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Volume 83 >5* Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Thursday, August 28, 1980 Number 34
Lawmen
Look For
Intruder
The Warren County
Sheriff's Department is
still searching for the
persons who broke into
the offices of Bowers and
Burrows Company on
Thursday night of last
week. Chief Deputy Dor
sey Capps is heading the
investigation.
Capps said that entry
into the building was
made by prizing open a
side door.
Also forced by the
intruders was a safe that
was padlocked, following
the destruction of its
combination lock in a
break-in several months
ago. Stolen from the safe
were postage stamps,
food stamps from the
nearby B&B Store, and
certificates of deposits.
After ranshacking
practically every desk in
the building and scatter
ing their contents on the
floor, the intruders went
outside where they stole a
CB radio and fuzz buster
from a car parked on the
lot.
Capps estimated the
total loss of the break-in
at $800.00.
Three Minor
Fires Listed
Hiree minor fires were
reported to members of
the Norlina Volunteer
Fire Department last
week.
At 2:20 p. m. last
Wednesday, railroad
tracks just north of the
town happened to be the
scene of a fire which did
minor damage to cross
ties belonging to Sea
board Coastline Railroad.
The cause of the fire
remains uncertain. Nor
lina dispatched two men
and a pumper to the call.
At 7:05 p. m. last
Wednesday, firemen got
a call to a grass fire along
the railroad tracks on the
Warren Plains Road near
the town limits. Cause of
the fire is uncertain and
no damage was listed.
Norlina sent five men and
one pumper.
Trash burning out of
control was blamed for a
fire at 2:30 p. m. on
Friday. Location of the
fire was the corner of
West Street and U. S.
Highway 1. Norlina dis
patched five men and a
pumper to the scene.
There was no report of
damage.
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Wnrreaton Mayor B. a WMte and Mr.. Valeria Lee of Radio Station WVHP Md
• cake baked to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the local station's
existence. An open house was held and refreshments were served Tuesday In day
proclnlmed as WV8P Dny tn Warrenton. (Stnff Photo)
These Norilna High School cheerleaders will be trying to prod crowd reaction
tonight as the Blue Waves meet Pittsboro North wood in a season-opening football
match. Norilna is one of three Warren County athletic teams which will see action
Friday. Blue Wave cheerleaders (left to right) are Brenda Alexander,
Teresa Dickerson, Susan Currie (top), Lisa Leete, Patricia Taylor, Penny Burton
(center), and Alfreda Hunt (kneeling). Not pictured are Dorothy Bullock and
Susan Dir-kens, sponsors. (Staff Photo)
Health Home For Warren
Is Sought By Local Group
The Department of Hu
man Resources' Division
of Facility Services has
until Sept. 10, 1980, to
respond to a request to
amend the 1970-80 State
Medical Facilities plan,
following a petition of a
group of Warren County
officials made in Raleigh
on Tuesday of last week.
The amendment would
allow for the building of a
90 to 100 bed health home,
hopefully in Warren
County, according to
Glenwood Newsome,
Warren County manager.
He said that, as it now
stands, the Medical Faci
lities plan does not allow
for a new health home in
the Warren County area.
"That is why we had to
petition them to see if
they will amend the plan
in our favor," Newsome
said.
Among those making
the request to the
department are Joe Len
non. Health Department
director for Warren
County; Julian Farrar,
social services director
for Warren County;
George Fleming, admin
istrator at Warren Gen
eral Hospital; George
Shearin, chairman of the
Warren County Board of
Health and Mr. and Mrs.
L. N. Williams.
The proposed facility
has been endorsed by the
Warren County Board of
Health and Mr. and Mrs.
L. N. Williams.
The proposed facility
has been endorsed by the
Warren County Board of
Commissioners and is
estimated to cost some
where in the neighbor
hood of one to one and
one-half million dollars.
It was noted that the
health home would em
ploy from 65 to 70 people
on its staff.
Even after the depart
ment sends approval, if
they do, Newsome said
that matters of placing
the home in Warren
County, as opposed to one
of the surrounding coun
ties in the area, would be
up to the capital Health
Systems agency. He said
that the agency would
recommend where home
would go in the final
stages of work involved in
acquiring an area health
home.
Newsome said that the
county has already spok
en with members of the
Capital Health Systems
Agency and that they now
highly favor Warren
County as the site for the
health home.
If the Department of
Human Resources' Divi
sion of Facility Services
chooses to amend its plan
and allow the health
home, the matter will
then be passed on through
various government
agencies until it finally
reaches the office of the
governor, Newsome said.
If all steps go well,
Warren County may well
get a 90 to 100 bed health
home, but Newsome said
that he had no way of
telling how long the
government process
would take to finish.
At present, Warren
County has to send its
people who need health
homecare to surrounding
counties, Newsome said.
At Ruritan Meeting
Perdue's Engineering
Plans Are Announced
Engineering plans
were approved and funds
allocated for their costs
for a poultry complex in
Warren County last week
by the board of directors
of Perdue Farms, Bill
Bollinger, Perdue mana
ger for North Carolina,
announced Monday night
at a meeting of the Wise
Ruritan Club, attended
by four employees of
Perdue Company. Per
due furnished broilers for
the occasion.
Bollinger said that due
to agencies involved,
principally EPA, that it
would be 12 months
before actual construc
tion on the facility would
be started, but that
Perdue would definitely
build the complex here,
where they have already
purchased 500 acres of
land, former property of
Soul City.
Wayne Paynter presid
ed over the meeting and,
following the invocation
by Luther Paynter, wel
comed those attending
the meeting and recogniz
ed special guests, consist
ing of Perdue officials
and employees, and rep
resentatives of local
agencies, and members
of the press.
Before turning the
meeting over to Bill
Bollinger and Rex
Thompson, President
Perkinson announced
that a country musical
program would be held at
Wise on Saturday night.
Following the showing
of movies on Perdue's
advertising program in
northern markets, which
have not only sold
chickens, but won the
company honors, where
Perdue chickens were
contrasted with regular
chickens, as to the
amount of white meat,
and the tenderness of the
entire chicken.
After this program a
second movie was pre
sented showing the opera
tion of the complex, from
the laying and hatching of
the egg, to the growing of
the birds and their
processing.
Bollinger then gave a
resume of the history of
Perdue from its start in
1920 in Maryland to the
present, as a family
enterprise, which last
year's volume was
5330,000,000. For years
the company bought feed
and processed birds for
other companies, but in
1967 started an integrated
process in their Maryland
complex, where the
chickens were handled
from the laying of the
hatching egg to tte
delivery of the chickens
to the supermarkets.
In 1974 a complex was
built in eastern North
Carolina where 500 broil
er houses now support the
integrated complex, and
will care for chickens
produced in the Warren
ton area until its integrat
ed™Ulp,e*ta completed.
While the resume was
principally conducted by
Bollinger, Rex Thomp
*>n, in charge of housina
to North Carolinaww
frequently called upon for
contributions about some
points.
A question and answer
period followed when all
questions were directed
to Bollinger, and answer
ed by a panel of lending
agencies, and by housing
manager Rex Thompson,
with the bulk of the
questions being handled
by Bollinger.
Questions ranged from
the company's share of
the expense of operation,
and price paid grower for
birds, to the price of
electricity, and what
effect high interest rates
would have on the
growers and if houses and
or birds were destroyed
by fire, storm or disease.
Also questioned was the
company's financial sta
tus and its Dunn and
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Taking part in Monday nights meeting of the Wlse-Paschall Rurltan Club were
(left to right) Wayne Paynter, program chairman; Rex Thompson and BQl
Bollinger, Perdue officials; and Gill Richardson, Rurltan president (Staff Photo)
No Warrant Drawn
By Stabbing Victim
Although Alvin Ray
Lynch was cut on his
arm, back and legs at his
home on Rt. 1, Hollister,
Sunday night, no warrant
has yet been issued for
his alleged assailant,
Earl Johnson of Hollister.
Warren County Deputy
Harold Seaman was
called to the Lynch home
at 11:15 p. m. on Sunday
night, where he was told
that Lynch had gone to
sleep when he was
awakened by loud noises
from Johnson and two
companions. When Lynch
protested, it is alleged
that he was cut by John
son, with his two unidenti
fied companions having
no part in the affair.
An ambulance was
summoned and Lynch
was taken to Warren
General Hospital where
he was discharged after
several stitches were
taken to close his wounds.
Johnson, Seaman said,
had gone when he arrived
at the Lynch home. He
was unclear about the
issuance of a warrant.
Late Tuesday after
noon Sheriff Clarence
Davis said that Lynch
had established a reputa
tion for refusing to press
charges against alleged
assailants, including a
person who shot him in
the leg. Sheriff Davis said
until Lynch indicates that
he will press charges
against Johnson it is
unlikely that a warrant
will be issued.
Law Requires
Immunizations
Immunizations are
required by law for any
child enrolled in a public
school in the State of
North Carolina. Immun
ity is the ability to resist a
particular infectious
disease. Shots or vaccines
taken by mouth can make
a child immune to such
diseases as Polio,
Measles, Rubella
(German measles),
Mumps, Diphtheria, Te
tanus (Lockjaw), and
Pertussis (Whooping
Cough).
Warren County
residents can receive
their immunizations free
at the Warren County
Health Department each
Tuesday from 8:30 a. m.
until 5 p. m. A record of
previous immunixa
tions given a child, or a
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B. C. West of Elisabeth City,
Rotary official! dortaf a vWt
Club. Shown with West are Vice
Lawrence R. Boyd.
(left)