Road Delegation Heard
By County Commissioners
Willie Davis, a
resident of Minnie
Yancey Road near Soul
City, once again appeared
before Warren County
commissioners Monday
morning at their
regular meeting to
request assistance in
getting the road
upgraded.
The only obstacle to
the improvements is the
signature of Perdue,
inc. on a petition granting
the needed right-ofway
to the state. Perdue,
a Maryland-based
poultry producer, owns
land on the road. Its
representatives have
declined to sign citing
the possibility that the
road could interfere
with future construction.
County Manager
Charles Worth told
Davis that he has again
written to Perdue to
request its assent to the
project.
"We need to ask them
to respond in the next
two weeks," Chairperson
Eva M. Clayton
said. "It is incumbent
upon us to put more
pressure on Perdue."
Also appearing before
the commissioners
about road matters
were residents of State
Road 1110 south of
Norlina and State Road
1-118 from Vaughan to
Macon.
The commissioners
approved resolutions
requesting the Department
of Transportation
to grade, drain, and
pave both roads.
They also passed a
resolution in support of
a project by R. B.
Nelson of Robersonville
to establish N. C. 903
from the Virginia and
North Carolina state
line to Wilmington.
Nelson specifically requested
the commissioners
to recommend
the widening of S.R. 1357
northeast of Vaughan at
Lake Gaston from 18
feet to 22 feet to link up
with the proposed N. C.
903.
In other business, the
commissioners:
—Allocated 15,171 to
the Warren County
Senior Citizens Council
for 10 percent matching
funds on a grant application
for funds to
complete renovation of
the vocation building at
Hawkins School for a
senior citizens center.
Allan Hawks, director
of the council, said the
grant, if approved,
would enable workers to
complete the inside
renovation.
—Appointed Margaret
Cooper of Warrenton to
the Warren General
Hospital Board. Commissioners
also voted to
review the resolution
creating the board after
Commissioner Jack
Harris noted that it
provides that a member
be appointed from each
voting precinct and two
be appointed from
Warrenton precinct.
The board agreed to
consider those requirements
in future
appointments to assure
fair representation from
various parts of the
county.
—Appointed Joseph
Alexander of Warrenton
to replace Mrs. Clayton
on the Region K Private
Industry Council. Mrs.
Clayton stepped down
because of other responsibilities.
—Heard a request
from Curtis Palmer of
Warrenton that
recreational facilities at
area schools be made
more accessible to the
general public and that
additional facilities and
programs be considered
for recreation.
Mrs. Clayton
suggested that the board
consider the appointment
of a Recreation
Commission to identify
and coordinate
recreational and
cultural activities in the
county.
—Heard a report from
Warren County
Agricultural Extension
Chairman Russell King
on the county's fouryear
Peoples Plan for
1987. He noted that the
report, which was
distributed to commissioners,
contained
county educational and
operational goals in the
areas of farm
management, home
economics, 4-H and
agriculture.
Fickle March
Gets Garden
Work Going
March can be frosty,
sunny, windy, rainy,
snowy, or combinations
of these. What you can
do in the garden this
month will depend on
the weather.
Although the weather
may limit what you are
able to do, here are
some reminders of garden
chores that should
be done from
agricultural extension
specialists at North
Carolina State University.
March is the time to
sow some root crops and
leafy crops such as
beets, turnips, radishes,
rutabagas, Chinese
cabbage, kale, spinach
and leaf lettuce.
You can set out plants
of head lettuce, cabbage,
broccoli and
cauliflower. Sow onion
seeds or put out onion
sets. Irish potatoes can
be planted this month.
March is a month of
pruning and trimming.
Ligustrum, Chinese
holly and shrubs that
have grown out of
bounds can be pruned.
Hybrid tea roses should
be pruned before new
growth starts in the
spring. Thin out the
oldest canes, and cut
back those left to hold
them and keep them in
control.
Bunch grapes and
muscadine grapes may
be pruned this month.
Both muscadine and
bunch grapes will
"bleed" or exude sap
when pruned during
warm weather. This
does not harm the vines.
Check with your county
agricultural extension
office for more information
on how to prune
bunch grapes and
muscadines.
Delay pruning azaleas
and other shrubs with
dead leaves until the
plant buds open in the
spring in order to see
how much of the plant
was cold damaged. Just
because the leaves were
killed during the extremely
cold weather in
December and January
doesn't mean the branches
were killed as well.
If your liriope, pampas
grass or other ornamental
grasses look
ragged, you should cut
them back before new
growth begins. Liriope
can be cut with the
lawnmower. If new
growth is already started,
raise the lawn
mower's blades so the
new leaves will not be
damaged.
Also, take time to enjoy
the blossoms of
spring as they open
across North Carolina.
Although (lowering
dates will vary, here are
a few plants to look for
in bloom: daffodils,
crocus, pear, peach,
Judas tree (redbud),
pines, red maple,
camellia, forsythia,
crabapple, flowering
quince, hyacinth, pansies
and violets.
LINDA W.WOOD
Mrs. Wood Gets
Sales Position
Realty World and
Warrenton Insurance
and Real Estate is
pleased to announce the
association of Linda
West Wood as a salesperson.
Mrs. Wood will assist
affiliated with the firm
as an insurance
customer service
representative since
September 1982. She will
now also be actively
engaged in the listing
and selling of properties
for the agency.
A native of Warren
County, Mrs. Wood now
resides on Country Club
Road in Warrenton.
She is the daughter of
Donald Lee and Ida Mae
West of Warrenton, and
is married to Calvin J.
Wood of Okeechobee,
Fla., a student at Southeastern
Baptist
Theological Seminary.
They have a son,
Damon, who is eight
years old.
Mrs. Wood is a
graduate of Lee College
where she received her
BS degree in business
education and was
selected to Who's Who in
American Colleges. She
has experience in teaching
and accounting, is a
licensed insurance
agent, has completed 66
hours of course study in
real estate and recently
obtained her real estate
license after successfully
passing the North
Carolina Real Estate
Exam.
Mrs. Wood has been
customers at Warrenton
Insurance and Real
Estate with their real
estate and insurance
needs.
Norlina Commissioners Seek Ways
To Improve Tax Collection Rate
The Town of Norlina
will seek increased
ways of collecting
delinquent municipal
taxes.
That was the opinion
of three of five board
members present for
the monthly meeting of
the town council on
Monday night. Not
present for the meeting
were Councilmen James
Vaughan and Ben Lloyd.
The need to take additional
tax collection
steps, including the
possible garnisheering
of delinquent taxpayer's
salaries, was brought to
the board's attention by
Town Clerk Mae Gums,
who said she did not
have adequate time to
fully pursue ways of
collecting overdue
taxes.
Mayor Bill Perry
distributed a letter from
the Fiscal Management
Section of the Local
Government Commission
expressing concern
over Norlina's 90.5 percent
rate of collection of
ad valorem taxes.
Mrs. Eleanor Hayes, a
member of the town
council, said the rate
should be at least 96
percent.
Town attorney Jules
Banzet asked councilmen
to allow him to
review the remedies
available to towns under
the general statutes of
North Carolina and that
he would make recommendations
for improved
collection at the
next meeting.
John Thomas Harris,
Warren County contractor,
appeared before the
board to explain the installation
of a regional
sewer line across
property owned by
Charles and Alex Katzenstein,
who had
previously complained
that tree cutting on their
property had devalued
their property.
Harris reported that
his company cleared
only that property specified
by L. E. Wooten Co.,
the town's engineering
firm, and that he
estimated the most
trees cut within the 40foot
easement would
have numbered between
15 and 20.
He said the trees measured
between eight and
12 inches in diameter
and that some 2,000 to
2,500 board feet were cut
off the property. He
estimated that this was
valued at between $250
and $300.
Harris said that most
of the clearing involved
underbrush on property
that, because of terrain,
was unsuited as building
property. He said that
his men sawed what
timber was cut and
stacked it along the
easement for the
property owner's use.
Attorney Banzet said
he would like to inspect
the property, and it was
suggested that the Katzenstein
brothers and
Harris might be invited
to meet at the site of
alleged damage to help
settle the controversary.
In another matter,
Commissioner Dwight
Pearce recommended
that the town continue
garbage pickup outside
the town limits at its
cost, or that it not be
done at all. He recommended
that the town
calculate exactly how
much is involved in the
monthly collection cost
and charge that. The
only firm now having its
garbage picked up outside
the municipal
limits is The Country
Store, which is charged
$15 monthly for the service.
Pearce's motion
was unanimously
passed.
Mrs. Gums reported
that Leary Construction
Company had finished
cleaning and painting
the water tank and had
repaired 4,COO pits for a
total cost of $17,812.50.
Mrs. Ruby Jones appeared
before the board
to complain about the
condition of Access
Road leading past her
home. Both she and her
husband noted that the
road liad been scraped
only once this winter.
Mayor Perry said that
the town had neither the
equipment nor the
money to adequately
In Hospital
Patients in Warren
General on Tuesday afternoon
were listed as
follows:
Roy Clark, Allen
Liles, John Rooker,
Sallie Alston, Mac
Bullock, Eula Rivers,
Rufus Williams, Lawrence
Martin, Lucy
King, Gladys Cox,
Mollie Dye, Clyde Rodwell.
Searching for
Glaucoma Treatment
Learning to create glaucoma
in the eyes of test animals
may ultimately show
scientists how to cure the disease
that annually blinds thousands
of humans. Using eye
models which allow researchers
to measure the outflow
and production of the eye's
fluids, Texas A&M medical
pharmacologists have discovered
that the popular glaucoma
drug timolol works in
a way completely different
than researchers had thought.
maintain the street, but
that if a block grant
currently being pursued
by the town is received,
the situation can be
remedied.
Larry Williams,
operator of the Norlina
Bus Station, appeared
before the board to
allow the restaurant
portion of his business to
operate until midnight
on Mondays, Tuesdays
and Wednesdays, and
until 1 a. m. on the
remaining nights, excluding
Sundays.
Williams said that he
had been running the
business for about a
year and that the town
police had experienced
few problems with its
operation. Because his
business contained
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games, including pool, it
was forced to curtail its
operating hours to comply
with a town ordinance
regulating the
hours of pool rooms.
At the urging of councilmen,
Williams said
he would install a window,
required by the or
dinance, and a door to
block off the game portion,
that he would put
up a no loitering sign
and give police written
authority to control after-hour
parking if he
was allowed to extend
his operating hours.
There was no objection
from commissioners
and Williams was
granted to lengthen his
hours when he complies
with the provisions of
the town ordinance.
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