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JCnd the Kenan Scholarship to Bennie
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Roberts, right, during the Junes Kenan
High School graduation ceremonies Friday
night
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Joe Lee Costin. Yelverton was presented
iW Seventy of the Mpnti
|i 172 p
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Norwood Vas; n of Mug
T< Price son >f UK
Mrs Ctrl Price of Warsaw,
was the recipient of the 8900
Rotary urship .re
?enter bj f. C. Allen
Iepresonting thf Warsaw
Other schoisrss |ps, grants
and financial si;' earned by
Jbe^ft ^ Kar
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Duplin County's 1979-80
property tax rate will drop 4
cents from the preaeni 72
1979-80 assessed valuation of
SS64 million, an increase of
ThJ'SiUty's'SJTm.SO
budget will be S9.4 million
compared with the "correal
budget of $10.83 million
The property tax is sche
duled to raise *3,643.000 for 4
the new fiscal year, com
pared with S3.782.000 for
last year.
County Fiaaace Officer
Russell Tdttdtcr ssid ffie ori
final budget request of
county contributidk of SS I
million. fl jm '? flj
The new budget provides a
3 percent across #r board
pay increas^ fa endttty em
fa 25 percent of the em
ployees in other pay steps.
One new department has
been added ? that of county
manager, funded at S61.000.
Ralph Cottle will take over
the new post June 15.
The budget will provide
the school system S1.5 mil
lion in current funding and
514S.OOO in capital outlay. In
addition, the county board
will turn 5650,000 in revenue
sharing money over to the
school system's capital
outlay fund. The schools
received 51,488 million in
urn-rent funding last year.
James Sprnnt Institute will
receive 5210,000 in current
fending from the county
compared with 5216,000 last
The law enforcement de
partment will receive
5517,000 compared with
5428,000 last year. There is
some uncertainty as to the
needs of the department for
the new law enforcement
centor's utilities for the .
coming year, board members
were told, as the new struc- j
ture has only been in use
about a month. j
The social services depart
ment will receive $80,000
from the county. The depart
ment's "budget is $620,000
from state, federal and
county funds.
Despite a state request
that the county budget
$261,000 for its share of
Medicaid expenses for the
next fiscal year, the county
board appropriated only 10
pereewt more than for the
current year at $160,692. The
county hat informed the
state it cannot pay a portion
of the current year's Medi
caid demand from the state
due to an increase in the
percentage of the total man
dated to the counties.
The budget provides
$296,000 for the landfill
operation compared with
$283,000 last year.
The county will provide
$95,000 for the mental health
department, the same
amount as last year.
Tucker said debt service
for the new fiscal year will be
S11S.714. This is on a total
debt of $900,000. all that
remains of a hospital bond ;
issue approved several years
ago.
The budget also provides ^
an increase of $46,800 for
county employee medical in- J
surance premiums.
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Li?0 ?ocr2rT2(^^B
hampers of beans are geing
through the market each day.
Tellow squash were bring
PPP ajjhSO to S4.50 pe^Wf
Competency
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, Oat of flie 685 junior stu
tency test this year in DupHn
the reading Action of the
test and 90 percent paued
the math section, Board of
Education officials an
nounced Friday. >
There were 685 students
tested in Novepber and 593
passed the reading section of
the test and 556 passed the
math section.
in May. those who had
?Ttto .weok. while green
IsqwWweie bringiag $3.50
l/Pweek ago, however.
? bidders offered mostly $2 to
LS29S for ' zuchinoi squash
; and 12 to $3.00 per h*if
bushel Aw yellow squash,
nam bean volume fell off
vBpone offered before
nflfou Monday, last week,
g to the Federal*
SdH Minsket News Service..
At the ?nd of the week
before, beans were bringing
uJb*8.85 per bushel.
Cucumbers will begin
coming to market in volume
a?out the middle of the
month, with peppers coming
in volume late in the month.
Cucumbers and peppers
normally make up the largest
volume of the market
offerings, with farmers from
Duplin. Sampson, Pender,
Johnston and Wayne
counties providing moot of
the produce offered.
Last year they sold 900,000
packages through the auction
market, according to Ehra
Cottle, chief bookkeeper.
They received about $6
million for the items.
Deputy Williams Found :]
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Guilty Of Larceny I
George Vwilliams, 34, a
Deputy Sheriff for ten years,
was found guilty on two
counts of larceny Wednesday
. in Superior Court in Kenans
is ville.
He was fined WOO and
? costs of court on each count
> by Judge Thomas B. Cooper,
* Jr. of Burlington.
L ^Williams had pleaded not
?gin|ty to the charges,
claiming he was working
under-cover to solve what he
believed was inside stealing
at {he store. His attorney.
BrJm Robinson, ?*ve notice
of ifcftlll li jfr
? Shejfl Ej^od jiUvtlle
und? !suspension with {my
shice being charged last
month by the SBI.
State witnesses testified
that Williams took a power
booster for a radio from
Whaley's Furniture and
Appliance Store on N.C. 11
between Tin City and Charity
Crossroads on May 5. They
also testified they saw
Williams take a bracket for
the power booster from the
store on May 9. Virgil
(BooBoo) Chester of Route h
Teachey. testified he saw
Williams take the item and
told the store owner's wife,
Mrs. R.J. Whaley. When
Whaley returned to the store
on May 9, Chester, Whaley's
daughter, Mrs. Myra Lynn
Faircloth, and Mrs. Allie
Cavenaugh of Route 1,
Teachey. were in the store.
Both Virgil and Mrs.
Cavenaugh said they saw
Williams put the bracket in
his left pocket. Mrs. Fair
cloth testified that when she
gave him change for a pur
chase, she heard the money
clink against an object in the
pocket. She said she could
see the outline of the barcket
in the pocket.
Whalcy was aefay on a
buying trip oo May 9th. but
called the store while
Williams was in it., Mrs.
Fairckrth said she Jold. him
about the incident and
Whaley talked to Williams on
the phone while Chester
listened^ on another phone.
Chester told Whaley at that
time imhad seen Williams
Hp^jjkid S|f on it and
jMliy 10 William called
The st^re. Mrs. Cavenaugh
inside stealing at the store.
He did not name the man.
Williams told Whaley he was
working undercover and had
picked up items to see if ;
someone would either report - I
it or try to make a deal.
James (Bud) Hatcher,
testifying for Williams, said
he told Williams that while J
coming back from
Kenansville one day, he saw
a short man put something in
a car at the side of the store.
SBI Agent Jim Wilson testi
fied he had talked with
Williams and was told by
Williams he had been work-^
Thomas Outlaw will be
attending 4-H Forestry
Wildlife Camp July 9-14 at
Camp Millstone. He is the
designed fw T?CL who
Thomas has hem the
county winner lor two years
with a gun safety demon
stration and was runner-up
In district competition last
year. He has also done radio
spots on this topic and
worked in the 4-H wildlife
project books for several
years.
Various aspects of forest
and wildlife resources,
archery and hunter safety
will be covered by instructors
from the Extension Forest
Resources and Wildlife Re
sources. Commission. Re
lated programs and recrea
tional events are also sche
duled.
Dup,,? Summer School
Duplin ity win
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