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Volume 83 15° Per Copy Werrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Thursday, February 21, 1980 Numiser 8
Mayors' proclamations designating this week as
Vocational Education Week are signed by Norlina Mayor
E. L. Perry (seated right) and Warrenton Mayor B. G.
White (seated left). The proclamations were signed
during a brief cercmony hvrc Friday. Witnessing (litsigniiiKs
of the proclamations art- (standing. It'll to right!
A. M. Ward, Michael F. Williams. Dr. Thomas B. Carroll
and Frank H. Madigan. (Staff l*holo>
Vocational Week
Observance Is
Urged By Leaders
To call attention to the
importance of vocational
education to the community
and to focus on the vital role
it plays in preparing persons
for employment into productive,
skilled trades, Warren
County officials have joined
with area educational leaders
in proclaiming Feb.
19-22 as "Vocational Education
Week" in Warren
County.
On hand for the signing of
the document declaring the
observance and calling
attention to the value of
vocational education in the
community were Warrenton
Mayor B. G. White, Norlina
Mayor E. L. Perry, Michael
F. Williams, superintendent
of the Warren County Board
of Education, and Dr.
Thomas B. Carroll, president
of Vance-Granville
Community College. Also
present for the ceremony
were Frank H. Madigan,
dean of student affairs at
VGCC, and A. M. Ward,
director of occupational
education for Warren County
schools.
Madigan and Ward are
working to coordinate community
efforts for the local
observance that will encompass
a variety of activities
to promote public awareness
of the vocational
education programs available
to students and adults
alike.
"Vocational education includes
providing students
with the realization of
career choices, of knowledge
dealing with career
competition, and, above all,
the proper attitude to
survive in the world of
work," advised Madigan.
He added that vocational
maturity is essential to
every individual in the local
region, as well as the state,
if educators are to prepare
to meet the challenge of the
future. The VGCC Dean
went on to say that the work
force is a changing scene,
and attitudes and skills
must be upgraded to meet
the expectations of the
future. "Like obsolete
equipment, inadequately
trained employees pose the
moat serious threat to this
nation's economic growth,"
be concluded.
Both Ward and Madigan
agreed that Warren County
citizens can be proud of
their educational institutions
and the vocational
training that the youth are
receiving.
Regional Sewer Plant Bids
Are Due Next Wednesday
The Warren County Board
of County Commissioners
will receive bids on the
construction of a new
sewage plant at Warrenton
next week, Glen Newsome,
County Manager, announced
yesterday.
Newsome said the bids for
the regional sewage plant
would be opened at a special
meeting at Warrenton held
at the County Courthouse on
Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.
m. He said the county had in
hand about $4.2 million for
the project and he hoped
that would be enough.
Newsome explained that it
is very important that the
new sewage plant be built as
soon as possible because
inflation is pushing up
building costs every day.
The county has been
trying to get the project
moving since last July but
was delayed for many
months because of inability
to get approval of part of the
federal funds needed for it.
The delays came after the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD)
cut off funds to Soul City,
which was to have participated
in the project.
However, HUD finally
approved the grant of
$926,000 in November after
the Warren County commissioners
agreed to dissolve
the Soul City Sanitary
District, provide water and
sewage treatment services
to residents of Soul City area
and subsidize the Soul City
swimming pool, fire district
and fire department.
HUD and Floyd McKis
sick, the Soul City developer,
are currently trying to
,complete an agreement for
takeover of the Soul City
property by the Government.
A federal court judge
has given McKissick and
HUD until March 17 to
complete their agreement.
Newsome said that the
county commissioners will
have 60 days to review the
bids on the planned sewage
treatment plant, which will
be capable of treating two
million gallons of wastewater
daily. However, he
said they will award
contracts as soon as
possible, probably at their
March 10 meeting, if the low
bids are satisfactory and
within the $4.2 million
projected cost of the project.
Wounded Raleigh Policeman
Is Native Of Warren County
A Raleigh police officer
whose life was saved by a
bulletproof vest early Sunday
is a native of Warren
County, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ollie Knight of Norlina.
He has been with the
Raleigh Police Department
for seven years.
Officer Lester H. Knight,
28, was shot with his own
revolver while wrestling
with a burglary suspect
near Moore Square in
downtown Raleigh. Knight
retrieved the gun and
wounded the suspect.
Knight, of 901 Curtiss
Drive in Garner, was listed
in satisfactory condition at
Wake Medical Center Sunday
evening. He was moved
out of the intensive care unit
on Sunday afternoon.
Knight was shot in his
chest just above his heart
about 3:45 a. m. Sunday
after the suspect pulled the
revolver from the officer's
holster during the struggle,
according to Lt. E. O.
Lassiter, head of the police
department's Selective Enforcement
Unit.
Lassiter said the vest
saved Knight's life. The
impact of the bullet "knocked
a hole in Knight's chest,"
Lassiter said.
Bobby Lee Byrd, 39, of
1332 Wrenn Tree Circle, was
charged with assaulting a
law enforcement officer
with a firearm and two
counts of breaking and
entering and larceny. He
was being held Sunday
under a $21,000 bond in the
hospital at Central Prison.
After Byrd allegedly shot
Knight, Lassiter said, Byrd
fled into Moore Square.
Knight, who had wrestled
his gun back from Byrd,
fired two shots that struck
Byrd's right shoulder and
right hip
Knight is a graduate of
Norlina High School. Following
his graduation he
attended Atlantic Christian
College in Wilson for two
years before enrolling in
police work.
Sponsors and participants «
modem farming are shown a
participants. Shown left to
extension chairman; Tom
Peoples Bank and Trust Co.
r a two-week short course in
fter tile return home of the
right are L. C. Cooper,
Peele, vice president of
; William Edward Bender,
participant: Steve Modi
Banking and Trust Co.; H
and Brad Carroll, vh-e pre*
Trait Co. Not pictured b f
Jr.
n, vice president. Branch
il Paschall, Jr., /participant;
dent; First Citizens Bank and
•rtk-ipant Rater! W. Rivera,
(Staff Phata)
Revealed During Meeting
Warren County Will Receive
$364,428 For Work On Roads
Warren County will receive
a total allotment of
1164.428 for its secondary
road improvement program.
it was revealed at a
public meeting of interested
citizens with the N. C.
Division of Transportation
at the Warren County Court
House at 8 o'clock on
Wednesday night of last
week.
The total allocation is
derived from partial bond
allocation of $109,438 plus
anticipated 1980-81 allocation
of $254,990.
Representing the Division
of Transportation were:
C. C. Painter, Division
Engineer, and James Joyner.
Assistant Division Engineer
of Durham; Joe
Hamme of Oxford, District
Commissioner; Bob Ross,
District Engineer of Henderson.
and Glenwood Rose,
Resident Road Maintenance
Supervisor.
Around 50 persons, with
some 18 speakers, attended
the public hearing, as well
as all the County Commissioners,
Glenwood Newsome,
County Manager who
kept minutes of the meeting,
said yesterday.
Engineer Painter presented
the plan and gave the
priorities for Warren Couaty
on behalf of the State
Department of Transportation.
Under this plan first prioriety
would be given to
project 3, which calls for the
basing and paving of SR1114
from Soul City to Vance
County Line, $75,000,
Second priority would be
given to project 4, which
calls for basing and paving
SR 1212, Carrie Dunn Road,
from US 1 West to Dead
End, 1.1 miles, $50,000.
Third priority was given
to project 5, grade, drain
and pave SR 1210, Oine
Road, from US 1 to SR 1231,
1.7 miles, $130,000.
In addition to the three
above projects, the plan
calls for the grading, draining
and paving of O'Neal
Addition, from SR 1604
North 0.7 mile, $30,000.
Spot improvements, including
stabilization on
various secondary roads,
county-wide, $50,000; and
road additions, participation
paving and contingency
funds, $19,428.
In addition to the proposed
Secondary Road Plan submitted
by Painter, the state
spent $12,201,720 for main
tenance in 1979, broken
down as follows:
Primary, $165,766; secondary
unpaved, $218,363;
urban. $6,149; spot stabilization,
county-wide, $48,744;
Interstate, $53,912; landscape,
$106,019; traffic service,
$67,317; road oil
retreatment, $140,087;
bridge maintenance, $70,857;
contract resurfacing,
$42,500 - total, $1,201,720.
No action on the plan
submitted by the Division
Engineers is expected prior
to the March meeting of the
commissioners.
A New Jersey couple was injured in the crash of this car on Interstate 85 near IManson
011 Sunday afternoon. At about the same time 11 persons were hurt when two ears
collided in the opposite lanes of the highway. A wrecker (above right) hauls one of those
vehicles from the crash scene. (Staff Photo)
Thirteen Are Injured In
Pair Of Interstate Accidents
Separate automobile
wrecks in opposite lanes of
Interstate 85 near Manson
on Sunday afternoon injured
a total of 13 persons, the
State Highway Patrol has
reported.
State Trooper B. R. Pope
said a two-car accident took
place on the northbound
lanes just as a single-vehicle
mishap occurred on the
southbound lanes. Both
accidents occurred at 4:20 p.
m., a few yards from the
Vance County border.
The two-car crash happened,
Pope said, when a
car driven by Ronald
Brown, 32, of Baltimore,
Md. rammed from behind
an auto operated by David
Lloyd Saunders, 29, also of
Baltimore.
Trooper Pope explained
the Brown car was following
the other auto and Saunders
unexpectedly began slowing
down. Brown reportedly
wasn't watching the auto
ahead of his and when he
realized Saunders was slowing
down, Brown was unable
to stop in time to avoid the
collision, Pope noted.
Charges of having no
operator's license and following
too closely were
lodged against Brown.
Saunders was injured in
the crash as were eight
passengers in the auto, all
from Baltimore, Md. Brown
was also hurt and the lone
passenger in his vehicle,
also from Baltimore, was
injured, for a total of 11
persons hurt in the accident.
None of the injured was
believed in critical condition,
and all were taken
from the scene to area
hospitals by the Warren
Rescue Squad.
Trooper Pope said the
accident on the southbound
Three Young Farmers
Attend Short Course
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"Jtiree young farmers
from Warren County attended
a two-week short course
in modern farming at N. C.
State University which was
sponsored by the local banks
in Warren County.
Those attending were Hal
Paschall, Jr., sponsored by
Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of
Norlina; Robert W. Rivers,
jr., sponsored by the First
Citizens Bank & Trust Co. of
Warrenton; and William
Edward Bender, sponsored
by the Branch Banking <c
Trust Co. of Warrenton.
L. C. Cooper, county
extension chairman, said
this is a general course in
agriculture which is held
each year for young farmers
throughout the state.
Hal Paschall, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Paachall
of the Oine Community, is
involved in dairy fanning.
Robert W. Rivers, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W.
Rivers, Sr., of the Afton
Community, is involved in
tobacco and soybeans. William
Edward Bender, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William
Bender of the Elberon Community,
is involved in
soybean certified seed production.
All three young
men are career farmers.
"The Warren County
Agricultural Extension Service
is quite proud of these
three young farmers and we
are very grateful to the
banking industry of Warren
County for their generous
support of $250.00 far the
individual scholarships ic
the rixxt course," Cooper
said.
lanes involved an auto
operated by John V. Bailey,
HI, 19, of New Brunswick,
N. J. Bailey is thought to
have gone to sleep at the
wheel, the trooper said, with
his car running off the
highway to the right side,
striking an embankment
and overturning.
A charge of careless and
reckless driving was filed
against Bailey. He was
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SBI Helps Probe
After Man Found
Dead Of Wound
Members of the Sheriff's
Department and the SBI are
still investigating the death
of a man who was found
lying dead on a rural paved
road in the Drewry community
of Warren County
around 7:30 p. m. on
Thursday of last week with a
bullet wound in the back of
his neck.
MacKenley Champ, 26, of
Rt. 1. Manson was discovered
lying face down about a
foot from the edge of rural
paved road No. 1219 by four
men riding with Jim
Durham and returning from
work in Durham.
Believing the dead man
the victim of a hit and run
driver, the workmen notified
the Highway Patrol.
When the officer made his
examination, he discovered
MacKenley had been shot in
the back of his neck, and
notified the Warren County
Sheriffs Department. Sheriff
Davis dispatched Deputy
Horsey Capps to the scene,
where he arrived about 8:10
p. m. and commenced Us
investigation.
Capps later
SBI