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13H*j>Jmr siliih PROGRESS SENTINEL L. XXXXVII1 NO. 36 USPS 162-860 KENANSVILLE. NC 28349 SEPTEMBERS. 1985 16 PAGES THIS WEEK 10 CENTS PLUS TAX [Bell To Ring In Court 1THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA THE COUNTY OF DUPLIN IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION TO THE HONORABLE T. ELWOOD REVELLE, HIGH SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF DUPLIN AND THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA GREETINGS: WHEREAS, that in the bygone days of yesteryear, perhaps intermittingly for centuries, the "Old Bell" now situated on the west side of the Duplin County Courthouse in the village of Kenansville, proudly tolled its warning and admonition to all within its curtilage that the Honorable, The Superior Courts of the Great State of North Carolina, were about to embark upon the business of the people. AND WHEREAS, that for reasons unknown, this ancient and noble ritual was abandoned, to the dismay and sorrow of all who believed in the continued preservation of this historic custom. AND WHEREAS, it is deemed proper, fitting, and most appropriate that the "Old Bell" once again resume its time honored roll of jw announcing the opening of the Superior Courts of Duplin County, to the joy and delight of all who remember and cherish "the traditional pealing of the bell" on High Court day. IT IS THEREFORE, CONSIDERED, ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND i DECREED, that forthwith, five minutes prior to the daily scheduled opening of each and every session or term of the Superior Court of ? Duplin County (civil and criminal) on the morning of and again at the noon recess, the High Sheriff of said County of Duplin shall cause the "Old Bell" to be rung by a competent and trustworthy Bailiff, duly k selected and commissioned by him, to the end that all persons, firms or corporations shall be put on notice that this most Honorable Court is about to address the day's transaction of business for those who may be summoned to appear within its hallowed halls. HEREIN FAIL NOT, this the 29th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1985. Henry L. Stevens, III Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Fourth Judicial District of The State of North Carolina Editor's Motet The following article about DnpUn's Courthouse bell was published fit Along The Way My 18 oftUt year. The Duplin Times feprtats the article as a point of historical Interest. Q Very often things in plain sight are often unnoticed. An example is the bell outside the Duplin County courthouse. Near the west entrance of the Duplin County courthouse is a bell which was used to toll for courts and important meetings. The June 18, 1943 issue of DUPLIN TIMES carried an article about the courthouse bell. The article is reprinted below. Duplin's Courthouse Bell Tolls On The Duplin County courthouse bell continues to toll for courts and other important county doings though it no longer hangs in the tree on the north side of the courthouse, which was its home for many years. _ Recently the tree was found to be so badly decayed that it was not thought safe. The bell, which weighs 211 pounds, was taken from the tree and has been mounted on a standard by the door on the north side of the courthouse. In the old Duplin County courthouse, which was torn down in 1911 for the erection of the present structure, there was a bell cupola, in which a brass bell, which tolled out calls to court for many years, was hung. When the old courthouse equipment was sold, the bell was sold along with the other equipment to a farmer somewhere in the county. No plans were made for installing a bell in the new courthouse but a bell was purchased to hang at the post office, to ring when the mail was brought in. Gradually the use of this bell was discontinued and the county, in need of a bell, this bell was brought to the courthouse and ^ hung in the tree, where it has served its purpose for the past 15 or 20 I years. Drooping Leaves Alarm Duplin Tobacco Growers "Droopy leaf is slashing the tobacco income of farmers in rural areas of Duplin County. The cause is unknown to the farmers, but the problem appears to affect only one tobacco variety ? a new one, Speight's G-80. Other Speight's varieties, such as Speight's 28, seem unaffected. Speight's varieties have long been standbys for area farmers who say they have had good luck with them over the years. Leaves of tobacco plants in affect ed fields droop from the stem. They fall off long before thev mature. Fields with "droopy leaf have carpets of fallen leaves between the rows. Morris Kornegay has G-28 and the new G-80 in the same field near Friendship Church on Secondary Road 1304 at Outlaw's Store. While all tobacco in the area is three to four weeks later than normal, the G-28 looks good. "That's making a real good crop," Kornegay said. The ground under the G-80 plants is carpeted with fallen leaves. Im mature leaves fall if a plant is shaken and leaves on the stalks droop to the ground, stems of many of the leaves are circled with a brown, rotten appearing surface where they joined the stalks. The stalks appear norma). Kornegay estimates he is losing as much as $1,000 an acre of potential income from the affected field. Similar conditions with this tobacco variety appear on many area farms, growers said Thursday of last week while coding off from the sticky heat with drinks from coolers at Outlaw's Store. W.K. Collins, an extension tobac co specialist at N.C. State Univer sity, said that the culprit is a bacterial disease called leaf drop, hollow stalk or soft rot. "We've had it before they *pppi plants, and we have instances of fields where they have two vari eties," Collins said. "In some cases Speight would be the one that had the problem and in others, both would have it." William K. Snyder, owner of Speight Seed Farms, said the com pany stood by its claim that the new variety is resistant to disease. "Every variety is susceptible" to leaf drop, Snyder said. "It just depends on where it was planted, whether the field has proper drain age. It's strictly a bacterial rot." Kornegay said he noticed the droopy leaves after, but not before, he topped the field. The flowering top of tobacco plants is topped ? removed ? to keep the plant's strength for leaf development. "There's a crowd from right around Magnolia to Mount Olive that's affected," Kcrnegay said. Oliver Outlaw said his previous success with Speight varieties prompted him to make his entire tobacco planting of the new variety. His tobacco is severely affected. "It's taught me a lesson about going whole hog on something new," he said. Marshall Phillips has G-28 and the new variety. His G-28 looks fine, although late. Leaves of his G-80 carpet the ground under the plants. Phillips said he tried curing and selling some of the falling and fallen leaves. "1 didn't even get a price support grade for it," he said. Developer Buys Historic Property For Restoration >ri e a. . j <ir * J?<>!.?/>/! ??? ???/???? me nrsi returns on Warsaw s investment with Pennsylvania de veloper Owen Kugel appear to be coming in, said a spokesman for the Warsaw Chamber (if Commerce. Ben Eason said last week that papers are being signed for Kugel to buy the Bowden Apartments, although no money has changed hands. The large buildings provide low rent housing. They are owned by Nell Bowden, a descendant of the builder. They were constructed in the last century near the railroad. Eason said Kugel plans to turn the buildings into "luxury" apartments. He believes about SI.5 million will UV UIVU1VCU 111 U1C piujcti. The chamber spokesman said another Kugel project is shaping up but is not ready to be announced The Chamber of Commerce is putting up $50,000 for a contract with Kugel, the Lancaster, Pa., owner of OK Associates and OK Properties. In return, Kugel is pro moting development of a five-block area in downtown Warsaw. In March the town board added $10,000 to the promotion. Eason said Kugel's company I promised to have bids called for at least $2 million worth of construe' >n in the project area within a year. Kugel began his development operations about 10 years ago and has contracts with 15 cities in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Ohio. He also has contracts with business groups in Tarboro, Green ville, Henderson, Salisbury, Ashe ville, Elizabeth City, Kinston, Yan ceyville, Burlington, Goldsboro, Rocky Mount, Mount Olive, Eden, Reidsville, Fayetteville, Aberdeen, Clinton, Dunn and Sanford in North Carolina. Asked for comments about Kugel, spokesmen in Lewistofi, Pa., praised his work. But Berwick, Pa., officials said they had no results. Kugel recently said the lenders in Berwick did not support the down town projects and local support is necessary. New Kidney Stone Treatment Offered locally The Carolinas, Georgia and Vir ginia are known to urologists as the "stone belt." Locally 16 private urology practices have banded together to provide eastern North Carolina with the most advanced treatment available for kidney stone removal. Within the past two years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a device that crumbles kidney stones with shock waves. After the stones are crumbled into tiny pieces, a patient is able to pass them without surgery. According to statistics, the proce dure is successful 99 percent of the time without surgery. The tech nique, extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy, was developed in Germany and 12 of the physicians forming the Carolina Lithotripsy Ltd. in eastern North Carolina have trained at the developing institution. The ESWL was purchased by the Carolina Lithotripsy and granted a Certificate of Need by the Depart ment of Human Resources of North /-? is L" L. HI i *? a Carolina, wmcn win quaniy a paiiem for reimbursement of treatment charges by their insurance company. The ESWL is currently being in stalled at Highsmith-Rainey Memorial Hospital in Fayetteville. According to Dr. J.E. Scarff Jr., M.D. with the Clinton Urological Associates of Carolina Lithotripsy, the machine was purchased at a cost of $2 million and is the only privately owned ESWL in the United States. Carolina Lithotripsy expects to begin treating patients October 1. The Clinton Urological Associates also practice in Duplin from an office located in the South Wing building next to Duplin General Hospital. According to Dr. Scarff, a kidney stone about the size of a nickel would have required open surgery with an expected hospital stay of seven to eight days, without complications. And, the patient would be out of work up to six weeks after surgery. The same size stone using the ESWL technique would require a two-night stay in the hospital and only a week away from the job, Dr. Scarff explained. Cost of the technique is com parable to surgery, Dr. Scarff ex plained. Within the past 18 months the cost of the ESWL has decreased from $14,000 to $8,000. Currently there are 11 ESWL machines operating inthe United States. One of the greatest advantages of the ESWL technique is the safety for repeated use. According to Dr. Scarff. open surgery could only be performed twice to remove stones from the kidney ? the third opera tion would require the removal of the organ. The technique will work only for stones still in the kidney. The tech nique uses an underwater spark to ...? - U ...u: _u .iw i on suwck waves which arc focused on the kidney stone through the use of X-ray machines. The repeated waves begin to break up the stone after 200 to 400 shocks and Dr. Scarff said as many as 1,500 can be administered safely. The pro cedure is finished in about 45 minutes. During a single day the Carolina Lithotripsy expects to treat up to six patients. Patients from all over eastern North Carolina will receive the basic work-up by their urologist using the local hospital facilities prior to being scheduled by the Carolina Lithotripsy office. Physi cians from the 16 private urology practices alternate services at the Carolina Lithotripsy office and High smith-Rainey Hospital in Fayette ville. Maple Hill Man Sought In Shooting Duplin County Sheriffs Depart ment officers last week were seeking Charles Jacob Farrior, 48, of Maple Hill. They have charged Farrior with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting serious bodily injury. Fat 'tor was charged in the shoot ing of his 19-year-old stepdaughter, Mary Ann Farrior of Wallace, with a handgun about noon on Monday of last week in a wooded area in the Cypress Creek area of southeastern Duplin County. She was reported in serious but stable condition in Duplin County General Hospital. She was brought to the hospital on Monday afternoon of last week by the Chinquapin Rescue Squad. Deputy E.G. Baker, who heads the investigation, urged anyone with information about the whereabouts of Farrior to notify the Sheriffs Department in Kenansville. Bostic Accused Of Water Violations ' v-: ?? ; In Topsail Island Project ' Muitw Bostic, president of the company, is of Rose Hill, sad has heee cited at least three times for North Topsail Water & Sewer Inc. is in violation of state water quality standards for activities disturbing an Onslow County creek, a state official said last week. The violation stems from water samples collected July 26 in Mill I Creek, a tidal creek into which the company's wastewater treatment plant discharges runoff, said Bob Jamieson, regional director for the N.C. Department of Natural Re sources and Community develop ment. Onslow County developer Marlow Bostic of Rose Hill is president of the company, which has been cited at least three times for environmental violations. The last of those viola tions resulted in a $24,000 fine, which Bostic has appealed. A hearing has been rescheduled for mid- to late-October. In the most recent case, the state Division of Enviconmental Manaee ment found the turbidity level of Mill Creek violated water quality standards, Jatnieson said. The viola tion notice was written Aug. 12, but a decision on whether to levy a penalty has not been made, said Jim Sheppard. a spokesman for DEM in Raleigh. Jamieson said sediment in the creek is affecting the amount of sun light that filters through the water, affecting the levels of oxygen in the water and possibly harming plants and animals. The sediment also can end up in estuarine areas and disturb shellfish, which need smooth sur faces to attach to during develop ment. Treated sewage is pumped into lagoons and is not discharged into the stream, Jamieson said. Both Charles Lanier, Bostic's lawyer, and Jim Furney, his spokes man, said they were not aware of the most recent charges. Lanier said the state is trying to come up with new violations to support the $24,000 fine levied last year. "It just seems tome they're trying to conjure up everything they can," he said. "I think they're going to end ? up with egg on their face." The $24,000 fine was levied after sedimentation ? from 300 acres the comoany cleared for three large ponds ? filled in 80,000 square feet ?mary nursery area, the state T-nnv also altered a without a permit, illegally deepened the stream and dug four ditches that ran into its headwaters, the state charges. Bostic has been cited about 15 times since 1976 for violations for work on the coast. In some cases, the developer has been required to restore the damaged areas. In a few cases he has paid tines, but assess ments for many of the violations are pending. DRIVERS! 1AKEITSI0W!. s m Back To School Time III U Jury Says Warsaw Man Guilty In Rape, Murder Kussell Hoiaen jr., ji, or Warsaw was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder and rape by a Duplin County Superior Court jury in Kenansville. Judge Henry L. Stevens III de layed the jury's consideration of sentence until this week. Holden could be sentenced to death or life imprisonment on the murder con viction. He was charged with the rape and murder of Vanessk Jones, 17, of Warsaw. Her body was found March 16 in a corn field just outside of Warsaw. She had been shot in the throat. 1 The prosecution contended that part of a pair of suspenders be longing to Holden was found under the right foot of the victim. The jury returned its verdict about noon Friday. In testimony Wednesday, Steve Tawistowski of the State Bureau of Investigation said that under the seat of the defendant's car he found half a set of red suspenders. He said he found half a set of similar sus penders under the right foot of the victim. Tevone Hicks of Warsaw testified he was driving a car in wnich Hoiaen was riding at about 4:30 a.m. March ) 16. He said Holden told him he wanted to have se* with the girl and probably would have to kill her. The prosecution completed its case just after lunch on Thursday. The defense presented no witnesses and completed its case about 4:30 p.m. Thursday. lJudge Henry L. Stevens III, who is presiding, asked jurors if they wanted to hear his instructions and begin their deliberations late Thurs day. The jurors decided to wait until Friday. The jury was to decide if the defendant is guilty of first degree or second degree murder or not guilty.
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