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Volume 89 25? Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, February 26, 1986 Number 9
Local Pupils
Facing Longer
Day Of School
By KAY HORNER
News Editor
A state law requiring public
school students to have at least
5.5 hours of classroom instruction
each day beginning this fall will
probably mean an additional 20
minutes in the school day local
ly, according to Warren County
Schools Superintendent Michael
F. Williams.
Williams said he will present to
the County Board of Education at
its March meeting a plan for im
plementation of the law as em
bodied in the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1984.
Currently, classes in all nine
county schools begin around 8:30
a.m.
Elementary students are
dismissed at 2:30 p.m., middle
school students at 2:45 p.m. and
high school students at 3 p.m.
Although all students are now
spending at least six hours at
school, all of those hours are not
spent in classroom instruction.
Homeroom, lunch break, study
hall, and recess are among the
periods that do not qualify as in
structional time, Williams said.
He said he anticipated "no
scheduling problem whatsoever"
in gearing up for the lengthened
day by the beginning of the next
school year.
Craft Fair Is
Planned Here
The third annual Spring Craft
Fair will be held at the Warren
ton National Guard Armory on
Saturday, April 26, according to
Mrs. Karen White of the fair
committee.
"The Craft Fair has become a
favorite event in Warrenton,"
Mrs. White said. "There will be
a variety of crafters present to
once again make this an excit
ing day with something for
everyone, young or old."
The fair, with no admission
charge, will open to the public at
10 a. m., at which time country
ham biscuits, sausage biscuits,
homemade baked goods, bruns
wick stew and hot dogs will be on
sale. Brunswick stew may also
be purchased for $3.50 per quart
and carried home.
There will be spaces for 58
crafters and the fair will close at
4 p.m.
All crafters are urged to call
Mrs. Karen White after 1 p. m. to
reserve a space as soon as
possible. Her number is 257-4145.
Red Cross Bloodservices Chairman Alice R.
Robertson is shown above with blood donor William
Leonard, a Norlina town commissioner, at Mon
day's Bloodmobile at the Lion's Den. A total of 101
pints of blood were donated in the local effort.
(Staff Photo by Howard Jones)
Directors Are Elected
By Committee Of 100
Successful
Red Cross
Event Held
The Warren County Committee
of 100, formed last fall by in
terested citizens to foster
economic development in the
county, elected a 22-member
board of directors last week.
The committee's goals for this
year, announced at its inception,
are a membership of 350, con
tributions of $50,000 and location
in the county of at least one in
dustry employing 100 people.
Elected to the board were: At
torney Floyd B. McKissick, Jr.;
County Commissioner Francis L.
Alston; Warrenton Mayor B. G.
White; BB&T City Executive Cal
White; CP&L Area Manager
James Parnell; James Cren
shaw, D.D., with Crenshaw and
Massey, P.A.; Robert U. Jenkins,
owner of Fashion Cleaners; Jen
nie Johnson Franklin, media
supervisor for Warren County
Schools; David Gardner of War
renton Furniture Exchange; Ann
Peel of Halifax Electric Member
ship Corporation; Maybelle
Hueber, manager, Leggett of
Warrenton; Lewis H. Myers,
assistant secretary, N.C. Depart
ment of Commerce; Lake Gaston
developer John T. Nelson of
Nelson & Harris; James R. Hill,
director of personnel and pur
chasing, Owens-Illinois; Bonnie
Stay; Warrenton commissioner
and local businessman Eddie Q.
Clayton; County Economic
Developer Cathy J. Wilson;
OmeliaSpruill; Bradley Carroll,
vice president, First Citizens
Bank; Dr. John Thomas with the
Agricultural Investment Fund of
Washington, D.C.; Joseph S. Len
non, proprietor of Warren Nur
sing Center; and Karl Hehl,
owner of Carriage Fuel & Oil Co.
As of Monday, a total of $10,081
had been raised.
About 80 memberships have
been recorded, according to
Loria Dunston, secretary in the
Economic Development office.
Some individuals have signed up
for memberships in both their
and their company's names, Ms.
Dunston said, and others have
contributed over and above the
fee required for membership.
Some 42 Cases On
Local Court Docket
Forty-two cases are on the
docket for Monday's criminal
session of Warren County
Superior Court, including those of
two Matthews men charged with
the shooting and armed robbery
of Floyd McKissick, Jr. in
January.
Both David Matthews Horton
and Robert Martin Keziah are
charged with assault with a dead
ly weapon and armed robbery in
connection with the incident in
which McKissick was shot in the
arm at his family's convenience
store at the Ridgeway exit of 1-85.
Judge Donald Smith will
preside.
Monday's Red Cross Blood
mobile was termed "very suc
cessful" by Bloodservices Chair
man Alice R. Robertson, with 101
donors giving a total of 101 pints.
A. B. Hair and Broadus G. Ver
non were given pins in recogni
tion of their donation, to date, of
four gallons of blood.
John Andrews was awarded a
pin for donating three gallons and
Billie V. Proctor, Charles L.
Powell, Clint L. Hege, Ruby W.
Jones and James L. Gray were
given pins for donating two
gallons.
Donors receiving pins for
donating to date one gallon of
blood were: Sylvia T. Green,
Margaret Ann Brame, Betsy F.
Frazier, David Proctor, Charles
Duncan, James Macon Myrick,
David Spence, Norma J. Pulley,
Winnifred Thompson, Barbara
Walker and Raymond Vaughan.
Also, Tommie C. Thompson,
Ruby Paynter, Cheryl R. Smith,
Allen A. Kearney, Charles A.
Hayes, Alice R. Robertson and
Phyllis D. Holtzman.
"We owe a special thanks to
Beulah Hardy, LPN; Sadie
Yancey, LPN; and Mary Groves,
RN for donating their time to
take blood pressures and to
Hardee's for providing cups and
napkins," Mrs. Robertson added.
A total of 118 people
volunteered to donate blood, but
17 were deferred due to low iron,
Mrs. Robertson said.
Thp npvt RlnnHmnhilp will hp
Monday, April 28 at the Lion's
Den from noon to 4 p.m. It will be
sponsored by the Warrenton
Woman's Club.
Legislators representing Warren County last
week presented each school la the public school
system with a North Carolina flag, courtesy of the
General Assembly. The flags were presented dor
tag a meeting of the Warren Comity Education
Task Force Thnrsday night at Warren Coonty High
School. 8hown shore are (front row, left to right):
Warren Cenaty High Principal James WOkerson,
Vanghan Elementary Principal Shirley White,
iwruMKie rjemeniary iTtncipai IMT
Bad District Rep. John Church; South Warren
Principal Lochias Hawkins and 7th District Rep.
Frank Ballance; (second row) Hawkins Elementa
ry Principal Joe Richardson, North Warren Princi
pal Costel Evans, John Graham Principal W. T.
Ramey, 2nd District Sen. J. J. (Monk) Harrington,
Nortina Middle School Principal Clint Hege, and
Martam Boyd Principal Walt Sweeney.
(Community Schools Photo by Mary Hunter)
Home Is Emptied
Of Its Furniture
A Warren County home near
the Vicksboro community was
broken into recently and almost
completely emptied of furniture,
according to a spokesman with
the Warren County Sheriff's
Department.
Marie Cheek Johnson of Rt. 2,
was away from her home visit
ing relatives between Feb. 5 and
20, and sometime during that
period thieves entered her house
and made away with a variety of
household goods from
telephones to antique furniture.
The burglary was one of
several reported recently in the
county in which antique furnish
ings have been stolen.
There is no evidence to link the
most recent break-in with the
ones preceding it, but the de
partment spokesman said the
investigation was continuing.
Deputy J. M. Alston investi
gated the incident.
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Warren To Join
In Consortium
With 3 Others
BY KAY HORNER
News Editor
Warren County commissioners
last Wednesday night authorized
Warren County's participation
with Franklin, Granville and Per
son counties in the Kerr-Tar Job
Training Consortium for the
distribution of government funds
and administration of programs
as designated for the four-county
area under the Job Training
Partnership Act.
The four counties constitute a
"service delivery area" for ad
ministrative purposes and each
county is represented in the con
sortium, Neil Mallory, executive
director of the Kerr-Tar Region
Council of Governments, told
county commissioners.
There are 26 service areas in
the state which administer the
Job Training Program under the
auspices of the N.C. Department
of Natural Resources and Com
munity Development and the
N.C. Job Training Coordinating
Council.
Eva M. Clayton, chairperson of
the commissioners, was named
to represent the county in the
consortium.
The board also authorized the
county's continued participation
in the Kerr-Tar Private Industry
Council.
The council is composed of 21
members from the four-county
area.
Appointed to the council were:
Jim Hill, director of personnel
and purchasing at Owens
Illinois; James Parnell, area
manager with Carolina Power &
Light Co.; and James Wilkerson,
principal of Warren County High
School.
In other business, the board:
?Approved a resolution pro
claiming 1986 "A Year of Part
nership for the Public's Health,"
as presented by County Health
Director Dennis Retzlaff. The
proclamation is part of a year
long emphasis recently approved
by the County Board of Health;
?Approved an agreement with
St. Augustine's College in Raleigh
to provide technical assistance to
the county in application for a
Community Development Block
Grant, conducting a countywide
housing survey and planning
Investigation Under
Way In House Fire
Investigation is continuing in a
fire in which arson is suspected
at an unoccupied dwelling in
Warren County last Wednesday
night.
Warren County Sheriff's
Deputies Lawrence Harrison and
Mack McGowan are heading the
investigation locally, assisted by
agents from the State Bureau of
Investigation. Chief Deputy Bob
by Dean Bolton said on Tuesday
they are awaiting reports from
the SBI lab.
The four-room house, owned by
Mrs. Hargie Andrews and located
on the Baltimore Road, was not
occupied at the time of the fire
shortly after 8:30 p.m., according
to Kenny Clayton of the Warren
ton Rural Fire Department.
Clayton said the house had
been empty since an earlier fire
on Dec. 29 in which firemen had
assumed a refrigerator to be the
cause.
The fire last week resulted in
substantial damage to the in
terior of the house, but the wood
frame is still standing, Clayton
said. When firemen arrived
flames were in three of the four
rooms and coining out the sides
through the windows, he noted.
There was no electricity in the
house at the time of the second
fire.
economic development stra
tegies.
The services have been
available to the county through a
grant from the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Develop
ment.
?Appointed Bettie Richardson
with the Warren County Council
for Senior Citizens, to the
Domiciliary Home Community
Advisory Committee.
?Voted to have only one
meeting during the month of
March, on the 10th. The board
had to reschedule its March 3
meeting because of the atten
dance of County Manager
Charles J. Worth, Mrs. Clayton
and Commissioners Francis
Alston and J. T. Fleming at the
1986 Legislative Conference of the
National Association of Counties
in Washington, D.C.
Warren Bridge
Closing Listed
The Division of Highways of
the N.C. Department of
Transportation (NCDOT) has
closed a section of Shepard Road
(Secondary Road 1133) between
Vicksboro and Elberon for
replacement of a bridge over
Shocco Creek.
NCDOT has contracted with
Sanford Construction Co. of San
ford to build the new structure.
During the construction, traffic
is being detoured over Vicksboro
Road (Secondary Road 1134).
The detour is five miles long.
According to Board of Trans
portation Member Jim Peden of
Raleigh, the estimated cost of
construction is $284,000. Comple
tion is expected by September.
BRYANT
Active Jaycee
Award Received
Ricky Bryant, a director of the
Warren County Jaycees, was
recognized Saturday as one of the
five most active Jaycees in North
Carolina for the previous three
months. Bryant received a
plaque from State Jaycee Presi
dent Jerry Wall during an awards
ceremony in High Point and was
named a member of the "GO
TEAM."
Bryant's accomplishments
during the quarter included 106
percent participation in local dub
projects during the holiday
season and contributing to
meetings and attendance as i
as membership growth
retention.
Attending the High Paint <
with Bryant i
club president,
Stamper, <