West Craven Highlights
VOLUME 10 NO. 32
AUGUST 6. 1987
VANCEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
PHONE 244 0780 OR 946-2144
(UPSP 412-110)
25 CENTS
SIX PAGES
rJobless Rate
In Area Sees
Little Change
The unemployment rate in
creased slightly in Craven
County and decreased some in
Pamlico County from May to
June, according to the N.C
Employment Security Com
mission.
Jones County had a 4.3 un
employment rate in June, up 1
percent ffom May’s 3.3 unem-
ployment rate.
TTie Craven County increase
joined a statewide trend in
which the jobless rate in
creased in 90 of the 100 coun
ties.
The commission’s monthly
statistics put Craven County’s
jobless rate at 4.9 percent and
Pamlico’s at 3.2 percent.
In May, the rates had been
4.3 percent in Craven and 4.5
percent in Hyde.
Craven County’s rate was
based on a total labor force of
31,680. The Employment
Security Commission calcu
lated that 30,120—or 95.1 per
cent — of those people held
jobs. Itsaid 1,560 were jobless.
In Pamlico, the commission
estimated the work force at
- -4;680 and said 4,530 people
had jobs and 150 did not.
Statewide, the seasonally
adjusted unemployment rate
increased to 4.9 percent from
4.2 percent. Ten counties had
rates higher than 10 percent,
with Graham’s 17.1 percent
the highest. ’The lowest rate
was 2.4 percent in Polk
County.
Figures show Jones had
4,430 people in the labor force,
with 4,240 working and 190
without jobs.
Vance Club
Gets Honor
For Crusade
The Craven County Exten
sion Homemakers presented
the Vance club, the Vance-
boro chapter of the Extension
organization, a plaque for its
work in the Cancer Crusade
at the quarterly meeting held
July 21 in New Bern.
The educational program
was a tour of the Sun-Journal,
arranged by Sonia Miller,
chairman of the public rela
tions committee of the Have
lock club.
The group had a Dutch-
treat luncheon at Clancy
O’Hara’s Restaurant and con
ducted its business session.
Plans made for upcoming
events included a bake and
craft sale, a trip to Morehead
City to visit the N.C. State
University seafood lab and
outlet shopping and a crafts
workshop that will be open to
the public.
- Attending from Vanceboro
were Doris Bryan and Fannie
Patterson of the Vance club.
For more information ab
out these events or Extension
Homemaker clubs, call Susan
Noble at 633-1478.
Rescue Squad
Raising Funds
For Equipment
The Vanceboro Rescue
Squad would like to thank its
supporters for their faithful
support over the years.
Your generosity provides
the funds to give you the ser
vice and protection you de
serve.
The rescue squad is en
gaged in the fUnd-raising pro
ject to provide equipment for
the rescue squad so it can bet
ter serve your community. A
special fUnd-raising project
will be going on for the next
few weeks.
Men will be calling on every
home in the rescue district
asking for your participation.
Each family that helps out
with a 910 donation will re
ceive an 8x10 family portrait,
compliments of the rescue
squad auxiliary for your sup
port. The portraits will be
made of the participating
'’ifQmilies Aug. 8,9,22 and 23 by
Rainbow Productions.
Your cooperation in this
project is needed and will be
greatly appreciated. This
ftind raiser is sponsored by
the Vanceboro Rescue Squad
and its auxiliary.
Don’t Let Go
Don’t let go. That’s the secret to painting flag
poles, says painter Jack Wilson. Wilson and Floyd
Potter, both of Mountain City, "Tenn., are
traversing the state painting flagpoles at National
Guard facilities. Along the way they try to find
Three Waste-Disposal Ideas
Proposed In Interim Report
By MIKE VOSS
Editor
NEWPORT — A mid-term report of a solid
waste study, the largest of its kind in the country,
offers three possible answers to waste problems
for an eight-county area in eastern North Carolina.
Faced with tightening regulations on landfills,
higher operation costs and short lives left on land
fills, the counties are looking for solutions to gar
bage problems.
’The scenarios suggested by the study are:
—Building a single waste-to-energy plant pro
ducing electricity.
—Building two electric generating facilities.
—Or building one or more facilties to generate
steam with some co-generation (producing both
steam and eletricity).
Other ideas could also be developed before the
study is completed, said Richard Stahr, a repre
sentative of the firm doing the study, Malcolm
Pimie Co. of Newport News, Va.
’The eight counties and the Marine bases at
Cherry Point and Camp Lejeune are splitting
costs on the study. Sandy Robinson of Malcolm
Pimie Co. said the study is the largest of its kind
ever undertaken in the country.
Officials from the eight counties, two Marine
bases and regionai planning bodies met in New
port iast Thursday to hear a status report on the
study. ’The study is expected to be compleW in
September. Funding for the study is coming ftom
the counties through grants from the regional
planning bodies, the Marine Corps and from the
state’s Division of Coastai Management.
Vanceboro’s Glenn Forrest, a planner for the
Neuse River Council of Governments, attended.
He has been involved in the study since its incep
tion.
Also attending the meeting was Brig. Gen.
James M. Mead, commanding officer at the
Marine Air Station at Cherry Point. Mead has sup
ported the study and obtained money to help pay
for it. He was presented several awards at the
meeting for his efforts.
The report estimates that by the year 2012 the
area will produce almost 1,000 tons of waste a day,
much of it ftom from the Marine bases. Cherry
Point produces about 25 tons of waste a day and
Camp Lqjeune about 90. Officials say all figures in
the study are conservative estimates.
According to the report, Beaufort County sup
plies 11.33 percent of the garbage in the study
area. Onslow County supplies 33 percent and
Craven County supplies 21 percent.
TTie mid-term report says one central waste-to-
energy facility in the New Bern area could bum
Incumbents,
Newcomers
Seek Offices
Many Wait Until Last Minute
To File For Posts In 2 Towns
By MIKE VOSS
Editor
Municipal elections are just
around the corner and candi
dates for office are running tme
to form so far — most have
waited until almost the last day
to file.
The election is set for Nov. 3.
There is no primary.
Most of the candidates for
town council seats and
mayorships waited until this
week to file, said election offi
cials. It’s a matter of "waiting to
see what the competition will
be,” said one official.
In Vanceboro, six candidates
are seeking the five seats on the
town board. Mayor Jimmy Mor
ris had no opposition as of
Wednesday morning in his re-
election bid. Town Clerk Carolyn
Ipock said that even though the
filing period ends at noon ^day,
she did not expect any others to
file.
Incumbent aldermen Shirley
Bryan, Richard Bowers, David
Fillingame and A.F. Whitley are
seeking new two-year terms as
aldermen. Howard TVre is not
seeking a return to the council.
Bobby Thom and R.S. Lancas
ter are newcomers seeking a seat
on the board of aldermen.
The aldermen’s and mayor’s
terms are two years, said Mrs.
Ipock.
In Cove City three incumbents
have filed, two incumbents had
not filed by Wednesday morning.
a newcomer had filed and a for
mer alderman is seeking to re
turn to the town board, said Nina
White, chairman of the Cove City
Municipal Board of Elections.
Mayor L.D. Davis is seeking re-
election to the post and did not
have any opposition as of
Wednesday morning, said Mrs.
White.
Incumbents Eugene Massey,
W.A. Avery and Q.R. Russell
have filed. Former alderman
Charlton Mitchell, defeated in
the last municipal election, seeks
to return to the board. Incum
bents J.C. Ward and Wayne King
had not filed by Wednesday
morning. Mrs. White said she ex
pected King and Ward to file by
the Friday deadline.
Newcomer Ben Grady is seek
ing a seat on the five-member
board. The terms for alderman
and mayor are two years, said
Mrs. White.
"They’ll file by Friday I’m
sure,” said Mrs. White of the two
incumbents not filed.
Mrs. White said most of those
who filed did so just in the last
few days. She agreed that it is
traditional for candidates to file
"just about at the last minute.”
"I went to the town meeting
the other night to remind them.
Some of them wait to the last mi
nute to see who else will file,”
said Mrs. White.
Editor’s note; Next week
candidates for Dover and Bridge-
ton offices will listed in a similar
ariicle.
other flagpoles to paint. Wilson was found paint
ing this flagpole earlier this week. In the left photo
Wilson dips the brush into the paint bucket and in
the right photo he applys the paint to the pole.
(Mike Voss photo)
Feel Out Of Sorts?
Try A Little Catnip
Coltsfoot Or Boneset
the 759 tons of waste presently generated by the
eight counties and two bases, producing 13 mega
watts of electricity.
The scenario calls for the power to be sold to any
of the following: Carolina Power & Light Co.,
North Carolina Power, eight electric membership
corporations (including ’Tideland) and possibly to
members of Electricities. Electricities members
buy power ftom investor-owed power firms and
sell it to customers.
’Dransportation would be the biggest problem
with such a plan, said Stahr.
Another scenario has two facilities being built
— one between Washington and Williamston and
the other near Havelock. Stahr said this would
neutralize transportation problems. Because the
study area stretches from the Virginia-North
Carolina line to Onslow County, two sites seem
more practical, said Stahr.
If the electric generating plants were built, the
power companies would be required by federal
law to buy the power. Stahr said negotiations
would have to be done and that the power com
panies would probably pay anywhere from 2.8
cents per kilowatt hour to 4.7 cents.
Stahr said the final scenario — producing and
selling steam—was attractive to the Marine bases
and to National Spinning Co. in Washington. He
said the study did not identify Texasgulfs Lee
Creek operation as a steam user but would in
clude it in further planning.
TTie steam scenario calls for two or three steam-
producing plants. National Spinning is included
in both. In one version the other plant would be at
Camp Lejeune. In the second version a third plant
would be at Cherry Point.
Stahr said the steam plants were attractive be
cause "there are four very strong, viable markets.”
He said they were National Spinning,
Weyerhaeuser and the two Marine bases. Stahr
said their steam needs would justify a plant being
built.
Weyerhaeuser’s New Bern plant has been iden
tified as a potential market for steam, but the com
pany has not supplied data for the study. Stahr
said “there is some question whether they are a
viable steam market.”
National Spinning, said Stahr, "figures very
prominently in the steam picture.”
Stahr said from a demand viewpoint the elec
tric-generating plants would always have custom
ers. ’"They’re always there. Plus, they are a lot
more flexible ftom a siting perspective.
"The economics of selling steam are universally
(See WASTE, Page 6)
By MIKE VOSS
Editor
The next time you are feeling
under the weather, try looking in
your spice rack. There just might
be something there to make you
feel better — something like
rosemary, thyme, rose hips, pars
ley and peppermint.
If by chance you don’t have
those items lying around or don’t
have any coltsfoot, lemon grass
or catnip, you might want to con
sider making a trip on Streets
Ferry Road south of Vanceboro
to see N.J. Hopkins.
For 17 years Hopkins as been
promoting the use of herbs and
spices to improve health. The
Seventh Day Adventist minister
operates a buying service for
those seeking good health
through herbs.
Hopkins first became exposed
to herbs and their medicinal
qualities 17 years ago in Florida.
He became acquainted with a
herbist and decided to try the
man’s advice. Hopkins’ wife,
Evelyn, suffered from epilepsy
and doctors seemed unable to do
much.
“I started working on her with
herbs for epilepsy. It worked.
Now she’s doing nicely,” said
Hopkins.
Even though doctors did little
for his wife, he and she both still
see doctors. Hopkins said he is
not competing against doctors
and suggests that people use
them. Only when doctors are baf
fled or can’t produce results does
Hopkins suggest that herbs be
considered. He makes no prom
ises about the herbs. He said
their are no magic qualities.
Herbs are the “natural drug
store” that many have forgotten
about, Hopkins said. He said that
many herbs were used in the past
to treat various maladies.
He also suggests that because
hurried people are eating more
"fast food and junk food” they
might be lasing some of the che
micals and elements they need.
Hopkins said herbs could help
provide elements missing ftom
today’s diets.
And don’t confuse Hopkins’
services with those of a root doc
tor of voodoo healer. He said
there is no comparison.
(See HEHBS, Page 2)
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