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Eagle FootbaU Begins 1988 Season — See Photos On Page 4 (Eniicnj$Cnuntg West Craven Highlights News From Along The Banhs Of The Neuse ^ssstisr VOLUME 11 NO. 32 AUGUST 11, 1988,VANCEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA PHONE 244-0780 OR 046-2H4 (UPSP 412-110> 25 CENTS SIX PAGES Under The Protective Arms Of An Old Oak There are few places outdoors where you can feel as protected as reach down and around gracefully, like a mother hen sheltering her under the limbs of an ancient live oak. Its trunk and surface roots chicks with her wings. Here you can lie peacefully and watch the may take on shapes that make movement seem possible. Its leaves river flow by. (Photo by Ric Carter) Becton Wins Silver Medal At Nationals West Craven Sophomore Misses Gold By A Fraction By MIKE VOSS Editor Lee Becton's success in the tri ple jump this year may have col lege coaches hopping, skipping and jumping over each other in three years when Becton will be ready to take his jumping ability to a new height. Becton, a sophomore at West Craven High School near Vance- boro, is only IS years old. But he already has experience at the state and national levels in triple jumping. As a freshman this past spring, Becton finished eighth in the state class 3-A track cham pionships with a leap of 43 feel, 2V> inches. Before the state meet, he recorded a jump of 45 feet, 10 inches. The best effort at the state meet was 45 feet, 6'/, inches. But Becton waited until July to pick up his personal best—in the TAC/USA Junior Olympic Nationals meet in Gainesville, Fla. Allhough he finished second and earned a silver medal, he came up with his best effort ever — a jump of 46 feet, 1 inch. Nigel Brown of Cincinatti, Ohio, fared a little better with his last jump of 46 feet, 3 inches to edge out Bec ton for the gold. Qualifying for a state track meet is a tough hurdle for any athlete to clear, much less a freshman. Qualifying for the national Junior Olympics is almost akin to hurdling Ihe pole vault bar. David Simpson, coach of the East Carolina Track Club and an employee with the New Bern Re creation Department, noticed Becton’s ability at a conference track meet involving West Craven. Becton said Simpson approached him and asked to him to attend a Junior Olympic (See BECTON, Page S) State Revokes Key Texasgulf Air Emissions Permit By MIKE VOSS Editor The state’s Division of En vironmental Management has re voked one of Texasgulf Chemic als Co.'s key permits, saying the company emitted air pollutants at its Lee Creek operation near Aurora. Texasgulf said it had revealed the emissions to the state. J. Ran dolph Carpenter, director of gov ernmental affairs and public rela tions for Texasgulf, said the com pany was unaware of the revoca tion until contacted by reporters late Friday. Tom Regan, vice president in charge of the Lee Creek plant, said the company had not received written notifica tion of the revocation by Friday. “The key to this is that this in formation was not previously known by anyone,” said Regan in a telephone interview with a reporterearly Saturday morning. Regan said testing of the emis sions from its phosphoric acid plants indicated sulfur dioxide was being .'eleased. He said the permitting of sulfur dioxide emissions has never been allowed at any phosphoric acid plant in the world. ”We recognize our responsibil ity to continually evaluate our operation ... to determine if we our impacting the environment,” said Regan. Texasgulf submitted the information to the state based on that commitment, he said. There is no fineconnected with the revocation and the com pany's other 21 air emission per mits and water discharge per mits are not affected. The mining operation is also unaffected. The company mines phos phate and manufactures fertiliz er at Aurora. Texasgulf has 60 days from Aug. 3 to appeal the revocation or resolve the case, said state offi cials. Loss of the permit could force the company to close por tions of its plant. Company officials said the re vocation could adversely affect the Lee Creek operation. “If we were unable to produce phosphoric acid, it would have serious consequences for our op erations,” said Carpenter. “All of our various operations are an in tegral part of the total operation. “There are four phosphoric acid plants at our facility. The phosphoric acid can be sold as a product by itself. And it can be used internally to manufacture other fertilizers,” said Carpenter. The company will soon begin producing food-grade phosphor ic acid, used in products such as soft drinks as a preservative. Phosphoric acid is also used in making fertilizer and animal feed. “They can’t operate without a permit. That means they might have to shut down some of their plants if they don’t get their act together,” said Don Follmer, spokesman for the Department of Natural Resources and Com munity Development. The Divi sion of Environmental Manage ment is a part of NRCD. Texasgulf will be issued another permit if it can comply with air emission guidelines, said Follmer. He said the state does not want to shut Texasgulf down, but wants it to follow pollution control measures regarding air, soil and water. State officials pointedly said permit revocation is a serious step, a step they don’t take oRen. (See PERMIT, Page 5) Solid Waste Keeps Mounting; Answers To Problem Unclear By MIKE VOSS Eflitor Tighter rules on solid waste disposal and increasing amounts of waste have towns and counties scurrying to find ways to keep expenses down and service up. Tliese problems, if not solved, may force cities and towns to throw their santitation services on the trash pile. Municipal and county ofTicials responsible for waste disposal met last week at a conference sponsored by the Solid Waste Di vision of the N.C. Chapter of the American Public Works Associa tion. ,-Alaaven County officials, along with the Cherry Point Marine Corps base and two other coun ties, are looking into ways to handle the 750 tons of waste per day. One consideration is a waste-to-energy facility that turns garbage into energy — steam, electricty of both. The steam and power can be sold. But county and city officials agree that something must be done to help alleviate ever- increasing amounts of waste. The officials agreed that prob lems of solid waste can be over come with new technology, im proved recycling programs and good management. The sanitation directors said that landfills, usually run by counties, are getting more and more expensive to build and operate. Guidelines on landfills have been tightened and finding land for them can be a problem, said Terry Anderson, santitation supervisor for Greenville and president of the division. Many landfills in eastern North Carolina are running out of room for waste. New and proposed landfills have to go through a per mitting process and are required to be double-lined. The lining helps prevent seepage from the landfill into underground water sources. The tighter rules make the new and proposed landfills more expensive to operate. And although counties usually provide landfills, they are not re quired to do so. But the sanita tion directors said they were con cerned that counties will find landfills too expensive to operate and stop providing them. That would leave the municipalities with a state-mandated respons- bility to find a way to dispose of the waste. That would mean added costs for them, and could cause waste collection to change from a town-provided service to a contracted service. Cities and towns take differing approaches to the waste disposal problem, said Anderson. Tar- boro contracts for all of its waste disposal and Kinston does not allow any outside collectors. Other towns take in-between approaches. In fact, the directors said the biggest anticipated changes in their field to be in the way waste is disposed of. Collection by pri vate companies looms as an in creasing possibility, they said. But they said they felt a munici pality could compete or do a bet ter job than private sources if they were able to obtain the equipment they needed. Gerald Jones, sanitation super visor of the city of Jacksonville, said the amount of solid waste generated in his area had in creased by about 25 percent over the last few years. Kinston’s Sebastian Cruz, Hickory’s Ed ward Bowman and Reidsville’s Billy Watlington all said their towns had experiences similar growth. That growth means landfill (See WASTE, Page 5) West Craven Prepares For ’88 Gridiron Season By .MO KROCHMAL Special lo Ihe Weal Craven Highliphta Clay Jordan found himself doing a different type of coaching last Wednesday night. Jordan, the head football coach at West Craven High School, was not at the Eagles’ third practice of this season. In stead, Jordan was with his wife, who is preparing to deliver a baby. ‘The coach now has a new baby boy, and was picking up his wife and son yesterday from the hos pital to bring them home. Jordan’s staff, consisting of Tony Caprara, Ed Wall, Francis Felder, Tim Hardison, Eddie Jor dan and Tommy Gaskins, carried on in his absence last week. Last Wednesday night, the 75 candidates for the junior varsity and varsity squads donned hel mets and continued condition ing drills — using the spoke drill which the Eagles’ coaching staff refers to as the Fair drill — be cause it goes round and round like the Ferris wheel at the fair. In the two-hour session which began at 7 p.m., the Eagle candi dates took turns at the various stations that included: agility drills on tackling dummies; bench jumps; agilities through a cone course; and agility drills through the rope station. Then the team split into posi tion drills. Assistant coach Tim Hardison said the prospects reported in good condition. Hardison noted that even the linemen—of which West Craven appeared to have in “large" num bers — seemed to be in good shape. Volunteer assistant coach Tony Caprara said the turnout was the largest he could recall. “This is the most ever. I guess they’re out here because of the fSee EAGLES, Page 2) 3 From West Craven Receive Scholarships Fancy Footwork West Craven’s Darrin Bizzell goes through the paces during a practice session last week at the Eagles’ practice field. About 75 players turned out for Coach Clay Jordan. ’The Eagles hope to im prove on their 7-4-1 record last season. The squad appears to have size and strength at the running back positions. The Eagles open the season Aug. 27 with an away game against North Pitt. See photo feature on page 4. (Mike Voss photo) Three West Craven High School students and six other Craven County high school stu dents have been named reci pients of scholarships by the Awards Committee for Educa tion, an Asheville-based founda tion. Nominations were made by school counselors and were based on national achievement tests. ’The students earning the scho larships are Stacy Nicole McCar ter, Nedra Richardson and Adrian W. Cameron of West Craven, Kenneth Allen and Jonathan Travis James of Have lock High School and Robin Jef ferson Stanly Jr., Joel Sanders Reed and Tonnye Patrice White of New Bern High School. Scholarship recipients attend programs this summer at Phil lips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, N.C. State Universi- , ty, Davidson College, Wake Forest University, Bowman- , Gray School of Medicine, UNC- Asheville, Appalachian State | University, Western Carolina ; University, Duke University, Brevard College, Esperance in Statesville, Concordian College | Language Villages, universities cooperating with project LEAD and the North Carolina Outward Bound School. Fundng for the scholarships, one of the largest minority- student programs in the nation, comes from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and the i (See THREE, Page 2)
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