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Supply Man Recovering After Shooting Himself With Pistol A 20-year-old Supply man was reported in serious ?Mornc also investigated the theft of an air com- Blhere was about $I<X) damage, hut nothing re but stable condition last week after shinning himself in f Dl AM C DC DT pressor and a circular saw from a shed behind a home ported stolen in a mobile home break-in that occurred the chest with a pistol, according to a crime report on I on Etheridge Road, off Longwood Road, that occuned on Gum Street in the Forrest Mills subdivision off file at the Brunswick County Sheriff's office Monday. sometime last week. The owner said the shed was n?t Kirby Road sometime last month. The Lexington man Tlie young man's mother told Deputy Jimmy Davis 1983 Pontiac Grand Prix missing along with a 12- locked. The value of stolen property was estimated to who owns the trailer told Hamilton that he arrived there that she was lying on the bed at about 8:30 Thursday gauge shotgun, two ,22-caliber rifles, a stereo system, a be $300. Friday night to find a window broken out of a bedroom morning when she heard a loud noise, the report said, color television, a videocassette recorder, a scanner and BAn 80-watt amplifier was stolen from a car parked window and pry marks on a living room window. Ihe I he victim came out of his bedroom and said that he a jar containing $500 in quarters. at a mobile home on Jerry's Trail in Supply Sunday af- intruders also threw the storm windows into the back had been shot in the chest. |A saddle trimmed in sterling siivei <uiu valued at tcrooon. The owner lold Davis thai Ihe 1979 Chevrolet yard. Ihe report said. She told Davis that her son did not say why he had about $2,000 was amonu the S3,1) 10 worth of items Caprice was unlocked and that the amplifier cost about ?Someone shot oui inc window of a bur. parked at shot himself. However, she said that he had "had some stolen from a shed beside a home on U.S. 17 near $150. Leland Middle School on Old Fayetteville Road girlfriend problems in the past few days." Supply last week. Also missing were seven fishing rods |A retiree from Oak Ridge reported the theft ol Monday night, causing an estimated $38.1ft damage, Ihe victim was taken to Die Brunswick Hospital and reels and another saddle. Ihe (heft was discovered four rods and reeis from his vacation trailer at a camp- deputy Mark Snowden reported. He determined thai a and later transferred to New Hanover Regional Medical Wednesday evening, according to Deputy Malcolm ground in llolden Beach sometime in Ihe past three pellet gun was used in the shooting. C enter. Detective I .any Joyner interviewed the victim 1 xing's report weeks. Davis estimated the value of stolen property at ?Snowden also investigated a case of vandalism at and was told that he had shot himself with a .380 cal- BA chain saw valued at about $400 was stolen from $300 and Ihe damage to a front porch screen and door a convenience store near the intersection of Village iber semi-automatic handgun. a maintenance building al Brunswick Plantation golf at $50. Road and Ml. Misery Road where someone apparently I he bullet passed through the right side of Ihe course Thursday night An employee told Deputy ?Detective Phil Perry took a report of a stolen hicy- through a rock throup^ the drive-through window, man s chest and exited his back. Joyner said in his re- Keilhan Home that he found the building's office bro- cle from the front yard of a home on Mulberry Street Damage was estimated af about $50. port. He said the doctor hail advised thai the man was ken into and Ihe chain saw missing al about 7 a.m. outside Shallottc that was said lo have occurred on the ^Detectives are investigating an apparent case ol in serious but stable condition and "would be all right." Friday. The officer reported finding that the chain on an night of J in. 12. The three-speed girl's bike was later larceny by an employee al a Southport department store Investigators have ruled Ihe incident a self-inflicted outside gale had been cut ami a garage door left ajar, located al a Shallottc pawn shop. recently. One man has been arrested and has told police shooting. hut "nothing else in Ihe building appeared lo be messed Blive windows and a door were smashed in an ap- that a man who works al the store is his accomplice in In other crime reports- with." parent break-in at a home on Green lxx)p Road. Leland, the theft. The employee allegedly put two pairs of work ?Someone apparently threw a cinder block through Thursday nighl. I he intruders got inside by kicking in boots, valued at $85, outside the store where they were ?The daughter of a Supply man is believed to have a window ol the I ongwood Baptist Church Friday Ihe front door, then "ransacked the entire residence and later picked up by the other suspect. stolen his car and nearly $4,000 worth of electronics nighl. Home reported. A member of the church came lo tool shed," Deputy Brian Sanders said. The report also bA woman who lives in the lakeside Mobile and other items last week. He told Deputy Cathy do some work Saturday afternoon and discovered Ihe noted that the words "The T" were spray pained on the Home Park on Village Road, Leland, told Snowden Hamilton that his daughter had been staying at his damage, which was estimated to be about $150. A can- outside wall and glass on Ihe house. Nothing was re- Friday that someone stole three checks from her mail home on l-.mpire Street while he was gone lo Virginia die and several burnt matches were also found inside ported missing, but damage was estimated lo be about box and forged her signature on them. I he amounts of for a few days. He returned home Saturday lo find his the building. $1.575. the checks totalled more than $1,000. Phillips Is New Manager At Employment Security Office BY DOK; RI'TTKK The N C'. Employment Security Commission office in Shallotte has a new manager as part of a move to upgrade the facility from branch sta tus to a full-fledged local office. Katrina Phillips officially started work Tuesday .i> local office manag er. s.iid Manfred Emmrich, director of the commission's employment service division in Raleigh. Ma/ie Frink. who for years has served as Brunswick CoiHiiy's branch office supervisor, will con tinue working as an "Interviewer 11" at the office at East Gate Square. The county's Employment Se curity Commission office was up graded to local office status effective Jan. 1. Prior to this year, it wa* a branch ot the Wilmington office. Emmrich said each branch office, including the one that previously served Brunswick County, is headed up by what's known as an "Inter viewer 11" who has the working title of branch office supervisor. When the Shallottc facility be came a local office, Emmrich said a new position of local office manager was created. "When we take this step and up grade an office it doesn't do away with anybody's job. It added a man ager." Emmrich said Tuesday. "It doesn't replace anybody. It's a new position." Frink could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but at least one ioeai business owner is upset by the stale agency 's decision to hire a new office manager. Betty Varnam. owner of Betty's Seafood Restaurant at lloldcn Beach, stated her objections in a Jan. 2S letter to Employment Security Commission Chairman Ann Duncan. "Due to her (Frink's) ahiljiv to work with local employers and to serve the people who go into that of fice for service, it would be disas trous to bring in a new person," Var nam wrote. "Also it is a total injustice to her (Frink) personally. 1 feel that you should reconsider your decision," Varnam stated. Emmrich said Frink will continue serving in the same capacity as al ways. "This does not rcpiacc her. It's a new job thai is at a higher level," he said. Emmrich said the state agency followed its own policy when the new job became available. "When we have an opening, we announce it and any employee who is interested may ;ipnlv," he said. "We really value the people who work for us, and we give them the opportunity to apply for the posi tions they are interested in," Em mrich said, noting that eight people applied for the local office manager job. Phillips, a former assistant man ager in l^iurinburg. was selected. "We make every effort to review the qualifications of all the candi dates and try to make the best jtidg ment wc can to hire the person who can best handle the position," Emmrich said. He added thai the addition of a lo cal office manager position does not affect the existing job of Interviewer II. although that person is no longer serving as manager. "They remain exactly where they arc. They gel no cut in pay." he said. "That person would remain in that classification." Emmiicli said iiic decision So up grade the Shallotte office was based on the growth and projected growth of the area. The size of the civilian labor force and the number of unem ployed are the two major factors considered. There are more than 20,(KX) men and women in the work force in Brunswick County, Gmmrich said. According to 1992 estimates, the county had about 2,K(H) unem ployed. tmmrich said 3,440 people used Brunswick County's tmploymerit Security Commission office be tween July 1992 and June 1993. A!! were either unemployed people looking for work or employed peo ple seeking better jobs. N.C. Ports Authority Answer On Leland School Site Was Expected Wednesday BY SUSAN I SI I KU The N.C State Ports Authority was expccted to decide Wednesday whether a tract it owns on N.C. 133 near I xl and will he made available as the site of a new elementary school. "We were not asking for anything tree," said Superintendent Ralph Johnston. "What we're interested in is getting the property." Brunswick County Schools asked the SPA in December to consider al lowing its acquisition of the tract. School officials have been working with Rep. E. David Redwine and Authority board member Joe Stevenson of Supply in the negotia tions. James Scott, executive director of the State I'orts Authority (SPA), said Monday that instead of their regular monthly meeting at Morehead City, authority members planned to hold a teleconference meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, with the site request on the agenda. "I expect they're going to finalize their decision on it Wednesday." he said. At its December meeting, the au thority didn't rule out the possibility of selling or giving the property to the school system. Members said they wanted to first be sure the au thority had no use for the land itself for mitigation, or creating wetlands to compensate for wetlands de stroyed in port projects. If the board approves the site ac quisition Wednesday, the transaction won't be final. While the SPA can own property in its own name, any sale or transfer must be approved by the Council of State. "If it's properly done, it doesn't get turned down very often." said Scott Then the proposed acquisition will go to the Brunswick County Commissioners for approval and funding. II the per-acre value is loo high, the school board may have to "We were not asking for anything free. . . what we're interested in is getting the property." ?Ralph Johnston renew its search for an appropriate site. Results of soil sampling conduct ed on the site in December for the school system indicate it is suitable and that there will be no problem complying with environmental re quirements for the area, said Johnston. "It looked very, very posi tive." He said school board members are optimistic about acquiring the tract because of its excellent loca tion in an area experiencing "consid erable" residential growth ;itul the potential cost savings in utilities construction. The site is expected to provide a safe and easy access for parents and buses as students are unloaded and loaded, and allow the creation of a nature (rail for teaching students about the environment anil biology. The school would be on county water, with sewer service provided through the lown of Belville. The school system anticipates a savings of approximately $2(K).(MH). or what it has paid to construct water and sewer treatment facilities at other schools. The new 650-student, 7(),tXK) square foot school is expected to re lieve overcrowding at both Lincoln Primary and Leland Middle schools. Locatcd on the west side of N.C. 133, across from the Brunswick River, the proposed school site was apparently once a county prison farm. All that remains is the war den's brick house, said Superin tendent Johnston. The ports authority bought the property in 1956. bul has not used it. Teen-Age Driver Injured A Supply teen-ager was seriously injured when the car he was driving overturned in a one-vehicle accident early Saturday about 4.K miles north of Shallottc. liric Carlo Andreis, 17, was treat ed at the scene for serious, non-inca pacitating injuiies. reported the N.C. Highway Patrol office in Wilming ton. t Andreis was traveling east on S R. 1130 driving a 19X8 Pontiac at about 1 a.m. Saturday when the ac cident occurred. According to the re port filed hy Trooper W.H. Thom pson. he rounded a curve and the car ran off the roadway on the right, struck a ditchhank and overturned. It landed on the eastbound shoulder of the roadway. No charges were filed. Damages to Andreis' auto were estimated at $3,500. LUNCH BUFFET MONDAY-FRIDAY 11-2:30 > ? ??- /3fT '? AJ5/ "A/r 7 ?o^7; M-*/ UK The Potter's The XVhr>r>l Turtles West vv ritrtrt, -CCotUg fi etc. We're Opening The "94 Season?Friday, Feb. 4 ?Pottery *Jeweliy ? Casual & Fashion Clothing ?Candles ? Prints By D. Morgan (Ladies', Men's and Children's) ?Fudge & Rirky Evans *Beachwear ?Afghans ? Wind Chimes 'Sterling Silver Jewelry ?The Original Pawley's Island 'Turtles and more Tees Rope Hammocks *Etc. Open Fri. & Sat. 10-6 thru Feb., on the Holden Beach Causeway, 842-4670 2E COMPLETE AUTO PROTECTION Get the same good deal on your insurance as you did on your car. Nationwide offers complete auto protection. 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