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jP upKit iitwfi PROGRESS SENTINEL VP' XXXVVN0.44 U!K s> it>2-bo0 KENANSVILLE, NC 28349 OCTOBER 30. 1980 24 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS f AX j ? ? ___ OUTSTANDING 4-H MEMBERS ? The most outstanding I county 4-H members in the junior aad lanior divisions were recognized during awards night ias: seek. Pictured above are the outstanding members, left ? r jijht, Wanda Costinof the Warsaw Shamrock club. An ') Aall of the Stanford Oub, Glenn Brinson of the St an (or a Club, and Laurie Swain of the New Horizons Club. Also pictured is the outstanding 4-H leader, Lucy Pearsall of the Wallace DECA 4-H Club. Laurie and Arthur were the Junior winners and Glenn and Wanda were the senior outstanding 4-H members. Each received a trophy. Antenna Will Bring Clear PBS To Duplin County jake PtWrlop, ^iwRor of )he University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, told the Duplin County commissioners a new Public Television antenna | will be erected on a 2,000 foot tower near Jacksonville enabling most Duplin resi dents a "quality" broadcast signal for UNC-TV 011 channel 19. If everything goes as planned, the installation should be complete and in operation by June 1, 1981. The UNC-TV antenna will be t placed on a tower owned by " the New Bern station, which broadcasts on channel 12, now under construction near A $31 --v ?\. , . ' ?jr| Diipih County Hospital administrator Richard Harrell told the board that plans to convert the old nursing quarters to doctors' offices is progressing nicely. ( The old nursing quarters will be renovated for use as specialty doctors' offices. The hospital hopes to attract new specialists by having the facility ready. Duplin cur rently has a shortage of doctors. Harrell also said Dr. Jeffrey Margoiis will set up practice in Faison at the Goshen Medical Center in July 1981. Margoiis is finish ing his residency at Baptist Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. In other business, the com missioners also: ?Toured the new $55,000 kitchen in the old Duplin County jail set up to cook meals for the nutrition for the aged program. The kitchen was built with federal funds obtained by the county. The program provided 340 meals for elderly persons in Duplin and Onslow Counties, an average number of meals for the program. The meals are served at four sites in the county: the Lyman Fire Department, in Wallace at the old C.\W. Dobbins School, in Warsaw at the Warsaw Baptist Church, and in Faison at the' recreation center. ?Heard Agricultural Ex tension chairman Lois Britt explain a new nutritional education program. Four aides will be hired at S4.463 for a 25-hour week to canvass homes and educate people on good nutrition. ?Decided not to accept $45,000 from the N.C. Clean Water Fund. The commis sioners had requested $3 million to help fund a countywide water system, but did get the full amount. They will allow the $45,000 to revert to the Clean Water Fund and re-apply later for the $3 million. Plans For 1980 Farm Week Include Tractor Driving Contest k Plans for the 1980 Farm * City Week will include tractor-driving contest wit! high school Future Farmer of America chapter competing against eacl other. The 1980 Farm-City Wee is November 21-27. The na tional theme of "Partners ii Progress" was discussed a _ the Agri-Business meetini Plast week. The Duplii County Farm-City Week will be held at James Sprun Technical College, where ai exhibit of farm and busines: displays has been planned Exhibits will be opened Fri day, Nov. 21 remaining available for public inspec tion during JSTC schoo hours. As part of the Farm-Cit; Week activities, Nov. 25 i I i- special program is planned at a JSTC featuring a guest h speaker, musical entertain s ment and a tractor-driving s contest. The program on h Tuesday will begin at 7 p.m. with the speaker appearing k in the Hcrffler auditorium at 8 - p.m. Entertainment will a begin at 7 p.m. and conclude t at 10 p.m., with many local I singing groups appearing, t Scheduled to appear in the I Hoffler auditorium are the t Charlie Albertson Band, the l East Duplin Chorus, Anna s belle Rand and Miss Duplin . County Shari Jones. Addi - tional entertainment will be ; announced at a later date, - said entertainment chairman 1 Charlie Albertson. Plans for the tractor t driving competition will also I I be announced at a later date. Agri-Business vice-president Robert Grady, a FFA teacher at East Duplin High School, is working to establish rules and prizes for the event. All events in the Duplin Farm-City Week are free, and the public is invited to attend the activities on Farm City Night or visit JSTC to see the displays, said the chairman of the project, Roy Houston. The Agri-Business Council discussed the use of the old Kenansville elementary school and surrounding facilities and grounds for a future county agricultural fair. A resolution from the council was approved to be sent to the Duplin Board of Education. The resolution encouraged the school board to preserve the old school for public use by county citizens and not turn the property over to any person or group to destroy or limit its use. And, continuing to work with the idea of having a county fair, the Agri-Busi ness Council will host a speaker from a neighboring county fair organization. The speaker will appear at the January Agri-Business Council meeting, and the Council encourages civic groups in Duplin who are interested in the possibility of starting a county fair to attend the meeting. Exhibits planned for dis play during Farm-City Week include local industry, agri culture. government, schools and merchants. The exhibits will be in the McGowen and Hoffler buildings at JSTC and farm equipment is going to be on display on the campus lawn. Coordinating the displays at JSTC will be Jack Alphin, Agri-Business secretary, John Kilpatrick and Bill Warren. Door prizes will be given away each half-hour during Farm-City Night at James Sprunt. Prizes will be donated by local Duplin County merchants; Carey Wrenn of Kenansville is co ordinating the project, And, Doug Dark of Kenans ville has recruited Congress man Charlie Whitley to be the guest speaker for the Farm-City Night. Robert Worthington, with the Duplin Farm Bureau, is acting as fund-raising chair man for the Farm-City Week. Halloween Friday, i October 31 ? Beware Of Trick-Or-Treaters f Candidates In The November Election m r ....... By Emily Killette Registered voters will turn out across the country to vote in the national election, and many local community races are on the November 4th ballot. Voters in Duplin and Lenoir counties will be electing members to their County Board of Commis sioners, Board of Education, Register of Deeds, State House of Representatives, State Senate and Soil and Water Conservation District Board Supervisor. In Duplin County, one candidate is on the ballot for the office of Register of Deeds. Christine W. Wil liams is a 28-year veteran of the Register of Deeds posi tion in Duplin County. One seat will be up for election on the Duplin Board of Education, and Hilbert Joe Swinson runs unopposed for the position. Swinson is an assistant principal at Beula ville Elementary School, After the May primary, Swinson won a run-off elec tion, defeating candidate Faye Bryant of Rose Hill. Both candidates were running against incumbent Board of Education member G. Fredrick Rhodes. In the race for County Commissioner, William Costin of Warsaw runs un opposed for the first district seat, and D.J. Fussell of Rose Hill is unopposed in the fifth district race. Both can didates are incumbent members of the Duplin County Board of Commis sioners. Fussell has served -on the board since 1968 and Costin is ending his first term as county commis sioner. State House of Represen tative seat in the 10th dis tirct, Duplin County has two candidates on the ballot, incumbent Representative Doug Clark will face chal Clark is a resident of Ke nansville and has served one term as representative. Wiggins, the Republican challenger, is from Glisson Township; he is the owner of Red Hill Fixture Co. in Mount Olive. Soil and Water Conser vation District Board Super visor William F. Pickkett Jr. will be unopposed for re election. Lenoir County Soil and Water Conservation District Board Supervisor election has one candidate on the ballot. Kenneth Wesley Jones. Jones is running for his first term as Conservation District Board Supervisor. Other Lenoir County can didates include Ray Killette and J. Oliver Smith for two seats on the Board of Edu cation. Both Smith and Kil lette are incumbent candi dates. Killette was appointed to the board to complete the unexpired term of Earl Kinsey. Two seats on the Lenoir County Board of Commis sioners arc up for election. Incumbent Howard Hardy, Democrat, is up for re-elec tion after one term. Can didate E. C. (Ed) Denmark Jr.. Democrat, defeated in cumbent Commissioner Billy Brewer in the primary and will be running along with two Republican candidates. Republicans John R. (Jack) Poole and Richard Harper Smith are running in the countywide race for the two seats on the Lenoir Board of Commissioners. In the Reg ster of Deeds election, incumbent Gwynn Lee Rouse runs unopposed. Ms. Rouse has served one term as Lenoir Register of Deeds. , The third district State House of Representative candidates are incumbents Gerald Anderson. Chris S. Baker Jr. and Daniel T. Lilley. The incumbent candi dates will run on the Demo cratic ticket against Repub lican challengers Paul V. Boulia. Patrick Dorsey and John H. Hadnott. Three rep resentatives will be selected in the third district. In the fifth district State Senate race, incumbent Harold W. Hardison runs unopposed for re-election. The fifth district includes both Lenoir and Duplin counties. Voters in Lenoir and Duplin counties will be elect ing four judges in the eighth Judicial Count District. Kenneth R (Ken) Ellis, John Patrick (Pat) Exum, Paul Wright and Rodney R. Goodman run unopposed for the judicial seats. During the primary elec tion. Duplin had 8.194 voters who turned out at the polls. At the time Duplin had 21,116 registered voters, which meant 38.8% of the eligible voters participated in the primary election. Since the primary, the number of registered voters has increased by 567 voters. Voting in Lenoir during the primary were 10,335 regis tered citizens. According to the Lenoir County Board of Elections, 44.56% of the registered voters turned out in the primary. There are 23,192 voters registered in Lenoir County. *> Board Of Education Closes Door On Complaints The Duplin County school board members closeted themselves for more than an hour last week with guidance counselors from the Wallace Rose Hill High School dis cussing complaints that counselors are slow in helping students apply for scholarship programs such as the Morehead Scholar program. "There are delays in stu dents getting the applica tions on time," board member Graham Phillips said at an earlier meeting, adding the Morehead pro gram is handled "very poorly" at Wallace-Rose Hill high school. Phillips asked the board on October 7 t" examine the guidance program at the high school to determine why there are delays in the stu dents getting the necessary application. Phillips' daughter is a Morehead nominee this year. The counselors attended last week's meeting and a heated executive session the board members ensued. The board claimed exemp tion from the state's open meetings law under the "personnel matters" clause. The counselors and the principal of the high school refused to make any public comment on the issue except to say they had not been fired. Dr. E. Boyette. the chair man, said the board will appoint a committee to resolve any disagreements which mayt exist. The board also permitted the East Duplin Band Boosters Club to sell tickets for a barbecue dinner to pay for and equipment. Last year the board limited school-wide fund-raising activities to two per year. Last Tuesday's action will break their earlier stated policy, as East Duplin has already received approval for two other fund-raisers. The board changed its meeting from 8 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and decided to cancel their scheduled Nov. 4 meet ing because of the general election. They also decided to have only one meeting in December. Assistant superintendent L.S. Guy said the adminis tration will seek an additional state-funded teacher's posi tion due to unanticipated increases in the student population at Rose Hill Magnolia elementary school. Faison Engineer Fee Dispute Ended During Special Meeting Bv Emily Killette The Faisim Town Board voted to pay $9284.09 in the settlement of the $14,000 dispute between Engineer Finiev Boney and the com missioners on the design fee for the town water project during a special called meeting last week. Included in the settlement is the redesign charge after bids were too expensive for the town on the original project, two change order designs and fees for rehabi litation and supervision of the water treatment plant by the engineer. The redesign fee of $4120, change order fee of $2,236 and the $2,928 rehabilitation charge totaled $9,284. The dispute began in July; Boney had contended that design fees for the water project should be based on the estimated cost of the project. However, Faison commissioners, along with the Farmers Home Adminis tration officials were only willing to pay design fees for the actual cost of the con tracts let in the project, which resulted in a differ ence of $14,000. In August, Boney recom mended two change orders in the project allowing the use of additional money to install 6.000 more feet of distribu tion lines and a tank overflow pipe and door to prevent public access to the water tank ladder. The change orders involved $16,100. money saved on the tile and concrete foundation for the elevated storage tank. The total saved on the pile and concrete foundation was $21,000. The $4,900 remain ing after the change orders were completed was recom mended by Town Adminis trator Nie1 Mallory for use to pay the engineering fees involved in the additional changes to the water tank. The $14,000 design fee resulted after the first bids received by the Faison Board of Commissioners on the water improvement project were too expensive. After redesigning the project, bids were taken a second time and let for a total cost of $325,000. The estimated cost had been $470,000. which carried a design fee of $38,000. The design fee of $24,000 was approved for the project according to the actual cost of contracts let on the water system. The agreement for settlement of the design fee called for payment of approximately half the disputed amount. $7048. According to Faison Mayor Bill Carter, he, along with Town Attorney Jene Thomp son, Mallorv and Boney had met and discussed the fee difference. During the meeting a settlement of $9,284.09 had been agreed upon for recommendation to the town board. The payment of approximately half of the disputed design fee differ ence. plus an additonal $2,236.89 for the change orders in the distribution lines and elevated storage tank, was approved by the Faison commissioners. The special meeting of the town board had been called to discuss an Environmental Protection Agency grant of $740,350. The grant was dis cussed and a motion was made by , Commissioner Rachel Clifton and seconded by Commissioner Fred Wheless to accept the offer. The motion was approved unanimously. The board voted to move the November 4 regular meeting of the commis sioners to November 5 at 7 p.m. The regular meeting date had conflicted with the general election to be held on the first Tuesday in No vember. ' Williams Killed In Accident A 20-vear-old man was killed Friday evening when he apparently lost control r his car in the rain and was hit by an oncoming vehicle. The State Highway Patrol reported Teddy McCoy Wil liams of Chinquapin was driving too fast on country road 1801 just outside Beula ville at 5:15 p.m. when he lost control, skidded side ways and his car was struck in the side bv an oncoming car. Two others were reportedly injured Williams graduated from East Duplin High School in 1978. He was a student at North Carolina State Univer sity in Raleigh. Surviving: parents, the Durwood M. Williams of Chinquapin; sister, Mrs. Vickie Quinn of Warsaw; brother. Randy Williams of Chinquapin; paternal grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Williams of Beulaville.
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