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National Spinninf Makes Contribution To JSTC
V As a part of the 1984 fund drive of the James Sprunt
Foundation, National Spinning Co., Inc. presented the
Foundation a $1,000 contribution to help further the
educational mission of James Sprunt Technical College.
In accepting the donation. Foundation chairman Tom
Yates conveyed deep appreciation for the expression of
support by the company. The fund received over
$31,000 in contributions from businesses and indivi
duals, exceedidng the goal of $20,000. Pictured are Ben
Ellenberg, personnel director of NSC; Herman Kight,
treasurer of JSF; W.T. Huddleston, vice-president of
NSC, and Yates.
Migrant Youths Get rood
? Care At North Duplin
'If we can help the children, we'll do
It,' - Kenneth Avent
Children of migrant seasonal farm
workers are receiving education,
care and food through the migrant
school program in the North Duplin
school near Calypso this summer.
Director Kenneth Avent said 51
A children of Mexican descent are
!?| enrolled in the program and more
are expected. He said a group of
Haitians is expected soon. Avent has
directed the program four years. He
is a coach at North Duplin High
School during the school year.
The migrant program opened June
20 and will continue through July 31.
Ages of the children range from 2 to
12 years.
The Goldsboro United Methodist
District is as&isttog. ih ?hi? year's ,
?} program. The regular program,
which is federally funded, operates
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Methodist
aid extends the hours to 7 p.m. to
cover the full day the parents are
likely to be working.
The workers are brought into the
region for the normally extensive
fruit, berry and vegetable harvests.
Northern Duplin, Sampson, John
ston and Wayne counties are major
vegetable producing areas, with the
harvest peaking in late June and
July.
Avent said parents and farmers
both like the extended hours of the
school. "Parents know where their
kids are while they are in the fields
and they know they (the children) are
safe."
Avent directs a staff of four
teachers, four aides and a coordi
nator. Last year 80 children were
enrolled. Avpnt expects a larger'
enrdttfbertV this year.
Two buses bring the children from
northern Duplin and southern
Wayne to the center.
A similar migrant school operate*
at Hobbton, north of Clinton in
Sampson County, with about 200
children enrolled.
Avent said most of the children
can speak English, but not all of the
adult workers can.
Mathematics, English, arts and
crafts are emphasized in the school.
Children receive three meals a day
with the noon meal being the main
one.
Avent said, "I have nothing to do
with the legality problem, referring
to the fact that many farm workers
have entered the country illegally.
He said that is up to the federal
authorities. "If we can help the
children, we'll do it."
Some of the children ha?*e
taught by their parents not to reveal
their last names to anyone, he said.
Plant Deals In Hydraulics
Duplin County is known as the
center of a big poultry industry, as a
tobacco producer and a textile pro
ducer, but it also has two other
^ wiueiy disparate inuusines ? a
winery at Rose Hill and a hydraulics
equipment maker at Beulaville.
Least publicized of the county's
enterprises is Emmett Wickline's
N.C. Hydraulics Manufacturing Co.
of Beulaville.
Wickline said the company, em
ploys 40 people. If a new product
works out. he expects to add as many
as 100.
Wickline opened the company in
^ Beulaville in 1976 in a 2.400-square
foot plant. He started by selling bolts
and nuts as a distributor. Then he
began manufacturing bolts and nuts
in the plant. The plant now contains
40,000 square feet.
The plant now makes cylinders for
hydraulic equipment, selling them to
railroad companies, fork lift manu
facturers and others. The hydraulic
cylinders powering the jaws of some
brands of tree cutters and log lifters
are made in the Beulaville factory.
Hydraulics has become one of the
^ growing fields in industry. Hydrau
lics is the means of transmitting
power through controlling pressure
of liquid against moving parts.
Modern farm equipment, for
instance, makes extensive use of
hydraulics.
. The company is making a portable
hydraulic powered "roof for mines,
to cover miners as they move along
trenches and tunnels. It is a new
^ product.
^ "If it goes as the inventors expect
it to go, it means I might double our
size and add 100 jobs," Wickline
said recently.
Wickline hires most of his em
ployees after they finish courses at
James Sprunt Technical College in
Kenansville, Lenoir Community Col- 1
lege in Kinston and Coastal Carolina ma
Community College in Jacksonville. wii
He said they need training in
ichinist's mathematics to work
ih the manufacturing machinery.
Extension Service Host Farm Test Plot Tours
Still in the experimental stage,
tobacco variety NC 22 nonflowering
had buttoned anil bloomed on the
first stop of the puplin Agricultural
Extension test plQttour June 28.
Two rows of NC 22 NF expected
not to flower afid to be used for
experiments of sucker control in the
plant buds, bloomed. According to
Duplin Agricultural Extension
tobacco specialist J. Michael Moore,
the nonflowering crop could have
bloomed as a result of the extreme
stress of the heat and drought or a
breakdown in the cross breedine.
Moore pointed out the variety had
been a cross with an old time tobacdo
plant which yielded 30 or more
leaves. The NC 22 NF, also, would
yield 30 or more leaves and farmers
need to cut the plant to 18-29 leaves
in order to prevent them from
'becoming small and sharp.
Duplin farmers are concerned
with nematodes, weed and grass
control, insect problems, crop
disease and yields. Through the
DCAES, local farmers are hosting
on-farm test plots to help provide
inform, 'ion on crop problems shared
by farmers statewide. The plot of NC
22 NF on the Bertis Quinn farm was
one of 10 stops on the AES tour.
A tobacco test field comparing
nematicides on the Tom Chestnutt
farm was included on the tour. The
field compared two products now
marketed, MoCap, and a combina
tion of Lorsban 4E and Nemacur 3
and a new experimental chemical
Standak. The Gene Rouse farm was
another site for nematicide tests in
corn. The site tests for control of
s:ubby root and uses several com-,
mercial products along with a variety
of experimental chemicals. Among
the commercial products was
Counter, a nematicide restricted to
use in corn, but expected to be
released for use in soybeans and
peanuts next year.
Tests of row width, variety and
planting date for soybeans were
visited on the Mike Brown farm.
Three seed varieties were each
planted in 10. 20, 30 and 38-inch
rows at different planting dates on
the Brown farm. A test plot for herbi
cide control in soybens is on the
Junior and Bobby Bland farm. The
plot is testing the experimental
chemical Scepter for control of
broadleaf weeds.
A test to determine the most
beneficial use of the product NMG
on tobacco is being conducted on the
Major Lanier farm. The nitrogen/
magnesium product is applied in the
different sections of the test field up
to three times ? at the knee high,
early button and before harvest
stages of growth. Moore explained,
at this point the product is thought
to be most oeneticial applied after
heavy rain. The complete informa
tion from the NGM test will be
included in the 1984 Tobacco book
let.
Dr. Guy Gooding of North Carolina
State University explained the test
plot for control of mosaic on the
Dennis Smith farm. The plot was de
signed to test methods of reducing
and controlling mosaic in tobacco.
Gooding pointed out the best way
to control mosaic is through crop
rotation because the disease stays in
the soil. When rotation is not
possible, methods used on the Smith
test plot are recommended; plant a
tobacco variety Tesistant to the
disease or remove the infected plants
from the field.
Sucker control and the use of the
product Prime + instead of M-H was
included in the tour topics. While the
new product is more expensive than
M-H, Moore said Prime + does not
stop growth in the upper plant leaves
I
and leaves no yellow tint or residue
problems. Also applications of
Prime + are effective after two
hours of spraying, which is four less
than M-H.
Applying additional phosphorous
to offset the r<x>t damage caused to
tobacco plants by a preplan! in
corporated herbicide was found to be
of little benefit on the test plot of
N.H. Shiver's farm. Herbicide was
incorporated and phosphorous added
at two different rates in sections of
the test plot. Rows were also left
with only recommended amounts of
fertilizer and herbicide.
Additional information from
Duplin test plots is available at the
Agricultural Extension Service
office. And, final results from the
tests will be presented during fall
and winter meetings conducted by
the Duplin Extension Service, Moore
said.
Warsaw OKs Budget
Keeps Tax Rate
Warsaw will begin the 1984-85
fiscal year with a budget of $673,611.
The new budget is $37,152 higher
than the estimated 1983-84 expen
diture of_ $626,417. The largest
increase in the budget approved last
week by the Town Board is in the 10
percent pay increase for town em
ployees.
The tax rate remains the same.
Major expense items are police,
oar em t . A/|
9i//,oio; streets, juz,iuu, au
ministration, S77.232; miscella
neous, including payroll taxes, group
insurance and retirement expense,
$70,400; sanitation, $65,300; special
appropriations, mostly for a neigh
borhood facility, $44,024, and fire
department, $25,419.
Major revenue sources will be
property taxes, current and delin
quent, $253,000; local option sales
tax, $90,000; revenue sharing,
$82,586; state Powell BUI, $53,000;
refuse collection, $50,000; utility and
franchise tax, $49,000; neighborhood
facility revenue, $24,000; sales tax
refunds, $15,000; recreation fees,
$14,000, and beer and wine tax,
$11,525.
Local Farmors Tour Duplin Agriculture Extension Service Test Plots.
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Probable Cause ;
'Hearing Set In Wallace
Joe Lewis Reynolds, 31, of
Teachey, will face a probable cause
hearing July 10 in Duplin County
District Court in Kenansville in con
nection with the shooting of John
Carr of Greene vers.
Reynolds has been charged with
assault with a deadly weapon, with
intent to kill and inflicting serious
bodily harm. The shooting occurred
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recently on the parking lot ?f a
Wallace supermarket.
Carr was treated in Duplin
General Hospital foi a groin wound.
A hospital employee refused to say
whether Carr remained in the hos
pital.
Reynolds was arrested and re
leased on $2,500 bond. First court
appearance was held last week.
B.>r.d was continued at $2,500.
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Chips Are New
Duplin Crop
?
If you are eating a bag of Tom's
Potato Chips while reading this
newspaper, your snack may hive
been grown in Duplin. County
Irish potato crops in Duplin are
rare, but Beulaville area farmers
Laurie and Sherwood Jackson are in
their second year of producing spuds
under contract with chipping
companies. This year, Laurie ex
plained, practically the entire crop of
potatoes is contracted with Tom's.
Small .potatoes the rh'^ping
companies do not buy can be sold to
the Campbell Soup Company at the
plant in Maxton.
Last season the Jackson brothers
began with 69 acres and this year are
producing 125 acres of potatoes.
Unlike most of Duplin's agriculture
products, the Irish potatoes are
planted in February and harvested in
time to sow another crop, such as
soybeans, on the land.
The Jackson farm, where digging
is in progress, was one of 10 stops
scheduled on the June 28 Duplin
Agricultural Extension tour of county
test plots. The crop was producing
180 bags of 100 pounds of potatoes
per acre, which is better than in 1983
on the Jackson farm. But, Laurie
explained, the crop had suffered
from the heat and dry weather. With
the proper rain the potatoes would
have doubled their size. With ade
juate/ainfal), the ' op is exp* ted to
produce up to 300 bags of potatoes
per acre.
Along with potatoes, the Jacksons
tend corn, wheat, soybeans, cucum
bers and raise 11 houses of turkeys.
Last season profit from Irish potatoes
was estimated to be about $150 an
acre by the Duplin Extension
Service. And, the Jacksons esti
mated their investment in potato
equipment was $15,000.
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Property Tax Ratio Drops
The property tax rate remains un
changed at 75 cents per $100
assessed valuation.
Property taxes will provide less
than half the Duplin County 1984-85
budget of $10,705,319 for the first
time in many years.
While the revenue from property
taxes is estimated at $4,993,990, the
largest amount in many years, the
proportion of property tax to other
income dropped to 46.65 percent.
The county property tax brought in
$4,255,193 or 50.77 percent of total
revenue in the 1982-83 fiscal year,
$4,416,370 or 51.75 percent in the
1982-83 budget year and $4,837,875
or 55.55 percent for the 1983-84
fiscal year
Total income was $8,708,804 for
1983-84. $8,533,855 for 1982-83 and
$8,381,145 for 1981-82.
State funds will provide 16.29
percent of the 1984-85 budget. The
total of anticipated state funds is
$1,743,829. Statu funds provide
14.12 percent to 16 percent of the
budgets of the three preceding
years.
The proportion of federal funds
varies widely over the four-year
span. Federal funds of $931,765
totaled 11.11 percent of the 1981-82
budget, dropped to $461,000 or 5.29
percent of the 1983-84 budget and
increased to $905,849 or 8.47 per
cednt of the 1984-85 budget.
The proportion of other receipts,
including sales taxes, intangibles
and franchise taxes, and fees, will
increase to 23.69 percent of the
1984-85 budget from 18.08 percent of
the 1983-84 budget.
The 1984-85 budgeted revenue of
$10,705,319 represents a 22 percent
increase over the 1983-84 figure. The
property tax rate remains unchanged
at 75 cents per $100 assessed
valuation.
Most of the budget increase will
come from an anticipated $600,000 in
the new half-cent local sales tax and
$865,000 from federal revenue
sharing.
On the spending side, education
has received the largest appro
priation in each of the four years
analyzed by Finance Officer Russell
Tucker.
Education will receive $3,317,631
or 30.99 percent of the total for the
1984-85 fiscal year. The percentage
went up from the 1983-84 fiscal year
appropriation of $2,419,500 or 27.78
percent of the total. Education
received $2,584,855 or 30.29 percent
of the 1982-83 hudpet and
$2,279,160 or 29.19 percent of the
1982-83 budget.
The percentage of the budget
going to public welfare peaked in the
1983-84 fiscal year at 23.95 percent.
The appropriation was $2,086,418.
Although the 1984-85 appropria
tion of $2,344,377 is larger, it makes
up 2.05 percent less of the total
budget. Public welfare accounted for
19.71 percent of the 1982-83 budget
and 19.35 percent of the 1981-82
total.
Under the heading of "other,"
appropriations of $1,345,766 make
up 12.57 percent of the 1984-85
budget, compared with $1,078,858 or
12.38 percent of the 1983-84 total,
$987,859 or 11.58 percent of the
1982-83, and $995,072 or 11.87
percent of the 1981-82 totals.
The heading of "other" includes
funding for the board of elections,
register of deeds, public buildings,
housekeeping, county garage, court
facilities, civil defense, dog warden,
ambulance, arts, museum, library,
veterans, insurance, vocational
rehabilitation, debt service and mis
cellaneous.
Police protection has accounted for
7 percent to 7.57 percent of the
various budgets.