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VOL.XXXXVI NO. 9 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 MARCH 4. 1982 14 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
0 WINNERS in the NADA Roaster-Fryer
Turkey Contest were Mr. and Mrs. A.F.
Shaw of Route 1, Beulaville, and Joseph D.
Carter, also of Beulaville. Mr. and Mrs.
Shaw won second place and received a S30
cash award. Carter won first place and
received a $50 award plus a trophy. From
left to right are Mr. and Mrs. Shaw and
Carter. They grow turkeys with Carroll's
i Foods of Warsaw.
CORN WINNER - The Neuse Development
Association 1981 corn contest was wen by
David Savage of Teachey. Savage's yield
was 201.71 bushels of corn an acre. By
winning first place in the contest. Savage
won a $100 award plus a plaque. Shown
above, left to right. J. Michael Moore of the
extension office and Savage.
THE NEUSE AREA DEVELOPMENT
ASSOCIATION poultry awards program was
held Thursday night, Feb. 18 at King's
Restaurant in Kinston. Shown above, left to
light, are Joel Coleman. Jimmy Brown,
Jerry Rhodes, S. Ward Rouse. Lenwood
A Benson and Herman Benson. Coleman,
^ Brown and Rhodes are with Carroll's Foods
of Warsaw. Carroll's Foods contributed $100
and three of the first place trophies for the
turkey contest. The three divisions are
roaster-fryers? heavy turkey toms and heavy
turkey hens. First place winner in the turkey
toms was S. Ward Rouse of Route 2, Rose
Hill. Lenwood and Herman Benson were
second place winners in the turkey torn
division.
THE NADA AGRICULTURAL AWARDS
program was held Thursday night at King's
Restaurant in Kinston. Shown above r e
winners in the heavy turkey toms division.
They are left to right, Mr. and Mrs. S.Ward
Rouse of Route 2, Rose Hill, Mr. and Mrs.
Lenwood Benson of Route 1, Kenansville,
and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Benson, also of
i d ?M Mi I it
Route 1. Kenansville. The Rouses won first
place and received a $50 award plus a
trophy The Bensons won second place and
received a $30 award. The Bensons are a
father and son operation. The Rouses and
Bensons grow turkeys with Carroll's Foods
of Warsaw.
TOM WALLACE of Route 1. Albertson, is
first place winner in the NADA broiler
poultry contest. Wallace received a check for
$50 and a trophy from Snodie Wilson,
agricultural extension agent in Duplin, as <
first place winner. Feed conversion, liva
bility and weight are taken from three of the
flocks duting a year to determine the winner.
Wallace grows broilers with New Hope
Feeds in Wayne County. Wallace is on the
right.
THIRD PLACE WINNERS Mr. and Mrs.
Tonimie Smith of Route 1, Pink Hill, were
third place winners in the NADA broiler
division. Third place winners received a $20
cash award. The Neuse Area Development
Association held its annual ag-awards
program Thursday night in Kinston at
King's Restaurant. There are nine counties
in the NADA. The Smiths grow broilers with
New Hope Feeds of Wavnc County.
? Pinhook Volunteer Firemen Prepare Site
Thousands of supper
plates will turn into the
Pinhook Volunteer Fire De
partment's new home in a
few days.
Financed by dozens of
K iefit suppers, donations,
? turkey shoots, raffles, a $300
monthly stipend from the
county, and a loan, the young
department began site
preparation for its firehouse
last week.
Thursday, volunteers were
grading, digging and other
wise putting finishing
?ouches on the ground prior,
to having the cement floor
poured next week.
"We expect to have the
M cement poured Mondav or
Tuesday it the weather's
right," Chief Joe Sholar
said. "Some of us have been
working here all week."
Sholar and other workers
estimated the department
has received S30.000 to
$40,000 worth of volunteer
work.
The prefabricated steel
structure, its cement floor
and other material will cost 4
about $30,000, Sholar said.
The building will be 50 by 75
feet.
Nearly $20,000 has been
obtained for the project
through efforts of the volun
teers and their families. "We
made $2,700 off one supper
last month," Sholar said.
The district serves an area
within a four-mile radious of
the firehouse, which is lo
cated near the junction of
N.C. 50 and State Road 1977
six miles south of Chin
quapin in the southern part
of the county.
An estimated 1.200 people
live in the district. It is one of
the county's major poultry
growing areas with about 100
turkey and broiler houses
within the district limits.
The department held its
organizational meeting in
March 1981 with 75 present.
It has 40 active members.
Another 40 volunteers began
taking a fire prevention and
firefighting class at James
Sprunt Technical Institute in
Kenansville Thursday night.
Officers besides Sholar are
David Elston, assistant chief;
Harry Sholar and R.C.
James, captains; Mike
Walker, secretary; and Carl
ton Lanier, treasurer.
Judge Appointed Duplin Elections Chairman
Douglas Judge of Kenans
ville was appointed as the
new chairman of the Duplin
County Board of Elections at
the Democratic Executive
Committee meeting Thurs
day, Feb. 25 in Kenansville.
Judge will serve the re
maining 15 months of the
term of Claude Hepler of !
Wallace, who reined to <
accept an appoint!-... nt as a v
magistrate. Hepler has |
worked in the county and <
local elections for the past 32 I
years.
Judge is director of the 1
evening programs at James \
Sprunt technical College and
served as mayor of Kenans
'ille from 1976-81. He has
jreviously served four years
>n the Kenansville town
joard.
Judge is a deacon in the
(enansville Baptist Church,
'ice-president of the
Kenansville Area Chamber
of Commerce, and past
president of the Kenansvi|le
'aycees. He is a former
chairman of the Democratic
Party in Kenansville Precinct
and is a former member of
the county Democratic
executive committee.
A
Cottle Wants
To Avoid
Tax Hike
"Duplin County cannot
and does not intend to absorb
any state or federal fund cuts
passed down to the local
level," County Manager
Ralph Cottle said last week.
Cottle said the forthcom
ing budget-setting period
will be tough.
The Duplin Board of Com
missioners has agreed that a
tax increase will be a last
resort, he said.
The tax rate has been 70
cents per $100 assisted valu
ation for the last two fiscal
years. The value of property
in the county is assessed at
$639,878,644. Figured on a
95 percent collection level,
the levy should bring in
$4,255,292 each year. Most
of the remaining 5 percent
will be collected within the
next 10 years, Cottle siad.
The county budget for the
current year is $8,285,937.
That includes s'ate and
federal fends in social ser
vices, health and mental
health, programs primarily
funded fron* tl. -if icitMve*.
Cottle warned that social
services will be the first and
most deeply affected by
federal and state budget re
ductions. Services to the
aged and health services may
be drastically reduced if all
the proposed federal reduc
tions are approved.
"There's been a lot of
belt-tightening without any
change in services to the
public," Cottle said. "Any
further cuts will have to come
out of services. But every
citizen looks to the county,"
he added.
Cottle said if federal and
state mandates are reduced
in the same proportion as
funding, the county can
maintain most of its services.
But if the mandates remain
and the funds are cut, the
county will have no choice
but to cut services.
"1 personnally do not like
the trade-offs. I feel the
federal government should
take over all entitlement
programs where it maintains
any control."
County and city govern
ments are not equipped to
take on the "new federa
lism" proposed by President
Rergan without added taxing
authority. Cottle empha
sized. He noted the county's
basic revenue source is the
ad valorem property tax.
As for the 1982-83 fiscal
year budget. Cottle said of
ficials won't know until about
June I what the valuation
figure will be from the sum
marized tax listings. The
board plans to set the tax
rate by June 7 to allow
property owners to take full
advantage of early-payment
discounts in July and Aug
ust.
opini<.eis the (total
assessed) valuation level witl
be about flat. The state's
economy will have an effect
on it." he said.
The current county budget
was established without a tax
increase on the basis of a
projected 3.7 percent valua
tion increase.
The annual county budget
process will begin Thursday
when department heads will
be furnished with budget and
expenditure reports.
Each department will turn
in its "wish list" bv March
29. The county board will
hear department budget
requests and explanations
between April 13 and 21. The
paring process will begin
then. Cottle added.
Rose Hill Lab
Solves Puzzle
Of Pelicans
The mystery of the dead
pelicans is solved.
They starved to death,
state wildlife officer Tony
Williams said.
Between the beginning of
the year and mid-February,
about 20 pelicans died in the
Wrightsville Beach area. At
that time. Williams said he
was puzzled by the deaths
and believed it was caused
by "something toxic."
But bodies of dead birds
examined at the state diag
nostic laboratory at Rose Hill
led to the starvation diag
nosis. he said last week.
Still, vvilliams repeated
his earlier request that
people not feed the birds.
"Nature has a way of taking
care of its own," he said.
Except for a few pelicans
that obviously died from
other causes such as broken
wings, all of the dead birds
were "juveniles" with the
same symptoms of lethargy,
protruding breastbones and
limpheads, he said. Such
young pelicans are probably
not as successful at finding
food as older birds, he said.
Why this happened now
and why it is limited to the
Wrightsville Beach area can
be explained by a dramatic
increase in the pelican popu
lation at the beach, Williams
said. While the starvation
problem has not surfaced in
other areas of New Hanover
County, a few similar cases
have been found in the last
few weeks in Onslow County
and Oak Island in Brunswick
County, he said.
Pelicans can become al
most comesticated by hand
outs of food and then become
"too lazy to go out and find
something to eat." he said.
They have a delicate di
gestive system that can be
thrown off by spoiled food,
he said. Fresh fish that a
pelican catches itself are the
best diet for the birds, he
said.
Recently, Williams said,
he tried to examine a bird
with a broken beak and 15
other pelicans "came run
ning up with their mouths
snapping."
"If someone wasn't ex
pecting it, that would have
scared him to death,"
Williams said.
District 2 NCNA
Meeting
District #2, North Carolina
Nurses Association meeting
will be held Tuesday. March
9 at 7:30 p.m. at Dr. Ngo's
office next to Duplin General
Hospital at Kenansville.
Dr. Corazon Ngo, assisted
by Edith Hill, R.N., will
present Jhe program on
cardiac flress testing. All
registered nurses are invited
to attend