Duplin Invests In 30 ? Day Notes
The investment of SI million in
30-day notes at 11.4 percent interest
will net Duplin County $9,500 in the
next month.
County Finance Officer Russell
Tucker informed the county com
missioners last week that he had
invested SI million of county funds in
30-day notes with Branch Banking &
Trust Co. of Wallace.
Tucker said he had been advised
to invest in the short-term notes
instead of nine-month certificates
because interest rates are expected
to increase, possibly to 15 percent by
the end of the year.
Tucker also said the county might
need some of the money in less than
nine months. The longer-term certi
ficates usually pay higher rates of
interest than 30-day notes issued at
the same time.
In other business last week, the
commissioners reversed their Aug. 6
decision against providing part of the
salary for a secretary in the county
extension office. By a 3-2 vote, the
board agreed to provide $4,500 a
year for half the salary of the
secretary. Commissioner Calvin
Coolidge Turner switched sides and
joined Commissioners W.J. Costin
and Dovie Penney in a favorable
vote. Commissioners D.J. Fussell
and Allen Nethercutt again voted
against the salary motion.
The board agreed to permit the
county Agribusiness Council and
other groups to conduct a study into
renovating the former Kcnansville
Elementary School as a multi-pur
pose building.
Merle Creech, a member of the
county arts council, said it has
requested $92,800 from the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation to provide part
of the financing for an entrance and
staging area,in the old building.
Roy Houston, chairman of the
Agribusiness Council, said the
council could pay for the study, "if
the commissioners are inclined to
support the project."
Melba Laney, a community de
velopment specialist with the N.C.
Department of Natural Resources
and Community Development, re
commended that the building be
renovated for county offices. She had
no cost estimates. The board will
study the proposals.
She recommended moving the
Employment Security Commission
into the present N.C. Highway Patrol
office when that office is moved into
the former Coastal Production Credit
Association building. Both offices
now are in a building near the E.E.
Smith School on the south side of
Kenansville.
Her other recommendations in
cluded:
? Moving the agricultural exten
sion service. Farmers Home Ad
ministration. Agricultural Stabiliza
tion and Conservation Service and
Soil Conservation Service into the
renovated school building to create
an agricultural services complex.
? Moving the Social Services
Department offices now in the Ouinn
Annex on Kenansville's main street
to the present ASCS location, near
tne main social services building.
? Remodeling the present exten
sion and FmHA offices into a county
administration office unit for the
county manager, finance officer,
board of commissioners, industrial
deyelopment commission and arts
council.
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In other business, the board
authorized advertising for a county
forest ranger to succeed Dennis
Knowles.
It decided not to establish voter
L. . r. c..
registration tables in the social
services building and the library
because they are close to the county
election office in the courthouse,
where people can register all year.
Contempt Charge
Against Rose Hill
Man Dropped
Contempt of court charges against
Rose Hill developer Mario Bostic and
three co-defendants were dismissed
last week in Onslow County Superior
Court.
Superior Court Judge Herbert O.
Phillips granted a defense motion to
dismiss the charges against Bostic,
Garland E. Yopp and Frank H.
Lanier and his construction com
pany, Frank H. Lanier Inc.
The charges stemmed from con
struction of two buildings near New
River Inlet Pier.
Allen Brown, representing Onslow
County, contended that the defen
dants received notice of a July 6 re
straining order and acted in concert
to continue construction. Brown also
charged that Bostic and Yopp tried to
circumvent the order bv transferring
ownership on July 10.
Much of the testimony concerned
cease-and-desist orders federal and
state agencies had issued on the
basis that the builders did not have
the required permits.
In dismissing the charges, Phillips
noted that a temporary restraining
order relating to a county building
permit was a "different" kind of
document from a cease-and-desist
order issued by a government
agency.
He said he had seen ample evi
dence regarding the delivery of
cease-and-desist orders, but that did
not constitute evidence of willful
criminal violation of the temporary
restraining order.
In addition, he said, proof had not
been shown beyond a reasonable
doubt that a design and purpose lay
behind the transfei of the pier's title
from Bostic to Yopp.
George W. Wright of the Army
Corps of Engineers testified that he
had issued nine cease-and-desist
orders against Bostic for various
projects since January 1976.
"We have never issued Mario
Bostic a permit except for an after
the-fact permit," he said.
Representatives of the N.C. Office
of Coastal Management testified that
that agency had served Bostic with
II cease-and-desist orders since
1981.
Onslow '"ounty Building Inspector
Marshall Batchelor testified that he
issued a permit to Bostic May 25 for
repair of the pier for the purpose of
installing an ice machine. Batchelor
said he was at West Onslow Beach
after the permit was issued and
observed building that was "way out
of proportion" with the permit.
On June 27, he said, he issued a
stop-work order and hand-delivered
it to Yopp, who was the pier
manager.
He said the construction con
tinued, however, and Bostic called
him a couple of days later and told
him the "discrepancies" would be
corrected. "He's never spoken to me
since," Batchelor said.
Batchelor said he visited the pier
on July 9, 10, 12 and 13 and saw
construction going on. He said he
talked with Lanier, the contractor,
about the stop-work order and Lanier
said he "knew something but didn't
know what" it was about.
Wedding
Invitation
The children of Lura Catherine
Jones request the honour of your
presence at the marriage of their
mother to Mr. Andrew Mills Rose of
Kinston. N.C. on Saturday, Sep
tember 8 at four o'clock in the First
Pentecostal Holiness Church, 711
Phillips Road. Kinston, N.C. The
officiating pastor will be the Rev.
W.J. Forehand. A reception will be
held immediately following the cere
mony in the church fellowship hall.
Friends and relatives are invited to
attend. No invitations are being
mailed.
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