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Volume 87 25c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, December 12, 1984 Number 50
Santa came to Warrenton in style Saturday courtesy
of Karl Hehl, antique carriage collector and
owner of Carriage Fuel & Oil Co., who drove the
jolly fellow through the streets of Warrenton in a
horsedrawn surry during the annual Christmas
Parade. Shown above with Santa are Hehi and his
three-year-old daughter, Jamie. For more parade
photos, see page 12. (Staff Photo)
Warrenton Board Takes No Action
On Request For Rezoning Property
By MARY C.HARRIS
Staff Writer
The Warrenton Town
Board voted on Monday
evening to postpone action
on a rezoning
request which would
allow for the construction
of proposed apartment
complexes on the
Ridgeway road and
West Franklin Street.
Approval for the
rezoning had been given
by the Warrenton Planning
Board during a
Nov. 26 meeting and was
presented to the commissioners
for consideration.
Present to represent
K & B Walker Corporation,
developers of the
proposed projects, were
L. C. Cooper, corporation
officer on whose
land the Ridgeway Road
apartments would be
built, and Warrenton
lawyer T. T. Clayton,
legal advisor for the
corporation.
As in a public hearing
on Nov. 11, the board
members heard from
those opposed to the
Ridgeway Road project.
A petition of opposition
containing 42 names, objections
voiced by Ron
Douglas, a resident of
the community, and a
letter from one of the
heirs of the Wortham
property adjoining the
land in question represented
the opposition.
The commissioners
determined that a
decision of this import
required careful consideration
and so tabled
the matter until a later
meeting.
Mayor B. G. White
presided over the 7:30 p.
Results Of Election
Released For County
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Community Committee elections were held
recently for the one-year term beginning January 1,
1965.
Following is a list of townships with the newly
elected committeemen listed in order of chairperson,
vice-chairperson, regular member, and first
and second alternate:
Fishing Creek — Edward Conn, Frank A. Gupton,
Harvey B. King, Billy L. King and Dantton Francis.
Jadktns — James H. Robertson, Arthur Lee
Evans, David M. Hight, Matt D. Nelson, Jr., and
Alex Henderson.
Sandy Creek — Willis A. Fleming, Andy B.
Garrett, Raeford Pernell, Otha L Hayes, Jr., and
Owens H. Williams.
Warrenton — A. Kenneth Mustian, Ernest C.
Brauer, Robert 0. Rideout, Franklin Rivers and
Wendell H. Wilson.
Fork — Gillis Alston, Leon S. Williams, Glenn
Coleman, Sr., V. A. Dillard, and Bennie P. Collier.
Nutbush — A. P. Holtzman, Jr., W. B. Ellington,
L. M. Bender, Raymond J. Seaman and James 0.
Green.
Sixpouna — uieiui i\. ruggaii, ruurjr m. ixvu;, Cj.
P. Daniel, George A. Perkinson and David Bell.
Shocco—William L. Fuller, Jr., Eugene Mustian,
Jr., Edward Somervtlle, W. P. Jones, Lucioua
O'Neal, Jr.
Hawtree — Robert H. Frailer, Luther I. Perkinson,
Dennis H. Stegall, Macon Myrick and
James H. Taylor.
River - J. Robert King, Herbert C. Harris, Edward
Warren, Abner Brown and D. S. Iales.
Smith Creek — Sidney 0. Burton, Richard J.
Holtzmann, Calvin Seaman, Charles W. Lynch and
A. 0. Johnson.
Chairperson, vlc*cteirperaon and regular member
of each community committee will be delegates
to the county convention to fill vacancies on the
rountv committee.
The convention will be held on Dec. 17, at 1:31 p.
m. in the courthouse in Warranton.
m. meeting which was
attended by six commissioners
and several
guests.
Brad Carroll, representing
the Warren
County Industrial Commission,
reported on the
meeting held Thursday
at the Courthouse in
the interest of historical
preservation of Warrenton
and Warren County.
He requested the town's
support for efforts to
seek the funding for
preservation efforts. He
reported that research
was being conducted
regarding possible
grants and that steps
were being taken to
make application for a
Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation grant right
away.
in omer Dusiness, me
board heard Bill
Reimann of Leary Construction
Co. recommend
that a wax coating
be applied to the interior
of the water tank of the
north end of town near
Warren General
Hospital. This measure,
he said, would keep in
effect the 10-year
warranty offered on the
repair work done on the
tank by his company in
1981. Board members
voted to postpone a
decision on the recoating
until Reimann
could inspect the tank
and assess the need.
The commissioners
A facsimile check for t
seated recently for me b
Children'* HeapitaL Tatt
tioa, held at a ladle* aifht
UemDea, were, left ta rig
divai; William Harrell, |
County Shrine Chib ; Ray!
er; Joe Edferton, treasur
heard a second reading
of the proposed 60-year
franchise by Carolina
Power and Light Company
for electrical service
to the town of
Warrenton. The 1925
franchise now in effect
will expire next year.
Commissioners accepted
the franchise on the
second reading. Gordon
Greene, representative
of the power company
who has recently
been transferred from
the Warrenton office,
was present to express
his appreciation for the
town's cooperation
during his tenure here
and to pledge the continued
service of his
company.
Winter Distribution
Scheduled At Armory
The winter distribution of U. S. Department of
Agriculture surplus foods will be held from 8:30 a.
m. to 5 p. m. on Dec. 19 at the National Guard Armory
in Warrenton, according to Julian Farrar,
Social Services director.
Five items to be distributed are rice, dry milk,
honey, corn meal and cheese. The items are for low
income families with income at or below gross income
limits as follows: family of one, $540 a month;
family of two, $728 a month; family of three, $917 a
month; and family of four $1,105 a month.
Anyone wishing to receive foods for an invalid or
housebound individual must bring a signed statement
from the individual indicating his or her income
and approval for the food to be received by the
representative.
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Closing Of Hospital
Draws Citizen Protest
Another
Meet Set
By KAY HORNER
News Editor
It was standing room
only in Warren County
Courtroom Tuesday
night as local citizens
protested the planned
January 1 suspension of
in-patient and emergency
room services at
financially troubled
Warren General
Hospital and charged
county commissioners
and hospital trustees
with failing to explore
all the options for
keeping the hospital
open.
a pian, agreed on last
week by the two boards,
calls for establishment
of an urgent care center
for treatment of minor
traumas during a sixmonth
period in which
the hospital would undergo
roof replacement
and interior renovation
before conversion to
some type of primary
health care center. (The
care to be offered has
yet to be determined
pending a report from
the N. C. Office of Rural
Health which is currently
conducting a study of
the hospital and medical
needs of county
citizens. The repairs are
being financed by a federal
grant.)
Chief among the concerns
expressed by
(Continued on page 12)
Theo Hecht, left, and his brother Ernest, stand behind an antique
Ford tractor which has been on the lot of E. G. Hecht and Sons in
Norlina for a half-dozen years. Featured in the December issue of
National Geographic, the tractor may soon be on its way to Kansas,
where a man interested in restoring the tractor hopes to put it back into
running condition. (Staff Photo)
Norlina Is Featured
By PAT BAKER
Norlina Correspondent
Theo and Ernest Hecht's Indian
Museum in Norlina has been of interest
to the news media for some
time now.
This past fall, the Hechts were
the subject of an interview by Irving
Hester of WTVD-TV, Channel
11, in Durham, and a feature
story published in The News and
Observer of Raleigh.
Those interviews were not the
first nor the»last for the Hechts.
Two years ago, William L.
Blewett, a researcher with National
Geographic magazine,
traveled down U. S. 1 from Van
Buren, Maine to Key West, Fla. to
research an article on the highway
so well-traveled before the
advent of interstate.
The reporter stopped at Hecht's
Museum and spent several hours
in an interview and photo session.
The result was a photograph of
an old Ford tractor from the
museum and a brief mention of
Theo Hecht and the Norlina area
in the magazine's December 1984
issue.
As Theo said recently, "It's not
often that Norlina or any other
area of our county makes National
Geographic."
The article suggests that in
years to come, the culture represented
along U. S. 1 will be as
revered as restored colonial Williamsburg
is today.
Norlina was one of just three
points in North Carolina which
were mentioned by the writer.
(The other two are Raleigh and
Wolf Pit, a community on the border
of the two Carolinas.)
The Hechts are doing much to
preserve artifacts from our ar$a
which are a reflection of our
heritage and our culture. For this,
they and we should be proud.
Trooper Is Given
Promotion, Transfer
Trooper C. E. Lockley
of Warrenton has been
promoted to sargeant
with the N. C. Highway
Patrol, and has been
transferred to Elizabethtown,
effective Dec.
1, according to Russ
Edmonston, public information
officer with
the N. C. Department
of Crime Control and
Public Safety.
Warren County was
Sgt. Lockley's first
assignment after completing
patrol school in
September 1977.
He said this week that
he and his family will be
moving to Elizabethtown
as soon as they can
obtain housing.
Sgt. Lockley's wife,
Carolyn, is employed
with the Warrer County
Department of Social
Services. They have two
daughters, ages four
and eight.
Lockley was one of 48
officers whose
promotions were announced
last week. A
total of sevan transfers
were also announced.
The changes were
largely to fill vacancies
left by an unusually high
number of rsflrnnili
Jury Trial
Begun Here
The jury trial of Craig
Lynch on two changes of
breaking, entering and
larceny, and safecracking
at Areola
Grocery and Amos L.
Capps Pulpwood Co. in
Nov. 1962 began Monay
in Warren County
Superior Court.
As of Tuesday afternoon,
evidence was still
being presented and the
case had not gone to the
Jury.
Two cases were
disposed of by Resident
Superior Court Judge
Robert Hobgood of
Louisburg before the
Jury trial got underway.
A suspenaea seniencf
and probation riven
Larry Wayne Hamra of
Ines in 1979 for assault
inflicting serious Injury
were revoked by Judge
Hobgood because of
probation violate**, including
a conviction in
19K1 on two counts of
to turn. Ham
Uon on the 1981
tion was