State Superintendent,
Students To Break
Ground For New School
Stale Superintendent of Public
Instruction Bobby Elheridge will
join three local
students and
Brunswick
County Board
of Education
members next
week in break
ing ground for
Supply Elemen
tary School.
The ceremo
ny will begin at ETHERIDGE
10 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, said
Assistant Superintendent of Schools
William Turner, at the 40-acre site
of the new school off U.S. 17 pm
Benton Road at Supply.
Turner has described the school,
which will serve students in grades
kindergarten through five, as a
"model" facility for the region.
Supply Elementary School will
draw its approximately 650 students
from three overcrowded schools ?
Shallotte Middle, Union Primary
and Southport Elementary.
Each school will be represented
at the groundbreaking by one of its
students, said Turner.
Low bids will allow the school
system to build a 93,000-squarc
<n
foot facility for S5.23 million, or
S56 a square foot instead of the S65
square-foot cost first projected. The
expanded design reflects increased
classroom sizes, a larger exception
al children's program area, and bid
options that included canopies at
two entrances, gym seating, better
quality sound system and related
mechanical and electrical systems.
Boney & Associates of Wilmington
is the architectural firm for the pro
ject.
Construction is expected to take
14 months, with occupancy in time
for the fall 1992 school term.
The new school will feature 27
classrooms that exceed the state's
minimum size, a courtyard, gymto
rium, media ccnter with computer
lab, 150-seat theaterette, roomy
cafeteria and outdoor classroom.
The school will be built with a
five-classroom cushion for future
growth.
And, following the example of
recent work at the three county high
schools, it will have a sloped, stand
ing seam coated metal roof.
Once the new school opens,
Shallotte Middle School will be re
organized to serve grades six
through eight.
Shallotte Police Chief
Faces Contempt Charges
BY TERRY POPE
When Shallouc Policc Chief Rod
ney Gause failed to appear in
Brunswick County District Court
April 24, charges he brought against
a suspcct in 1989 had to be dropped.
Now Gause has been found in
contempt of court by Judge D. Jack
Hooks Jr., who wants to know why
the police chief ignored his subpoe
na to testify at a trial.
Gause appeared in District Court
last Monday, May 6, to show cause
as to why he should not be punished
on contempt charges.
However, Judge David G. Wall
delayed the case until May 28, stat
ing that since Judge Hooks was the
one to issue contempt charges then
he should be the one to hear the
case.
The unusual twist was added to a
case that has been in and out of the
courtroom since March 16, 1989.
Anthony Craig Smith, 26, of
Route 6, Shalloue, was charged
Feb. 7, 1989, by Gause and Shallot
te Patrolman Roy Kohler with pos
session of non-tax paid alcoholic
beverages.
According to an arrest warrant on
file at the Brunswick County Clerk
of Court's office. Smith was ac
cused of having in his possession a
half gallon of moonshine whiskey
on Feb. 5, 1989.
Smith was released from the
Brunswick County Jail under S300
bond, but three times since then he
had also failed to appear for his trial
in District Court.
An order for Smith's arrest was
issued April 18, 1989, after he fail
ed to appear in court He also failed
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to appear June 7, 1989, and another
order for his arrest was issued by
Clerk of Superior Court Diana Mor
gan. Cash bonds of $600 were set in
each instance.
When the case came before the
court again Aug. 23, 1989, a dismis
sal with leave was granted to As
sistant District Attorney Napoleon
"Poli" Barefoot Jr., the prosecutor
of the case, after Smith again failed
to appear.
Barefoot's order stated that Smith
could not "readily be found" by law
officers.
According to Judge Hooks' order,
Gausc was issued a subpoena on
April 1, 1991, ordering him to ap
pear in court to testify in a case
against Smith on April 24.
Smith appeared on the court
docket to face 17 driving related
charges.
He was found guilty of driving
while impaired, two counts of driv
ing with a cancelled registration,
driving while his license was per
manently revoked, owning and op
erating a vehicle with no insurance,
driving while his license was sus
pended, speeding to elude arrest and
resisting and obstructing a police
officer. Some of those charges also
date back to 1989.
When Gause failed to appear in
court as the prosecuting witness on
the charge he filed against Smith,
Assistant District Attorney Greg
Kornegay asked that the case be
continued.
Judge Hooks denied Kornegay's
motion and issued contempt charges
against Gause.
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Calabash Continues To Shuffle Boards
BY DOU? rutter
Calabash Commissioner continued to shuffle
the makeup of the town's two appointed boards
this week and trimmed the number of engineer
ing Firms being considered for a sewage treat
ment study from six to four.
Commissioners added two members to the
board of adjustment, and they're once again talk
ing about changing membership of the planning
board, which was revised less than a month ago.
Following a public hearing Tuesday, the ordi
nance setting up the board of adjustment was
amended to include one regular member and one
alternate from the town's extraterritorial area
(ETA).
The ETA is an area within a mile of the town
limits where Calabash can impose zoning and
subdivision regulations and enforce the state
building code.
State law requires towns that exercise their
rights in the ETA to include residents of that area
on the planning board and board of adjustment,
which can grant variances from town ordinances.
With the changes approved Tuesday, the
Calabash Board of Adjustment now consists of
the mayor, four town commissioners and one
ETA resident. Alternates from the town and ETA
can sit on the board when there arc absences.
The ETA representative on the board can only
vote on matters that affect the extraterritorial
area.
Brunswick County Commissioners will ap
point the residents from the ETA. Calabash
Commissioners have recommended Tom Roberts
and Bob Crocker.
Public Hearing Set
Commissioners will hold a public hearing next
month on another proposal to rearrange the
makeup of the planning board, which was
changed April 23 when two new members were
added.
A hearing on plans to do away with alternate
members from both of the town's districts is
scheduled for Tuesday, June 11, at 7 p.m.
Planning Board Vice Chairman Pati Lewellyn
presented the proposal Tuesday night. With the
change, the board would have five members
from District 11, two from District I and three
from the ETA.
"It's not something that we arrived at hastily,"
she told commissioners. 'There was much dis
cussion about how it would affect our board."
Mrs. Lewcllyn said the change was proposed
because of recurring questions about the role of
alternate members and if all three ETA represen
tatives on the board were regular members.
"We just saw a lot of problems with alternates,
and we've never had a problem with getting a
quorum," she said.
Commissioner Stu Thorn said the planning
board also considered making everyone a regular
member, which would have increased the board
to 12 members, and dissolving the board and
starting from scratch.
Firms Selected
In other business Tuesday, commissioners se
lcctcd four engineering firms as finalists for a
wastewater treatment study.
Houston and Associates of Shallotte; The
Woolen Company of Raleigh; Powell and
Associates of North Myrtle Beach, S.C.; and
Robert L. Bellamy and Associates of Myrtle
Beach, S.C.; were choscn from six firms that pre
sented written proposals last month.
Each of the four companies will be asked to
make a 15-minutc presentation to the town board
June 11.
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