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? COLLIDE - According to Investigating Patrolman KF. Smith. Cecil
Hris. ?. of Bladenboco. driving a 1977 Ford trBck owned by
' ' ?vt iq front of a 1970 Ford truck, owned by Flakes Tire
Hth' Monk Street in Magnolia at 9:40 a.m. Monday. Chavis was
of Faycttcvtllc". wiis driving Flakes truck and was sli^htK injurt^oHwT'v^s
chained with failure to stop at a stop sign.
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Appropriates Funds W JSI
The Duplin County Board of
Commissioners appropriated
440,443 to James Sprunt Insti
tute Monday to meet the needs
of the Institute for a six-month
penoo.
Dr. Carl Price and Robert
Lee. met with the Board to
request assistance from anti
recession hinds to: maintain IVt
existing positions; re-establish
2 Vi positions; meet institutional
needs due to 25% enrollment
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Walter Brown. Nutrition
Director, appeared before the
Board to report on the new 1978
contract for meals. Brown
reported that additional funds
will be needed from the county
to continue the program in the
amount of SI 1.591 of which
11.591 would be over what was
appropriated last year. The
Board approved the budget
increase.
Frank Herring. International
Systems. Inc.. met with the
Board to discuss renewal of a
contract between Duplin County
and International Systems. Inc.
in the amount of $4,000. The
Commissioners decided that the
Ncusc River Council of Govern -
nicnt could give better service in
obtaining grants and did not
renew the contract.
Leland Grady. Tan Collector,
appeared to present his tax
collection report for the month
and year-to-date. For the month
of September, tax collections
amounted to $284.Ifft .62 and
year-to-date $599,466.42.
The Commissioners received
the Antieipated Allocations for
Secondary Roads with Bond
Issue Approval for 1977-1979
Biennium. Total funds to be
received over a five-year period
will be $944,269.
The Commissioners agreed to
host the December meeting of
the Neuse River Council of
Governments. The meeting wiH
be held at The Country Squire
on December 16. 1977.
The Board discussed again a
countv-wide recreation pro- ?
gram. After much discussion,
tlic matter was tabled to a later
meeting.
The Board appointed Eddie
Lindscv of Route I. Mount Olive
to the Airport Commission.
Harriet Farrior. Sue Brooks
and Georgia Longest of the
Wallace Junior Women's Gub
met with the Board to request
that the County Commissioners
make plans to construct an
auditorium in the Wallace
community. They presented a
petition signed by members of
the club and a written message
prepared by Mrs. Margaret
Jones Glasgow. No action was
taken by the Board. They sug
gested the group meet with the
Board of Education.
Dr. H.W. Stevens. Health
Director, appeared to report
m.ti uk> grant application in the
amount of $62,031 for a Primary
Health Care program has been
approved. He requested the
Commissioners to consider en
larging the Health Department
as more space will be needed
before the program can be
started. The Board asked Dr.
Stevens to consider using the
vacant offices at the Dogpound
Plaza as additional temporary
space for Health Department
personnel.
The Board designated
Monday. December 25. 1978.
and Tuesday. December 26.
: 1978. as Christmas Holidays for
1978.
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Duplin Dinner Scheduled
Saturday For MOC
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The Free Wttl Baptists of
Doplin County wiH hold their
annual dinner for Mount Olive
? i CdUejje on Saturday, October 22
"it 6:30 p.m. at East Duplin
High School cafeteria, according
K?e Rev. Chris Singleton and
. Mary G. Bell, co-chairmen
of the dinner.
At the Duplin County dinner.
Mount OHve College will pre
sent three S100 scholarships to
the church giving the greatest
amount at the dinner, the
church giving the greatest
amount per capita (Average per
MIIUKIII pvi "??ima V?rv>ngv
member); and to the church
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The dinner is one of seven
teen held annually throughout
eastern North Carolina on
behalf of Mount Olive College,
which is sponsored by the N.C.
State Convention of Original
Free Will Baptists. f. '
The College hopes to raise a
minimum of SI00.000 at the
dinners, which are being held J
during October and November,
last year. Duplin Free Will
Baptists raised S7.058 of the
over W2.000 raised at the
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Duplin Lacks Industries
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Lack of industries to employ
Duplin County workers remains
the greatest problem faced by
the county according to James
Rusher. Duplin Industrial
Development Director.
Rusher told N.C. Secretary of
Commerce D.M. (Lauch)
Faircloth of Clinton that the
county's unemployment rate is
11%. Faircloth appeared at a
county economic development
meeting chaired by County
Commissioner Arliss Albertson.
Rusher told Faircloth there
are 2,250 unemployed in Duplin
County, and of these 1J10 have
1,450 Duplin residents travel
daily to jobs In other counties.
st Oowsboro and to industries in
and to Camp Lejeune. he added.
Rusher also noted the Sute's
per capita income in 197S was
$4,922. while Duplin's per
capita figure was only $4,400.
He said the Council of Govern
ments Region P. which includes
Duplin. Onslow. Greene, Jones,
Pamlico. Craven. Wayne and
Carteret Counties, had an em
ployment growth between 1970
and 1974 of 4.6 percent. During
the last seven years. Duplin has
only had a 3.2 percent increase
in employment. and only 2.7
percent in industrial employ
ment.
"We in the east are in bad
shape, as the figures I've just
given you show, and we need
help." Rusher told Faircloth.
Russell Bostic of Beulavillc
said the whole area needs a
good east-west road, and asked tl
what had happened to a pro
posed plan for improving N.C.
24 between Fayetteville and
Jacksonville.
Faircloth said a study had
been made when he was State
Highway Commissioner under
Gov. Robert Scott on upgrading
the highway, but nothing had
been done about it since then.
Faircloth opened the session
with the comment that North
Carolina is the second best
qualified state in the nation for
industrial development.
California being the best. He
added California has water
problems and North Carolina
has plenty ol ? ater.
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McCullough
0*i? Com Administrator
Intermediate care
^J^Culloufh received^ his
McCullough serv ed as assistant
administrator of the Sacred
Heart Nursing Home.
McCullough is the former
manager of the Armstrong
County. Pa.. Chamber at Com
meres. During WWII, he served
is a captain in the II.! Marine
e South hcUk
His wile. Jo. is a registered
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Briefs
METHODIST BAZAAR
The Kenansvillc United
Methodist Church is having its
annual bazaar Tuesday and
Wednesday. October 25 and 26.
GRA9Y4UTMW REUNION
V The annual reunion of the
Grady-Outlaw Literary and His
toricai 'Association will be held
at B.F. Grady School near
Alberttjnn on Saturday. Oc tober^ .
22. Registration will begin at
ffcJOAST
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Ci-rtarf Dantict ^
^oncora Baptist cnorcn. or
Route I. Rom Hill (between
Magnolia and Dei way, will
Kenansville Receives
*106,167 Manpower Grant
Kenansville Town Adminis
trator Woody Brinson was noti
fied this past Wednesday.
October 12th. that the Town of
Kenansville had been awarded a
grant in the amount of $106,167
from the North Carolina State
Manpower Office. The grant
will enable the Town to hire 12
people to work for the Town for
one year in various community
development projects.
According to Administrator
Brinson. the funds will primarily
be used for various public
facility projects, such as park
improvements, completion of
the Town's maintenance "build
ing. Town Hall renovations,
sidewalk construction, building
new "Welcome to Kenansville"
signs, and various other pro
jects. Also, several of the em
ployees will be available to
assist low-income, elderly
families with housing rehabili
tation and winterization home
? ???pi vTWiiiciii piujtwia. ? lie
Kenansvillc office of the Region
P HUD Housing Program under
the direction of Dan Newkirk,
wilt be assisting the Town in this
housing rehabilitation program.
Potential employees must
meet certain Federal guidelines
for this program funded through
the Comprehensive Education
and Training Act (CETA). Title
VI Program. These guidelines
require all applicants to be
unemployed for IS weeks, gross
family income at or below 70%
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
lower living standard income
level, and be a resident of
Duplin COuWty-. Anyone TT
tcrcsted in applying for a job is
required to first be registered
with the local Employment
Security Commission, who must
verify the applicant's eligibility.
Concert
A Sell
Out
The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Concert Thursday night.
October 20. is a sell-out.
Alfred Wells, publicity chair
man for the Tar Heel Fine Arts
Society, announced Monday
that the non-profit organization
has sold approximately 2.000
tickets, and tickets would not be
available at the door.
Son Of A Gun
Bv Jo* Laaior
On the way to Kenansville, a
couple of weeks or so ago, early
in the morning at West Siding, I
saw a female still dressed in her
night clothes and what I call a
housecoat, running along the
highway with a frantic look on
hot face., .So I stopped to see if
"I ?
was hlell West, and 1 said.
"Morning. Nell. . . . You got
probkems this morning?". .
."Yes," she replied. "I am
trying to find my sheezoo.". .
."Did someone steal it?" 1
asked.. ."No," she replied, "it
just ran away." . . .Well, I
thought to myself, she is just
upset. . .Ain't no way a motor
cycle can run away by itself. .
.About that time she began
calling "Chopsticks. . Chop
sticks. . .Here, Chopsticks". .
."Nell," I said, "let's start all
over. . .What are you looking
for?". . ."My dog. . .Chop
sticks.". . ."I thought you said
you were looking for a motor
cycle. . .a Sheezoo or a Suzuki
... or something."., ."No, no.
my dog. . .It's a Shihi Tzu. . .1
let him out this morning, and he
ran out here toward the highway
and I am afraid he will get run
over and killed. . .But when 1
catch him 1 am going to strangle
him." . . .Well, she caught the
what-)4>u-may-call it. . .Didn't
strangle it though she did scold
it. . . I got back in my VW and
continued on to Kenansville. .
.That dog had the hair on its
head pulled up into a pony-tail
to keep it out of its eyes. I guess.
It wasn't much bigger than a
cat and vaguely resembled a
Pekingese. . .But I sure thought
she was talking about a motor
cycle .. .
Along about the beginning of
the football season. James
Kenan played the Pender
Patriots, once called Burgaw. .
.And before the new school was
built, football games were
played on a field south of town
along the railroad tracks. .
.Well, a couple of fellows. Joe
Lcc Costin and friends decided
to attend the game, but
apparently forgot the new
school had been build, and went
to fho oM vito Rt' nknnofl
carnival ?as being held there.-, .
.They paid their dollar and went
inside, but found no football
game. . .Probably no girlie
shows either. . .After a little
confusion and the refusal of a
refund at the gate, they were ?
directed to the new football field
site and attended the game. .
After the game they returned to
th^car to find they had failed to
shut the engine (iff and it had
been running at idle while they
were watching the game. . .Bet
they didn't get very good gas
mileage....
This and that, briefly. . .The
Town Board of Beulavilie has
passed an ordinance allowing no
consuming of alcoholic bever
sF^d<^c"?nEr
littering citations. .. . For many
years, the jury personnel has
used a water-bucket and a
dipper in the jury room. . .
.Water was dipped from the
bucket and pouted into paper
cups for drinking. . .However,
OSHA says, no qiore. . .The
buckufcanii djppx.iaa iw Iwmt
in the Clerk of Court's office on
display as a memento of times
past. . .The Town of Wallace
Wfter Department pumps five
times as much water each day as
the rest of Duplin County put
together. . .5 million gallons
daily?except Sunday. . .when
only a million gallons is
pumped. . .Ever hear of
"Natural Wells"?. . .Well,
there is a post office, or there
was once a postoffice in Duplin
County named Natural Wells . .
The old building still stands. .
.A story will be coming from
that one. shortly... Drink bottle
deposits have gone up to 10
cents each. . .That makes them
worth stealing as can be noted
from the Sheriff*s report. .
.Someone stole over a hundred
cartons of bottles from a store. .
.Chances are the stores will
have to clean up and house their
bottles.. .Son-of-a-gun....
didn't even tighten the caMcs. No strain lj*tee)