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?arrentonUem . Library X 117 S . Main St. Warrenton, N.C. 27589 ?ije Warren iRecoro (ume 91 25c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren. North Carolina Wednesday, June 22, 1988 Number 25 Warren Man Gunned Down In Shoot-Out By DUNE DAVIS Staff Writer A Warren County man? de scribed by police as tin innocent bystander? was killed early Tuesday morning in a drug related shoot-out in a residential area of Oxford. Willie Lee Burnette, Sr., 57, of Fit. 1, Manson, was found lying behind an apartment building located at 126 Cresent Drive, Ox ford after the Oxford Police Department responded to a call that had been received concern ing gunshots in that area. According to Sgt. William Royster of the Oxford Police Department, events leading up to the shoot-out began Sunday, June 19. Reports indicate that James Perry of Cresent Drive, Oxford, and Derrick Bullock of 209 Per son Street, Oxford, were in volved in a dispute concerning drugs and domestic related prob lems. A press release from the Ox ford Police Department states that Perry shot Bullock in the left leg. After clearing the matter with Perry, Bullock decided not to press charges. Sgt. Royster reported that a call was received on June 20 at 6:22 p.m. concerning gunshots in the Cresent Drive area of Oxford. At 11:20 p.m. on the same even ing, James Perry was arrested and placed in the Granville Coun ty Jail without bond on charges of carrying a concealed weapon. On June 21 at 2:20 a.m., the Ox ford Police Department received another call concerning a man who had been shot in the Cresent Drive area. Upon investigation, law officers found behind an apartment building at 126 Cre sent Drive the body of Willie Lee Burnette, Sr. Burnette had received a gunshot wound to the head. They also found David Thomas, of 126 Cresent Drive, with a gunshot wound to his up per left chest area. Thomas is being treated at Granville County Medical Center and is listed in serious condition. Sgt. Royster indicated that Burnette and Thomas were not involved in the shoot-out and were leaving the apartment by the back door. They were shot in their attempts to escape the scene. At 4:20 a.m., the Oxford Police Department received informa tion that Derrick Bullock and Mark Williams, of 124 Granville Street, Oxford, were hiding in a house on Goshen Street. Officers surrounded the house and tried for approximately 15 minutes to get someone to answer the door. The owner of the house came to the door and was asked by law enforcement officials if Williams and Bullock were inside the house and if they had weapons. The owner went back into the house and brought back two handguns. After several attempts to get Williams and Bullock out of the house, they were arrested 10 minutes later at 8:30 a.m. They were both placed in the Granville County Jail without bond pending a 96 hour hearing. Bullock and Williams were charged with first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury At 2:30 p.m. another warrant was served on James Perry for charges of assault with a deadly weapon. At 4 p.m., Tony Evans of 126 Cresent Drive, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and was placed in the Granville County Jail under a $750 bond. The Oxford Police Depart ment's third and first shifts, along with assistance from the Granville County Sheriffs Department, investigated the in ddent. A total of eight weapons were confiscated. Bringing Up The Rear A low-boy tows a caboose through Warren ton's business section late Friday afternoon. Workmen atop the caboose lifted low lying power lines out of the way of the train car as it moved along Main Street. The caboose was hauled from Norlina to northern Franklin Coun ty. (Staff Photo by Howard Jones ) Caboose Rolls Through Town By HOWARD F.JONES Editor Warrenton residents could be excused for doing a double-take late Friday afternoon when they glimpsed a 52,000-pound Norfolk and Southern caboose rolling along Main Street. It was what one local citizen called "part of the last train to come through Warrenton." In truth, the behemoth of the rails was passing through Warrenton on its way from Norlina to Franklin County. While it was unquestionably the "last train car to pass through here," nobody seems to know whether it was the first. The caboose, purchased by Skip Butler, a resident of the Franklin County community of Scloss, was transported from Norlina to Butler's home Friday afternoon by employees of the John T. Harris Construction Company. To just what use Butler will put the caboose is unclear, but John Thomas Harris of Inez, owner of the construction company, said the new caboose owner has placed a section of track near his home on which to put his new acquisition. The bright red caboose was brought from Winston-Salem to Raleigh by Southern Railroad, and pulled into Norlina on Thursday night by a CSX engine. Six Harris construction workers spent four and one-half hours Friday loading the caboose aboard a low-boy. Workers used a large loader to pick up one end of the caboose at a time, and backed the low-boy, a trailer which barely clears the ground, beneath it. As the low-boy was driven the 20 miles from Norlina to the new home of the caboose, a flat bed tractor-trailer followed closely, carrying the heavy train wheels. The trip took two and one-half hours. Harris construction personnel returned Saturday to unload the caboose. The feat must have seemed like child's play for Harris, whose company almost two decades ago worked with Carolina Crane of Raleigh and Moss Trucking Company of Charlotte to move a number of train cars and a locomotive to Camp Willow Run on the edge of Lake Gaston. Citizen Comment On New Budget Is Expected To Be Heard Tonight Two public hearings? one of them scheduled to receive com ments from citizens on the pro posed $7,714,203 budget for War ren County for 1988-09? will be held tonight (Wednesday) in the Warren County Courthouse. Prior to the public hearing on the county's budget for the next fiscal year, Warren County Com missioners will gather at 6:45 p.m. to receive citizens' com ments on a request to amend the official county zoning map. The request has been made by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Leveillee, owners since last year of Nocarva Marina on Lake Gaston, who wish to have the zoning designa tion changed from "lakeside res idential" to "lakeside business." Nocarva Marina was estab lished in July, 1975 on property designated originally as "pri vate." When the Warren County Zoning Ordinance was rewritten in 1965, the marina was not in operation and was not included in the changes made affecting sev eral sites in the area. Beginning at 7 p.m., area citizens will voice their concerns relating to the proposed county budget for 196M9. They will com ment on the budget proposed recently by County Manager Charles Worth, following analysis by the manager that pared away (341,060 tram the initial budget as requested originally by county department heads. The proposed $7,714,303 budget for 1966-80 is baaed on an ad valorem tax rate of 63 cents per $100 valuation. The increased tax rate has been based on a pro jected county property valuation of $432,737,803 and a projected tax collection rate of 94 percent. If the proposed budget is ap proved, Warren County's tax rate would increase by seven cents, going from the current rate of 76 cents to an anticipated 83 cents. Warren County commissioners have scheduled a work session to be held at 7 p.m. on June 27. Dur ing that meeting, they will assim ilate the concerns expressed tonight by area citizens. In a special meeting to be held on June 29 at 7 p.m., the 1988-89 budget for Warren County will be approved. Two Troopers Are Injured In Patrol Cruiser Wreck Two N.C. Highway Patrol troopers were involved in a wreck early last Friday in War ren County that resulted in one trooper being hospitalized and one sustaining minor injuries. Trooper William P. Blanks of Warreriton was driving a 1987 Ford patrol car south on U. S. 401, nine miles south of Warrenton in the Heck's Grove community, at 6:45 a.m. Trooper N. D. Satter field, also of Warrenton, was a passenger in the car. According to a report filed by Line Sgt. D. A. Hpwkins of the state Highway Patrol, Walter Fields of Rt. 1, Warrenton was driving a 1975 Ford pickup north bound on U. S. 401 and turned left into the path of the patrol car. Skid marks on the road indicate that Trooper Blanks made an at tempt to avoid a collision with the pickup by braking. His car skidded 50 feet prior to colliding with the right side of the pickup. Trooper Blanks was taken to Maria Parham Hospital in Hen derson after being admitted for observation for possible internal injuries and treatment of knee and head injuries. He was re leased Sunday morning. Trooper Satterfield sustained cuts to his face and was treated at the hospital and released. Fields was also treated for cuts to his face and released from Maria Parham Hospital. He was charged with driving while im paired, having no operator's license and a safe movement violation. The owner of the pickup was listed as Ervin Green Fields of Rt. 2, Warrenton. He was charged with allowing a person to drive while impaired. No court date for any of the charges was provided. The patrol car, valued at $8,700, was determined a total loss. The Ford pickup was alio considered a total loss, with the value placed at $1,000. During 1988-89 School Year Warren Academy Will Not Operate By DIANE DAVIS Staff Writer The Board of Directors of War ren Academy has announced plans to close its doors for the 1988-89 school year due to a low student enrollment. Warren Academy, a local privately funded school facility located on Hwy. 58 just east of Warrenton, will not open for the 1988-89 school year, as the War ren Academy Board of Directors has finalized plans for closing. Roy P. Robertson, vice chairman of the Board of Directors, said, "It is not feasible for us to con tinue operating with the low number of students we have enrolled for next year. It takes a certain number of students to meet overhead expenses and we presently are not able to do so." He reported that the board voted recently to close Warren Academy for the 1988-89 school year, but has made no plans as what to do with the buildings on the Warren Academy campus. These buildings include a 260-foot long by 60-foot wide brick struc ture, a gymnasium, and a 26 X 30 foot trailer. The Warren Acad emy site is situated on a tract of land that measures 29.9 acres. Along with the buildings on the site is a athletic field. No in dication was given as to what the board is planning to do with the field. "We have not made a decision on what to do as of yet," said Robertson. He reported that the board has discussed a few options for the site, but that he is unable to disclose any information as no vote has been made. A board meeting may be called to discuss the options, said Robertson. Warren Academy was char tered in November of 1968. A headmaster was employed the following August, and the school opened its doors to students in early September, 1969. The academy met for the first time in Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church and the War renton Baptist Church apartment building. Within a few weeks' time, the former Afton communi ty school building was leased by Warren Academy, Inc. and all operations were moved there. The academy remained at the Afton site during the remainder of the 1969-70 school year, and also throughout the 1970-71 academic year while the local facility was being constructed. The present Warren Academy location began school operations in September, 1971. The school just completed its 19th year of operation. According to Robertson, the board has made no plans as to whether Warren Academy will close permanently. He indicated that the decision to close was on ly made for the 1988-89 academic year and a decision on a perma nent snut-down of all operations will be made at a later date. Two Tentative Awards Made A Warrenton developer who hopes to build 10 duplex apartments alongside the War ren Plains Road north of War renton will receive $30,000 in financial assistance if surplus state funds are available. That was the decision of Warren County commissioners meeting last Wednesday night in mid-monthly session. The county board voted to earmark $30,000 in surplus state funds for water and sewer line extension to a four-acre tract ad jacent to the Quick City Com munity Development Target Area where local contractor James C. Harris, Jr. hopes to build the duplex apartments in the near future for low and moderate income families. Harris had requested that the county provide $37,000 to link his property with an 8-inch sewer line and a 6-inch water line con ( Continued on page 2 ) Mrs. Jennie Lawrence of Lake Gaston Estate* present* an afghan to Shayna Richardson, who left here Tuesday morning en route to the Shrlners' Hospital for Crippled Children in Greenville, 8.C. for treatment of rickets. Young Shayna. shown with her n-morthoW twta brother, Travis, and her mother, Charlene, a resident of Baltimore Road, was taken to the hospital by Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Fiend*. Shayna will be treated at no coot to her family as she is being spon sored by the Warren County Shrine Ctah. Looking sa at the presoata tion by Mrs. Lawrence, wile of a Shriner, are three officers of the Warren County Shrine Club: Eddie Claytoa, prestdeat; EQia Fleming, secretary; aadAllea Tucker, treasurer. (Staff Photo by Howard Joasa)
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