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??????? Your Best Advertising Medium fflarmt ? ?*?*?*.? Your Best Co??'??'lt * Advertising svre,t Medium 10e Per Copy Subscription Price $3.00 a Year WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1963 NUMBER 3 Town Commissioners gathered with Mayor Miles around to apply for a $90,000 Federal grant for the construction Council Table where decision was made Monday night of a sewage disposal plant here. Board Takes No Action Following Hearing On Zoning Gaston Area No action was taken by the Board of Commissioners here last Thursday night following a public hearing on zoning regulations for Gaston Lake area held in the court room. The meeting, presided over by County Attorney James H. Limer, was attended by all members of the board of commissioners. Prior to the meeting in the court room, the commission ers awarded a contract to Martin Plumbing and Heat ing Company of Warrenton for modifying the heating system at the Health Build ing. The bid of $748.00 was the lowest bid received for compatible specifications. Eight of the 17 property owners present at the hearing in the court room who will be affected by the proposed zon ing ordinance for Gaston Lake voiced opposition to the ordinance. Fq>ir property proposed zoning and the re maining five didn't express their feelings either way. According to the Littleton Observer, which gave full cov erage to the meeting: The majority of those op posing the zoning plan said they thought their property was too far from the lake to be included in the zoning area. Following a discussion George Monaghan, representa tive of the Community plann ing Division for the State De velopment, with the aid of a map showing the area to be zoned, asked if the property owners would object to using the Virginia Electric Power Company's powerline as one of the zoning boundaries. The majority consented to using j this power line as a boundary. | During the evening a num ber of questions were asked and answered. Some of these included: Where would you j go if you wanted to get a j I building permit? Could we j | get out of the zoning ordi- j | nance if we decided later we i | did not want it? Can the zon I ing ordinance be changed? What are you planning for? I Do you think we are ready | for zoning? Monaghan explained that a zoning administrator would have to be appointed and that building permits would be ob tained from hi'm. In any case where the administrator's opinion is thought to be con trary or objectionable to what a builder desires, the builder may make an appeal to a board of adjustment. The board of adjustment would be made up of people of the area, who could work out hardships arising because of the lay of the land, creeks, ditches, etc., the group was told. Monaghan said that the Warren County Board of Com missioners, which sponsored the hearing, is the only body which could rezone the prop erty for other uses. The zon ing could be completely drop ped, Monaghan said. Monaghan said that the planning board could not tell a property owner what to do with his land, but he said the bi>ard had hoped people would establish- marinas, Girl and Boy Scout camps, and church group camps. The planning board had recom mended that the entire area be zoned as residential at the present and proposed only rules and regulations for an orderly development, Mona ghan said. In setting tht boundaries, the board follow Little Garden Club Opposes l-S Highways Billboards The Little Garden Club of Warrenton has joined a growing list of civic clubs over the state which are op posing the erection of bill boards on inter-state high ways. Meeting here on last week, the Warrenton club, after discussion approved the "Bill board Law" to be submitted to the 1963 legislature and petitioned Rep. John Kerr, Jr., to give it his considera tion. Duane Raver, Jr., of the North Carolina Wildlife Re sources Commission and manaing editor of the maga zine. "Wildlife," was guest speaker at the meeting held at the home of Mrs. Scott Gardner. Raver, Introduced by Mrs. Nat White, spoke on Conser vation, its basic concepts and f> how these are carried on hr the Wildlife Each member wae given literature in the subject and was requested to participate in coiw wildlife of the state. which time a speaker will discuss Japanese arrange ment of flowers. Hotel Warren Dining Room Is Now Open The Hotel Warren Dining Room is now open for busi ness, A. C. Fair, chairman of the hotel corp. committee, announced Thursday. Fair said that the hotel dining or~m would be opert ed under the direction of Mrs. I^ouise Halthcock. To TMKk Study Book Mr*. L. C. Vereen will teach the Study ftook, "Re sponsible Adults for Tomor row's World of Children", by Jm. Ault, la Wesley Memorial Methodist Church on Manday, January 28, at TM p. m. AlMntorested pej country churchea are cor dially invited to attend. To Meet The Warrenton Han's Club will Its regular asaetini at tike 11, it 1 * (See HEARING, page 4) CARLTON H. HUNT Warren Boy Receives $700.00 Scholarship Carlton Horace Hunt of Rt. 2 Macon, a freshman at State College, has been awarded a $700 schollarship to continue his college education. The scholarship waa given by Smith-Douglass Co., Inc., fertiliser and chemical manu facturers, Which annually makes scholarships available to deserving students. Carlton, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace F. Hunt, is ma joring in agriculture. At the present time he is undcdded about the future but plans to do some form of agriculture after completing his formal education. Since 1064 Smith-Douglass has contributed $34,400 for 80 scholarships at North Caro lina State College. Smith-Douglass, which makes, most of its scholar ships swards through the 4-H and m programs, has aided ?7? youths in 10 colleges and Mrs. Wood Is Heart Chmn. Mrs. A. A. Wood of War renton has accepted the po sition of president of the Warren County Heart Coun cil, according to an announce ment made by Dr. Harvey E. Estes of Durham, president ot the North Carolina Heart Association. The members of the coun cil who have been appointed to serve with Mrs. Wood arc Dr. J. J Allen, M.D., who will serve as medical repre sentative in supplying scien tific publications and infor | mation to physcians, nurses and members of other health 1 professions who work with heart patients; Mrs. W. K. Lanier, Jr., publicity chair man; and Pettway Boyd, treasurer Diseases of the heart and blood vessels cause more deaths in Warren County than any other disease, ac cording to Mrs. Wood. For the state as a whole, heart jand blood vessel diseases last year accounted for 19,810, or [52.5'"/? of all deaths, with I cancer second with 12.3<7r. Thompsons Given Award At Lions Club Mr. and Mrs. Tim Thomp son, winners in the annual Christmas Decorations Con test sponsored by the War Tenton Lions Club, received a cash award here Friday night during the regular meeting of the local Lions Club held at Hotel Warren. A first-place award of $19 was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson during the meeting and Lions sent a $10 award to Mr. and Mrs. B. G. White, who were unable to attend the meeting. DUt-ussion of Lions conven tions was headed by Lions W. Monroe Gardner and J. Howard Daniel during the meeting attended by 54 Lions and guests. On hand for the meeting were si* members of the Ep som Lions Club, who brought with them the Jungle Prowler Award designed to stimulate interclub visitation. Eddie Clayton, husband of the former Miss Jean House of Warrenton and an em ploye* of the Henderson Vul canising Co. of Henderson, was welcomed as a new mem ber of the club. Lions were reminded dur ing the meeting of the forth coming visit of the District Governor of District 31X3, scheduled for Jan. 38. NDaa Serfs was a guest of Lion Hy Diamond. Town Applies For A $90,000.00 Grant Cotton Farmers Urged|Funds To Be Used For To Release Acreage Sewage Disposal Plant Farmers who (ail to re lease their unplanted cotton allotment to the ASC County Committee face a reduction in their allotments. W. S. Smiley, ASC Com mitte-'; Chairman, said this week that farm cotton allot ments will be reduced where the farmer fails to plant at least 75 per cent of hi> allot-! ment or where he fails to release his allotment. For farmers who plan to plant their allotment, no action is needed. "However," Smiley said, "where the far mer knows he will not plant 75 per cent of his allotment, he can help himself and at the same time other farmers in the county by releasing this allotment for reappor tionment. If the cotton allot ment is released to the county committee, this preserves not only the individual iarmer s planting history, but the planting history of the county and state This prevents loss of allotment to uidividual counties and to the State of North Carolina " Smiley urged farmers who know now their allotment will not be planted, to visit the local ASCS Ol'fico and j preserve their history by re-1 leasing their allotment for use by other in.rneis within j the county. He said the dead line date for acceptance of this released acreage by the! county committee is March 15. Plans Being Drawn For Negro School Construction on a Consoli dated Negro elementary school in the southern part of the county is expected to start within about 90 days, J. Bodger Peeler, superin tendent of schools, told the hoard of education in ses sion here on Monday night. Plans for the building to replace a number of small frame buildings , are now being drawn by Architect Owen Smith of Raleigh and are expected to be complet ed within sixty days. Peeler said that ofter the plans are approved, a call for bids would have to be advertised for three weeks. Members of the board expressed the opinion that now, It would be unlikely that a contractor would be gin work before the open ing of the spring weather. The board members select ed 15 acres from a larger plat submitted by Tom Brown, and agreed to pay $100 for an additional 7/8 of an acre tc round out t he selected site. A delegation from the North Warren High School appeared before the board to request four immediate im provements at that school and several long range plans for the improvement of the school. George Washington, principal of the school, ac companied the delegation to the short hearing help up stairs in the courtroom, but took no part in the discus sion, led by PTA members. Principal interest of the delegation was in the build ing of a lunchroom at the North Warren Schools, which has been without lunchroom service for some time since the school cafeteria was clos ed by the Board of Health. Other immediate needs as presented by the delefation were for six additional class rooms, completed walks, and fire extinguisher*. Long range needs were listed ss an adequate library, an adequate science depart ment, a gymtorium, a guid ance center, purchase of land for the gymtmrtaB, a trade and industry shop, wtth a should be insulted ta to?od that it an to started before too llMk'vli that he could Mk* BO def is* as to wtoa ? tlrt fartto had been accumulated once, but work had to be postpon ed when a fire at Ellington school caused the county to purchase two mobile class rooms at Northside The building, to be constructed by1 the school maintenance crews and members of the trade school at North Warren, is expected to cost some $20, 000. Peeler also told the group that if additional classrooms wore built at Northside, that; the six additional classrooms would not be needed at North ( Warren. Board chairman Eugene Davis thanked the delegation 1 for its interest, pointed out1 that the county is short of money, and promised to do all that the board could to j improve conditions at the! North Warren school. Returning to their room| following the hearing, the i members of the board of ed-j ucation, entered a discussion of needs for more funds and pressing problems as well as long-range problems for the Warren County schools. The most pressing prob lems is one of rewiring the John Graham High School, according to specifications as submitted by an electrical en gineer employed by the board. Supt. Peeler said that temporary repairs had (See BOARD, Page 4) The Board of Town Com missioners on Tuesday morn ing applied to the United States Department of Health Education and Welfare for a S90.000 grant in aid for the construction of a sewage disposal plant at Warrenton. The decision to apply for the grant under the accelerat ed public works program, which permits the govern ment to pay half the cost of the actual construction of the plant, was made at the regular meeting of the Board on Monday night.1 when necessary steps were taken for the mailing of the application on Tuesday morn ing Action of the hoard was taken after U T. Newcome of the engineering firm of Boney and Newcome appeared to discuss the estimated cost of the project and matters pertaining to its construction, and information needed in the application for the grant Newcome estimated tl.e cost of the project at $197, 000 While the government pays in some cases half the, cost of such projects, it does not pay for land ac quistion and a number of other minor expenses. As a result. ,if the grant is made, the town will still have to provide slightly more than $100,000 Much of this bal ance is to be paid from funds derived from increas ed water rates and a seWer tax imposed several months ago, and to be accumulated until the project is under way. Newcome said that his firm recommended the convention al type of sewage disposal plant, although its costs will probably be a fourth greater than the lagoon type of dis posal and much more costly to operate. He said that this was necessary because the lay of the land and its tex ture would prevent the build ing of a lagoon. Newcome said that lagoon systems had been found per fectly satisfactory and that his firm had drawn plans for several of these. Un fortunatelly, he said, the land along Horse Branch where the town's sewer lines run is in the nature of a valley and would not pro vide the kind of pond neces sary, as it would be too long and narrow. In addition, he said, the soil is somewhat like instant coffee, and the land is underlayed all the way to the creek with rocks. The one favorable factor inj the conventional system, Newcome said, is that it lends itself belter to handl ing waste from certain types of industries Nt'wcome said that the plans drawn by the engineers call for a conventional dis posal plant near the sewer outfall in Fishing Creek, and a lift pump lo raise the sewage now flowing into Possum Quarter Creek from the east end of the town. In other business before the commissioners. Commis sioner Holt of the Water Committee reported that H. R Skillman. Superintendent of the Water Department, wished to relinquish some of the more streneous duties in cident to the operation of the water department, and that the water committee rec ommended that he be allowed to do this Holt said the committee recommended that Skillman he retained as sup erintendent of the Water De partment, together with his oiber supervisory and techni cal duties at an annual salary of $1700 and a S60.00 a 'See GRANT, page 4) Differences At Wise Are Now Settled The differences of opinion that has split the Wise com munity over the question of leasing the abandoned school building was resolved by the Board of Education here on Monday night. The Board voted to lease the building on a yearly basis for five years to the newly formed Wise-Paschall Ruritan Club, with the privilege of cancelling the lease during any year of that period should events dictate such action. With its application for leasing the building, the Ruritan Club submitted a copy of its by-laws as re quested by the board at a previous meeting for any club applying for the lease. It was stated that all parties at Wise were favor able to the lease being made to the Ruritan Club. In granting the lease the Board of Education reserved the use of the first floor of the brick building for storage purposes. Accepts Position Mrs. Sol Perkinson has ac cepted a position as book keeper with C&S Tractor 4k Equipment Co.
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