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VOL. XXXXV NO. 5 USPS 162-860 , KENANSVILLE, NC 28349 JANUARY 31.1980 10 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
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Judge Williamson
Seeks Re-Election
Stephen M. Williamson
Judge Stephen M.
'Steve" Williamson, 42, of
plenansville, has filed with
State Board of Elections to
succeed himself as District
Court Judge of the 4th
Judicial District, which is
comprised of Duplin, Jones,
Onslow and Sampson
counties. Judge Williamson
was elected in the Nov., 1976
general election for a four
year term and has served in
this capacity since that time.
He is married to the
former Nancy Alphin and
they have three children:
Steve, Jr., 18, David Gilbert,
13, and Nancy Eva Margaret
"Nan", 11. They are mem
bers of the Kenansville
United Methodist Church,
where Williamson is the
chairman of the administra
tive board. He is presently
serving as assistant Scout
master. Also he is a member
of the executive board of the
Tuscarora Council for the
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Boy Scouts of America,
Duplin County Law Enforce
ment Assoc., Warsaw
Kenansville Rotary, and the
N.C. District Court Judges
Association.
Mobile Office
To Visit
Duplin
Congressman Charlie
Whitley's Third District
mobile office will be visiting
in the county on Wednesday,
Feb. 6. It will make stops at
the following times and lo
cations.
Wednesday, Feb. 6 -
Beulaville, 9:30-10:30 a.m..
Post Office; Greene vers -
11-12 noon. Town Hall;
Faison - 1-2 p.m., Fire
Station.
Rodney Knowles of the
Congressman's staff will be
manning the mobile office
and will be available to any
one having matters that
they wish brought to the
attention of Whitley. All
schedules are subject to pre
vailing weather conditions
affecting travel.
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THE NEW RQSE HILL DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY on U.S. 117 north of
town. The new laboratory will be complete as soon as a well and septic
tank have been installed, said Dr. Hugh Powell, D.V.M., director of the
laboratory. In the new lab work will be expanded from primarily poultry
to include all types .of animals and to -m.et the demands of the new area
will be Dr. Wayne Koski, D.V.M., who will specialize in mammals. The
Photo by Emily Killatto
lab is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and works in cooperation
with area veterinarians and poultry producers in detecting, controlling
and eradicating contagious diseases in the animal population, said Powell.
The lab is presently located on the corner of Church and Pine Streets in
downtown Rose Hill.
Dollar Days
In Mount Olive
I Friday & Saturday
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Hardison Speaks At
? District Board Meeting
Senator Harold Hardison
was guest speaker Thursday
night at a meeting of the
Fifth District School
Board Association, com
posed of eight city and
county school systems in
Southeastern North Carolina.
The meeting was held at East
^puplin in Beulaville.
Hardison, whose district
includes Lenoir, Duplin and
Jones counties, spoke on
inflation. He is chairman of
the Senate budget com
mittee.
The educators divided into
small groups for discussions
of North Carolina's open
meetings law, energy con
servation in the schools, a
proposed statewide school
bond referendum, and new
techniques in school disci
pline.
Carsie K. Denning, direc
tor of the division of plant
operations for the N.C.
Board of Education, talked
about energy conservation in
the schools.
N.C. schools will spend
$50 million for energy this
year, Denning said. Of that
amount, $34 million will pay
for electric power. An esti
mated $6 million worth of
electricity will be "need
lessly wasted," he said.
Energy management is
needed throughout the
schools to avoid such wastes,
he said.
New Procedural
Requirements
Discontinued
The new procedural re
quirements which recently
became effective for obtain
ing worthless check warrants
will be discontinued. Effec
tive immediately, the magis
trates have been asked to
issue worthless check war
rants without requiring
compliance with the new
statute passed by the Legis
lature.
The statute was enacted
and implemented with good
intentions. It was rot a
change in the substantive
law of worthless check vio
lations. It was merely a
procedural change to sim
plify proof of a worthless
check violation at trial when
the statutory require
ments had been met.
The problem was that the
paperwork required to com
ply with the statute made it
more trouble than it was
worth. Prosecution of worth
less check cases without the
procedural assistance of the
new statute is simpler and
easier than complying witf
the paperwork requirements
of the statute.
The result is that worthless
check warrants will be issuec
and prosecuted in the samt
manner as they were befort
the new statute was passed.
Duplin Arts Council
Sponsors Quintet
9 The Duplin County Arts
Council will sponsor
"Matrix." a brass quintet
from Winston-Salem,
throughout the school system
Jan. 31-Feb. 8.
Already this school year,
the Council has sponsored
the N.C. Dance Theatre,
N.C. Little Symphony,
^Shelton and Ellis Mime Duo.
^Tiompi Quartet from Duke
University, and has assisted
Valorie McCoy in her musical
production of "Scrooge." In
Jate February, the N.C.
School of the Arts Sr.
Company will present two
plays and a mime production
in the county.
. The performance schedule
for "Matrix ' is given below
and we encourage all
interested parents and citi
zens to attend these concerts
so they may see what the
Duplin County Arts Council
is doing for the school chil
dren. These programs are
partially funded by a Grass
roots Arts Program grant
given through the N.C. Arts
Council, a state agency.
Matrix Schedule
Jan. 30 - Chinquapin 1, 9:30
Jan. 31 ? North Duplin
High/Ele. 9:30; North
Duplin Jr. High. 1:30; Feb. 1
- Warsaw Jr. High, 9:30;
Warsaw Ele. - 1:30; Feb. 4 -
Warsaw Ele - 9-30- Feb. 5 -
Chrity Middle - 9:30; James
Kenan High School - 2:00:
Feb. 6 ? Chinquapin IIK -
9:30; Rose Hill-Magnolia Ele
- 11:15; Feb. 7 - E.E. Smith
Jr. High - 10:30; Kenansville
Elementary - 1:30; Feb. 8 -
B.F. Grady Ele. ? 9:30; and
Beulaville Ele. - 1-1:50 and
2-2:50
Williams Dies In
Fire Near Magnolia
| Reginald Williams, 22,
died early Saturday morning
when fire swept through his
residence about two miles
north of Magnolia, said
Magnolia Fire Chief J.D.
Quinn.
Quinn said the blaze was
reported at 2 a.m. Saturday.
Fire was coming out of all the
windows in the flve-room
brick house on State Road
All 14, and had broken
^through the kitchen roof by
the time firemen arrived.
Cause of the blaze has not
been determined, but Quinn
said a three-burner oil stove
was found charred in the
kitchen where the fire ap
parently started. Quinn said
the house had no electric or
gas service.
Firemen had extinguished
the major portion of the fire
by 2:45 a.m. Quinn esti
mated the damage to house
and contents at $10,000.
Rose Hill Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab
To Move In New Building
By Emily Killette
The Rose Hill Animal
Disease Diagnostic Labora
tory will soon be moving into
a new building on U.S. 117
north of town and will ex
pand their work to include all
types of animals, said Dr.
Hugh Powell, D.V.M., di
rector of the laboratory.
Powell said the lab started
work in 1960 primarily in the
area of poultry and has
continued doing 99% of all
its work on the diagnosis of
poultry diseases and recom
mending treatment. The pri
mary purpose of the lab is to
assist poultry and livestock
producers in detecting, con
trolling, containing and
eradicating contagious dis
eases in the animal popu
lation, commented Powell.
However, he emphasized
that the lab. which is a part
of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, prefers to work
through local veterinarians
whenever possible, especi
ally in areas other than
poultry.
Pesticide
Workshop
On Monday, Feb. 4 at 7
p.m. in the Agricultural Ex
tension Building in Kenans
ville. a workshop will be held
for certification in restricted
pesticide use by Snodie B.
Wilson, agricultural exten
sion agent. If you have
already been certified, this
workshop is not for you.
Federal law requires that all
persons who use restricted
pesticides must be certified.
Restricted pesticides are
those pesticides which have
been so designated by the
Environmental Protection
Agency, and bear the state
ment "restricted-use pesti
cide" on the product label
ing. In order to be certified,
you must attend four hours of
classes. You do not have to
pass a test. If you know
someone who needs to be
certified, invite him to this
certification meeting. You
' are asked to be on time so the
| meeting can start promptly
1 at 7 p.m. Also, it is a must
that you bring your social
| security number, and a
pencil or pen.
Call or drop by the
? office if you plan to attend.
The number is 2%-19%.
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According to Powell, there
are no veterinarians for the
poultry population across the
state, so the lab in Rose Hill
works closely with poultry
producers to detect diseases
and prescribe treatment. In
the case of other livestock
such as hogs, local veter
inarians will be involved in
the process. The local vet
eranarians will have the
opportunity to work through
the Rose Hill lab, using it to
assist in the diagnoses of
diseases or as a second
opinion, but treatment will
be prescribed by the local
practitioner, said Powell.
"We are here to assist
with the diagnosis or to back
up the local practitioners'
diagnosis. However, treat
ment will be prescribed by
the practitioner," Powell
said.
Because of the expanded
services of the new lab,
Powell said the staff will
double. In charge of the
additional area of services is r
Dr. Wayne Koski, D.V.M., f
who will primarily be work- l
ing with mammals, said t
Powell. Koski is a graduate <
of Texas A & M University (
and has spent the last eight f
years in private practice in (
Knoxville, Tenn. He came to
Rose Hill in January and has
been in the process of meet
ing local vets and livestock
producers to discuss the new
services the lab will provide.
"We are not here to
replace the local practitioner,
but to assist with diagnostic
problems," Koski said. "In
fact, we will prefer to work
through the local practi
tioners and will contact both
the producer and veterin
arian with our diagnosis. A
treatment will be left up to
the local practitioner. And, it
is our hope to educate the
livestock producers in ways
to utilize the professional
help of the local practi
tioner," Koski said.
Another service the lab
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)rovides is monitoring the ,
lealth of the animal popu
ation, Powell said. To test
he health of poultry and
)ther livestock, the lab re- ?
quires several animals from a
he flock be submitted for j
examination. However, |
Powell stressed that any
animal submitted to the lab
for tests would not leave
alive. During a post-mortem
examination of animals,
several tests are done, such
as some bacteriology, bac
teria tests; parasitology,
study for parasites;
hemotologv, blood tests;
micology, study of mold and
fungusO and some toxi
cology, tests for poison.
Even with the expanded
services, the Rose Hill Lab
will still be a limited service
laboratory, said Powell.
However, additional work,
which may be required in
some cases, can be
completed in the Raleigh
laboratory^ According to
Powell, the Rose Hill lab is
>ne of eight limited-services
diagnostic laboratories in the
state, four of which are
mainly used for poultry ?
'Rose Hill, Shelby, Robbins
ind North Wilkesboro.
'owell said the Rose
-iill lab handles about a
third of the poultry work in
the state, and with the
expansion into mammals at
the new lab, he feels the
percentage will be the same
for the new area.
According to Powell, the
new lab was designed for
future expansion and he is
optimistic that the facility
will be expanded in the
future to a full-service diag
nostic laboratory.
Powell said the new lab
will be ready as soon as a
well and septic tank have
been installed and hooked up
to the building. The old
laboratory is on the corner of
Church and Pine Streets in
downtown Rose Hill.
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EPILEPSY AWARENESS WORKSHOP ? The Employ
ment Security Commission sponsored an Epilepsy
Awareness Workshop at James Sprunt Technical College
Jan. 22. The workshop featured special guest speakers
Louise Denmark of the N.C. Division of Health Services;
Dr. Earl Trevathan of the East Carolina School of
Medicine; Robert Marker, vocational rehabilitation
counselor. Robert Reilty, N.C. Assistant Attorney General;
and Jack Cottle, pe>sonnet officer at J.P. Stevens
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Photo by Emily KIIMto
Company. The workshop was attended by local Employ
ment Security Commission counselors and nursing
students at JSTC. Pictured above, left to right. Dr.
Trevathan, Louise Denmark; Elizabeth Grant, manager of
the Employment Security Commission for Duplin,
Sampson and Southern Wayne counties; and Hugh Ebert,
handicap specialist with the N.C. Employment Security
Commission.
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