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THURSDAY. AUGUST 16.1979
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Fireman Elect
New Officers
The Karoett County Fiteman’s
Association (HCFA), founded in
1973, has recently reorganized
to assume a new role in
promoting community aware
ness in fire prevention.
Originally established to
coordinate unified action
between Harnett County's fire
departments, the role of the
organization has expanded to
include education of local com
munities in different aspects of
fire prevention.
Representatives of the various
county fire departments met in
Buies Creek July 26 to elect a
new slate of officers and to
reaffirm the association’s goals.
Officers and their departments
are Jack Pace of Buies Creek,
president; Cecil Pleasant,
Coats, first vice president;
Robert Hamilton, Lillington,
Second vice president; and
Frankie Beasley, Angier/Black
River, secret ary-treasurer.
The election was preceded
with a general briefing on the
association by Mike Richardson
of Lillington, followed by com
ments by Tommy Harvell of
Buies Creek. Several county
fire chiefs were also on hand to
encourage interaction between
the HCFA and the Harnett
Cbunty Fire Chiefs Association
(HCFCA).
HCFA officers were introduced
to the HCFCA at the chiefs’
August meeting at the Bunn-
level Fire Department, fea
turing a barbecue chicken
supper.
Chief J. W. Walker of Buies
Creek, presiding officer, intro
duced the HCFA officers to the
association. The HCFCA
pledged its support to the new
officers in establishing proper
safeguards for the protection of
county residents form loss of life
or property by fire.
Gov. Hunt Will Visit
Harnett On Tuesday
RECENTLY ELECTED officers of the Harnett
County Fireman’s Association ate. i-n Jack
Pace, president; Cecil Pleasant, first vice
president; Robert Hamlllon, second vice
president; Frankie Beasley, secretary-
treasurer.
Thieves Part of Ring?
by STEVE PLUMMER
Members of a jewel theft
ring, opwrating up and down
the eastern seaboard for the
past several months, may have
been involved Friday in the
heist of several thousand
dollars worth of diamond
jewelry from a Lillington firm.
lillington police chief Lincoln
Neal said this week that a
report from the State Bureau of
Investigation has confirmed
that the method of operation of
the thieves who struck
Gregory's Jewelers in lilling-
ton is similar to that of a band
whose movements have been
traced by law enforcement
officials for several months.
The crime ring has struck in
several states in the last few
weeks, including twice in South
Carolina and once in Hickory
last week.
Neal said that although
several members of the ring
have been identified by various
KEITH McLEOD, a fiurmer on RL 1, CmIs
and Harold lioyd, Harnett agriculture exten
sion agent, examine the p1owed-np roots and
■talks of harvested tobacco. McLeod
destroyed the roots snd stslks ss psrt of the
R-9-P program for Incresslng tobacco
performance. [Photo by Steve Plummer]
state law agencies, no one has
been able to determine the
whereabouts of the group
because no description of the
escape vehicle has ever been
made in any of the thefts pulled
off by the ring.
In the Lillington heist
Friday, the only witness did not
see where the thieves went
after leaving the store on foot.
Dorothy Gregory, who
reported the theft to- the
lillington Police Department
immediately after the thieves
left the store, described the
group as two black males and
two black females, all well-
dressed and mannerly.
According to Mrs.
Gregory's report to the police,
she was first approached by one
of the couples on . Thursday
wheh-lhey came int6 the store'
and paid her five dollars to lay >
away a wristwatch.
The couple returned
Friday around the same time of
day, she said, just after her sop
Glenn, the only other store
emnioyee. had left for lunch.
V^ile Mrs. Gregory was
occupied with the couple, a
second couple came in the store
and wandered over to the glass
display case where the diamond
jewelry was kept, she said.
Mrs. Gregory told police
that although she was busy
with the first couple, she kept
noticing that the second man
R-9-P Means Millions
No tobacco program pays oft as
well in Harnett County as R-9-P,
a magic formula ffiat could
mean the difference in millions
of dollars in leaf yields.
R-9-P, according to Harold
Lloyd, Harnett County agricul
ture extension agent, is a
campaign designed to reduce or
eliminate nine critical tobacco
pests.
The nine pests include four
diseases • root-knot, mosaic,
brown spot and vein banding;
three insects - hornworms,
budworms and flea beetles; and
weeds and grasses.
Uoyd said in an interview this
week that results of research
and demonstration tests show
that total stalk and root destruc
tion, followed by the burying of
all crop refuse beneath the soil,
increase the performance of
future crops by an average of
$212 per acre.
In Harnett County, where there
are about 12,000 acres of
tobacco, Uoyd said this dif
ference in performance could
amount to an additional $2.S
million each year.
Uoyd stressed that the success
of the program depends upon
each tobacco producer part id-
MBA Awarded Contract
Robert Msinhardt, president
snd chief executive officer of
MBAssociates, announced
today that Congressman George
S. Miller has received word
from the Department of Defense
that MBA has been awarded a
production contract for
AN/ALE-38 aircraft dispensers.
- The contract, valued at almost
$5 million, was awarded by the
U.S. Air Force, Wamer-Robins
Air Logistics Center, Robings
Air Force Base, Georgia.
This equipment, which was
designed and developed by
MBA and was combat-proven in
Southeast Asia, has been
selected by the U.S. Air Force
and several foreign forces as
the standard means for pro-
■ during protective chaff corridors
to shield aircraft from radar-
guided anti-aircraft weapons.
MBA will produce the chaff
dispenser equipment at its
headquarters facility in San
Ramon, California. The produc
tion order will take over two
years to complete. This order
puts MBA’s growing backlog at
almost $13 million.
On July 26, MBA reported first
quarter fiscal year 1980 net
income of $212,276, up 93
percent from the same period of
the preceding year. Earnings
per share were 17 cents, inclu
ding a non-recurring gain of 10
cents per share from the
exchange of some industrial
property.
On June 29. MBA announced
seven new divisional vice presi
dent positions and the election
of Thomas C. Archer, vice
president and chief financial
officer, to senior vice president
pating in the complete destruc
tion of stalks and roots and the
burying of crop refuse.
He said one farmer within a
community who leaves stalks
standing in a field can provide a
breeding area for enough
disease, insects and weed pests
to spread to his neighbor's
farms.
The program should be
implement immediately after
harvest said Lloyd, who
recommended that R-9-P also be
practiced in fields where
tobacco is to follow a winter
cover crop of oats, rue or a
mixture of the grains.
of the corporation.
On June 19, MBA announced
the award of an $1.3 million
contra'ct for cold smoke practice
bomb markers, which inaeased
the company’s growing backlog.
On June 7, MBA announced
that its fiscal year 1979 sales
and earnings were up 14 percent
140 percent, respectively, on
sales of $14.4 million, earning
46 cents per share, including a
non-recurring gain of 12 percent
per share on the sale of some of
its industrial property.
MBAssociates, with corporate
headquarters in San Ramon,
Cali., and two other plant
locations - North Carolina and
Arkansas • is involved princi
pally in the manufacture and
sale of advanced technology
systems and components in
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Governor James B. (Jim)
Hunt, Jr. will make five public
appearances in Harnett Tues
day on his first visit back to the
county since his election as the
state’s chief executive.
The popular young governor
is coming back to Harnett to
deliver the principal address at
the Precinct Appreciation Din
ner to be held Tuesday night at
7 o’clock at the Harnett Central
School, between lillington and
Angier.
Harnett County Young Dem
ocrats, headed by President
Sue Roberts of lillington, are
sponsoring the dinner and the
governor’s visit to Harnett.
Oscar Harris of Dunn, the
governor’s representative in
Harnett and Mrs. Gerald
(finda) Hayes, who served as
Hunt’s woman’s manager in
Harnett, are serving as co-
chairmen of the dinner.
They announced Governor
Hunt's Harnett schedule, as
follows;
3:30 pjn. An appearance at
was edging closer to the back of
the display case.
She said he then scooped
up two velvet-lined display
cases filled with diamond rings
and walked out of the store,
followed immediately by the
other three persons. It was
then that she called the police.
Neal said Mrs. Gregory did
the right thing in not
attempting to stop or chase the
rouple because the SBI said the
members of the jewel theft ring
were reported to be armed and
dangerous. ‘ ..
Information on the value of
xhe stolen jewelry was not
released.
In an unrelated incident
icported by the police depart
ment, Mrs. Sybil Baldwin,
Lillington towm derk. told „ ^
.jfeHce'« th^ ,a .lawn mower• •
belonging to the town was
GOV. JAMES B. HUNT, 3B
the New Dunn Tobacco Ware
house in Dunn, where he will
lead the sale.
4:15 pun. An appearance at
the Harnett Youth Center in
Lillington. This will be the first
time the Governor has visited a
youth prison in the State.
5il5 p.m. Governor Hunt will
visit the new Boone TVail
Medical Center at Mamers.
6:00 p.ra. He will speak at the
dedication of the splendid new
Barbecue Park.
7:00 p.m. He will be the
featured speaker at the Pre
cinct Appreriation Night dinner
at the new Harnett Central
School.
Stale Representative Bob
Etheridge of LiUlngton will
preside at the dinner honoring
Harnett’s 22 precinct chairmen,
vice chairmen and other party
workers.
U.S. Senator Robert B.
Morgan, Congressman Charlie
Whitley, members of the
Council of State and many
other state, county and local
VIPs win be on hand for the
affair.
The invocation will be given
by State Appeals Court Judge
Gerald Arnold, the county’s
top-elected state official.
Mrs. Annie Drane of filling-
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She is 4-H Volunteer
Leader of Year
Betty SulUvan,4-H club leader
from Coats, was awarded the
Adult Volunteer Leader of the
Year for the South Central
District-
Mrs. Sullivan’s name was
Around
Town
L-By BTEVE P1.U1QIER'
YOUTH CONFERENCE
Pleasant Union Christian
Church on Rt. 1, LQlmgton will
sponsor its annual Youth
Conference Aug. 17-19. The
theme of the conference will be
"Knowing the Lord and Making
Him Knowra."
James M. Huckaby, director
of athletics at Baptist Bible
College in Pennsylvania, will be
the special guest speaker.
Huckaby, named the NCAA
Division II basketball coach of
the year in 1976 and 1979, led
his team to the Division II
national championship in 1979.
The meetings will begin
Friday at 8 p.m. with special
music and junior spe^ers.
Saturday's meeting will be held
at Cape Fear Christian Aca
demy at 4 p.m. in the gym.
Games, a cookout and a service
are planned. Sunday’s 11 a.m.
service will be conducted by
Huckaby, with a sp^al dinner
for the youth set for 12:30.
The public is invited.
BLOODM08ILE DRIVE
The Red Cross bloodmobile
will be in lillington Thursday,
Aug. 23 from 12-5:30 p.m. The
visit is sponsored by the
Lillington Lions Club.
Harnett County finished
the 1978 fiscal year 1,300 pints
short of last year's quota, but
collected over 95 pints in the
bloodmobile's last visit of the
year in Lillington in June.
We are really proud of
Lillington and the effort made
Contioaed on Pa^ II
removed from its storage area
in the town’s fire department.
According to the report,
William McCormick, a town
employee, said that Ed Howell,
lillington recreation director,
borrowed the mower Aug. 7
and returned it to the fire
station on the same day.
It was discovert to be
missing on Aug. 9 by
McCormick. A Wizzard, three
and one-half horsepower model,
the machine is valued at
$114.40.
In a separate incident,
lillington policeman Fred Frye
arrested a Goldston resident
Aug. 8 for possession of
marijuana.
. Frye reported arrested
Baxter Goldston Jr. at the
intersection of Main and
Duncan streets after receiving
a report from the Harnett
County Sheriffs Department to
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assistant home' economics
extension agent Wanda Hardi
son. In her statement to .the
nominating committee, Mrs.
Hardison said Mrs. Sullivan
was a dedicated and sincere
Harnett County 4-H volunteer.
The 15-membcr.4-H dub firom
Coats has raised over $70 for
Easter Seals, donated dotblng
to their local fire department,
deaned the local cemetery and
conducted a group discussion
on "Youth Looks at Aging."
Mrs. SulUvan and her dub
members have attended many
4-H activities including the
County Demonstration Work
shop, all county council
meetings and district activity
day.
They also partidpated in
National 4-H week by
presenting gift plants to
hospital patients, making and
presenting cakes to the Coats
Community Fire Deparmtnet,
rescue squad and police depart-
BETTY SULLIVAN
ment in appreciation for their
service to the community and
holding a dub membership
drive.
Mrs. Sullivan has served on
the County Fashion and Talent
Show and Leader Recognition
committees and took part in
awards presentation during th
Fashion Show.
She assisted in organizing the
Harnett County 4-H Leader's
Association and worked with
the Coats 4-H Environmental
Awareness Special Interest
program. She also worked hard
to promote more parent
participation in the group.
Mrs. Sul^van’s reasons tor
being a 4-H volunteer leader
are many, but they can be
summed up by her love for
young people.
“I enjoy working with young
people and 4-H gives me the
means and opportunity of doing
this," she said. “To me, the
greatest thrills I can ever have
is to see a member of my 4-H
dub receive an award for his or
her accomplishments through
some 4-H activity.
■To see their smiles at
accomplishments, to encourage
and lift spirits when something
goes wrong, to hear a simple "
thank you" from one of them,"
she said, “this is all I need to
give me incentive to go on. 4-H
is a great organization and I am
happy to be a part of it."
Food Service Seminar
The School Food Service
Division of the Harnett County
school system held a workshop
Aug. 6-10 at Harnett Central
High School
The workshop was directed by
Jean Farrar, school food
service supervisor of Harnett
County.
Teachers, cafeteria managers
and extension nutritionists
attended the workshop to
obtain materials and ideas on
how to integrate nutrition into
the elementary and pre-school
curriculum.
The purpose of the workshop
is to train teachers and food
service managers in methods
used to teach nutrition to
students in kindergarten
through sixth grade. Funds for
future workshops depend upon
the success of this program.
Methods of teaching nutrition,
' taught by the workshop,
include puppet shows, word
and visual association games
and the women's favorite
technique, Grand Jean and
Nutri Bird.
Granny Jean and Nutri Bird
plant to visit the schools during
the upcoming school year.
Harnett County children should
expect their first visit Oct.
14-20 during National School
Lunch Week.
Attending the workshop from
the three pilot schools were:
BOONE TRAIL - Elaine
Hedgepeth, Jacquette Powell,
Hazel Wilson, Evelyn Walls.
Meta Brown, Beth Womack
Mary Ray, Shelby Coleman,
Magfpe Douglas J^adine Griffin.
JOHNSONVTLLE • Jennie
Williams, Joyce Dicker, Angela
Farrar JBonnie BrambergjSylvia
WAYNE AVENUE -Pat Core.
Deroans Broadwater, Olese
Hudson.
SOUTH HARNETT -Frances
Morgan.
EXTENSION SERVICE -
Jennifer Walker, Geneva John
son, Clara Johnson and Susie
Johnson.
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THESE HAND PUPPETS are diacusatog the advantages of eattag
'nutritional food. This is one of many exerri^es learned by the
teachers and lunch room managers during a week long workshop
in nutritional education. These exerdsea will be used in the
classroom to teach children the proper nutritional values, (photo
by Lorraine Mize]