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*?rr?n ton?*a . Library Z .17 B.ItU St. Warrsatoa, I.C. 2758 Sty* iamn Eecuri} Volume 91 25c Per Copy Warrenton, County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, July 20, 1988 Number 29 More Money Could Flow Into Warren Warren County's coffers could be about $140,000 richer soon, if the applications submitted last week are reviewed with favor, County Manager Charles Worth said this week. ,,^"ppllcation for a grant of *120,000 was submitted last Fri day to the N.C. Housing Finance Agency Energy Conservation and Housing Rehabilitation Incentive Program for an energy conserva tion project. If the funds are received, efforts would be made to provide storm windows and doors, boiler and furnace repairs and other weatherization main tenance in the housing of low income Warren County residents. Unlike the Community Develop ment Block Grant (CDBG) funds that have been received in years past and targeted for rehabilita tion projects in specific com munities here, the energy con servation monies would be used for the benefit of residents coun ty wide, including the munici IMlities of Warrenton, Macon and Norlina. The application for the smaller amount? $20,000? has been sent to the N.C. Department of Natural Resources Office of Land Records Management Program If received, the funds will be used to continue the county's multi-year $374,000 mapping pro ject begun with the $10,000 grant received last year from the Land Records Management Program. The $10,000 grant, along with $10,000 in matching funds al located by the county, was used for aerial photographs of Warren County. The newly-requested $20,000 will be used for more specific mapping, including cadastral maps that will show the physical topography of the area. When completed, the mapping project will be of benefit to the tax and finance offices here, as well as county emergency responders in their search-and-rescue efforts According to Worth, notifica tion of the status of Warren Coun ty 's applications for funds for the _ two projects should be received within the next 30-60 days. Missing Cougar Found In Warren The solution to the puzzle of the disappearing I960 Cougar that vanished recently from Oak Plaza Shopping Center in Oxford was provided Monday, when two Warren County deputies appre hended a suspect. Fidenda Salazar, 19, of FU. 1, Oxford had parked his vehicle at the shopping center on Sunday afternoon, but when he returned from making a purchase, his Cougar was nowhere to be found. On Monday, Chief Deputy Bob by Dean Bolton found the missing Cougar in the Oine community, where it had been mired on S.R. 1213. About 30 minutes later, Depu ty Harold Seaman located the suspect. Nicholas Menjivar, 30, a native of Salvadore, was found attempt ing to cross I-8S on foot, near the Oine exit. Menjivar was arrested and transported by Deputy Seaman to the Oxford Police Department. He has been confined to the Gran ville County Jail under a $8, 000 to await trial on July 27 on one count of felony-grade larceny, Oxford Police Chief James H. Waugh said Tuesday. The car has been returned to Granville County alao, the police chief said. Sheorin Elected Warren County Commissioner George Shearin, Sr. has been elected to serve a two-year term on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners. He was elected to the post during the group's list Annual Conference held here on July 14-17. Prior to this week's downpours, area farmers found It necessary to provide "artificial rain" for their crops. Although other areas have been plagued by drought conditions that threaten to af feet sales in the 1988 market, Warren County farmers will have little to fear when the Warren ton Tobacco Market opens its doors on Aug. 10. (Staff Photo by Phyllis H. King) Leaf Market To Open Here On August 10 The patter of the auctioneer's pitch will sound like music to the ears of buyers for the 1988 crop when the Warrenton Tobacco Market opens its doors on Wed nesday, Aug. 10. "We're looking forward to a good crop, Warrenton Tobacco Market Sales Supervisor Mrs. Alice Robertson said this week. "Even though there have been severe drought conditions in some areas, we have not been that badly affected in Warren County," she observed. Warren Given $752,444 For Roads Road Evaluation Process Is Explained By THURLETTA M. BROWN News Editor Warren County has been ear marked a recipient of $752,444 of the $65,733,077 doled out recently for the 1988-89 fiscal year by the state Department of Transporta tion for secondary road construc tion in an effort to eliminate a portion of the thousands of miles of unpaved roads in North Caro lina, George E. Wells, DOT state highway administrator, said recently. According to Wells, the state has completed a study of all state-maintained secondary roads in each county. Based on this study, each county's alloca tion is based on the ratio of the county's unpaved state-main tained secondary roads and the total number of unpaved state maintained secondary roads in North Carolina, times the state wide appropriation for secondary construction. For the purpose of that calcula tion, Warren County's unpaved mileage as of Jan. 1 of this year was recorded as 192.65. The report shows a total of 620.96 miles of roads in Warren County in the total state highway system. Of this distance, 428.03 miles are paved; 192.93 miles are unpaved. The discrepancy in reported figures results from .28 mile of Warren County road way that is a part of the state urban system. The state urban system records separately state system mileage located inside municipalities, Wells explained. Allocations made to neighbor ing counties are as follows: Franklin ?$543,291 (139.10 miles), Northampton? $445,920 (114.17), Vance? $289,065 (74.01) and Halifax? $627,265 (160.60). Wells said that requests made by Warren County residents to the Warren County Board of County Commissioners are for warded to the Department of Transportation for review. The road in question is then evaluated based on three cri teria: (1) Land Use and Public Service Characteristics, (2) Traf fic Characteristics and (3) Gen eral Route Characteristics. The following components comprise the Land Use and Pub lic Service Rating. (The subtotal of those components is divided by the length of the road in question, but not less than one mile.) ?Homes (6 points per home; 3 points per seasonal home) ?Schools (10 points each) ?Churches (10 points each) ?Businesses (5 points each) ?Recreational facilities (5 points each) Traffic Characteristics evalu ated are the existence of a school bus route (10 points) and the average annual 24-hour traffic volume. The 10-point value for the General Route Characteristics category is based on the "value of the road as a county thorough fare," Wells explained. According to Wells, unpaved subdivision roads that have been added to the state-maintained system during the past two years will not be included in the 1988 paving priority. "The Board of Transportation desires a two year waiting period from the date of approval for addition to the system before paving considera tion can be given." Is Accomplished Scholar New Physician Joins Warren Health Plan A new physician has joined the staff of the Vance-Warren Com prehensive Health Plan, L. C. Cooper, VWCHP chairman of the board, announced this week. Dr. Gladstone A. Sellers, a general practitioner, began work at the Soul City and Warrenton sites on July 11. The physician is a 1980 alum nus of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga., where he was a George M. Wein stein scholar and received a bachelor of chemical engineering degree. One semester of his undergraduate training was also spent in England at the Univer sity College in London. A 1984 graduate of the Emory University School of Medicine in Seven Warren Residents Needed To Help With llDcomina Census When the 21st Decennial Cen sus of Population and Housing is conducted in 1990, input will have been received from Warren County, thanks to the efforts of the seven area residents who will have served as paid workers in the initial phase of the project. From among a pool of about 40 persons who will be tested here on Thursday, July 28, these seven persons will be selected. For their work as local enumerators, who have been charged with the task of knocking on doors and obtain ing complete addresses, these seven persons will be compen sated at a rate of 15.50 per hour and 21 cents per mile. But, there will be a non tangible reward at well: the knowledge that their efforts may result in financial gain for War ren County. The goal of the listing operation is to obtain a complete list of ad dresses in the state. Based on the list prepared by the seven tem porary workers, a census ques tionnaire will be mailed by the I Bureau of the Census in March of 1990 to every identifiable Warren County household. A comprehen sive 20-page questionnaire will also be mailed to one in every six. Because all political districts are based on census figures, billions of dollars of public money is allocated on the head count recorded in the national tally. An inaccurate count of Warren Coun ty residents? a count that is too low? will result in a failure to receive funds for which the area would otherwise be eligible. According to William F. Hill, regional director of the Charlotte based office of the Census Bureau, about 1,000 North Caro linians will be hired for the im portant list-making project. The seven Warren County workers will be among the 2,100 persons hired in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and the District of Columbia? the region served by the Charlotte-based office of the Census Bureau? to conduct the prelistings. "The census is the 9 largest peacetime operation the government does," Brian Mon aghan, assistant manager for the Charlotte office said recently. Persons with interest in being considered for employment as local enumerators should report to the jury rooms of the Warren County Courthouse on Thursday, July 28 in time for testing at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Damage ffeported An estimated $1,000 in proper ty damage was done last week end by a parson or persons who unlawfully entered Warren Coun ty High School. Following receipt of a report on July 17, the school was found to have bean entered by vandals who had broken a window on the back side of the building. Damages reported included a broken soda machine in the teachers' lounge, entry into the cabinet shop and a number of broken windows. Atlanta, Ga., his internship, junior-, senior- and chief residencies were completed this year at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. An accomplished scholar, Dr. Sellers has authored two papers. "Thrombocytosis in an Iron deficient Patient" has been ac cepted for publication by the Southern Medical Journal. Negotiations are under way for the publication of the second article, "Anaphylactic Reaction to a Monobactam Antiobiotic: Azactam." Dr. Sellers is married to the former Margaret Carren Hender son of Atlanta, Ga. They reside in Henderson with their son, Trey, age 21 months. According to Mrs. Robertson, 7.080,766 pounds of tobacco have been designated to Warren Coun ty warehouses. "That's an in crease over the poundage from last year, and we hope to pick up even more during redesigna tion," Mrs. Robertson said. The initial designation period for farmers ended on April 15. A number of Warren County tobac co farmers traditionally wait un til the annual sales begin before designating the warehouse of their choice, the sales supervisor said. A total of 6,319,540 pounds of tobacco was sold in the Warren ton Tobacco Market last year. This year's growth of over 750,000 pounds in designations to date, as compared with last year's total sales, is due to the in crease in the allotments given to area farmers that permitted them to plant more tobacco, Mrs. Robertson said. Notification of the opening date was received by Mrs. Robertson last Friday in a memorandum sent from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Although the opening date is set, she explained, the drawing for the locations of the first, second and third sales will take place tonight (Wednesday > when the Warrenton Tobacco Market Board of Trade meets at 8 p.m. Once the locations of the first three sales have been set, two sales will be held each week According to Mrs. Robertson, during the first week, two back to-back sales will be held: Wednesday, Aug. 10 and Thurs day, Aug. 11. The Warrenton Tobacco Mar ket, a member of the Middle Belt, will share buyers with the Henderson Market this year, Mrs. Robertson said. In past years, buyers have been shared with the Louis burg market. Bond Sales Listed Sales of United States Savings Bonds in Warren County during the second quarter of fiscal year 1988, January through March, totaled $25,386, Mace T. Coleman, volunteer state chairman of the U.S. Savings Bonds program in North Carolina said this week. Linda Whlsenbunt and Timothy rfndgins, both employees at the Research Triangle Park In Durham, are shown encouraging Warren County resident* ta get Involved In tke govenmist's mammoth Ornate MM ttto the Warren County Courthouae Jury rooraa, seven area rceideats will behired to travel door-to-doer here and oeOoetaccarntoaddroaaeo. The address list will he the bnsto of the mafltog ti ths junttinaalns that will be sent In MM by the U A Boreas s I the Ccsm. (Staff Photo by (toward Jonea)
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