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Barren Eecorb Volume 87 25c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, June 27, 1984 Number 26 Warren County farmers and other interested on June 22. The demonstrations allowed growers to citizens watch a machinery demonstration during experience "first hand" some production practices the Fifth Annual On-Fann Crops Tour sponsored by which can be followed to improve crop yields, the Warren County Agricultural Extension Service (Photo by Russell King) Administration Of Pool Farm vifs Are Paid By Rejected By County Board Local Folks On the advice of the county attorney, Warren County commis sioners last Wednesday denied a request from the Soul City Parks 61 Recreation Association, Inc. (PRA) that the county take over the ad ministrative respon sibilities of the Soul City pool. Janice R. Crump, president of the associ ation, had in March requested that the coun ty manager's office retain the county's pro posed $12,500 allocation to the pool budgeted for 1984-65 and pay pool ex penses, including salaries and payroll taxes, from his office. The proposal was made, Mrs. Crump in dicated, because PRA has no administrative staff and it is "there fore impossible for us to monitor the expenditure of county money as required by the manage ment of the pool." County Attorney Charles Johnson warned that the county could be creating a legal liability by such action and that it could make pool em ployees eligible for retirement benefits, Workmen's Compensa tion, and other benefits available to county em ployees. The pool, although ~ open to the public, is privately owned. "The county should not provide services to a private corporation," Johnson said. He suggested that if the association had a volunteer who would write checks and carry out other administrative functions, the county could provide assistance in an accounting capacity without creating a liability. The commissioners voted to make no changes in the manner of distribution of funds to the association for pool operation. In other business, the board agreed to con sider the possibility of financing a portion of the cost of installing a 900-foot water line to Swing Transport's proposed construction site adjacent to Owens Illinois' property on U.S. 1 near Ridgeway. The Warren Group, a local real estate and in vestment firm, has, on the behalf of Swing Transport, requested the county to install a six-inch water line or to allow Swing Transport to install its own one inch line. Swing Transport is the primary carrier for Owens-Illinois, and plans to construct a garage and office facility employing about 15 to 20 local people. It was noted by Com missioner Jack Harris that it would be beneficial for the county to work with Swing Transport to pay the dif ference between the cost of installing a one-inch line and a six-inch line to prepare for future development in the area. The matter was tabled until next month for the county manager to in vestigate the cost of such a project. The commissioners also voted Wednesday to retain the services of the accounting firm of Watts, Scobie & Mc Lamb, Inc. of Raleigh for another year at a cost of $6,000. A bid of |7,000 was also received by the minority firm of Garrett, Sullivan & Company of Durham. Chairperson Eva M. Clayton cast the only dissenting vote, saying that although she had "no problem" with the Raleigh firm, she felt it a "good idea" to change accounting Mrms "every now and then." County Manager Charles Worth present ed a statement from C. Robert Shields, a Rocky Mount architect, for professional services rendered in connection with plans for the renovation of Warren General Hospital and construction of a new county Health Depart ment facility. Worth explained that a bill for $3,300 had already been paid by the county for the project and that the current bill exceeded the architect's original cost proposal. Commissioner George Shearin, who is also chairman of the Warren County Board of Health, noted that the additional cost was incurred when plans were altered after consultation with physicians. The board tabled the bill in order to receive information from Joe Lennon, county health director, on the ad ditional costs. Other action taken by the commissioners in cluded: —Approval of payment of $3,686 to John T. Harris Con struction Company, Inc. of Warrenton for in stallation of a sewer line to the former High Dollar Warehouse, now leased to Owens-Illinois for a training facility. —Appointment of Wil liam Ellington to a full term on the Warren County ABC Board. Ellington was appointed last June to fill the unexpired term of William Delbridge of Norlina. —Authorization of the county manager to seek informal bids for renovations to the base ment of the Agricultural Extension Service building in Warrenton, which is to be occupied by the Sheriff's Depart ment. Worth indicated the cost of the project as between $15,000 and $20,000. According to Russell C. King, county exten sion chairman, the Warren County Agricul tural Extension Service sponsored its Fifth An nual On-Farm Field Crops Tour on Friday, June 22. The tour group departed from Warren ton at 9:30 a. m. and made stops at five farms to gain firsthand information on how to improve crop yields. At the farm of Nick Williams, they observed a demonstration of foliar application of nitrogen. Methods of johnson grass control were demonstrated on a field of soybeans belong ing to William L. Fuller, Jr. The next stop was Michael Norwood's farm, where rates of harvest were discussed. Phosphorus rates were emphasized at the farm of Stephen Alston. The tour ended with a demonstration on corn varieties and the Marliss Drill at Harry Leete's. Lunch was served the group at Lake Gaston Estates Marina, and the tour ended about 1:30 p. m. King stated that on farm tests such as these play a very important role in the Warren Coun ty Agricultural Exten sion program. Water Withdrawal Public Hearing Set A public hearing by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to present and receive comment on the targeting of Lake Gaston as one of the most feasible sources of water to supply the long-range needs of cities and counties in the Hampton Roads, Va. area will be conducted tonight (Wednesday) at 5 p. m. at Saint Paul's College gymnasium in Lawrenceville, Va. Lake Gaston tops the list of eight possible water sources for the area, including the Chowan and James rivers. It is estimated by the Corps that S5 million gallons per day will be needed for the area which includes Norfolk, Portsmouth and Chesapeake. A permit has already been granted the City of Virginia Beach to construct a pipeline from Lake Gaston and draw a maximum of 60 ' million gallons of water a day from the lake to supply that area's water needs. Warren County is currently part of a lawsuit by the State of North Carolina to prevent the transfer of water from the Roanoke River basin to southeastern Virginia. Tax Rate Stays Same Board Finds $60,000 For Warren Schools By KAY HORNER News Editor Warren County's Board of Commis sioners adopted the county's 1984-85 budget ordinance last Wednes day night, but not before granting Warren County schools an additional $60,000 in allocations for current expenses over what had been recom mended by County Manager and Budget Officer Charles Worth. The impassioned pleas of Schools Super intendent Michael F. Williams for more funds at a public hearing last Monday night led to a meeting Tuesday bet ween county and school officials and resulted in a boost to the schools' budget. The commissioners increased the current expense appropriation by transferring $21,039 from a $58,000 contin gency fund and the county manager's budget and funneling $38,961 from the 1983-04 one-half percent sales tax revenue into current expenses. Originally, the budget recommended $6,190 less in current expenses for 1984-85 than the schools had for 1983-84. The school system had requested $1,023,716. In a memo Friday to Board of Education members, Williams said the additional funds, although almost $60,000 short of what was requested, would "reduce significantly the possibility that we will have to cut person nel in order to balance the budget," but would leave the system "with a very tight budget on non-salary items." "From another per spective, one of the moves dips into the 1983 84 one-half percent sales tax money, money which we intended to set aside for construction. It is unfortunate that the commissioners have set this precedent," Williams said. Liiw requires uiai a minimum of 40 percent of the one-half percent sales tax proceeds be allocated to the schools for capital outlay. Williams last Monday voiced strong objection to the county's using those proceeds, project ed at $140,000, for the en tire capital outlay allo cation funds which Wil liams contended the schools were to get regardless. "The budget includes no money from either the General Fund or Revenue Sharing for capital outlay. This is a precedent which we pro tested strongly but to no avail," Williams said in the memo. In the 1983-84 budget, the schools received $180,000 In Revenue Sharing for capital outlay. Williams has contend ed that the tax revenues were intended to supple ment the county's capital outlay appropri ation and should not have been used to provide the entire capital outlay budget. Williams also project ed in his memo that of the $140,000 for capital outlay, only about 75 percent would be available by the end of the 1984-85 fiscal year ending June 30,1985. According to Worth, the county does not receive sales tax revenues until about 45 days after the end of each quarter, and the schools would not receive revenues for the quarter ending June 30 until August. By the same token, Worth said, revenues collected in the last quarter of 1983-84 will be (Continued on page 11) Commissioners Are Named Suit Asking For $5 Million Is Filed By Extension Agent The Warren Record has learned that a $5 million lawsuit was filed in March by a Warren County home economics extension agent alleging discrimination in the selection of a county ex tension chairman two years ago. The civil suit was filed in U. S. District Court in March by Miss Emily Ballinger charging the Warren County Board of Commissioners, N. C. State University and the N. C. Agricultural Ex tension Service with sex and age discrimination in the selection of Russell C. King, then associate agricultural extension agent, as ex tension chairman in 1982. The suit alleges that Miss Ballinger's civil and constitutional rights were violated, and that she was the victim of a "conspiracy" aimed at denying her these rights. Miss Ballinger, then 55 and a 33-year veteran of the Extension Ser vice, alleges that King, then 34, was named to the chairmanship even though he was less qualified than she because of background, education and exper ience. defendants "with other unnamed co-conspira tors" recommended both King and her for the position to "avoid responsibility" in the event she filed a discrimination charge. "The defendants...did submit the plaintiff's name to the commis sioners for considera tion, while at the same time working surrepti tiously and permitting other to works surrepti tiously, to see that plain tiff did not get the position," the suit alleges. The suit names as de fendants then—Warren County commissioners W. J. Harris, Clyde R. Edwards, William T. Skinner, III, Herbert C. Harris, George E. Shearin, Sr., both in dividually and as county commissioners and then—county Manager Glenwood Newsome, both in his official capacity and in dividually. Harris, Skinner and Shearin are still on the board. King and other em ployees of N. C. State Agricultural Extension Service are also named individually and as agents of the service and N. C. State Univer sity and Bruce R. Poulton, university (Continued on page 11) Youngster Killed In Local Accident King had been em ployed with the Exten sion Service for two years and eight months, the suit states. The N. C. Agricultural Extension Service was established as a part of the School of Agricul ture and Life Sciences of N. C. State University by federal and state legislation to "extend" the education service of the university to the people of the state as it relates to agriculture, home economics, 4-H and youth, and com munity and natural resources development. Employees of the Ex tension Service are ap pointed by the Board of County Commissioners, but the Extension Ser vice recommends appli cants for appointment. Miss Ballinger alleges that prior to 1982, the Extension Service pro cedure as it related to Warren was to recom mend only one can didate to the com missioners for county chairman and that the Six-year-old Gary Dean Carroll, Jr., a Warren County youth who was hit by a car Wednesday evening near Warren Plains Baptist Church, died Thursday at Duke Medi cal Center in Durham. The accident occurred about 7 p. m. as he played with a group of children just minutes before a Bible School class was to begin at the church. Carroll at tempted to retrieve a stray Frisbee and ap parently inadvertently dashed across State Road 1306, into the path of a car driven by Robert William Clayton of Warren Plains. No charges were filed against the driver of the car, as law officials said the accident appeared to have been unavoidable. Clayton was traveling north when the accident occurred. The youth sustained severe head injuries and was taken unconscious to Warren General Hospital. He was im mediately transferred to Duke where he was treated in the pediatric intensive care unit. Ac cording to a hospital spokesman, he died about 4 p.m. Carroll was the son of Gary Dean Carroll, Sr. of Rt. 1, Warrenton and Jaualua Leonard Carroll of Halifax Coun ty. Funeral services were conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at Warren Plains Baptist Church. Burial was in Warren Plains Memorial Gar den. In addition to his parents, he is survived by one brother, Daniel Carroll of Halifax Coun ty; the maternal grand parents, Jim and Jean nie Leonard of Halifax County and the paternal grandparents, Ben H. and Ruby Carroll of Macon. Pallbearers were Randy Carroll, Ken Carroll, Jesse Carroll, Randy Shearin, Dennis Stegall and Tommy Stegall. Early Next Week Because of the Fourth of July holiday, The Warren Record will be published on Tuesday of next week. All advertisers, including display, classified and legal advertisers, are urged to have their copy ready by S:30 p.m. Friday. Persons contributing articles for publication next week are asked to have them in our office by noon on Monday.
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