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VOL. XXXXVIl NO. 45 USPS 162-860 KENANSV1LLE. NC 28349 NOVEMBER 8, 1984 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
Liberty Hall Accepts Donation Of Library Chair
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Edwards of Kinston are pictured above with Liberty
Hall curator Patty Loftin presenting a mid-1880s library chair. The chair came
to the Edwards as a gift and was restored using the original leather for
donation to the Liberty Hall collection. According to information gathered,
Edwards and Liberty Hall staff agree the chair was used in the home library
and cock fights! The chair is on display in the young man's room of Liberty
Hall.
? Vest Is Duplin
Schools Teacher
Of The Year
Working in a bank and hoping for
^ a chance to teach, the 1984-85 Duplin
County Teacher of the Year Johanna
Vest now knows the reality of at least
two of her dreams.
Johanna Vest of Wallace has had a
permanent position in Duplin County
schools at North Duplin Junior High
since 1980-81. And, only in the past
two years has Johanna moved from
teaching student labs to the regular
classroom. Today she teaches five
math classes and one science to
? seventh and eighth grade students.
Johanna came to Duplin County
public schools after working almost
three years in banking. The
experience led to Johanna's study
and certification in math. She is a
graduate of Appalachian State Uni
versity with an education major in
home economics.
"This is the second year I have
been in competition for teacher of
the year." Johanna said. "Last year
1 was an honor teacher. But. the
^ faculty here felt like I should try
V again and have supported me in a
second try." Johanna will advance
into regional competition for Teacher
of the Year in Jacksonville, Novem
ber 15.
"Teachers should be viewed as
professionals." Johanna said. "As
always, it is important that we
(teachers) reach as many students as
possible. In schools today teachers
mold students' characters and intro
duce them to many social skills, as
well as teach them academics. And.
those responsibilities weigh heavy
on us. But, teachers recognize we
must get the most out of our students
because they are our future and what
they learn will make an important
difference.
"Every child has some potential
and something to give." Johanna
said. "1 think it is up to the teacher
to discover and teach through the
student's interests. And. above all,
something 1 try to do is build
self-worth and pride in the
students."
An easy way to measure teacher
effectiveness, Johanna said, is
through the building of a scrapbook.
One look through a teacher's scrap
book would reveal her teaching
philosophy and accomplishments. A
requirement in the teacher of the
year competition is a scrapbook.
"All teachers should keep a
scrppbook for themselves," Johanna
said. "It tells you that you've made
some accomplishments and you are
worthwhile as a person ? that your
life has made a difference." Often
the difference is made in the life of
an ideal student and a student who
has been turned around to realize
school is a benefit, Johanna pointed
out.
"An ideal student is one that is
willing to work," Johanna said. "A
student that realizes school is impor
tant for their future and is willing to
cooperate usually gets support at
? home. But. a teacher can build an
ideal student by motivating the child
who has a distaste for school."
Johanna serves Duplin as the local
NCAE secretary. She also partici
pates in the Beta Sigma Phi chapter
of Wallace. Beta Sigma Phi is a
cultural and service organization
with an international membership.
Johanna has served as president of
the Wallace chapter of Beta Sigma
Phi. And. she and her husband.
Donald Vest, attend the Wallace
United Methodist Church. Donald is
employed-with J.P. Stevens of
Wallace. The couple has resided in
Duplin since 1976.
Duplin named Mary Anna Grady
of East Duplin High School and Beth
Brinson of Rose HilT-Magnolia Ele
mentary Honor teachers in the
1984-85 county teacher of the year
competition.
?
Doplin
Teacher of the Year
Johanna Veat
V
County Buys PCA/
FLB Building
Allen Nethercutt, chairman of the
Duplin County Board of Commis
sioners, announced the purchase of
the PCA/FLB building located on
Beasley Street in Kenansville for
S500,000 for mental health services
in Duplin County.
The purchase was made possible
by a grant of $435,000 from the state
and $54,263.12 from the Duplin
County general fund appropriations.
The Duplin County Mental Health
Center started on a modest scale
about IS years ago with a budget of
$40,000. Since then it has grown to
provide community-based alterna
tives for the diagnosis, treatment
and rehabilitation of the mentally ill,
mentally retarded and the alcoholic.
The mental health center has been
a part of Duplin General Hospital on
the third floor since 1983 along with
the 14-bed psychiatric inpatient unit,
rhe mental health center will soon
move their services from the third
floor for improved patient care. The
14-bed psychiatric inpatient unit will
:ontinue to be located in Duplin
General Hospital and provide
psychiatric inpatient care for short
term treatment of the mentally ill
and the alcoholic.
The hours of operation will con
tinue without any change from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. The
emergency services are provided by
the staff on call during the evenings
and weekends with cooperation of
the DGH emergency services and the
Duplin County Sheriff's Department.
Department.
Calvin C. Turner, commissioner
and treasurer of the Duplin-Sampson
Area Mental Health. Mental Retar
dation and Substance Abuse Board,
remarked that he was pleased to find
a permanent location for mental
health services in Duplin County that
has grown from an outpatient clinic
with a $40,000 budeet in 1971 to well
over $2'/j million in 1984 with a
corresponding increase in staff and
services.
Fleicher Pearson. Sampson
County Commissioner and chairman
of the Duplin-Sampson Area Mental
Health Board, commended the
Duplin County Commissioners for
their suooort and said. "It is a
significant milestone in the progress
of the Area Mental Health pro
grams. We are on the threshhold of
bringing services closer to ^ t 'e
and developing additional ser\. ?
that would improve the quality o;
care for the mentally ill. mentally
retarded and the alcoholic."
Ralph Cottle, county manager,
who has been involved in the
negotiations, remarked that the
mental health center could consoli
date some of their services and
expand their programs to prevent
unnecessary hospitalization and
dependency on the state institutions.
Until a lot is purchased in Kenans
villeand a new building constructed,
Farm Credit Services w ill continue to
operate in the current office.
According to Kenansville Farm
Credit Service director John Smith,
the sales agreement with the county
allow s the lease of up to 3,500 square
feet of the building's office space.
Mimes To Touch Area
TOUCH is mime with a difference.
They sometimes talk and they never
wear whiteface.
TOUCH MIME THEATRE from
the Art School in Carrboro has been
touring the eastern U.S. for the last
eight years. And what they do is
never boring.
The trio of mimes ? Sheila
Kerrigan, Jeff Lambdon and Skip
Mendler ? with their pianist Paul
Whetstone, create their own
material, using props, costumes, live
music and masks to make a show
which is contemporary, innovative
and funny
Sponsored by the Duplin County
Arts Council, TOUCH MIME
THEATER of the Art School, will be
conducting a residency in Duplin
County on Monday and Tuesday.
Nov. 12 and 13. The company will
visit Warsaw Elementary at 9:30
a.m., Kenansville Elementary at
1:30 on Monday, where they will
present single full-school perfor
mances.
On Tuesday, Nov. 13, they will
perform at Rose Hill-Magnolia Ele
mantary with performances at 9:30
and 1:30 and also several teaching
workshops. Paren's and community
members are invited and encouraged *
toc9me to any performance.
The appearances of TOUCH arc
. .not new to Duplin County. The gr^
has worked several times before in
providing school performances.
"We're glad they can return," says
Merle Creech, executive director of
DCAC. "They're that good and they
communicate such universal feel
ings."
"We feel that the whiteface hides
your face and makes you look less
human," says Jeff Lambdon, one of
the mimes, "Our work is about
human beings, not about clowns."
Often mime actors don whiteface
makeup to perform, but TOUCH
never does that.
Mime is an ancient form of art, a
way of communicating without
words, but rather with actions which
convey a special meaning. Instead of
using voice, one may use his entire
self to express ideas. Mime is a
language the whole world under
stands.
Six Duplin
Men Arrested
On Charges
Of Forgery
Warsaw police arrested six Duplin
County men this past week on 33
counts of forging and passing worth
less checks. One man is charged with
forging the checks on the bank
accounts of his grandmother and his
uncle.
George A. Harvey of Magnolia
was charged with 21 offenses. His
bail was set at $21.000.
Harvey allegedly wrote the
checks, some payable to himself and
some to the other five men arrested,
according to Detective Sgt. Gary
Cook. Cook said Harvey lives with
his grandmother.
Cook said even thougn ne minus
Harvey wrote all the checks, the
other five also were charged with
forgery counts because they acted in
concert with him.
"I haven't sat down and added it
all up," Cook said, explaining that
he does not know how much money
was involved. The checks. Cook said,
range from $45 to $100. He said they
were cashed at a Warsaw super
market.
Charged with forgery and uttering
were Everett Carlson Rogers of
Warsaw, one count; Henry Lawrence
Miller of Kenansville. one count;
Maurice Glaspie of Magnolia, six
counts; James Carey Jarman III of
Magnolia, one count; and Victor Lee
Pearsall of Magnolia, four counts.
A bond hearine for the men was
held Tuesday in district criminal
court in Kenansville. A probable
cause hearing has been scheduled
for Nov. 15, also in district court,
Cook said.
Duplin County deputies lodged
additional charges against some of
the men. but officers with informa
tion in the case were unavailable for
comment.
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Taylor Honored In 63rd
Veterans Celebration
Heber Dalis Taylor of Kenansville
says World War I in many ways
compares with the Vietnam conflict.
Taylor will be the honoree of the
63rd Warsaw Veterans Day cele
bration this Saturday. As a veteran
of WWI, Taylor is a native of
Beaufort County and has resided in
Kenansville since 1961. He enlisted
in the United States Army during
1917.
"Rack then enlistine was the thing
to do," Taylor said. "I had just
finished high school at the time." He
- was assigned to the 323 Infantry
Company E 81st Division and at the
end otljasic training, Taylor's troop
yeas shipped overseas to .South
Hampton, England.
"It took 17 days to go over,"
Taylor laughed. "We were in a
convoy of 24 ships, and luckily, I was
on one of the biggest!
"We got over there and walked
across England at night. During the
day we would lay in trenches in
cemeteries and when we reached the
rhannpl u/^piwIp arrtKc it at nioht in
cattleboats." Taylor and his fellow
soldiers continued to walk at night
after landing in France until they
reached the northern front. Food for
the troops arrived in the mountain
ous area by mule, he recalled.
"Our job was to lay in the trenches
during the day and fire at the
Germans at night," Taylor said.
"When the Armistice was signed 1
was sitting on a side saddle in the
woods and all of a sudden you didn't
hear a single gun fire. Up until that
time there was gunfire going on all
the time.
"We fought from trenches and
those men who were sent to Vietnam
were ground soldiers ? the ones in
the woods ? just like us," Taylor
said. "And they were killed and
gassed. Vietnam was a terrible
mistake."
Taylor spent one year and 11
months of his military enlistment
overseas. With his troop, Taylor was
credited with participation in the
Chateau-Thierry campaign and the
breaking of the Hindenburg Line.
Following the Armistice, Taylor was
assigned, along wnn /u inner
members of his troop, to establish a
post office in Aux Les Daims,
France. After about a year, Taylor
returned to the United States.
"I had studied French, but I
couldn't speak it much before I got to
France." Taylor laughed, "The very
first thing I asked for was bread. I
asked this farm woman for bread and
she took me around back and pulled
put a rabbit!" Arriving home, Taylor
began a job with the Railway Mail
Service out of Washington, D.C.
"I have had a good life," com
mented Taylor, who has just recently
celebrated his 88th birthday. "1 can't
complain.
"Most of all I think I enjoyed the
Railway Mail Service most," Taylor
said. "I'd be in one place a while,
then I'd move on to another and then
another, all along the Atlantic
Seaboard states." His job with the
Railway1 Mail Service was to estab
lish post offices along the railroad
line. The job kept Taylor on the move
from city to city along the route of
the railroad.
"When you left Mount Olive by
train you had only one stop on the
way to Wilmington, and that was
Magnolia," Taylor said. "Now
Magnolia is almost dead. And. when
I first came to Duplin County, there
wasn't a paved road anywhere.
"It's hard to believe in one man's
lifetime, all the changes that have
been made," Taylor said.
Taylor and his wife, Thelma,
settled in Kenansville in 1961. The
couple came to Duplin County in
^9SK^ho^l^jjft^^heir^narriage^
The Taylors lived five years in
Warsaw before moving to Clinton,
where Mr. Taylor operated a heating
and air conditioning service. After
five years in Clinton, the couple
moved to Kenansville where Mrs.
Taylor had been employed since
1951 as Welfare Department
Director of Duplin. In Kenansville.
Taylor continued in the beating and
air conditioning service.
Prior to the move to Duplin
County. Taylor had been employed
in the shipyards of Newport News,
Va. The decrea ? in rail demands led
Taylor to resign from the position
with the Railw ay Mail Service.
Taylor is a graduate of the Pied
mont Board!School of Cleveland
County and King's Business College
of Raletgh. ! >day. the Tay'ors are
both retired.
Warsaw's Annual
Veterans Day
H.D. Taylor
The 63rd Warsaw Veterans Day
Celebration is November 10 and
features a confederate troop
encampment and a friendship day.
The North Carolina 23rd Battalion
will present living history in an
encampment across from the
Masonic Lodge. The confederate
troop will set up Nov. 10 for an
overnight stay in Warsaw. A War
Museum will also be open Nov. 5-10
at Southern Bank in Warsaw. And, a
memory window will be on display at
the City Finance office depicting the
Veterans Day theme of post World
War II years.
Friendship Day is November 11 at
the Warsaw Baptist Church. The
program, designed for Veterans Day
in Warsaw by the Duplin County
Arts Council, is a look at the culture,
government and people of Warsaw,
Poland. The friendship service
begins at 4 p.m. and features a slide
presentation, ethnic refreshments,
some polish folk songs and stories,
and a display of artwork from school
children in both cities of Warsaw.
Featured speaker is Friendship
Force Representative Dr. Ralph
Steele.
Honoree this year for the 63rd
celebration is H.D. Taylor of
Kenansville, a World War 1 veteran.
Marshal for the 1984 parade and
celebration is Dick Jones, host of an
area morning television show. The
parade begins Saturday at 11 a.m.,
1 ??
followed by the annual fund-raising
barbcque dinner held by the Warsaw
Fire Department. Plates will be on
sale at the fire department build
ing.
Sidewalk sales are planneed for
the celebration on Saturday along
with a variety of free entertainment.
The Warsaw See Saws perform in
the town hall parking lot beginning
at 1 p.m. The James Kenan High
School band, chorus and Unicorn
Club follow the square dancers at
1:30 p.m. Students of Brenda Her
ring's Dance Studio perform at 2:30
p.m. and a break dance review
begins at 3 p.m. The Hesitations
Band concludes the scheduled after
noon entertainment with their per
formance from 3:30 until 4:30.
Saturday evening entertainment
includes a senior high school student
dance at the Warsaw Recreation
Department gym, the See Saws at
Warsaw Elementary School and the
Charlie Albertson Band at the
Warsaw Armory. Admission to the
dance at the armory is $12 per
couple. The student dance begins at
8 p.m. The Warsaw See Saws dance >
from 7 until 11 p.m., and the
Charlie Albertson Band plays 9 p.m. I
until 1 a.m. Tickets for the dance at I
the Armory are on sale at the
Kenansvillc Drug Store, Warsaw
Southern Bank, Warsaw Veterans
Committee members and at the
loor. \
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