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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
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Volume 23, Number 18
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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
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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
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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<iSWICK COUNTY Sheriffs C
t W-2 Incorporation W,Mi ta stales patio faraftare onto
tip track down the farahare m takea from a Moore Cat
a mini-warehouse on the Hetdea Bea
'MENT NEAR WATERS
tests State Pi
tions of certain toxics such as agricultural chemicals.
Such surfaces include buildings, parking lots and other
areas covered with pavement or concrete.
A rpoutntinn nf this kind would, in practice, cause
development of all areas near shellfishing waters to
cease, Mayor Bullington suggested. "They don't realize
we exist, that there are coastal communities surrounded
by shellfishing waters. Wc arc one of them."
DEM also proposes that a 30-foot wide buffer of plants
be left between a development and shellfishing waters.
Many beach lots are only 50 feet by 100 feet.
I^ee Fleming, chief of the division's water quality section,
shared the proposals last week at a meeting of the
Coastal Resources Commission? to generate discussion
only, he said. Mayor Bullington said that presentation
was the first she'd heard of the changes that might be forthcoming.
like other members of the Coastal Resources
Advisory Council, she questioned some aspects.
iriAMPC
IVIl^PL
ay, March 14, 1985 2J
rovemfintf; 1
blems here that need looking into," 1987, with consti
he said. 1988. The 4.2 m
In introducing the resolution sup- estimated $7.5 mi
porting a U.S. 17 bypass around In other resoli
Shallotte, Shallotte alderman Jerry tion:
Jones said simply, "We need -Petioned Chai
something to get traffic out of town, to appoint a "s<
It's getting kind of busy down there." county Republic;
The audience agreed, with one man Brunswick Count
adding, "You're taking your life in met in the opinio
your own hands driving through specifically the w
there." "Beach Road" to
During his campaign, Gov. Martin - -Approved add.
pledged to put the bypass ahead of Federation of F
other U.S. 17 projects in Brunswick Clubs and the chi
County if thai was what the county's Republicans Glut
citizens want. In the last weeks of his GOP county exec
term. Gov. Jim Hunt moved the -Agreed to pet
bypass ahead in the Transportation the feasibility of t
Improvement Plan, which is subject ing Spring I ^ak
to adjustment by the new administra- 211/Mid way R
tion. Presently the ststs ph?n* to Dozior said such
resume right-of-way acquisition in save residents
FOR COUNTY FIRE ANi
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r ILJjl 1 V vijuiy
Equal Fundir
BY TERRY POPE department $10
Equal distribution of fire and operating expens
rescue funds among the county's five $50,000 annually I
electoral districts is the solution improvements a<
Brunswick County commissioners The $50,000 alk
hope will end the emotional funding five county distri
problem. the county's gei
At their three-hour work session propriated only i
last Wednesday, commissioners dation of a disti
reached a consensus to reorganize committee. The
funding for the 17 fire and nine rescue committee has n
squads in the county. If adopted, the unused Dortions c
tentative plan calls for giving each tions would be c
next fiscal year.
In addition, a
i.. j. up departments wi
.^I|S follow a resol
1 * IB prepared by Con
Clegg before co
ggtimr- irS release the fun
W . jM regulations are r
IrlH proper compliarv
k ? rules and regu
m?ga3SS[ |9 legal liability.
Si 1 fp^ i financial accour
W ?la ll and rescue un
HP ^4 prepared by Cle|
^ m Providing a i
. 4 * to S S " district would re
Hp HH| ' ment by the d
- - district should
MMjffi 100,000 in one
j Manager Billy
sinners also neer.
determine what
r costs in funding i
would be. he add
The plan tenta
twrrurusswjers u
- - five options pre
~ ^ ri held in each
*? ? * * meetings, and c
r _n hearings, wil
throughout the c
funding plan is i
miMtonen.
Ractiou wer
( -.' ffiff'MffiiiGBBiMM options at the fir
vAf* wo r? wrt x?i Commissioner
elective Billy RJvtabarfc kelps load Distnct 3 had
a L"-Raal track last Friday. The stales county establish
raty sutnuiarturtag plant aad hidden is its number or* d
cb causeway ocrtions A aecom
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I t
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-oposals
Alsc, the CRC was to begin implementing this month
recommendations from three Coastal Roundtable groups
for improving water quality. The recommendations called
for several state agencies involved in water quality
issues to work together on management policies.
Ready To Move
A sewer system for Ocean Isle Beach has been in
development for about 10 years and is now on the verge of
becoming a reality.
A state permit for the system was granted February 22.
Bids are to be opened at 2 p.m. on April 18 and contracts
let within 60 days. Construction could begin immediately
afterwards if sufficient upfront cash is in hand.
Henry von Oesen and Associates of Wilmington are
providing consulting engineering and planning for the
project.
"We were aware that continuing to depend on package
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"ax Repeals
uction to begin in seven miles on the trip to Southport.
ile project has an Tommy HarrcLson of Southport
illion pricetag. proposed circulating the petition in
itions, the conven- support of Gov Martin's taxreduction
pi en, which includes
irman John Dozier elimination of the intangibles and inilect
committee of ventory taxes, saying the General
ans to insure that Assembly had been trying to take
y's roads needs are away Martin's powers,
n of the majority," The petition advises the General
idening of N.C. 133, Assembly that voters gave Martin's
Oak Island. tax reducation plan a "mandate"
ing presidents of the during the general election, that
tepublican Women North Carolina loses industry and
lirman of the Young people to neighboring states because
i as members of the 0f the tax inequities. It also calls for
utive committee. repeal of the food tax.
ition DOT to study Don Evans of Sliallotte introduced
i road between Roil- "Operation Switch," the statewide
;es and the N.C. effort to recruit to the GOP
ii&u intersection. Democrats who voted Republican in
a connection could last election
of the community (See RECRUITING, Page
D RESCUE !
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in Rw r^ic+ri^+o
y ?-? jr wiun iv-1o
,000 annually for receive set allocations from the counes
and each district ty as it is now performed,
to fund expansion or Commissioner Herman I.ove
i needed. reported District 4 had requested the
cation to each of the funding method remain as it is now,
cts would remain in with their number two choice to set
leral fund and ap- up taxation districts. District 2 Comipon
the recommen- miaaioner Frankie Rabon said feel1ct
fire and rescue ings were mixed between both opmakeup
of such a tions at his fire and rescue meeting,
ot been decided. All In District 1, although Conunis4
the district alloca- sioner Chris Chappell said he perarried
over into the sonally favored taxation districts,
the fire and rescue members have roil!
fire and rescue quested the funding method remain
11 be required to the same with one exception Instead
lution now being of receiving $10,000 a year, each
inty Attorney David department would like to receive a
mmissioners would flat sum of $15,000 a year plus a conds.
The rules and ttngency fund of iiu.OuO a ye?i **1
rcessary "to Insure aside for each district in case of
ce with all pertinent emergency funding needs Chappell
iations," regarding said the fire and rescue departments
jwiT!"' s.'a ??:* wi uku uwn mm wees anu
liability of the fire telephoned him with their recomits.
a first draft mentation.
\g states. Grace Beasley said the depart>iock
sum to each merits in District 5 were concerned
quire good manage- that if taxation districts are
epartments, so no established, then it should be put to a
spend the entire vote \A the entire county and not
year, said County district by district. She added there
Carter. Commis- was a little confusion as to how the
I to begin a study to districts would be set up
the county's future Brunswick Couniy Emergency
ire and fracuc urdiz Management Coordinator Cecil
ed Logan also requested that each
lively chosen by the department receive $13,000 in exist
week was one of penses, saying $10,000 was not
rented to fire and enough to cover all operating exI
at recent meetings penses One of the major coats for
district District deoartrnenL-i is fnei rw jn/UWI
me or more public Sally Muiholland, !re?urn <?
11 be scheduled Coastline Volunteer Rescue Squad,
ounty before a final ?aid the squad has budgeted S3,??
idopted by the com- next year on fuel alone.
"I'd say insurance is our biggest
e raised to the five expense," Ms MuJholland said,
st district meetings, Behind tfwt is gar
eported Wednesday. Coastline is expecting an Increase
Jim Poole said from 14.1W to ?>? for insurance
requeued that the coverage this year, she said. Gas and
taxation districts as insurance alone is expected to coat
Ixace among the five the squad more than I* 300 of its
J choice would h# to < e~?. rm-vrv ? ?. t ??
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