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CLOWN DAY - at James Kenan High School
brought out about fifty ,'owrt who parting
pa ted in the content for the moat original and
for the best all-around down. The winners
Photo by Emily Klllotto
w?re Jimmy Fredrick and John Phillips, as
{tfcnese twins j who won as the most
original/iffrd Garlene Kornegay; who won as
the best all-around clown.
Veterans' Week In
Warsaw,Parade Nov.10
The Warsaw Veterans'
yVeek celebration will climax
?ov. 10 at 11 a.m. with a
parade which will feature
over 80 units.
The parade will berin in
front of the depot on Main
Street and will continue to
Highway 24 going by the old
jfcMlice department where the
reviewing stand, and an area
especially for the handi
capped, will be located. The
parade route will turn at the
stoplight going up Highway
117 to end at the old Little
^lint.
" This year's parade will be
dedicated to Mr. and Mrs.
L.H. Brown of Warsaw.
Brown is the last living
charter member of the
American Legion Post 127
which was organized in July
kff 1921. The Browns will be
on the reviewing stand,
along with the Warsaw High
' School football team of 1952
* and the persons who will be
judging the parade floats.
Prizes will be given for the
? best float and band. First
^jlrize is $100 in each cate
gory, and second prize is
$75.
According to Lloyd Parker,
chairman of the Veterans'
Day Committee, there are
over 80 units participating in
j^ie parade. Parker says he
expects to receive more
entries by parade time. He
said anyone who wishes to
participate in the pa-ade
should contact Jackie Price at
293-7821 or call Mary Taylor,
Veterans' committee co
ordinator at the Warsaw
Chamber of Commerce.
Parker added that a sidewalk
sale will be held on Front
Street, and any group
interested in displaying arts,
crafts, or any items to make
^toney for their organization
Should contact Mary Taylor.
The space is free. There will
also be a farm implement
display Saturday sponsored
by the Jaycees. All events
are free to the public.
During the parade and
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sidewalk sale, there will be
a barbeque dinner at the
Warsaw Fire Station. Plates
will so on sale at 10:30 a.m.
and will cost $2.50 each.
Also, the Bedford
Amusements will have rides
such as the ferris wheel, a
slide, and swings set up near
the fire department. The
carnival will be open nightly
through Veterans' Week and
all day during the weekend.
Parker said the Dunn
Clowns, and the James
Kenan student clowns, which
are sponsored by area busi
nesses, will be walking in the
parade Saturday. Also, there
will be area high school
bands, drill teams, floats,
visiting beauty queens and
visiting dignitaries.
Following the parade and
activities Saturday morning,
there will be a square dance
at 8 p.m. at the recreation
building. The public is
invited to attend. Also, at 8
p.m. there will be a fireworks
display at the new fire
station. A second disco dance
will begin Saturday night at
10 p.m. at the Warsaw
Armory, with admission S3 a
person.
Other events scheduled for
Veterans' Weekend will be a
teenage dance which will be
free to all young people. The
dance will be held in the
parking lot of the Town Hall,
and it will begin immediately
after the James Kenan
homecoming tootball game
and the music will be from
the Roger Earp Disco of
Wallace. In case of rain, the
disco will be held at the
Warsaw Recreation
Building, and it is being
sponsored by the Veterans'
Committee. Also on Friday
night, there will be the
regular Bingo games at the
Legion Hut. They begin at
7:30 p.m.
On Sunday, Nov. 11, me
morial services will be held
at Pinecrest Cemetery in
Warsaw. Services begin at 2
p.m.
The Veterans' Week Cele
bration is sponsored by the
Warsaw Jaycees, Rotary
Club, Chamber of
Commerce, Fire Depart
ment, Lions Club, American
Legion and Rescue unit. The
celebration is the oldest
event of its kind in the
country, Parker said.
Education Budget
Hearing Nov. 7
Citizens and educators
from Duplin are being
invited to become involved in
the budget-making process
for public education in a
series of hearings.
The first such forums
being held in each of the
eight educational regions is
scheduled for the 17 school
districts of Region 1 on Wed
nesday. Nov. 7 at East
Duplin High School at 7 p.m.
"The State Board of Edu
cation wants to find out from
all citizens what they think
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should be the top budget
items as we prepare to make
requests for programs and
needs of the schools to the
1981 General Assembly,"
State Superintendent Craig
Phillips said in announcing
the hearings.
School systems in Region 1
include Brunswick, Carteret,
Craven, New Bern. Duplin,
Green, Jones, Lenoir,
Kinston, New Hanover,
Onslow, Pamlico, Pender,
Sampson, Clinton, Wayne
and Goldsboro.
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Duplin Town Mayors And
Commissioners Race Nov. 6
By Emily Killette
Elections for town com
missioners and mayors will
be Nov. 6 in each of the
Duplin municipalities. Polls
will be open from 6:30 a.m.
until 7:30 p.m.
There are three commis
sioner seats up for election in
Beulaville. The candidates
are S.A. Blizzard, Jr.,
Franklin Boyette, Douglas
Brown, Rabon Brown, Elvis
L. Sumner and Vallie^Tumer
Oxley. The seats will be
vacated by Leland Grady,
S.A. Blizzard and Franklin
Boyette.
Calypso voters will be
electing an entire board of
commissioners and a mayor.
Norwood Barfield, the in
cumbent mayor, is the only
candidate in the race for
mayor. Incumbent town
commissioners, Libby Lewis
Boykin, S.D. Davis, Jr., Cecil
Aughley, J.R. Turner,
Mosley Waters and chal
lenger Jack Taylor will com
pete for the five seats on the
town board. All seats are for
two-year terms.
Three seats on the Faison
town board and the position
of mayor will be up for
election. In the race for
mayor, the incumbent,
Mayor P. Bill Carter, will be
challenged by W.R. (Bill)
Clifton, Robert D. Kennedy
and Peggy M. Ward. Can
didates for the seats on the
town board are Rachel M.
Clifton, BiHie H. Hollings
worth and Melvin Rogers.
Going off the town board will
be commissioners W. A.
Frizzell, W.J. Igoe and E.L.
Allen. Commissioner seats
are four-year terms, and the
mayor term is for two years.
Greenevers voters will
elect a mayor and two town
commissioners, both to four
year terms. In the mayorial
race is incumbent mayor
Alex Brown and Alfred
Dixon; and for the seats on
the town board are incum
bents J.W. Harrell and
Nathan Murray.
Voters in Kenansville will
be electing three town com
missioners to four-year
terms. Candidates for town
commissioners are Ronnie
Bostic, Glenn Thomas Bras
well, Emmel Coggins,
Donald Suttles, Mark Vinson
and incumbents William P.
Fennel), James "Jimmy"
Johnson and Betty Long.
Two seats and the position
of mayor will be up for
election in Magnolia. Mar
jorie B. Pickett will run un
challenged in the race for
mayor, and incumbent
Mayor Melvin Pope and
Rudolph Becton, an incum
bent town commissioner, will
run as candidates for the
town board. Going off the
Magnolia town board will be
Fred Archer and Bector, and
Pope as mayor of Magnolia.
Rose Hill voters will be
electing three to the town
board of commissioners for
four-year terms. Candidates
for commissioners are in
cumbents Clarence Brown.
Sr., Jerry H. Cottle, Jr.,
Keith Hinson, Charles Sle
menda and Perry Whalev.
Going off the town board will
be Samuel H. Carr, Clarence
Brown and Reid Fussell, Jr.
All five seats on the
Teachey town board and the
mayor post will be up for
election with three seats
filling a four-year term and
two seats filling a two-year
term. The position of mayor
will also be up for election.
Candidates for town com
missioners are incumbent
James R. Boney, W.O. (Bill)
Montford. Daniel Vance
Norris, Bernard (Mike)
Pistner. Henry (Zeke) Wells.
Jr.. and challenger Warren
W. Henderson. Incumbent
Mayor Ruby Ramsey runs
unopposed for the office of
mayor.
Wallace voters will elect
three commissioners and a
mayor. The commissioners
will fill 4-year terms and the
mayor will fill a two-year
term. Candidates for mayor
are commissioner Biggs and
Melvin Cording. Candidates
in the race for the three seats
on the town board are in
cumbent G. Arnold Duncan,
Charlie Toal. David R. King,
Sr.. N.H. Carter. Charles
Blanchard. Homer M.
Boney. Jr. and Bobbie W.
Marshburn. Leaving office
will be Charles C. Farrior,
mayor, and commissioners
Harry Carlton and Thomas
Townsend.
Ihree seats will be up for
election on the Warsaw town
board for four-year terms.
Candidates for the seats as
commissioners are incum
bents J. Frank Steed, Marvin
Sutton and Terry Quinn.
Challengers are Billy
Kennedy and Walter P.
West.
Residents To Be Surveyed
On County Wide Water System
j Rural Duplin County resi
dents may soon be asked to
pledge support for a county
<via - water system. A co
ordinator is to be hired to
conduct a survey.
the county has received
i>><<%.t: atiou, to use CETA
funds to hire a project co
ordinator for water, system
planning. The board of com
missioners has endorsed the
concept of a countywide
water system, but so far the
only action taken has been to
commission a design for such
a system by Rivers Asso
ciates, a consulting firm in
Greenville.
Once a project coordinator
is hired, he will begin a
house-to-house survey of
rural residents to determine
support for the water system.
At the time of the survey,
those who support the pro
ject will be asked to pay a $10
fee to be used toward the
planning and construction of
the water system. That fee
would be applied later to the
cost of hooking up to the
waterlines.
According to Violet
Phillips, a member of the
Duplin County Planning
Board, the planners were not
always in favor of a county
wide water system. But, she
said, the planners changed
their minds after hearing
proposals from the FmHA
about the benefits of de
veloping such a system.
FmHA would likely become
the financing agenqy for a
rural ^ artf "SyVerif .'.i ffife
county.
The planning ooard will
meet again the second Mon
day in November and hopes
to have already hired the
planning coordinator and
begin planning in earnest.
Duplin is largely a rural
county with about 40,000
residents, with 11.000 regis
tered lo vole.
A referendum would be
called for lo approve the
financing for a county-wide
water system. While the
system would primarily serve
the rural residents, voters of
the towns would also havc.to
appi. .?! rfte hMids for Ae
system.
The goal of the county
wide water system, accord
ing to planners, would be to
link both rural and town
water systems to provide a
stable water supply for all
users and provide the most
economical water system
overall.
Several towns in the
county have only recently
considered water bond
issues. Faison and Magnolia
approved water bonds, while
Kenansville rejected a simi
lar proposal by a margin of
one vole.
Kenansville will hold
another referendum of the
water bond issue on Dec. 18.
Students
Injured In
Bus Accident
Several students received
minor injuries Friday
morning when a Duplin
County school bus pulled too
close to the side of a street in
Warsaw throwing some pas
sengers against the side of
the bus.
Two students were treated
and released from Duplin
General Hospital.
Kenansville Water Bond Hearing Held
By Emily Killette
The second public hearing
was held on the proposed
Kenansville water project
Thursday; the first referen
dum failed by a margin of
one vote on Sept. 4.
Kenansville Mayor
Douglas Judge said he felt
the first referendum was not
passed because of the poor
turn-out at the public hearing
prior to the vote. He said
most of the citizens in
Kenansville did not know
enough about the issu~ and
did not turn out to vote.
However, less than ten
were at the second hearing
Thursday night, and the
members of the town council
agreed with Mayor Judge
that information sheets on
the proposed water protect
should be mailed to rt ;
tered voters in Kenansvil
According to Judge,
proposed water project w
be funded 78% througi
grants which can only be
received if the water bond
referendum is passed by the
town. The total cost of the
project is $769,000 with the
town supplying $170,000 of
the cost. Judge said the town
presently owes $276,000 for
water and sewer projects and
with the cost of the proposed
project, the total debt would
be $546,000. Judge said the
state allows a town to be in
debt up to eight percent of
the appraised value of its
property, and Kenansville's
total indebtedness would be
by 4.6% if the proposed
water project passes.
Engineer Tyndall Lewis of
McDavid and Associates
explained that of Kenans
ville's three wells, only two
are still operating. Lewis said
one of the wells had gone out
over a year ago. This well
had been connected to
Duplin General Hospital for a
"fail safe" water supply.
Now that the well no longer
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produced water, the hospital
is without water when re
pairs have to be made on the
present water system. Lewis
explained. The new water
system would provide
several connections from dif
ferent directions which
would insure the hospital a
constant water supply, the
engineer said. Lewis also
stated the N.C. Division of
Health Services recommends
that municipalities provide
storage capacity in an ele
vated tank equal to a one-day
supply of water. Kenansville
has a water flow of 220.000
gallons a day with the
present storage tank holding
150,000 gallons, and the
project is to include an
additional 250.000-gallon
storage tank. Lewis stated.
Also, to be added are cut-off
valves, fire hydrants, water
meters, three lines going out
of town, and 40-year-old
lines are to be replaced.
Lewis indicated that the
new well site would be about
one mile north of town on
Highway 11. He said the
town could pick up the most
new customers in that area,
and the well would be near
the existing wells. Another
line is proposed to go outside
of town, south on Highway
i 1. which will be paid for
completely by the state, and
a third line will run out of
town east on Highway 24.
According to Mayor
Judge, the system will pay
for itself but there will be an
increase of $1 over the
present w ater rate.
The proposed water
project is designed to serve
Kenansville until 2000,
based on the past growth
f'g ures, Lewis said. He
added that the present
Kenansville water system
Would have to be upgraded
before the town could meet
the present standards.
"If it (water bond) does
not pass, the taxpayer will
have to pay to get an
elevated storage tank and
well site." Mayor Judge
said.
Funds for the proposed
project will come from
a $356,500 FmHA grant, a
$160,500 N.C. Clean Water
grant, and a $73,000 Coastal
Plains Regional Commission
grant, and Kenansville pro
viding $170,000.
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY - The officers of the Duplin
Friends of the Library for 1979-80 are, left to right, Wanda
Frederick, assistant secretary; Lauree H. James, secre
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tary; C. Milton Rice, president; Mrs. N.B. Boney,
historian; and William F. Frederick, vice-president.
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