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PROGRESS SENTINEL VOL. XXXXV NO. 3 * USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 JUNE 4. 1981 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10CENTS PLUS TAX JSTC Funds Approved KENANSVILLE-The James Sprunt College board |of trustees voted Thursday to spend $39,364 renovating its oldest building. The board also re-elected its chairman and vice chairman to their 15th consecutive terms. The board approved a contract of $15,787 to change the walls and renovate the McGowan Building, the school's first building erected in 1966. That con |tract went to Brown Kennedy ^Construction Co. of Beula ville, the only bidder al though bid invitations went to 11 firms. Robert Lee, college fi nance officer, said state laws allow the board to award a contract for business under S30.000 when only one bid is received. Other contracts the board approved with competing bids were St 6,000 for install ing air conditioning and heat ing and $7,577 for renovating the electrical system. Re-elected to yet another one-year term were Chair man James Strickland of Warsaw and Vice Chairman Willard Hoffler. The two are charter members of the school's first board. Dr. Gene Ballard, dean of instructions, reported that 206 high school students ?were recently tested under a program that allows Duplin County students to get col lege credit for taking high school courses patterned after those offered at James Sprunt. He said about 160 students received college credit for some high school courses. The total of 206 students taking the test is up from the previous high of 120, Ballard said. He said the popularity of the program, only about two years old, is growing. At least two other technical colleges have agreed to transfer the credits for high school work, encouraging even more students to sign up for the testing under an "articulation" program, he said. In other business, the board made four appoint ments to the James Sprunt Foundation. Reappointed to the foundation were Willard Hoffler of Wallace, Charles Albertson of Beulavilte, Pearl S. McGowen of Kenansville and Tom Yates of Pink Hill. Emmet Wickline of Beulaville was reap pointed to the foundation. Daughter Files Suit The daughter of a promi nent Duplin County woman murdered April 22 has sued a Mount Olive man for a $20,000 loan allegedly owed her mother. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Duplin County Superior Court by Mary J. Williamson of Kenansville against the Rev. Sheldon Howard of Mount Olive. The lawsuit seeks the S20.000 and 12 percent inter est a year since Dec. 21. 1979. The woman who made the loan, Inez Jernigan, 53, was found dead in her kitchen from a crushed skull. The woman had also been stabbed three times, but investigating officers have not found the knife. Mrs. Jernigan, the owner of a Kenansville tractor com pany, was well known in Duplin County for backing mental health programs. Duplin County Sheriff El wood Revelle said Thurs day that an extensive investi gation since the incident has produced a prime suspect. He described the suspect as a male living outside Duplin County and said an arrest is expected soon. ' The Liberty Cart Dedicates 1981 Season To Paul Green ,.y f- ? rector of THE LIBERTY CART, and the Duplin Out ) door Drama Society recently announced that the 1981 production season will be dedicated to Paul Green. Paul Green died on May 4, 1981. His gentle death at the age of 87 years marked the end of one of the South's greatest literary careers. He was a champion of this com mon man and an early cam paigner for civil rights and an end of the death penalty. He I insisted upon recognition of the dignity of all men. His Pulitzer Prize winning play. In Abraham's Bosom, gave the America of 1927 its first powerful twentieth cen tury look at the plight of the black man in the South. It was played on Broadway at the same time his angry play. The Field God. which at tacked blind religious fana I ticism, was also playing. It established Paul Green as a leader in his field, as a voice for the underdog, and as the dramatic artist who best ^ -deinqnstrated the changing ? vahies of the South, t Green, 'who has received many awards, was named Dramatist Laureate of his native North Carolina in 1979 by the North Carolina'Gener al Assembly. He was pre viously awarded North Carolina's Gold Medal for Achievement in the Arts; and other awards were given by the American Theatre Asso ciation, the Roanoke Island Historical Association, the Southeastern Theatre Con ference, and the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge. Dr. Green, who gave con stant encouragement to young writers, choreor graphers. actors, and musi cians, also gave them, through his outdoor histor ical dramas, some of their best opportunities for paid employment. He was parti cularly noted for giving a chance to talented young directors and designers, a habit which most often led to advantages for everybody and careers for many. Some of his ou*4adf"hts- , tilty plays produce# over the country have included The Lost Colony, The Common Glory, The Stephen Foster Story, Texas, The Lone Star, Wilderness Road, Cross and Sword, Trumpet in the Land, and The Confederacy. He was a member of the executive committee of the U.S. National Committee for UNESCO and served as president of the National Theatre Conference. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The staff and cast of THE LIBERTY CART are pleased to dedicate this production season to the whose philoso phy, artistic skills, and will have set the pace of America's true epic theatre, the outdoor historical drama. The 1981 production of THE LIBERTY CART will open in Kenansville on July 17 and be performed every Thursday through Sunday night through Aug. 23. For more information about THE LIBERTY CART, The Liberty >? '? Jjtiir, or how ycu the 1981 production asOd-" cesi, call David Thomas at 919-296-0721, or write THE LIBERTY CARf> P.O. Box 470. Kenansville, NC 28349. Former Military Officer Buck Dies WARSAW - Retired Maj. Gen. William M. Buck, for mer adjutant general of North Carolina, died Sunday after a long illness. He was 66. A native of Rowland. Buck enlisted in the Army in 1942 and was commissioned a second lieutenant after at tending officer candidate school. He served in the Pacific Theater in World War II. winning the Bronze Star. In April 1947, he joined the N.C. National Guard and held numerous command positions. He operated to bacco warehouses in North Carolina and Georgia before accepting a full-time appoint ment as assistant adjutant general in 1971. Buck was named adjutant general by Gov. James E. Holshouser Jr. in 1973, and held the post for two years befce retiring. The adjutant general is the state's senior military officer. He is survived by his wife, Martha H. Buck; a daughter, Catherine B. Strange of Wilmington; his mother, Mrs. Geor&e Bennett Sr. of Warsaw; a brother. George Bennett Jr. of Warsaw; and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held Tuesday, at 3 p.m., Warsaw Baptist Church. Burial, De votional Gardens with mili tary honors. Duplin Tax Rate Will Not Change KENANSVILLE - Duplin County's ad valorem tax rate will remain at 70 ents per S100 assessed property valu ation for the next fiscal year, but the 451 taxpayers in Oak Wolf Fire District in northern Duplin will pay an additional 7 cents. The fire district needs to obtain S9.676 for operations and maintenance and to pay the county 6 percent of the i special levy for administra- ! tion. The county will collect | the tax along with its county | taxes. Wivli an assessed < valuation of $14,554,279, i each penny of tax levy brings in $1,382.65. The county will | receive 6 percent of the tax to ( pay for administration costs. The $8,285,937 proposed ' county budget was approved I Monday by the county board | of commissioners which set * 4he county tax rate at 70 1 cents for the second year. i The property tax will bring ?< in $4,280,822. * If the tax rate-remains the i same at 70 cents per $100, a c homeowner with properly 1 valued at $45,000 would con- > tinne to hive a yearly bill of ( $315 for property taxes. i County employees will re ceive a 5 percent cost-of-liv ing pay increase. Employees in the two lowest pay grades will receive a one-step or. grade , increase. Employees who have not received any salary increase in four years will also receive a one-step grade increase. Seventy-four employees will receive the basic step increases, costing the county 138,203. Twenty-three em ployees who have not had pay increases in four years will receive raises costing the xiunty SI 7,302. The across-the-board 5 percent increase will cost the x>unty $98,000. The board established a vehicle use policy sharply imiting the number of em ployees who can drive county vehicles home after work. Losing the privilege July 1 vill be the jailor, part-time uid full-time bailiffs, the supervisor and one mechanic it the landfill, the directors >f the civil defense and lealth departments, the de 'elopmett commission, the log warden and building nspector. ? Joe Tillman of Warsaw was appointed to the Duplin Sampson Regional Mental Health Board to succeed the late Inez Jernigan of Kenans ville. Univision Cable Systems Inc.' of Jacksonville, made a cable television proposal to the board. It offered to cover the unincorporated areas of the county, serving a poten tial of 8.000 of 11,000 houses for $9.50 per service per month. The firm would offer 21 channels. Gail Bailey, a part-owner of the firm, said it had $6 million committed to cable construction for Duplin County. The board decioed it will prepare an ordinance estab lishing requirements for cable television service. Jim Nabit, administrator of a private psychiatric hospi tal in Fayetteville, asked the board for its support in his effort to establish a regional private psychiatric hospital in Onslow County. He is proposing a 76-bed private hospital to serve Onslow, Duplin, Jones. Craven and Carteret counties. ? B*?' Produce Facilities Begin Operation At Quinn Company The first shipments from the new produce facilities at Quinn Wholesale in Warsaw were sent out by the truckload on May 18. The additional facilities expand the Quinn Company's capacity to include fruits, vege tables, meats and other perishable products. Quinn wholesale receives and then ships perishable products daily. The produce storage units house products from California and Florida as well as from local farmers. Gerald Quinn, vice-president of Quinn Company, told the Times in a previous article that this "new produce section is to provide better service to presept customers" as well as hopefully aiding in acquiring new customers Quinn Company of Warsaw is one of the major food distributors in the Southeastern United States. The produce from the new warehouse addition is being shipped in seven refriger ated trucks that had been purchased by Quinn Company since construction first began last year. Gerald Quinn explained that these trucks have three different tempera ture controlled compartments. The front compartment, maintained at 28 degrees fahrenheit, houses meats, the middle at 35 degrees fahrenheit holds milk and in back, at 48 degrees is where produce is kept. Quinn added that the company plans to acquire two more of these trucks. According to Quinn, the company has begun with 150-175 items with plans to include even more. ? I I STORAGE RiJOMS that were empty two weeks ago are now stocked full of produce at Ouinn Company's new facilities in Warsaw. This room houses fruits and vegetables at ^5 degrees with a high humidity. V. Ji PICTURED HERE is where potatoes, onions, etc. are stored at a 55 degree level. IGA is standing ready to be ?? w ?'-flES loaded onto the trucks. VERNON HUFFMAN, day-time supervisor and Marshal Anders, night-time supervisor at Quinn Company stand at the loading dock of a truck waiting to be loaded. The trucks I have three different temperature controlled compart ments. County Library To Close Temporarily The Duplin County Dorothy Wightman Library in Kenansville will be closed to the public for two weeks, June 15-26, so that the staff can move into the new library building. During this time, patrons may continue to bor row hooks fmm the library's branches in Beulaville, Rose Hill and Warsaw. Patrons who presently have books, records, films and other materials borrowed from the library in Kenansville are ??al - ? requested to return them by June 15th. There will be no circulation of films,' books and audiovisual equipment; no interlibrary loan service; and no telephone reference service at the library in Kenansville during the 2 weeks moving period. The library staff regrets this in convenience for its patrons, but hopes to have all regular services restored by Mon day, June 29th at its new location. SS
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