PROGRESS SENTINEL
^L XXXXV1 NO. 49 USPS 162-860 KENANSV1LLE, NC 28349 DECEMBER 9, 1982 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
Rose Hill Treatment
Plant May Get
? Funding In 1983
The proposed $1,675,000
Rose Hill sewage treatment
plant is scheduled for fund
ing in the 1983 fiscal year
after a decade of planning.
Any award of construction
contracts will depend, how
ever, upon whether the
federal environmental Pro
bation Agency provides
(Wugh money to the state,
according to Buck Kennedy,
project enginefer of L.E.
Wooten & Co., a Raleigh
consulting engineering firm.
"If all goes according to
plan, the project could be up
for bids in late 1983," Ken
nedy said last week.
Kennedy said the project
is number 18 on the state's
priority list, but number 8 on
funding" list ? second
rroin the bottom ? for the
1983 fiscal year. He said nine
projects are slated for fund
ing during the fiscal year if
the federal money comes
through.
"It's good to expect some
good news for somebody
because the news is bad for
so many applicants," he
added.
o
The Rose Hill project will
have no significant environ
mental impact, according to
a letter Mayor Ben L. Harrell
received Nov. 17 from Ed
ward B. Lamar, planning
engineer in EPA's Region 4
office in Atlanta.
The letter said the Finding
of No Significant Impact
statement must be posed for
a 30-day public comment
period.
Lamar said a preliminary
decision has been made not
to prepare an environmental
impact statement on the
project.
Under the present for
mula, EPA would provide
SI, 211,250; the state,
$201,875, and Rose Hill.
$261,875, of the cost. Rose
Hill residents approved a
$375,000 bond issue two
years ago to finance the local
share.
Rose Hill's present
200.000-gallons - per - day 1
waste water treatment plant
fails to meet EPA effluent
discharge limitations for the
small stream into which it
discharges the treated waste
water.
Plans call for a 325,000
gallons-per-day treatment
plant. The proposed plant
would provide preliminary
treatment, chlorination, aer
ation and sludge drying
beds.
The average individual
residential sewage bill would
be S14.40 a month, according
to preliminary studies. The
actual user charge would be
determined after completion
of the preliminary engineer
ing report.
The current sewage bills
are 100 percent of the water
bills. The minimum charge
for water and sewage is $5 a
month each. For use of
between 3,000 and 10,000
gallons of water a month the
users pay an additional $1
per 1,000 gallons, plus an
equal amount fur sewage.
The proposed plant would
be located east of Rose Hill,
about a half-mile from the
present plant.
Rose Hill had a 1980
population of 1,508 living in
626 housing units, according
to the U.S. Bureau of the
Census.
House Fire Hurts
Two Faison Children
t^Two children suffered
severe burns when their
home was destroyed by fire
near Faison last week.
Timothy McDuffy. 2, and
Rashad McDuffy. 2 months,
children of Angeline
McDuffy. 21. were treated at
Goshen Medieal Center at
Faison and transferred to
Duplin General Hospital in
Snansville. They were later
en to the North Carolina
Burn Center at Chapel Hill.
The infant suffered severe
neck, face and head burns.
Timothy suffered severe
back, chest, stomach and leg
burns. Mrs. McDuffy and
her oldest child, Felicia, 3,
escaped injury.
The children were in thd1
front room of the house and
Mrs. McDuffy in a back room
at the time of the fire. She
told firemen Felicia came
running from the front crying
that the house was on fire.
Mrs. McDuffy rushed to the
front and found the living
room full of flames and
smoke, according to reports.
She grabbed the two younger
children and escaped out of
the front door.
Gene Turner, who was
doing some work in the back
yard, heard their screams
and came to their aid. He
carried the family to the
medical center by car.
The house is south of
Faison on the old Bowdens
Road. Assistant Fire Chief
Sprunt Hall said Fire Chief
Glenn Jernigan told him
sparks from a faulty chimney
caused the fire.
Britt Selected As
District II Morehead Awards Finalist
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naipn oriu nas oeen
named one of the seven
Qalists in the competition
for 1983 Morcht.ad Awards
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Seven nominees ? from
District II have been selected
as finalists, which was based
on evidence of leadership
and service, character, aca
demic achievement and
physical vigor.
^James Ralph Britt Jr. is
? * ft l k a
me son m ivir. ana Mrs.
James R. Britt Sr. of Route 2,
Box 40. Mount Olive. He is a
senior at North Duplin High
School.
Morehead Awards provide
all-expense paid under
graduate educations at
UNC-CH. The value of an
award for a N.C. resident is
currently $15,200 for four
years of study on campus,
plus funding for internships
available to Morehead
Scholars each summer. The
I m ^ d. ?
Morehead Award is modeled
after the Rhodes Scholar
ships at Oxford. England. Its
purpose is to attract to
UNC-CH young men and
women who will enhance the
University's stature through
their presence on campus
and make significant contri
butions to their alma nater
and to society in later life.
Nine Morehead Scholars
have received Rhodes
Scholarships since the mid
1960s.
tAKKIAUC HUUSE ADD CARRIAGE
ADDED AT LIBERTY HALL - A one-horse
carriage, or buggy, has been added to the
tiany sights of Liberty Hall in Kenansville.
ibertv Hall is the ancestoral home of the
Kenans. It has been restored and is open to
the public. Later this month it is to be
decorated for Christmas as it would have
been in the early 1800s.
TIGHT SQUEEZE AT MOVING TIME ? The house is too large or the
bridge is too small. Jack Strouo. owner of the house that is being moved
from Lidell to Albertson, said "The bridge makes me nervous. 1 sure
hope it doesn't topple over into the water." The Strouds plan to remodel
mm, ft (11.1
the house into living quarters once it is relocated. It did get across the
bridge. The bridge was higher on one side than the other. The house was
level. Thus, a temporary line of poles were laid across the bridge for the
driver-side wheels to ride up on... .kinda "catty-wampus."
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LIMESTONE CREEK WATERSHED WORK BEGINS Phelps and White
Construction Co.. Inc. of Windsor, the contractor on the first phase of the
Limestone Watershed project, moved its heavy equipment into the area at
the bridge at Hallsvilleon Tuesday. Dec. 1st. to begin channel restoration
work on Limestone Creek. "This project has been in the works for many
years in Duplin County, and now we are going to see some results," said
Calvin Mercer, district board of supervisors chairman. Pictured arc:
Kenneth Futreal. Tim Phelps, Louis Phelps. Herman Rigg. Dean
Bingham. Jackie Ray and Calvin Mercer.
Watershed Project Groundbreaking Begun
Construction began on the
first phase of the Limestone
Creek watershed project in
eastern Duplin County, cul
minating almost three
decades of effort by area
farmers.
Kenneth Fqtreal, the
county soil conservationist,
said the contractor. Phelps
and White Construction Co.
of Windsor, has moved
equipment to the construc
tion site near Hallsville. The
location is not far from the
place where Limestone Creek
empties into the Northeast
Cape Fear River.
Beginning of work on the
first phase has been a long
term goal of area farmers
who need drainage improve
ment. George Cowan of
Beulaville said the first
meeting on the subject was
held 24 years ago in the
Beulaville Elementary
School. Planning of the
project began in the 1960s.
The initial phase calls for
restoring 21,000 feet of
channel and installing three
sediment basins. Those deep
spots in the channel are to
catch sediment from field
run-off and prevent further
channel clogging.
The contractor submitted a
bid of $74,000 on the work
Oct. 20. The contract was
awarded Nov. 9 and the
notice to proceed with the
work was issued Nov. 23,
according to Calvin Mercer,
the soil conservation district
chairman and contracting of
ficer for Duplin County.
The county has invited
contractors to bid on the
second phase, the major
portion of the project. Bids
will be received until 10 a.m.
Dec. 9 at the countv soil and
water conservation district
office in Kenansville.
Second phase work will
include 105.435 feet of chan
nel restoration and 62.116
feet of channel excavation,
clearing of 48 acres, laying of
2,836 feet of 15-inch cor
rugated metal pipe inlets and
digging of 20 permanent
sediment basins in the chan
nel. The work will provide
drainage improvements for
41.000 acres of the Lime
stone Creek watershed.
The creek starts in the
swamps near the Duplin
Onslow county line and flows
generally westward to the
Northeast Cape Fear River
near Hallsvillc in southern
Duplin County. N.C. Ill
bridges the creek about a
mile northeast of Beulaville.
Land treatment measures
by farmers to prevent re
currence of the channel
conditions tnat have created
the flooding in the area are
well underway. Futreal said.
He noted the treatment mea
sures that hold soil in the
fields instead of allowing it
to wash into drainage chan
nels also improve producti
vity of the farms.
Nash Johnson
Dies
ROSE HILL Nash B.
Johnson died late Monday
night.
Further details unavailable
at press time.
Quinn Appointed Trustee
Chairman At Baptist Hospital
Gerald Quinn of Warsaw
has been elected chairman of
the Trustees of North Caro
lina Baptist Hospital for
1982. He is serving his third
four-year term as a trustee.
President of the Quinn
Company of Warsaw, Quinn
has been with the company
since his graduation from
Atlantic Christian College.
He has served in many
utttcrent capacities and im
mediately before being
named president in 1981, he
was vice president of opera-?
tions.
In addition to his service as
a trustee of Baptist Hospital
at Winston-Salem, Quinn
served as chairman and a
member of the Board of
Commissioners of Duplin
County. He is a director of
Branch Banking and Trust
Company. He has served as
president of the Warsaw
Jaycees and as vice president
of the North Carolina
Jaycees. He received the
Jaycee Key Man award, their
Distinguished Service award,
and their International Sena
tor award. He also serves on
the Duplin County Agricul
tural Extension Service ad
visory board and the North
Carolina 4-H Development
Fund inyestment committee.
He is a member of the
Warsaw Baptist Church
where he has served ^s
chairman of tha board of
deacons.
Gerald is married to the
former Rita Sutton and they
have a daughter, Carla, and
%soti, Gerald Haywood.