Jaycee Week Proclaimed In Kenansville
Kenansville Mayor Don Suttles signed a proclamation designating January
13-20 as Jaycee Week. The organization will be holding several programs in
recognition of Jaycee Week, according to Kenansville Jaycee president
Dennis Kirby. A Prayer Breakfast will begin the week and the Distinguished
Service Awards banquet concludes Jaycee Week. The DSA banquet is
scheduled for January 19 at 7 p.m. at the Country Squire. Pictured above is
Kenansville Jaycee president Dennis Kirby, Kenansville Mayor Don Suttles,
and Jaycee Week chairman Carey Wrenn.
* Engagement Announced
Mrs. Jean C. Weber of Covington,
Lousiana, and Thomas W. Bailey of
New Orleans, Louisiana, announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Patricia Anne Bailey, to Walter
Richard Powers, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Richard Powers of
Beulaville. The wedding will take
place May 25 in New Orleans.
Duplin Revaluation
Hits Allotments
The tobacco program's trauma
affects other realms, including the
revaluation of real property in
tobacco-producing counties.
Duplin County is now in the midst
of revaluation, a process state law
requires every eight years. The new
assessments will go into effect Jan.
1. 1986.
For manv vears appraisers could
depend on the tobacco support price
level to determine how much value a
tobacco allotment added to a farm.
"We are not taxing the tobacco
allotments," said Tax Supervisor
Frank Moore. "The allotments are
used as a factor influencing the value
of the property, just like location by a
good highway affects the value."
A tobacco allotment now adds SI
per pound of production quota
allotted to the appraised value of a
farm in Duplin County. The sale
price of farms throughout eastern
North Carolina is determined to a
great extent by the amount of
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tobacco poundage quotas and
acreage allotments assigned to
them.
For tax purposes, appraisers are
supposed to determine the value of
the real property, and sale prices of
similar land provide one of the major
valuation inputs.
The tobacco support price may be
lowered by Congress from the'
present $1,699 per pound to as low
as $1.35 to make U.S. tobacco more
c mpetitive with foreign leaf. Other
congressional or administrative ac
tions may be taken in the next few
months in an attempt to bail out the
financially 'ailing tobacco price
support and production control pro
gram.
"We will continue to place some
value on tobacco allotments, but as
of right now we don't know what it
will be," Moore said. "As long as
the tobacco program exists it lends
some added value to a farm, even
though the value may be small."
"Farmers are caught in a bind on
lie tobacco situation now. They
don't know what they can pay for
tobacco and banks don't know what
they can lend," Moore said.
For many years, farmers have
been able to lease tobacco produc
tion poundage quotas and acreage
allotments from owners who don t
want to grow the tobacco them
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selves. Since 1*>82, il?ey have been
able i" buy quotas and allotments.
Moore said d liar values must be
assigned to property before Sep
tember so Mhe county can send
owners a written notice <?? proposed
property assessments. Notices must
be received by property owners in
time for hearings on any disputed
valuations, he said.
Wallace Board Delays
Decision On Gym Work
Following more than two hours of
discussion Thursday, the Wallace
Town Board delayed a decision on
whether to help pay for a new gym
nasium.
It will consider the matter again at
7 p.m. today (Thursday) in Town
Hall.
A motion by Commissioner
Charles Blanchard, seconded by
Commissioner David Jordan, to fund
the project over four years at a rate
of $20,000 a year remains "?n the
table" until the meeting tonight.
Frank Bullard, the gymnasium
committee cnairman, asked the
board for $80,000, at $20,000 a vear
for four years starting this fiscal
year. He said the committee would
attempt to raise $70,000 through a
fund drive. The committee has about
$7,000 on hand.
He said the gymnasium, which
would be in Clement Street Park
on the south side of Wallace, could
be completed in 1987 or 1988.
Other members of the gym com
mittee appeared with Bullard at the
meeting. They are Jay Brinkley,
Dean Brown, Kim Nazarchyk,
George Strickland and Jack Riven
bark. Blanchard also is a member of
the committee.
The proposed gym would replace
one that burned in 1979. The park is
on the former Wallace School site,
which was donated to the town by
the school system after it was no
longer needed for a school.
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S"n said the recreation commission
warns a 10.000-square-foot, 80-by
125-fooi building. Ii would be a
metal structure over cinder block
walls 10 feet high. The building
w<>uld house basketball and racquet
ball courts, storage space and
bleachers to seat 400-600 people.
Commissioner Arnold Duncan
said. "It bothers me to commit us
four years down the road." Duncan
pointed out that Gov. Jim Martin "is
talking about dropping this inventory
tax and that will cost us over $12,000
a ye.u."
Blanchard said the board could
take $25,000 from its $30,000 contin
gency fund for this year's payment.
"It's not been too many years ago
that the town couldn't pay its bills,"
Commissioner N. H. Carter said.
"There's a Committee of 100 started
and the town hasn't contributed
anything. There's a rescue quad
building right beside us here that
cost $90,000 and the town didn't con
tribute toil.
"1 i.,ink we got this thing back
wards. You should go out and raise
the money and then come back and
tell us what you have," Carter said.
Rivenbark replied, "In my busi
ness. if 1 were' to say 1 was going to
be out of business in four years, 1
doubt if I'd last two years. You can't
sit back and say things are going to
be bad and prosper. This gym will
bring people into town. Everytime
anything happens in this town
here's a certain few that have to
contribute."
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