Page 2-A?THE BRUNSWICK BEACON. Thursday. December IS. I9S6
Calendar Of Events
Thursday, Dec. 18
BRUNSWICK TECHNICAL COLLEGE TRUSTEES will meet m the college
board room. 7 p.m. Rescheduled from Deo 17.
Friday, Dec. 19
DEADLINE TO ENTER the Dec. 21 Calabash Veterans of Foreign Wars Coif
ittuniHiiK'ni ai vysier ?ay uoii i.iiiks. cor more informationcontact IM".
Botls. Carolina Shores.
CALABASH EXTENSION HOMEM AKF.RS meet at the Calabash Volunteer
Fire Department. 10 a.m.
A PRESCHOOLSTOKVT1MK CHR1STM \S P \K1 Y is planned at the 1 .eland
Branch Library. 10:30 a.in.-12 noon.
TURKEY SHOOT sponsored by Shallottc Point Volunteer Fire Department at
the fire station. J2 per shot, with turkeys and picnic hams as prizes. 7
p.m.-lO p.m.
TURKEY SHOOT by the Calabash Veterans of Foreign Wars, in Calabash on
N.C. 179 just north of the traffic light. p m -10 p in.
SHALLOTTK Al.-ANON FAMILY GROUP meets at Camp United Methodist
Church. 8 p.m. This is a support group for families of alcoholics.
CLOSED MEETING of Alcoholics Anonymous for individuals who have a problem
with alcohol. AA Building Grissettoun, 8 p.m
Saturday, Dee. 20
SANTA CLAUS will be at the Sunset Beach Volunteer Fire 1 >epartment to visit
with children who live in the fire district and their parents. :t p.m. to 6 p.in
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION at Sunnyside School in Sliallotte Municipal
Park, sponsored by the South Brunswick Islands Chamber of Commerce,
with tree-lighting, caroling and a visit from Santa. 7 p.m -8 p.m.
TURKEY SHOOT sponsored by Shallolte Point Volunteer Fire Department at
the fire station. $2 per shot, with picnic hams and turkeys as prizes. Proceeds
will be used to buy fire truck equipment. 7 p.m.-lO p.m.
THE LAST TURKEY SHOOT in a series sponsored by the Calabash Veterans
of Foreign Wars, at Calabash on N.C. 17!? just north of the traffic light. 7
p.m.-10 p.m.. with proceeds for the VFW Building Fund.
Sunday. Dec. 21
TURKEY SHOOT by the Calabash Veterans of Foreign Wars, in Calabash on
N.C. 179 just north of the traffic light. 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
OPEN MEETING bv Alcoholics Anonymous at the A A Building. Grissettown.
8 p.m
Monday, Dec. 22
THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY LIBRARY will temporarily halt bookmobile
service until Jan. 6 and libraries will be closed Dec. 24-26 for the Christmas
holidays.
BRUNSWICK COUNTY ROAK1) OF SOC1AI. SKRVICKS meets in the social
sendees department. Brunswick County Government Center. 5:30 p.m. 1
Open to the public.
BRUNSW ICK SOIL A WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT board meets at
Jane's Restaurant. Holden Beach Road. 6 p.m. Open to the public.
LADIES AUXILIARY. Calabash VFW Post No. 7238 meets at Brunswick !
Haus Restaurant. 7:30 p.m.
CLOSED MEETING for individuals who have a problem with alcohol.
Alcoholics Anonymous Building. Grissettown. 8 p.m.
Tuesday. Dec. 23
PILOT CLUB of the South Brunswick Islands meets at Brunswick Electric J
Membership Corp. in Shallotte. 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday. Dec. 24
BRUNSWICK TOASTMASTER.S will not meet this week at the Ship's
Chandler in Soulhport. due to the holidays. Meetings resume after NewYear's
Day.
BRUNSWICK COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE meets at the Sizzling
Sirloin Family Steakhouse in Shallotte. 12:30 p.m.
CLOSED MEETING for individuals who have a problem with alcohol, at the |
Alcoholics Anonymous Building. 8 p.m. \
Out-Of-Court Settlement
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rceacnea in Laoor Dispute
An out-of-court settlement has ap- from Wilmington's state pert to its
parently been reached in a month- new location at Eagles Island and \
long dispute between a shipping coin- began using a non-union dock gang,
panv and the International Representatives of 11.A locals 1426
Longshoreman's Association. and 176*1 in Wilmington and 13:v, in
Details of the settlement were not Southport began picketing the cornavailable.
panv to protest the use of non-union
A hearing on a temporary restrain- labor, which they say arc making a
ing order barring union pickets from little more than S4 an hour. Members
the Carolina Caribbean Carriers port cf the II-A earn $17 an hour, accoron
Eagle Island and from acts of van- ding to an ILA spokesmen,
dalism was due to be heard in Coluni- CCC said the picketing was disrupbus
County District Court Monday, ting business and obtained a tembut
was not. porary restraining order to bar the
But a spokesman for Carolina picketers from its property.
Caribbean Carriers lias been quoted The company had considered movsaying
the controversy has been ing its operation to ports in Florida
resolved and that CCC will continue because the protest was costing it
to use non-union labor to load its money, hut apparently is no longer
barges. considering it.
The dispute began last month after The company does plan to open a
the company was taken over by second port operation for barge trafPonce
Maritime Services of Puerto fit- between the U.S. and Puerto Kico
Rico and moved its loading operation by mid-1987 at a Florida port.
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ixunia v_ui niliue nDove iNormai
Temperatures should average near ed a maximum high of 76 degrees on
normal over the next few days, while the 9th and a minimum low of 28
above normal precipitation is ex- degrees on the 14th. An average daily
pected to continue. high of 62 degrees combined with an
Shallotte Point meteorologist average daily low of 46 degrees for a
Jackson Canady said the area can ex- daily average temperature of 54
pect nighttime lows averaging degrees. Canady said that is about
around 40 degrees, with daytime six degrees above normal,
highs of around 60 degrees, and about
three-quarters inch of rainfall. He measured 2.28 inches of rain at
For the period Dec. 9-15, he record- Shallotte Point during the period.
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Chamber H<
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The South Brunswick Islands C
benevolent Santo Hans will lenvi
Christmas.
Chamber President Alan Holder
are hoping someone will donate and
when the new tax laws will make it
Santa.
Someone who donates land to a i
chamber, before Jan. l can take a 1
value of the property, Holden explai
After Jan. 1. tlie only deduction c
cost or basis one lias in the property
llo'.den said the chamber needs
nutnent site for its annual N.C. 0
available for other community gri
any tiling, a lot. tract or whatever."
The chamber board recessed
reconvene on short notice between i
Santa calls. A lawyer is on standby
work by the deadline.
Court To Dec
Of Condemr
A jury will decide what is a fair
price for propert\ condemned l>\ the
N.t.'. Department of Transportation
DOT for the Sliallotto bypass.
In a complaint fded in Brunswick
County Superior Court Nov. :!t. the
state asks for a decision on the
563.750 it as offered Robert II. White
and K.I) White III doing business as
White Investments and Hughes
'.i.irdcn Center Inc. i for land in
Shallotte North Subdivision that will
lie taken by the state for the bypass.
The defendants and the plaintiffs
nave been unable to agree on the pur.base
price.
The tract lies north of Shailottc
jiloug U.S. 17 near Chapel Hill
.'emetery ami will be within the
ighl-of-way of the bypass, which has
i proposed routing from 1.3 miles
last of S.H. 1316. Old Shallotte Road i
C.W.. south of Shallotte. to .53 mile
Police File Mc
Additional charges have been filed
jy I {olden Beach Police against three
noli arrested uokV hi nnnarlinn
*-ilh a series of break-ins.
Officer George Atkins sai.l Tueslay
that Arthur Edward Carter and 1
Melvin Curtis Hoark of Kanna|?>lis I
ind Handy Eugene Sloop of Concord
lave been charged with three addi- I
ional counts each of breaking and '
entering and larceny, for a total of
ive counts. i
The men also were c harged earlier c
vith a felony, larceny of a firearm, a t
32-cal. revolver. i
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Christmas from our house
your loyol, friendly pat
gratitude.
Hwy. 17 N., Shallotte
W. if'-' Holiday Spei
* 10-gal. Aquarium S
(pump, fihcr. gravel, lulling u
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-raiaKeei aianer r>ei
third, cuv.v, accessories)
Cockatiel Starter S
(huil, cuge, accessories)
Layaway early I
NATURE'S
Resort Ploza, Sha
(Hours: Mon thru Sot. 10 6, S
opes Sania
Land
hamber of Commerce is hoping a
? some land under its tree this
i said ho and the board of directors
1 lo the organization before Jan. 1.
more difficult for someone to play
ion-profit organization, such as tintax
deduction equal to the market
ned.
no will Ik* able to take is the actual
. lie continued.
the land in order to develop a perlyster
Festival. It would also be
ups to use. "We will appreciate
Hoiden stressed.
a Tuesday meeting so it could
low and the last day of the year if
to complete the necessary paper:ide
Value
led Land
west of S.H. 1136. Red Bug Koad
SAW. north of Shallolte.
The state has deposited the money
with the Brunswick futility Clerk oi
Court fur later disbursement should
the court decide that amount is fair
If the court rules in favoi of the
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Ihe ainoiiiit approved by tfi?* court
The ease was filed by Senior I >ep?ty
Attorney (ieneral Kugene A. Smith
and Assistant Attornej (ieneral
James K. Wanner. Jr. of the X.<\
Department of Justice.
The Slmllotte h> pass is pai l of I'.S
17 to be four-laned from Bell Swamp
to the South Carolina stale line.
Accord inn t DOT Project
Knginerr Karl Willis, the
thoroughfare project will cost about
510 million and could be completed in
I WO.
>re Charges
their Dec. 6 arrests followed a
search by town police of a residence
at 340 Ocean Boulevard Kast.
Carter and Sloop have been released
on bond: Boark remained luesday
in the Brunswick County Jail in
lieu of bond exceeding $15,000.
The charges relate to a series of
ireak-ias of homes on the east end of
)cean Boulevard.
Atkins said additional charges
rould be forthcoming since the
lcpartincnt still lias some uniden
ni? the arrests.
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iun. 2-5 oftcr Thanksgiving
Audit Resul
I Continued From I'liRo 1-AI
observed. In a fivo-|MRe manage
menl letter to the commissioners. the
auditors recommended several
routine improvements in internal
controls.
These inelutleda move to ceiitralizeil
purcliasiitR and acquisition of
more computer memory, lioth actions
proposed by the county; more
consistent use of purchase orders for
all disbursements and better control
over budget amendments.
For example, there ivere instances
where the county incurred ohlign
tiuns when there was lie uncnciunbercd
balance in the budgeted
appropriation to cover them In
another instance, some water bond
prweeds were obligated and s|?eiit
without formal b.ulcct approval.
Other Business
In other business, commissioners:
Following their executive session,
voted unanimously to uphold the
county manager's decision regarding
Frank Adams, former count)
building inspector. Adams tiad appealed
his recent dismissal.
Agreed to let County Attorney
1 Javid Clegg take vacation accrued in
1986 later since lie is currently acting
county manager and cannot lake the
time he lias coming. County Manager
Hilly Carter is out sick.
Set a joint meeting with the
Utilities Operations Hoard for .Ian. 5.
Set a public hearing for 7 p.m.
.Ian. 11' in the public assembly
building on the proposed paving of
Fee Drive under the Department of
Transportation's property owners
participation program.
Made several appointments, with
Commissioner Jim Poole reappointing
Dr. Peter Almirall to the county
health board and Grace Heasley
reappointing Donald Noo to the
Brunswick Hospital Authority. Commissioner
Chris Chappcll delayed his
remaining appointments to the Industrial
Facilities Hoard and health
board until January
1.earned that in November the
building inspections office issued 366
nermits inclndim* 165 hniMinu I'M
electrical. SG plumbing and 36
mechanical. collecting fees of
$14,207.30. Of the building permits, 05
were for housing units. These included
13 detached single-family homes,
78 mobile homes and four condominium
units.
Agreed, on a motion made relucBucanner
Hills A/
ItV KITA SMITH
A 72-year old man found dead in his
mobile home Monday apparcntly
died from natural causes, according
to Brunswick County Coroner Greg
While.
White said Kdward Overfield of
Buccaneer Hills, off of Seashore
Bond, hud been dead approximately
four days when a postal worker
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Millikcn Shopping Pit
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INLET VIE>
Ofl Hwy. 179, Between Ocean
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ts Reported
laiitly by I.uiIIiiiii. allow
Krunswiek Technical Collcijc to
transfer $UI.!M!i in iiiisfM'tit current
expense (mills to il.s capital outlay
budget for construction of a utility
buildup:. Sail I I.iiiIIiiiii. a trustee of
the college, ' la't tlicin have it tin
time. It's basically spent " Hut. in
future, he said, the county w ould look
more closely at budget allocations i>
the college.
On <'oiniiiissioiier I'mile's motion
tabled, until the county manap.er is
present, consideration of a pioposal
by Tax Ailniiuistralor Itoyd William
son to eliminate tax listin.; in the field
ami In adopt a perniamcnt listing '
real estate.
Presented certificates of ap
prociation to two contract electrical
inspectors and their wives, fai l and
I.ois l.cwis and Van and Kdna Karl
Weeks. The county building inspections
office has employed its own fulltime
and a part-time electrical inspectors.
Heard from Hohert lloff of
Sliallotte Point, who had several
questions regarding the Utilities
Operations Hoard and its attendants
requirements. One member, it wa
noted, had a poor reeortl of alter
dance. The hoard's bylaws stipulate
tlutt members who don't attend
meetings regularly are to be replaced.
Adopted a resolution presented In
Commissioner Poole releasing its
share of a new state economic
development grant to the ('ape Fcni
Council of (ioveruments. The money
will be used for econoniic development
projects.
Heard the adjusted lWt?i pro|>ert>
lax valuation is $3,112 million,
creating a levy of $17.77 million, plu
Sl.Tt.312 in late listing penalties. The
valuation for the Doslicr Hospital
District is $1 7.' million, creating a
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ministralor Boyd WilliaiiLSon.
Adjusted rota mage on several
water line construction contracts as
follows, on the recommendation of
consulting engineers Lewis &
Associates: Krected Steel Products
Inc., to 5 percent of the total contract
plus $77,310 to cover five outstanding
liens; Hall Contracting, to 5 percent,
with coverage of ati $8,-tR5 lien: and
Brown Steel Contractors, to5 percent
on the Boiling Spring lakes tank with
lacks only sterilization and filling
with water.
Aan Found Dead
became concerned because Overfield's
van was home, but he wasn't
collecting his mail.
At about 7:15 p.m. Monday, tin
postal worker called the Brunswick
County Sheriff's Department and
Coastline Volunteer Rescue Sound
The Tri-Ueach Volunleer Fire
Department also assisted with the
call.
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