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STAFF PHOTO BY SUSAN USHER A FAULTY PORTABLE HEATER was blamed for a Wednesday morning fire that destroyed the home of Dale and Frieda Hewett near Shallotte Point. Couple Loses Second Home In Fire BY SUSAN USIIKR Joe Hcdgccock was heading out of his house on Village Point Road Wednesday morning to work on his truck when he saw the column of black smoke rising from the vicinity of Woodcrcsl subdivision. "I told my wife Allene 1 was going to go see what it was," he said. By the time he arrived at the home of Dale and Frieda Mcwctt on Wood Road, about three miles south of Shallottc off Village Point Road, the house was al ready engulfed in smoke and flames, he said. "It was coming from the middle of the house." This was the second home the Hewctts have lost to fire; die first time was about seven or eight years ago, said Mike Polls, chief of Shalloite Point Volunteer Fire Department. Hedgccock hurried lo the nearest house, where resi dents called the fire department. Shallottc Point Volunteer Fire Department was the first on the scene, followed shortly by Shalloltc and Occan Isle Beach units, Shallottc Volunteer Rescue Squad, Brunswick EMS and the N.C. Forest Service. No one was home at the time of the fire and no in juries were reported. The loss was estimated in cxcess of S5(),0(X). Said Chief Potts, "He lost everything, I mean every thing. You couldn't tell where a chair or dresser had been." For firefighters to begin reconstructing what had happened, Hcwctl had to draw a plan of the interior of the house. "They had left an electric heater four to five inches from a couch," said Polls. "The heater was turned away from the couch, but something went wrong with the shield inside and the radiant heat came out the back and caught the couch on fire." The Hewctts are staying temporarily with relatives. Ihree Men Use Driftwood To Paddle Stricken Boat Ashore At Local Dock As local water rescue boats, a Coast Guard vessel and a U.S. Marine helicopter mobilized for a late-night search, three men adnft at sea in a 16-foot boat were able to paddle ashore with a piece of drift wood and tic up to the Holden Beach Fishing Pier early Sunday morning. "They were very cold and very tired but otherwise unhurt," said Brunswick Emergency Services Director Cecil Logan. Jerry Locklcar and his brother Chris Locklcar left Holden Beach with Ricky Poindcxter in his 16-loot Baylincr for an afternoon of fishing Saturday, Logan said. When they didn't return, family members be came alarmed and called 911 at around midnight. Unsure of the boat's whereabouts, Logan dispatched a CoasUinc Water Rescue boat at Varnamtown to search the Lockwood Folly River. A Holdcn Bcach Water Rescue boat put in at the bridge and headed east to a rendezvous with Coastline's boat. Shallotte Water Rescue searched from Shallotte Inlet to the Holden Bcach Bridge. "We got information that they might be in the ocean, so I alerted the Coast Guard and they got ready to send a 41-footer," Logan said. "Camp Lejeune mobilized one of its helicopters." At about 2:30 a.m. another 911 call came in from one of the Locklears, who said he had just climbed up one of the pilings of the Holden Bcach pier. He said the boat's engine had failed and the three men had paddled in with a piece of four-by-four lumber they found Boating at sea. A Holdcn Beach Water Rescue bout brought the two men ashore and towed the boat through the inlet Brunswick County GOP Precincts Meet Feb. 18 The Brunswick County Rcpubl- National Guard Armory, Shallouc; ican Party will conduct prccinct Also, Scccssion I, Lockwood meetings Thursday, Feb. 18, at 7 Folly Community Building; Scccs p.m. for the purpose of rcorganiz;*.- sion II, Bellamy's Net Shop; Shal tion. lotte, Shallouc Volunteer Fire De In most but not all cases, said parlmcnt; Grissettown, Holden's Shirley Babson, secretary, the meet- Produce Market; Shinglctrec, Cala ing will be at the polling place: bash Volunteer Fire Department; Hood's Creek, Hood's Creek Com- Long wood, Roland Gore's Store; munily Building; Lcland, Lcland Ash, Waccamaw Community Build Community Building; Wood bum, ing; Boiling Spring Lakes, Boiling Lcland Town Hall; Bclville, DOT Spring Lakes Volunteer Fire Dcpart Building; Town Creek, Town Creek menl; Southport I, Jayccc Building; Park Community Building; Bolivia, Southport II, American Legion Bolivia School cafeteria; Mosquito, Building; Oak Island I, Yaupon home of Tom Ycaglc, Sunset Beach Town Hall; Oak Island II, Harbor; Supply, Supply Volunteer Long Beach Recreation Center (7:30 Fire Department; Frying Pan, N.C. p.m.) SPECIAL DINNER FOR TWO Filet Mignon and Broiled Shrimp Served with new potatoes and cholcc of salad or vegetable and French bread. Complimentary glass of champagne and Vanilla Icc cream topped with strawberries s $25 per couple q ^ A-p $13.95 single Q t 00 All dinner entrees served with ,..A-JirA complimentary dessert. / \ Reservations suggested ^ I ivvy. 1 79 ? Calabash DINING and SPORTS LOUNGE 579-6228 Al I ABC PERMITS ci<m inf wumswk k Bt acon to a dock al ihc lndcpendcncc Se afood Co., Logan said. Wright Serving On Five Panels Rep. Thomas E. Wright of the 98th District has been appointed to five committees by N.C. House Speaker Dan Blue. lie will serve on Finance, Busi ness and Labor (Subcommittee on Labor Relations); Children, Youth and Families; Education (Subcom mittee on Preschool, Elementary and Secondary Education); and Health and Human Services (Subcommittee on Human Services). Wright, of Wilmington, repre sents a new minority district that in cludes portions of New Hanover, Pender, Columbus and Brunswick counties. Are In The Bag! 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In a four-to-onc vote, with mem ber Thomas Gray dissenting, the board denied a request by William Gaithcr for a modification of the subdivision ordinance requiring him to provide a 6-inch coquina base on a scclion of dirt road in Section II of Warren Landing. The 16-lot subdi vision is located near the Little Shallottc River in Lockwood Folly Township. Gaither told the board he has nev er encountered drainage problems in the area and cannot afford to im prove the road base. He said the sub division ordinance only requires the 6-inch base if a road is going to be paved with asphalt. "The ordinance calls for coquina as a base for paving," he said. "I'm not going to pave it so I don't think 1 ought to be required to put in the base." Planning Director John Harvey Men Wanted In Two Shalloitc men wanted in connection with a fatal barroom shooting in Ash arc expectcd to be returned to Brunswick County next week after waiving extradition from Louisiana, where they were captured in a routine roadblock Wednesday (Feb. 3). David Dwain Gilley, 24, of Route 7 and Leonard Wayne Haircloth, 3l), of Route 3, were taken into custody by Baton Rouge, La., police at a drug intradicuon roadblock and dri ver's license check. Dei. Gene Caison of the Brunswick County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday. Police there became suspicious after noticing that the front and back license plates did not match on the car in which Gilley and Faircloth were travelling. A computer records check revealed that the two men were wanted in North Carolina. Gilley is charged with murder in the Jan. 30 shooting death of Juan Perfccto Hemande/., 28, of Tabor City. The two allegedly got into a said the subdivision ordinance re quires the 6-inch coquina base as a "minimum standard" lor unpaved roads in new subdivisions. "The county just went through an episode of having to grade roads," said board member John Barbee. "I don't think we need to sum weaken ing the subdivision ordinance. If we don't enforce it. we're setting a precedent. Wc need to slick with it." "I concur," said board member and County Commissioner Jerry Jones. "I know it's expensive. It cost the county approximately $10,(XX) to grade those roads. I'm not comfort able with this." After denying Gaither's request, the board voted unanimously to ap prove his preliminary plat subject to the submission of an approved drain;'ge plan. In other business, the board gave preliminary approval to section one of Huntington Subdivision, a pro posed lX-lot development next to Red Oak Subdivision on Ml. Misery Road, Northwest Township. All roads arc to be buill to N.C. De partment of Transportation require ments. The board also agreed to set a sc rics of public workshops to allow residents of rural areas of the eounly to discuss the new zoning ordinance with their district commissioner, their local planning board member and Agricultural Extension Agent Milton Coleman. The workshops, all beginning at 7 p.m., will be held Tuesday, Feb. 23, at fellowship hall of the Concord Methodist Church in Supply; Wednesday, Feb. 24, at the Carolina Power anil Light Visitor's Center near Southport; Thursday, Feb. 25, at the Waccamaw Community Building; Tuesday, March 2, at the fellowship hall of Andrews Chapel United Methodist Church; Wednes day, March 3, in the public assembly building at the county government complex in Bolivia; and Thursday, March 10, in the Industrial Educa tion Center at the Lcland Industrial Park. At its next regular meeting Wed nesday, Feb. 17, the planning board will meet w ith a special ad hoc com mittee to discuss modifications to the subdivision ordinance suggested by developers who have voiced op position to the law's requirement that all subdivision improvements be in place before a plat can be record ed. Shooting Captured In Louisiana fight over a woman at the Junction they borrowed a car from a relative Lounge on N.C. 130 near Columbus and headed back east, possibly to County during which Gilley shot ward Florida, he said. Hernandez once in the chest with a The car in which they were trav .380-caIiber handgun. elling was registered to a man in Faircloth is charged with being an Houston. Texas. Caison said, accessory after the fact to the felony Q+ri+o PI n n n a r of murder, Caison said. J'UIC I IU1111I After the shooting, Caison said /""I. i^ct Gilley ran out the back door and was *^ DC? VJUcol later picked up by Faircloth, who I <=slnr?rJ RrNnrrJ had accompanied Gilley to the bar I?CJIUIIvJ DUUI U that night with Timothy Fulwood, The Leland Planning Board will 21, of Shallottc. hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, Fulwood gave Faircloth a ride Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. at the Leland home after the shooting, Caison Town Hall, 485 Village Road. said. Fulwixxl is not charged in the Tom Cassell, chief planner, N.C. incident and is expected to be a wit- Department of Commerce, Division ncss in the case. of Community Assistance, will give Gilley and Faircloth lied the coun- a presentation on general planning ty in a green tractor truck that was issues and will answer questions later found abandoned at a Florence, from the planning board and citi S.C., truck stop on Interstate 95, /ens. Caison said. 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