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Kendnsville Fire Department Has Twenty-Fifth Anniversary I
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ttftWdlgtbe fire service, to ask I
tun to serve with them.
The Keaansville Fire
Committee began meeting
immediately to plan for a fire
department. After many meet
ings with compete nt advisors,
traveling to look at equipment,
and conversations with appara
tus thapufacturers. the Fire
Committee made its report. The
report was adopted and the
|?m- Board pet the first (re
trtif in the 1953-54 budget.
\ft r receiving bids from
several firms, the truck was
purchased from Sheffield Motor
Company of Warsaw and built
by American-LaFrance Corpor
ation of Elmira, New York. The
i contract was signed the first
Monday in August at 1953.
The Board of Commissioners
appointed Rev. Sharpe to the
office of Fire Chief and gave him
full authority to organize and
manage the Kenansville Fire
Department. This action oc
curred in June of 1953. Sharpe
appointed the following officers
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and men to be the charter
members of the volunteer*
department: Chief Lauren
Sharpe; Asst. Chief Ralph T
Brown; Captains Willard
Brinson and Harry W. Murphy;
'Lieutenants Jack Brinson and
Donald Murphy; Sec.-Treas.
Phil Kretsch; and Firemen Key
Bowden, Woodrow Brinson.
Samngr Daunhtry, Charles
Guthrie, Charles Nicholson,
Timmy QutUw, Billy Stephens,
and Stpve Williamson.
No money was, or ever has
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SL paid to any of these men,
?to those who followed them,
their faithful service to their
nds'knd neighbors. In a very
I MHfce. they have lived by
Golden Rule. Upon their
tpoinfaent, these firemen
dertook an intensive training
tgrant prior to the arrival of
t fire truck. The truck
tved the 16th of March, 1953,
. had the citizens of the commu
I3?ty began receiving creditable
giro l(i and an insurance reduc
tion on fiife premiums.
In order to improve fire pro
' tection for Kenansville, and to
be. able to participate in the
IXiplin County Fire Service, a
second truck was purchased in
August 1961. The county then
began financing fire protection
for the county by contracting
with the departments which met
state standards for rural fire
districts.
The Town of Kenansville had
no fire station. A shelter had
been provided by Asst. Chief
Ralph Brown from 1954 until
1962. The Fire Department or
ganized as a contracting agency
within itself in early 1962 by
receiving a state charter as
Kenansville Fire Department,
Inc. As a chartered group it
could contract for indebtedness
without an obligation on the part
of the Town. The Kenansville
Fire Department. Inc. secured a
loan from Home Federal
Savings and Loan of Kinston to
build a fire house.' Godwin
Contractors of Warsaw was
awarded the contract, and the
building was constructed. It.
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along with an ambulance and a
tanker, was dedicated in Janu
ary of 1%3. The indebtedness
was retired in 1974 by funds
from the county contracts, the
town maintenance support and
private donations.
In the fall of 1970, the water
and sewer program of the Town
was well underway. The Town
Board was informed that the
Town must own a pumper of
large capacity to meet the
requirements for a Class "8"
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Road priorities, described at
unfair and incorrect, were
pretested by Several residents
daring the Monday meeting of
the Board of Commissioners.
The problem of recompense
to rescue squads from out of the
county and of obtaining recom
pense lor county squads
answering out-of-county calls
was alee discussed. Officials of
the WbMace Rescue Squad re
quested a meeting with Pender
County Commissioners next
month to try to work out some
thing.
In response to electrical
insulation inspector Warren
Dnle's comment that "of all the
jobs I've been to, I've only
found two (insulations) that
' were right," the Board called
for a meeting of the county
March 29 in the Agricultural
Building in KenansviHe.
The possibility of establishing
a full-time building inspector
position and requiring building
permits will be discussed at that
time. The Board also voted to
the $ll,500-a-yesr position
starting next month.
In response to a request of
Richard Harrcll, Dupfin General
Hospital adniinistrator, to in
crease the size of the Physician
Recruitment Committee, the
Board appointed Rudolph
Becton of Magnolia, Virginia
Veach of Warsaw, Helen
Murray of Wallace, and George
F. Landon of Chinquapin, to the
committee.
Protesting road priorities
were Floyd Kennedy, Lester
Houston and Kim Hatcher, who
live on State Road 1719 between
Beulaville and Chinquapin.
They want their dirt road paved
and said its priority rating had
dropped from 20 to 33 due to a
bad traffic count. They said a
recount broughttlfettraffic count
up to 250 a day frotnlhe 80 per
day in an earlier count, which
was taken during bad weather
when the rottd was nearly
impassable.
They pointed out that a
nearby road, SR 1723, was
moved up to lOtfi priority this
year from 51st last year. They
said their road of 2.3 miles has
17homes, while the 1.9-mile SR
1723 has only seven homes on it.
"The system's not working
right," Kennedy said. They
pointed out SR 1723 only has a
traffic count of 161 vehicle* |
compared with the 250 on their <
rond. <
Speaking to TJV. Funder- '
burk, DOT district highway 1
engineer, Kennedy said, "We 1
have been mistreated, and I'm <
going to meetings to try to get <
our road on the right priority. 1
Do you blame me?" ?
Funderburk said he could not
make any priority changes, that
such changes would have to
come from the Board of
Transportation, and the District -
Highway Commissioner, who is
a member of the overall board.
Kennedy asked the Board of
Commissioners what it could do
about getting the road priority
changed. Commissioner D.J.
Fussell answered, "We don't
have one damn thing to do with
it." Commissioner J.W. Hoffler
commented, "Alt we can do is
beg."
Joe Johnson o? Warsaw also
protested a lowered priority on
his road, claiming a nearby
road with fewer houses and less
traffic was scheduled for
pavitog.
Fuhderburk said priorities
would be reviewed next year<
Hiram Brinson, Emergency
Services Coordinator, and J.C.
Bryant, captain of the Wallace
Rescue Squad, discussed multi
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sounty complications and were
instructed to ask the Pender
County Board at Burgaw for
financial help for the Wallace
Kfuad. Wallace is located just
north of the Duplin-Pender
County line and answers many
talis in Pender County ? about
12-15% of the total calls. Bryant
laid the Squad answered 87
Itv-'t, . a.", ?,
calls in tender last year.
Duplin has made arrange^
ments with the Pink Hill, Mount
Olive afld Harrells Rescue
Squads, alk of which serve
border areas of Duplin, to pay
them stated amounts each year
for carrying Duplin residents to
hospitals. However, Pender has
no such arrangement with the
-idL fov - Jf 'V .-:';'
Wallace Squad.
Frank Moore, appearing as
County Veterans' Service Offi
cer, reported S2.758.92S was
paid Duplin County veterans in
pensions, compensation,
readjustment and vocational re
habilitation and insurance and
indemnities last year by the
federal government.
left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beiihfh Grady of 1
Faison, wa^ named^^^ron^up and Nikki :
Ford To Play In Kenansville Friday
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UNC Vs Kenansville Jaycees
The seniors from this year's
regular season champions, the
UNC Tarheels, will play an
exhibition game in KenansviOe
Friday night at 7 p.m. Their
opponents will be the Kenans
ville Jayoees, who are sponsor
ing this event for the fourth
year.
Leading the Carolina team
will be AO American guard Phil
Ford. The 6'2" guard from
Rocky Mount is UNCs career
leader in scoring and assists. He
was picked ACC Player of die
Year, National Player of the
Year by THE SPORTING NEWS
and the National Association of
Basketball Writers, and has
mads; every first team Atl
American. Ford averaged
almost 20 points per game for
four years, and played in four
NCAA tournaments. He is truly
one of the most exciting players
in college basketball history and
has a fine future in pro basket
ball.
Tom ZaHagtris will also play
for the 'Heels. "Zal". as he is
known by players and fans, was,
a starter at guard for this year's
team. The 6'5" Lavonia,
Michigan, star is a gutsy player
whose outside shooting helped
defeat Purdue in the 1970
Eastern Regional* en route to a
2nd place NCAA finish.
The final senior to appear will
boGeff Cromptpn, a key resets*
on tfiis year's teaih. Crompton is
a 6'11" 290 lb. native of
Burlington. He battled a weight
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Phil Ford
bo>. - .. . ......... _w...i.:..j!., Bank of North Carolina, and
to the team's championship.
Two former UNC players will
finish out the Carolina team, but
their names are not available at
press time. ' .
Tickets will be S3 per person
and are available in advance
frOlh Kenansville Drug Store,
Quinn's Variety, Tastee Frees,
r
Dean's Barber Shop. You can
also buy tickets at tlte door. ..
You are asked to come out
and support the Jaycees while
watching some tremendous
basketball talent. AU proceeds
wlU be used in community ser
vice projects by the Kffmmsvillc
Jaycees. i #$, ? V *? * v
Kenansville Receives Grant .^4
Congressmen Charlie
Whitley' w*i notified
Fuesdt by tfce F
?f 14.600 ft* th
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. m spokesman for WhtUpyVs
office said the grant, coupled
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with $17,900 contributed by the
town, v ill be used to constn
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law tn<
waited water treatment facility.
' The information received by
Whitley's office Mid that &e
added drying beds would ??
vice 295 residential users "\ >*>*
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Son Of A Gun
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By Joo.Lonior
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The Duplin County Board of
education met last week. The
Administrative office, under the
guiding hands, I assume, of
Superintendent Charles
Yelverton, prepared a prelimi
nary budget booklet. The book
?appe*red t0 h,ve some 70 to
100 pages. . .The office had
gone to the expense and trouble
Copies- which
were handed out to the Board
members. . .According to
Yelverton, "If, hot 0ff the
press. The ink is not even dry."
A little over two hours was
spent by Yelverton and his
Assistant Superintendents ad
vmjg the Board st the contents
of this budget booklet. It was
Asked that comments from the
Board members on the budget
5* p[e*I,ted #t ? l?ter date,
March 28, to save time;-. .So the
time spent was just presenting
the figures and some explana
tions on some figures..
Following the meeting. 1
asked for a copy of the budget
Booklet, but was told the figures
were "uninhibited" and no
where near correct, and my
request for * copy was refused
By Superintendent Yelverton
But. he said when he got the
budget right, he would give me
SSPw' -However' ? copy of the
filial budget request will now
show me where his priorities lie.
-_-or the School Board's. The
first rough draft of a budget is
supposed to .horn all requests
from all schools, all depart
ments, and so on. .The final
budget is to show only those
?2?f. deemed essential or
desired by the Administration
Office and School Board. . .So
12*" left out or added
to from the first to the last
budget is now known excepting
toffie Board and Administrative
Office J won't know, for
example i, something re
quested for a school unit left out
tn favor of something wanted at
the Administration offices
J* a salary request for janitors
left out and administration
request for school building
3rfieft i^T?me2 *il
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presented at all. . .My biggest
question, or perhaps I should
say the thing that confuses me
the most is, what is so darn
secretive about the Duplin
County School System?. . .And
why is it so?....
I did not make notes on the
budget for I expected to get a
copy. I did make notes from a
work sheet used to explain a
part of the budget., .However, I
did not understand all the
figures. . .A couple of things
that did stick in my mind was
that the rough draft budget was
around four million dollars with
an increase from Duplin tax
revenues of oyer 5600,000. . .Let
me remind you again, these are
rough figures. . .What the need
or where the need. I have no
idea.. . .Another item I re
membered. . .The assistant
superintendents make from five
times to six times the average
Duplin County income, and
about four times the amount
made by the school janitors. .
.This stuck out in my mind
because I can see what the
janitors do, but can not always
see what the assistant superin
tendents do. . .Don't misunder
stand me.. .Here 1 do not blame
them, nor do I expect the
assistant superintendents to ask
for a salary decrease. . .They
would be foolish not to take s
every dime the Board will pay
them
Did you ever see an ice j
plant?. . .Think about it. . .The
other day, a mom out for a ride
with her children, saw a sign
indicating the directions to an
ice plant, and she made the
remark, "1 didn't know there
was an ice plant over thete." |
One of her kids immediately
looked in the direction Mom was j
looking and said, "Let's stop
and buy one for Grandma to go
with the rest of her plants.". .
.Thinking of green or flowering I
plants, the five-year-old con
tinued, "I wonder what keeps it ,
1 was talking with El wood j
Revelle and Doug Clark in front
of the Courthouse this week, . j
stuck out his hand and said,
"My name is Doug Clark, and I ?<
am running for the State Hawse J|