PROGRESS SENTINEL VOL. XXXYVH NO sn USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 DECEMBER 13. 1984 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX Lodge Sponsors Spelling Bee The St. John's Lodge in Kenansville sponsored a spelling bee at the Kenansville Elementary School. Winners and their parents and teachers were honored last week with a dinner at the Lodge. A presentation of a plaque, a dictionary and a certificate was made to the spelling bee winners by Lodge Master Charles Ingram. Pictured above, left to right, are, fourth grader Kenny || Benson, son of Kenneth and Brenda Benson; Kenans ville Elementary School principal Wilbur Carr; fifth grader David Casey, son of Dennis and Sandie Casey; sixth grader Jerneal Pearsall, daughter of Diane Pearsall; and retired Kenansville Elementary School principal and St. John's Lodge treasurer, Z.W. Frazelle. The spelling bee is a renewed tradition of the St. John's Lodge, Ingram said. Today there are 115 members of the St. John's Lodge #13 in Kenansville. Faison Board Approves Handicap Report Faison town commissioners unanimously approved a handicap regulation compliance report during ?\ the December 5 meeting of the ?J Board. The report was compiled by town administrator Neil Mallory. Faison Mayor Frank McColman and board member Bill Igoe. Duirng the November 7 public hearing on the compliance report. Board members were issued copies and a vote scheduled for the December meet ing. No town citizens attended .the public hearing. ^ Compliance with federal handicap reported the paperwork should be completed on the perpetual care project at the Faison Cemetery by January 1. Currently, Faison Ceme tery Trustee and town commissioner Jane Hollingsworth reported to the board, the project has passed its goal of $30,000 needed to provide regulations by town facilities and employment practices is necessary in order to continue receiving revenue sharing funds. Non-structural changes to meet handicap regula tions will begin immediately and structural changes to town buildings will be required by October of 1986. Town attorney Garrett Ludlum perpetual care for the cemetery. Faison Mayor McColman declared December as Selective Service Registration month in Faison by signing a proclamation sent to the town by the federal agency. A uniform fund was established for Town Public Works Director Fred Wheless. A fund of $100 was set up until the end of the current budget and a recommendation accepted to consider $200 for uniforms in the nest fisial year. The request was "na-fe by Whele?s te several of he town commissioners due to the damage caused his clothes by chemicals at the waste water treat ment plant. Commissioners authorized the purchase of a new police car through state contract. The delivery date is to be late June. The new Ford will be paid for out of the 1985-86 budget. The board granted McCoy Best permission to extend a water line beyond the city limits. The request was for a one-inch line to be run outside the city limits along Highway 403 to furnish water to a hog operation. Best agreed to furnish the line and labor to install the pipe if the town would install a meter. A Christmas bonus was granted four Warsaw radio dispatchers and two Duplin County Deputies by the town board. The bonuses were $50 each. Warsaw radio operators dis patch Faison calls free of charge during the year, and have in the past been granted Christmas bonuses by the Fa-son Commissioners. Beulaville Board Faced With Bad - Water Samples Beulaville Commissioners were faced with the failure of six out of 30 water tests from the town system. During the December 3 meeting. Mayor Wilbur Hussey said a chance exists that the system will be required to add chlorine to the water. The board was instructed by the state to notify customers of the test ^ failures of town water. Notification will be added to the next water billing. The board is currently awaiting official notification by letter of the necessary action to correct water problems. According to Hussey, indications point toward the installa tion of a chlorination system. The cost of chlorination pumps at each well site is estimated at $800. And, the system can be operated by present town employees. ? The Commissioners unanimously approved a $175 Christmas bonus for each town employee. The bonus is the same as awarded by the board last Christmas. Fannie Guy of Beulaville was * selected as the town tax lister. Guy was selected on a unanimous vote from the 13 applicants for the position. The auction of surplus and used equipment by the town last month P brought approximately $700, Com missioner S.A. Blizzard reported to the board. A report from the Beulaville town library informed the board of $600 in donations. The funds were from the local Jaycee chapter and the Beula ville National Spinning Company. The Beulaville town library reported daily visitors of 11 to 43 people and 36 to 97 pieces on loan each day. The library is open each Monday, Wed nesday and Friday, 1-5 p.m. 9 Alexander Judge was granted permission to dump sewage collected bv his septic tank cleaning service into the town treatment system. No rates were set for the disposal of the sewage collected by Judge's business. A contract with Stanley Miller as treatment plant operator was brought before the board and approved. The contract was for one year at a fee of $6,200. ^ Town employees turned in descriptions of their job duties as - requested during the November meeting of the board. The motion * 4 m had been defeated in a prior meeting of the board, but was brought up again in November and approved on a three-two split vote. No action was taken during the December meeting to review the job descrip tions. Kenansville Opens First Permanent Town Hall <71 fL Town Clerk Mary Ann Jenkins moves comfortably and happily in her new office. "I can even look out and see the sun. Well, not today. It's rainy, she said last week on Wednesday. Town records and files are gradu-' ally being settled into place in Kenansville's first permanent Town Hall. On Monday night of last week the Board of Commissioners held its first meeting in the new Town Hall. Last month, after several months of negotiations, the town completed the purchase of the former Federal Land Bank building on Rutledge Street ? N.C. 24 east. The town paid #/J,UW IUI IIIC UUIIUIII^. Formerly Che town used a crowded space in the fire department build ing. The chore of moving records and files from the fire department is finished. "It's wonderful to be over here," Mrs. Jenkins said. "I iust didn't have any room to work before." The building will house the clerk's office, police office, public works director's office and the Kenansville Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Jenkins has decorated a Christmas tree in the spacious lobby, which also is being used as the board meeting room. Town offices had been in the fire department since about 1971, said Woody Brinson, a former town official who now is Duplin County economic development director. For many years before that, town government operated from the back of Holmes' Jewelry Store. "It feels wonderful to have our own town hall," Mayor Donald E. Suttles said. "It's something we've needed for a long time. We had run out of room over at the fire house. There was no place for filing cabinets or much of anything else." Kenansville, the Duplin County seat, has a population of 931, according to the 1980 U.S. Census. Three-Car Wreck Kills One Man, Injures Four A 19-year-old Chinquapin man was killed in a three-vehicle accident at about 9:45 p.m. Thursday on N.C. .50, about 21 miles south of Kenans ville, the State Highway Patrol reported. James Darren Whaley, 19, died in the accident. His vehicle received about S9.000 in damage. He was not wearing a seat belt, according to a report by Trooper C.D. Rogers. Four other people were injured in the accident. Three were treated at Duplin General Hospital and re leased, a hospital spokeswoman said. Two of the three had been using seat belts, troopers said. The fourth, a driver of one of the vehicles, Victor Lee Henderson of Route 2, Wallace, was admitted to the hospital Thursday night and released Friday afternoon, a spokes woman said. Henderson's vehicle was cut in half by the crash. Henderson was not wearing a sear belt. He has been charged with driving while impaired and driving while his license was revoked, Rogers said. The third vehicle received about SI .500 in damage, the report said. The wreck happened when Whaley's car was traveling at high speed behind a second speeding vehicle, both northbound on N.C. 50. Rogers said. The car in front of V- haley's crossed the center line and struck a car coming south, he said. The impact knocked the southbound vehicle into the path of Whaley's, which crossed a ditch and struck a tree, Rogers said. Kenansville Names Streets For Resurfacing Priorities '"osts of resurfacing three streets will be determined so the Town of Kenansville's $33,000 street allo cation from state Powell Bill funds can be allocated. The Town Board last week directed Steve Drew, town main tenance supervisor, to obtain cost Figures. In order, the boa. . resurfacing arc Hill, Seminary and Duplin streets. The board also approved a water and sewer contract involved in the satellite annexation of the County Squire and Vintage Inn property on N.C. 24 two miles west of Kenans ville. 11:i rh