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VOL. XXXXVI NO. 40 USPS 162-860 ?. KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 OCTOBER 7, 1982 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
Watershed Project
Comes Up A Bid Short
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Three brown envelopes on
the table did not mean three
bids last week, sorPtmse 1 of
the Limestone Creek Water
shed project in eastern
Duplin County will have to be
readvertised.
State law requires a mini
mum of three bids in the first
round of bidding on a project
before a contract can -be
9 awarded. No minimum
number of bids is required in
a second bid call.
The three brown enve
lopes, one of which arrived in
Monday's mail, contained
only two bids. One envelope
contained only the bid speci
fications ? returned by a
contractor as a courtesy. The
two bids were returned un
opened to the bidders.
Calvin Mercer, chairman
W of the county soil conser
vation district and contract
officer for the county board
of commissioners, said he
expects to readvertise for the
bids after consultation with
the State Soil Conservation
Service and county board.
"We may call for bids on
both Phase I and II," Mercer
added.
If both phases are in
cluded, new specifications
will have to be prepared and
a minimum of three bids will
be required before a contract
can be awarded.
The bid call must be
advertised for 30 days.
County Attorney Russell
Lanier said.
The Phase I specifications
call for 21,000 feet of channel
restoration and three sedi
ment basins. It states, "It is
anticipated that channel ex
cavation shall be performed
from a barge."
The price range is esti
mated from $25,000 to
$100,000.
Kenneth Futreal, county
soil conservationist, said the
relatively small scope bf the
project and the unusual con
dition of having to do the
work from the stream rather
than from the bank with a
dragline may have discour
aged potential bidders.
Mercer commented, "I'm
sorry it happened this way,
because for many years I've
been looking to see this
(Limestone Creek drainage)
cleaned up."
Mercer also said Phase II
may be added to the speci
fications in the next bid call.
Futreal explained the
second phase involves tiie
balance of the channel work
? 21 miles of channel reno
vation and restoration and 17
miles of excavation. Its cost
is estimated at $600,000 to
$700,000.
Phase I calls for 107 work
ing days and Phase II for 470
working days for completion.
If the two phases are joined,
Futreal extimated the work
will require about two years.
Futreal noted no work can
be done on the main channel
or in the swamps between
March 1 and July 1 due to
wildlife environmental con
siderations. Work on laterals
can be done during this time,
he added.
( Enrollment Drops By
46 Students At JSTC
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James Sprunt Technical Col
lege totaled 667 this past
w.&ek with another 50
expected to enroll by this
week.
^ In addition to the 597
w regular full-time students, 70
\ inmates of the state oor
S rectional facility near
Kenansville are enrolled.
The total is down 46 from
last fall's 713 students.
Summer term enrollment
of 398 was 34 less than in the
1981 summer term, officials
reported to the board of
trustees this past week.
%A money-saving change in
location of the off-campus
classroom in Wallace was
reported by Gene Ballard,
dean of instructional affairs.
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space at Clemment Park
front the Wallace recreation
department for $60 per
month. It has been renting
space in the former C.W.
Dobbins School for $5,000 a
year from the Duplin -
Sampson Mental Health De
partment. Ballard said the
park building provides a
more suitable location for the
classes.
Ballard said official
approval of the new finished
carpentry program has been
received from the state. Nine
students have enrolled, in
cluding three women.
Gail Weeks, director of the
nursing education program,
reported 20 out of 26, or 77
percent, of this year's
gi?uu?ivo pujjvu '.nt aiait
nurse licensing examination.
Last year only 35 percent
'pessc&.the -first time they
took the test.
During the 10 years the
program has existed, 189
nursing students have been
graduated and only 10 have
failed the test. One student
has not taken the test.
The board approved a
budget resolution on request
of Bob Lee, finance officer.
The school's budget in
cludes $2,055,372 from the
state and $282,550 from
Duplin County. County and
state capital outlay funds
total $248,003.41. The bud
get includes institutional
funds of $239,442 from fees,
book store and other activi
ties.
DUPLIN COUNTY AGRIBUSINESS FAIR OPENS Top photo, Roy
Houston, president of the Agribusiness Council, Congressman
Charlie Whitley and Art Pitzer, manager of the North Carlina State
Fair cut ribbons to the opening of the fair. Bottom photo, John
Lanier sells first ticket to Cleo Hobbs and Alice Raiford.
National Spinning?Warsaw
Complete Plans For Project
Don Barham. vice presi
dent of National Spinning
Co., Inc. and Sam Godwin,
mayor of the town of Warsaw
jointly announced that
financing arrangements have
been completed for the
Warsaw plant project of
National Spinning.
Approximately $10 million
has been made available for
the project by the sale to
First Union National Bank
and United Carolina Bank of
bonds issued by the Duplin
County Industrial Facilities
and Pollution Control
Financing Authority. This
money has been loaned to
National Spinning and placed
in an escrow fund to be used
to purchase equipment for
the project.
An additional SI million
has been made available to
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an Urban Development
Action Grant, these funds
will be loaned to National
Spinning pursuant _to a
formula for use in the
project.
In order to obtain the UDA
grant. National Spinning's
Warsaw plant was annexed
by the town of Warsaw and
immediately became a major
taxpayer of the town.
Interest paid on the loan by
NS and repayment of prin
ciple will belong to the town
for future use in financing
other qualified projects.
Barham indicated that,
?IIIIV miauling aiiangc
ments have been completed,
the task of finalizing market
ing and equipment studies is
still underway. He empha
sized that expenditures for
the project will conform to
the timetable dictated by the
results of these studies.
"If everything goes for
ward as anticipated." said
Henry C. Humphreys Jr.,
vice president of manufac
turing for NS, "we expect to
start receiving equipment by
March of 1983. An estimated
118 new jobs and the reten
tion of 70 other jobs is
expected to result from the
project wnen nnaiiy com
pleted."
Humphreys also
announced that Buford Hut
chins is being transferred ,to
Warsaw as plant manager.
Hutchins, who joined the
company in 1983, has served
as department manager, ad
ministrative manager and is
an industrial engineer.
Mayor Godwin stated that
the completion of these fi
nancing arrangements is of
great benefit to the residents
of the town and Duplin
County. He said that this
accomplishment was made*
possible through the help of
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North Carolina in Warsaw,
Raleigh. Washington,
Charlotte. Whiteville and the
county, as well as in New
York and Washington, DC.
??; North Duplin Youths OK
t Following Truck-Bus Collision
Seventeen North Duplin
school students escaped in
jury when a county school
bus collided with a tractor
trailer Thursday at the inter
section of U.S. 117 and State
Road 1337 south of Faison.
State Highway Patrolman
? R.R. Johnson charged the
bus driver, Robert Taylor, a
17-year-old student, with
"failure to look at a cross
ing."
Johnny Farrior of Rose
Hill, driver of the tractor
trailer. suffered a minor leg
injury.
The Eastern By-Products
18-wheeler from Rose Hill
was traveling north on U.S.
117. When Farrior saw the
bus coming onto the highway
he swerved the rig in an
attempt to miss the bus. The
right front fender of the bus
was hit and the tractor
trailer jackknifed off the
shoulder of the highway.
Duplin bus supervisor
Allen Wood, said Taylor
stopped at the intersection,
looked to his right and left
along the highway but failed
to see the tractor-trailer be
cause of a hill that obstructs
vision. Wood said Taylor
drove onto the highway in
front of the truck.
Wood estimated $600
damage to the bus and
$2,000 to the truck. It was the
first school bu. accident of
this school year in Duplin
County.
Wood said the bus route
may be changed to avoid the
intersection where the acci
dent occurred.
Turkey Growing In Export
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While tobacco remians
North Carolina's principal
export crop, turkey products
are becoming an increasingly
important export item.
The state led the nation
last year in turkey production
with about 26 million birds.
Two firms, one native to
_ the state, and one a national
? meat packer, lead the turkey
export drive. Swift ? Co.,
with a turkey processing
plant in Wallace, and House
of Raeford Farms Inc. of
Raeford (and Rose Hill)
export processed turkey
meat, much of it through the
port of Wilmington.
As with tobacco, the
actions of foreign govern
ments Interfere with the
normal trade flow in turkey
' meat. And, as with tobacco,
these actions affect North
Carolina farmers. Most of
the 3 million pounds of
turkey products produced
weekly by the House of
Raeford begin on Duplin and
Sampson County farms.
Most of the turkeys
processed by the Swift Co.
plant at Wallace come from
farms in Pender, Duplin and
Sampson counties.
E. Marvin Johnson, presi
dent of the House of Raeford
and a partner in Nash John
son & Sons Farms of Rose
Hill, testified recently before
a subcommittee of the U.S.
Senate Committee on Agri
culture on the adverse effect
of European market restric
tions and subsidies
"(We) here in the United
States can grow turkeys more
efficiently and process them
to higher standards than any
of our foreign competitors,
but processors are often ex
cluded from foreign mar
I
kets," he said.
He added: "Standards for
international trade ought to
be based ' on end results:
Whether the product is clean
and wholesome, not whether
the fresh wate* goes into the
front or back end of the
chiller or how much water is
used in the chiller.
"But, the European Com
munity has special design
standards for turkey chillers.
. .Recently, the British tried
to exclude poultry from any
country which vaccinates for
Newcastle disease (a dread
disease of _poultry). EC re
quirements based on pro
cessing techniques and drug
use are trade barriers. Un
less they will make products
cleaner or more wholesome,
these restrictions should be
struck down."
Johnson emphasized EC I
I
agriculture is highly subsi
dized and protected by "gate
prices," which equalize the
price between efficiently
produced U.S. Turkeys and
subsidized European tur
keys. The EC also subsidizes
exports of turkey and other
products, he added.
He called on government
and industry to join in mak
ing world trade work by
playing the same rules other
countries use until they are
ready to agree to "rules we
can live with."
Numerous U.S. farm com
modity groups, farm organi
zations and export com
panies make the same com
plaints about other products.
Tobacco interests long have
fought against various trade
restrictions. Broiler pro
ducers face similar prob
lems.
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Wallace Rescue Squad Opens
Building Fund Drive
The Wallace Rescue Squad
opened a fund drive this past
week to finance completion
of its new home beside the
town hall.
Treasurer Becky Jones
said $4,500 was raised at the
first meeting on Tuesday
night.
Construction has begun
and work on the exterior
cinder-block walls is sche
duled to start this week, she
h
said.
Mayor Melvin Cording
said $80,000 will be needed
to Finish the structure. The
squad had a reserve of
$30,000 before the fund drive
began.
Ms. Jones said the squad
hopes to have the walls and
roof up and utilities roughed
in by December at a cost of
about $55,000.
"We have enough money
nuvv to make uur first pay
ment of $35,000 to the con
tractor (Dixie General Con
tractors of Wallace) Nov. 1,"
she said.
The squad's present home
is a tin storage building, on
the town hall block. * The
structure cannot house all of
the equipment. The squad's
newest ambulance is too ta'l
to qo into the structure.
Cording said the town will
use the tin building for
storage after the squad
moves.
The squad has two ambu
lances. a crash truck to carry
equipment, a four-wheel
drive vehicle with a portable
generator, a boat and trailer.
It answers about 40 calls a
month. Each call averages
three hours. Three people
make up an ambulance crew,
so an average call requires
nine man hours.
Wallace Well Progressing
The new Wallace well
should be "one line" in
about two weeks, Mayor
Melvin Cording said this past
week.
The engineer's report
recommends the well pump
no more than 500 gallons per
minute regularly, although it
tested at a potential of 650
gallons per minutes, he said.
"When it goes into operation
we hope to be able to rest
some of our other wells and
let them recharge," he
added.
The town now has nine
wells in operation. They
pump an average of 3 million
gallons of water per day.
Thev have oumoed as much
as 5 million gallons a day.
Cording said, explaining
production at the J.P.
Stevens Co. plants in Wal
lace is at a low ebb reducing
the amount of water used in
their operations.
We want to keep an ade
quate water reserve in case
we have an industry pros
pect," he said. "A prospect
can't wait for a year to get
water."
The well will be put on line
as soon as the pump house,
which is now under con
struction. is completed and
the pump equipment in
stalled. The well is located
behind the Town Hall, near
the elevated water storage
tank on the town hall block.
Andrews Concert Rescheduled
Due to the recent illness of
Maxene Andrews, the Tar
Heel Fine Arts Society con
cert featuring Ms. Andrews
which was scheduled for Oct.
12, has been rescheduled for
Jan. 18, 1983, at 8 p.m. in
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the Kenan Memorial Audi
torium.
The first concert of the
season will be Boots Ran
dolph on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 7
p.m. in the Auditorium.
Tickets may be obtained by
writing Tar Heel Fine Arts
Society, PO Box 428,
Kenansville, N.G. 28349 and
enclosing S10 for each adult
ticket and SS for each student
ticket desired.