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y VOL. XXXXVIIl NO. 1 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 JANUARYS. 1984 12 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
Review Of
1983 Headlines
As the citizens of Duplin
f County busily welcome a new
year, many of the events of
1983 have become history.
So, let us learn from the past
in order to have a better
future.
January headlines from
the 1983 DUPLIN TIMES
announced the reduction of
the 1983 tobacco poundage.
Construction began on a
A 62,000 square-foot freezer
* warehouse near Wallace.
Union officials signed a con
tract with the J.P. Stevens &
Co. textile plant in Wallace,
ending an eight-year effort
by the Amalgamated Cloth
ing and Textile Workers to
win the contract with the
plant. The town of Warsaw
signed an agreement to loan
National Spinning funds
? from a federal grant to
update the plant. Duplin
General Hospital reported its
operating expenses exceeded
its income by $209,749
during the 1981-82 fiscal
year.
February news for 1983
told of farmers beginning to
sign up for the Payment-In
Kind program and the cost of
leasing tobacco poundage
had jumped 10 cents from
? the previous season. Local
independent truckers parked
their vehicles to join a
nationwide strike against
new state and federal taxes.
The donation of the historical
Kelly-Farrior house to the
county was announced by the
Kenansville branch of United
Carolina Bank. The house
was later moved to the
Kenansvilte municipal park
#for the future use as the
"Cowan Museum and the
office of the Duplin County
/rts Council. Rains
overloaded the Warsaw sew
age treatment plant three
?days \ following the
acceptance of the new 52
milling facility.
Headlines during March
^followed wfth news ? of an
"increase of'53,735,586 in
Duplin agricultural income
jfc from 1981 to 1982. Calvpso
announced plans to celebrate
the town's 70th birthday.
The Duplin County Sheriff s
Department announced the
recovery of more than 50
percent of the stolen
property reported during
1981. Efforts to revive the
North. Carolina Poultry
Festival in Rose Hill suc
ceeded and the largest frying
? pan in the world was readied
for the evefnt. Citizens ap
peared before the Beulaville
Town Board of Commission
ers to request the old town
hall, a condemned structure,
be renovated for use as a
library and drivers license
examiner's office. Owners of
land in Maxwell Creek or
ganized to begin efforts to
reduce flood and erosion in
its watershed. The Warsaw
? plant of National Spinning
began taking applications for
the first time in two and a
half years.
April headlines were of the
North Carolina State Univer
sity basketball team captur
ing the hearts and dreams of
Americans everywhere by
winning the national cham
pionship. A district court
judge threatened to jail a
? Kenansville property owner
who defied previous court
orders to stop construction of
an office without a building
permit. Losses in jobs and
potential income for chicken
growers was predicted to
exceed $3 million a year
when Watson Seafood and
Poultry Co. in Rose Hill
failed. The Duplin County
Board of Commissioners
tentatively approved the re
^ quest from J.P. Stevens Co.
0 fc 'he sale of SI million in
tax-free bonds to retool the
Carter Plant in Wallace.
Silver thefts 'in Warsaw
amounted to $18,000 in
losses, according to May
issues of THE DUPLIN
TIMES. Headlines followed
that month reporting area
farmers just beginning to
plant due to late freezes and
? rain. The town of Rose Hill
announced plans to begin
construction of a sewage
treatment plant in January of
1984. The Duplin County
i
Board of Election registered
341 voters during the in
school visits throughout
Duplin's senior classes.
June brought headlines of
a new crop for Beulaville.
Farmers Laurie and
Sherwood Jackson of Beula
ville planted 69 acres of Irish
potatoes. The Faison Wil
liams home, built in 1853 in
the town of Faison, was
restored and opened to the
public vCraig Warren, a
senior at South Lenoir High
School, was named state
champion in the two-mile
race. He won the title in high
school competition at Ra
leigh. Produce sales were off
to a late start at the Faison
Produce Market. John Rice,
the former star of the outdoor
drama Blackbeard, arrived in
Duplin to join the 1983
production of the Duplin out
door drama THE LIBERTY
CART. Rice led in the role of
Phenius Pickett at THE
LIBERTY CART. Duplin
residents were faced with a
tax increase of 5 cents per
S100 assessed valuation for
the next year, bringing the
rate to 75 cents. Kenansville
Baptist Church celebrated its
146th anniversary. A new
display was sent to the
Legislative Building in
Raleigh depicting the out
door drama THE LIBERTY
CART; the mural was
painted by James Sprunt
Technical College Commer
cial Art Instructor Mark
Patrus.
July headlines informed
local citizens of changes. The
Dupl+n- Oe-mfraU*?ljfo'srpit?l
Board of Trustees was re
duced from 28 to nuk voting
members. The - Duplin
County Department of Social
Services announced trans
portation to the North Caro
lina Memorial Hospital in
Chapel Hill. The 1983 season
of the outdoor drama THE
LIBERTY CART based in
Kepansville was dedicated to
Jintes F. .Strickland of
Warsaw. An increase in the
number of patients and in
tusior of county fiyids im
proved Duplin General Hos
pital's financial position. Fire
destroyed the N.N. Ellis
Produce warehouse and
packing shed located seven
miles west of Faison.
The headlines for August
began with the opening of
the eastern tobacco belt in
cluding sales it the ware
houses in Wallace. Sales at
the Wallace tobacco markets
averaged only one cent above
1982 opening day prices. The
Duplin public schools ex
cused from school atten
dance students involved in
tobacco production. Furnie
and Margaret Boyette of
Kenansville were named the
North Carolina Conservation
Farm Family of the Year.
Governor Jim Hunt met with
the state Advisory Commit
tee on Agriculture. Forestry
and Seafood Industry in
Kenansville. Swift & Co.
turkey grow-out operation
and feed mill at Harrells was
Sold to William Prestage of
Clinton, and an announce
ment was made for an ex
panded turkey production
operation under the new
management.
Headlines in September
stated the approval of the
half-cent sales tax in Duplin
by the County Commission
ers. The Faison Historical
Commission announced
tentative plans to open the
town library in the newly
restored depot building
during October. Duplin
County and two of its towns
and one industry received
federal development or im
provement grants and loans
totaling $1,719,376. Duplin,
school,officials announced
the outline of a $10 million
plan to replace school facili
ties and expand school ser
vices in the county. The
Beulaville Town Board ap
proved the purchase of a
computer system for billing,
taxes and record-keeping at
the town hall. Dr. Kenneth
Lee was named as a member
of the staft of Goshen Medi
cal {Tenter in Faison and
Plain View Medical Ginic in
Greenevers. The Duplin
County Health Department
announced plans for a
maternity clinic in Kenans
ville with Dr. M.I. Ammar,
M.D. in charge.
October headlines in
cluded celebration of William
Thornton Day in Faison.
Thornton, a native of Faison,
was among the crew
members of the space shuttle
Challenger during the
August mission. Branch
Banking & Trust of Wallace
donated $10,000 to the
town's library during the
50-year anniversary celebra
tion of the bank. The 1983
Duplin Agribusiness Fair
opened in Kenansville run
ning October 3-8. A chil
dren's wear manufacturing
company located in Warsaw
under the name of Duplin
Manufacturing. Goshen
Medical Center announced a
tentative plan for relocating
its doctors as full-time staff
members at Duplin General
Hospital from Satnpson Me
morial Hospital.
Bids were opened for the
Muddy Creek project
according to November head
lines. Channel work on the
second Dhase of the Muddv
Creek Watershed project in
eastern Duplin County was
scheduled to begin Decem
ber 1. Duplin towns held
local elections to fill expiring
seats of commissioners and
mayors. Attorney and Duplin
native Robert L. West was
honored at the 1983 cele
bration of the Warsaw Vet
crans Day. B.F. Grady
teacher Jaekie Herring was
named Duplin Teacher of the
Year. Goshen Medical Cen
ter in Faison and Plain View
Health Clinic at Greenevers
requested Rural Health In
centive of Atlanta add 5 third
physician to share the work
load at the two facilities.
Duplin County announced a
water system bond referen
dum for January in the
Albertson district. The
Kenansville Jaycees received
recognition as the Number
One Chapter in the state. '
December headlines an
nounced the uniting of the
Duplin Chapters of the Jay
cees and Jaycettes to raise
funds for the possible liver
transplant surgery of Ke
nansville infant Ashley
Quinn. The Kenansville Jay
cees announced plans to host
a radiothon to raise money
toward the goal set at
$50,000 to'help the Quinn
family. The Muddv Creek
Watershed project was sus
pended by the Army Corps of
Engineers because of an ex
cessive amount of spoil
material from earlier work
on the creek. Duplin General
Hospital announced the turn
around in financial status
with the year ending and
books showing the facility
$260,898 in the black. Duplin
farmer Furnie Lee Boyette
was invited to the White
House along with 10 other
conservation farmers and
ranchers from throughout
.the United States.
BROADCAST OF QUINN RADIOTHON The Ashley Quinn radiothon
was broadcast December 29 from WTRQ in Warsaw. Ashely is a
Kenansville infant and a possible liver transplant candidate. Tl.e
Kenansville Jaycees set a goal of $50,000 to help defray costs of the
surgery which is expected to exceed a total of $200,000. The radiothon
collected more than $12,000 in pledges during the nine-hour broadcast.
Pictured above, guests during the broadcast, left to right. North Carolina
Jaycee President Jim Godfrey, Kenansville Jaycee President Woody
Brinson. the Reverend Andy Woody of Calvary Baptist Church, and
Johnny Chestnutt of Warsaw, members of the Ashelv Quinn Trust board
of directors.
Listeners Pledge Thousands For Liver
Transplant For Kenansville Child
An all-day Warsaw and
Kenansville radiothon had
received pledges of $12,216
for the Ashlev Quinn liver
transplant fund by 5 p.m.
Thursday, and pledges were
still being phoned in.
Ashley Quinn, five-month
old daughter of Joey and
Barbara Quinn of Kenans
ville, needs a liver trans
plant. She suffers from
biliary atresia, which pre
vents bile produced by the
liver from flowing out of it.
The accumulating bile de
stroys the liver. Victims
usually die unless a liver
transplant proves successful.
Doctors have said that as
soon as the child weighs II
pounds, she will be placed on
a list of children eligible for a
liver transplant at the Uni
versity of Minnesota
Hospital.
Mrs. Quinn Thursday said
the child had contracted
"flu" last weekend and had
lost an ounce. She still has
not reached the II-pound
weight.
The radiothon, conducted
by Warsaw-Kenansville sta
tion WTRQ, was part of a
countywide fund raising
campaign with a goal of
$50,000. It was coordinated
by the Kcnansville Jaycees
and headed by Woody Brin
son of Kenansville. All Jay
cee units in the county are
conducting campaigns.
The radio station, man
aged by Winnifred Mosley,
donated its time from 7:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
Seventy-five people, mostly
volunteers, assisted through
out Duplin County. Thirty of
them, including the station's
staff, worked the telephones
and kept the books at the
station.
Others stood by tele
phones in other communities
so that residents making
donations would not have to
make long-distance calls to
Warsaw.
Not ail Duplin County
communities are joined by
toll-free telephone service.
Workers at the station
called each of the community
stand-by phone centers for
updates every hour during
the day.
Members of the Duplin
County Jaycee chapter at the
state prison unit south of
Kcnansville stood by a pay
phone booth, despite the
rain, to provide toll-free ser
vice for Bculaville. Warsaw
and Kenansville area resi
dents.
The Wallace Jaycees
staffed phones in Wallace for
the Rose Hill. Wallace and
Chinquapin areas, which
share one exchange.
Warsaw, Kenansville and
Faison area residents could
call the ttatinn without now.
ing long-distance tolls.
The Children's Nook store
in Mount Olive accepted
pledges from the Calypso
and Mount Olive areas.
At Woodland Church in
northeastern Ouplin. Bob
Marker accepted pledges
from the Pin!- Hill, Albertson
and western Lenoir county
areas.
Nancy Bryan staffed a
phone at Kichlands to receive
pledges from the Cypress
Creek. Black Swamp and
Richland areas of southeast
ern Duplin and western On
slow counties.
Most pledges were less
than $25.
Britfson said additional
fund-raisinp oroierts ari>
1 " beinK.planned.
Carroll's Of
Warsaw To Expand Operations
Carroll's Foods Inc. of
Warsaw plans to expand its
turkey and hog programs in
Duplin and Sampson
counties.
The expansion will be fi
nanced by the sale of the
firm's broiler chicken opera
tions in the Sanford-Robbins
area to Perdue Farms of
Salisbury, Md.
F.J. "Sonny" Faison,
president of Carroll's, and
Thomas R. Shelton, execu
tive vice president and chief
operating officer of Perdue,
announced, the signing of a
letter of intent for the sale. It
is expected to be completed
by Feb. IS.
"We will ?> pand our
turkey and hog programs
where we have the greatest
expertise and concentrate all
of our operations in Sampson
and Duplin counties,"
Faison said.
Carroll's now grows out
5.5 million turkeys and
180.000 market hogs a year.
It maintains production pro
grams with 60 hog farmers
and 120 turkey producers in
the two counties.
Faison said the company
owns about 10.000 sows.
"We plan an orderly expan
sion to about 20,000 sows,"
Faison said. The pace of
expansion in hugs an
turkeys will depend on
market conditions.
Faison said the doubling of
Lundy Packing Co.'s plant
capacity in Clinton increases
the potential of the area's
hog market. Carroll's sells all
of its market hogs to Lundy.
He said the planned expan
sion of the Swift & Co. turkey
processing plant at Wallace
opens the way for increased
turkey production in the
area. "They buy about 40
percent of our turkeys," he
said.
The opening of a large
freezer storage plant next to
the Swift & Co. turkey plant
plays a part in the turkey
expansion, he said.
Carroll's will sell its
hatchery, feed mill and 'Ad
ministrative office in Sanford
as well as a 35,000-square
foot broiler production plant
in Robbins to Perdue. It also
will sell all of its broilers,
Faison said. Perdue will
assume contracts of Carroll's
broiler growers in Lee,
Moore, Randolph and
Chatham counties. , >,
"It will be business as
usuaL-for our employees,
groVers and customers,"
Faison said. "Perdue
management has assured us
thev will continue Hi operate
two shifts in the Robbins
plant, meeting full require
ments of our customers as
well of those of N.G. Purvis
Farms of Robbins, and con
tinue putting out 300,000
broilers a week."
Carroll's originated in the
Warsaw area. It entered the
broiler business in 1979 by
purchasing Tyson's Foods in
partnership with Marval
Poultry Co. The partnership
bought the Sanford-Robbins
broiler operations in Elkin
and Dobson in western North
Carolina.
In December 1980 Car
roll's sold its interest in the
Elkin-Dobson operation and
bought out the Marval in
terest in Sanford-Robbins.
Computer Gear Stolen At JK
Computer equipment
valued at S3,500 was stolen
from James Kenan High
School near Warsaw on Fri
day night, Principal Bill
Taylor said Saturday.
The computer terminal
and printer were part of
$42,000 worth of equipment
installed Thursday for a
computer technology course
to be offered by the school's
business department, Taylor
said. The course yyill not start
Monday a's scheduled
because the thief cut wiring
that was connected to other
terminals, the principal said.
"It will take a week or to ??
get it repaired," he said.
The intruder came into the
building through a window
and entered the classroom
after breaking a small win
dow in the door and turning
the lock, Taylor said.
The Duplin ' County She
riff's Department is investi
gating the theft, he said.
The equipment was in
sured, Duplin County School
Superintendent L.S. Guy Jr.
V sairl
Kenansville Jaycees DSA Banquet Set
The Kenansville Jaycees
will honor several outstand
ing citizens of 'he community
during a Distil guished Ser
vice Awards b*..quet which
will be held in the fc.E. Smith
Junior High School cafeteria
on Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. The cost
will be $7.50 each, payable at
the door.
Outstanding people^ to be
recognized are outstanding
young educator, senior
citizen, teenager, young
farmer, young law enfor
cement officer, young fire
fighter and the one receiving
the Distinguished Service
Award.
Anyone interested in
nominating a possible reci
pient for any of these awards
should pick up the appro
priate nominating form lrom
United Carolina Bank, North
Carolina National Bank, the
Kenansville Drug Store, Soil
Conservation Service office.
ASCS office or the Agricul
tural Extension Service
office. The form should be
filled out and mailed to P.O.
Box 711, Kenansvillc. NC
29349 on or before the dead
line of Friday, Jan. 6.
Fire Destroys Chinquapin House
Fire gutted a wood-frame
house near the intersection
of N.C. 41 and N.C. 50 in
Chinquapin late Saturday
night.
Firefighters from the
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Chinquapin Volunteer Fire
Department responded at the
fire at the house owned by
Levon Sandlin about 11 p.m.,
fought the blaze for about an
hour and stayed to exten
H
f}
guish embers until about 2
a.m., said Mrs. Ernest Gray,
a member of the Chinquapin
Volunteer Fire Department
and Rescue Squad.
Mrs. Gray said the fire was
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thought to hav begun in the
ceiling near the chimney of a
wood-burning stove near the
center of the house.
The structure remained
standing, but "everything in
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Gray said. The owner of the
house was out-of town. His
sons had been staying in the
house Saturday but were not
there when the fire broke
out, Mrs. Gray said.