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Money, N For Artific BY SUSAN USHER Brunswick County stands at th< head of the line to reap the benefits o a double boost to the state's artificia reef program announced this week local fishing interests are predicting Monday evening in Raleigh, Gov James Martin and R.D. Sanborn president of Seaboard Systen Railroad, announced the donation o 200 boxcars to the state for use as ar tificial reefs. The announcement wa made at a dinner at McKimmoi Center for that purpose. "The boxcars are available im mediately," said Roy Carden spokesman for the N.C. Departmen oi Natural Resources and Communi ty Development. "We just don't hav the money to put them in the ocean.' But that problem was solved Tues day, said Rep. David Redwine. A bil appropriating $300,000 to the state' reef program in the Division c Marine Fisheries cleared the Hous after earlier passing the Senate. Those were some of the final piece to a puzzle local sports fishermen ha been working on for months. A few days earlier the Brunswic County Fishing Club received pel mits from the U.S. Army Corps c Engineers to create six new reefs a distances from 3.2 miles to 18 mile offshore. The permits will eventually b transferred to the Ixing Bay Ai tificial Reef Association, a non-prof organization created by th Brunswick County and Oak Islan Fishing Clubs and Brunswick Ba Reef Restoration Inc. "Everybody's in pretty muc agreement the first drops should b off Brunswick County since we don have any active reefs," said Bi Tax-Reducth Before Ass( Some bills stalled and others spc forward last week as the Genen Assembly moved toward a mid-Jul closing. On this week's agenda were coi sideration of a large tax cut packai and a bill that would repeal the pr perty tax and replace it with a high) sales tax. The tax cut compromise bill woul cut taxes by about $123 million i fiscal 1986-87. It would phase pt about one-third of the inventory ta and about one-tinrd of the intangible tax,, exempting money on depost an on hand, along with short-term cas balances held by stock and bon brokerage firms. It would elimina! about 96 pecent of inheritance ta returns and cut the income tax ft low and moderate income persons. Three votes, on separate days, ar required for adoption of the packagi which Gov. James Martin ha asserted doesn't go far enough in pr< viding tax relief. However. Kep. David Redwine, i his weekly report, said he believes is a "very responsible approach that will provide funds for economi growth and education. He also said he has receive numerous calls about the proposal I replace the property tax with a eight-percent sales tax. The bill' sponsor has asked the bill not be coi sidered this session, but made the ol ject of a blue ribbon sudy panel. "I agree with this position," sai Redwine, and 1 have maintaine from the beginning that we need t study this interesting proposal." By some estimates, Brunswick an New Hanover counties would los millions of dollars in revenue unde the proposal, but a majority of cour ties would experience gains i revenue. Meanwhile, a bill affecting coast; property owners remains held up t the Senate Judiciary IV Cornmitte chaired by Sen. R.C. Soles Jr. t Tabor City. The so-called "seawall bill," woul make oeeanfront property owner oncjrcit Margie's Horn Thanks for tru Floor Co vi Professional! I Installation "tT* 4 M CAE Hwy. 179, Kings Between Ocean Isle & St 4 \ \aterial Ava :ial Reef Pro English, a director of Brunswick Bay ; Reef Restoration Inc., a fishing club f m the south end of the county. 1 Redwine said Jim Brown, the , Marine Fisheries employee who coordinates the reef program, had told him Brunswick County is in , "good shape" to qualify for the first l of the drops. f "We've got the need because we - don't have any reefs, we have an acs tive group that has permits in hand, n It's a matter of getting it through the bureaucracy and getting everything h together." , Carden said the boxcars require litt tie, if any, modification for use as ari tificial reefs. The wheels must be e taken off. " The state plans to ask the U.S. i- Marine Corps for its cooperation in >1 using neavy treignt Helicopters to s make some of the drops. Garden said, if If so those boxcars would be cut in e half. Others will be transported by rail s as close to the drop sites as possible, d Cardcn wasn't aware the Brunswick County Fishing Club had k permits for six new reefs. "To our knowledge no permits if have been issued for new reefs yet," it he said. "But we're in a position to s add to some reefs we already have in place." e Seaboard lias not committed to - donating additional boxcars, but it Garden said the state is hopeful that e additional cars will be available from d Seaboard and perhaps other y railroads as they wear out and are discarded. h English and his wife were among e the local fishing enthusiasts who at't tended the dinner in Kaleigh Monday 11 night. on Package ?mb/y d liable for damage their erosionil control devices cause to adjacent y property. Though it received the committee's approval a week earlier. Soles agreed to hold the bill le in committee after several senators o- voiced concerns that property ;r owners would be restricted from protecting their own property. The bill d had already gained approval from n the House. it In action last week, the House x adopted a bill that would allow lowis income telephone customers to save d $1 a month on their bill by not paying h the new long distance access charge, d An addendum would allow local e telephone companies a tax credit for x the difference between the amount ir they would have collected without the exemption, and the amount actually e billed low-income customers. The State Utilities Commission s would determine the eligibility re> quireinents for low-income status. A House-approved bill that would n strengthen the existing Open it Meetings law by providing penalties " for violations has been held up in the c senate Judiciary I Committee and Isn't expected to be acted on until the d summer 1986 sessln. o The bill passed the House on a 94-14 n vote, with Rep. Itedwine voting in s favor. y "I supported this bill because we y do need to insure as best we can an open government." d The bill, introduced by Rep. d George W. Miller Jr. of Durham, o would allow the courts to void actions taken in illegal secret meetings and d would allow participants in such e meetings to be fined all or a part of r the court costs, attorney fees incur> red by both parties and a civil penaln ty, the total not to exceed 1500. Opponents have claimed the bill would tl discourage good candidates from n seeking public office, e The Open Meetings law provides 19 >f reasons for boards governing public agencies to conduct business behind d closed doors, but doesn't penalize s those who violate the law ulcitionA In i J estyle Restaurant sting us with your Bring Needs! SI DE S LPETSfc^ .inset Beaches 579-75921 ilable gram Others included Mr. and Mrs. Dale McDowell of Bolivia and several other members of the Brunswick County Fishing Club. Junior and Allison Hughes of Shallotte Point, Mr and Mrs Rill Prirp nf Orpan Islp Beach, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Tubb of Long Beach, Rep. David Redwine and Brunswick County Commissioner Jim Poole. McDowell is secretary and former reef committee chairman of the Brunswick County Fishing Club, which created the first artificial reef in the state off Lock wood Folly Inlet in 1971. The last material was dropped on the reef in 1974. It and two other reefs off the county coastline?one near Yaupon Beach and another shared with South Carolina, are now inactive. lack of funds to make the drops and lack of suitable material had been pointed to as the major obstacles to establishing a county reef program. But for now, said Redwine, "it looks like we're in good shape." Efforts to develop a chain of reefs offshore of Brunswick County have received aid from numerous sources. Redwine has included $3,500 in his "pork barrel'" appropriations for the project, the county has donated $25,000, and several towns across the county also have contributed. Also, Pfizer Chemicals Inc. has donated two boilers that will be dropped offshore to improve the existing reefs. Shallot i (Si l'S$] ^ECTHER W*6 AIKYD uT HOUSE HUNT o C Vi Rec All Stc ] 1.. IRF^ g-jiL a .< -K . ' ' < fTkkJ HBBSHRSi ?W \s LI f , nir mm Residents of the R.H. llolden sut Beaeh were awakened last Tuesdaj of a large showboat staring through barge and "Mike R" tug ran u traeoastal Waterway just south of Turtle Talk < The loggerhead sea turtle will take front seat at tonight's (Thursday) meeting of the Holden Beach Community Watch at 7:30 p.m. in the town hall. Endangered species project leadei Melinda Welton with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, will present a slide program on the conservation of loggerhead sea turtles tte Lunr \ I I , I T V Fuller O'Brien n Weather King l Alkyd House 1 *660 series "Reg. J2( \ &> AAA I *VW M y gallon All discoi Fuller O'Brien p ock DRASTICALLY REI lympic Stains >emi-Transparen1 "" " $8??ioi discontinued Olympic lins DRASTICALLY REC I I I I Wmv Is?* si II 1 ftj: ma rr . 1 ^ . -i?-v - "'i | Assorted sizes *Base ca all cabinets 11 to 36 *C YOUR CHOICE SHAL Ul# VanMnMBHiMnnnn HOfftA' 17 IHALIGTT OttH MUM THE BRUNSWICK BEACON, ,1L ' i ? _^* rV fl Unexpected Visit idivision at tlolden bridge, after prevlou: morning to the site and Oeean Isle Bear their windows. The Damage was minimi ground in the In- was pulled from its r the liolden Beaeh K" is owned by Clrel Dn Agenda At Hoi along the N.C. coast. hi Ms. Wclton, a 1979 graduate of the tl University of Connecticut, lias work- ti ' ed with endangered species projects along the east coast in Connecticut, [j New Jersey and Florida. rt It is estimated as many as 700 nests n I will be found this summer along the N N.C. coast by the time nesting ends in K early August. To date, three nests e iber's*c No rainchecks m ? I:?:x ii - vj/uui1111itjb unmet Paint ?itinued aints in DUCED! \ II STjaiilP1 )UCED! | Kitchen Kompac Cabinets binets 18" to 48" )ne and two of a kind ?30?L LOTTE |?j AMP iss I FN CAROLINA >V4 4l?1 TJST 4 4 00. tAf too ' ? 00 mmti N : a/ - / - - - f r ' Thursday, July 11, 1985?Page 3-A f n 1 w , , SIAH PMOIO BY II nit v POP! sly striking both the Sunset Bench h bridges late Monday afternoon, id at both bridges and the barge esting spot Thursday. The "Mike e K Marina in Morgan City, la. Iden Beach ive been found on Holden Bench, le mast southern community pnreipnting in the program. The conservation program is nanced primarily by those N.C. sklents who contributed on their ,C. Income Tax returns to the ongainc and Endangered Species und. Tonight's program is open to ireryone. V -2 >?. > J" Op o i Mlt (A l Ho1? 3oSi 13 fgk Wol HnSl 1 D2?> , jrat r _gS fl r qs! : ;roc ? ? 2 ^ m isi 0 is m, oH ? j ? *.<
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