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Volume 87 25* Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, October 17, 1984 Number 42
Post Office
Theft Nets
About $500
A midday break-in at
the Wise Post Office on
Friday resulted in the
theft of approximately
$500, according to
Warren County Deputy
Sheriff Thomas McCaf
fity.
Because the break-in
occurred between noon
and 1 p. m. during the
regular lunch time for
Postmistress Marie G.
Wilson, the sheriffs de
partment is inclined to
believe the entry was
made by someone
familiar with the
schedule of the post
mistress.
Mrs. Catherine Per
kins, a patron, discover
ed the break-in and
called Mrs. Wilson when
she noticed that the
doors to the mailroom
had been broken. The
sheriff's department
was notified immediate
ly.
Deputy McCaffity
reported that all four
locks, two regular locks
and two padlocks, on the
mailroom doors had
been broken.
A spokesperson for
the Warren County
Sheriff's Department
indicated on Tuesday af
ternoon that no arrests
have been made.
Market Sales
Figures Rise
Sales on the Warren
ton Tobacco Market on
Monday topped the
season's average by
$10.31 per hundred
pounds. Mrs. Alice
Marie Robertson, sales
supervisor, reported
that 394,543 pounds of
tobacco sold for
$750,145.94, indicating
an average of $190.13
per hundred.
This was an increase
over the seasonal
average which stands at
$179.82 per hundred
pounds. Monday's
figures brought the
season's total pounds
sold to 5,410,014 for total
proceeds of
$9,728,376.90.
The 11 percent of
tobacco on the
warehouse floors going
to Stabilization on Mon
day represented a
decline from the
season's average of 21
percent, Mrs. Robertson
stated.
Sale days next week
will be Tuesday and
Thursday, Oct 23 and
25.
0-1 Dividend
Wins Approval
The board of directors
of Owens-Illinois, Inc.,
earlier this month
declared a regular quar
terly dividend of 42
cents per common
share, payable Dec. 15 to
shareholders to record
Nov. 2. Robert J. Lani
gan, chairman, said the
company has paid quar
terly dividends without
interruption since 1907.
Owena-Illinois, which
is building a plant in
Warren County, is a
major producer of glass,
plastic, paper, and
metal products
primarily in packaging,
with a growing interest
in health care products
and services and flnan
Bishop C. P. Minnick, Jr. of the North Carolina
Conference Joined Warren County Methodists Sun
day night in their celebration of the Bicentennial of
Methodism. Bishop Minnick delivered the sermon
and served communion to Methodists from through
out the county who filled Norlina Methodist Church
for the 7 p. m. service. Bishop Minnick is shown
above with his wife, Mary Ann, (left) and Mrs. J.
Thomas Smith, wife of the Raleigh District Super
intendent, at a buffet dinner held at the parsonage
of Wesley Memorial Methodist Church prior to the
service. The visit by the newly-appointed bishop
was the first by a bishop to Warrenton since 1968
and the first to Norlina since 1977. There are more
than 800 churches in the N. C. Conference.
(Photo by Mary Hunter)
Warren Is One Of Four Counties
Picked For Pilot Health Project
State Director of Men
tal Health, Mental Re
tardation, and Sub
stance Abuse Services
Dr. A. Eugene Douglas
announced recently that
North Carolina has re
ceived a $92,000 grant to
develop a special two
year child mental health
pilot project in Warren
County and three other
counties of the state.
The Family Preserva
tion Project, which is
patterned after a suc
cessful program in
Tacoma, Wash, is
designed to help prevent
the separation of
troubled children and
adolescents from their
families.
The grant is from the
Edna McConnell Clark
Foundation, a large
private national foun
dation based in New
York that seeks to
assure that abused,
neglected and troubled
children have per
manent homes.
Douglas said the
Family Preservation
Project, which began
Oct. 1, will be a
cooperative effort be
tween the N. C. Depart
ment of Human Re
sources' Division of
Mental Health, Mental
Retardation and Sub
stance Abuse Services,
the Division of Social
Services, and the
Juvenile justice system.
Vance, Granville,
Franklin, andJ¥arren
counties were^elected
as the pilot area because
of their commitment to
family preservation, ac
cording to project direc
tor Dr. Lenore Behar,
who is also chief of Child
Mental Health Pro
grams in the Division of
Mental Health, Mental
Retardation and Sub
stance Abuse Services.
She said the area mental
health program in the
four-county region has
proved effective in
working with very dif
ficult family situations.
"Separating children
and families is psycho
logically devastating
and very costly in many
way," Dr. Behar said.
"This generous gift will
help North Carolina
focus on keeping
troubled children and
families together during
a time of crisis."
She said the Family
Preservation Project is
designed to help 20
families a year stay
together in cases where
separation of a child is
imminent because of
neglect or abuse, or
when a juvenile court
has decided to send a
delinquent youth to a
state training school.
"This project will
greatly strengthen our
mental health commit
ment to families in
North Carolina," Behar
said. "This is an
economical way to keep
families together and to
avoid the tragedy of a
child being placed un
necessarily in a foster
home or training
school."
A team composed of a
program coordinator
and a home therapist
will go into homes to
help families learn to
communicate better and
to solve their problems
by putting the families
in touch with services
they need.
Dr. Behar said that if
the Family Preserva
tion Project is suc
cessful, she hopes it can
be expanded into other
counties of the state in
the future.
Minute Mart Theft Reported
Cash, food stamps,
and checks totalling
$1,448 were taken Sun
day morning from
Currin's Minute Mart
located on U. S. 1 in
Norlina, according to
Sgt. James Champion
with the Norlina Police
Department.
The breakdown of
items taken showed
$1,200 in cash, $100 in
food stamps, and $148 in
checks, all of which
were taken from a safe
inside the store.
Champion stated that
there was no evidence of
a break-in. Apparently
someone either
remained inside after
the midnight closing
hour or had a key to the
convenience store. The
money was taken by
someone who knew the
combination to the safe,
according to Champion.
Th« robbery was
reported when the store
reopened at 7 a. m. on
Sunday. No arrests have
been made, but an in
vestigation is continu
ing.
Another police report
from the Norlina de
partment recorded a
two-car accident at 7:30
a. m. Monday at the in
(Continued on page 10)
Five outstanding volunteers from Warren Comity
were honored at the Governor** Statewide Volun
teer Awards Ceremoay Oct t la Raleigh. Each
award winner received a certificate and special
volunteer pin beartag the "Volunteer North Caro
lina" logo and the date. The program aloe Included
a reception and entertainment by the Varsity Men's
Glee Club s( N. C. State IMvenrity. Local vohm
teen and their categories shown above are: (left to
right) Dorothy ft Wta-lmi j, ladliMnal hwuii ser
vice volunteer; Martin Richardson, senior dtiaen
volunteer; and Norma Q. Retzlaff, school votan
teer; (front row) Patty T. Hargrove, accepting for
John R. Hawktaa Ahunni and Friends, lac., la the
Community Volunteer Organixation category i aad
Marshall L. Fogg accepting for Ilea's Volunteer
Groop of Locnst Grove Baptist Church. 8hown with
the gronp are Goveraor aad Mrs. James B. Hunt,
Jr. Not pictured was The Warrea Record, wWch
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teer tnvotvement category.
Zoning Ordinance
Is Well Received
A proposed Warren
County zoning ordin
ance designed to ad
dress either partial or
countywide zoning was
well received by Warren
County commission
ers during a work
session with the county
Planning Board last
Wednesday night.
Only one commission
er, dairyman William
Skinner of Littleton, ex
pressed reservations
about the ordinance
during the two-hour in
formal meeting. Skin
ner, who noted that
landowners should be
able to use their land as
they see fit, has in
previous meetings ex
pressed the view that
zoning would infringe on
the rights of the private
landowner.
Currently, only the
Kerr Lake and Gaston
Lake areas of the county
are zoned, primarily for
single-family dwellings
and neighborhood
business and recreation
classifications.
In addition to the
categories, the proposed
ordinance addresses
multi-family dwellings,
industry, business,
mobile home parks, as
well as planned unit
developments.
The ordinance itself
does not delineate which
areas of the county will
be zoned. That infor
mation is contained in
an accompanying
zoning map. Among the
areas zoned on a map
presented for reference
by the Planning Board
at the work session was
an Industrial corridor on
U. S. 1 between Norlina
and Soul City where the
county has installed
water and sewer lines
and other areas under
option by the County In
dustrial Commission for
development.
"We want to protect
the county's investment
in water and sewer
lines," 0. L. "Butch"
Meek told the commis
sioners
It is up to the Plan
ning Board to make a
formal proposal to the
commissioners, who
will vote on the ordi
nance and map after
(Continued on page 10)
More Muggings
Reported Here
By KAY HORNER
News Editor
Five muggings have
been reported to the
Warrenton Police
Department in the past
two weeks, and police
yesterday were looking
for suspects in two of the
muggings which oc
curred Monday night.
According to police
records, someone at
tempted to rob Mrs.
Jennette Fletcher of 209
Plummer Street about
9:10 p. m. when she was
going from her car to
the door of her home af
ter shopping at the local
A&P. The assailant ask
ed Mrs. Fletcher for her
pocketbook and when
she replied that she
didn't have one, he
knocked her bag of
groceries out of her arm
and fled.
Mrs. Fletcher's yard
was lit by floodlights at
the time of the incident.
Within minutes, the
Rev. Nancy McCann,
also returning from
A&P, was mugged going
from her car to the door
of her home at 311 Fair
view Street. Mrs. Mc
Cann said someone
jumped her from behind
and grabbed her around
the throat so she
couldn't scream. When
she let go of her pocket
book, the assailant
grabbed it and ran.
Police Chief Freddie
Robinson said Tuesday
that he had suspects in
the case, but no arrests
had been made as of
Tuesday afternoon.
"The same sort of
thing has been happen
ing in Henderson,"
Robinson commented.
"We really don't know
what to make of it"
Last Wednesday, five
Warrenton youths were
charged in connection
with an Oct 9 incident in
front of John Graham
Middle School Library
on North Main Street.
Michael Anthony
Harrington, 18, was
charged with attempted
larceny from a person
and was released on his
promise to appear in
court.
King Perry, Jr., 16,
Waverly Taylor, 16,
Rufus Henderson, Jr.,
17, were also charged
with attempted larceny
from a person and were
released into the
custody of their parents.
Clifton Keith Terry,
17, was charged with
aiding and abetting at
tempted larceny from a
person and was released
into the custody of his
parents.
The arrests came
from an attempted
mugging of Brenda
Spragins of Littleton
and Pearl Lewis of
Vaughan as they
emerged from a craft
class at the school
library.
All five youths are to
appear in District Court
on Oct. 31.
In two other cases,
Gid Macon of 304 N.
Main Street was
mugged and his wallet
taken as he unlocked the
door of his home around
8:10 p. m. on Oct. 2 and
Miss Mary Frances
Rodwell's purse was
snatched on Oct. 3
around 5:30 p. m. as she
walked down Main
Street near First
Citizens Bank.
A grandchild of
Warrenton Mayor B. G.
White found Macon's
wallet the following
Sunday in a creek
behind the mayor's
home on Ridgeway
Street. According to
White, cash was missing
but credit cards,
driver's license and
other contents of the
wallet were intact.
Chief Robinson said
he thought the two most
recent muggings
"might be" unrelated to
the other incidents. No
arrests have been made
in connection with the
mugging of Macon and
Miss Rodwell.
Briley Is Executed
One of six convicts
who made their way to
Warren County last May
31 after escaping from
Mecklenburg, Va.
Correctional Center
died In the electric chair
in Richmond last Friday
night
Linwood Briley, 30,
was executed at 11 p. m
for the 1979 murder and
robbery of a Rich
mond disc Jockey. He
was also serving life
plus sentences for rape,
robbery and six other
murders in 1971.
The May escape,
which also involved
Briley's brother James,
was the largest escape
of death row prisoners
in U. S. history. The
search for the escapees
encompassed Vance and
Granville as well as
Warren counties.
Two of the inmates
were arrested at
Willoughby's in Warren
ton the day after their
escape. Two more were
arrested in Vermont a
few days later after
having stolen a truck in
the Afton area for their
getaway.
The Brileys were ap
prehended in Philadel
phia, Pa. on June 19.
A plea for clemency
tar Brlley was unheed
ed by Virginia Gov.
Ctartoiftobfe.