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Pollocksville-based Jenkins Gas and Oil Co. Inc., the state's largest independently owned propane-gas company, is buying the propane division of Fayetteville-based North Carolina Natural Gas Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The two companies provide propane service to roughly the same part of Eastern North Carolina. Jenkins will add NCNG's nearly 12,000 customers to its own customer base of nearly 35,000. NCNG...