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lamtt SlrrorJi Advertising Medium v. -cb,,roa v>.c Your Best ,^8 «JirrDn inpniril Your Best • CV\-' V^ ven 1 Complete News Coverage Of Warren County Volume 80 Warrenton, County Of Warren. North Carolina Thursday, May 12, 1.977 Number 19 Trooper, Man Scuffle Way To Local Jail A Route 2, Henderson man is being held in the Warren County Jail after being charged with assault on a police officer following a scuffle with a highway patrolman on Sunday. A host of highway patrolmen from three counties responded to a call for help by the trooper. However, only the Warren County patrolmen and a policeman from the Warrenton Police Department were needed. According to Trooper W. C. Palmer, he stopped a car on suspicion of driving under the influence on the Henderson-Warrenton road about four and one-half miles west of Warrenton. After the routine check he placed James Mitchum under arreSt' for driving under the influence and carried him to the patrol car for transport to the jail. Palmer said that Mitchum jumped out of the car and grabbed him saying that he wasn't going to be arrested. The trooper then removed his handcuffs to restrain the man. Mitchum then ran and Palmer's handcuffs fell on the ground. Palmer pursued Mitchum, tackled him and tried to restrain him while he was on the ground. However, he did not have his handcuffs and the man was hitting the trooper. A motorist, Percell Richardson of Rt. 2, Warrenton, stopped his car and asked if the patrolman needed help. Palmer instructed Richardson to use the telephone radio in th# patrol cA and radio that an officer needed help. Richardson's message reached the Raleigh radio network and troopers from Warren, Vance and Franklin counties were alerted to respond. However, Richardson obtained the trooper's handcuffs from the patrol car and the assailant was restrained by the trooper. Palmer then used the' radio to advise that help was no longer needed. Meanwhile, troopers from Warren County and the policeman had arrived. Palmer charged Mitchum with driving under the influence, transporting taxpaid liquor with the seal broken and assault on a police officer. En route to the Warren County jail Mitchum again attempted to assault Palmer. Palmer and the other officer quickly brought him under control. Bill Seeks Funds For Holt House A bill appropriating an additional $10,000 for the restoration of the Jacob Holt House has been introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly. Rep. John T. Church of the 13th District introduced House Bill 1100 in the House of Representatives. The bill wou'd provide money to the Town of Warrenton for the purpose of archaeological, historical and architectural research on the Jacob W. Holt House and site and repair and weatherproofing of the house. An additional 1800 is included in the bill to be used by the Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History to provide technical services to the Town. The bill further provides that the money must be matched by the Town of Warrenton. The Town of Warrenton hat already acquired the property and raised $29,000 la private and federal funds for Its preservation. ALL EYES ON CIRCUS—Warren children were enthralled Thursday when Norllna firemen sponsored a circus at Northside Elementary School. Firemen reported a good turnout for both shows presented by the Royal Wild West Clrous. Other photos may be found on Page 3. [Staff Photo] Schools To Reapply For Federal Monies The Warren County Board of Education will again apply for a federal grant from the new $4 billion public works grant for the purpose of building a consolidated high school on a site between Warrenton and Norlina. Under the second such act of the Congress, a portion of the funds will be set aside for educational purposes, Supt. Peeler told the board at its regular meeting here Monday night. This will mean that this time the County of Warren and the Board of Education will not be in competition for funds when the county reapplies for funds for a water line. The board approved the suggestion of the Superintendent that the county again apply for EDA funds and agreed that every effort should be extended to make the application of the county schools a successful one. The board voted to renew the lease on the old Wise school building to the Wise-Paschall Ruritan Club for a term of 20 years, with a stipulation that the 20-year term may be terminated earlier upon request of Storms Spare Warren Damage Caused Nearby By HELEN HOWARD A storm which caused considerable damage in neighboring counties seemed to skip through Warren County on Thursday and Saturday. High winds accompanying a late afternoon thunderstorm left residents in the Drewry area without current for some time while an occasional barn roof or well top were reported blown off in other areas of the county. The storm broke off tree limbs and hurled dust causing motorists to have limited vision and reduced speeds but no wrecks were reported as a result of the storm. The severe electrical storm knocked out the city's fire alarm system but it had been restored by Monday. In neighboring Franklin County the storm took a more devastating toll. One trailer was reported set off its foundation and the roof ripped off during the storm. The mobile home was in the Twin Oaks Trailer Park on U. S. 401 between Louisbflrg and Warrenton. It was reported that the roof was left hanging in oak trees around the home. In the city of Louisburg trees were felled causing damages to buildings and several automobiles. The storm on Thursday caused downpours in some areas while several communities in the county had light rain. Telephone service was knocked out for a very short time during heavy lightning. The rains had some good effect for farmers in the county. L. B. Hardage, county extension chairman, said that about one inch of rain fell but more is needed for the crops. either party. Supt. Peeler said that the club wanted to make further improvements to the building, but did not think a five-year lease would justify the expenditure. Peeler said that the club is taking good care of the building and that it is widely used as a community building. He said the termination clause was included in all school building leases, including a 99-year-lease to the Littleton Woman's Club for Person's Ordinary. Supt. Peeler told the board members that in Mrs. Edward's report on the operation of school-owned automobiles by the nine school principals of the county that all principals with the exception of W. E. Terry of John Graham High School had made their monthly reports as requested by the school administration. Mr. Terry, the report showed, had made no report for the year following a (Continued on page 2) Last Rites Are Scheduled For Former State Senator William Wallace White, 75, former state senator and farmer of the Drewry Community, died Tuesday in Henderson's Maria Parham Hospital. Funeral services are scheduled for 11 a. m. today (Thursday) at Young Memorial Presbyterian Church in Drewry by the Rev. Dr. Gerald Wilson. Burial will be in the White family cemetery. A bachelor, Senator White was a world traveller, using his vacations to visit every il Warrenton Woman's Letters To Novelist Are Featured The correspondence between a young Jewish woman from Warrenton and celebrated English novelist is the subject of a new book which will go on sale May 30. "The Education of the Heart" is based on letters exchanged between Rachel Mordecai Lazarus and Maria Edgeworth, a popular novelist and member of one of England's foremost families of educators. Edited by Edgar E. MacDonald, a professor of English at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., the 341-page work contains comments on domestic life in North Carolina during the first half of the last century. Daughter of a well known schoolmaster and a member of Warrenton's only Jewish family at the time, Rachel Mordecai Lazarus initiated the correspondence with a letter inquiring why British novelists, including Miss Edgeworth, wrote in a prejudiced manner about Jews. Her comments struck home and Maria Edgeworth set out to make amends. In her novel "Harrington," published in 1817, Maria inserted a passage taken directly from Rachel's letter. The literary exchange grew into a remarkable friendship, one that lasted until Rachel's death in 1838. Although the two women never met, a correspondence between their families lasted until 1942. The letters are said to reveal "the values, manners and intellectual ideals of the time. The comments on the major figures of the day—Scott, Byron, Cooper, Irving, Catherine Sedgwick — are acute and candid, of interest to the literary historian not only for the judgments they render but also for the context of interests and concerns out of which the judgments seem to rise." Hearing Slated On Tuesday Requirements Upped For Vance Sewage Increased requirements in the quality of waste water which may be discharged into Nutbush and Sandy Creeks—now being eyed as sites for Henderson's sew* age treatment facilitieshave been revealed by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. The agency unveiled the far-reaching changes in a supplement to its Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the eve of a public hearing on the impact statement to be held May 17 at 7 p. m. at the E. M. Rollins School in Henderson. Most drastic of the new changes is one that revises the waste load allocations for the two creeks. Waste load allocations are limitations set by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Economic Resources that define the maximum pollutant concentrations which will not result in violating stream quality standards. EPA officials in Atlanta noted that the proposals incorporated in the initial impact statement "will not achieve the level of treatment required by the new waste load allocations." The supplement points out that changes in the design of proposed plants to place them in conformity with the higher requirement# have caused increased engineering and cost projections. The supplement lists three alternatives which will be considered before approval is given a new waste water treatment plan. One calls for construction of a new plant with a capacity of 212 million gallons daily on Sandy Creek in Warren County. Cost estimates are now put at $13,521,000 if tertiary corner of the globe. His pictures taken among South American and Pacific tribes were the source of many civic programs. He had managed to escape from a visit from China in 1949 on the last boat to sail before the Chinese Communist takeover. In all, he visited each of the 50 states and 135 countries. Once, he lamented, he feared he would be unable to visit every country, because new countries were being formed at a rate faster than he could travel. Senator White, who served three terms in the N. C. Legislature, in 1937, 1941 and 1947, made his home in the White family homeplace with his brother, Charles M. White, and Mrs. White. He was active in farm affairs, and was a member of the Vance County Democratic Executive committee from 1940-1947. He •was a member of the Middleburg Ruritan Club, State Tobacco Advisory Council and Vance County ABC Commission. He was a Sunday school superintendent and elder of his church from 1927 until his death. Surviving in addition to his brother is one sister, Mrs. Alice W. McDuffie of Candor. He was an uncle of District Attorney Charles M. White, III, of Warrenton. Pallbearers will be Ellis Fleming, Ronald Raines, Eugene Wilson, Chuck Curtis, James Watklns, Vernon Whitemore and Jerome Jaekaon. filters are not used at this plant, $14,167,000 if they are installed. At present, the state and EPA have not made a final decision on whether those filters would be required, although the new' supplement points out that "the new waste load allocations for Sandy Creek are only marginally achieved, if at all, by a treatment plant without tertiary filters." The alternative calls for upgrading of the Nutbush treatment plant, leaving its capacity at 1.58 million gallons daily, and the abandonment at the Red Bud Creek plant. A second alternative, HAND OF FRIENDSHIP—Bishop Thomas Fraser of Raleigh shakes hands with Julia Ann Williams, seven-year-old daughter of Mrs. Lucy V^lams, during an open house held Thursday at the ClivDevctopBut Center «t All Saints Episcopal Church. An account of the event and additional photographs can be found on Page 2. [Staff Photo] Deputies Probing Death Of Woman The Warren County Sheriff's Department is investigating the death of a 37-year-old Atlantic Beach woman whose body was found on May 6 in a cottage near American Heritage Campgrounds on Lake Gaston. According to officers, the cottage is owned by W. L. Beasley of Tarboro, who told Deputies Leon Paynter, Danny Bartholomew and Loyd Newsom that he arrived at his cottage on Thursday night around midnight. The woman, Pauline Viverette, said she was sick and fell on the floor. Believing she was drunk, Beasley went to bed. He told deputies that he looked in on her about 7 a. m., she was still on the floor and he returned to bed. About 10:30a. m. a child Ms. Viverette was keeping awakened Beasley and told him that she couldn't get Pauline to wake up. Beasley said that she was dead when he went in the room. Dr. Charles Bunch, medical examiner, pronounced her dead at the scene. Deputies said the body was sent to Chapel Hill for an autopsy. Deputies noted that they found about one ounce of marihuana in the woman's purse but a search of the cottage did not reveal any other uncontrolled substance. No charges were filed. The parents of the child picked her up at the cottage on Friday afternoon, they said. Investigation is continue ing pending results of the autopsy. Sheriff's officers said. • Literacy Comparison Favorable To Warren Warren County fares well in county-by-county comparison of illiteracy shown in a recent study by the Highway Safety Research Center. About 8.6 percent of Warren residents were unable to take the written driver's license test and had to be given the exam orally, the study found. By comparison, Vance had to administer oral exams to 9.6 percent of its applicants, Franklinton had a 9 percent functional illiteracy rate, Halifax administered oral exams in 9.5 percent of the cases reported, and Northampton had 25.5 percent—greatest per centage in the state—unable to take the written examination. The study was conducted over a three-week period at the request of State Sen. McNeill Smith to assist state and local officials in making long-range plans for upgrading the reading levels and increasing the literacy rates in North Carolina. Statewide, the study revealed that 8.3 percent of North Carolina's drivers could not read well enough to take the written test. While the percentages were low, they represent between 10,000 and 12,000 young ' people age IS and under who take the oral exam each year. carrying a price tag of $14,369,000, calls for the abandonment of plants on Red Bud Creek and Nutbush Creek and the treatment of 3.7 million gallons of waste water daily at the New Sandy Creek plant. A third, and cheapest (Continued on page 2) Drivers Ed Plan Given Educators A plan for Driver Education for the 1977-78 school year was submitted to the Warren County Board of Education at its regular May meeting on Monday night by J. R. Peeler, Superintendent of Schools. During the regular school term, Supt. Peeler said, Hawkins School will use a full-time teacher who will instruct for 180 teaching days. John Graham High School will employ a one-half time teacher as will Norlina High School. Each teacher will teach for 90 days. During the summer school term, Hawkins will teach 40 teaching days in July and August. John Graham will teach 32 teaching days in July and August, and Norlina will teach SO teaching days in August. Hawkins will teach for 10 teaching days during an extended day and Saturday program. Norlina High School will teach for 18 teaching days. Supt. Peeler noted that generally older students should be given preference in taking driver training— especially in the summer time. He said this same rule would apply to students from the Warren Academy. Supt. Peeler said to the best of his knowledge students who attend the Warren Academy and reside in Halifax County should take driver training in Halifax County public schools. The board also spent some (Continued on page 11) Slates Picked By Democrats Democrats in Warren County's 14 precincts elected committee officers and members at meetings Thursday night. All 14 precincts in the county were scheduled to have had organizational meetings Thursday night, but reports on only five meetings were reported to The Warren Record Wednesday morning. Those elected included : East Warrenton-W. Monroe Gardner, chairman; Mrs. Eleanor Ellis, first vice - chairman; Lucius Hawkins, second vlce-chairman; Julius Banset, III, third vice-chairman; Mrs. Dorothy Fowler, secretarytreasurer; and Frederick Hardy, Clarence Britton, Mrs. Norman Bollock, Maurice Wiggins and Charles T. Johnson. West Warren ton-Henry T. Pitchford, Jig, chairman; Mrs. Margaret Pettaway, first vice-chairman; Mrs. Margie Braver, second vice-chairman; Mrs. Ruth Bugg, third vice-chairman; (Continned on page S)
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