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Shingletree Acres Leader Optimistic State Will Take Says He's \ Over Roads ! BY SUSAN USIIKR Shinglctrec Acres community leader Robert (lore said Monday he is optimistic that the N.C. Department of Transportation will find that roads in the subdivision near Calabash qualify for inclu sion on the state road system. "I feci great litis is going to go through." he said, citing the help of the news media and elect ed officials in calling attention to the subdivi sion's situation. "(Gov.) Jim Hunt is a fair and honest man. He is aware of this injustice and he is a powerful man. Gov. Hunt will see this through." Gore's optimism is based on positive reactions by state officials who toured the subdivision last week, an extensive lobbying effort, and the dis covery since the tour of visible evidence support ing the ongoing existence of roads in the Shinglctrcc Acres community. The community's unpaved, rough roads be came the focus of attention in January. After be ing notified that school buses would stop serving the area unless the roads were improved, parents went to the school board threatening to keep the approximately 50 children in the community out of school. Soon after, county commissioners ap proved a one-time scraping and grading of the roads to make them serviceable by the school buses. There was no interruption in service. Gore says roads existed in the community prior to Oct. 1, 1975, but for some reason the roads were never included on county or state maps and therefore their maintenance was never assumed by the state. He wants what he and other commu nity residents perceive as an ongoing injustice remedied by the state. "It's a human rights thing," says Gore. "If you deny one person his rights then you've denied everybody." Last Monday state Department of Trans portation officials including Division 3 Engineer Doug Bowers of Wilmington and State if This is going to go through" -Robert Gore Secondary Roads Officer Jack Murdock of Raleigh loured Shinglctree Acres wilh Gore and several other residents to look at evidence of where homes and roads existed previously. "Mr. Murdock is looking at this in a positive way," said Gore. "I understand they're consider ing changing the policy about how roads become part of the state system. It's a wonderful thing they're going to statewide, and it will affect a lot of people." Bowers, contacted Monday at his office in Wilmington, said no decision has been reached regarding the roads, that investigation is continu ing. At that time, he had not been notified by Gore of new evidence. "Wc would iovc to go in there and do some thing. If there is anything wc can do to help, wc will. But wc have to be sure that whatever wc do is fair and right and equitable, that wc do for one group of people wc can do for all others." "The bottom line is it is still under evaluation and review. The basic question is whether there were roads in existence and being used prior to Oct. 1, 1975," he said. "If it turns out we arc able to verify that they were, then they would qualify under the old subdivision policy." "The question is arc the roads there now the same or relatively close to any that were there a long time ago. Wc don't have a lot of records, but they (ihc houses) had to be served by something. Is a cartway a road? That's another question." Thai's not an issue as far as Gore is concerned. "A road is a road is a road," he said. "All roads started as animal paths." The state's policy states that roads built, con structed, designed, surveyed or planned before Oct. 1, 1975, qualify for acceptance to the state maintenance system. Roads alter that date must be paved before the stale will consider taking over maintenance. Last Friday Gore uncovered more evidence supporting the residents' position: U.S.D.A. Soil and Conservation Service aerial survey maps for the years 1966, 1972 and 1981 ? before and after the Oct. 1, 1975, qualifying cutoff date. "It shows continuous improvement of the same roads from the air. There was a network of roads in here iuai as we said," said Gore, placing the aeriiu maps side by side with a subdivision itw for comparison. "When the McLambs came in here (and estab lished the subdivision) in 1982 they followed the same outline. They modified and improved the roads, but they followed the same oudinc." Deeds recorded for lots in the subdivision showed the roads were dedicated for public use and offered to the state for maintenance. How ever, they were not accepted for maintenance at that time because they were considered unpaged subdivision roads. Gore said he's had a lot of help for his cause from the news media and local and area elected officials, including Rep. Dewey Hill, Rep. David Redwinc, Sen. R.C. Soles Jr. as well as from for mer state Rep. Ron Taylor, an unsuccessful can didate for the state Senate last year. Bowers said the state Department of Trans portation has received requests to look at several other road situations in the county, but hasn't had an opportunity to work on those. Mid-April For Bruns New Restart Target wick Nuciear Plant Carolina Power & Light Co. doesn't cxpect to bring its Bruns wick Nuclear Plant near Southport back into service until sometime in April, rather than late March as an ticipated earlier, spokesman Eliza beth Bean said Tuesday. 'The NRC (U.S. Nuclear Regula tory Commission) said it felt the work wc were do ing is in liic right direction toward start-up," said Bean, contacted after a monthly status meeting at the plant with NRC officials. "Wc feci good about being able io start up in the general time frame we've been talking about" While CP&L doesn't have a spe cific date for the plant coming back onto the power grid, Bean said, "It looks like all those schedules arc go ing to come together in early to mid April." Contacted after a regular monthly status meeting at the plant with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of ficials, Bean said the utility expects the NRC to be able to make its readiness review at the site some time around mid-March. The review is the oversight agency's check of "We feel good about being able to start up in the general timeframe we've been talking about." ?Elizabeth Bean whether both plant and personnel are ready to return to operation, and may require follow-up action by CP&L before start-up can begin. "They like to come in when about 50 percent of the systems have been turned over for operation" after in house testing, said Bean. Some plant systems have been turned over for operation, bul others, she said, "need some fine tuning. That's about the point we think 50 per cent will have been turned over." In other news Tuesday, CP&L announced that a 2()-ycar company veteran has been named director of site operations at the Brunswick Nu clear Plant, reporting to Roy A. Anderson, vicc president in charge of the plant. CP&L spokesman Wade Pridgcn said that C.S. "Scotty" Hinnant will report directly to Anderson, with general plant managers for the site's two nuclear units, reporting to Hin nant. Plant general manager for the CP&L's Harris nuclear plant near Raleigh since 1988, Hinnant has previously held positions at the Brunswick plant as well. If you are currently attending a 12-step program such as AA NA, OA or CODA, perhaps you would be interested in visiting our Addiction Recovery Center. 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