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Harrni iRecnrd t Volume 86 25c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, July 20, 1983 Number 29 Macon Youth Drowns A 16-year-old Macon boy, Dwaine Anthony Jiggetts, drowned Thursday afternoon while swimming in a farm pond near Macon. His body was found about 10 minutes after Warren Rescue Squad personnel began dragging the pond. Jiggetts and several other persons were swimming in a pond owned by Glenn Riggan when the tragedy oc curred. The victim dived from an overflow pipe in the pond and failed to surface, accor ding to Chief Deputy D. B. Bolton of the Warren County Sheriff's Depart ment. Bolton reported that fellow swimmers tried to rescue Jiggetts, but were unsuccessful. They called the sheriffs of fice about 3:45 p. m. to report the drowning. The pond is located near State Road 1309, north west of Macon. Jiggetts, son of Jacob "^ce and Rosetta iggetts, was born & .iber 22, 1966 in V „n County. b^rviving in addition to his parents are one brother, Jacob Wallace Jiggetts, Jr., of the home; his grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Jiggetts of Macon and Mr. and Mrs. Em merson Boyd of Oine; and his great-grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Haskins of Clarfcsville, Va. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Monday at Kingdom Hall in War renton by Brother John Payton. Burial was in Brown's Family Cemetery. Pallbearers were Vic tor Meadows, Eddie Jiggetts, Johnnie Boyd, James Boyd, Haywood Wright and Thomas Jiggetts. Warren General Hospital Patients Patients in Warren General Hospital on Tuesday afternoon were listed as follows: James Davis, Mary Creech, Mollie Dye, Roy Lynch, Elizabeth Ben son,' Warren Perry, Catherine Brown, Lillian Tuck, Christine Watson. Construction work on the Warren County PCB landfill in the Afton community was completed last week and Monday the N. C. Department of Crime Control & Public Safety announced that the landfill had been accepted by the state. The five-acre site has been seeded with ground cover to prevent erosion and a fence, shown above, has been install ed around its perimeter. According to a spokesper son for the department, monthly tests of the moni torlng wells during the past few months have detect ed no PCB. The N. C. Department of Human Re sources will continue to check monitoring wells around the landfill and the Department of Trans portation will perform work needed to maintain the site. The landfill contains about 40,000 cubic yards of soil from 241 miles of roadsides in 14 counties and Ft. Bragg illegally contaminated with PCB in the summer of 1978. (Staff Photo) Assistonce Grants Sought Final OK Is Given KART Final approval to a resolution creating the Ken Regional Area Transportation Authority (KART) was given last Wednesday night by Warren County commissioners, subject to approval by the county attorney. Warren County's participation in KART was ap proved in concept by the county commissioners in their regular meeting on July 5. However, the special meeting last week was called for approval of the specific resolution and of an application for federal and state mass transit assistance grants which had to be submitted by Monday. Kathy Childress, transportation coordinator for the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments, said Monday that the resolution and grant ap plication had been signed by county commission chairpersons in the four counties participating. They are Vance, Granville, Person and Warren. Franklin County is not participating in the program this year. The commissioners, chaired by Vice Chairman George Shearin in the absence of Chairperson Eva Clayton, also elected fellow commissioner Francis Alston and County Health Director Joe Lennon to serve as two of the eight members on the authority board. Each county is represented on the board by two members. Ms. Childress told county commissioners that the target date for implementation of the program is October 1. The system will serve the public transportation needs of residents in the four-county region, especially the elderly and disadvantaged segments of the population, according to the resolution. In a previous presentation to commissioners, Ms. Childress estimated cost of the system to the county between $4,200 and $6,000 with other funding coming from federal and state sources. Kearney Given 15 Years For Stepson's Murder A Norlina man who entered a plea of guilty of second-degree mur der in the shooting death of his stepson last March was sentenced to 15 years in prison last Wednesday in Warren County Superior Court. David Son Kearney, 37, who could have been given a maximum sen tence of life imprison ment, for the murder of Randolph Suite, Jr., 26, also of Norlina, was recommended for work release by Judge Darius B. Herring, Jr. of Fayet teville. As a condition of his work release, Kearney was ordered to pay restitution out of his earnings to the state of North Carolina for his court-appointed coun sel. The following cases were also disposed of by Judge Herring in last week's session of Warren County Superior Court: Melvin Anderson, found guilty of attempt ed arson, ordered con fined in the N. C. Department of Correc tion for three years, suspended for five years with supervised proba tion for five years under conditions set forth by the court including that he pay into the office of the Cleric of Superior Court $90 in costs and $85 in restitution to the N. C. Department of Correction, payment to be made under the supervision of the probation officer in periodic installments. Jail fees were remitted and Anderson was or dered to become gain fully employed and im mediately notify his probation officer if he fails to obtain suitable employment or changes employment, and to cooperate with and par ticipate in any psychia tric evaluation or treatment as may be directed by his probation officer. Raymond Allen Jackson, < order for arrest and order for for feiture outstanding in two charges of breaking and entering, larceny, and possession and a charge of safecracking. John Kearney, called and failed, order for arrest and order for for feiture outstanding on charge of breaking and entering, larceny and possession. Melvin Hargrove, found guilty of possession of marijuana with intent to sell, order ed confined to N. C. Department of correc tion for two years, suspended for five years with supervised probation for five years under conditions set forth by the court in cluding that he pay a $500 fine and $94 in costs (Continued on page 5B) Teaching Vacancies I In Warren Schools Filled On Thursday Five of the nine re maining teaching vacancies in the Warren County public school system were filled Thursday night during a ■ meeting of the Warren County Board of Education. Board of Education members moved swiftly to approve employment of the five after Super intendent Mike Williams gave a brief resume of each applicant. Approved for em ployment were Carol T. Boone, a regular class room teacher at John Graham Middle School; Wanda G. Hunt, a distributive education teacher at Warren County High School; Rhonda F. Keen, a regu lar classroom teach er at John Graham Mid dle School; James W. Hargrove, band instruc tor at Warren County High School; and Betty Jean Marrow, regular classroom teacher at Northside Elementary School. Filling of the posts came after an obser vation by board mem ber Yarborough Williams that he would like to see the system get more males on the faculties. Also employed during the July meeting of the board were two custodial positions at John Graham Middle School. These positions were given to Irene Williams and Lawrence Edward Alston. The board approved the transfer of Kathy McLeod, regular class room teacher, from North Warren School to Norlina Middle School, and the resignation of Polly Richardson, South Warren aide, and Em ma Arrington, John Graham Middle School custodian. During the session the board went into executive session to hear a request from Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Clary that their daughters, Dana and Dena, grade seven students, be per mitted to attend John Graham rather than Norlina Middle School in 1983-84. The request was denied. Region Is Eyed For New Facility By KAY HORNER Staff Writer A Minnesota phy sician has filed a let ter of intent with the N. C. Department of Human Resources to establish a six-station dialysis facility in the Henderson area. Henry Pleasants with the Capital Health Systems Agency, Inc. said this week that the letter, filed this month by Dr. {Catherine Huft man, proposes a limited care, hemo dialysis facility and home-training dialysis for patients in the Hen derson-Oxford area and the surrounding coun ties of Granville, Vance, Warren and Person. The letter indicated that the approximately 20 patients in the area now receiving in-center dialysis are traveling as far away as Durham or Raleigh for treatment. Capital expenditure of approximately $150,000 to establish the facility would be provided by private sources, accord ingtothe letter. Dr. Huffman must receive approval by the Certificate of Need sec tion of the Department of Human Resources for the facility, and applica tion for the certificate must be filed by August 16 to be included in the review period beginning September 1, Pleasants said. The letter projected a completion date four to six months after ap ""proval of the certificate of need. According to Vickie Haas of Vickie Haas Consultants in Char lotte, spokesperson for Dr. Huffman, the physi cian is currently prac ticing in Hennepin Coun ty Hospital in Minnea polis, Minn. Dr. Huffman and her husband, both of whom are nephrologists, will be relocating to Chapel Hill where he will be practicing. She plans to serve as full-time medical direc tor of the dialysis cen ter, Ms. Haas said. Women Are Rescued By Littleton Men Two women of tfte Ar eola community owe their lives to the fast ac tion of four young men from Littleton. Ronald Boyd, his twin brother, Donald, another brother, William, and their friend, James Jones, were on their way to Daze Disco in Hollister in the early morning hours of July 10 when they spotted a house engulfed in smoke in the Areola area. Bell Hedgepeth, who is in her 80s, and her daughter, Louise Hedgepeth, occupants of the house, had been awakened by the smell of smoke. Both had tried unsuc cessfully to escape from the house and Louise had been overcome by smoke in her attempt Arriving on the scene, Donald Boyd, 21, an em ployee of J. P. Stevens k Co., Inc. in Roanoke Rapids, went to a win dow and got Louise Hedgepeth out of the house. Ronald helped Louise's mother oat of the burning home. William Boyd, 20, searched the house for other occupants while Jones, also 20, drove to seek help and to call the fire department. Although the house was totally destroyed by the fire, no one was in jured, thanks to the heroic efforts of the young men. Attend Conference Warren County Com missioners Eva Clayton, Francis Alston and Jack Harris and County Manager Glenwood Newsome this week at tended the 48th annual conference of the National Association of Counties in Milwaukee, Wis. The conference, which began Saturday and ended yesterday, was scheduled to address such issues as revenue sharing; major service programs including education, health, »»»d human services; com munity development; employment; transpor tation; and public MNVJJT • Warming Elderly Is Summertime Thought By KAY HORNER Staff Writer While Warren County residents are sweltering under record-breaking temperatures, the Coordi nating Council for Senior Citizens in Warren ton is planning ways to keep the elderly warm this winter. According to Allen Hawks, project director, the council is working mi a two-phase weatherization program targeted at homes of senior citizens in the county. The program, which will utilize the time and talent of volunteers, will identify homes where repair work is needed and wanted, and then make the repairs necessary to secure the home against the weather. "People often complain about federal and state programs for which the taxpayer eventually pays," Hawks said this week. "Our program will give the local person input into a program that will help people on a volunteer basis." Hawks estimated that over 90 percent of Warren ton's population, or more than 3,000 people, are over 60. He is hoping that civic groups, extension homemaker clubs, and churches will become in volved in the effort to help the elderly of the county. Mrs. Miriam Coleman of Warrenton will be direc ting the program. Her position is federally funded by VISTA (Volunteers in Service for America) for only one year. She noted that she would like to see the program so successful that civic ad church groups would con tinue the effort even after her term on the project ends. Mrs. Coleman is recruiting volunteers for the weatherization program and its accompanying financial income counseling program. In the latter, volunteers will be trained to assist senior citizens in budgeting their income, and in getting the moat for their money in their purchases. Mrs. Coleman anticipates that the projects will be ready for Implementation by November or Decern ber. "The programs put us I ed, as a volunteer count made us when we began other." Mrs. Coleman indicate social services agencies concern that the elderly i young in taking advantag ment programs designed She and Hawks are op community residents wt will make the senior citi responding to the offer of "We want to use sac younger arms," Mr*. Cob Anyone interested in v for the programs or pro* the weatherization progi Senior Citizen Coordinate office is located at 1SB S. 1 lack where America start ry," she said. "It's what as colonies helping each 1 that those working with have expressed to her the re more hesitant than the i of community or govern to assist them. timistic that having local rUng with the programs tens more comfortable in issistance. le of the energy in the man said. alunteering their services iding materials for um in ■m are asked to call the ig Council at 357-3111. The lain Street in Warranted.
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