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WarrentonYem.Library X -17 S . Ma in St. Warrenton, N.C. 27589 barren lUcorfc Volume 89 25c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, September 24, 1986 Number 39 Tables laden with food occupy center stage at homecoming celebrations held Sunday at Warren Plains Baptist Church (top) and Macon Methodist Church (bottom). (Photos by DianneT. Rodwell) County Commissioners Endorse Cost Share Program Participation By THURLETTA M. BROWN Staff Writer Warren County commissioners in their mid-monthly meeting last Wednesday night endorsed par ticipation in the N.C. Agricultural Cost Share Program. The pro gram provides 75 percent of fund ing for any soil conservation project, such as erosion preven tion and land application of animal waste. Gregory A. Walker, Vance/Warren district conservationist, explained that involvement is vital to farmers since future Farm Support Pro gram participation would be con tingent on soil loss being held close to tolerable limits. The commissioners also ac cepted a proposal of $40,708 from James & Co. of the Carolinas, Inc. for property and casualty in surance. The plan, underwritten by the North Carolina Counties Liability and Property Joint Risk Management Agency, provides coverage at a savings of $37,292 annually. Commissioner J. T. Fleming noted that any transac tion must support local business as much as possible. The board agreed, but noted the economies of group rather than individual coverage. In response to a report by Everette King, Fire Commission representative, the board voted to approach the state for assistance in updating the coun ty's communication equipment. Because of the current inefficient antenna, one-third of the pagers are inoperable or unintelligible, King said. Firemen often revert to the telephone relay that was used prior to the instjdlation of the ex isting system. Based on costs of existing towers, roughly $70,000 to $100,000 may be needed to raise the antenna to the desired 365 feet. In addition to benefitting the fire departments, a new system would support the State Rescue and Statewide Hospital Emer gency frequencies not available to the county, Gary L. Robenolt, Emergency Management coor dinator, noted. The state will evaluate at no cost once potential sites are identified. Approval was given to the Fire Commission to use up to $500 for a consultant. In other business, the board: ?Approved an expenditure from the county contingency fund not to exceed $700 to connect the electrical generator for backup at the Sheriffs office. ?Accepted the bid from Dove Knight and Associates of Rocky Mount for the VGCC Satellite facility. ?Earmarked 30 percent of the unallocated 40 percent of the new one-half cent sales tax revenues for construction of new buildings as needed. The remaining ten percent will be used to maintain existing properties. ?Reappointed L. B. Hender son, Sr. and R. B. Butler to the In dustrial Facilities and Pollution Control Financing Authority. ?Supported the Caswell Coun ty Operation Santa Claus Pro gram in an amount comparable to years past. ?Tabled until its next meeting the Minority and Women Business Enterprise Plan for Warren County. The omission of (Continued on page 2B) Warm County employee! last week Julian Farrar, left, retiring director of the W? County Department of 8odal Services, for kts S4 years of service. Presenting a plaque to Farrar Is haa the lengeat tea are of aay director in the atate, wfD retire Oct. 1. (Staff Photo by Howard Jooea) Several Are Seriously Hurt I Two Fatally Injured In Afton Accidents By MARY C. HARRIS Staff Writer Two Warren County women were killed in separate accidents in the Afton-Elberon community within the last week. Mrs. Nettie St.Sing Thompson, 78, died of injuries sustained in a car-truck collision Monday after noon and Mrs. Betty Jean Ed wards Maynard, 51, was killed in stantly in a single-car accident last Friday night. Both victims lived near the scene of the ac cidents, which occurred on U.S. 401 south of Warrenton. The 1984 Plymouth in which Mrs. Thompson was a front-seat passenger was hit head-on about 5:30 p.m. Monday by a Schewel Furniture truck attempting to make a left turn, Trooper A1 Ben nett of the state Highway Patrol reported. The truck, driven by Michael Anthony Miller of Oxford, was traveling north on U.S. 401 about four and one-half miles south of Warrenton when it struck the Plymouth automobile, heading south and driven by Mrs. Carolyn Abbott Pitzing, 45, of the Elberon neighborhood, Bennett said. The truck was attempting a left turn onto State Road 1116, which connects U.S. 401 with the Hgpderaon Road (SR1001), when it nosed into the Pitzing vehicle which had just rounded a curve. Bennett estimated the impact at 80 miles per hour, the combined speeds of the two vehicles. Both drivers applied brakes but were unable to avoid the collision, he said. Mrs. Pitzing and another passenger were seriously injured in the accident. Mrs. Ruth St.Sing Thompson, 76, sister of the victim and of the same address, was transported to N.C. Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill where she remains in critical condition. Mrs. Pitzing is in serious condi tion at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Both were taken by Life Flight to the medical facilities. Mrs. Pitzing's 14-year-old son, Mark, suffered a broken arm and is listed in stable condition at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Fifteen-year old April Thompson, the victim's granddaughter, of Elberon, was treated and released Monday evening at Maria Parham Hospital in Henderson. Both were backseat passengers in the Pitz ing vehicle. Riding the furniture truck with Miller were Tim Farmer and Ernest Fields, both 25 years of age and residents of Henderson. All three men escaped injury. The Pitzing vehicle, valued at $6,500, was considered a total loss and damages to the Schewel truck, a 1982 Chevrolet, were estimated at $1,200, Bennett said. Miller has been charged with death by vehicle as a result of the (Continued on page 3B) $5 Million Boost Sought By Bonds Peck Manufacturing Company has requested the Warren Coun ty Industrial Development Com mission's approval of an In dustrial Revenue Bond issue in excess of $5 million for plant ex pansion in Warrenton, Mrs. Kathy Wilson, economic develop ment director, has announced. David R. LaFarr, ID, president of the Gastonia-based company, indicated in a letter to Mrs. Wilson the proposed project in cludes building construction and acquisition and installation of equipment at the local facility to increase the production of card ed cotton yarn. "It is currently estimated that the project will re quire capital expenditures of ap proximately $5.5 million," he stated. "Upon the commission's ap proval and the completion of the project, additional jobs of from 14 to 21 will be added and a larger tax base will result for Warren County," LaFar explained. "The project will also put Peck in a much healthier, competitive positon to compete in today's world textile market and insure continuation of the jobs of its work force," he continued. The commission granted a similar request in 1979 to permit Peck to finance its needs to com ply with OSHA cotton dust regulations and to carry out an approximate 25 percent expan sion. The project was completed in 1980. Since that time the company has spent an additional $4 million to continue modernization and expansion at the local facility, LaFar pointed out. The current proposed expan sion plan has been presented to a financial institution in order that feasibility may be assessed, the president said. A public hearing on Peck's pro posed Industrial Revenue Bonds issue has been set for Oct. 15. Lawman Mush Suspect I With Use Of Tear Gas I A Warren County man remains hospitalized at John Umstead Hospital in Butner where he was taken last week after he was reported standing in the middle of U.S. 158 business near Warren ton and pointing a gun at passing vehicles. According to Chief Deputy Bob by D. Bolton of the Warren Coun ty Sheriffs Department, Don Defore Johnson, 38, of Warren ton, was taken into custody following surveillance of his mobile home and a wooded area near the highway. Bolton said reports of a man standing on the highway and swinging a gun at passing motorists reached the sheriffs department about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. A couple of cars were struck by the weapon, he said. As officers approached Johnson, he ran into the nearby mobile home, then out the back door and into a wooded area as officers pursued. When Johnson returned to the mobile home some time later, officers forced him out with tear gas after unsuc cessful attempts to persuade him to come out on his own. Swinging the 410-gauge shotgun, Johnson exited from the mobile home. Norlina Policeman James Champion was struck on the arm by the gun. The sheriffs department was assisted by the police depart ments from Warrenton and Norlina and by state troopers in Warren and Vance counties. Warrants charging Johnson with assault on a law officer, assault on a female, going armed to the terror of the people, assault by pointing a gun and two counts of injury to personal property have been drawn against Johnson and will be served upon his discharge from John Umstead, f ~ lobacco Prices On Local Mart Tops In Area Prices on the 1986 Warrenton Tobacco Market have merited First-place ranking among area markets, according to a recent marketing report from the N.C. Department of Agriculture, Mrs. Alice R. Robertson, local sales supervisor, has reported. As of the most recent report, dated Sept. 12, the Warrenton market recorded an average of $151.38 per hundred pounds and led Fellow markets in the Middle Belt as well as those in the Eastern and Border belts, she said. The local season average at the end of Monday's sales hovered in the same range, at $151.82 per hundred pounds, Mrs. Robertson reported. In second place among the markets listed in agricultural department's report was Kinston with an average of $149.04 per hundred, but most markets showed prices some $25 to $30 behind local sales, the report in dicated. The momentum continued into Monday's round of sales which recorded the highest average of this season, Mrs. Robertson continued. The day's tallies indicated an average of $163.23 per hundred pounds, she said, on the 319,873 pounds offered In the three local warehouses. Only one percent of Monday's offerings was taken by Stabilisation. Last Thursday's average was $19t.ll per hundred, the super visor noted, and Stabilisation's claim was four
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