MO Construction And Industry Rocruitment Linked
While a segment of 1-40 has been opened between "
Wallace and Rocky Point, construction is still underway
on other parts of the interstate. Pictured above is
construction on 1-40 outside of teachey, the segment
extends from south of US 41 at Wallace to north of US
117. The contract for the segment was awarded last
December. According to Duplin Development Officer
Woodv Brinson, the time to plan and recruit industry
along 1-40 is now. The advantages of a major interstate
have consistently meant growth through new industry,
he said. And, even though 1-40 is not scheduled for
completion until September of 1987, plans for new
industry recruitment should begin immediately in
Duplin County. The completion date of the segment
pictured above is December of this year.
Duplin County Sees
Development Near Brought In By 1-40'
The time to plan for development
along 1-40 la now, says Duplin
County's director of economic de
velopment.
A swath of business and industrial
activity will be created near the
Interstate 40 route as construction of
the port-to-Piedmont link progresses
Duplin business leaders predict.
This has occurred along most
interstate highways in the past, the
nearest examples being in the
Smiihfield and Benson areas of
Johnston County, Dunn in Harnett
County and Lumberton in Robeson
County.
The lime to plan for that develop
ment is now, before everything is
locked up. said Woody Brinson,
Duplin County economic develop
ment director.
However, agriculture will remain
the county's "bread and butter" for
the foreseeable future.
Duplin ranks among the top 100
counties in the nation in agricultural
? income. The 1984 gross agricultural
income was estimated at about S260
million by the county Agricultural
Extension Service. Duplin has top
ped the state in farm income for two
decades.
It is called the leading poultry
producing county of the nation, with
an unusual mix of turkeys, broilers,
market egg flocks and hatching egg
flocks. The gross return from poultry
in 1984 was estimated at $137.5
million, with turkeys providing $80.5
million, broilers $37.1 million and
chicken and turkey flock replacement
hatching eggs $15.8 million. It is the
only eastern North Carolina county
in which the gross return from
livestock and poultry nearly triples
the return from crops.
A broiler processing plant oper
ates at Rose Hill and a turkey
processing plant at Wallace. Another
Duplin-based Firm, Nash Johnson
and Sons Farms, owns the House of
Raeford poultry processing plant in
Hoke County and supplies that plant
with most of its birds.
An $18 million turkey processing
plant in northern Duplin County is
being proposed jointly by Goldsboro
Milling Co. of Wayne County and
Carroll's Foods Co. of Duplin
County.
Not every company has found the
way to succeed in the county's
impressive and growing poultry in
dustry. Last year the Watson Sea
food and Poultry Co. of Rose Hill
failed, leaving its 200 countract ,
broiler growers without birds and
about 250 workers of one shift in the
Rise Hill broiler processing plant
without work. Come of the workers
have been hired on other shifts.
While some of the growers with the
best poultry houses were "taken on"
by other program operators, many
have been left with no contracts and
no birds.
A major producer of swine,
another growing industry in the
county, bought the Watson feed mill
south of Rise Hill from the Federal
bankruptcy court. Murphy Farms of
Rose Hill as expanded in a manner
similar to the poultry industry,
through a combination of growing its
own and contracting with farmers to
grow out nogs.
Although Duplin usually ranks
about 10th among tobacco-producing
counties in the state, it is one of the
few eastern counties in which
tobacco is not the leading income
producer. Still, tobacco is an impor
tant crop, providing a gross return
las i year of $33.7 million.
Despite its past profitability, the
problems of tobacco are forcing
farmers to seek other income
sources. New poultry houses reveal
this trend in an expensive way ? at
$75,000 to more than $120,000
apiece. The poultry industry has a
history of moving from one or "wo
good marketing years to two or three
bad ones, and there is fear it is
moving into a poor year due to rapid
expansion.
N.C. Hydraulics at Beulaville,
which makes and repairs hydraulic
cylinder, is expanding. It plans to
add 20-25 employees to the 70 now
employed, said Brinson, the
economic development director.
Duplin's textile industry has faced
some of the national industry's
problems, although changes in
product have enabled the Guilford
and National Spinning company
plants to hold their own, Brinson
said.
In 1982, a year of depressed
poultry and hog markets and textile
troubles, Duplin's per capita income
of $6,900 was 80th among the 100
counties in the stale, according to a
state report. The slate average was
$9,048 and the U.S. Average,
$11,100.
A combined effort of business and
industry may have canged Seaboard
System's collective mind about eli
minating the line between Goldsboro
and Wilmington. Brinson said the
railroad has agreed to review pro
gress in increasing freight revenue
on the line as far south as Wallace
for a year.
Wallace Rezones Lot Re Zones |
Approval of a rezoning request has
removed one obstacle to the expan
sion of the N&W Food Service Co. in
Wallace.
The Wallace town board in a
special meeting last week rezoned
property recently purchased by the
company beside its present plant
from a residential designation to a
central business classification. J.L.
Nichols Jr., owner of the company,
said the lot will be used for parking.
Nichols outlined expansion plans
for his company at the board's Feb.
14 meeting and asked for the re
zoning. some nearby residents op
posed the rezoning proposal.
Nichols outlines expansion plans
for his company at the board's Feb.
14 meeting and asked for the re
zoning. Some nearby residents op
posed the rezoning proposal.
Nichols wants to add 15,000
square feet of cooker and freezer
space to his 45,000 square-foot
warehouse. He is now leasing
freezer and cooler space in Wil
mington. The firm wholesales foods
to restaurants and fast food chains.
Nichols told the board the firm now
has 40 employees. It expects to more
than double its employment with the
addition.
Nichols said the expansion will
cover his present parking area. He
needs to establish his parking area
on (he recently purchased property
on East Cliff Street. The residential
zoning would not have permitted a
parking lot. Under tnc central Busi
ness category he will be permitted to
use the property for parking.
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Homebound/Hospitalized Services
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The Homebound/Hospitalized
program is available for all schoolage
students in Duplin County between
the ages of 5-18. A student may be
eligible for the program after it has
been established that the student is
to be confined for four weeks or
longer to a hospital or home for
treatment or for a period of con
valescence.
The student needing the service
should be examined by a competent
medical authority and a determina
tion made that the student shoud be
expected to be away from school for
a minimum of four weeks.
The medical statement needed to
qualify a child may be obtained by
H'lliavuilg >"V ^uuv.fnn ? ? _
or by calling Lynda D. Day, ad
ministrator of programs for excep
tional children, at the Board of
Education, 296-1521.
Students who are eligible are
given instruction based on their
needs from 3-5 hours per week. Mrs.
Linda Johnson has worked as in
structor for the past five years. She
serves as a link between the school
and home as she works with the
student's regular classroom teacher f
to insure continuity in the student's
educational program while away
from the classroom.
For additional information, call
296-1521 or contact the principal of
any school in the county.
Troubled Farmer Is
Still Area's Mainstay
Despite its financial problems,
agriculture remains the major
income producer of eastern North
Carolina.
Virtually all of the businesses in
towns such as Wallace, Tabor City
and Whiteville are farm-related and
farm-supported.
In the last decade, poultry and
swine have become major income
sources for Duplin, Sampson,
Wayne, Union, Wilkes, Chatha'".
Pender, Wayne and Lenoir countie
Support services and poultry ana
swine processing plants provide
thousands of off-farm jobs for North
Carolinians.
Tobacco continues to be the major
farm income source in most South
easter" North Carolina counties,
Sampson and Duplin being the
principal exceptions.
The gross return from both poultry
and swine topped tobacco in Duplin
County again last year, as it has for
several years. The poultry gross was
estimated at $137.5 million by the
county extension service. That
amounted to more than half of the
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Gospel Concert
At Magnolia |
Yhere will be a gospel concert on
March 2 at the Magnolia Auditorium
at 7:30 p.m. Featured groups will
include the Brill Brothers of
Warsaw, Ronnie Ezzell and the Good
News Singers of Maple Hill, New
Cvwenant Life Singers of Faison, and
Nocole, a visiting gospel soloist of
New York.
The public is invited to attend.
$260 million agricultural gross for
Duplin County in 1984. The return
from swine was estimated at $49.9
million, according to the report. The
county ranks 10th or 11th among
North Carolina counties in tobacco
production.
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