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^OL. XXXXIV NO. 40 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE, NC 28349 OCTOBER 4. 1979 16 PAGES THIS WEEK lOCfcNTS PLUS TAX
'A SHORT PRODUCE SALE - The morning sale at the
?aison produce market was short compared to the spring
lies which had long lines from one end of the auction
Photo by Emily Klltotto
shed to the other end. But, at the morning sale Friday,
only eight farmers were on hand to sell their produce.
Foison Produce Market Slow
? Fall Crops Lost To Wet Weather
By Emily KUlette
Since the Faison Produce
igMarket opened two weeks
Ago, produce buyers say
business has been slow be
cause of weather conditions.
According to farmers who
were selling- produce at the
Faisono market last week,
their crops have been lost to
Ifret weather in the past
month. They say the rain
,?>wned their squash and
Incumbers, and replanting
would not produce before
frost would come and kill the
plants. According to produce
fjbuyer Billy Cottle, frost
"usually comes around the
first full moon in October or
the last part of that month.
At Friday morning's sale,
only eight people arrived
with produce. C.P. Ellis,
produce buyer, said about
?600 people brought produce
to the Wednesday sales, and
no sales are held on Thurs
day. Squash was bringing a
high of $11.80 a crate on
Friday and buyers do not
expect the price to go down
-because farmers cannot pro
Vduce enough to meet the
current demands.
Many of the same farmers
who lost their fall produce
crops also lost their spring
crops to another kind of
problem, a truckers' strike.
Even though trucks are
rolling this fall, not all of m
them will be full because
buyers are not able to pur- k<
chase enough to stock the Si
truck before it leaves the th
larket.
The Faison Produce Mar
:t is open daily except
iinday and Thursday with
iree sales each day.
Filing For Mayors And
Commissioners Will End Friday
By Emily KUlette
The filing period for town
mayors and commissioners
began Sept. 14 and will end
at 12 noon this Fridav. Oct. I
5. said Claude Hepler, chair- ;
man of the Duplin County i
Board of Elections.
Filing for town office in
Beulaviile is Franklin
Boyette for one of the three 1
commissioner seats. Calypso 1
has two filing for town com- 1
missioner seats, incumbent '
S.D. Davis and J.R. Turner, i
and no one filing for mayor.
There will be five commis- !
sioner seats vacant. I
Faison has ro one filing for i
the two town commissioner <
seats, and incumbent Mayor
P.B. Carter filed for re
election. Greenevers had two
filing for mayor, the incum
bent Mayor Alfred Dixon,
and Clyde M. Tatum, Jr. No
one has filed for the two
seats as town commissioner.
Kenansville has three
seats as town commissioner,
For which four persons have
Filed. They are Ronnie
Bostic, Glenn Thomas Bras
ivell, Emmel Coggins, and
ncumbent James 0.
"Jimmy" Johnson. One per
son has filed for one of the
;wo seats as town commis
sioner in Magnolia, the in
:umbent Rudolph Becton,
ana no one has filed for
mayor.
Three persons have filed
for town commissioners in
Rose Hill. They are Clarence
Brown, Sr., incumbent,
Keith Hinson, and H.M.
Price. There are three seats
becoming vacant. IncuJhbent
Mayor Ruby Ramsey of
Teachey has filed for re
election, and Daniel Vance
Norris, Bernard "Mike"
Pistner and Henry "Zeke"
Wells, Jr. have filed for the
three seats as town com
missioners.
Incumbent Marvin Sutton
has filed for re-election as a
town commissioner in
Warsaw. There are three
commissioner seats
becoming vacant. Wallace
has three town commissipner
seats and six have filed for
these seats. They are incum
bent Arnold Duncan, W.H.
Carter, Charles Blanchard,
David R. King, Bobby
Marshburn and Homer
Boney, Jr. Two persons filed
for Wallace mayor, and they
are Willie Biggs and Melvin
Cording.
Persons may file at the
county elections office in
Kenansviile or with the
Chamber of Commerce in
Warsaw and Wallace. The
names listed are those who
have filed by Monday.
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Photo bv Imlhr Kllltttt
CHEMICAL TRUCK OVERTURNS - A Kenan Transport Company tanker
truck carrying about 5,000 gallons of DMT skidded off the Rural Paved
Road 241 near Pink Hill and overturned in a ditch last Sunday, Sept. 30.
N The truck was enroute to the DuPont plant in Kinston loaded with the
chemical DMT which is used to mfke polyester fiber. The truck was
coming from the Wilmington DuPont plant. Robert Heinisch, a
representative from the Kenan Transport Company said the chemical
DMT was not dangerous and the company would be responsiblei for the
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clean-up. According to Hiram Brinaon, director of emergency services,
there would be no problem with clejning up because the Pink Hill Fire
Department was watching the tanker for leaks of the chemical add were
spraying water on the leaks. Brinson said the DMT leaks would crystalize
when it came in contact with water and would stop the leak. The driver of
the truck was taken to Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston and was
reported not to have been seriously injured.
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Hardison
Appointed
Lieutenant Governor
James C. Green announced
the reappointment of veteran
Senators Harold Hardison of
Deep Run, John T. Henley of
Hope Mills, and Kenneth C. ,
Royall of Durham to the N.C.
Council on Interstate
Cooperation. The appoint
ments are for two-year
terms.
The purpose of the council
is to encourage and assist the
legislative, executive, ad
ministrative and judicial of
ficials of North Carolina to
develop and maintain contact
with officials and employees
of other states, the federal
government and local units
of government. It reports to
the State Secretary of Ad
ministration its recom
mendations concerning
interstate compacts affecting
the interest of North Carolina
and encourages the enact
ment of uniform or reciprocal
statutes and administrative
rules and regulations.
DUPLIN TIMES/
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THE 1980 NORTH CAROLINA POULTRY
QUEEN - CyntHW'Lynn Gentr !' >m
Stedman was crowned the 1980 NY :h
Carolina Poultry Queen by last year\>
Queen, Emma Mahn. Cynthia was spon
sored by Carroll's of Warsaw in the pageant
Photo by Emily Killotto
which was held in the Kenan Memorial
AnrHteTium last Satu-tsv n'cht' First ;
rumiei <?"t. i Tina Maie Mascia of
Fayette-- ifte. ' second runner-up was
Jenny Gayfe ft? vnolds of Clinton.
JSI Considers
Four-Day School Week
James Sprunt Institute
may go to a four-day week
during the winter to conserve
energy, officials reported to
the board of trustees Thurs
day night.
A survey of students
showed 90 percent of those
questioned preferred the
four-day week. The faculty
survey showed 95 percent
favoring the short week.
Most students indicated they
believe it would save gaso
line.
School officials are deter
mining if the plan with its
longer days would reduce the
quality of instruction and
learning in comparison with
the five-day week.
Last year, the school paid
$65,000 for utilities. It has
$60,000 budgeted for this
fiscal year, and officials said
they doubt that amount will
be sufficient unless some
extra conservation efforts are
made. The school is heated
by electricity.
Alfred Wells, dean of stu
dent affairs, reported 625
full-time students have paid
fees for the fall quarter and
another 225 have registered
but not paid.
The trustees voted to
change the name from James
Sprunt Technical Institute to
James Sprunt Technical Col
lege, noting that all other
area institutions except Cape
Fear Technical Institute of
Wilmington had taken this
step.
A foundation board to seek
private contributions for the
school was hamed. Members
serving two-year terms will
be Pearl McGowen of
Kenansville, Willard Hoffler
and William Buckley of
Wallace, Charlie Albertson
of Beulaville, and Wendell
Murphy of Rose Hill. Named
to 3-year terms were Dixon
Hall and Ed W. Monk of
Kenansville, Dr. Corbett
Quinn of Magnolia. Robert
Lee of Warsaw, and Winifred
Wells of Wallace. The 10
members named by the
trustees will appoint five
additional members to com
plete the lS-member board.
1
President Carl Price
received approval of person
nel contracts for the school
year. The contracts contain a
clause stating an employee
should be notified at leasts 30
days prior to expiration of a
contract as to whether it will
be continued or terminated.
An amendment was added to
the clause to the effect that
failure to notify the employee
in time will mean the em
ployee will receive an extra
30 days' pay in case of
termination.
An agreement with the
Board of Education to use
Kenan Memorial Auditorium
for the JS basketball was
ratified. The school will pay
the county system vWO for
the season plus 15% of all
gate receipts.
Mrs. E.L Boyette of Chin
quapin acted as chairman in
the absence of Chairman
Jimmy Strickland of
Warsaw. Others present
were Charlie Albertson of
Beulaville. Amos Brinson
Ed Monk of Kenansville, Dr.
Dallas Herring of Rose Hill,
Alex Brown of Greenevers,
and John Goodson of Mount
Olive. Absent were Willar<t
Hoffler of Wallace. W.E.
Craft of Kenansville. Stacy
Quinn of Potters Hill, and
Claven Williams of Faison,
as well as Strickland.
JSI Forum
In Second Week
Speaking next week at
James Sprunt Institute will
be Dr. Donald Matthews of
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and
Dr. Carol Stack of Duke
University. They will speak
on topics related to the forum
series. The Rural South in
Stransition.
The public forums will be
presented over a period of
five weeks duscussing the
changes that have taken
place over the past 30 years
in areas of the rural south
such as Duplin Countv. The
public is encouraged to at
tend, and admission is free.
The topics which will be
discussed October 20 are:
Dr. Matthews and "Religion
in the South" and Dr. Stack
on "The Southern Family in
Change." Both speakers
have written books and ar
ticles on their subjects. After
the speakers presentations, a
panel from Duplin County
will comment on the topics
and any member of the
audience will be invited to
ask questions or offer com
ments. Members of the panel
will be the Rev. L. Matthew
Thompson of the Warsaw
Baptist Church, Dale Evans,
a public school teacher,
Shirley Thomas, administra
tor at James Sprunt Institute,
the Rev. James Stokes of the
Kenansville United Metho
dist Parish, and the modera
tor, Lester Moore of Rose
Hill.
The forum will be held in
the Huffier Building on the
campus of James Sprunt,
and each presentation will
begin at 7:30 p.m. each
night scheduled through
Nov. 1. This past week.
Howard Lee. N.C. Secretary *
of Human Resources and
Community Development,
and Dr. John S. Reed of the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill were the guest
speakers.
Also, on display during the
Forum series is an art exhibit
which is related to the theme
of the lectures. The art is
being furnished through the
Duplin County Art Guild.
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