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HMgr , 1 IkiplmiCSffifcL^im#^ PROGRESS SENTINEL *: I ? i ? 0)L. XXXXVll NO. 40 ' USPS 162-860 KENANSV1LLE. NC 28349 OCTOBER 6, 1983 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX ^HRE THE HANDICAPPED WEEK - The Employment Security Commission and the Vocational Rehabilitation Department in Kenansville joined together in observance of Hire the Handicapped Week, Oct. 2-8. Pictured above, employees of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Em ployment Security Commission plan a project for Hire the Handicapped Week. Pictured above, left to right, Brenda McCullen, Gayle Saint-Amand, Sammie Southerland, Chris Bass and Dennis Kirby. Bank Gives Wallace Town Library $10P00 Gift The president of Branch Banking & Trust Co last week celebrated the firm's 50th year in Wallace by donating $10,000 to the town's library and by an nouncing plans to open a branch office in Wilmingtpp next year. Calling Wilmington a "key ?arket which we have been refully investigating for a number of years," L. Vincent Lowe Jr. told a group of Wallace Chamber of Com merce members a Wilming ton office would be a "natu ral addition to our Duplin County service area." Increasing industrial recruitment and the hoped-, for Interstate 40 connector completed to Raleigh will ?nake Wilmington an increas ingly important regional hub for financial and other ser vices, Lowe said. In announcing the move into the Wilmington market. Lowe indicated the bank plans to broaden its financial base and move, away from its tradition, oasis on agri cultural Jo* is. BB&T was established in 1872 and is the oldest North Carolina bank still in con tinuous operation. It opened a teller windown in Wallace in 1933. The bank, which has had two offices in Wallace since 1972, has become a major supplier of agricultural loans in the region. It carries a greater proportion of farm loans to total deposits than any other bank in the state. "The economy here is at something of a crossroads," Lowe said. "Industries, such as tobacco and textiles, which have served as pillars supporting the economic superstructure of the state, are facing a changes legis lative and economic climate. 4 "V; e have supported the farmer and will continue to do so, but we must reduce our sole dependence on tobacco and textiles for our livelihood." With a continued stress on education and better high ways, though. Southeastern North Carolina will be an "ideal" region for other industries, Lowe said. "One area which should be poised for a healthy dose of economic growth in the 1980s and '90s is South eastern North Carolina." Lowe said. Lowe also said other fac tors affecting the way BB&T operates are bank deregu lation and shifting market forces. The result has been that the bank has expanded the number of financial ser vices it offers. Lowe, who began his career with BB&T in Wallace . in 1963, gave a $10,000 check to the Friends of the Library to establish a permanent endowment fund for the Thelma Dingus Bryant Library. The bank donated its ori ginal building in Wallace for the library 20 years ago. BB&T is the sixth largest bank in the state based on total assets of $1.6 billion. It now operates 123 branch offices in 64 cities. Kenansville Medical Practice Celebrates 10 Years a len years of successful practice is something to share, said Dr. Corazon K. Ngo, M.D.. the first woman and foreign doctor to estab lish a private medical prac tice in Duplin County. Ngo and her staff plan an open house Friday. October 7. at her office in Kcnans ville. Refreshments and office tours will be held from ^ a.m. until 4 p.m.. October W "They told me I would never make it." Dr. Corazon K. Ngo. M.D. of internal medicine, said. "But. that didn't scare me." However. Ngo admitted her practice might have failed without the promotion and business ex perience of her husband. Roy Simpson. "I was taught medicine and prepared to be ^ doctor, but they (medical school) do not teach busi ness and how to set up a private practice. "I think I have a ?ood practice and all the doctors in the county have accepted me into their circle." Ngo added. Ngo is a doctor of internal medicine which deals with diseases of adults. Heart ^lisorders are included and JNgo's office is equipped with instruments to dir.pnose and monitor cardiac problems. Equipment like the tread mill r-ves cardiac patients time a, costs of a hospital stay, Ngo said, by performing tests in the office instead of at tfie hospital. Ngo's office in Krnansville is the onlv private practice within Duplin with the treao mill. A Also, Nbo said the internal medicine practice is equip ped with th? ta.hour ambu latory monitor used for de tecttng irregular heart bvais. She added, a piece of equip ment never used in her office, but on stand-by. is the defibrillator ? used to stimulate a heart beat after cardiac arrest. For detection of early lung disease, Ngo's office is equipped with a spirometer. The spirometer, along with the tread mill, ambulatory monitor, and defibrillator are pieces of equipment not found in other private medical practices in Duplin. Ngo said. "The doctors in this area are easy to get along with." Ngo said. "And, Duplin General is well equipped for this kind (internal medicine) of practice." The staff at Ngo's office consists of Registered Nurse Edith Hill, office manager Alice Ross and medical assistant Janet Powell. Each of the three employees is an emergency medical technician, a pre caution, Ngo said, for her patients if a medical emer gency occurred when she was not in the office. Ngo is the medical director of Guardian Care in Kenans ville, secretary/treasurer of the Duplin County Medical Society, secretary of the Duplin General medical staff and medical consultant for Guilford East of Kenans ville. She has two children, Shean. age 13 years, and Pat, 16,; both are students at North Duplin. The family has a gospel singing group called the Gospel Travelaires, and they have been performing for five years. Ngo sings soprano with the group and as a soloist. The Simpson family are members of West Duplin Free Will Baptist Church of Warsaw. Ngo was educated at the f-tholic University of Santo Thomas in Manila, Phillip pines. j^fter completing medical school at Santo Thomas in 1965, Ngo came to the United States and in terned one year at St. Francis Hospital in New York City. She served a two-year resi dency in internal medicine at Bronx Lebanon Hospital and another.vear as a resident of internal medicine at St. Jose-pn .uiamary in uiuis ville, Ky. The folliwng 18 months, Ngo worked at Fair view General Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, under a fellowship specializing in rheumiatology and endo crinology. Leaving Ohio, Ngo came to the Veterans Ad ministration Hospital at Fay ett^ville where she worked one year as senior staff physician. From Fayett^ville. Ngo came to Duplin County and opened a private prac tice. October 7, 1973. Dr. William Thornton Wallace Refrigeration Plant To Open In November The Williams Refrigera tion Co. freezer plant now under construction adjacent to the Swift & Co. turkey plant five miles west of Wallace is expected to open about Nov. 1, construction superintendent Thomas Troggio said last week. Freezer equipment has been installed and pipe work is now being completed. The racks to hold as much ps 17 million pounds of meat at a time are now being installed in the freezer storage area. The flash freeze chambers have been installed, along with the huge blowers that will force air at 25 degrees (fahrenheit) below zero tem perature through the racks of meat at a rate of 65 miles per hour. Troggio said the chill factor would likely be more than 100 degrees below zero. The flash freeze units will have the capacity to freeze 180,000 pounds of produce or meat to zero degrees in 48 hours. The storage area tempera ture will be maintained at zero degrees, although the hughe freezers can drop it to 10 degrees below zero. Cost of the 65.000 square foot building and equipment is estimated at $3.7 million. It will be connected to the Swift plant by an enclosed, insulated hallway through which turkeys can be moved from the processor to the freezer. Warsaw Man Charged . In Marijuana Case ueorge McDonald John' son Jr.. 34. of Route 1, Box 79A. Warsaw, was arrested and charged by Duplin County sheriff's officers last Friday with trafficking _ in marijuana by n~-.session and trafficking in marijuana by I manufacturing. He is scheduled to appear Oct. 12 in Duplin County district court in Kenansville. Johnson was free on $25,000 bond late Friday. Sheriff T. Elwood Revolle said officers discovered a marijuana field in a wooucJ I area between Warsaw and I Bowdens on Aug. 29. They ' destroyed 228 marijuana plants between 10 and 14 feet in height. The case has been under investigation since, officers said. School Buses Needed For Handicapped If the Duplin County school system agrees to pur chase one bus for transpor tation of handicapped students, the state will pro vide the county with two buses for immediate use to alleviate a serious transpor tation problem for handi capped students. Linda Day, director of exceptional children's pro grams for the county school system, told the Board of Education last week that due to a shortage of buses some handicapped children face almost six hours of busing each day. She said most of the county's handicapped stu dents ride buses. Twelve of these students are limited to wheelchairs, which require use of a special hydraulic lift at the bus door steps. The board directed Super intendent L.S. Guy to "find" money to purchase <*ie bus. Guy said a bus ordered now would not be ready for use until spring. The county needs three additional buses for the handicapped which would cost an estimated $78,000. At present, the county transports the handi capped students in five buses. One of these belongs to the state. Ms. Day said eight of the handicapped students ot: bus No. 801, operating in the Rose Hill-Wallace area, face l'/i-hour rides morning and evening. The bus must make several runs to move 26 handicapped students. One way on the route requires two hours, 50 minutes, she said and covers 66 miles. She said the same situation exists in the Chinquapin and Beuiaville areas. A student riding the length of the route faces nearly six hours of bus riding per day. The state has approved addition of three buses to transport handicapped stu dents. A county makes the initial purchase of a bus. if the additional bus is ap proved by the state. The state provides replacement buses as the county purchased vehicles wear out. Duplin County last used local funds to buy a new school bus in 1%7. The board also approved offering Algebra 1 to selected eighth.grade students. It plans to offer calculus to selected seniors four years from now. To qualify, the v students will have had to take the Algebra 1 course in the eighth grade and a mathematics course in each of their first three high school years. Calculus is un available at present in the four county high schools. Associate Superintendent Gary Sanderson said 140 students may take the eighth-grade algebra course. Board Member Bill Rich ards said he had been cor cerned about the lack of advanced mathematics in the school curriculum. Guy announced Duplin students averaged at or above the national norm on the California Achievement Tests with the exception of the ninth grade in reading. In other business, the use of a portion of the Chin quapin I school for the Head Start program was approved by the board. Sanderson also reported Carlton Grady, a Future Farmers of America member from East Duplin High SclhKil, will represent the stale at the National Future Farmers of America conven tion this fall in Kansas City, Mo... as a state poultry production project winner. Half Of Offices Still Open Filing Ends Friday Noon By Emily Killette Filing continues to be slow for Duplin municipality's offices of mayor and com missioners. After two weeks more than half of the offices remain open. A total of 35 seats are available in county munici palities and will be on the November 8 ballot. Filing for office began Sept. 16 and ends at noon tomorrow. Oct. 7. Three seats as town mayor have candidates filing. In cumbent Ruby Ramsey has filed for re-election to the office of mayor of Teachey. The incumbent Mayor Melvin Cording has filed for re-election to the office in Wallace, and Joe Daniels is the remaining candidate for the position of mayor of the town of Calypso. Candidates have not filed for the office of mayor in the towns of Faison, Magnolia and Greenevers. The towns of Faison, Magnolia. Rose Hill. Green evers, Kenansville and Teachey had no candidates filing for offices as commis sioner after two weeks. The town of Beulaville has three open seats in the Nov. 8th election, and H.J. Brown, Horace l.ee K! Vs. Joe Edwards, incumbent Com missioner Franklin Boyette and Larrv P. Bostic have filed. Candidates Shelby (Zack) Zacharv and Jimmy S. Kennedy have filed for seats on the Warsaw town board. The town of Warsaw will have three open seats for election. Calypso has five seats for election on the town board of commissioners; candidates S.D. Davis. Eugene S. Emmer. Libby L. Boykin, M.J. Lambert Jr.. and J.R. Turner have filed. Wallace has three candi dates filing for town com missioner se ? Thr e seat' will be open on the Wallace town board in the November 8 election; filing as candi dates are incumbents Charles Blanchard, G. Arnold Duncan and N.H. Carter. According to Board of Elections Supervisor Carolyn Murphy, the Nov. 8 election will determine all winners by simple plurality and no run offs will be held. And. she added, in order to be eligible to vote in the Nov. 8 elec tions, non-registered persons must be registered by Oct. It) Thornton Day Set For October 15 About 74 people from the town of Faison traveled to NASA for the lift-off of the space shuttle Chailtr.ger carrying Faison native William Thornton into space for a five-day trip August 30. Today Faison citizens are inviting area folks to their town for the homecoming of astronaut William Thornton October 15. The homecoming celebra tion will begin at 10:30 a.m., at the Faison Fire Station. Astronaut William Thornton will be greeted by North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt and Faison Mayor Francis McColman. Brief introduc tions are expected by Gover nor Hunt and Mayor Mc Colman prior to Thornton's public address. Following speech by Thornton will be a barbeque pork and chicken lunch served at noon with proceeds going to the Faison fire and rescue departments. Thornton was among the five-man space shuttle crew of the Challenger. The five-day space trip is the eighth in a series of shuttle missions. The Challenger followed the first shuttle Columbia which flew five space missions. On this trip the Challenger deployed two satellites and provided the astronauts an opportunity to perform several in-orbit ex periments; Thornton con ducted tests on space sick ness. The Faison native was educated as a physician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then joined the United States Air Force. Astronauts ac companying Thornton were Richard Truli, Dan Branden stein. Dale Gardener and Guy Bluford. Thornton, at the age of 55 years, is the oldest astronaut to go into space. The Challenger landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California September 3. As a young teen, Thornton opened a radio and television repair shop in Faison to help support his mother after the death of his father. And, folks in Faison s'dl re member teasing Thornton with the nick-name "Genius." CRAFT ENTRIES IN FAIR ? The second annual Duplin Agribusiness Fair began Monday and many area citizens entered "raff".. food* and aorin'i?.,?n| products > * t Pictured above, entries are tagged for fair display and judging. All exhibits will be ?displayed daily until 10 p.m. through October 8.
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