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VOLUME 12 NO. 21
MAY 25,1989
VANCEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
PHONE 244-0780 OR 946-2H4
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' SIX PAGES
Festival Adds
Color, Smiles
To Vanceboro
Salute To Strawberries
Sweet Success For Town
West Craven's band adds sweet music to festival parade
Leaf Growers Can Switch Crop
By Greg Stroud
and Terri Jamieaon
The streets of Vanceboro came
alive Saturday as the 7th Annual
Strawberry Festival/Rescue Day
got underway. The day began as
exibitors and parade participants
prepared for the events ahead. As
early as 7:30 a.m., people began
gathering, finding good parking
spaces, and mingling among each
other.
The parade, which was led by
new police chief, Don Greenwaldt,
began promptly at 10 a.m. and
lasted about an hour. Townspeo
ple were pleased with the parade
this year and felt that the com
munity and its organizations were
well represented. One observer re
marked, “It was a lot of fun. It was
much bigger than last year with
lota of new things. I ei\joyed the
big trucks. This was the first year
they had them.*
Children were excited to see the
equine group, the big fire truck
that provided a cooling mist on a
hot morning, and the candy and
gum being tossed into the crowd
by various groups as they passed.
The overall favorite of the crowd,
though, was the marching band
from West Craven High School.
Local merchants were happy to
see the parade. Moat businesses
were quite busy throughout the
day because of the crowd that had
amassed. Gross daily sales were
up 2 to 3 times their norma in most
locations.
After the parade, the crowd
(Stt FESTIVAL. Page 5)
Tobacco farmers who own or op
erate farms in more than one loca
tion will be able to switch their to
bacco between those fields for the
first time this year, a federal offi
cial said today.
This change was made because
of the abnormal rainfall that has
prevented the planting of about
half of the county’s tobacco crop,
according to Cliff Moore,executive
director of a local Agriculture Sta
bilization and Conservation Ser
vice office.
The ASCS is also one of two fed
eral agencies extending the filing
deadiines for farmers who have
not finished planting com.
The Federal Crop Insurance
Corp. deadline for filing late-
planting forms has been extended
to May 31. The ASCS will extend
its prevented planting deadline to
June 16, which will correspond to
the agency’s spring certification
deadiine.
The change in the tobacco-,
growing procedures will let a far
mer switch a crop’s growing sites.
Although his marketing card
specifies the tobacco will be grown
in a particular field, he can grow
the tobacco in another field he
owns or operates and sell it on the
original marketing card.
Moore said if one field is too wet
for planting, the farmer can
switch to another field that has re
ceived less rainfall.
This will apply only to fields a
farmer owns or is listed as
operating.
The state’s Congressional dele
gation and N.C. Insurance Com
missioner Jim Long asked for the
filing extensions because the un-
uauq)ly heavy rainfall has delayed
planting of most mtgor crops.
Federal guidelines require that
certain crops be planted by certain
dates to retain full coverage. Bey
ond those dates, coverage de
creases 10 percent for every five
days planting is delayed.
Rainfall, already eight inches
above normal this year, has kept
farmers out of the fields. Many are
as much as a month behind nor
mal planting schedules.
Extending the FCIC deadline
will enable crops to qualify for in
surance coverage even if they are
(See FARM, Page S)
Singers Noteworthy
Addition To Festival
Spectators stomped their
feet and clapped their hands as
The Valleyaires peformed dur-
ing the Vanceboro Strawberry
Festival/Rescue Day.
The five-member group from
Fremont has performed
throughout eastern North Car
olina and in Virginia. Their
music is a blend of traditional
Southern gospel styles.
Bobbi Ann Proctor, a mem
ber of the group and its mana
ger, said, ‘Southern gospel is
our favorite. Although we have
a line up selected, we leave our
list open so that we can add to
our sections,** she said.
'f h^ group started about 20
years ago in Alabama. When
Larry and Sarah Cowper were
transferred to Goldston, Ms.
Proctor auditioned and was gi
ven the job of playing the piano
(See VALLEYAIRES, Page 5)
Mavretic Under Fire
From Rep. Anderson
William ‘Bill* Hodges of Beau
fort County was re-elected chair
man of the First Congressional
District Democratic Executive
Committee at the district conven
tion held Saturday at Beaufort
County Community College.
~'"*At theconvention. Rep. Gerald
Anderson, D-Craven, threw sev
eral jabs at the speaker of the N.C.
House of Representatives, a fellow
Democrat.
Betsy Leach of Pitt County was
elected first vice chairman,
Cozelle Wilson of Lenoir was
named second vice chairman, and
Luann Whitley Joyner of Hertford
County was elected third vice
chairman. Tom Payne of Beaufort
County was re-elected secretary,
and Willie Riddick of Bertie was
named treasurer.
“The Democratic patty is the
party of values,* said Lawrence
,Jkvis, chairman of the N.C. State
T>f^mocratic Executive Committee
Gardner
Discusses
Drug War
By Michael Adams
Special to the
West Craven Highlights
Lt. Governor Jim Gardner and
members of the N.C. drug cabinet
came to eastern North Carolina
Monday to hear ideas and recom
mendations on fighting what he
calls a “massive* state drug
problem.
Gardner, who visited a school
and a neighborhood where drug
activity is causing problems, said
in an interview Monday morning
the sale and use of illegal drugs in
the state *ia our number one
problem.*
‘It’s the most oounterproduc-
(See OARDNBR, Page 6)
who addressed the luncheon ses
sion prior to the opening of the
convention.
‘We’ve always been interested
in the average person, and we
have a real challenge today to im
prove education and environ
ment,* the head of the state party
said. He also called upon Demo
crats to pay off the state party debt
quickly.
At ^mocratic district conven
tions across the state Saturday,
some delegations called for Davis
to resign, but no such demand was
heard here.
Delegates from the Second and
Fourth Districts passed resolu
tions demanding that Davis step
down from his post
Davis has bmn criticized by
some Democrats for saying the
party should reassess its stand in
support of a woman's right to an
(See ANDERSON. Page S)
Chopper With A Hopper
Spring means planting and planting means fer
tilizer and pesticides. This helicopter does crop
dusting in a way not usually seen. Most of us think
of bi-planes and antique-looking aircraft when we
think of cropdusting. But helicopters can hover, br
inging fertilizer or pesticides closer to the crops.
This observer in the field seems more than just a
little interested. (Ric Carter photo)
Dover
Plans
Project
The Dover Community Associa
tion, in conjunction with the Cra
ven County Commissioner’s
Board on Aging, is drawing up a
blueprint to renovate the com
munity center.
The project will begin in ap
proximately six weeks and will re
quire approximately $20,000, ac
cording to board Chairman Bar
bara Flynn. The idea was born
when Cephus Baker and Avon
Dove of the association asked the
board for help after the successful
renovations made at the Vanceb
oro Community Center.
William Whaley, the town’s
building inspector, has approved
the project.
The project will be funded by
(See DOVER, Page 5)
Area Students Receive Awards
For Skills Learned In Classroom
Dover’s Tony Fonville, a stu
dent at West Craven High
School, took first place in culin
ary skills at the state Future
Homemakers of America lead
ership meeting held in Raleigh.
Also collecting first-place fi
nishes were Tyrone Moore of
Dover and Susan Jewell, both
students at West Craven.
Moore took first place in the
food service team event and Ms.
Jewell took first place in the job
application/interview contest
in the junior division.
Fonville, Moore and Coma-
sine Fonville each received
$1,600 scholarships to Johnson
and Wales College to study cu
linary sidlle. The scholarship
awards were given for the stu
dents’ involvement in FHA/
HERO.
Ms. Jewell and Moore will
travel to Anaheim, Calif.,
where they will compete at a
national competition July
14-21. Ms. Gay Lea, home eco
nomics teacher, said, ‘I was
very proud and amazed that we
won because there were so
many schools that were bigger
and had better, more fully-
equipped commercial kitchens
than ours,* said Ms. Lea.
Calvin Garris, a student at
Craven Community College,
placed second in a cosmetology
competition that included cos
metology students from across
the state.
The competition was held in
conjunction with the 60th an
nual conference of the N.C.
Beautician and Cosmetology
Association. The conference
was held in Fayetteville.
Students were alloted a spe
cific amount of time to perform
a roll and set on thermo curl
and were asked to comb out
their models’ hair and put on
makeup during a 60-minute
period. “I had a good time com
peting with the others. I was
running a little late so when
they called my named (as the
second-place finisher) I was
surprised,* said Garris.
Garris has two more quar
ters at Craven Community Col
lege to complete before com
pleting the 1,600 hours re
quired to be eligible to became a
(See FHA, Page S)
Vanceboro Resident
Wins Trip To Opryland
Freshway Food Stores recently
announced that Terri Jamieson of
Vanceboro wiil be one of two area
grand prize winners that will be
on their way to Opryland USA in
honor of Fresh Way’s 19th birth
day celebration.
The prize will include, in addi
tion to lodging and airfare, two
three-day passes to Opryland
Showpark, two tickets to a Grand
Ole Opry performance, two tickets
to see Brenda Lee in “Music,
Music, Music*, a day cruise on the
General Jackson showboat and re
servations for a Grand Ole Opry
sightseeing tour of Nashville.
Mrs. Jamieson, a licensed prac
tical nurse and mother of two, is a
staff writer for the West Craven
Highlighto.
When asked how she felt about
winning the grand prize, Mrs. Ja
mieaon said, *I was shocked. I
hadn't expected to win. I love
country music, so I think it will be
a very exciting trip.* Mrs. Jamie
son plans to take the trip with her
husband, Greg, sometime in the
fall.
Robert Malpass of La Grange
also won a grand prize trip to
Nashville.
Other prizes given away during
the contest included two Hatteras
swing seta per store, and a com
plete set of 1989 Donruss and
Fleer baseball cards.
T.L. Edwards, president of
Fresh Way Food Stores, expressed
his appreciation on behalfof Fresh
Way Food Stores.
“We want to thank all of our
customers for their support, this
(See TRIP, Page S)