jjj IrfV v . # ^^V. |HHk. M VQtwXXXXU NO. 42 KENANSVILLE. NC 2WW OCTOBER 20. 1977 K PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX %-? ?______ , si., i m__^ ? ffW ^g=g!!g^^ ? 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. -? v' ' '' T 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 ?. , , 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. I Duplin Dinner Scheduled Saturday For MOC \v, . %< ? .... ?? .* .-'.s 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 C; 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 -ta?- w> huii your entrv to bear a we! ?rntt&ufX!SSS m2 nesse Com ??? S??i "tXfcZ | jm Mill work!* loc . Ro?s? 2lS j sir -mouth. W?rs?w; West Auto ts. ? Warsaw, KcnantvHIe ??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)