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Twenty-seventh Year, Numbei J Shalloffe Schedule Santa Claus is coming to town year. The jolly elf will be among 111 enl Shallotte Christmas Parade slated f Dec. 3, at 10 a.m. r ine parade will tollow the same i starting at Shallotte Middle School | Street to U.S. 17 and moving north tc ] of United Carolina Bank. After the parade, Santa will be | parking lot near Hill's Food Store t j wishes and give out candy. A complete list of entries, in ord ' is as follows: 1. Shallotte Police Chief Ro< Brunswick County Sheriff Jc 2. WBHS Color Guard 3. Shallotte Volunteer Rescue ? 4. Miss Brunswick County?We 5. Mayor Jerry Jones and Boai 6. JROTC Drill Team 7. JROTC Marching Unit 8. JROTC Float 9. WBHS Band 10. WBHS Band Boosters *11. Chambers Development Con 12. WBHS Homecoming Queen13. Little Miss N.C. 4th of July14. Little Miss Brunswick Count *15. Dance Connection/Brierwoo< Course Ifi QhollnMo Unltinfonr T?iro Flni *" ????? ? ?w 17. Union Primary School 18. Gus The Bus 19. Sudan Thunderbolts *20. Brunswick Christian Center 21. Mike's Marine 22. WBHS Future Homemakers 23. Junior Miss World Myrtl Farmer 24. WDZD 25. Brunswick Community Colli 26. Junior Miss Brunswick Coi shall 127. N.C. Oyster Shucking Cham sle 28. Sudan Temple Drum and B 29. Boy Scout Troop 201 (See PARADE, Page 2 LAND IS LOCATED Fundrai Ocean BY DOUG RUTTER Ocean Isle Beach property owners will be the primary targets of an effort to raise $200,000 to finance initial construction and furnishing of a natural museum on the island. Stuart Ingram, who proposed the Ocean Isle Nature Center in September, said this week that an agreement had been worked out for use of land near the center of town and that the major fundraising campaign will begin shortly. The museum will be situated on apHolden, Pin Background BY RAHN ADAMS Kelly Holden and Gene Pinkerton 1 Republican businessmen, militar members of local Lions Clubs, but the J 11 I 1 . 1 _ p r? ? / enu in uie oacKgrounas or n runs wick r. newest commissioners. The two men, along with incur Commissioner Frankie Rabon, will b< at the regular commissioners' meetin p.m. in Bolivia. The meeting will folli tion at the Public Assembly Buildin commissioners-elect and out-going boa Chappell and Jim Poole. In the Nov. 8 election, Holden, a area resident, soundly defeated Chap 1,600 votes in the District 1 race. In Di edged fellow Oak Island resident Poo votes, while Rabon easily retained hia beating Democratic challenger Tom S As a result of the Republican s\v Commissioners will have a GOP ma time since 1976. Rabon, initially ele familiar face in county government, and Pinkerton will be holding elective time Holden: Native Son Few local residents have ric Brunswick County than Holden, a farn been owned by his family for more the ,1; of Vlinnic Holden and the late Paul H I | '" l p pni i f 4 c THE BRUNSWICK BEACON Christmas d For This a little early this tries in the annual !, \ i 1? nr fhic QotnrHav 1 > the main branch |gi < jiiiffif : stationed in the EmmWB o hear Christmas \ jji cr of appearance, d Estates and Golf * ipion?Cathv CarliH SHAIXOTTE TO ugle Corps was busy ,ininS p tions last Friday, which gets under i-A) Claus will be amo ising To Bee Isle Beach A proximately one half acre of land located at the corner of Laurinburg and Second streets, one block east of the causeway. Island developer Odell Williamson, who owns the site, said Tuesday he agreed to a 30-year lease on the property, but added that he will proknM., J :c *1? i?4 uauiy uunuic uic lauu u uic piujeui is successful. The town's primary landowner said he will charge $1 per year for use of the land, which he said has a value of about $250,000. Despite earlier statements that the kerton Bring Is To County < old commissionerDoth are successful located about foui y veterans and Holden is ma ire the similarities They have two bounty's soon-to-be 6-year-old Kelly businesses?H&R nbent Republican during the winter ; sworn into office which he runs witl g on Dec. 5 at 6:30 mid-April until mi )w a 5 p.m. recep- In addition tc g in honor of the County Republic, ird members Chris Brunswick Comm July 1985, when h life-long Shallotte Also, he is a men pell by more than former member t strict 3, Pinkerton board of directors le by less than 200 A 1968 gradu ; District 4 seat by earned an asso iiminons. Southeastern Con eep, the Board of attended Westei jority for the first Wilmington. Betw cted in 1984, is a submarine electrc However, Holden his home port in I offices for the first After returnir brother began fa tional row crops her heritages in About four years ? icr whose land has a variety of vege in 200 years. A son stand. olden, the 38-year- (g IM, liti n is book bindery 12/31/99 box 162 r mi 49284 Shallotte, North Carolina, Thi Parade ! I Saturday v. ipr' ,v*!f/w-v 'jss* &. v Ill jn - u ? ?' , P N t . ' * WN EMPLOYEE Roland Varnain i Uain Street with Christmas decorajust in time for the annual parade I way this Saturday at 10 a.m. Santa 1 ng 111 entries this year. f ( jin For ' Auseum l r project may be too ambitious without b state and federal tax dollars, r Williamson said this week he wants 1: to do whatever he can to help. "I cer- p tainly didn't want to stand in their j way," he said. "I didn't want to be s the person who didn't agree to I cooperate with them." \ Williamson, who owns all of the f commercial property on which the c building could have been located, i said the museum could very well become an added attraction for the t (See FUNDRAISING, Page 2-A) < t Diverse i Commission elect lives on the family farm, which is miles south of Shallotte on U.S. 17. irried to the former Barbara Greer, daughters?13-year-old Valerie and . He is co-owner of two familv Block, which he operates with his wife months, and Holden Brothers Produce, i his older brother, David Holden, from id-November. > his involvement with the Brunswick in Party, Holden has served on the unity College Board of Trustees since e was appointed by Gov. Jim Martin, iber of the Shallotte Lions Club and a if the Whiteville Tobacco Warehouse's ate of Shallotte High School, Holden date degree in agriculture from ununity College in Whiteville. He also TT?: 1 T ixtn I vuiuuild UlllVClMiy dliu U1>L'een 1970 and 1973, Holden served as a jnics technician in the U.S. Navy, with >Jew London, Conn. ig to Brunswick County, Holden and his rming in 1974, mainly growing tradisuch as tobacco, corn and soybeans, igo, the brothers diversified by growing tables and opening their own produce ee HOLDEN, Page 2-A) jrsday, December 1, 1988 High Acc In Bid To Pour-Lan Work on four-laning U.S. 17 bet- 01 een N.C. 87 at Bell Swamp and N.C. a 11 at Supply would be accelerated S nd completion of the Bolivia bypass C elayed one year under the state's roposed Transportation Improve- v lent Program for 1989-1996. tl The State Board of Transportation a i expected to approve the $3 million v lan at its Dec. 9 meeting in Raleigh, v lost other Brunswick County pro- s sets included will remain on their h urrent schedules. DOT spokesman Bill Jones said the " ecision to speed up work on the Bell a wamp-Supply section relates to the c arge number of accidents and s atalities that have happened on "the upply end" of the 13.6-mile stretch c f rural, two-lane highway. "They J ranted to go on with it." t Between Sept. 1, 1985, and Sept. 1, ii 988 , 203 accidents?five of which o esulted in seven fatalities?were c eported on the 13.6-mile stretch of o oad, according to Roger Hawkins, s )OT's Division 3 traffic engineer. The eighth and most recent fatality f Permanent R< l * I'll A . ft A Will ASSIST N\ BY RAHN ADAMS Brunswick County Tax Administrator Boyd Williamson expects to have fewer headaches over tax listings next year, now that county ofricials have approved a permanent isting system for real estate. I The new system, which was ap- ] iroved Nov. 21 by the Brunswick t bounty Commissioners, affects only p eal estate and does not involve peronal property such as motor r 'ehicles, boats or farm equipment. "Permanent (real estate) listing elatively little mpact on county esidents, "ST lecause county rW, - - .3 esidents have to XT M ist personal pro- 11^ iM ear)," William- |9JK, ion told the InH seacon lasi Williamson veek. "It will have the most proound effect on non-resident property iwners, because we'll just send them l bill every year for their property." Starting this coming year, 10 per:ent "late list" penalties will not be :harged to property owners who fail o list their real estate in January. ^ i . \&llr \ m >Wl NEWLY-ELECTED COMMISSIONS Gene Pinkerton and Kelly Holden talk 8EACC 25c Per Copy 32 Page ident Rat Accelerc ing Proje :curred on Sept. 9, when a tanker \ nd a dumptruck collided north of pri upply near Brunswick Community in ollege. alt A total of 203 accidents (113 of at 'hich involved personal injury) in by ic three-year period tranlate into an obi ccident rate of 1.72 per 100 million du ehicle miles and is "in the ballpark" coi nth the statewide rate of 192 for all gn tate rural, two-lane, undivided ] ighways, he said. cei However, the fatal accident rate is to significantly" higher than average, op t 4.24 per 100 million vehicle miles ompared to 4.0 for similar roads 1 tatewide. Forty percent of the accidents oc- 01 rt\mv throo mnntkp ? AA?? ut t vu u ? v.i ii ii v*v> inuiuiu mu j , une and August, and nearly one in hree accidents involved cars runnng off the roadway either to the left m! r right. Another 21 percent, or 43 acidents, were rear-end collisions that ?'" 1 iccurred when a vehicle slowed or J topped. DOT estimates average daily traf- 5)11 ic on the stretch of 7,700 vehicles. eal Estate List ainly Absente The penalty, however, will still be fi charged to individuals who do not list r personal property during the listing period. t Williamson said the tax office ti already keeps up with land transfers n through weekly reports from the 11 Brunswick County Register of Deeds' D >rtice ana with property lm- tii irovements through regular reports Carolina Shores Meeting On lnc< Residents of Carolina Shores will b< poration during a meeting planned for the North Myrtle Beach Community Ct Scheduled to discuss and answer q the community are Jake Wicker of the I* Jerry Ramsey of the Cape Fear Counc Carolina Shores, a golf course com ner of Brunswick County, is included sidered for annexation by the Town of Community residents are expected the issue of incorporation. The North Myrtle Beach Communit vt?tu in.,?ai~ r? u o n -i ? -tu- ? l^UI Li I lYiyi tic DfUUl, O.C/., rilUllg L11C eui Club. :RS (from left) Board Regina Alexai with Clerk to the ment orientation ses > ;s, 3 Sections, Plus Inserts e Cited ite ct fVhile the overall Shallotte bypass Dject remains on schedule, delays obtaining wetlands permits has ered the construction schedule for veleome center along the Shallotte pass. The permits have now been tained and the facility will be built ring the paving phase of bypass istruction, rather than during the ading phase as previously planned, n any case, Jones said, use of the iter will not be delayed. It was due open at the same time the bypass ens. Contracts to begin work on the livia bypass project are scheduled letting in February 1989. .a reiaiea acuon, ine Doara voted approve an additional $21,504.75 the Bolivia-to-Supply improve;nt project. Previously, $2,38 llion had been approved for rightway acquisition. In other business on Nov. 18, the ite board agreed to add Bailey :eet, a .31-mile unpaved street in allotte, to the state system. ing Plan ;e Owners rom the county Inspections Departnent. Strict enforcement of the county's milding permit ordinance, in paricular, is necessary for the permaent listing system to work properly. Williamson said the Inspections epartment is 90 to 95 percent effec/e in enforcing the ordinance, a (See REAL ESTATE, Page 2-A) Slates arporation i able to learn more about incorthis Simday, Dec. 4, at 1 p.m. in mter. luesuons about incorporation of I.C. Institute of Government and il of Government. munity in the southwestern corin an area currently being conCalabash. 1 to vote sometime next year on ty Center is located off U.S. 17 in trance road to Possum Trot Golf ?2!23? mm bSShuw?.' v k*-3HMMPwr:. . ii in in ??? in?ri 111' 111 1 t MMMBM ???la II I 'I?r^ aww.fs.vxre. SIAf F PMOIO BY RAHN ADAMS nder prior to their county governsions last Wednesday in Bolivia. f
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