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Page 14-A?THE BRUNSWICK BEACO r t mJ _ A Lynchburg. Va.. couple's Holden B< Monday evening when their 1976 Volkj Shallotte. Above, Shallotte firefighters the van with w ater, later switching to ci Maurice V. Bang said he and his wife l the van stalled on U.S. 17 and made a n< to a parking lot between Camp United n 'STriTP* hP( W "* I -> * BY SUSAN USHER North Carolina Marine Fisheries commissioners did what they "needed to do" Friday in adopting the state's first regulations governing the menhaden industry', Commission Vice Chairman C.B. "Cash" Caroon of Soulhport said Tuesday. A statewide summer weekend and holiday closure and a year-round ban on menhaden fishing in the Cape Fear River and the "Mudhole" are among the new regulations that go into effect Oct. 1. They were adopted Friday at a Commission meeting in Beaufort following a public hearing on Thursday. Menhaden fishery representatives such as Standard Products Co. Presi dent H.R. Humphreys Jr. and his counterpart, Jules Wheatly, at Beaulort Fisheries, had argued tiuit proposed regulations would put them out <tf tauairawi. \>. If l> |l BF Good i i i | P-165/80 | P-195/75 i P-215/75 | P-225/75 | P-235/75 i i WITH CO EXPIRE i H I I Engine Electronic Ignition $27.88 $; 4 cyl. t i I I I We install new resistor | I set timing test battery or I rotor and distributor cap UIITll / ? Innn V.UI EXPIRES N, Thursday, August 22, 1985 ma . Ax Vacationers' V< arh vacation got off to a bad start swagen van caught fire on a trip to Tony Hewett and Susan Arnold hose icmicals in their effort to out the fire. *ere in town to buy provisions when >ise like an explosion. They pulled inMcthodLst Church and the Goodyear Yin* R^nulnl 3"" ? d At the other extreme, sports t fishermen were concerned about the [ strain multiple uses were putting on t the availability of menhaden as bait and for conservation of the species, f Resort towns had their own concerns, i seeking protection from and cleanup ( of fish spills like the two that f blanketed Ix>ng Beach with smelly, ? dead menhaden last summer. 1 The new regulations address all the parties' concerns, though in a more I limited fashion than any particular ( group had sought. "I think we did what we had to do. We s certainly didn't do what the r menhaden industry wanted us to and ( wc didn't do what the sports r fishermen wanted," Caroon f elaborated. "We did what we needed to do. t ' 'We did what wc felt was necessry I to protect the zero and one-vear class i hah," said Caroon. "It was not our in J I I I Irich Tires { i i i R-l3 $35.99 | R-14 $45.99 | R-l5 $59.99 i R-15 $62.99 | R-l5 $66.99 | I i UPON ONLY! 5 SEPT. 30 ii i I f. I I Tune-Up most late model cars 34.88 $38.88 > cyl. 8 cyl. i i i slugs and adjust idle speed, j id charge system. We inspect | Pcv valve and air filter. ! JPON ONLY! SEPT. 30 | i H ^ Call 579 60 ' l q^iiV/q Pi irnc CI IIV.IC ULII f u rlome Supply store. Checking, Bang saw! trea of the van and then fire erupted "ioodyear employee Steve Harper pushe hen helped firefighters contain the blaze i total loss, said Brunswick County Em >cU Logan. The Bangs were visiting th itranded here, they said. Una AAenhai O ent or purpose to put the menhaden w >eople out of business, it was to pro- E ect the resource." Menhaden is the state's industrial n ish, small, bony and oily, used in b naking poultry feed, fertilizer and s >ils. It is also a part of the food chain I. or game fish such as king mackerel J ind is used by sports fishermen for d wit. According to Jim Tew, Marine Tsheries law enforcement chief, the n Commission specifically: o Established an open fishing tl eason, May 15 to Jan. 15, for taking S nenhaden or Atlantic thread herring included in any future reference to " nenhaden) by use of a purse seine or n or possessing them. E Restricted the taking of 2 nenhaden by use of a purse seine E jetween sunset on any Friday and t nunri?tp of tho fnlinwinu Mnnriav frnm * the Friday ot the Memorial Day 1 Lube, Oil, Filtet Locking hul Includes 5 quarts of < lubrication. We'll rotate plies to most cars and $1: WITH CO EXPIRI Ve honor Shell*1 19 & ask for fori Oceon Isle Bet .i Vf.?. ' ' -cy. .MtXCfiM' "jTjK jji'i/A. i'v* ijjfcj- v, fjty ' - >. .$afe>L. ]&.:r- "4/.'' V/ - -* ' &?fy STAFF PHOTO SY SUSAN USHEft smoke coming from the rear engine L, be said. Fearing an explosion, d the van away from the store and . The VW van and its contents were crgeuuy iriuiugciutrui Lwrumaujr e beach with friends and won't be den Indust reekend through sunset on Labor )ay each year. Restricted the taking of nenhaden by use of a purse seine etween the hours of sunrise and unset on the Memorial Day and abor Day holidays and the Fourth of uly when it falls on a Friday, Saturay, Sunday or Monday. Restricted purse seining for lenhaden in internal coastal waters ther than traditional areas above he New River, including Pamlico ound. Closed the area called the Mudhole" that extends from the nouth of the Cape Fear River to the laid Head Lighthouse, then bearing 40 degrees magnetic to the Cape "ear River ship channel buoy No. 7, hen bearing 320 degrees magnetic to Kp fnnt nf thn Vonrvtn Rparh Pichtno Pier on Oak Island, then U> a point on - & Tire Rotation ocaps extra! oil, oil filter and chc * all four of your tires, light trucks. 7.99 UPON ONLY! ES SEPT. 30 /isa'Masterca Spencer or Honn chCauseway Drug Defendc 20 Years, $10 A defendant in the "Hurricane P David" and "Capt. Tom" drug smug- ^ giing conspiracies in Brunswick a County was sentenced to 20 years in P prison and fined $100,000 last week in a Brunswick County Superior Court. " Peter White, alias Peter McKay, 42, pleaded guilty to various drug a smuggling charges before Judge F. w Gordon Battle. Stemming from the " 1981 "Capt. Tom" case, White plead- s' ed guilty to conspiracy to possess P marijuana and felonious attempted * possession of marijuana. Charges of " felonious possession of marijuana P were dismissed. s Judge Battle sentenced White to f' five years in prison on each charge 0 and fined him $25,000 for each count. White appeared on the May 20, 3 1985, Superior Court calendar for n sentencing in the "Capt. Tom" case. J1 At that time, officials realized he had s not been indicted for his alleged role v in the "Hurricane David" case. a During that Superior Court session, White was indicted for conspiracy to possess marijuana, felonious ac- s cessory before the fact, felonious ac- c cessory after the fact and felonious s rv Oct, 1 # the shoreline near Fort Caswell and back to the Bald Head Lighthouse. Required the responsible menhaden company, when a fish spill occurs, to "promptly" notify the N.C. ' Division of Marine Fisheries director < and report in writing on the cir- ' cumstances associated with each ' spill and the cost of its clean-up. ' Members of the newlyreconstituted Commission have met ! 26 times since late February'. Caroon ' said, and were comfortable with the ' regulations arrived at Friday. I "We feel we've been well informed ' and understand the situation and that we've done what needed to be done," 1 he said. 1 Sports fishermen and beach com- 1 munities had repeatedly asked for a 1 one-mile offshore limit for pogey boats, but that restriction was not in- 1 eluded in the regulations adopted Friday. I! Shock A i II | $19.9 Most American ci WITH COU EXPIRES i | Brake $38.99 $7< front 4 w disc drum issis I a-. I American cars, single pi new front brake pods, re| I inspect system, odd fluic | car. Add $18.00 where si I required. WITH COU EXPIRES i L. ? ? rd I er Southard irn int Receives 0,000 Fine ossession of marijuana in the "Huricane David" case. In that incident, shrimp trawler loaded with 4.000 ounds of marijuana aboard ran ground in the Lockwood Folly Inlet 1 September 1979. Charges of felonious accessory fter the fact were dismissed last reek in exchange for guilty nleas in tie other charges. Judge Battle entenced White to five years in rison on each charge and fined him 25,000 for each offense, the maxnum allowed by law under the re-1980 state trafficking statute. The entences are to run consecutively or a period of 20 years, Battle rdered. The new law includes a mandatorv 5 year sentence tor trafficking in [lore than 10,000 pounds of marioana. The Capt Tom trawler was eized off the coast of Holden Beach nth 36,000 pounds of marijuana board. In both drug smuggling conpiracies, White was allegedly in harge of securing tiie offloading and torage sites for the marijuana. 11 uouege PVWarc W I I ^ I Speakers Speakers are available from Brunswick Technical College to talk >n assorted subjects for civic clubs, PTA organizations or similar groups, tccording to college Public Informaion Officer Connie Powell. The college's Speakers Bureau serves the dual purpose of providing nterestiong programs as well as in'orming Brunswick Tech's various ui:-f tu. _r JUUULS ui uic vdi ici> ui resources available at the college, she said. Among the programs offered are those that overview the institution and its credit curriculum programs as well as such topics as student financial aid, the Learning Resources Center and adult education services to older people. Interested groups may contact Connie Powell at 754-6900." ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? -? hH 11 I a > j Vlia+u IB 1 "M,7 bsorbers ailed >9 each I ars and light trucks. PON ONLY! SEPT. 30 Service j| i.99 $79.99 heel front disc brake rear drum ston systems. We'll install jl xick front wheel bearings, I if needed, and rood test | emi-metollic disc pods are |l PON ONLY! || SEPT. 30 MUST HAVE I COUPON ? EXPIRES SEPT. 30 I Mon-Sot 9-5 1 1
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