<5ffe Uarren IRecorfc Volume 88 25c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, August 21, 1985 Number 35 Some 200 Teachers Employed Approximately 200 teachers reported to work in the Warren County Schools on Monday and, according to Superintendent Mike Williams, three vacancies are yet to be filled. Still needed are a regular classroom teacher at South Warren Elementary School, a math-science teacher at John Graham Middle School and a dropoutprevention counselor for grades 7-12, Williams said. A search is underway, he said, to identify qualified persons tr finish the teacher quota. The teachers will be joined by close to 3,200 students for an orientation period on Thursday morning. Monday, Aug. 26, will be the first full day of school for students. Rape Charge Being Probed By Officers The Warren County Sheriff's Department is investigating a charge of rape reported by a Franklin County woman early Saturday morning. According to Chief Deputy B. D.Bolton, the woman, 21 and a resident of the Alert community, reported that she was taken from Club 43 on Highway 43 east of Warrenton to a wooded area off Highway 58 and raped. The rape was reported at 5:30 a.m. Deputy Thomas McCaffity is investigating the incident, but no arrests have been made. Bolton also reported the arrest of a Manson man Saturday in connection with the Aug. 13 theft of a vehicle from Randy's Repair Shop in Manson. Larry Donnell Hargrove, 18, was charged with felonious larceny and is being held in Warren County Jail under a $500 bond pending an appearance in District Court today (Wednesday). The 1972 Monte Carlo, registered to Randy Curtis, was located Aug. 14 off RPR 1217 in the Drewry community. r It was valued at $1,500. Bolton and Deputy J. M. Alston investigated. Plans Are Made For Homecoming The Greenwood Baptist Church annual homecoming has been scheduled for Sunday, August 25, at 11:30 a. m. Lunch will be served at the church. Revival services will follow during the week, August 26-30, at 7:30 p. m. nightly. The Rev. Loraiie Braswill will be the guest speaker. Guest musicians will present special music at each service. The public Is cordially Invited to attend. James Jordan, assistant superintendent for business, explains to Warren County's teacher assistants the 1985-86 salary schedule for noncertified personnel. (Community Schools Photo) Junell Blaylock, Warren County's director of Exceptional Programs, provides Exceptional teachers an update on policy and procedure. (Community ScL >olg Photo) Another School Year Is Launched By Warren County Faculty, Staff The 1965-86 school year began Monday for Warren County's 255 faculty and staff members with a countywide teacher's meeting at Warren County School. The day's events began with a continental breakfast and reception in the school's cafeteria, after which teachers and staff members gathered in the theater for the opening assembly. Henry Pitchford, school board chairman, welcomed the group, followed by the invocation by the Rev. Roy Green, pastor at Vaughan Chapel Baptist Church. Mike Williams, superintendent, led the group in the Hedge of Allegiance and Howard Million-Dollar Mark Topped By Warehouses Tobacco sales on Monday pushed the 1985 season total for the Warrenton Tobacco Market over the million-dollar mark and boasted the highest average of the current season locally. Area growers averaged (152.03 per hundred pounds of tobacco sold in the local warehouses on Monday. The average was drawn tram the 201,794 pounds which brought $906,791.30, the supervisor said. One disappointment of the most recent sale day was the season-high 22 percent of the day's offerings which went to Stabilization. The first four sale days of the current season have tallied $1,069,900.47 for 746,599 pounds of the golden leaf, showing a season average to this date of (145.98 per hundred. Eighteen percent of the 1985 season's sale tobacco has been taken by Stabilization. The sales last week reported results as follows: Tues., Aug. 13, 177,246 pounds for (247,181.25, averaging $139.46 per hundred, 21 percent to Stabilization; Thurs., Aug. 15, 167,143 pounds for $251,629.59, averaging $150.55 per hundred, 17 percent to Stabilization. The fifth sale day was set for today (Wednesday), with first sale at Fanners Warehouse, followed by second and third sales at Goitre and High Dollar, respectively. Sales are scheduled for Titesdfcy and Thursday next week. Stultz directed the singing of "America the Beautiful." Glendora Powell provided the accompaniment. Sandra Russell, Warren County's teacher of the year, greeted fellow teachers and challenged them to make the year a productive one. Faye Spence, NCAE president encouraged teachers to become involved members of the professional teachers' organization, after which Mike Williams introduced the system's new teachers. Dr. Howard Maniloff, special assistant to the State Superintendent was the guest speaker for the occasion and talked with the group about the State's recently adopted Basic Education Program. Dr. Maniloff has been instrumental in creating the new program as well as in routing it through the General Assembly. "TTie Basic Education Program is the beginning of an eight-year effort to provide a sound education for all children," Dr. Maniloff explained to the group. "It is a description of the minimal education that should and will be available to every child," said Dr. Maniloff. The educator told the group that the Basic Education Program has been given $86 million this year by the General Assembly, primarily for the reduction of class size, hiring of additional counselors, formation of a remedial summer school and purchasing of new vocational, science and math equipment. Dr. Maniloff challenged Warren County employees to make the most of the new program. "We must demonstrate that this money is well spent," he said. "We must ask how we can be most effictive in teaching our children," he added. "Meeting these heavy responsibilities is not more than our children deserve," Maniloff concluded. With the adoption of the Basic Education Program, the General Assembly and State Department is outlining for educators a curriculum that will be State funded and provided for all children across the state. "Now teachers can focus on how to teach and not what tc teach," Maniloff said. Following Dr. Man! lofTs presentation, em ployees were addressee by Williams, Rachae Ricks, assistant superin tendent for instruction and James Jordan assistant supennt^ndpn for business, who talkec (Continued on page 4B) Low Is Retrooctive Overtime Provisions Are Of Concern Here By KAY HORNER News Editor Formulation of a system whereby Warren County can be in compliance with recent changes in the federal Fair Labor and Standards Act could require the services of a consultant, according to County Manager Charles J. Worth. Although enacted in 1938, the law was recent ly amended to apply to local governments and its provision regarding overtime pay has local officials concerned. It requires that employees working In excess of 171 hours in a 21kiay cycle be paid time and a half for the overtime hours or receive compensatory time off at that rate. In addition, the law is retroactive to April 15 Tires, Pavement Blamed Separate Wrecks Hurt 4 Persons Unsafe tires were blamed for an accident Saturday afternoon on Interstate 85 in Warren County in which a Maryland man was seriously injured, according to a State Highway Patrol report. James Derek Brown, 19, of the Susquehanna Job Corps in Maryland, is reported to be in stable condition at Duke Medical Center, where he was taken following the accident. Trooper T. S. Wright, investigating officer, reported that Brown was traveling north on the interstate highway about 4.5 miles west of Norlina when a rear tire on the truck he was driving blew out. According to the report, Brown's truck slid and overturned before it came to rest. Wright said evidence suggested that the truck was traveling about the speed limit when the tire failed. Before being taken to Duke, Brown was taken to Maria Parham Hospital in Henderson with multiple injuries. The driver was charged with driving with unsafe tires. Three members of the same family were in jured in a two-vehicle accident near Macon Sunday afternoon, another Patrol report stated. Wet pavement played a part in the accident which occurred at the intersection of U. S. 158 and Burnside Road near Macon. Trooper Wright, who investigated the accident, reported that Larry Wrenn Lynch, 36, of Rente 2, Macon, and Anne Marie Conkle, 30, of Route 3, Kilmarnock, were both traveling east on U. S. 158 in midafternoon when Lynch slowed to make a left turn. Traveling Denind Lynch, Conkle lost control of her pickup truck and slid on the rainslickened road into Lynch's vehicle. Anne Marie Conkle and Rita and Helen Conkle were reported injured. Anne Marie Conkle was treated and released from Halifax County Memorial Hospital in Roanoke Rapids, the report stated. Damages to Lynch's car were estimated at $600 and those to the Conkle pickup at $1,000. Conkle was charged with failing to reduce speed. Jurors Are Drawn For Civil Session The list of Jurors for the civil term of Warren County District Court for the session beginning Monday, Aug. 26, has been drawn. Jurors, who should report for duty on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 9:30 a. m., are as follows: Theo Maruskowitz, Carrie Henderson Bullock, Phyllis R. Holloway, Judge Henderson, Jr., Jennifer P. Nash, Patricia Irene Mason, Mary Callahan, Alvin Cornelius Elam, . Barbara Joyce Butler, I Grendolyn Linton Covington, Thomas Cisro Harmon, Adlean J. Durham, John A. Felts, Thaxter Jefferj son, Frances Pettway Daniel and Fan Hope Bullock. I Also, Elizabeth Allen, James K. Hayes, William L. Tabron, Maria Falcon, James 0. Garrett, Sheila Ann Baker, Rosa A. Dalvis, Rosa W. Kearney, Cynthia Wheeler, Alma B. Burgess, Craig Arnold Solomon, Ernestine Parks Roberts, Gwendolyn Talley, Harry Park, Charles B. Turner and Ashley Warren White. Also, Walter Howard Hymon, Jr., Emma Allen, Mary A. Hunt, Ellen Alexander, Alvin B. Taylor, Mary L. Green, Shirley Hargrove Jefferson, Burnice Kearney, Katie Hedgepeth West, Paul Fields, Frank B. Newell, m, John W. Neal and Donald Wayne Carter. and the county commissioners must decide whether compensation will be made ir " vrpervsatory time or ,<(*•?. IrSheril 's Depn tXijeni and Ambulance Service, where employees have routinely clocked considerably more than the standard 40 hour week, compliance is no easy task. According to Worth, the board doesn't have much choice as to whether retroactive compensation will be made with time off or wages because the Sheriff's Department and Ambulance Service, where employees have accrued the greatest amount of overtime, are the two departments that are already understaffed, eliminating the option of granting compensatory time off. "We're going to have to pay," Worth said. "It's just a matter of how." The 1985-86 county budget provided for the addition of a sheriff's deputy, which should alleviate some of that department's overtime, Worth said. "The SherifFs Department is trying to limit their schedules to 40 hours a week," he explained. "With the Ambulance Service and the emergency nature of their work, there isn't that luxury." The service has five full-time staffers who currently put in overtime on a regular basis to keep the service operating 24 hours a day. Worth figures that about half of the county's 120 employees, including department heads such as the sheriff and director of the Ambulance Service, are exempt from the ruling. How to compensate the remainder for overtime will have to be decided by county commissioners before October 15 when the federal government will begin field audits of local governments to ensure that they are in compliance with the new ruling. "We're going to have to get a clear interpretation (of the law)," Worth concluded. "There's just a lot of confusion." Plans Progress For Pig Picking The Gospe' Messengers will be among the featured guests at the fifth annual Labor Day pig pickin' sponsored by Cokesbury Volunteer Fire Department on Sept. 2. The group, scheduled to appear at 5 p.m., Is one of several that will perform during the day. The public is invited to attend the event and participate in free outdoor activities planned throughout the day. Tickets for the barbecued pork and chicken meal will not be on sale at the door, but can be obtained from any fireman or by phoning 4M-4M& prior to Auguattf.