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April Is Poultry And E99 Month ? '$'04 Million Business For Duplin 1 Governor James B. Hunt ; 1 fv has issued an official proc- Jj tarnation declaring the month h } of April "Poultry and Egg d i Month" in North Carolina, rt The Governor noted in his U /"proclamation that "poultry is : North Carolina's largest food ii ?? industry.. .is very important it to the economic welfare of the state, .and provides a . I basic human need ? food." I The Governor also noted j that "poultry provides thou- | ?' sands of jobs for North J Carolinians. . . generates I f- millions of dollars in farm . I!? income for the state. . .and 1 ? provides, in fart, the second y highest commodity income I for the state, exceeded only | by tobacco." rgjftfrv Gross Income from Doplin I County poultry and eggs laat I Service in KenansviQe. 34'A i I million brtftler* were pro- ] duccd in Duplin during 1978, with a gross income of 36.9 ; I million dollars; 6'/? million! " turkeys were produced wjll I S3.6 million dollars gross I income. 600.000 culled heilf I were sold, valued at l.Sfg million dollars. According to Ed Wdbd house. Executive Director ol P tje N.C ^PouUiy F^atioo. I ? rapid rate. (Gross farm iconic from N.C poultry as climbed from 167 million ollars in 1958 to approti nately 710 million dollars in 978.) Quantities of each poultry tern produced have plso icreased at a phenomenal x t ^ rate. The number of turkeys j produced increased from 8.3 i million head in 1*8 to over 19 million head in 1978. The i number of broilers produced / in North Carolina increased < from 263 million in 1%? io an estimated 352 million head in 1978. Egg production in I North Carolina increased i ' i'mu. ' '' ? ???'. - . 'if&m ?. * from 3.0 billion egg# in 1968 ?? to an estimated 3.4 billion in ?* 1978. Further growth far the mt industry i* anticipated in *? 1979 and production may "* exceed the record high of v,< 1978. P" Poultry industrymen In Pn North Carofina are dedicated fei to serving the state'# citizen# 1101 ? d millions of consumers j tionwide. These ioduti^ ?n are continually strirlap (I AMkAgul L ? rMarla<4sia ' cxpariu tncir tnowicqbc ? ough research and mm xiucts to consumers at I isonable prices. Wood- 1 Duplin To Seek I % m I mm, m A fl Water System Grants I By Jo? Lanier 1 he Board of Commission :rs voted lo apply for a Farmers Homc-i Adminis tration grant of >3.3 million inll a state Clean Water Bond grant of >3.2 million for a proposed coanty-wide w atcr system last Monday. Cost of the proposed sys tem is estimated at about >13.5 million. The difference between the grants and the cost would have to be made up by a bond issue. / The Board met for the first time in the newly renovated courthouse. Since the court house was dosed for reno vations arid additions about a year ago.'the meeting have been held in the auditorium of tl|C Agricultural Building. The first Superior Court term to be held in the revamped structure is sche duled for April 9 with Chief Resident Judge Henry L. Stevens. III. of Warsaw, presiding. There will be two courtrooms for the first time, one entirely new. and one renovated. An open house for the courthouse and new jail will be .held May 6. The jail was occupied two weeks ago. During the renovation period, court has been held in rooms of James Sprunt Institute. The Board also agreed to pav half the bill for lighting proposed by the Kenanaville Jaycccs for the shelters at The Spring across from the courthouse. The area has been turned into a small >park. One shelter covers the spring and the other provides picnic shelter. A Jajfcee delegation, including JDoc Brinson. Wood row Brirtsom Rich Boyd and Ray Johhson appeared before the Board asking for help in paying the light bill if the Jaycees install the lighting. The Board also approved purchase of five radio units for rural fire department trucks at a cost of $6,575. the amount was included in the budget of Hiram Brinpon. 'Civil Defense coordinator. Kenneth Futreal. foil m:. . k -? \ Conservationist, reported that 270 easements for. 9 rights-of-way for the Lime stone-Muddy Creek Water shed Project had been signed. A total of 864 ease- I mcnts wilt have to be ob tained. Futreal said contracts for the work may be let in March. 1480. Lois Britt. Extension I Chairman, said the South eastern District spring 4-H program will be held at East . aM Duplin High School June 27th. The district includes 13 I counties. Mrs. Britt also observed a black shank tobacco disease test plot is being set up with Jack Sauls of Bow dens, and a 9 tobacco herbicide test plot with Bill Loftip of Albertson. ? The Duplin County iuve- I nile Task rorce has approval '< ttne Board of Commis- I ers and Superintendent C.H. Yelverton to begin a I pilot in-school suspension < program in Warsaw Junior I High School, according to | Jim Flowers. Task Rorce chairman. The task force is asking fori-' a grant of SI4,000 from the state's community ttsbd al ternatives program m finance the proposed p^ iffjr W ? 4 lira in. Flowers said an I ihswer on the grant is ex meted by April I. I He explained that under i his program, a student who i lid something which nor mally would call for sus pension, would serve the suspended time under special supervision in schoM instead of being on flkr street. Theatudent would be undafattirter discipline than usuvpud would probabiv load most special privileJH 'or the tine involved. The idea, he siad. is to J keep the youngsters k ctess tad off the street crime scene. "Most of the kidt you have trouble with need Wore teaching anyway." heaaM. According to ftoweiu. the Warsaw school was Chosen because it has the neceasary room available for the pro gram. Eventually, he said, such a program should be establisbed in %ach high school. 51 BREEDER BIRDS at the Wendell Evans* seven weeks old aqd will soon be movee J| Em on Route 1. Magnolta. The turkey, are ?'* farm Family Alleges 1 Police Vendetta ! in t_ l ctnn llnrirrwood allecedlv A Duplin family is seeking SI million in damages from the Wallace Police Depart ment. the Town Board, the Sheriff's Department, and the County Commissioners for alleged harassment. The civil action was filed in U.S. District Court in Wil mington by Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Stallings and other members of his family: Mark S. Stallings. Gene S. Stallings and Ronnie C. Stallings. I The suit charges that I various members of the I police and sheriff's depart I menu maliciously violated the family's civil rights by assaulting them, invading their privacy and "terroriz ing them on numerous oc casions." Specifically named in the suit was Wallace Police Sgt. Lonzie Underwood, whom tlttSuHings claim "made ? University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were recog nized for ^outstanding r P? PrnfAeei/tnal ( *nc rPV'rrvivSstvVisi ? i Uoalth Civrntu ? -1 IfCHlll? ?"'*2" ? v'i ?' suitings in nnoi it/ / uiu ? he was ready to fight him and P that be would "put a hole in P you." The next day. Underwood * allegedly followed Gene - Suitings outside the Wallace * city limits to his father's -t house after he refused to talk > about personal problems. < The suit alleges that Un derwood rta his car into the 1 back of the family truck, ? knocked Gene Stalling! to ' the ground and choked him. I when another family 1 member told the officer to i a ? ? ulled his gun and swung his olice radio st them. "The Wallace police have ? n understanding that the itallings family is to be larassed." and members of he Duplin Sheriff's Depart- * nent cooperate, the suit laid. Wallace Police Chief Roscoe Rich and Duplin Sheriff Elwood ReveUe are g also named, along with the government boards for fail ure to properly supervise the actions of their subordinates. scnooi bus i Driver Injured I The driver of a DdpRs school bos suffered minor aas?Lftr.? on Bay toad betweea Charity School and Teachey last Moodagr.. ' tavern Stevens el Wallace was hospitalised overnight at Duplin General and released Tuesday. -j ? She ukl a wasp flew Into .% the but a^at th^wne time the read, the nest thing the knew, the buk was to the 1 \iH 'p.-''/: Excutivt |*|rd Muting l-m TURKEY CHECK-UP - Mike Kernen. left.jerviceman to C^S of Warsaw, checks one of the turkeys at the Wendell Evans farm. Evans, center, and son Wendy, ngttt. raise 44.UUU turkeys a year and arc never ^without turkeys in their four houses. Evans said the turkey bus.ness is a good wav for farmers to supplement their income. A native or uupun County. Evans is the fourth generation t? farm at the home place. In addition to raising turkeys. Evans and bis sdh farm 400 acres of land. ^ _ .Jj f* liled for six day & and McCoy * Ave. On January J I. all three we acquitted of the mis T;. Joe Lanier The cities of Faisc* and jt W *'? ? f< be total of ! jes hi V.a. d ? Oistrii' ! WBaon. ? The -.int. brough: p n, add Cc h( ? J cons * sc ! Sbz u C& J a 1 ,d t arm a fwnm I , ' Steve Williamson ot Kenansville presided. 1 Faison Police Chief Randy i Brock and Officer Ray King were named individually. ] Three Warsaw police officers , were unidentified in the King responded to a call From Branch Bank & Trust Co in Faison on December 15. reporting bank emt ployees had seen a man put a gun under Ms coat outside the bank. itia "king saw their car head south on U.S. 117 and called the Warsaw polite, who stopped the men. U0 ar rested them. Warsaw police V otiu d the car and found a .38 caliber pistol in the trunk. E ^ * - it Henry ft*? etstti Warsaw, hams were ;i? II 12 ? )c Hi tt. '4. -.10. )uplin ja Forty The tires were cnatneo to |f truck, bus thieve?, broke the fastening The tires Were o ed on dump ruck d were owned by the Triple A r ? undents in the ECU College Of Ai)b *'>d Sciences will be ( arolinn Altfflim Chapter <if I'ln Beta Kappa honor
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