gradual
declines in sales appear to
have even more tobacconists
worried.
Collins, in addressing the
group, said he was "not
pessimistic" about the future
of tobacco. However, he
did alert the audience to
more factors in volved "than
simply the cost of tobacco."
He urged growers to
follow recommended methods
of planting, fertilizing,
growing and other steps
tested by the NCSU extensión
research program on
wheels.
By producing the greatest
yields oí healthy, marketable
tobaco, farmers of the
flue-cured tobacco will De
able to maintain a high
priority in the field of
international buying.
Following the hour-long
presentation was a question
and answer period.
Also recognized at this
time were several Warren
County tobacco growers
who participated in the
extensión research program.
Andrew Russell of the
Burchett Community received
a certifícate for conducting
a sucker control
demonstration in 1977. The
test was designed to demónstrate
the results of various
chemical applications and
topping methods to control
suckers and tODS.
Emery Keeter of Wise
was also presented a
certifícate for his work in a
tobacco disease control
demonstration in 1976-1977.
This test sought effective
control practices for blackshank.
departments. Littletón Fire
Department and neighboring
Virginia Fire Departments
will be reviewed by
the board before it makes
a decisión.
-Approved tax collections
of $126,564.88 in
November, bringing the
year's total to date to
$369,554.42. The collection
rate this year, to date, is
34.30 per cent, up from last
year's rate of 32.61 per cent.
-Accepted the resignation
of Ellis E. Fleming
from the Board of Trustees
for Warren General Hospital.
VGCC Film
Is 'Rebecca'
"Rebecca," Alfred Hitchcock's
first American film,
is the featured free movie
this week at Vance-Granville
Community College.
The motion picture is based
on the novel by Daphne de
Maurier.
Sir Lawrence Olivier,
Joan Fontaine, George
Sanders, Dame Judith Anderson
and Nigel Bruce star
in the 1940 film.
ísnowtimes are at 1:30 p.
m. and 7:30 p. m. today
(Thursday) andat2:30p. m.
Friday in the VGCC auditorium.
The public is invited
to attend free-of-charge.
Missing Woman Found
A Vanee County woman,
missing since Nov. 29, was
found dead late Monday
afternoon in the trunk of her
car.
The woman, identified as
Mrs. Alice Vaughn Burgess,
28, died as a result of a blow
to the head, according to
preliminar^' findings by the
Vanee County Sheriff's
Department.
Mrs. Burgess, a resident
of the Bobbitt community
near Kittrell, was a Warren
County native whose parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney
Vaughn, now live in Henderson.
Mrs. Burgess was report
ed missing by her mother,
Mrs. Ruby Vaughn, of
Henry Street, Henderson,
last Thursday. Investigations
conducted then by the
sheriff's department resulted
in no leads, said Sheriff
Linwood B. Falkner.
At approximately 6 p. m.
Monday, a passerby spotted
an automobile behind a
packhouse south of Henderson
on the oíd county home
road. Sheriff's officials were
called in to investígate and
later discovered Mrs. Burgess's
body in the trunk of
the vehicle.
The vehicle, a 1974 model,
was the same one she had
been driving when last seen
on Nov. 29.
Vanee medical examiner
Dr. M. W. Wester, Jr., was
called to the site and
directed the body to the
state medical examiner's
office at Chapel Hill for an
autopsy. A report is pending
this week.
No arrests have been
made in the case. State
Bureau of Investigation
agents are also assisting in
the case. An aerial search
was conducted in the county
last week concentrating on
the area between Henderson
and the Bobbitt community
but no clues were disclosed.
A funeral will be conducted
today (Thursday) at J.
M. White Funeral Home
Chapel in Henderson. Burial
will follow in Sunset
Gardens Cemetery.
In addition to her parents,
Mrs. Burgess is survived by
three children, Michael
Todd, Mellissa and Amanda
Lañe Burgess, all of the
home; two brothers, Billy
Holt Vaughn and Thomas
Jackson Vaughn, both of
Henderson; and one sister,
Mrs. Mary Lou Anderson,
also of Henderson.
Among other relatives is
an aunt, Mrs. Roy Lee
(Marjorie) Harmon of Warrenton
and an únele, Elbert
Burgess also of Warrenton.
Food Stamps Sales
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tion basis from area merchants
However, he asked that
the board give "some
thought about how the
program ought to be
ultimately handled, with
some consideration to the
facility for handling."
The bank stores, sells,
redeems and processes
paperwork for food stamp
sale program in the manner
it uses for processing
checks.
At present, stamps are
bought on a reduced cash
basis. After July 1, no cash
will be necessary for eligible
recipients to purchase
stamps
This reduction of cash
flow and transactions should
produce some relief, Burgess
noted Nonetheless, he
said, he questioned whether
"food stamp sales could be
given to any concession. 1
don't think anybody would
take it because it affects
their business."
In other business related
to social services, the board
did not approve a request by
the director that an additional
per son be hired as an
eligibility specialist in the
department
w ai ren County was on'e of
15 North Carolina counties
earlier reprimanded by a U.
S. district court judge for
"sluggish" handling of
welfare applications.
A state welfare supervisor
last month recommended
that an additional employee
be hired by the department;
however, the commissioners
in taking up the matter
again this rnonth, rejected
that recommendation on the
basis that the necessary
budget amendments would
pose difficulties in midfiscal
year.
Farrar had asked that the
money be transferred from
the AFDC account to the
staff-operationp account,
with no additional expense
to the county. This method
had been advised by state
auditors in Raleigh, he said.
Commissioners did approve
a budget amendment
request reflecting $4,592 in
extra equaüzing funds received
by the welfare department.
The money will be used to
purchase new flooring in the
offices, Farrar said.
The island between the
two water falls at Niagara is
Kiiown as Goat Island.
Atlanta Falcon punter,
John James, raises watermelons
on his farm near
Gainesville, Fia. dunng the
off-season