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?n WmUm Ok % i ww f PUPS?g SENTINEL VOL XXXIII NO. 4 KENANSVILLE. N. C. JANUARY 27. 1966 PRICE 10? PLUS TAX ? - - .... . . Trial & Error The "Winter Wonderland" that we have sung about, beg ged for and all the kids have wished tor to get them out of school. 15 HERE. It seems to have lost some oi its glory all of a sudden - after almost M hours of no lights, no heat, the only food - sandwiches, even the boys and girls do not seem to be too excited. Was talking to Jim Bunco this morning, he said. "They can talk about ?he good old 'days all they want too but f don't like them". The younger generation is going through a new experien ce all together. They do not re member the days before heat ed houses >vhen you slept un der a weight of blankets, and ever so ofter. stuck your nose under thj cover to get it warm. And when you ju.??ed out of ted and put your clothes on so fast that you wouldn't even re member If you had hooked all of the necessary items. Some of us would have suf fered had we not had good friends with gas stoves and oQ stoves. But that is all a part of living I I Any news item or picture which missed the paper this week, please forgive us. We have narked and struggled as hard as we have ever worked to get-no where, 1,! We harp negatives* before the ojian fire to dty. We have pulled, pushed and 1 am afraid even cussed a bit. But no luck. Information cannot be gotten because of no telephone and no easy means of motiva tion. So. please bear with us. Ruth Troy Promoted R. S. "Spud" Troy of Rose Hill has been promoted from Assistant Vice-President to Vice President of Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company of Rose Hill. Troy has been with Wacca maw Bank and Trust Comp any, for 31 years with the Whiteville, Fairmont, Clark ton and Rose Hill Banks. He has been with the Rose Hill Bank for the past 30 years and ?ays that now be feels that he is a native of Rose Hill. Other than his work with the wnm huhwa bv snoui mid he SCOOTERS WHO WON BADGES at the Da pi in District Court <* Honor held at the Warsaw Junior High School on Tuesday. January 18. <L to K) James D. Jerome, Jr., Life Saving Merit Badge: David Savage. First Aid; BUI Butler Life Saving Badge. 4. ?; Director To Be Employed For Tri-County Anti-Poverty The Executive Committee of the Community Actfon Council, -an anti-poverty organization set up to serve Duplin. Pender and Sampson Counties, met on Fri day, January 21, 1966, to con sider employment of a director for the trl-county program. A Program Development Gram of J75.891.00 was announced on January 14, to be used to hire a director and a minimum staff to survey the needs of the three Vice President | bank, Troy has a busy life. He is president of the Rose Hill Lion's Club, Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce and an Elder in Mt. Ziion Rose Hill Presbyterian Church, and also a Mason. He is married to the former Virginia Clark of Clarkton and they have two children, Mrs. N. H. Carter of Wallace and Robert Troy, Jr., who is with the North Carolina National Bank in Charlotte. James Robert Grady who has been with Waccamaw Bank in Rose Hill for the past ten years is being transferred to Louisburg where he will be in charge of operations there. Verne Cayton has been re cently elected cashier of the Rose Hill office and will assist in the management of the Rose Hill Bank. He comes to Rose Hill from Branch Banking and Trust Company in New Bern. Troy wishes to express ap preciation for the support the people of this area have given the bank and Waccamaw Bank expresses it's desire to con tinue good service to their customers. counties; to study existing pro grams sheeting the poor; to de velop programs that meet Jhe most pressing needs first; and to survey local resources that might filance ami-poverty pro jects. Interested persons who are qualified to fill one of the fol lowing positions are invited to apply by writing to Mrs. Mar garet H. Gunter, President, Community Action Council, Inc., P. O. Box 396, Clinton, N. C. QUALIFICATIONS OF DIRECTOR Simmons To Be Tried Superior Crt Robert Earl Simmons, Beu laville TV Dealer and repair man, is being being held under $7500 bond for his appearance at Superior Court of Duplin County to answer multiple charged of Breaking, Entering, Larcency and received stolen goods, Charges prefered against Simmons included the Beulaville FCX and the A. D. Parker Store in Chinquapin, as well as lumber allegedly owned by David Pearsall. A hearing was held before W J. Sitterson, local Justice of the Peace, on Tuesday morning. January 25. State wit nesses included Leland Grady, manager of Beulaville FCX, Hardy Parker. David Pearsall and members of the Duplin County Sheriff's Department and an agent of the State Bu reau of Investigation. Responsibilities: To direct and supervise programs under aku nnmin** ttwutjv.n. oj(:?pf?wg one the opportunity Tor t?Ra tion and training, the opp jfc un ity to work, and the opportun ity to live in decency and dig nity, the purpose being to strengthen, supplement, ana co ordinate efforts in furtherance of that policy. Knowledge, Skills and Abili ties; Working knowledge of mo- ' dern office methods and pro cedures. Ability to train and supervise other employees. Ad ministrative ability. Consider able and detailed knowledge of working with rural people and in all social and economic levels. Working knowledge of the or ganizational structure of County Government. Ability to deal tactfully and courteously with 1 the general public and command their respect. Ability tc main Conthmed to pap $ rne snow and sleet wnicn moved in on Nortb Carolina and Duplin County on Tuesday afternoon and night paralyzed activities in the county. The condition was not helped any on Wednesday when a cold rain mixed with sleet fell all day and on Wednesday night more snow fell. Electric Current was knock ed out over the entire county and has been restored only in sections. Kenansville lights went out Wednesday morning and as of 3 p. m. Thursday are still not on. Light poles and telephone poles are down everywhere. Telephones are working local ly but long distance calls are out. It is impossible to get re ports on other sections of the county. The service men from C. P. & L. Tri-County, Four-County. Carolina Telephone and Tele graph Company are to be high ly commended for their untir ing efforts to restore service as quickly as possible. The Highway Department had snow trucks moving a bout as soon as the snow start ed falling. Main highways have been passable in the county. Rural pavel roads and unpav ed roads are hazardous, but the highway department is still working unceasingly. Snow which fell about six inches deep throughout the county was then covered with ice, did much damage to trees and shrubbery. Large limbs been ripped qff of trees and smalf trees bent (rouble. In talking with Jim Bunce, assistant Agricultural Agent, he stated that pine trees which were bent double would tend to limp for the next year, and in his opinion would never be straight. The ones bent slight ly but not doubled would stra ght up but would have a crook in them, and in trees for "saw logs" they will be damaged be cause of the crook. / V* SNOW SCENE IN DUPLIN COUNTY Shrubbery throughout the county has been damagel ex tensively. However Bunce stated that for farmers, the snow could not have come at a better time of the year. There are no crops now to be damaged, and he had received reports of chicken ? 'm t houses or shelters caving in from the weight of the snow. The weather forecast for Thursday promises sunshine with low temperatures. The North Carolina snow was part of a blanket that spread earlier from the Great Plains to most of the Appalachian 1 areas. Sub-freezing temperatures, which dipped as low as 37 de grees below zero in Minnesota Tuesday, prevailed throughout the western half of the nation. Southern Florida was the only substantial area to avoid chill ing temperatures. -? laketriant Mep forward Proffram To Be Started iiMHiors note: wora was re cived Wednesday morning that the Education Program 'Take A Giant Step Forward" has been approved as of January SI- by the State Department of Public Instruction. Schools will put this program into action immediately, it was learned from the County Superinten dent's Office.) o 0(1 January M. 1966, DupUn County Administrative Unit submitted to die State Depart ment of Public Instruction for approval a proposal under the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1966 for Improving the skills of edur st tonally disadvantaged chlldran In the schools of Duplin County. The schools Involved In this proposal are; Charity. East Duplin. E. E. Smith, Douglas, James Kenan, North Duplin, Wallace-Rose Hill, P. W. Moore, P. E. Williams, Branch, Chinquapin II, Teachey. Rose Hill I, Rose HU1 II. C. W. Dobbins, Faison, Calypso, War saw, Magnolia, and Kenansville. This project Is designed to Improve the over-all educatio nal program of deprived chil dren with specific educational deficiencies having to do with skills in reading, mathematics, and other academic subjects. Special deficiencies to be cor rected Include lack of oppor tunities In the school program and facilities, such as limited curricula offerings, Inadequate school lunch services, insuffi cient health services, lack of psychological and social ser vices, Insufficient materials. provide a comprehensive pro gram of education. Special educational activities set up In this proposal Include L An experimental kinder garden program In three schools. 2. The addition of teachers to relieve principals of teaching duties so that they will have time to spend In Improving and facilitating Instruction. The addition of teachers In over loaded classes so that these teachers will be able to give more Individual Instruction concerned principally with Im proving the communicative skills, computatlve skills, and social skills, of educationally deprived children. The services of trained li brarians In each school. Re search shows that there Is cor Lrroup Studies Leadership A series of leadership meet ings is being sponsored by Four County Electire' Mem bership Corporation. The first of this series was held in Rose Hill at the Rose Hill Cafe on Monday and Tues day, January 24 and 25. The Monday night nesting was held in the Rose 11"! Ca'c and the Tuesday meeting was held in the Four County Electric Building. Instruction was by Mr. Tom Nelson of the firm. Nelson Nicol and Stokes. Nelson has a great deal of experience in training and developing leaders in ru ral communities and business enterprises throughout the cou nty. Nelson was with Y.M.C. A. educational work for 23 years and was Senior educa tional secretary of the Nation al organization when the sch ools became colleges. He was president of Central YMCA College which later became Roosevelt University in Cica go. He was executive Vice President and headed Carnegie institute for five years. 25 years ago, he went into his present field, Management De velopment, and was one of the first in the country to pioneer this field of work. Continued to page 5 ., LEADERS OF THE DISCUSSIONS ON COUNTY LEADERSHIP held In Rom mi on Monday and Tuesday ( L to R> John W. Brown ing. Community Sendee Director of Four Comity. Tom Noiaon of the firm of Noioon, Nlcoi and Stokes; Harvey Braddy, District Manager. Four Coanty Electric. Rose HID; and B. Beverage, Manager. Four Coanty Electric, Bargnw. The school was sponsored by Foot Annual Ked Cross Meeting Plans Fund Campaign Drive Dr. Hugh M. Powell of Rose Hill, chapter chairman, presid ed on Tuesday night, January the 18th at the Duplin County Chapter of the American Red Cross meeting. The meeting was held In the Educational Building of Grove Presbyterian Church In Kenansvllle. After Dr. Powell had wel comed thosepresent represent ing five communities throughout the county, the secretary read the minutes of the annual meet ing that was held las t June. This was followed by a re port from the chapter treasu rer, Mr. Paul Ingram, who brief ly discussed the finances of the chapter. Other semi-annual reports were heard as follows: Youth activities, which revealed nine schools enrolled In Jr. Red Cross work and 25 gift boxes filled for shipment overseas. Three First Aid classes held during the fall and 40 certifi cates issued. Other classes are planned for the spring. Three home nursing classes were also held recently In the | Continued to Page 8 Survey Begins In Beulaville The Employment Service Mo bile Team will move Its of fice from Kenansvllle to Beu laville on January 31st. Full operation will begin In Beu laville Wednesday, February 2. The Survey for the Kenans vllle, Albertson and Glisson townships began November 15 and has registered approxima tely 1600 persons since that time, in addition to this, four training courses under the Man power Development and Train ing Act have been started and many people have been given aptitude tests to determine their potential job skills. All services of the team will continue to be offered from the office In Beulaville Including selection and referral to the new Reeves Brother's Incor porated plant. All persons who are age 16 or older, working, or not work ing, and who lure In the Ke nansvllle area are urged to register for the Manpower Sur vey before 5 p.m. Friday. fN. Li. Symphony Urchestra la Kenansvilie; February 9 21st Annual Tour Have 93 Concerts CHAPEL HILL - The North Carolina Symphony Orchestra will open its 21st annual tour with two performances lnReid svllle January 27. The symphony will appear In Kenansville February 9 at 8:30 p.m. at the Kenan Memorial Au ditorium. According to symphony di rector Dr. Benjamin Swalln, the orchestra plans to present 93 concerts on its tour, which will take the group some 10,000 miles between now and May 23. A large percentage of the . concerts will be given for au diences of school children and some 150,000 children are ex pected to hear them. Commentator for the chil dren's programs will be Mrs. Maxlne Swalin, who will also Join the symphony players as harpsichordist on the new harp sichord, a gift of Mary Duke Biddle. Beginning the tour will be the Little Symphony, a section of 25 players used for school con Caattnaed to Mt* 5 EGG GRADING SCHOOL .FEB. 2 There will be an Egg Grad ing School on Wednesday, Feb ruary 2, at the Agricultural Building in Kenansville. The program will begin at 7:30 p. m. Mr. Tom Morris, Exten sion Poultry Epecialist, from North Carolina State Universi ty, and Mr. Carl Tower, Egg Marketing Specialist, from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, will be present for the meeting. The purpose of this school is to present the latest informa tion on egg quality and grad ing of eggs. This school will provide the opportunity to ac tually grade eggs under the supervision of both these spec ialists. All egg producers and their employees are urged to attend this school PROGRESS REPORT DUPLIN COUNTY MANPOWER SURVEY (KENANSVILLE ? ALBERTSON ? GLISSON TOWNSHIP) itm GOAL MM 1M 4 m I.MB
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