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i# y ^ jl>*\ |Vuplm ttw # PROGRESS SENTINEL | 0VOL. XXXXVNO. 41 USPS 162-860 K FNANSVILIB. NC 28349 OCTOBER 8. 1981 ^ 18 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX Mt. Olive Minister Held In Jernigan Murder The Rev. Clarence Sheldon I I ^Howard of Mount Olive re mained in Duplin County Jail Monday, charged with the t April 21 murder of a Kenans- i ville businesswoman who 1 had sought repayment in I January of a $20,000 loan she i made to the minister., I A bond hearing was sche duled Tuesday for Howard, i 44, who was arrested Friday 1 night and charged in the * seating death of Inez lernigan. Howard made his first ippearance in court Monday in Kenansville, where District Judge Steve Wil liamson told him he is sharged with a capital of fense. A probable cause hearing is scheduled Wednesday be fore Williamson. Defense attorneys Jene Thompson and Doug Conners said the bond hear ing would be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Superior Court in Jacksonville. Mrs. Jemigan's body was discovered the morning of April 22 lying on the kitchen floor of her home on N.C. 11, 3Vi miles north of Kenans ville. A placemat lay over her face. Her skull broken, she had been beaten on the head six times and stabbed twice in the neck. The head blows were made with a chair, investigators said. Mrs. Jernigan. S3, lived alone. She owned and managed Jernigan Tractor Company of Kenansville and' spent much of her spare time working with the Duplin County mental health pro gram which she helped start. Howard, pastor of North east Free Will Baotist Church of Mount Olive, had been pastor of Pearsall's Chapel Free Will Baptist Church north of Kenansville, of which Mrs. Jernigan was a member. As executrix of her mother's estate, Mrs. Jerni gan's daughter, Mary J. Williamson sued Howard in May for a $20,000 loan made to him by her mother. In response to the suit filed in the Duplin County clerk of court's office Sept. 18, How ard said he had borrowed $20,000 at 12 percent interest from Mrs. Jernigan on Dec. 21. 1979. He said she had asked him for payment in January 1981, and that he paid the entire amount in cash to Mrs. Jernigan at 6 p.m. April 21 at her home. Howard said Mrs. Jernigan gave him the promissory note. He failed to produce the note and ob jected (o questions concern ing its disposition. Howard said he obtained the money to repay the loan from his brother-in-law, Opie Ellen of Wilson, on April 17. Investigators said no large sum of money was found in the Jernigan house on April 22. Duplin County Sheriff El wood Revelle, who with State Bureau of Investigation agents and Wayne County authorities arrested Howard in Goldsboro Friday night, said Monday the decision to arrest Howard was made Friday afternoon. "It just reached a point after 5'/i months that the district attorney, Bill And rews, and I went through the highlights of the evidence and decided it was time to make the arrest," Revelle said. v' ,wp" ?? YW r POULTRY PAGEAOT QUEEN AND HEK COURT - Kim ? Week*; of Long Beach was crooned the 1982 Miss Poultry Queen during the 19th annual North Carolina Poultry Jubilee pageant Saturday night in Kenansvflle. Pictured above, left to right, Carolyn Jayne Campbell of Pender m "* ? v . ^ "?) County - First runnerjfrp; Kim Weeks - Miss Poultry 1 Queen 19G2; Carroll Matthews - 1981 Poultry Qtfeen, of Warsaw and WrightsyJlle Beach; and Angela Joy Norman ' of Rose Hill. second runner-up. 1 I Weeks Crowned Poultry Queen Kim Weeks of Long Beach ^ has been crowned as Rose V Hill Poultry Queen for 1981. Miss Weeks, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, was chosen from a field of nine "W contestants Saturday night in a pageant held at the Kenan Memorial Auditorium in Kenansville. She is the daughter of Emily Green of Long Beach and a former N.C. Fourth of July Queen. hirst runner-up was Carolyn Jane Campbell, a student at Atlantic Christian College, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Campbell of Pender County. Second runner-up was An gela Joy Norman, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. W.W. < Norman III and a student at < Harrells Christian Academy. v The queen and her court ' will appear in the Rose Hill 1 Poultry Festival Parade at 10 a.m. Saturday. < 1 33 Positions To Be Filled ? Duplin County town resi dents will elect seven mayors and 26 town board members in city elections Nov. 3. When filings closed Friday noon, 12 candidates had filed for the Mayors' seats and 44 for the town board seasts. The filings by towns are: Beulavllle ? Four-year terms of mayor and two board members will expire in December. Filing for mayor 9 are Wilbur Hussey and Larry T. Bostic. Mayor Marion Edwards did not file. Seeking board seats are Ozella Mit chell Craft, Rabon Maready, Denny Wayne Faircloth and Elvis Summer. Neither in cumbent board members whose term expires sought reelection. They are Com missioners Hussey, who filed for mayor, and Mervin % Whaley. Calypso - All terms are for two years. Seeking the mayor's seat are Orlando Joe Daniels and Norwood Bar field, the incumbent. Seeking the five board seats are incumbents J.R. Turner, S.D. Davis, Wayne Brock, Libby Lewis Boykin and newcomer James M. Wolf. Incumbent Mosley Waters did not seek re-election. ^ Falson - Terms are two * years for mayor and four for board members. Filing for mayor was N.F. McColman. > Mayor Bill Carter did not ; seek re-election. Seeking three board seats are in dumbents Bill Igoe and * Helen Britt and newcomers Billy Cooper, Melvin Rogers, Robert D. Kennedy, Joyce King, Kenneth Avent and C. P Spaulding Price. Fred Whe less did not seek re-election to the board. GreeRevers ? Three board , 4 L, i * seats open. Terms are four years. Filing were incum bents Thomas (TT) Dixon, Annie Ruth Bryant and Earl H. Murphy and newcomer Jerome Murray. Kenanaville - Four-year terms of mayor and two board members expire. Filing for mayor were Donald Suttles and Mrs. John Hall. Mayor Douglas Judge did not seek re-election. Filing for board seats were incum bent Cordell Johnson and newcomers Zan Stepp, Ronnie Bostic and Emil Cog gins. Magnolia - Four-year terms of three board mem bers expire. Filing were in cumbents Charles Bowman and B.R. Pope and new comers Ruth M. Quinn, W.S. (Bill; Usher, L.C. Jones, Joseph M. Newkirk and Hubert C. Tucker. Board member Millard Williams did not seek re-election. Rose Hill ? Four-year terms of mayor and two board members expire. Filing for mayor was in cumbent Ben Harrell and for board seats incumbent L. Clayton Herring Jr. and newcomers Felton Rackley and Charles John Slemenda. Board member Graham James Robinson did not file for re-election. Teacbey - Four-year terms of two board members ex pire. Filing were incumbents Warren W. Henderson and W.O. (Bill) Montford and newcomer Henry (Zeke) "'ills Jr. Wallace - Two year term of mayor and four-yea^ terms of two board members expire. Filing for mayor were in cumbent Melvin G. Cording and newcomer Earl W. | Whitaker and for board seats incumbent Willie Biggs and newcomers Charlie Toal, J. Luther Powell and David E. Jordan. Board member Lloyd Boone did not file for re election. Warsaw - Four-year terms of mayor and two board members expire. Filing for mayor we-e incumbent Sam . E. Godwin and Thomas | Dewitt Johnson and for the , board are two incumbents, . John Weatherly III and W.E. Foster. Registration deadline for voting in municipal elections ! was 5 p.m. Monday. I ( Wilkins Named To Duplin Board Of Education The first black ever to serve on the Duplin County Board of Education has been appointed to replace the board's first woman member. Reddick Wilkins of Warsaw, who retired in 1977 as a county agricultural ex tension agent, was chosen for the school board seat Friday night by the Duplin County Democratic Execu tive Committee, meeting at the courthouse. He will fill the unexpired term of Patricia Broadrick, who resigned when her hus band, Dr. Gary Broadrick, accepted a position in North Dakota Dr. Broadrick was a surgeon at Duplin General Hospital. Five people were con sidered to fill Mrs.- Broad rick's term of office, which expires in 1984. Wilkins won on the first ballot, with Byron Teachey of Rose Hill the second-highest vote-getter. ? Wilkins, had xun for the seat in 1976, but was de feated in the countywide contest by Jimmy Stickland of Warsaw and Mrs. Broad rick. Since that time, the General Assembly has passed a law placing Duplin school board elections on a district basis. Wilkins had been top vote-getter in the district he will represent. Hunt Appoints Council Governor Jim Hunt ap pointed ten Duplin County residents to the county's transportation efficiency council. The iDuplin Council includes Lonnie R. Andrews of Beulaville, Hubert E. Bowden of Warsaw. Kenneth Farrior of Wallace, Wilbur Hussey Jr. of Beulaville, Harold Kornegay of Albert son, Leo E. Lanier of Rose Hill, Mrs. Betty Long of Kenansville, Richard Miller of Kenansville, Mrs. Dovie L. Penny of Wallace and J.M. Smith of Chinquapin. Memorial Gardens Dedicated The Jessie Kenan Wise Memorial Gardens and Liberty Halt Support Buildings officially opened luring dedication cere monies at the Liberty Hall Plantation in Kenansville Saturday afternoon. Jessie Kenan Lewis, great granddaughter and name sake of Jessie K. Wise, cut :he ribbon to open the memorial gardens given in ler memory J>y her grand children, Lawrence Lewis Jr. tnd his sisterTTdrs. James L. Wiley. The James Kenan High School band performed to jegin the ceremonies, which vere followed by a welcome by L.S. Guy, superintendent )f the Duplin County Board 1 TducaUca. invocation was i Ji\ eted- bVi. The Reverend David W. Durkey, pastor-1* Srove Presbyterian Church, lames F. Strickland, a member of the Liberty Hall Commission, then addressed the huge gathering present For the occasion. Thomas S. Kenan III in troduced and recognized several special guests, and the ribbon-cutting by Miss Lewis closed the ceremonies. Jessie Kenan Wise, the laughter of William Rand ind Marv Harerove Kenan, vas born at Liberty Hall in Kenansville in 1870. She ived most of her life in Wilmington with her family. Wise graduated from Peace College in Raleigh and )ecame an accomplished pianist. She married Clisby Wise of Georgia. They had >ne daughter. During her lifetime she established the Jessie Kenan Wise Foundation and the Flagler Foundation. Wise vas particularly interested in the health and welfare of tthildren and was one of the 'angels" of the Babies Hos pital 'during her latter years. She died in 1968. The Liberty Hall Support Buildings were made pos sible by a grant from the ? i? ii ???a??? William Rand Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. The permanent endowment to maintain the gardens and support buildings was estab III III !???>? IhW?III lished by Frank H. Kenan. The overseer's cottage was a gift from the Farrior fam|J? and the Bacon War Hors. s tv/aamok ?. >J|r and completion of the Bird House were made possible by gifts from James G. Kenan THOMAS S. KENAN III. on the left, and several of the Kenan family members were present Saturday afternoon for the dedi cation ceremonies opening the Wise Memorial Gardens and Support Buildings at Liberty Hall in Kenansville. JESSIE KENAN LEWIS officially opened the Jessie Kenan Wise Memorial Gardens and the Liberty Hall Support Buildings during dedications Saturday in Kenansville. Lewis is the arc at-granddaughter of Jessie K. Wise. The gardens ware given in memory I of Wise by her grandchildren. 1 . , t ?
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