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Advertising Medium Jarmt Sfcrori jel*. %&*v y -Volume 80 15c Per Copy* Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Thursday, February 17, 1977 Number 7 Town Board Told Water Woes Remain Worsening Expected The cure may be more costly than the malady for Warren ton's frozen water mains. Water Department Chair man B. G. White, augmented by Department Superintendent Bill Neal. suggested as mucti Monday night when he told fellow members of the Warrenton Board of Commis sioners that water mains now beginning to thaw have created havoc for the depart ment. ., . Neal said that "thawing if iust as much a problem a? freezing." and told the board that pipe repair is going or > Missing Convict Is Back In Unit Richard Dean. 24. of Grifton, scaled the fence at the Warrenton unit of the Depa ■ ment of Corrections last Thursday at 1:30 p. m. The local unit assisted by units from Franklin. Vance and Nash counties and the Warren ton Police Department, staked out woods surrounding the unit and recaptured Dean Friday afternoon around 3 p. m. near Greenwood Village. Greenwood Village is approximately three miles from the prison unit. I>an was serving a two-year sentence for larceny. Elderly Service Begun By Police M,yor Bill P^ 0f ^lin. announced on Tuesday tlfat the T»w«»fNorlin«wfll provide . calling service to elderly citizens who live alone. To be included in this elderlv residents must call the Norlina Police Department and give name, address and phone number. Mr. Perry said. The police will then call to check on the residents each day If no one answers, they will go to the residence. This is a good safety procedure and will be conduct ed by the police department Perrv said. BSA Fund Drive Begins Locally Fund raisins: activities for this district of Rov Scouts beean on Tuesday, according to David Dodd. chairman of the activities for the district. The district comprises Warren, Vance and Franklin counties. Dodd pointed out that five new units of Boy Scouts were organized in the past year and that 120 boys are now members of the scouting program in Warren County. He said goals set forth for the coming year are to form an explorer post in Warren County and toenroll 250 bovs in the program by the end of the year. In order for these goals to b« reached, contributions to the Boy Scouts will be solicited by Dodd. Tom Peele and Frank Ballance. Jr. The fund-raising project will end on Feb. 28 and allows two weeks for contributions. The county has nine troops oi packs at present including Packs 617 sponsored by the Warrenton Baptist Church; 65C Iry Stoney Lawn Baptist Churrh; 622 by All Saints Episcopal Church; 618 Coch rane Eastern; 628 Jack's (K Service Station; and 606 Nan son. Troops are 656 Stoney Lawn Baptist Church: 406. Mt. Bethel Baptist Church and 671. Peck Manufacturing. District Meet Set TV Warren County Chapter ofthe North Carolina Demoera tfc Women will hoat the Second QMWMsional District work gfeop planned for May 3. Mrs. Junes Hunt, wife of the Governor, is a member of thii Astriet and 'the local chaptei anticipates her attendance. daily. He said workmen were busy this week repairing; a 23-foot split in a main line near General Box Co.. and that damage to water meters has been considerable. "We're replacing meters every day." Neal said. "I guess we've used $2,000 worth of replacement meters so far." The water superintendent said he knew of only one fire hydrant freezing during the month-long sub-freezing snap, that occurring to an old meter on Main Street in front of Warrenton- Supply Company. He said that new hydrants installed here were on the self-draining variety, but that the damaged hydrant was of earlier vintage. He said the split in the hvdrant would not hamper fire-fighting effective ness. but would leak when turned on. Neal said that pipes were still frozen on East Franklin Street, and that in some instances the ground was frozen between 15 and 18 inches deep. Town Manager Hill Davis said he and other managers of municipalities within Region K had discussed the possibility of receiving emergency disaster funds at a recent meet, but that so far no promise of financial help has been received. In other business Monday night, commissioners moved —to accept, with regret, the resignation of James McGowan, a member of the Police Department since September. —to authorize Town Man ager Davis to pursue the porfstbijity of secuHhjt a surplus *tafcmtra«fc. to i^pkcfc a dump truck needing a new engine. an expenditure estimated at $600. The board also —made Warrenton Savings and I»an a town depository after-Joaining that Rranch Ranking and Trust, where town savings now draw five percent interest, will lower its interest rate for public depositors to four and one-half percent. Since Warrenton Savings pays six percent interest on passbook savings, the town manager was instructed to deposit Warren ton funds, not immediately needed, where the highest interest could be received. —agreed to strictly enforce the law requiring all residents of the town to purchase and display on their motor vehicles town tags. —amended the June 21, 1976 board meeting to show that the budget was adopted according to department totals, a move designed to ease day-to-day budgetary requirements. —ordered the speed limit along the entire length of Front Street—now set at 25 miles an hour—to 20 miles an hour. —authorized a compilation of a historic district zoning ordin ance for presentation to the board at a later meeting. —amended the Soul City sewer agreement so that a pre-paid deposit for the first year of use of the Warrenton treatment plant by the Soul City Sanitary District would cover a period from Feb. 1,1977 until Jan. 31, 1978. two months later than initially agreed upon. —adopted a five dollar service charged for all bad checks issued to the town after the town manager said the number of bad checks given for water accounts had reached a "troublesome level." —agreed to ask the state that the tame streets currently designated as eligible for Powell Bill appropriations be included, with the addition of Church and Battle Streets, two streets now maintained by the state, but requested yearly bv the town. —voted to express its gratitude to Cochrane Eastern 'or the special manufacture, at cost, of two conference tables now in use. in council chambers. Following adjournment shortly after 9:30 members of the board, with the exception of Councilman Bill Lanier who ww not present for the session, went into executive session. Warren Man Wins Honor In Contest Bender Takes 4th Place For Yield Albert Seaman won fourth place in the statewide soybean contest with a yield of 58.85 bushels of soybeans per acre. .Seaman's 1976 soybean crop was (frown in rotation with fescue. The land was worked up with a chisel plow and disked about three times for each operation. Fertilizer 0 10-20 was applied, broadcast and worked in prior to planting, at the rate of approximately 300 pounds per acre, reports L. C. Cooper, agricultural extension assent. The Essex variety of soybeans was planted in approximately 32 inch rows at the rate of one half or 30 pounds per acre around May 20. Cultural practices consisted of two cultivations. Seed was inoculated. No herbicides were used. Weed problems were minor and controlled bv hand weeding. There was some lack of rainfall during the growing season and also minor disease and insect problems. H. H. Reid of Pasquotank County walked off with first place with a yield of 65.39 bushels per acre. The Pendle ton brothers of Pasquotank were second with 62.44 bushels per acre and Murrv Berrv of Pasquotank won third place with 59.40 bushels per acre. While Albert Seaman was the top in the Northern Piedmont Area with 58.85 bushels, other area winners were D. W. Johnson. Sampson County of South Eastern region with 57.82 bushels: Ted1 and Bob Ivev, Wayne County, the Central Area 54.37 bushels. Ferrell Berrv. Hide Company, Tidewater Area, 49.39 bushels per acre and Murray Carrihder. Rowan County. Southern Pied mont 47.60 bushels per acre. The first winner received a trip to the National Soybean Meeting, a plaque and $50.00 cash award. Seaman and all other winners received a plaque and $50.00 cash award from the State Soybean Association. These awards were made at the 10th Annual Meeting of the N. C. Soybean Producers Association on Friday in Raleigh at the Royal Villa Motor Inn. Mrs. Catherine Seaman, Leonard Kilian. Chairman County Soybean Contest Com mittee and L. C. Cooper, agricultural extension agent, accompanied Albert Seaman to the State meeting. Land Cost Is School S?< ■ Key The price of land may be the deciding factor in the choosing of a site for a proposed consolidated school in the Norlina Warrenton area. The Warren County Board of Education at its regular meeting Monday night discuss ed two sites, one of them on the Norlina Macon By Pass, and the other on the Norlina War renton Highway. l<eigh Travlor, former mem ber of a site committee and now member of the Board of Education, told the board members that he had contacted Mrs. Hal Connell. Allen Hawks, and Bud Endicott, owners of land across the road from the site originally recommended bv the site committee, and that they had agreed to sell this land to the hoard of education for a school site. Travlor said that he did not ask the property owners what price they wanted as he had not been authorized to do so by the board. He said that he favored this site and wanted to learn whether or not it was available before discussing it with the other members of the board. The original site on the by pass, although favored by the site cotnmittee. was rejected by the state for topographical reasons and because the school would have to he located too close to the highway Those who favored this site then began to consider acquiring a site across the bv pass and a short distance up the highway as a substitute. Contacts with property owners were made but no agreement as to price was reached. Travlor told the other b< ard members that he favored this site because it was practically equi distant from Norlina and Warrenton. He agreed to con tact Mrs. Connell. Mr. Hawks and Mr. Fndicott as to the price each wanted for his pro perty. but said he would not contact Kenneth Mustian. who had previously offered, to sell «■•■■■■■ i m nlKiUMMMBir the hoar<J ' t iiut-ation lan-J on Hifhws 101 between Warren tor ami Norlina. He said he would not contact Mr. Mustian a* his heart was not in that site. The board than appointed Dr. L. R. Henderson, Jr., as the member to contact Mr. Mustian as to price. Supt. Peeler pointed out that the board of education's architect. Dan Knight of Rocky Mount, should be contacted as he had said that there would be an extra cost to the by-pass site of as much as $25,000 because of lack of water and sewage facilities on this site. With the exception of Mr. Travlor, board members did not seem to have a real preference between the two sites. Chairman Turner said he had thought it might be well to build the school on the Mustian (Continued on page 7) Deer Airing Slated Tuesday The future of deer hunting in Warren County is expected to he shaped hy a public hearing scheduled here next week hv the Warren County Board of Commissioners. Commissioners at their February meeting gave notice that they will hear both sides of the deer hunting question during a hearing to be held Tuesday, Feb. 22. <1t 7:30 p. m. The session will be held in the courtroom of the Warren County Court House. Interest in the meeting is reported running high, and several petitions, calling for the banning of de«>r hunting from all highway rights-of-way in Warren County have been'placed in circulation here. Commissioners say they want additional input from the public before seeking legislation which wouM establish deer hunting regulations. Prospect Of More Restoration Funds Raised At Town Meeting The prospect that additional federal funding may he obtained for restoration of the Jacob Holt house in Warrenton was raised hv a state grants administrator appearing before Warrenton commissioners Monday night. I^ew Hafermahl of the N. C. Department of Archives and History, suggested that several avenues for federal funding might be explored, as well as private donors. He also hinted that state funds, seldom awarded a municipality for historic renovation might be secured to complete remodel ling of the home at the corner of Franklin and Rragg Streets which once served as home and workshop of master builder Jacob Holt. Hafermahl was on hand at the regular monthly session of the board of commissioners to help with initial discussion of transferring the property, now owned bv Councilwoman Anna Rutler. to the Town of Warrenton. He said that a professional appraisal of the property would have to he made and that the town would have to sign an agreement that the property would be retained as an historic landmark for at least 30 years in order to take advantage of grant money. Rarlier, Warrenton was notified hv the Nationa1~frtrks— Service that it had been awarded a $10,(MX) matching irrant to restore the property. Hafermahl said he believed the money would be adequate only to keep the house from deteriorating further. Another provision of the grant is that the house be open to the public 12 days a year, and bv appointment, hut since the house was being accepted by the town for public purposes, this provision would naturally he met. he said. Hafermahl suggested that officials of Region K be contacted to see if Commerce Department funds, made avail able through the Coastal Plains Regional Commission, might be obtained. He said that he understood funds which would underwrite 80 per cent of the total renovation costs were available. "In accepting the National Park Service grant, and any other grant you might receive, vou are binding yourselves to maintaining the structure in conformance with historic integrity." he told the board. The lot and house will be used to match the $10,000 t'rant. with any additional value reflected hv the new appraisal _gnine to- match additional grants. While Hafermahl was unable to give a date bv which work on the house could begin, he speculated that work to stabilize the structure could beein "in three or four months." Three Return From NCSU Farm Course Robert E. Williams, Michael Wayne Roope and Walter Wayne Pavnter attended a short course in modern farming held at N. C. State University Jan. 31 through Feb. 11. The course is sponsored by the North Carolina Bankers Associ ation in cooperation with N. C. State University and the North Carolina Extension Service. Williams, a Route 3. War renton. farmer, concentrat ed his interest on the course to beef cattle: Michael Roope of Rt. 1. Warrenton and Walter W. Pavnter of Wise, on tobacco. The men were Warren County's representatives for the 25th annual course. Warren County has been represented at the course almost every year, according to J. Howard Daniel, key banker for Warren County. He was assisted by L. B. Harda(*e, chairman of the Warren County E/tension Service and his staff. The North Carolina Bankers Association has received na tional recognition for this service to North Carolina. All costs for the tuition are paid by hanks of Warren County. During the recent course. Williams was sponsored by Branch Bank & Trust Com pany. Roope by First Citizens Bank and Paynter by Peoples Bank of Norlina. Sponsor* and partidpaaU of a *Wt cmtw ia agriculture at N. C. SUte Uahrantty tedwM [left U rigfctl J. Howard DaaM of hutk Banldag aad Traat ol Warreatea, Robert WOHaras. Tw Peete of People* Bank of Norte*, Way*# P»mtM, Dfvid Dodd of Fint-CftiMM Bonk of Warrmtaa, aad Mfco Hoop* (Stall PWtol Sheriff 'Positive' Victim Is In Lake Sheriff CUrence Davis said yesterday that he is positive that the body of Cleveland Wilson. 28. is in Gaston I>ake and that it will float to the surface when the waters of the lake warm up if not sooner found by grappling hooks. McLean Davis and Joe Hampton. Jr.. have been arrested and charged with beating Wilson to death and dumping his body in Gaston Lake near the 1-85 bridge on the night of Jan. 21. Efforts to find the body have been hampered by ice and unusually cold weather, hut Sheriff Davis said he and one of his deputies were searching the lake each day for four hours and that he would continue this procedure until the body is located. He said that he is aware of the suffering that the delav is causing Wilson's family and t hat he and his deputies are doing everything in their power to recover the body. " Sheriff Davis said that he and a deputy have patrolled the lake from the point where the hodv was thrown in near the 1-85 bridge for four miles down stream using grappling hooks. Twice the boat has been damaged, the first time the clutch was badly injured when the boat struck a submerged stump and a second time when the propeller was damaged by ice. He said yesterday he believes that he now knows the location of every stump in the area he and his deputies have searched. The Virginia Wildlife Service has also been patrolling the lake frequently and plans for a four boat search by the Warren County Rescue Squad last Saturday were foiled by ice. Sheriff Davis said. He explain ed that the squad members first tried to put in their boats at the Oliver Davis Marina but found the cove covered with ice. They then attempted to launch their boats at the Steel Bridge, higher up the lake, but that floating pieces of ice made the attempt too hazardous for the squadmen. Selection Of Board Attorney Is Postponed By Educators Appointment of an attorney for the hoard of education to succeed Frank Ranzet. who had expressed a desire to retire, was again postponed by the hoard of education at its meeting here Monday night. Postponement came after Dr. L, R. Henderson. Jr.. told the hoard that Attorney Frank Ballance. previously suggested for the post, told him that there was no legal reason that he could not serve as attorney to the board but that he would require a retainers fee of $250 a month. Banzet had served in this capacity for $25 a month, plus pav for legal services rendered. The hoard voted to have Ballance appear before the hoard at its March meeting so that they might ascertain what other services they might obtain for this retainer's fee. The board also voted to ask Attorney Julius Banzet, III, and possibly other attorneys to attend the board meeting to determine whether they would be interested in receiving the appointment. Jay Freeman, with the Vocational Rehabilitation Pro gram was scheduled to appear before the board to provide information concerning the program but failed to show up. The second item on the agenda was listed as the appearance of a Mr. Brown and I/eland Gottschalk to discuss the possibility of lighting the playground at the Afton-El beron school for community use. They failed to appear. Supt. Peeler pointed out that the Vaughan school was closed on Wednesday, Jan. 12. because of a defective boiler. The teachers worked. The State Board of Education, Supt. Peeler said, has a policy which permits this day to be counted as a regular school day, provided a formal request is made by the board of education. The board made this request. Appointment of a bank as a depository for school funds for fiscal 1978-79 was postponed until the next meeting. Supt. Peeler explained to the board members that the appointment of a depository had to be made several months in advance in order that checks might be printed. And, therefore, the appointment for 1978-79 should be made at this time. All public school systems in the state are members of the State School Boards Associa tion. which perform a number of valuable services for the various units which are members, Supt. Peeler told the board members. He said the association has increased its membership fee from $392 for the present year to $639 for the 1977-78 year in order to add personnel and increase its services. The board members voted to postpone decision on retaining- membership in the Association in order that the board members might further evaluate the services provided. The board voted to renew leases on the old Oine school building and on the Mayflower school building under the same terms and for the same length as the present leases to community clubs of these communities. The request for the renewal of the Oine school building was signed by Mr. and Mrs. Percell Harrison. Mrs. Mary Downey, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Kersey, Mr. and Mrs. Mack Patillo, and Miss Mary Patillo. Signing the request for the lease of the Mayflower school building were Mrs. Irene T. Alston. Roger Alston, Mrs. Julia B. Alston. Guy Alston, Mrs. Hattie Perry, Mrs. Christine Williams. Faye A. Alston and Henry B. Williams. Ellis Wants Law Made Permanent An act to make permlMnt * law regarding the etimtaatta of road and written teat* fk safe drivers applying fef renewal of operator's liflMwe has been ratified iii the General Assembly. Rep. T. W. Ellis, Jr.. of Henderson, an introducer of the bill in the State House of Representatives and supporter of the measure on the floor. Mid following Us introduction into the House that the tour-year test period his proven that this approach to AI ww safety has
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