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Volume 89 25c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, July 23, 1986 Number 30
An oak tree estimated to be 100 years old was
snapped near its base in strong winds which swept
through the northeastern part of Warren County
Sunday evening. The tree, located in the yard of
Mrs. Bertha Walker of Five Forks, demolished a
swing set and Mrs. Walker's 1984 Oldsmobile
Cutlass Supreme.
Blocks of Sam Powell's storage building crum
bled in the strong winds which Sunday evening
also took the roof off a chicken house and dog
houses and snapped tree limbs on the Powell
property near Vaughan.
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water damage to the interior of the dwelling.
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Sunday evening's tornado-like storm skirted the
residence of Sam Powell, Sr. near Vaughan,
damaging trees and outbuildings within yards of
the house, but caused no damage to the Powell's
home.
Sam Powell's stable was one of the buildings In
bis back yard which were damaged by the severe
weather near Vaughan on Sunday evening.
(Staff Photos by Dtanne T. Rod well)
Apparent Tornado Responsible
Windstorm Plays Havoc
In Vaughan Community
Just as local television viewers
were seeing flashed on their sets
Sunday evening a warning of
possible severe thunderstorms in
Warren County, residents near
Vaughan were seeing and feeling
the effects of heavy rains and
high winds from an apparent tor
nado, Emergency Management
Coordinator Gary N. Robenolt
said yesterday.
At 9:58 p.m., the National
Weather Service issued the
severe weather warning,
Robenolt said, and the storm,
which he described as a funnel
cloud that stayed above the
ground, hit about 10 p.m. in an
area which stretched in a narrow
path from the northwestern edge
of Vaughan toward the Five
Forks community. The heavy
winds damaged trees and storage
buildings and caused roof
damage to at least one dwelling.
The path of the storm extend
ed for less than a mile, Robenolt
estimated, and travelled in the
erratic and northeast direction
typical of such storms.
Winds demolished a grain
storage building and took the roof
off a stable and chicken house
belonging to Sam Powell and also
peeled the roof back - on the
double-wide mobile home of his
son, John Powell, a short
distance away. Water damage
also occurred at the home of the
latter after the damages to the
roof allowed the heavy rains to
enter the house.
"The storm must have hovered
from 10 to 30 feet in the air,"
Robenolt surmised, as little
damage at ground level had been
reported.
The only other damage
reported from Sunday night's
weather was an overturned large
Allen To Leave
Post In Warren
Environmental Health Coor
dinator Irvin M. (Marty) Allen
has announced his resignation
from the Warren County Health
Department and plans to begin
work in September as an en
vironmental health supervisor
with the Wake County Health
Department.
Allen began work as local
sanitarian almost three years
ago and his work with the health
department has been to enforce
sanitation regulations relating to
migrant labor, day care facili
ties, foster homes, nursing
homes, restaurants and meat
markets as well to oversee en
forcement of guidelines for water
and sewer systems and com
municable disease protection.
"The variety which the job pro
vides is one thing which has made
it enjoyable for me," Allen noted
in a telephone interview this
week.
In Wake County, his services
will be confined to overseeing the
water and sewer program, which
he said does not include the city
of Raleigh.
With Aug. 29 targeted as his
final day with the Warren Coun
ty Health Department, Allen said
in the meantime he is assisting
with preparations toward a
replacement for his services.
"Warren County has been good
to me and I hope I've been able
to make a contribution," he said.
The decision to leave the coun
ty was not an easy one, Allen em
phasised, pointing out that a
number of factors combined to
suggest the change.
Allen will begin work in Wake
County on Sept. 1 and he and his
wife, the former Amy Ray, and
children, Anderson and Claudia,
will probably move to Johnston
County, he indicated.
oak tree in the yard of Mrs. Ber
tha Walker near Five Forks. The
Walker property did not appear
to be in the path of the storm
which hit Vaughan, Robenolt
said. According to Mrs. Walker,
the winds occurred about 9:15
p.m.
The Department of Trans
portation cleared fallen trees and
branches from the roadways and
power crews restored service to
the isolated places affected by
electrical outages, the emergen
cy management coordinator
noted.
Robenolt advised residents to
go inside in the event of severe
weather such as that of Sunday
evening and to move to the safe
ty of an inside wail or basement.
"People need to get the max
imum wall space available be
tween them and the possible tor
nado," he said, noting the need
for protection from the flyi"g
debris which he said causes most
injuries from tornadoes.
Appears Here Monday
Sanford Issues Call
For Democratic Unity
By MARY C. HARRIS
Staff Writer
Former North Carolina gover
nor and now U.S. Senate can
didate Terry Sanford Monday
challenged local Democrats to do
their part in rebuilding an
organized Democratic Party and
in effecting a "big party victory"
in the November elections.
The vote this fall will find San
ford pitted against former
Republican Congressman and
now U. S. Senator James T.
Broyhill of Lenoir for the seat left
vacant some weeks ago by the
death of Sen. John East of Green
ville. East had earlier an
nounced plans to retire at the end
of this term. Following East's
death, Gov. James Martin ap
pointed Broyhill to finish the
term.
Approximately SO local sup
porters of the Democratic Party
turned out Monday to welcome
Sanford to Warrenton in a noon
luncheon at The Rafters.
The candidate's Warren Coun
ty visit came a little more than
halfway through his trek across
the state which he said would in
clude stops in each of the 100
counties before Labor Day.
"We're shooting for a big
Democratic victory," the
senatorial hopeful told the
Democrats gathered. "We want
you to know ours is absolutely a
forward-looking, positive
campaign."
In listing the problems beset
ting Americans today, Sanford
emphasized first the plight of the
nation's farmers, many of whom
he noted are facing foreclosure,
bankruptcy and the necessity of
leaving the farm in cir
cumstances which he described
as the "worst since the Great
Depression."
"We should be able to restruc
ture the debt of the North
Carolina farmer," he pointed out.
"We need a new kind of credit, a
new kind of price support, not ar
tificial measures, but those which
will provide for the farmer to
make a fair profit on the year's
work."
Sanford promised to begin ef
forts in his first month in office to
reshape the farm program and
attempt to get farming "once
more on a sound basis."
Revamping of the trade policy
was also named as a priority for
the man who as governor presid
ed over a North Carolina which
led the Southeast in industrial
development. Thousands of
North Carolinians, he said, have
been robbed of their Jobs, their
places in the community, their
family structures and their hope
by weaknesses in the current
policy. Sanford noted that trade
limitations should be reset and
enforced in order to keep out an
unusual level of technical
imports.
Also, further effort must be
made to balance the feckral
SANFORD
budget, Sanford stressed as he
pointed out the merits of the
North Carolina law which re
quires a balanced state budget.
However, the figures must be
shuffled in a way that will not
place stress on the people who
need the help of the government,
he cautioned.
Citing "horrible management
practices in the Pentagon," San
ford pointed out that millions of
dollars have been used ineffec
tively and lost in the Defense
Department and he pledged his
attention toward improving the
methods of weapons procure
(Continued on page 2B)
Fire Destroys
Home Monday
An Afton family was left
homeless after fire destroyed
their house and belongings in the
early morning hours Monday.
William L. Fuller of the Afton
Elberon Volunteer Fire Depart
ment said the residence of David
Munn was completely destroyed
by the fire which is believed to
have started near the stairwell in
a recent addition to the house.
Fuller said the Afton-Elberon
firemen arrived on the scene ap
proximately six minutes after the
call was received and found the
dwelling engulfed in flames. The
firemen stayed on the scene un
til about 4 a.m., he said, but were
unable to save the dwelling or
any of its contents.
The Warrenton Rural and
Cokesbury fire departments pro
vided mutual aid in the efforts to
contain the fire. Fuller said.
The Munn family is currently
staying with relatives in Norlina,
according to Walter Gardner of
the Warrenton Rural Fire
Department.