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Volume 85 25' Per Copy Werrenton, County Of Warren. North Carolina Wednesday, November 24, 1982 Number 45
Thanksgiving
Let's give thanks, and show thanks,
for our bountiful good fortune. Thanksgiving
is a time to remember and rejoice.
Cost Of Policing PCB Dump Here
Is Reported By State Officials
North Carolina spent
about $787,000 to keep
law enforcement offic
ers and the National
Guard in Warren Coun
ty while PCB-laden soil
was trucked to a
controversial landfill, a
state official said Mon
day, according to a
news article in The
News and Observer on
Tuesday morning.
According to this
article, most of the
Surplus Cheese
On Hand Again
The Warren County
Department of Social
Services has received
another shipment of
United States Depart
ment of Agriculture
surplus cheese.
All current food
stamp recipient house
holds are eligible to
receive the cheese,
sealed in plastic loaves
of five pounds each,
with no new certifica
tion needed.
Those households
may begin picking up
their cheese at the
Social Services office on
Ridgeway Street on
November 30 from 8:30
a. m. until 5 p. m.
Other households in
terested in receiving
cheese may make appli
cation at the Social
Services office between
9 a. m. and 4 p. m.
Monday through Fri
day.
Certification will be
made on the basis of
family income up to 130
percent of the poverty
level, and liquid reeerve
held by the household
not eiroeding $1,600.
money went for expens
es of highway patrol
men, N. C. Department
of Correction personnel
and SBI agents, said
William W. Phillips,
Jr., a spokesman for the
N. C. Department of
Crime Control and
Public Safety. The
amount spent for
travel, meals, lodging,
helicopter fuel and
crews totaled about
$107,000 Phillips said.
Payroll costs, which
would have been incur
red anyway, were about
$680,000.
Expenses for the
cleanup of the contami
nated soil from more
than 200 miles of road
sides in Eastern North
Carolina and construc
tion of the landfill were
not included.
The state began
cleaning up the PCB
(polychlorinated bi
phenyl) from state
roadsides Sept. 15. Once
widely used as an
insulator the chemical
was banned after it was
shown to cause cancer
and reproductive disor
ders in laboratory ani
mals. The PCB was
dumped illegally along
the roads and in
isolated areas of Fort
Bragg in 1978.
With completion and
sealing of the landfill
due by the end of this
month, area opponents
asked for further
chemical tests of the
soil.
Kenneth Ferrucio,
president of Warren
County Citizens Con
cerned About PCB,
called for tests to
determine the presence
of chlorinated dibenzo
furans, a highly toxic
element present in
some types of PCB.
"Let's have a chemi
cal analysis before we
cap the landfill," Fer
ruccio said in an inter
view. Noting that chlor
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A WARDED CERTIFICATE—Mrs. KeeerOraw
SwMtod'byttwuie GurimCfa* te recegaMoa
of tfae efforts o< Mr. and Mn. Onnfby tnbMuttfytac
property of the Colonial Lodfe la Warreatoa. She
was cited for her oiQiflrart coatrlbatka to the
Superintendent Says
New Proposals Would
Affect Local Teachers
By KAY HORNER
Staff Writer
One of the changes
being proposed to the
1983 General Assembly
by the Legislative Se
lect Committee on Edu
cation appointed in 1981
would have a signifi
cant effect on the
method by which teach
ers in North Carolina
are granted pay raises,
if approved.
Currently, teachers
are given across - the -
board increases in
salary. These increases
are not related to per
formance. The select
committee has propos
ed that criteria such as
performance as well as
time in service be used
in evaluating the merit
of salary increases.
Teachers are now
evaluated with the idea
of pointing out weak
nesses and strengths
and devising programs
to help the teacher
correct deficiencies, ac
cording to Michael F.
Williams, Warren Coun
ty superintendent of
schools. Raises are not
withheld because of
poor performance.
Of the 14 proposals
being made by the com
mittee, three relate to
teacher performance
and salary reviews.
"These, if approved,
will have as big an
impact on public educa
tion as anything being
considered," Williams
said.
"The proposals will
put the pressure on us to
devise ways to make it
a good procedure," he
commented. "It's like
getting a saw for Christ
mas. You can use it to
build or to cut your foot
off."
The committee will
also recommend that
the State Board of
Education develop cri
teria and procedures
that will encourage
lateral entry into teach
ing by skilled indivi
duals in the private
sector.
Another proposal that
could effect Warren
County significantly is
that block grant appro
priations be considered
for public school sys
tems in lieu of the
current system of line
item budgeting. At
present, certain
amounts are budgeted
by the state to school
systems for particular
items, such as fuel and
instructional supplies.
If that amount is not
used by the end of the
fiscal year for the
purpose designated, it
reverts back to the
state. With block grant
appropriations, the
school systems would
receive a certain
amount of funding to be
used as they see fit.
The committee sug
gests that beginning
with the school year
1984, at least six
systems and not more
than 20 systems be
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Hawkins Building Out
Senior Citizens Center
Not Included In Funding
The recently an
nounced Community
Development Block
Grant awarded Warren
County will not include
appropriations for a
senior citizens center,
according to County
Manager Glenwood
Newsome
Funds to renovate a
building on the campus
of Hawkins School in
Warrenton were re
quested in the proposal
submitted to the state.
But the county received
only 70 percent of the
funds requested on the
grant application ana
the funding for the
center falls under the
local-option category.
The county requested
$531,500 and was award
ed $340,707.
Allen Hawks, project
director with the War
ren County Coordinat
ing Council for Senior
Citizens said other
sources will be opening
up in the not too distant
future, and he hopes to
apply for those funds.
The building on the
Hawkins campus con
tains 6,600 square feet.
A recent estimate for
Taking Of Oaths
To Be Big Event
Newly elected War
ren County officials will
take the oath of office at
noon at the Warren
County Courthouse on
Monday, Dec. 6.
George E. Shearin,
Sr., Eva M. Clayton and
Francis L. Alston, coun
ty commissioners;
Henry T. Pitchford, Jr.,
and Yarborough Wil
liams, Jr., Board of
Education members;
Richard E. Hunter, Jr.,
clerk of Superior Court;
Theodore R. Williams,
sheriff; and Nat B.
White and John K.
Kilian, Soil Conserva
tion Service supervisors
will formally take office
then.
Jota R, Hawkins
Alumni and Friends,
Inc., a non-profit and
tax exempt corporation,
will sponsor other ac
tivities during the day.
At 4 p. m. a parade will
be held in the Town of
Warrenton, at 7 p. m. a
banquet will be held at
Warren County High
School, where His guest
■wkw will be Ai&r
Me, Jr., administra
tor of the Urban Maw
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renovation of the build
ing came in at $115,600
for materials and labor,
if the work is done by a
contractor.
"The senior citizens
center would be a great
attribute to the coun
ty," Hawks said.
The Coordinating
Council for Senior Citi
zens, which is funded
federally under the
Title m Older Ameri
cans Act and locally by
the county, rendered
services to approxi
mately 450 senior citi
zens last year on a
budget of $45,000.
The bulk of the funds
awarded by the grant
will be used to construct
water and sewer lines
and to provide indoor
plumbing for the Red
Hill area located east of
Warrenton's town
limits. The remainder
of the funds will be used
for housing rehabilita
tion in the same area.
Ballots Mailed
For ASC Voting
Warren County farm
ers were reminded this
week that it is again
time for ASC commit
tee elections.
T. E. Watson, Warren
County ASCS executive
director, said that bal
lots were mailed to
Warren County farmers
on Monday and that
farmers have until
December 6 to return
their ballots to elect
community committee
men to serve in 1983.
He pointed out that
these ASC committees
provide the important
service of administer
ing government farm
programs to the farm
community, and that
farmers are encourag
ed to use this opportun
ity to take part in this
important election and
to vote on the most
qualified persons to
represent them as com
munity committeemen.
Watson said that
ballots were mailed to
all known eligible vot
ers, and these ballots
must be postmarked or
returned not later than
December 6. Any per
son, he said, who does
not receive a ballot and
thinks he is eligible to
vote may obtain a ballot
from the Warren Coun
ty ASCS office.
"All voters should
sign the certification
on the envelope for the
ballot to be counted,"
he emphasized. "Each
year a large number of
ballots cannot be count
ed because the voter
failed to sign the ballot
envelope in space pro
vided."
Ballots will be public
ly tabulated on Decem
ber 13 at 9 a. m. in the
county ASCS office. In
each of the 11 commun
ities a chairperson, vice
chairperson, regular
member, first and sec
ond alternates will be
elected. The three elect
ed committeemen in
each community will
become delegates to
the county convention to
fill vacancies on the
county committee. The
County Convention will
be held on December 20
at 1:30 p. m.
Home Tour Slated
Five homes in and near Warrenton will be
decorated for the Christmas Season and opened for
visitors during a Holiday Homes Tour planned for
Sunday, December 5.
Sponsored by Warren Academy, the tour will in
clude the homes of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Frasier,
Bragg Street; Mr. and Mrs. W. Jade Harris, North
Main Street; Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Thompson,
Church Street; Mr. and Mrs. W. Macon Wemyss,
Country Club Road; and Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.
White, IH, Halifax Street
Tour hours will be in the afternoon from four
o'clock until nine o'clock, and the coat of the tour is
f|,M ilnllara
nve dollars.
Tickets will be available on the day of the tour at
each bome, or they may be purchaaed la advance
by contacting Mrs. James C-Harria, Jr. at ttMUO.
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