R BY SUSAN USHEI A Khallnftp man was apntpnrpf Thursday following his conviction in Superior Court in the first-degree rap store clerk. Aaron Elwood Pigott, 24, could prison. His attorney. Bill Fairley, ha: peal to the N.C. Supreme Court. At District Attorney Michael Ea sentencing order requires the N.C. P to notify the victim's family any ti sidered for parole. c 198S THf W?UNSW!CK BtACON TH Volume 23, Number 45 Boy With Head Injury Said Okay A boy whose skull was impaled by a boal cleat in a Sunday afternoon boating accident near Holden Beach came through surgery at Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville in good shape, Brunswick Hospital officials said Tuesday. "He was alert and asking questions. He's expected to do fine with no residual effects," said Dr. Mike Bauerschmidt, director of the emergency room at the Supply hospital. The four-year-old and his uncle, apparently from laurinburg, were thrown from the family's boat Sunday by the wake of u larger vessel as it passed in the Intracoastai Waterway near Holden Beach. Bauerschmidt said a couple from Huleigh on the shore nearby saw the two bodies in the water and realized they were not waterskiers. "He paddled out on his windsurfer . and pulled the boy on board?tie ? thought he was dead. He then pulled the boy's uncle on board and brought them to the hospital in hLs car." Hospital officials didn't know the details of the accident, but Bauerschmidt said the cleat liad hniWnn ouinv frnm thp Juinf cr*r*>u*c and all. and that thr tip cf the cleat was impaled in tlie boy's skull. As is standard procedure for the hospital in dealing with all head injuries. said Director of Nursing Marlenu Hewlett, the boy was stabilized then airlifted at 2:20 p.in by the Kastcare helicopter to the hospital at the East Carolina University Medical School. Pitt Memorial "They called us back to say what a great job we did stabilizing the patient." added Bauersclunidt. Shallotfe Mayor's Race Emerges BY SUSAN USHER Mabel Dutton has stayed at home for three weeks, waiting-waiting for candidates that, as of Tuesday afternoon, had not yet appeared. A long-Ume member of the Holden Beach Board of Elections, Mrs Dutton has registered candidates in numerous past elections. Never before have they kept her?and the voters?in suspense for so long As in other Brunswick County towns, the filing period closes at noon Friday at Holden Beach Holden Beach is one of four municipalities in the county that run their own elections. rather than contracting with the county 'It's never happened before," said Mrs Dutton Tuesday of the delay in filing predicting a last-rrunute rush "It's an unusual thing " Mayor Kenner Amos had announced earlier thai he wcukl no! seek reelection Commissioner Jun Gnfftn announced he would file (or mayor, but so tar has not Eisew beer in the ocrir.ty. one other town had no candidates for office as ct Tuesday. Bolivia, ahere voters will elect a mayor and (our aMermrn In Shallottr however. a race has emerged for mayor with the filing will be paid Os per official session, not to exceed $70 a day, a reduction in the ISC per session initially proposed last month Members must be registered to vote in Brunswick County They must be also cf good moral character and must have resided in the county at least one year prior to taking office A two-year minimum residency had first been proposed, but County Attorney Dand CVgg said it was lowered to avoid claims that the county showed partiality to lory-time residents in making the appointments v f * sndant G iment is the mandatory sentence for a C1??q R fplnny whirh involves the ?. The jury deliberated less than 40 eaching its verdict of guilty at 12:30 irt Judge B. Craig EUis charged the I "beyond a reasonable doubt" that se had occurred between the two; that as used to overcome resistance; that gainst the clerk's will; and that a in was used or displayed. ;an Monday with jury selection, with unpery n am M\ m W WW I Carolina, Thursday, Septer md three Injured Isle Beach Bridge. cKee craft struck the county this yeai lling at the Ocean d Board To iluation Ap| The chairman will te named by commissioners from the five E & H Board members. Many taxpayers' questions about their revaluations will be resolved during informal hearings with W.P Ferris Inc., the firm conducting the revaluation, and county tax officials. Other appeals of property valuation will be heard by the E h K Board beginning in April 1986 If the property owner is dissatisfied with the county's decision, he may appeal to the N.C. Property Tax Commission. No action was taken on a proposal from Chairman Chris Chappel! to add two "at-large" members to insure the board includes people familiar with the full range of land use within a county, including areas that are largely resort, industrial or agricultural in make-Hip While not objecting, Commissioner Frankle Rabon suggested they be appointed on a rotating basis as is done with members of other boards. "It's no problem- I just want the opportunity to have two members from my district instead of yours," he told Chappell County Attorney David Clegg said be uwugiii the board Could be aiiy sue commissioners want Chappell also said be thought the proposed pay of up to $70 per day was "too little" for the members, who he said would be "'professionals" taking time away from their jobs "But the) can collect that twice a day. one before lunch and once after lunch?and probably mil." interjected CocnmiiSooer James Poole. "I don't see it ithe money i as a criteria for joining." Commissioner Rabon said he dsdr t favor allowing payment for two sessions per day. Members of most county boards are paid "per diem," a fixed sum per day regardless cf how long the) meet that day Ac initial proposal had called for E k K Board members to earn per session, up to a maximum of JiOO per day Tax Administrator Boyd William rets Life final arguments taking nearly three hi morning The defendant .sat auietlv and throughout, declining to speak in his owi sentencing. Addressing the jury for about 90 min Fairley challenged the lack of fingerprii to the scene of the crime and the results < fluid samples taken as part of the rape i He insisted that one set of result; client as a suspect, a point Easley cont C"*n 40-minute closing argument. Easley reminded jurors that an SB lUVffl nber 19, 1985 _ I mmr ?b^8P^^^ ** ^ -StfcB \lAlf FHOTOS* UJSANUOMK It was the first boating accident in r to result In a fatality, officials said. 1 ? ? ? ?" ?? I I near Deals son said the double-session rule was intended to make sure the board didn't hold "three or (our meetings per day?to put a limit on the amount that could be paid out in one day." Commissioner Grace Beasley wondered if the board could meet briefly before and after lunch and count it as two meetings. Theoretically they could, the attorney noted. "But you commissioners appoint the chairman- You can instruct him to meet once a day and to call a recess, but not a lunch recess." he added 1985 Values In another tax matter. Tax Ad mlnistrator Boyd Williamson reported a 1985 combined county tax levy o( $13,611.810 65, Including Dosher Hospital District, corporate taxes and late list fees Real and personal property Is valued at $2,213,214,569, lie said, an increase of $131,433,336 from 1984.The county tax levy will be $13,279,214, including late list fees of $110,537. In Smithville Township, taxable property totals $1,107,834,250 in value, including corporations A four-cent tax per $100 valuation levied for Dosher Hospital will yield $447,022 for the hospital, plus $3,803 72 in late Hat fees SmithviUe Township's corporate tax base of $860,563 JS0 accounts for a majority of the county's total corporate valuation of $1,290,301,621 Corporations will pay $7,677 J? m taxes and $45,410 in late list fees for 1985 Total valuations, county taxes and Ute list fees are as follows by ' township: ? Northwest?IM.9M.tt4. 923,977, 94,706; Town Creek?IJ 60. SS 1.715; 9580.067. 97.M9; Smithv tile -1147. J40.797. 51,471.001. 917,940; Lockwood Folly?9197.920.530, 91.177.045, 512.236, Shaliotte?$2S04i4,5?58, 51.730J58. 921504; Wwccamaw?59570.159. 9175.942. 91506 Sentence ours Thursday expert testified the re expressionless Pieott. a behalf before Contrary to Pigol earlipr statpmpnt ?ho utes Thursday, morning of May 25. P \ts tying Pigott both from his sister's rf tests on body cess to a phone. One evidence kit. Gause's house, he sai 3 excluded his Gause, however, radicted in his Oasis from Pigott, th the scene of the allegi I forensics lab (See ftAC( 25c Per Copy FIRST BOATING PEAT T. IS: 11 i wu rxjii Three Ir In Boat BY SUSAN USHF.R ( A prominent Robeson County i tanner and his daughter were killed * and three other passengers seriously c Injured Saturday when their boat 1 struck a power cable and then a steel i piling at the Ocean Isle Beach bridges. { It was the first boating accident in t Brunswick County this year to result in a fatality, according to Fred E. t Taylor, the N.C. Wildlife Resources 1 Commission enforcement officer who ( investigated the accident. Dead are Charles Blue Hate, 45, ot Rowland, and his daughter, Anne Marie, 15. County Coroner Tommy Gilbert I ruled drowning was the cause of their I deaths. The bodies were sent to I Jacksonville Monday for an autopsy. Both were thrown from the boat, as | was Pate's cousin, James, 36, said Taylor. Jaines Pate was listed in stable condition Monday at Brunswick Hospital in Supply. Also injured were Charles Pate's wife, Helen, and Deria Butler Pate, James Pate's wife. They remained in intensive care and were listed in serious condition Monday at New Hanover Memorial Hospital, where they were transferred Saturday, said Taylor. The officer said the five were en route from Holden Beach to Calabash for dinner when the 17-foot McKee Southporter lut an inch-thick power cable, careening into a steel piling at the new Ocean Isle Beach Bridge. The accident occurred at about > 20 p.m. Taylor said the westbound speedboat, equipped with a 150 horsepower outboard motor, was traveling at an estimated 40 rnph hour at the time of l mnuct "I don't know why he was going i that fast," said Taylor. "We may 1 never know " 1 Pate had piloted the vessel bet- I ween the south fender of the old I Ocean Isle Beach Bridge and the mainland shore rather than through < the main channel of the waterway, he i added. 1 "An eyewitness said that when ihe i boat hit, it bucked and the three i bodies flew out," said Taylor. The witness indicated there was no other boat traffic on the waterway at the time, he added After the impact, the boat began to ' Protesters' Cose The people who object to the bar- f lead* acrejn n *** $ * md are not gtvu^ up Approximate!) ? person* were ar- ? ested far craasw; the barricade on 1 \ug 25 and charged with trespass- t m I The case, scheduled fcr Brunawufc hourly District Court on Monday, i u continued un?U the Nov 4 sev i OCA < The group, which met Saturday t homing, plans to incorporate and t las established a legal fund to I 4 ... 4 r .? 4 e? . .. -Jwa-uaa. I p suits specifically did not exclude It's court testimony, he said, an wed he tried to call his sister the igott testified he made two calls, house because he didn't have acwas to a barber, the other to Lt. d. testified he received a call at the ough he had not told the suspect ed rape during questioning. RAPE, Page 3-A) m 1M 26 Pages HS IN '85 fed, ljured Crash lircle back. James I'atc had popped ip out of the water, Taylor said, vhen he saw the boat coining his lirection and and dove back under ["he propeller caught tus foot, tearing t badly. Anne Marie Pate had been sunning >n the bow of the boat at the time of he accident, Taylor said, while lames Pate was seated to tlie left of he pilot The two women, the only joat occupants wearing life vests, oc "upied Jump seats In the rear The tMjat's nort how wuh Lite console torn iiway on the port side and the gas tank knocked from the boat. The pedestal sent on which James Pate was sitting was torn from the floor and the seat detached from the pedestal Both Jump scats in he rear broke. Taylor said the power cable was irivately-owned, in use by the conractors building a new W2 million ugh rise thiil will replace the Irawbridge on NX'. '.XH to Ocean Isle teach. Pate lead picked up the factoryirder boat earlier Saturday from ihallotte Marine Supplies and had ried it out that morning, accom>amed by several dealer employees ind a local friend. Taylor said it was not Charles fate's first boat and that he was not in amateur boater. Pate, who owned a house at Holden ieach and was in the process of abiding one at Ocean Isle, was well mown in both communities, Taylor mid. as well as throughout the southeastern part of the state. Shallotle and Calabash Volunteer ftescue Squads responded to tlutmergency, as did the Ocean Isle 3eaeh Police Department and the Srunswlek County Sheriff's Depart nent, which provided traffic control. The U.S. Coast Guard's 22-foot rescue vessel arrived frorri the Oak island station just minute, after tlie rtctims had been transported to SrunswUk Hospital in Supply and tfaxmt towed to Ocean Isle Marina Taylor said the bodies liad begun lufting toward the Eastern Channel ?hen a Grissettown fanner, Mollis irruth, and a companion in his skiff, augiii anu twid them until help could srrive The victims were transported to Ocean Isle Marina by the Sea Hawk II. captained by Buster Glllis, lie said Is Continued tnance their fight to reo{*r, the went nd. Their next ireetlng will he fteld iept a at 10 a m at IS Burlington Jrrn on Holders Beoch Any Iterated peraoc may attend, mid iaymond Cope, ipnfcesmar The group hat tared Jaraei Mai ?eU. an tat/smey frorri Durham, to epresent their eate In addition. Kartell lervei at the attorney for he Suntet Beach Taxpayers Amoci*loei which it ajo fighting a legal awOie over ae treat nghu a