PROGRESS SENTINEL
VOL. XXXXVI NO. 17 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 APRIL 29. 1982 18 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
One Dead, One Hurt
9 In Mobile Home Fires
One man died and another
was seriously burned in two
mobile home fires near Wal
lace early Wednesday of last
week.
Dead is George
Cavenaugh, believed to have
been in his mid-20s.
Suffering serious burns on
his feet, hands and arms, is
?ireg Teachey. who is being
ireated in Duplin General
Hospital in Kenasville.
The fatal fire occurred
about 6 a.m. in Cavenaugh's
mobile home just off N.C. 11,
jbout a mile north of Ten
City, which is about a mile
:ast of Wallace.
Assistant Wallace Fire
Chief Lester Caison said
someone going to work saw
?.nioke coming out of Cave
laugh's home, tried to enter,
>ut couldn't get the door
open and called the fire
department at 6:35 a.m.
The fire still had not
broken out through the
heavily insulated walls of the
mobile home when the de
partment arrived, but it was
"burning furiously inside,"
according to Caison.
He said Cavenaugh ap
peared to have died from
smoke inhalation, but the
body was sent to Onslow
Memorial Hospital ;n Jack
sonville for an autopsy to
determine the exact cause of
death. The man was fully
clothed except for his shoes,
Caison added.
"The home was so com
pletely burned we can't tell
for sure where the fire
started, although it appeared
to have started in the kit
chen-dining room area in the
middle," he asid.
Teachey's home was lo
cated at Tin City Trailer
Courts on N.C. 11. The fire
was reported at 1:30 a.m.
Wednesday.
The fire was started by
burning grease. Teachey wps
burned when the flames
scattered as he tried to put it
out with water from a hose,
according to Caison.
After Teachey throught he
had the fire out, he went to
the James Guyer home
nearby for help. Guyer went
back to the mobile home,
where he found only one
curtain smoldering. He ex
tinguished that blaze.
.Doors and windows of the
mobile home were opened to
let smoke out. Guyer then
called the Wallace Rescue
Squad.
Caison said apparently
some fire that remained un
seen in the home rekindled in
the fresh air and destroyed
the entire structure within a
few minutes. Wallace fire
men found the mobile home
engulfed in fire when they
arrived.
Caison said he thought
someone in the mobile home
park had called the depart
ment.
Funds For
Duplin
Roads
Approved
Funds for all but one v
rbjetl * Of) DtfpHh County 's
econdary roads for the next ,
iscal year were approved by ,
he county commissioners ,
^ his past week.
The state allocated the J
ounty $659,677 for secon
?ary road repairs and main
enance. Ted Funderburk,
iistrict engineer for the state
fepartment of Transporta
ion. listed eight projects for
ipgrading and one for
vidcning.
ine county commissioners
ibjected to the proposed
?videning of State Road 1004
>etween N.C. 11 and SR 1300
tear Summerlin's Cross
roads. The board wanted to
have the $136,000 allocated
for this project applied to
paving dirt roads.
Funderburk said he would
check on that possibility and
report to the board at its May
17 meeting. He told the
board allocation restrictions
require 20 percent of the
^secondary road money to be
used for improving paved
roads.
Projects approved include:
SR 1516 for 1.3 miles from
SR 1700 to N.C. 11 north of
Kcnansville ? grade, drain,
stabilize and replace bridge
with pipe, for $79,000; SR
181o near Chinquapin. 0.3
mile ? grade, drain, base
g^and page. $2o.000; SR 1132.
"a loop from N.C. 41 to N.C.
41 west of Wallace, 1.5 miles
? grade drain and stabilize,
$68,000; SR 1732. from SR
1703 to SR 1705 north of
Beulaville. one mile ?
$30,000: SR 1371. from SR
1306 to N.C. 403 east of
Calypso. 0.9 mile ? base
and pave, $30,000; SR 1903.
from N.C. 24 to SR 1107 east
of Warsaw, 1.4 miles ?
aggrade, drain and stabilize.
?'$63,000; SR 1814. from SR
1802 to SR 1800 north of
Chinquapin, 1.2 miles ?
grade, drain and stabilize,
$54,000; and SR 1718, from
SR 1719 to N.C. 41 east of
Beulaville. 1.1 miles ?
grade, drain and stabilize,
$49,000.
The priority numbers of
these projects range from 1
^to 26. Several high-priority
"projects had to be passed
over because of right-of-way
acquisition difficulties.
Other work will include
reconstruction of short sec
tions of unpaved road and
spot stabilization of school
bus routes on State Roads
1737.1118. 1138. 1818, 1968,
1731. 1541, 1566. 1362. 1559,
1355, 1352 and 1907, a total
of $92,000.
Reserved for overruns,
^road additions and fire de
partment and rescue squad
driveways*s $38,677.
Rose Hill - Kenansville
Back Toll-Free Line
The concept of extended
area telephone (toll-free)
service between Rose Hill
and Kenansville received the
endorsement of the Rose Hill
Chamber of Commerce this
past week.
The endorsement came
after a meeting at which
Mickey McDowell, Fayette
ville division commercial
supervisor of Carolina Tele
phone and Telepgraph Co.,
outlined costs. C.W. Surrat
acted as meeting chairman.
Support of Kenatisviile for
he project was obtained
vhen the town board, in a
special meeting Thursday,
ilso endorsed the toll-free
:oncept.
If both communities de
sired the service, the matter
would have to be brought
before the state Utilities
Commission by the company.
A mail poll of telephone
subscribers involved prob
ably would be required.
McDowell estimated 18
months would be required
from the start of such a
project to work out the
details and establish the
service.
The rates proposed for
such a service would he 50
cents a moniu higher for
residential customers and
$1.10 to $1.30 per month
more for business customers
than current rates. The cur
rent rates went into effect
April 14.
At present the toll rate for
st*tion-to-station daytime
stalls between the two towns
is 18 cents per minute.
A' company 30-day study
showed 1,563 subscribers
made 7,851 toll calls between
the two communities. It has
3.093 phones in service in the
two communities.
The present one-party line
rate in Rose Hill is $8.60 per
month and the proposed rate
for extended servcie, $9.10
per month. The two-party
line rate would increase from
$7.50 to $8 per month under
the extended area service
plan and the four-party line
rate from $7.10 to $7.60.
The single-party business
rate would increase $1.30 a
month from $21.50 to $22.80;
the two-party line rate, from
$18.70 to $20 and the four
party line rate from $17.85 to
$19.15 a month.
The Kenansville rates,
both at present and in the ex
tended area service plan, are
slightly higher than Rose
Hill's. The single-party line
rate would increase 50 cents
from $8:9TW$93S tinder thf
plan; the two-party line rate
would increase by 45 cents,
from $7.80 to $8.25; and the
four-party line rate. 40 cents,
from $7.45 to $7.85 per
month.
The one-party business
rate would increase by $1.25,
from $22.15 to $23.40 a
month; the two-party, $1.10,
from $19.50 to $20.60, and
the four-party, $1.15, from
$18.60 to $19.75 per month.
An attempt to organize
county-wide extended area
(toll-free) telephone service
in Duplin County failed in the
mid-1970s.
At present Rose Hill ex
change customers can call
Wallace toll-free. Magnolia
and Greenevers numbers are
listed under the Rose Hill
heading.
Wallace customers, who
pay a one-party residential
rate of S8.60 per month, can
call Rose Hill, Chinquapin,
Magnolia and Greenevers
?? nber toll-free. Warsaw
*it_ iCfiWsrs. yvh#1 *lso -pay
$8.60 a month, can call
Kenansvilie and Faison toll
free.
Kenansville subscribers
can call Warsaw and Beula
ville numbers toll-free.
Beulaville subscribers pay
$8.20 a month for single
party service and can call
Kenansville toll-free. Faison
subscribers pay $7.85 per
month and can call Warsaw
toll-free.
Schools Ask Duplin
Panel For Lost Funds
Vocational agriculture
teachers in Duplin County
may be paid for 10 months
instead of 12 and the ex
tended day school program
cut from 12 to 10 months
because of federal and state
fund reductions.
The Board of Education,
presenting its proposed
budget to the Board of
Commissioners last
week on Wednesday night,
asked the county to provide
the $48,000 needed to keep
these programs on their 12
month schedules.
Superintendent L.S. Guy
called for $2,729,422 in
county funds for the 1982-83
fiscal year for operating ex
penses and $360,275 for
capital outlay expenditures.
Guy said the proposed
budget asks for $620,522
more than the school system
received from the county this
year.
Agricultural teachers are
paid out of state and federal
grants and have been paid
for 12 months instead of the
10 months for which most
teachers are paid. Faced with
reductions in these grants,
the school board decided to
cut the two summer months
from vocational teachers' pay
schedules.
The board said the reduc
tion, which woudl decrease
budget needs by $18,900 for
the year, would have the
least effect on students of all
proposed cuts.
Elimination of two months
in the extended day program
would reduce expenditures
by $19,100 a year.
The agricultural teachers
protested what in effect
would be a pay reduction.
Commissioners indicated
they do not favor picking up
state or federal fund cuts at
the county level.
But Commissioner D.J.
Fussell said the commission
ers cannot tell the school
board what to do with its
money.
"When it comes to taking
out or leaving in. we leave it
to the educators. We just
give them the money,"
Fussell said.
Roy Houston, president of
Coastal Production Credit
Association headquartered in
Kenansville. said more em
phasis should be put on
agriculture in the schools.
"There's more to agricul
ture than farming as so much
of the county's economy is
based on agricultural busi
ness and industry." Houston
said. He said career coun
seling shows little concern
for possible careers in these
agricultural fields.
Duplin County has topped
all North Carolina counties in
gross farm income for two
decades and has been listed
among the 100 top agricul
tural counties in the nation
for many years. Its gross
farm income last year neared
$250 million.
The proposed budget pro
vides for an additional 2'/>
assistant principal positions
to eliminate classroom
teaching duties for princi
pals. one of the requirements
for accreditation of the
system.
The budget calls for an
additional guidance coun
selor.
j^flt also provides for eight
non-professional staff posi
tions now funded by the
federal Comprehensive Em
ployment and Train Act. for
which funding has been
eliminated.
Board Chairman Graham
Phillips emphasized the
CETA cuts would increase
the system's probelms with
accreditation unless the
positions were continued. "It
there's much slicing (of the
hudget). we'll have a real
dilemma." he added.
Phillips also noted main
tenance needs had been put
off to save money. Defending
the increase in the budget
request, he emphasized the
sharply rising cost of utili
ties, especially electricity.
Rabies Found
In Skunks
Three cases of skunk
rabies have recently been
diagnosed in Watauga
County in North Carolina,
according to Dr. John 1.
Freeman, head of the veter
inary public health branch in
Raleigh.
This is the first evidence of
rabies virus in the native
skunk population in North
Carolina in 40 years. Dr.
Freeman stated that it is his
feeling that the current cases
in our state are an extension
of the epidemic of skunk
rabies in eastern Tennessee.
Several counties in east Ten
nessee. bordering North
Carolina, have been experi
encing an epidemic of skunk
rabies for several years, and
it has now extended over into
our state.
The mountains and
western piedmont are the
normal range of both the
spotted and striped skunk in
North Carolina. Whijc
skunks may be found in oth$
parts of the state, the popu
lation numbers are generally
small. During the next
several years, we may see
Skunk rabies spread over a
large area of western North
Carolina.
The annual rabies clinics
for Duplin County were held
on April 24th. If your dog or
cat has not yet been vac
cinated. you can still get
proper immunizations from
you local veterinarian,
suggests Sonny Sykes of the
local health department.
HONORED WITH COOKOUT The secre-'
taries of the Duplin County Public Schools
central office were honored during National
Secretary's Week with a hamburger cookout
on Wednesday, which was National Secre
tary's Day. Pictured above is Board of
Education Chairman Graham Phillips and
Superintendent L.S. Guy enjoying * respite
from their busy ...hedules. Phyllis Rouse.
Jean Fra/elle and Carolyn McElveen, left to
right, arc in the foreground.
HAMBURGER COOKOUT Duplin County
Board of Education Chairman Graham
Phillips of Wallace joined centra! office staff
personnel for a hamburger cookout this past
Wednesday. He is joined by Jean Stephens.
Phyllis Rouse. Jean Frazelle and Carolyn
McElveen.
Schools Save
$ 15.000 On Fuel
Price negotiations during
the past two weeks resulted
in a savings of approximately
$15,000 in the purchase of
No. 2 fuel oil for the school
system.
Superintendent L.S. Guy
told the board of commis
sioners several weeks ago
that the system needed
52.200 gallons of fuel to
ballast its underground tanks
until they could be filled for
the next school year. At that
time, the state bid price for
No. 2 fuel oil was $1.18 per
gallon.
Since oil prices have been
dropping and the oil wasn't
needed immediately, the
county commissioners, asked
, to advance the money for the
oil to the school system out of
next year's budget, directed
Guy to look into current oil
prices.
Guy reported last week
that he could buy the oil from
E&B Oil Co. of Wallace for
88.5 cents oer gallon, a
savings of 29.5 cents a gallon
from the state bid price. Guv
said he- was the told the price
had bottomed out
The board authorized Guy
to spend $48,321 for the fuel,
which includes the state and
local sales tax.
If the county commis
sioners had purchased the oil
for the county government,
they could have filed for a
rebate of the sales tax. The
school system must pay sales
tax. However, the county
commissioners are not
authorized to make direct
purchases for school pur
poses. despite the fact they
appropriate local tax funds to
the school systems.
County finance officer
Russell Tucker told the board
that several years ago the
county commissioners
authorized direct purchase of
a computer for the schools
and collected the sales tax
rebate. The county govern
ment had to return the sales
tax to the state as a result of
turning the equipment over
to the school.
In other business, the
commissi! ners approved
revision of costs of land
treatment measures for the
Limestone-Muddy Creek
Watershed project. Kenneth
Futreal, county soil conser
vationist. asking for the ap
proval before submitting the
revision to the state soil
conservation office in
Raleigh to send to federal
authorities.
The land treatment costs
will be borne by the federal
government if the project is
funded.
The commissioners, by a
split vote, adopted the state
wildlife commission's
recommendations for anter
less deer hunting areas and
dates in the county.
Dec. 1-8 will be set aside
for hunting anterless deer.
The area lies southeast of the
boundarv formed by N.C. 11,
N.C. 2-T N.C. 41 and S R.
101 in ;hc southeastern part
of the county. Voting for the
recommendation were Com
missioners W.J. Costin,
Allen Nethercutt and Calvin
Turner, chairman. Voting
against was Commissioner
Franklin Williams. D.J.
c ii ..I??~~~J
i uasui auMauiiu.
Tucker told the board the
county's revenue sharing
allocation for the current
fiscal year will be $837,095.
This will be about $16,000
less than previously esti
mated.
The commissioners will sit
as a board of equalization
and review ait 11:30 a.m.
May 3 And 17 at the court
house. <1
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Gospel Sing At B.F. Grady
A gospel sing featuring
The Spiritual Singers, The
Anchormen Quartet, and the
Limestone Singers will be
held on Saturday, May 1st at
7:30 p.m., sponsored by the
B.F. Grady P.T.A. and the
Spiritual Singers, and is
scheduled to be held at the
B.F. Grady School Audi
torium.
Advance tickets are S4 and
may be secured from Ander
son's Department Stofe,
B?F. Gradv School, Quiff's
Service Center, Cathy's
Country Ceramics, or Pink
Hill Beauty Shop. Tickets at
the door will be $5 and
children under 12 will be
admitted free. Door prizes
will be given away. also.