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- ? ? 5 . ? . ? ? ? ? ^ ~ ? . . _ . . ? ? * # ? ' ?; * " \ Come Cheer The Trojans To An Eastern 3-A Victory Friday Night HOhG P ? . i <V> T M' - '! 1 ' -SWICK' Thirty-Second Year, Number 5 v IM) TNI MUNSW1CK MACON Shallotte, North Carolina, Thursday, December 2, 1993 50<t Per Copy 38 Pages, 3 Sections, Plus Inserts Legislators Join Opposition To Quarry Proposal BY ERIC CARLSON Stale Senator R.C. Soles on Tuesday said he plans to introduce legislation that would prevent Mar tin Marietta Aggregates from open ing its proposed limestone quarry near Southport. "It's unfortunate that the Senate is not in session, because I would in troduce a hill tomorrow." Soles said in an interview outside a public hearing where state regulators heard comments on the company's appli cation for a mining permit. State Reps. David Redwine and Dewey Hill joined Soles in officially denouncing the proposed open-pit mine before a crowd of more than 350 at the county government com plex in Bolivia. Soles said he will draft a proposal to strengthen the environmental re quirements of the N.C. Mining Act w hen the legislature reconvenes next May. To speed passage of the legis lation. he plans to propose the mea sure as an amendment to a mining bill already under consideration. He told the group he would use his influence as the second-ranking memher of the N.C. Senate to push for changes and additions to the act's list of seven criteria under which a mining proposal like Martin Marietta's can be rejected. "If this act is so weak that it will allow an operation like this to be placed in an environmentally sensi tive area between a nuclear power pl-int and .. rralitarv ammunition ter minal. then there's something wrong with the law," Soles said. Soles said he thinks there will he enough time to change the mining act before the permit is issued, lie said he will introduce the legislation sooner if the Senate reconvenes for a short session. Redwine also spoke firmly in op position to the quarry proposal and asked the panel from the N.C. Department of Environmental, Health and Natural Resources Land Quality Section to turn down Martin Marietta's permit request. "I'm no nuclear scientist, hut common sense tells me that with all this blasting, there might be some effect at CP&L." Redwine said. "The experts may have different opinions, but what if they're wrong and something did happen to cause a shutdown at the plant? "One 'oops!'... One 'oh. my God!* ... And we would have a very serious problem." he said. Hill joined his fellow legislators in speaking against the company's mining plan, saying it "raises a lot of questions that have not been an swered." More than 30 people signed up to speak at the hearing. Most yielded their allotted three minutes at the microphone to speakers who read lengthy prepared statements into the hearing record. Among the others who voiced op position to the mine was Harry Legrand of Raleigh, a veteran groundwater geologist formerly with 'he U.S. Geological Survey, who warned against the potential effects (See SENATOR, Page 2-A) Trojans On A Roil STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG BUTTER West Brunswick quarterback Eric Johnson turned this fourth -down sneak into a big gain last Friday as the Trojans defeated Reidwille 21 3 in the high school football playoffs. An estimated 4,000 fans are expected at Rourk Stadium this Friaay nigh . when the Trojans host Tarboro in the state semifinals. Advance tickets can be purchased at the school for $6. Tickets will cost $7 at the gate. Three Face BY ERIC CARLSON Two teenagers and a 22-year-old were charged with murder Tuesday and more ar resls are expected in the shooting death of a man whose body was discovered in the dri veway of his Bolivia mobile home Monday morning. The three suspects, all from Bolivia, are accused of shooting Charles Wayne Davis, 36, in a confrontation outside his home on Albright Road, located about a mile and a half south of U.S. 17 off Midway Road. Arrested Tuesday afternoon were Frank Lenail Ford, 22, of Oakey Trail; Terrance Laquinn Jones, 18, of Randolphville Road; Murder Charges In Bolivia Man's Shooting Death and Jeremy Javon Smith. 16. Tubes Road, a student at South I Brunswick High School. ? All were being held without bond Tuesday night. Authorities are also looking for Byron Henry Knowles. 24. of St. An drews Drive, Wilming ton, in connection with the murder. He is considered armed and dan gerous and is believed to have tied the state, according to a radio bulletin broadcast by FORI) k the Brunswick County Emergency Communica tions Center Tuesday af ternoon. Following an intense around-the-clock investi gation headed by sher iff's Detective Charlie Miller and agents of the State Bureau of Inves tigation, the three sus pects were picked up at their homes for questioning Tuesday morn ing, Detective Captain Phil Perry said. All three were charged with murder after the interviews. An investigation into the killing is continuing ? and more suspects are expected to be charged. Perry said. Police are not speculating publicly about a motive for the shooting and are saying little else about the in vestigation. JONES Authorities would not say whether drugs were involved in the mur der. However, court records indicate that both the victim and one of the suspects have been accused of drug offenses. Court documenis also show that one of the three men was charged in a fatal stab bing in Bolivia last year. The other two sus pects have been arrested before on weapons charges. Jones was charged with voluntary man slaughter Oct. 7, 1992, after he allegedly stabbed Jamie Levaughn Moore repeatedly in the chest during an altercation at a trailer in the Randolph Mobile Home Park. Moore stumbled outside and drove to his parents' home, where he died a short time later. Charges against Jones were voluntarily (See MURDER CHARGES, Page 2-A) End-Of-Grade Test Percentiles State Mean Average: County Mean Average: School : Bolivia Leland Lincoln Shallotte Southport Supply Union Waccamaw GRADE 3 Reading Math 47.1% 46.7 43.4 40.7 43.8 50.7 35.1 30.4 45.0 39.9 41.4 41.1 48.8 39.7 35.3 37.7 State County School: Leland Shallotte South Middle Waccamaw GRADE 6 Reading Math 47.0 51.9 44.0 43.4 38.2 47.9 42.5 39.3 34.8 49.0 43.5 38.7 GRADE 4 GRADE 5 Reading Math Reading Math 46.4 47.4 42.4 40.7 40.1 41.5 34.5 29.4 49.1 48.6 44.7 34.5 45.9 45.9 31.4 42.1 GRADE 7 Reading Math 46.0 51.3 44.8 48.6 41.0 37.9 42.7 46.0 43.1 46.2 55.4 63.3 47.5 50.2 40.4 42.9 46.6 54.4 31.2 34.4 41.4 45.7 50.3 47.6 41.9 40.3 29.1 24.6 GRADE 8 Reading Math 46.8 50.2 47.2 51.0 46.9 44.4 44.3 45.9 54.6 45.0 46.1 44.5 Note: A percentile rank refers to the percentage of students in the group who fall below a particular point, not the percentage of Items answered correctly. For example, a score higher than 97 percent of those attained on a test is said to be in the 97th percentile If a school ranks in the 47th percentile, that means 53 percent of the students in the state scored higher on the test than students at that school, while 46 percent scored lower. The state fiqures omit invalidated scores (extremely low scores eliminated because they tend to skew overall results), while county figures include all scores. Low End-Of-Grade Test Scores No Surprise; County Says There's 'A Lot Of Work To Do' BY SUSAN USHER Neither state nor local school offi cials were surprised by low student scores on end-of-grade tests given last year for the first time, but that doesn't mean they're happy with the results. "They mean we have a lot of work to do," said Jan Calhoun, Brunswick County Schools' assis tant superintendent for instruction. "We think our students are capable of doing much better than this. Students in grades three through eight took reading and math tests. Students in the third, sixth and eighth grades also took science and social studies tests. The criterion-referenced tests are used to determine how much of the information or skills covered in the curriculum for a particular grade level a student possesses. This is the first time North Carolina has used end-of-grade tests of its own design. They replace use of the nationwide California Ach ievement Test. For the first time stu dent performance is being compared to their peers statewide instead of across the United States, and to how well they master what the state wants thinks is important for them to learn. William Brown, who is responsi ble for testing and accountability for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, said he thinks low scores across the state in general and in Brunswick County should in crease as more teachers teach the standardized state curriculum for their grade and subject area. The curriculum is a continuum, with skills and data at level building on and reinforcing those supposedly studied in previous grades. (Cur-* rently the state social studies curri culum and related end-of-year test is being revised; next year science will be revised.) "I think it means they are proba bly not teaching everything in the new curriculum." said Brown. "I would imagine the scores will in crease. "Because of the field tests we did earlier, we knew the the scores were going to be low; we were not sur prised." On these first results, there were some instances in which students at specific county schools scored (Sec N EVV TEST, Page 2-A) FOLLOWING TUESDAY HEARING Coach Accused By Student Remains On Suspension South Brunswick High School's head football coach remained on suspension following a hear ing in Southport Tuesday with Brunswick County Schools Superintendent Ralph Johnston. However, it was still unclear whether Coach Bill Hewett's suspension last Wednesday is relat ed to a charge that he assaulted a female student at a Southport restaurant. Johnston, who met Tuesday afternoon with Hewett and the administration's attorney, Ann McCall, would not say whether the paid suspen sion and assault charge are connected. "He's still on suspension with pay. Our investi gation is continuing," the superintendent said. "It's a personnel matter and we're still gathering our information." Johnston said Hewett's suspension was "strict ly a school matter. We're doing our own investi gation on information provided to us by the prin cipal (Sue Sellers)." Under state statute, Johnston said school offi cials have up to 90 days to investigate the matter. The 90-day limit expires Feb. 23. A South Brunswick High senior took out a warrant for Hewett's arrest last Saturday, charg ing him with assault on a female. The warrant ac cuses Hewett of "grabbing" the girl's breast. The incident is alleged to have occurred Nov. 16 at The Shamrock, a restaurant and pub in Southport where the student works as a waitress. The case is scheduled to be heard Dec. 13 in Brunswick County District Court, according to the arrest warrant. Jane Williams, who owns The Shamrock, said she was in the lounge and the student was in the restaurant at the time of the alleged assault. "I saw nothing that happened. I didn't witness anything. I just know she was upset afterward," Williams said Tuesday. "She was just hysterical and said he touched her breast. She said he was saying vulgar things to her." Contacted at home Tuesday, the student's mother declined to comment on the case. Hewett did not return a phone call Tuesday, but a family member said he had been advised by his attorney not to speak with the media until the sit uation is resolved. Hewett has been the athletic director and head football coach at South Brunswick since 1990. He previously held the same positions at Whiteville High School, and led the football team to a state 2A championship in 19K7. Hewett's four-year coaching record at South Brunswick is 21-21. including a 5-6 mark this season. The Cougars advanced to the state play offs in I WO and again this year.
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