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Page 2>A—THE BRUNSWICK BEACON. Ttiursday, January 29. 1987
FCC Approves Cable Project
BY SUSAN USHER
A cable-TV expansion project by
Alittiitic- TsScpbone Membership
Corp. has cleared its last hurdle, ac-
ccrdLng to Genera! Manas?'* H««seii
Price, with the Jan. 7 approval of the
constrvtction permits by the Federal
Communications Commission.
The expanded 17 basic channel and
three premium channel serv’ice could
l>e activated on May 1.
Nearly a week after the usual
80-day waiting period had elapsed,
Price said Tues^y, “We had to call
them (the FCC) to hear It. We have a
letter coming.”
According to Price, completion of
the project is a matter now of getting
the necessary* equipment on site and
installing it
A fiberglass hut to house the addi
tional signal-sending equipment for
the project has been constructed at
ATMC’s Shallotte headquarters and
the equipment itself is to arrive in
February.
But the expanded 17-channel
system can't be activated, he added,
until converters are installed in
customers’ homes.
arcKind March 1, and the project
schedule calls for installation to be
completed by April IS.
With the project ATMC’s single-
tier service will ezoand tO 17 CiioTf
nels aiKl the basic rate to about $11.75
per month. In addition to Home Box
Office, customers may also choose to
pay extra for two other premium
channels, The Disney Channel and
The Movie Channel, the latter of
which has drawn the most interest
thus far, according to Price.
Customers who have remote ccui-
trols, or want to record with a VCR
while watching another channel must
rent additional converters In addition
to the one supplied as part of the
basic service package.
With the “addressable” converter
system, most connections and
disconnections can be made elec
tronically from a central location,
reducing the number of site visits re
quired of ATMC cable personnel.
In fall 1987 ATMC plans to expand
the cable TV system itself. Phase II
as proposed would serve an addi
tional 2,000 to 2,500 customers. About
4,000 of ATMC’s 16,000 customers
.xmvrrtri^ sir h#* dpHvrrrd ^sve occcss tc Cable scn’lcc.
COG Members Tour Counties
BY SUSAN USHER
A three-county get-acquainted tour
will bring Cape Fear Council of
Governments members to
Brunswick County today for a look at
the water system and other economic
development factors.
Planned by Chairman I^Dane
Bullington, the tour began at 7 a.m.
in Wilmington and was to conclude
with an executive committee
meeting at the Bullington residence
on Ocean Isle Beach. The purpose ot
the tour was to acquaint members of
the mulU-county planning group with
development features of the entire
area.
Brunswick County stops were to in
clude briefings at the county complex
on the county's master plan for ex
pansion of that facility, the county's
water system and its impact on
development, and tlte county's con
cerns with its landfill space needs.
If there’s enough daylight, said
COG Executive Director Jerry
Ramsey, members plan to take a
look at strand development and golf
courses such as Oyster Bay, The
Pearl I and II and Carolina Shores
and Marsh Harbour.
Calabash Acts
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Builders with the stipulation that it
could be completed within 90 days.
In other business the council
authorized Thomas to follow up with
Brunswick County landfill Director
Major White concerning complaints
about duniping on a residential lot in
Rlverview Acres.
She was also told to request the
state Department of Transportation
dispose of a large tree just beyond
Beck’s Restaurant Limbs of the
nearly-dead tree are blown down by
winds and John High, Beck’s
manager, is concerned about the
safety of C'ustomers entering and
leaving. Thomas said the tree is on
the state property line.
The council instructed her to ar
range for holes to be filled in a read
on Lake Drive. Owners of property
on the road complained that drivers
circled around into their yard to
avoid “bad places in the road.”
From its start in Wilmington, the
bus tour was to visit the Riverfront
Park, Cotton Exchange. N.C. State
Port and other waterfront develop
ment in Wilmington, a golf course
and the New Hanover County Air
port. At the airport a briefing on
future development plans and the im
pact of a European connector was on
the agettuS.
In Pender County, COG members
were to look at the Lane's Ferry In
dustrial Park and a smaller facility
in Burgaw, and a senior center, then
follow the industrial corridor along
U.S. 421 back toward Wilmington and
l.eland. talking with representatives
of Takcda and The Cape Industries
and looking at the N'ew Hanover
County steam plant.
From there the tour was to go to
Columbus County by way of
Brunswick County’s surface water
treatment plant near Malmo. In Col
umbus County, plans were to visit
small industrial developments near
Chodbourn and WhiteviUe. The tour
was to look at Tabor City from the
perspective of a small town with its
basis in a farm economy.
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relaxing atmosphere, join
us for breakfast, lunch
or dinner. Live
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dinner and live enterialnmenl Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
evenings.
At Sea Trail Golf Links, Sunset Beach, 579-5067
Arnold Re-Appointed Fire Chief
Oysters To Be
Meeting Subject
Oyster management will be
discussed in public meetings con
ducted at 7 p.m. Jan. 28,29. and Feb.
3 and 4. by the N.C. Division of
Marine Fisheries.
The Jan. 28 meeting will be held in
the Hyde County courthouse in Swan-
q'jarter; the Jan. 29 meeting at
Carteret Technical College.
Morehcad City; the Feb. 3 meeting at
the Marine Resources Center in
Manteo; and the Feb. 4 meeting in
the Pamlico County Courthouse in
Bayboro.
Federal Employees
Set Safety Record
The 1.436 employees at Federal
Paper Board Co. Inc. Riegelwood
operation worked two million con
secutive hours without an injur>*
resulting in days away from work,
the best safety achievement record
in the site’s history-, according to
Kirk Semke, vice president
The mark represents employees’
safe work since May 18,1986.
Riegelwood Safety Director Lou
Mattes said safety statistics at the
Riegelwood operations have improv
ed dramatically over the past five
years, with total accidents down 67
percent
BY ETTA SMITH
Interim Chief Michael Arnold will
now scr\'c as Shallotte’s Volunteer
Kire i.b;purunent chiet—but he’d
work with a liaison committee and
delegate more responsibility to other
members of the department.
The town board voted Jan. 21 to re
appoint Arnold on a reconunendatlon
from a conunUtee that has been stu
dying problems within the depart
ment. The board also approved
several other committee recommen
dations. including the chiefs delega
tion of responsibility.
Board member Wilton Hnrrelson
said members of the existing com
mittee offered constructive com
ments and accomplished a lot
‘Tm pleased with the way they
worked together,” he said. “There
was a good feeling among the
members.’’
The board denied Aniold's re
appointment on Nov. 20, but later
voted to allow him to act as interim
chief until the committee could study
some complaints about problems
within the department.
Mayor Jerry Jones said then i'nat
complaints had been made about
repairs around the station which
hadn't been done, but he wouldn’t say
who complained, or how many com
plaints he'd had.
Arnold was recommended by the
departntent for a second term in the
one-year post. His first term was in
1986!
The new liaison committee will
consist of the mayor and two
members from the board of alder
man. appointed by the mayor; Ar
nold and two department members
appointed by him. and one member
of the department appointed by the
mayor and chief jointly.
The committee will meet quarter
ly. and its members serve one-year
terms. The first meeting is to be
within 45 day.s of the board's adoption
of the recommendations, and will
deal with a review and possible revi
sion of the bylaws and town or
dinance that govern the department.
Other recommendations approved
include disbursement of $500 to be
placed in a checking account and us
ed for emergencies by the depart
ment. The remaining departmental
funds will be handled by the town’s
finance officer.
The department will present
receipts and invoices to Oie fliuinec
officer on the lOlh day of each month
to deleniunc the basis for the expen-
Ordioance Clarified
The board also voted to clarify the
town’s beer and wine ordinance .so it
will specify that sales of the
beverages end at 1 a.m. on Mondays.
The ordiiumcc nllows the .sale of
those beverages from 7 a.m. unlil 1
a.m. on weeklays, and from 1 p.m.
Sundays until 1 a.m. Mondays.
An ortlinancc passed by the board
in 1981 allowed the sale of ihv
beverage to begin at 1 p.m. on Sun
days and stop according to state
regulations, according to Mayor
Jerry Jones. Those regulations, in
turn, allow municipalities to decide
how late sales may cotilinue on Sun
days.
Purchase Approved
The board voted to use emergency
Alcoholic Bevemgo Control Board
funds set aside for law enforcement
to purchase n 1983 Ford CYown Vic-
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Carolina Shores
Wants Manager
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directors and various conuiiiltccs. A
full-time manager would take over
some duties and coordinate others.
A need for full-time management,
as well as the opportunity to apply for
slate and federal grants to meet com
munity needs, were among the con
cerns raised during discussions on in-
COipuniuuiT.
Property owners voted on the ques
tion of incorporation last November
in a mail canvas. When ballots were
counted on Dec. 6, a majority of all
property owners favored incorpora
tion. However, a majority of the per
manent residents did not and they
would be the only persons eligible to
vote on the matter in a referendum
that would be required by the incor
poration legislation.
The community, near the South
Carolina state line and bordering
Calabash, has 425 homes, 600
buildable lots and about 700 perma
nent and part-time residents.
the N.C. Ilighwny Patrol for $4,000.
l lie car. which Iws 09.000 miles on
the spceilometcr. will replace a 1982
•10 (W1 inilnw
The board also agreed that
Maintenance Snpervi.sor Albert
Hughes can use tlw iMymouth in his
ilepartincnl.
Cunncrtlun Approved
Aldermen approved the connection
of the town’s water system to tl»e
county's .system along N.C. 179 atlhe
Vlllngo Pines and Brlerwood
developments to increase water
pressure. The area presently luis low
lid .Imies. includine
fire hydrants.
They agrecti to hire Jerry IajwIs
and Associates as consulting
engineers on the project. l,ewis has
been working with the county on the
e.xpaiLsion of Its system.
The price of the firm’s service luis
not been 'Ictcrinined. sail Jones, and
will depend or» the design used for the
hook-np.
Other llusincs.s
In other biisine.ss the buiird;
•Voted to luive lOwn Attorney
Mnrk 1 jnvis chiM'k into a law enforct*-
ment relirement law passed by the
stiUe legislature during its last .sc.s-
slon. The law requires municipalities
to p;iy a five percent extra supple
ment to law deforcement employee.s.
The boani is nasiire if the law per
tains to all inunicipalities.
•Scheduled a work .session F'el). 2 to
discuss revisions in the police
manual.
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