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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.