Duplin County Agribusiness Fair
October 4-9
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VOL. XXXXVI NO. 39
USPS 162-860
KENANSVILLE, NC 28349 SEPTEMBER 30. 1982
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
10 CENTS PLUS TAX
' Duplin Agribusiness
Fair Schedule
Ribbon cutting ceremonies
fenr Duplin County's Agri
business Fair will be at 3:30
p.m., Oct. 4.
Fair admission this year
will be $2 for adults and $1
for children 12 and under.
Fees are set low enough that
hopefully every interested
person will attend every day.
This price covers all sche
duled entertainment except
carnival rides. There is no
^ree admission.
Each exhibitor is respon
sible for the proper delivery
of his or her exhibit on
Monday. Oct. 4 between 9
a.m. and I p.m. Refer to your
ad pack for rules and regu
lations covering exhibits,
hatb. entoring and removing
exhibits of the fair.
For your entertainment the
fair management teams have
scheduled the following to be
presented in the William
Rand Kenan Amphitheatre,
Old Elementary School and
Kenan Auditorium.
Monday
3:30 p.m. - Opening Cere
mony with special guests and
military band from Fort
Bragg.
Ocracokc quitters demon
strate quilting and their
Puilts.
7:00 p.m. - Green Grass
Cloggers sponsored by
Duplin County Arts Council
7:30 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Peanut Foods by
LaQuita Frederick
8:00 p.m. ? "The Fisher
man" by Duplin County
Community Theater
8:00 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Sewing by Kim
Kohne -
P 8:30 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Model Rocketry by
Bryant Murphy
8:45 p.m. - The Warsaw
Seesaws (square dancing)
Tuesday
1:00 p.m. - Tractor Driving
Contest
Ocracoke Quilters demon
strate quilting and their
quilts
4:30, 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. -
New Ways with Seafoods by
Joyce Taylor, NCSU Seafood
Lab, Morehead City.
7:00 p.m. - Friendship
Baptist Church Choir of
Wallace
7:30 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Public Speaking by
Roxane Pearsall
8:00 p.m. - The Gospel
ettes of Rose Hill
8:00 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Breads by Veronica
Williams
8:3ft p.m. - Kenaasvilie
Male Chorus
8:30 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Artistic Arrange
ment by Pam Kelly
9:00 p.m. - Friendship
Community Male Chorus of
Kenansville, Route 1.
Wednesday
4:30, 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. -
East Duplin Food Service
students with Soybean
Cooking Demonstration
sponsored by Quinn Com
pany of Warsaw
4:30 p.m. - East Duplin
High School Band directed
by Rocky Long
5:00 p.m. - Riving boards,
tobacco sticks and shingles
by Stacy Andrew s
Ocracoke Quilters and
Quilts
6:00 p.m. - Wallace Rose
Hill High School Band di
rected by Joe Hodges
7:00 p.m. - "TTie Fisher
man" by Duplin Community
Theater
7:30 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Egg Cookery by
Laurie Swain
7:45 p.m. - Countywide
Church Service led by Rev.
David Dickey
8:00 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Sewing by Amy
West
8:45 p.m. - Broadway and
Opera Musical Program by
Brian and Renee Hoxie
8:30 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Canning by Wanda
Batts
9:00 p.m. ? 4-H Demon
stration - Entomology by
Arthur Hall
Thursday
4:00 p.m. - Tar Pit Opera
tion by Lonnie Andrews of
Beulaville
4:30 and 5:30 p.m. - Quick
and Easy Ways with Eggs by
Susan Hardy of N.C. Egg
Marketing Assoc., Raleigh
? 6:30 p.m. - Guscoke
Quilters and Quilts
6:15 p.m. - Crawda Team
of Burgaw
7:00 p.m. - Slim Short
emcees County Commis
sioners and Mayors and
public participation in Farm
Games
7:30 n m - 4-H Hpmnn.
stration - Small Animals by
Lori Costin
8:00 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - American Business
System by David Jones
8:30 p.m. - 4-H Demon
stration - Electric by Charles
Denning
Friday
4:00 p.m. - Tar Pit Opera
tion by Lonnie Andrews of
Beulaville
4:30 and 5:30 p.m. - Getting
the Most from Beef by Clint
Reese, N.C. Cattlemen's
Assoc.. Raleigh
6:30 p.m. - Ocracoke Quil
ters and Quilts
7:00 p.m. - "The Fisher
man" by Duplin County
Community Theater
7:30 p.n . - 4-H Demon
stration - Home Environment
by Teresa and Beverly Mc
Gowan
8:00 p.m. ? 4-H Demon
stration - Crafts by Brenda
Kochelle
8:00 p.m. - The Marshburn
Sisters
9:00 p.m. - The Spiritual
Singers of Mount Olive
Saturday
10:00 a.m. - Block Laying
Contest
10:00 a.m. - Antique Car
Show
11:00 a.m. - World's Lar
gest Frying Pan with Fried
Chicken for lunch
11:00 a.m. - James Kenan
Band directed by Tom New
man
11:45 a.m. - East Duplin
Drill Team
11 a.m. and 12:00 noon ?
New Ways with Poultry by
Emmie S. Whitley. N.C.
Poultry Federation, Raleigh
12:30 p.m. - East Duplin
Drill Team
1:00 p.m. - Cake Auction
for Mentally Retarded
1:00 p.m. - Miniature
Plane Show
Ocracoke Quitters and
Quilts
1:30 p.m. - "The Country
Sweets"
2:00 p.m. - New Ways with
Poultry by Emmie S.
Whitley
2:00 p.m. - North Duplin
High School Band directed
by Brian Hoxie
3:00 p.m. - New Ways with
Poultry by Emmie S. Whitley
3:00 p.m. - Barbecue
Chicken Cooking Contest
5:30 p.m. - Thomas and
Jessie Hall, Basket Weaving
and Chair Canimg
7:00 p.m. / "The Fisher
man" by i)uplin County
CommunitXIheater
8:00 ^ti. - Dancing Tea
chers and Area Beauty
Queens present "Thank God
I'm a Country Girl"
STOMP CELEBRATES GOOD SEASON - The fourth
annual Grape Stomp, hosted by the.Duplin Wine Cellars in
Rose Hill, celebrated a better than average grape harvest.
Duplin Wine Cellars is expecting to process 700 tons of
grapes this season, yielding 150,000 gallons of wine. The
1982 harvest is expected to process 50.000 more gallons of
wine than the 1981 season, said D.J. Fussell. co-owner of
Duplin Wine Cellars. Pictured above, visitors participate
in the grape stomping contest during the Grape Stomp.
Saturday. Sept. 25th.
Duplin Replaces Landfill Chief
Replacements for two re
signed officials were ap
pointed by the Duplin County
Board of Commissioners last
week.
The board named Nathan
Whaley acting landfill direc
tor, effective immediately, to
succeed David Underhill.
The board expects to save
about $25,000 a year in
salary and benefits with the
appointment since Whaley's
position as a county landfill
worker will not be filled.
Whaley's salary will be
$14,463 a year. He has been
receiving $13,842.'Underhill
was receiving $20,000 a year
plus use of a pick-up truck to
travel from home to work, a
round-trip distance of more
feHBNHIK
than 50 miles which com
missioners valued at about
$5,000 a year.
Whaley has worked for the
county 12 years and with the
landfill since it opened about
10 years ago.
Carey Turner, who has
been a machine operator
with the mosquito control
program, was named super
visor with pay increased from
$12,184 to $12,736 a year.
Underhill had held this posi
tion until his resignation.
Named county librarian
was John Michaud. 41. at
$15,784 per year. He will
take the position Oct. 4. He
will replace Roberta
Williams who resigned early
this summer, effective at the
end of August, to take a
similar position at Brevard.
Michaud has been refer
ence librarian at Durham
Technical College for four
years. He lives in Chapel
Hill. He holds a bachelor of
library science from the Uni
versity of Detroit and his
master's degree from the
University of Michigan. He
worked for ten years at the
Detroit Public Library before
coming to Chapel Hill.
The board voted to quit
furnishing dog tags to dog
owners who listed their ani
mals for tax purposes. Voting
against the move was Com
missioner Franklin Williams.
Voting for the move were
Commissioners Allen
Nethercutt. D.J. Fussell,
W.J. Costin and Calvin
Coolidge Turner. The tags
cost the county S210 a year.
Purchase of a new radio for
not more than $1,000 for the
Pin Hoolt Volunteer Fire
Department was approved.
Howard Must
Pay $20JD00
Mary J. Williamson, as
executrix of her mother's
estate, won a judgment for
S20.000 plus interest at 12
percent per year from Dec.
21, 1979, against the Rev.
?helton Howard in Duplin
Tounty Superior Court last
Wednesday.
Judge J. Herbert Small of
Elizabeth City presided.
Howard pleaded guilty last
November to the murder of
Mrs. Williamson's mother,
Inez Jernigan of Kenansville,
on April 21, 1981, at her
home. He was brought to
court from Central Prison in
(aleigh, where he is serving
life sentence.
Howard pleaded guilty to
second-degree murder in
Duplin County Superior
Court on Nov* 17, 1981.
following a plea bargain that
reduced the charge from
first- to second-degree
murder.
As executrix of the estate,
Mrs. Williamson sought the
judgment in connection
^ith a loan Mrs. Jernigan
made to Howard, a former
pastor of Pearsall's Chapel
Free Will Baptist Church of
which Mrs. Jernigan was a
member. Mrs. Williamson
filed the suit in Superior
Court June 26.
Howard admitted borrow
ing $20,000 from Mrs. Jer
nigan on Dec. 21. 1979. He
claimed he paid it back but
did not have a receipt.
trial records show Mrs.
Jernigan had pressured
Howard to repay the loan the
night of the murder.
On Sept. 15, 1981, Howard
admitted borrowing the
money but said he paid it
back with money he
borrowed from his brother
in-law. His brother-in-law
UIUIS.U giving Howard thf
money.
On Feb. 24. 1982, Howard
filed a statement with the
court denying he had ever
borrowed the money and
denying he was indebted to
Mrs. Jernigan or her estate.
But Wednesday, he ad
mitted he owed the money.
Tar Heel Fine Arts
Concert Rescheduled
The Maxene Andrews (
Concert originally scheduled a
for Oct. 12, has been re- 0
scheduled. Ms. Andrews' a
recent illness has made it c
necessary to schedule her f
concert for Tuesday evening, n
Jan. 18, 1983, at 8 p.m. in f.
the Kenansville Memorial g
Auditorium. 2
The first concert of the a
Reason will be Boots
tandolph on Sunday, Dec. 5
it 7 p.m. A limited number
>f season tickets is still
ivailable and may be pur
hased by contacting a Tar
ieel Fine Arts Society board
nember or by writing Tar
Ieel Fine Arts Society, P.O.
to* 528, Kenansivlle, NC
8349. Adult tickets are $10
nd student pickets are $5.
ERECTING A TENT to house small livestock
for Duplin County Agribusiness Fair, Oct.
4-9, is Jack Alphin, Lewis Smith, David
Summerlin, Robert Ivey, Yates Ivey, and
Major Ivey, all of Route 2. Mount Olive.
Working with the group is Keith Hairr,
issistant agricultural extension agent in
harge of livestock. A display of sheep,
goats. rabbits and poultry are among the
exhibits expected.
Bowen Named To Seat In N.C. House
Edward C. Bowen of Har
rells was sworn in Wed
nesday to replace state Rep.
G. Ronald Taylor, who re
signed his seat in the N.C.
House after pleading guilty
in the federal Colcor investi
gation.
Bowen, who along with
Taylor won Democratic
nominations for two House^
.eats from the 12th District
n June, was sworn in by
fudge John Webb of the
^.C. Court of Appeals. The
ceremony took place in Gov.
lames B. Hunt Jr.'s office.
Murray Poole has been .
selected by his district's i
Jemocratic Party to replace i
faylor on the November |
lallot. He and Bowen will be <
the party's nominees from
the 12th District, which in
cludes Bladen and Sampson
counties and most of Pender
County.
Taylor pleaded guilty
earlier this month to accept
ing a $1,500 bribe from
undercover FBI agents as
part of an investigation into <
corruption in Columbut I
Train Demolishes
Car In Warsaw
A 1975 Chevrolet and a
Seaboard Coastline train
collided in Warsaw Monday
light at the Hill Street
Tossing. Though the auto
vas demolished, the injuries '
vere reported as minor.
According to the report,
Willie Colon Tew, 72, of
Warsaw was driving the 1975
?hevrolet. He stopped at the
Tossing, red lights flashing
ind a bell ringing. He then
Irove onto the track where
he train was being operated
ly John Abbott Pollock of
Wilmington, rammed the car
pushing it 371 feet down the
track.
Also in the car with Tew
was his grandson. 9-year-old
Christopher Henry. Both
were transported to Duplin
General Hospital in Kenans
ville. treated for cuts aiu
bruises and released.
The accident occurred
about 8:15 Monday night.
Damages were estimated at
$200 to the train and $2,500
to the Chevrolet.
Tew was charged with
making an unsafe move
ment.
?
Business Ownership
Survival Workshop
In order to provide the
business owner training op- I
portunities that will heighten I
management ability and
assist in the expansion of his
or her business. James
Sprunt Technical College has ^
developed a training
program in cooperation with
the Small Business Adminis
tration and Service Corps of 1
Retired Executives (SCORE).
This two-day workshop is
designed for the small busi
ness owner feeling the *
crunch of high interest rates. ^
low sales, high expenses and
low profits. This program J!
will give the owner a practi- ''
:al approach to regaining
rontro' of business and to *
Droflt-making for the 80s. n
fhis workshop is scheduled
to meet Oct. 6 and 7 from
t>:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Room
109 of the Hoffler Building.
Walter Taylor, workshop
leader, comes from a back
ground of over 20 years'
experience in materials
management in industry
Prospective students
hould pre-register by calling
STC at 296-1341, extension
23 by Oct. 5. This will be
lecessary because of the
imited space. Registration
ee will be S8 per student and
II materials will be fur
ished by SBA.
W^neCeJlars