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?VOL. XXXXIV NO. 51 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 DECEMBER 20,1979 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
PRESIDENTIAL CLASSROOM - Pictured above are
students from James Kenan High School who will attend
ihe Presidential Classroom ill Washington, D.C. The
pudents will spend seven days in Washington where they
will be exposed to the major branches of the Federal
government, visiting the seats of government such as the
White House, the State Department, Capitol Hill and the
Central Intelligence Agency. The Presidential Classroom
was chartered in 1968 as a nation-wide effort to promote a
better understanding of American democracy and a deeper
feeling of citizen responsibility. Pictured above (left to
right), Regina Arnette, Kim Austin, Pam Brock, Becky
Howard, Julia Spicer and Pam Yelverton.
PRESIDENTIAL CLASSROOM - Pictured above are
*tudents participating in the Presidential Classroom
rogram from James Kenan High School (left to right).
Photo by Emily Killotto
Amelia Carlton, Wendy Rivenbark, Hicks Pigford,
Jennifer Byrd, Sonya Kernstine and Donna Kennedy. Not
pictured is Bernitia Kea.
Duplin Farmers
Re-Elect Most To ASCS Panel
t Duplin County farmers re
jected most of their Agri
cultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service com
munity committee members
but shuffled the positions of
several in the annual mail
ballot committee elections
Allied this past week in the
county ASCS office.
Community committees
for 1980 and changes from
1979 were announced as
follows by David English,
county ASCS director, with
xhairman, vice chairman,
Regular members and two
Alternates listed in order:
? Albertson: Jack Patter
son, Alvin Stroud, Donald K.
Outlaw and Ted Grady and
Marshall Britt. Grady was
vice chairman and Stroud a
regular member. Outlaw
Rioved up from alternate.
? Cypress Creek: Garland
Whaley, Raymond Brown,
Haywood Batchelor and Le
roy Pickett and Ivey D.
Lanier. Brown and Whaley
reversed positions. Pickett
fcnd Lanier succeed Deuland
"holar and Ray Lanier
? Faison: Roy McNeill,
Sam Taylor, Roba Pate, Dan
Kornegay and Rudolph Hil'.
? Glisson: Larry W. Har
per, Richard Waller, G.
Owight Walker and Joseph
Khitlaw and Mack E. Jones.
Waller was an alternate in
1979. 01ive? Herring, Jr.
went off the committee as
vice chariman.
? Island Creek: Wilbert A.
Hanchey, Wendell Teachey,
Thomas Cavenaueh. A.C.
Kenan and Albert Kenan, Jr.
Albert Kenan, Sr. went off
the committee as alternate.
? Kenansville: Jimmy
Stroud, Thomas Chestnutt,
O.K. Blizzard, Davis Bland,
Jr. and Jimmy Summerlin.
Summerlin succeeds Robert
A. Merritt as an alternate.
? Limestone: Ervin Lanier,
Lonnie Andrews, J.D. Sloan,
Bennie Whalev and Tom
Penny. Andrews succeeds
John F. Cottle as vice chair
man and Whaley succeeds
Lonnie Andrews as an alter
nate.
? Magnolia: E.M. Beasley,
David 0. Byrd and Caitha
Drew. Francis P. Usher suc
ceeds Lewis Williams as first
alternate and Drew succeeds
Usher as second alternate.
? Rockfish: Alton J. Wells,
Charles Knowles, Charles
Edward Carr, Earl Knowles
and Evander Savage. Wells
succeeds Gibson Carr as
chairman. Adrian Johnson,
former regular member,
went off the board. Wells
has been first alternate.
? Rose Hill: Eugene C.
Wells, Sr., Charles F.
Hawes, Jr.. Albert J. Cottle,
Linwoou C. Brinkley and
Danny Lee Brown.
? Smith: Lawrence J.
Houston, D.L. Smith, Kermit
P. Williams, Wilbur Sumner
and Morris Kennedy.
, ? Warsaw: John B. West,
E.L. Blanchard, Melvin Her
ring, Ronald Jack Sauls and
Carl Kirby. Kirby succeeds
Albert P. Blackmore as
second alternate.
? Wolfscrape: C.C. Ivey,
Jr., Jesse E. Bell and Marvin
Brock, McCray Wells and
Cecil Rose succeed Jimmy G.
Goodman and Albert O. Britt
as alternates.
Magnolia Mayor -
Elect Rejects Oath
Magnolia found itself
without a mayor Wednesday.
Marjorie Pickett, who was
elected to the position
without opposition, refused
to take the oath of office at
last week's Tuesday night
town board meeting.
Former Mayor Melvin
Pope did not seek re-election
to the post, but sought and
won election to e board seat.
After he was sworn into the
board, he was elected mayor
proitem.
Town Attorney Jene
Thompson III said he will
have to determine what can
be done about naming a
mayor.
If Mrs. Pickett had taken
the office and then resigned,
no problem would exist, he
said. In that case, the board
could have appointed a
mayor. While it still might be
able to do this, Thompson
said, he would have to in
vestigate the legality of such
action under the present
situation.
Mrs. Pickett said she re
fused to take the office
because she could not con
tinue as town clerk, which is
a salaried position. She
found she could not legally
hold both positions. Asked
why she didn't allow herself
to be sworn in and then
resign lu cumulate the con
fusion, she answered, "I was
advised not to."
When the time for filing
for town offices ended in
October, no one had filed for
the post. The filing deadline
was extended a week. Five
minutes before the extended
filing deadline, Mrs. Pickett
was persuaded to file.
She has been town clerk
since 1943. For many years,
the position was on a part
time basis. She is a retired
Duplin County school
teacher.
In addition to Pope,.
Rudolph Becton was sworn in
as a board member. He was
re-elected to the board.
Greenevers To Sell
Water To Duplin
? The Greenevers Board of
Commissioners voted to sell
water to the planned Duplin
County water system at their
most recent meeting.
The board agreed to a
minimum price of $25 a
month. The minimum will
include provision of up to
20,000 gallons of water a
month. The charge for addi
tional water sold to the
county will be 55 cents per
1,000 gallons. The board
limited the maximum sale to
1.25 million gallons per.
month.
Completion of the county
system is expected by mid
July, according to Tyndall
Lewis of McDavid & Asso
ciates, consulting engineers
of Goldsboro. Bids on the
system were opened Dec. 6.
The low bid was $335,000
from Rothrock Construction
Co. of Murrells, S.C.
The contract calls for an
18-mile waterline extending
from Registers Crossroads,
where the Greenevers
system terminates, to
Dobson's Chapel and along
N.C. 50 to Kenansville. The
system is expected to serve
150 to 170 customers.
The board also voted to let
the electric power franchise
to Four County Electric
Membership Corp., which
has 140 customers in the
town.
The town has been served
by both Four County and
Carolina Power & Light Co.
CP&L is serving 90 cus
tomers.
Nathan Murray, a town
commissioner, said Four
County provided the first
electric service to the com
munity and therefore the
board voted to let the fran
chise to it. Murray said the
town will charge a franchise
fee of approximately S3 per
meter.
A public hearing was con
ducted on a proposed appli
cation for a $500,000 com
munity development grant
for housing improvement. No
opposition to the proposal
appeared.
Mayor Alex Brown and
Commissioners J.W. Han-ell
and Murray were sworn into
new terms by District Court
Judge Kenneth Turner of
Rose Hill. They were re
elected last month.
Duplin Contracts
On Water Main
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A contract for $334,085 for
construction of 18 miles of
water main from Kenansville
to Registers Crossroads and
G^eenevers was let Monday
to Rothrock Construction Co.
of Murrells Inlet, S.C. by the
Duplin County Board of
Cbmmur ioners.
The project is being fi
nanced by*-a jU.S. Depart
ment of Housing and Urban
Development grant of
$500,000.
The board also approved
an increase in the size of pipe
called for in a portion of the
proiect at an additional cost
of $50,000.
Tyndall Lewis, project en
gineer for McDavid Asso
ciates of Goldsboro, consult
ing engineers, said the con
tractor will begin stockpiling
material for the project in the
area and will begin con
struction about March 1. He
said the firm can lay up to
5,000 feet of pipe a day.
Completion of the project is
scheduled for July. >
The maximum water use
expected on the line is about
700,000 gallons a day. Last
week the board contracted
with Greenevers to supply up
to 1.2S million gallons a day
for two years.
If Kenansville voters ap
prove their water bond issue,
the board will attempt to
contract with the city to
supply a portion of the water.
Kenansville is on higher
ground than most of the
planned water system, and
water from the city's source
would require less pumping
pressure.
In other action, the board:
? Was advised the Com
munity Development
Department will hold a
,public hearing on a com
munity development grant
application at 7 p.m. Dec. 27
in the courtroom.
? ? Heard Finance Officer
Russell Tucker say he
planned to ask for three-year
bids for auditing services.
? Heard from County
Extension Chairman Lois
Brill that the county 4-H
recognition program will be
held at 7:30 p.m. January
28th.
? Appointed L.S. Guy of
Faison to the industrial
development board to re
place Curtiss Cates, who
resigned.
? Reappointed Craven
Brewer of Warsaw and Amos
Brinson of Kenansville to the
industrial development
board.
Several citizens appeared
before the board to ask
assistance on rural roads.
From Route 1, Beulaville,
asking for help on Rural
Unpaved Road #1953 were
Vivian Miller, Willie Brock,
Clifton Brock, Joe Brock,
Jimmy Rogers, Ruby Rouse,
Joyce Brock and Francis
Miller. From Route 1, Chin
quapin, requesting assis
tance with a ditch on Rural
Road #1714 were Rubin
Jones and Jane Mobley.
From Route 2, Pink Hill,
requesting assistance with
Rural Road #1718 near
Potters Hill, were John L.
Houston and Sidney Ken
nedy, and from Route 1,
Warsaw requesting assis
tance with Unpaved Road
#1344, were Pauline Graham
and George Garner. .The
Department of Transporta
tion was advised of the
requests.
Wallace Mayor
/
Sworn In
Melvin Cording was sworn
in as mayor of Wallace last
Thursday night at the Board
of Commissioners' meeting.
Sworn in as board mem
bers were Arnold Duncan for
his second term and new
comers Charles Blanchard
and N.H. Carter.
Cording succeeds Charles
Farrior, who had served as
mayor for 12 years but did
not seek re-election. Farrior
succeeded T.J. Baker as
mayor after Baker success
fully ran for the General
Assembly.
Cording served as mavor
in the late 1950s and 1960s.
He is a former dairyman and
dairy products distributor
and was later associated with '
a Community Action Pro
gram. His last official posi
tion was as a magistrate.
Blanchard operates B&R
Frozen Foods. Carter is in
volved with the firm of Z.J.
"Carter & Sons.
The newly constituted
board elected Lloyd Boone as
mayor pro tern and treasurer.
Duncan was named as public
safety commissioner,
Blanchard was named public
utilities commissioner, Willie
Biggs .was appointed trans
portation commissioner, and
Carter appointed library and
recreation commissioner.
Fire Chief Robert Boone
announced his resignation
for health and age reasons.
He has served in the depart
ment 38 years and has been
chief for 23 years. The resig
nation is to become effective
Feb. 28, on the 38th anni
versary of Boone's joining
the department, the board
decided.
Town Administrator Tom
Phillips reported 49 percent
of the town's budgeted funds
have been spent halfway
through the budget year. The
town has received 47 percent
of anticipated revenues. He
reported cash resources of
the town government at
$526,000. However, Phillips
said, about $40,000 in ac
counts payable were out
standing.
Phillips reported the town
has collected $119,957 of the
current year's taxes. It an
ticipates receiving another
$146,484 in 1979 taxes. The
town sent tax bills totaling
$266,441.88 at the start of
the year.
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/4s you gather
round the tree, may
your Christmas
glow with merriment.
SCENES FROM THE THOU) DAY OF
CHRISTMAS - Liberty Hall was open Dec.
16 from 2 until 9 p.m. decorated in the
period of the early 1800s. Pictured above is
the Christmas tree with handmade deco
Photo by Emily KlltoMo
rations and candles, along with popcorn
garlands. Also pictured is a fresh fruit and
greenery centerpiece on a table in the front
room of Liberty Hall. *