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Volume85 25* Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, September 15, 1982 Number 36
PCB-Laced Soil Removal Begun Here
Fair To
Begin On
Monday
By KAY HORNER
Staff Writer
The annual Warren
County Fair, which has
been held every year
since 1996 with the ex
ception of the years
during World War n,
will begin a six-day run
here on Monday.
The fair, sponsored by
the Warrenton Lions
Club, is scheduled to
continue through
Saturday with gates
opening at 6 p. m. each
day except Wednesday,
school day, when gates
will open at noon, and
Saturday when the
games will open at 2 p.
m. for a special
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Change Is Made
In Voting Place
Warren County voters
in the 12th (Roanoke)
Precinct who have been
voting at the Elam Com
munity House on State
Road 1360 will now vote
at the Roanoke Wild
wood KJre Company on
Eaton Ferry Road, Lit
tleton, according to Mrs.
Ruby Jones, Warren
County supervisor of
elections.
The County Board of
Elections voted to make
the change in the polling
place because the Elam
Community House was
without adequate heat
and indoor plumbing
and the entrance
presented a hazard to
voters.
Norlina Native Murdered
In Virginia; Two Charged
Henry Rodwell, a
native of Norlina and
the son of the late Pink
and Lettie RodweU, was
killed Sunday, Septem
ber 5, in Charlottesville,
Va. Funeral services
were conducted this
past Sunday from Nor
lina Baptist Church.
The following article
is taken from the Sep
tember 10 issue of The
Cavalier Daily of Char
lottesville.
By JOHN MORRIS
Henry Rodwell was
best known as the day
cook at University
Diner, but be was best
loved for his cheerful
ness and his willing
ness to go out of his way
to help a friend.
Local Restaurant
Opens Monday
Mrs. Jan Gardner
Crenshaw of Warrenton
is the new manager of
Tile Carriage House on
Main Street in Warren
Tbe seven-year old
cfeMd for • brief time
«
under
r
Last Saturday night,
that trait cost him his
life.
After work at the
diner, Rodweil gave two
acquaintances a ride to
Deer Run in his car.
When they arrived at
their destination, the
two pulled guns and
robbed Rodweil. Then
one shot him twice in
the head.
Since his death early
Sunday morning, the
University Diner has
received many phone
calls from alumni, from
as far away as Chicago,
who remembered
Rodweil and wanted to
express their sym
pathies.
"He was well known
through all the fratern
ity houses because he
would do small favors
for them like finding
them cooks or rooms for
guests," Lee Shifflett,
one of the diner's co
owners, said. "He would
do anybody a favor. He
was just that kind of
guy."
"He's going to be
greatly missed by the
whole staff at the Uni
Alma
'We have last a great
J •
employee and a great
friend. He was an all
round man who would
have done anything for
his friends."
It was Pogolowitz who
brought Rodwell to
Charlottesville 26 years
ago, offering him a job
at the restaurant.
Rodwell, who was
born on a North Caro
lina tobacco farm,
opened a boarding house
on 7V4 Street Albemarle
County Sheriff Bailey,
whose department is in
vestigating the murder,
said Rodwell quickly
gained the respect of his
neighbors.
It was the neighbors,
in fact, who helped
Bailey speedily appre
hend Rodwell's suspect
ed assailants.
Rolando Wilson and
Marcellous D. Martin
were arrested Monday
and charged with
capital murder and
robbery. Bailey credited
the cooperation and con
cern of Rodwell's
neighbors for the speedy
apprehension of Wilson
and Martin.
The University Diner
will be closed (rom • a.
m. Sunday to I a. aL
Monday in memory of
Rodwell.
Hundreds of Warren County residents turned out Sunday for a
march from the old Afton School to the PCB dump site south of
Warrenton. Vows to stop the dumping were heard here on the eve
of the state's attempt to rid more than 200 miles of roadside of*
PCB-laced soil. The chemical linked to cancer in laboratory
animals, was illegally dumped in the summer of 1978. More than
20 miles of the damaged roadside is in Warren County.
(Staff Photo)
Beautification Committee Named
A Town Beautification
Committee, tentatively
appointed by Mayor
Beverly White, was ap
proved by the Board of
Warrenton Commis
sioners at their regular
meeting Monday night.
All the nominees have
been contacted and
agreed to serve, Mayor
White said. The com
missioners unanimously
approved the formation
of a beautification com
mittee composed of the
following members: Mr.
and Mrs. James
Frazier, co-chairmen;
Mrs. Grace Miles, Mrs.
Edith Gary Spruill, Mrs.
Anne Rodwell and Rich
ard Hunter.
Three visitors ap
peared before the
commissioners at the
Monday night meeting
and were recognized by
Mayor White who pre
sided over the meeting,
also attended by all the
commissioners, Town
Attorney Charles T.
Johnson and Town
Administrator V. R.
"Pete" Vaughan.
The first visitor
recognized by Mayor
White was Steve Young,
representing Smith
Douglass Fertilizer
Company. He requested
that the site of a gin on
Hall Street be changed
from multiple business
to roadside business in
order to make the site
more saleable. He was
informed by Mayor
White that before any
action is taken, the
request must be
referred to the Planning
Board and the board of
Adjustment. Mayor
White said he would
refer the written request
to the proper authori
ties.
Former Auditor
Lonnie Shuping of Louis
burg, the second visitor
to be recognized, spoke
briefly, congratulating
the commissioners on
the progress the town
has made in its financial
condition during the
past year. He
prophesided that
present policies would
lead to further improve
ment in the town's
position.
The third visitor was
Monroe Gardner, War
renton businessman,
who requested
permission to set up a
game room using video
machines in a building
formerly used as a fish
market directly back of
Evan's Pool Room, with
its entrance facing East
Franklin Street. This
request was finally
granted to the
satisfaction of Gardner,
but not without con
siderable discussion by
the commissioners and
reference to the law
books by the town
attorney, over the
question of amount of
taxes that could be
charged for the
privilege of operating
such a game room.
Unlike pool rooms
where a tax may be
levied upon each table, a
$10 privilege tax would
be levied as the
privilege tax for a game
room, whether one
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State Begins
Big Operation
By BIGNALL JONES
Editor Of The Record
As The Warren Record, which contain.-; a
page advertisement concerning the disposa 1 of
PCBs, signed by Heman Clark, secretary of
the N. C. Department of Crime Control tuid
Public Safety, was going to press at 10 o'clock
this morning (Wednesday), State Highway
trucks containing PCBs laced soil from 210
miles of roadway were moving toward a land
fill in Warren County near Afton under poliw»
escort, and a group of
Concerned Citizens
Against PCBs were
marching toward the
landfill, according to
plans announced at a
group meeting at the
courthouse on Tuesday
night.
According to that an
nouncement, whether
the march would be a
peaceful demonstration
or a physical attempt to
stop the trucks was to be
decided at a meeting at
South Warren School
beginning at 8 o'clock,
according to the Rev.
Luther Brown, one of
the speakers at the
Tuesday night meeting.
The Concerned Citi
zens Against PCBs had
staged a march from the
school to the landfill on
Sunday afternoon in
protest to the dumping
of PCBs in Warren
County, and on Monday
had made additional
appeals to Governor
Hunt and to Senator
Jesse Helms to stop the
dumping of the PCBs at
Afton. Governor Hunt in
refusing to grant a
public hearing to a War
ren County group said
there were no
alternatives. Office
aides to Senator Helms
said that he refused to
become involved in this
issue.
A crowd estimated by
state newspaper report
ers and television repre
sentatives at from 230 to
300, met for more than
two hours in the court
house in a meeting remi
niscent of an athletic
pep rally in that almost
every charge of bad
faith and promise of
continued defiance was
met by both cheers and
standing ovations from
the audience. Jim Ward
presided over the
meeting in which Ken
Femiccio, head of the
Warren County
Concerned Citizens
Against PCBs, was the
principal speaker. He
warned that the Afton
project could signal the
spread of other
hazardous waste dump
sites.
"We will have to fight
it here," Ferruccio said.
"We have to stop it here
or it will poliferatc:
throughout the state of;
North Carolina."
He warned that any
demonstration should be
non-violent All of War
ren County should turn
out to fight the deposit of
soil, he said, "or be in
Jail." He said that lie
had met "a groat lead
er" in the person of the
Rev. Leon White. The
Other
Henry Pitcbford,
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Holiday
Is Deniod
The Warren County
Board of Education
voted Monday night to
allow school children
who might * visl i to parti
cipate in anti-PCB
dumping demonstra
tions to be gi ven excus
ed absences from
school.
The v c »te came
minutes afl: er a vote to
call a < county-wide
school holi day for Sep
tember 15 — the day the
state begii is cleaning up
more thai 1 200 miles of
roadside laced with
PCBs — {ailed by a 3-2
margin. Board member
Henry Mtchford called
for the holiday, and his
motion was seconded by
Harold Harris. Voting
agai ns t the motion were
Boaiti Chairman Henry
Bobhi tt, Leigh Traylor
and 1 VJrs. Kathy Wilson.
On the vote to grant
excufied absences, the
three members voting,
agaii ist the Pitchfor d
moti'm earlier voted to
allov t students to bike
part in anti-PCB den ion
str.ations without
penalty. Pitchfortf4 and
Mai -ris abstained on the
vot e.
Ifhe vote was called
aifl;er Jim WanJ, repre
:se nting the Citizens Con
<«:rned About PCB, told
the board that "the
citizens c<f Warren
County are engaged in a
f ight to protect our en
' idronmen.t." He asked
1 the boa.rd to declare
Wednesday "a day of
unity" and asked that
schools be closed for the
day.
Supt. Mike Williams
objected to the proposed
holiday, which he called
"a major and drastic
step which I do not feel
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Board Agrees
To Replace Line
In its regular meeting
on Monday night, the
Norlina Town Board
voted to replace the
water line on Division
Street dne to damage
caused by trucks on the
road, and 'to install a
larger water line on
Darden street, along
with a. flrt hydrant, ac
cording to Mrs. Mm
Go-jds, town clerk. T
The board alao voted
to pnrffrtr» a finger
print kit for the Norlina