THE FOURTH IS FIRST Shann Antonio Wells if the
fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Lee Wells, but he is
also the New Year baby born at Duplin General Hospital in
Kenansville. The Wells reside in Teachey, where Jimmy
Wells is employed with Swift. Mrs. Wells gave birth to
their fourth child after 4 a.m. New Year's Day. Dr.
Stephen briffith of Duplin Medical Association delivered
the eight pound and six ounce Wells boy.
Beulaville News
Dockie Sandlin and
daughter made a business
trip to Clinton Friday.
Vallie Oxley made a busi
ness trip to Clinton Thurs
day.
Randy Sandlin returned to
Greensboro after spending
the holidays with his parents,
Mrs. and Mrs. I.J. Sandlin
Sr.
J.D. Cottle visited Mr. and
Mrs. Ellis Turner Saturday.
Ellis returned home from
Lenoir Memorial Hospital
Wednesday.
Michael Bratcher and a
friend of Columbia, S.C.
visited Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Bratcher and Mrs. Ransom
Mercer during the weekend.
Mack Raynor and his wife,
Carolyn, were honored with a
reception Jan. 16 in the
recreation hall of the Beu
laville Baptist Church.
Laynette Maready of
Campbell College was home
with her parents for the
weekend. Darlene Hunter,
also of Campbell, spent the
weekend with Mrs. Sidney
Hunter, her grandmother.
Owen Kennedy is a patient
in Lenoir Memorial Hospital.
Randall Sumner is also in
Lenoir Memorial.
Davis Miller Kennedy and
Avis Miller Rhodes were
both admitted to Duplin
General Hospital Thursday
due to a car accident at the
stoplight in Beulaville.
Stella Evans spent New
Year's with M/Sgt and Mrs.
Jimmy Evans and family in
Fayetteville.
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Johnson To Speak
At Annual Dinner
Rev. Dr. Joy J. Johnson ]
will be the featured speaker
at the first annual dinner '
program of the Duplin (
County Progressive Leader
ship Organization on Satur
day, Jan. 14 at 5 p.m. at the
Kenansville Eastern Train
ing Center adjacent to the
First Baptist Church on
Church Street in Kenans
villc.
REV. JOHNSON
Rev. Johnson was the
second black elected to the
General Assembly since Re
construction in 1970 as a
representative for Roberson
County. Later he became the
first black person in the state
legislature to head a com
mittee, the Committee on
Human Resources.
Rev. Johnson has con
tinued to pastor the First
Baptist Church in Fairmont,
returning to Koberson,
"ounty each weekend. His
:hurch has also included a
:erm as president of the
General Baptist State Con
vention of N.C., which has
more than 1,700 churches.
DUCOPLO is a political
action committee registered
with the State Board of Elec
tions to foster minorities in
their endeavors to participate
more fully in a participatory
democracy.
Tickets can be purchased
from Robert Smith (285
5503), L.J. Sutton (289-2594)
George Farrior Jr. (296
0282), Mrs. Willie C. Jones
(285-3815) and others. The
dinner program is on the eve
of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.'s birthday in part as a
commemoration to him.
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Worsley Invests In People
By Debbie Norton
W Umlngton Star News
Cecil Worsley Jr., belying
the Scotchman stereotype of
frugality, this season threw a
Christmas party for his em
ployees ? all 900 of them.
It was a country/western
fete, complete with music,
doggers, food and transpor
tation. Since Worsley Com
panies extends into five
Southeastern states, the
company president provided
charter buses to bring em
ployees from the western
parts of the Carolinas to the
Myrtle Beach Convention
Center and flew in some from
Florida.
"You know what it cost?"
Worsley said, smiling and
forming a circle with his
thumb and forefinger.
"Zero. It was a good invest
ment. I wanted the people ?
the clerks behind the counter
? to feel a part of this.
"You know, they're al
ready talking about next
year, and I don't know how
we can top it."
Worsley, 58, has made a
habit of topping himself. A
native of Wallace, he joined
his father's small gasoline
distributorship in the 1940s
and since has built a cor
poration that does about $1S0
million a year in sales and
has an annual payroll of more
than $7 million.
Worsley Companies, now
headquartered in a new
building on Eastwood Road
in Wilmington, includes 21
distributorships, 117 Scotch
man Stores and Gas World
stations, a petroleum trans
portation line and real estate
holdings that include Rock
fish Plaza in Wallace. It also
distributes petroleum
product s to 150 dealers.
The company has opera
tions in North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida
and Tennessee, where it
recently bought 11 service
stations in Chattanooga in a
S2 million expansion.
Worsley said he plans to
build another 25 Scotchman
stores during 1984.
"I've always been a buyer,
not a seller," Worsley said.
Worsley began buying in
earnest in the mid-1960s,
branching out from his
limited Duplin County distri
bution area to open opera
tions' in Burgaw and Eliza
bethtown.
"I was asking myself,
'What is my future in Wal
lace?' " Worsley said. "I
was locked into a 20-mile
geographical area. To grow, I
had to go outside this area."
In 1968, Worsley made one
of his largest business moves
and bought into the Conway,
S.C., district, which includes
the lucrative Myrtle Beach
market.
But the true growth period
began in the post-Arab oil
embargo years of a decade
ago, Worsley said. They
were the final years for many
of his competitors.
As other distributors
failed, Worsley bought them
up and transformed empty
service stations into conve
nience stores and self-serve
facilities.
Worsley said he is con
vinced the expansion from
strictly wholesale to the retail
gasoline and convenience
I
store business saved his
company while all those
about him were losing theirs.
"If I hadn't, I would have
been a lot like the oil
companies I bought out. I
would have gone by the
wayside," Worsley said.
Other companies "were
not willing to make the effort
or put the money into it. We
put new life into their busi
nesses and put money into
the retail end."
The continued profitability
of Worsley Companies,
though, lies in another
factor.
"The key to success ? and
this is important ? is that I
have good people around
me," Worsley said. "I'm not
just a figurehead, though.
I'm in there rubbing elbows
every day."
In fact, Worsley estimates
he spends about four days a
week "in the air" traveling
to his various locations and
working with managers on an
individual basis.
"One-on-one," Worsley
said. "You get the best
results that way."
Classes offered at cnm
quapin. Adult Education
Center include Adult Basic
Education A High School
Completion and Upholstery
Class. .
Adult Basic Education ?
High School Completion is
offered in Faison and Green
Classes offered at Wallace
include Adult Basic Educa
(ion and High School Com.
pletion, Cake Decorating and
Floral Design.
Adult Basic Education and
High School Completion is
available at Warsaw.
For more information on
these classes or any other
classes of interest, contact^
the continuing education de-'
partment at JSTC at
296-1341.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kennion
Chimes To
Be Dedicated
New Christian Chapel
Church will dedicate the
chimes in the church in
memory of Deacon and Ms.
William H. Kenion on Sun
day, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m.
lhe chimes were given in
their honor by their grand
daughter, Sarah E. Graham,
and her husband, Donald
Graham. The church is
located on Hwy. #11, Rose
Hill. The public is invited.
THANK YOU
Dear Friends,
May I take this opportunity to wish each of you a Happy
New Year and at the same time thank you for the many
thoughtful things you do for me. Your visits, cards,
flowers, fruits, good wishes and prayers have meant so
much to me. So to the churches, circles, clubs, former
students, friends and relatives, again THANK YOU so
much.
Elisabeth H. Ferrell
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Learning
Via JSTC
The continuing education
division of James Sprunt
Technical College offers
courses in adult basic edu
cation, GED, occupational
education and avocational
areas. Gasses are open to
anyone 18 vears of aoe and
older. Gasses meet on and
off campus. Registration is
Held at the first class session
(ABE students may register
at any time) and class size is
often limited. A class space
may be reserved by con
tacting the continuing educa
tion division prior to the first
class meeting. There is no
fee for persons 65 and over,
ABE or GED students. JSTC
reserves the right to cancel
any classes due to insuffi
cient enrollment.
Classes offered on the
campus include Adult Basic
Education, Basic Auto Me
chanics, Basic Welding,
Cake Decorating, Calli
graphy, CPR, High School
Completion (GED), Introduc
tion to Word Processing, No
tary Public Training, Ruffled
Curtains Class, Sewing I and
II, Speedreading and Com
prehension, The Develop
ment of Contemporary So
ciety and Understanding
American Politics through
Biography,
Gasses offered at the Al
bertson Adult Center include
Adult Basic Education,
Ceramics, Oil Painting,
Watercolor, Oil and Drawing
Gass and Sewing I.
Gasses offered in Beula
ville include Adult Basic
Education and Oil Painting.
Quilting classes are
offered at Cedar Fork.
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"Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of
friendship." ?Woodrow Wilson
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