Business/Industry
TESTIFIED -? Sen. Jesse Helms [right] poses on the steps of the Senate
Building with Marvin Johnson [left] following the House of Raeford
President's testimony before an agriculture subcommittee on the effect of
European subsidies and trade barriers on American agriculture.
McLean In Race LR Coop Board
Four more members of Lumbee
River Electric Membership Corpo
ration will challenge incumbent
directors of the rural electric
cooperative at its 42nd Annual
Meeting of Members to be held on
Tuesday. Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. at the
Pembroke State University Per
forming Arts Center.
Ward Clark. Jr. of Maxton.
James C. McLean of Raeford.
Stephen Strickland of Pembroke
and Ronald Hammonds of Lum
berton will have their names on the
ballot at the Annual Meeting by
virtue of petitions filed for them
over the signatures of 15 or more
members of the cooperative.
All four petitions were received
prior to the Sept. 24 deadline.
James C. McLean will face
incumbent nominee Alton V.
Dudley in the District 6 contest to
represent all of Hoke County east of
NC 211.
Board members are elected for
three-year terms. Four are elected
each year on a rotating basis,
according to the Bylaws.
This year's Annual Meeting will
feature the elections, a report on
the activities of the rural electric
cooperative, an address by Seventh
District Congressman Charlie Rose
and drawing for nearly SI. 500 in
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Johnson Talks Turkeys To Senate
Editor 's Note. On September 21,
House of RaeJ'ord President E.
Marvin Johnson appeared before
the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on
Foreign Agricultural Policy of the
Committee on Agriculture. Nutri
tion and Forestry. Here is the text
of his testimony:
"Mr. Chairman. I am E. Marvin
Johnson and I am President and
part-owner of House of Raeford
Farms. Inc. which is located in
Raeford. North Carolina. House of
Raeford is a turkey processing
operation where we produce raw
and further processed turkey pro
ducts.
"My father, brother, and I began
in the turkey business in 1945
growing turkeys in Rose Hill. North
Carolina. We are still growing
turkeys and chickens, and also
have our own hatchery, feed mill,
grain elevators, breeder research
facility, and rendering plant for our
offal.
"House of Raeford began export
ing raw turkey products to Ger
many approximately 15 years ago.
We now export substantia] quanti
ties to Germany annually and have
a mutually profitable relationship
with our customers there.
"Today we produce approxi
mately 3 million pounds of turkey
products weekly. In 1980. I had the
opportunity to visit Europe with the
North Carolina Commissioner of
Agriculture. Jim Graham, and
while in England I came in contact
with a company which has bought a
great deal of further processed
turkey from us.
"It is a pleasure to appear before
you today to discuss the extreme
importance of exporting value
added turkey products. Having
served on the North Carolina
Export Authority. I feel I have a
good understanding of the value of
exports, and being a past president
of the North Carolina Poultry
Federation, the North Carolina
Turkey Federation, and the Na
tional Turkey Federation, I realize
and appreciate the importance of
exporting turkey products.
"We have several turkey process
ing plants in North Carolina and
perhaps you are aware North
Carolina is the number one turkey
producing state in the country,
having produced 26 million birds in
1981.
"It is true that grain, soybeans,
and corn pass through several
hands, but when you put that
product in a live turkey it begins a
process that provides much more.
"Our family employs approxi
mately 3.000 people. Therefore, we
are providing food, wages, income,
and also additional tax base. If it
were not for the nature and
consumer demand of our business,
we could not employ this number of
people.
"The demand for our products
has been created partially because
turkey is economical to buy and
serve and also because of the
nutritional value of Turkey pro
ducts. such as higher protein, less
Burlington Employes
To Get Raise In Nov.
Burlington Industries has an
nounced an upward wage adjust
ment for approximately 38,000
production employees, effective
November 29, 1982.
Burlington, is the leading manu
facturer of textiles and related
products, with more than 80 manu
facturing plants in 10 states.
fat, fewer calories and less choles
terol. The nutritional value of the
food we eat is becoming more and
more important to the American
and foreign people. I also think it is
important to note that we are
aiding our allied industries by
purchasing more equipment,
seasonings, boxes, vehicles for
transportation, gasoline, contrac
tors, etc.
"Our volume of business in
Europe has been great. However. I
am gravely concerned about the
restrictions and subsidies of the
European Economic Community
that have cut our markets. I feel
that if they are going to set up
invisible trade barriers for the food
and agriculture products that we
are best at producing, that we
should also set up trade barriers for
the cars, and other items that the
foreign countries produce the best.
"The exporting of value-added
food products is extremely impor
tant to our country and we need all
the help we can get in opening up
more foreign markets.
"Raeford and our competitors
here in the United States can grow
turkeys more efficiently and pro
cess them to higher standards than
any of our foreign competitors, but
processors are often excluded from
foreign markets.
"Standards for international
trade ought to be based on end
results: whether the product is
clean and wholesome, not whether
the fresh water goes into the front
or back end of the chiller or how
much water is used in the chiller.
"But. the European Community
has special design standards for
turkey chillers.
"The House of Raeford has spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars
complying with these standards in
order to stay in European markets.
"Recently, the British tried to
exclude poultry from any country
which vaccinates for Newcastle
disease. EC requirements based on
processing techniques and drug use
are trade barriers. Unless they will
make products cleaner or more
wholesome, these restrictions
should be struck down.
"Agricultural production in the
EC is highly subsidized, while
poultry and livestock producers in
the United States benefit from no
government support programs.
"In the EC, turkey producers
receive subsidies. Then these pro
ducers are protected by '<>???
prices' which equalize the price
between efficiently produced U.S.
turkeys and subsidized European
turkeys.
"Finally, the European Com
munity subsidizes its inefficient
producers to export their poultry to
the Middle East and other areas at
lower prices than an efficient U.S.
company such as our own.
"The U.S. government has only
two choices; either cause the Euro
peans to eliminate these overlap
ping subsidies, or provide counter
vailing subsidies to allow U.S.
companies to compete abroad.
"Today, there is only one way to
challenge technical barriers and
export subsidies. This is to have the
U.S. Trade Representative take
each issue as a complaint to the
General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT) in Geneva.
"The GATT provides a process
of negotiation and consensus. It is
difficult for the United States to
negotiate from strength when we
are but one nation and the EC is
10.
"In 1979, the Tokyo Round of
GATT negotiations produced an
Agreement on Technical Barriers
to Trade which appears to bar the
kind of 'design' standards which
EC countries apply to U.S. poultry
plants. But the members of the EC
take the position that this Agree
ment has nothing to do with trade
in poultry and meat. The GATT
will only act against export subsi
dies that result in a country
obtaining an 'inequitable' share of
world export trade. By the time the
lawyers figure out what is 'inequit
able.' we won't have anything left
worth trading.
"If we are going to have a world
trade system based on mutual trust
and conciliation, the United States
cannot be fhe only nation that
trusts and conciliates. If our trad
Raeford Native Tapped
VP At First Union
Michael R. Jordan has been
promoted to vice president at First
Union National Bank.
Jordan joined the bank's Char
lotte Commercial Development
Department in 1975. He has also
served as commercial loan officer in
Raleigh, assistant vice president in
Fayetteville, and as a vice president
in the Piedmont Regional Loan
Administration in Charlotte. Jor
dan will transfer to Greensboro in
October where he will serve as
assistant area loan administrator.
A native of Raetord. Jordan
holds a BA from Wake Forest
University and an MBA from the
Babcock School of Management at
Wake Forest.
First Union National Bank, with
200 branches in North Carolina, is
the nation's 42nd largest bank in
terms of deposits and is the major
subsidiary of the S5.4 billion
Charlotte-based First Union Cor
poration.
Michael Jordan
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Justice, Fair ness. Dignity ? for a change.
for District Court Judge
For a change. . . We need a District Court Judge who fully understands his
responsibilities to all persons entering his court A Judge who will respect the
dignity of plaintiffs, defendants, lawyers and court officials. A judge who will
deal fairly with all participants in legal procedures. A Judge who will impartially
administer Justice, based on the law and the facts. Cumberland and Hoke
Counties need the legal and courtroom experience, and the sensitivity, of Ptoul
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ing partners and allies continue to
exclude our efficiently produced
value-added agricultural products,
then the United States must answer
in kind.
"Multi-lateral free trade is a g
fancy title, but it has to be more ~
than a free ride for others at U.S.
expense. If other nations will not
play by our rules, then it's time to
play by their rules, applying their
kinds of restrictions to their ex
ports, and matching their export
subsidies market for market and
dollar for dollar.
"When our trading partners
understand that U.S. government,
U.S. citizens, and U.S. industry ?
have joined together to make world
trade work and that we're going to
play by the same rules that they
have developed, then those other
nations will be ready to agree to
rules that we can live with."
LEGALS
IN THE GENERAL COURT 4
OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE CLERK
82 SP61
NORTH CAROLINA
HOKE COUNTY
#LINDA B. LA MONT& husband,
ANDREW M. LAMONT,
Petitioners
vs. ^
ANN L. FAIRCLOTH & husband, m
WYMAN FAIRCLOTH & BOBBY
BURNS MCNEILL. Guardian ad
Litem for AUDRA C. LAMONT, a
minor
Respondents
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the Order
of the Clerk of Superior Court of f
Hoke County entered in the special
proceeding entitled above on Octo
ber 4, 1982, the undersigned
Commissioner will, on the 5th day
of November, 1982, at 12:00
o'clock noon at the Hoke County
Courthouse, Raeford, North Caro
lina, offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash that certain tract of
land lying and being in McLauchlin
Township, Hoke County, North
Carolina, and being more particu
larly described as follows:
LYING AND BEING in Mc
Lauchlin Township, Hoke County,
North Carolina
BEGINNING at an iron stake 3
feet northeast of a telephone pole
and 59 Vi feet north of a cedar tree
in the east edge of the Layton yard
and runs thence S 42 W 190 feet to
a stake: thence S 48 E 270 feet to a
stake in pasture; thence N 42 E 190 ?
feet to a stake in field; thence N 48
W 270 feet to the BEGINNING,
containing 1.17 acres.
This lot is completely surrounded
by the land of W.M. Brock.
The highest bidder at the sale is
required to deposit ten (10%)
percent of the bid price with the
Commissioner pending confirma
tion of the sale by the Court. The
balance of the sales price will be ?
due and payable in full thirty (30)
days after confirmation of the sale
by the Court.
This the 4th day of October,
1982.
DUNCAN B. MCFADYEN, III
Commissioner
Willcox & McFadyen
P.O. Box 126, Raeford, N.C.
Telephone: (919) 875-4065 m
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