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VOL. XXXXV1 NO. 7 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 MARCH 17. 1983 18 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
DUPLIN FARMER ATTENDS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Steve Grady of Route 2, Mount Olive, is participating in
the Philip Morris Leadership Development program at
North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Grady is one of
25 young farmers from five southern states selected for a
pilot, two-year leadership development program. NCSU's
Agricultural Extension Serice is conducting the program.
The Kenansville offices of the Federal Land Bank
Association and the Coastal Production Credit Association
presented Grady with checks for $150 each in support of
his participation in the leadership program. Pictured
above. Grey Morgan, vice president of the Federal Land
Bank Association in Kenansville. farmer Steve Grady, vice
president of the Coastal Production Credit Association in
Kenansville Ronnie James, and Duplin Agricultural
Extension Agent J. Michael Moore.
* Duplin Board
Plans To Hear Budget Pleas
The Duplin County Board
0nf Commissioners will hear
departmental budget re
quests from I to 5 p.m. April
II. 12, 19 and 20 in its office
in the county courthouse.
The Board of Education
will present its proposed
budget at 3 p.m. April 11.
In other action last week,
the board:
? Directed Nathan
Whaley. landfill and mos
pquito control supervisor, to
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? delay repairing a backhoe
until the next fiscal year
because of a lack of funds.
The department's mainte
nance fund is down to $2,600
which must last until June
30. The county has three
backhoes that are used in
drainage work.
? Reappointed Com
missioner Allen Nethercutt
to the Duplin County
Hospital board.
? Rejected the request
of Hiram Brinson. emer
r . '
gencv services coordinator,
for a county computer ter
minal in his office in the law
enforcement center to use in
billing rescue squad users.
Brinson. whose staff must go
to the courthouse to use the
computer, said his office
processes an average of 150
calls a month. The cost of
installing a terminal in his
office would be $4,000.
? Announced a public
hearing will be held at 11:50
a.m. March 21 at the court
house on a Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment block grant.
? Appointed Casey
Brown to replace James
Lanier on the county (
Planning Board for a term
expiring July I, 1984. Lanier
resigned the post.
? Heard a tax mapping
presentation by Moore
Gardner Co. of Asheboro.
The project would cost about
$500,000.
Wallace To Purchase
Garbage Truck Equipment
^ Bids on a garbage con
tainer truck chassis will be
opened by the Wallace Town
Board at 2 p.m. April 6.
The board voted Thursday
night to advertise for bids on
the chassis to replace one
that has broken down re
peatedly and was described
as beyond repair.
The equipment will cost
about $62,000. The garbage
t lift container and hydraulic
system are in good shape and
can be transferred to the new
vehicle.
Maintenance supervisor
Johnny Murray said that on
its last run. the old truck
used 36 quarts of oil in one
day.
Waste Industries of Wil
niiiigtoii iias been awarded a
contract at $5,600 a month to
empty the county's 133 gar
bage containers at business
and industrial sites until the
town can replace its truck.
The board discussed the
possibility of permanently
contracting with a garbage
firm to pick up waste, but
decided such a system would
cost the town more than
collection by the town. The
board favored the lower-cost
alternative of buying replace
ment equipment and con
tinuing to pick up the gar
bage with its own crews.
Murray said he will need
the same maintenance crew
with or without the garbage
pick-up duty. The crew nor
mally picks up the containers
two days a week and works
on other town maintenance
duties the rest of the work
week.
The board also authorized
its engineering firm. Henrv
von Oesen & Associates of
Wilmington, to call for bids
to replace the sewage lift
station on South Cumberland
Street near the sourthern
town limits. The cost was
estimated at S26.000. The old
pumping equipment is worn
out and a station with larger
capacity is needed because of
construction in the area.
Gail Williams of Beulaville
was awarded a contract for
$3.150 to replace the flat roof
on the town airport's main
building.
John Fecteau of Univision
Cable Television Co. of Rich
lands told the board the firm
has leased space in the old
rescue building on the Town
Hall grounds for $75 a
month as an office to serve
people desiring to hook onto
the system. He said 90
houses in Wallace are now
receiving cable service.
The hook-ups will be com
pleted in about 30 days,
weather permitting, he
added. A $15 hook-up and
converter fee is charged for
basic cable service.
A tax lien sale will be
advertised May 16. The sale
will be held June 13 at Town
Hall.
A Mavfest will be staged
May 12-i4 at Clement Park.
Re-Elected To N.C. Academy
Of Family Physicians
Dr. Edward L. Boyette,
M.D. of Chinquapin, Dr.
James S. Blair Jr., M.D. of
Wallace, Dr. Corbett L.
Quinn of Magnolia and Dr.
Hervy B. Kornegay Sr. of'
Mount Olive have been re
elected to the N.C. Academy
of Family Physicians.
Is nfd?f tr. hwnm.
for the honor, these physi
cians were required to com
plete ISO hours of continuing
medical education (CME)
during the past three years.
They joined more than 270 of
the state's nearly 1,000 prac
ticing family physicians in
achieving thit educational
goei. ^ ,
The primary thrust of the
NCAFP, a constituent chap
ter of the American Academy
of Family Physicians, is con
tinuing medical education. In
addition to the ISO hours
required for re election to the
NCAFP, members must
accumulate 300 hours for
ABFP Board re-certification.
Family practice is the only
medical specialty to require
re-certification every si:,
years.
Family practice became a
medical specialty Feb. 8,
1969 with the inception of its
residency training program.
During the intitial period of 1
the specialty, (then) general t
practitioners were allowed to
take a certification exami
nation and become family
physicians. Now, however,
all must complete a three
year family practice resi
dency training program.
Family practice is the na
tion's largest medical
specialty, comprising over
54,000 family physicians.
Headstart Open House
There will be an open
house at Warsaw Start
Center, 106 Pcr*?.uig Street,
on Thursday night, March 17
at 7:30. Those in charge said
there will be various enter
tainment including a cake
^alk, rummage sale with
I
games activities for the chil
dren. Each class will give a
song or nursery rnyme pre
sentation. The group will
also be selling hot dogs,
s? das, cup cakes and pop
corn. Everyone is extended
an invitation to attend. ^
Kenansville Board Sells
Tobacco Production Quota
The Kenansville Town
Board has gone out of the
tobacco farming business by
selling its production quota
of 1.473 pounds.
The board agreed last
week to sell the quota for
$5,170.23. or $3.51 per
pound.
The town acquired the
quota when it bought a tract
wes' of the town limits for a
potential industrial site.
Until this vear. tobacco pro
duction quotas were sold
with the land. Towns, coun
ties. public utilities and in
dustries acquired tobacco
production rights when they
purchased land to which
growing rights applied.
Legislation passed by
Congress in 1982 requires
that such quotas be sold or
turned over to the county
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service by
the end of the vear. Tobacco
farmers have voted for pro
duction control in return for
price support protection for
more than 40 years.
The high bidder on Ke
nansville's tobacco patch was
Godbold Farms of Warsaw.
Other bidders were Ray
Franklin Smith of Smith's
Township. $3.15 per pound,
and Henrv Kilpatrick of
Kenansville. $2.03 per
pound.
In other business, the
board purchased a pickup
truck for $7,407.54 from
Warsaw Motor Co, even
though the firm was not the
low bidder. The range be
tween high and low bids was
about $77. The Warsaw firm
was chosen because the
board believes its proximity
for service and repairs will
save money in the long run.
Warsaw is about eight
miles from Kenansville.
The low bidder was H.J.
Chevrolet of Pink Hill at
$7,330.84. Pink Hill is 16
miles from Kenansville.
Brewer Motors of Wallace
submitted a bid of $7.378.18.
Wallace also is 16 miles from
Kenansville.
The commissioners agreed
unanimously to order a halt
to construction that may
violate town ordinances.
Commissioner Jimmy
Johnson moved to order
Ronald Summerlin. who lives
on N.C. 50 (Limestone Road)
near the junction of N.C. II
and 24. to halt construction
of a second "main" building
on his lot or face legal action.
The board found Summerlin
had bceun construction even
though Police Chief Tyson
Bostic. also the town's build
ing permit officer, refused to
sign the permit because two
"main" structures on one lot
violate town ordinances.
Rose Hill's Huge Frying
Pan May Sizzle Again
If efforts to revive the
North Carolina Poultry
Festival at Rose Hill succeed,
the festival will be held in the
community recreation area
adjacent to U.S. 117.
The town board last week
granted permission for this
f
use to Gary Boney and Lee
Houston, who are trying to
form a poultry festival com
mittee. The festival was held
in Rose Hill for many years.
Last year the huge frying
pay that had been the festival
centerpiece was moved to
Kenansville for the county
agricultural exposition. The
pan has been returned to
Rose Hill and now is perma
nently located on the com
munity recreation area
grounds.
In other business, a hear
ing was set for 7:30 p.m.
March 28 to hear residents'
ideas about what they would
like in a community block
grant application. Another
hearing will be held at the
board's regular meeting at
7:30 p.m. April 12. Block
grant applications are due by
May.
Laundry Disputes 38.000
Gallon Water Bill In Magnolia
The Magnolia Washerette
in Duplin County will have its
water turned off soon unless
the owner changes his mind.
When the town board last
week refused to reduce the
washerette's water bill of
$116. owner William E. Mit
chell told the board. "If 1
don't tell you different, the
next time you read the
meter, turn the water off."
Mayor Melvin Pope, a
furniture store tiwner. said a
normal washing machine
uses .10 gallons of water per
washing. He figured this
amount of water costs be
tween 9 and 10 cents and
noted the washerette
charged 75 cents per wash
ing machine.
He recommended the
utility rate remain at J3 per
1.000 gallons in addition to a
minimum fee of $2 for the
first 3,000 gallons.
The washerette was billed
for 38.000 gallons of water.
In other town business?
? The board will hold a
public hearing on the fate of
the Magnolia depot at 7:30
p.m. March 31 at the Town
Hall.
Numberous hearings and
discussions have been held
as the board and various
town groups have tried to do
something with or about the
building. The depot must be
moved from its present site
on railroad property or be
demolished.
The town owns the build
ing. which it purchased
several years ago from the
Seaboard Systems Railroad.
? A hearing on a com
munity block grant applica
tion will be held at 7:30 p.m.
April 26 at the Town Hall.
? The board awarded
McDavid Associates a de
velopment planning contract
paid for by a community
development grant of
$10,000.
? The board appro
priated $150 to the Woman's
Club to prepare files for a
community of excellence
award application.
Beulaville Town Board
Lets Bids At Regular Meeting
A bid for laboratory equip
ment was let during the
March 7 meeting of the
Beulaville town board. The
installation of lab equipment
is one of the final steps in the
town's water and sewer pro
jects. said project adminis
trator Woody Brtnson.
The bid for office and
laboratory equipment w as let
to Fisher Scientific Inc. for a
total of $4.187.13. The equip
ment will be delivered and
installed by March 31. Brin
son said.
Farmers Home Adminis
tration and the Environmen
tal Protection Agency rep
resentatives are scheduled to
inspect the Beulaville water
and sewer projects for final
closeout before March 31.
Brinson said.
The board also approved a
bid for water analysis. The
bid was let to Environmental
I, Inc. for S892. Environ
mental 1 currently serves the
town of Beulaville in water
analysis.
A public hearing date was
set for March 29 at the
Beulaville Town Hall. The 7
p.m. meeting will discuss
possible application for
Housing and urban Develop- 1
ment community block
funds.
A citizen committee was
appointed to study the possi
bility of renovating the old
town hall for use as a library.
Appointed to the committee
were Carl Pate. Anna Guy
and Sarah Bolin. A study by
town commissioners S.A.
Blizzard and Elvis Sumner
had estimated the cost to
renovate the old town hall at
$23,640. And. the commis
sioners reported the replace
ment of the old town hall
with a 24'x30' structure
would be less expensive than
renovation costs. The town
presently rents a library
building Ifor $90 a month.
The board w as informed of
two possible sites to relocate
trash dumpsters from the
roadside of Highway 24 by
Commissioner Blizzard. Both
tentative dumpster sites are
on state road 111. No de
cision was made on the loca
tion.
Recreation issues were
unresolved by the Beulaville
town board after two Motions
regarding funding and or
ganization died for lack of a
second. Recreation Chair
man Alfred Basden met with
the town board and pre
sented a report of yearly
expenditures. The recreation
department received $4,500
from the town's 1982-83
general budget and collected
a total of SI.578 in activity
fees. Basden said. Presently
no funds arc left in the
budget for this fiscal year;
however, the recreation has
more than 47.000 in a
savings account
"The savings was raised
independently by the recrea
tion department." Basden
said. "And. we don't know
whether it should be con
sidered town funds and be
taken over bv the town."
Commissioner Rabon
Mareadv made a motion to
begin proceedings to give the
Beulaville Recreation De
partment non-profit status
with town control. Under the
non-profit status, the Rec
reation Department Board of
Commissioners would be ap
pointed by the Beulaville
Town Board. Responsibility
for collecting and disbursing j
funds would be within the
Recreation Board, Rabon
said. The motion died after
no second.
Commissioner Blizzard 1
made a motion that all funds
from income to the recreation
department be submitted to '
Town Clerk Carol Miller. '
Blizzards's motion also failed j
when no second was given.
Beulaville Mayor Wilbur
Hussey requested Basden '
inform the recreation board
of suggestions by Commis- 1
sioners Blizzard and <
Mareadv. Basden was re- '
quested to appear at the
April 5 board meeting with a
recommendation from the
recreation department.
The next meeting of the
Bculavillc town board will be
moved from Raster Monday
to the following night. April
Wildlife
Commission
Visits Warsaw
Woodrow Price, candidate
for re-election to the N.C.
Wildlife Resources Commis
sion from the 2nd Wildlife
District, was at Bland's Grill
in Warsaw last Thursday.
Price, a lifelong hunter
and fisherman and author of
"In The Open," talked with
and answered questions from
several area sportsmen in
attendance. He also asked
for support of his re-election
Sid as commissioner during
the District convention at
7:30 p.m. on April 19tki at
Lenoir Community College in
Kin st on.
Also visiting with Price
ivere well-known Wildlife
snthusiasts Ellis Simon,
Frank Phillips and Jitj^Creel.