MRS. WEST WITH WINNING ENTRY
Top Art Award Is Received
A member of the Warrenton
Woman's Club has won first
place in a state arts festival held
by the N. C. Federation of
Women's Clubs.
Mrs. Marsha West, a resident
of Rt. 3, Warrenton, took first
place in the glass craft category
during competition held March
18 in Winston-Salem.
Mrs. West's entry, an untitled
work featuring a flower created
of stained glass, won a blue rib
bon in local competition held in
January and was also a first
place finisher in District 14
competition held in February.
Wage Trends Are Observed
( Continued from page 1 )
by 1986. Real national pay levels
in service occupations increased
by only 6.8 percent, after inflation
for that period has been taken in
to account. Dollar pay levels in
service occupations in North
Carolina increased by 40.6 per
cent frm 1980 to 1966. By contrast,
real service-occupation pay
levels in the state increased by
only 5.6 percent.
Other Overall Trends Observed
While a variety of changes
relating to employee compensa
tion in the United States occurred
between 1980 and 1986, certain
overall trends were apparent
during that period.
One of the most significant of
these was also apparent in War
ren County, where pay levels of
persons employed in the produc
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tion of goods increased slightly
less than pay levels of persons
employed in the provision of ser
vices during that period.
The sharpest increase in pay
levels among goods-producing
employees in Warren County was
in construction, where compensa
tion increased by 39.5 percent
from a per-capita average of
$5,351 observed in 1980 to $7,463 in
1986. By contrast, the sharpest in
crease in local service-producing
pay levels occurred among trans
portation and utility employees,
whose average compensation in
creased by 69.5 percent ($9,667 in
1980 to $16,384 in 1986).
Nationally, the sharpest in
crease in pay levels among
goods-producing employees was
in manufacturing, where per
capita average compensation in
creased from $16,686 in 1980 to
$24,441 in 1986, an increase of 44.9
percent. The sharpest national in
crease among service-producing
pay levels was enjoyed by those
persons employed in finance oc
cupations, where compensation
increased from a per-capita
average of $14,612 in 1980 to
$23,636 by 1986, a growth of 61.7
percent.
In North Carolina, the sharpest
increase in pay levels among
goods-producing employees was
in mining employment, where
per-capita average compensation
increased by 51.8 percent, grow
ing from $13,458 in 1980 to $21,190
by 1986. The sharpest increase
among service-producing pay
levels in North Carolina, how
ever, was enjoyed by those per
sons employed in finance occupa
tions, where compensation in
creased from a per-capita
average of $12,956 in 1980 to
$20,445 by 1986, an increase of 57.8
percent.
Homemakers Meet
In Nash County
Twenty-five Extension Honge
makers from Warren County at
tended the 1989 North Central
District Day, held in Nash Coun
ty, Thursday, March 23 at Nash
Central Junior High School.
Extension Homemakers from
eleven counties were present for
the event. Participants were in
volved in business sessions and
had an opportunity to attend two
mini-sessions on various subject
matters.
The keynote speaker for the
luncheon was Dr. Thea Monroe,
N.C. Department of Human Rela
tions and Consultant to the gover
nor on Family Stengths. Dr.
Monroe motivated the Extension
homemakers as she spoke to
them about "Building a Winning
Team."
English Ladies
Pay Local Visit
Education consultants from
Wilshire, England were recently
in Warren County to share infor
mation about schooling in their
country.
An informal reception and
workshop session for Chapter I
parents and teachers were held
at Mariam Boyd Elementary
School's Media Center, where
Jan Johnson, Jan Maxwell, Su
Long and Headmaster Neil Grif
f is discussed their roles and the
British concept of educating
children in the infant and middle
schools in England.
On Monday, March 20, the
educators visited Mariam Boyd,
Northside and Vaughan elemen
tary schools. The visits were
coordinated by Rosiland C.
Gilliam, director of Warren
County Schools' Elementary
Education and were an out
growth of Chapter I teacher Ber
tadean Baker's trip to England
last summer as a North Carolina
Writing Project Fellow.
The vi-'^ng education con
sultants pi nted demonstration
lessons ? j children in three
classes at each school. They also
conducted a workshop session for
all the teachers in each school.
Activities for the classroom and
workshop sessions focused on the
development of thinking skills
through writing.
The evening of March 20,
sorors of Rho Tau Omega
Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, Inc. entertained the
visiting educators at a covered
dish dinner in the home of Jennie
A. Johnson Franklin.
The consultants got a chance to
talk informally about British and
American education, social at
titudes, cultural events and other
societal issues. This exchange
gave AKA soros the opportunity
to focus on the sorority's global
perspectives strand.
The British visitors were
scheduled to make other stops in
North Carolina during their two
week stay in the United States.
An informal reception and workshop session for
Chapter I parents and teachers were held in the
Mariam Boyd Media Center where Jan Johnson,
left, and Su Long, second from left, educators from
Wilshire, England, shared Information about
schooling In their country. Also shown are, left to
right, Wilistlne Williams and Jeanette Green,
Chapter I parents, and Ogletree Richardson,
Marlam Boyd teacher.
(Community Schools Photo by Mary Hunter)
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