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*arrentonMam.Library X . • : 5 Harrcn iEecorb r Volume 86 25* Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, March 2, 1983 Number 9 3 Arrests Are Made At Landfill Three persons were scheduled to be given a hearing in Warren County District Court this morning (Wednesday) on charges of trespass and resisting a public officer. Kenneth Ferruccio, director of Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCB, Patricia E. Hubbard of Silver Spring, Md., and Ruffin K. Harris of The Plains, Va., were arrested Monday afternoon after they had pitnoon after they had pitched a tent in the middle of the access road leading to the state PCB landfill in Warren County. A picture of the tent and Sheriff Theo Williams telling Ferruccio that if he did not move the tent that he would be forced to arrest him, and a subsequent forceful removal of the three persons by Sheriff Williams and Deputy Lloyd Newsome was shown Monday night on Channel 11 television. Following the arrest the prisoners were brought to Warrenton where they were placed under $500 bond each for their appearance Wednesday morning in district court. They were released from jail early Tuesday afternoon after their bonds had been posted by Mrs. Owen Shearin of Warrenton. A Sheriff's Department spokesman said the three arrested Monday were contending that the state had no intention of testing the water collecting in the landfill before pumping it into a holding pond. They also contended there is a discharge pipe to be used to pump water into the land, contaminating nearby (Continued on page 15) Juvenile Meet Scheduled Here A special program designed to disperse information about juvenile programs available in Warren County will be held here Thursday, March 10, at 10:30 a. m. in the courtroom of the Warren County Court House. The program, sponsored by the Warren County Juvenile Task Force, will be held during a break in the juvenile court session to be presided over by Judge Ben Allen of Henderson. Representatives of programs now available will be introduced at the beginning of the court recess. A question - and answer session will be held in the petit jury room. Refreshments will be served. Programs expected to be represented are juvenile probation, inschool'suspension program, supervised recreation program, Franklin - Vance Warren Opportunity, protective services, spedattnd foster care andHealthCo. Warren Academy's Wanda Carroll (25) jumps high for a rebound In Friday night's contest against Halifax Academy. Also battling for the ball is Warren Academy's Paula Hayes (12). At left are Tammy Harris of Halifax Academy and the Warriors' Debra Brown (20). At right is Michelle Ross of Halifax Academy. The win propelled the Warren Academy team tet© the state playoffs. See related story on Page 11. (Staff Photo) 1 Warren Girls7 Teams Advance Two girls basketball teams from Warren County advanced in post-season competition Tuesday night by taking wins on the road. Warren Academy, playing in the opening round of the NCISAA playoffs in Durham, pulled out a nip-and-tuck 32-31 victory over Ravenscroft Academy of Raleigh. Wanda Carroll with 13 points and Martha Newman with 12 paced the winners. Also scoring for the Lady Warriors were Paula Hayes with 5 and Debra Brown with 2. Warren Academy, one of eight girls teams now in the state playoffs, will return to Durham Academy Thursday at 3 p. m. for a contest with Charlotte Country Day. Should Warren Academy continue to win, they would play both Friday and Saturday at 7 p. m. at Ravenscroft Academy in Raleigh, scene of semi-final and final rounds of competition. Warren County's Lady Eagles advanced to the second round of the District I, 3-A basket ball tournament being held this week in Ahoskie. The Warren County club Tuesday $ night posted a 60-33 win over Edenton. Warren County, healthy for the first time in several weeks, pressed the entire ball game, and turned the game into a rout. The pressing game forced 35 turnovers on the part of the Edenton team. Gloria Kearney led the way for Warren County, scoring 17 points. Other scorers for Warren County were Sonja Dunston with 14, Evontio Williams with 13, Angela Fleming with 11, Peggy Williams with 3 and Donna Capps with 2. The Eagle regulars left the game with about four minutes remaining. Warren County will play the winner of the Northampton-East vs. Tarboro game in a Saturday night contest at Ahoskie. Gametime is 6:30 p. m. Warren County must win three games to take the district championship. Warren Receives Surplus Cheese The Warren County Department of Social Services has received another shipment of United States Department of Agriculture Surplus Cheese. The cheese is high quality, and, as in the past, it is sealed in plastic in loaves of 5 pounds each, Julian Farrar, county Social Services director, said this week. The amount of cheese distributed to each family is determined by the number of persons in the household and all current food stamp recipient households are eligible with no new certification needed. Interested households began up their cheese yesterday (Tuesday) at the Social (Continued on page 18) Two Norlina Firms Have Changed Hands Two Norlina business firms have recently changed hands. They are Knight's Appliance and TV Center and The Country Store. Knight's, located on Hyco Street, has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Peete Smiley of Pine Street, Norlina. Smiley, who was with the advertising department of Roses Stores, Inc. in Henderson for seven years, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Smiley, Sr., of Division Street, Norlina. He and his wife, the former Patricia Satterwhite of Vance County, have three children. The Smileys purchased Knight's from Leon Knight, who has been in the appliance business in Warren County since 1935. Both Knight and his brother, James, with 25 years in the appliance business, will continue to be associated with the company. The Country Store, formerly operated by A1 M. Bennett of Norlina, has been purchased by Braxton and Jimmy Overby, sons of the late Mr. and Mrs. Roy Overby of Norlina. Braxton will manage the business. A former resident of Raleigh, Braxton Overby is married to the former Ginger Johnson of miington. They have two children and expect to make their home in Norlina after school is out In the meantime, Braxton has already moved to Norlina. Jobless Rate Increase Seen Warren County's unemployment rate continued a steady rise in January, figures released this week by Glenn R. Jernigan, chairman of the N. C. Employment Security Commission show. Warren recorded an unemployment rate of 15.1 percent in January, with 800 workers jobless. Warren was one of 66 counties recording double digit unemployment. The statewide total unemployment rate was 10 percent in January and 8.9 percent in December. The national unadjusted rate was 11.4 percent in January and 10.5 percent in December. "Usually, weather conditions and post(Continued on page 15) Increase Slight For Retail Sales Quarterly Returns In By KAY HORNER Staff Writer Warren County's retail sales during the fourth quarter of 1982 > rose only slightly from the fourth quarter of 1981 and fell significantly from the third quarter of 1982, according to figures recently released from the N. C. Department of Revenue. The figures are based on quarterly sales and use taxes collected in the county. Warren County and its municipalities received $72,102.76 in sales tax distributions for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1982. This figure includes total quarterly collections of $72,789.90, less collection costs of $687.14. The increase in net collections between the last quarter ot 1981 and the last quarter of 1982 was only $490.57. The decrease between the last quarter of 1962 and the preceding quarter of 1982 was $9,845.08, or almost 12 percent. County sales and use taxes are collected by the state and distributed to the county and its municipalities on the basis of population. The taxes are reported for one month based on the sales in the previous month. Distribution to municipalities within the county were as follows for the fourth quarter of 1982: Macon, $594.27; Norlina, $3,514.42; and Warrenton, $4,018.17. Tlie cost of collecting the tax for the last quarter of 1982 was $.944 per $100 of collections. Don Everette, executive director of the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments, is shown as he addresses members of the Warrenton Lions Club meeting at the Lions Den on Friday night. (Photo by J. B. Fleming) By Lions' Speaker Water Withdrawal Plans Condemned Don Everette, executive director of the ^Kerr-Tar Regional * Council of Governments, was the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Warrenton Lions Club Friday night. He was presented tiy Lion W. A. Miles, who was in charge of the meeting. Everette warned the Lions that great damage could be done to the inhabitants of the Roanoke Basin, Extending from the seacoast to Roanoke, Va., if a proposed project of Virginia Beach and Tidewater Virginia to tap the waters of Gaston Lake is successful and made a fervent plea for inhabitants of North Carolina to unite in an Farmers Must Note March 11 Deadline Thomas E. Watson, executive director of the Warren County Agicultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, has reminded farmers that March 11 is the final date to signup in the Payment-in-Kind Program. All farmers for which a 1983 acreage base and yield has been established for wheat, feed grain and cotton under the previously announced In Hospital Patients in Warren General Hospital on Tuesday afternoon were listed as follows: Daisy Reavis, Theo Stallings, Georgianna Robinson, Warren Over by, Boyd Hicks, Willie Bolton, Lessie Davis, John Davis, Kenneth Short, Catherine Brown, Alexander Brooks, Roy Taylor, Susie Harrison Jane Matthews, Allie Vickers. farm programs are eligible to participate in PIK. The PIK Program is designed to bring supplies more in line with demand and to improve the farm economy. Watson said farmers should visit the local ASCS Office immediately and strongly consider participating in the program. The signup period will end at the close of business on March 11. effort to have an alternate plan selected to relieve the water shortage of Virginia Beach and Tidewater Virginia solved. Everette began his talk by stating that in former efforts to stop the raid on Gaston Lake the state had been successful and had grown complacent, but it may well be, he said, that we may have "won the battle but lost the war." The city manager of Virginia Beach in 1981 submitted a plan to tap 24 water sources in Virginia to meet its water needs, but unfortunately, he added, that city manager is no longer at Virginia Beach. The new city manager has suggested and the council has approved a plan to make tapping Gaston Lake for its water supply its first priority. This, the speaker said, was not so much the cost of the project, but the high quality of Gaston Lake water. He said he could sympathize with the plight of Virginia Beach and Tidewater Virginia where uncontrolled growth has lowered the water table to a point that it has also damaged the water table of Northeastern North Carolina. Failure erf Virginia to take care of its natural resources, principally I Scott Selected I I I A former Warrenton high school principal i;j & failed Tuesday in his bid to become head of the | % state's 58-campus community college system. Dr. J. F. Hockaday, former John Graham | : High School principal who is now president of I | Central Carolina Technical College fa San- g S ford, was one of two finalists for the 110,000 per | $ year post. Former Governor Robert W. Scott was S i: unanimously elected for the job Tuesday by jg the State Board of Community Colleges.
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