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Volume XCV, No. 247

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Police: Minors in sex acts on computer files

By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

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NCDOT eyes closing RR crossings A cyclist rides his bicycle along the Orange Street railroad crossing between Williams Street and South Garnett Street Wednesday afternoon. The North Carolina Department of Transportation will hold a Citizens Informational Workshop on Nov. 17 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Henderson City Council chambers to answer questions and receive comments about the results of a traffic seperation study that was recently performed in Henderson. The NCDOT Rail Division conducted the study that included a railroad crossing analysis. The proposed project includes the closure of existing railroad crossings at St. Matthews Street, Spring Street, Orange Street, Winder Street, Rock Spring Street, Carolyn Court, Harris Street and Railroad Street. The proposed closure of these crossings is part of an effort to reduce the number of redundant and/or unsafe rail-highway at-grade crossings statewide.

Top four LEAF applicants chosen Review panel recommendations total $2.4 million in requests By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

After hearing presentations, a review panel voted Wednesday night to approve the top four project applicants seeking $2,461,456 in Golden LEAF Foundation Please see MURDER, page 4A grants. The amounts sought and the related applicants for the first three projects, in order, were: • $700,000 for Henderson/ Vance Downtown Development Our Hometown . . . . . 2A Commission and Gateway ComBusiness & Farm. . . . 5A munity Development Corporation. Light Side . . . . . . . . . 6A The money is for the Recreation, Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 8A Economic, Development, EducaSports. . . . . . . . . . 1-4B tion and Family (REEF) Project. Comics . . . . . . . . . . . 5B • $72,166 for Boys & Girls Classifieds. . . . . . . 6-8B Clubs of North Central North Carolina. The grant is for the After School Program with a Smarter Fun in the Summer Today component. • $662,690 for Vance County Schools. The funds would be for Pleasant computers for The Innovative High: 76

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Deaths Henderson William H. Bullock, 74 Sandy Glover Jr. Shirley M.B. Hodnett, 70 Juanita W. Shearin, 66 Beulah M. Royster, 87 Macon Armelia B. Harris Oxford Rachel E. Faucette, 96 Larry Strater, 55 Rose L. Yancey, 87 Warrenton James Dunson, 85

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Local law enforcment officers caught murder suspect Shamon Champion Wednesday after a Crime Stoppers tip led them to his location at the Lincoln Height Apartments. A first-degree murder warrant accusing the 23-year-old fugitive of the Aug. 23 shooting death of Robert Newsome was served on Champion Champion after he was taken into custody by members of the Henderson Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Section, Narcotics Unit and Patrol Division. He was placed in the Vance County Jail in lieu of bond, pending a Nov. 2 hearing in District Court. According to police, Champion is also absconder from Probation and Parole for a three-year suspended sentence for a 2008 conviction for felony breaking-and-entering and

Project (I’m Innovative. I’m Creative. I’m Competitive).” The total price tag for the top three applications is $1,434,856. The next two projects, rated No. 4 and No. 5, were combined into one application. Initially, No. 4 had amounted to $180,000 for Vance County’s Rural Fire Hydrant Program. Number 5 had come to $2 million for the Vance county Lifesaving and Rescue Squad, Emergency Services Communications and Water System. Once the two applications were put together with some reductions in proposed costs, the total amount sought was $1,025,600. The figure includes $648,000 for 360 fire hydrants and $377,600 for emergency communications equipment. Some cuts should be expected in the $2,461,456 being asked for, according to Pat Cabe, vicepresident of Programs/Community Assistance and Outreach with the foundation.

September Top Cop among ‘a rare few’ By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

Since the Henderson Police Department’s Officer of The Month program began more than a decade ago, W.B. Harris — the Top Cop for September — is among “a rare few” who have won the award while still in Harris training. The description of the 32-year-old former truck driver’s achievement came from Capt. Tony Clark, commander of the Patrol Division. Clark should know, since he founded the recognition event. He said the reasons back in the

late 1990s were “to boost morale and to give officers a pat on the back for doing a good job.” The end of September was when Harris completed his 12 weeks of supervision by a field-training officer and began riding by himself in a patrol car. A few days after he finished Basic Law Enforcement Training at Vance-Granville Community College in early May, Harris put on a city uniform for the first time. He then began his on-the-job education in a mobile classroom with his teacher about two feet away in the front passenger seat. Asked what he thought might have contributed to

The vice-president said the most she has seen funded is $2.25 million. Cabe, who has been with the organization for six years, explained that the board usually approves grants totaling about $2 million. The review panel for the 21 project applications that would have cost more than $10 million decided to meet again Nov. 18. The top four project applications have to be completely filled out and submitted to the foundation by Jan. 2. At some point in December, Cabe said, representatives of the four top projects and the review panel will be asked to meet with some of the foundation’s board members to explain why their entries should receive grants. The board will meet Feb. 4, and will make its funding decisions, Cabe said.

OXFORD — A 43-year-old Northern Granville Middle School teacher is charged with 10 counts of felony third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and is suspended from his job. Larry Wayne Morgan, of 105 Seaman St., turned himself in Monday at the Oxford Police Department after a probe by police and the State Bureau of Investigation. Law enforcement officers Morgan had received information that Morgan allegedly may have been in possession of computer files and discs depicting underage youths engaging in sexual acts, police said in a statement. Discs and computer files, along with computer hard drives belonging to Morgan, were taken and analyzed at the SBI forensic laboratory, where an analysis allegedly supported the charges, police said. Police emphasized the probe did not conclude Morgan had engaged in any physical contact with any student of the Granville County Schools system nor with any other underage person. North Granville Middle is located at 3144 Webb School Road just north of Oxford. Morgan, whom police said had been teaching seventh grade at the school, was released at the county magistrate’s office on $20,000 bond. The case is on the court docket for Oct. 26. County Schools Associate Superintendent Allan Jordan told the Dispatch that, as soon as the school district heard the probe was occurring, “We immediately issued that suspension.” Jordan said that he did so on Oct. 7 and emphasized that, “Our

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Oxford mayor candidates pledge working relationship with county By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

OXFORD — Two of the three candidates for mayor, when asked, made clear that promoting harmony with Granville County, with the other four municipalities in the county and with the surrounding counties would be a top priority. City Commissioner Steve Powell and Frank Strickland, participating in an approximately hour-long debate Tuesday at the Senior Center, outlined what they would do if they were elected on Nov. 3 to serve a two-year term. Mayor Al Woodlief declined to participate in the debate. Strickland said he Please see COP, page 3A wants to establish a work-

ing relationship with the county. Powell said a collaborative effort already is one of the Powell pillars of his campaign. Strickland, speaking first on the subject, said Oxford citizens own Strickland what the county owns as taxpayers and that, “We should be cooperating with that county.” Strickland said he has the skills to go before the County Commission and say, “‘This is what Oxford needs’ and ‘You tell us what you need from

Oxford.’” And Strickland said the surrounding communities need Oxford’s help and Oxford’s needs their help. Additionally, Strickland urged cooperation with the two local legislators, state Rep. Jim Crawford, DGranville, and state Sen. Doug Berger, D-Franklin. Powell said although he and his wife, Yolanda, were welcomed when they moved from Washington, D.C., to Oxford in 2003 and were told Oxford is a different kind of place and were told there is no place like Granville, “I don’t know that that’s true because I haven’t been everywhere. “But, I do know that, in order to exist to the best of Please see OXFORD, page 3A

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Mark It Down Today Blood drive — The American Red Cross will be hosting a blood drive at Vance Charter School from 2-6:30 p.m. For more information about local blood drives or to learn more about volunteer opportunities, please contact Twanna Jones, GranvilleVance Branch Manager at (252) 438-4813 or (919) 693-6550 or email JonesTJ@usa.redcross.org. Business network — The Vance-Granville Business Network invites local business owners interested in growth to a meeting from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at the Hampton Inn, Ruin Creek Road, Henderson. For more information, please contact Virginia Clay at (919) 877-2449 or (800) 648-5571. Chess Club — The Henderson/Vance Chess Club, affiliated with the U. S. Chess Federation, meets at the First United Methodist Church from 6 to 9:30 p.m. All are welcome, adults and youths, novice or experienced. For more information, call Rudy Abate at 438-4459 (days) or 738-0375 (evenings). Lions Club — The Henderson Lions Club will meet at 6 p.m. at the Henderson Country Club. Lion Jim Catalana will present the program. Anyone who is interested in becoming a member of the club can contact Randy Oxendine at oxendine@nc.rr.com.

Friday United Way fundraiser — The Vance County United Way will hold a “Coins Make A Difference” hot dog/hamburger fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the organization’s office, 212 Dabney Dr. (across from the fire station). Hot dog and hamburger lunches will be available for donations. United Way volunteers will also be at the intersection of Dabney Drive and Garnett Street from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. to collect donations from motorists. Survey deadline — The Lake Gaston Association Board (LGA) has posted its 2009 survey on its website at www.lakegastonassoc.com and today is the last day to participate in the survey. A paper copy can be requested by calling (252) 586-6577 or (888) 586-6577. All those (except board members and their immediate families) who complete the survey via the website or U.S. mail will be eligible to win a cash prize. Three drawings will be made for $50, $25 and $10. The winners will be announced at the LGA monthly meeting on Nov. 4. Weight loss group — TOWN (Take Off Weight Now), a nonprofit weight loss group, will meet at Aycock Recreation Center at 11:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend. Book sale — The Friends of the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library organization is sponsoring its annual book sale today through Sunday in the former Super Ten store building on Raleigh Road across from the Supply Line Country Market. The book sale will be open to the general public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow. Sunday hours are 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call the library at (252) 438-3316. Fundraiser — Rebuilding Hope Inc. will hold a barbecue chicken fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the organization’s warehouse, 249 N. Oliver Dr. (off Warrenton Road, just east of U.S. 1 Bypass). Plates will be available for $7 and will include half of a chicken, string beans, potatoes, bread and dessert. Rebuilding Hope is a United Way agency. Yard sale — The Badd Boyz/Lady Badd Boyz Social Club will sponsor a donation yard sale from 8 a.m. until everything is sold out at the home of Justine Williams, 526 Raleigh Road. All proceeds will be used to help the needy. For more information, contact Barbara Jiggetts at (252) 430-6081. Birthday bash — The Vance Senior High School Class of 1977 will hold a 50th birthday celebration for its members from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Ambassadors Inn & Suites in Henderson. Cost is $15 per person and can be paid at the door. Dress is semi-formal. For more information, contact Janice Brodie-Perry at (252) 492-4806 or (252) 767-8260. Help foster kids — The Vance County Department of Social Services-Children’s Services will hold a hot dog sale and 50/50 raffle from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 305-B Young St. to raise funds to assist in promoting Adoption Awareness Month in November and to support the Vance County LINKS Program. Hotdogs will be $1.50; hot dog, chips and drink will be $3; and two hot dogs, chips, drink and two raffle tickets will be $5. Raffle tickets will be sold for $1 each or 10 for $5. For more information, (252) 436-0407.

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Job Corps Community Relations Council hears updates from staff On Sept. 15, Kittrell Job Corps hosted its quarterly Community Relations Council breakfast meeting in honor of Job Corps 45th anniversary. Joan Robinson, business community liaison, welcomed the guests, provided information about Job Corps 45th anniversary celebration, and provided information on Job Corps recent contributions to the community through community service projects. Kittrell Job Corps student Lejarris Brewer from Salisbury, N.C., spoke on what Job Corps has meant to him and how Job Corps has changed his life. Lila Livingston with the Outreach and Admissions Program provided an update and requested assistance from the team in referring suitable potential applicants for the Job Corps program. William Boykin, education manager, provided an education update for the members. Keith Lawson, Career Technical Training director, provided an update and overview of the center’s trade offerings

Kittrell Job Corps student Lejarris Brewer spoke on what the Job Corps program has meant to him during the recent Community Relations Council breakfast. and the need for work-based learning sites. The Community Relations Council members reviewed the program’s training achievement records to make recommendations. Arvin Lane, center director, provided an update on the center’s performance and offered closing remarks. He gave information on the center’s rankings and asked

for support in increasing the non-residential student population. Lane thanked the members for supporting the program and invited the group to tour the center. The culinary arts students prepared and served breakfast for the meeting. To enroll in the Kittrell Job Corps program or learn more about Job Corps, please

contact Connie Petosky, Outreach and Admissions counselor, at (252) 438-6161, ext. 3299. The center hosts weekly tours on Thursdays for any interested youth groups, businesses or agencies. To schedule a tour, contact Robinson at (252) 438-6161, ext. 3268, or e-mail Robinson.joan@ jobcorps.org

Bluegrass event to benefit diabetes education The “Day at the Farm” Bluegrass Jamboree, featuring local bluegrass bands, crafts, a car display, hay rides, diabetes health fair, food, beverages and more, will be held Saturday at the Vance County Farm, located at 4349 Gillburg Road in Kittrell. Proceeds from the event benefit The Diabetes Bus Initiative®. The gates will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with music from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Performing will be bluegrass bands GrassStreet, Sour-

wood Mountain Band, Back Porch Boys and The Tims Bluegrass Band as well as the Apple Chill Cloggers. The car display runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with the People’s Choice awards at 3 p.m. The complete schedule for the day is available at www.dayatthefarm.com. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the event, and free for children 12 and under. Kittrell residents with valid identification are admitted free. Purchase tickets online

at www.dayatthefarm.com. The event will be held rain or shine. There will also be a motorcycle benefit ride to the “Day at the Farm” Bluegrass Jamboree. Bikers will meet at Ray Price Harley Davidson in Raleigh between 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The requested contribution is $10 per motorcycle and $5 for any additional passenger. Participants receive free admission to the jamboree. For more information, contact Tom Price at

Class of ’77 to blow out candles Friday The Vance Senior High School Class of 1977 will hold a 50th birthday celebration Friday night from 7 p.m. to

midnight at the Ambassadors Inn & Suites in Henderson. Cost is $15 per person and can be paid at the door. Dress

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Seats still available for Myrtle Beach trip There is still time to reserve a seat on the Vance County Senior Center bus going to Myrtle Beach. The senior center is sponsoring the trip on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13-14. The chartered bus trip will include one night’s ocean front lodging at Beach Cove Resort, one buffet breakfast, one buffet seafood dinner, and Christmas shows at the Alabama Theatre and the Carolina Opry. While traveling, we will play bingo with prizes. Snacks and drinks will be provided. The cost of the trip is based on the number of people per room and the

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Of his field-training, Harris said: “They keep a record of everything you do and the miles you drive.” The scrutiny included his communications skills in coping with people and occurrences. “It could be a domestic situation where you’re called inside a house, and it’s irate people you’re dealing with.” Although it really didn’t need saying, Harris said it anyway: “Sometimes you have to deal with people who have been drinking a lot.” And he has learned something else: “Whenever you’re doing this job, everybody is watching.” An amiable sort with a calm disposition, Harris said “The older I get, the gladder I get. I’m happy to be alive. I’m glad to be healthy. Every day is a blessing.” He grew up on Vicksboro Road, and attended Norlina Christian School, but dropped out in 1995 to go to work at Randy’s Repair & Towing Service in Manson. He stayed there 12 years. Also in 1995, Harris earned his GED at VGCC. Harris bought a tractor-

trailer rig in 2006, and began driving for himself. Traveling along the East Coast from New York to Florida — as well as going on trips into Tennessee and West Virginia — kept him away from Vance County too much, so Harris started driving for someone else. He found himself back home every night while working for M.R. Williams. Asked how he came to join the police department, Harris said, “I’ve been interested in law enforcement since I was a teenager.” An uncle, Charlie Barker, is chief of police in Norlina. A cousin, Ray Anderson, used to be a police officer in Henderson. He is a Narcotics Unit member with the police department in Richmond, Va. “My goal is to be a good police officer and learn all I can,” Harris said. “I’m not looking to get out of here. I would like to advance my career as far as I can at this department.”

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slightly injured the man. The woman was charged with felony hit-and-run. Because the “scooter” turned out to be a motorcycle, Harris said, he charged the operator with no driver’s license, no insurance, no helmet and failing to register a vehicle with the State. The other traffic case, which also became a drug case, began the night of Sept. 9 when Harris stopped a scooter traveling on North Garnett Street because it had no functioning headlight. Harris arrested the operator, who was very nervous, after he gave false information about his identity. During a personal search of the suspect, the officer discovered some crack cocaine. A written commendation that came with the award credited Harris with attending community watch meetings and interacting with the public during patrols. “Officer Harris does not hesitate to assist other officers of the department with any aspect of the job,” said his supervisor, Lt. Jody Proctor.

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HENDERSON — William Henry Bullock, 74, of 4034 Dooster St., died Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Guardian Care Healthcare. He was born in BEAUFORT (AP) — An Vance County and was the anchor from a shipwreck son of the late James and thought to be Blackbeard’s Daisy Henderson Bullock. flagship, the Queen Anne’s He attended Mount Revenge, was so unstable Pleasant Grade School in that divers in North CaroDrewry and attended Oak lina retrieved it Wednesday Level Christian Church at rather than waiting until an early age. next year. He moved to Richmond, Divers raised the 4.5Va., in his late teens and foot, 160-pound grapnel, later moved to Newark, or anchor, from the wreck N.J., where he resided for in the Atlantic Ocean near Beaufort on Wednesday and over 50 years. He joined First Baptist Church in will display it today at the South Orange, N.J., and North Carolina Maritime attended until declining Museum in Beaufort. The health before moving back anchor originally had four to North Carolina. prongs, but now has 1 1/2. Funeral services will Two divers put straps on be conducted at 3 p.m. the anchor, then small lift bags that they filled with air, Friday at Rowland Chapel Christian Church by the said Mark Wilde-Ramsing, the director of the Queen Rev. Issac Thomas. Burial Anne’s Revenge shipwreck will follow in the church project. When the grapnel cemetery. reached the surface, a crane Survivors include two brought it on the boat. daughters, Clara J. RobThe grapnel probably was erts of Miami, Fla., and an anchor for a smaller boat Thelma Bullock of Newthat would have been used ark, N.J.; a son, Tyrone to transport items between Bullock of Newark, N.J.; a ships or from land to ship. sister, Jessie Hargrove of Archaeologists and conser- Henderson; a brother, Jeff vators with the state Depart- Bullock of Oxford; seven ment of Cultural Resources grandchildren; and four say the grapnel was at risk great-grandchildren. of washing away after nearly The body will be on view 300 years in the sea . at the funeral home today The rest of the shipwreck from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m., looks very stable, Wildeand at the church one Ramsing said.Queen Anne’s hour before the service on Revenge was a French slave Friday. ship that measured about The family will be re100 feet long with three ceiving friends at the resimasts and a crew of 150 to dence of Robert Hargrove, 200. Blackbeard captured 608 Sage Way. the ship, then known as Arrangements are by La Concorde, in 1717 and Davis-Royster Funeral renamed it before it ran Service. aground off Atlantic Beach a year later. The shipwreck, discovered in late 1996, is James Dunson within sight of Fort Macon State Park. WARRENTON — James “Robert” Dunson, 85, of Warrenton, died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson. first obligation is to the Funeral services will children.” be conducted at 2 p.m. “And while we will cerSunday at Cooks Chapel tainly allow and guarantee Baptist Church in Warall of the rights due to renton. The Rev. Dr. Tony Mr. Morgan — and he is Cozart will officiate and innocent until he is proven burial will follow in the guilty — our options church cemetery. dictated to us that while He is survived by his the police investigated this wife, Pearl Dunson of the matter that we suspend home; two daughters, Mr. Morgan until they Shirley A. Dunson and were finished with whatGloria A. Dunson, both ever legal processes they of Detroit, Mich.; a son, were going to go through,” James Calvin Dunson of Jordan said. Warrenton; four grand“And that’s what we children; two greatdone,” Jordan said. grandchildren; two sisters, Jordan added, “I just want parents to know that Flossie L. Davis and Ella A. Durham, both of Silver their kids are safe.” Springs, Md.; and a brothJordan, when asked by er, Lawrence P. Dunson of the Dispatch, said Stan Upper Marlboro, Md. Winborne, the district’s The body will be on view public information officer, had received two calls from Saturday from 11 a.m. to parents about the Morgan 7 p.m. at Boyd’s Funeral Service Chapel in Warmatter. renton. Arrangements are by Contact the writer at bwest@ Boyd’s Funeral Service of hendersondispatch.com. Warrenton.

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OXFORD — Rachel Elizabeth Faucette, 96, died Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, at Brantwood Nursing Center. She was the daughter of the late Nathan Faucette and Elizabeth Cox Faucette. She was educated in the Granville County Schools and was a member of Raleigh Road Baptist Church. She is survived by her

brother, NA “Jack” Faucette. Funeral services will be conducted at noon Saturday at Betts and Son Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Robert Harris. Burial will follow at Meadowview Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service from, 11 a.m. until noon, at the funeral home. The viewing will be Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Arrangements are by Betts and Son Funeral Home of Oxford.

Sandy Glover Jr. HENDERSON — Sandy Glover Jr., a resident of 557 McBorn St., died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, at his home. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home of Henderson.

Armelia B. Harris MACON — Armelia Bell Harris, of the Embro community, Macon, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson. Funeral services are incomplete at this time but will be announced later by Boyd’s Funeral Service in Warrenton.

Shirley M.B. Hodnett HENDERSON – Shirley Maxine Bryant Hodnett, 70, of 711 Farrar Ave., died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, at her residence. She was born in Vance County and was the daughter of Pauline Brame BryantWhite and the late William Henry Bryant. She attended the Vance County public schools and was a graduate of the former Henderson Institute. Later she attended a junior college pursuing a degree in nursing. She was a member of Progressive Faith Missionary Baptist Church where she served as Sunday school secretary, usher board member, church clerk, and deaconess in training. Services will be conducted at noon Friday at Progressive Faith Missionary Baptist Church by

the Rev. Richard Bates. Burial will follow in Alpha Omega Cemetery. Survivors include three sons, Christopher Kersey and Evanda M. Jackson, both of Boston, Mass., and Rayvon Kearney of Norfolk, Va.; a daughter, Kim Jackson Dannal of Norfolk, Va.; her mother, Pauline Bryant-White of the home; two brothers, William Bryant of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and Daniel Bryant of Goose Creek, S.C.; four sisters, Ferebee Hargrove-Hayes and Wilma Brandon, both of Richmond, Va., Marchita Vann of Henderson, and Cozette Davis of Baltimore, Md.; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. The body will be on view today from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. and at the church one hour before the service on Friday. The family will receive friends at the residence. Arrangements are by Davis-Royster Funeral Service.

Carrie T. Pendergrass HENDERSON – Carrie Trent “Nita” Pendergrass, 69, of 1022 Cross Creek Road, Henderson, died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, at her home. Born in Mecklenburg County, Va., she was the daughter of the late Vest Kincaid and Annie Lou Wall Trent. She was a retired licensed practical nurse at Senior Citizens Nursing Home. She was a member of Mount Carmel United Methodist Church. A graveside funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the Pendergrass Family Cemetery, conducted by the Rev. Frank Sossamon. Surviving are her husband, Wilson Fenner Pendergrass; five daughters, Kim Pendergrass, Betty P. Velazquez, Connie P. Lassiter, Dorothy P. Pierce and Barbara Pendergrass, all of Henderson; three sons, Ricky E. Askew of Oxford, Jeffrey B. Askew of Vietnam and William H. Pendergrass of Henderson; a sister, Virginia T. Almond of Roanoke, Va.; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by

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Beulah M. Royster HENDERSON — Beulah Mae Royster, 87, of 2990 Stagecoach Road, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, at Guardian Care in Henderson. She was the daughter of the late Cue and Laura Wilson. She was a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. She is survived by her husband, John E. Royster of the home. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses with discourse by Steve Perry. The family will receive friends at the home. Arrangements are by E.C. Terry’s Funeral and Cremation Services of Henderson.

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Larry Strater OXFORD — Larry Strater, 55, of 3525 Chewning Road, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, from injuries received in a fall at the Oxford Henderson Airport. He was the son of the late Robert Strater Sr. and Josephine Oakley Strater. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at Oak Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. Ray Allsberry and the Rev. Lennis Thorpe. Burial will be in the church cemetery. He is survived by three daughters, Natalie Mor-

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Rose L. Yancey OXFORD — Rose Lee Yancey, 87, died Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Franklin Regional Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late George Washington Wilkins and Cora Comer Wilkins. She was educated in the Granville County schools and worked in the health care industry for many years in Morristown, N.J. Survivors include five siblings, Carrie Wilkins, Lois Cozart, Dorothy Harris and Helen Harris, all of North Carolina, and Carl Wilkins of Virginia; eight children, Charlie B. Wilson, Cora Nell Davis, James Yancey, Nannie Royster, Sally Landis and Mary Y. Epps, all of North Carolina, Madeline Randolph of New Jersey, and Marshall Yancey of Kentucky; 23 grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday at Huntsville Baptist Church by the Rev. Dr. Timothy J. Walker Sr. and the Rev. R.N. Holloway. Burial will follow in Huntsville Baptist Church cemetery. The viewing will be from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at Betts and Son Funeral Home. Arrangements are by Betts and Son Funeral Home of Oxford.

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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina tax collections continue to fall this fiscal year, but they are nearly in line with what lawmakers expected when they passed the state budget. The General Assembly’s top economist Barry Boardman says tax collections in the state are down by 1 percent, or about $45 million, from projections for the first three months of the year through September. Gov. Beverly Perdue already held back money to state agencies in August in case of a shortfall in the $19 billion budget. Overall revenues are still 4 percent lower compared to the first three months of last year as the recession keeps squeezing sales and income taxes. Boardman says fiscal experts are hopeful the revenue decline will bottom out this fall.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration plans to order companies that received huge government bailouts last year to sharply cut the compensation of their highest paid executives. A person familiar with the decision, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it has not been announced, says the seven companies that received the most assistance will have to cut the annual salaries of their 25 highest-paid executive by an average of about 90 percent from last year. This person says the Treasury Department will announce the deep pay cuts within the next few days. The seven companies are: Bank of America Corp., American International Group Inc., Citigroup Inc., General Motors, GMAC, Chrysler and Chrysler Financial.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Two Virginia military bases are in the running to house the consolidation of several Marine Corps antiterrorism units. Marine Corps officials say the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station and the Naval Security Group in Chesapeake are among three finalists selected from a pool of 35 bases to become the home of the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team. The third is the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, in Havelock, N.C. The sites will undergo environmental-impact assessments as well as studies of potential economic and social effects, including impacts on traffic and schools.

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OXFORD — The Vance Granville Business Network announced it will change the location of one of its two monthly meetings. The change will provide a closer location and easier access for Vance County business professionals. The Vance-Granville Business Network meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Beginning Oct. 22, meetings on the fourth Thursday of each month will be held at the Hampton Inn, 385 Ruin Creek Road, Henderson. The Hampton Inn is just off Interstate 85 exit 212 and can be reached at (252) 492-3007 for directions. The organization will continue meeting the second Thursday of each month at the Comfort Inn, 1000 Lin-

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

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The Associated Press

Today is Thursday, October 22nd, the 295th day of 2009. There are 70 days left in the year. Today’s highlights: 1721 — Peter the Great takes the title ‘Czar of All Russia.’ 1797 — French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 900 meters (3,000 feet). 1836 — Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas. 1873 — Emperors of Germany, Russia and AustriaHungary form alliance. 1883 — The original Metropolitan Opera House in New York holds its grand opening with a performance of Gounod’s “Faust.” 1918 — The Great Influenza Epidemic begins. During World War I, over 18 million people die from the flu virus. 1934 — Bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd is shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio. 1954 — West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 1962 — U.S. President John F. Kennedy orders U.S. air and naval forces to quarantine Cuba after concluding that Soviet missile bases are being built on that island. 1979 — The U.S. government allows the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment — a decision that precipitated the Iran hostage crisis. 1989 — Forty-nine Commonwealth nations agree to enact further sanctions against South Africa if further reforms are not taken within six months. Britain is lone dissenter. 1993 — Haiti’s last major gas retailer orders its pumps shut after a U.N.-imposed oil embargo. 1995 — Fidel Castro, in New York for the U.N. anniversary, receives a warm

welcome from residents in the Harlem neighborhood. 1997 — Russia’s hardline Parliament withdraws a motion of no-confidence in President Boris Yeltsin’s government, a truce that marks an end to several weeks of confrontation with the Kremlin. 1999 — Maurice Papon, the former Vichy official who fled France rather than face a 10-year-jail sentence for his role in sending Jews to Nazi death camps, is captured in Switzerland. The Swiss expel Papon and he is returned to France. 2001 — A British Airways Concorde completes a round trip from London to New York, the supersonic jet’s first trans-Atlantic flight since service was suspended last year after a crash near Paris killed 113 people. 2005 — Britain urges the European Union to ban imports of wild birds into the 25-nation bloc as British scientists try to determine whether a parrot that died of bird flu had the strain that has killed more than 60 people around the world. 2008 — India launches its first mission to the moon to redraw maps of the lunar surface. Today’s Birthdays: Bao Dai, former Vietnamese emperor (1913-1997); Franz Liszt, Hungarian-born composer (1811-1886); Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (1844-1923); Ivan Bunin, Russian writer and Nobel laureate (1870-1953); Benjamin Britten, British composer (1913-1976); Joan Fontaine, U.S. actress (1917—); Catherine Deneuve, French actress (1943—); Jeff Goldblum, U.S. actor (1952—); Shaggy, Jamaican reggae rapper (1968—); Doris Lessing, British writer and Nobel laureate (1919—). Thought for Today: Moral indignation is in most cases 4 percent moral, 46 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy — Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974).