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^ VOL. XXXXVI1 NO. 43 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 OCTOBER 27. 1983 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
Indian Legacy Alive
A BUCKHEAD - Scientists
^ speculate that Lake Wacca
mt' vas formed by a crash
ing .met ? that ij is simply
the water-filled footprint of a
falling star, according the
Waccamaw-Souian Indians.
"That's the scientific ex
planation," said firenda
Morgan, a Waccamaw
Souian and director of the
Waccamaw t)ay Care Center
? in Buck head.
"But there is an Indian
legend that says Lake Wac
camaw was made from a
mound of flowers," she said.
The legend goes something
like this.
Two lovers, a maiden and
a brave, argue. He threatens
to destroy her mound of
beautiful flowers. She prays
to tHe Great Eagle to protect
? the spot by making it into a
place that will always'belong
to her people.
"The Great Eagle
answered her prayer with
Lake Waccamaw. After this,
the Indians came in to make
it their home," Morgan said.
Eventually, those Indians
were dispersed by white
settlers. But 1.200 still live
nearby in the towns of buck
head, Chadbourn and St.
James in Columbus and
Bladen counties. A play,
"Over the Water," based on
the legend and written by
Waccamaw-Souian Shirley
Freeman, was performed
Friday and Saturday as part
of the 13th annual Wacca
maw-Souian Indian Pow
wow.
The play and competitive
Indian dancing were high
lights of the heritage that the
three-day event celebrated.
Organizers estimate up to
2,000 Indians and non
Indians took part_ in such
events as weightlifting, cake
walks, three-legged racing,
disco dancing and a greasy
pole climb. Traders sold
everything from handcrafted
Indian vests to machine
made "Indian pride" bum
per stickers.
"But the Indian dancing
always draws the biggest
crowd and holds their atten
tion," said Efvin Jacobs,
chairman of the Waccamaw
Souian Development Asso
ciation.
About 40 dancers com
peted for trophies. Competi
tors included Waccamaw
Souians, Lumbees from
Robeson County and
Coharies from Sampson
County.
Raymond Cochise Clark,
16, of Hope Mills, is a
Lumbee who won second
place in one of Saturday's
competitions.
"My dad started me, but 1
taught myself mostly, just
going around to the different
powwows and watching the
older guys," Clark said.
"The prize monejr is pretty
good in some places," up to
S50(Jor $600.
The Buckhead powwow
featured only "fancy dan
cing," a free-form style used
by younger Indians. It origi
nated in Oklahoma about 25
years ago.
"It's more of a showoff
dance to get everybody's
attention," Clark said. "The
traditional is the original way
to "do it."'
As dancers get older, they
often turn to the more digni
fied, slower movements of
traditional dance, according
to "Jimmy Tall Deer, a 23
year-old Waccamaw-Souian
who came from Wilmington
to compete,
Traditional dancers' cos
tumes imitate nature, pos
sibly turning a man's arms
into wings of real feathers. A
creature's head, claws or
talons might decorate the
bustle ? adornment carried
on the dancer's back.
"You have to be careful,"
Clark said. "You can't get
more than two parts of an
eagle. They'll throw you in
jail."
The fancy dancing has no
profound meaning. "Most of
all, I just think it's fun,"
Clark said.
But powwow organizers
say it's enough to remind
young Indians of their heri
tage.
Saturday's fancy dancing
competition began with a
pipe ceremony. The pipe was
pointed toward the sky and
the four cardinal directions
representing four races of
men.
"They end by pointing it
down to Mother ?arth, be
cause that's where you start
out, and that's where you
return to," Clark said.
? Tobacco Awards Program Honors Grady
Steve C. Grady, of Route
2, Mount Olive, was recog
nized in Raleigh Oct. 8 as a
regional winner and semi
finalist hi the Outstanding
Young' Tobacco Farmer
awards program.
Grady, 30. was one of 12
- Tar Heel tobaceo growers
A honored at a luncheon at the
N.G. State Faculty Gub on
the NCSU campua. The
Duplin County farmer will be
i *
eligible to receive the state
outstanding grower award,
which will be announced in
November.
The awards program is
designed to recognize excep
tional achievements in
tobacco production and com
munity leadership. It is
sponsored in all flue-cured
and burle'y tobacco produc
ing states by Philip Morris
U.S.A. and cgnducted in
North Carolina by the Agri
cultural Extension Service at
NCSU.
Grady, who grows about
29 acres of tobacco, received
a cash award and a plaque.
Awards were presented by
Dr. Larry Sykes, director of
agricultural programs for
Philip Morris, and Dr.
Chester Black, director of the
N.C. AES.
Duplin County extension
agent J. Michael Moore was
recognized.
A graduate of Lenoir Com
munity College's .vocational
educational program. Grady
is in farming partnership
with his father and they farm
corn, soybeans, wheat, rye,
cucumbers, hogs and beef
cattle in addition to tobacco.
He has won a number of
farm leadership recognitions
and is extensively involved in
community, church and
farm-related activities, in
cluding being a member of
the county tobacco advisory
committee, county agribusi
ness council and the N.C.
Tobacco Growers Associa
tion.
Grady is married and he
and wife Betty have two
children, Stephen and
, Stuart. t
Medical Board Reaches
Possible Solution
By Emily Klllette
Goshen Medical Center
Board of Directors announc
ed a possible plan relocating
medical center physicians as
full-time staff members at
Duplin General Hospital
during the Sunday afternoon
special meeting in Faison.
Currently, Goshen Medi
cal Center physicians Jeff
Margolis and Ken Lee are
full-time staff members at
Sampson Memorial Hospital.
Last week Lee also received
appr ival as a full-time staff
men ber at Duplin General
Hospital in Kenan^ville.
Loc'l citizens and Goshen
Medical Center staff were
pr.sent to meet with the
titedjn#l center board of
dijrecwiis prior to an exe
cutive.<tssion which resulted
itT the decision to begin a
sylft from Sampson
Memorial Hospital in Clinton
Goshen Medical Center
Board members to avisit
to Duplin General Hospital.
While the content of the
proposed plan to shift physi
cian support to Duplin
General Hospital was not
released, the Goshen Board
Chairman Cecil Langley said
the solution involved a com
promise by all concerned.
And, Langley added, Goshen
Medical Center, Plain View
Medical Center, in Green
evers, Duplin General Hos
pital. Sampson Memorial
Hospital and the two medical
centers' funding agency.
Rural Health Encent^ve,
would all play a role in
determing the final course of
action by the Goshen Medi
cal Center Board of Directors
to shift physician support to
thetluplin County hospital.
The Board announced
plans for Goshen Medical
Center Administrator Jane
Silver and two or more
Atlanta and meet with Rural
Health Incentive officials.
The group will discuss pro
posed plans to shift Goshen
Medical Center physicans
from the full-time staff of
Sampson Memorial Hospital
to Duplin General in Kenans
ville.
"No one hated to see him
(Dr. Jeff Margolis) le*ve
Duplin Hospital any more
than the Hospital Board of
Trustees," Elbert D^vis, the
Faison area Duplin General
Hospital Board member said
Sunday before the Goshen
Medical Center Board of
Directors. "Duplin General
needs doctors like him to
make the hospital a good
facility in which any physi
cian would want to work. 1
think the hospital is on the
right road now and some of
its best years are still
ahead."
"I want to see Goshen
Medical Center operated for
(he people of Duplin," Ann
Taylor of Faison said before
the Medical Center Board of
Directors. "1 know our hos
pital has faults, but I think
the medical center should get
behind the hospital and make
it the kind of hospital any
doctor would want to practice
in."
Bill Hennessee of Faison
ad.vised Goshen Medical
Center Board members of an
organization forming within
the county to determine the
intent of the law at the time
Goshen Medical Center and
other federally funded
medical centers within
Duplin were established.
Goshen Medical Center
should be working for the
betterment o< the commu
nity, Hennessee said bcf. re\
the board and encouraged
the medical center's coopera
tion with "Duplin General
Hospital
Duplin Cable TV Hook-ups Are
Fewer Than Expected
Unjvision Cable Vison of
Riehlands, which served
D>*;?lin Giunfy, has not re
"^(?u\W*all tjie customers it
1 expected.. the Duplin
Co -Sty f. commissioners
learnedl&st week.
Gail Bailey, a spokesman
for the company, said cable
service is available in all
towns, and the next step is to
extend service to the rest of
the county,
The company had been
expecting 55 percent of resi
dents to buy the service. but
has achieved only 41 percent
coverage, Ms. Bailey told the
commissioners. She said the
company will hgve to find out
why it has had trouble get
ting customers and fix the
problems before extending
any more cable lines in the
county.
When the county commis
sioners agreed to the cable
franchise, the company said
it would supply program
ming to 80 percent of the
county by April 1984. Ms.
Bailey said she may have to
ask for a six-month exten
sion.
Also, the commissioners
approved a budget transfer
for the Duplin County Board
of Education to buy a school
bus for trainable and mul
tiple-handicapped students,
Superintendent L.S. Guy
said he needed to transfer
$20,564 into the capital out
lay budget to buy the bus.
Ihe county owns three
buses used to transport
handicapped children, and
some of the routes require
three hours of travel eacn
way. The state has said the
county needs six buses for
the handicapped, and will
lend Duplin two if the county
buys one.
The additional buses will
halve travel time.
In other business, the
commissioners:
? Met Ronnie Lambert,
who will coordinate the
Driving While Impaired
community work program in
Sampson and Duplin
counties.
? Tabled action on ac
cepting bids for a company to
do the 1984 revaluation of
county property untif the tax
supervisor could get more
information about the com
panies that participated in
the bidding process.
W.P. Ferris of Charlotte
offered to do the work for $10
tor each of the 22.2% parcels
of land. Pearson's appraisals
of Wijson said it would
charge $b.6S per parcel.
Southern Appraisals of Wil
mington. which did the work
eight years ago, iffered a bid
of $8,47 per parcel.
? Approved letting the
county library use $40,000
from the state to pay part
time librarians in branch
offices.
? Agreed to let the
county inspections office take
over inspections in Kenans
ville. After" Kenan^ville
comes under the county
jurisdiction. Wallace will be
the only town operating its
own inspections office.
? Met in secret to discuss
legal and personnel matters.
Warsaw Autumnfest This Weekend
The Warsaw Recreation
Department is sponsoring an
Autumnfest \his Saturday at
the park and proceeds from
the event will be used for the
renovation of the Thompson
Gymnasium, Recreation Di
rector bebbie Shem'll said.
Food, sports and arts and
crafts have been secheduled
to begin at 11 a.m. Saturday,
Sherrill said. The program
will begin with the annual
punt, pass and kick compe
tition for Warsaw area 9- to
i2-year-olds. No fee is re
quired to partjcipate in the
punt, pass and kick competi
tion; however, Sherrill said
contestants must pre
register for the event. When
registering, each entrant
must funiish legal proo"
age at the time tnc
tration forrn is returned.
Regristration forms may be
obtained and returned to the
Warsaw Recreation Depart
ment, Phelps Salvage in
Warsaw, or any Warsaw
Midget Football coach. The
competition is open to both
male and female contestants.
Schedule of Autumnfest
Events - October 29,1983
11 a.m. - Punt, Pass and Kick
Competition on the Softball
field
1 p.m. - Slow Bicycle Race:
Djvided into different age
groups
1:30 p.m. Tug of war and
. Jump Rope
1-3 p.m. - Horse and Buggy
Rides
1-3 p.m. - Face Painting by
Malcolm Williams and
Robert Hall
Noon-4 p.m. - Horseshoes for
all ages
Noon - 4 p.m. Volleyball for
all ages
2p.m. - Show of Fire, Rescue
and Police vehicles
2 p.m. - Apple Bobbing
2-3 p.m. - Balfoon Dart
Throw
3 p.m. - Frisbee Show and
Competition
Noon-4 p.m. - Dunking Booth
3:30 - Fishing for Halloween
grab bags
4-5:30 p.m. - Ocracoke Con
nection - musical group
5:30-6 p.m. - Warsaw See
Saws - square dancers
6 p.m. - Halloween Costume
Contest - divided into age
groups
7:30 p.m. - Stray Cat Strut
dance performance
8-9:30 - Ocracoke Connection
- musical group
Admission is free and bar
beque and plain chicken
dinner plates will be on sale
throughout the Autumnfest
Day at the Park.
Duplin County FmHA Activities
The farmers Home Ad
ministration approved some
$7,176,400 in loans and
grants_ in tJuplin County
during fiscal year 1983, J.M.
Mills Jr., county supervisor,
announced.
Farmer program loans led
the investments with some
$4,184,700. Mills'stated the
farm loan funds were used
for farm operating expenses,
equipment purchases and to
purchase or improve farms.
Sixty rural housing loans
for $1,779,800 were made
during the year. This^ in
cluded some $6,500 in loans
and grants to ?very low
income senior citizens for
dwelling repairs! '
Mills stated one rural
rental housing loan was ap
proved for 12 apartments in
Beul^ville.
In community programs,
loans and grants totaling
$1,211,900 were approved
for water system projects for
the town of Calypso and the
Albertson community.
Farmers, rural residents or
communities desiring infor
mation' on FmrtA programs
should contact the office
located^ in the Agricultural
Building in Kenan|ville.
AWARD ? Dr. Larry Sykes (left) of Philip
Morris, presents tobacco award in Raleigh to
Steve Grady, Route 2, Mount Oljve, with
assistance from Chester Black.- director of
the N.C. Agricultural Extension Service, and
Duplin County extension agent J. Michael
Moore {right), (NCSlf photo)
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