STAFF PHOTO BY TERflY POPE
A TRUCK AND CONTAINER loaded with sodium dichromate crystals overturned on U.S. 17 north of
Bolivia Tuesday morning, tying up traffic in both directions for several hours.
Chemical Spill Avoided After
Truck Overturns Near Bolivia
BY TERRY POPE
An overturned tmck carrying so
dium dichromate crystals created a
traffic snarl along U.S. 17 near Bo
livia Tuesday morning.
State Trooper C.E. Ward said
wrecker crews used caution in up
righting the truck because of the
caustic chemicals inside the con
tainer.
"As far as I know, none of it spil
led," said Ward.
The truck, registered to H.C. Wil
liams Trucking Co. in Leland, was
traveling north on U.S. 17 around
7:20 a.m. when the accident oc
curred.
Its driver, Randy Wayne Jackson,
of Leland, look to the right shoulder
after approaching slow niuving traf
fic at an intersection with Mill
Creek Road, one mile north of
Bolivia, Ward said. The truck slid
into the ditch and landed on its side.
No charges were filed, said Ward.
"We probably had traffic backed
up a couple of miles each way,"
Ward said. "It was backcd up all the
way irAo Bolivia."
Wrecker crews had to block the
highway temporarily to upright the
truck and container.
Sodium dichromate is a crystal
line salt substance used in cleaning
metals and as an oxidizing agent.
No one was injured in the acci
dent.
Ward estimated damages between
S6.000 and $7,000 to the truck.
Deer Blamed
A Supply teenager was seriously
injured early Saturday after she
drove into a ditch to avoid hitting a
deer.
Crystal Kelly Hunnicutt, 17, was
traveling on Old Ferry Road (RPR
III*?) about 4.5 miles northwest of
Holden Beach when the accident
occurred, reported State Trooper
J.V. Dove.
Ms. Hunnicutt ran off the right
shoulder and struck a ditchbank
around 12:35 a.m., said Dove.
She was taken to The Brunswick
Hospital in Supply. No charges
were filed.
Damage was estimated at $500 to
her 1984 Chevrolet.
Driver Leaves Scene
A Calabash man says he was hit
from behind after putting on brakes
to avoid hitting a deer near Sunset
Beach.
Charles Edward Bass, 29, told
State Trooper D.V. Harvell the car
that someone hit his 1984 Ford then
sped away.
Bass was charged with driving
while impaired, Harvcll reported.
The other driver has not been found.
According to Harvell, Bass was
traveling north on Old Georgetown
Road (RPR 1163) around 5 a.m.
Saturday when he stopped quickly
to avoid the deer. Another car then
knocked Bass' vehicle off the right
shoulder.
Bass received minor injuries and
was taken to The Brunswick Hos
pital.
Damage was listed at SI, 000.
Teen Injured
A Bolivia teenager was injured
last Wednesday morning, May 15,
when the car he was driving ran off
the right shoulder of U.S. 17 and
struck a ditch.
Kurt Allen Davis, 17, was charg
ed with failing to drive on the right
side and with wearing no scatbcli,
reported Trooper B.L. Wilkes.
According to Wilkes, Davis'
1983 Oldsmobilc was traveling
north when it ran off the road, cros
sed over to the left shoulder and hit
the ditch around 8: 15 am.
Davis received Class B injuries,
which are serious but not incapaci
tating, and was taken to The Bruns
wick Hospital.
Damage was listed at S3, 000.
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1 Supply School Ground-Breaking
Activities Focuses On Future
HY SUSAN USHER
Focus was on the future Tuesday
morning as students and soon-to-be
students helped break ground for
the S5.2 million Supply Elementary
School.
A group of approximately 50
school and community leaders and
children gathered under a yellow
and white striped tent at the former
farm tract on Benton (Grapevine
Road) at Supply.
'Two years from now we will no
longer be growing crops on this
land but doing something more im
portant. We'll be preparing and
growing students," State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction Bob
Ethcridgc told the group.
Those students have the potential
of making a difference not only in
Brunswick County, but elsewhere,
he continued.
Etheridge praised Brunswick
County Commissioners, none of
whom were present, for the com
mitment to education evidenced by
county residents in allocation of
county funds for the project.
While a new facility doesn't
equate with better students, Ethcridgc
said a new school does give teachers
and students alike "important tools".
While providing a pleasant and
safe place in which to learn, it also
gives students "a sense that learning
is truly valued in this community,"
he said.
Four students or soon-to-be stu
dents ? Josh Sellers, Blake Stone,
Brittany Sellers and Bryant Price,
along with school officials, received
special mementos of the occasion
from Charles Boney, architect with
Boney and Associates of Wilming
ton.
Calling them "future board of ed
ucation members" as well as par
ents, he presented commemorative
plaques, saying, "I want you to re
member how important a clay this
is."
The four were joined by Shawn
Lennon, Whitney Sellers and Kris
ten Price as the third and last group
to break ground for the school.
Others who took shovels in hand
were school board members and
parents from the office.
Among other to speak were Don
na Baxter, school board chairman;
Doug Baxley, vice chairman, and
Bctte Sellers, the lay representative
on the county planning committee
for the new school.
Mrs. Sellers circulated petitions
to marshal public support for the
project and praised residents for
their support and understanding of
the need for the new school.
Michael Reaves, president of
Brunswick Community College,
told the group BCC is "equally ex
cited" at the prospect of the new
school because the two institutions
are educational partners. "The better
job you do, the better job we are
able to do," he stressed.
Land-clearing will begin May 27,
according to William Turner, assis
tant superintendent for operations,
and the school is to be turned over
to the school system no later than
Aug. 1, 1992, for the start of the
1992-93 school year. The facility
will serve students from portions of
the existing Southport Elementary,
Shallotte Middle and Union Pri
mary school scrvicc areas.
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