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VOL. XXXXVH NO. 41 USPS 162-860 KENANSVllLE. NC 28349 OCTOBER 13. 1,83 18 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
Kenansville Loses
?Water Pressure
A disappearing fire hydrant left
Kenan^ville without water pressure last
week, delaying the scheduled town board
meeting for more than an hour as board
members worked on the emergency.
Town Gerk Mary Ann Jenkins said she
received a call at home about 6:45 p.m.
that water was leaking around the hydrant
0 on Canal Street in eastern Kenansville.
Mrs. Jenkins added that shortly after 7
p.m. Linda Beck called to say the hydrant
"was gone."
Mrs. Jenkins said the elevated water
tanks were drained by the lead. When
pressure fell, she said the town's smaller
water tank automatically cut off. its flow,*
leaving the town without water for a time.
Late Tuesday, she said, eight apart
ments and at least two houses still were
without water and repairs to the water line
a had not been completed. She said the leak
^ had created a six-foot hole where the
hydrant had been located.
By 8:30 p.m. Monday, water pressure
was being restored to most of the town.
Mrs. Jenkins said the town office was
bombarded with calls about no water
Monday night. Town Commissioners
Betty Long, William Fennell and Mrs.
Jenkins were kept busy answering phones
until the board meeting began about 8:30
p.m.. an hour after its scheduled opening.
Mayor Don Suttles and Commissioner
Ronnie Bostic were still working on the
water problem and came in an hour later
Mayor Pro tern Earl Hatcher, who arrived
late from a medical appointment, opened
the meeting with Fennell and Mrs. Long
present. Commissioner Jimmy Johnson
did not attend.
During the meeting the board told Brice
Sanderson, Duplin County building in
spector, the town wants the county
building inspection department to take
over inspections in the town. Sanderson
said he would bring the request to the
county board at its Oct. 17 meeting.
Wallace is the only other Duplin town not
under the county inspection department.
The board also awarded contracts
totaling $79,646 to four building firms to
renovate nine houses and demolish one.
Recejving contracts were Frederick Con
struction Co. and Fredericl. Building Co.
of Warsaw, R.C.A. Realty of Wallace and
Robert Green of Kenansjville.
The board hired McDavid Associates of
Farmville as project engineer for exten
sion of the town sewer lines to the state
correctional unit on N.C. 11 south of
Kenansville. The state will pay for the
extension.
? Towns
Holding Elections
Filing for mayor and town
board seats in Duplin County
? closed at noon Friday.
Elections will be held Nov.
8 and residents must have
registered to vote by this
past Monday.
The 10 towns that will hold
elections and candidates
running for office are:
? Beulaville: Competing
for three board seats are
Franklin Boyette, S.A.
"Sambo" Blizzard, Hymric
? Jefferson, H.J. Brown,
9 Horace Lee Rhodes, Joseph
H. Edwards and Larry P.
Bostic. Incumbent Rabon
Brown did not seek re
election.
? Calypso: Mayor Or
lando Joe Daniels is the only
one running for mayor. Run
ning for five board seats are
five people: Libby Lewis
Boykin, S.D. Davis, M.J.
Lambert Jr. and J.R. Turner,
^ all incumbents and Eugene
Emmer. Commissioner
Wayne Brock did not file.
? Faison: Mayor N.F.
McColman is opposed by
P.B. "Bill" Carter for
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mayor. Competing for two
board seats, William
Frizzelle, former board
member Ronald Oates, Jane
Precythe Hollingsworth,
town maintenance supervisor
Fred Willis Wheless and
Billy Franklin Cooper.
? Greenevers: Mayor
Alex Brown is running un
opposed for re-election. Two
incumbents, Nathan C.
Murray and Waitus Harrell,
are running for two board
seats.
? Kenans.ville: Filing
for three board seats were
incumbent Betty Long,
James Blanchard, Ronald
Summerlin, Jimmy D. New
kirk. Hortense Hasty, Mark
Vinson and Emil Coggtns.
? Magnolia: Commis
sioner Ruth Quinn and Police
Chief Sherwood Ezzell are
vying for mayor. Running for
two board seats are Mayor
Melvin Pope, Commissioner
Rudolph Becton and Com
missioner Hubert Howard.
? Rose Hill: Three
board seats attracted filings
bv Clarence Brown Sr., Jerry
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H. Cottle Jr. and Keith
Hinson, all incumbents; and
Marsha F. Whaley and
Junior Williams.
? Teachey; Mayor Ruby
Ramsey is unopposed for re
election. Running for board
seats are James Boney,
Daniel Vance Norris and
Bernard "Mike" Pistner,
incumbents; and Warren W.
Henderson.
? Wallace: Mayor Mejvin
Cording is opposed by barl
Whitaker. Three candidates
filing for three board seats
are Charles Blanchard. Ar
nold Duncan and N.H.
Carter.
? Warsaw: For three
board seats the candidates
are incumbent Billy Ken
nedy, Shelby "Zack"
Zachary, Jimmy Steven
Kennedy. James Junior Her
ring, Cecil Guy and Thomas
T. Coombs.
Kenansville candidates
Jimmy D. Newkirk and Emil
Coggins would have to resign
their Alcoholic Beverage
Control board positions if
elected.
SOME rULKS THINK COOKING CANE SYRUP IS A SIGN UE HARD
TIMES, says Bo Herring. "Bui it is just a sign of folks wanting some good,
old-fashkped. home-grown ppint> syrup." H-rrina is shgfvn here
placing cane stalks in the cane mill pressing out the cane juice to be
cooked into syrup. (See story inside.) ^
ARCHERY AND TRAP SHOOTING The Duplin County Board of
Education and the North Carolina Wildlife Association sponsored a
week-long hunter safety course for ninth grade students. The course
ended with archery and trap shooting competition as part of the 1983
Duplin Agribusiness Fair. The competition was held last Thursday at
Turkey Stadium next to the fairgrounds in Kenansville. Individual and
team winners were named in each category and an overall selection of
winners was announced. Plaques were presented to the first place teams
and trophies to the first place individuals; ribbons were awarded to all
second and third place winners, lhe winner in archery competition was
Iony Westbrook; second place, Mitchelle Smith; and third place, Zoolie
Kornegay, all of East Duplin High School. Individual trap shooting first
place was won by Lynn Mozingo of Wallace-Rose Hill: second place,.Joe
Knowles of Wallace-Rose Hill, and third place, James Barwick of North
Duplin. Overall archerv and trap shooting competition individual first
place was awarded to Lynn Mozingo of Wallace-Rose Hill; second place,
Milchelle Smith of East Duplin, and third place. Owen Rouse of
Wallace-Rose Hill.
Exceptional Students To Take
Shorter Bus Rides In Duplin County
Schooi bus riding time for
exceptional children in
Duplin County soon will be
cut in half as additional
buses are put into operation,
school Superintendent L.S.
Guy said last week.
He responded to the com
plaint of a mother who said
her child is on the excep
tional children's school bus
about five hours a day. by
saying one new bus will be
purchased and two will be
loaned to the system by the
state. The system has only
three buses for exceptional
children at present. Classes
for these children are held at
E.F.. Smith School in
Kenansville.
Guy was directed to have a
purchase order for the new
bus ready for the board's
Oct. 18 meeting at Warsaw
Junior High School.
With the ending of the
Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act program
Sept. 30. the Duplin County
school system lost 3'/i library
helper positions. These posi
tions at Wallace and Warsaw
elementary schools, East
Duplin High School and
North Duplin Junior High
School will endanger the
schools' accreditation by the
Southern Association of
Schools and Colleges.
Declining enrollment in
county schools may do away
with the need of these posi
tions for accreditation of the
schools, said Assistant
Superintendent Gary San
derson. He told the board the
accrediting association will
cite the schools for violations
this year and place them on
suspension next year under
present conditions.
If the library positions are
to be filled, they would have
to be funded with county
money, Sanderson said.
The system also needs to
fill part-time principal posi
tions at Charity and Warsaw
Junior High Schools. These
are new county-funded posi
tions. Sanderson said.
Duplin Commissioners Back
Money For Poultry Program
The Duplin County Board <
of Commissioners last week
agreed to support the efforts
of former Watson Seafood
and Poultry Co. workers and
chicken growers to obtain an
Urban Development Action
Grant tUDAU) to help re
establish the firm's poultry
production program.
A public hearing on the
proposal will be held at 7:30
p.m. Oct. 14 in Chinquapin 1
school on N.C. 41. State and
congressional officials have
been iqvited to the hearing.
Thirty former workers and
chicken growers of the com
pany appeared before the
county commissioners to ask
for the board's support.
County Manager Ralph
Cottle and economic develop
ment director John Gurganus
told the board the town of
Rose Hill is asking for a
UDAG grant of $750,000.
They said $2 million in
private funds also will be
needed to re-establish the
company in production.
The Rose Hill company
filed for bankruptcy last
spring. The company had
been raising about 250,000
chickens a week and then
selling them to the Rose Hill
Poultry Corp. processing
plant. The company's failure
put about 100 people out of
work at the Watson company
and left 100 poultry growers
with chicken houses and no
supply of birds. Poultry
growers grew birds for the
firm on contracts.
I.B. Sholar of Chinquapin,
a former Watson grower,
told the board the UDAG
grant request is being con
sidered and the bankruptcy
judge appears to be co
operating in the process.
"We still need support from
our officials," he said.
The group asked the com
missioners to;
? Endorse the UDAG
grant request.
? Ask for support of the
application from U.S. Rep.
Charles Whitley; U.S. Sens.
Jesse Helms and John EaB;
T
Gov. Jim Hunt; Agriculture
Commissioner Jim Graham:
State Sen. Harold Hardison;
and State Kep. Wendell
Murphy.
? To co-sponsor the
public hearing. Sholar said
the group hopes to draw
broad support for its effort
and through the hearing to
make the public aware of its
loss of income front the
company failure.
Sholar said a chair will be
placed on stage for each
invited public official and if
neither the official nor an
aide appears the official's
chair will remain empty.
"People will b^.very aware if
anyone is not represented."
he said.
"We're with you 100 per
cent." said Commissioner
D.J. Fussell of Rose HiTl.
"Tell us what you want us to
do."
Roxie Sholar, a former
grower, said, "We depended
on these chickens for our
light and heat bill and other
necessities to keep going."
Junior Williams, a laid-off
worker, said he had worked
for Watson for 20 years, had
depended on his job. and was
now too old to find another
job.
Robert Bowen, another
laid-off worker, said he had
worked with chickens since
coming out of high school
and had never drawn nor
intended to draw unemploy
ment. He said, "We need
some help now."
Close-Range Shot Kills Man
A 28-year old Dr.tlin
County man was shot at close
range with a 12-gauge shot
gun and killed in the home of
a 72-year-old man near Wal
lace) early Friday morning,
said Detective Jimmy Smith
of the Duplin County
Sheriff's Department.
James Boney Jr. of Route
3. Wallace, was shot in the
stomach around 1:40 a.m. at
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the older man's house about
a mile east of Wallace. Smith
said. Boney was about sqven
feet from the end of the
barrel when the gun was
fired. Smith said.
No one has been ?"-ested
in the case. Boney knew the
older man, Smith said.
"We're investigating the
possibility of self-defense,"
he said.
Two Die In Accident
Two women were killed in
an automobile accident near
Clinton about 5 p.m. Sunday,
according to the N.C. High
Patrol.
Lillian Lewis Potter, 42. of
lib E. Park Ave. in Mount
Olive, the driver, and Inez
W. DeLuca, 65, of Route 1,
Kenan$ville, the passenger,
died when their car ran a
stop sign and ran into
another vehicle, the Highway
Patrol said.
The accident occurred at
the intersection of state
roads 1311 and 1323 fbout
eight miles west of ClinJ' n.
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