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VOL. XXXXVIN0.3 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28.W ? JANUARY 20. 1W l.<J'AUES THIS WEEK I0CENTS PLUS TAX
Warsaw Town Board Signs Loan
' Agreement With National Spinning
The greement tor the town
of Warsaw to loan National
Spinning funds it receives
from a federal grant was
signed at the town board
meeting last week.
The firm is financing the
-project through a $10 million
^ hdustrial revenue bond
issue approved by Duplin
County and the state and a $1
million federal grant to War
saw, which the company will i
pay back to the city. The
industrial revenue bonds' in
terest is tax free.
To become eligible for the |
grant, Warsaw annexed the i
plant site, almost three miles i
from the main city limits. I
When the renovation project
has been completed, the <
company will pay city taxes
an the assessed valuation.
Warsaw levies 70 cents per
5100 assessed valuation.
Employment at the textile
plant is expected to increase
sharply as the/new equip
ment is brougnt into opera
tion.
The board also agreed
luring its Janyary meeting
id have Woody Brinson. pro
ject engineer for McDavid
Associates of Kenansville.
look into a complaint by
Lillie Ezzell Pickett about
the workmanship of im
provements made to her
home under a Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment home improvement
project.
I he board also approved
purchase of the cc idemtied
Joe Riley Smith house for
$2,000 for resale to anyone
agreeing to demolish the
building and remove the
material from the lot.
Brvan Bcasley of Beasley %
Cable-vision of Goldsboro told
the board his firm had con
nected 300 Warsaw homes
to the cable system. He said
the firm was having some
trouble with reception of 4 ,
movie channel. Showtime, ?
but expected this to be
corrected soon.
The board voted to put i
rescue squad members I
under the town workman's j;
compensation program at a r
premium cost of $348 to $600 ^
a year. The program will be
handled by Cavcnaugh In
surance Agency of Warsaw.
Carla Quinn w as appointed
to the renamed town recrea
tion commission to succeed
Dean Gaster. who moved out
of tow n. The commission w as
formerly called the recrea
tion committee.
Disturbance At Wallace Night
(Spot May Lead To Zone Change
Complaints about nightly
noise and disturbance
around a Wallace nightspot
may prod the town board of
commissioners into updating
the town's 30-year-old zon
ing ordinances.
People living near Korky's
Down the Hatch, located in a
former furniture store beside
| f.S. 117 on the south side of
town, have complained to
board members about noise
from live bands and people
pounding on cars and drink
ing beer on the sidewalks.
They also have complained
about trash being thrown in
their yards.
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The town board Thursday i
night banned parking on two
streets near the establish- I
ment. i
Commissioner Charles 1
Blanchard, referring to the >
nightspot's location near a i
residential area, told the i
board: "It's time we got our l
zoning ordinances up to date.
We're just not doing our job.
If there are things in ordi- I
nances we don't like, we ]
should change. It's foolish |
for us to be sitting around I
here with a 1952 ordinance. . ?
.We have two problem places I
in town and if our ordinances i
were up-to-date, they would t
not be in such locations."
Blanchard said he wanted
[he board to study the zoning
irdinances wjth the idea of
bring them up-to-date. He
said he would bring the
matter up at every board
meeting until action was
aken.
In other action:
? Tom Davidson. a
poard member, was ap
pointed chairman of the
planning board to succeed
Kenneth Blanchard. who re
signed the post due to
tealth. The town board will
tame a regular member of
he planning board during its
next meeting.
? Fire Chief Thomas
Townsend gave his annual
report and said 1982 had the
lowest local fire loss in a long
time. He credited installation
of 350 smoke alarms in the
city and a fire prevention
education effort.
Townsend reported the
department answered 92
alarms in 1982. compared
with 121 in 1981. Townsend
estimated fire loss last year
at 5207.485 compared w itn
5388,000 in the preceding
year. He estimated the value
of property saved in 198/ at
5826.915. just over half ihc
51.140.000 saved in |9V (
Cable TV
Firm Gets
More Time
For Work
At Rose Hill
Univision Cable Television
Co. of Riehlands has received
a seven-week extension to
complete installation of its
system in Rose Hill.
The Town Board approved
a March 1 deadline last
week.
Univision general manager
John Cochran said Wednes
day that complications in
arranging with utilities to
hang cable TV wires delayed
his company's work. "It was
the first time for both of us
and that made for delays in
working out details." Coch
ran said. "The utilities
worked well with us. but it
just took more time than
expected."
Customers will begin re
ceiving television programs
through the cable system late
this month in Wallace, he
said. The company has fran
chises to serve several
Duplin Count) towns and
much of the county.
Red Cross
Chapter
Meeting
The midwinter meeting of
the Duplin County Chapter of
the American Red Cross w ill
be held on Thursday after
noon, Jan. 27 at 4 p.m. in the
Fellowship hall of Grove
Presbyterian Church in
Kenansville.
GOVERNOR JAMES HUNT and Keprt
tentative Wendell Murphy are shown just
alter landing at the Wallace Airport Tuesday
of last wceV rhe pair (lew front Raleigh in
the State helicopter Hunt was the guest
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speaker at tlie Wallace Chamber of Com
mere banquet Pictured behind Murphy is
(irah.oii Phillips, .who was part of the
welcoming committee at the Wallace airport.
Hunt Wants Drinking Age
Raised, Opposes Gas Tax
Gov. Jim Hunt called last
week for raising the legal
drinking age in North Caro
lina but said he will oppose
increasing the state's gaso
line tax. despite an antici
pated shortfall in the state's
road building fund
Increasing the legal mini
mum age for drinking beer
and wine from lb to If is one
of Hunt's proposals to curb
the incidence of drunken
driving. It would create a
new category of offense,
"impaired driving.'' replac
ing "driving under the influ
ence of alcohol" or DL'I.
In an address to the
Chamber of Commerce in
Wallace. Hunt said his pack
age of anti-DUl legislation
would be one of his major
legislative priorities for Ifb3.
"The main thing with
young people, to prevent
more deaths, is to get alcohol
out of the high schools."
Hunt saiu. "Young people
under IK years old have no
business drinking."
The Governor's Crime
Commission recommended
raising to 21 the legal mini
mum age for drinking beer
and wine.
The proposed "impaired
driving" charge would bear
varying penalties, depending
on sijch factors as the
driver's record and the se
riousness of the offense.
Hunt explained
Hunt also said. "We in
tend to cut out plea bar
gaining."
To reduce plea-bargaining
he proposes mandatory sen
tences ranging from seven
days to two years for multiple
offenses.
Hunt will discuss his DUI
proposals in a televised ad
dress Jan. 24.
Although North Carolina
has insufficient highway
funds to mate!, federal aid
expected this year. Hunt
said, he will not lead any
attempt to bolster the high
way lund. Primarily supports
ed by the state's 121 < ecnts
per-gallon motor fuel tax, it
will be SbO million short of
the amount needed to match
federal aid in 1983,
Hunt said his budget pro
posal would not offer any
solutions to the highway fund
shortfall. Few legislators
have shown any enthusiasm
for additional transportation
taxes after granting a 3-cent
increase Hunt requested in
1981. One cent would raise
about $30 million.
"I will work with them ip
developing some way of fi
nancing road work," Hunt
said, but, he added, "I will
oppose any further state
gasoltne tax increase."
lie governor said *"?
wants taxes on alcoho ?
beverages increased to h'
finance highway constructi
as he proposed in 1981.
( Fussell Scholarship Awarded At JSTC
In 1973, Mr. and Mrs.
Morace Fussell of Rose Hill
established the Elizabeth
Gray Fussell Memorial Fund
at James Sprunt Technical
College in memory of their
daughter. Elizebeth, who
was a graduate of the JSTC
commercial art program.
This year for the first time
jhe scholarship was awarded
and shared by two students
currently enrolled in the
commercial art program.
Pamela J. Pierce of Wal
lace was one of the recipents.
She is a member of the Art
Club at JSTC and hopes to
open her own studio some
day.
Darnell Whitfield of
Warsaw is the other reci
pient. He is interested in all
types of sports and plans to
pursue a career in com
mercial art after graduation.
The scholarship will assist
these two young people pay
their tuition and fees. Any
one interested in making a
contribution to the Elizabeth
G. Fussell Scholarship Fund
should contact Ms. Donna S.
Thigpen. executive director
of the James Sprunt Foun
dation at JSTC. P.O. Box
398, Kenansville. NC 28349
or phone 296-1341. ext. 265.
Tobacco Growers
Face A
Double Bind i
Farmers are Finding
tobacco leasing as difficult
and cosfly as they had ex
pected following sharp pro
duction quota cuts and an
)even sharper assessment fee
increase.
Because production is
limited by acreage allot
ments and poundage quotas,
which owners may lease to
growers, farmers looking for
additional tobacco find they
have to pay a double as
sessment fee. according to
Morris Kornegay of the
Fatson area. Many other
^growers agree with his ob
servation that they are
having to pav the owners'
seven cents a pound assess
ment fee at the time they
arrange a lease.
Growers also will have to
pay an assessment fee of
seven cents a pound when
hey sell their tobacco. The
fee was established by the
U.S. Department of Agricul
ture to defray the cost of the
* tobacco price-support and
'production-control program.
It is paid to Flue-Cured
Tobacco Cooperative Stabili
zation Inc., which buys to
bacco failing to receive prices
in excess of the support
levels.
The assessment was in
creased from three cents a
pound last year to a basic
seven cents a pound this
^y?ar. In addition, allotment
"and quota owners leasing
tobacco off their farms are
supposed to pay seven cents
a pound at the time the lease
is executed. Farmers leasing
the tobacco are. however,
having to pay the extra seven
cents "one way or the
other." according to Kor
negay.
Duplin County Agricul
tural Stabilization and Con
servation Service Director
David English said the ASCS
office in Kenansville has
been crowded most of the
week with farmers wanting
to least tobacco quotas. The
ASCS operates the produc
tion control side of the tobac
co program. All tobacco pro
duction quota leases or sales
must be executed in the
respective county offices.
ELIZABETH G. FUSSELL SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED
Pictured above are Darnell Whitfield, left and Pamela J.
Pierce, right, recipients of the aw.ard. Both students are
currently enrolled in the commercial art program at James
Sprunt Technical College.
Tax Listing
Duplin County tax list
takers will be listing property
for 1983 taxes in each town
ship through Jun. 31. All
persons who own real or
personal property are re
quired to list.
Kenansville Area Chamber Of Commerce
Annual Membership Meeting
The 1983 Kenansville Area
Chamber of Commerce
annual membership meeting
will be held on Friday, Jan.
28 at the Country Squire,
and will feature State Rep
resentative Wendell Murphy
as its speaker. Murphy was
recently inducted for his first
term as a legislator repre
senting Duplin and Jones
counties. In addition to his
legislative duties. Murphy is
an executive with Murphy
Farms, Inc. located in Rose
Hill.
Chamber president Carey
Wrenn states that this will be
an excellent opportunity for
businesses and citizens of
our area to listen to an
excellent speaker who can
give some insight into what
we can expect from our
legislature this year. Wrenn
also said that an opportunity
will be given to ask questions
and share concerns with
Duplin's state representa
tive.
In addition to hearing
Murphy speak, those in at
tendance will enjoy a steak
dinner and hear Duplin's
visiting artist. Leigh Howard
Stevens. Stevens, a vibra
phonist. is visiting Duplin
County from Jan. 23-30 and
is being sponsored by the
Duplin County Arts Council.
Wrenn stated that the
newly - elected board mem
bers will also be inducted.
They are Amos Brinson,
Charles Hughes, Mattie
#Minshew and Charles
Shaipi. I hey will serve as
the Chamber's board of di
rectors for 1983 along with
four remaining directors.
Doug Judge. Alice Rich. Tom
Rouse and Kay Stroud. The'
outgoing directors. Hilda
Booth. Bill McKay, Alice
Wortbington and Wrcnn will
also be recognized.
According to Wrenn, it will
be a night of dining and
entertainment, along with an
informative session that he
believes will benefit all citi
zens of the area. The meet
ing will be held in the
Jester's Court at The
Country Squire. It will start
at 7 p.m. and the cost is
$7.50 per person. Reserva
tions must be made by Jan.
25 by calling Carolyn Hall at
29b-1827. 1
The 1983 officers of the Corn Growers Association of North Carolina arc pictured recently with
Agriculture Commissioner .Jim Graham (second right), at the Annual Directors' Dinner at the
McKimmon Center in Raleigh. They are (left to right) Fred Tate of Klizahethtown. treasurer; I^roy
?Jackson of Raleigh, secretary; Jack Williams of Faison, vice president; and Harold Cutler of Scotland
Neck, president. The election of 1983 officers was held at the CGANC Annual State Meeting last
month in Raleigh. The Corn Growers Association of North Carolina was established in 1978 to help
fund corn research, promote corn export and to Increase yields. The CGANC is funded by a one-half
cent per bushel assessment on corn sold for contgiercial use.