Newly elected officers of the Region K Private Industry Council are Jerry
Lee, chairperson; Barbara Bryant, second vice-chairperson; and Charles
Worth, first vice-chairperson. The officers were elected at the council's first
annual meeting last week in Middleburg.
Partnership Talked At Meeting
The Jobs Training
Partnership Act
(JTPA), its regional
programs, and state and
local planning goals
capped, INCO, and Per
son County vocational
workshop; Franklin,
Vance, Warren Oppor
tunities, Inc., youth
were tne tocus or
discussion at the first
annual meeting of the
Regional K Rural Pri
vate Industry Council
(PIC) held recently in
Middleburg.
Jerry Lee, PIC chair
person, convened the
meeting. Special agenda
items included talks
from state representa
tives of the N. C. Office
of the Rural Private In
dustry Council, Natural
Resources and Com
munity Development;
Employment Security
Commission, Institu
tionalized Offender's
Project; and a filmstrip
presentation of instruc
tional developmental
studies by HBT Media
Systems, Inc.
Discussing the
JTPA's nine-month
transitional period and
overall objectives of the
Act, Warren Perry,
Grants Planning and
Policy Development
manager with the Office
of the Rural Private In
dustry Council in
Raleigh, emphasized to
the council the bottom
line for industry; subsi
dized training targeted
to employer needs, and
short and long range tax
credits serving as direct
incentives for industry
involvement.
Performance rates of
local programs and the
fiscal year 1985 compre
hensive design of ser
vices were detailed by
Jane Ball-Groom, COG
planner. She stated that
as a result of fiscal year
1984's first nine months.
JTPA programs in the
five counties of Region
K have generated em
ployment and/or educa
tion and training for
over 300 persons
through local programs
such as on-the-job train
ing, upgrade, individual
referral, human re
source development,
youth limited work ex
perience, and basic
education for the handi
capped.
During the 1984
program year, the
council awarded over
$900,000 to local employ
ment and training agen
cies in Region K to
disburse JTPA services.
JTPA dollars allocat
ed to the region for
fiscal year 1985 and
awarded by the Private
Industry Council to
regional operators will
exceed one million
dollars.
Program operators
for this year are: Em
ployment Security Com
mission, on-t?*®;jL0,
training and Individual
referral; Vance^ran
viiie Community
College and Piedmont
Technical College,
human resource de
velopment, SP®0*®!
training for the handi
uiuueu wuiiv CApcx
ience; Board of
Education in Franklin,
Person, Vance and
Warren County, drop
out prevention centers;
and Vance-Granville
Community College,
private sector sewing
machine operator train
ing.
Formed in 1983, the
Region K Rural Private
Industry Council is a
five-county partnership
of business leaders and
representatives from
education and com
munity service organi
zations appointed by
local elected officials as
mandated under the
JTPA legislation to
provide regional policy,
governorship, and effec
tive employment and
training activities to
economically disadvant
aged youth and adults
in the five counties of
Franklin, Granville,
Person, Vance and
Warren.
The Kerr Tar Council
of Governments with J.
D. Everett as executive
director, is the lead
regional organization
for the Private Industry
Council and serves as
the technical/adminis
trative planning arm in
the implementation of
JTPA delivery services.
In its election of of
ficers, the PIC reaf
firmed its partnership
insuring future success
of employment and
training programs in the
area. Elected officers
are Jerry Lee, chair
person, Person County;
Charles Worth, first vice
chairperson, Warren
County; and Barbara
Bryant, second vice
chairperson, Granville
County. Other PIC
members are C. E. Ed
monds, Mae Rahman,
Lee McCollum, James
Anderson, James Mills,
John Fogg, Sam Brum
mitt, Anora Williams,
Joseph N. Alexander,
Priscilla Hair, Dick
Wetmore, Dr. William
Rentz, Dr. Benjamin
Currin, Gene Allen,
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Methodist Parsonage Home For West
(Continued from page IB)
William, Charles, Buckner, Nathaniel and Bettie.
Ella, during one of her visits to the nation's capi
tal, met and subsequently married a former gover
nor of Texas, Peter Hansborough Bell, then a repre
sentative in Congress. Although they lived a few
years in San Antonio, they eventually returned to
Ella's native Warren ton living in, the home her
father had built for her.
In 1069, William Eaton, Sr. died and was buried in
the southeast corner of the home's yard which is
now behind the educational building of the
Methodist church.
In 1890, the Bells sold the home to W. P. Baughm
of Washington and moved to neighboring Littleton.
Both of the Bells died shortly thereafter and are
buried there.
It was Baughm who divided his estate allowing
the church to purchase two lots on which to build a
new sanctuary.
After three years, the house was sold by Baughm
to six local men who planned to convert it into a
hotel, a fate that might have been realized had not
one of their number, Charles C. Jackson, bought out
his partners to make his family home there.
Jackson, who was well connected in Warren
County, was a successful merchant.
The illness of Mrs. Jackson, who was a Gregory
from Oxford, necessitated the addition of a wing on
the southern end of the house for use as a bedroom.
In 1941, Jackson died leaving the property to his
wife who left it to their only daughter, Jennie, the
wife of Charles A. Tucker.
The upkeep of the expansive grounds and the
home became such a problem that Tucker sold the
house and yard, except for one corner where his of
fice was, to Allen.
Because of the generosity of the Aliens and the in
terest of Wesley Memorial's congregation in
preservation, the home that for many years was
known as the "showplace of Warren ton" is being
maintained.
It is especially meaningful to many that it is
preserved not as a museum but as a home.
"Although this is my third church, it's the first
time I've lived next door to the church," West
commented. "In a sense, you never really get away
from your work as a minister wherever you live,
and in a town this small, it's nice. People are very
gracious about respecting the fact that this is the
minister's home."
But West doesn't want church members or the
community to feel the parsonage is unapproach
able. In fact, this summer Warrentonians out for
their evening stroll have noticed open doors and
lights on throughout the house. It's West's way of
reminding local residents that they are welcome at
the parsonage.
For West, the present church, which was enlarged
and renovated in part through a generous contribu
tion by the Aliens, and its parsonage are not only
reminders of the past, but tools for ministry in the
present.
Jobless Rote
Higher Here
June unemployment
rates inched upward in
Warren County, • report
from the Employment
Security Commission of
North Carolina revealed
this week.
Warren was one of M
North Carolina counties
in which the Jobless rate
increased moderately.
Warren's unemploy
ment rate for June stood
at 8.8 percent, compar
ed with May's rate of 8.5
percent. The slight rise
means that during June
570 of the county's 6,450
person labor force were
without jobs.
Jobless rates in neigh
boring counties in June
included Vance, 9.6 per
cent; Franklin, 8.9 per
cent; Halifax, 13.2 per
cent and Northampton,
12.1 percent.
Cut Flowers
The average American
spends $15 each year on cut
flowers and potted plants.