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PROGRESS SENTINEL
VOL. XXXXVI NO. 7 USPS 162 860 KENANSV1LLE. NC 28349 FEBRUARY 17. 1983 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
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STEEPLE REPAIR - Unity United Methodist
Church at Outlaw's Crossroads, three miles
east of Warsaw, is having its steeple
repaired. The country church was estab
lished in 1945 and the^seple was buijt
about 1947. The wood deteriorated and tne
trirnwork is falling from the roof. Repairmen
Kenneth Holloman and his son, Carl Wayne
Holloman. are building a scaffolding around
the steeple /or a sure-footing before begin
ning the worfc^ *
1 Magnolia Depot Saviors
Given Another Month To Act
The Magnolia Town Board
has reversed itself to give the
old Seaboard Coast Line
railroad depot a month's res
pite from potential doom.
^ The board agreed last
week to give the Magnolia
Historical Preservation So
cie?'\ another month to come
up with funds to move the
130-year-old brick structure
from its present location on
railroad property.
Last month the board
agreed to put the building up
for sale and require the
buyer to move or demolish it.
I Nan Fesperman of Faison,
Phillis Ellenberg of Warsaw
and Randv Drew, the his
torical society's chairman,
ple'aded with the board for
more time to save the
building.
Mrs. Fesperman had
assisted with the preserva
tion of the Faison depot.
Mrs. Ellenberg said the
Warsaw depot has just been
demolished and already
many people regret its loss.
Town Commissioner
Hubert Howard said he
would like to save the build
ing if it could be done
without using tax money.
"We've been messing with it
three or four years now and
should do something one way
or another," he said.
Commissioner Herbert
Tucker said the rent on the
railroad property and the in
surance premium, totaling
$230, are due. He asked how
the bill would be paid.
Drew said his group has
$200 on hand and Mrs.
Fesperman said she would
obtain the remaining $30 to
make the oavments.
The town paid the railroad
$600 for the building with the
idea of converting it into a
library. But the railroad
wants to keep the right to
order the building removed
from its property on 90 days'
notice.
Kenansville Town Board Discusses
What To Do About Its Tobacco Quota
The Town Board of
Kenansville is moving out of
the farming business.
The (own owns 1,400
pounds of tobacco production
quota which it acquired with
some property it purchased
several years ago for its
utilities system. The ques
tion before the board is what
action it must take to sell the
quota.
It has been leasing the
quota every year to tobacco
fanners. This year, for the
first time, tobacco production
quotas can be sold off the
land to farmers within the
county. Previously, quotas
stayed with the land. The
quota could be leased within
a county but could not be
permanently separated from
the farm of origin.
The board has been of
fered 70 cents a pound to
lease the quota. It has been
offered $3.50 a pound by a
prospective buyer. Institu
tions and non-farm busi
nesses that do not grow
tobacco in their line of opera
tions must either sell their
tobacco quotas by the end of
this vear or turn them over
to the Agricultural Stabili
zation and Conservation Ser
vice for redistribution to
actual growers. The ASCS
administers the tobacco pro
duction control program.
The board's question is
whether to lease the quota
for this year and call for bids
on the quota later, or to
accept the $3.50 offer. It
directed town attorney W.E.
Craft to determine if it must
call for bids on sale of the
quota.
* A sale must be completed
by June 15 to be effective on
this year's crop.
The board rezoned the
Duplin County garage and
James Sprunt Technical Col
lege area south of town from
business to office and insti
tutional use. The area lies
within the one-mile juris
dietional area outside the
town limits.
The Canal Street area .
along N.C. 24 east of town
was rezoned to R-1S (single
family residence on a 15,000
squarc-foot lot) from R-85
(which allows multifamily
units on an 8.500-square
foot lot).
Univision Cable Television
of Richlands told the board it
expects to have cable tele
vision service on line in
Kenansville by mid-April.
After 14 Years,
Case May
Come To Court
An inquiry early last month
by the victim's brother re
vealed the case had never
been tried.
A recent inquiry into
the disposition of a 14-year
old manslaughter case led to
the arrest last week of Mar
shall Hardison, 32. in Fay
etteville.
The case involved a car
and motorcycle crash in
which a motorcyclist was
killed.
Hardison is to be ar
raigned March 7 in Duplin
County Superior Court on
charges of involuntary npafl
slaughter. driving under the
influence of alcohol, and
careless and reckless
driving. State Bureau of In
vestigation Agents John
Payne and Tim Batchelor
arrested Hardison at his
Fayetteville residence.
Hardison formerly lived in
Wilmington.
Hardison was held at the
Duplin County Jain in
Kenansville under $20,000
bond until Thursday when
Judge Alex Erwin III reduced
bond to $5,000. Hardison
wasrreeaon Dona inursaay.
Hardison had been
charged with manslaughter
and exceeding the safe speed
by State Trooper R.N.
Johnson after the crash at
12:45 a.m. March 29. 1969,
on U.S. 117 between Teachey
and Rose Hill. The cyclist.
John Steven Cavenaugh. 29.
was killed. At that time
Hardison said his residence
was at 228 Englewood Drive
in Wilmington.
An inquiry early last
month about the disposition
of the case by a victim's
brother. Morris Cavenaugh
of Magnolia, revealed it had
never been tried.
A court order was issued
June 12, 1969, for Hardison's
arrest after he failed to
appear in court on the man
slaughter charge. The court
order was sent to the New
Hanover County Sheriff's
Department. New Hanover
officers returned the order to
'he court on June 21, 1969.
saying Hardison was
believed to be in the Army in
Germany.
That was the last action in
the case, according to the
record researched by Assis
tant District Attorney Dewey
Hudson. Hudson asked the
State Bureau ot Investigation
to investigate. On Jan. 24,
198.?, the Duplin County
grand jury brought new in
dictments against Hardison.
Hudson said the statute of
limitations does not apply
when an order of arrest has
been issued and the subject
has not been apprehended.
RETIRING COUNTY EMPLOYEE
HONORED ? N.B. Grady, a Duplin County
employee of over 10 years in the sheriff's 1
department, has worked in the department
as a radio dispatcher and jailer. He was 1
presented a certificate of appreciation for his 1
years (if service during the meeting of the
Duplin Board of Commissioners held in the
Courthouse in Kenansville. He retired as of
January 31. He is shown in the photo above
receiving the certificate from Board chair
man W.J. Costin.
TELEPHONE CABLE BEING "PLOWED-IN" - Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company is burying new cable from Warsaw to Kenansville
along Highway 50 & 24 to upgrade service, according to W. S.
Richardson, district manager. The project will cost $205,800. The cable
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will be used for local and toll service. Pictured is Bobby Jackson of
Roseboro, an employee of Underground Construction Co. of Fayetteville,
the firm doing the Work.
Duplin Social Services Agency
Caught In 'No-Win Situation'
A federal court order pe
nalizing delayed completion
of welfare applications $50 a
week may cost Duplin
County some money, Social
Services Director Millie
Brown reported to the county
commissioners last wcck.
The court ordered the
penalty applied on welfare
applications not completed
within 45 days.
Mrs. Brown said her de
partment received 43 appli
cations under the Aid to
Dependent Children
program and 72 medicaid
applications in January. She
said she has two people
taking applications and three
people verifying the claims
made in them.
"It's a no-win situation,"
she said. "If you rush them
i through and there's some
thing wrong and people are
not entitled to money, then
the county-has to pay every
thing back and if you check it
but don't get it done in time
then you have to pay a $50 a
week penalty."
County Manager Ralph
Cottle said: "Federal and
state officials are dumping
things on the counties, but to
the applicants 45 days must
seem like an awful long time.
They usually need the help
yesterday when they make
application to you."
Mrs. Brown reported 1,807
households are receiving
$330,966 to help pay home
heating bills, the checks,
most of which will be paid
this month, average $183 per
household. An estimated
5.041 people live in the
households.
About 2,300 applications
for the heating funds were
received, she said. The 1980
census listed Duplin's popu
lation as 40,952. with 15,591
housing units in the county.
I Tax Collector Leland
T
Grady reported lax collec
tions from July I. 1982.
through January totaled
$152,682 more than for the
same period a year earlier.
The total for the current
period is $3,920,524.66.
compared with $3,777,842.52
a year ago.
The board signed an
agreement with the N.C.
Department of Natural Re
sources and Community De
velopment for maintenance
of the Limestone Creek
watershed project under
which the county receives
$52,864.26. The county's
share of the project cost was
$121,050.67. The mainten
ance grant will reduce the
amount the county must pro
vice to $68,186.41.
Total project cost is
$580,527.46. The federal
share is $459,476.79.
The board agreed to pur
chase three Ford LTDs for
sheriff's department use. for
$7,952.46 each under state
contract. The price per car is
$50 less than under the 1982
price. The money will come
from unspent fund balances.
Kenneth Futreal. county
soil conservationist, told the
board a group will meet at 7
p.m. March 8 at Elder
Branch Church on N.C. 11,5
miles south of Kenansville.
to discuss the possibility of a
watershed project in that
area.
Cecil Rhodes of Beulaville
complained about trash
around county trash contain
ers on N.C. 24 at a drive-in
theater near Beulaville and
asked the board to move the
containers to the old Beula
ville dump site east of town,
where there would be room
to add more containers.
No action was taken by the
v*
board pending study.
The board congratulated
Anthony Thomas, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W..I. fhomas: Neal
Maready. son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford Maready. and
Reed Southcrland. son of
Mr. and Mrs. James
Southerland. all of ihe
Lyman area south of Beula
ville. on their attainment of
hagle Scout rank.
Saying it does not supply
fire trucks to any depart
ment, the board rejected the
req^st of Tom Davis of Pink
Hill for the county to buy the
Pink Hill Fire Department a
fire ttuck because the de
partment serves Duplin as
well as Lenoir County.
Duplin county gives the Pink
Hill department $175 a
month and provides $350 a
month to Duplin County de
partments.
Swine
Production
Meeting
According to Keith J.
Hairr, assistant Duplin
agricultural extension agent,
there will be a beef produc
tion meeting at the AES
office in Kenansville on Feb.
22 at 6:30 p.m. Featured
speaker is Dr. Paul Mueller,
Extension specialist in forage
crops and pastures. Other
topics to be covered are
treating hays with anhydrous
amonia to increase t|]?ir
TDN. using implants and fly
control in bee# cattle. If you
plan to attend this supper
meeting, give Hairr a call at
296-19% to reserve a meal
for you.
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