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Volume 84 15c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Thursday, July 9, 1981 Number 27
Underpass
Complaints
Are Voiced
Complaints of various
truck drivers over tbe low
clearance of the railroad
under pass in Norlina were
brought before tov»n fathers
Monday night, but no
action resulted
Mayor Bill Perry, presiding
over the regular session,
told Norlina councilmen
that he had been
approached by several
truck drivers concerned
with the restrictive clearance
and a Norlina policy
of not allowing trucks on
town streets.
A suggestion that Liberty
Street be opened to
truckers met with no
enthusiasm, as commissioners
were unable to
arrive at a solution to the
troublesome problem. The
nearest they carne was in a
suggestion that the N. C.
Department of Transportation
be written, requesting
that a portion of the
highway beneath the overpass
be dug out to make for
greater clearance.
Board members said
that truckers operating
through Norlina would do
well to consider an
alternate route and insisted
that allowing trucks to
operate on town streets
would considerably shorten
the life of the streets.
The underpass, which
straddles U. S. Highways
401 and 158, has a
clearance of only 13 feet,
four inches. Commissioners
said the clearance
formerly was greater, but
that the road had been
elevated during periods of
resurfacing
In other business, the
board accepted a gift of
property from Mrs. Paul
Brauer, who wanted to
deed a triangular vacant
tract near the Norlina
VFW Hall to the town.
The board also agreed to
place a dead end sign on
División Street Extensión
following a request by Ed
Long.
During the routine session
the board certified the
ñames of firemen serving
in the Norlina Volunteer
Fire Department for purposes
of pensión payments
Final Report
Given On CETA
James B. Whitley, CETA
Coordina tor, wbo this
month will this month wind
up bis work with CETA,
read tbe following letter,
which he had addressed to
County Manager Glen
Newsome, under date of
June 30, to the county
commissioners at their
meeting he re Tuesday:
Dear Mr. Newsome:
I am wríting to adviae
you as to the status of the |
Warren County CETA
Program for the moattr
ended June 30,1981. As yoJf
are aware, this is the last
day of employment for the
33 participants currently
enrolled on the program.
Of the seven termina ti ons
on record since May, five
p&rticipants are currently
employed. It is our hope
that a proportionate number
of participants currently
enrolled will flnd
employment after tbe last
of this month.
Ms. Powell and myseJf
ha ve been involved in the
phase-out of the program.
A series of comprehensive
workshops were held during
June in an effort to
prepare the participants
for employment in the
prívate sector The raspóme
was impressive in
that tbe participants worked
closely with each other
and the instructor» in
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CHOW LINE, CHURCH-STYLE—Youngsters throughout
Warren Cjunty ha ve attended Vacation Bible School
this sumiller, and the rewards have been many. None
more so than this bot dog treat given youngsters at
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in Warrenton.
(Staff Photo)
Interest On County Funds
Tops $89,000, Board Hears
Interest earned on funds
during the past fiscal year
totalled $89,589.80, according
to the report of Mrs
Susan W. Whitley, Warren
County Tax Collector and
Finance Officer to the
county comniissioners at
their regular monthly
meeting here on Tuesday
morning. delayed a day
because of taking the July
4th holiday on Monday.
The total carne from interest
on certificates of
deposit, $66.084.90; purchase
agreements, $4,517.58
and demand deposits,
$18,987.32.
The amount earned in
the fiscal year 1980-81 in
general fund ($89,589.82) is
almost six times the
amount originally budgeted,
Mrs. Whitley said. She
added that it would have
required about 4víc added
to the tax rate to have
raised an amount equal to
this in taxes.
In two years, $134,094.18
has been earned. Mrs.
Whitley said this is almost
five times the amount
earned in the past five
years. Over spending in
various county departments
totaiing $32,800, was
absorbed totally by excess
interest earnings. Even
after increasing other
interest revenues budget
by this amount, interest
income stiU exceeded the
amended budget by over
$40,000.
Total interest earnings
in 1980-81, Mrs. Whitley
reported, general fund,
$89.589.80; revenue sharing,
$7,945 33; STP, $52,692.86;
school, $159,375.28.
Mrs. Whitley also reported
cash disbursements and
receipts for the new school
capital projected fund
from April 29,1980 to June
30, 1981, as follows: school
bond anticipation, $2,250,000;
note proceeds: payments
to contractors,
$1,891,032.54; interest income,
$159,375.28; interest
expense, $187,875; advance
from general fund, $54,089.55;
bond expenses,
$280.01; balance in fund,
$384,278.28.
A cumulative summary
is as follows: revenues to
date, $3,327,916.69, interest
income to date, $52,692.86;
draws to date, $3,018,466.85;
other miscellaneous
disbursements,
$909.43; balance, $361,233.27.
The Warren County
Regional Sewage Treatment
Facility Cash Disbursements
and Receipts
for the month ending June
30, 1981, were reported by
Mrs. Whitley as follows;
Beginning balance, May
31, $123,603.49; June 8,
received North Carolina
Clean Water Bonds reimbursements,
$27,468; June
9, received Step 1 State
grant payment, $70.00;
June 10, received HUD
reimbursement, $114,941.76;
June 19, received
interest on repurchase
agreement, $21.13.
June 19, llth draw:
Dickerson, Inc., $109,190;
Triangle Mechanical, Contractors,
Inc., $4/%9r
Jones Cooling and Heating,
Inc., $18,973.80; Richards
& Associates, Inc.. $12,
861.90; L. E. Wooten,
$153,632.42.
June 25, received interest
on CDs, $2,870.70;
received interest on repurchase
agreement, $58.33;
June 29, received EPA
reimbursement, $245,825;
June 3QV received June
interest on demand deposits,
$7.28. June 30,
balance invested, $361,233.
Halifax County Native Is
New Sulphur Springs Pastor
The Rev. Julián R. Milis,
a native of Roanoke
Rapids, has assumed his
new duties as pastor of
Sulphur Springs Baptist
Church at Elberon.
The Rev. Mr. Mills
comes to Sulphur Springs
after serving 20 years in
the U. S. Air Forcé.
During that time he held a
number of important positions
in the public affairs
field.
For the past 17 years,
Mills and his wife, Mary,
formerly of Rt. 2, Halifax,
ha ve been involved with
starting Baptist churches
across the country. While
he served in the Air Forcé,
they started or worked
with several Baptist mis
PASTOR MILLS
sions in Ohio, Illinois,
Washington, D. C. and
Maryland.
A gradúate of Chowan
College in Murfreesboro,
and Upper Iowa University,
Fayette, Iowa, the
new pastor served as an
Air Forcé comba t news
correspondent in Vietnam
in 1967-68. He spent six
years with the public affairs
office of the Presidential
airlift unit at
Andrews Air Forcé Base,
Washington, D. C. and four
years in the Office of the
Secretary of Defense at the
Pentagon. He concluded
his Air Forcé career as
Chief, Internal Programs
Branch in the Tactical Air
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Members Of Local Guard Unit End Training
4ÜÜ
of the
Battalion of
Carolina Nationin
Warrenton
ha ve gradúa ted from the
North Carolina National
Guard Basic Noncommissioned
Officers Court conducted
at the N. C. Military
Academy at Fort Bragg.
The (ive are Sp4 Glenno
Williams of Warrenton,
Sp4 James L. Burton of
G. WILLIAMS
Macón, Sp4 Michael Alston
of Macón, SSG Joe K.
Williams of Nortina and
SSG John W. Beddingfield
of Macón.
The course was conducted
over a 15-day period by
instructora of the North
Carolina National Guard
and the 3286th United
States Army Reserve
School using the general
theme, "Sergeant's Busi
ñera"
The program of instruction
included such subjects
as land navigation. military
leadership, history of
the National Guard, training
management, nuclear,
biological and chemical
training, and communication
procedures.
Specialist Glenno Williama
ia empíoyed as a
AL8T0N
correctional officer. He
and his wife, Joyce, have
two chüdren, Justin and
Mitzi.
Specialist Burton is
employed by General Box
Company oí Warrenton.
He has two children,
Dwayne and La tony a.
Specialist Alston is employed
by the North
Carolina Department of
1. WILLIAMS
... .. . %J
Correction.
Sergeant Joe Williams is
employed as a correctional
sergeant. He and hi8 wife,
Rubie, ha ve two children,
Malcom and Linda.
Sergeant Beddingfield is
employed by the N. C.
Department oí Correetions.
He and his wife,
Carolyn, ha ve two children,
April and Kari.
ItKimiNUFIELD
Rate Remains Same,
Budget Is Unchanged
Bv BKiNALL JONES
Neither tax rate nor
budget totals have been
changed since being presented
to the county commissioners
by the county
manager on June 4. The
official budget as finally
adopted by the Warren
County Commissioners on
Tuesdav morning remains
at $4,542,564 and the tax
rate remains at $0 96 on the
$100 valuation
Neither pleas of dozens
of citizens at a public hearing
at the court hearing on
Wednesday night, June 24,
for inereases or deletions
of funds appropríated for
the various departments
and activities of county
government changed
either rate or total.
Action of the commissioners
on Wednesday
night of last week before
the commissioners split.
the positions of county
manager and industrial
director, and refused to
employ Jim Whitley, assistant
manager and assistant
industrial director
in an action that was
declared to be improperly
drawn, may have been
altered by the appearance
of a number of community
leaders praising the work
of Whitley and asking that
he be retained.
Among those requesting
the mtention of Whitley
and speaking in his behalf
were Brad Carroll, president
of the Warren County
Chamber of Commerce,
Monroe Gardner who help
ed organize the Warren
County Industrial Commission
eight year& ago, J.
T Harris. Warrer. County
contractor, and B. G.
White, Mayor of Warren
ton
After an hour and a
quarter in executive session,
the commissioners
reassembled in open session.
and Chairman Harris
re^uested that vice chairman
assume the chair,
while he presented proposals
that would stríke from
the county manager's
office the position of
secretary, that the title of
assistant manager be
abolished, and few minor
changes be made in funds
for the county manager's
office, and that the county
manager employ his own
help with funds provided
for his office. Instead of
assistant, Whitley would
be ciassified as extra help
The proposals, adopted
by the commissioners,
may not have been too
clear to the uninitated, but
the net result was that the
County Manager's Office
and the Industrial Director's
Office remain un
changet* Gien Newsonie is
still serving as County
N'a..:»ger and industrial
Director, Mrs. Betty Jean
Capps is still his office
secretary; Jim Whitley is
still serving as assistant
county manager and industrial
director, and Nancye
PoweU is still assistant
secretary for both offices.
Following the adoption
of the proposals of Chairman
Harris and the
resumption of the chair by
him, the commissioners
again went into a second
executive session — a
short time This was
concerned with some legal
decisions about the regional
water system.
There was one alteration
in the budget, taken care of
by the contingency fund
and causing no rise in the
budget. Sheriff Clarence
Da vis told the commissioners
that his office wanted
$5,000 to replace two worn
out and unsafe cars. He
was grauted his request.
The commissioners were
then told by the sheriff that
he had 75 pints of
confiscated whiskey on
hand. He was told to
deliver it to the Warren
County ABC System.
Board Will Meet At
Night Next Month
In order that representatives
oí the Department oí
Transportation may meet
with the Warren County
Commissioners, the regular
August 3 meeting of the
board will be held at 7 p. m.
Monday instead of at 9:30
a. m., it was decided at the
regular meeting of the
county commissioners
he re on Tuesday.
Because of observing
July Fdurth on Monday,
the meeting was held on
Tuesday, and because
Superior Court convened
he re on Tuesday morning,
the commissioners held
the ir meeting in the petit
jury room Nearly an
hour and a half of the
three-bour session was
held in executive sessions.
During the open meeting,
Chairman Jack Harris
told the commissioners
that he had been notified
that DOT wanted to meet
with the commissioners
but could only meet at
night. In order to avoid
holding two meetings. the
commissioners decided to
hold a night meeting, for
which the change in time
must be advertised
In order that a replacement
on the Warren
County ABC Board may be
filled at a joint meeting of
representatí ves of the
boards of health. educa tion
and county commissioners,
the commissioners
voted to hold the joint
meeting at that time.
At the Tuesday meeting
resigna tion of E. C.
Robertson from the ABC
Board, and the resigna tion
of Mrs. Jeanie Burwell
from the Hospital Board
were accepted. Their suecessors
are expected to be
named at the August 9
night meeting.
M. D. Nelson was reappointed
a member of the
Jury Commisskm.
Mrs. Janice Haynes was
re-appointsd for a twoyear
term as Warrm
County Ta* Supervisor.
during the month oí June
he had travelled 1881.3
miles in answering 120
calis. He said that be had
picked up 158 dogs, killed
148, and given away 10. He
reported no dogs vaccinated
during the month.
Fifty-three electrical inspections
were made by
the Warren County Inspection
Department during
the month of June, according
to Chester A. Forrester,
m, electrical inspector,
zoning administrator
and energy conservation
offícer. He said he also
made 19 ínsula ti on inspections
and five fire inspections
during the month. He
also issued 15 zoning
permita and travelled 1354
miles. Forrester also announced
that he would be
on vacatkm through July
10. He said that during that
period the Inspection Department
would be operated
by Ms. Powell witfa
Clyde Hicks serving as
electrical inspector.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harria,
special deputy for the
Warren Court System,
reported that June was the
month of the higheat
collection. She said her
collections reached $18,848.73.
Fate Of Man
In Jury Hands
A Wairen County Jury
A lili II ■ !»■ ^ Il4 fc || 4 H aB ■■ á « miii^, , i — —
was eipceiM 10 determine
the fate Wedneaday of •
defondant charged with
felonious po-eirion of
stolen gooda.
The caae, the SUte n
Andrew Lewia Weat, was
the ftrst caae to go to a Jury
in the July criminal tean
of Warren County SuptHÉr
Court wMch got under way
The Jury
Tuaaday
twoearüer
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