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Brush Fire Threatens Homes
A ^^e'hreatened two homes in the Ho,den Beach area ^st Friday afternoon before it was extin
guished by firefighters from Tri-Keach and Civietown VFDs. The blaze started from a pile of burning
brush on a vacant lot on Barracuda Street off Seashore Road. The fire came within 10 feet of two
homes on either side of the vacant lot.
Bolivia Man Shot At Nightclub
BY DOUG RUTTER
The Brunswick County Sheriff's
Department had not filed any
charges as of Monday in connection
with the weekend shooting of a
Bolivia man at a local nightclub.
The 32-year-old man was shot in
the arm Saturday around 3 a.m. at
Warren's Night Club in Bolivia, ac
cording to a sheriff's department re
port.
Deputy Don Stovall said Monday
no charges had been filed and the
case v as still under investigation.
The victim told authorities that
another subject at the nightclub told
him to approach because the subject
had something for him, according to
the report.
The subject then pulled out what
appeared to be a long-barreled .22
caliber pistol and shot the victim in
the left forearm, the report indicat
ed.
After he was shot, the victim ran
into the woods near the club. He re
turned to the club 30 to 45 minutes
later and was taken to The Bruns
wick Hospital in Supply.
In other reports on file at the
sheriff's department;
?A Mack truck and produce trailer
valued at S 90 ,000 was reported stol
en from Chemical Cartage Service
of Leland. The rig was apparently
taken sometime between Friday at 6
p.m. and Sunday at 5:30 p.m., ac
cording to Deputy Randy Robin
son's report. The business manager
told authorities that keys had not
been left in the truck, but the front
gate was not locked.
?A Southport man reported that his
1989 Toyota pickup truck was
stolen last Friday from the parking
lot at Wilson's in Southport The
man said that his father drove the
truck to the store and it was gone
when he relumed 10 minutes later.
The keys had been left in the truck,
which was valued at SI 0,000. An
outboard motor valued at SI 75 was
in the bed of the truck, reported
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?A 1985 Chevrolet pickup truck
was reported stolen from Alpha
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Park in Leland last Thursday. Two
windows were damaged and the of
fice was ransacked, according to
Deputy M.S. Mason's report. In ad
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set of channel locks, a screw driver
and S4 in change also were reported
stolen. Damage to the windows, a
screen and heat vent was estimated
at S500.
?A Leland man reported that his
1986 Ford Mustang was stolen last
week. He left it parked outside his
residence Saturday night and it was
gone Sunday morning, according to
Deputy Robinson. The car was val
ued at $5,200.
?Several pieces of jewelry, a video
casscue recorder and a portable
telephone were reportedly taken
from a Winnabow residence last
week. The home was broken into
between last Thursday night and
Saturday night, according to Deputy
Charles Crocker's report. The items
were valued at $2,090.
?A Conway, S.C., man told local
authorities that a .44-caliber auto
matic handgun was taken from a
suitcase at a residence in the Sea
side area. The gun was valued at
52,000, according to Deputy Phil
Bryant's report.
?A Shalloue area man reported that
a .44-caliber gun, cassette tapes and
a tape case were taken from his ve
hicle while he was working Satur
day at Sunset Beach. The stolen
merchandise was valued at $530,
according to Deputy Shelton Cai
son's report.
?A Southport man reported that a
German-made fiddle and an instru
ment case was stolen from a closet
in his residence sometime between
May 10 and May 13. The value of
the items was estimated at S550, ac
cording to a report filed by Deputy
C.W. Miller.
?A Lcland man told sheriff's depu
ties that two flags hanging on a ca
ble between two trees in his yard
were stolen early Saturday morning.
The man said he put up the Ameri
can and North Carolina flags to
welcome his son home. Deputy Ma
son reported that the flags, which
had been hanging 28 feet off he
ground, were valued at S60.
County Officers Make 24 Arrests
The Brunswick County Sheriff's
Department made 24 arrests as pros
ecuting witnesses in May, according
to the monthly activity report.
Officers answered 1,042 calls
during the month, including 144 do
mestic calls, and summoned 100
witnesses.
The department conducted 354 in
vestigations and recovered $12,564
in property. Officers spent 369 hours
in court, according to the report.
Lawmen served 761 civil papers,
399 local warrants, 63 foreign war
rants, seven juvenile petitions and
five mental and inebriate papers in
May.
Officers traveled 97,091 miles
during the month and made 31 trips
out of the county. The department
logged 1,101 miles on the transport
van.
The department held 19 crime
prevention meetings during the
month, according to the report.
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Bald Head Hoping Dune Building
Proposal Clears The Final Hurdle
BY DOUG RUTTKR
Bald Head Island officials arc sil
ling on pins and needles these days,
hoping a plan to bolster an eroding
shoreline clears a final bureaucratic
hurdle..
Town leaders expect to hear with
in the next few weeks whether the
federal government likes a long-term
proposal to dredge sand from the
Cape Fear River ocean bar channel
and dump it on Bald Head Island.
"We're just sort of standing on
end here waiting for it," Town Man
ager Wallace Martin said last week.
"We'll be real disappointed if it
doesn't go through."
Plans call for the placement of
about 300,000 cubic yards of dredg
ed material on the beach, according
to a June 5 notice from the Army
Corps of Engineers Wilmington Dis
trict.
Martin said the dredged sand
would be deposited along an 8,000
foot stretch of beachfront, extending
from the west side of the island south
to an area known as East Beach.
The ocean bar dredging is sched
uled for this fall. Martin said the on
ly question is whether or not the
sand will be placed on Bald Head
Island to help build up the beach or
another disposal site.
The Corps of Engineers has pro
posed the beach nourishment as part
of a 50-year project for the Wilm
ington Harbor.
" It's not like being at Sunset Beach
where your beach is always accruing.
We'd like to have some of that."
? Wallace Martin
? Bald Head Island manager
Plans call for dredging every year
for the first 15 years, and then every
four years for the next 35 years.
Placement of sand on the beach af
ter the first year would be based on
requests from the state, according to
the Corps notice.
Martin, who is a former town ad
ministrator at Sunset Beach, said
Bald Head Island is steadily erod
ing, and that's causing problems for
beachfront property owners.
"It's not like being at Sunset
Beach where your bcach is always
accruing," Martin said. "We'd like
to have some of that."
Erosion along the section of
bcach targeted for nourishment has
forced nine homeowners to move
their cottages away from the ocean.
Martin said two other people are
planning to relocate, and three more
homes probably will have to be
moved if erosion continues at its
present rate.
Bald Head Island started working
on the beach nourishment proposal
about 18 months ago, shortly after
Hurricanc Hugo caused several mil
lion dollars in property damage.
Martin said the community is try
ing to lake advantage of a relatively
new program in whicn the federal
and local governments share tin; ex
tra cost of dumping dredged materi
al on beaches instead of in a desig
nated spoil area.
Bald Head Island Village Council
hasn't decided exactly how it will
pay for its share of the project,
which should be about S450,(XX).
Martin said council has been con
sidering raising the money with tax
es and assessments.
The proposal to dump sand on
Bald Head Island cleared Corps of
Engineers offices in Wilmington and
Atlanta before it was sent to Wash
ington, D.C., about two months ago.
The Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Public Works is expected
to make a final decision on the pro
ject this month.
"It's a real complicated process,"
Martin said. "It takes a long time to
get things through."
Hearing Set For Boiling Spring Lakes
Teen Accused Of Shooting Mother
a probable cause hearing is set
for Friday, June 28, in Brunswick
County Juvenile Court for a 15
year-old Boiling Spring Lakes teen
being held in connection with his
mother's death.
It will be up to a District Court
judge to determine if the youth is to
be tried as an adult on murder
charges.
Virginia Anderson, 44, was found
dead in her bedroom May 21 after
she had been shot in the back of the
head about a week earlier.
Her body was discovered at her
residence by Boiling Spring Lakes
police officers who were investigat
ing why she had failed to report to
work.
The woman, who worked at Dosh
er Memorial Hospital in Southport,
lived with her son on Pierce Road.
An officer approached the home and
asked the teen-ager for permission to
search it after the officer noticed a
strange odor.
Her body was found inside a lock
ed bedroom. Autopsy reports indicate
she had been shot once in the head.
A juvenile petition was served on
the youth, who is being held at the
Juvenile Services Center in New
Hanover County. His name has not
been released by authorities.
Children under 16 arc often not
arrested and charged with crimes,
but they are taken into custody un
der juvenile petitions.
District Attorney Rex Gore said
if the judge finds enough evidence
in Friday's probable cause hearing
to send the case to trial, it will auto
matically be transferred to Bruns
wick County Superior Court.
In that case, the youth would be
tried as an adult.
Under state law, a District Court
judge must send a case to Superior
Court if probable cause is found, if
the youth is 14 or older and the
crime is punishable by death.
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