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BY TERRY POPE
Area rescue workers used three
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Riegelwood man from his overturned
chemical tanker truck near Belville.
According to State Highway Patrol
reports, George C. Keaton, 37, was
traveling south on the U.S. 74-76 offramp
to U.S. 17 when his load of
DMT, or dimethyl terephthaiate,
shifted and caused the 1982 Mack
truck to overturn about two miles
west ui Dciviiic.
Registered to Central Transport
Co. of High Point, the truck skidded
down an embankment on the left side
of the ramp, knocking down two road
markers snd ssysth! shrubs Ststs
Trooper D.A. Lewis reported.
Lewis said the driver failed to
reduce speed for a curve, causing the
load to shift. Although Lewis indicated
the driver was exceeding a
safe speed, charges are still pending,
a Highway Patrol spokeswoman
reported luesday afternoon.
Keaton, who was seriously injured,
was taken to New Hanover Memorial
nospiiai in Wilmington. Me was treed
from the truck nearly two hours after
the 10 a.m. accident occurred.
Rescue personnel from Town
Creek, Leland and Acme-DelcoRieglewood
along with fire units
from both Inland and Wilmington
Fire and Rescue aided in the rescue
effort, said Cecil l^gan, Brunswick
County Emergency Management
Coordinator. "Jaws of life" tools
were transported from Town Creek,
Acme-Dclco and Wilmington rescue
units.
At the time of the accident, Keaton
was hauling between 40,000 and
1 47,000 pounds of DMT at a
temperature of around 320 degrees in
the tanker, lx>gan said. At that
I temperature, the chemical is in a liquid
state and crystalizcs once it
becomes 140 degrees or cooler, he adUCV1.
"Less than five gallons leaked
out," Logan said. "About 20 gallons
of diesel fuel also leaked out. Both
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Logan said it was good luck that
the tank did not rupture. The truck
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was also damaged, creating about
$70,000 in damage, Lewis estimated.
"If anybody had gotten in contact
with it before it crystalized, they
would have gotten burned," Logan
said. Aside from its temperature, the
chemical uxerf tn mnko noemn
polyester fibers is not dangerous, he
added.
Keaton had just picked up the
chemical at the Dupont Cape Fear
site in Leland, about five miles from
ine accident, ana was transporung it
to a Dupont plant in South Carolina.
After sliding down the 34-foot embankment,
the driver tumed off his
engine and lights and waited for
about 45 minutes before help arrived,
Logan said.
Gold Rush'
Problems R
BY SUSAN USHER
It's been more than a month since
the Fayetteville man promoting a
"Shallotte Area Merchants Gold
Rush" coupon book left town, but
problems with the telephone sales
operation linger.
Shallotte Police Chief Wayne
Campbell said that the checks pro
moter Tommy Tierney paid people
who delivered the coupon booklets
were not made good. He has since
been negotiating with Tierney's attorney
to secure the funds for the "14
or 15" checks that totaled approximately
$2,000.
"I've spent the past several weeks
trying to track him down all over the
South. He finally had an attorney
return my call," said the chief.
"We're trying to negotiate
something."
In mid-December Tierney's outfit
offered a booklet of coupons worth
about $600 to telephone customers for
prices that started out at $24.95 and
were later reduced to $19.95. But
several participating merchants
withdrew, saying the deal had beer.
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naiupuu vviiipai7 a ouuoiauuu in
Wilmington, helped coordinate the
uprighting and removal of the
tanker. Rescue workers were also
joined by members of the Dupont
hazardous material team in the
clean-up effort.
"They had to cut the seats out of
the cab," I-ogan said. "He was pinned
in upside down."
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and one crane to right the tanker,
which was hauled away by another
tractor trailer rig.
Keaton was later released from the
hospital with a fractured collar bone
and fractured knee, Ixigan said.
Coupon
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misrepresented to them. The enterprise
also drew criticism when
Shallotte Mayor Beamon suggested
the "Shallotte Area" title was
misleading, since most coupons
came from a broad area including
Horry County, S.C., Columbus, New
Hanover and Brunswick counties.
Tierney's sales crew promoted the
coupon as benefitting the "Veterans
Vigil of Honor," with $3 from each
booklet going to the alleged
charitable organization and the rest
to Tele-Mart Ltd.
The sales team had operated out of
room behind Thomas Drugs in
Shallotte, paying two months' rent in
advance and leaving before the rental
period ended.
Tierney left his name and address
with the Shallotte Police Department,
along with a pledge to refund
the cost of unused booklets to the purchasers.
In December, Campbell said local
merchants he had contacted planned
to honor the coupon booklets. He was
uncertain how many had been sold in
the area.
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Water Service
Most Shallotte businesses and residences north of
United Carolina Bank's main office on U.S. 17 were
without water for several hours Friday morning after a
gasket blew out of a T fitting on the 6-inch water main
in front of UCB before 7 a.m. Tackling the repairs
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While the cold snap resulted in frozen and burst pipes
across ihe county last week, Hughes said the gasket
problem was not weather-rein ted. More permanent
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