North Carolina Newspapers

JSHBSgKa w Volume 24. Number 52 Democr R BY MAK.IOKIK MKCIIVI'.IIN Shouts, whistles and exuberant app la use lined the public assembly building in Bolivia Tuesday night, and all the noise came from I )emocrats. In an off-year election that drew an astonishing 57 percent of Brunswick C ounty':: registered voters, it was the Democratic candidates who took every nice, from school board to U.S. Senate. Cheers ro.se in intensity as 21 precincts reported their totals over a 2lr-hour period. Beivillo precinct led off with a tails at approximately H P ill. At 10:30 n.m. results from Frv ing Pan precinct concluded an evening of tension and exhiliration for Democrats. The tension was present in almost every race. Closest was the District 2 school board contest, in which Dorothy Worth squeaked by incumtjent Jane Causey by only fifi votes. District 2 County Commissioner Benny l.udlum had some anxious moments, as Kcpublieau challenger Tommy Bradsher pulled ahead in six precincts reporting early, but l.udlum emerged the winner by a little more than 1,000 votes. Cable Breaks I BY MAKJOItlt: MKC.IVERN At noon Tuesday nearly a dozen yachts ami other pleasure vessels were lined up north of the Sunset Beach bridge, while an oil barge waited on Ihc .south aide. All were stalled by a broken canic that prevented the automatic opening and i closing of the old-fashioned pontoon bridge. The break occurred at 9 a.m. Monday, causing the bridge to be closed to vehicular traffic till 4:30 p.m. Then Holder BY EDDIE SWEATT By h one-vote margin, the Holdeti Beach Town Board Monday night accepted a state grant to fund the largest public parking project on the Brunswick County coast. The project includes a 90-space parking lot, restroom facilities and fjn nic uiuies to of uuui on Jordan Boulevard at the site of the old bridge and under the new high-rise bridge on right-of-way owned by the state. 'Hie grant from the N.C. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development is for $60,480. Holden Beach's share of the $67,000 project is $6,520. The 3-2 vote to accept the grant SIGNS REVERSE IN C All Vehicles At Holden I All motorists using the Holden I STOP means you, at least for the lie True to the pledge made to a hos tion last Monday night, on Nov. employees hegan the stow process o It won't happen Immediately, aci traffic engineer. The first step is a 3C used when the stops were first chani During this month-long period, i must stop. At the end of the 30 days, said H Sabbath Home Church Road will con Beach causeway and S.R. 1120 will t At a quickly called public mee residents told Highway Commissionc a light at the intersection. Until such time as a light can be < they preferred the old traffic patten DOT began a study of the inters! request from Holden Beach for a tri warranted, according to Division Ei then began looking at alternate ways the stops, they said, gave the right greatest volume of traffic, N.C. 1301 ? '.v.M ,'/ ? ' r* V I'll ; IN-" ?X> Wll'AWH* ?l*vON ats Mak< LI: f^pUUISCU! Stale Knees Watching returns with at times a worried frown wr??s stale Hep. David ( Hod wine, for whom early Brunswick < County returns were not promising in t the race for the 14th State House seat. I His opponent Malcolm (irlssett took i a slight lead in three precincts and 1 was close on his heels in others However, the incumbent took t (irissettown. the home precinct for I both men, and in the end garnered nearly 2,000 more votes than I (irissett. 1 Totals from Topsail Township in Pender County were closer, with 1,080 for Kedwine. 824 for (Irissett. At press time, final results were not I aval la olo from Castle Huyne in Now < Hanover County, but Kedwine was i more than 2,000 votes in the lead In the 18th senatorial district race, 1 political newcomer "Handy" I Sullivan amassed an impressive I Brunswick County vote of 6.1G7 against longtime Slate Sen. B.C. < Soles Jr.. who received 7,577. In i Bladen County, Soles garnered 4,084 ' votes to 1.014 for Sullivan, and in Col- i umbus County the vote was 11,886 for Soles, 3.198 for Sullivan. nterrupt Sunset it was manually turned so that cars could pass 1 Tuesday morning the bridge ( maintenance office of the Depart- 1 ment of Transportation sent Robert 1 r'ox, bridge maintenance supervisor, 1 and a crew of ten to repair the damage. After allowing boats to < come through for mi hour at 11:30 I a.m., the bridge was re-opened to I vehicles while work was underway, according to bridge-tender Ardell Ix; wis. ' i Beach Bex came after a substitute motion to t table the matter until the next \ meeting was defeated by the same < margin. Commissioners Hal Stanley and ( l.yn Holdcn said they wanted to wait | to see if county commissioners would | vote to maintain the public facility t before deciding to accept the grant. ( "No one is against it (the parking | project)," Mayor John Tandy remarked during the tense discus- < sion after Commissioner Clay Atkins i made her motion, which was second- < etl for discussion by Commissioner William Williamson. I It was obvious that Mayor Tandy | had hoped to avoid a split vote, but | 30 DAYS Must Stop intersection < teach intersection be forewarned: 1 xt 30 days. ' tile crowd gathered at the interscc3 Department of Transportation f reversing the stops. ' cording to Roger Hawkins, division bday transition period, like the one ' jcd. I ill traffic entering the intersection 1 awkins, stop signs on N.C. 130 and 1 le down. Traffic exiting the Ilolden 1 hen have the only stop signs, ting last Monday, unliappy local ' r Tommy Pollard that they wanted 1 obtained, residents of the area said 1 ). 1 ction last spring after receiving a 1 affic signal there. A signal wasn't ' igineer T.E. Fnnderburk, so DOT 1 to improve traffic flow. Reversing of wuy to the roadway with the 1 o and from the beach. .JSWI ollolte, North Carolina, Tl 9 Clean i nsRan V Sunfnrd iim! Hose Brunswick followed the state in :hoasinu to send Terry Snnford and 'ongrcssman Charlie Hose to Washington. U.S. Senator James droyliill trailed Sanford only slightly n thecounty. with6,3()l votes against r .071 for San ford Rose did only a little better, receiving 7.547 votes in Brunswick County lo 6,640 for Soiithport challenger I'ominy liarrclson, who conceded to Rose at 9:45 p.m. Cumberland Coun!y voted overwhelmingly for the Inumbent. the totals being 22.870 to 12.952. Happy County Winners Whde early returns fli|>-flopped between incumbent Sheriff John I'arr Davis and lus challenger, as the night wore on Davis' lead over Harold Willetts made him the top rote-getter in any contested race. Davis won handily with 9,089 votes to 3,021) for Willetts. Other happy winners included C>race Beaslev, who defeated challenger Marvin Donald Shaw by a wide margin for the District 5 seat on the Board of County Commissioners. The vote was 7,726 to Also in District 5, James Clcmmons was Bridge Traffic Cox said a pin in the turn nechnnism broke, allowing the counterweight to fall, which then roused the cable to break and bent be beam lifting the apron. The cpalr crew was to replace die cable is well as the beam, pins and sliivcs '.uaiiiBs i Kimin^ me pin.sj. lie >rcdicted the repairs would be competed bv midnight Tuesday. "This kind of damage has never lappened before." declared Cox. BY NARRO) ird Accept: \tkins persisted. "We need it, we .vorked for it; do it and then ask the :ounty for help." urged Atkins. Also urging acceptance of the jrant was Julie Shnmbaugh. head of Hie beach access program for the MHCD, who worked with Streets and \ccessway Commissioner Atkins in developing the plan and grant application. While conceding that there is no leadline on accepting the grant, she told commissioners it would not be wise to turn it down. "We need the parking and access to the beach, but 1 have some doubts about toilet facilities. Give us 30 days to see what we can do," CommisSunset Tat BY TERRY POPE Following a lengthy and heated lis mission Monday night, the Sunset iJeach town council once again tabled hi offer that would give the town 35 teres for parking space on the stand's west end. "We're right back where we were icforc," said Councilman Donald iafrit following the meeting. The board voted 3-1 to table coun:ilman and developer Ed (lore's proposal to donate the large tract of scoanfront property for parking. Instead, the board voted to "explore all iltcrnativc parking solutions" before 'IVllfilllJ a (lix'ici'iii Ar\ hie npmtruw.l n u uvvuiuii oil Hbl |ll U|iunill, Council members believe n final lecision will be made on Gore's offer x'forL' February 1987. Safrit voted against the motion to table the mater Monday while Gore was granted in abstention. Council members Minlic Hunt, Kathy Hill and Mary Catherine Griffith voted to table the iffer. Gore offered to donate the ,'15-acre :raet to Uie town in April 198ti, but the -voiding on the deed tliat was needed o nuike the offer official was never CKfe lursday. November 6, IS Sweep; /ell shaking hands and laiuuiim friend ay he pulled far ahead of DouRla Klymi for a seat oil the Hoard o (-/location < 'leminons garnered votes to G.213 for Klynn. (?re|? Ik'llatny retained his positioi as clerk of court, withfl r?Hf? voir-. Hi opponent < Jeorge Ball received 5.27 votes. Unopposed candidates Michac Kasley and l.ee J. "Bubba" (Iree will be returned to their positions a district attorney and district cour judge, respectively. .lames Bellamy and Harold Kobin son were elected to the county's soi and water conservation board, wit! Bellamy receiving 5,301 votes, am Robinson 4,080. Mary Karp am Maynard Owens were not far behind with 3,483 and 3,308 votes, respective ly. Democratic Bencllons Brunswick County Democrats Party Chairman Hex (lore, whei asked his reaction to the electioi sweep, shouted. "Whoooooo! This i as good as it gets. The parly wa united this time behind the whol ticket." His answer to rclativel; large votes received by Republican: was, "They gave it their very bes and got out the vote bolter tlian w did." l.udlum had his own ideas abou the close races in this election. "I go hit harder in some precincts thai what 1 thought. 1 feel the Democrat were lucky to win. We've been spoil ding too much of the taxpayers dollars, and I will try to work harde and be more conservative." Worth, whose race was tight to tli verv end. said with 11 tir??d su?il? 'Tin very liappy. We worked han and it paid off. I'm proud of the wholi ticket." Red wine was especially happj (See DEMOCRATS, Page 2-A i /V MARGIN 5 Grant sioncr Stanley asked Sluiinbaugh. "Take as long as you need t decide, but there's a motion on th floor," replied Shnmbaugh. Stanley said he had discussed th project with some residents wli favor a "smaller project we can con trol." Most commissioners were op timistie that the county would coin through with the help to maintain th< facility. "I don't see how the count; can ignore our request for help whei you see what they spend on parks am recreation," said Coinmissione Holden, who feels the maintenance costs may he more annually thai what the town is paying initially a )les Gore's accepted by the council. The matte has been tabled since April. Sections of the deed were rcferrei to town attorney Mike Isenberg fo revision. The board could reach m agreement on the wording of the dcei Monday. According in council memoc Hunt, there are two main obstacles t< the town's acceptance: 1) the deei will not allow the town to do with tin property as the town wishes; and 2 providing access to the .15-acre trnc is "a rather monumental problen right now" for the town, she said. (lore said his family is willing t donate the land, but only if the towi uses it for public parking. He nddei that Die family does not want the lnn? to be used as a "natural area" whei the purpase iu making the donation i to "meet the parking needs for th> whole coastal area." "As a family, wo want the propert; used for the purpase for which w> gave it," Gore said. "'Hie primarj point is the town needs to use it fo parking, and we need to make sur that it Ls used for parking." According to the deed, if the towi '86 25c Per Copy 30 F m lm r V I'j Jrt c Slll'.ltIFF JOHN (A It It DAVIS linil im results. With 9.0S9 votes, he was the t opposition. Studiously examining his < is Kenny Ludltim, also sueeessful ill h BuildParkii its share of the project building costs o I n arguing for her motion to accept e the grant, Atkins said the county's parks and recreation director ine dicated a real interest in including o the maintenance of the project in his i- department's budget. Mayor Tandy and other members ! of the town board asked county come missioners two weeks ago to allocate c $10,000 a year to Hoiden Beach to y maintain the project. They were pron inised a decision would be made on J the request at the next meeting, r Pace Picks Up e 'Hie pace of the regular monthly i? meeting picked up after the parking s lot vote, witli all other decisions be; Parking Qi r accepts the offer then it would have Uiree years to prepare the land for use as a parking lot. The town could r also construct restrooni facilities and 0 concession stands as it wishes. If the 1 town decides not to use the land following the three-year period, its r ownership would revert back to the ? (lore family. 1 Ms. Hunt asked the t>oard Monday e to "aDDroach the bench nercss nrrv 1 blem in a wider range than lias been t done to date." She recommended 1 that Uto hoard meet as a parking committee within the next few inon? Ills to look at the town's alternatives, t "There are no options available to A us that would give us the number of I parking spaees while at the same II time present the least amount of pros blems to anyone other thin this e area," Gore responded. "That is so obvious that it cries out." 1 As a public parking facility, the e town would set user fees, hours and 1 restrictions, fsenberg said these r rights were added in two sections t that were not included in the original deed. I' In the event of a natural disaster or V t 'ages Plus Supplements V*?? fMOIOSRYVlUHUSH' rcry right to Ik* pleased with Tuesday's op vote-gettc-r among candidates with iwn figures in the foreground (seated) lis hid for election. i ig Lot ing unanimous. McKim & Creech of Wilmington was awarded a contract to make a study to determine if a waste w ater treatment system is needed for the island. The firm was recommended by the planning and zoning board from four interviewed Monday out of nine engineering firms which submitted proposals. Planning board Chairman Alan llolden said the firm is to give an "unbiased view of the polution in the canals" and other areas of the island to toll us whether we should consider a sewer project. The town has a $t>.000 state grant, (Sec HOLD EN, Page2-AI fer Again ?cl of (iod that would destroy the parking lot, the town would not liave to use the tract for parking until the fueility could be rebuilt. "1 think this board is nuking a serious mistake if we don't get down to the nitty-gritty and accept this mun'a " ei.iS C.t.tt To provide access to the tract, the toivn would have to purchase an adjacent oceanfront lot and a road would tiave to be constructed, Ms. Hunt said it is a concern to the town that the tract could revert back to the grantor alter the town has already provided access to the area. There is no section in the deed that gives the town the power to prohibit future development on the 35-acre tract should it revert back to the i.ore lamiiy. council member Hill quickly made the motion to table the discussion when this point was brought up at Monday's meeting. Other Business In oilier business Monday, the board: Set two public hearings?one (or Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. on the recodification (SeeSIINSRT PareiS-A)