Bump Gon? State workers are shown busily reworking the area known as Bump, N. C. to eliminate the bump from the roadway. The question is ? Will Bump. N.C., Nut Sanctuary, remain? This country crossroads between Kenansville and Warsaw is all in an uproar. "We bother no-one," says a life-long resident of the area. "But it seems like every time we turn around, someone is messing with our crossroads." The traffic flow is presently north and south; however.' some five years ago the traffic flow was east and west. When the flow changed, or the stop signs were moved to the other road, a bump, which was unnoticed when you had to stop, was there. The State promptly put up a yellow and black sign declaring "Bump." As this crossroads has a country store located at it, and local folks gather on rainy, non-working days (and sometime* ?? ""vki?o days), folks needed to be somewhere rather than "just at the store.". . .So a local radio station talk show host came up with "Bump, N.C." Soon a city limits sign appeared on a utility pole; next red and white license plates were being sold. One of the State supervisors said the bump was being removed because Mr. Sewell of Jacksonville said the bump was too bad. Mr. Sewell is on the State Roads Board. Store owner C.M. Outlaw said if Mr. Sewell had been driving the speed limit, the bump would not have been bad. The speed limit is 55 miles-per-hour and the cautionary limit posted is 35 m.p.h. The bump in the road is gone ? dug out and paved over. The signs remain for the time being. But it appears this legend of a place ? Bump, N.C. 1? has lost its namesake, a bump in the road. Warsaw Accepts Grant The town Board accepted a $750,000 community development block grant last week that will result in rehabilitation of 35 houses, im provement to 3,650 feet of streets and installation of 1,600 feet of storm drains in the next few months. The town of Warsaw will con tribute $25,000 for street improve ments. The board awarded McDavid Associates of Kenansville the engi neering contract on a bid of $42,725 and the administration and rehabili tation supervision contract on a bid of $75,676. Commissioner Graham Hood voted against the contract awards, saying the board should obtain additional bids. Mayor Sam Godwin said the bids totaled 15.78 percent of the grant. Town Clerx Alfred Herring ^aid he sent eight bid invitations and re ceived two responses. Only one re sponse. McDavid's, was a bid. The other was an offer to negotiate, he told the board. Tyndal Lewis of McDavid ex plained that the government required paper work and the detail work on 35 individual house bids pushed the administration and re habilitation costs upward. The work will be done in the Frog Pond community in the northwestern part of Warsaw along Prospect, Williams and Lizzie streets, just south of the Clinton branch of the Seaboard System Railroad. Twenty-three substandard dwell ings require major improvements and six require minor improvements. Six substandard mobile homes also require minor rehabilitation. The project description estimates the average cost at a dwelling re quiring major repairs will be $12,500 and for those requiring minor re pairs. $9,000. Six dwellings and two mobile homes in the area meet standard requirements, according to the engi neering summary. The 3;650 feet of reconstructed streets will include 1,600 feet of storm piping. The project description said, "No assessment fees of any type will be charged for the street and drainage improvements, since the majority of the area's property owners are low or moderate income and could not afford the assessment charges." Twenty of the substandard dwell ings are occupied by owners who are characterized as having low or moderate incomes. The rehabilita tion of owner-occupied houses will be financed by 100 percent direct grants. Owners of some of the 15 sub standard rental units were described as having high enough incomes to pay back the cost of improvements. State Scholarships For Children Of Certain Veterans According to Frank B. Moore, veterans service officer for Duplin County, the N.C. Division of Veteran Affairs, headed by Charles A. Bed dingfield Jr.. administers the state's program of scholarships for children of certain veterans. Many children apply each year for the scholastic aid offered by this program and more than 1,600 are receiving benefits at public and private institutions in North Caro lina. The following information is necessarily general in nature. There are several classes of scholarship eligibility and briefly stated they are: Classes I & IV. Children of certain veterans who died or are 100 percent disabled as a result of service in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam or children of peacetime veterans whose death or 100 percent service connected disability was incurrred as a direct result of armed conflict or while engaged in extra-hazardous service or children of certain veterans who were prisoners of war or listed as missing in action. The veteran must have been a legal resident of North Carolina at the time of en'ry into service, or with certain exceptions, the child must have been born in North Carolina and continuously resided here. Class II - Children as described above whose parent was a war veteran who has or at the time of death had a 30 percent or more but less than 100 percent service-con nected disability or a statutory award for arrested tuberculosis. Certain children of peacetime veterans may qualify based on the nature of their parent's disability. Class HI. Eligible children as described above whose parent was a war veteran and who is receiving or at the time of death was receiving nonservice-connected disability pen sion benefits. The scholarships may be used at schools located in North Carolina which are: State-owned institutions of higher education, community colleges and technical institutes; or privately owned non-profit cc"-ges and universities. Scholarships, with one exception, provide free tuition, certain fees, and a room and board allowance in state-owned institutions and SI,200 per academic year in private insti tutions. The exception being that awards under the 100 percent ser vice-connected disability provision provide only free tuition and certain fees in state-owned institutions and $444 per academic year in private institutions. All awards are four academic years in duration. Unlimited awards are made under Classes I & IV. Classes 11 ana in are limited 10 iuu awards each year in each class. Interested persons are urged to contact Frank B. Moore, Duplin County Courthouse in Kenansville, 296-1616 for more detailed information, advice and active assis tance with an application. Applications should be made by Sept. 1 and May 1 of senior year in high school. Class I or IV applicants will be accepted at other times as well. DUPLIN TIMES-PROGRESS SENTINEL Published Weekly by DUPLIN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Ike Riddkk, Publisher P.O.Box 68 Kenansville, NC 28349 Second Class Postage Paid at Kenansville, NC 28349 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES . Single Copy 11 Cents In Duplin and Adjoining Counties 6Mos.?81.83 ' 1 Yr.?13.66 Outside of Duplin and Adjoining Counties 6 Mos.-S2.35 1 Yr.?84.70 Outside North Carolina $5.50 per year Reason's home furnishings 209 W. COLLEGE ST. ? P.O. BOX 447 ? WARSAW. N.C. 293-3313_ ^ SSmST mattresses |Ki rflftc box springs jA VdORLESS! AVAILABLE IN ALL SIZES AND READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY J* r -r v -as ?* ? ? 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Warranty DOUBLE S26400 REG. $B29MM QUEEN $3240? REG $649.96 I KING SIZES AVAILABLE AT COMPARABLE SAVINGS HUBBY IN-QUANTITIES ABE LIMtTEOI * <?? * Hoedown And Celebration I' The dance hoed own is scheduled for Saturday nisht. Oct. 6 at the Kenansville Old School auditorium in connection with the Agribusiness Fair. There will be kings, queens, dancers and personalities, with Dr. Gene Ballard as master of cere monies assisted by Ken Evans. Don't forget this exciting toe-tapping hand-clapping country good time. have won the highest competitive I award in their age groups. * ?? 1 Invitation The Board of Directors of the DUPLIN COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL requests the pleasure of the company of you, your family and guests at a celebration in honour of its TENTH YEAR Monday, the eighth of October half-past six o'clock until nine o'clock Jeater'i Court The Country Squire . Kenagsville RSVP by check and card to the Arts Council until October 3. $8.00 per person Special Guests - Secretary Sara Hodgkins, North Carolina Depart ment of Cultural Resources; Father J. Faulton Hodge, priest of the fresco-filled mountain churches of St. Maiy's and the Holy Trinity; and The Clarence Palmer Jazz Ensemble, visiting artist at James Sprunt Technical College. Also performing, will be Phillip Rose of Warsaw and Chiako Ito of Clinton. Both are piano students of Mrs. Nell Middleton. They have achieved statewide recognition and m. A ? Aides Enhance Thirteen homemaker health aides employed by the Duplin County Division of Services to the Aging recently completed a 78-hour train ing program designed to improve services to home-bound clients. The program was co-sponsored by James Sprunt Technical College at Keuansville and the Division of Services to the Aging. Taking part were Blanche Pickett, Orpha Hunter, Mildred Dixon, Annie Carr, Annie Wilson, Mary Bell Graham, Aronia Murray, Katie Wells, Alberta Batts, Dorothy Hall, Mary Carlton, Mattie Rochelle and Maggie Boney. "Some folks are too polite to be up to any good." Kin Hubbard MOCTOBERFEST ^ )j y / Lead Crystal, Porcelain & \M f Brass Giftware T 25% off Reg. Price & | 14K Gold Chains, 1 Charms, Earrings & Bracelets 30% off ? | All Stone Rings wX* Rubies, Diamonds & Saphires I 30% Off,, ; K Silver Plated & Pewter Holloware | 20% off &aniiltn'a, inc. 110 W. Main Si. Beulavllle 20 % OFF ifWranqler Jeans BRAND ? mgm wM ^ > I I ? ^1 i buy I three Wrangler Jl I (cans. Including H at least one pair of cords ufcmail this form, I ^mL and proofs of purchase. I receive I |K Certificate I for free Wrangler jeans. if Wrangler Free Jean Mail-in Form j BUY 3, GET 1 FREE ; Add rest I I M Mail To Wrangler Offer I ^ PO Box 9989 , - Maple Plain, MN 55393 5t4* ? Enclose proof of purchase from three pairs of Wrangler Jeans I (at least one of which must be corduroy) and your cash register Zip Phone ( ) a receipt dated between 7/15/84 and 10/17/84. Vbu must iZlp code must be included) circle the Wrangler prices on the cash register receipt. ___ Within six weeks of receipt, Wrangler brand will send you I a Wrangler gift certificate good through 18/31 /84 for any pair a of wrangler jeans in stock at the store identified on this form. IMPORTANT you must pay eny sales taxes tookforthis Q, *k 11 ? * on the tree jeens when you pick it up at the prool of purchase WMtlnl t tt ft WttP store Limitation: One gift certificate pet symbol on garment tags ^ "ttwim O t AftlVs form, four gift certificates per person, family, w?el?, tin * u . .. a . ... group or address Offer void outside USX, | 110 W. Main Si. Beelarllle . and where prohibited by law ltou assume r ? the risk of lost or delayed mail | \ ? C OFFER EXPIRES OCTOBER 17, 1984 I ... J "Cl * ? * *

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