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a rrenton Man, Library X -17 S.Main St. "arrenton, N.C. 27589 Stye ISarren IRecnrii I * ? Volume 89 25? Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, July 16, 1986 Number 29 Warren To Lose $59,000 In Personal Property Taxes By MARY C. HARRIS Staff Writer Warren County stands to lose more than $59,000 in annual revenues from household proper ty taxes as a result of action taken last week by the N.C. General Assembly, according to Tax Supervisor Janice Haynes. The household property tax was repealed last Thursday as an attachment to the highway funding bill which on the same day gained the approval of lawmakers. Beginning next year, the state's residents will no longer be taxed on household belongings, including furniture, appliances, jewelry and clothing. Man Is Hurt By Shotgun A 71-year-old Warrenton man is out on a $2,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court to day (Wednesday) on a charge connected with the shooting of a Norlina man Saturday night, the Warren County Sheriff's Depart ment reported. John Jiggetts of Rt. 1, Warren ton was charged Saturday with assault with a deadly weapon in flicting serious injury to Kenneth Davis, 34, of Rt. 1, Norlina. Davis suffered a broken leg as a result of a shotgun blast, Deputy Harold Seaman, investigating officer, reported. Seaman said the incident oc curred at Jiggetts' residence shortly before 10 p.m. when Davis refused to leave at Jig getts' request. Davis was taken to Maria Par ham Hospital in Henderson and was later transferred to Duke University Medical Center in Durham. He was reportedly in stable condition Tuesday after noon, according to a hospital spokesman. In another report in the sheriff's office, Wallace Fields, 20, of Rt. 2, Henderson was scheduled to appear in Warren County District Court today on a charge of forgery. Chief Deputy Bobby Dean Bolton said Fields was arrested for forging a signature on a check drawn on the account of Mrs. Flora J. Robertson. Also charged in the case is Jim my Lee Townes, 23, of Rt. 2, Henderson. Townes has not yet been apprehended, Bolton said, hut he is charged with forgery and uttering. Fields is out on an unsecured bond. Town Board Wants Charges Brought In Water Incident Warrenton's commissioners voted Monday night to bring charges against a water customer who apparently en gaged a homemade device in the water meter box at his residence and thereby received town water service free of charge. Town Administrator V. R. (Pete) Vaughan showed the com missioners a short section of water hose with sticks attached on either side and bound together with electrical tape which he said had been taken Monday morning from the water meter box of Larry Falcon of the Red Hill community. Vaughan reported Falcon's water service had been discon nected several months ago and it appeared he had been receiving water without charge. In other business, Mayor B. G. White read for the commis sioners a letter from J. Howard Daniel announcing Daniel's resignation as chairman of the town's Firemen's Relief Fund, ef fective July IS. The board ap pointed Warren ton businessman W. Jack Harris to replace Daniel. Harris is currently serving on the board of trustees for the fund. The taxpayers' gains will spell losses for the local governments. Based on current property-tax valuations, Warren County may expect to lose approximately $59,313 in property-tax revenue, Mrs. Haynes said. The law abolishing the household property tax does not apply to any other type of real property. Property owners will continue to pay taxes on automobiles and other motor vehicles as well as on single-wide mobile homes. Mrs. Haynes said the county tax office estimates household property at a current value of $8,125,079. The loss in tax collec tions is reached by applying the 73-cents tax rate (per $100 valuation)., In Warren County, most tax payers do not actually enumerate their household goods each year when they list property for taxa tion, Mrs. Haynes said. Under state law they may choose to be assessed a standard percentage of their real property value for household property. The rate of assessment, which in Warren County is seven percent, varies from one county to another. The repeal measure will not af fect the collection of taxes on household property this year, but as of Januo.j 1987, county tax payers will no longer be required to list their household property as they have done since the 1860's. The loss will hurt local govern ments, but the General Assembly earlier passed legislation allow ing the counties to impose an ad ditional one-half percent local op tion sales tax, which may offset the losses in counties electing to adopt the newly authorized tax. In Warren County the local option sales tax is currently one and one-half percent. If the county should adopt the extra half-cent sales tax, the total sales tax here would be five cents on the dollar, with three cents going to the state and two cents to local govern ment. The household property tax became the pawn of legislative leaders caught in a political bind last week on the highway im provement package. On the eve of the bill's passage, a conference committee approved a com promise roads package which would raise motor fuel taxes and shift financing of the driver education program from the Highway Fund to the General Fund. House members on the com mittee agreed to the transfer of the driver education program and the Senate conferees coj> sented to the repeal of the prop -r ty tax on household goods. The compromise highwav funding bill increases the stab; tax on motor fuel, now 12 2f> cents a gallon, by two cents. The further addendum of a thr< percent sales tax on the whole sale cost of motor fuel is ex pected to cost consumers about 1.6 cents per gallon. Transfer of the driver educa tion program to the General Fund will provide another $27.8 million annually for road improvements but it will mean less for oth state-covered operations. Visitors to Hamme's Mill southeast of Warren ton may credit the recent dry weather with the parched appearance of the water bed. However, ac cording to Hamme's wife, the mill owner opened the gate about 10 days ago to allow the water to run down and enable him to clean the pond of water lilies and other debris which were interfering with the operation of the mill's generator. It appears Hamme chose an ideal time for the procedure because Mrs. Hamme pointed out that the drought probably would have induced a water level too low to run the generator. Hamme built the mill in 1938 and continues to grind corn for meal and a small amount of wheat for customers who request it. He expects to have the mill back in operation soon. (Staff Photo by Dianne T. Rod well) Warren County Woman Is Killed In Vance County Road Accident Carolina Jones Neal, 60, of Rt. 2, Warrenton, died Monday after noon as a result of injuries she suffered in a single-car accident near Henderson. Trooper J. A. Lynch of the N.C. Highway Patrol said Mrs. Neal was driving east on Vicksboro Road (State Road 1533) about a mile east of the Aycock School Road (SR 1526) when she lost control of the vehicle in a curve, went off on the right shoulder and hit a tree. The trooper estimated the vehi cle was travelling 50 miles per hour when the car struck the pine tree more than 200 feet off the right side of the road. When rescue personnel from the Vance County Ambulance Service arrived at the scene about 20 minutes after the acci dent, there was no sign of pulse or respiration. The victim was taken to Maria Parham Hospital in Henderson where it was deter mined she died of massive inter nal injuries. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Games Funeral Home of Henderson. Six persons suffered minor in juries as a result of four separate traffic accidents in Warren Coun ty last week, according to reports in the State Highway Patrol of fice in Henderson. Following an early morning single-vehicle accident near Ridgeway on Sunday, three peo ple received emergency treat ment and the driver was charged with driving while im paired and reckless driving. Grady E. Edwards, Jr. of Nor folk, Va. was headed south on In terstate 85 about three and one half miles north of Ridgeway when his pickup truck ran off on the right shoulder and over turned before coming to rest in a ditch, Trooper R. T. Futrell reported. The accident occurred about 2 a.m. The driver and two passengers, Karen Poole, 23, of Virginia Beach, Va. and Dino R. Fama, 28, of Norfolk, Va., were taken by ambulance to Maria Parham Hospital where they were treated and released. In another single-car accident on Friday morning, Yvonne W. Elam of Norlina was injured when her car's right front and rear tires dropped off the right side of the pavement and onto a muddy shoulder on the Axtell Ridgeway road. The vehicle struck a utility pole after swerving back onto the pavement, then off the right side of the road again. The driver suffered a broken nose and was treated at, and later released from, Maria Parham Hospital. Damages to the Elam vehicle were estimated at $800. No (Continued on page 8) Scott Pinnell Capps, 22, of Areola was seriously injured when her 19M Ford Escort, pictured above, was struck head-on by a 1M5 Dodge driven by Elliott Evans of Hollister last Tuesday evening near Hollister. Mrs. Capps underwent surgery yesterday to repair leg fractures at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount where she has been hospitalized since the accident She suffered several broken bones and cuts but as Intern?! Injuries from the accident, a famfly spokesman said Tuesday. He driver of the other car and a passenger, Stanley Evans of Hollister, were treated and released from the hospital's emergencyroom following the accident. Highway Patrol Trooper J. T. Williams, who in vestigated the accident which occurred about 1:30 p.m. on N.C. 501 two miles south of Holllster, said a witness told him Evans' vehicle waa weaving on the highway and narrowly missed another vehicle before striking Mrs. Capps' car bead-on. The trooper said It was apparent that Evans was travelling at an excessive rate of speed. Mrs. Capps was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident, a fact which the trooper said probably saved her life. Charges are pending hi the accident. (Photo Courtesy of Roanoke Rapids Dally Herald) Board To Assess Weather Damage The Emergency Board, com posed of representatives of the local agencies of the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture, will meet tomorrow to assess dry weather damages to the county's agricultural picture and will make application for relief for farmers whose livelihoods have been affected by the drought, ac cording to Thomas E. Watson, director of the Warren County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Present at the meeting, in ad dition to Watson, will be representatives of the Agri cultural Extension Service, Soil Conservation Service and Farm ers Home Administration. Watson said the county's ap plication for relief will be for warded to the State Emergency Board, then to the Governor and finally to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for approval as a candidate for disaster aid. If the county is approved, Wat son said farmers may be eligible for emergency loans through Farmers Home Administration and also for aid through the Emergency Livestock Feed Pro gram administered through the ASCS. Watson said 42 counties in North Carolina which have been recommended to the Secretary of Agriculture for disaster relief are awaiting a decision. County Extension Chairman Russell King last week said crops have been obviously hurt by the dry weather, combined with high temperatures. "I don't think the cause is lost on tobacco," he said. "Farmers need to keep irrigating if possible." King advised tobacco growers to make every effort to top the flowering tobacco plants and to get succor control under way to enable the plants to fill out. "If the plants are not topped, all the growth goes to the seed head," he noted. King reported a bleak picture for the corn crop in Warren Coun ty. "I think it's about gone," h>' said, adding there appeared litt' hope for any corn which had n?>i been under irrigation. Part of the problem for the corn crop has been the extreme heat, King said. "Corn pollinates in temperatures below 90 degrees. Beyond that, even with adequate water, kernels do not set on the ear. Unless the corn has been under irrigation and the kernels are set already, I see lit tle chance of any crop at all," King said. "Grass and weeds are entering the soybean fields," King reported, "and herbicides are in effective when applied in dry weather." He advised farmers to delay application until after a rain. "Without rain, the crop will be lost anyway, but farmers are wasting time and money by ap plying herbicides in dry weather," he said. Pastures also are beginning to show the effects of dry weather, the extension specialist pointed out, and livestock producers are "having to buy feed at big prices. Some are having trouble finding feed for their animals and they may have to sell their stock at a loss," King explained. Cucumbers, like corn, have suffered from both the drought and heat, King noted. "The cucumbers are knotty and knob by from the lack of water and because pollination has been af fected by the hot weather." King's assessment will be entered with that of the other local farm agency heads as they meet tomorrow to apply for relief for the county's farmers. Board Picks Auditing Firm The Noriina Town Board Mon day night awarded an auditing contract to William Stark and Company of Henderson for review of the town's fiscal year ending June 30, according to Town Clerk Mae Gums. The con tract amounted to $2,850, Mrs. Gums said. Only three commissioners were available for the meeting which was rescheduled last week when a quorum failed to attend at the regular meeting time. In another item of business, the board passed an ordinance en dorsing water improvement on Darden Street as a part of the Community Development Block Grant program. The total con tract for the water project amounts to $49,300, Mrs. Gums said, with $1,400 earmarked for administration and the balance of $47,860 for improvements.
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