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I VOL.ZXXXDNO.37 KENANSVOLE. NC 28349 SEPTEMBER 14.1978 10 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX ^
Son Off A Gun
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iA lew years back when the
chicken was for Sunday eating
only, moat housewives had the
unpleasant chore of defeather
ing the bird. . .a job that would
take even the swiftest around
fifteen minutes. . .There was a
young black man in Arkansas,
Tom Beasley, who could pluck
all the feathers off six chickens
before you could pour the drink
oat of a small ooke bottle to the
around. . Tom Beasley lives in
Duplin County now. . .He is
retired, in his eariy 70's, and
lives between Warsaw and
Magnolia, p?
He was telling me how he
learned the trick from Dallas
Hooks in Arkansas, and it tool
him to the Worlds Fair ii
Chicago. many foreign
countries, and led him to a job
that lasted 32 years . . .that oi
valet to Superior Court Judge
Felix Frankfurter. fe
Turn's best record on ptuckinf
chickens was 20 in a minute. He
tried severaUimes to better this
record, and still feels he couk
have, though he never did.
I Twenty chickens in a minute
staggers the imagination. .1
[to a feat hard to believe, am
Maimost as hard to see. . .Ton
?tells of the time his moth?
?wanted him tu show his extra
? all was made ready. . .Tom wai
? to do his thing at church to hel|
?raise money for the buildin)
? fond. . .Tom's mom saw that al
?was ready. . .the water, th<
?chickens, and all. . .She tolc
? Tom to go ahead and start au<
?she would go over and sit dowi
? to watch. . .Trouble was, whei
?die got set down, Tom wa
? There is a secret to Tom'
?chicken-plucking. The chicke!
?must not bleed before beinj
?defeathered. . .The chicken'
?heck is broken, but the skin I
?not. . .Once in the water, tin
w -W y~\
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feather* just roll off. "You got 1
to do it while hot.. .When afoul ?!
gets hot, they fluff their 1
feathers." This i? what happen* ,
in the bloodless defeathering
systent.Tom Beasley uses. . .To <
a chicken farmer in the early <
1930's, Tom Beasley was a <
walking chicken plucking i
1 factory. . .A large chicken farm <
back then probably would only j
have around 3,000 chickens a i
1 week to sell, and for Ton
| Beasley. this was less than three
hour's work. . .Tom said he
1 picked or plucked chickens on a:
contract basis. . .One cent each.
. .Thus when jobs were hard to
1 find in the Depression, Tom ?'
1 Beasley was making the un
' heard of S10 an hour, plucking ;
1 chickens at one cent apiece. .
' .Tom said he would charge 5 j
' cents to pluck a duck, for they
were a little more difficult...
He won all sorts of chicken
> plucking contests. . .at the
Chicago Worlds Fair?lust like
| John Henry, the steel driving
? man, Tom took on a machine in
a contest. . He beat the darn '
thing, too. . .By the time the
* machine got ready to work, Tpm
1 Beasley was finished... ?
1 Tom met and befriended
r many Important people while he j
r IfttR.
F chicken plucking, one of these . I
J friends snggested he. go to,
1 Washington, and arranged the
* job aS personal valet to Stiperior
5 Court Judge Felix Frankfurter,
5 a job that was expected to last
j only a few weeks...
' But the job did, in fact, last
? until the Judge s death 32
| years later. . .It was Tom
j Beasley's job to post the mail,
carry the judicial decisions to
I the printers, and to do the
5 Judge's bidding. . .The rela
tionship over the years went far
5 beyond the employer-employee
II relationship. . .The last words
B the Judge said before passing
s on were, "1 have only one
* regret. Tom, and that is I can't
B take you with me."
I Groundbreaking for the erec
Ition of a basic structural
?industrial building will take
?place in Wallace Thursday,
September 14 at four o'clock,
?fee groundbreaking win take
?dace on a 20-acre site south of
HTsllace on Highway 117.
? Admiral William M. A.
?teen. Executive Director of the
?
1 Groundbreaking
For Industrial Site
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N.C. Ports Authority, will make
the principal address.
Tommy Baker of Wallace,
member of the N.C. House of
Representatives, will act as
master of ceremonies.
The public is invited to
attend.
plant. The mooey is ? grant made by the Farm
Home AdiatahtoaOuw. Woody Brinsoo. V
Kenansville Town Administrator, looks on as
check was nrr iaafnil
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JSI Graduation Set For Sunday 1
The sixteenth annual gradba
ion exercises for James Sprunt
Institute will be held on Sunday,
September 17 at 6 p.m. in the
William Rand Kenan, Jr.
Amphitheatre in Kenansville.
Over 190 graduates will re
ceive degrees, diplomas, and
certificates in general educa
tion, technical, vocational, and
sdult diploma programs offered
mi campus. This is the largest
number of graduates in the
school's history.
3uffm?n is internationally
Election Board
To Moot
According to Claude L.
Hepler, Chairman of the Duplin
County Board of Elections, "In
compliance with G.S. 163-230
(2) beginning September 8,
1978, the County Board of
Elections will meet and consider
applications for 'absentee
voting' in the November 7,1978
General Election on each Tues
day and Priday at 10 a.m. in the
office of the election board."
The above meetings are to be
considered "public meetings,"
he added.
Damage To
Unas By
Hunters
Now that the hunting season
is underway. Carolina Tele
phone has issued a plea for
"carefitl shooting" by hunters
near telephone equipment.
Street Richardson, district
commercial manager for Caro
lina Telephone, pointed out
there have been several in
stances of gunfire damage to
telephone equipment.
known for his experience in
business and work in the areas
of management and human
relations. From 1962-75, he was
Director of Industrial Relations,
Burlington Industries. From
1950-62, he served in various
managerial positions with the
firm. From 1946-47. he was
coach for Greensboro Senior 1
High School, and from 1943-46. \
Lietenant, ' U.S. Navy, '
University of Notre Dame Mid- '
shipmen's School; World War II '
service in European and Pacific
rheatres. Huffman is a Duke
University graduate, with an
k.B. degree and graduate
studies; member of Duke Rose
Sowl Football Team 1941.
vrestling captain and Southern
Conference wrestling champion.
In addition to coming up
through the ranks with Bur
lington Industries from plant
personnel manager to director
of industrial relations, he has
spoken to more than 1,000
public audiences on his exper
iences and knowledge of busi
ness. teaching, and human
relations. His travel through
May, 1978, includes 86,000
miles with trips to the Near
East, Europe, and most of the
United States. He is currently
serving National Spinning as a
consultant through Weddie
Huffman Enterprises.
Following the graduation
exercises, the public is cordially
invited to attend a reception on
the grounds of the amphi
theatre. In the event of incle
ment weather, the graduation
and reception will be held in the
Kenan Memorial Auditorium.
Three Tie For First
Place In Football Contest
In the first week of the Foot- c{
ball Contest, three entries tied cc
for first place, with two guess- vs
ing the total points scored "on
the money" creating still 8J
another tie for first place. Mark "
Vinson of Kenansville and ?
David West of Route 1, ?
Kenansville. both guessed 36
points to edge out Doug Smith
of Magnolia to break the w
three-way tie. All three missed c'
two games out of 15 in the G
II
mtest. All entries in the
mtest missed the Notre Dame
i. Missouri game.
Eight entries missed three
imes: Kitten Sutton. Carol
rady, Dalton Rouse. Suzannah
ennett. Todd Price, Chuck
[elton, William Craft, and
legg Grady.
The contest is sponsored each I
eek by Smith Brothers Gas 1
ompany. Magnolia; Beulaville I
as Company. Beulaville; West
\uto Parts Company of War
saw, Kenansville and Beula
rille; Brown's Cabinets and
Vlillwork of Rose Hill; Service
3il Company of Warsaw;
Kenansville Drug Store of
Kenansville; Warsaw Motor
Company of Warsaw, Duke's of
Warsaw; New Duplin Ware
louse of Wallace; and Walter P.
West Insurance and Real
Estate, Inc. of Warsaw.
Town Board Votes
To Fine
Construction Co.
The V.'arsaw Town Board
Monday voted to charge the
M.E. Perry Construction
Company of Goldsboro 525,000
for not completing the municipal
complex on time.
Perry contracted to finish the
work by April 4, 1978, or face
liquidation damages. Warsaw
accepted the building on August
16th. 134 days late.
The Board vdted tp drop 34
per^a^^'ouT*laie 160
days. The Bond voted to hold
aw am . ? A
back S31.000 due Perry now.
In other business, the Board
agreed unofficially to give the
cinderblock building vacated by
the police department to the
library. The library has been
housed in one room in the old
bank building.
The Board will meet with the
Library Board to discuss the
proposal. Town Board members
said they would be against the -
irfair the
Library would <?teo much finan- ''
cial aid from the town.
Youth Gets 10-3 u :
Years On Second
K. 'I
Degree Conviction
Superior Court Judge Junes
Strickland of Jacksonville Tues
day sentenced a 16-year-old
Magnolia youth to 25-30 years in
prison for the shotgun slaying of
Tyrone Huffin, 11, of rural
Magnolia on July 5.
Maurice W. Hooks, of rural
Magnolia, who was charged
with first-degree murder, pled
guilty on a second-degree
murder charge.
Testimony wu^wn by SBI
Agent Paul flfateman and
Sheriff's Deputy E.G. Baker.
HoofcpBM not take the stand.
1W officials testified that
Hufgfet shot after the two
tali^^ $?atbelonged to the tj
Hooks will be eligible for
paroW in 20 years.
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FOE DBSTKOTS TKAOLES AT JAMES KENAN
- According to Elbert Boone, janitor at James
Kenan High School, an early morning fire gutted
a mobile unit at the school some time before 7:30
a.m. on Monday, September 11th. Boone stated
that when he arrived at JK. he saw smoke in the
back of the school. Upon investigation, smoke
was coming from the trailer, and soon, before
firemen arrived, the trailer was engulfed in
flames.
Merger Of Duplin And Sampson 1
'1
Mental Health Programs Discussed I
DJ. Fussell. Chairman of the
Duplin Area Mental Health
Board, invited the Sampson
County Commissioners for a
joint meeting with Duplin
County Commissioners to
discuss the feasibility of a joint
Duplin-Sampson Area Mental
Health and Mental Retardation
program in order to comply witk
the federal regulations of i
catchment area.
Fussell expressed his appre
ciation to the commissioners oJ
both counties for getting to
get her to discuss the merger a
their mental health and mental
retardation programs as i
cooperative endeavor. Hi
emphasized that this merger h
"not a political ban," and thai
they should have a positive
approach and optimistic outlopt
for providing mental health
mental retardation and aico
holism services for the residents
of Duplin-Sampson Counties.
He also said. "We should forge
the county boundaries and wod
together with a strong commit'
ment to serve our people."
Arliss Albertson. Chairman 0
the Duplin Board, remarket
?s that the Duplin Commissioner!
developing a viable mental
health program in Duplin
County. "The merger should
strengthen our programs by
providing commUnity-based
alternatives for the mentally ill,
mentally retarded, and the alco
holic," he said.
R. Patterson Webb, of the
> State Division of Mental Health
and Mental Retardation Service.
outlined the procedure for the
merger. As a first step, he said,
the Duplin-Sampson Area Board
should be appointed. It was
agreed to have a 16-member
board, with 8 from each county.
The group also discussed the
composition of the area board,
as required by the area
statutes.
The Duplin and Sampson
County Cor .nissioners will
meet agair next month to
finalize thr Area Board and
proceed to make plans for a
merged program.
Also attending were: Duplin
Commissioners E. E. Kelly and
William J. Costin; Sampson
Commissioners, Thomas E.
Turlington, Chairman, and L.
Shelton Warren, J. Homer
Butler, Joseph M. Butler, and
Fletcher Pearson; Dale P. John
son, Sampson County Attorney;
Paul G. Butler, Jr., Sampson
County Manager; Phil McCall.
Sampson Mental Health
Director; J.K. Home, Jr., South
Central Regional Director;
George Adams, Eastern
Regional Director; and Dr. E. J.
Raman, Area Director, Duplin
County Mental Health Center.
t S Nutrition And Life Enrichment v
Program Calabratas Third Annivar?.nr
September marks the third
\ anniversary of the Duplin
, County Nutrition Program for
? the Elderly which began in
f September. 1975. The goal of
this Title VII Nutrition Program
t is to provide older Americans.
i particularly those with low
i incomes, with daily, low cost.
nutritionally sound and satisfy
I ing meals.
I Individuals 60 years old and
l older are eligible to participate
f in the program; however.
I priority is given to those who
. cannot afford to eat adequately.
I who lack the skills and
Knowledge iu semi BHU pivjwiv
well-balanced meals, who have
limited mobility to either shop
or cook for themselves, and
those whose feelings of lone
liness and rejection rob them of
the incentive to cook for them
selves.
The Nutrition Project is cur
rently operating four sites which
provide one hot meal a day, five
days a week for approximately
180 people daily. In addition to
meals, the program also
provides other supportive ser
vices through coordination with
existing county agencies and
include nutrition education,
information and referral, health
and welfare counseling, and
recreation. Programs of twenty
to forty minutes in length are
presented daily before the meal
that will improve and enrich the
lives of the elderty. Besides
the older segment of tb* popu
lation through improved nutri
tion, this program is aimed at
reducing the isolation of old
age, offering older Americans
the opportunity to live their
remaining yean in dignity. 4
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The annual Boy Scouts of
America fund drive will be
conducted in the Warsaw area
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* 'H? v?? "itwi, picsiucni *
?. .. .-a
Boy Scout Fund Privo
Wfttotw-KeaaiuvlUe Rotary, ;
stated the Rotary Club will be