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%v: • f ia,nJ0 /our eeSf .rtunrrpn ifipriii~n £ jnuarrrn ISrrnri Advertising Medium — > Advertising Medium Volume 80 T5« Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Thursday, March 3, 1977 Number 9 Foster Homes Available Here For Abused Warren Children By HELEN HOWARD The Department of Human Resources, abetted by a proclamation from Governor James Hunt, has declared March as "Child Abuse and Neglect Awareness Month." Child abuse across the country has been on the rise in recent years and articles of children in Wake County dying from being beaten and a little girl in Tennessee being made to walk the floor for hours and drink Tabasco sauce until she died have caused alarm to many. Figures are shocking. From July 1, 1975 to June 30. 1976 four children died of abuse and nine of neglect in North Carolina. Reported cases for abuse mounted to 2108 while the Social Services departments only confirmed 1472 cases. During this period 10,555 cases of neglect were reported with only 2,404 confirmed. What happened to the other 636 abuse cases and the 8,151 neglect cases? Dr. Sarah T. Morrow, state Funds Are Denied For Health Clinic Haliwas Make Plans To Offer Halifax As Alternative Site Federal officials have turned down a request for funding for a health clinic in southeastern Warren County. Leland Gottschalk of Elberon, a board member of Capital Health Systems, Inc., said refusal by Health, Education and Welfare Department officials in Atlanta ended the possibility of a clinic sought by Haliwa Indians being located in the old Haliwa School near Areola. Gottschalk said the denial of funding spelled an end to three years of effort to have the site approved. Capital Health Systems is a health systems coordinator for 11 counties of RMfciotia K and J. He indicated that proponents of the health clinic will turn their attention to Halifax County in the hope that funds can be obtained if a site is found outside Warren County. Gottschalk said Warren County was denied funding since it already has a similar facility—HeaithCo. Inc. — in operation at Soul City. "We are already in the process of turning over information on our application to Halifax County," Gottschalk said Monday. The grant proposal will be handled by the regional health coordinating agency which serves Halifax County. Agency headquarters are maintained in Greenville. Attention now turns to a building just inside Halifax County, about 1.5 miles from the Haliwa School. Gottschalk said. If approved, Warren County would have received federal funds for renovation of the Httliwi-School, plus $200,0(K) in first-year operating funds. The amount of funds for the second year would drop to 60 percent with HEW funds providing only 30 percent of operating costs during the third year of the clinic's Existence. Sewer Construction Bids To Be Opened Bids for the construction of a sewer line from Soul City to Warrenton by way of Norlina will be reviewed by the Roard of County Commissioners at their meeting Monday when contracts may be let. The bids were opened at the office of Charles Haves on Tuesday afternoon and turned over to the county's engineers, Norlina Pastor Heads Ministers The Rev. Nat Burgess, pastor of the Norlina United Methodist Church, has been selected as president of the .Warren County Ministerial Association for 1977. Other pfficers include the Rev. Claude Pepper, who is now retired, vice-president; the Rev. Dudley Neal, pastor of Brown's Chapel in Warrenton, corresponding aecretary; and the Rev. Xkhard D. Bullock, Jr., who serves several churches in the Manson area, co-secretarytreasurer with the Rev. Bill Crouch, pastor of the Warrenton Baptist Church. This group of pastors from all denominations in the area are aeeking, according to the Rev. Mr. Burgess, to make "brother ministers and the congregations aware of help that is available for those in need, •specially for indigent persons." Plans for the year include programs by guest speakers from Seminary, from some areas of government and from service organizations. '»• Commented the Rev. Mr. Burgess. "We are growing in attendance because we are meeting not only the social and professional need of the pastors, but we are supplying ftelp through friendship." ' The Ministerial Association meets again on Monday, March ;14, at the Norlina United Methodist Church at 10 a. m. Hazen and Sawer. for study. The commissioners will also examine the arrhitectual plans for the renovation of "School Davs." the former Allen home on Cousin Lucy's I,ane. Architect Dan Knight is expected to appear before the commissioners Monday to exhibit sketches and discuss costs with the commissioners. Knight. a native of Norlina, appeared at the office of County Manager Charles Hayes on Wednesday of last week where he discussed plans for the renovation with Hayes and Commissioner Jack Harris. An executive session will probahlv he held during the morning. Haves said, when applicants for the position of Ceta director will be reviewed. During this session it is expected that trustees of Warren General Hospital will be appointed. During the day the commissioners are expected to discuss the tax valuations on livestock, hear reports from county agencies and attend to a number of routine matters. Corn, Bean Meet Planned March 21 Marketing and production educational meeting on corn and soybeans will be held March 21 at 7 p. m. at Norlina High School. L. C. Cooper. Agricultural Extension Agent, says all com and soybean producers are invited to this dinner meeting. However, the cafeteria accomodates only ISO people, so we will take the first 150 producers; therefore we are asking all producers to call the office or return your card on or before March 18th, Cooper said. Cooper says the meeting is being sponsored by Monsana Chemical Corps and the Agricultural Extension Service. human resources secretary, noted that in the five years the child abuse reporting law has been in effect. 25,000 children were confirmed to have been abused or neglected with 108 of these children dying from abuse. She also noted that cases of neglect have decreased in the five year period while the number of confirmed abused children has more than doubled. The Warren County Depart ment of Social Services is aware of problems of both abuse and neglect reflect ins; that most cases reported to them are neglect rather than abuse. Learning of cases is the biggest problem because we live in an age where "no one wants to get involved." Problems of child abuse and neglect are common knowledge to the society, but according to Mrs. Sally White, social worker for familv and children services in Warren County, complaints must he reported. Mrs. White noted that the procedure in Warren County, following a c mplaint. is that a social worker go dirertlv to the family referred to in the complaint and discuss the problems to determine what procedure to follow. According to Mrs. White, neglect may mean one thing to one group of people and something different to another. Determining the seriousness of the problem then depends on what the social worker finds hy interviewing the family. The body of Cleveland Wilson was pulled from the bottom of Gaston Lake on Sunday morning bv the Granville County Rescue Squad after grappling for 18 minutes. Thirtv-one Rescue Squads from North Carolina and Southside. Va.. took part in the search. |Staff I'hotol Warren Residents On Hand As Easter Seal Drive Begun North Carolina's First I,adv. Mrs. James R. Hunt. Jr.. hosted a morninir coffee at the Governor's Mansion in Raleiph Tuesday. March 1. to kick off the 1977 Raster Seal Campaign. Amorp over 200 friends of the Society in attendance at Tuesday's event were Mrs. Anna Rutler. State Faster Seal President. Mr. Rufus Fdmisten. Honorary Faster Seal Chairman and Rrenda and Sandra Newcomh. State Faster Seal Children. The campaign, which runs from March 1 through April 10 (Faster Sundavt. is part of the annual effort of the Faster Seal Society on behalf of handicap ped children and adults who live in the Warren countv area. Campaien activities include the mailine of "Faster Seals" to mafiv households in North Carolina, distribution of coin canisters to businesses, and the vearlv I,ilv Davs conducted bv 4 H Clubs throughout the countv. Resides owniner and operatine two specially adapted residential camps for physically and mentally handicapped person'- in North Carolina, the Factor Seal Society provides transportation, equipment loan and purchase programs, and an information, referral and follow-up service to thousands of the state's residents each vear. In 197fi alone. Raster Seals in the Pine Vallev Chapter of A'hich Warren countv is a part touched over 1.000 persons, either throuirh these programs or throueh oih<>r Sncietv activities such as advocacy on behalf of the handicapped, public and professional education. and research. At least 95% of the monev raised bv F.aster Seals stavs in North Carolina. Faster Seals maintains nine Regional Offices in North Carolina, located in Raleitrh. Asheville. Charlotte. Winston Salem. Greensboro. Southern Pines. Greenville. Jacksonville and Durham. Persons who wish to learn more about the 1977 Faster Seal Campaign or who mieht benefit from the services described here are urered to call the Pine Vallev Faster Seal Office in Raleieh at #834-1191, or to rait the regional office nearest them. Raster Seals is the oldest and larcpst voluntary health airencv providing direct service to the handicapped in the world. Bench Placement Greets Arrival Warrenton authorities wel comed the entrv of March and the promise of spring Tuesday afternoon hv placing half a do/en metal benches in front of the court house lawn. Three of the benches, painted srreen. were placed on the sidewalk on each side of the old water fountain. Office Shut Saturday The license tatr office in Henderson will not be open on Saturdays it was reported this week. The daily hours will remain the same. 8 a. m. to 4 p. m.. Mondav through Friday. The Saturday closing is effective March 5. Joining Mr*. Hunt at tkc Govtnnr'i Mudon »r» State Enter Seal Children, Brrndi and Sandra Newcomb of Raleigh; standing. left to right: Attorney General Rufus Edmisten. Honorary Campaign Chairman, Mrs. Eva Holtman of Ridgeway. Mra. R. B. Butler, State Sodety President of Warrenton. and George W. Koooce, Warren County Extension 4-H Agent. If thev find that a child is abused or neglected, the complainer or the social worker will sign a petition for a hearing; at juvenile court. In severe cases a temporary order can be obtained immediately to place the child in a foster home. There are six foster homes in Warren County. At present there are 14 children in these homes taken from parents, "mostly from neglect," said Mrs. White. These children range in age from eight to 16 and can legally remain in foster care until 18 or 21 to complete high school. The social workers continue to work with the parents and children -fter removal of a child, said Mrs. White. "Parents do help support some of the children in foster homes," she said. More foster homes are needed in Warren County hut Mrs. White is quick to point out that foster parents receive very little monev for their services. Most parents receive only $100 or $115 a month to cover all the expenses of the child, include* clothing and food. Schools work very closely with the Social Services Department. They are often the ones who refer children who need clothes or come to school dirty or improperly dressed for weather conditions or show signs of abuse. The Social Services received "maybe 20 complaints" last year, social workers White and Ann Walker reported. Of these (Continued on page 8) Lake Surrenders Body Of Victim Thirty-one Rescue Squads from North Carolina and Virginia and some 240 men and women participated in a joint operation Sunday morning which resulted in the recovery of the hodv of a man who was robbed, slain and dumped into the waters of Gaston Lake at the 1-85 bridge on the borders of North Carolina and Virginia. The bodv of Cleveland Alonzo Wilson, 28. of Warrenton was found in verv deep water at the bridge just where investigators had expected to find it during numerous other dragging expeditions in the past 37 days. The massive search Sunday was arranged and conducted bv Thomas K. Collie. Regional Coordinator. Office of Emergencv Medical Services, who set up a command post at the Steel Rr'dge in Virginia where the !»oats were launched for the search some two miles down the lake. Helen Collie and Angie Callihan manned the radios at the post at the Wild life Landing near the bridge. Two Warren County men, described as friends of Wilson, alreadv had been indicted for murder, robbery and auto larcenv in the Jan. 22 killing. Dorsev Capps. chief deputy of the Warren County Sheriffs Department, said William Mcl/ean Davis. 19. and Joe Edward Hampton. Jr.. 20. both of Warrenton. Route 2. are accused of beating Wilson to death with an automobile jack and robbing him of $21 before his bodv was dumped into the lake. "The were supposed to be verv good friends." Capps said. Capps said the search Sundav was arranged because the victim's family was concerned that the bodv had not been found and the sheriffs department wanted to be able to produce the body by the time Davis and Hampton are tried. Among those watching the search and recoverv of the body was Wilson's father. Capps said "We have been going out everv day to see if the body had floated to the surface." He said Virginia Wildlife Commission officers had assisted deputies in the daily checks. Wilson's moss-covered body, clad only in a shirt and pants, was found at the bottom of the lake. Capps said the channel of the Roanoke River and ice that had clogged the lake had made dragging operations very dangerous until recently. He said the body apparently had not floated to the surface because the water in the lake had remained so cold. The victim's body was found after only 18 minutes of dragging by a rescue squad from Granville County. After Wilson was first reported missing, rescue squads and other volunteers dragged the lake almost continuously for about four days without finding the bodvi The body, not badly damaged by its long emersion in the lake, was taken to Chapel Hill Medical Center for an autoosv. Sheriff Clarence Davis, who took part in several sweeps of the lake, described the search Sundav as the greatest Catherine of boats ever seen on Gaston Lake. He praised the skill of Collie in his command of the search and the discipline of the crews of the many squads participating in the search. Manv of the squads had several boats, some of them as many as a half dozen. Sheriff Davis said in commenting on the number of boats gathered for the search. Following the recovery of the body, rescue squad members were served hamburgers and soft drinks by the Sheriffs Department. At this time Sheriff Davis expressed his (Continued on page 8) Woods Fires Abound Warming Weather Turns Out Firemen Warrenton Rural Volunteer Firemen were kept husv over the nast week, answering a rash of fire calls, mostlv to crass and woods fires. The Warrenton rural firemen responded to two fire rails on Wednesday and last week at two farms belonging to Sidnev Cooper. The first call at 10:30 was to a woods fire three fourths of a mile north of Macon. The fire, raused from burnine brush, burned over an acre of land. The second call at 10:15 was to a woods fire on the Churchill road. Ten acres were burned over •\ third call on Wednesdav. at 1 p. m.. was to a woods fire on the farm of F. H. Cheek on the Fmhro Littleton Road. Damaee was not estimated. Ten men and three trucks responded to a woods, laps and crass fire at the farm of Harrv Williams. Jr., at Inez at 12:30 p m Fridav. Three acres were burned over. The rural firemen responded to eipht fires Saturday. At 1:15 p. m. the firemen responded to a call to the home of Clav T. Rrown. at Rt. 2. Warrenton. where a 1971, GTO car was on fire. The fire was extineuished with the use of water Damace was estimated at *50. Six men and three itrueks responded to a ernss fire on the lawn of the Tom Burton estate on the Warren Plains road. The firemen soon had the fire extineuished. No damage was reported. At 11:55 a. m. the firemen responded to a woods fire at I.ickskillet. Owner of the property was not known. Two acres were burned over. Members of the Macon Fire Department responded to a call to a woods fire at Gaston Ijake Estate at 1:30 p.m. About two acres were burned over, but no damaee was reported. Twelve men and two trucks responded to a woods fire at 3:30 p. m. on the farm of Fdward R. Carroll on the Warren Plains RvPass. The fire was put out with watq*. but no further details were reported. Twelve men and one truck responded to a woods and trass fire at the Robert Arrinnton Store at Hollister at 4:45 p. m. The Areola Company extineuished the fire. No further details were tiven. At 1:30 p. m. Warrenton firemen responded to a car fire at the home of Nellon Harris on Route 1. Maron. The 71 Camarn was reported a total loss. The -\fton. Norlina. Areola. Ine7 and Warrenton fire companies responded to a woods fire on the farm of Howard Hawkins at Inez. Time of the call was not given. hut the fire was reported extinguished with water. Amount of hum over was not reported. At fvin on Sunday the Warrenton rural firemen sent ten men. two trucks and a crash watron to Greenwood Church on SR 1001 where a tree in the church vard had been ignited hv litrhtnine. The firemen used water to extinguish the fire. Four men and one truck were dispatched to the land fill at 10-15 a. m. Tuesday to extinguish a trash fire at the dump Ice Cream Fire An ice cream truck owned hv Morocco Stetson of the Snow Hill Community, caught fire Wednesday mornine at 7 a. m. around the transmission of the truck. The Warrenton Rural Fire Department responded to the call. Fire Chief A. A. Wood said that damage to the truck was slight. He estimated the damage at $10.00. Pesticide Meet Plans Revealed The third Pesticide Applicators School will be held March 28 and 30 in the court room of the Warren County Courthouse. reports L. C. Cooper. Agricultural Extension Agent. All classes will begin at 7:30 p. m. and will be in session for two hours each night. Farmers and users of restricted pesticides are required to attend two classes for a total of 4 hours. Farmers who fail to attend this class will not be certified until the Fail of 1977. Gospel Sing Set The Warrenton Pentecostal Holiness Church will feature a gospel sing with the Goepelaires of Roanoke Rapids on March 6 at 7 p. m. The public is invited to attend. No admlaaioe fee will be charged.
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