Page 12-A-TIIK IMirNSWIl K BEACON. Thursday. Oei emlH r 17. 1987
Grill/Barbecue The Bird
Mild weather frequently gives South Brunswick Islands residents
the option of cooking their holiday bird outdoors.
A 12-pound unstuffed turkey will require about three hours' cooking
time in a charcoal covered kettle grill. Tlie result; a succulent
barbecued turkey on grill with a mild smoky flavor and pink meat just
under the skin.
For a 22-inch grill, use 23 to 30 briquettes on each lengthwise side of
drip pan. Drip pan should be larger than turkey.
Bum coals to gray ash. about 30 minutes. Place rack in grill with
handles over coals. Insert meat thermometer deep into turkey thigh
next to body, not touching bone. Brush skin with oil. Place turkey on top
rack over drip pan. Cover. Leave vents open. Add five to eight briquet
tes to each side every hour to maintain 325 degrees. Conk to ISO degrees
or 185 degrees in thigh.
Other cuts: Cook bonc-in breast to 170 degrees in thickest part of
breast. Cook bonele.ss breast/turkey to 170 to 175 degrees in center of
roast.
Long Beach Voters Drop Proposed Election Appeal
Shelter Offers Lab/Chow Pups
A variety of pets are up for adop
tion this week at the Brunswick Coun
ty Animal Shelter.
Reconunended are two female
labrador retriever/chow pups, a
male short-haired kitten and a
female small mixed breed dog.
The lab/chow pups are black,
about three montlis old and playful.
The kitten is domesticated, is orang-
Temperatures,
Rainfall Should
Be Near Normal
Near normal weather is expected
over the next few days in the
Shallotte area, according to Shallotte
Point meteorologist Jackson Canady.
Canady said the area can expect
temperatures to range from the up
per 30s at night to the upper 50s dur
ing the day.
Rainfall should measure about one-
half inch.
For the period of Dec. 8 through H,
the average daily temperature of 53
degrees was six degrees above nor
mal, Canady said.
The average daily high
temperature during the period was 65
degrees, and the average nightly low-
temperature was 42 degrees.
The maximum high temperature
during the period was 72 degrees on
Dec. 9, while the nrinimum low-
temperature was 32 degrees on Dec.
14.
Canady n^easurod .11 ol an inch of
r-.iw\ta\\ durxwftVhc period.
cd stripe and is very loving, while the
small dog is brown with a black tint,
about onec year old. "Misty" has had
some of her shots and is described as
very loving.
These and other animals can be
.seen .Monday through Friday from 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at tlu- Brunswick
County Animal Shelter, of N.C. 211
south of Supply.
Barbeque
Scheduled
Calabash Volunteer Fire Depart
ment will spoiLsor a pork barbeque
dinner Saturday. Dec. 19. starting at
II a.m.. at theCalatwsh Fire Station.
Price is $3.75 per plate.
Proceeds from the lundraiser w-ill
benefit the fire department.
Scrap Lumber
On Sale Today
A special sale of scrap lumber dun
nage is planned Dec. 17 i today) at the
U.S. Army’s Military Ocean Ter
minal at Sunny Point from 8:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
The w-ood w-ill sell for $20 per cord,
indicated Myrtle D. Meade, public af
fairs officer.
BY DOUG RUTTER
A proposed appeal of a Brunswick
County Board of Elections decision to
dismiss complaints concerning the
Nov. 3 election at Long Beach was
dropped last week.
According to Tom Heller, a Yaupon
Beach attorney who represented the
11 voters who had previously filed
notice of appeal with the county
board, “It w as the general concensus
of my clients that it would bo in the
best interest of the town to drop the
appeal."
The IvOng Beach election initially
drew 76 complaints concerning a
period of time when there were no
ballots at the polls.
On Nov. 19, the county board of
elections conducted a fact-finding
hearing and dismissed the com
plaints, concluding that the outcome
of the election was not affected.
Heller, who also represented 58
voters at the hearing, said, "I think it
w as a fair hearing. I believe the coun
ty board honestly deliberated and
came to a conclusion that they
thought was right."
H. Michael Oxford, who lost the
mayoral race to incumbent John W.
Vereen III by 10 votes, was the only
candidate who had filed a notice of
appeal.
He said of the hearing, "The county
board was very- receptive. They
w anted to hear the facts. They were
just not convinced that the violations
of law- were enough to change the out
come of the election."
State law- requires that polls be
open for 13 hours and that the board
of elections .supply ballots totaling
105 percent of the towm’s registered
voters.
A county Board of Elections report
entitled “Finding of Facts and Con
clusions of Law" was sent to the state
board of elections Dec. 4. Heller said
he received the report Dec. 7.
Despite the fact that the publica
tion of the report coincided with the
decision to drop the appeal. Heller
said there was no connection between
the two.
Heller explained that he hadn't
even read the county report when the
decision was made to discontinue the
appeal.
"Tliat really wa.sn't the Ivji.sis for
the decision." he .said. ".At the time of
the decision to drop the apiH*al. the
written fimiiims weren't even
discussed."
He s;tid one aspect which was
taken into consideration in dropping
the appeal was the fact ttiat his
clients wanted to get the operations
of the town - back to nornuil."
"We certainly could not be sure
what the outcome would luive been at
the state level." explained Heller.
"No one wanted to see it dragged out.
It was a ilivisive issue, and my
clienLs just wanted to see the can
didates sworn in at the nomud time."
And after more than a month of
speculation tiuit a new election may-
have to be held, newly-elected com
missioners Kevin Bell, David Drum-
moiut and Jean Gray wrre .sclieduled
to be sworn in along with Vereen at
Tuesday's 7 30 pm town tMvird
meeting.
.-\cconting to Hell, who filed one of
the 76 original i-omplaints with the
county. "I'm glmt it's all over with.
I’m looking forxvard to Unig Bench
becoming a community again."
If there luid been an appeal to the
state, the btuml could luive either
dismi.ssed the appeal, called for
aiiother hearing or simply called for
another election.
Joluinie Mcl/oan of the state office
said tiud the four-member board
might have called for another hear
ing or election if evidence was
presented demonstrating tliat “ir
regularities were sufficient enough
that it could have caused the outcome
of the election to be different."
Even if the appeal had been
dismissed by the state board, she ad
ded, it could still have been appealed
to the Wake County Superior Court
where the state board is located.
Heller explained that before the ap
peal had been dropped, complainants
had located voters who could have
provided additional evidence at the
state level if it had been needed.
“We would have been able to pre
sent more evidence than we did at the
local hearing,” he said, “but whether
that would have been enough to over
rule the county decision, I don’t
know.”
Oxford concluded, “I believe the
board of elections made an honest
mistake. I just hope it never happens
again."
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