BECLAVILLE'S FIRST TOWN HALL - Citizens in Beulaville are requesting the old town hall, vacated in October of 1982, be renovated for use as a library. A committee of Beulaville town commissioners Elvis Sumner and S.A. Blizzard prepared estimates and recommended the old building not be renovated, but a new structure be constructed if a need exists for additional space. The old town hall was constructed in 1954. Renovation Of Beulaville Town Hall Cracked walls and rotting ceiling. Some Beulaville citi zens are requesting the old tojvn hall, a condemned structure, be renovated. The old town hall has been empty since October 1982. The old town hall was built in 1954. According to minutes from Beulaville Town Board meetings. Com missioner Cecil Miller made a motion to build a town hall with space to house the fire equipment. The motion was approved with the town paying for building materials atid requesting free labor from Beulaville citizens. Land for the building was purchased from Addie BO/zard. ?"The county building esaminer has said the build ing is not worth renovating," Mayor Wilbur Hussey said. "It is made of cinder block and they have cracked. The top and ceiling will have to be replaced and the wiring and it needs to be insu lated." According to Hussey, the town of Beulaville is financially able to renovate the building or rebuild, if a need is established for the structure. A two-man com mittee of Beulaville town commissioners reported $23,640 would be needed to renovate the old town hall. Commissioners Elvis Sumner and S.A. Blizzard recom mended the old town hall be torn down and replaced with a new building 24 ft. x 30 ft. if the need existed for addi tional space. Suggested uses for the renovated building include the town library and office space for the driver's license examiner. "1 can't see tearing down to build a smaller building." Beulaville Citizens' Renova tion Committee Chairman Carl Pate said. "If the new building yields the same or more space. I might recom mend a new structure. But, with the sentimental value attached to the old town hall by the people who helped build it, 1 don't see tearing down and replacing it with a smaller structure." The old town hall includes about 1,600 square feet. Pate said. The building is approxi mately 40 feet by 40 feet. "The committee is going to take a look at the town hall and see what can be done. We can use the space if we had it for a library and the drivers license examiner's office. And. some of the people who had a hand in building the old town hall have said they would hate to see it torn down." Carl Pate. Sara Bolin and Anna Guy are serving on the committee of Beulaville citi zens requesting the old town hall be renovated. "If the only use will be for a library." Mayor Hussey said, "then it will take a long time to get our money back if the old town hall is reno vated." The Beulaville library is located next to the Lighthouse Christian Book store on Highway 24. The library pays $90 rent for the building it occupies. "If the people of Beulaville want a building, then, judging from the figures turned in by the commissioners, it would be better to build a new struc ture. In terms of dollars and cents, 1 don't know if it's justified to renovate." Commissioners S.A. Blizzard and Elvis Sumner turned in the following reno vation estimates during the town board meeting in Feb ruary: trusses, $1,440; sheathing. $500; shingles, $600; gables and overhang. $800; fill in doors, $1,000; ceiling. $1,500; panel wall and strip. $2,000; insulation. $600; wiring. $1,500; bath rooms. $3,500: doors and windows. $500; paint. $700; labor. $9,000; for a total of $23,640. "Within the next month we (renovation committee) hope to come up with reno vation estimates," Carl Pate said. "The labor figure turned in by the Commis sioners looks high and maybe the bathrooms might be done at a lower cost. But it could be when we get our esti mates we will find they are in line with the figures turned in by the town commis sioners." "It's kind of a landmark," Sara Bolin, member of the citizens' renovation com mittee said. "The old town hall is one of the older buildings in town and it has served as a meeting place for the Scouts and as a fire house. It was the first town hall the town ever built and 1 think there is a lot of strong feeling about the building." Scout Show *83 Tickets On Sale Now According to Ed Hardister, Scout executive of the Tus carora Council BSA of Goldsboro. the Cubs. Scouts and Explorers of Sampson. Duplin, Wayne and Johnston counties served by the Council, are now selling tickets to the Scout Show in all neighborhoods in the council. Tickets are SI each, which allows the buyer to attend the show and redeem an order of ffench fries for the purchase of any large sandwich at any McDonald's restaurant in the above counties through May 31. Through the sale of tickets, each boy can earn a patch designed for the show and choose prizes for selling 20 tickets or more. Each troop or pack will receive 35 percent of each ticket sold. The Scout who sells the most in his district will earn a free week to Camp Tuscarora. If the highest seller is a Cub Scout, he will earn a free week to Cub Day Camo held at Tuscarora. The highest ticket-seller in the council will win a black/white RCA portable TV set. You are asked to help the Scouts in this endeavor by buying a ticket and visiting the show April 30th from 1-4 p.m. at the Tuscarora Boy Scout Camp. AGING Facts & Fancies The poet Robert Brown ing looked forward to old age as a time free of illness and pain, and, 25 years before his death, he wrote. 'Grow old along with me/ The best is yet to be." But if you are like most people, you probably be lieve that growing old means inevitable mental decline into senility. This is just not so. Se nility? medically called de mentia?is not a normal part of aging. Indeed, most people who survive into old age never ex perience significant memory loss, confusion, disorien tation, personality changes or other symptoms of dementia. In the past, research ers believed the primary cause of senile dementia was hardening of the ar teries and subsequent re duced blood flow to the brain. Further research sheds new light on this grey area. A decrease in function of cells in the brain may be the primary cause. For those with a con firmed diagnosis of senile dementia, there is a drug that can improve their over all mental status, particular ly such symptoms as loss of short-term memory, con fusion and dizziness. The medication is Hydergine, believed to have a direct effect on the functioning of brain cells. When given in the early stages of the disease, Hydergine, pro duced by Sandoz Pharma ceuticals, can often produce a gradual improvement of brain cell function. As a result, many patients af flicted with senile demen tia do not deteriorate as fast. Many of the elderly, coping with physical prob lems, may feel Browning's "tha best" is too optimia ?T tic. However, as the facts sho?", he was more ac curate than the common beliefs. 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