Zoning Changes To Get
Further Study By Board
Warrenton commissioners
Monday night postponed
a decision on proposed zoning
changes within the town
and its one-mile extra-territorial
jurisdiction after a
45-minute public hearing
which preceded the board's
regular September meeting.
Reacting to objections
from a mobile home park
operator that the regulations
governing mobile
home parks were too
restrictive, the board
agreed to send the proposed
changes back to the Planning
Committee for additional
study.
Main objections to several
zoning code amendments
came from G. W. Koonce,
Warren agricultural agent
who owns small trailer
parks on two sites on the
edges of Warrenton.
Koonce, represented by
attorney Frank Ballance,
argued that the zoning
ordinance would have the
effect of putting him out of
business.
He said that when the
parks were set up that he
complied with rules of the
town in force at the time,
and that subsequent restrictions
posed a hardship.
"I'm here tonight to talk
plain talk," Koonce told the
board. "Mayor Miles is the
only one I can find who has
any understanding on it, and
he's not here tonight."
The meeting was conducted
by Mayor Pro-Tem B. G.
White while Mayor Miles
was out of the state. All
board members were present
for the hearing.
Koonce said that a
requirement that each
mobile home in his parks
meet the 8,000-square-foot
space requirements for a
single unit would provide
him with a hardship.
Through his attorney he
indicated he would be
willing to plant shrubbery
and make other attempts to
beautify his property, but
that he could not continue to
operate if forced into full
compliance with the code
provisions.
Koonce said that the "old
town board treated everybody
out of the same
spoon."
Ballance cited an Asheville
court case in which the
court ruled in favor of an
individual property owner
at odds with the city on the
grounds that adequate
notice had not been given of
proposed zoning changes.
He said that he felt changes
should be fully advertised,
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spelling out the changes and
the areas to be affected.
Ballance said his client
did not wish to request a
variance with the Warrenton
Board of Adjustment
since "to request an exemption
is to concede he was
wrong in the first instance."
Compliance with regulations
by mobile home park
operators was one of two
items on the public hearing
agenda concerned with
trailers. In another proposed
amendment, which
brought no objection from
the small number of
persons attending the hearing,
trailers used as offices
in commercial (C-2) districts
would be banned.
Other changes under
consideration would be a
change from industrial to
R-12 (medium density residential
property) extending
from Bowers and Burrows
Oil Company to General Box
and including the property
of Mrs. Rozella Wright to
the Airport Road on the west
side of the Warrenton
Railroad. The strip of land,
averaging about 150 feet
deep, contains several
tracts historically used for
residential purposes.
Other changes would
include a change of Mrs.
Ella Kearney's property
from R-8 to R-12, and
change of an area from
Peck Manufacturing to High
Dollar from R-12 to industrial.
Under the proposed
changes, property lying
opposite Fowler Barham
Ford on the Norlina road
would be reclassified from
R-2 to commercial. Also
planned are the addition of
grocery stores, seafood
markets and produce markets
in commercial districts.
and tobacco warehouses
and agriculturally
related uses in industrial
areas.
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Remains of the trailer which horned Friday night,
claiming the life of a 22-year-old Warren County man.
(Staff Photo)
Multiple Warren
Blazes Reported
Only two fires were
reported by the Warrenton
Rural Fire Department
during the week, but fire
departments at Macon,
Afton and Drewry reported
one fire each.
In addition to a trailer fire
at Afton in which one man
was burned to death (story
on page 1) to which the Warrenton
Company responded
to a barn fire at the home of
Maude Hunter on Route 3,
Warrenton. Barn and tobacco
was a total loss. Two
pumpers and four men
answered the call at 5:50 a.
m. on Thursday of last
week.
MACON - Fire completely
destroyed a stable on a farm
tended by Charlie Boyd on
Named To Post
Samuel Waddell, administrator
of Maria Parham
Hospital in Henderson, was
elected chairman of the
Kerr-Tar Emergency Medical
Services Council at the
September meeting of the
council in Roxboro. Waddell
succeeds Gene Pierce of
Warren County and will
assume his duties at the
October session of the
council.
Other officers include Roy
Lowe of Person County, vice
chairman; Benny Finch of
Vance County, secretary;
and Howard Oakley of
Warren County, treasurer.
Friday night, Sept. 9. Origin
of fire and estimate of
damage were not reported.
AFTON-Two trucks
from Afton and two trucks
from Warrenton responded
to a fire call to a building
owned by M. K. Aycock and
occupied by Willie Hymon
on Monday, Sept. 12. Only
three children were at home
at the time the fire was
discovered.
The fire originated at the
front of the home and
burned the porch and an
inside room. The firemen
saved the back part of the
home. Cause of the fire is
unknown and the amount of
damages was not reported.
DREWRY-A vacant
house used for storage on
the farm of Frank Bullock
was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday, Sept. 7, at
12:10. The house was located
two miles west of Drewry in
Vance County. Two pumpers
and six men responded
Cause of fire and amount ol
loss were not reported.
Full-Time Psychologist Hire
Hired By Board Of Education
Seeking to provide more
help for handicapped children,
the Warren County
Board of Education hired a
full-time psychologist at its
regular monthly meeting
here on Monday night.
Dr. Wilbert Chestnut of
Tabor City, a black, was
employed after Mrs. Heath
Beckwith, Director of Pupil
Personnel Services, told the
board that Warren County
was both lucky and fortunate
to have the opportunity
to secure the full-time
service of a psychologist
with Dr. Chestnut's ability.
She said that psychologists
are extremely hard to find
and as a result Warren
County heretofore had been
forced to accept the parttime
services of a district
psychologist serving several
counties.
Mrs. Beckwith said that
from her own contacts with
the Tabor City native and
his endorsement by Dr.
Taylor of the State Department,
plus the fact that Dr.
Chestnut had visited Warren i
County and wanted to work*
here, made Dr. Chestnut at
real find.
Mrs. Beckwith said that
Dr. Chestnut had obtained
his master's degree and was
about half through his work
for a doctorate. However,
she added, he is not certified,
due to a technicality.
She said that the state
requires psychologists to
take the general teacher's
examination before they can
be certified. He will be given
this examination in November.
Mrs. Beckwith said that
it is inconceivable that a
person with his (Chestnut)
school record could fail this
examination. She said that
this is a view held by Supt.
Peeler, Mrs. Francis Ricks,
school supervisor, and Dr.
Taylor of the State Department
of Education. Mrs.
Ricks was not present but
Supt. Peeler recommended
the employment of Dr.
Chestnut.
The board, upon motion of
Henry Bobbitt, seconded by
Mrs. Joyce Odom, unanimously
voted to emplov Dr.
Chestnut, with the provision
that his services should be
terminated if he fail* to pan
his examination in November.
Dr. Chestnut'* salary
will be $12,500 a year.
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ON JANUARY17,1977, THE ENERGY
SHORTAGE COULD HAVE INTERRUPTED
YOUR REGULAR TV PROGRAMS.
You may not remember the date, but you probably
remember the weather. All over the East Coast, temperatures
reached an all-time low. While demands for
energy reached an all-time high.
A neighboring utility had equipment failures and
had to "borrow" power from CP&L. Then, CP&L and
another neighbor also had problems. This, coupled with
record demands, could have created a serious energycrisis,
and caused some drastic measures.
You may have seen the results on your TV screen.
The first screen shows normal power. When we had to
cut back power, your picture may have looked a little
smaller than usual. If things had gotten worse, we may
1 ve had to shut off power altogether for a period of
time, and youd have had no TV
Even more importantly youd have had no electricity
for heating or cooking. Or hot water. Or anything.
Fortunately we didn't have to do that. Because, on
January 17 CP&L's power system had 26% reserves.
But, in the 1980s, we'll have less than half of that
reserve. Which may not be enough, if we have more
situations like the one on January 17. What's more, if the
demand keeps going up, the way it has been, well
have to build more and more plants. Which, of course,
eventually means higher rates. That's why it's important
that all of us keep doing everything we aaai
can to keep the demand as low as possible.
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