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r ®I|E lamn fttcord Volume 85 25* Per Copy Worrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, October 6,1982 Number 39 Perdue Purchases Additional Acres The general warranty deed conveying 857.48 acres at Soul City to Perdue Industries was recorded at the office of the Warren County Register of Deeds on Monday. The amount Perdue paid for the parcel was not a part of the public record. Perdue, one of the nation's largest poultry firms, purchased 500 acres in the develop ment in 1979. The latest transaction brings the company's total acquisition to 1,357.48 acres. Perdue's senior vice president and general manager of the broiler division, Tom Shelton, said in late August that there are no immediate plans to build on the Soul City parcels. However, he further commented, "If we expand to the point of building a new plant, it will be at Soul City." Perdue originally con sidered the Soul City site for a poultry complex that was expected to employ more than 1,000 people with an initial investment of $20 million. County Manager Glenwood Newsome said he considered the finalizing of the purchase a "step forward" for the county and expressed the wish that Perdue would build on the site, bringing more jobs into the county. Norlina Resident Injured By Truck Mrs. Dolly Tucker of West Darden Street in Norlina was seriously injured Thursday when she was hit by a tractor trailer truck while waiting to cross the street at the intersection of Hyco Street and U. S. 158 in Norlina. According to Police Chief Romey Williams, Mrs. Tucker, 78, was hit by a truck belonging to Deitz Motor Lines and driven by Richard Dale Shook of Newton. Shook, 31, has been charged with hit and run, leaving the scene of an accident, and driving on a street closed to trucks. However, Williams said Shook at the time he was appre hended on 1-85 about six miles from the Vance County line was unaware that he had hit a pedestrian. Warren County Sheriff's Deputy Harold Seaman assisted Chief Williams in pursuing the truck, using a descrip tion provided by an eye witness to the accident, Walter Sweeney, princi pal of Mariam Boyd Elementary School. Mrs. Tucker was taken to Warren General Hospital and then transferred to N. C. Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill with injuries to her right leg, arm and shoulder. Williams said Sweeney's account indicated that as the truck made a right turn from Hyco Street onto U. S. 158, the end of the trailer whirled around and hit Mrs. Tucker, throwing her against the embankment. Civil Court Term Is Held This Week Judge James A. Beaty of Winston-Salem pre sided over the October 4 civil session of Warren County Superior Court. The majority of cases were continued for the term, and in other cases the following rulings were handed down: Ernest Boyd Harris and wife, Anne T. Harris, vs. Larry Wilder and Melvin Lee Wilder, Wilder's Bros, and Richard's Spraying Ser vice, Inc. vs. Graver Service Corp. (New York) and Chevron Chemical Company; stipulation of dismissal filed September 13. Tony Hunt vs. Lillie Tanner, motion to dismiss for lack of juris diction allowed. William E. Stack, T/A Stack Enterprises vs. William P. Bryant and wife, Doris T. Bryant; motion for summary judgment as to William P. Bryant for $23^15.91 plus court cost plus 8 percent interest is allowed; motion for « to Doris T. Bryant for i court cost vs. Chester Randolph McCall; ready for default judgment. Carlotta Hopkins vs. William Mason, Jr., Earl Ray Mason; volun tary dismissal filed October! Tony Hunt vs. Lillie Tanner; case dismissed on motions. Carwash Scene Of Theft Try Jack's Carwash on Rooker Street in Norlina was the scene of an attempted burglary Monday around 6:10 a. m., according to Norlina Police Chief Romey Williams. Sgt. James Champion of the Norlina Police Department was on routine patrol when he spotted a subject fleeing into the wooded area near the carwash. Sgt Champion gave pursuit, but was unable to apprehend him. When Sgt. Champion returned to the carwash, he found the money box lying on the ground, un Williams said the is still under tteo, but there are no d the case investiga Smokey the Bear meets with students of Mariain Boyd Elementary School on Tuesday to discuss fire safety. The well known bear was accompanied to the school by a flretruck and two Warrenton rural firemen — Capt. Walter Gardner and John Blalock. Their appearance was sponsored by the Warren ton Junior Woman's Club to call attention to Fire Prevention Week. (Staff Photo) No Arrests Made Tuesday As PCB Storage Nears End For the first time in several days, no arrests were made at the Afton landfill Tuesday. About 50 protesters gathered briefly at Coley Springs Church and marched toward the site but made no efforts to block trucks entering the landfill as they had before. However, a meeting was again held at the Warren County Courthouse by Citizens Concerned About PCBs on Tuesday night, who vow to continue the fight. Following a number of arrests in both Vance and Warren counties last Fri day, the Concerned Citizens held a gospel sing at the John Graham athletic field on Sunday afternoon in an effort to raise funds for their protests. Some 200 citizens are reported to have attended the singing. The amount of funds raised was not revealed, The meeting Sunday preceeded Monday's march billed as the greatest to d*te with school children, and college students from the Universi ty of North Carolina, Duke University, and East Carolina University par ticipating. About 330 marchers left Coley Springs Baptist Church at noon Monday, then split into five groups seeking to block trucks at various places. Thirty-nine Juveniles and 44 adults, including the Rev. Joseph Lowery, presi dent of the Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference, were arrested Monday while trying to block tracks carrying PCB laced soil into the Afton landfill. Lowery. Ken Ferruccio, leader of Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCBs, and Fred Chavis. field secretary for the 8CLC, were among those charged with impeding J traffic. Bonds far most of those arrested wet* set at WOO, but Ferruccio, arrested for the fifth Hm. ft* blocking the tracks, fac ed a 11900 bond, and Lowery, arrested for the ' time, faced a as young as four years old were arrested while lying on N.C.1604 Monday In an effort to Keep the trucks from entering the landfill. Eyewitnesses said they were directed by adults in what organizers termed a "Students March." Juveniles arrested for the first time were released to thtir parents, but officials said repeaters would be charged as adults and go through the juvenile court system. By Tuesday the state had scooped contaminated soil from most of the 210 miles of the highways were PCBs were flumped in 1978. With the Warren County landfill for PCB-laden soil nearly full, two state scientists dug tix holes Tuesday for soil Samples to find out how toxic the site is. Amid the roar of bulldozers and Sptrucks, they were id by two leaders of protests by county residents against the land fill, state tests were re by federal en :ntal regulations as a {part of monitoring the laedfill. Results should be available within a week, said Thomas Karniski, and engineer in the soil and hazardous waste branch of the N. C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. The protest leaders were taking some of the same Met borings to a chemist for private analysis to vWify the state results. With the clean-up along State highways practically complete, a private con tractor it scheduled to begin moving other PCB con laminated soil from Fort Bragg to the Warren County landfill today, said William W. Phillips, assis tant to the secretary of crime control aad public safety The state contrac tor will be allowed 18 days to place the soil in the land fill, after which it will be Hie state is allowing the federal government to use SI percent of (lie landfill's capacity to stare 1^00 cubic yards of PCB Phillips said the state ex pects to spend $2.8 million on the clean-up. Phillifw said the Warren County landfill was design ed to hold the soil from Fort Bragg as well as soil from state highways, but the state held off signing the contract to make sure the state's problem was cleared up first. The following adults were arrested on October 4 at the PCB landfill in the Afton (Continued on Page Four) Plat Accepted By Local Board In its regular session last Thursday, the War ren County Planning Commission accepted the final plat for River Forest Subdivision in River Township on Lake Gaston, subject to the inspection by the zoning administration and Warren County Health Department. The final plat, presented by Bob Harris and John T. Nelson, Jr., showed 25 building lots. John McAdams of Chapel Hill presented a preliminary map for West Eaton's Ferry Estates showing 46 lots. The map was approved and the developer was advised that the owner; Gerald R. Brock, could begin surveying and staking of lots. Also plats for two lots owned by E. B. Matthews received tentative approval. In Hospital Patients in Warren General Hospital on listed as follows: Allen Liles, Jake Watkiaa, Martha Radio Alarm System Will Be Used Here Oscar "Butch" Meek and Walter Gardner, representing the representing the War ren County Rural Volun teer Firemen Associ ation, appeared before the county commission ers Monday morning to reveal plans to switch the present telephone alarm system from telephone to radio system. Accompanying Meek and Gardner were Frank Howard, salesman for Motorola Company from Fayette ville and Don Cahoon, of Nashville, executive with the Motorola Com pany. Meek acted as spokesman. He explain ed that the change in method would not only eliminate some $7,500 each year in telephone bills, but would result in quicker and more efficient operation of the rural fire departments. Under the new plan, which Meek said it is hoped would be in service by January 1, fire calls from indivi duals would be trans mitted to the Warrenton Fire Department over a single 7-digit number, where it would auto matically call the nearest firehouse, and at the same time while sounding the fire station alarm would notify all the firemen in the county equipped with "Beeps." Under the present arrangement fire calls are phoned to the Warrenton station, where they are manually transferred to fire stations. The system, which will cost some 183,000, will be purchased under a lease-purchase agree ment by the Firemen's Association, without additional help from the county, Meek said. The commissioners also certified that the county would provide fi nancial assistance to the Roanoke-Wildwood Fire Department, a require ment of certification that they are prepared to cover a four-mile range of fire calls. The commissioners adopted an ordinance for management of its solid waste system, proving penalties of a |50 fine and/or 90 days in Jail for blocking egress by dumping such solid waste in the path to and from dumpsters and for removing articles from such dumpsters. The board tabled a proposed amendment to a zoning ordinance because of a change in the map of the zones and need for further study The commissioners decided to reject all bids for octennial revalu ation and to have Mrs. Grady Haynes, tax supervisor, advertise for nsw bids. The board which would no longer be available following a proposal to split the duties of county manager and industrial director. Bids for laboratory sup plies and other equipment for the waste water sewage plant were accepted as follows: (1) Laboratory sup plies and equipment: (a) Fisher Scientific Company, Inc., (18,333.52, accepted; Cuiton Matheron Scien tific Co., $21,690.71. (2) Sludge handling equipment skid steer loader (a) Case Power and Equipment Company, $6,438.64; Tri angie Equipment Company, $5,305.97, ac cepted; N. C. Equip ment Company, $6,178.00. (3) Three-fourths ton truck, Boyd Chevrolet, Henderson, $7,969.42, accepted. (4) Mini-dump attach ment: (a) Mini-Dump Corporation, $1,839.80, accepted. Lloyd Resigns Water Problems Aired At Session Water problems dominated a stormy ses sion of the Noriina Town Board Monday night, climaxed by the unexpected resignation of a veteran board member. Commissioner Ben Lloyd waited until adjournment to announce his immediate resignation because, in part, of what he claimed was favoritism on the part of the board. He said he had not been a part of this policy in the past. Saying that health reasons also entered hi to his decision to make Mon day night's meeting his final one, Lloyd did not elaborate on the charge of favoritism. He had been a member of the five-man board for the past seven years. Noriina Mayor Kenneth Davis, contacted Tuesday afternoon, said he expected no replacement for Lloyd to be chosen until after the board's November meeting. Lloyd's resignation came after more than an hour's discussion of town business which was devoted almost exclusively to water mat ters. Sinclair White appeared before the board in behalf of his son and daughter-in law over what they claimed was excessive water bills. He said a water line had been broken for six weeks at his son Marvin's house and that water bills had run as high as 175 a month while the town did not make needed repairs. "I have tried for four to five weeks to get the leak fixed," White told the board. Commissioner Jimmy Overby said it wasn't Whte's fault that James Boyd at the Water Depart ment could not find time to fix the lead, and Com missioner John Dore soon propoaed that 150 of the excessive water bill be refunded. That met with unanimous approval of the board. The second water pro later when it was noted that Lee Williams, a town resi dent, bad not paid his water bill for two months and that his water had been cut off a deciaiBn of the •to in question was the proper ty of Williams or the town He said he had found nothing indicating who put the line, which** b£n n® through three water meters in yean past. Banzet coodwtod that if t»* line was the town s property, and that he had found nothing to indicate not, then the town had the legal respon sibility to repair the leak. Commissioner William ^•onard made a motion to ran a new two-inch line Street to the Williams property line pro ™ "foments could be obtained. That motion met with unanimous agree ment. Commissioners also ST"* a ««e«ion by clerk, that Williams'1 water months be averaged to STrPU?Jhe Pn)P<r *«ter ^months to which lcfik drove up water Prices. That decision, too met with the board's unanimous approval. Echoing the sentiments « at least one Norlina resi SXTSsrast Commissioner Overby urg ed the board to fix potholes »n the streets before the start of winter. Tim Thomas of W. H. Phillips, Henderson accounting firm, appeared perore the board to give highlights of the annual audit report, which showed Jhat the town books were _tn excellent shape." Thomas offered bookkeep suggettiofB/a^dhe urged that all adjustments be brought iZXl?? aUention 01 full board. IT* board voted to give J- T. Harris a two mnnth "tendon of his contract to Provide work on the town's water system. before the board to com plain that an acceas road i—<Wng past his had not been scraped monthly " by the board, I he
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