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Programs
recognize
students
West Craven High School in in
the process of establishing Excel*
lence in Education awards for its
student body.
Students who attain the honor
roll status will be recognized
ejch six weeks with recognitions
such as a bumper sticker for the
first time on the honor roll andan
eagle (school mascot) to apply to
that sticker for each time they
are named to the honor roll there*
after, plus an honor pin, coupons
and other incentives.
Another program in coixjunc*
tion with the honor roll student
recognition program will be a
*Club 110.* Students can become
members if a specific number of
teachers feel the students are do
ing 10 percent above what is re
quired in the classroom and
school activities. The members
will be selected for being helpful,
showion initiative, having above
average attitudes, showing cour
tesy and striving to keep perfect
attendance in class.
EPA sampling
material from
area waste sites
Investigation is part of a plan
to inspect sites across nation
Paul Harris Fellow
Donald Witherington, center, was presented the Paul Harris Fellow Award recently by District Gov
ernor Charles E. Scruggs at the Rotary Ladles Night In Vanceboro. This is the highest award given
by Rotary International. The award Is given to those who donate a gift of $1,000 toward one of Rot
ary's humanitarian projects. The Paul Harris Fellow Award consists of a certificate and a medal.
The medal was presented by Charles Witherington (left), the recipient's son.
Investigators from the U.S. En
vironmental Protection Agency
were in eastern North Carolina last
week taking samples from the Tex-
asgulf plant site in Aurora, testing
the area for hazardous wastes, the
Highlights has learned.
Ihe EPA also pi a ns to i n spect and
take samples from several Craven
County locations to test for possible
hazardous waste. Ihe sites include
AMF Hatteras Yachts, Barbour
Boat Works, Everhart Lumber Co.,
Scott's Creek battery site, Swiss
Bear, Inc., and Ihe Text, all in New
Bern; Encee Chemical Sales, Inc. in
Bridgeton: Salt Wood Products, Inc.
in Cove City; U.S. Marine Corps Air
Station and Slocum Creek in Cherry
Point and Rowe's (k}rner drum
dump and Rowe's Ck>mer dump at
Rowe's Comer.
The EPA investigation is partof a
national examination of potentially
hazardous sites, not a result of a
spill or other mishap at the Texas-
gulf plant.
Robert Morris, environmental en
gineer with the waste management
division of the EPA’s regional office
in Atlanta, said a team of eight sci
entists collected soil, sediment and
ground and surface water samples
from the plant site last week.
The results of the tests on the
samples should be available in late
January, Morris said.
Eagles down Bears, 18-10
By Mike Voss
Editor
A fumble recovery for a touch
down and an interception that led to
a touchdown pushed the No.
5-ranked West (Graven Eagles to an
18*10 first-round playoff win over
Hertford Ciounty's Bears on Friday.
Tony Bryan picked up a fumble by
the Bears* Eric Williams and scam
pered 80 yards for the score and a
12-0 lead for the Eagles. Lee Bee-
ton’s conversion run failed.
Kip Biyan, who scored the game’s
first touchdown on an 87*yard pass
from Kevin Holzworth, set up the
Eagles’ third touchdown with a
39-yard interception return in the
second quarter. Seven plays later,
Holzworth rolled to his right and
found Craig Coward alone in the end
zone. Holzworth's conversion pass
Greenville
is hosting
farm show
Some 40,000 farmers from De
laware to (leorgia were expected to
visit the 14th annuel Mid-Atlantic
Farm Show in Greenville this week.
Ihe event ends today.
pyer $10 million in farm equip-
ment was among over 200 displays
on view at Farmer's Warehouse, N.
Greene St., yesterday and today
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admis
sion to the show is free to toe public.
The event is sponsored by The
Flue-Cured Tobacco Farmer and
The Peanut Farmer magazines and
will highlight equipment and pro
ducts tobacco and peanut farmers
rely on for profitable harvest, Ms.
Taylor said.
Other cropping equipment will
also be on display.
*Everything from seed to trucks
used to haul farm products to
market to computers \rill be here,*
said event organizer Mary Taylor.
The typical farmer in this area
has com, soybeans, wheat and some
kind of livestock along with tobacco
‘aiMp^anuts,* she said.
Live entertainment was ar
ranged by organizers for each of the
three days of the show end the To
bacco Museum of North Carolina
was in charge of coordinating three
tobacco contests for the show.
Barney Odem and Flatnose—the
world’sonly tree-climbing dog—ap
peared at the show. The pair has
been featured on the Johnny Carson
Show and on national news broad
casts. Flatnose is listed in the Guin
ness Book of Records.
The Kingsboys were on hand to
perform their gospel songs at the
show and country funny man Jerry
Glower was to make his 14th ap
pearance at the show.
The tobacco museum was to coor
dinate three contests tohighlight to
bacco heritage in the state.
The three-day event featured a
tobacco stringing contest with
teams of three people competing to
string the fastest and most uniform
stick of green tobacco. Sticks of
looped totecco used to be hung in
conventional tobacco barns to be
heatcured.The modern-day bulk to-
See SHOW, Page C
to Bryan was incomplete, but West
Craven led 18-7.
Hertford County scored on a
17-yard pass from Mike Dacus to
Kenny Burgess after the Bears re
covered a fumbled punt. Paul
Burb/s kick closed the gap to 12-7.
*We made too many mistakes,”
said Bears head coach Darryl Allen,
who said he has not made up his
irind if this will be his last year
coaching. The veteran coach has 31
years on the sideline, 19 of them at
Hertford County (formerly
Ahpskie).
T^thout seeing the film, it’s hard
to say who had a good game. I
thought Holzworth made a couple of
key passes we had to have,* said
Jordan.
West Craven scored on the third
play of its first possession when
Holzworth connected vnth Kip
Bryan with 7:07 left in the first
quarter. Chris Stilley’s kick was no
good.
West Craven was set up with good
field position when Becton recov
ered fumble by Mario Williams at
the Bears' 23. Two five-yard penal
ties for procedure violations set the
Eagles back and on fourth-and-21
Holzworth came up short on a
keeper.
Four plays later, Tony Bryan
scooped up the fumble and scored 80
yark later.
The Eagles forced the Bears to
punt on their next possession, but
Paul Anderson fumbled the punt
and Hertford County’s Derrick
Boone recovered at the Eagl e 17. On
the next play, Dacus hit Burgess
with the scoring strike to pull the
Rog«r RusmII photo
See EAGLES, Page 6 West Craven's Lee Beclon (22) heads up field as leammale Kip Bryan (4) prepares to block.
Rie Ctrtor photo
A car scoots across the tracks In front of a train at one of many crossings In area.
Careless drivers and trains
can be deadly combination
By Keith Hempstead
Special to the
West Craven Highlights
Ask any employee of Norfolk Southern what is
his prime responsibility and he will tell you safety.
In the Norfolk Southern office at the Chocowinity
marshalling yard, signs and posters are plastered
on the bulletin l^rd emphasizing safety.
On the nearly 82 miles of railroad tracks in Beau
fort County, you will constantly ride past signaling
^devices, the highway signs of the railroads, which
ensure safety on the tracks. The railroad men heed
the signs.
There ore also signs for motorists as they cross
where roads intersect with railroads. All too often
motorists do not heed the signs, causing accidents
and near accidents at the crossroads.
Sgt. S.M. Basnight of the N.C. Highway Patrol
agrees that motorists are the prime cause of acci
dents at crossroads. Tt's these kids with loud
speakers in the back of their cars,* he said. They
get so loud you cant hear the train whi stle.* Drivers
just don't hear the trains approoching, he said.
Another reason for accidents is drunk drivers, he
said.
Ralph Waller, a 23-year employee of the Norfolk
Southern Railroad, knows from experience that mo
torists often do not pay attention when crossing the
tracks. He said that the crews often have a doily
game of chicken with motorists as they try to dash
across the tracks before the train passes and nearly
any crewman will tell you of an accident he has been
in in which a motorist either failed to look or
thought he could make it across safely.
And it is not limited to drivers of passenger cars
either. Bus and truck drivers have been seen cross
ing tracks without regard to train traffic, officials
say. Even though there are lows which state buses
must stop at every crossroad to check for traffic, ev
ery now and then there is one that causes train
crews some tense moments. *The worst thing that
an engineer could see is a bus across the tracks, the
second worst thing is probably a tanker,” Waller
said.
Waller said it is hard to stop a train weighing
over 1,000 tons, which is a comparatively small
train of only 14 cars but needs at least half a mile to
come to a complete stop.
Waller said motorists don’t realize this. Teople
See CROSSING. Page 6
Educators of the Month
selected for contributions
The New Bern Area Chamber of
Commerce in conjunction with the
New Bern-Craven County Board of
Education spotlighto *Educators of
the Month” for October, 1989. Billie
Landen, ninth-grade home econom
ics teacher at J.T. Barber Junior
High: Barbara Tyra, guidance
counselor at Havelock Elementary
and Janeth Hopewell, guidance
counselor at F.R. Danyus Elemen
tary are the honorees.
Billie Landen received her bache
lor of science degree from East Car
olina University. She has taught
home economics at J.T. Barber Jr.
High School for nine years. Landen
believes in working on a one-to-one
basis with students when necessary
and she strives for each student to
achieve success. She attempts to
build positive self-esteem in her stu
dents daily.
Different modality approaches
are used in her classroom teaching.
Landen integrates her subject area
with other areas of the curriculum
such as math and English. Leader
ship developmentis encouraged and
students are always welcomed to
stay afeter school for assistance.
^nden is the Craver\County rep-
By Dr. Zack Waters
Every fall, newspapers and other
media are filled with stories about
hunters who have been injured
while enjoying a sport that should
be accident free given some educa
tion and good common sense.
The most horrifying case that we
hear about all too often is the hunter
who is mistakenly or accidentally
injured or killed by another hunter.
In many, many cases the accident is
associated with alcohol use.
North Carolina is ottempting to
address the problem of mixing hunt
ing and alcohol with a recently
passed law that requires all persons
buying their first huntinglicense af
ter July 1, 1991, to have passed a
hunter sofety and ethics training
course. Hopefully, this new law will
resentative on Regional II Home
Economics Advisor Board and is
presently serving as secretary of the
council. She is the Future Home
makers of America advisor and the
Sunshine chairperson at J.T. Bar
ber. She serves on the school base
committee, the guidance committee
and the prom committee. Landen
has completed the Mentor Teacher
Training.
She is married to Charles Landen
and they have two children, Chip
and Beth. They ore members cl Gar
ber United Methodist Church.
Landen is a member of Alpha Delta
Kappa.
Barbara TVra received her bache
lor of arts degree in psychology from
the University ofHouston, her mas
ters degree in education in counsel
ing and her pupil personnel services
credientnl from California State
University. She has been a school
counselor for eight years. Mrs. TVra
organizes counseling sessions for in
dividuals, small groups, and acts as
a resource person for teachers and
students.
A parent support group has been
See EDUCATORS, Page 6
Prevent hunting mishaps
by using common sense
result in a substantial reduction in
hunting injuries and fatalities.
A couple of years ago, a law was
passed requiring big game hunters
to wear 1>inze orange.” Within re
cent years, right within our local
area, a hunter wearing ”blaze or
ange* was accidentally shot, so one
must not assume that one Is safe if
wearing *blaze orange.”
Recent studies have shown that
more than one-third of hunting inju
ries occur not when one hunter
shoots another but when sleepy,
careless, or drunk hunters and/or
their guns fall out of tree stands.
Great care must be token by respon
sible hunters using tree stands.
All hunters have experienced the
pulse quickening, heart pounding
See HUNTING, Page 5