Business/Industry
J. P. Co field Joins
Burlington Here
' Jeffrey P. Cofield, Sr. has joined
the Raeford Plant of Burlington
Industries as Assistant Pesonnel
Manager.
Jeff comes to Raeford from
Clarksville, Virginia where he
worked in Division Personnel Man
agement.
After receiving his Bachelor of
Science Degree from Auburn Uni
m^versity in 1979, he joined Burling
ton Industries at the Cascade Plant
and has also served as Assistant
Personnel Manager at the Brighton
Plant in Rome, Georgia.
Jeff is married, has one son and
plans to make his home in the
Raeford area.
Dr. Townsend
> Recertified
Dr. R.G. Townsend, Jr., of
Raeford, has been recertified as a
diplomate of the American Board
of Family Practice (ABFP) as a
result of passing a recertification
'examination. He maintains his
specialist status in the medical
specialty of family practice.
ABFP diplomates must continue
. to show proof of competence in the
? field of comprehensive, continuing
care of the family by being recerti
fied every six years. No other
medical specialty requires diplo
mates to prove competence on a
continuing basis.
The written examination is de
signed to prove the candidate's
continuing competence in the
various components of family prac
tice -- internal medicine, surgery,
^ obstetrics and gynecology, pedia
^ tries, psychiatry and community
medicine.
To qualify initially for certifi
cation a physician must have
successfully completed three years
of residency training in family
practice and passed on intensive
1-day certification examination.
There are some 388 residency
training programs in teaching hos
^ pitals and university medical cen
ters across the United States.
There now are mpre than 26,000
diplomates of the specialty, each of
whom must be recertified within
seven years of initial certification.
Most are members of the American
Academy of Family Physicians, the
national association of family doc
tors.
Southern National
Income Up
Southern National Corporation
reported that its net operating
income (income before security
transactions) amounted to $4,989,
706 for the first nine months of
1982 as compated to $3,953,294 in
1981.
On a per share basis this was
S2.94 in 1982, an increase of 27%
above the 1981 figure of $2.31.
For the quarter ended September
30, 1982, the net income before
security transactions was $1,790,
761 as compared with $1,352,053
in 1981.
This amounted to $1.06 per
share in 1982, an increase of 34%
above the $.79 per share earned in
the third quarter of 1981.
On March 30, 1982, Forsyth
Bank and Trust Company, Win
ston-Salem, N.C., was merged into
Southern National. This merger
was accounted for under the pool
ing of interest method.
The figures for the first three
months of 1982 and the first nine
months of 1981 were restated to
include those of Forsyth Bank.
Southern National Corporation
is a one-bank holding company
operating a total of 79 offices
located in 35 cities and towns in
North Carolina. The shares of the
company are traded in the National
Over-the-Counter market under
the NASDAQ symbol SNAT.
CONSOLIDATED OPERATING RESULTS
(Unaudited)
Third Quarter Ended Nine Months Ended
September 30, September 30,
1982 1981 1982 1981
Income before security
transactions $1,790,761 SI, 352,053 $4, 989,70653,953,294
Security transactions 17,753 (107,126) (313,135) (623,208)
Net income $1,808,514 1,244,927 4,676,571 3.330,086
Earnings per common share:
Income before security
transactions $ 1.06 $ .79 $ 2.94 $ 2.31
Net income $ 1.07 $ .73 $ 2.75 $ 1.95
LAW for Laypersons
By Charles C. Lewis, Associate
Professor of Law, Campbell Uni
versity School of Law for the North
Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
and distributed as a public service.
When a husband and a wife who
have children seek a divorce, the
divorce decree will ordinarily pro
vide that one of them will take
custody of the children. The spouse
who does not get custody, however,
will usually be granted visitation
rights so that he or she can have the
children a certain number of days
or weekends each year.
Granting custody to one parent
with visitation rights in the other
would seem to be the best solution
when children are loved and
wanted by both parents who will no
longer live together. But if you stop
to think about it, are the parents
the only ones who love and want the
children?
What about those loving grand
parents whose feelings are perhaps
as strong about the children as the
parents?
Generally, the natural desire of
the grandparents to see the chil
dren is probably satisfied when the
children are with the son (father) or
daughter (mother) of the grand
parents. Suppose, however, that
the spouse without custody of the
children has not sought or will not
enforce visitation rights with the
children?
How then might the grand
parents get a chance to see the
children when no one thought of
their desire and need to see the
children at the time of the divorce?
North Carolina's General As
sembly prepared in 1981 an act
concerning the visitation rights of
grandparents. This act will hope
fully give grandparents the rights
they deserve in seeing their grand
children whose patients have
separated.
The act provides that an order
Hunt's Ruto Co.
Old Maxton Hwy.
Across From South Hoke School
"For Pupil On Jk Tight Budget"
875-3055 875-3206
Jama* A. Hunt, owner
Robert Eden, Seles Manager
for custody of a minor child may
now provide for visitation rights for
any grandparent of the child as the
court in its discretion deems appro
priate.
In addition, even if the custody
of a minor child has already been
determined and a decree has been
entered setting out the custody
rights without providing any for the
grandparents, those grandparents
can file n motion in the cause and
upon showing proper circum
stances be entitled to custody or
Builder's D
Robert W. Gilchrist of Titusville,
Fla., wrote Earl Fowler, manager
of the Raeford-Hoke County
Chamber of Commerce, September
^27 expressing his appreciation for
Fowler's getting him help regarding
information.
Gilchrist wrote, "I was certainly
not aware of the Mill Prong House
nor John Gilqhrist, Sr.,'s involve
i ? " L Vu
visitation rights to the children as
the court, in its discretion, deems
appropriate.
Grandparents certainly have a
stake in their grandchildren. They
are often as concerned and loving
as the parents of the children. This
act, which provides new rights for
the grandparents in North Caro
lina. will allow them to continue to
show their love and concern for
their grandchildren without being
obstructed by the conflict between
the children's mother and father.
Happy Birthday - Faberge held its monthly birthday party last Tuesday.
Employes having birthdays in September were honored by the firm and
shared a cake. John Warren [above] blew out the candles on the cake before
sharing it with these fellow employes: Frank Hollendorfer, Henrietta
Herring. Shirley Monroe, Vinnie Tedeschi. JoAnn McLauchlin. Warren
Anderson, Edna King, Polly Covington, Kipling Maroney, Deborah
Hoffman, Harry Hunsicker, Nancy McPhaul. Jacquelyn McBee, Bonnie
Pate, Janice Devers. Aline Thompson, Mary Butler, Rosa Flowers. Marie
Melvin, Bobbie Lovette, Theolder Malloy. Carrie Horsey, Ramona Harder,
Charles Richards, Carol Lowery, Charlie Hendrix, Richard Moore. Janice
Jacobs, Anna Goza, Alice E. Peterkin, Stoney McDuffie. Carolyn Blanton,
Annie McRae, Regina Sinclair, Teresa Blue, Lois Jacobs. Lee Duke, Jesse
Fairley, Geanie Clark. Pinkey Russell, Diane Mercer, Betty Murphy,
Joseph Griffin, Henry Hollingsworth, Janie Bruton, Hazella McLaughlin,
Ernie Cochran, Walter Harrington, Cheryl Cummings, Tina McGregor.
escendant Learns Of Mill Prong
ment in its building. Truly fan
tastic!!!"
Robert Gilchrist proved to be the
great-great-great-grandson of John
Gilchrist, Sr., who built the house
in the late 18th or early 19th
century. John Gilchrist lived from
1740 to 1802, and the Mill Prong
House is one of the few remaining
houses that were built by immi
grant Highland Scots. It is on SR
1 1 20 about nine miles southwest of
Raeford.
The McEachern Cemetery,
which is several hundred yards
from the house, contains the graves
of members of the community of
Highland Scots who settled in the
region.
The house is being restored and
lul
repaired by Mill Prong Preserva
tion, Inc., a nonprofit corporation
whose president is Charles A.
Hostetler of Raeford.
The National Register of Historic
Places has placed the property on
the list of Historic Sites, and a
plaque was presented to the Mill
Prong organization several years
ago.