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VOLUME 12 NO. 36 SEPTEMBER 21, 1989 VANCEBORO. NORTH CAROLINA
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Rep. Perdue
hopes to find
seat in Senate
Farms like this one accounted for 34 percent of gross state product In 1987.
Farming still large part of state economy
Rep. Beverly M. Perdue hae an*
nounced her candidacy for the Ihird
District Senate Seat. Currently
serving in her second term, Rep.
Perdue's House district includes,
Craven, Pamlico and Lenoir coun
ties. The state Senate's Third Dis
trict includes Craven, Phmiico and
Carteret counties.
*lt is with a tremendous amount
of encouragement from Mends and
supporters that I have decided to
run for the state senate,* said Per
due. *This will be an opportunity to
do more for the people of the third
district, and I welcome the prospect
of representing the people of Car
teret County as well as continuing to
represent Craven and Pamlico
residents.*
State Sen. Bill Barker, who cur
rently represents the Srd Senate
District, recently announced that he
would not seek another term.
Rep. Perduehas served on the Ap
propriations Committee, the Hu
man Resources Committee and the
Judiciary Committee during the
most recent session of the Genera)
Assembly. As a member of the State
House, Rep. Perdue has focused on
economic development, education,
transportation, tourism and health
care issues.
*The8e are issues that affect ev
ery citizen of North Carolina,* said
Perdue, improving our public edu
cation system, providing for our el-
Rep. Beverly Penhje
derly citizens, attacking the grow
ing drug problem and related family
concerns, will conti nue to be priority
items for me. We need better roads,
especially here in the East, and that
is why I strongly supported the
highway plan during the last ses
sion. These roads will help keep our
business climate strong. Enriron-
mental concerns, our air and water
See PERDUE, Page 6
North Carolina’s economic diver
sification in the last two decades has
not diminished the importance of
some of its oldest industries. The
agriculture, life sciences, food, fiber
and forestry sectors still amount for
one-third of the state’s total income.
A study by North Carolina State
University economist Dr. Michael L.
Walden shows the state’s agribusi
ness or soil-based industries ac
counted for 34 percent, or almost
$36 billion of the $105 billion gross
state product in 1987, the last year
for which complete figures are
available.
Results of the Walden study, the
first of its kind at NCSU were pre
sented in Raleigh last week at ^e
annual meeting of the North Car
olina Agribusiness Council.
Walden, professor of economics
and business in the Collie of Agri
culture and life Sciences, said the
study was conducted to ^termine
the value-added economic size of the
agriculture, life sciences and food
sector combined with the textile and
forestry components.
The value-added approach, Wal
den said, measures the value of a
farm’s production, processing and
services. It avoids multiple counting
of inputs and it does not attribute to
North Carolina the value of inputs
produced outside the state.
The economic size of the agricul
ture, life sciences and food sector at
the farm level in 1987 was $4.9 bil
lion. Manufacturers added a $12.1
billion value; wholesalers added
$1.9 trillion and retailers added $2
billion for a value-added size of
$20.9 billion. This was 19.9 percent
of the gross state product and the
largest single coponent in the study.
Tlw fiber or textile sector’s value
was $9.3 billion and forestry’s con
tribution was $5.55 billion.
A second approach in measuring
the economic size of an industry,
Walden said, is employment. The
soil-based industries in the NCSU
study represented about 31 percent
of total state employment.
Walden said that comparisons
with previous years show the rela
tive size of the agriculture, life sci
ences and food sector declined from
1963 to 1972 but has rebounded
since 1972.
The manufacturing level has
grown relative to the other levels
rince 1972.
The value-added size of textiles in
the state has declined from 1963 to
1972. The trend for forestry was
downward from 1977 to 1982 follow
ing 25 years of growth, but this in
dustry *has hel d i is own* since 1982,
Walden said.
One of the conclusions of the
study is that North Carolina work
ers are becoming more productive
and firms are getting a greater
value for their labw dollar.
*Since 1972, the relative value-
added size of the three sectors de
clined only four percent,* Walden
said. *While the employment share
declined 15 percentage points. This
difference indicates improvements
in productivity of the sectors.*
^T believe there is some good news
here for the North Carolina eco
nomy,* Walden said. *By accounting
for a^ut a third of the total eco
nomic output, these traditional in
dustries are still very important to
the state. And they have been re
markably stable over a long period
of time.*
West Craven defense shines
on way to Flying Eagle Award
Let’s hand it to the defense.
And teams playing against
West Craven’s Eagles this foot
ball season have brnn doing just
that — making a mistake and
handing the football to the Eagle
defense. And let’s hand this
week’s Flying Eagle Award to the
defenders of West Craven.
For example, Tony Bryan
blocked two punts last week to
set up two West Craven touch
downs in the Eagles* 44-6 romp
over the Pamlico Hurricanes.
The Eagles also held the Hurri
canes to 21 yards on the ground
on 38 carries.
Lee Becton, who shines as the
Eagle tailback, took advantage of
a miscue on the first possession
by the Hurricanes. Becton
scooped up a fumble end re
turned it 22 yards for a touch
down —just 34 seconds into the
contest.
The Eagle defense allowed the
Hurricanes just two first downs
and 34 total yards on offense.
The defensive effort propelled
the Eagles to their fourth win
against no losses. West Craven
head coach Clay Jordan said his
defense was challenged to pro
tect the line of scrimmage. '*^ey
responded well,* said Jordan.
Congratulations to the Eagle
defense for an outstandi ng effort.
The Flying Eagle Award is pre
sented announced each week by
the Highlights to recognize out
standing achievements on the
gridiron.
Weyerhaeuser plants rolling
along making paper products
flic Carter photo
A young boy walking through tho grasses the ORW status Is Intended to protect.
State gives protective status
to sound, other coastal waters
By Betty Gray
Special to the
West Craven Highlights
You are holding one of the most
useful products ever invented —
paper.
It touches our daily lives in so
many ways that we scarcely notice
the toemendous volume and variety
of paper products around us.
At Weyerhaeuser Co. plants in
the state, the art of papermaki ng—
first developed by the Chinese ar
ound 100 A.D. — is practiced on a
grand scale.
The Weyerhaeuser Co. has sev
eral of the largest pulp and paper
mill complexes in the world, with a
total capacity of more than 2,200
tons per day at its Plymouth plant,
according to Paul J. Schmitt mill
manager.
Weyerhaeuser Co., a huge corpo
ration bosed on the West Coast,
first entered the field of papermak
ing through production of an inter
mediate product, pulp, in 1931. The
company began manufacturing its
first paper product in 1949.
Re^ntly, the mill invited local
newspaper reporters on a tour of the
plant and its papermaking process.
In 1988, the mill manufactured
299,000 tons of fine paper, 124,000
tons of fluff pulp used in sanitary
products such as diapers, 218,000
tons of linerboard and 146,000 tons
of corrugated materiel, the of which
stuff cardboard boxes are made.
On its five paper machines, the
company manufactures paper for of
fset printing, envelopes, return mail
cards, computer forms end copier
paper.
The raw material for paper —
logs, wood chips, sawdust and re-
QTclable paper—arrives at the mill
by truck. I^gs are cut'into shorter
lengths, detorked, chipped and
stored in outdoor storage piles,
along with incoming wood chips.
It takes a lot of wood to feed a
paper mill.
About 236 log trucks and 77 chip
vansarrive at the planteach day. By
RALEIGH — Part of the Pamlico
Sound near where the Neuse River
empties into it, two Hyde County
bays and most of the Alligator River
between Tyrrell and Dare counties
were designated *out8tanding re
source waters* by the state Environ
mental Management Commission
last Thursday.
Under the ORW classification,
new or expanded marinas now are
banned in the protected areas of the
areas as are new or expanded waste-
water treatment plants that dis
charge into any of the protected
waters.
In Southeastern Pamlico Sound,
new or expanded marinas will be al
lowed only in the upland basin areas
of Hyde and Carte|'et counties adja
cent to those waters. Some restric
tions ate placed on industrial
discharges.
Southeastern Pamlico Sound was
nominated, together with Core
Sound and Back Sound, because it
supports the state’s entire bay scal
lop population, a m^r portion of
the hard clam fishery and thou
sands of acres of seagrass beds that
are food sources for finfish, crabs,
shrimp and shellfish.
Gov. Jim Martin bncked creation
of seven ORW areas on the North
Carolina coast, including the three
Down East waterways.
The ORW classification is in
tended for those *special and unique
waters with excellent water quality
that are also of exceptional state.*
No additional restrictions will be
S laced on marinas in the Alligator
:iver.
The ORW classification was
amended to allow some types of de
velopment in some areas along the
designated waters.
Swan Quarter and Juniper bays
were proposed as ORWs because
they lie ^thin the Swan Quarter
National Wildlife Refiige and are
nurseries for shrimp, crabs, oysters
and fish.
The Alligator River was proposed
because it is a mqjor spawning area
for migratory fish such as herring, is
a nursery for other fish and is con
cent to the Alligator River National
Wildlife Refuge.
The commission also was ex
pected to approved last week the
"nutrient-sensitive* designation for
the Pamlico-Tar River basin.
The commission can designate
See ORWs, Page 6
Eagles improve to 4-0; defense shines
Lee Becton rushed for 128 yards
on 14 carries and Tony Bryan
blocked two punts to set up two
touchdowns as West Craven bashed
Class 2-A Pamlico 44-6.
In other games involving teams in
the Class 3-A Coastal Conference,
Havelock blanked Class 2-A Blast
Carteret 21-0; Class 2-A Warsaw
James Kenan defeated North Le
noir 47-0; West Carteret stormed
past Class 1-A Lejeune 40-6 and No.
1 ranked 2-A power Wallace-Rose
Hill pasted Pender County 63-0.
West Craven head coach Clay
Jordan said the Eagles' defensive
line was challenged to protect the
line of scrimmage in this week’s
game with Pamlico.
They did, holding the Hurricanes
to 38 carries and 21 vords rushing.
"They responded well,* said
Jordan.*
West Craven's offense produced
228 yards on 37 rushing attempts
and added another 71 yards on se
ven completions in romping to
victory.
Quarterback Kevin Hols worth
completed two scoring passes—of 1
and 25 yards—and ran one in while
Adrian Cameron notched a 10-yard
run. Chris Stilley kicked a 26-yord
field goal and three extra points as
the end of a working day, mill em-
ployess will process a^ut 3,200
tons a green wood.
A conveyor system is used to
bring various grades of wood chips
to the pulp mill area.
The chips ere then mixed with
chemicals and cooked in a "digester*
to break the wood down into usable,
separate fibers or pulp. The pulp
then is mashed, strained and
washed further to break down even
more fibers.
The plant also uses recyclable
paper. Bales of this paper are sent
directly to a recycling plant to be
converted back into pulp.
If the pulp is to be used for mak
ing white, or fine, paper or white
fluff pulp, it is put through ableach-
ing process than removes the nor
mal brown color of pulp.
In recent months, the mill has
been criticized for producing dioxins
as a biproduct of its bleaching pro
cess. "Ihoxin* is a general term that
See PAPER, Page 6
the Eagles emerged undefeated in
four games.
Pamlico bounced to 1-3.
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