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Calabash Board OKs Blythe Plant Buy In Split Vote ti-A) ine oofwotttee't re port on the condition of the sewer chsrscis? g? the cqsssIes fc jcfes tivc of Mr. Burnett's bisiaess phi losophy ? a commitment to create and maintain the finest privately owned utility in the state. We be lieve he has succeeded!" The report doesn't mention the town's ongoing effort to build a re Sunset Beach. Calabash has ?**"?*? $200,000 ^ com mitted another Si 50,000 for engi neering studies and design work on the system. Residents of Carolina Shores, who are already served by Carolina Blythe, have voiced strong opposi tion to the plan. But a majority of the town board, including Schaack, has voted in the past to continue work on the regional sewage sys tem. A Good Deal? After listening to the report. Commissioner Leisey asked about dk company's promMUiy. Uoni mitfcee Chairman Gere Dale said Carolina Blythe has lost mosey for at least the past five yean "mostly Kf-rvitt ?? *!*!*! bo frs a rate = crease" and because of escalating ?"?l? "He hasn't been sitting there tak ii?? a inw ?n those years *s be ?ic* to Carolina Shores," said Hardee. "No. He's been doing it to be good to Billy Burnett," Dale said. "IjCCmmC uC m y 'w ^ pride in the operation." !? i ?' luk >!? a im>m w >? j moo uw uua uw?u~ line?" asked King. "Why is he try ing to rush us? He's arm-twisting." "Because he is thoroughly ticked off," Dale said. "He feels that for a number of years he's made a bona fide effort to sell to the town and the town has failed to take advantage of it" Discussion of Burnett's asking price came up again after j cuter made a motion to purchase Carolina Blythe for $4-5 million at 5 percent interest for 30 years "with the provi so that we get all our ducks in a ft 11 ... nil n ?->- - . ifT.i ? 1 1 row. ner n^osioo w^s tiicf iviiucu to make the puithaar mnriiyw on the board's m'tpfawx of all tegs! "I think thai is a very naive tiou. It's not the way to do 008," Leisey said. "Just *vwyhod? says it's a good deal doesn't mean we shoukin't negoti ate. You cant tell us it's worth 4.5 million bucks just because he says u> wviiui uhu mm ? Are we reaiiy going to give him 43 million bucks ?? *??* WIIUWW t?h?1 UNMJ i "We have joked this guy around for so long." said Altreuter, who op posed allowing the board to vole on the purchase a second time. Town Attorney Michael Ramos advised that the board would have to vote again oo whether to sign a for mal contract He said "the prudent thing to do would be to wait for a re port from an auditor" before malting a final decision. Hardee asked about finding the system and bow much down DAVID GtLLEY (right), on trial for At murder of J nam Hernandez, listens as defense attorney Jt Hoiden Beach Commissioners Begin Annual Btidget Review Ho Idea Beach Commissioners will meet Friday morning to oootin uv ivtivw V? *ww? get for the 1994-95 fiscal year. Town Manager Gus Ulrich said expenses during a four-hour workshop meeting Tbeaday morn ing Ulrich said commissioners talked about f.spfwca related to governing ptnwning and arming, building and """ SSSPSCJSCSS. Board ? h? met with Police Chief Robert Cook and Jim Lowell, - ~i- ? r ^ - . ? . .. I I ~ 1 a ^ J ? p^rsKy Hi oi ? urcaicr i lOiQcn Beach Merchants Ullrich said. Commissioners will reconvene ihc nyySisg Friday ?! ? ta. skI work until noon. Ulncfi "id board members plan to discuss personnel mattets in executive session at 11 a.m "The cmphas is Friday will be to meet with the groups that have re quested contributions,- Ulrich not ed. a a - . ? ? u m ? nuiuuK uk yuup ? nig iua w* the Hotden &cact> Od), Brunswick County Volunteer and Information Center, South Brunswick Chamber of Commerce, Coastline Volunteer Rescue Squad, Th-Beach IV TO TO nUNMflCKfftKON P06T OFFICE BOX 2950 POST OFFKC BOX ? 8HMX0TTE. NORTH GAROUNA In North N.C. Sales Tax I CUV, State L*? >??????? I -I Volunteer Fire Department, Hope Harbor Home, Bmnswkk County literacy Council and Lower Cape Fsfe Ulrich has propoaed a Sl.86 mil lion budget that features a two-cent decrease in the cutieut tax me of IS cents per $100 of property. The town manager said the tax cut is poaaMe because of new con struction and county revaluation, WOKO aavc MUUCU JVfO UK istesd's tax base in the past year. All budget workshops are open to the public. A formal bearing on the budget is scheduled June 22. nave n pay ?u i^> u Elythc. He aotcd that the original for developing a Calahuh treatment for tbe which currently Heata its waate with septic 1 Dak said the- committe u|Hu^i to acnt m. However, cost were not included sioo would be paid for through im pact fees and rates. "Expansion of the system beyond existing main water/scvs.xr Sines (i.c. downtown Calabash commercial) would have to stand on its own eco nomic merits," the report said. "However, there is no immediate in dication that such system expansion could not be practicably accom plished." When the vote Jo purchase Carolina Biythe resulted in a tie. Mayor Andeiaon expressed some reservations before agreeing to op pan k. "Two elected boardi have voted an the (South Brunswick) Wtfer and those two bonds have decided that a regional sewer system is the correct aMWSTiSir* an ikunUi, we're going to ignore A member of the audience. Jack iwlBPWSy mm - S?mmK?? said that 632 SMfcfc of the com jjjjjjjy m pwijtjftW llriWO board to explore the purchase of Carolina Blytfae. "You've got voters in the town of Calibre1- that wast you to buy Carolina Blythe," Hamoway said. Ray Card, ? former Calabash commisBoncr. said be believed that many of those who endorsed the pe tition did not know what they were signing. "All you are voting on is an emo tional pica irura a person to buy his utility for $45 million. Nothing else," Card said. "If it foils flat, that boo* created "an inference thaT^i don't like." He said he minnluJ the v polMnil issue. "If I have to vole fti way 652 people said I should vote, I'll give you my resignation tonight.'* Lokv said. "But before 1 vote to give any body 45 million bucks, I want to know why I can't get it for leaa. tlui mmhi I Kaiv ? Ktmic* mU ?? / ? - 25H5g| "7 car, my groceries." In the end. Anderson noted that he was lei) alone to deckb the mie* tion. "You have a tie vote. The bock stops here," Anderson said. "I will vote in favor of that motion." There was a second motion by Altreuter to prohibit the South Brunswick Water and Sewer Authority from incurring any finan cial obligation pending a study of the feasibility "of downtown Calabash joining Carolina Blythe." The motion failed by a 4-to-2 margin with Noe supporting the Giiley Murder Case Goes To Jury (Continued From rage l-A) me in this Issgusgs ! couldn't un derstand" and made him feel uneasy, after which Giliey said he headed for "a neutral corner" of the bar. Giliey said Hernandez kept look auuwucr n ta*iii sou cursing while shooting pool. At one point, he said Hernandez bumped fciw with hk ?rm rntri cursed htm again Soon afterwards. Giliey said be saw Hernandez come toward him with a "little shiny tip of something in his hand." He said the object "ap peared to me to be a pocket knife." Giliey said be pulled his pistol ia hopes of scaring Ikmandri off. A scuffle mrH during which Hernandez and Us wife both had a hand on the pistol, Giliey testified. He said the gua went off as he lost his grip and felt it slip away. Others who testified last week a_ t J _ a _ * _a _ na . . a * ? - tow a aeooeaiy antereat story. Witnesses at a nearby store in Ash said they heard Giliey maris that he was soma to thelouace to *1dll a Mexican" shortly before the incident occurred. Sylvia said she awl her innliMii.1 mnfnmui fiillaj in the bar after he hwgari harassing their daughter. She said aeetttad to have raimm uown when Guky ? inif up fron behind her husband. Ihwanki ftriihl out the front door at the lounge and fell to the ?rouM Diceamg nom mc hmhhii inn i?8uTO ****** ?an US 0CQ vi 3 nil ? nil truck and drove to the hospital. Joae Rivera, a friend of Juan llrrnandrr, hung ha head and sobbed quietly front the ia hk tap and i- ??- -i *? ? - mm xup away, tw saxi nis be Cuca Cairisu 06 bi? belt ra Said the mp an the case was Mill dosed. The defcadant pew increasingly defeaaive as Assistant District Anor **** ? - ? ? - - -a >- ? mSSy Hiva. VSSCCS 1*1 j ' ?botrt pffwioUS vsimoB Asked about the knife, Gilley said coming out of hia (Hernandez's) pocket" He said he did aot see a kl, rtm * i ?>??? las m .1 tLat ii in nil !??? dukk alia mhtuucu iiutt ine victim "never did pet tone to opsa" the khkbb ^vhbo Giiiey QM9& bb pifloi* "Yob polled a pisis! oo a man with a knife that waaa't even open?" Greco ssked. The question Bird Island Reserve Fund Proposal Goes To Committee {Cwmm ? ???? mm P!?5555 i"A/ Challenging to do their put, Redwine pledged he would in troduce iwlrmg ftm?h (O help with porches e of the island. He hu since nwrtf ""overtures" to Price's agents, with no response, and planned to talk with Dunn again be fore the press conference. "It's in their ballpark to say. 'We would like to negotiate,'" said Bill Preservation Society. "I think every one realizes the value of the proper ty ( Redwine 's bill) should said Ducker. "Nobody's trying to steal it from them, especially us. If they will give us l welli what they would like to have for it, we ess nggatitfe from that stand point." With the state fending commit ment in hand, he mtiiiiu d, "then could put snrar other pieces of Revaluation has placed the prop erty tax value of the island at ap crtaac of roughly 200 percent The island is home to a variety of rare, threatened and endangered spe cies of niaats and animals. In a May 1993 feaubibty study produced at the tannest of the state the N.C Department of ?sly et," the report i a Raleigh Money, awl John P. Ryder, of Ceatory/voo Oeaea coo wtring " ngiir-m in WBaai^oo, have ag;gh* pwvfaiuas (hat woald u mat type Tevtiopocm were made the iafand'a it ? de veloped or aoid for t* . ..? ? _ ... ,4 ? -? a tamer out raoofn, icyoer Sonar* Beach Ibwi Co? cil to ?? ' inoiw? of the 133.4-gcre t the i laat tail prior to the : Price woald Uhe the towa to eaae lot a j*,. m. ? ? . ? m ? ?_ UBHMiJf i4y MM UMV UMNNUtJT Mt development of approximately 66 lots oa 31 acres of opbads; mini mmn lot size of 10,000 square feet with a maximum of ?ix bedioouu or 15,000-sqiurc-feei lota with up to eight bedrooms; awl 10 oocssfroot : 25 feet laadward of the CA MA vibKk line instead of 65 feet Price tin wants the special for the poobility of a hotel or ha That, wrote Dona ia another letter jcpKmocr, woukj leave open in a suitable area, malting to leave more opea. mnwrt. aad I d 150,000 ia 1994 -95 badge! to defend the zoning deddoe shoold Price sse Tha Bad I of a haadful of bOs Redwiae is pre 1 to introduce this weeh. Others a beaver maaapaea pro to cfoaa up Attacking the defendant's audi bility. Green asked Gilley why he uid out dig down one of the police care that were ecarrhing far him as he fled through roadside bnah Id net away froiii she Juauiou 1 niiay? Gilley said he thought the can were bar patrons who were out to kill him. Gtsss ssked why sits; -mfcing it to a friend's hos>* in Ash GtDey didn't ask to be taken home or to the sheriff instead of going to a Safe house in Griaacttown where one of his companions was staying. "1 just dida V Gilley replied. 8 The proaecHor alao asked Gilley why on the morning after the shoot ing he toot ss employer's sacs, drove to Florence, S.C., then rented another tmefc and drove to Houston, That Gilley said he went to Ibxas to talk to his cousin about selling a car and an engine Gilley owned so he could raise $1,600 "to pay some bilk." "Couldn't yon have simply called your cousin?" Green asked "If I could have taken the time to get the number I could have," Gilley replied. l._. JtJ f? - ?,f, | I, "ww ivmg uju m mr yuii at* uuVS to 1feo?r asked Green. "Yon said your cousin called your made twice a week. All you had to do was get the number from him and call yoar "I could have, bat I didn't," Gilley said. "I figured I'd do it my self and 1 would have tim* to fi^oe Gilley sad Leonard Fainank * ot his companions at the J? etina Lounge on the night of the kflliag, were arrested at a routine traffic Mop in Baton Rouge, La. Gilley testified Monday that the two were retaraing to North Carolina when they warn apprehended. F aire loth has been charged with being an accessory after ihe ?act to a felony and did not testify to ?M CM TKHUHMactfeKM EatabUshad Nov. 1, 1962 Telephone 754-6890 At 4709 ShaUone, N.C 28499 SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN BKUNSWICK COUNTY One Year 51036 Six Months ..J5J5 ELSEWHERE IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year $14.96 Six Months **.90 ELSEWHERE IN U-S-A One Year .J15.95 Six USPS 777
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