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Volume 91 25c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, May 4, 1988 Number 18
Resurfacing
Awaits Vote
By State Body
Warren County will gain a few
miles of resurfaced roads, if the
contracts to be reviewed on May
13 by the State Transportation
Board meet with approval.
Proposals for $34.4 million in
highway improvements will be
considered when members of the
board deliberate in Beaufort. The
meeting will be held in Carteret
County in response to a request
by Governor James G. Martin,
who encouraged state boards and
commissioners to meet, when
ever possible, in coastal sections
of the state to help offset the
economic effects of 'last sum
mer's invasion of "red tide."
Four resurfacing contracts for
Warren County? all in the Lake
Gaston area? will be considered
by the DOT board:
?a two-mile sectiion of S.R.
1306 that extends from S.R. 1335
to the end of the state-maintained
portion of the road;
(Continued on page 11)
Home, Storage
Shed Destroyed
In Two Blazes
A Parktowu community home
and a storage building located on
the property of Mrs. Pett Burwell
were destroyed' by flames this
week as Warrenton Rural
firefighters responded to their
first fire calls in over a week.
Tuesday afternoon at approx
imately 1:20, the Warrenton
Rural Fire Department received
a call from Charles Ramey
whose home is located in the
Parktown community. Ramey
reported that he had been cutting
grass outside hi a home when he
looked back at his house and
noticed flames darting from the
side of his hou&e.
When firemen arrived on the
scene, the modular home was
engulfed in flames. "The whole
house, from wall to wall, floor to
ceiling, was one big fireball,"
said Kenny Clayton, chief of the
Warrenton unit. The Afton
Volunteer Fire Department
assisted with an extra tanker.
Firemen stayed on the scene
until they felt that all the flames
were extinguished. Another call
around 4 p.m. was made by
Ramey, who reported that the
fire had rekindled. The Inez
Volunteer Fire Department
answered the second call for
help.
The cause c>f the fire has not yet
(Continued on page 13)
Sheriff Theodore Williams is shown with the marijuana plants that
were confiscated by Warren County law enforcement officials last
Thursday at the residence of Leroy Wyche, 35, In Manson. A small
garden of 80 plants was found growing in a tub that had been placed
in a wooded area less than 70 feet behind the residence. Although
Wyche escaped during last Thursday's raid with a small number of
the plants as the officers approached his property, be was arrested
the following day. Chief Deputy Bobby D. Bolton and deputies Harold
Seaman and Scott Bissette were the Investigating officers.
(Staff Photo by Howard Jones)
Subdivision Changes
Get Unanimous Okay
By THURLETTA M. BKOWN
New* Editor
Revisions to the Warren Coun
ty Subdivision Regulations were
given a unanimous stamp of ap
proval Monday morning by the
Warren County Board of County
Commissioners in their regular
monthly meeting.
The revisions, which had been
proposed by the Warren County
Planning Board and discussed on
March 16 in a public hearing for
the purpose of receiving citizen's
comments, were the results of
deliberations by the planning
board that had spanned the last
six months. The deliberations
had begun following the planning
board's realization that the "in
creased residential development
on both Kerr and Gaston lakes,
along with land development in
other areas of the county, had
resulted in the need to simplify
the subdivision process," Plan
ning Board Chairman O. L. Meek
had stated in a letter to the
commissioners.
Campeau Is Selected
For Extension Position
Dan Carnpeau recently ac
cepted a position at the
Agricultural Extension Service
and has become Warren County's
newest Agricultural Extension
Agent.
Campeau, who formerly held a
job at Perdue, Inc. as an assis
tant manager, will also work
with the Vance County Extension
Service. He began work on Mon
day, May 1 and said that he is
"really eiiithused" about his new
position.
Campeau will be working as a
livestock extension agent His job
will be to pass along data from
universities and furnish the infor
mation to area livestock farmers.
Campeau received a B. S. in
poultry science from Michigan
State University. He also at
tended the veterinarian school
there for two years.
He said he will handle any
problems that come into the Ex
tension Office involving dry cat
tle, swine, poultry and horses.
Campeau ?|? stated that he
phf tr. hpM tnformatkw iumjism
on various livestock topics.
Campeau wail ue reaciied ul the
Vance County office on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Wednesday morn
ings at 438-8188, and in Warren
County on Wednesday after
noons, Thursdays and Fridays at
257-3840.
CAMPEAU
The Planning Board had rec
ommended to the commissioners
that procedures for the review of
minor subdivisions? those con
sisting of no more than five lots,
which abut a public or private
road, and require no new road
construction or water/sewer
extensions? be established.
Rather than being presented to
the full planning board, requests
for the creation of minor subdi
sions would be reviewed and ap
proved by a technical review
committee, which would meet
weekly. The committee would be
comprised of one planning board
member, the building inspector
( Continued on page 10)
Discount Store
Will Open Here
A new department store which
will offer no item costing more
than $10 will open its doors in
downtown Warrenton early in
June.
A Super 10 Store will begin
business here June 9 in a
7,500-square foot building on
South Main Street previously oc
cupied by Foodville, a Red and
White grocery.
The Super 10, one of 100 new
outlets expected to be opened this
year by Variety Wholesalers,
Inc., will be primarily a clothing
store.
Jim Cartlidge, director of real
estate for Variety Wholesalers,
said as much as 70 percent of the
store's operation will be devoted
to clothing sales.
Cartlidge promised that the
new store will be "very com
petitive." It will be the second
store operated by Variety Whole
salers in Warrenton. A Super
Dollar store, in operation for a
number of years, will continue to
do business at its location
at the comer of Main and Macon
streets, where Roses formerly
operated.
Variety Wholesalers began a
number of years in Fuquay as a
single Pope's Store. Through a
number of acquisitions, it has
grown to a chain of nearly 400
stores operating in 13 states.
With the purchase of the Super
Dollar chain in the early 1980b,
the operation was relocated north
of Raleigh and during the past
several years its distribution
center has been doubled in site.
Register Of Deeds Runoff Possible
All 3 Bond Issues
Approved By Voters
Proponents of three bond
issues totalling $14.5 million
flexed their political muscle
Tuesday, assuring the issuance
of bonds which county commis
sioners and school officials have
called critical for future im
provements in Warren County.
The largest issue of the three
an $11,350,000 bond issue to
provide money for school im
provements?was Tuesday's
handiest victor. That issue,
known as Referendum No. 2,
was favored by 3300 Warren
voters, with 1764 voting in op
position.
Referendum No. ) , authorizing
$1.6 million earmarked pri
marily for improvements at the
former Warren General
Hospital, was approved by 3131
Warren voters, with 1990 voters
voting against.
Referendum No. 3, which
authorizes $1,550,000 in general
obligation bonds for construct
ing a law enforcement center,
including a new jail, was ap
proved'by 3075 Warren voters. A
total of 1939 voters said no to the
bond issue.
Passage of the three bond
issues caine as more than 50
percent of Warren's 10,784 eligi
ble voters went to the polls in a
primary election holding con
siderable local interest.
In a race to see which of three
candidates would succeed
retiring Register of Deeds Jim
Hundley, Legal Secretary Dollie
B. Burwell came in first, win
ning eight precincts, in compil
ing 2406 votes. Real Estate
Salesman Roy Pat Robertson,
who led in six precincts, had 2338
votes. C. Wayman Alston, a
Warren native who operates a
theological seminary in Mill
edgeville, Ga. , had 237 votes.
Robertson, who was at the
Board of Elections when
Judkins, the last of 14 precincts
to report, sent in their returns,
did not say whether he will seek
a run-off election on May 31. He
has a week in which to call for a
second primary.
In the only race for one of five
seats on the Warren County
Board of Commissioners, new
comer Patsy T. Hargrove was
successful in her try, polling 2735
votes to 1296 for incumbent
James T. Fleming. Challenger
Bruce H. Rose, Jr. finished with
903 votes.
In the non-partisan school
board races, a black woman and
an American Indian woman
assured themselves of seat, on
the five-member Warren County
Board of Education.
Dpris Terry Williams defeated
Herbert (Jack) Moseley by a
count of 2748 to 2284 for the
school board seat from District
No. 3. In the race for the District
No. 5 seat, Barbara O. Brayboy,
a Haliwa-Saponi teacher, turned
back Weldon C. (Chip) Capps,
Jr., 2835 to 2179.
Members of the Warren Coun
ty Board of Elections will meet
at 11 a. m. Thursday in the
Warren County Court House to
officially canvass the returns
from Tuesday's election.
Elections Board Secretary
Ruby Jones said the election
proceeded with only minor
hitches reported with several
voting machines.
At the John Graham Ubrary,
where West Warrenton voters
cast ballots, Mrs. Maxine
Cheves, elderly resident of the
Annie Lee Apartments next to
the Warrenton Baptist Church,
fell and had to be taken by am
bulance to Maria Parham Hos
pital for treatment of a possible
fractured hip.
See Election Table, Page 14
Banzet Is Defeated
Ballance Confident
Of Outright Victory
Former State Rep. Frank W.
Ballance, Jr., a black Warrenton
lawyer, assured himself of a seat
in the State Senate Tuesday
when he overwhelmed three
white opponents to succeed long
time legislative kingpin J. J.
(Monk) Harrington of Lewis
ville, who retired.
Ballance, unsuccessful in a
previous attempt to unseat
Harrington, had little in the way
of obstacles Tuesday as his
voters stirred throughout the
multi-county Second Senatorial
District to give him a large
measure of support.
Ballance returned to Warren
ton from Halifax County, where
he had been monitoring returns,
confident that he would win the
four-man race outright.
With 20,000 votes counted,
Ballance had 58 percent of the
vote and the knowledge that
some of his strongest precincts
were yet to report.
In Warren County, Ballance
ran a particularly strong race.
He compiled 2637 votes, com
pared with 296 for L. M. (Mutt)
Brinkley, Sr., 346 for Roy
Everett and 871 for Phillip W.
Taylor.
Ballance built his Warren lead
on the basis of returns from 12
precincts. Only two precincts
Fishing Creek and Judkins? are
not in District 2, but are repre
sented by Senator James Ezell
of Rocky Mount, who was run
ning without opposition.
Judgeship Race
In the five-county Ninth
Judicial District, where three
lawyers making their first try
for elective office sought the
favor of voters, Henderson At
torney H. Weldon Lloyd built a
slim lead, but failed to get a
majority. With all but three
Granville precincts reporting,
Lloyd had 9090 votes, Oxford At
torney Willie Darby had 8612 and
Warrenton Attorney Julius E.
(Continued on page 13)
Warrenton Brothers Are Recipients
Of Outstanding University Honor
A. Sears Bugg and William
Smithson "Smitty" Bugg of
Warrenton received jointly the
1988 Outstanding Young Alum
nus Award from the North
Carolina State University Alum
ni Association Friday during the
annual Alumni Awards luncheon.
The brothers, who are
president and vice president of
Eastern Motor Lines, were
honored for contributions to
their profession, their com
munity and university. Eastern
Motor Lines is a Warrenton
trucking firm which, through
their innovative operating con
cepts, found success during dif
ficult years for that industry.
Both brothers are members of
the NCSU Alumni Association
and are leaders in their com
munity. Sears has served ai an
assistant scoutmaster, ss a
member of the board of direc
tors of First Citizens Bank in
Warrenton, as a deacon in his
church and as a participant in
the community sports program
for Warren County. Smitty to a
committee leader at his church
and is active in the Warren
County cuiiiuiunuy sports
program.
Sears Bugg earned an un
dergraduate degree in agricul
tural economics in 1976 and a
master's degree in business ad
ministration from Duke Univer
sity in 1961. Smitty Bugg earned
bachelor's degrees in horticul
ture and agronomy in 1978 and a
SMTTTYBUGO
master's degree in crop science
in 1961.
The award was presented at
NCSU's Alumni Awards lunch
eon, part of the annual Alumni
Weekend celebration, which cul
minated Saturday in a memorial
ceremony honoring alumni who
died in service to their country.
SEARS BUGG
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