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Kenansville Board Discusses
, Annexing Restaurant Areas
The proposal was brought
to the town by Joe and Doris
Eakes of Kure Beach, who
said they will buy the restau-*
rant and motel from Joe
West effective Oct. 15. The
Eakes own Big Daddy's Res
taurant in Kure Beach and
several nursing homes.
0 Town attorney W.E. Craft
said the Country Squire and
Vintage fan annexation
would increase local property
( tax collections by $2,800 to
$3,000. Additional money
wourtf be received from the
town's share of revenue from
liquor purchased at the local
ABC store, he said.
After voters approved,
restaurants last month began
gelling liquor by the drink in
OTCenansville for the first time
since 1909.
In a poll of the Town
Board, each member agreed
with the Eakes' request and
told them to proceed with
their plans. A public hearing
must be held before the
annexation is official.
"I'm against drinking of
any kind, ' board member
^Earl Hatcher said. "I'm
Mgainst liquor by the drink or
funnel. However, I will
spend the tax money."
To spare the town a finan
cial burden, Craft said the
annexation must be condi
tional on the owners waiving
city services such as water
and sewer lines and police
protection.
Eakes said no changes are
planned in the operation of
The issue of alcohol oc
cupied the Kenansville Town
Board last week in debate
over Sunday beer sales and
three satellite Annexation re
quests involving liquor by
the drink.
A proposal to annex the
Country Squire Restaurant
and adjacent Vintage Inn
Motel was favorably received
by board members. The
board, however, was less
enthusiastic about proposals
to annex Eula's Famous Hot
Dogs and Barbecue and an
undeveloped property south
of town where a restaurant
would be built.
Board members said they
would only be interested in
annexing areas if it would
profit the town. The Country
Squire and Vintage Inn
would add 7.26 acres to the
town while the other proper
ties are about an acre or less
each.
the Country Squire, adding
that West will remain with
the business. The couple said
they will expand the motel
and add a laundry and
lounge.
"The Country Squire is
Joe West and Joe West will
be working with us," Eakes
said. West, who founded the
restaurant, is recuperating
from surgery and will be a
consultant until his health
allows him to return to work,
Eakes said.
The Country Squire now
has brown-bagging permits,
but Eakes said they will be
better able to control alcohol
consumption serving liquor
by the drink.
Also asking about satellite
annexation to allow liquor by
the drink were J.L. and Eula
Rhodes of Eula's .. Famous
Hot Dogs and Barbecue,
which is about a mile north of
town on Country Club Road.
A letter to the board from Bill
Brown brought a similar
request about a property
south of town on N.C. 11 and
State Road 1003, where he
would build a restaurant.'
These other two properties
would have less tax value to
the town than the Country
Squire. Although the pro
posals were not warmly re
ceived by the board, the
owners were told they could
pursue their requests.
In other business, the
board discussed how state
laws governing liquor by the
drinlt sales at two local
restaurants affect a local law
passed earlier this year ban
ning off-premises beer sales
on Sunday. State law, which
supersedes local law, allows
both the Graham House Inn
and the General Store res
taurant-deli to sell beer for
off-premises consumption.
Local convenience and
grocery stores are still
governed by the local ban on
Sunday sales.
The local law was enacted
following protests from local
residents about beer drink
ing in the municipal park on
Sunday.
The board also awarded a
contract for legal work for the
federal Housing and Urban
Development project under
way to town attorney Craft.
Three other bids were re
ceived but board members
said they felt Craft's fami
liarity with town laws and
condemnation procedures
would speed completion of
the work.
TOBACCO AUCTION IN WALLACE Left to right. Betty
Poulton, Dr. Poulton. J. Michael Moore, and Al Lanier.
The group also saw R.J. Reynolds Tobacco hogsheads
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packing station located at Sheffield's Warehouse in
Wallace.
Distribution Of Free
if Cheese Is Scheduled
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The next distribution of
government-surplus cheese
and butter in Duplin County
will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Oct. 21 and 22 at the county
warehouse, near the school
bus garage on N.C. 11. just
south of the Kenansville city
^ limits.
Food stamp and public
Ik assistance recipients are eli
gible for the free dairy
products.
Social Services Director
Millie Brown told the Duplin
County Commissioners last
week she expects the surplus
dairy products to be de
livered to Duplin, Sampson
and Pender County social
services departments on Oct.
18. She said Duplin County
will get 9,000 pounds of
^ cheese. Although she re
quested 1,824 pounds of
butter, she said she expects
to get only about half that.
Mrs. Brown also reported
that her department will
accept applications for
energy assistance between
Nov. 1 and Dec. 11.
Food stamp and Supple
mental Security Income (SSI)
? recipients are eligible for aid
in buying home heating fuel,
but must submit applica
tions. About 3.000 residents
applied for energy aid last
year when the county dis
tributed $225,000.
That sum is expected to
increase by 24 percent this
year. The average payment
was $146 per household, with
the largest grant $293 and
tHe smallest $24.
In related news, a county
owned van last week began
transporting kidney patients
three days a week to New
Hanover Memorial Hospital
in Wilmington for dialysis
treatments. Duplin County
has no kidney dialysis fa
cility.
Instead of paying dialysis
patients $8 per trip for travel
? exDenses. the county bought
the van. which can carry 12
people. Another five county
residents use their own
transportation and get the $8
payment.
The van makes the trip to
Wilmignton on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday,
picking patients up at 8 a.m.
and returning them home at
7:45 p.m.
The Health Department
and the Goshen Medical
Center of Faison got the
county commissioners'
approval to rent infant car
seats to parents of young
children.
Debra Beasley of the
health department and Jane
Silve of Goshen Medical
Center explained that private
donations will be sought to
purchase 15 seats required
by state law for all children
under 2 years of age.
The state government will
contribute another 15 seats,
which are valued at about
$22 each. They will be of
fered for rent at the health
department and the medical
center and possibly at a
location in Wallace, for a fee
that has not been deter
mined. The program will
offer small seats tfoat fit
infants up to 4 months. Alt
parents of children in that
age category are eligible to
rent the seats.
County Tax Supervisor
Frank Moore is seeking five
tax listers to work during
January. Although 18 of the
23 temporary jobs are filled,
Moore needs list takers for
Warsaw. Limestone. Cypress
Creek. Rockfish and
Kenansville townships. The
positions pay $3.94 an hour
for 41 hours weekly. Tax
listing involves four weeks of
work in January, he told the
county commissioners.
Russell Tucker, the county
finance officer reported that
industries that use the
county's waste-hauling ser
vice will face higher fees
because of lease payments
on the county's new truck.
Fifteen industries that use
the service pay its entire
cost. Tucker told the com
missioners.
The new truck will cost the
county $1,681 monthly for
three years, in addition to
fuel, maintenance and the
driver's pay and benefits.
Those costs will be passed on
to industries, which paid
$13,432 for collections in
April, May and June. That
last quarterly bill showed an
average cost of $63 for each
of 213 "hauls." A typical
load will be lint from one of
the county's textile mills.
On Oct. 20, the commis
sioners will open bids for the
Limestone portion 'of the
Limestone-Muddy Creek
watershed flood control pro
ject. Because only two con
tractors submitted bids ori
ginally. the commissioners
rejected the original bids and
asked for new bids.
Four County EMC
Members Re-elect Two Directors
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Two incumbant directors
were re-elected to three-year
terms each at the Four
County Electric Membership
Corporation (EMC) annual
meeting on Oct. 4 at Union
High School .
Lucille Eakins of Watha,
representing the north
Pender directorate district,
^ and R.E. Pendergrass of
9 Tomahawk, representing the
West Sampson directorate
district, were both re-elected
by unanimous votes.
Approximately 1,000 per
sons attended the meeting
" with 582 of those registered
members.
A special presentation was
made to J.J. Malpass of
' Pender County citing his 45
years of service to the board
? ot directors. Malpass was
one of the original incor
porators of the cooperative.
The presentation was made
by R.W. Blanchard Jr., vice
president of the board of
directors.
In the drawing for prizes,
Bennie Herring of Burgaw
won the portable color tele
vision, and Lessie F. Wil
liams of Rose Hill won a rug
shampoder/floor polisher.
Other .winners and their
prizes included: Ann R.
Washington of Harrels, fry
daddy; Christine W. Watkins
of Maple Hill, electric
blanket; Clark Highsmith of
Willard, electric frying pan;
Doll Dawson of Maple Hill,
electric fan; Brenda D.
Devane of Ivanhoe, ice cream
freezer; Christine. B. Grady
of Warsaw, smoke alarm;
Nathaniel Lacewell Jr. of
Riegelwood, coffee maker;
L.R. Russ of Kelly, clock
radio; Clora Marshburn of
Maple Hill, weed eater;
Estella Peterson of
Magnolia, portable mixer;
Harry L. McKoy of Eliza
bethtown, calculator; Geneva
Gurganous of Watha. cal
culator; Frank Cichy of Bur
gaw, calculator. Others win
ning calculators were
William D. Highsmith of
Willard. Leslie A. Williams
of Maple Hill, Annie R.
Hatcher of Chinquapin,
Thomas Southerland of
Magnolia, Charles M. Hobbs
of Riegelwood, Robert J.
Miller of Magnolia. Retha
Mae Mayes of White Oak
and Grace B. Blanks of
Riegelwood.
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
the Kenan Memorial Audi
torium.
The first concert of the
t
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.C. 28349 and
enclosing S10 for each adult
ticket and SS for each student
ticket desired.
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CHANCELLOR POULTON and his wife, Betty, are being
told the wonders of champagne by D.J. Fussell of Duplin
Wine Cellars. The Poultons toured the winery in Rose Hill.
WENDELL MURPHY of Murphy Farms is telling Dr. and
Mrs. Poulton of the feed operations at the Rose Hill Mill.
Bill Saunders also informed the Poultons ot Murphy's
grain purchasing program, both for feed and resale.
NCSU Chancellor Tours Duplin
NCSU Alumni Meet
All North Carolina State
University alumni and
friends were invited to attend
a Duplin County County wine
tasting and dinner at the
Country Squire Restaurant at
6:30 p.m. Oct. 6th.
Dr. Bruce R. Poulton, the
new chancellor of NCSU was
the guest speaker. His topic
was "North Carolina State
Today and Tomorrow."
This was one of Dr.
Poulton's first visits to
eastern North Carolina and
he spent the day visiting the
various aspects of Duplin
County's people and their
livelihoods.
In July 1982. Dr. Bruce
Robert Poulton became the
10th chancellor of North
Carolina State University, a
nearly century-old land-grant
institution and a constituent
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institution of the University
of North Carolina.
As chancellor of the state's
largest land-grant university.
Dr. Poulton provides
leadership and coordination
for educational, research and
extension programs encom
passing the fields of agri
culture. engineering,
textiles, environmental
sciences, the humanities and
social sciences, forest re
sources, veterinary medical
and animal sciences. He
administers an annual uni
versity budget of some $186
million.
Under his direction are
some 21.S00 students and
S.500 faculty and staff. Ad
ditionally, the university has
extension offices in each of
the 100 counties in the state
and numerous outlying re
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search units, extending the
university's campus to the
state's boundaries.
Before coming to NCSU,
Dr. Poulton served seven
years as the first chancellor
of a consolidated New
Hampshire university system
wirtt four campuses and a
statewide "school of lifelong
learning" (which he initiated
and developed). During his
tenure he constructed a long
range plan for the university
and was instrumental in se
curing an approximate 100
percent increase in state
support for the system in a
state which traditionally had
ranked low in its allocation of
funds for higher education. I
Prior to assuming the top i
New Hampshire post. Dr. <
Poulton had rapidly moved 1
up through the administra
tive ranks of the University of
Maine serving as chairman
of the animal and veterinary
science department, director
of a branch campus, dean of
the College of Life Sciences
and Agriculture, director of
the Maine Agriculture and
Forestry F.xperiment Station,
vice - president of research
and public service. Lastly
while on leave, the served as
an American Council on
Education Fellow in
academic administration and
as administrative assistant to
the Governor of Maine,
Janes Longley.
A native of Yonkers, N.Y.,
Dr. Poulton earned his
bachelor of 'science, his
master of science and doctor
af philosophy degrees, all
From Rutgers University.
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