PROGRESS SENTINEL
VOL. XXXXV1I NO. 49 JSPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 DECEMBER 6. 1984 20 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX
Scouts Recognized By County Commissioners
The Duplin County Commissioners recognized
four Scouts from Troop 50 of Wallace during the
regular meeting of the board on Monday.
Pictured above are the Scouts and Duplin
Commissioner Dovie Penney of the Wallace area
district. Pictured left to right, David Dees, Barry
Davis, John Dees, Nicky Gazaleh and Duplin
Commissioner Dovie Penney.
12 County Area
Local Lending Institutions Merge
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On Sept. 1, the Federal Land Bank
^Association of Kenansville and the
Federal Land Bank Association of
Lumberton were merged to form
Cape Fear Federal Land Bank Asso
ciation.
At the same time, Cape Fear
Production Credit Association was
formed through the merger of Cape
Fear PCA of Fayetteville, Dunn
PCA, the former Coastal PCA of
Kenansville, and Southeast PCA of
Lumberton.
The combined organization will
(^operate as Cape Fear Farm Credit
Service and will provide a full range
of credit and financially-related ser
vices to its membership in a 12
county area of southeastern North
Carolina. Administrative head
quarters will be located in Fayette
ville.
The major reason for the mergers
was to better position the farm credit
institutions to maximize services and
to be more cost effective in the
/^agricultural community, according to
^Harvey G. Beckham, president of the
new regional organization. Beckham
added, "More specialized finan
cially-related services are foreseen
in the future, and financially
stronger institutions will be neces
sary to maintain the needed staff of
trained specialists to meet these
requirements."
Benefits derived for the associa
tions and members, according to
Beckham, will also include easier
^coordination of loan picking
"(between long and short terms),
more efficient operations, and better
utilization of personnel.
Beckham stressed. "The principal
objective of Farm Credit Service is
to provide farmers with sound and
dependable credit, in good times or
bad, at the lowest cost possible
consistent with sound business prin
ciples."
Beckham also announced the sale
of the existing Farm Credit building
in Kenansville to Duplin County to
serve as offices for the Duplin
Sampson Mental Health Depart
ment.
"In our efforts to make the most
efficient, economical use of our
facilities, we found the existing
building to be larger than necessary
for our operation. Until such t;me as
a building of the appropriate size and
design can be built. Cape Fear Farm
Credit will continue to occupy a
portion of the existing building
under an agreement with Duplin
Sampson Mental Health," Beckham
said.
Federal Land Banks and Produc
tion Credit Associations were
federally chartered in 1916 and 1933
respectively, but no federal money is
now involved in lending activities.
The Farm Credit System acquires
loan funds by issuing consolidated
systemwide bonds through securities
dealers nationwide. Each borrower
must become a member of the local
association by purchasing stock in
the association at a level equal to five
to 10 percent of the loan amount. The
farmers who borrow the money are
the owners of the entire system.
Cape Fear Farm Credit Service
presently has $450 million outstand
ing in loans and $27 million in
accumulated earnings. The total
combined assets of the Farm Credit
Service (Cape Fear FLBn and Cape
Fear PCA) are $224 million with
present net worth totaling $54 mil
lion.
Directors of Cape Fear Farm
Credit Service include as FLBA
directors: Glenwood Cavenaugh,
Wallace; Carey V. Downing, Fay
etteville; Ralph M. Jolly, Tabor City;
Duncan G. Malloy, Lumber Bridge;
James Sauls, Jr., Warsaw; Wilbur
C. Ward, Clarkton; Earl Wells Jr.,
Burgaw; and M. Sherrill Williams,
Newton Grove.
PCA directors are: Burris C.
Blake, Fayetteville; J. Ralph Britt,
Mount Olive: Joe D. B>rd. Turkev.
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Roy H. Byrd Sr., Bunn Level; Reid
W. Childress, Wagram; Wilbur
Earp, Winnabow; Edgar Hinson,
Whiteville; Charlie Pendergrass,
Raeford, and H.Linwood Royal Jr.,
White Oak.
Cape Fear Farm Credit Service
administrative officers include;
Harvey G. Beckham, president and
secretary-treasurer, Fayetteville;
John Smith, executive vice presi
dent, Faison; Donald F. Rosser,
executive vice president, Fayette
ville; Donald E. Butler, executive
vice president, Dunn; Eugene Smith,
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executive vice president, Lum
berton; Glenn F. Matthews, vice
president, Fayetteville; N. Michael
Baker, vice president, Fayetteville;
Carl S. Gentry, vice president,
Lumberton; Henry T. McDuffie Jr.,
vice president, Lumberton; James A.
McPhatter, senior vice president,
Lumberton; Richard A. Eason, vice
president, Dunn; and Wallace R.
Herring, senior vice president,
Clinton.
Branch manager of Cape Fear
Farm Credit Service in Kenansville
is J. Grey Morgan.
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\ ckristiMi Tradl,l?
Tradition returns to Liberty Hall
Restoration as the lovely ancestral
home of the Kenan family in
Kenansville will welcome guests
December 23 from 1-5 p.m. for "A
^Plantation Christmas." There is no
V admission charge for this holiday
open house.
This annual event has become one
of the highlights of the Christmas
season in Kenansville, where the
Kenansville Area Chamber of Com
merce sponsors a series of holiday
activites.
Last year over 600 people attended
the Christmas open house at Liberty
Hall to view the decorations and
enjoy the refreshments provided by
Q the Kenansville Beautification Com
Imittee. The house and all the
support buildings will be decorated
to reflect how Christmas was cele
brated In tlye mid-19 th century.
lramuon will also be repealed
when Rich Boyd returns to direct the
decorating of the restoration. Boyd,
now assistant director of the
Tennessee Arts Commission in
Nashville, serves as special con
sultant to Liberty Hall. He. along
with Ricky Russell of New York City,
will begin decorating December 17
for the December 23 open house.
In planning "A Plantation Christ
mas," Boyd said, "The decorations
do not remain the same each year.
We may repeat some things from
previous years, but we are always
looking for a new way to do it and for
new materials to use, but it is always
faithful to the spirit of the home as
well as the season."
Liberty Hall Restoration will re
main decorated throughout the
holiday season. For more informa
tion, contact Liberty Hall Restoratityi
at 296-0522. ~
Goshen Appoints
Administrator
Directors of the Goshen Medical
Center in Faison turned their tempo
rary operating arrangements into
permanent positions for acting ad
ministrator/health care educator
Elinor Ezzell and secretary/book
keeper Pam King.
Ezzell has been acting adminis
trator since September and with a
unanimous vote of the nine directors
present for the Nov. 27 meeting, she
will continue in that position on a
permanent basis. Ezzell was ori
ginally hired at Goshen as a health
care educator and will continue to
work in that position as well as
assume the responsibilities of the
administrator.
The directors met last week after a
plan to hire a part-time administrator
to train Ezzell for a period of one
year fell through at the Nov. 13
meeting of the Board. The part-time
position was offered Greene County
Health Care, Inc. Administrator Tom
Lucas. He refused the salaried
position but offered the directors
continued assistance with paper
work if the acting administrator
became the permanent appointment.
Directors also combined two posi
tions, rather than hiring a book
keeper, by appointing Pam Keen
secretary/bookkeeper. Keen, who
was hired as a secretary, assumed
the duties of the bookkeeper when
that employee resigned recently.
According to Goshen Medical Center
Board of Directors Chairman Gerald
Bell, the bookkeeper and adminis
trator positions combined were
salaried at $45,000 annually.
In addition to the permanent
appointments, the directors voted to
hire a part-time office employee to
assist with filing insurance claims.
And, authority to hire the part-time
employee was given Ezzell as
administrator and Goshen directors
on the personnel committee.
Other business broueht before the
directors included a purchasing
agreement with Greene County
Health Care, Inc. for office and
medical supplies. Ezzell told the
directors the joint purchasing agree
ment is expected to trim three
percent from the cost of medical
supplies each year. The annual cost
of medical supplies at the center is
$20,000, Ezzell said.
Although a dollar value had not
been determined, Ezzell did assure
directors a savings would be re
ceived through the office supply
purchasing agreement with Greene.
Directorts approved the agreement
contingent that the quality of health
care services remain at or above the
present level at Goshen.
Attend Seminar
Two area couples, Nelson and Jill
Parks of Route 2, Seven Springs, and
Elton and Judy Davis of Route 1,
Mount Olive, have completed a
seminar for tobacco farmers and
farm women designed to sharpen
production and marketing skills.
The Parkses and Davises were
among 32 couples from floe-' uttd
and burlev toba^co-prodtkin* , aun
ties participating in the executive
development seminars conducted by
the Agricultural Extension Service at
North Carolina State University and
sponsored by the R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company.
The husbands and wives were
involved in both joint and separate
sessions on three dates encom
passing six days in October and
November. The instruction was pre
sented on the NCSU campus in
Raleigh and at Reynolds facilities in
Winston-Salem.
A final session in Winston-Salem
featured the presentation of framed
certificates to the farmers and farm
women by F. Hudnall Christopher,
Reynolds executive vice president
for operations, and Dr. Nash Win
stead. NCSU provost and vice chan
cellor.
Tie Wayne and Duplin counties'
coup'ts an$ othe- fi.mers ai?J. tarm
w :vi >>r. stud'ed y extensive l?it cf
subjects during the seminars These
ranged from new tobacco technology
and marketing subjects to business
accounting and stress management.
Some of the most popular subjects
were on tobacco grading, manu
facturing and world trade on the
commodity side, and estate planning
and stress management on the
business and personal sides.
The 1984 sessions mark the fourth
time the seminars for tobacco far
mers and farm women have been
held. Participants are nominated by
their county extension tobacco
agent.
Pickles And Wines
Give Holiday Gifts From Duplin County
Shopping earlier as the last
minute for holiday gifts can be as
simple as a telephone call within
Duplin County. Duplin wines or
pickles from Cates make gifts suit
able to almost anyone.
The holiday season brings many
joys and those who still have not
figured out what to give the boss or a
relative may want to show pride in
Duplin with purchases of pickles
from Cates in Faison or wine from
the Duplin Wine Cellars or the
Carolina Winery in Rose Hill.
Cates offers a gift pack made
especially for the holiday season and
it can be purchased only at the
company sales office or warehouse in
Faison. The gift pack is made up of
four jars, each 16-ounce, containing
Kosher Icebers. the Kosher
Gherkins, the Sweet Mix, and the
Bread and Butter Crispies. Gift
packs are not available in local
supermarkets, but most of the Cates
brand pickles are on the grocery
shelves where they can be picked up
easily for last minute gifts.
Gift packs can be mailed directly
from the Cates plant by contacting
tne executive otttce. According to
Rose Wilson of Cates, the gift packs
cap be shipped within the Faison
area at a cost of SS.75 each. Areas
within North Carolina, outside the
Faison area, each gift pack plus
shipping charges totals S7.25. Total
cost to areas outside the state and
east of the Mississippi River is $8
and west of the Mississippi River, $9
per pack. Purchases from the execu
tive sales office will be billed or can
be made through payment of a
personal check. Cash purchases are
only made at the warehouse office.
The Cates Company began as a
small operation in 1895, buying only
local cucumber^ Today the Cates
organization pruu^ces Aunt Janp's,
Dailey and Tred^-preklp-^eOels.
Through Cates and other labels, the
company distributes to the entire
eastern seaboard and in the
midwest. Cates brand pickles are
distributed under the Dailey label in
the New England area and New York
and Pennsylvania under the label of
Tree. Midwestern sales of Cates
pickles are distributed under the
label of Aunt Jane's.
Each year hundreds of thousands
of pounds of cucumbers are pur
chased from eastern North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia farmers
for processing by Cates. The
company operates processing plants
in Faison and one in Michigan.
Pickle sales at Cates. like sales at
Duplin Winery, increase during holi
days and are especially up during
The Dunlin Winerv in
Rose Hill began local distribution in
1976. Tfiday the company distributes
throufeh^jt North Carolina, in
Virginia and Washington, D.C. The
Carolina Winery began distribution
this year from their home base in
Rose Hill adding about 10 new wines
to the list of Duplin products.
Products from the Carolina
Winery are available at the sales
office of the Duplin Winery in Rose
Hill or at the Neptune Restaurant at
Wrightsville Beach. As the demand
for the product increases, Ann
Fussell of the Duplin Wine Cellars
said, the Carolina wines would begin
to be distributed in other areas.
Gift boxes from the Duplin Winery
contain a variety of wines or a single
selection. The selections can be
purchased in wooden gift boxes
made at Omega Enterprises in Rose
Hill and inscribed tyith southern
scenes by Dallas Herring, also of
Rose Hill. Selections from the Duplin
Winery can be purchased in card
board gift boxes, too. Duplin wines
and their accompanying gift boxes
are available in local supermarkets
and wine shops or can be purchased
directly from the company sales
office in Rose Hill. Purchases can be
mailed directly from the office in
Rose Hill in any of the 14 different
wooden gift boxes, or bulk orders for
the holidays. The Duplin Wine
Cellars offer 11 different products
including champagnes, brandy and
red and while wines.
"The Carolina wines are out
standing." Ann Fussell said. "They
are as good and some people might
find they like some of the Carolina
wine even better than some of their
favorite Duplin Wine Cellars
wines." The Carolina wines are
made through a different process
than Duplin Wines which brings the
difference in the two products,
Fussell explained. And, both
products are selling rapidly during
the holidays, with the favorite re
maining the Magnolia Wine of the
Duplin Wine Cellars.
The winery purchases grapes
within a 50-90 mile radius of Rose
Hill, but a majority are grown in
neighboring Sampson County. Only
about JO acres of commercial vine
yards exist in Duplin County.
Production at the Duplin winery
has increased from the 3,500 gallons
during the first season to 125,000
gallons last year and combined with
the Carolina Winery this season, the
companies produced approximately
300,000 gallons.