Duplin Personalities
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Ray Rhinehart
Work at the Duplin Agri
culture Extension Depart
ment has helped Pisgah
Forest native Ray Rhinehart
become a part of the county,
he said. The 4-H Extension
Agent has been in Duplin
since 1980.
"I get a lot of personal
satisfaction from my work
with 4-H members," Rhine
hart said. "It is a real
challenge to be able to help
young people build self-con
fidence and accomplish
goals. But, I think all of us as
adults have a responsibility
to help young people become
the best citizens they can
be." A successful 4-H pro
gram is built on a strong
foundation of parents and
adult volunteers, Rhinehart
explained. And, he pointed
out, 4-H benefits the mem
bers and society by building
confidence, friendships and
personalises in tomorrow's
leaders.
"I can compare the Jay
cees to my work with 4-H,"
Rhinehart said. "The Jaycee
organization is like a 4-H
program for young men.
And, you get the most bene
fit from 4-H and Jaycees
when you give as much of
yourself and your time as you
possibly can. Overall the
Jaycees are the best thing
I've been involved with since
I came to live in Warsaw."
Rhinehart spent his first year
in the Warsaw Jaycees serv
ing as chaplain. Since, he has
held the chapter presidency
and is now serving as Jaycee
District Director, working
with six chapters in the areas
of programming and plan
ning. "The Jaycees often
participate in projects which
wmiM n,?f have been done
without them." Rhinehart
said.
During the past year the
Warsaw Javcees have raised
funds for state and local
charities, planned the annual
veterans day parade and
dance, sponsored bloodmo
biles and toy collections for
needy children at Christmas. I
held sunrise services, co- '
sponsored programs with the
Warsaw Jaycettes and built
their membership to about
24. According to Rhinehart
the Warsaw Jaycees are
currently involved with a
project raising funds for
lights to be placed on the
tennis courts of the. Warsaw
Recreation Park. Some of the
most common ways to raise
funds have been through car
washes, calendar sales, the
womanless wedding and the
hot dog wagons.
"In the past two years the
Jaycees have been getting a
lot of bad publicity because
of what happened in the
jam-scam," Rhinehart said.
"But the organization has
just paid back the money to
the fund to build the bum
center. The entire Jaycee
organization could have
folded and neglected to re
pay the burn center fund, but
instead the money was paid
back because we believed in
the project. Memberships
dropped during that time and
1 think many young men used
the jam-scam as an excuse
not to get involved in the
work of the Jaycees." Mem
bership in the North Caro
lina Jaycees totals about
75,000 young men, Rhine
hart said. Before the jam
scam. Jaycees membership
was double current enroll
ment, he added.
"Even today most of the
members of the Warsaw
Javcees are not natives of the
town," Rhinehart said.
"And, the young men native
to Warsaw are needed in an
organization like the Jay
cees. With the money repaid
to the burn center fund we
can spend this year recruit
ing new members."
Rhinehart attended Bre
vard College in Brevard and
transferred to North Carolina
State University where he
received a bachelor of
science degree in wildlife
biology and a masters in
wildlife biology and ecology.
From NCSU, Rhinehart ac
cepted a position with Golds
boro Milling Company man
aging a poultry research
farm. The research farm
consisted of seven houses
with approxiamatelv 25,000
turkeys total. Research in the
areas of feed additives and
litter maintenance were the
farm's chief operations.
Khinehart accepted the posi
tion of Duplin Agriculture
Extension 4-H agent in 1980,
leaving the research farm
after two years.
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Mickey Mouse was created in
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COMMISSIONERS CONFER WITH CON
SULTANT. Duplin County Commissioners
Bill Costin, Calvin Turner and D.J. Fussell
confer with hospital consultant Lovell C.
Jones of Price Waterhouse. The firm did a
study on Duplin General Hospital and
reported an increase of 2.5% in paying
patients would put the hospital in a
self-supporting roll by 1985. Jones told the
commissioners it would cost less to operate
the hospital than it would to lease or sell it
and pay the indigent care.
Jo? Lanier
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All year the county com
missioners have said "no tax
increase" as late as a month
ago this was the..."no tax
increase". However they are
saying in civic meetings now,
that one is likely. Even using
scare tactics like having to
cut sheriff department
deputies. Using old school
board tactics... "other
counties are raising taxes".
Using high figures for fright,
so when a lower figure is
agreed on there would be a
releif the increase was not so
high. 1 do not believe a tax
increase is necessary.
If the commissioners really
put their minds to it and
really represent those they
were elected to represent...
not be concerned about hurt
ing someone's feelings or
admitting to some mistakes
they could bring this budget
into the income expected. If
they were in private business
there would be no doubt they
would bring the expenses
into the income...only taxes
have an open end. There is
not a commissioner seated on
the hoard that wav elected to
raise taxes...that is the easy
way. raising taxes, any old
commissioner can raise
taxes. Any old commissioner
can not bring expenditures
under control, this takes a
special commissioner. This
takes a commissioner who is
responsible to the voters,
responsible to the job of
running the county. This
takes a commissioner who
has the gumption to remove
the dead weight. Duplin's
commissioners have lulled
along for so long allowing
unproductive jobs to remain
and even adding a few. They
now are apparently embar
rassed to do anything about
them...don't read between
the lines and think I am
talking about one office
alone. And on the other
hand, 1 am not talking about
all the offices. Here is where
the commissioners need a
little nerve, where they need
to be decision makers.
Cutting every department
by a certain percent is simply
being too frightened to make
decisions...this is like trying
to find some rule to go by so
the individuals on the board
can't be blamed. This is very
poor representation". A
computer can follow rules, if
that is the way to operate
things commissioners are not
needed. The commissioners
have known for at least nine
months there would be very
little if any increase in tax
Drooertv values. Thev have
known, yet they have picked
up little things like, state
abandoned ditching called
mosquito control program.
The state said no more
money... the commissioners
said...we will add Duplin tax
money when the state pulls
out. Like everything else
their home bound car plan
fell to pieces because they
can not make a decision and
stick to it. There is enough
Gasoline wasted by those
driving county owned autos
to pay the salary of at least
two people during a year's
time...yet the commissioners
are apparently afraid to do
anything about it.
The most obvious...the
consultating of the tax
offices, yet here again they
were apparently afraid to
make the decision...some
one's feelings ma. be hurt...
well I will tell you when they
raise my taxes my feelings
are going to be hurt. These
are just a few of the places
that a belt tightening could
take place, the most obvious.
There are others and several
of them.
Things appear to be on the
upswing. The inventory
should increase, there should
be a bit more building, sales
are already up on autos and
other consumer goods,
revenue sharing is expected
to be renewed, the hospital's
dependency should be les
sened. So next year should
be a better year. A little
tightening of the belt this
year by the county would
actually be beneficial...get
things back in order. Re
evaluation is just around the
corner you know, taxes
always increase at re-evalu
ation time. So all we need
this year are commissioners
who are willing to represent
those that put tuem in office.
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law a ladv with a paper
napkin bobbie-pinned to her
head Monday. 1 wondered if
perhaps she wiped her ?
hands on ner head, or maybe
removed the napkin for
handwiping. Did she put it
back after wiping her'hands.
Finally I asked her..."Why
the napkin on the head".
"Oh" says she, "that is my
brain patch." "You got a
hole in your head?" 1 asked.
She laughed, "Well actually
1 use it to keep my cap on.
When I just wash my hair my
cap slips off my head, so this
napkin pinned to my hair
helps keep it on." The cap
she wore was a nurses cap...
right Anne.
Attends
Conference
The North Carolina Indus
trial Developers Association
has scheduled its 17th
Annual Conference for June
20-22. 1983 at the Blockade
Runner Motor Hotel.
Wrightsville Beach. N.C.
John Nelms. Oxford. N.C.
Association President,
reports that this year's
annual meeting theme will
be "Keep North Carolina
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Competitive". North Caro
lina Governor James B. Hunt
will deliver the keynote ad
dress at the program
luncheon on Tuesday, June
21.
The NC1DA Annual Con
ference gets underway on
June 20
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Dept., Route 3, Box 124,
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N. C. School Boards Association Says:
Hunt Bill "Extremely Dangerous"
"Would Damage... Public Education""
Teachers' Union On Strike5
Jim Hunt's Union Payroll Checkoff
Hunt's plan (Senate Bill 515): payroll deduction of teacher union dues...
"the checkoff system used by labor unions"... almost half of those dues
"to the increasingly militant NEA" union.*7
N.C. School Boards Association,
Hunt's SB 515 is "extremely dangerous," "would damage...
public education" and "do considerable harm." NEA
supports teacher strikes."
N.C. Citizens for Business and Industry,
Hunt's plan (Senate Bill 515) "will represent a giant step toward union
ization ... the calling of strikes and general disruption of the education
i of our children."*
Help The N. C. School Boards Assoc. & N. C. Teachers
Defeat Jim Hunt's SB 515.
Contact Your Legislators
(Remember Jim Hunt b receiving massive union support for hb campaign for U.S. Senate.)10
1 NCSSA letter. 5-11-83 6 NCCBt l egislative Bulletin. No 20. S-27-83
2. News and Observer. 5-22-83 7. NCCBI Legislative Bulleting, No. 19, 5-20-83
3. NCCBI Legislative Bulletin. No 20. 5-27-S3 B. NCSBA Letter, S-11-83
4 NCSBA letter. 5-11-83 9 NCCBI Legislative Bulletin. No 20. S-27-83 I
5. Eayetteville Observer, 3-7-79 10. Atlanta Constitution, 3-13-83
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