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-Lj - titw? PROGRESS SENTINEL *0L XXXXV NO. 29USPS 182-880 KENANSVILLE, NC 28349 JULY 16. 1981 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX Charles H. Yelverton, Duplin ? School Superintendent Dies Duplin County School Superintendent Charles H. Yelverton, 50, of Kenansville died Friday of a heart attack. Yelverton had been attending the school super intendents' and central office personnel session in Wil Anington. He was at a social "unction at Wrightsville Beach when he had the attack late Thursday night. He died early Friday morning at New Hanover Memorial Hospital, according to his secretary, Jean C. Stephens. Board of Education Chair man Graham Phillips said Friday Assistant Superinten dent L. S. Guy will serve as acting superintendent until a new superintendent can be selected. Yelverton had served as county superintendent since 1968, upon the retirement of 0. P. Johnson. Yelverton came to Duplin County from Southern Wayne High School in Wayne County, a school which he opened in 1967. He also opened Orange Senior High School in Orange County. He taught in Cary High School, taught and coached at Four Oaks High School and was principal at Southern Wayne, Orange and Liberty High Schools. He graduated from high school in Smithfield. Yelverton received his B.A. and M.A. in education, history and physical educa tion and advanced graduate study in professional educa tion from the University of North Carolina. He was very active in sports while at UNC, playing baseball four years, and was assistant football coach at the Univer sity in I960. His activities prior to becoming a school administrator included coaching high school foot ball, baseball and basketball. He is an honorary m jmber of the FFA and of Distributive Education Clubs of America. Charles H. Yelverton was a member of the Warsaw Kenansville Rotary Gub and the North Carolina Associa tion of School Administra tors. He served as president of the N.C. Athletic Officials Association as well as chair man of the Regional Excep tional Children's Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Tar Heel Fine Arts Society of Duplin County, vice president of the Duplin Outdoor Drama Association, was a past member of James Sprunt Technical College board of trustees, and secretary of the Liberty Hall Restoration Committee. Yelverton had recently been appointed a member of the advisory board of the American Asso ciation of School Adminis trators. Yelverton was a member of the Kenansville Baptist Church and taught Sunday School and had been a deacon of the church. Mr- Yelverton is survived by his wife, Mrs. Barbara Barnes Yelverton; a son, Paul Glenn Yelverton of the home; a daughter. Miss Pamela Dail Yelverton of the home; and a brother, Ralph Nelson Yelverton of Chata nooga, Tennessee. Funeral services for Mr. Yelverton were held Satur day afternoon, July 11, at Community Funeral Home in Warsaw. Burial was in Sun set Park in Smithfield. CHARLES H. YELVERTON ?Duplin County Commission Seeks Cable TV Bids The Duplin Board of Com _ missioners last week invited ^cable television firms to sub mit bids for service to unin corporated areas of the county, for service to towns, and for service to both. The board decided it might be possible to obtain a better deal |rom firms desiring to ? servo towns as well as rural Tqup alr<*tfy ^ have franchises ?Warsaw, Falson and Magnolia? will ^ke excluded. The bid of $19,628 by Crane M & M of Kinston for an ambulance was accepted. The ambulance will be as- n signed to the Chinquapin h Rescue Squad. n Brice Sanderson, who p started work July 1 as the county's fist building in- J spector, told the board he a would enforce building codes 1 but would use "common p sense" in doing so. Sander- c son has ,a state probationary t iccn? 4^i*uildipg inspect,. He told the board he must ' y take and pass some state 1 building inspection examina- ii tions when they become c available. He was with the s building inspection depart- s nent of Jacksonville when lired by Duplin County. The tew position pays $14,000 >er year. The board agreed to allow . Michael Moore, a county .gricultural extension agent, 4 weeks of leave without lay this fall to take advanced ollege work studying to lacco, his specialty. ..The. board, also agreed to ?in the state courier service, "his is a service delivering terns among municipalities, ounties, schools and the tate government. The ervice plans to deliver items between Kenansville and Kinston and Greenville the | same day. Items destined from Kenansville to Clinton < would be delivered the fol- ] lowing day. The service costs ' 50 percent of the federal postage rate. Bill Savage of Warsaw was appointed to the county air port board to succeed Bob Williams, also of Warsaw. Duplin General 'Hospital Is Hot The air condition system in Duplin General Hospital failed last week on Tuesday for the second time in less ?than a month. The failure allowed room temperatures to top 80 de grees, Administrator Richard Harrel! reported. He said patients, their relatives and the hospital had obtained fans to improve room air circulation. The hospital had 47 patients Friday. It has 100 beds. Harrell said it would be late this week before the General Electric Co. in Char lotte could have the burned out motor for the chiller unit of the air conditioning system rewired and back to Xfiiansville. He said the motor weighs 6,500 pounds. The hospital does not have a back-up system because of the cost, Harrell said. He estimated a back-up system , would cost $100,000. Nashville Fiddler ???? To Perform In Beulaville Shoji Tabuchi (pro nounced Show-Gee Ta-Boo Chee) may not sound like the name of a Nashville fiddler, but this native of Japan can make the strings of a fiddle sing like anyone raised on country music. Shoii will appear in concert Saturday, July 18 at 8:15 p.m. at the East Duplin Fine Arts Building in Beulaville. His visit is sponsored by the Duplin County Arts Council. The concert is free, but donations to the Council may be made at the door. Shoji is a regular on "The Grand Ole Opry" in Nash ville and has performed on "Good Old Nashville Music" and "The Buck Owens Show" since he first played in Nashville in 1968. Born in Daishoji, Japan, Shoji began studying violin at the age of seven under the Suzuki Method, the famous technique used by the finest concert violinists. At the age of 16, Shoji hear Roy Acuff during a Japanese tour and fell in love with country music. So. with S500 in his pocket and another SI00 in his shoe, he set out for a new life in the United States. After six years of playing fiddle in a Kansas City country western club, Shoji moved to Nashville, where he became part of "The David Houston Show." From there he moved on to "The Grand OleOpry." Playing with Shoji in his Beulaville concert will be Carlton James, Jimmy Sasser and his band. KEEP ON TRUCKING ? This truck is not headed to the1 Faison Produce Market, but to a disposal site to destroy marijuana valued at $25,000 uprooted near Beulaville. Duplin County Sheriff's Department, assisted by the k Beulaville Police Department, discovered and destroyed a w marijuana field near Beulaville Friday. Workers uprooted some 400 mature plants averaging six feet tall or better.! Deputies indicated the field had been halt harvested. Marijuana at street value of about $25,000 had been taken from the field. The small pickup load of green plants pictured above was taken to a dump site, soaked with kerosene and burned. The investigation as to the owner or harvester is continuing. Deputy W.A. King is pictured with the truckload of marijuana. School Board Names Principal, Bus Drivers Preparations for the 1981 82 school year occupied the Duplin County Board of Education last week as it appointed a principal for Chinquapin II (kindergarten through third grade) School, named 137 school bus drivers and awarded an accident insurance contract. Thomasine Kennedy, a lifelong resident of Chin quapin, was named principal of Chinquapin II. Mrs. Ken nedy was born in 1947, the year that L.J. Sutton, the retiring principal, accepted the position. She has taught social studies at East Duplin High School near Beulaville for 12 years. She received her bachelor's degree from East Carolina University in 1969 and Master's in 1981. Superintendent C.H. Yel verton said the number of bus driving nominees equals the number of school buses in the system. Some substi tute drivers will have to be nominated later. He said names of the drivers are sent to the state superintendent's office which has their driving records checked for approv al. A' The insurance contract was awarded to Standard Life lnsurao e Co which had the corffrifcV la&t year.* Coverage for each student during school hours will cost $9 per student. Students desiring 24-hour coverage for accidents will pay $39. The bid of Raymond Ezzell of Wallace of $16,016.16 for the 1,320-square-foot house built by the Wallace-Rose Hill High School vocational classes was accepted. Ezzell will have to move the house from the school site within 30 days. J The board approved a motion to require additional en.pl. asis on patriotic songs and their origins and the national and state flags. Board Chairman Graham Phillips has been urging greater student participation in accounting classes because almost regardless of the field a student will enter, accounting will be valuable. The board voted to award a business, certificate to students who complete busi ness courses, such as typing, accounting, shorthand, direct office occupations. business mathematics, ad vim d typing, simulated ??JfV V ' " ^ "nd introduc ?t*4v3 tcrtftisi ness The board also decided to have business mathematics offered to juniors and seniors as well as sophomores. Ac counting and business math will count as required math courses. A resolution stating the board of education holds title to three cars, one van. 17 trucks and five pieces of heavy equipment was approved. As an elected body, the board resolved to set its own policy on use of school ve hicles. That came in re sponse to a county program requiring all county-owned vehicles, except those assigned to law enforcement officers, be left in designated motor pools when not in use for county business. The board agreed to study its motor vehicle policies to see if any savings could be achieved. 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