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Warren ton *•* .Library X 117 S.Main St. Warrenton, N-.C. 27589 T-- > r 0 ' \ Stye Harren Witcavb Volume 86 Jgj* P^f Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, March 30, 1983 Number 13 «S£ »—■ — — - — IRON EYES CODY Iron Eyes Cody To Appear At Annual Indian Pow-Wow I Iron Eyes Cody, perhaps the most widely recognized Indian in America, will be the featured speaker at this year's Haliwa-Saponi Pow-Wow, scheduled to be held in southeastern Warren County April 15-16. Announcement of details of this year's annual pow-wow was made this week by the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribal Office near Essex. The pow-wow will be held on the site of the old Haliwa Indian School at Bethlehem, near Areola, and off Highway 561. Activities will include traditional Indian dancing, singing and appearances by local, state and national Indian leaders. Indian arts and crafts will be shown and offered for sale and a new tribal princess will be crowned. Appearing on the speaker's platform with Cody will be Jim Lowry, state purchasing officer and board chairman of the N. C. Commission of Indian Affairs. Cody, a, Cherokee Indian actor, author and historian, is perhaps best known for his work as the "Indian in the Canoe" who cried at the pollution of America in the Keep America Beautiful series. He hau had roles in many motion pictures and has recently completed "Wilderness Trail" in Canada. He has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles on the American Indian and is the author of three books. Last year Cody and comedian Bob Hope were honored by the Boy Scouts of America for their participation in scouting programs over the years. To Warrenton Treatment Plant Norlina Sewage Begins Flowing Pumping of sewage from both sides of Norlina to the wastewater treatment plant at Warrenton began Monday around noon following the repairing and calibration of meters at both sides of Norlina. Charges are to begin for this service on April 1, according to V. R. "Pete" Vaughan, town administrator for Warrenton. Unmetered wastewater has been pumped from South Norlina to the Warrenton treatment plant since early in November. At a joint meeting in the Warrenton municipal building at 3 p. m. Monday, representatives of Warrenton, Norlina and the County of Warren met to discuss the operation of the system for the county by Warrenton and to iron out possible differ ences. Representing the county at this meeting were Mrs. Eva Clayton, chairperson for the board of county commissioners; Commissioner Jack Harris, and County Manager Glen Newsome. Also present was Bill Barlow, representing L. E. Wooten and Company of Raleigh, engineers for both Norlina and the county. Norlina was represented by Mayor Kenneth Davis. Representing Warren ton were Mayor B. G. White, Commissioners W. A. Miles and Gordon Haithcock, Bill Neal, superintendent of the Warrenton Water . Department and Vaughan. It was brought out at the meeting that the Board of County Commissioners had agreed to pay Warrenton a subsidy for seven months because of Norlina's delay in furnishing its sewage to the treatment plant. Whether the county will pay the subsidy for the entire seven months and should pay it until April 1, when Norlina hooks on, was discussed, but no definite promises were made. A request from Warenton to Mayor Davis that Norlina pay something for Warrenton's handling of its sewage from November until the present met with a promise to take the matter up with the Norlyia board. Since Soul City is charged a fee for its sewage and it must therefore be measured, the county agreed that Warrenton should be permitted to place a time clock on the wastewater pump at Soul City in lieu of the meter, due to higher cost of the meter. The cost of placing the time clock on the pump is to be borne by the county. Worth Resigns As President Charles J. Worth, president of the VanceWarren Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has resigned his post. In a letter to Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials and to The Warren Record, Worth said he was announcing his resignation, effective March 24, "with sorrow and regrets." Worth said that "an organization of SCLC's stature requires a president who is able to commit himself wholeheartedly and uncompromisingly. As a result of my numerous other commitments and af(Continued on page 11) Spending Freeze Ordered Funding Shortage Bothers Officials By KAY HORNER Staff Writer Funds budgeted for general expenses for the 1982-83 school year may not be forthcoming from the state, according to Mike Williams, Warren County Superintendent of Schools. Williams recently received notification from the controller of the State Board of Education that the county will be authorized to spend only $51,427.00 for general expense items from the state public school fund for the remainder of the year. That amount, Williams said, is $33,922.88 less than the amount budgeted. The state has not taken in the revenue projected for tne budget, necessitating the cuts, Williams said. As of March 17, the county school system was obligated for $38,549.92 through purchase orders issued but not yet paid. This figure, combined with an additional $14,591.52 to operate school buses for the remainder of the year, totals $53,141.44. Id a recent memo to members of the school system's administrative team, Williams said, "In summary, it will require more than all the money we have available to pay for the materials and supplies ordered to date and operate the school buses hopefully for the remainder of the year." The budget cuts will affect the purchase of such basic items as pencils and paper. However, Williams said this week that he is more concerned about areas of service, "things that we can't eliminate without depriving someone." The four he cited in a letter to the controller for the Board of Education were transportation, driver education, and two programs serving exceptional children in the county. Williams said there are two children in the county with emotional problems who are being sent to the Scott Parker Center in Henderson. Two aides are under contract, rather than on salary, to work with exceptional children, and two teachers serve exceptional children in a number of county schools. Funds for the aides, because they are under contract rather than salary, could be cut, along with funds for travel of the two teachers who must go from school to school and travel of the two children attending the center in Henderson. In all, 21 children would be affected by (Continued on page 11) Local Sales Tax Figures Reported State sales and use taxes collected in Warren County during February were $81,117.83, according to figures from the N. C. Department of Revenue. Local 1 percent sales and use tax collections in the county totalled $22,507.81. Total taxable and nontaxable sales for the month of .Januarv were $3,189,031. Downey And Balloons Four Balloons Bring Messages From Afar Messages from seventh-graders in Maynardville, Tennessee winged their way to Warren County last week. They arrived, not by U. S. Postal Service or Federal Express, but by balloons. Four balloons with messages from students at Maynardville Elementary School were found Thursday in the Oine Community by Percell Downey of Rt 1, Norlina. The balloons were launched by children all over the United States recently as a part of a contest sponsored by Weekly Reader, a newspaper for children. Printed notes attached to the balloons requested the finder to mall a letter of receipt, and three carried a personal greeting from the senders, Melissa Hancock, Martha England, Bradley Capps and Donnie Nicely. 4,000 Acres To Be Idled Program Affects Warren Acreage By KAY HORNER Staff Writer Approximately 4,000 acres of Warren County farmland will be idled this year because of farmer participation in the U. S. Department of Agriculture's 1983 Acreage Reduction and Payment-in-Kind (PIK) programs. This represents 26.6 percent of the total base acreage on county farms. Thomas E. Watson, executive director of the county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said this week that 351 farms enrolled 7,449 acres in the programs from a county total base of 15,025 acres for wheat and feed grains. The acres enrolled represent 49.5 percent of the total bases for the county. lne Acreage Reduction and PIK programs were enacted by the government with the hope that they would improve prices of certain commodities by cutting back production and reducing surpluses. Participation in the programs by farmers is voluntary. Farmers who sign up are given from government surpluses an amount of the appropriate commodities equal to what they would have produced. The farmer then has the option of storing the commodity, using it as feed, or selling it. According to figures released by the state ASCS office in Raleigh, about 30 percent of the total acreage in North Carolina will not be planted. Acreage bases for each farm were established by using the reported plantings for each crop in 1980 and 1981. Farmers could enroll all, part, or none of their base in PIK. Nationally, farmers have signed up in the Acreage Reduction and PIK program 187 million acres of feed grain, wheat, rice and upland cotton base acreage. This represents 81.2 percent of the 230 million acres of total base acreage. Total idle land this year will be 82 million acres. Watson said the signup was necessary to determine producer eligibility for program benefits such as Commodity Credit Corporation loans and purchases, PIK, target price protection, and, for wheat and feed grain participants, eligibility for grain reserve. Acreage taken out of production will be devoted to a conservation use, Watson said. It's Now Official Application Made For Gaston Water SOUTH HILL, VA. The City of Virginia Beach is officially applying for a Corps of Engineers permit to build a pipeline to the Pea Hill Creek area of Lake Gaston in Brunswick County, and is surveying interested parties for input concerning the project. That information is contained in a letter from Thomas M. Leary, III, water resource engineer for the city. According to the letter, tbe pipeline will cross the Meherrin, Nottoway and Blackwater Rivers and will tie into the existing Norfolk water system located at Red Top, Virginia. The 60-inch transmission line is being sized to withdraw a maximum of 60 million gallons per day. It will be 75 miles long and "selected to stay within or adjacent to existing utility rightsof-way as much as possible in order to minimize any environmental impacts." An enclosed form asks such questions as "What doe® s the priM:1pal .mp« the sociated and can b. 4W, «• lessen those impacts • ^Se letter explains the ueStions by saying. S aty of virgmf J^h is particularly Beach is P» ^ c0nce« „1m ™ 'n6 a gSf neighbor toother communities. ****#< ss—<s5S£S fftSSMS. communities which would be traversed by the pipeline, or communities in the vicinity of the withdrawal location." "As such," the letter continues, "The City of Virginia Beach welcomes your input throughout the process and pledges to utilize that input to most effectively develop this water supply project with the least amount of negative impact and the greatest amount of benefit to all affected jurisdictions, and interested agencies and parties." The letter announced that the City intends to hold additional informational — public participation meetings and workshops, several of which have been tentatively proposed for early May. Times and locations will be revealed to appropriate newspapers, the letter said. Resignation Is Accepted Here The resienaton of Melvin A. "Butch" Scott as a member of the Warrenton Board Of Commissioners was accepted at a called meeting of the board at 5:30 on Thursday, .No. other business was before the board. A motion that the resignation be received with regret, and that the secretary to the board write a letter to Scott telling him of the board's appreciation of the services rendered the board by him, was made Commissioner W. A. Miles, seconded by Commissioner Gordon Haithcock and unanimously adopted by the six remaining members of the board. Whether to immediately appoint a successor to Scott, to delay the appointment, or to leave the position unfilled until the fall election, were the choices before the commissioners explained Mayor B. G. White. Concensus of the board was that election of Scott's successor be delayed for further study. Scott, an employee of Branch Banking and (OonUoned on page 11) April 15 Is Important Date For Warren Farmers Warren County farmers have until April 15 to make final decisions of three highly important items that will affect their 1963 crop of tobacco, Thomas Watson, executive director of the Warren Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said yesterday. Watson said April 15 is the final date to file an agreement to lease and transfer tobacco to or from any farm. "It is alao the final date to designate tobacco warehouses before the market opens," Watson said. He added that April 15 is also the final date to sign up in the four-leaf program which permits the planting of an extra 10 percent providing the four lower leaves are destroyed. "We encourage all producers to attend to these matters before the busy planting season arrives," Watson said.
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