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West Craven Highlights
VOLUME II NO. 3
JANUARY 21.1088
VANCEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
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SIX PAGES
Jaycees Honor
Area Residents
Taylor, left, and Kunz at DSA banquet
Craven Not Spared
From AIDS Problem
Kirk reads funny letter as Kenneth Ipock listens
By MIKi: VOSS
Editor
The best of the best. That was
the recurring theme at the New
Bern Jaycee's Distinguished
Service Award banquet held at
the Shrine Club Tuesday night.
Rick Askew Jr. was presented
the J. Gaskill McDaniel Disling-
uished Service Award. Askew is
active with the Twin Rivers
YMCA, having served in several
capacities. While in Boy Scouts
he earned several awards, includ
ing the Eagle Scout and Order of
the Arrow awards.
“He’s really ouldone himself,”
said Charlie Besancon, last year's
DSA winner.
Vanceboro's Jonathan Taylor
was presented the Outstanding
Teenager Award. Taylor is a 3-
sport athlete at West Craven
High School. “He is indeed a
scholar-athlete,” said Gerald
Eubanks, principal at H.J. Mac-
Br TERRI JAMIESON
Suit Wriler
AIDS. The thought of it scares
millions. The reality of it kilis
hundreds. The cost of trying to
prevent, cure and control it is
skyrocketing.
According to the Craven Coun
ty Health Department there have
been four full-blown AIDS cases
discovered in the county. 'Two of
the four peopie with AIDS have
died. Heaith officials say many
others have tested positive for
the AIDS virus.
In 1987 there were approx
imately 262 documented AIDS
cases in North Carolina, doubl
ing the number of cases reported
in 1986.
The Craven County Health De
partment recommends that any
one who uses illegal drugs, has
homosexual contacts or has mul
tiple sex partners to be tested for
the AIDS virus.
The health department, along
with other health departments
throughout the state offer a ffee
AIDS test. The test is called the
Daisy test and it is done on an
anonymous basis. The person to
be tested can come in between 8
a.m. and 4 p.m. at the health de
partment and request the Daisy
test (blood test). The blood will
be drawn and sent to the state lab
in Raleigh. The person tesled will
initially be assigned a number
(no names will be used) for iden
tification purposes. The person
tested must return to the heait
department within a week and
bring his or her number to obtain
the test results.
One-on-one counseling is
available for those who test posi
tive and those who want more in
formation about AIDS.
Sixty-two percent of AIDS
cases in the state are attributed to
homosexual or bi-sexual men.
Drug users account for about 13
percent of AIDS cases, said
health officials. Nine percent of
AIDS cases are attributed to un
known causes. Homosexual
drug users make up five percent
of the state's AIDS cases.
Hemophiliacs (free bleeders)
account for three percent of the
cases. Four percent of the cases
were obtained through heterose
xual contact and another four
(See AIDS, Page 2)
PTO Supports Bond,
Cites Building Needs
TERRI JAMIESON
SlafT Wriler
“West Craven High School is
short on teaching space," said
£[ipcipal Robert Jolly.
Jolly noted that the school uses
single-wide trailers and the bal
conies 6f the library for clas
sroom space. He said that re
source people often use storage
spaces as meeting places. The
school’s vocational counselor
uses such an area to meet with
students who need his services.
Jolly said, “We put resource peo
ple where we can find the space.”
Students aren't the only ones
who have to deal with crowded
classroom situations, teachers
have to float from room to room,
said Jolly.
If Craven County voters
approve a $26 million bond re
ferendum, the monies would be
.(fsf* to help finance a $1 million
tlf $1.5 million addition to West
Craven High School. The bond
monies would also be used to
construct a new high school in
New Bern and other new schools
and additions throughout the
county.
Linda Thomas, volunteer coor
dinator for West Craven High
School, voiced support for the re
ferendum to be held Feb. 2. Mrs.
Thomas said she thought “our
end of the county will benefit,
not just New Bern. West Craven
is just bursting at the seams; they
have a real need for classroom
space.”
Vanceboro Mayor Jimmie
Morris also spoke out in favor of
the bond referendum. Morris
said, “Due to the fact that we
have so many immediate needs
at one time, if we used the pay-as-
you-go plan the needs would get
sofaraheadwewouldnotbeable
(See BOND, Page 2)
Eagle Jayvee player scares against Mariners
Donald Junior High School.
Taylor is active in several school
clubs, participated in the Quiz
Bowl, was Youth Lay Leader in
1987 in his church and attended
the annual Rotary Youth Lead
ership Conference iast year.
Peariie Campbell and William
Chapman Jr. of West Craven
were nomiated for the award.
Alan Gaskins of the Vanceboro
Volunteer Fire Department was
awarded the Outstanding Young
Fire Fighter Award. Sheriff Pete
Bland accepted the award on be
half of Gaskins.
A captain on Bridgeton’s res
cue squad, Ronaid Kunz, was
presented the Outstand Young
Rescuer and Outstanding Public
Servant awards.
The Outstanding Young Far
mer Award went to Glen Allen
Ipock. Troy Horie, a New Bern
(See DSA, Page 2)
Eagles
Hold Off
Mariners
By JIM GREEN
Sporti Wriler
Tuesday night proved to be a
night of firsts in the Coastal Con
ference, as the Havelock boys'
team and the West Craven boys’
team lost their first and won their
first league games, respectively.
Phil Medlin scored 22 points to
lead D.H. Conley to a 69-64 vic
tory over the Rams, while Laura
Maxwell exploded for 39 points
to lead the Havelock to a 67-42
victory over the Lady Vikings.
In other Coastal games, Willie
Manley scored 19 points while
Keith Roundtree added 14 block
ed shots in leading West Craven's
boys' team to a 51-37 win over
East Carteret while Linetta
Bryant scored 13 points to pace
the Lady Eagles over the Lady
Mariners, 49-40.
In Vanceboro, Manley scored
19 points, Roundtree added 12,
and William Brown chipped in 10
as West Craven used a stingy de
fense to hold off the Mariners for
its flrst victory in eight games.
Roundtree, who has b^n foul-
prone this season, stayed out of
foul trouble in the first half. East
Carteret had trouble hitting from
the perimeter, and when the
Mariners tried to move the ball
inside, Roundtree would slap a
shot away or he and Brown
would grab a key rebound.
East Carteret pulled to within
three points, 39-36, with 4:00 re
maining, but the Eagles out-
scored the Mariners 12-1 in the
remaining time to preserve the
victory.
In Hollywood, Havelock cut a
14-point Conley lead down to just
one on a basket by Ledel George
with 3:31 remaining.
But the Rams couldn’t get any
closer to the Vikings the rest of
the way. Bronswell Patrick’s
three-pointer with 2:44 left gave
Conley a four-point lead and the
Vikings sealed the victory with
flree throws.
The Lady Rams rallied after
trailing by a point, 13-12, at the
end of the first quarter. Havelock
led 27-22 at halftime and 44-32 af
ter three periods. In the fourth.
(See EAGLES, Page 2)
Coastal Initiative Plan Receives Mixed Reception
By MIKE HUGHES
Speciid to the
Weft! Craven Highllghu
WASHINGTON — Gov. Jim
Martin's administration feels his
Coastal Initiatives are a step in
the right direction of shoring up
the state's coastline.
Some eastern North Carolina
residents agree. Some do not.
The plan, reviewed Thursday
for about 120 people ftom Craven
and surrounding counties, stres
ses the need for expansion and
development in coastal areas
while protecting their natural re
sources.
Still in its planning stages, the
initiatives offer state assistance
to communities that qualify and
want state help. Aid would range
ftom financial assistance to tech
nical help and help with the per
mitting process from state agen
cies.
The program was reviewed by
Gov. Martin's Secretary of Admi
nistration James Lofton as part
of a tour by the Blue Ribbon
Commission, who created the
plan. The commission, headed
by former LL Gov. Jimmy Green,
met at Beaufort County Com
munity College as the third stop
on a six-city tour of Eastern
North Carolina to gather com
ments about the proposal.
The comments will become
part of a record that will be re
viewed by the commission affer
the public meetings and used as
the basis for possible amend
ments to the plan. Green said he
hoped the plan would be com
pleted by late February.
According to a summary of the
plan prepared by commission,
the governor’s coastal initiatives
are aimed at making the state’s
coastal areas “more attractive to
economic opportunities while
establishing stronger environ
mental safeguards.”
The program is intended to
accomplish three goals:
— To increase protection of
ecologically ffagile and environ
mentally significant areas under
the Coastal Area Management
Act.
— To promote a marine water
ways system.
— And to stimulate waterffont
investment in existing towns and
villages.
Increased protection would in
clude giving an area a special de
signation to prevent or limit de
velopment. These designations
would include areas of environ
mental concern, environmental
ly significant natural areas, out
standing resource waters and en
vironmentally sensitive areas.
The plan also proposes a
marine waterways system simi
lar to the highway and aviation
systems currently used. A prop
osal for the waterways system
would include primary and
secondary channels to link the
entire coastal waterway.
Included along the channels
would be anchorages, channel
markings, access points, service
facilities and possibiy nauticai
“welcome centers” similar to
those on interstate highways.
The system also would include
the formation of a waterways im
provement plan similar to the
state's highway improvement
program. The plan would iden
tify improvement needs and
would indicate a time ffame and
source of funding for each pro
ject.
The Coastal Initiatives Plan
also would encourage develop
ment in coastal communities
that want development while
curbing development in environ
mentally sensitive areas.
In the first year of the program,
three to seven communities wiil
be selected for large-scale de
velopment, and another three to
seven will be picked for less cost
ly improvements to docks and
the like.
Under the plan, the state’s role
is to lend expertise in planning.
design, regulatory procedures,
grants and loans and promotion
through community teams.
Officials from the N.C. Depart
ment of Natural Resources and
Community Development will
evaluate communities wishing to
participate and will select cities
and towns on local initiative and
desire, need and potential for
success.
Once selected, a community
will be assigned a team of staff
members from relevant state
agencies. The staff members will
meet with community officials to
form a waterfiont development
plan and then help implement
that plan using the assistance
offer^ through state agencies.
Ten people ftom the audience
spoke Thursday evening. Their
comments ranged ftom environ
mental and business concerns to
attempts to put in a few good
words for specific areas hoping
to be cosen for pilot programs.
David McNaught, the execu
tive director of the Pamlico-Tar
River Foundation, said the group
had mixed feelings about the
proposal. McNaught said en
vironmentalists agree that “de
velopment is imminent” along
the shorelines. By the year 2000,
75 percent of the U.S. population,
or about 200 million people, will
live within 50 miles of a coast.
McNaught said, however, that
he felt the governor's initiatives
were "somewhat misdirected” in
that they appeared to offer speci
fic incentives for coastal de
velopment while not paying
enough attention to environmen
tal concerns.
McNaught urged that the plan
should not encourage develop
ment at the expense of the en
vironment, which, he said, “must
always be viewed in longer
terms” than short-term develop
ment plans permit.
Hood Richardson, a Beaufort
(See PLAN, Page 2)