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r Rural Duplin Home Hit By Storm \lr 1 v. ^ vv. . ?? ir rM ^Remains Of Home In Pine Forest Community ?neer*. Clean-Up Begins In Pine Forest Vehicles Were Overturned And Crushed Charters Jaycees ^ .The first black Jaycee chapter in r^wth Carolina was chartered in Grfcenevers last week. ! According to state Jaycee presi dent. Jim Godfrey, about one percent of Sorth Carolina's 6,500 Jaycees are b!i$k. A charter was presented to 20 y2>ang men at Greenevers March 20 a$ ihe first totally black chapter in th4 state. .<? C *The Greenevers chapter has a challenge ahead." state Jaycee ) president Jim Godfrey said. "Every onfc will be watching this chapter and jion (Greenevers Jaycees) can turn it ifito.a golden opportunity." Godfrey installed officers and inducted members into the new Greenevers chapter. ! The chapter was recognized last week after an attempt in November of." 1983 failed to recruit enough membership for a charter. Spon soring the new chapter was the Kenansville Jaycees. Greenevers is } ,tti$ third to charter a Jaycee chapter within the past 12 months with the assistance of Kenansville. Earlier Willace and the Kenansville Cor rectional Center established Jaycee chapters through the Kenansville organization. The addition of Green ? :> i-.;g * i . ? evers orings me total 01 live uuplin Jaycee chapters. Greenevers Jaycee officers include president Hartis Stalling, Individual Development vice-president Dwight Dixon, Community Development vice-president James AlfretP Boney, secretary Douglas Boney, treasurer Donald Ray Carroll and state director Jeffrey Btackman. And, nonoffice holding members include David Beamon, Richard Brown. Wilbert Bryant, Crain Chasten, Kelvin Chasten, Ronnie Hill, James McCalop, Burnice Matthews, Erwin Matthews, Glenn Moore, Jerome Murray. Barnabas Pearsall, Phillip Teachey and Ronald Wright. Hartis Stallings, Greenevers Jaycee president, pointed out a need for the organization to support local projects in recreation, the volunteer fire department and renovation of the town community building. TURKEY SUPPER AT MAGNOLIA The Magnolia United Methodist Women are sponsoring a turkey supper on Wednesday, April 11, from 4 p.m. until, at the Magnolia United Methodist Church. Plates are $3.50 for adults and $2 for children. Kahn To Speak At Kenansville Lodae Berl M. Kahn, past grand master, will be the featured speaker at St. John's Lodge #13 in Kenansville on i Thursday, April 5. Dinner will be at 7 I p.m. and the meeting begins at 8 I p.m. Warsaw Lodge #677 will be special guests. During the dinner hour, special I presentations will be made. St. John's Lodge #13 will present copies of "Launching the Craft," a history I of the first 50 years of Freemasonry | in North Carolina, to the Duplin ' County-Dorothy Wightman Library and the James Sprunt Technical College Library. Representatives of the two libraries have been invited to attend as special guests. Beri Maurice Kahn was born t March 3, 1913 in Charlotte. In 1915, ' the family moved to New Bern. Kahn received his formal education in the public schools there, and at the University of North Carolina. Fol lowing college, Kahn located in Goldsboro, where he was engaged in the furniture business until his retirement. In 1944, Kahn petitioned Wayne Lodge #112 in Goldsboro and was raised to the sublime degree of master mason on August 2, 1944? , His talents and abilities were recog nized and he immediately pror gressed through the offices of the Lodge, serving as master in 1949. During that year he passed the examination as a certified lecturer and has renewed his certificate continuously. In 1945, Kahn was appointed a member of Wayne Lodge's master masons degree team and he served as captain from 1955 through 1970. Kahn has served as district deputy grand master and district deputy grand lecturer of the 16th Masonic district. He was honored by having the title of past district deputy grand master and past district deputy grand lecturer conferred on him for his faithful services rendered to Masonry in these offices. Kahn has served with distinction on every important committee of his lodge. In appreciation, his home lodge conferred the highest honor of which it is capable, that of life membership. In addition, he has been presented with honorary mem bership from Hiram Lodge #98, Clinton; Mill Creek Lodge #125, Newton Grove; Harmony Lodge #340, Pikeville; Home Lodge #613, -4-k???&: Fremont; Mt. Olive Lodge <1208, Mt. Olive; Fallston Lodge #356, Falston; and Creasy Proctor Lodge #679, Fayetteville. Kahn is a member and past patron of Goldsboro Chapter #54, Order of the Eastern Star. He is a member and degree worker in Goldsboro Chapter #29, Royal Arch Maston, and is a past high priest of that chapter. He is a member of Golds boro Council #33, Royal and Select Masters, and is a past illustrious master of that body. On September 19, 1944, Kahn petitioned for the Scottish Rite degrees in the Valley of Wilmington, and was elected and became a master of the royal secret and attained the 32d degree. He has been an active and proficient degree worker, participating in the 14th, 15th, 18th, 29th, 31st and 32nd degrees. At the bi-annual communication of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free masonry for the southern jurisdiction of the U.S. in 1959, Kahn was elected to receive the rank and decoration of knight commander of the court of honour (KCCH). At its meeting in 1969, he was elected to receive the 33d dgree inspector general honorary. In 1944, Kahn joined Sudan Shrine Temple and became a noble of the Mystic Shrine. In 1951, he was invited and became a member of the Royal Order of Jesters, an organi zation composed only of Shriners who have made an outstanding con tribution to the Shrine. He served as outer guard of Sudan Temple in 1971. In 1970, Oasis Shrine Temple in Charlotte elected Kahn as an honorary member. He is a charter member and past president of Goldsboro Shrine Club and has the honor of having been elected a lif' member of that club. Kahn has been active at the Grano Lodge level. He has served with distinction on every important com mittee and board of the Grand Lodge, including service as grant representative of the Grand Lodge of New South Wales near the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. In 1961, the Grand Lodge conferred its highest honor on him by presenting him with the Joseph Motrtfort Medal for distinguished service. At the annual commiuiication of *. . N I the Grand Lodge meeting in Char lotte in 1964, Kahn was appointed by the grand master as grand steward. He progressed through the several offices of the Grand Lodge, cul minating in his service as grand master in 1972. I 1 I Charles M. Ingram, master of St. John's Lodge *13 for 1984, ex pressed great pleasure at the honor of having Kahn attend St. John's Lodge to speak, and invited all Master Masons in this area to attend this special meeting. '' r. Service Award ;t. Ernestine M. Smith was presented a Service Award in grateful appreciation - for dedicated service during an honorable career of 19 years' service to the * Government of the United States. The award was given by the United States; ? Postal Service. Mrs. Smith retired from the Kenansville Post Office on March 2, 1984. A retirement dinner was given on March 1 at the Graham House Inn-.;, in Kenansville in her honor. The occasion was enjoyed by her coworkers and 17 relatives. At this time her fellow employees presented her a pair of gold' -'; earrings. 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