The Itaplln County Commls
*?rs voted to hire ? Count*,
tafeh Care Coordinator at tb*
r regular sesaion held at ti*
iplln County Courthouse Ut S
naiuville on Monday. Cteto
r 18th. |^p
This action was taken after
icussing the report from the
lalth Care Task Force which
Included a survey ?f all the
health programs In Duplin O
ounty. Also, after considering
the report the commissioners
voted that the Board of Trus
tees of Duplin General Hospi
tal, Inc. be sent a recommend
elation that the present Admi
nistrator of Duplin General H?
ospital. Inc. be replaced. A
?>Py ?f the Task Force Sur
vey jdll be printed In the Dup
Mr, a,e. Shaw, in recom
rawKW that the Tax Bluing
Centra* bo awartfed to Dixie
D?tt Processing of Warsaw.
Upon motion of Commissioner
DJ Fussen. Sr.and,ec<X
ty Commissioner Leon Brown
the board unanimously carried ,
that Dixie Data Processing be
?ward* the contract.
? a<* open at 2 pan.
fomobiles for the
, and one station
urgency Services,
or the seven cars
f? Dept. was a
low bidder, Wa
o. for 925,416,40
fct for the station
srgency Services
o the low bidder,
?C.for 54,083,68.
Ida were caB(P
The only bidder '
Service 00 Co.
2 ^.*!!f,rtage"Kl unc*"a^
C fml oil the contract was gi
*!? to Mr. Blackburn.
Stolen Horses
Recovered
hAJliasi..
w to* ''mi
^?TwSrsea taken from the
"ojwwCfarm on Sept. 8, WTS.
I f me horses wttt recovered "
f",F*yettevUle- Arrested were
Mlckte Jene Best, white male.
f. ofRt l. Mt. Olive. Kenneth
Ervin Oakes, white male. 26
*. 6. Fayettevflle. Leo^rd
Thomas Boahn, white maie. 3$,
*. 6, Fayettevilfe, The three
men are under a *1.000 bond
each and will appdar in Dls
trict Conn Nov. 13 for a hea
rt*.
The SB! of FayettevUie as*
sisted the local Sheriffs dept.
I in maklqg the arrests.
Special Investiga'or Qen J
ernigan said the sheriffs de
partment is investigating a b
. ?*St*in at JSI that took place
over the weekend. Jernlgans
aid 91.000 worth of tools were
stolen from the mechanics shop.
A car belonging to Douglas
Judge was also stolen. Judge's
??o was parked at JSI while
was in the building working.
Local Tax
Collections
Local 1% Sales and Use Tax
SS5f m> ^ -
Alcoholism Workshop
r.' .. f $ *. h. *? s
To Begin Friday
?%ZT2, SZ7.
(8 works nop on Alconoi A* I
ie and Alcoholism wUl be
i Friday. Oct. ?6. at 8:30
A. at Roee Hill Restaurant
ry. 117 North. Rose HU1. N.C.
[The Workshop U being spou
ted locally by Kenansville
hrcees in cooperation with D
PLIN MENTAL HEALTH C
klcoholUmi Professionals as
sisted with the Alcoholism
raining Program for NjC.{
SPNC ). based at ECU. Gre
ttllle. and Eastern Re-o
pn Alcoholism Prografii. al
ia with Duplin Mental Health
Inter will conduct the one
^tPr^lsdiviy^
t i- . ? - 4\ 1
gram coordinator, Division of
Mental Health said, "It is our
hope that local programs will'
find this workshop a meaning
Moot and that eomnmoitv ci
tlzens who mend will find it
useful to heto them In their
community , involvement in a
wanness of alcohol problems
and programs.
hi addition to private clti
?AAMA ,al ,,a m ?mamWK m m i'
?ww, represent Hives rrom co
mmaaity agencies such as thb
Medical Society, Public Health,
Lew Enforcement. Ministry So
cial Services, Hospital, and Ci
vic Clubs Witt be hi attendance.
The evening session, whichwtll
begin tt 7:80 pja., is open to
Ivey Amdrtg hmqiisTS
In Tractor Contest
RICHMOND, VA.-A 4-H'er
DIO Ml. Olive was among ft
lists -vying for top honors in
e Eastern U?. 4-H Tractor
id Small Engine Contests, Se
em ber 23-25, at the State
tir of Virginia here. |
Rouse Ivey, 18, son of Mr,
id Mrs. CjC. Ivey. represen
Id Ms state at the 23rd an
ital 4-H tractor event. Ivey's
rip was sponsored by Amoco
il Foundation, which provid
d the Guy Geinger Memorial
ward and to the top operator
od other awards in the contest.
Active for four of his nine
sate in 4-H in the tractor pro
ram Ivey has wan four county
ractor driving awards, and he
>ok second place In district
ompetitkn. His family's .203
ere tobacco farm gives him p
cal tractor operating exper
moo. Sp?
Participants in the tractor
I vis Ion of the Eastern contest
?ok a written test on tractor
operation, safety and maintena
nce and a practical exam in
specting a tractor for faulty
maintenance and safety items.
Efficient use of energy was
also stressed as everyone pa
rticipated in the first 4-H Pe
troleum Power Energy Crisis
Workshop at the start of the
three day event.
During the workshop the 4-H
'ers, their coaches and Exten
sion specialists helped develof
a year-long energy emphasis
program for uee throughout the
u;s.
Ivey also demonstrated his
ability to operate and handle
a tractor with a two-wheel and
a four-wheel implement attac
hed. Contestants tried to at
tain the lowest possible score
as they guided their machines
through a prescribed course.
The DupUn County youth was
also treated to a tour of co
lonial Jamestown, Williamsbu
rg. Yorktown and Amoco Oil's
Yorktown Refinery.
iM v .i:
.. i. . .. ? mx-i
pltfarming a th? W? s?w Vetwwi's iyf
Oldest Veteran In Duplin County
John Huffman, 87. will he honored as the oldest Veteran In
Duplin County with a gift and also he passed the Batton as
^art^of^he^Warw er^a^Diy^riehraUoti Nov. ll-18th.
Sod remembers going on Several cattle drives to Kansas <,
Clry. Mo. He entered the JJfi. Army on April 8,1917, embarked j
for Europe in 1917 on the battle ship Bohemian and served in
France with the 88th Division Field Artillary.
In 1925, Huffman moved to Lenoir City, Tenn. and went to
work for the Charles H. Bacon Holsery Mill where he retired
from in '9S0.
Huffman married the former Gertrude Parks of Lenoir City
and after her death in December of 1964 moved to High Point,
N.C, for eight years to live with his sister and brother in law.
He now lives at Whaley's Rest Home in Kenansville.
Major General William (Gib) Buck
Major General William McGilvery Buck if the North Caro
lina Army National Guard will be honored *t mars hall for
the Warsaw Veteran's Day Pa-ads to be held on Saturday
Wnlng November 10 In Warsaw.
Bu<k, a native of Warsaw is married to the former Martha
Hlnes of Warsaw and son of Mrs. George Bsnnett, Sr, of Warsaw.
Veteran's Week Nov. 5 - 11 th
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR VETERAN'S WEEK NOV. 6-llth
MONDAY Carnival opens 6 p.m.behind Wars aw Motor Co.
' TUESDAY??Carnival, Mourn Olive Rescue Squad demon
stration 7{S0, Fireworks 9 pjn.
I WEDNESDAY-Carnlval 6 pjn. until, Jaycee Pancake Supper
pjn. until. Bike Race 7 pjn. In front
Saturday?Carnival open all day. Parade 11 ajn? Barbeque
Dinner Firehouae. Adtlqus Car Show 2:30 pjn. Baptist lot.
Horse Show 2 pjn. Warsaw Rolling Acres Saddle Club hwy 24 w.
Parachute Free Drop 1:30 pjn. McCullen Airport. GolfTWw
name? | Duplin Coumry^ Oub Ernr^ Fee 125.00. Dance 9 ?itU
SUNDAY?Memorial Services at 2 pjn. Devotional Gar
? ctypis, Golf Tournaments * , '?$'
?$'? butiofn with the carnival*
Report On The Status Of
Health Services In Duplin
EDITORS NOTE: The follow
ing is a report on the status
of health services In Duplin
County to the Duplin County
Board of County Commissio
ners. The report was made
by a special health care task
force made up of the follow
ino persons*
William W. Calhoun. Res
earch Associate Duke Univer
sity. Durham, NJC.J William
C. Bjrrd. Associate Dean Sch
ool of Allied Health and Social
Professions. Director, Office
of Community Health Services.
ECU, Greenville, N.C.; Wes
ley Culllpher, Director Albe
marle Regional Planning and
Development Commission, Ed
enton, N.C^ Professor Leonard
Dawson, Dept. of Health Edu
cation, School of Public Health,
UNC-Chapel Hill, NjC? Ben
jamin Drake, MJ)m Director
Gaston County Health Dept.,
Gastonia, NjC.; Robert Holm
es, DJljsn Dentist in Private
Practice, Ashevtlle, NjCj Ja
mes E. Lewis, Executive Di
rector Albemarle Human Re
sources Development System,
Edenton, NjCw Gary E. Lew
is, Public Health fthicaror, D
ept. of Community Health, Sc
hool of Allied Health and So
cial Professions. ECU, Green
ville, N.C.S Jerry F. Latter
hoe. Director Alcoholism Tr
aining Program for NJC? Sc
hool of Health ?nd So
-fhivate Practice. Chairman, E
' ducatlon Committee, NjC. Ms
demy of Family Physicians,
Thornasville, N.C.; Thomas M.
Surratt, Executive Vice-Pres
ident Chowan Hospital, Eden
ton, NjC.- J. Ed Stodghill Of
fice of Economic Opportunity,
HEW, Region 4, Atlanta. Ga.;
Nelson W. Oldman. Director
of Education, Art Centre Hos
pital, Detroit, Michigan.
services and no overall con
sensus on goals and objectives.
This has resulted in the under
utilisation of a number of ser
vices and programs. In a-real
sense, a functioning system do
es not exist until a consider
able degree of coordination and
planning are implemented.
2. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
A COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH
PLANNING MECHANISM (s)F
OR THE SHORT AND LONG
RANGE DEVELOPMENT OF H
EALTH SERVICES.
Few agencies could document
the need for existing services
or programs and consequently
their projected needs and plans
for the future were virtually non
exist ant and lac icing in subs
tance. A comprehensive plan
ning mechanism could serve a
review and coordinating func
tion for all new programs, ser
vices and proposals.
3. Accountability to the county
commissioners of all programs
and services is less than ef
fective. Most of the agencies
are "doing their own thing"
and, with few exceptions, ans
wer to the county commissi
oners only on questions of bud
get. SOME MECHANISM IS RE
QUIRED WHICH WOULD RE
SULT IN UTILIZATION REVI
EW OF EXISTING SERVICES,
PROGRAMS, AND FACILTTIE
S. In short, a mechanism to
insure quality control of the
health services systettilsik
the development and utilization
of a guide, for program review
and evaluation and the esta
blishment of a process of pro
gram review. All county bud
gets Should be PROGRAM BU
DGETS as well as line-item
budgets.
4. THE NEED ?"OK TIGH
TER FISCAL MANAGEMENT
IS READILY APPARENT.
Numerous cases were cited
of extravagant expenditures for
unnecessary equipment, person
nel and facilities. This Is to say
that the expected benefits would
not Justify the financial outlay.
A program budget for equip
ment is as Important as a pro
gram budget for activities.
5. THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF A PERSONNEL SYSTEM
WHICH REQUIRES REGULAR,
FORMAL REVIEW OF ALL P
ERSONNEL.
Such a system should in
clude formal policies an hi
ring, promotion, retention, di
smissal, inter-agency transfer
and should uniformly apply to
all county agencies. It should
apply to all levels of employ
ment including administrative/
management persons. To be
effective, the system mu3t ha
ve an appeal mechanism and
enforcement powers. Questions
of personnel competence and
effectiveness could be dealt wi
th in an unbiased professional
and direct manner. One of the
Important aspects of this pro
gram is that of assuring that
everyone knows what his Job
is and what is expected of
him. The county might well
benefit from the total institu
tion of a Management-try-Ob
jectives program similar to
that now in use by the NjC.
Dept. of Human Resources.
Such programs as these go
a long way toward reducing
inter-agency Jealousies and a
Uow the same Job description
and person to be used in more
than one agency for example,
community workers are used
by several county agencies and
would be easily transferred,
should be able to be utilized
IS fay more thw one program,
nd should have equal pay for
6. THE DEVELOPMENT OF
'ugRssugs017
. ? MEKT, AND OPERATIONS), ;
a report on the status of
health services to the
duplin county board of
county commissioners
The following report is a
statement of recommendations
from the Health Care Task
Force at the request of the
county commissioners.
The first of two sections of
the report is a brief state
ment of general recommenda
tions. Section two is a more
detailed statement of specific
recommendations as they ap
ply to various components of
the health services system.
The Task Force was aware
that specific plans for imple
mentation of these recommen
dations roust by necessity be
locally decided and initiated.
More Intimate knowledge of lo
cal situations and resources
are critical to a plan of im
plementation. Therefore, the f
ollowing recommendations re
present an assessment by an
ad hoc group of health profes
sionals from outside the cou
nty and are submitted as the
collective judgment of that gr
oup. In no sense are they vi
ewed as inviolable but qre per
ceived as a guide for consi
deration and action.
The recommendations posi
ted are not discrete items but
are linked together in various
combinations. They are pres
ented as if distinctive from
each other to focus attention u
pon one issue at a time to dra
matise its importance. The re
commendations are not ranked
by priority but are rather ar
bitrarily ordered.
GENERAL RECOMMENDATK*
l.the establishment of
a mechanism (?) for the
coordination of existing
PTOC^^S^ND^RVICES IN
ensive procedure which wou
ld promote staff development.
Tut-of-county visitations, per
clpatlon In professional me
etings and seminars and mo
re formal professional train
ing offer excellent possibilit
ies. Numerous state and fe
deral personnel are available
for consultation at no cost to
the requesting agency. Under
utllizatlon of such resources
is apparent.
7. EXPANDED UTILIZATION
OF OUT-OF-COUNTY SOURC
ES OF MANPOWER.
Reluctance on the part of
county agencies to call on out
side help should be examined.
Out-of-county resources srea
v all able for program review
and evaluation, program plan
ning and development, proposal
writing and assistance in secu
ring grants, and both general
and categorical consultation en
a wide range of issue. Much
of this assistance is available
it little or no cash cost.
8. A CRITICAL REVIEW OF
ALL POLICY BOARDS IN THE
COUNTY.
Observations of existing po
licy boards indicate rather wide
discrepancies as to their met
hod of selection, operation, and
general effectiveness. Alleged
ly, a number of individuals
are members of several boa
rds concurrently, many mem
bers do not attend board me
etings, and sereral boards ex
bywt meeting or fay meeting
so seldom as to be ineffective.
The review of existing boards
should strive for witter com
munity representation and es
tablish policies regarding te
rms of office, attendance and
dismissal. IN NO CASE should
a board be empowered to be
self-perpetuating. All boards
should be required to suhmit
minutes ot mil meetings to ipe
county commissioners and re
port their deliberations and de
cisions to the community through
appropriate effective channels.
All members of policy boards
should be required to undergo
substantive training to function
on a board. Training services
from sources such as the In
stitute of Government might
be utilized and they should be
encouraged to conduct the tra
ining sessions locally.
9. THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF A COMPREHENSIVE INV
ENTORY OF RESOURCES IN
DUPLIN COUNTY.
This should include not only
an inventory of health and me
dical facilities, personnel and
services but also an inventory
of skills and services in the
private sector. For instance,
local industry undoubtedly has
a number of people with ex
pertise in administration and
management which could be uti
lized to review and evaluate ad
ministrative operations of agen
cies or to conduct in-servloe
training in management prac
tices and principles. Rescue
squads in the county obvious
ly have organisational skills
and communication skills which
might be utilised as a public
relation or community educa
tion forum to promote utili
sation or svpport for near and
existing services. Jaroes Sprunt
Technical Institute and particu
larly personnel at the Mental
Health Center should be encou
raged to continue their cur
rent operations and to expand
their areas of expertise for the
I benefit of other agendas in
the county. Joint utilisation of
facilities should also be pro
moted; for nkample, If dm Hea
lth Dept. needs e laboratory,
they could utilise existing la
boratory facilities In the hos
pital.
10. the development
OF a comprehensive pr
ogram of health educa
tion and primary prev- ,
ention.
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