RECEIVE AWARDS FOR SERVICE
The 28th annual Warsaw Jaycee Distinguished Service
Awards banquet was held Feb. 23 at the Duplin
Country Club. Thomas Faison, the son of Mark Faison,
and Carla Quinn. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Quinn both of Warsaw, were named Outstanding
Teenagers by the Jaycees. Outstanding Young Edu
cator was awarded to Jost f Ann Smith Wells, a science
teacher at Warsaw Do gli ss Jr. High. Pictured, left to
right, above, Thomas F .ison, Carla Quinn and Josef
Ann Wells.
Screening For Craft Expo '84
The Neuse Area Development
Association and the N.C. Agricul
tural Extension Service will once
again sponsor Expo 84. a crafts fair
to be held in Morehead City on July 7
and 8.
The screening date for craft items
for this exhibition is March 7 and will
be held at the AES office in Kinston.
Craftpersons from Carteret, Craven,
Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow.
Pamlico and Wavne counties are
urged to have their items screened
so they mary participate in Expo '84.
Some crafts that have been
demonstrated and sold at previous
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lairs arc icaiiicrcraii, nuuuwuniii^,
weaving, pine needle crafts, embroi
dery, baskets, handmade musical
instruments, broom making and
stuffed dolls.
Application blanks are now avail
able in the Lenoir home economics
agent's office and should be
prepared in triplicate for each craft
submitted, according to Melissa B.
Smith, associate Lenoir home eco
nomics extension agent. Three
examples of each craft are required
for this screening. Lenoir County
craftpersons may bring their items to
the Lenoir County AES office on Pink
Hill Highway, Kinston, by March 6.
Craftpersons in the nine-county
Neuse Area Development region are
urged to be screened for partici
pation in Expo '84.
Tree Day In Duplin March 3
All citizens who have ordered
trees should pick them up on
Saturday. March 3. between the
hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the
Agricultural Extension office.
"Duplin County will be even more
beautiful with an dditional 5,000
dogwood trees and 1.600 watermelon
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red erepe myrtles," sayd Mrs.
Adelaid Rice, chairman of the Volun
teer Beautification Committee.
Phil Denlinger, assistant agricul
tural extension agent, asks everyone
to bring plastic bags or newspaper to
wrap plants in. "It is very important
to keep the bare-rooted seedlings
moist," says Phil. "Livability will
not be good if the roots are allowed
to dry out."
The committee is pleased with the
response and nurseries have
promised a complete order of all
trees.
All trees not picked up by 3 p.m.
will be sold on a first-come, first
served basis.
Tree Day is sponsored by the
Duplin County Agricultural Exten
sion Service and the Volunteer
Beautification Committee.
LEADERSHIP
CLINIC OFFERED
Do you have leadership respon
sibilities? Would you like to become
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Agricultural Extension Service may
have the answer for you.
"A leadership clinic will be held
during the month of March," stated
Judy H. Wallace, home economics
extension agent.
The clinic is divided into three
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IWU-IIUUI bCbMUiis OIIU will ucgin un
March 5 and continue on March 12
and 19. Each session will begin at 7
p.m. Topics to be covered are:
Understanding Leadership and
Leadership Styles, Shared
Leadership ? How to Achieve
Creativity and Cooperation,
Planning and Conducting Meetings,
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certificate will be given to those who
complete the clinic.
Dr. Maurice E. Voland. specialist
in charge of the sociology and
anthropology department at N.C.
State University, will be assisting the
local staff in conducting the clinic.
i nere is linwea space in uns
clinic. Registration is required prior
to March 1. A fee of $5 to cover the
cost of materials is payable upon
registration. For more information,
contact the Duplin County Agricul
tural Extension Service at 296-19%.
Foundation To Hold
Annual Dinner/Dance
Saturday, March 3rd, the James
Sprunt Foundation will host its
annual spring dinner-dance in the
Jester's Court of the Country Squire I
near Kenansville. Proceeds from the
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dation to support the education
activities of James Sprunt Technical
College.
The activities will begin at 7 p.m.
with wine, cheese and light hors
d'oeuvres followed by a steak dinner
at 7:30. Musical entertainment for
the dinner hour will be provided by
John Good now, visiting artist at
JSTC. At 9 p.m. the Charlie Albert
son Band will provide music for
dancing until 1 a.m.
The uinner-dance officially closes
the foundation's second annual fund
drive. This year's drive has a goal of
Hit And Run
A hit and run accident occurred at
12:50 p.m. Monday, four miles north
of Beulaville on N.C. 111.
An 18-year-old Mexican youth was
killed instantly.
The vehicle involved was a '78-'80
Chevrolet or GMC van, olive drab
color, was last seen heading north on
Hwy. 111.
Anyone with information is asked
to call the local law enforcement in
your area.
Fairbanks, Alaska, is the
closest city in North Ameri
ca to the Arctic Circle.
raising $20,000 for JSTC's 20th
anniversary year.
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AGRICULTURE CENTER SEES
SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT
Unemployment remained over 10
percent, but signs of economic
improvement appeared in Duplin
County in 1983 and are continuing
now.
Duplin is sometimes described as
an agricultural empire because it
houses a huge poultry industry that
grosses more than S12S million
annually, plus hog and tobaccp
production, all of which places it
among the top 100 agricultural
counties of the nation in gross farm
income. Its 1982 gross income,
estimated at about $230 million, was
not a record."
Agriculture is the county's major
industry, employment source and
income producer. Businesses include
feed mills, poultry and swine pro
gram operations, individual swine
operations, tobacco, corn, soybean
and fresh vegetable production, and
poultry processing. Agricultural ser
vice and supply firms are big
business in the county.
Duplin is described as the leading
all-around poultry-producing county
in the United States. Outside of
agriculture, its major industrial base
is textile plants, several of which
have retooled or are retooling to
change their product lines. Compe
tition from overseas and changes in
consumer preferences brought about
these changes.
Textile employment, which de
clined for several years, stabilized
last year and is increasing.
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county's farm economy, particularly
in 1982 when farm product prices hit
the skids. The poultry and swine
industries were troubled and re
duced production, which reduced
farm incomes. The long period of
agricultural depression led to failure
of the Watson Seafood & Poultry Co.
in Kose Mill.
However, other poultry and swine
firms are expanding production.
Farm product prices increased in
the past year, encouraging pro
ducers and offering the promise of
improved conditions.
Swift & Co. is increasing capacity
of its turkey processing plant at
Wallace. In nearby Sampson County,
Lundy Packing Co., a major pork
packer, is doubling its capacity.
Several towns of the county began
or are about to begin long-olanned
upgrading of public utilities. These
towns will be in position to bid for
new industries or industrial expanr
sion as a result.
Warsaw opened its new $2 million
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sewage treatment plant. It annexed
the National Spinoing Co. plant site
in order to apply for and receive an
Urban Development Action Grant of
$1,040,000 for the company to retool
to produce new product lines.
Quinn Wholesale Co. of Warsaw
enclosed more railroad siding space
and increased its cold storage capa
city. The company serves indepen
dent supermarkets over a wide area
of eastern North Carolina as well as
some in South Carolina and Virginia.
J.P. Stevens Co.'s retooling of its
Wallace plants is nearing comple
tion. The work has been in Drocress
for more than a year. The company
was rehiring and retraining workers
late last year.
Work is expected to begin in the
spring on increasing capacity of the
Wallace sewage treatment plant at a
cost of more than SI million.
Rose Hill is planning to begin work
on a new sewage treatment plant and
on improving its water system this
spring. The project has been in the
planning stage for nearly a decade.
Cost of both projects is estimated at
$2 million.
A bond proposal to finance a rural
water system in the Albertson area
of northeastern Duplin County was
approved early this year.
Beulaville received an Urban De
velopment Action Grant of about
$355,000 to finance an expansion
program of the N.C. Hydraulics Co.
plaot and for street improvements.
The plant expansion received A
$283,225.
The historic Kelly-Farrior house,
which was donated to the county, *
was moved last year to a site beside
Liberty Hall, the ancestral Kenan
family home. It will house the Cowan '
Museum and the Duplin County
Arts Council when renovations are
completed.
A long controversy between
Duplin County and its school system >. ^
over disposition of an abandoned ?
school in Kenansville was ended
when the school board gave the
building and its grounds to the
county government. The second
annual Duplin County Agribusiness
Fair held on the school grounds and
in Kenan Memorial Auditorium
attracted 15,000 people..
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