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THE WEST CRAVEN
HIGHLIGHT
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Volume 2, No. 50
Vanceboro, N. C. - Thursday December 20, 1979 12 pages
20 Cents
Plans for
apartments
#iinge on
annexation
By Connie Bryan
Plans for an apartment
complex to be located in
Vanceboro are proceeding,
according to town officials.
Annexation of the prop
erty, 3 acres on Dawson
Lane and Highway 17
Business, has been applied
for by Grant Trivette
representing M and M
Properties out of Johnson
City, TN., which is the first
step toward the actual
construction of the
complex.
Annexation of the
property was made a
stipulation at the Decem
ber meeting of the Vance-
borb BoSFd Aldermen.
However, according to
Becky Laughinghouse,
town clerk, before the
annexation process can be
completed the town must
have a public hearing on
the issue.
David Priddy, a Hud
representative from the
Greensboro office, re
vealed that annexation was
also a factor in the decision
of whether or not HUD will
insure the construction
loan. He explained that
under HUD’s Rural
Initiative Program, they
can insure the loan only
after the proposed site had
been inspected and
approved. He added that
this site appproval could
come as early as the end of
December.
Once the property is
annexed, water and
sewage facilities can be
provided to the renters.
Town officials report that
each renter will be
responsilble for their own
utilities.
At present plans call for
the construction of 34
dwelling units, 5 wTtli one
bedroom, 21 with two
bedrooms, and 8 with three
bedrooms. The two and
three bedroom units will be
two-story structures with
the living area and kitchen
downstairs and the
bedrooms upstairs. The 5
one bedroom apartments
will be one-story. In
,addition, there will be a
play area and a manage
ment and maintainence
building.
Wright wins Grand Prize!
Ellis wins final
football contest
Carmen Ellis of Vance
boro won the final week of
the sixteen week Football
Contest being sponsored by
the Highlights and area
businesses. Ellis survived a
three-way tie by winning
the tie-breaker over Neal
Russell who finished
second and Larry Hayes
who placed third. All three
had 8-5 records going into
Monday night’s game.
Ellis also won the Beat the
Editor Drawing worth five
dollars.
Earl Wright, after
inning first place for
three weeks in a row then
failing to place in the last
two weeks, hung on to win
the Football Contest Grand
Prize. Wright earned forty
bonus points outdistancing
Larry Hayes who finished
second with 32. Jay Huff
was third with 24 points.
As Grand Prize winner,
Wright will be awarded a
two-day trip to Walt
Disney World in Orlando,
Florida for two, In addition
to the trip, he will receive a
fifty dollar cash prize. This
brings Wright’s total cash
winning for the contest to
eighty-seven dollars.
The ■ winning teams in
this week’s contest were
Green Bay, N. Y. Jets,
Baltimore, Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, Tampa Bay,
New England, New
Orleans, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle,
Dallas, (tie-breaker) San
Diego won and scored 17
points.
SCHOOL DECORATED- The Vanceboro Elem
entary School is all decorated for Christmas thanks to
some very industrious students and teachers. This
bulletin board greets visitors as they enter the school
and almost every door is covered with beautiful
reminders that Christmas will soon be here. One
whole wall in the cafeteria is covered with art work
from the different classes. The decorations certainly
add to the excitement that has been building all week.
See more photos on Page 6. (photo by Connie Bryan)
New Bern gets new Telephone system
Connie Bryan, News
Editor for the West Craven
Highlights was the lunch
eon guest of Carolina Tele
phone at the Ramada Inn
in New Bern on Thursday,
December 13. The meeting
was planned to brief area
media representatives on
the new electronic switch
ing equipment, which was
put into use by Carolina
Telephone on December
15. This equipment will
provide even better
telephone service for
customers in the New Bern
area. After lunch the press
was taken on a tour of the
New Bern facility.
According to W. J.
Dorman, district plant
manager for the company
at New Bern, the project
cost more than $4.4
million.
“This will affect the
majority of our customers
in New Bern,” said
Dorman. “Service for all
subscribers in the 637 and
638 exchange will be
handled by the new
equipment.’’
With the new equipment
the company can now offer
customers with one-party
lines some new services
such as Automatic Num
ber Identification (ANI),
U —Touch and Call-
Forwarding. In direct
distance dialing, ANI
eliminates the need for the
operator to request the
calling party’s number.
With U-'Touch, the rotary
dial is replaced by the more
convenient pushbottons.
Call-Forwarding allows
customers to program
their telephones to relay
incoming calls to any other
number within the local
calling area.
Telephone subscribers in
New Bern’s 633 exchange
already have these services
available.
James Stocks, Carolina
Telephone’s district
commercial and market
ing manager, explained
that minor changes in
customer’s dialing proce
dures will be respired
because of the advanced
switching equipment.
“Customers will need to
dial all seven digits in
order to place a local call,”
said Stocks. “Also custo
mers should complete
dialing their calls without
pausing. A delay of 15
seconds after receiving
dial tone or after dialing a
digit will result in a busy
signal.”
When dialing long
distance calls direct, said
Stocks, either 0 plus the
long distance number
(operator assisted calls
such as collect, credit card,
etc.) or 1 plus the long
distance number (regular
DDD call), there will be a
delay of up to 14 seconds
before the distant tele
phone will ring or the
operator answers. “This
time interval is required to
enable the automatic
equipment to record the
call information and the
calling number,” said
Stocks.
Stocks added that a
customer who has a party
line will no longer have to
dial two extra digits when
trying to reach another
person on the same party
line. “Only the desired
seven digits must be
dialed,” he said. “Complete
instructions are included
in the new telephone
directories.”
Stocks said the past 10
years have meant rapid
telephone growth in New
Bern.
“With this new equip
ment, the telephone
company has increased the
number of lines from
10,000 to 11,500,” he said.
“Also, we are better
prepared to handle more
growth and to offer the best
and modern telephone
service possible to our
customers.”
Morris
Chosen
McCabe
named
Jimmie L. Morris,
Mayor of Vanceboro, was
chosen to be the chairman
of the selection committee
for the 3rd District N.C.
House of Representatives.
The appointment came last
Thursday from N.C.
Democratic party Chair
man Russell Walker.
Morris commented that
the committee will meet
sometime this week to
begin to find someone to fill
the seat formerly held by
the late Joseph Bright.
The Executive Com
mittee of the Craven
County Democratic Party
named the Rev. Roy
McCabe of the Harlowe
community to fill the late
Rev. Roney Kelsey’s seat on
the Craven County Board
of Education. McCabe, 58,
works with the Trader
Construction Co. and is
pastor of the Christian Star
Church of Morehead City.
He is also serving on the
Rural Electric Association
Board.
Medical Center
to be closed
for Christmas
The Vanceboro Medical
Center will be closed for
the holidays on Monday,
December 24, and Tues
day, December 25. In case
of emergency, patients are
instructed to call 633-2788
or if there is no answer at
that number, 633-8111.
You will be able to reach a
doctor at one of these two
numbers.