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# VOL. XXXXVII NO. 38 USPS 162-860 , KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 SEPTEMBER^. 1983 20 PAGES THIS WEEK I0 CENTS PLUS TAX
GROUNDBREAKING FOR RETIREMENT VILLAGE' - The Duplin
Retirement Village will be located in Warsaw across from the Warsaw
Elementary School. The project will provide housing for 60 retired
residents and cost in excess of 4750,00(5. The Retirement Village is
expected to be completed within six months and provide employment for
approximately 30 people Pictured above, during groundbreaking
ceremonies held last Thursday, are. le:t to right, Bob Cousins, project
contractor and president of Construction and Design Corporation of
Goldsboro; John Gurganus, Duplin Development officer; Charles Harrell,
administrator of the Mount Olive Retirement Village; and Frank Steed,
Warsaw town commissioner.
? Rezoning, Property Purchase Approved in Warsaw
At its recent meeeting, the
Warsaw Town Board of
Commissioners approved
two rezoning requests and
authorized the use of a
STiWXX) grant from the U.S.
department of Housing and
Urban Development to pur
chase property.
^ The board, which met last
week, also tabled action on a
proposed annexation.
Property on which apart
ment buildings are being
planned just outside of the
northeastern city limits off
Trashpile Road was rezoned
from single-family dwellings
to multi-family dwellings.
A 2'/i-acre iot owned by
Billy Kennedy was rezoned
to permit a mobile home
park. The lot is bounded by
West Chelley and West
Yancey streets on the south
and west sides, by Stewart
Creek aparfmeots on the
north and Seaboard Systems
railroad on the cast.
Kennedy will prepare a
plan of his project for the
town's planning board.
Purchase was approved of
the burned-out Tommy
Gresham home and lot for
$12,000 from HUD commu
nity development grant land
acquisition funds. The ruined
house, described as an eye
sore. will be demolished.
The property is located
beside U.S. 117 on the north
side of town in a HUD
rehabilitation area.
In other action:
? A contract for demo
lition of the Mary Stanford
house in the rehabilitation
project area was let to W.H.
Flowers on a bid of $835.
? Purchase of 30 Christ
mas decorative light fixtures
to be hung on utility poles
was approved. The cost of
the fixtures is $4,000.
"The present lights are
ugly, out of shape and don't
all work." said Town Clerk
Alfred Herring. The old fix
tures have been used for 13
years, he said.
? Two 15-year-old town
trucks were sold to Marshall
Thornton of Clinton for $700.
A 1978 police car was sold to
Frank Steed on f biu <>t
SI.200.
? James L. Martin was
appointed to the Board of
Adjustments to replace
James Cooper.
? Board members dis
cussed returning of the
American Legion building to
its original downtown site at
the corner of Hill and Rail
road streets, but took no
action on the matter.
If the building were
brought back to the down
town from its present out-of
town location, a 12-inch thick
fire wall would have to be
built between the Legion
building and Smith's Dry
Cleaners. The wall would
have to be two feet higher
than the Legion building.
Mayor Sam Godwin said.
"That would be an odd
looking thing," said Godwin,
a builder. "A masonry wall
wouldn't stand up; you'd
have to corner it somehow.
It'd also close uo all the
windows on that side of both
buildings,"
Jf the building were moved
?,'A. jlegion would donate.it to
the town in return for a
99-vear lease to hold monthly
Legion meetings.
* Arson Likely Cause Of
Fire At Wallace Church
Arson is suspected in a fire
early Friday that completed
the destruction of the Way of
Truth Free Gospel Church on
River Road about two miles
southeast of Wallace in
Duplin County.
Much of the church was
destroyed in a fire Feb. 22,
two days after the congre
gation first held services in
the church after remodeling
it. Duplin County Sheriff T.
Elwood Revelle said he
suspected arson in the winter
fire and in a previous fire at
the church. Revelle esti
mated damage in the Feb
ruary fire at $25,000 and said
at that time kerosene could
be smelted around the build
ing. No arrests have been
made in connection with the
fires.
The 50-year-old wooden
church was moved to its
present site from the Halls
.ville area about two years
ago. The congregation re
modeled the structure and
held services there for the
first time Feb. 20.
The congregation was or
ganized by Elder Carlton
West nearly 2'/i years ago in
his home. West, his wife.
Pearl, and their five children
moved to buplin County
from Washington to start the
church. The congregation
has been meeting in the old
WCFE radio station building
on U.S. 117 in Wallace since
the February fire, West said.
Wallace Fire Chief
Thomas Townsend said he
suspected arson in Friday's
tire. He said 26 members ot
the department answered the
fire call at 1:19 a.m. The
frame structure burned
quickly, he said, since it had
been virtually destroyed by
the previous fires.
Firemen were just leaving
the church area around 2:20
a.m. when they received a
call to a house fire on nearbv
S.R. 1155.
Townsend said the house,
owned by Willis C. Williams,
was furnished but unoccu
pied. Williams estimated
damage to the house and
contents at $25,000.
The cause of the house fire
was unknown, Townsend
said. "We have no reason to
suspect arson in connection
with this fire." he said.
Fire Destroys
Kenansville Home
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A one story wooden house
burned to the ground early
Saturday moniing on S.R.
1301, about seven miles
northwest of Kenan|ville.
"The house was com
^ pletely engulfed in flames
" and the roof had fallen in"
when firefighters arrived
around 2:45 a.m., said Andie
Bostic, captain of the
Kenangville Fire and Rescue
Department*
No one was in the house,
owned by Herman Branch,
when the ,fire began, Ms.
Bostic said. The fire was
reported by the owner of a
store who Uves tbout 150
H) yards away, she said.
Firefighters worked about
two hours to extinguish the
flames and cool a propane
gas tank behind the house,
which did not explode, Ms.
Bostic said.
The cause of the blaze has
not been determined. "It
was so far gone, it would be
hard to teH," she said.
Fire Hits Nash
Johnson Farms
Building At Rose Hill
Fire damaged a building at
a poultry farm near Rose Hill
last week, fire'investigators
said.
Four fire departments
were called to the blaze at
the Nash Johnson Fa^ns on
U.S. 117 at about 2:30 p.m.
The roof of a hatchery build
ing. which ho"?ed chickens,
eggs and incubators, was
heavily damaged, said Clay
ton Herring, chief of the
Rose Hill Volunteer Fire
Department.
Resolution
Declares Duplin
A Disaster Area
WHEREAS, Duplin
County is a large rural county
covering 815 square miles,
and having a population of
40,952. a per capita income
of only $4,653 and is heavily
dependent upon agriculture,
and
WHEREAS Duplin
County is the #1 gross farm
income county in North
Carolina and has now had its
anticipated farm income
severely reduced by a con
tinuing drought resulting in a
natural disaster and
WHEREAS, the normal
average rainfall for Dublin
County for the growing
season from April through
this date is 25.0 inches and
WHEREAS, certain areas
of Duplin County have re
ceived the normal amount of
rainfall to this date, other
areas have received little or
no rainfall during the critical
growing period from April 1
to present; furthermore, ex
tremely high temperatures
ranging from 104? and aver
aging about 98? (daytime) for
a period of several weeks
have compounded the severe
evaporation of what moisture
has been available, and
WHEREAS, it is projected
that the farm income of
Duplin County will have a
yeild loss of corn-grain 25%,
soybeans 50%, pasture -
grazing 50%, pasture (hay
50%, tobunu ? and hor
ticulture crops 20%. and
WHEREAS. Duplin
County has heavy numbers
of livestock affected by ex
tremely high temperatures
and the severe drought,
4,800 beef cattle; 100 dairy
cattle; 330.000 swine; as weil
as 7.000,000 poultry and
turkeys, and
WHEREAS. Duplin
County, an already econo
mically deprived area, is
primarily dependent upon
agriculture for its income and
is now exposed to a drought
which has caused further
severe economic loss for our
citizens.
NOW. THEREFORE. BE
IT RESOLVED that the
Duplin County Board of
Commissioners respectfully
request that Duplin County
be declared a disaster area
resulting from the continued
severe drought conditions
and that our state and federal
representatives do whatever
is within their authority and
power to lend assistance to
the large number of Duplin'
County citizens upon whom
this drought is dealing a
crippling economic loss.
This the 6th day of Sep
tember, 1983.
William J. Costin,
Chairman of the Duplin
County
Board of Commissioners
ATTEST: Ralph Cottle. Clerk
New Doctor At
Faison And Greenevers
Medical Centers
The location of doctors
certified in internal medicine
has allowed Duplin's level of
available health care to ex
pand and include local treat
ment of the more serious
health problems, said Dr.
Kenneth Lee, who began
work with Goshen Medical
Center in Faison and Plain
View- Medical Clinic in
Greenevers, in September.^
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Dr. Kenneth Lee
"At both medical centers.
Dr. (Jeff) Margolis and my
self treat every patient that
doesn't involve surgery."
Dr. Kenneth Lee said. "In
ternal medicine is a very
broad field in which we deal
mainly with diagnosing and
prescribing treatment for di
seases. We are concerned
about providing a continuity
of health care for our patients
and the tacal people. To
provide health care contin
uity we are able to take care
of some of the patients in the
county which had been re
ferred to Chapel Hill and
other larger hospitals for
treatment."
According to Lee as certi
fied internists. h?i and Dr.
Jeff Margolis have the
expertise to diagnose and
treat the more serious health
problems such as chronic
heart disorders which Duplin
doctors had referred to larger
hospitals in the past. In order
t{> expand the local health
'care opportunities. Lee said,
the Goshen Medical Center
doctors are working to estab
lish dual hospital privileges
at Duplin General Hospital
and Sampson Memorial
Hospital.
"I have worked in the past
with dual hospital privileges
and see no problem here."
Dr. Lee said. "In terms of
health care capabilities we
can do more for our patients
because of the additional
facilities at Clinton. Also,
there are other internists on
the staff to help us f> rm
opinions. But. on the minus
side, Clinton is much further
for our patients at the Plain
View Center than Dupiin
General in Kenan^ville
Both Drs. Margolis and
Lee will be seeing patients on
an alternating basis at
Goshen Medical Center and
Plain View Clinic. Lee said.
In the future. Lee added
another doctor may be- aJdeo
to assist in the practice at the
two medical centers. Work
ing with Drs. Margolis and
Lee at Goshen Medical
Center is Physician Assistant
Das id Reeves.
Lee is a native of Macao, a
Portugese colony southwest
of Hong Kong and after his
family moved to California,
he became a citizen of the
United States and enrolled at
Pasadena City College while
still attending high school.
When Lee later graduated
from the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. he v<.
the only one in his class
graduate with two degree,
after only three seats
study. Lee graduated with
degrees in electrical engi
neering and genetic btdlogv
He also enrolled in the
Universrtv of California
School of Med,cine nd
School of Pharmacv at the
same time and gradua i d
from both.
The position wtth the
Duplin medical centers
began September 1. until
which time Lee had been
working as an internist at
Basset Army Hospital at Fort
Wainvvrtght. Alaska as chief
of the intensive care unit and
the critical care unit and as a
medical consultant to drug
and alcohol rehabilitation.
He and his wife. Roberta,
reside in Warsaw
"Dr. Margolis and I hit i
off right awavDr 1 .
said. '1 feci l/i ,ie has a
posem . .me as a u. t r
and right now 1 plan to setilc
down and try to establish
myself as one of the area
local physicians."
Three James Kenan Students
Selected As Morehead Nominees
Three students of James
Kenan High School have
been selected as Morehead
Award nominees for 1983-84.
Nominees in^.^de Mitchell
Kernstine. Deborah West
and Tho,: Faison.
Morehead awards are
made annually to approxi
mately 70 high schtHil senior.
The students are awarded
S6.500 each of their four
years as an undergraduate at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. The
funds are intended to pay
tuition, room, board, books
and laundry during the
school year and cover the
cos of the student's parti
cipation in the summer en
richment programs providing
off-campus internships for
Morehead Scholars.
Nominees must have
evidence of moral force of
character and the capacity to
lead and take an interest in
their classmates. Nominees
must have a proven scholas
tic ability and extra-curricu
lar attainments, as well as a
physical vigor as shown by
participation in competitive
sports. The students are
nominated first by their high
school scholarship committee
and interviewed by the
county Morehead Selection
Committee, where two
nominees are chosen and
advance to district inter
Auctioneering
Contest To
Highlight
Duplin Fair
The 1983 Duplin Agribusi
ness Fair will feature the
second annual Tobacco Auc
tioneering contest on Thurs
day night of the fair (Oct. 6)
at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of
the old Kenansville elemen
tary school. Anyone is eli
gible to compete. It is not
required that the individual
be licensed.
Contestants will have the
chance to show off their
chants before the home
crowd while taking bids from
celebrity bidders. The
winner will reign for a year
as the Duplin County Auc
tioneering Champion until
the 1984 fair, lntersted per
sons should contact J.
Michael Moore at 296-1996
to prc-register for the con
test.
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views. District nominees are
interviewed at UNC-CH and
Morehead Scholars named.
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Thomas Faison
Thomas Maurice Faison is
ii.e son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Faison of Warsaw.
Thomas is currently ranked
number one in his class at
James Kenan High School
and he has received awards
in English II. biology and
world history. He lias also
lettered in football, basket
ball and track and is a
member of the monogram
club and the National Honor
Society. After graduation
from James Kenan. Thomas
plans to attend the Univer
sity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Mitchell Kemstine
Mitchell Kernstine is the
son of Mr. ahd Mrs Van A.
Kernsiine of Warsaw. He is a
membe ? of the high school
drama crib, monogram club,
pep club, -horus, manager of
the varsit' football team,
member of the tennis team
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and the National Honor So
ciety, and a 1982-83 Marshal.
During high school Mitchell
has received the Outstanding
Tenor award. All-County
Chorus, the United States
National Business Education
Award. American history
award, and attended the
Washington Close-Up. North
Carolina Close-up. the Tar
heel Computer Career Camp
and the Governor's School
East, Mitchell is a member of
the Society for Distinguished
American High School Stu
dents and the American Bio
graphical Institute's Per
sonalities of the South. After
graduation he plans to attend
either the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill or
North Carolina State Univer
sity and major in computer
science,
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Deborah West
Deborah West is the
daughter of James and
Sandra Wes; of Warsaw.
Deborah is a member of the
National Honor Society,
monogram club, drama club,
the varsity cheerleading
squad and the United
Methodist Youth Fellowship
organization. Shp has
received the English III
award, was named runner-up
in the Electric ^Membership
Corporation District Essay
contest, served as a 1983
Marshal, and participated in
the East Carolina University
math contest. Following
graduation. Deborah plans to
attend Peace College or ?he
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
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