iHspIm JiaittSL ^ ttm*# PROGRESS SENTINEL ^ 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. mam,.a ? * ? < m ?i 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 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. . i i