? jHtttlm dlto PROGRESS SENTINEL VOL. XXXXVI1I NO. 40 USPS 162-860 KENANSV1LLE, NC 28349 OCTOBER 3. 1985 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX Kugel Outlines Warsaw Project To Begin Next Year LUAUly icuuii apai unciili, uniCCS, shops and possibly a restaurant will appear in Warsaw beginning next year, if the promises and plans of Owen Kugel of Lancaster, Pa. and his OK Associates work out. Kugel announced in Warsaw Wednesday that his first project will be development of the Bowden property at Hill and Railroad streets into 10 luxury apartments. The developer appeared before a Warsaw Chamber of Commerce r group last week to announce com pletion of an agreement to buy the Bowden property, which consists of huge frame houses. It has been owned recently by Nell Bowden. Kugel emphasized that aside from a commitment of $60,000 from the chamber and the town, he would arrange for all of the money required for this and two other projects he plans for Warsaw. "Were not asking anyone here to put money into this," he said. Kugel makes a business of going into a town with plans to invest in downtown property for development. He contracts with chambers of commerce on a money-back basis to launch development of a specified value within a specified time. If he fails, he promises, he will return the goo^-faith fund put up by the chambers of commerce and towns. ine Warsaw cnamber is pumng up $50,000 and the town $10,000. The Warsaw agreement was made in March. At that time Kugel promised to have bids let for $2 million worth of construction in the town in a year. He said last Wednesday that he had contracts with 21 North Carolina towns, including Fayetteville, Clinton, Mount Olive, Kinston, Goldsboro, Tarboro and Rocky Mount. He began his development busi ness in Pennsylvania. He said he now owns 300 luxury apartments int he northeast. He is opening a $4 million project in Pittsfield, Mass. Owen Kugel He said 80 percent of its units are leased. Plans for development of the Bowden property should be ready in 30 days, he said. He expects developing the buildings to cost about $525,000. Each covers about 1,000 square feet. Historic Property To Become Luxury Apartments The Bowden property will be the first phase of construction in the OK Associates plan to revitalize downtown Warsaw. Construction will begin next year to turn the Bowden property pictured above into luxury apartments. 1 Coal-Dumping Station Is Next Step To Steam It looks like the beginning of a sewer pump station, but the thing ) beside the road is anything but that. The big "it" will unload railroad coal cars. The coal, an estimated 120.000 tons a year, will be mauled by truck to the Cogentrix cogene ration plant under construction ad jacent to the Guildord Co. textile . factory on N.C. 11 near Kenansville. The coal station is just north of Warsaw on a rail siding between U.S. 117 and the Seaborad System main track. * Now it's a mass of reinforcement * bars and wooden jackets into which concrete will be poured, creating a structure strong enough to hold trains loaded with coal. Two huge steel I-beams lie atop the framing. They will support the rails. Coal from hopper cars will be dumped into a pit, from which a conveyor will load it into trucks. A road will be built so the coal trucks can be driven to N.C. 24. They will go east to Kenansville on N.C. 24 and north to the plant on N.C. 11. Crowder Construction Co. of Charlotte is building the coal station for Cumberland Elkhorn Coal Co. of Louisville. Ky. A construction official said the company has just completed a similar station at Lumberton. Coal for Cogentrix cogeneration plans next to West Point Pepperell plants at Lumberton and Elizabethtown will be unloaded at the Lumberton point. The Cogentrix plants will sell steam to the textile factories and electricity to Carolina Power & Light Co. George T. Lewis Jr., company president, expects the plants to go into operation sometime next year. Each of the three plants will cost about $30 million, Lewis said earlier this year. The Kenansville plant will have generating capacity of 35 million watts. Boilers will be capable of producing 315,000 pounds of steam an hour. ^ JSTC Students R?c?ive D?gr??s Over 200 graduates in various program areas walked across the stage to receive congratulations oti theii graduation from James Sprunt Technical College. % . I* i Graduation exercises were held Sept. 22 at the Kenan Auditorium. 4 i JSTC Graduates Over 200 At 23rd Exercises A large crowd of well-wishers 1 filled the Kenan Memorial Audi torium in Kenansville on Sunday, Sept. 22, to witness the 23rd annual graduation exercises of James Sprunt Technical College. Proud family members and friends watched over 100 graduates receive degrees or diplomas in 25 one-year or two-year majors. Another 100 graduates were awarded adult high school equivalency certificates. In his commencement address, Dr. Dudley Flood, associate super intendent of the State Department of Public Instruction, counseled the graduates to realize that the hardest part of their education is still ahead as they begin to apply the theories I earned in the classroom. Flood's main challenge was for graduates to evaluate their lives and :areers regularly to be sure they vere doing what they truly wanted to lo, and to change their profession if ihey were not. "There are no time limits on education or further education," he .aid. "If you are not satisfied with .'Our career, have the courage to go sack to school or do whatever you tave to do to get what you want. "You have to have perseverance n pursuing what you truly want, and itick with what you want to achieve. Perseverance is the main key to iuccess," said Flood. Following Dr. Flood's address. Dr. Don Reichard, dean of instruction, presented academic awards to honor graduates. Joey Lynn Jones received the award for the highest academic iverage of associate degree gradu ites. Jones received his degree in iccounting. Connie Taylor was iwardcd honors for the second highest average of associate degree graduates. She received a degree in secretarial science. _ Two graduates tied }' >r highest honors recognition among graduates n one-year diploma programs. Rena Z. Swinson in cosmetology and lerry Willoughby in welding shared Ihe award for highest academic iverage. Anthony C. King received the award for second-highest aver ige among diploma program gradu lies. King received his diploma in :lectri-al installation and main tenance. t he higtcst nrMenic award givsn ?h-n.*fly io a JSTl'-'graduatt lie Faison W. McGowen scholarship medal. The recipient is selected by ihe faculty based on scholarship, cadership and citizenship. The 1985 recipient was Joey Lynn Jones, iccounting graduate. Recipient of the 1985 faculty :ouncil award was Armin Jancis, mathematics instructor. The faculty council selects an annual recipient on ihe basis of such criteria as profes sionalism, committee participation, professional growth and excellence in teaching. Hire The Handicapped Week Emphasized By Local Agency Disabled and non-disabled North Carolinians will join together during national "Hire the Handicapped" week. Oct. 6-12 in an effort to maximize employment opportunities for disabled workers. "The annual week-long obser vance calls attention to a very valuable resource of skill and ability available to employers," said Dennis Kirby, manager of Kcnansville ESC. Kirby points out that nearly one out of eight North Carolinians is handi capped. "Employers looking for good, def -ndable workers would be wise toe ? isider hiring the handicapped," Kirby continues. Reliable studies indicate that overall, disabled workers have fewer on-the-job in juries and have job performances and attendance records as good or better than unimpaired workers. "Skilled disabled workers are an asset not only to their employers but to the economic growth of the community as well," says Kirby. During state fiscal year 1985, 11,262 individuals were rehabilitated with assistance from the state's Voca tional Rehabilitation Program. The placement of these individuals could represent a significant contribution to North Carolina's economy. The Kenansville office of the Employment Security Commission, Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Blind are coordi nating this year's efforts to help employers and the public become aware of the capabilities pf disabled people. Local offices of these agen cies may be contacted for further details. Duplin Got Ready For Gloria ! Duplin County could have become a major evacuation route from Top sail Island and staging area for emergency equipment if Hurricane Gloria had forced the evacuation of Topsail Island, said Hiram Binson, Duplin County emergency services director. Aside from the small Pender County community of Maple Hill, the fjrst towns pn the N.C. 50 evacuation route from Topsail Island are in I Duplin County ? Chinquapin, i Kenansville and Warsaw Brinson said that if the need had arisen, schools and some churches 1 would have been opened as evacu- ? ation centers. A warning system in 1 each school would have been '? activated if it became necessary to > send students home, Brinson said. ' "?We got a lot of cbuoae . alls but we didn't know *n> thing to tell the callers," he sAid. 1 I Youths injured As School I Bus Wrecks i At least five Duplin County youngsters were slightly injured last week on Wednesday when a school bus ran into a ditch on an unpaved road near Kornegay, the N.C. State Highway Patrol said. Bus driver Hugh Batchelor Harper, 16, of Route 1, Albertson, was charged with exceeding a safe speed by Trooper B.E. Floyd. All but one of the injured students were taken to Lenoir County Hospital for treatment. The last student, who complained of pain in her back when she picked up some books after the Pink Hill Rescue Squad left the scene, was taken to Duplin General 1 Hospital by Floyd. Floyd said Harper was driving the bus south on Secondary Road 1707, rounded a curve and saw a tractor pulling a disk harrow about 450 feet away on the 18-foot-wide road. Floyd said Timothy Lynn Smith, 25, of Route 2. Pink Hill, pulled his tractor partly into the ditch to let the bus pass, but the shoulder collapsed under the weight of the bus, causing two wheels to drop into the ditch. The bus ran 33 feet down the ditch, hit the embankment and bounced another 11 feet, Floyd said. JSTC Visiting Artist To Perform On Campus Oct, 8 Duplin County residents will have the opportunity to hear JSTC's new visiting artist, classical guitarist Brian Morris in his first major public concert at JSTC on Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. in the Edd Dudley Monk Auditorium. As visiting artist Morris will be presenting concerts and workshops for various groups throughout the county during the year. A native of Grand Rapids. Mich., Morris began his interest in the guitar at age 14. At 18. he began serious study of the classical guitar a