19th k Hole?IT >jN PRO. I. B. DlfPFER Duplin Pro Rick Green an nounces the annual Duplin County Walter Hagen Golf Tournament will be played at Duplin Country Club Satur day, Aug. 6. Golfers from all ^over the county may play in 9h>s tourney. Green says there will be three divisions, including a ladies' handicap division, men's scratch and men's handicap divisions. Four players will make up a team with winners in each djvision playing in the state tournament at Myrtle Beach during Labor Day weekend. Entry fee will be $25 per player or $100 per team. All ^proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. Try to play for this worthy cause. Call Green at Duplin, 296-0919 and sign you and your team up now. ***** Pro Rick Murphy at Southern Wayne announces the annual Mount Olive Jaycee Pickle Classic is on the calendar for Aug. 19, 20 Aand 21. ***** Lakewood Pro Doug Smith announces the annual Mem ber-Member to be staged at his club Saturday and Sun day, Sept. 10-11. Smith also says the annual Member Guest will be coming up Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 15-16. ***** A Quote of the' week: You must keep your head down and your pants up or you wind up in the bresh heap. ???*? Duplin Pro Rick Green reports of the 36 golfers playing in the late Friday afternoon nine-hole superball, Ed Rector's team of Eddie Bass, Bailey War ren or Colon Quinn came in winners with an unbelievable 10-under 26. Harold "Spider" Matthis and team of long-ball-hitting Ike Riddick, Marie Riddick, Maurice Edmundson and Doug Hilton were one stroke back with a red hot 27. Green announces another Superball on tap for this Friday at 5:30 and you and yours are iqvited to come and enjoy about two hours of the best fun ever. ***** Rockfish Pro Jim Finch reminds members of the annual Member-Guest sche duled for Saturday and Sun day, Aug. 12-14 at the 18-hole Wallace course. Take it from I.B., the course and greens at Rockfish are in excellent condition. RCC members, get you a partner and play in this golf event. ***** Duplin's pride-and-joy Robert West and J.C. Page handed Hop Smith and J.P. Johnson their first licking this summer. Page had a hot putter and didn't lose a single ball. ***** Fore. w COLLEGE HALL is Mount Olive's new S3 million physical education-athletic-conven tion-cjvic center designed for the use of the College, eastern North Carolina, and the Free Will Baptist Church which sponsors the College. T.A. Loving Co. of Goldsboro, general contractor for the project, has advised officials that the construction should be completed by the end of December 1983 ? nearly four months ahead of the contract schedule. According to Mount Olive College President Raper, the building should be in use by early February, 1984. I STEED'S I TIRE SERVICE, INC. Reynolds Tire & Rubber I Company I Nly Plus Belted Polyester/Fiberglass ? 4 Ply Tread # 2 Ply Polyester e 2 Ply Fiberglass *28" 1 163-13A78-13 SIZE TIRE PRICE FED. 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Warsaw All Stars In Invitational Tournament The Warsaw All Stars, after being disappointed in the District VI playoffs in Supply last week being ousted by Fort Bragg by a score of 3 to 2, took a few days off and came back strong in the seventh annual Marion Merit Invitational held in Gold(sboro. The tour nament will be played throughout the week with 11 teams from the eastern part of the state participating. After play on Saturday and Sunday, only four teams remain unbeaten. New Bern, the defending champs for the last two years, is 1 and 0, Kinston is 1 and 0 and Warsaw is 2 and 0, and MarMac is 1 and 0. In the first game played July 30, Bron Thompson, the Little Southpaw, came in relief in the bottom of the first with the score knotted at 3 apiece against Kenanijville, the bases loaded and one away. Thompson shot down a strong Kenansville for five innings, allowing only two infield hits until the sixth inning, while the Warsaw All Stars forged ahead by a score of 12 to 3. However, under 95 plus temperatures, Thompson hung on in the last inning, while Kenansville collected three hits and three runs. Defensively for the W,v saw All Stars, they were led by Jake Yount at Shortstop, Thomoson and Jason Hardin, the catcher. At the plate, Thompson led going 2 for 2, Drew Outlaw getting two hits in 'I four trips. Also getting singles were Hardin and Mickey Hill, for a total of six Warsaw hits. On Sunday the Warsaw All Stars again faced a strong contingent from Elizabeth City drawing their All Stars from 27 Little League teams. However, behind the ace pitching of Patrick Boyette and the bats of Warsaw, they were again victorious by a score of 8 to 2. Boyette. against good hitting, allowed inly four base hits, while the Warsaw All Stars picked up seven timely hits, the most prominent of which was Jason Hardin's three-run tomer in the first inning. Thompson led off with a w alk along with Patrick Boyette. \fxer Thompson stole second and moved to third, bringing to bat nitter Hardin, who hit a missile over the 280-foot wall in center field to gjve the All Stars a lead of 3 to 0. Elizabeth City attempted to rally on several occasions but were stopped by fine defensive efforts of the Warsaw team, including a super fielding play at third by Ron Carlton, who threw to Jason Hardin at home plate to stymy a prospective Elizabeth City rally. Thompson stole six bases during the two games. Warsaw All Stars will meet Kinston in Goldsboro on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 6 p.m., a semi-final game. This is in deed a good Warsaw All Star team who has acquitted themselves proudly. Come to Goldsboro and give them vour support. Cottle Says One-Fourth Of County Budget Mandated The property tax levy has made up just over half the county budget since 1980. The actual net levies, per centage of total budget and total budgets follow: 1980-81 ? $4,093,973; 53 percent; $7,723,316. 1981-82 ? $4,255,193; 51.4 percent; $8,285,937. 1982-83 ? $4,416,370; 52 percent: $8,533,855. 1983-84 ? $4,837,875; 55.6 percent; $8,708,804. the increase sh.mid bring in $324,000. The county budget tor the current fiscal year increased $175,000 over the 1982-83 figure of $8,533,855. The amount of unre stricted money available to the board for the current year ? $6,526,179 ? was in creased by about $32,000 or 0.5 percent over last year's $6,493,421, Cottle said. The remaining $142,000 increase was required to meet the mandated programs, Cottle said. About $150,000 of the budget is in contingency or uncommitted reserve funds, he said. third of the total. Cottle said the amount of restricted funds limits the freedom of county boards to appropriate money and leads to criticism about limited appropriations to schools or other local services while the overall budget increases. The county board had $6. 5 million in unrestricted funds to finance schools, law en forcement and general county government, the county manager said. The board increased the county property tax rate 5 cents to 75 cents per $100 for the fiscal year that began July I. When calculated at a 95 percent collection rate, tricted funds and their per centage of total budgets for the past four vears follow: 1980-81 ? $7,723,316; $1,294,271; lb.76percent. 1981-82 - $8,285,937; $1,561,966; 18.85 percent. 1982-83 ? $8,533,855; $2,040,434; 23.91 percent. 1983-84 ? $8,708,804; $2,182,625; 25.06 percent Some of this restricted money comes out of "pass through" funds received from state and federal sources. Cottle said. County property tax collections con tribute slightly more than half the total budget. Sales and other excise tax col lections make up about one About one-fourth of the money budgeted this year bv the Duplin County Board of Commissioners goes for state and federally mandated pro grams over which the board has little or no say. either in direction or in financing, said Ralph Cottle. county manager. He called this portion of the budget "restricted funds." These mandated programs primarily involve human services including Medicare and Medicaid. The amount of restricted funds in the county budget has gradually increased. Cottle said. The total bud gets. amounts of the res Ledford Receives July Volunteer Of The Month Award The Kinston/Lenoir County Chamber of Com merce Volunteer of the Month award for July was presented to Luther Ledford, city executive and assistant vice-president of First Citi zens Bank and Trust Co. of Pink Hill, at the Chamber's recent board of directors meeting. Ledford has a history of involvement in volunteer ac tion. He has been particu larly active in Scouting and has held posts of Cubmaster, assistant Scoutmaster and Scoutmaster. He is past president of both the Pink Hill Ruritan Club and the Pink Hill Businessmen's Club. He has served as a chairman for the Pink Hill Christmas Parade. Lcdford has also been active in the United Way. the Pink Hill Rescue Squad and Volunteer Fire Department. He also serves on the ad visory board of the Lenoir County Extension Service. In addition, he has served as a volunteer inthe Chamber's membership council. I > 1984 CABLE READY I PORTABLE AND CONSOLE TELEVISIONS! SPACE PHONE AND REMOTE CONTROL OPTIONS AVAILABLE I ^SCAAC^V I if Remote J) XContro^/ Zenith 25" Diagonal Advanced System 3?The Smart Set? SZ2533PN ? New Computer Brain Auto ? Magic-Touch Tuning. CRT Tracking. ? Tri-Focus Picture Tube. ? New Z-Tech Chassis is ? Color Sentry Automatic Color Zenith's most automatic ever. Control. ? 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