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STAFF PHOTO BY OOOO RUTTER
Claiming Their Spots
Sunbathers and swimmers started claiming their spots on the Ocean Isle Beach strand early Sunday morning. Air temperatures in the 80s
and a sea water temperature around 75 degrees made for a good day at the beach.
SEWER SYSTEM BEING STUDIED
Owner To Improve Cowgirls
Building
BY DOUG RUTTF.R
Ocean Isle Beach officials have worked out
an agreement with the owner of a local nightclub
building that was ordered to shut down earlier
this year due to state building code violations.
Meanwhile, Brunswick County health offi
cials are investigating the club's sewage system
to see if it is adequate and functioning properly.
Ocean Isle Beach Building Inspector Druied
Roberson said the owner of the Cowgirls build
ing on N.C. 179 has agreed to make several
changes to bring the structure into compliancc
with the state building code.
Improvements include the addition of a sprin
kler system, an exit and lighted exit signs. The
owner also has agreed to run a conduit to an out
door flashing light and have the balcony inspected.
Roberson said the proposed changes probably
will be made in stages, but a timetable for the im
provements had not been developed as of Tuesday.
The agreement was worked out during a
meeting Tuesday afternoon with Town Attorney
Elva Jess and Michael Ramos, attorney for the
owner of the building.
Betty Gore owns the building, and Vicky
Coleman leases the building and owns the busi
ness.
Roberson ordered the club vacated and shut
down earlier this year after ruling that it was op
erating in violation of the North Carolina
Building Code.
Slate code doesn't allow more than 100 peo
ple on the second door of a wood-frame con
struction building. It also prohibits establish
ments that serve food or drinks that also have
dancing or offer entertainment to locate on the
second level of those types of buildings.
Roberson said the improvements to the build
ing would take care of those violations and allow
the club to continue operating.
John Crowdcr, environmental health supervi
sor with the Brunswick County Health
Department, said the department is investigating
the sewage system that serves the nightclub to de
termine if it is adequate.
County health officials are studying the size
of the system and water usage to see if the sys
tem is being overloaded. Crowder said the coun
ty should have some answers by next week.
The department has received about a half
dozen complaints from nearby residents who say
the sewage system at Cowgirls is discharging in
to a ditch behind the building.
Crowder said a concentrated red dye was
added to the system about two weeks ago and
there has been no evidence of it in the ditch or
anywhere else outside of the system.
Slick Highways Cause
Slippery highways caused a rash
of minor traffic accidents last Fri
day, but no serious injuries were re
ported by the N.C. Highway Patrol
office in Wilmington.
In one accident on U.S. 17, a Shal
lotte man received minor injuries af
ter his pickup truck struck the rear of
another car around 4: 1 5 p.m.
William Donald Carter Jr., 30,
was charged with failure to decrease
speed by State Trooper R.L. Murray.
According to Murray's report,
Carter's 1983 Nissan was traveling
south on U.S. 17 when a vehicle in
front of his truck slowed for traffic
at the intersection of Mt. Pisgah
Church Road (RPR 1130), about 4.1
miles north of Shalloue.
Carter's truck hit the right rear of
a 1984 Toyota driven by Robert
Lawrence Stanley, 32, of Shallotte.
Stanley was not injured.
Damage was estimated at 51,000
to the Carter truck and S500 to the
Stanley vehicle.
Another accident Friday sent a
Supply woman to the hospital with
minor injuries.
Laurie Blakemore Arrowood, 26,
Flood Program Data At Library
Information relating to flood Floodway Regulations and Saving
management and flood insurance at Money on Flood Insurance for
Sunset Beach is available not at the Coastal Property Owners and books
West Brunswick Branch Library in entitled Flood Proofing Systems &
Shallotte, Linda Fluegel, town ad- Techniques, Flood Proofing; Flood
ministrator, announced last week. Proofing Regulations and Introduc
The town is making the informa- lion to Flood Proofing. Many of the
tion available as part of its efforts to publications are by the U.S. Army
reduce the potential for flooding and Corps of Engineers or by the Fed
flood damage in the community. eral Emergency Management Agen
The collection includes flood in- cy (FEMA), the agency that handles
surance rate maps; copies of the the federal flood insurance program,
town's flood insurance study; an Answers to questions and addi
analucic nf flnnH -1 - ! ? *' *
analysis of flood insurance claim
payments from 1977-1989 by Spen
cer Rogers of the Marine Advisory
Service, UNC Sea Grant; leaflets
entitled Flood Tips and Water,
Water Everywhere?', the booklets,
Procedures for Compliance with
tional materials on the federal flood
insurance program as it relates to
Sunset Beach are available from
Mrs. Fluegel at the town hall, 579
6297, or by writing the Town of
Sunset Beach, 220 Shoreline Drive,
Sunset Beach, N.C. 28459.
Rash Of Minor Wrecks
was injured after her 1985 Ply
mouth struck the rear of another ve
hicle on N.C. 130 about 2.3 miles
west of Holden Beach.
According to Stale Trooper B.L.
Wilkes, Ms. Arrowood was charged
with failure to decrease speed after
her car struck the rear of a 1986
Jeep driven by Wendy Phelps
Evans, 20, of Supply.
Wilkes reported that both drivers
were traveling west on N.C. 130
when the Evans car slowed due to
traffic. After the collision, Ms.
Evans vehicle then traveled off the
left side of the road.
Damage was listed at S500 to the
Arrowood vehicle and SI, 000 to the
Evans vehicle.
Ms. Arrowood was taken to The
Brunswick Hospital in Supply fol
lowing the 6:10 p.m. accident.
Former Local Restaurateur
Accused Of Sales Tax Evasion
A Rockingham businessman with
Brunswick County tics has been ar
rested and charged by the N.C. De
partment of Revenue with attempt
ing to evade or defeat state and
county sales taxes.
W.R. Tyler, 58, of Brookbank
Road, was charged with 25 counts of
attempting to evade or defeat North
Carolina and Richmond County
sales taxes.
Tyler is president of Riverside
Development Corporation of Shal
lotte, which operates Munchi's Sea
food Restaurant in Rockingham and
formerly owned and operated a
Munchi's restaurant in Shalloue that
closed in the mid-1980s, said Phil
Bridges, public information officer
with the N.C. Dept. of Revenue.
The warrants against Tyler allege
that while operating the restaurant
in Rockingham from June 1988
through October 1990, he devised a
scheme to understate his taxable
sale on North Carolina sales and use
tax reports.
Tyler appeared before a Rich
mond County magistrate on May 22
and was released after posting a
52,500 unsecured bond.
The charges against him came as
the result of an investigation by a
field auditor in the Dept. of Reven
ue's Rockingham office and a spe
cial agent with the agency's Special
Investigation Section in Raleigh.
Tyler's first court appearance is
scheduled for June 27 in Wake
County District Court in Raleigh.
If convicted of the charges agai
nst him, Tyler could face up to 75
years in prison and fines of up to
S250.000.
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