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A I ? A CONVERTED World War II "Flj tracted by the state during spring firt to 2,000 gallons of chemical retardan 'Flying, Districl It arrives like clockwork at the Bi mid-March of each year, just in time season in eastern North Carolina. Before the World War II vintage departs in late May for its Greybull, other fire zones, it will have played taining the forest fires that sweep county district each year, dropping u chemical fire retardant in a single r I-ate Thursday pilot Daryl Not Charles Peterson made two drops 01 town shortly after the bomber's arri than scheduled. It was called out again Friday and afternoon drizzle temporarily dam| district. Each year for about the past 20 y Forest Ranger Willard lane of W Division of Forest Resources ha bomber" fur the district to help wildfires while they're small and les help bring major fires under control is stationed at eastern regional Kinsion. TViio ynor (Ko contract price is $30! time and $700 per 24 hours on standi in a ' good" tire season here, Noi Peterson might put in 25 hours in t fires by a small lead plane piloted b N ' Canton. By Saturday evening they hu hours of air time in three days of di ?''lt's just like being a real firenu Auctioned i A check for $12,500, the down payment on land that will net the schools 5100,000, has been delivered to the Brunswick County Board of Education. Several lots in Pender County were recently auctioned by the school board for $100,000, the minimum amount the schools were awarded in bond forfeitures for James Home, formerly of Sunset Beach, a defendant in the December 1980 U-Haul drug smuggling case. " ^71 Hleuiclrg MAIN ST SHAILOTTE 754 6007 SPECIAL .OF THE \WEEK Wednesday, \ March 27 ALL SEIKO WATCHES 25% j ' ' ^ I SHO* At *ir S?OAlSW"M ? CASH CHICK O* ?AJ*r CAAOS s \ ring Boxcar" con- a single run. Based ; season, dumps up five-county area, t on a blaze during Boxcar' f 's Wood'. ?ar Pen airfield in "Hours and houi : for the spring fire rings." District 8, with "Flying Boxcar" includes Brunswi Wyoming, base or Duplin countiesthrough the five- that the districts' p to 2,000 gallons of million, un. While the sever >bley and copilot year to the next, I n a fire at Grisset- Carolinas are h( val one day earlier elsewhere in the i the pine trees ai Saturday, when an found in most tim >ened most of the "It's a lot hard? no landmarks." h Powers contract ears, said District area before warn hiteville, the N.C. lx>ading the b s leased a "fire minutes, Nobbley contain and out 170 mph. the aver s dangerous and to the converted CA second bomber airstrip deep witt headquarters at The tanker suf ment Umt inclu ) on hour for flying three p'ews will >y. each to Brunswi bbiey said, he anu Brunswick's new he air, guided into i^rie said existii iy Gene Parsons of Shallotte. id logged about two Three smaller ity. capacity of 250 g an," said Nobbley. near Jacksonville Property Cne< Although the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the schooLs receiving the bond forfeitures, land in Pender County was used as collateral for the fines. The schools had the choice to either retain the property or to sell the lots as a whole parcel, said school board attorney E.J. Prevatte. The board agreed to sell the property a3 a whole, but with a release clause to grant individual lots to the IF YC Not t A ^ v y X A A Tra YOU'R Tjv At least, you're not living I discover today this preatig single- or multi-family Hon golf course views next to tl abundant amenities from < tennis to stables and ridini private manna Better act soon, though Fi out. Phase two is on its wa Tradition' now. Ocean Isle Beach. NC/(919) TfA I 3 STAFF PHOTO BY SUSAN USHIR ;^s r.V;' I at the Bear Peu air strip, it serves a ' I -.?yr 115 s F/res Ca s of boredom and then the alarm Pe' hel a diameter of about 100 miles across, |101 ck, Pender, Columbus, Bladen and "J" and about 2.1 million acres of forest. ^ , i -A. i .a r__ j *... * ...... Cat ia&i year woodlands had a value of about $640 wc tra ity of the fire season varies from one >omber pilot Nobbley said fires in the B| )tter than those he typically fights county. That's apparently because of * id the heavy undergrowth typically lu iber stands. :r to spot fires here because there are te said, adding that fellow Hawkins & GH tanker pilots who have worked the |jW ed he could easily get lost, omber's tanker takes about seven feu said. And with an air speed of up to fig age drop takes about 20 minutes once T 110 leaves the 6,000 foot state-owned kin the Green Swamp. >plements district firefighting equiplies i2 tractors with plows. Another ^ seen be equipped and assigned, one ck, Bladen and Columbus counties. I j piow and crew wiii be baseu at Maco. ig plows are located at Bolivia and *^4 i lu\n\luiru omUimI ...1*1. ? 11 AIT:k Received owner as they are paid for. That will allow the board to receive an even flow of cash from the sale within the next year, said school finance officer Samuel Adcock. Home was one of several defen- M danls arrested Nov. 20, 1981 in connection with the conspiracy to traffic I Into the county more than 10,000 pounds of marijuana. I xj're jving dition, eNot ing. the way you'd like to. Come 10U8 iife*tyle of luxunoua jee with mtracoaatal or ie Atlantic Ocean with rharnpionehip golf and fcj path* aa wall a* a v r iaa? one i* virtually sold piy Bttfiri IjviriK a /" Sidim, , atonic^ ? --cm Outatd* NC ?w?) tw ?* THE BKUNSWK STATE-OWNED PLOW cuts a fire lane around a U' trash is tank at Longwood Thursday morning. A runaway thrca Volunteers From Five Un (Continued From Page i-A) 'olunteer firefighters from clutch problems, labash, Waccamaw. Sunset "It has probably been ach, Ocean Isle and Shallotte breaking week as far a ped keep fire off threatened from volunteer fire deps ises and chased and outed spot concerned," he said. "Ev> ;s that developed, Ix>gan said, forest service went out rlctcwr. brought a tanker, more volunteer dep labash and Waccamaw tankers responded also." re out of service, one with Both Logan and fcrcs! nsmission trouble, the other with officials cautioned count; A 558-ACKK FIRE ucor (irlsscitown Thursday evening hroug and destroyed two barns and four cars. ?wfywir" . - v' -_ .m $S?hSinCoSBRF BBSjhTzMH AKL (jjj) $14.99 ga! FOlIC the crc SOUTHERN COATING The South is unique and so are the product the features, check the prices, then check 01 ever use See all the crowd pleasers from So BUILDING SU ' Mw' '" b#??*?n Or?Ofi lt<? 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