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I VOL. XXXXV NO. 41 USPS 162-080 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 OCTOBER 9, 1980 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
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Beulaville Becomes Member
Of Tri-Town Administration
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0 Beulaville became the
third town in the tri-town
administration program
begun in 1978, after Mag
nolia pulled out this year,
leaving Kenansville and
Rose Hill in the program.
The tri-town program
began in July of 1978 with
Magnolia and Rose Hill join
ing Kenansville to pay the
salary of a full-time town
^ administrator. The tri-town
agreement included the
towns sharing the benefits of
administrative moneys
received through federal
grants for town projects,
Tri-Town Administrator
Woody Brinson said. And, in
June of this year Magnolia
pulled out of the tri-town
agreement, budgeting
moneys paid the adminis
^ trator into a full-time town
P clerk's position. Beginning
the first of September, Beu
laville officially replaced
Magnolia in the tri-town
agreement, Brinson said.
However, he added, for a
period of one year Beulaville
will not benefit from any of
the grant funds paying the
administrator which were
applied for prior to Beulaville
joining the tri-town agree
ment.
Until Beulaville joined the
tri-town agreement, Brinson
said, Rose Hill and Kenans
ville had budgeted funds to
pay his salary. With the
addition of Beulaville into the
agreement. Salary expendi
tures for the other two towns
would decrease. Beulaville
will be paying one-fourth of
the administrator's salary.
$5,500, with Kenansville
paying approximately
$10,000 and Rose Hill
$6,400, Brinson said.
The tri-town agreement
designates one day of the
administrator's week is spent
working on business for each
of the towns of Beulaville and
Rose Hill. Two days of the
week are for the adminis
trator to work on Kenansville
projects and the remaining
day of the week is tor work in
any or all the towns' pro
grams, Brinson said.
Kenansville is the home base
of the tri-town agreement, he
said, with both Rose Hill and
Beulaville paying travel ex
penses to their town. Trips
which combine the business
of more than one town, are
paid jointly by the towns
involved. In Kenansville,
Brinson is responsible for the
administration and applica
tion for grants, budget, and
investment advertisements
for the town board. He is also
in charge of town personnel,
purchasing, paving bills and
some on-site supervision of
projects, such as the park. In
the towns of Beulaville and
Rose Hill, Brinson acts only
in the administration of
grants and the application for
grant funds, along with bud
get and investment adver
tisements to the town
boards.
Beulaville projects which
Brinson has become involved
with in the tri-town adminis
tration program are the En
vironmental Protection
Agency waste water treat
ment improvements and
sewer plant construction.
However, Brinson said,
potential projects in the area
of recreation facilities, high
way improvements and HUD
Community Development
Improvement are being con
sidered by the Beulaville
Town Board.
Over the next 18 months,
Brinson said, federal grants *
in the towns of Rose Hill and
Kenansville may be funding
up to 90% of his salary as
tri-town administrator.
However, Beulaville will only
benefit from the grants after
September of 1981. Rose Hill
will receive a $813,000 HUD
grant for sewer improve
ments which includes funds
for an administrator if the
citizens of the town pass the
November 4 sewer improve
ment bond referendum for
$375,000, Brinson said.
Along with the passing of the
bond referendum. Rose Hill
will receive $1,925,000 in
EPA and Clean Water Bond
grants needed for improve
ments to the sewer and water
systems. Kenansville will be
receiving funds to pay the
salary of an administrator
through a CETA project.
According to Brinson, the
CETA project will become
effective when the federal
budget is finalized. The
Kenansville CETA project
will be a $78,000 program in
which labor will be furnished
to restore the Pearsall House
and work on park improve
ment. Both the Rose Hill and
Kenansville projects are ex
pected to begin in November
if approved, Brinson said.
VOLUNTEER AWARDS - In a ceremony at King's
restaurant in Kinston, Governor Jim Hunt presented five
volunteer awards to Duplin County residents. They are,
from left to right is the photo with the Governor. Lester
Moore, who accepted the Outstanding Individual Human
Service Award far ludy Wallace; H.I. Sanderson, who
accepted the Outstanding Community Organization Award
for the Wallace Rotary Club; Mary Pierce, who accepted
the Church/Religious Award for the Churches of Duplin
County; Earl Whitaker, honored as the Outstanding
Individual Community Leader; and Mildred Hussey, who
accepted the Outstanding Volunteer Coordinator Award
for Katie Murray. The ceremony was one of three in the
state this fall. Volunteers and volunteer organizations from
Eastern North Carolina were chosen by local county
committees and honored Saturday. October 4 in Asheville;
and those from Central North Carolina will be honored on
October 10 in Raleigh.
Faison Depot Restored
As Fellowship Hall
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For $35 a square foot we
could build a fellowship hall,
but restoring part of the old
Faison depot has cost less
than half what a new build
ing would cost, said Willie
Hill, a member of the Faison
Hills Chapel Church.
"We were going to build a
fellowship hall onto our
? church, but for $35 a square
foot, we could never have
built anything like this." Hill
said.
Hills Chapel Church is
located on the corner of the
block, south of Goshen
Medical Center. The church
had the storage area of the
depot moved behind their
sanctuary this past winter,
and hired two carpenters
who have remodeled the
inside of the old depot ac
cording to ideas front church
members, Hill said.
The unsuspecting passer
by would net recognize the
old depot. The outside has
been bricked and only the
scalloped trim on the eaves
remains. Inside the building
is almost finished. The floor
waits to be covered and final
touches in the kitchen indi
cate the job is incomplete.
Inside the walls have been
paneled, a kitchen area has
been added, and the ceiling
is covered in large white
squares accented with gray.
And, renovating the depot
storage area has cost less
than building the narrow
expansion between the
church and the fellowship
hall. Hill said.
"We haven't spent
$30,000 on this building
yet," Hill said. "When we
first started talking about
building ? fellowship hall, we
were given an estimate of
about $35 a square foot. If we
had built, we could never
have afforded anything as
nice as this building. A
building like this would cost
$85-90,000 if we had built it
from the ground up."
Hill estimates the church
has saved as much as
$50,000 and they have their
fellowship hall sooner than
had been expected. The hall
will serve as a Sunday school
room and a place for small
church meetings. And, the
church will use the facility as
a fellowship hall where the
members can gather for
dinners, receptions and other
occasions.
"The women have already
used the room for one
dinner," Hill said. "We
were working on the inside
but they came in and put up
some curtains and cleaned
up a bit and used the room
for a dinner."
According to Hill, the first
dinner was the celebration of
Hills Chapel Church home
coming in August. Another
celebration and dinner will
be scheduled when the
fellowship hall is completed,
Hill said. The pastor for the
church is the Reverend R. W.
Lowe.
* Whitley Receives Award
And PAC Endorsement
? The National Federation of
Independent Business, the
largest small business group
. in the nation, announced that
K by voting in support of key
.'S small business issues. 80
2 percent of the time during
9the 96th Congress, Rep.
?/Charles O. Whitley has
learned its Guardian of Small
'Business award and has been
?endorsed by NFlB's political
faction committee.
In announcing the award,
WWiljo" S Johnson, president
*of the group, explained that
Jthe award gives recognition
to legislators who support
Ipmall business and at the
,^same time assures our
members of how their legis
lator is representing them in
^Congress. "Quite often,"
says Johnson, "some legis
lators will claim support for
^kmall business by voting for
?such things as a Small Busi
ness Administration appro
priations bill. We feel, how
-ever, that NFIB members
? should know how their legis
lator voted on each of those
tissues which we consider of
key importance to small
.s business."
NFIB PAC Chairman Dick
Efisher noted that the en
;%jdorsement of Whitley comes
jLakftei close, scrutiny of his
?Svcrall legislative record
^vhich clearly shows a con
tern for the 12 million or so
small business operations in
the country today. "Con
gressman Whitley has
served his constituency well
on a broad-based spectrum
of legislation and has been
an effective member of Con
gress in his work on the
House floor in in commit
tee," says Fisher. "He
should be returned to Wash
ington so that he can con
tinue to fulfill the specific
needs and wants of his
congressional district and the
nation as a whole."
NFIB. which is nonprofit
and non partisan, presents
its Guardian Awards at the
end of each Congress to
those members who vote in
favor of small business on
selected issues at least 70
percent of the time. A total of
195 representatives and 30
senators qualified for the
award this year.
WILSON S. JOHNSON, left, president of the
NFIB, presents his organizations Guardian
of Small Business award to N.C. Con-?
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gressman Charles O. Whitley. NF1B is the
nation's largest small business organization.
Case Against Teacher Dismissed
Two changes of taking
indecent liberties with
jninors against Marvin Gra
ham, 46, a public school
teacher, were dismissed in
Superior Court last Wed
nesday by Judge Robert D.
Rouse Jr.
The charges were dis
missed because of insuffi
cient evidence. Rouse said.
Refusal of a 14-year-old
state's witness to testify
during the trial and refuta
tion of previous statements
by another 14-year-old wit
ness led defense attorney
Vance Gavin to make a
motion to dismiss all
charges.
The jury was escorted from
the courtroom while the
judge and the attorneys dis
cussed the matter.
Following dismissal of the
charges. Judge Rouse
ordered the witness who
refused to testify to appear in
court before 10 a.m. Nov. 24
and show why she should not
be held in criminal contempt
of court.
The judge told the first
witness. You ? have t<
answer the questions a .kcd
here. . -You willfully refused
to answer questions without
legal justification."
Graham's case was
brought before a county
grand jury session by Deputy
Alfred Basdcn and District
Attorney Dewey Hudson
fhe grand jury found a true
bill against Graham and a
warrant was issued for his
arrest.
After he was indicted,
Graham was freed on $1.000
bond and continued
teaching.
During the trial. Hudson
said both witnesses had re
corded statements con
cerning an alleged incident
May 2. However, when the
witnesses were called to
testify on Tuesday, one re
fused to testify and the other,
while acknowledging having
made the statements, said
they were untrue.
Five More Miles Of 1-40
Construction Work Funded
U.S. Senator Robert Mor
gan has notified Tom Brad
shaw and the NCDOT of the
availability of an additional
$2.6 million in federal high
way discretionary funds for
continued initial construction
phases of the 90-mile priority
primary highway project
from 1-95 near Benson to
Wilmington.
State Secretary of Trans
portation Tom Bradshaw said
this latest additional funding
provides for grading, drain
age and structures from just
south of NC-210 near Pocky
Point for 4.9 miles south to
just north of the Northeast
Cape Fear River near Castle
Hayne. Bids for this project
will be received in November
and recommended to the
board of transportation in
December.
Bradshaw noted the board
of transportation will be
asked to award bids on
similar construction work on
another 16.2-mile section of
the project during the board
meeting in Oxford this week.
He commended the continu
ing effort of the N.C. con
gressional delegation and
especially Senator Robert
Morgan and Congressmen
Charlie Rose and Bill Hefner
who worked to get his project
included in the 1978 surface
transportation legislation.
"We have already re
ceived $20.25 million from
the FHWA for right of way
acquisition on this multi-lane
project. In January we re
ceived a commitment for $14
million in initial construction
funds for FY'80, and in
August $1.6 million was
made available. Now we
have been notified of an
additional $2.6 million which
will be matched with 25
percent state funds.
"We are proud of our
active partnership with
FHWA and certainly appre
ciate the assistance of U.S.
Transportation Secretary
Neil Goldschmidt and
Federal Highway Adminis
trator John Hassell in help
ing us develop this most
important 90-mile freeway."
Bradshaw said.
The secretary indicated
that "Our board of trans
portation's foresight in
including this project in our
transportation improvement
program in January of 1978
and our staff's early de
velopment of engineering
plans has enabled our state
to take maximum advantage
of discretionary funding for
this important highway faci
lity."
He also commented. "This
interstate-type facility from
Benson to Wilmington will
connect our port with the
state's piedmont and moun
tainous regions. It represents
the board's commitment to
carry on Gov. Hunt's policy
on balanced growth and eco
nomic development.
"North Carolina's other
port at Morehead City is
served by US-70 which is
four-laned from the coast to
the Tennessee line with the
exception of the Smithfield
Bypass, which is an active
project with the department.
The 13-mile section is
presently in the design stage
with construction scheduled
for early 1982."
Sout-O-Rama '80 To Be Held
At Wayne County Fairgrounds
One thousand Boy Scouts,
Cubs and Explorers will con
verge on Wayne County
fairgrounds Oct. 11 to open
their second annual Scout-O
Rama. According to Scout
Executive Dick Auger, this
is a show staged by members
of the Tuscarora Council
depicting scouting in action.
There will be a midway
which the scouts will show
their pioneering skills, cook
ing. first aid and a host of
merit badges. Cubs will have
live exhibits of their handi
carft, games, puppets and
other achievements and
electives. The high school
age Explorers will man
booths that reflect activities
performed by them such as
medicine, law enforcement,
firemanship etc. The ribbon
cutting for the event will be
at noon Saturday and will be
performed by Mayor Al
Plonk of Goldsboro along
with Miss Goldsboro of 1980.
There will also be music and
activities performed every
half hour durinv the rest of
the day. This will include
guard dogs, country-western
music and quartets. Judges
will come from various parts
of the state, and ribbons will
be awarded. The affair will
conclude at 6 p.m.
Danny Southerland,
chairman, said that he anti
cipated a crowd equal to that
of last year if not larger.
Southerland is from the Sun
rise Kiwanis Club of Golds
boro, a sponsoring organiza
tion. "The public is invited to
purchase a $1 ticket from
their nieghborhood scout or
explorer and come see scout
ing in action," Southerland
added.
McCullen Inducted Into
Marketing Group At ECU
Forty-seven students in
the East Carolina University
school of business have been
initiated as charter members
into ECU's new collegiate
chaptef of the American
Marketing Association. All
are pursuing majors in
marketing cr related fields ?
business administration,
management or economics.
In a recent campus cere
mony, the new chapter was
formally dedicated to Dr.
Albert R. Conley, retired
member of the ECU market
ing faculty, and will be
known as "The Albert R.
Conlcy Collegiate Chapter."'
Chapter members include
Renee McCullen, business
administration and
marketing major, from War
saw. ?
AGLOW
Women's Fellowship will
meet Saturday. Oct. 11 at 9
a.m. for coffee and 9:30 a.m.
for their meeting at Brown's
restaurant in Kenansville.
Guest speaker it Bea Genoa
rVf Willi?m?tnn