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# Pag* 6, Watt Cravan Highlights, January 14,1982 NEW BERN -HIGHLIGHTS New Bern Jaycees Sponsor Meet The Candidate For Mayor Night . New Housing NOTICE Regulations The New Bern Jaycees are sponsoring a “Meet The Candidate For Mayor Night”, for the three candidates for Mayor of New Bern. The event will take place, Thursday, January 14, 1982, at 7:00 p. m. in the City Hall Courtroom. Of the three candidates invited, one has already accepted, is to increase Voter turnout by reducing Voter a athy thru Public awareness. The format of the evening will be an Open Forum question-session. Three reporters, (one from WCTI TV, one from “The Sun Journal”and one from WRNB Radio), will ask five presubmitted questions from each reporter. Each reporter will be allowed to ask up to five follow-up questions on the same or different subjects. The five presubmitted questions will be given to the candidates three days prior to January 14th. Time permitting, questions no longer than two minutes can be asked by the audience. The New Bern Jaycees cordially invite the public to attend. Let’s stamp out Apathy with Action The regularly scheduled meeting of the Craven County Planning Board is being held on Thursday, January 14, 1982 in the Board of Commissioner’s Room of the Craven County Courthouse at 6:30 p. m. This meeting takes place of the December 24, 1981 Board meeting which was post poned due to the Christmas holidays. Assertiveness Training Has anyone ever cut in front of you in line? Do you have difficulty saying “no”? Are you able to express warm, positive feelings to someone? Find a new sense of freedom through Asser tiveness Training being offered by the Neuse Mental Health Center beginning Monday, February 1, 1982. The sessions will run for 5 consecutive weeks from 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. Cost is $20.00 per person. To pre-register, call the Neuse Mental Health Center at 633-4171 by January 25, 1982. COOPERATION IS DOING WITH A SMILE WHAT YOU HA/E TODO ANYWmr! NEW BERN - CRAVEN CO. X A Rockets In New Bern? y. /• YES! The New Bern YMCA and K&K Toys are launching a new and exciting program called the Space Pioneers Club. K&K Toys is the official sponsor of the program with the YMCA providing instruct ion and supervision for the program on and off the field. These rockets zoom to altitudes of 1800 feet, but most will range from 400 to 1200 feet, depending upon the size. Throughout the United States, there have been over 175-million safe launchings, so the program is safe, according to Greg Hubbeli, Director of the YMCA. The club member ship includes newsletters developed by members, free in.struction, club patch, u.se of the club’s special launch pad for six rockets, and a special discount from K&K Toys for Space Pioneer Members on all models. Membership to the Club is open to everyone (irade 4 through Adult. The fir.st instructional program starts January 18 at the YMCA on 515 Tryon Palace Drive. Everyone must register for the program prior to January 15. The first field or launch day will be January 3(1. weather permitting, on the field across from Nichols Discount City. The public is invited and if you have rockets, plea.se bring them for this first session. Call the YMC.A for more information - (i;i8-87!lil. New Bern-Willian E. "HiM” Freeman, technical director for Weyerhaeuser's New Bern market pulp mill has accepted the position of technical services manager for the company’s pulp division based in Tacoma. VYashington. Replacing Freeman is Carroll Frye, who is now lechnical supervi.sor-special |)rojectsal the New Hern facilily. liolh Frye and Freeman are New Hern-Craven Cipunty residents. Freeman is a graduate of the Univei'sil.v of .South Carolina with a degree in chemislr.v. lie joined Weyerhaeuser in 1968 as a project chemist at the Plymouth. N. C. pulp and paper complex atid moved to New Hern as technical director in 1971; lie will assume his new duties in early February Frye has been with Weyerhaeusersinee 1971. workingat the New Hern facility since that time in a varietv of chemical engineering positions. Me is a native of Georgetown. S. C. and graduateof N. C. .State I'niversity's pulp and paper technology program. Frye assumed his new duties on December 28. 1981. Announcements of the changes were made by George Henson, mill manager for the New Hern facility. Bill Freeman Carroll Frye The U. S. Department of Agriculture has changed its regulations to make it possible for more people to get single-family home loans through USDA’s Farmers Home Administration. Larry W. Godwin, State Director of the North Carolina USDA rural credit agency, said the revised rules change the income eligibility criteria, permit funds for approved solar heating and make numerous changes to clarify and simplify operation of the agency’s single-family housing programs. The Farmers Home Admininstation has a wide range of housing programs, including mortgage loans for single family homes, housing repair and rehabilitation loans, rural rental housing, farm labor housing, and self-help housing loans. Before the new regulations were implemented, they were reviewed and revised extensively, Godwin said. One of the major changes is the elimination of a single, nationwide income eligibility level. Previously, only families with incomes below $15,600 were considered eligible for Farmers Home housing loans, except in Alaska and Hawaii. Income ceilings now vary by economic areas and are based on a percentage of the area median income. Low income is defined as 80 percent of the area median income. Applicants who qualify for moderate-income loans will pay interest rates prevailing when the loan is closed. The current interest rate charged by Farmers Home is 13.25 percent. For those with incomes at or below 80 percent of the area median income level, the agency provides “interest credits,” which reduce the amount of interest the borrower pays, sometimes to as low as one percent. Using data developed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Farmers Home Administration now sets income eligibility limits in more than 500 economic areas throughout the nation. Income eligibility ranges from $17,000 income of the nation’s poorer counties to $23,500 in the more affluent areas, and up to $33,000 in Alaska. The low-income levels at which applicants become eligible for “interest credits," range from $11,500 to $18,000. In addition, the new regulations reduced the size of allowable living area in new homes to 1,200 square feet from 1,300 square feet. North Carol ina i ncome eligi bility ranges from $20,500 to $17,500. The low-income levels in North Carolina at which applicants become eligible for “interest credits,” range from $15,000 to $12,000. Income'limits in Craven County is $19,000 with “ interest credits” being available to families whose income does not exceed $13,500. The North Carolina agency operates a statewide program of housing, farm, and community facility loans through 84 county offices, 12 district offices, and a state headquarters in Raleigh, N. C. Loans are made without regard to race, sex. religion, national origin, marital status, or handicapped condition. Persons interested in F'mHA’s loan programs may obtain additional information from the local county office. The address is: h'armers Home Admini.stration, 711 DeGraffenreid Street, Now Bern, N. C. 28.560 “First In Flight” License Plate North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Secretary W. R. “Bill” Robersoh.Jr. (right) presented Gov. Jim Hunt with the first “First in F'light” license plate in the Old House Chambers in. the Capitol Building in Raleigh, Monday, January 11. Also present was R. W. Wilkins, ^Jr. (left), newly appointed Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Candidates File The following people have filed for county offices: Sheriff Incumben,. C. W. “Pete” Bland Joseph T. “Joe” Gray Clerk of Superior Court. Incumbent Dorothy P. Pate Incumbent Merlyn Williams County Commissioner, District 1, Seat 1 Edward P. Armstrong, Jr., Dick Hubbard, Ella J. Bengel. James Chance District 1, Seat 2 Incumbent Sidney R. French District 2 Roger Forrest Grover C. Lancaster, Jr. District 3 Ijonnie E. Pridgen, Jr. Incumbent John B. Willis District 4 Incumbent W. J. Wynne, Jr. New Bern Craven County Board of Education District 2 Incumbent Robert A. Gaskins District 4, Seat 4 G. F. “AI” A.vlward District 7 Incumbent Norman Sears Incumbent Alice G. Underhill Douglas (’. E. b)ftin District (i Incumbent Samuel L'. “Tom" Adams I' iling for state and county office* runs thniugh Feb. 1. I* iling for legislative and congressional .seats is tentativ(*l,v scheduled for l•■eb. 15 through March 1.
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