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PROGRESS SENTINEL ? ?i ^VOL. XXXXVII NO. 33 USPS 162-860 KENANSV1LLE. NC 28349 AUGUST 18. 1983 18 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX CONSERVATION PRACTICES EXPLAINED - Furney and Margaret Boyette of Kenansville assist Kenneth Futreal in explaining some of the conservation practices adopted on the Boyette Farm to Charles Bullock of the District program section, Soil and Water NRCD along with Jim Oliver, master of the N.C. State Grange, and John Sledge, president of the N.C. Farm Bureau, who were three of the eight judges making the 1983 selection for Farm Family of the Year. The Boyettes were named North Carolina's winner later during the day. Kenansville Couple Named Family Of The Year Furnery and Margaret Boyette of Kenan^ville were named the North Carolina _ soil conservation farm family S of the year last Wednesday following a tour of their farm ^fry the judges earlier in the ?lay. The Bovettes had won the Duplin County and Coastal Plain regional soil conser vation family of the year honors earlier this year. The state is divided into moun tain, Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions for this contest. Judging the three regional winners were John Sledge of Williamston, N.C. Farm Bu -reau Ft deration fSK-^lflehtT * James Oliver of Fairmont, N.C. Grange master; Jim Canterberry, state soil and water conservationist; Walter Lambeth Sr. of turn berton, executive secretary of the Land Improvement Contractors Associaton; Charles Bullock and Steve Bennett of the soil and water djvision of the N.C. Depart ment and Dr. Jack Baird of the state agricultural exten sion service. _ The Boyettes wifl be en tered in a national soil con servation family of the year contest, Canterberry said. Judging of that event will be based on written reports on the farms submitted by the state soil and water con servation service officials. Following the judging Boyette said, "I'm very pleased." Mrs. Boyette was too busy preparing a barbe cue lunch for the judges to comment. "The farm was in terrible shape when the Boyettes bought it in 1970," Kenneth Futreal, Duplin soil conser vationist. explained. "The fields were terrible eroded, farm roads so bad you could n't drive a pick-up through the gullies and crops washed out with every heavy rain." Futreal said. The Boyettes are the first owners to live on the farm and make a living from it in decades. Futreal said. "They were unable to go to the expense of establish ing all the necessary con servation measures for several years," he added. "but the farm continued downhill until in 1978 they decided they had to fix it or. leweit." ' The 150-acre farm, located about seven miles north of Kenansville on N.C. 11, now has 90 acres of crop land. Its hilly terrain and soil type makes the farm highly sub ject to erosion. Futreal said. The Boyettes have estab lished grass covered water ways on hillsides to carry run-off water to a farm pond. They have established 3,500 feet of parallel terraces around hillsides to halt the down-hill flow of water and soil-during rains. They have applied "contour"tillage patterns to prevent the loss of soil from water rushing through down-hill furrows. Futreal said Boyette told him he used to go to bed at night worried that rain might have destroyed his fields by morning. "Now, he says he sleeps comfortably and doesn't worrry about rain damage." Duplin School 9 Officials See Enrollment Of 8?00 Students The Duplin County public school system will open this month with an anticipated enrollment of 8,500 to 8,700 students, approximately the same as last year's. The 375 teachers were scheduled to report to their principals Monday. Student orientation will be conducted ^Thursday, although school buses will not make their regular runs until classes start Aug. 22. Schools Superintendent L.S. Guy said he encourages parents and students to take advantage of the orientation period to obtain school sche dules and meet the teachers. The Wallace-Rose Hill High School will remain open until ?8 p.m. Thursday for the "orientation session to accom modate working parents, A vocational agricr'.ture program will be started at East Duplin High School in Beulaville after a lapse of several years because of lack of student interest, Guy said. Students in the carpentry trades program at the Wal lace-Rose Hill school will begin another house building ?project this fall. The com pleted house is sold at auc tion and proceeds are used to buy materials for the next project, feast Duplin High School classes have built several houses in the past 20 years. One of Guy's goals this year, he said, is to increase parent, business and indus try participation, in school ^programs and plans. W' The superintendent said school officials "are exc ited about the possibilities arising from the half-cent local sales tax." This summer the N.C. General Assembly autho rized the local-option tax and designated a portion of it for the benefit of public schools. The system will operate this year with a budget of $16,938,611. The source of funding is broken down as follows: the state, $10,392, 706; federal government, $1,209,271; food services, $1,758,930, and the county, $3,352,704 for current ex pense and $225,000 for capital outlay. Guy said he hopes to establish a 10-year school construction and improve ment program by October. The county will operate four h igh schools, North Duplin near Calypso, East Duplin, Wallace-Rose Hill and James Kenan between Kenansville and Warsaw. East Duplin, Wallace-Rose Hill and North Duplin schools include junior and senior )iigh school classes. The North Duplin complex includes an elementary school. Other junior high schools arc E.E. Smith at Kenans ville and Warsaw Junior High. Charity School east of Rose Hill serves as a middle school. Elementary schools ate Wallace near Tin City, Rose Hill-Magnolia between the two towns, Warsaw, North Duplin, Kenansville, Beulaville, Chinquapin 1 and 2 ana B.i-. Gradv in north eastern Duplin County. Rose Hill Frying Pan To Get Lid The town will spend up to $1,000 to build a permanent shelter over "the world's largest frying pan" in the Rose Hill Community park on the east side of U.S. 117. The steel pan, which has been the centerpiece of the annual N.C. Poultry Jubilee, was given to the town of Rose Hill last year. The pan was built in the early 1960s by employees of the former Ramsey Feed Co. of Rose Rill. For several years the pan had been located alongside Rose Manor Shopping Center on the southern edge of town. The town moved the pan to its present site late last year. The Town Board named Commissioner Clarence Brown as project supervisor. Labor will be donated. An A-frame structure. 24 feet square, is planned. The structure will be 12 feet high in the center and seven feet high at the edges. The pan, dubbed "the World's largest frying pan" in Poultry Jubilee publicity, measures about IS feet across. When in use, it is heated by six or seven tobacco curing barn burners. GOVERNOR IN KENANSVlLLfc - Governor Jim Hunt met ?vith the Advisory Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Seafood Industry in Kenansville Aug. 15. The Governor's Advisory Committer is made up of businessmen from all parts of Nortel Carolina and local members include Representative Wendell Murpny and William Sulltvan from Mount Olive. The meeting was held at the Duplin Country Club. Pictured above are WUliam Sullivan, Governor Jim Aunt and Duplin-Jones Representative Wendell Murphy prior jo the Monday motning meeting. Faison Native Is Astronaut By Emily Killette As a kid in Faison, William Thornton' was introduced as 'genius' and within two years of his father's death, the future astronaut and young teen opened a radio and television repair shop, Faison native Ann Taylor remembers. The town of Faison will proclaim William Thornton Week beginning on the launch day of the space shuttle Challenger, tenta tively set for Aug. 30. Thorn ton will be among the five-man shuttle crew launching at approximately 2:30 a.m. from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Taylor's family was among the many Faison towns people to receive special invitations from NASA to attend Challenger's lift-off. The five-day space trig is the eighth. in a series of shuttle missions. The Chal lenger foflowed the first shuttle Columbia which flew five space missions. Accord ing to information provided by NXSA, the Challenger mission. is to deploy two satellites and provide the astronauts an opportunity to perform several in-orbit ex periments. Thornton is sche duled to conduct "tests on space sickness. The Faison native was educated as a physician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then joined the United States Air Force. Astronauts sche duled to accompany Thorn ton are Richard Truli, Dan Brandenstein, Dale Gardener and Guy Bluford. Thornton, at the age of 55 years, is the oldest astronaut to go into space. Both the Challenger lift-off and landing are set for darkness; the shuttle, is scheduled to land at approxi mately 3 a.m. at Edwards Air Force Base in California, Sept. 3. "William was always smart,Ann Taylor,_ lifelong friend of Astronaut William Thornton, said. "Hie was very inventive and was always taking things apart and putting them back to gether. William wanted to know how everything worked, and he was always creating things." As a young teen Thornton opened a radio and television repair shop in Faison to help support his mother after the death of'his father. According to Tayfor, young Thornton took respon sibility .very seriously and earned the respect of all people, young and old, in Faison. "We respected his mir.d and the way he lived," Taylor said. "When we wanted to see William we would so to his shop and there was an extra stool just for any one ef us kids ? and one of us would be there talking to him about all the time. But, William still took time to be a young boy. He'd usually take time off to go swimming with us kids." In recent inte^viewes, Taylor said, Thornton has com mented on small-town life, praising the way of life and the values he learned from the closeness of a small community. Following the return of the shuttle Challenger, Thornton plans to return to his home* town of Faison and Taylor said a celebration will be planned by the town. A resolution will be submitted to the Duplin Board of Com missioners from the Faison town board to proclaim William Thornton Week throughout the county during the flight of the space shuttle. Wallace Board Favors Half-Cent Tax The Wallace town board favors adoption of the half cent local sales tax and will urge the Duplin County Board of Commissioners to adopt the new tax during the ? public hearing on the ques tion at 8 p.m. Aug. 23 in the courthouse at Kenan^ville. The N.C. General Assem bly in its last session autho rized counties to add a one-half cent local sales tax to the one-cent tax 99 of the state's 100 counties levy on each dollar's worth of taxable goods and services. All of the counties in Southeastern North Carolina levy the once cent tax and so far. none of them have ruled out adding the half-cent option. The Duplin County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 1 ordered the Aug. 23 public hearing on the half-cent tax. "Although the town's share of this tax is generally for water and sewer exten sions, if we show we don't need that we can use it for other things." Wallace Mayor Mejvin Cording told the Town Board at its meeting Thursday night. "This will negate the S300 million bond proposal for this fall. We need to go' to Kenan^ville and help the commissioners make the decision." "If they call for a refer endum it won't pass. One thing they don't need to do is call for a vote of the people," he said. Duplin County could re ceive as much as $900,000 a year from the half-cent tajt, according to W.J. Cost in. chairman of the county board. Forty percent of the total must be assigned to schools for building improve ments. In other business, the board agreed to refund $46.42 in property taxes to Sam Briley. Briley lives on the edge of town and has been paying Wallace taxes since 1979 when he built a new house. Briley had asked for a refund ,on town taxes he has been paid on his garage, which is located outside the town limits, and on his vehicles, which are kept in the garage. A refund on those items would have amounted to $174.46. The $46.42 figure was reached after town attorney Richard Burrows told the board that the town could tax the vehicles, no matter where they are kept. Ve hicles are registered where the owner lives, he said. The board appointed Lester Caison as temporary building inspector to succeed Wayne Rich, whose tempo rary state permit expired last week. Magnolia Opposes Additional Tax The Town Board of Mag nolia will oppose implemen tation of the half-cent local sales tax authorized by the recent state legislative ses sion. The board approved a resolution opposing the tax at it's August meeting last week. It will present the resolution to the next Duplin Municipal Association meet ing. While board members individually agreed the sales tax is a fair tax. they said they opposed any new taxes. "We've already had too many taxes passed this year," said Mayor Me{vin Pope, expressing the board's feelings. "The poor con sumer can only stand so much." In a related matter, Town Auditor Doug Gark told the board it should make a big effort to collect current and back taxes. Gark said 31 people owe 50 percent of current and back taxes due to the town. He said Magnolia's tax col lection rate last year was 75 percent and that "anything under 95 percent is just bad." Phillips Speaks At Study Conference Speeches, workshops and other activities were sche duled when the Duplin County public schools' first annual study conference was held at the Kenan Memorial Auditorium in Kenanqville Aug. 16. The conference was held with approximately 65 teach ers, aides, administrators and others participating. Dr. A. Craig Phillips, state superintendent, was the fea tured speaker for the open ing session. The theme for the con ference was "Proud, But Not Satisfied." After the general sessions, there were more than 50 workshops covering a variety of topics.
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