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VOL. XXXXV1I NO. 8 USPS 162-860 KENANSV1LLE. NC 28349 FEBRUARY 24. 1983 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
HOT WATER HEATING SYSTEM - C M. Outlaw is in the
process of building an old-fashioned, new-fangled heating
system for his home, store and greenhouse. Using a
550-gallon cast iron fuel tank. C.M. first built a firebox in
the front. The capacity of the "boiler" is now about 450 to
500 gallons of water. With pipes and pumps, the water,
which is continually heated by wood, is piped into the
greenhouse and the residence. The water in the residence
at the present time is only being used for bathing and
dishwashing. In the future, however. Outlaw plans to have
the hot water go through radiator-type units with fans
circulating the air. The system is under no pressure. The
water is circulated by pumps. In the green house. Outlaw
has rigged up a what-vou-may-call-it where hot water is
curculating through an old abandoned air condition coil.
Behind that-is an old window fan which blows air through
the water-heated coils. . .Thus, a "hot house." Once
completed. Outlaw thinks he will have between $1,000 and
$1.500 in the system.
I Commissioners Have Declared That Emergency Exists *
Duplin Seeks Truck
for Garbage Rescue '
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Facing a possible garbage
pile-up. Duplin County is
looking for a heavy-duty
truck chassis suitable for
installation of a garbage
pickup container and hy
draulic system.
The board of commission
ers. in a special meeting last
week, directed Finance
Officer Russell Tucker to
ft locate such a truck chassis as
soon as possible. The com
missioners have declared an
emergency exists in the
county garbage pick-up pro
gram because one of its
trucks broke down.
The county operates a
countywide garbage pick-up
service, suing four container
trucks that operate 5'/j days
a week to empty bOO large
^ trash containers.
" Tucker was directed to find
thej least expensive truck in
stock that can do the job.
Cost of a truck in stock is
estimated at $45,000 to
$65,000. The money will
come from unbudgeted re
serves. The garbage con
tainer ard hvdraulics from
the broken-down truck, will
be installed on the new
chassis.
The cost of repairing the
1^73 model truck would be
about Sb.OUO and it would
likely break down again in a
short time, uoard members
indicated.
Sonny Sykes. county sani
tation inspector, told the
board if it tries to operate
with three-faurths of its
regular truck capacity for any
length of time, garbage wiil
pile up. creating an un
sanitary and potentially dan
gerous situation.
Special Funds Available
For No-Till Systems
Duplin County is one of the
three counties in the state
selected in 1983 to receive
special ACP funding to
demonstrate the no-till sys
tem of farming.
"The no-till system is a
cost-effective practice to
protect the soil, reduce pol
lution and conserve energy."
according to David English.
Duplin County ASCS execu
tive director.
Under this special prac
tice. cost-sharing at the rate
of $10 per acre is authorized
for planting directly into old
crop residue, annual cover
crops and chemically killed
sods. Cost-share is not auth
orized where the farmer has
already adopted a satisfac
tory conservation tillage sys
tem of farming.
Applications for cost-shar
ing must be approved before
the practice is started.
Any farmer interested in
this practice should not disk
or plant his land, as this w ill
disqualify him for this prac
tice.
"Requests for ACP cost
sharing are now being ac
cepted at the county office."
English stated.
Rains Overload Warsaw Plant
Drainage System Blamed
The City of Warsaw just
accepted a new $2 million
sewage treatment plant
The town of Warsaw faces
a potentially costlysewer line
inflow problem because its
storm drainage system ap
parently is connected to the
sanitary sewer lines.
The city officially accepted
its new $2 million sewage
treatment plant Friday,
Thurman Gaster. sanita
tion and maintenance super
visor. said an estimated 6 to
8 inches of rain from Friday
through Sunday virtually
drowned the plant with daily
flows of 1.2 million. 1 million
and 500.000 gallons. Sewage
backed up as a result.
The normal sewage flow to
the treatment plant is about
500.000 gallons a day. Gaster
said.
Charles Joyner. project
engineer with McDavid
Associates, the sewage treat
ment plant engineering firm,
told the tow n board last week
that smoke tests made before
construction began to de
termine the amount of sewer
line leakage in the town
indicated most of the storm
drains emptied into the sani
tary system. He said as much
as 80 percent of the town's
storm drainage went directly
into the sewage treatment
plant.
The storm drainage in
cludes silt and sand, which
shortens the life of the
pumps. The overload also
shortens pump life, as well
as increasing operating
costs. Caster said such over
loads could ruin the plant
within a year.
Any sewer line work will
have to be financed by the
town. The board directed the
engineering firm to study the
problem and estimate the
cost of correcting the prob- _
lent.
The board ordered a public
hearing on 7:.W p.m. March
14 at the town hall on re
zoning an area on Pinecrest
Drive and Best Street to
permit mobile homes.
It directed Town Clerk
Alfred Herring to look into
the complaint of Frances
Jones that repairs on her
house, financed by the De
partment of Housing and
Urban Development, were
improperly made.
Faison Depot May
Open In Summer
By Emily Killette
Approximately $6.(XX) is
needed to complete the res
toration of the Faison depot
into a library and museum,
explained restoration com
mittee member Nan Fesper
man. And, the restoration
committee hopes to release
the structure to open this
summer. ... ?
The railroad depot was
donated to the town of
Faison in 1980 by business
man Flamld Precvthe. The
town board of commissioners
allocated funds to move the
building to the Faison parks
and recreation grounds and
appointed the original res
toration committee. Fesper
man named the original
members and explained most
of the work to restore the
depot ha- been done with
funds raised by the first
committee. The original
committee was made up of
Norma Cates. now deseased;
Duplin County Superinten
dent of Schools L.S. Guy. Bill
lgoe, George Wallace and
Nan Fespeiman. The res
toration committee received
a $5,000 Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation grant and
numerous private donations
which have funded all work
done on the depot at this
point. Fcspcrman said- The
current -restoration commit
tee 1s in the process of
planning two or more fund
raising projects to raise the
monies needed to complete
the project.
"Our depot is a land
mark." Fesperman said.
"We fought to keep it be
cause many times passersby
would not remember
anything about our town but
the people sitting around the
depot under the 'no-loiter
ing' signs!" Local carpenters
Faison Bow den and J.C.
Thompson have been restor
ing the depot. According to
Fesperman the building will
be restored as original as
possible and the outside is
complete except for land
scaping.
Inside the carpenters have
sanded old paint front the
walls and heart-of-ptne wood
floors. The floor will be
finished in the ne*t week
followed bv the v. ts The
depot walls w ill be divided b>
a chair-railing. The lower
section of the wall is to be
natural wood. The upper
section is to be covered with
off-white paint. The cost of
finishing the floors and walls
of the three-room depot will
leave the restoration project
at a standstill until more
funds are donated or raised
by the committee. Fesper
man said.
"Our next step in re
storing the depot will be to
add library shelves." Fes
perman said. "Bin, we will
have lo raise more funds
before thai will begin. We
will also need library and
museum lurnilure and light
ing fixtures. Track lighting
will be needed in the mu
seum and that will be the
most expensive item
needed."
Presently the town of
Pinion has no library and is
eekiwg donations of his
torical items to be placed to
the museum. The museum is
to display historical items
relative to the town of
Faison. "The town depot is a
tradition, a piece of history
and maybe the only thing left
to remind us of the local
passenger trains. The people
of Faison vsere quite con
cerned and worked hard to
keep the depot from being
torn down. And. I think we
have something to be proud
of in the restoration of the
depot." said Fesperman.
PIK Program Ends March 11
"The final date for farm
operators to file contracts to
participate in the PIK (Pay
mcnt-ln-Kind) program is
March 11." according to
David English. Duplin
Countv executive director of
ASCS.
The PIK program is de
signed to encourage farmers
to further reduce 1983 crop
acreages of wheat, corn and
sorghum from previously an
nounced acreage reduction
and land diversion programs.
They can divert an additional
10-JO percent of the crop
acreage base for PIK. Com
pensation under the PIK
program is a quantity of
bushels of the commodity for
which the additional acreage
reduction is made. For the
10-50 percent of base PIK.
compensation will be the
farm's program yield times
05 percent for wheat and 80
percent tor corn and grain
sorghum.
Farmers may elect to
divert the whole crop acreage
base for the farm on a bid
basis, provided such bid is
accepted. The whole base bid
means the producer offers to
reduce the planted acreage
of the crop to zero and devote
an acreage equal to the crop
acreage base to approved
conservation uses. 'Ihe pro
ducer bids by specifying the
percent of the farm's pro-,
gram yield per acre that is
acceptable as compensation
for participation. The lowest
bids are accepted first. If
accepted, the bid applies on
the total PIK acreage di
verted. Bids will be opened
at the ASCS office on March
IH. Hnglish stated.
PIK Program
There are still many un
answered questions concern
ing the I'lK program, but if
you are still wondering if PIK
is for you. the AKS might
help you decide.
"We have computer pro
grams that will determine
the amount of corn and
money that the farmer could
receive in the A HP and PIK
propams." says Keith J.
H-.irr. assistant agricultural
extension agent with the
Duplin County AFS.
The program will also
compute the dollar amount
you would need for a bushel
of grain to break even with
the PIK program.
"For instance, if a pro
ducer's variable cost is $200
per acre and has expected
yields averaging 00 bushels
per acre on land to be set
aside, then he would need
approximately $3.55 in order
to do as well in the PIK
program," savd Keith.
If a producer will bring in
his estimated production
costs and yields on Feb. 25,
March 1 and March 4. Hairr
will be in the office to help
determine his break-even
point. Also, if the producer
know s his corn base and farm
yield, they can calculate the
benefits he could receive in
the program.
HINES SERVES AS PAGE
Hope Hines of BeulaviUe,
daughter of Mr; and Mrs.
Charlie N. Hines. Route' 1?
served as a page in Governor
Jim Hunt's offices in Raleigh
during the week of Feb. 7-11.
Hope is a junior at East
Duplin High School.
4-H In Duplin Includes 15 Clubs
In Duplin County. 4-H
involves a variety of people,
not just club members and
leaders, but people from all
walks of life. There are 15
4-H clubs in the county with
mcmebership of approxi
mately 550. Ray Rhinehart.
Duplin 4-H agent with the
Agricultural Extension
Service said.
Members of 4-H range in
age from 0 to 14 and Duplin
has an even mixture of ages
with about 50 percerrt in each
the junior and senior groups.
Rhinehart said. Recruitment
of additional members and
new clubs is a constant part
of 4-H. Rhinehart and the
Duplin 4-H expansion com
mittee are making plans to
establish clubs in the towns
of Faison. Calypso and Chin
quapin.
Programs and projects in
4-H include many different
types of subjects. Each year
the 4-H clubs in Duplin
participate individually or as
a club in several projects
sponsored by local or state
organizations. According to
Rhinehart. members and
clubs can received district
and state recognition in two
of the projects emphasized in
v
Duplin. One of the projects
involves safety and can be an
individual or club effort.
Kliinehart explained. The
>afcty project is sponsored
by the Duplin County Farm
Bureau. The Duplin County
Tuberculosis Association,
sponsors a health project for
individual participation. Four
awards are given by the
Tuberculosis Association in
the health project. Youth
Lhoks at Aging projects are
emphasized i in Duplin.
Rhinchart said, and is a
statewide program. The
American Association of Re
tired Persons sponsors the
Youth Looks at Aging
projects competition among
the 4-H clubs.
Another club project spon
sored statewide is the Com
munity Service project. The
North Carolina Honor 4-H
<Club sponsors the Commu
nity Service competition.
"Our clubs and individuals
are encouraged to participate
in these four projects,"
Rhinehart. 4-H Agent, said.
"But. along with the recom
mended projects, the 4-H'er
chooses other individual pro
jects. As a rule, for the
younger members who are
just beginning. I try to
recommend two or three
projects which are of real
interest to them." With each
project. 4-H members keep a
project book and record sheet
w hich arc used for grading in
the annual selection of
achievement award winners
in Duplin Counts.
"A long-time record book
may be the ultimate 4-H
project." Rhinehart said.
"We (Rhinehart and 4-H
leaders) put the most em-,
phasis on this project be
cause the member can learn
so much from it and receive
scholarships. Members learn
how to keep records, or
ganize their thoughts and
write using the strict guide
lines of compiling the long
time record book." The long
time record book is a concise
diary of all pro jets in which
the 4-H member has partici
pated and awards received
since joining the organiza
tion. Duplin 4-H clubs sub
mit among the highest
number of individual long
time record books in the
17-county Southeastern Dis
trict. Rhinehart said.
Programs for Duplin 4-H
are planned by both the
individual clubs and the
countv extension service.
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During the past three yc^rs.
Duplin firemen have been
involved in 4-H programs
with tire safety. The firemen
present a fire safety program
to the 4-H clubs giving the
members insight into emer
gency and routine pro
cedures. Currently. Rhine
hart and the Duplin 4-H
Special Projects Community
are working to organize a
first aid program similar to
tire safety involving mem
bers of the county rescue
services.
"The county helps subsi
dize the clubs with pro
grams." Rhinehart said.
Duplin 4-H clubs located in
Warsaw are the New Hori
zons and the Warsaw Sham
rocks; Kenansville. the Ke
nansville 4-H. Stanford 4-H
and Farrior Youth Core
(FYC); Magnolia. Cost 4-H;
Rose Hill. Achievers in Mo
tion (AIM); Wallace. DECA
4-H and Wallace 4-H;
Teachey, Teachev 4-H and
People 4-H; Oakwolfe Com
munity. Oakridge 4-H; Al
bertson. Albertson 4-H;
Beulaville. Golden Sunset:
and Chinquapin. Mill Swamp
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EARLY MODE TRACTOR - Many farmers
B can remember some of the first tractors
^ which were built with steel wheels. The
tractor replaced the mule and work horses
doing the work of several animals. As
technology advanced, so did the quality of
farm machinery until tractors like the one
pict ured above were put to rest.
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