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WtHl i'rarrH HIGHLIGHT Volume 4, Number 49, Vanceboro, N.C. Thursday, December 3. 1981 12 Pages 20 Cents Operation Santa Claus By CATHERINE COOPER Operation Santa Claus, Craven County, boxes are sponsored by Mental Health located at . . . Whitley’s Association of Craven County, Supermarket, Dover; Cove is underway! The purpose of City Town Hall, Craven Operation Santa Claus is to Evaluation & Training provide Christmas to the Center, Vanceboro Communi- mentally ill at Cherry ty Center and St. Paul's Hospital and the mentally Episcopal Church, Vanceboro. retarded at Caswell. Also All gifts should be New and selected groups of mentally Unwrapped; although, one handicapped within Craven may provide wrapping paper County will receive a portion for the staff which will make of the total received from the campaign. Many of our mentally handicapped have lost contact with their families, and the establishments, and individ- gifts received thru Operation uals can also choose to Santa Claus will be their only contribute money. Checks gifts. Your gifts can make a should be made to Operation difference . to those under Santa Claus and set to P.O. protective care by making Box 906, New Bern, 28560. ' them feel remembered and Cash donations will be used to cared for. purchase larger items such as The campaign will run electric razora, from November 27th thru eoats, December 15th. Suggested ® gift items; Shirts, blouses, slacks, underwear, sleep- wear, socks, panty hose, cosmetics, all types of toilette articles, tobacco products, gloves, toboggans. Simple adult games such as checkers. Deadline for all donations is December 15, 1981. The Mental Health Association’s goal this year is to bring 3,500 gifts to the mentally handicapped in Eastern North Carolina. If chi noon questions, call cninese checkers, cards, cq-t cq.i-7 v'._ -n ■ board games are also ™***® appropriate. All gifts may be ® difference and can say to the left in collection boxes located "^®”*^"y & mentally through-out Craven County. *’®^™ed, separated from In ’the western section of *^"®**‘ conimunity, that they are remembered! New Residents for Vanceboro By BETTY DAUGHERTY The new occupants of the Association for Retarded Citizens Housing Development Services (ARC/HDS) Craven County Group Home in Vanceboro, N.C. will be arriving approximately the first week in December. The resident eoujile will be Dan & Debbie Neal. ARC and Neiise Mental Health Center will manage the home . The program must operate in such a manner as to offer to the client a normalized environment. It ineliules promoting normalization by encouraging physical and social intergration of the clients into the community. The group home will provide individuals the opportunity to progress at his/her own speed in an environment that is supportive to positive growth and development. The home is operated acconling to standards set by the state of North Carolina. Licen.se looperate the facility will be issued by the Division of Kacilities Service. I’rogram .standards set by the Division of Mental Health Services ^ust also be met and the program is subject to review at any lime. Serving on the Hoard from Vanceboro. N.C. are .Janice .Morris and Lois Lancaster. Home of Peggy Williams individual selections, wrap, and distribute your gift to the residents. Civic groups, business Firemen Respond By. R.L. CANNON. JR. Two homes in the Vance boro area were completely destroyed during the past week. The first home was being used by the Peggy Williams family. It was completely engulfed with fire when the firemen from the Vanceboro Fire Department arrived on the scene. Fire Chief Stanley Kite quickly surveyed the situation and made an assistance call for the Fort Barnwell Fire Department. Just as the Vanceboro Department’s water gave out. the Fort Barnwell tanker arrived to continue the effort to control the fire. The house was located on Highway 118 about 5 miles west of Vanceboro. '1 he dwelling was owned by Terry and Eddie Haddock. Estimated damages were listed at $22,000 dollars. Cau-ses are unknown. In a separate fireon Sunday morning, Mr. Douglas Garris lost his home in an early morning fire. Mr. Garris escaped the fire with minor lacerations about the face which was received as he went through a window to escape the flames which gutted the interior and burned the back rooms of the house to the floor. Plstimated damages were in exce.ss of $25,000. A barn owned by Thomas Bryant was also destroyed. The home of Mable Lancaster was slightly damaged on Nov. ,30th. Home of Douglas Garris Football Contest Winners Dexter Jones is the winner in last week’s footali contest. Jones had a 9-1 record. Joy Whitehurst finished second while Jimmy Haddock was third. With three weeks remaining, Whitehurst has moved back in the lead in the points standing with ,'jO points followed by .lohn F. Kite with :18. Extended Area Telephone Service Carolina Telephone customers in Vanceboro and Havelock will soon be able to call New Bern without paying long distance charges by dialing the seven digit number they wish to contact. Extended Area Service (EAS) will go into effect December 21 at seven a.m. for this area. The EAS was approved two years a go by 79.6 percent of the 90 percent that replied to the vote in the Vanceboro area. Mr. Zan Munroe. Carolina Telephone’s District Commercial and Marketing Manager, says this service should be an asset to the Vanceboro area' and it should benefit by helping tie the business community, residential community, and the school systems together. A revision in the rates will take place with the new service. The increase will be seen in the January 1982 billings. Residential rates will rise from $5.50 to $8.20 for a one-party line. $4.70 to $7.15 for a two-party line and from $4.40 to $6.80 for a four party line. Commercial rates will go from $13.80 to $20.60 for one-party, from $11.70 to $17.95 for two- party, from $11.05 to $17.10 for four-party. After two years, there are many happy people awaiting this service. The reason given for the two year delay was new equipment had to be purchased and installed before EAS could become a reality. Carolina telephone is presently serving 1492 residents and 117 businesses in the Vanceboro area. Havelock will receive the same EAS that Vanceboro residents; however, it will still be a long distance call if you wish to call Havelock or Cherry Point. Benefits: to tie the business community, residential community and school systems together. Camper’s Misbehavior Closes Land Because of continuous problems with littering, danger from open campfires, road damage, and complaints from adjacent landowners, the Koppers Company has been forced to close its land to camping in three Tennessee counties. According to Jim Holton, Craven County Extension Chairman/Agent this can easily happen here in Craven County. Most forest industries and many landowners open their lands for hunting, fishing, hiking, and other outdoor recreation activities, but because of a few irresponsible people, this privilege can be jeopardized for the rest of us Holton said. “Try putting yourself in these landowners position when you see gates destroyed, roads rutted to impassible conditions, trees cut for firewood without permission, fences torn down, gates left open permitting livestock to get out, trash dumped in the woods and campfires left unattended,’ said Leon Harkins, Extension Forest Resources Specialist. “Can we really blame these landowners for closing their lands for our use when these things happen?” What can we do to assure future use of these lands? Very simply, be considerate of others property; get permission to use the !and;doall you can to convince others todothesame; and offer your assistance and help organize others to pick up litter (If repair gtites, fences and other thitig.s damaged bv a tew irresponsib.b' individiial.s.
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