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VOL. XXXXV1I NO. 36 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 SEPTEMBER 8, 1983 14 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
TWO TRUCK LOADS OF MARIJUANA Duplin deputies discovered
some 240 marijuana plants near Warsaw. The plants were discovered
at the edge of a field about three miles west of Warsaw, between
Warsaw and Bowdens. Plants ranged in height from 10 to 12 feet.
Sheriff Elwood Revelle stated the marijuana field showed evidence of
about 300 plants; some 60 or so had been harvested. The stalks were
stripped in the nearby woods. Revelle stated the plants would probably
yield a pound of marijuana each. That "good local stuff' would bring
about $400 a pound wholesale and once refined about $1,000 on the
street. The incident is still under investigation by the Duplin County
Sheriffs Department.
Faison Library To Open
In Restored/Depot
* By Emilv Kiilette
Lighting installation is the
final phase of restoring the
old Faison depot for use as a
library and museum.
According to Barbara Mar
golis, chairperson for the
Faison Historic Commission,
lighting for the library is
currently being installed and
plans are to open in October.
| "We made the library our
first concern,Barbara
Margolis, chairperson of the
Faison Historical Commis
sion, said. "We really have
not done too much with the
museum except preparing it
for lighting and furnishing."
According to Margolis, the
library will open in October
when books arrive to fill the
limited number of shelves
k installed. Faison's library
will feature shelves and some
f -niture made by Omega
-'ises of Rose Hill.
Marg. explained Omega
was used because they had
worked constructing furnish
ings for the new Dorothy
Wightman Library in
Kenansville. Additional
shelves, iike furnishings, will
be added after the library
opens, Margolis said. She
estimated about $1,500 is
needed to complete the plans
for the library. "We hope
people will use the library
and want to donate to help
add books, shelves and other
furnishings. The library will
open with only the barest
essential things so we can
open as soon as possible,"
Margolis said.
"We are hoping to open in
October if we're not waiting
on new books. If the books
arrived today, we could open
next week," Margolis ex
plained. "The Faison His
torical Commission does
have a few books from the
old town library which used
to be in the community
building. Some of those
books will have to be gone
through because a number of
the older ones are falling
apart." Books for the Faison
library are being ordered
through the Dorothy Wight
man Library. And. Margolis
added, the Faison library will
open on a part-time basis and
according to community re
sponse, business hours may
be lengthened.
The library is housed in
two of the three rooms of the
depot building. Margolis
pointed out no structural
changes have been made to
the inside of the depot and
the two library rooms once
served as waiting rooms for
train passengers. The ticket
office is designated as the
museum. Each of the depot
rooms has been sanded and
the upper portion of the
13-foot tall walls have been
painted white. Ticket win
dows. signal controls, ticket
boxes and counters remain
intact at the depot.
Lighting for the museum is
expected to cost approxi
mately $400. Margolis said.
And, she added, display
cases had not even been
priced by the historical com
mission at this stage. Like
the library, the Faison His
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torical Commission is ex
pecting donations for the
completion of the museum.
"There has been a lot of
work done since November."
Margolis said. "A fund
raiser was held in May for
the library and museum. It
was sponsored by the civic,
social and church groups in
the town and they raised
$1,100 for the project. Every
one in the community helped
or donated, so I feel like we
have the local support to
complete the project in the
future."
According to Margolis,
once the museum is ready to
open, the Faison Historical
Commission will advertise
for donations of historical
articles from the community
citizens. Each object will be
reviewed by the Commission
or a group appointed by the
Commission for display
approval. Currently, she
added, no decisions had been
made or guidelines set for
types of articles to be dis
played in the Faison
Museum.
LIBRARY TO "OPEN IN HISTORIC DEPOT - The Faison
Historical Commission announced tentative plans to'open
the town library in October. The project to restore the
Faison depot began approximately three years ago wnen
the building was donated to the town and moved to the
park and recreation gro-nds. The three-room structure
will also be used as a museum, said Barbara Margolis,
chairperson of the Faison Historical Commission. Ac
cording to Margolis, the ticket office area of tHe'depot will
house the museum. She added the museum will not be
ready to open when the library begins operation. Pictured
above is the Faison depot.
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NAMED STATE OUTSTANDING - A Duplin
4-H agent has been named one of the state's Out
standing Young 4-H Agents for 1983. Ray Rhinehart.
Duplin associate extension agent, 4-H, received one of two
awards given to agents with one to three years of service
by the North Carolina Association of Extension 4-H
Agents. Carolyn Langley, Edgecombe associate extension
agent, 4-H, received a similar award. Rodney Sawyer,
Currituck associate extension agent, 4-H, and Ken
Kindley, Buncombe extension agent, 4-H, received
Outstanding Young 4-H Agent Awards for four to seven
years of service. The awards were presented Aug. 24 in
Goldsboro during he 4-H Agents Association annual
meeting. Rhinehart was cited for giving leadership to a
balanced 4-H program of community clubs and special
interest groups and for recruiting and training adult
volunteer leaders.
Arts Council
Photographers
Show Planned
For Fall
Due to such good response
to the photography exhibi
tion this past spring, the
Duplin County Arts Council
is planning another competi
tion and show for the fall.
Entries will be judged and
cash prizes awarded prior to
the Duplin County Agribusi
ness Fair, and.the show will
hang as an educational
exhibit during Fair Week.
Entries may be black and
? color. A" dunes
must be framed and able to
be hung Details and entry
blanks will be available at the
DCAC office. Requests may
be made by phone, 296-1922
or mail: Duplin County Arts
Council, P.O. Box 36,
Kenansville, NC 28349.
The contest deadline is
Tuesday, Sept. 27. Entries
may be brought to the DCAC
office at the courthouse in
Kenansville.
Grants Will Spruce
Up Duplin County
Federal Grants and loans
total $1,719,376
Federal development or
improvement grants and
loans totaling $1,719,376
have been awarded Duplin
County, two of its towns and
one industry.
Duplin County is to receive
a $750,000 Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment community develop
ment block grant through the
N.C. Department of Natural
Resources and Community
Development,
Rose Hill will receive a
similar grant for $615,345.
The North Carolina
Hydraulics Co. of Beulaville
will receive a five-year EDS
loan at 5.5 percent interest
for factory expansion. The
town will receive a grant of
$71,031 for street improve
ments.
Emmett Wickline, the
company's owner, said the
factory now employs 27
workers and makes hydraulic
cylinders, selling most of its
product to the Champion
International Co. with head
quarters in Goderich. Can
ada, and a plant in Columbia,
S.C. He hopes to increase
employment to 70 workers
over a two-year period.
James Sprunt Technical
College of Kenansville will
train the additional workers.
Woody Brinson of Mc^
David Associates, consulting
engineers for the county,
said the Duplin County grant
includes $601,940 for 11,300
feet of six-inch water main,
rehabilitation of 43 houses,
removal of 15 houses and
addition of 14 fire hydrants in
the Burning Bush area just
west of Faison on N.C. 403.
Duplin County plans to buy
water from Faison and sell to
54 customers in the area. The
water line and some of the
hydrants will provide fire
protection for the Faison
vegetable auction market.
The county will use
$148,060 of the grant for a
community center in the
Rockfish area about four
miles west of Wallace on
N.C. 41. Plans call for pur
chasing a 12- to 15-acre site
across the road from the
Swift A. Co. turkey process
ing plant and construction of
a 3,000-square-foot building.
The county will lease the
building and grounds to a
local non-profit recreation
commission for operation.
Rose Hill Mayor Ben
Harrell said most of Rose
Hill's $615,345 grant will be
used to finance installation of
38,750 feet of six-inch water
main, 42 fire hydrants, a
100,000-gallon elevated
water storage tank and drill
ing of a 250,000-gallons-per
minute well.
The facilities will serve 321
homes on the west side of
town, including additon of 48
homes outside the city limits.
The town will use about
$123,000 of the grant to
replace 17,100 feet of water
main on the east side of
town.
Harrell said this grant will
help the town complete its
utiH y structure. "We have
some old lines that need
replacing and some loops
that need to be made. The
new tank will help in fire
safety. We only have a
75,000-gallon water storage
tank now. We need more
capacity for fire safety,"
Bids for the Rose Hilt
project are expected to be
sought early next spring.
Wreck Fills
Highway With
Sea Of Porkers
At Warsaw
A semi truck carrying 170
pigs collided with a van and
overturned on N.C. 24 two
miles west of Warsaw last
Wednesday afternoon, in
juring two people and killing
about a dozen pigs, said
Capt. Tommy Combs of the
Warsaw Volunteer Rescue
Squad.
"There were hogs every
where," Coombs said. The
surviving pigs were let out of
the trailer because of the
possibility of suffocation as
the trailer stretched across
the highway and blocked
both lanes of traffic for about
an hour after the 1:30 p.m.
accident.
Firefighters hosed the pigs
with water to keep them cool
as resellers used the "jaws of
life" cutting machine to
open a door on the van to
reach Lenora Frederick, 52,
of Route t, Warsaw, a
passenger in the back seat of
the van who was injured.
Coombs said.
Ms. Frederick and the
driver of the truck. Billy Ray
Daughtry, 23, of Clinton,
were taken to Duplin General
Hospital after the accident,
Coombs said. The hospital
refused to release informa
tion about the condition of
Daughtry or Ms. Frederick
that night.
The pigs belonged to the
Lundy Packing Co. in Clin
ton, Coombs said.
Hunt Names
Wickline To
James Sprunt
College Board
Governor Jim Hunt has
named Emmett E. Wickline
of Beulaville to serve on the
board of trustees of James
Sprunt Technical College.
His term will expire June 30,
1991.
Wickline> is president of
Wickline Industries, Inc. He
serves on the advisory board
of the Employment Security
Commission and on the JSTC
Foundation Board. He has
served in the past on the
Governor's Community of
Excellence Committee and as
the Duplin County chairman
of the Walter Hagen Cander
Society Golf Tournament.
The 12-member board is
the local advisory body for
JSTC. It applies standards
established by the State
Board of Community Col
leges. including admission
and graduation require
ments. It elects the president
or chief administrative
officer of the school subject
to approval by the state
board and purchases land
necessary for the operation
of the school.
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Emmett E. WIcKllne