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Volume 91 25* Per Copy Warrantors County Of Warren, North Carolina Wednesday, November 16, 1988 Number 46
Looking much like a child's discarded playthings,
these objects of summer's fun on a Warren County
pond lay In wait for the return of warm weather.
(Staff Photo by Phyllis H. King)
Opposition Expressed
Over Meal Price Hike
By DUNE DAVIS
Staff Writer
Rocky Mount-based Serv
ice America, the vendor that pro
vides meals for the weekday
nutrition program housed at the
Warren County Senior Citizens
Center, has asked the Kerr-Tar
Regional Council on Govern
ments for additional monies to
operate the program for the re
mainder of the fiscal year.
Ticket Sale
Begins Here
Tickets went on sale this week
for a barbecued pork dinner
which will be held here on
Wednesday, Nov. 30 by members
of the Warrenton Lions Club.
Plates of barbecue will be sold
at the Warrenton Lions Den from
11 a.m. until 7 p.m. and persons
may get takeout orders or eat in
the Lions Den dining room.
Plates will sell for $3.50 each.
Lion Dorsey Capps will be in
charge of cooking the pigs, and
funds raised will benefit com
munity projects aided by the
club. Among the main ones are to
assist with a kidney transplant
for the young daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lynn Henry of Macon, the
awarding of a Lions Scholarship
to be given next spring to a
graduating Warren County senior
and the sponsorship of a Lions
Youth Exchange in the summer.
David Gardner, who is in
charge of publicity for the event,
said 1,500 tickets have been
printed and may be obtained
from any Lion. Tickets will also
be available at the door for the
complete dinner plates, he said.
Mrs. Bertha Forte, director of
the Warren County Coordinating
Council of Senior Citizens, ex
pressed strong opposition to this
request. "They should fulfill their
contract," she said Tuesday
afternoon. "They bid the lowest
price for the contract, they got it,
now they should fulfill it." Ser
viceAinerica began serving
meals on July 1 after if won the
contract by submitting the lowest
bid.
Mrs. Forte also expressed con
cern over the quality of the food
that has been offered by Ser
viceAmerica. "Sometimes the
food just seems crummy," she
said. "If ServiceAmerica does
get additional money, I hope the
quality of the food improves."
On November 9, the Kerr-Tar
Regional COG Aging Advisory
Council which met in Henderson
also expressed its disapproval of
the request. The regional ad
visory council rejected a budget
amendment that would have
given ServiceAmerica $13,329 in
federal and state funds and would
have reduced the total number of
meals served by 476.
Steve Norwood, Region K pro
gram administrator for the aging
division, said that the first re
quest by ServiceAmerica was
made in September. The vendor
claimed to need approximately
$26,000 in additional funds
because of additional costs for
utilities, travel reimbursement
for volunteers and higher salaries
for the staff.
Norwood indicated that Ser
viceAmerica's bid did not include
funds to cover the payment of
mileage reimbursements to
volunteers who deliver meals to
the elderly homebound in the pro
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Development
Center Goes
To New Site
The Warren County Child
Development Center, formerly
located on Franklin Street in
Warrenton, recently joined forces
with the Vance County Child
Development Center to become
the Vance-Warren Child Develop
ment Center, according to Direc
tor Ms. Shirley Powell.
"We realized that we did not
have enough children to keep the
Warren County operation going,"
said Ms. Powell, "so we decided
to combine the two together."
The Vance-Warren Child Deve
lopment Center offers children 18
months to nine years of age
that have developmental disabili
ties speech services, physical
therapy and occupational thera
py and an individualized pro
gram for each child.
"We specialize in five areas,"
Ms. Powell said. "They are
language skills, cognitive skills,
finding growth motivation pat
terns, a self-help program and
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Macon Centennial
To Be Discussed
Agenda items expected to
come before the Warren County
Board of County Commissioners
when they meet at 7 tonight
(Wednesday) will include a
presentation from Macon Mayor
M. C. Clary for the upcoming
Town of Macon Centennial Cele
bration, change orders for the
Quick City CDBG rehabilitation
project and appointments to
various boards.
All meetings of the board of
county commissioners, as are all
meetings of local and county
governing boards, are open to the
public.
Stotion Owner Takes Off In Pursuit
Motorist Tracked Down After Gasoline Heist
By THURLETTA M. BROWN
News Editor
A Warren County man,
disgusted after the departure of
a customer prior to the payment
of a $5 gasoline tab at Boyd's
Interstate Shell Service, took
matters into his own hands last
week and joined area law en
forcement officers in a chase that
netted not only the initially
sought suspect, but another
fugitive as well.
Following a report on Nov. 9 at
9:33 a.m. of failure to pay for
gasoline by a customer, Deputy
R. A. Coleman, along with other
officers all armed with the
license number of the customer's
vehicle, began a search in the
vicinity of the Rt. 1, Manson
business, which is located at the
Manson exit of 1-85.
Meanwhile, Carl Boyd, whose
family owns and operates the sta
tion, gave chase himself. Boyd
located the 1988 Buick Regal on
SR 1200 at the Virginia state line,
near Va. Highway 4. The driver
bounded by foot into the woods
and Boyd called for assistance on
his citizen' band radio.
Trained tracking dogs were re
quested from the N.C. Depart
ment of Corrections site in Bunn
and the chase continued.
A male suspect was found in a
wooded area, but following
Boyd's identification of the man,
officers determined that James
Patrick Robinson, 43, formerly of
Rt. 1, Manson and now of Palmer
Springs, Va., was not the offend
ing motorist.
Following a review of Warren
County's outstanding warrants,
however, Robinson was found to
be wanted here on charges of non
support and violation of proba
tion. He has been confined in the
Warren County Jail under bonds
totaling $3,000? $2,000 for the non
support charge and $1,000 for the
probation violation charge? to
await his court appearances.
Robinson's probation violation
case will be tried on Nov. 23. His
non-support case will be heard on
Nov. 28.
The search involving doga from
Franklin County and officers
from Warren and Vance counties,
as well aa Mecklenburg County,
Va., ended later with the capture
of Michael Wayne Crutchfield, 31,
of Durham. Crutchfield has been
confined to the Warren County
jail under a $5,000 bond to await
his Nov. 23 court appearance to
face charges of having no oper
ator's license, having a revoked
operator's license, possession of
a stolen vehicle and larceny of
gasoline. The 1988 Buick Regal
Crutchfield was driving is the
property of National Car Rental
in Greensboro, a sheriff's spokes
person said.
Since Crutchfield's confine
ment here, a search of the na
tional crime information network
has revealed that he has also
been charged with larceny of a
vehicle in Greensboro, as well as
four alleged crimes under inves
tigation by the Raleigh Police
Department: two counts of at
tempting to obtain property
under false pretenses and two
counts of larceny.
According to the sheriff's
spokesperson, Crutchfield is be
ing held on detainer in Warren
County for officers in the other
two locales.
Board To Take Option
On Middle School Site
Hawks Land
Considered
By THURLETTA M. BROWN
News Editor
Monday night's approval by
the Warren County Board of Edu
cation of taking an option on a
parcel of property to serve as a
site for the new middle school and
a contract with a Chapel Hill
architect firm for services
connected with both the new
facility and additions to Warren
County High School have brought
the county's students one step
closer to having improved facil
ities.
With a vote of 4-1 taken in ex
ecutive session, the board agreed
to take an option to purchase a
30-acre tract of land adjacent to
Warren County High School. The
land is the property of the
Hawkes family, the original
owners of the site on which War
ren County High School was built.
A $7,500 option fee will be taken
for a six-month period, pending
approval for construction and soil
testing.
Upon motion of board member
Yarborough Williams, seconded
by Mrs. Cora Watson, the Warren
County Board of Education voted
unanimously to enter into a con
tract with the firm of Cogswell
Hausler Associates. Representa
tives of the firm were present and
provided for the board a report on
the high school addition.
A number of schematic draw
ings for the high school addition
were shared with the board with
a request for feedback to permit
the firm to submit the drawings
to the State Board of Education
for review.
"Several options have been
considered and several modifica
tions have been made to the
original program specifications,"
architect David Clinton said.
According to Clinton, specifica
tions include 12 regular class
rooms, eight resource rooms,
three vocational spaces, one band
area and an in-school suspension
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Veteran Tax Assessor
Leaves Warren Position
The Warren County Board of
County Commissioners has ac
cepted with regret the resigna
tion of Mrs. Janice Haynes. Mrs.
Haynes resigned earlier this
month giving personal reasons as
the cause. She had been tax
assessor for Warren County since
november of 1969.
Mrs. Mildred Hardy, veteran
tax office employee, has been
named acting assessor.
MISS BEAMAN
Pageant Winner
To Appear Here
In Parade Lead
Miss Lee Beaman, the reigning
Miss North Carolina for 1988 who
will serve as grand marshall for
this year's Warren County Jay
cees Christmas Parade, may
give Santa Claus some "serious
competition, "parade committee
co-chairman Aubrey Hines, said
Tuesday.
"We're excited about having
Miss Beaman as a part of our
parade, which promises to be big
ger and better than those of
years past," Hines said.
The parade will be held on Sun
day, Dec. 4. The route will begin
at 4 p.m. at Mariam Boyd Ele
mentary School and end at the
Lion's Den.
According to Hines, response to
the request for walking units and
floats has been strong. To date, 20
units have registered, some of
which will sport multiple vehi
cles. Two local bands, one from
Warren County High School and
the other from John Graham and
Norlina middle schools, will also
be included.
"We would still like to have
more floats," Hines said, as he
encouraged interested persons to
register prior to Dec. 1.
The 1988 Christmas Parade, in
addition to Santa Claus and Miss
North Carolina, will offer another
highlight: a float contest. Three
prizes will be awarded in each of
two categories: religious and
commercial, Hines said.
Entrants in both categories are
expected to have Christmas
motifs, but the commercial floats
will be non-religious in nature,
Hines explained. First-prize win
ners in both categories will
receive $60. with $40 and $25 go
ing to the second- and third-place
winners, respectively. Judges for
the contest will be selected.
Persons with interest in enter
ing a float or walking unit into the
1988 Warren County Jaycees
Christmas Parade are asked to
register as soon as possible, but
no later than Dec. 1, by calling
Hines (257-3181), Mike Garrett
(257-1051) or Walter Gardner
(257-3104).
Strategic
Plan Aired
More than 40 Warren County
business and civic leaders got a
look at how to develop a blue
print for growth Monday night
during a briefing by a strategic
planning consultant expected to
work with Warren citizens seek
ing to target avenues for future
growth.
The 45-minute briefing by con
sultant Donna L. Sorkin, owner
of a northern Virginia consulting
firm called Strategies for Com
munities, came following a buf
fet dinner held at the Norlina
Landmark.
Mrs. Sorkin, who is now
working with strategic planning
groups in Craven County and in
Hagerstown, Md., will be assist
ing Warren County as it goes
about an 18-month task of evalu
ating its strengths and weak
nesses and drafting and imple
menting an action plan.
The Warren County project,
funded in part by the N. C. Rural
Economic Development Center,
is one of the first in the state to
attempt to apply the use of
strategic planning in a rural
community.
Mrs. Sorkin, a graduate of Mt.
Holyoke College and Harvard
University, said that "by looking
at Warren County's weaknesses
we can help set long-term objec
tivies that will help us to figure
out short-term strategies."
The speaker, who has recently
completed a similar project for
Greensboro, said one major dif
ficulty of undertaking the
development of a strategic plan
is having to "look at you weak
nesses in public." Unlike a plan
of action devised by a corpora
tion, one devised for community
use depends on openess with the
citizens at every turn.
Monday night's meeting was
presided over by Mrs. Eva M.
Clayton, chairman of the
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MRS. SORKIN
Warren Man's Response
Saves Youngster's Life
Thanks to the quick response of
a Warren County Rescue Squad
worker, the life of a 10-year-old
Oxford girl was saved.
Natatera Heggie, 10, daughter
of Mrs. Antonia Cathy of Oxford,
was at the Spring Street Baptist
Church in Henderson on the after
noon of Nov. 6 with her grand
father, the Rev. Charles Cobb,
who is the preacher there, when
she choked on a pen cap that she
had been chewing
Eddie Richardson, a Warren
County Rescue Squad worker,
was also at the church and im
mediately came u> Natatera's
aid, performing the Heimlich
manuever and releasing the ob
ject from her throat. While she
was then able to breathe, the ob
ject had become lodged between
her stomach and her throat. She
had to be transported to Duke
Hospital by the Vance County
Rescue Squad to have the cap
surgically removed.
"She is doing Juat fine now,"
said her grandfather. "We Just
want to make sure that he (Ed
die Richardson) knows how
much we appreciate his help."