HOGG & SONS BOOK BIN!5/3 SPR INGPOR7 MI 49S84 Oceanh BY SUSAN USHER State Division of Environmental Management proposals to restrict development along shellfLshing waters don't reflect existing circumstances along the coast and could "seriously jeopardize" the ability of Ocean Isle Beach to pay for its sewer system. That's the message Ocean Isle Beach commissioners are sending to the state following a meeting Tuesday evening. The town's plea for further study and more public input rather than taking "precipitous action" was to be hanridelivered by Mayor I^iDane Bullington at a meeting of the Environmental Management Commission Wednesday. In the letter, town officials object to the agency's "complete lack of due process" in developing the "rumored" rules and policies and questions the completeness of the data on which they are based. "Tliey'i e going to aggravate the very thing they're tryr ? TUr i i rue i Volume 23, Number 18 s GOP Calls F BY SUSAN USHER B With State Transportation Commissioner Tommy Pollard listening, Mm Bruaswick County Republicans en- I dorsed a bypass around Shallotte and a shorter route from Boiiing Spring I-ikes to Southport Saturday at their g party convention. More than 160 GOP members ^BF' gathered at South Bruaswick Middle JB^ School to meet Pollard, to conduct organizational business and to launch a campaign encouraging Democrats to switch their voter registration. Over the next few weeks, members of the Brunswick County Young Republicans Club also will circulate petitions in shopping centers as they seek support for Gov Jim Martin's tax-reduction package, including repeal of the intangibles, inventory and food taxes. * ?. G OR plans for the J8M election will be guided by the continued leadership of John Dozier of Boiling Spring I.akss who Pollard said wus recognized at th*? state level as one of the GOP's most outstanding ciwuuimt. Dozier was re-elected to another two-year term, us wt-re ViceChairman Rosa i.ee Waiters of Win- ^ ^ nabow and treasurer Don Evans of utto'n Commissi Si ml lotto Millie Murro? of Oak Saturday at the B Island will succeed Brenda Rabon as jy introducrd a r TO-? ' J Brunswick Counl < uiuu vi a|nii tcu *-a.">v dim HUIUICS, souvenirs of a skiing trip, as he hobbled to the podium during the final tion of road fun< minutes of the three-hour convention. Martin. "You're my very special consti- Noting the rip tuency," he said to the eastern transportation co Republicans gathered. "Consider me he pledged, "I f your personal transportation com- energy, all my i missioner." that the 3rd Divl Asserting that Brunswick County road construction roads and other roads in eastern Pollard, a North Carolina had been neglected, businessman, w "treated very badly." during former Southport Repub! Gov. Jim Hunt's eight years in office, relson as the ma he pledged a more equitable distribu- money than anyo Stolen Patio Furniti Found At Hoiden E BY TERRY POPE drawn in the c& An estimated $15,000 in stolen patio have six or seven furniture was discovered in a Hoiden said. Since the de Beach mini-warehouse last Friday, vestigating the ca ? iniruoi Iiircau^nviuli in Uie SUSpeCtE have not county Involving several law enforce At this time, il men I agencies. is other furnitui parts of the count The furniture was pari of an The detectives estimated $500,000 in patio chairs, {isoted two tree tables and beach umbrellas taken furniture from sU from the Pride-Pnmble Inc. fur- other counti siturc manufacturing plant in southeastern Nor Southern Pines, said Moore County tives rented a UShenfi's Detective I Annie Patterson Shailotte busines Patterson said the furniture was and began loadir taken by former employees of the the trip back to \ company nw * twvjfjr nenrvt After receiving Moore County detectives received niture may be s an anonymous telephone call repor- warehouse, detec Ung that part of the furniture had surveillance at U been stored in the warehouse behind Ri venter* said the Sun Company Realty office on the appeared. deter Molden Beach causeway. Patterson search warrant F said. It is believed to have been ?*?? stored there since last April Detective Char Most of the people involved are KohUns Police D from the Southern Pines area." said Batchekx of the i Brunswick County sherifTs detective the case. Pnde-Pi Billy Rivenhark, who helped in the hired their own p investigation None that we know of P.R Harris of th are local nght now." in Robbins. to h In all. * warrants have been stolen furniture \\ . - - ? --- - 1 /33 TO RESTRICT DEVELOF >/e Beoch Pro ing to solve," Mayor Bullington said Tuesday night in an interview with The Beacon. The proposals don't consider efforts by coastal towns to protect surrounding waters and apparently were not hased on data generated locally, but from places such as Winston-Salem and Florida, she maintained. A recent DEM report relates stormwater runoff from medium aensiiy ana high density areas of development directly to the closing of nearby shellfishing waters. To protect the state's shellfishing waters (SA quality) from runoff, DE-M has suggested requiring developers to limit the amount of impervious surface area to 10 percent in projects that drain into coastal waters. "Inpervious" means the surface does not allow runoff to seep through soil layers for natural filtering or cleansing, but instead allows runoff to enter shellfishing waters directly. That runoff often brings with it a load of bacterial pollutants as well as sediment and concentra JRUNSW Shallotte, North Carolina, Thursd "or Rood Imni | " o^BSlsS if*?f f.tOtO ?Y SUSAN UV>(> .DEKMAN JERnV JONES reminded District 3 Transporaner Tommy Pollard of the need for a Shallotte bypass runs wick County Kepublican convention. Jonet successfulcsolutlon setting the bypass as the top roads priority for yIs under Gov. Jim for the Martin gubernatorial campaign pie effect of good "He's going to help us like we've rridors on industry, never been helped before," Harslan to use all my relson vowed, iuthority to insure Pollard told The Beacon h? plan', to ision benefits from return to Brunswick County within i." several weeks to investigate specific Jacksonville road problems personally, including as introduced by the Shallotte bypass. Beach Road lican Tommy Har- between Southport and Oak Island, n who raised more and Stella Road in the I eland area, ne else in the state "Tliere seems to be a lot of pro re .5 iiminimal iwius teach ?e while detectives suspects, Patterson paitraent is suii inse, the names of the : beer, released. -- & is unknown if there ? fe&iimmiaS&mp e stored in other nHfl| H* :y," Patterson said. ? have already con- .4ct tor-trailer loads of %V irage warehouses in Haul truck from a V s Friday afternoon * # jH ig tbe furniture for .r /, loore County / /VB word that the fur- ^ V tored ir. the miru- , & -f AKW Uvea set up 24-hour t J' 7 e site for two days, ' f i^Br _J? When no suspects - .Jk lives obuined a nday morning and | - ^ nature. ies Se&soms of the epartment and T I 5B1 also assisted in HIHH||[HmBilH9l ramble officials also nvate investigator. BRL7