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^ VOL. XXXXV NO. 38 UPS 182-880 KENANSVILLE. NC 28348 SEPTEMBER 28. 1880 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
JAMES SPRUNT TECHNICAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT ? A
near-capacity audience listens to Senator Harold Hardison address 1980
graduating class. The weather and setting were ideal for the 18th
commencement exercises. (See story on Page 13)
) Contest Saturday Night In Kenansvillo
Eight Girls Vie For Miss Poultry
The annual Miss Poultry
pageant will be held Satur
day at 8 p.m. in the Kenan
Memorial Auditorium in
Kenansville with eight girls
. vying for the title.
) Special guests at the
pageant will be the new
Little Miss Rose Hill Pamela
Rouse and Little Miss North
Carolina Hemisphere Aimee
Watson. The mistress of
ceremonies will be Janet
Hogan of Norman.
The eight contestants in
tb' year's pageant are,
Bc.nlie Delores Brawley, Jan
Critcher, Connie Frances
W Swindell, Alice Joan Boney,
Penny James, Marshi Lynn
Forsythe, Lynn Carrol Mat
thews and Jerrianne Inscoe.
Delores Brawley is the
21-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul K. Brawley of
Statesville. She is a student
at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro
studying piano. Delores
plans to graduate with a
Bachelor of Music in music
education. For her talent in
the pageant, Delores will
sing the medley, "My Man/
Can't Help Lovin' That
Man."
(fan Critcher is the
lghter of Mr. and Mrs.
r. Critcher of Garner. She.
21 years of age and
ending North Carolina
*e University. At NCSU,
I is studying in poultry
snce and hopes to find
ploy men t'in promotional
es or poultry field work
>n her graduation. Jan's
snt will be a dance-twirl
itine to the music of
hat's Entertainment."
i was the first runner-up
the 1978 Poultrv oageant
1 was Miss Garner of
r9.
Jonnie Frances Swindell
the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmy Swindell Jr. of
Hobucken. Connie is 21
years of age and a student at
East Carolina University. At
ECU, Connie is studying
interior design. Connie
hopes to graduate with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in
interior design and seek
employment in that field.
She has served as a past
Croaker Queen. Her talent in
the poultry pageant will be
monologue of Edgar Allen
Poe's "The Tell-Tale
Heart."
Alice Joan Boney is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmy Boney of Wallace.
Joan is 19 years of age and is
presently attending James
Sprunt Technical College.
After completing courses at
JSTC, Joan plans to attend
the University of Campbell
and continue her studies in
criminal justice. Joan will be
singing in the Miss Poultry
pageant.
Penny James is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jeffery James of Beulaville.
She is 18 years of age and
attends Hardbarger Junior
College of Busin??s in
Raleigh. At Hardbatgers,
Penny is working toward a
degree in the field of fashion
merchandising. Penny will
be clogging as her talent in
the pageant Saturday night.
She is a former contestant in
the Beulaville Junior Miss
pageant.
Marshi Lynn Forsythe is
the daughter of Mrs. Pris
cilly Forsythe of Chapel Hill.
Marshi is 23 years of age and
attending the University of 1
North Carolina at Chapel
Hifl. Her plans for the future
include attending dental
school. Marshi's talent will
be a piano solo.
Lynn Carroll Matthews is
the 21-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Joyce C. Matthews of
Warsaw. Carroll is presently
residing at Wrightsville
Beach and attending the
University of North Carolina
at Wilmington. At UNC-W,
Carroll is studying music and
plans to teach as well as
perform upon her gradua
tion. Car roil ?has scrvrt-ts
Miss Wilmington and s
third runner-up in the l%t)
Miss North Carolina
pageant. She will play the
piano for her talent in the
pageant.
Jerrianne lnscoe is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Philie A. lnscoe of Rose Hill.
Jerrianne is 20 years of age
and is a graduate of Louis
burg College. She is
currently working at Murphy
Farms, Inc. of Rose Hill and
hopes to continue her busi
ness studies ia the near
future.^Jcrrianne will per
form a dramatic monologue
from "Our Town" by Thorn
ton Wilder for her talent in
the pageant.
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Board
Fails To
Meet
The regular meeting of the
Board of Education failed 10
transpire last week because
of a lack of a quorum.
Neither the chairman, E.
L. Boyette of Chinquapin,
nor th? vice chairman.
Graham Phillips of Wallace,
were present. Also absent
was Frederick Rhodes of
Albertson. who was defeated
for re-election by Hilbert
Swinson of Albertson.
The only members present
?t 8 p.m. were Jimmv Strick
land and Patricia broadrick
of Warsaw. They waited until
k'JIO and when no other
members appeared, Strick
land declared the meeting
canceled.
Company
Buys
Industrial
Site
Imperial Spinning Mills
Inc., a new company, is
purchasing a 40.000-square
foot structure just south of
Wallace which was erected
as a speculative industrial
building by Davison and
Jones Construction Co. in
1978, it was-announced last
week.
"This will represent a $1.3
million investment in build
ing and land," said Graham
Phillips of Wallace, a
member of the N.C. Eco
nomic Development Com
mission. "The company will
add S2 million in industrial
equipment.
imperial will begin
expanding the building to
48,000 sq.ft. and will add
offices on the site imme
diately. he said. The firm
expects to begin manufac
turing in mid-February. It
obtains raw material from
DuPont de Nemours Inc. and
spins the fiber into yarn for
use in hosiery manufactur
ing.
Imperial expects to employ
125 persons in three eight
hour shifts, seven days a
week. The firm's payroll is
expected to add at least $1
million a year to the area's
gross income.
George Perkins of Sanford
is president of the newly
incorporated firm. George
Parker and Jerry Hamm, also
of Sanford, are vice presi
dents. Hamm will move to
Wallace to be in charge >f
manufacturing operations.
The three incorporatois
previously were employed by
Federal Spinning Corp. of
Sanford.
Duplin To Use Wing
For Doctors' Office
The former nurses' resi
dence at Duplin General
Hospital will be converted to
physicians' office suits, the
Duplin County Commis
sioners decided last week.
Commissioner W.J.
Costin. who had made the
motion. Commissioner Allen
Nethercutt and Board
Chairman S. Franklin Wil
liams voted for the conver
sion Commissioners D. J.
Fussell and Calvin Turner
abstained.
TU? *
int i wu-aiui y suuiiuic,
now referred to as the
"South Wing" of the hos
pital, was built during the
mid-1950s and has been un
used for the past three years.
It was last used to house
nursing classes at James
Sprunt Technical College
nursing classes, but was
abandoned when a building
was completed on the JSTC
campus. Before that, it was
used as a convalescent resi
dence, but failed to meet
federal requirements.
The Duplin board is in
vestigaung grant sources to
finance the project.
"The big need in the
county in the near future is
medical care," Costin said.
"Because of a lack of spe
cialists. Duplin General has
operated in the red and we
are financing our rescue
squads to carry our patients
to other hospitals because of
this lack.. If Duplin is to
progress, we must have
these specialists."
The county had earlier
given the Duplin-Sampson
Mental Health program until
September 15 to obtain 1
$80,000 to renovate the '?
structure for administrative 1
offices. Dr. E. J. Ramon, J
director, said the program i
had been unable to raise the <
funds. Ramon had requested i
an additional week to
attempt to find the financing, '
but Costin said, "We need '
the specialists' space more >
than we need added ad- '
ministrative space for the t
mental health program.'' 1
Ramon said the mental t
health program was paying 1
Duplin General $200,000 a :
year to care for its patients. '
"Any way you look at it, '
we're one tpiilding short,"
Williams commented, "and '
if we must build, it will be I
better to join with Sampson '
County and construct a '
mental health building *
jointly." '
Rffnrp Dunlin fnrrrtpH an \
ws.iv/tv. upuii iui mvu c?ii
area mental health program '
with Sampson, the county ?
had maintained its own pro- <
gram, converting the former <
Rose Hill School to the <
present Archway East and
Omega Enterprises and the
former C.W. Dobbins school
building in Wallace to a
juvenile mental health
center.
The Duplin County Health
Department will use the
upper floor of South Wing
temporarily for office space.
In other business, J.
Michael Moore. agricultural
agent, reported (hat ma <t
farmers have been unable to
sell their corn because of
problems with aflatoxin. He
said the state allows corn ,
:ontaining up to 200 parts of
iflatoxin to be sold as feed
for some livestock, but added
[hat some mills were refus
ng to take infested corn and
Mhers were docking it SI or
more a bushel.
Frank Moore, tax super
visor, reported the depart
ment has discovered 900
tutomobiles worth $2,433,
)39, were not listed on the
ax rolls. Moore said the
value represents $17,000 in
ax money at the county's
ate of 70 cents per $100
issessed valuation plus the
ate payment penalties in
volved.
Walter Brown, head of the
?ounty's nutrition and aging
srogram, reported the
litchen to prepare meals for
he aged, located in the
'ormer countv iail. will be
ready for operation this
veek. Brown also told the
toard he bid $1.40 per meal
o supply 120 meals a day for
he Onslow County program.
Dnslow will handle delivery
>f the meals.
Area
Sports
See
Page 10
WINE JELLY - Ann Fussell at the Duplin Wine Cellars,
serves some of the wine jelly made by. Judy Wallace at the
Agricultural Extension Serivce. Tasting the jelly is Judy
Bryan and Ann Knowles. Wine jelly and other grape
products will be available for the public to taste during the
third annual Wine and Grape Day at the winery in Rose
Hill Saturday.
Good Things Come From Grape Contest At The
Annual Grape & Wine Day
The third annual North
Carolina Grape and Wine
Day will include contests,
exhibits, tours and the grape
stomp Saturday at the old
Poultry Jubilee fairgrounds.
Added to the list of acti
vities planned by the North
Carolina Grape Association,
the Duplin County Agricul
tural Extension Service will
be sponsoring a "good
things tn'ade with grapes"
contest. The events planned
by the grape association
include tours and tasting of
wines at the Duplin Winery,
special edition bottling
where the visitor can label
his own bottle of wine, bus
tours of nearby vineyards,
and an auction of rare North
Carolina wines. Contests
sponsored by the Grape
Association will be held at
the old fairgrounds, begin
ning with the grape catch,
followed by the grape tote,
and concluding with the
gripe Mom p. During the
afternoon contests, grape
exhibitions will be open
?grape juice, grape jelly, bis
cuits, grapes and a limited
supply of recipe books will be
available. Events at the
winery and grape contests
begin at 1 p.m.
The "good things made
with grapes" contest is
sponsored by the Duplin
Winery and DAES. There are
18 categories in which to
enter grape products ? jelly,
wine jelly, sugar-free grape
jelly, jam, uncooked jam,
marmalade, conserves, pre
serves, canned grape hulls,
canned grapes, juice, spiced
canned grapes, other canned
grape products, cakes made
with grapes or grape
product, pies, other desserts
made from grapes or grape
products, homemade sweet
wine, and homemade dry
wine. Entries for the contest
can be submitted until 1 p.m.
Saturday. Items which arp
not perishable can be
entered until Saturday at the
Duplin Winery. On the day of
the show, entries are to be
submitted at the Rose Hill
Recreation Building at the
old poultry fairgrounds.
Exhibits will be judged at 1
p.m. on Saturday and a blue,
red, and white ribbon winner
wiH be declared in each
category. In addition, two
"best of the show" gifts will
be awarded, one to the
contestant receiving the most
points in the grape food
products categories, and a
second gift for the best
overall homemade wine. The
good things made with
grapes exhibition, recipe
demonstrations will begin.
Opening the N.C. Grape
and Wine Day will be Miss
Duplin County Shari Jones.
Also participating In the
grape stomping competition
will be Miss Poultry Cynthia
Jimtar.
Among the exhibits will be
grapes and grape products
from the vineyards of Burl
Williamson, president of the
North Carolina Grape Asso
ciation. Williamson is a
native of Sampson County,
where he has 40 acres of
vineyards in the Clinton
area.
Registration for the grape
day will begin at 9 a.m. with
a fee of $2 covering the
events of the day. Tours and
tasting will be available be
ginning at 9 a.m.. and con
tests and exhibits are sche
duled to open at 1 p.m.
Trophies and prizes for the
grape catch, tote, and stomp
will be awarded immediately
after the grape stomp. The
stomp will begin at 4 p.m.
According to Ann Fussell
at the winery. Dennis
Rogers, a comumnist with
the Raleigh News and Ob
server, will return to defend
his title as champion
stomper. .
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