SHALLOTTE REVENUES ARE DOWN
County, Municipal ABC Boards
Discuss Benefits Of Merger
BY TEKRY POPE
Merging Brunswick County and
its nine municipal Alcoholic Bever
age Control (ABC) systems would
increase profits and cut down on ex
penses.
That's what an administrator for
Forsyth County's municipal ABC
systems told representatives from
Brunswick County last week.
Local ABC and town officials met
to hear how Horace Dcudney mas
terminded a merger of three mun
icipal systems in Forsyth County.
"If you had two or three systems
instead of 10 systems," Dcudney
said, "everybody would make more
money. All you're doing is scaveng
ing from each other."
The merger talk came after mu
nicipal ABC boards at Oak Island
and Southport last month chal
lenged the county ABC board's de
cision to open a second store on
Long Beach Road.
Town ABC systems fear the store
would siphon money from the mu
nicipalities, as the county's first
store on Holden Beach Road ap
pears to have done at Shallotte and
Ocean Isle. That store opened last
summer.
Shallotte ABC store's revenues
were down 39 percent last month
compared to April 1990's figures.
Ocean Isle's store suffered a 24 per
cent drop in April compared to last
year.
"I would guess that loss in Shallot
te and Ocean Isle is up here," said
Deudney, pointing to a figure of
S40.018 in revenues recorded by the
Holden Beach Road store last month.
Shallotte recorded revenues of
$68,512 in April 1990 and S43.232
last month. Ocean Isle ABC rev
enues fell from S44.076 in April
1991 to S33.562 last month.
State Rep. David Redwine, re
sponding to Oak Island and South
County Store Taking Toll?
Revenue figures for April 1990 and April 1991 for Brunswick Coun
ty and municipal ABC stores indicate declining revenues last month for
three systems, possibly due to their proximity to the new county-run
store on Holden Beach Road.
Percentage
ABC System April 1990 April 1991 Change
Belville $49.919 S53.878 + 7.9
Boiling Spring Lakes .........$ 10,436 513,511 + 29.4
Brunswick County JM/A $40,018 N/A
Calabash $53,412 S58.601 + 9.7
Long Beach $42.842 ?$44.564 + 2.8
Ocean Isle $44,076 .... $33,562 - 23.8
Shallotte $68512 $43,232 - 36.9
Southport $44,564 $48,346 + 8.4
Sunset Beach $30.224 $29,924 - .9
Yaupon Bcach $28,882 $29,082 + .7
Totals. $371,704 $393,001 + .9
port's pleas for help, introduced
spccial legislation earlier this month
to prohibit a county ABC board
from opening a county store within
seven miles of an existing munici
pal store. The protective measure
would expire in July 1992.
Forsyth County consists of three
municipal systems, Clemmons, Ker
nersville and Winston-Salem. The
county remains dry. Residents there
have not approved of ABC sales as
residents did last year in Brunswick
County.
"Mr. Deudney's right," said John
Ramsey, county ABC board mem
ber. "We're scavaging. I don't know
if it's going to help anybody. It's ba
sically going to help everybody if
we're sharing expenses."
Consolidating would create more
efficient operations and increase
revenues. Deudney said. The 10
boards would have to decide which
stores to remain open, how to dis
tribute profits equally and select a
method for representation on the
ABC board.
The three systems that merged in
Forsyth County had no animosity
toward one another or the county,
which receives 25 percent of the
profits, he said.
However, at last week's meeting,
the animosity between the county
and municipal board members show
ed.
Yaupon Beach Mayor May Moore
estimated that a county ABC store
on Long Beach Road would force
her town to raise its tax rate by six
cents. She said the boards should sit
down and discuss a possible merger
as responsible adults.
"We've got to do it in such a way
that the county is not raping the
towns," said Ms. Moore. "Shallotte,
right now, is getting slaughtered.
Ocean Isle is getting slaughtered.
Where the money goes is the an
swer to the problem."
County ABC bound member Clyde
Babson said Ms. Moore echoed what he
has been saying all along.
Richard Timberlake, of Belville,
said that town's livelihood depends
on ABC revenues.
"As the ABC store goes, so goes
the town of Belville," said Timber
lake.
Sartelle Accepts Onslow
County Chamber Post
Susanne Sancllc is resigning as
executive vice president of the
South Brunswick Islands Chamber
of Commerce to
accept a similar
position with a
larger chamber
in another
North Carolina
coastal com
munity.
As executive
vice president
of the Greater
sartelle Jacksonville
Onslow Chamber of Commerce in
Jacksonville, Mrs. Sartelle will
serve a membership of about 850
with a staff of eight and a budget of
approximately $260,000.
Her resignation is effective June
28; she will begin the new job July
9. "I'm waiting a while to go be
cause I have some things here to fin
ish up," she said earlier this week.
Mrs. Sartelle said she wasn't
looking for a change when encour
aged to interview for the position by
the person she will succeed. "I went
for the interviewing experience and
found it to be a nice community
with some challenges. It was a good
offer I couldn't pass up," she said.
"It was a logical move for me ca
reer-wise."
While promoting tourism has
been a major part of her work here,
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rate tourism development authority.
The chamber's emphasis there fo
cuses more on military affairs, with
the proximity of Camp Lejeune, and
small businesses. "They are the
backbone of Onslow County just as
they are here," said Mrs. Sartelle.
The decision was a difficult one
for she and her husband, Vic Sartel
le, to make, she said, because they
like their current positions and liv
ing in this area. "We're happy here,
but it was too good an opportunity
to let pass us by."
Vic Sartelle, employed with Alan
Holden Really, hopes to continue
working in the properly manage
ment field in Onslow County, she
said.
A native of Conway, S.C., Mrs.
Sartelle has been executive vice
president of the local chamber for
three years and two months. She
was previously employed for ap
proximately three years as director
of public relations with the Myrtle
Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Democratic Officials Fail To File
Reports By Prosecution Deadline
BY DOUG RUTTER
As of Tuesday, the N.C. Board of Elections still had
not received financial reports overdue from the
Brunswick County Democratic Party, and had not
heard from party officials, Caroline Haubcr of (he
state's campaign reporting office said.
After the Brunswick County's Democratic Party
Executive Committee failed to file two reports show
ing income and expenses over the last eight months of
1990, the state elections board asked District Attorney
Rex Gore to prosecute the committee.
Neither Gore nor former party Chairman Glen
Peterson could be reached for comment Tuesday af
ternoon before The Brunswick Beacon went to press.
Specifically, the executive committee did not file
two of the three financial reports required for the year.
One of the late reports was due in October and the
other was due in January.
Peterson has said that party officials had inadver
tently neglected to file the financial disclosure state
ments on time.
In April, the state elections officd asked District
Attorney Rex Gore to prosecute the executive com
mittee.
Gore, who is a Democrat, said stale law requires
that prosecution begin within 45 days of notification
from the state. The 45 days ran out May 23.
The one financial report the executive committee
filed last year showed income of 539 and expenses of
$5 for the period Jan. 1 through April 21, according to
the slate elections office.
Peterson told the Beacon earlier this month that ex
penses for the rest of the year totaled $61,997. The
committee received about $19,364 in contributions.
The party accepted a $26,160 bank loan which it
paid off later in the year and then took out another
loan for $50,000, Peterson said.
State law requires political parties, political action
committees and some candidates to file financial re
ports with the Board of Elections.
Political parties must file three reports in even
numbered years when county, state and federal offi
cials are elected. Parties can be fined $100 for each
late report.
The Brunswick County Democratic Party was one
of 21 political parties, committees or candidates that
failed to file one or more financial reports for 1990
and were reported to local district attorneys.
LELAND HEARING TURN-OUT LIGHT
Elections Board Nominees Picked
Nominations for appointment to
the Brunswick County Board of
Elections have been made by both
major political parties.
Republican Pat Ramsey was not
nominated to return to the board by
her party's executive committee.
Under state election law, the par
ty in state power is entitled to two
of the three seats on the county
board and the minority party the
third seat.
As the ruling party, Republicans
hold a 2-1 advantage on the local
board. They have nominated Glenda
Walker of Leland, the current board
chairman, to return.
Other Republican nominations, in
order of preference, are Billy A.
Benton of Grissettown, and Harold
Willetts of Bolivia, former sheriff of
Brunswick County.
When asked if Ms. Ramsey had
not expressed an interest in return
ing to the board, Republican Party
Chairman James Payne said the ex
ecutive committee "just took a vote,
and that's how it came out."
Ms. Ramsey could not be reached
Tuesday for comment.
The Democratic Executive Com
mittee has also submitted the names
of three nominees to the state, said
Democratic Party Chairman Craw
ford M. Hart.
Longtime elections board mem
ber Harry One Gore of South port is
the party's top nominee followed by
Vernon Ward of Shallolte Point and
Murry Stevens of Boiling Spring
Lakes.
Both chairpersons said they ex
pect to hear from the state by early
to mid-June on the nominations,
which were due in by mid-May.
15 Attend Hearing
The elections board held a public
hearing last Thursday on the pro
posed move of the Woodburn pre
cinct polling place from the Navas
sa Town Hall to the Leland Town
Hall.
About 15 people attended the
public hearing.
"Some spoke for it, and some
spoke against it," said Gore.
Gore said the board hasn't set a
meeting date yet to make a decision
on whether to move the precinct.
The Leland Town Council has
presented the elections board with a
resolution asking that Lcland's town
hall become the polling place for
Woodburn because it is a more cen
tral location. The Leland Town Hall
is located on Village Road at Wood
bum.
When asked if the board had
reached a consensus on the matter.
Gore replied, "We haven't discussed
it. We went to hear from the public,
but the board hasn't really had a
chance to discuss it."
The elections board doesn't meet
regularly, but schedules meetings as
needed.
Ms. Walker missed the public
hearing because of an illness in her
family, said Gore.
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